His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.
Parallel translations
- KJV His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth:
- BSB then his flesh is refreshed like a child’s; he returns to the days of his youth.
- NKJV His flesh shall be young like a child’s, He shall return to the days of his youth.
- NASB Let his flesh become fresher than in youth, Let him return to the days of his youthful vigor;
- NLT Then his body will become as healthy as a child’s, firm and youthful again.
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Quick answer
The rescued man's body is restored to youthful health. It pictures the renewal that follows God's gracious deliverance.
Overview
Having been spared from the pit, the man's wasted flesh is made fresh again, as vigorous as a child's. Elihu portrays physical and spiritual restoration as God's gift to the one He redeems. This renewal foreshadows the fuller restoration God grants His people in Christ, culminating in the resurrection body.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 103:5who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
- 2 Kgs 5:14Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
- Josh 14:10–11“Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old, today.
- Deut 34:7Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone.
- Job 42:16After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.
- Hos 2:15I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
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