Job 33:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ that he may turn them aside from their deeds and keep them from pride,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ That he may withdraw man from his purpose, And hide pride from man.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ That He may withdraw man from his purpose and cut off pride from him [disgusting him with his own disappointing self-sufficiency].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ That he may withdraw man from his purpose, And hide pride from man;

Common English Bible

¹⁷ to turn them from a deed and to smother human pride.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ so that he may divert a man from the things that he is doing, and may free him from pride,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ That he may withdraw a man from the things he is doing, and may deliver him from pride.

Job 33:17 Cross References

Genesis 20:3

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, “You are about to die because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a married woman.”

Genesis 20:6

Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart; furthermore, it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.

2 Chronicles 32:25

But Hezekiah did not respond according to the benefit done to him, for his heart was proud. Therefore wrath came upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

Job 17:11

My days are past; my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.

Job 33:16

then he opens their ears and terrifies them with warnings,

Job 33:18

to spare their souls from the Pit, their lives from traversing the River.

Ecclesiastes 8:6

For every matter has its time and way, although the troubles of mortals lie heavy upon them.

Isaiah 2:11

The haughty eyes of people shall be brought low, and the pride of everyone shall be humbled, and the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

Isaiah 23:9

The Lord of hosts has planned it— to defile the pride of all glory, to shame all the honored of the earth.

Hosea 2:6

Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths.

Matthew 27:19

While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that innocent man, for today I have suffered a great deal because of a dream about him.”

2 Corinthians 12:7

even considering the exceptional character of the revelations. Therefore, to keep me from being too elated, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, to keep me from being too elated.

Deuteronomy 8:16

He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your ancestors did not know, to humble you and to test you and in the end to do you good.

James 4:10

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.