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Job 22:29

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22:29When people are brought low53 and you say

‘Lift them up!’54

then he will save the downcast;55

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Footnotes

  1. 53 There is no expressed subject here, and so the verb is taken as a passive voice again.
  2. 54 The word גֵּוָה (gevah) means “loftiness; pride.” Here it simply says “up,” or “pride.” The rest is paraphrased. Of the many suggestions, the following provide a sampling: “It is because of pride” (ESV), “he abases pride” (H. H. Rowley); “[he abases] the lofty and the proud” (Beer); “[he abases] the word of pride” [Duhm]; “[he abases] the haughtiness of pride” [Fohrer and others]; “[he abases] the one who speaks proudly” [Weiser]; “[he abases] the one who boasts in pride” [Kissane]; and “God [abases] pride” [Budde, Gray].
  3. 55 Or “humble”; Heb “the lowly of eyes.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For when they are humbled you say, ‘It is because of pride’;

but he saves the lowly.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

When people are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’

then he will save the downcast.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

When others are humiliated and you say, “Lift them up,”

God will save the humble.

NLTNew Living Translation

If people are in trouble and you say, ‘Help them,’

God will save them.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

When they are humiliated, you say, ‘It is pride,’

for he saves the humble.

KJV 1900King James Version

When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up;

And he shall save the humble person.