Job 33:8

8 "Surely you have spoken in my ears, and I have heard [the] sound of [your] words:

Job 33:8 Meaning and Commentary

Job 33:8

Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing
After the above preface, Elihu proceeds to the point in hand, and enters a charge against Job; which he took up, not upon suspicion and surmisings, nor upon report, nor upon accusations received from others, but what he had heard with his own ears, unless he was greatly mistaken indeed, which he thought he was not:

and I have heard the voice of [thy] words;
the sound of them, clearly and distinctly, and took in the sense of them, as he really believed:

[saying];
as follows.

Job 33:8 In-Context

6 Look, before God {I am like you}; I myself was also formed from clay.

7 Look, dread of me should not terrify you, and my hand will not be heavy upon you.

8 "Surely you have spoken in my ears, and I have heard [the] sound of [your] words:

9 'I [am] clean, without transgression; I [am] pure, and [there is] no guilt in me.

10 Look, he finds fault against me; he reckons me as his enemy;

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "sentences," or "what [you] say"