What Does Job 33:26 Mean in the King James?
He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The Hebrew verb behind “render” means “restore,” so righteousness appears here as something returned to the human being.
THE MEANING
You pray, God receives you with favor, and you see God’s face with joy. God returns alignment to you; rightness is restored in relationship.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that right-standing is gone for good loosens here: the verse presents it as something God restores to you.
THE ROOT
וַיָּשֶׁב
vayyashev
GROWS FROM
שׁוּב
to turn back, return, restore
Under “render” is וַיָּשֶׁב (vayyashev), from שׁוּב (shuv): to return or restore. The root makes the act a recovery, with God returning a human being to rightness.
ALSO GROWS
yashuv: he returns
יָשׁוּב
This form shows the root’s basic motion: coming back.
meshib: one who restores or returns
מֵשִׁיב
This causative form brings the verse’s sense into view: God causes rightness to return to the person.
וְיִרְצֵהוּ
veyirtsehu
GROWS FROM
רָצָה
to be pleased with, accept, show favor
The root of “favourable” also carries the sense of being pleased with and accepting someone. Here, favor stands beside prayer and the joy of seeing God’s face: it is welcome within a relationship.
ALSO GROWS
ratzui: acceptable, pleasing
רָצוּי
This related form makes acceptance part of the same word family as God’s favor.
ritsui: appeasement, reconciliation
רִצּוּי
This noun carries the movement toward restored favor that the verse places beside the return of rightness.
צִדְקָתוֹ
tsidqato
GROWS FROM
צָדַק
to be right, just, aligned
“righteousness” in this verse is tsidqato. The word names the person’s alignment, and its possessive ending means “his.” The verse presents this rightness as something restored to the human being.
ALSO GROWS
tsedeq: rightness, justice, alignment
צֶדֶק
This noun names the quality God returns to the person.
tsaddiq: a just or aligned person
צַדִּיק
This related word describes a person embodying the rightness the verse says is restored.
THE PATTERN
Divine restoration returns people to life, rightness, and what has been lost.
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.THE THREAD
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.Both verses use the Hebrew root שׁוּב (shuv): Job speaks of God restoring righteousness to a person, while the Psalm speaks of God restoring the living soul. The shared root holds rightness and renewed life within the same movement of return.
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