Job 40:11

Job 40:11 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.
• New International Version (NIV)Unleash the fury of your wrath, look at all who are proud and bring them low,
• English Standard Version (ESV)Pour out the overflowings of your anger, and look on everyone who is proud and abase him.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Disperse the rage of your wrath; Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him.

Context of Job 40:11

9Have you an arm like God, And can you thunder with a voice like His? 10“Adorn yourself with eminence and dignity [since you question the Almighty], And array yourself with honor and majesty. Pour out the overflowings of your wrath, And look at everyone who is proud and make him low. 12Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him, And [if you are so able] tread down the wicked where they stand. 13[Crush and] hide them in the dust together; Shut them up in the hidden place [the house of death].

Job 40:11 word by word

הָ֭פֵץ עֶבְר֣וֹת אַפֶּ֑ךָ וּרְאֵ֥ה כָל־גֵּ֝אֶ֗ה וְהַשְׁפִּילֵֽהוּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Cast abroadפּוּץpûts · to scatterH6327
• the rageעֶבְרָה‛ebrâh · furyH5678
• of thy wrathאַף'aph · face: angerH639
• and beholdרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: seeH7200
• proudגֵּאֶהge'eh · proudH1343
• and abaseשָׁפֵלshâphêl · to abaseH8213

Cross-references for Job 40:11

• Job 20:23When he fills his belly, God will send His fierce anger on him And will rain it upon him while he is eating.
• Job 27:22For it will hurl [thunderbolts of God’s wrath] at him unsparingly and without compassion; He flees in haste from its power.
• Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire is kindled by My anger, And it burns to the depths of Sheol (the place of the dead, the nether world), It devours the earth with its yield, And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
• Psalms 78:49He sent upon them His burning anger, His fury and indignation and distress, A band of angels of destruction [among them].
• Psalms 144:6Flash lightning and scatter my enemies; Send out Your arrows and confuse and embarrass and frustrate them.
• Romans 2:8But for those who are selfishly ambitious and self-seeking and disobedient to the truth but responsive to wickedness, [there will be] wrath and indignation.
• Exodus 9:16But indeed for this very reason I have allowed you to live, in order to show you My power and in order that My name may be proclaimed throughout all the earth.
• Exodus 15:6Your right hand, O Lord, is glorious in power; Your right hand, O Lord, shatters the enemy.
• Exodus 18:11Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods; indeed, it was proven when they acted insolently toward Israel [and the Lord showed Himself infinitely superior to all their gods].”
• Isaiah 2:11The proud look of man will be degraded And the arrogance of men will be humbled, And the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
• Isaiah 10:12So when the Lord has completed all His work [of judgment] on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the fruit [the thoughts, the declarations, and the actions] of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the haughtiness of his pride.”
• Ezekiel 28:2“Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Because your heart is lifted up And you have said and thought, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of the gods In the heart of the seas’; Yet you are [only] a man [weak, feeble, made of earth] and not God, Though you [imagine yourself to be more than mortal and] think your mind is as [wise as] the mind of God—
• Daniel 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and faithful and His ways are just, and He is able to humiliate and humble those who walk in [self-centered, self-righteous] pride.”
• Daniel 5:20But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became so proud that he behaved arrogantly, he was deposed from his royal throne and his glory was taken away from him.
• Obadiah 1:3The pride and arrogance of your heart have deceived you, You who live in the clefts and lofty security of the rock (Sela), Whose dwelling place is high, Who say [boastfully] in your heart, ‘Who will bring me down to earth?’
• Malachi 4:1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant (proud, self-righteous, haughty), and every evildoer shall be stubble; and the day that is coming shall set them on fire,” says the Lord of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

Commentaries on Job 40:11

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath - That is, as God does. Show that the same effects can be produced by “your” indignation which there is in his. God appeals here to the effect of his displeasure in prostrating his foes as one of the evidences of his majesty and glory, and asks Job, if he would compare himself with him, to imitate him in this, and produce similar effects. And behold every one that is proud, and abase him - That is, “look” upon such an one…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-14Verses 6-14 Those who profit by what they have heard from God, shall hear more from him. And those who are truly convinced of sin, yet need to be more thoroughly convinced and more humbled. No doubt God, and he only, has power to humble and bring down proud men; he has wisdom to know when and how to do it, and it is not for us to teach him how to govern the world. Our own hands cannot save us by recommending us to God's grace, much less rescuing us from…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11-12Job could not humble proud people without God's authority (Isaiah 2:11–12, 17; James 4:6; 1 Peter 5:5–6; Malachi 4:3; Romans 16:20).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. rage--rather, pour out the redundant floods of, &c. behold--Try, canst thou, as God, by a mere glance abase the proud (Is 2:12, &c.)?Read the comment

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Commentaries on Job 40

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings