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

9Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him? 10Deck thyself now with glory and excellency, and clothe thyself with majesty and splendour. Cast abroad the ragings of thine anger, and look on every one that is proud, and abase him: 12Look on every one that is proud, bring him low, and tread down the wicked in their place: 13Hide them in the dust together; bind their faces in secret.

Job 40:11 word by word

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

• angerאַף'aph · face: angerH639
• lookרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: seeH7200
• proudגֵּאֶהge'eh · proudH1343

Cross-references for Job 40:11

• Job 20:23It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will cast his fierce anger upon him, and will rain it upon him into his flesh.
• Job 27:22And [God] shall cast upon him and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
• Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And it shall burn into the lowest Sheol, And shall consume the earth and its produce, And set fire to the foundations of the mountains.
• Psalms 78:49He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and distress, — a mission of angels of woes.
• Psalms 144:6Cast forth lightnings, and scatter them; send forth thine arrows, and discomfit them:
• Romans 2:8But to those that are contentious, and are disobedient to the truth, but obey unrighteousness, [there shall be] wrath and indignation,
• Exodus 9:16And for this very cause have I raised thee up, to shew thee my power; and that my name may be declared in all the earth.
• Exodus 15:6Thy right hand, Jehovah, is become glorious in power: Thy right hand, Jehovah, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
• Exodus 18:11Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all gods; for in the thing in which they acted haughtily [he was] above them.
• Isaiah 2:11The lofty eyes of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day.
• Isaiah 10:12And it shall come to pass, when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stoutness of heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
• Ezekiel 28:2Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a god, I sit [in] the seat of God, in the heart of the seas, (and thou art a man, and not God,) and thou settest thy heart as the heart of God:
• Daniel 4:37Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of the heavens, all whose works are truth, and his paths judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
• Daniel 5:20But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit hardened unto presumption, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom, and they took his glory from him;
• Obadiah 1:3The pride of thy heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; — he that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
• Malachi 4:1For behold, the day cometh, burning as a furnace; and all the proud and all that work wickedness shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, so that it shall 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