EasyEnglish Bible 2018
Job 40:9
9Do you have the same power to do great things as I have? Can you speak with a voice as loud as thunder? I can!
Job 40:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
- New International Version (NIV)Do you have an arm like God’s, and can your voice thunder like his?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Have you an arm like God? Or can you thunder with a voice like His?
Context of Job 40:9
7‘Prepare yourself for a difficult job! I will ask you some more questions and you must answer them. 8Do you say that I am not a fair judge? Do you want to show that I am guilty, not you? Then you could say that you are right. Do you have the same power to do great things as I have? Can you speak with a voice as loud as thunder? I can! 10If you think that you can do all this, show how great you are! Show everyone your power and your glory! 11Show everyone your great anger! Look at all the people who like to boast and bring them down low!
Read all of Job 40Job 40:9 word by word
וְאִם־זְר֖וֹעַ כָּאֵ֥ל׀ לָ֑ךְ וּ֝בְק֗וֹל כָּמֹ֥הוּ תַרְעֵֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 40:9
- Job 9:4God is very wise and he is very powerful. It is impossible to argue against him and win.
- Job 23:6Would God use his great power to argue against me? No! He would listen carefully to me.
- Job 33:12But now I tell you this, Job: You are not right! God is greater than any human.
- Exodus 15:6Your right hand, Lord, was great and powerful. Your right hand, Lord, destroyed the enemy.
- Psalms 89:10You caught the monster Rahab and you killed it! With your power, you chased away your enemies.
- Isaiah 45:9It will be very bad for people who quarrel with their Maker. They are like pieces of a pot that are lying on the ground among all the other pieces. The clay does not say to the potter, ‘What do you think you are you making?’ The pot does not say to the potter, ‘Your work is useless!’
- 1 Corinthians 10:22If we do things like that, we will cause the Lord to be angry. We should worship only him. You know that we are not stronger than he is!
- Job 37:4After the lightning comes the sound of his voice. He roars like the great sound of thunder. When he speaks like that, the storm never stops.
- Psalms 39:3It was like a fire inside me! As I thought more about it, I just had to say something! So I said this:
Commentaries on Job 40:9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9Hast thou an arm like God? - Every word, from this to the end of Job 40:14, has a wonderful tendency to humble the soul; and it is no wonder that at the conclusion of these sayings Job fell in the dust confounded, and ascribed righteousness to his Maker.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9Hast thou an arm like God? - The arm is the symbol of strength. The question here is, whether Job would venture to compare his strength with the omnipotence of God? Or canst thou thunder with a voice like him? - Thunder is a symbol of the majesty of the Most High, and is often spoken of as the voice of God; see Psalm 29:1-11. The question here is, whether Job could presume to compare himself with the Almighty, whose voice was the thunder?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
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. arm--God's omnipotence (Is 53:1). thunder--God's voice (Job 37:4).Read the comment
Topics related to Job 40:9
In the dictionaries
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
EasyEnglish Bible 2018 — Copyright © MissionAssist 2018
Commentaries