English Standard Version
Job 40:10
10"Adorn yourself with majesty and dignity; clothe yourself with glory and splendor.
Job 40:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty.
- New International Version (NIV)Then adorn yourself with glory and splendor, and clothe yourself in honor and majesty.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Then adorn yourself with majesty and splendor, And array yourself with glory and beauty.
- New Living Translation (NLT)All right, put on your glory and splendor, your honor and majesty.
Context of Job 40:10
8Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right? 9Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his? "Adorn yourself with majesty and dignity; clothe yourself with glory and splendor. 11Pour out the overflowings of your anger, and look on everyone who is proud and abase him. 12Look on everyone who is proud and bring him low and tread down the wicked where they stand.
Read all of Job 40Job 40:10 word by word
עֲדֵ֥ה נָ֣א גָֽא֣וֹן וָגֹ֑בַהּ וְה֖וֹד וְהָדָ֣ר תִּלְבָּֽשׁ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 40:10
- Job 39:19"Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane?
- Psalms 93:1The Lord reigns; he is robed in majesty; the Lord is robed; he has put on strength as his belt. Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.
- Psalms 104:1Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, you are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty,
- Isaiah 59:17He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head; he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and wrapped himself in zeal as a cloak.
- 1 Chronicles 29:11Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all.
- Psalms 21:5His glory is great through your salvation; splendor and majesty you bestow on him.
- Psalms 45:3Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one, in your splendor and majesty!
- Matthew 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
- 2 Peter 1:16For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
- Jude 1:24Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy,
- Exodus 28:2And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.
- Psalms 50:2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
- Psalms 90:16Let your work be shown to your servants, and your glorious power to their children.
- Psalms 149:4For the Lord takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation.
- Isaiah 4:2In that day the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be the pride and honor of the survivors of Israel.
- 1 Corinthians 15:54When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory."
Commentaries on Job 40:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10Deck thyself now with majesty - Act like God, seeing thou hast been assuming to thyself perfections that belong to him alone.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency - That is, such as God has. Put on everything which you can, which would indicate rank, wealth, power, and see whether it could all be compared with the majesty of God; compare Psalm 104:1, “O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honor and majesty.”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. 1010. See, hast thou power and majesty like God's, to enable thee to judge and govern the world?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
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