New American Standard Bible 2020
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
9Or do you have an arm like God, And can you thunder with a voice like His? 10“Adorn yourself with pride and dignity, And clothe yourself with honor and majesty. Let out your outbursts of anger, And look at everyone who is arrogant, and humble him. 12Look at everyone who is arrogant, and humble him, And trample down the wicked where they stand. 13Hide them together in the dust; Imprison them in the hidden place.
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הָ֭פֵץ עֶבְר֣וֹת אַפֶּ֑ךָ וּרְאֵ֥ה כָל־גֵּ֝אֶ֗ה וְהַשְׁפִּילֵֽהוּ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 40:11
- Job 20:23When he fills his belly, God will send His fierce anger on him And rain it on him while he is eating.
- Job 27:22For it will hurl at him without mercy; He will certainly try to flee from its power.
- Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire has flared in My anger, And it burns to the lowest part of Sheol, And devours the earth with its yield, And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
- Psalms 78:49He sent His burning anger upon them, Fury and indignation and trouble, A band of destroying angels.
- Psalms 144:6Flash forth lightning and scatter them; Send out Your arrows and confuse them.
- Romans 2:8but to those who are self-serving and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, He will give wrath and indignation.
- Exodus 9:16But indeed, for this reason I have allowed you to remain, in order to show you My power and in order to proclaim My name throughout the earth.
- Exodus 15:6Your right hand, Lord, is majestic in power; Your right hand, Lord, destroys the enemy.
- Exodus 18:11Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods; indeed, it was proven when they acted insolently against the people.”
- Isaiah 2:11The proud look of humanity will be brought low, And the arrogance of people will be humbled; And the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.
- Isaiah 10:12So it will be that when the Lord has completed all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the arrogant pride of his eyes.”
- Ezekiel 28:2“Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, ‘The Lord God says this: “Because your heart is haughty And you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of gods In the heart of the seas’; Yet you are a mortal and not God, Although you make your heart like the heart of God--
- Daniel 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt, and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and His ways just; and He is able to humble those who walk in pride.”
- Daniel 5:20But when his heart was arrogant and his spirit became so overbearing that he behaved presumptuously, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his dignity was taken away from him.
- Obadiah 1:3The arrogance of your heart has deceived you, The one who lives in the clefts of the rock, On the height of his dwelling place, Who says in his 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 and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze,” says the Lord of armies, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branches.
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
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