New Living Translation
Job 40:11
11Give vent to your anger. Let it overflow against the proud.
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
9Are you as strong as God? Can you thunder with a voice like his? 10All right, put on your glory and splendor, your honor and majesty. Give vent to your anger. Let it overflow against the proud. 12Humiliate the proud with a glance; walk on the wicked where they stand. 13Bury them in the dust. Imprison them in the world of the dead.
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הָ֭פֵץ עֶבְר֣וֹת אַפֶּ֑ךָ וּרְאֵ֥ה כָל־גֵּ֝אֶ֗ה וְהַשְׁפִּילֵֽהוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 40:11
- Job 20:23May God give them a bellyful of trouble. May God rain down his anger upon them.
- Job 27:22It whirls down on them without mercy. They struggle to flee from its power.
- Deuteronomy 32:22For my anger blazes forth like fire and burns to the depths of the grave. It devours the earth and all its crops and ignites the foundations of the mountains.
- Psalms 78:49He loosed on them his fierce anger— all his fury, rage, and hostility. He dispatched against them a band of destroying angels.
- Psalms 144:6Hurl your lightning bolts and scatter your enemies! Shoot your arrows and confuse them!
- Romans 2:8But he will pour out his anger and wrath on those who live for themselves, who refuse to obey the truth and instead live lives of wickedness.
- Exodus 9:16But I have spared you for a purpose—to show you my power and to spread my fame throughout the earth.
- Exodus 15:6“Your right hand, O Lord, is glorious in power. Your right hand, O Lord, smashes the enemy.
- Exodus 18:11I know now that the Lord is greater than all other gods, because he rescued his people from the oppression of the proud Egyptians.”
- Isaiah 2:11Human pride will be brought down, and human arrogance will be humbled. Only the Lord will be exalted on that day of judgment.
- Isaiah 10:12After the Lord has used the king of Assyria to accomplish his purposes on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, he will turn against the king of Assyria and punish him—for he is proud and arrogant.
- Ezekiel 28:2“Son of man, give the prince of Tyre this message from the Sovereign Lord: “In your great pride you claim, ‘I am a god! I sit on a divine throne in the heart of the sea.’ But you are only a man and not a god, though you boast that you are a god.
- Daniel 4:37“Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and glorify and honor the King of heaven. All his acts are just and true, and he is able to humble the proud.”
- Daniel 5:20But when his heart and mind were puffed up with arrogance, he was brought down from his royal throne and stripped of his glory.
- Obadiah 1:3You have been deceived by your own pride because you live in a rock fortress and make your home high in the mountains. ‘Who can ever reach us way up here?’ you ask boastfully.
- Malachi 4:1The Lord of Heaven’s Armies says, “The day of judgment is coming, burning like a furnace. On that day the arrogant and the wicked will be burned up like straw. They will be consumed—roots, branches, and all.
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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