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The LORD Challenges Job Again

Job 40:11

In 11 translations

BSB
Unleash the fury of your wrath; look on every proud man and bring him low.
KJV
Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.
WEB
Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.
ASV
Pour forth the overflowings of thine anger; And look upon every one that is proud, and abase him.
LSV
Scatter abroad the wrath of your anger, || And see every proud one, and make him low.
YLT
Scatter abroad the wrath of thine anger, And see every proud one, and make him low.
DBY
Cast abroad the ragings of thine anger, and look on every one that is proud, and abase him:
DRC40:6
Scatter the proud in thy indignation, and behold every arrogant man, and humble him.
GNV40:6
Cast abroad the indignation of thy wrath, and beholde euery one that is proude, and abase him.
JPS
Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath; and look upon every one that is proud, and abase him.
LXXE
And send forth messengers with wrath; and lay low every haughty one.

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Original-language editions

WLC
הָ֭פֵץ עֶבְר֣וֹת אַפֶּ֑ךָ וּרְאֵ֥ה כָל־גֵּ֝אֶ֗ה וְהַשְׁפִּילֵֽהוּ׃
LXX-Br
Ἀπόστειλον δὲ ἀγγέλους ὀργῇ, πὰντα δὲ ὑβριστὴν ταπείνωσον.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Daniel 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.
  • Isaiah 2:17So the pride of man will be brought low, and the loftiness of men will be humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,
  • Isaiah 2:11–12The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day. For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is…
  • Nahum 1:6Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.
  • Exodus 18:11Now I know that the LORD is greater than all other gods, for He did this when they treated Israel with arrogance.”
  • Obadiah 1:3–4The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’ Though you soar like the eagle and make…
  • James 4:6But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
  • Malachi 4:1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be…
  • Isaiah 10:12–19So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes. For he says: ‘By the…
  • Ezekiel 28:2“Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though…
  • Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.
  • Exodus 15:6Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has shattered the enemy.
  • Isaiah 42:25So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.
  • Daniel 5:20–23But when his heart became arrogant and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his glory was taken from him. He was driven away from mankind, and his mind was like that of a beast.…
  • Job 20:23When he has filled his stomach, God will vent His fury upon him, raining it down on him as he eats.
  • Acts 12:22–23And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!” Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 40:6 in some Bibles
  • Content check: this verse spans KJV Job.40.11 and Job.40.12 (overlap 0.14 / 0.50).
  • 40:11 in most Bibles

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