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The LORD Challenges Job Again

Job 40:12

In 11 translations

BSB
Look on every proud man and humble him; trample the wicked where they stand.
KJV
Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
WEB
Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.
ASV
Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; And tread down the wicked where they stand.
LSV
See every proud one—humble him, || And tread down the wicked in their place.
YLT
See every proud one — humble him, And tread down the wicked in their place.
DBY
Look on every one that is proud, bring him low, and tread down the wicked in their place:
DRC40:7
Look on all that are proud, and confound them, and crush the wicked in their place.
GNV40:7
Looke on euery one that is arrogant, and bring him lowe: and destroy the wicked in their place.
JPS
Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
LXXE
Bring down also the proud man; and consume at once the ungodly.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
רְאֵ֣ה כָל־גֵּ֭אֶה הַכְנִיעֵ֑הוּ וַהֲדֹ֖ךְ רְשָׁעִ֣ים תַּחְתָּֽם׃
LXX-Br
Ὑπερήφανον δὲ σβέσον, σῆψον δὲ ἀσεβεῖς παραχρῆμα.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Isaiah 63:3“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.
  • Malachi 4:3Then you will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing,” says the LORD of Hosts.
  • Psalms 60:12With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.
  • Isaiah 13:11I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.
  • 1 Samuel 2:7The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
  • Proverbs 15:25The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.
  • Job 36:20Do not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes.
  • Isaiah 10:6I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
  • Acts 1:25to take up this ministry and apostleship, which Judas abandoned to go to his rightful place.”
  • Ecclesiastes 11:3If the clouds are full, they will pour out rain upon the earth; whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie.
  • Zechariah 10:5They will be like mighty men in battle, trampling the enemy in the mire of the streets. They will fight because the LORD is with them, and they will put the horsemen to shame.
  • Romans 16:20The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 40:7 in some Bibles
  • 40:12 in most Bibles

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