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The LORD Challenges Job Again

Job 40:9

In 11 translations

BSB
Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like His?
KJV
Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
WEB
Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?
ASV
Or hast thou an arm like God? And canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
LSV
And do you have an arm like God? And do you thunder with a voice like His?
YLT
And an arm like God hast thou? And with a voice like Him dost thou thunder?
DBY
Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?El
DRC40:4
And hast thou an arm like God, and canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
GNV40:4
Or hast thou an arme like God? or doest thou thunder with a voyce like him?
JPS
Or hast thou an arm like God? And canst thou thunder with a voice like Him?
LXXE
Hast thou an arm like the Lord's? or dost thou thunder with a voice like his?

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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
וְאִם־זְר֖וֹעַ כָּאֵ֥ל ׀ לָ֑ךְ וּ֝בְק֗וֹל כָּמֹ֥הוּ תַרְעֵֽם׃
LXX-Br
Ἢ βραχίων σοί ἐστι κατὰ τοῦ Κυρίου, ἢ φωνῇ κατʼ αὐτοῦ βροντᾷς;

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 37:4–5Then there comes a roaring sound; He thunders with His majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when His voice resounds. God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend.
  • Isaiah 45:9Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker— one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
  • Psalms 89:13Mighty is Your arm; strong is Your hand. Your right hand is exalted.
  • Psalms 39:3–9My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue: “Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is. You, indeed, have made my days as…
  • Job 9:4God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?
  • Exodus 15:6Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has shattered the enemy.
  • Job 23:6Would He contend with me in His great power? No, He would certainly take note of me.
  • Psalms 29:3The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders; the LORD is heard over many waters.
  • Job 33:12–13Behold, you are not right in this matter. I will answer you, for God is greater than man. Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?
  • Psalms 89:10You crushed Rahab like a carcass; You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.
  • 1 Corinthians 10:22Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 40:4 in some Bibles
  • 40:9 in most Bibles

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