Job: How Can I Contend with God?
Job 9:13
In 11 translations
- BSB
- God does not restrain His anger; the helpers of Rahab cower beneath Him.
- KJV
- If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.proud…: Heb. helpers of pride, or, strength
- WEB
- “God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
- ASV
- God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab do stoop under him.
- LSV
- God does not turn back His anger, || Proud helpers have bowed under Him.
- YLT
- God doth not turn back His anger, Under Him bowed have proud helpers.
- DBY
- God withdraweth not his anger; the proud helpers stoop under him:Eloah
- DRC
- God, whose wrath no mall can resist, and under whom they stoop that bear up the world.
- GNV
- God will not withdrawe his anger, and the most mightie helpes doe stoupe vnder him.
- JPS
- God will not withdraw His anger; the helpers of Rahab did stoop under Him.
- LXXE
- For if he has turned away his anger, the whales under heaven have stooped under him.
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Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (2)
- Leningrad Codex reads תַּחְתָּ֥ו; read aloud (Qere) reads תַּחְתָּ֥יו (“under him”).
- Written (Ketiv): תַּחַתוֹ. Read aloud (Qere): תַּחְתָּ֥יו (“under him”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- אֱ֭לוֹהַּ לֹא־יָשִׁ֣יב אַפּ֑וֹ תחתו שָׁ֝חֲח֗וּ עֹ֣זְרֵי רָֽהַב׃Read aloud as (qere): תַּחְתָּ֥יו
- LXX-Br
- Αὐτὸς γὰρ ἀπέστραπται ὀργὴν, ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ ἐκάμφθησαν κήτη τὰ ὑπʼ οὐρανόν
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Cross-references most cited first
- Job 26:12By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.
- Psalms 89:10You crushed Rahab like a carcass; You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.
- Isaiah 30:7Egypt’s help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.
- Isaiah 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?
- James 4:6–7But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
- Isaiah 31:2–3Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers. But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh,…
- Job 40:9–11Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like His? Then adorn yourself with majesty and splendor, and clothe yourself with honor and glory. Unleash the fury of your wrath; look on every proud man and…
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