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Job 40:13

"[Crush and] hide them in the dust together; Shut them up in the hidden place [the house of death].

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Leviathan;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Urim and Thummim;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Bury them in the dust. Imprison them in the world of the dead.
English Revised Version
Hide them in the dust together; bind their faces in the hidden place.
Update Bible Version
Hide them in the dust together; Bind their faces in the hidden [place].
New Century Version
Bury them all in the dirt together; cover their faces in the grave.
New English Translation
Hide them in the dust together, imprison them in the grave.
Webster's Bible Translation
Hide them in the dust together; bind their faces in secret.
World English Bible
Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.
English Standard Version
Hide them all in the dust together; bind their faces in the world below.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Hide thou hem in dust togidere, and drenche doun her faces in to a diche.
Berean Standard Bible
Bury them together in the dust; imprison them in the grave.
Contemporary English Version
Wrap them in grave clothes and bury them together in the dusty soil.
American Standard Version
Hide them in the dust together; Bind their faces in the hidden place.
Bible in Basic English
Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.
Complete Jewish Bible
Bury them in the ground together, bind their faces in the hidden world.
Darby Translation
Hide them in the dust together; bind their faces in secret.
Easy-to-Read Version
Bury them all in the dirt. Wrap their bodies up and put them in their graves.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Hide them in the dust together; bind their faces in the hidden place.
King James Version (1611)
Hide them in the dust together, and binde their faces in secret.
New Life Bible
Hide them all in the dust together. Shut them up in the hidden place.
New Revised Standard
Hide them all in the dust together; bind their faces in the world below.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Hide them in the dust together, and binde their faces in a secret place.
George Lamsa Translation
Bury them in the earth together; cover their faces with fine dust.
Good News Translation
Bury them all in the ground; bind them in the world of the dead.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Hide them in the dust all together, Their faces, bind thou in darkness;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(40-8) Hide them in the dust together, and plunge their faces into the pit.
Revised Standard Version
Hide them all in the dust together; bind their faces in the world below.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Hide them in the dust together, and couer their faces in secrete:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
His sides are sides of brass; and his backbone is as cast iron.
Christian Standard Bible®
Hide them together in the dust;imprison them in the grave.
Hebrew Names Version
Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.
King James Version
Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.
Lexham English Bible
Hide them in the dust together; bind their faces in the grave.
Literal Translation
hide them in the dust together; bind their faces in darkness.
Young's Literal Translation
Hide them in the dust together, Their faces bind in secret.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
cast the downe in to the myre, and couer their faces with darcknesse:
New American Standard Bible
"Hide them together in the dust; Imprison them in the hidden place.
New King James Version
Hide them in the dust together, Bind their faces in hidden darkness.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Hide them in the dust together; Bind them in the hidden place.
Legacy Standard Bible
Hide them in the dust together;Bind their faces in the hidden place.

Contextual Overview

6Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, saying, 7"Now gird up your loins (prepare yourself) like a man, And I will ask you, and you instruct Me. 8"Will you really annul My judgment and set it aside as void? Will you condemn Me [your God] that you may [appear to] be righteous and justified? 9"Have you an arm like God, And can you thunder with a voice like His? 10"Adorn yourself with eminence and dignity [since you question the Almighty], And array yourself with honor and majesty. 11"Pour out the overflowings of your wrath, And look at everyone who is proud and make him low. 12"Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him, And [if you are so able] tread down the wicked where they stand. 13"[Crush and] hide them in the dust together; Shut them up in the hidden place [the house of death].14"[If you can do all this, Job, proving your divine power] then I [God] will also praise you and acknowledge That your own right hand can save you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Hide: Job 14:13, Psalms 49:14, Isaiah 2:10

bind: Job 36:13, Esther 7:8, John 11:44

Reciprocal: Psalms 7:5 - lay Psalms 63:9 - go

Cross-References

Genesis 7:4
"For in seven days I am going to cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy (blot out, wipe away) every living thing that I have made from the surface of the earth."
Genesis 40:19
within three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head and will hang you on a tree (gallows, pole), and [you will not so much as be given a burial, but] the birds will eat your flesh."
Genesis 40:22
but Pharaoh hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had interpreted [the meaning of the dreams] to them.
2 Kings 25:27
Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he became king, showed favor to Jehoiachin king of Judah and released him from prison;
Psalms 3:3
But You, O LORD, are a shield for me, My glory [and my honor], and the One who lifts my head.
Jeremiah 52:31
Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin [also called Coniah and Jeconiah] king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, showed favor to Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hide them in the dust together,.... Either in the dust of death, that they may be seen no more in this world, in the same place and circumstances where they showed their pride and haughtiness; or in the dust of the grave, and let them have an inglorious burial, like that of malefactors thrown into some common pit together; as, when multitudes are slain in battle, a large pit is dug, and the bodies are cast in together without any order or decency; or it may be rendered "alike" b, let them be treated equally alike, no preference given to one above another;

[and] bind their faces in secret; alluding, as it is thought, to malefactors when condemned and about to be executed, whose faces are then covered, as Haman's was, Esther 7:8; or to the dead when buried, whose faces are bound with napkins, as Lazarus's was, John 11:44; the meaning of all these expressions is, that Job would abase and destroy, if he could, every proud man he met with, as God does, in the course of his providence, sooner or later. There had been instances of divine power in this way before, or in the times of Job, which might come to his knowledge; as the casting down of the proud angels out of heaven, 2 Peter 2:4; and of casting proud Adam out of paradise, Genesis 3:24; the drowning the proud giants of the old world, Genesis 7:23; and of dispersing the proud builders of Babel, Genesis 11:8; and of destroying Sodom and Gomorrah by fire, Genesis 19:24, one of whose reigning sins was pride,

Ezekiel 16:49; and of drowning proud Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea,

Exodus 15:4: which last seems to have been done much about the time Job lived.

b יחד "pariter", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hide them in the dust together; - compare Isaiah 2:10. The meaning seems to be, that God had power to prostrate the wicked in the dust of the earth, and he calls upon Job to show his power by doing the same thing.

And bind their faces in secret - The word “faces” here is probably used (like the Greek πρίσωπα prisōpa to denote “persons.” The phrase” to bind them,” is expressive of having them under control or subjection; and the phrase “in secret” may refer to some secret or safe place - as a dungeon or prison. The meaning of the whole is, that God had power to restrain and control the haughty and the wicked, and he appeals to Job to do the same.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 40:13. Hide them in the dust together — Blend the high and the low, the rich and the poor, in one common ruin. Show them that thou art supreme, and canst do whatsoever thou pleasest.

Bind their faces in secret. — This seems to refer to the custom of preserving mummies: the whole body is wrapped round with strong swathings of linen or cotton cloth. Not only the limbs, but the very head, face, and all, are rolled round with strong filleting, so that not one feature can be seen, not even the protuberance of the nose. On the outside of these involutions a human face is ordinarily painted; but as to the real face itself, it is emphatically bound in secret, for those rollers are never intended to be removed.


 
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