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Job 40:11

If you are as powerful as God, then show your anger! Punish those who are proud and humble them.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

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

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abase;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Pour out your raging anger;look on every proud person and humiliate him.
Hebrew Names Version
Pour forth the fury of your anger. Look on everyone who is proud, and bring him low.
King James Version
Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.
English Standard Version
Pour out the overflowings of your anger, and look on everyone who is proud and abase him.
New Century Version
Let your great anger punish; look at the proud and bring them down.
New English Translation
Scatter abroad the abundance of your anger. Look at every proud man and bring him low;
Amplified Bible
"Pour out the overflowings of your wrath, And look at everyone who is proud and make him low.
New American Standard Bible
"Let out your outbursts of anger, And look at everyone who is arrogant, and humble him.
World English Bible
Pour forth the fury of your anger. Look on everyone who is proud, and bring him low.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Cast abroad the indignation of thy wrath, and beholde euery one that is proude, and abase him.
Legacy Standard Bible
Pour out the overflowings of your anger,And look on everyone who is proud, and make him low.
Berean Standard Bible
Unleash the fury of your wrath; look on every proud man and bring him low.
Contemporary English Version
Show your furious anger! Throw down and crush
Complete Jewish Bible
Let loose your furious anger, look at all who are proud, and humble them.
Darby Translation
Cast abroad the ragings of thine anger, and look on every one that is proud, and abase him:
George Lamsa Translation
Cast away the rage of your wrath; and look upon everyone that is proud, and abase him;
Good News Translation
Look at those who are proud; pour out your anger and humble them.
Lexham English Bible
Pour out the overflowing of your anger, and look at all the proud, and humble them.
Literal Translation
pour forth the outbursts of your anger; yea, look on everyone who is proud, and bring him down low;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
poure out the indignacion of thy wrath: se that thou cast downe all ye proude,
American Standard Version
Pour forth the overflowings of thine anger; And look upon every one that is proud, and abase him.
Bible in Basic English
Let your wrath be overflowing; let your eyes see all the sons of pride, and make them low.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath; and look upon every one that is proud, and abase him.
King James Version (1611)
Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold euery one that is proud, and abase him.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Cast abrode the indignation of thy wrath, and beholde euery one that is proude, and abase him:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Behold now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
English Revised Version
Pour forth the overflowings of thine anger: and look upon every one that is proud, and abase him.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Distrie thou proude men in thi woodnesse, and biholde thou, and make lowe ech bostere.
Update Bible Version
Pour forth the overflowings of your anger; And look at every one that is proud, and abase him.
Webster's Bible Translation
Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one [that is] proud, and abase him.
New King James Version
Disperse the rage of your wrath; Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him.
New Living Translation
Give vent to your anger. Let it overflow against the proud.
New Life Bible
Pour out your anger that is flowing over. Look on everyone who is proud, and put him to shame.
New Revised Standard
Pour out the overflowings of your anger, and look on all who are proud, and abase them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Pour out thy transports of anger, and look on every one who is high, and lay him low;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(40-6) Scatter the proud in thy indignation, and behold every arrogant man, and humble him.
Revised Standard Version
Pour forth the overflowings of your anger, and look on every one that is proud, and abase him.
Young's Literal Translation
Scatter abroad the wrath of thine anger, And see every proud one, and make him low.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Pour out the overflowings of your anger, And look on everyone who is proud, and make him low.

Contextual Overview

6 Then the Lord spoke to Job again from the storm: 7 "Brace yourself and get ready to answer the questions I will ask you. 8 "Are you trying to show that I am unfair? Are you trying to look innocent by saying that I am guilty? 9 Are your arms as strong as mine? Do you have a voice like mine that is as loud as thunder? 10 If so, you can be proud and wear glory and honor like clothes. 11 If you are as powerful as God, then show your anger! Punish those who are proud and humble them. 12 Yes, just look at the proud and make them humble. Crush those evil people where they stand. 13 Bury them all in the dirt. Wrap their bodies up and put them in their graves. 14 If you can do any of these things, then even I will praise you. And I will admit that you can save yourself by your own power.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cast: Job 20:23, Job 27:22, Deuteronomy 32:22, Psalms 78:49, Psalms 78:50, Psalms 144:6, Romans 2:8, Romans 2:9

behold: Exodus 9:16, Exodus 9:17, Exodus 15:6, Exodus 18:11, Isaiah 2:11, Isaiah 2:12, Isaiah 2:17, Isaiah 10:12-19, Ezekiel 28:2, Daniel 4:37, Daniel 5:20-23, Obadiah 1:3, Obadiah 1:4, Malachi 4:1, Luke 18:14, Acts 12:22, Acts 12:23, James 4:6, 1 Peter 5:5, 1 Peter 5:6

Reciprocal: Numbers 16:27 - and stood Judges 4:17 - fled 2 Samuel 22:28 - but thine 1 Kings 20:32 - Thy servant 2 Kings 14:13 - took Amaziah Nehemiah 9:10 - they Job 26:12 - he smiteth Psalms 36:11 - foot Psalms 94:2 - render Psalms 101:5 - an high Psalms 119:21 - rebuked Psalms 138:6 - but the proud Proverbs 15:25 - destroy Isaiah 5:15 - the eyes Isaiah 10:33 - and the haughty Isaiah 22:19 - General Isaiah 23:9 - to stain Isaiah 26:5 - bringeth Isaiah 40:4 - every mountain Jeremiah 50:31 - O thou Ezekiel 28:17 - I will cast Daniel 4:24 - come Habakkuk 2:4 - his 2 Corinthians 10:5 - and every

Cross-References

Genesis 40:21
He freed the wine server and gave him his job back, and once again the wine server put a cup of wine in Pharaoh's hand.
Genesis 49:11
He ties his donkeys to the best grapevines. He washes his clothes in the best wine.
Leviticus 10:9
"You and your sons must not drink wine or beer when you come into the Meeting Tent. If you do, you will die. This law continues forever through your generations.
1 Kings 10:5
She saw the food at the king's table. She saw his officials meeting together. She saw the servants in the palace and the good clothes they wore. She saw his parties and the sacrifices that he offered in the Lord 's Temple. She was so amazed, she could hardly breathe!
2 Chronicles 9:4
She saw the food at the king's table. She saw his officials meeting together. She saw the servants in the palace and the good clothes they wore. She saw his parties and the sacrifices that he offered in the Lord 's Temple. She was so amazed, she could hardly breathe!
Proverbs 3:10
Then your barns will be full of grain, and your barrels will be overflowing with wine.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath,.... Work thyself up into a passion, at least seemingly; put on all the airs of a wrathful and enraged king on a throne of state, whose wrath is like the roaring of a lion, and as messengers of death; pour out menaces plentifully, threatening what thou wilt do; and try if by such means thou canst humble the spirit of a proud man, as follows;

and behold everyone [that is] proud, and abase him; look sternly at him, put on a fierce, furious, and menacing countenance, and see if thou canst dash a proud man out of countenance, and humble him before thee, as I am able; among the many instances of divine power the Lord settles upon this one, and proposes it to Job to try his skill and power upon, the humbling of a proud man.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath - That is, as God does. Show that the same effects can be produced by “your” indignation which there is in his. God appeals here to the effect of his displeasure in prostrating his foes as one of the evidences of his majesty and glory, and asks Job, if he would compare himself with him, to imitate him in this, and produce similar effects.

And behold every one that is proud, and abase him - That is, “look” upon such an one and bring him low, or humble him by a look. It is implied here that God could do this, and he appeals to it as a proof of his power.


 
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