Job 40:9

Easy-to-Read Version

Are your arms as strong as mine? Do you have a voice like mine that is as loud as thunder?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Do you have an arm like God’s?Can you thunder with a voice like his?

Hebrew Names Version
Or have you an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?

King James Version
Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

English Standard Version
Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

New Century Version
Are you as strong as God? Can your voice thunder like his?

New English Translation
Do you have an arm as powerful as God's, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

Amplified Bible
"Have you an arm like God, And can you thunder with a voice like His?

New American Standard Bible
"Or do you have an arm like God, And can you thunder with a voice like His?

World English Bible
Or have you an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Or hast thou an arme like God? or doest thou thunder with a voyce like him?

Legacy Standard Bible
Or do you have an arm like God,And can you thunder with a voice like His?

Berean Standard Bible
Do you have an arm like God's? Can you thunder with a voice like His?

Contemporary English Version
Do you have a powerful arm and a thundering voice that compare with mine?

Complete Jewish Bible
Do you have an arm like God's? Can you thunder with a voice like his?

Darby Translation
Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

George Lamsa Translation
Have you an arm like God? Or can you thunder with a voice like him?

Good News Translation
Are you as strong as I am? Can your voice thunder as loud as mine?

Lexham English Bible
Or do you have an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

Literal Translation
And have you an arm like God; or can you thunder with a voice like His?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Is thine arme then like the arme of God? Maketh thy voyce soch a soude as his doth?

American Standard Version
Or hast thou an arm like God? And canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

Bible in Basic English
Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Or hast thou an arm like God? And canst thou thunder with a voice like Him?

King James Version (1611)
Hast thou an arme like God? or canst thou thunder with a voyce like him?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Is thy power then lyke the power of God? maketh thy voyce a sounde as his doth?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Then will I confess that thy right hand can save thee.

English Revised Version
Or hast thou an arm like God? and canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And if thou hast an arm, as God hath, and if thou thundrist with lijk vois, `take thou fairnesse aboute thee,

Update Bible Version
Or do you have an arm like God? And can you thunder with a voice like him?

Webster's Bible Translation
Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like his?

New King James Version
Have you an arm like God? Or can you thunder with a voice like His?

New Living Translation
Are you as strong as God? Can you thunder with a voice like his?

New Life Bible
Do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like His?

New Revised Standard
Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But if, an arm like GOD, thou hast, and, with a voice like his, thou canst thunder,

Douay-Rheims Bible
(40-4) And hast thou an arm like God, and canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

Revised Standard Version
Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

Young's Literal Translation
And an arm like God hast thou? And with a voice like Him dost thou thunder?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Or do you have an arm like God, And can you thunder with a voice like His?

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

Hast: Job 9:4, Job 23:6, Job 33:12, Job 33:13, Exodus 15:6, Psalms 89:10, Psalms 89:13, Isaiah 45:9, 1 Corinthians 10:22

canst: Job 37:4, Job 37:5, Psalms 39:3-9

Reciprocal: Exodus 9:17 - General 1 Samuel 2:10 - he thunder 1 Samuel 17:10 - give me 2 Samuel 22:14 - thundered 2 Chronicles 13:12 - fight ye 2 Chronicles 32:8 - an arm Job 9:13 - the proud helpers Job 9:19 - he is strong Job 15:25 - strengtheneth Job 25:2 - Dominion Job 26:14 - the thunder Job 31:23 - by Job 35:9 - the arm Job 41:10 - who Psalms 18:13 - thundered Psalms 18:14 - he shot Psalms 29:4 - full of Isaiah 30:30 - his glorious voice Isaiah 33:5 - The Lord Isaiah 36:20 - that the Lord Isaiah 40:18 - General Jeremiah 15:12 - Shall iron Jeremiah 50:24 - because Jeremiah 51:16 - he uttereth Ezekiel 10:5 - the voice Ezekiel 13:5 - to stand Ezekiel 22:14 - Thine heart Ezekiel 28:6 - Because Daniel 4:35 - none Luke 1:51 - he hath scattered Luke 14:32 - and desireth Luke 18:14 - every John 12:10 - General John 12:29 - thundered Acts 5:39 - to fight Acts 9:5 - it is Acts 11:17 - what Revelation 19:6 - and as the voice of mighty

Cross-References

Genesis 40:5
One night both of the prisoners had a dream. The baker and the wine server each had his own dream, and each dream had its own meaning.

Genesis 40:10
On the vine there were three branches. I watched the branches grow flowers and then become grapes.

Genesis 40:13
Before the end of three days, Pharaoh will forgive you and allow you to go back to your work. You will do the same work for Pharaoh as you did before.

Genesis 40:15
I was kidnapped and taken from the land of my people, the Hebrews. I have done nothing wrong! I should not be in prison."

Genesis 40:18
Joseph answered, "I will tell you what the dream means. The three baskets mean three days.

Daniel 2:31
"King, in your dream you saw a large statue in front of you that was very large and shiny. It was very impressive.

Daniel 4:8
Finally, Daniel came to me. (I gave Daniel the name Belteshazzar to honor my god. The spirit of the holy gods is in him.) I told him about my dream.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hast thou an arm like God?.... Such power as he has, which is infinite, almighty, and uncontrollable, and therefore there is no contending with him; as he has an arm on which good men may lean on and trust in, and by which they are supported, protected, and saved, so he has an arm to crush like a moth all that strive with him or against him;

or canst thou thunder with a voice like him? thunder is his voice; see

Job 37:4, c. and is expressive of his power,

Job 26:14 and his powerful voice may be observed in calling all things out of nothing into being in creation; in commanding and ordering all things in providence according to his pleasure; and in quickening sinners through his Gospel, by his Spirit and grace in conversion, and will be in calling men out of their graves and summoning them to judgment at the last day. God can both overpower and out voice men, and therefore it is in vain to oppose him and contend with him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hast thou an arm like God? - The arm is the symbol of strength. The question here is, whether Job would venture to compare his strength with the omnipotence of God?

Or canst thou thunder with a voice like him? - Thunder is a symbol of the majesty of the Most High, and is often spoken of as the voice of God; see Psalms 29:1-11. The question here is, whether Job could presume to compare himself with the Almighty, whose voice was the thunder?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 40:9. Hast thou an arm like God? — Every word, from this to the end of Job 40:14, has a wonderful tendency to humble the soul; and it is no wonder that at the conclusion of these sayings Job fell in the dust confounded, and ascribed righteousness to his Maker.