Job 9:13

JPS Old Testament

God will not withdraw His anger; the helpers of Rahab did stoop under Him.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
God does not hold back his anger;Rahab’s assistants cringe in fear beneath him!

Hebrew Names Version
"God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rachav stoop under him.

King James Version
If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.

English Standard Version
"God will not turn back his anger; beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab.

New Century Version
God will not hold back his anger. Even the helpers of the monster Rahab lie at his feet in fear.

New English Translation
God does not restrain his anger; under him the helpers of Rahab lie crushed.

Amplified Bible
"God will not turn back His anger; The [proud] helpers of Rahab [the arrogant monster of the sea] bow under Him.

New American Standard Bible
"God will not turn back His anger; Beneath Him the helpers of Rahab cower.

World English Bible
"God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

Geneva Bible (1587)
God will not withdrawe his anger, and the most mightie helpes doe stoupe vnder him.

Legacy Standard Bible
"God will not turn back His anger;Beneath Him crouch the helpers of Rahab.

Berean Standard Bible
God does not restrain His anger; the helpers of Rahab cower beneath Him.

Contemporary English Version
When God showed his anger, the servants of the sea monster fell at his feet.

Complete Jewish Bible
God will not withdraw his anger — even Rahav's supporters submit to him.

Darby Translation
+God withdraweth not his anger; the proud helpers stoop under him:

Easy-to-Read Version
God will not hold back his anger. Even Rahab's helpers are afraid of him.

George Lamsa Translation
God will not turn away his anger, the mighty shall be humiliated under him.

Good News Translation
God's anger is constant. He crushed his enemies who helped Rahab, the sea monster, oppose him.

Lexham English Bible
God will not turn back his anger; beneath him the helpers of Rahab bow.

Literal Translation
God will not withdraw His anger; the helpers of pride stoop under Him.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He is God, whose wrath no man maye with stode: but the proudest of all must stoupe vnder him.

American Standard Version
God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab do stoop under him.

Bible in Basic English
God's wrath may not be turned back; the helpers of Rahab were bent down under him.

King James Version (1611)
If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers doe stoupe vnder him.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
God will not withdraw his anger, and the most mightie helpes do stowpe vnder hym:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For if he has turned away his anger, the whales under heaven have stooped under him.

English Revised Version
God will not withdraw his anger; the helpers of Rahab do stoop under him.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
`God is he, whos wraththe no man may withstonde; and vndur whom thei ben bowid, that beren the world.

Update Bible Version
God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

Webster's Bible Translation
[If] God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.

New King James Version
God will not withdraw His anger,The allies of the proud [fn] lie prostrate beneath Him.

New Living Translation
And God does not restrain his anger. Even the monsters of the sea are crushed beneath his feet.

New Life Bible
"God will not stop His anger. The helpers of Rahab bow under Him.

New Revised Standard
"God will not turn back his anger; the helpers of Rahab bowed beneath him.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
As for GOD, if he withdraw not his anger, under him, will have submitted themselves - the proud helpers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
God, whose wrath no man can resist, and under whom they stoop that bear up the world.

Revised Standard Version
"God will not turn back his anger; beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab.

Young's Literal Translation
God doth not turn back His anger, Under Him bowed have proud helpers.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"God will not turn back His anger; Beneath Him crouch the helpers of Rahab.

Contextual Overview

¹ Then Job answered and said: ² Of a truth I know that it is so; and how can man be just with God? ³ If one should desire to contend with Him, he could not answer Him one of a thousand. ⁴ He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength; who hath hardened himself against Him, and prospered? ⁵ Who removeth the mountains, and they know it not, when He overturneth them in His anger. ⁶ Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. ⁷ Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars. ⁸ Who alone stretcheth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea. ⁹ Who maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south. ¹⁰ Who doeth great things past finding out; yea, marvellous things without number.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the proud helpers: Heb. the helpers of pride, or strength, Job 26:12, Job 40:9-11, Isaiah 30:7, Isaiah 31:2, Isaiah 31:3, James 4:6, James 4:7

Reciprocal: Judges 20:25 - destroyed 2 Samuel 8:5 - came 2 Chronicles 25:8 - God hath power Job 11:10 - If he cut off Job 12:14 - he breaketh Job 23:13 - who can Job 36:19 - nor all Psalms 107:12 - and there Psalms 108:12 - for vain Isaiah 14:6 - and none Jeremiah 47:4 - every Jeremiah 48:30 - his lies shall not so effect it Ezekiel 30:6 - They also Daniel 4:35 - none

Cross-References

Ezekiel 1:28
As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[If] God will not withdraw his anger,.... Or "God will not withdraw his anger" m; he is angry, or at least seems to be angry with his own people, in their apprehension, when he afflicts them and hides his face from them, or does not immediately appear to their relief and assistance; but this does not always last, he does not retain or keep anger for ever; but shows great mercies to them, and with everlasting kindness has mercy on them, by discovering his love to them, applying his pardoning grace and mercy, and comforting them with the consolations of his spirit; but then he is angry with the wicked every day, for their continual transgressions; and he never withdraws his anger from them, neither here nor hereafter, but punishes them with everlasting destruction, and casts them into everlasting fire, to which his wrath and anger are compared: the consequence of which is,

the proud helpers do stoop under him; or "the helpers of pride" n, or helpers of proud men; proud, wicked, and ungodly men, who combine together and help one another against God, his people, cause and interest; men of power, rule and government, as Aben Ezra explains it; civil magistrates, men in authority, who, instead of being terrors to evil doers, encourage them, and help them forward in their wickedness; but though both those that help, and those that are helped, may continue for a while, and be supported, yet they shall sooner or later fall under the mighty hand of God, his power and wrath, and be crushed by it. Some regard may be had either to the giants, the men of the old world, who filled the earth with violence, and were swept away with the flood, Genesis 6:13; or rather to the builders of Babel, who helped one another to build a tower to make them a name, and secure themselves, and in opposition to God; but he being angry with them, made them desist, and they bowed under him, Genesis 11:4. Some render it, "the helpers of Rahab"; that is, of Egypt o, Rahab being a name of Egypt,

Psalms 87:4. The devils are meant, whose sin was pride, and by which they fell, and which they have endeavoured to promote and cherish among men; but these proud spirits are cast out of heaven and into hell, where they are reserved in chains of darkness to the great judgment, Judges 1:6; and are obliged, whether they will or not, to stoop to the Lord, and even to the son of God in human nature, which their proud stomachs cannot well bear; but are forced to it, the anger of God lying upon them, and his wrath, which will never be withdrawn from them.

m אלוה לא ישיב אפו "Deus non revocabit furorem suum", Pagninus, Beza. n עזרי רהב "adjutores superbiae", Montanus, Vatablus, Drusius, Junius & Tremellius, Schmidt, Michaelis. o So Jarchi.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If God will not withdraw his anger - That is, if he perseveres in inflicting punishment. He will not turn aside his displeasure by any opposition or resistance made to him.

The proud helpers - Margin, Helpers of pride, or, strength. Jerome renders this, “under whom they who bear up the world bow down.” The Septuagint, not less singularly, “by him the whales (or monsters - κήτος ketos) which are under heaven, are bowed down.” Codurcus renders it, “aids of pride,” and understands by it all the things on which proud men rely, as wealth, health, rank, talent. So Dr. Good renders it, “the supports of the proud.” The meaning is, probably, that all those things which contribute to the support of pride, or all those persons who are allied together to maintain the dominion of pride on the earth, must sink under the wrath of God. Or it may refer to those who sustain the pride of state and empire - the men who stand around the thrones of monarchs, and who contribute, by their talent and power, to uphold the pomp and magnificence of courts. On the meaning of the word here rendered pride (רהב rahab), see the notes at Isaiah 30:7.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 9:13. If God will not withdraw his anger — It is of no use to contend with God; he cannot be successfully resisted; all his opposers must perish.