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New King James Version

Job 40:12

Look on everyone who is proud, and bring him low; Tread down the wicked in their place.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Thompson Chain Reference - Abasement;   Exaltation-Abasement;  

Dictionaries:

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

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Job, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Look on every proud person and humble him;trample the wicked where they stand.
Hebrew Names Version
Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.
King James Version
Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
English Standard Version
Look on everyone who is proud and bring him low and tread down the wicked where they stand.
New Century Version
Look at the proud and make them humble. Crush the wicked wherever they are.
New English Translation
Look at every proud man and abase him; crush the wicked on the spot!
Amplified Bible
"Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him, And [if you are so able] tread down the wicked where they stand.
New American Standard Bible
"Look at everyone who is arrogant, and humble him, And trample down the wicked where they stand.
World English Bible
Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Looke on euery one that is arrogant, and bring him lowe: and destroy the wicked in their place.
Legacy Standard Bible
Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him,And tread down the wicked in their place.
Berean Standard Bible
Look on every proud man and humble him; trample the wicked where they stand.
Contemporary English Version
all who are proud and evil.
Complete Jewish Bible
Look at all who are proud, and bring them down; tread down the wicked where they stand.
Darby Translation
Look on every one that is proud, bring him low, and tread down the wicked in their place:
Easy-to-Read Version
Yes, just look at the proud and make them humble. Crush those evil people where they stand.
George Lamsa Translation
And cast the sinners into their place.
Good News Translation
Yes, look at them and bring them down; crush the wicked where they stand.
Lexham English Bible
Look at all the proud, humble them, and tread down the wicked where they stand.
Literal Translation
look on everyone who is proud, and humble him, and trample the wicked in their place;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
loke well, that thou makest all soch as be stubburne, to obeye: treade all the vngodly vnder thy fete,
American Standard Version
Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; And tread down the wicked where they stand.
Bible in Basic English
Send destruction on all who are lifted up, pulling down the sinners from their places.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
King James Version (1611)
Looke on euery one that is proud, and bring him low: and tread downe the wicked in their place.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Loke on euery one that is arrogant, and bring him lowe, & destroy the wicked in their place:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He sets up his tail like a cypress; and his nerves are wrapped together.
English Revised Version
Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked where they stand.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Biholde thou alle proude men, and schende thou hem; and al to-breke thou wickid men in her place.
Update Bible Version
Look at every one that is proud, [and] bring him low; And tread down the wicked where they stand.
Webster's Bible Translation
Look on every one [that is] proud, [and] bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
New Living Translation
Humiliate the proud with a glance; walk on the wicked where they stand.
New Life Bible
Look on everyone who is proud, and bring him down. Crush the sinful where they stand.
New Revised Standard
Look on all who are proud, and bring them low; tread down the wicked where they stand.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Look on every one who is high, and humble him, yea tread down the lawless, on the spot:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(40-7) Look on all that are proud, and confound them, and crush the wicked in their place,
Revised Standard Version
Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked where they stand.
Young's Literal Translation
See every proud one -- humble him, And tread down the wicked in their place.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him, And tread down the wicked where they stand.

Contextual Overview

6 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said: 7 "Now prepare yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer Me: 8 "Would you indeed annul My judgment? Would you condemn Me that you may be justified? 9 Have you an arm like God? Or can you thunder with a voice like His? 10 Then adorn yourself with majesty and splendor, And array yourself with glory and beauty. 11 Disperse the rage of your wrath; Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him. 12 Look on everyone who is proud, and bring him low; Tread down the wicked in their place. 13 Hide them in the dust together, Bind their faces in hidden darkness. 14 Then I will also confess to you That your own right hand can save you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

tread: Psalms 60:12, Proverbs 15:25, Isaiah 10:6, Zechariah 10:5, Malachi 4:3, Romans 16:20

in: Job 36:20, Ecclesiastes 11:3, Acts 1:25

Reciprocal: Exodus 14:24 - looked unto Exodus 18:11 - proudly Judges 4:17 - fled 2 Samuel 22:28 - but thine 1 Kings 20:32 - Thy servant 2 Kings 14:13 - took Amaziah 2 Chronicles 28:19 - the Lord Nehemiah 9:10 - they Job 26:12 - he smiteth Psalms 7:5 - tread Psalms 36:11 - foot Psalms 59:11 - bring Psalms 78:66 - And he Psalms 94:2 - render Psalms 101:5 - an high Psalms 119:21 - rebuked Psalms 138:6 - but the proud Proverbs 16:5 - that Proverbs 29:23 - man's Isaiah 5:15 - the eyes Isaiah 10:12 - punish the fruit of the stout heart Isaiah 10:33 - and the haughty Isaiah 22:19 - General Isaiah 23:9 - to stain Jeremiah 50:31 - O thou Ezekiel 17:24 - have brought Ezekiel 28:17 - I will cast Daniel 4:24 - come Daniel 4:37 - those that walk Daniel 5:20 - when Micah 1:3 - and tread Habakkuk 2:4 - his 2 Corinthians 10:5 - and every

Cross-References

Genesis 40:18
So Joseph answered and said, "This is the interpretation of it: The three baskets are three days.
Genesis 40:19
Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head from you and hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from you."
Genesis 41:12
Now there was a young Hebrew man with us there, a servant of the captain of the guard. And we told him, and he interpreted our dreams for us; to each man he interpreted according to his own dream.
Judges 7:14
Then his companion answered and said, "This is nothing else but the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel! Into his hand God has delivered Midian and the whole camp."
Matthew 26:26
And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed [fn] and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, "Take, eat; this is My body."
1 Corinthians 10:4
and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.
Galatians 4:25
for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children--

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Look on everyone [that is] proud, [and] bring him low,.... As the Lord often does; see Isaiah 2:11; this is the same as before;

and tread down the wicked in their place; the same with the proud, for pride makes men wicked; it is a sin, and very odious in the sight of God, and is highly resented by him; he resists the proud: now Job is bid, when he has brought proud men low, and laid their honour in the dust, to keep them there, to trample upon them, and tread them as mire in the street; and that in their own place, or wherever he should find them; the Septuagint render it "immediately"; see Isaiah 28:3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And tread down the wicked in their place - Even in the very place where they are, crush them to the dust, as God can. It is implied that God was able to do this, and he appeals to it as a proof of his power.


 
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