Job 40:9

Wycliffe Bible

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

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?

Easy-to-Read Version
Are your arms as strong as mine? Do you have a voice like mine that is as loud as thunder?

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?

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 Forsothe the Lord answeride to Joob fro the whirlewynd, ⁷ and seide, Girde thou as a man thi leendis, and Y schal axe thee, and schewe thou to me. ⁸ Whether thou schalt make voide my doom, and schalt condempne me, that thou be maad iust? ⁹ And if thou hast an arm, as God hath, and if thou thundrist with lijk vois, `take thou fairnesse aboute thee, <sup>10</sup> and be thou reisid an hiy, and be thou gloriouse, and be thou clothid `in faire clothis. ¹¹ Distrie thou proude men in thi woodnesse, and biholde thou, and make lowe ech bostere. ¹² Biholde thou alle proude men, and schende thou hem; and al to-breke thou wickid men in her place. ¹³ Hide thou hem in dust togidere, and drenche doun her faces in to a diche. ¹⁴ And Y schal knowleche, that thi riyt hond may saue thee.

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
bi couenable expownyng to hem.

Genesis 40:10
in which weren thre siouns, wexide litil and litil in to buriounnyngis, and that aftir flouris grapys wexiden ripe,

Genesis 40:13
aftir whiche Farao schal haue mynde of thi seruyce, and he schal restore thee in to the firste degree, and thou schal yyue to hym the cuppe, bi thin office, as thou were wont to do bifore.

Genesis 40:15
for theefli Y am takun awei fro the lond of Ebrews, and here Y am sent innocent in to prisoun.

Genesis 40:18
Joseph answerde, This is the expownyng of the dreem; thre panyeris ben yit thre daies,

Daniel 2:31
Thou, kyng, siyest, and lo! as o greet ymage; thilke ymage was greet, and hiy in stature, and stood bifore thee, and the loking therof was ferdful.

Daniel 4:8
Danyel, to whom the name was Balthasar, bi the name of my God, entride in my siyt, which Danyel hath the spirit of hooli goddis in hym silf; and Y spak the dreem bifor hym.

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.