Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall on you?
Parallel translations
- KJV Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
- BSB Would His majesty not terrify you? Would the dread of Him not fall upon you?
- NKJV Will not His excellence make you afraid, And the dread of Him fall upon you?
- NASB “Will His majesty not terrify you, And the dread of Him fall upon you?
- NLT Doesn’t his majesty terrify you? Doesn’t your fear of him overwhelm you?
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Quick answer
Job asks whether God's majesty does not terrify his friends. The thought of misusing God's name should make them tremble.
Overview
Job appeals to the dread of God's majesty: should not His excellency make them afraid? If they truly grasped God's holiness, they would fear to speak falsely in His name. A right sense of God's greatness produces reverent honesty rather than careless argument.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 119:120My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments. AYIN
- Job 31:23For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.
- Exod 15:16Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone — until your people pass over, Yahweh, until the people pass over who you have purchased.
- Matt 10:28Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
- Rev 15:3–4They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
- Jer 5:22Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? and though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail; though they roar, yet they can’t pass over it.’
- Jer 10:10But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to withstand his indignation.
- Isa 8:13Yahweh of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread.
- Job 13:21withdraw your hand far from me; and don’t let your terror make me afraid.
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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