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For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,
Job 15:25 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;
  • KJV For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
  • NKJV For he stretches out his hand against God, And acts defiantly against the Almighty,
  • NASB Because he has reached out with his hand against God, And is arrogant toward the Almighty.
  • NLT For they shake their fists at God, defying the Almighty.

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Quick answer

The wicked man's ruin is traced to his proud defiance of God and the Almighty. His suffering follows from rebellion against his Maker.

Overview

Eliphaz now names the root cause: the wicked stretches out his hand against God in arrogant resistance. This rightly identifies pride and rebellion as the heart of sin. The error is in implying Job has done this; in truth Job, though he questions God, never abandons his fear of him, and the gospel answers such rebellion not with mere doom but with a Savior who bore proud sinners' judgment.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 20

  • Dan 5:23Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.
  • Ps 52:7“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”
  • Ps 73:9They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth.
  • Job 9:4God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?
  • Job 36:9then He tells them their deeds and how arrogantly they have transgressed.
  • Ps 73:11The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”
  • 1 Sam 6:6Why harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened theirs? When He afflicted them, did they not send the people on their way as they departed?
  • Mal 3:13“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’
  • 1 Sam 4:7–9the Philistines were afraid. “The gods have entered their camp!” they said. “Woe to us, for nothing like this has happened before.
  • Isa 8:9–10Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for battle, and be shattered; prepare for battle, and be shattered!
  • Exod 5:2–3But Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”
  • Lev 26:23And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,
  • Acts 9:5“Who are You, Lord?” Saul asked. “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” He replied.
  • Isa 10:12–14So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.
  • Acts 12:23Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
  • Acts 12:1About that time, King Herod reached out to harm some who belonged to the church.
  • Exod 9:17Still, you lord it over My people and do not allow them to go.
  • Isa 27:4I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.
  • Isa 41:4–7Who has performed this and carried it out, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD—the first and the last—I am He.”
  • Job 40:9–11Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like His?

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Christ at the center

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.

How Job 15:25 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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