be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”
Parallel translations
- KJV Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
- BSB then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”
- NKJV Be afraid of the sword for yourselves; For wrath brings the punishment of the sword, That you may know there is a judgment.”
- NASB “Then be afraid of the sword for yourselves, For wrath brings the punishment of the sword, So that you may know there is judgment.”
- NLT You should fear punishment yourselves, for your attitude deserves punishment. Then you will know that there is indeed a judgment.”
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Quick answer
Job warns his friends to fear the sword, for wrath brings judgment, that they may know there is a judgment to come. He cautions that God will judge their accusations.
Overview
Job solemnly warns that those who wrongly attack him face God's punishing 'sword,' for there is indeed a coming judgment. His words turn the tables: the very judgment they invoke against him may fall on them. The verse affirms that God will hold all accountable, a truth that should sober every tongue and points to the final judgment entrusted to Christ (John 5:22).
Cross-references & the web
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- Eccl 12:14For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.
- Eccl 11:9Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
- Job 22:4Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?
- Job 13:7–11Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
- Ps 9:7But Yahweh reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment.
- Ps 1:5Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
- Matt 7:1–2“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.
- Ps 58:10–11The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;
- Job 15:22He doesn’t believe that he shall return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.
- Rom 13:1–4Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.
- Jas 4:11–12Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
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