He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
Parallel translations
- WEB He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
- BSB He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
- NKJV He has stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.
- NASB “He has stripped my honor from me And removed the crown from my head.
- NLT He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
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Quick answer
Job laments that God has stripped him of honor and removed the crown from his head. He has lost all his former dignity and standing.
Overview
Once a respected and prosperous man, Job feels publicly disgraced, his 'glory' and 'crown' (status and reputation) taken away. The language echoes a king dethroned, capturing the totality of his loss. It foreshadows the greater humiliation of Christ, who was stripped and crowned with thorns, yet through his shame won glory for the suffering people of God (Hebrews 2:9).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Ps 89:44Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.
- Job 29:7–14When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
- Lam 5:16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
- Ps 89:39Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
- Job 12:17He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
- Job 30:1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
- Job 29:20–21My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
- Ps 49:16–17Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
- Hos 9:11As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
- Isa 61:6But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
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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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