He has 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.
- KJV He hath 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.
- 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 89:44You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground.
- Job 29:7–14when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.
- Lam 5:16The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.
- Ps 89:39You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.
- Job 12:17He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.
- Job 30:1“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
- Job 29:20–21My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.’
- Ps 49:16–17Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
- Hos 9:11As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.
- Isa 61:6But you will be called Yahweh’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations, and you will boast in their glory.
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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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