“Dominion and awe belong to God; He establishes harmony in the heights of heaven.
Parallel translations
- WEB “Dominion and fear are with him. He makes peace in his high places.
- KJV Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.
- NKJV “Dominion and fear belong to Him; He makes peace in His high places.
- NASB “Dominion and awe belong to Him Who makes peace in His heights.
- NLT “God is powerful and dreadful. He enforces peace in the heavens.
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Quick answer
Bildad exalts God's dominion, dread, and peacemaking in the heavens. It matters because it rightly affirms God's supreme majesty.
Overview
Bildad declares that dominion and fear belong to God, who establishes order in His high places. The statement is true and reverent, magnifying God's sovereign rule over all. Yet Bildad uses this truth to crush Job rather than comfort him, missing that the same majestic God also draws near to the afflicted in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- Rev 6:16And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.
- Col 1:20and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross.
- Isa 57:19bringing praise to their lips. Peace, peace to those far and near,” says the LORD, “and I will heal them.”
- Eph 1:20–21which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,
- Job 26:5–14The dead tremble—those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
- 1 Chr 29:11–12Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.
- Matt 28:18Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
- Eph 2:16–17and reconciling both of them to God in one body through the cross, by which He extinguished their hostility.
- Jude 1:25to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority through Jesus Christ our Lord before all time, and now, and for all eternity. Amen.
- 2 Cor 5:18–21All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
- Ps 99:1–3The LORD reigns; let the nations tremble! He is enthroned above the cherubim; let the earth quake!
- Jer 10:6–7There is none like You, O LORD. You are great, and Your name is mighty in power.
- Job 40:9–14Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like His?
- Job 9:2–10“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
- Dan 4:34–37But at the end of those days I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity was restored to me. Then I praised the Most High, and I honored and glorified Him who lives forever: “For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation.
- Isa 57:15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
- Matt 5:9Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.
- Matt 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’
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