“Dominion and awe belong to Him Who makes peace in His heights.
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.
- BSB “Dominion and awe belong to God; He establishes harmony in the heights of heaven.
- NKJV “Dominion and fear belong to Him; He makes peace in His high places.
- 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 6:16They told the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
- Col 1:20and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.
- Isa 57:19I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”
- Eph 1:20–21which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,
- Job 26:5–14“The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
- 1 Chr 29:11–12Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.
- Matt 28:18Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
- Eph 2:16–17and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.
- Jude 1:25to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.
- 2 Cor 5:18–21But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;
- Ps 99:1–3Yahweh reigns! Let the peoples tremble. He sits enthroned among the cherubim. Let the earth be moved.
- Jer 10:6–7There is no one like you, Yahweh. you are great, and your name is great in might.
- Job 40:9–14Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?
- Job 9:2–10“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
- Dan 4:34–37At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.
- Isa 57:15For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
- Matt 5:9Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.
- Matt 6:13Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’
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