Then adorn yourself with majesty and splendor, and clothe yourself with honor and glory.
Parallel translations
- WEB “Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty.
- KJV Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty.
- NKJV Then adorn yourself with majesty and splendor, And array yourself with glory and beauty.
- NASB ¶“Adorn yourself with pride and dignity, And clothe yourself with honor and majesty.
- NLT All right, put on your glory and splendor, your honor and majesty.
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Quick answer
God ironically invites Job to clothe himself with majesty and glory, as if he could rule like God. The challenge exposes that such splendor belongs to God alone.
Overview
In a tone of holy irony, God dares Job to array himself in the excellency, dignity, and majesty that befit the divine ruler. The point is that Job cannot wear what is God's alone. If Job would judge the world, he must first possess God's own glory and might. The passage humbles Job's pretensions and magnifies the unique majesty of the Lord who governs all.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Ps 93:1The LORD reigns! He is robed in majesty; the LORD has clothed and armed Himself with strength. The world indeed is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
- Ps 149:4For the LORD takes pleasure in His people; He adorns the afflicted with salvation.
- Isa 59:17He put on righteousness like a breastplate, and the helmet of salvation on His head; He put on garments of vengeance and wrapped Himself in a cloak of zeal.
- Job 39:19Do you give strength to the horse or adorn his neck with a mane?
- 1 Cor 15:54When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
- Ps 90:16–17May Your work be shown to Your servants, and Your splendor to their children.
- Ps 50:2From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.
- Ps 104:1–2Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, You are very great; You are clothed with splendor and majesty.
- Ps 45:3–4Strap your sword at your side, O mighty warrior; appear in your majesty and splendor.
- Ps 21:5Great is his glory in Your salvation; You bestow on him splendor and majesty.
- Matt 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’
- 2 Pet 1:16–17For we did not follow cleverly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty.
- Exod 28:2Make holy garments for your brother Aaron, to give him glory and splendor.
- Jude 1:24–25Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—
- 1 Chr 29:11Yours, 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.
- Isa 4:2On that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of Israel’s survivors.
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