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Unleash the fury of your wrath; look on every proud man and bring him low.
Job 40:11 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.
  • KJV Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.
  • NKJV Disperse the rage of your wrath; Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him.
  • NASB “Let out your outbursts of anger, And look at everyone who is arrogant, and humble him.
  • NLT Give vent to your anger. Let it overflow against the proud.

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Quick answer

God challenges Job to pour out wrath and bring down everyone who is proud. Only God can rightly judge and humble the proud.

Overview

God invites Job, if he can, to execute divine justice by humbling the proud. The challenge underscores that Job lacks both the authority and the power to govern the moral order. Judging the wicked belongs to God, who alone sees the heart and wields perfect justice. Job is being taught to leave final judgment in God's hands, a trust the gospel confirms in the coming Judge, Christ.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 23

  • Dan 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.
  • Isa 2:17So the pride of man will be brought low, and the loftiness of men will be humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,
  • Isa 2:11–12The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
  • Nah 1:6Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.
  • Isa 42:25So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.
  • Isa 10:12–19So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.
  • Job 20:23When he has filled his stomach, God will vent His fury upon him, raining it down on him as he eats.
  • Job 27:22It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.
  • Dan 5:20–23But when his heart became arrogant and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his glory was taken from him.
  • Ezek 28:2“Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.
  • Obad 1:3–4The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
  • Mal 4:1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”
  • Luke 18:14I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
  • Acts 12:22–23And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!”
  • Jas 4:6But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
  • Ps 144:6Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.
  • Ps 78:49–50He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity—a band of destroying angels.
  • Rom 2:8–9But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.
  • Exod 15:6Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has shattered the enemy.
  • 1 Pet 5:5–6Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
  • Exod 9:16–17But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.
  • Exod 18:11Now I know that the LORD is greater than all other gods, for He did this when they treated Israel with arrogance.”
  • Deut 32:22For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

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Christ at the center

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.

How Job 40:11 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Original language

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