He removes the mountains, and they do not know When He overturns them in His anger;
Parallel translations
- WEB He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
- KJV Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
- BSB He moves mountains without their knowledge and overturns them in His anger.
- NASB “It is God who removes the mountains, and they do not know how, When He overturns them in His anger.
- NLT “Without warning, he moves the mountains, overturning them in his anger.
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Quick answer
Job marvels that God moves mountains in his anger before they even know it. God's power over creation is overwhelming and irresistible.
Overview
Job begins a hymn-like list of God's mighty works, starting with his ability to overturn mountains without warning. The imagery conveys God's effortless sovereignty over the most immovable parts of creation. Such reflection deepens Job's awe and his sense of helplessness before so powerful a God.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 17
- Matt 27:51Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.
- Luke 21:11There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
- Rev 11:13In that day there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
- Rev 16:18–20There were lightnings, sounds, and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since there were men on the earth, so great an earthquake, so mighty.
- Hab 3:10The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.
- Ps 68:8The earth trembled. The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai — at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
- Hab 3:6He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.
- Rev 6:14The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
- Matt 21:21Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it would be done.
- 1 Cor 13:2If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.
- Isa 40:12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
- Ps 46:2Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;
- Job 28:9He puts his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.
- Zech 4:7Who are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you are a plain; and he will bring out the capstone with shouts of ‘Grace, grace, to it!’”
- Ps 114:6You mountains, that you skipped like rams; you little hills, like lambs?
- Zech 14:4–5His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
- Num 1:5–6These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.
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