Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

He poureth contempt upon nobles, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste;

New American Standard Bible

He pours contempt upon princes
And makes them wander in a pathless waste.

King James Version

He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.

Holman Bible

He pours contempt on nobles
and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

International Standard Version

Having poured contempt on their nobles, causing them to err aimlessly in the way.

A Conservative Version

He pours contempt upon rulers, and causes them to wander in the waste, where there is no way.

American Standard Version

He poureth contempt upon princes, And causeth them to wander in the waste, where there is no way.

Amplified


He pours contempt on princes
And makes them wander in a pathless wasteland.

Bible in Basic English

He puts an end to the pride of kings, and sends them wandering in the waste lands where there is no way.

Julia Smith Translation

He poured out contempt upon the nobles, and he will cause them to wander in a waste of not a way.

King James 2000

He pours contempt upon princes, and causes them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[he] pours contempt on princes and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

Modern King James verseion

He pours scorn on nobles, and causes them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no path.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

though he suffer them to be evil-entreated through tyrants, or let them wander out of the way in the wilderness,

NET Bible

He would pour contempt upon princes, and he made them wander in a wasteland with no road.

New Heart English Bible

He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

The Emphasized Bible

He poureth contempt upon nobles, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste;

Webster

He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.

World English Bible

He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

Youngs Literal Translation

He is pouring contempt upon nobles, And causeth them to wander in vacancy -- no way.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
He poureth
שׁפך 
Shaphak 
Usage: 115

בּוּז 
Buwz 
Usage: 11

נדיב 
Nadiyb 
Usage: 28

תּעה 
Ta`ah 
Usage: 50

in the wilderness
תּהוּ 
Tohuw 
Usage: 20

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Thanksgiving To Yahweh For His Of Deliverance

39 And they are diminished and brought low, through oppression, adversity, and sorrow: 40 He poureth contempt upon nobles, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste; 41 But he secureth the needy one on high from affliction, and maketh him families like flocks.


Cross References

Job 12:24

He taketh away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste.

Job 12:21

He poureth contempt upon nobles, and slackeneth the girdle of the mighty;

Exodus 8:3

And the river shall swarm with frogs, and they shall go up and come into thy house, and into thy bedroom, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy bondmen, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneading-troughs.

Exodus 8:17

And they did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff, and smote the dust of the earth, and there arose gnats on man and on beast: all the dust of the land became gnats throughout the land of Egypt.

Exodus 8:24

And Jehovah did so; and there came dog-flies in a multitude into the house of Pharaoh, and into the houses of his bondmen; and throughout the land of Egypt, the land was corrupted by the dog-flies.

Deuteronomy 32:10

He found him in a desert land, And in the waste, howling wilderness; He compassed him about, he watched over him, He preserved him as the apple of his eye.

Joshua 10:24-26

And it came to pass when they had brought forth those kings to Joshua, that Joshua called to all the men of Israel, and said to the captains of the men of war who went with him, Come forward, put your feet on the necks of these kings. And they came forward and put their feet on their necks.

Judges 1:6-7

Ado'ni-be'zek fled; but they pursued him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

Judges 4:21

But Ja'el the wife of Heber took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple, till it went down into the ground, as he was lying fast asleep from weariness. So he died.

1 Samuel 5:9

And it came to pass that, after they had carried it about, the hand of Jehovah was against the city with very great panic; and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and hemorrhoids broke out upon them.

1 Samuel 6:4

Then they said, What is the trespass-offering which we shall return to him? And they said, Five golden hemorrhoids, and five golden mice, the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague is upon them all, and upon your lords.

1 Kings 21:19

And thou shalt speak unto him saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him saying, Thus saith Jehovah: In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall the dogs lick thy blood, even thine.

2 Kings 9:35-37

And they went to bury her; but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of the hands.

Psalm 78:66

And he smote his adversaries in the hinder part, and put them to everlasting reproach.

Psalm 107:4

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way, they found no city of habitation;

Isaiah 23:8-9

Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the distributor of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose dealers were the honourable of the earth?

Jeremiah 13:15-18

Hear ye, and give ear, be not lifted up; for Jehovah hath spoken.

Daniel 4:33

The same hour was the word fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar; and he was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen; and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, till his hair grew like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.

Daniel 5:5-6

In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

Daniel 5:18-30

O thou king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty;

Acts 12:23

And immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because he did not give the glory to God, and he expired, eaten of worms.

Revelation 19:18

that ye may eat flesh of kings, and flesh of chiliarchs, and flesh of strong men, and flesh of horses and of those that sit upon them, and flesh of all, both free and bond, and small and great.

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