Parallel Verses

NET Bible

Who can really fathom the intensity of your anger? Your raging fury causes people to fear you.

New American Standard Bible

Who understands the power of Your anger
And Your fury, according to the fear that is due You?

King James Version

Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

Holman Bible

Who understands the power of Your anger?
Your wrath matches the fear that is due You.

International Standard Version

Who can know the intensity of your anger? Because our fear of you matches your wrath,

A Conservative Version

Who knows the power of thine anger, and thy wrath according to the fear that is due to thee?

American Standard Version

Who knoweth the power of thine anger, And thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto thee?

Amplified


Who understands the power of Your anger? [Who connects this brevity of life among us with Your judgment of sin?]
And Your wrath, [who connects it] with the [reverent] fear that is due You?

Darby Translation

Who knoweth the power of thine anger? and thy wrath according to the fear of thee?

Julia Smith Translation

Who shall know the strength of thine anger? and according to thy fear, thy wrath.

King James 2000

Who knows the power of your anger? even according to your fear, so is your wrath.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Who knows the strength of your anger, and your rage consistent with [the] fear due you?

Modern King James verseion

Who knows the power of Your anger? And as Your fear is, so is Your wrath.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

But who regardeth the power of thy wrath? For even thereafter as a man feareth, so is thy displeasure.

New Heart English Bible

Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

The Emphasized Bible

Who knoweth the strength of thine anger? Even, according to the fear of thee, is thy wrath!

Webster

Who knoweth the power of thy anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

World English Bible

Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

Youngs Literal Translation

Who knoweth the power of Thine anger? And according to Thy fear -- Thy wrath?

References

American

Hastings

Sin

Context Readings

Eternal God And Mortal Man

10 The days of our lives add up to seventy years, or eighty, if one is especially strong. But even one's best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Yes, they pass quickly and we fly away. 11 Who can really fathom the intensity of your anger? Your raging fury causes people to fear you. 12 So teach us to consider our mortality, so that we might live wisely.


Cross References

Leviticus 26:18

"'If, in spite of all these things, you do not obey me, I will discipline you seven times more on account of your sins.

Leviticus 26:21

"'If you walk in hostility against me and are not willing to obey me, I will increase your affliction seven times according to your sins.

Leviticus 26:24

I myself will also walk in hostility against you and strike you seven times on account of your sins.

Leviticus 26:28

I will walk in hostile rage against you and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins.

Deuteronomy 28:59

then the Lord will increase your punishments and those of your descendants -- great and long-lasting afflictions and severe, enduring illnesses.

Deuteronomy 29:20-29

The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger will rage against that man; all the curses written in this scroll will fall upon him and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory.

Psalm 76:7

You are awesome! Yes, you! Who can withstand your intense anger?

Isaiah 33:14

Sinners are afraid in Zion; panic grips the godless. They say, 'Who among us can coexist with destructive fire? Who among us can coexist with unquenchable fire?'

Nahum 1:6

No one can withstand his indignation! No one can resist his fierce anger! His wrath is poured out like volcanic fire, boulders are broken up as he approaches.

Luke 12:5

But I will warn you whom you should fear: Fear the one who, after the killing, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!

2 Corinthians 5:11

Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people, but we are well known to God, and I hope we are well known to your consciences too.

Revelation 6:17

because the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?"

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