Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

From the north cometh gold; with +God is terrible majesty.

New American Standard Bible

“Out of the north comes golden splendor;
Around God is awesome majesty.

King James Version

Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.

Holman Bible

Yet out of the north He comes, shrouded in a golden glow;
awesome majesty surrounds Him.

International Standard Version

From the north he brings gold; around God is awesome splendor.

A Conservative Version

Out of the north comes golden splendor. God has upon him awesome majesty.

American Standard Version

Out of the north cometh golden splendor: God hath upon him terrible majesty.

Amplified


“Out of the north comes golden splendor [and people can hardly look on it];
Around God is awesome splendor and majesty [far too glorious for man’s eyes].

Bible in Basic English

A bright light comes out of the north; God's glory is greatly to be feared.

Julia Smith Translation

From the north, gold shall come: upon God terrible majesty.

King James 2000

Fair weather comes out of the north: with God is awesome majesty.

Lexham Expanded Bible

From [the] north comes gold-- awesome majesty [is] around God.

Modern King James verseion

Golden splendor comes out of the north; God is awesome in His majesty.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Gold is brought out of the North, but the praise and honour of God's fear cometh from God himself.

NET Bible

From the north he comes in golden splendor; around God is awesome majesty.

New Heart English Bible

Out of the north comes golden splendor. With God is awesome majesty.

The Emphasized Bible

Out of the north, a golden light cometh, Upon GOD, is fearful splendour:

Webster

Fair weather cometh from the north: with God is terrible majesty.

World English Bible

Out of the north comes golden splendor. With God is awesome majesty.

Youngs Literal Translation

From the golden north it cometh, Beside God is fearful honour.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
זהב 
Zahab 
Usage: 390

אתא אתה 
'athah 
Usage: 21

out of the north
צפן צפון 
Tsaphown 
Usage: 153

with God
אלהּ אלוהּ 
'elowahh 
God, god
Usage: 57

References

American

Fausets

Context Readings

Elihu Extols God's Majesty

21 And now men see not the light as it gleameth, it is hidden in the skies. But the wind passeth by and cleareth them. 22 From the north cometh gold; with +God is terrible majesty. 23 The Almighty, we cannot find him out: excellent in power, and in judgment, and in abundance of justice, he doth not afflict.


Cross References

Psalm 104:1

Bless Jehovah, O my soul! Jehovah my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with majesty and splendour;

1 Chronicles 29:11

Thine, Jehovah, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the splendour, and the majesty; for all that is in the heavens and on the earth is thine: thine, Jehovah, is the kingdom, and thou art exalted as Head above all;

Job 40:10

Deck thyself now with glory and excellency, and clothe thyself with majesty and splendour.

Psalm 29:4

The voice of Jehovah is powerful; the voice of Jehovah is full of majesty.

Psalm 66:5

Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doings toward the children of men.

Psalm 68:7-8

O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness (Selah) --

Psalm 76:12

He cutteth off the spirit of princes; he is terrible to the kings of the earth.

Psalm 93:1

Jehovah reigneth, he hath clothed himself with majesty: Jehovah hath clothed himself, he hath girded himself with strength; yea, the world is established, it shall not be moved.

Psalm 145:5

I will speak of the glorious splendour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works.

Proverbs 25:23

The north wind bringeth forth rain, and the angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

Isaiah 2:10

Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty.

Isaiah 2:19

And they shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise to terrify the earth.

Micah 5:4

And he shall stand and feed his flock in the strength of Jehovah, in the majesty of the name of Jehovah his God. And they shall abide; for now shall he be great even unto the ends of the earth.

Nahum 1:3

Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, and doth not at all clear the guilty: Jehovah, his way is in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

Habakkuk 3:3-19

God came from Teman, And the holy one from mount Paran. Selah. his glory covereth the heavens, And the earth is full of his praise.

Hebrews 1:3

who being the effulgence of his glory and the expression of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made by himself the purification of sins, set himself down on the right hand of the greatness on high,

Hebrews 12:29

For also our God is a consuming fire.

Jude 1:25

to the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, might, and authority, from before the whole age, and now, and to all the ages. Amen.

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