Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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.

Darby Translation

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

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.

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 "For every man seeth not the light, that he keepeth clear in the clouds, which he cleanseth when he maketh the wind to blow. 22 Gold is brought out of the North, but the praise and honour of God's fear cometh from God himself. 23 It is not we that can find out the Almighty: for in power, equity, and righteousness, he is higher than can be expressed.

Cross References

Psalm 104:1

Praise the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art become exceedingly glorious; thou art clothed with majesty and honour.

1 Chronicles 29:11

Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, power and glory, victory and praise: for all that is in heaven and in earth is thine, and thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art lifted up a head above all.

Job 40:10

Then arm thyself with thine own power! Up, deck thee in thy jolly array,

Psalm 29:4

The voice of the LORD is mighty in operation; the voice of the LORD is a glorious voice.

Psalm 66:5

O come hither and behold the works of God; which is so wonderful in his doings among the children of men.

Psalm 68:7-8

O God, when thou wentest forth before the people, when thou wentest through the wilderness, Selah,

Psalm 76:12

Which taketh away the breath of princes, and is wonderful among the kings of the earth.

Psalm 93:1

The LORD is king, and hath put on glorious apparel; the LORD hath put on his apparel, and girded himself with strength: he hath made the round world so sure, that it cannot be moved.

Psalm 145:5

As for me, I will be talking of thy worship, thy glory, thy praise, and wondrous works;

Proverbs 25:23

The north wind driveth away the rain, even so doth an earnest sober countenance a backbiter's tongue.

Isaiah 2:10

And therefore get thee soon into some rock, and hide thee in the ground for the fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty:

Isaiah 2:19

Men shall creep into holes of stone, and into caves of the earth, for the fear of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty: what time as he shall arise to shake the earth.

Micah 5:4

He shall stand fast, and give food in the strength of the LORD, and in the victory of the name of the LORD his God: and when they be converted, he shall be magnified unto the farthest parts of the world.

Nahum 1:3

The LORD suffereth long, he is of great power, and so innocent that he leaveth no man faultless before him. The LORD goeth forth in tempest and stormy weather; the clouds are the dust of his feet.

Habakkuk 3:3-19

God cometh from Teman, and the holy one from the mount of Paran. Selah.

Hebrews 1:3

Which son, being the brightness of his glory, and very image of his substance, bearing up all things with the word of his power, hath in his own person purged our sins, and is sitten on the righthand of the majesty on high,

Hebrews 12:29

For our God is a consuming fire.

Jude 1:25

that is to say, to God our saviour which only is wise; be glory, majesty, dominion, and power, now and forever. Amen. {Here ends the General Epistle of Jude}

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