Job 40:11

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Summary

Job 40:11

Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.

Cast

Behold

General references

Isaiah 22:19

Bible References

Cast

When he fills his stomach,
God will send His burning anger against him,
raining it down on him while he is eating.

It blasts at him without mercy,
while he flees desperately from its grasp.

For fire has been kindled because of My anger
and burns to the depths of Sheol;
it devours the land and its produce,
and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

He sent His burning anger against them:
fury, indignation, and calamity—
a band of deadly messengers.

Flash Your lightning and scatter the foe;
shoot Your arrows and rout them.

but wrath and indignation to those who are self-seeking and disobey the truth but are obeying unrighteousness;

Behold

However, I have let you live for this purpose: to show you My power and to make My name known in all the earth.

Lord, Your right hand is glorious in power.
Lord, Your right hand shattered the enemy.

Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods, because He did wonders when the Egyptians acted arrogantly against Israel.”

Human pride will be humbled,
and the loftiness of men will be brought low;
the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

But when the Lord finishes all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for his arrogant acts and the proud look in his eyes.”

“Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre: This is what the Lord God says:

Your heart is proud,
and you have said, ‘I am a god;
I sit in the seat of gods
in the heart of the sea.’
Yet you are a man and not a god,
though you have regarded your heart
as that of a god.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt, and glorify the King of heaven, because all His works are true and His ways are just. He is able to humble those who walk in pride.

But when his heart was exalted and his spirit became arrogant, he was deposed from his royal throne and his glory was taken from him.

Your presumptuous heart has deceived you,
you who live in clefts of the rock

in your home on the heights,
who say to yourself,
“Who can bring me down to the ground?”

“For indeed, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,” says the Lord of Hosts, “not leaving them root or branches.

I tell you, this one went down to his house justified rather than the other; because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

The assembled people began to shout, “It’s the voice of a god and not of a man!”

But He gives greater grace. Therefore He says:

God resists the proud,
but gives grace to the humble.

In the same way, you younger men, be subject to the elders. And all of you clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because

God resists the proud
but gives grace to the humble.

General references

I will remove you from your office; you will be ousted from your position.