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

"While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him.

It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power.

For a fire has been kindled by my anger, and it burns to lowest Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and ignites the foundations of the mountains.

His raging anger lashed out against them, He sent fury, rage, and trouble as messengers who bring disaster.

Hurl lightning bolts and scatter them! Shoot your arrows and rout them!

but wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness.

Behold

But for this purpose I have caused you to stand: to show you my strength, and so that my name may be declared in all the earth.

Your right hand, O Lord, was majestic in power, your right hand, O Lord, shattered the enemy.

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods, for in the thing in which they dealt proudly against them he has destroyed them."

Proud men will be brought low, arrogant men will be humiliated; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

But when the sovereign master finishes judging Mount Zion and Jerusalem, then I will punish the king of Assyria for what he has proudly planned and for the arrogant attitude he displays.

"Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: "'Your heart is proud and you said, "I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas" -- yet you are a man and not a god, though you think you are godlike.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all his deeds are right and his ways are just. He is able to bring down those who live in pride.

And when his mind became arrogant and his spirit filled with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and his honor was removed from him.

Your presumptuous heart has deceived you -- you who reside in the safety of the rocky cliffs, whose home is high in the mountains. You think to yourself, 'No one can bring me down to the ground!'

"For indeed the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up," says the Lord who rules over all. "It will not leave even a root or branch.

I tell you that this man went down to his home justified rather than the Pharisee. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."

But the crowd began to shout, "The voice of a god, and not of a man!"

But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble."

In the same way, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.

General references

I will remove you from your office; you will be thrown down from your position.