Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high in safety.

New American Standard Bible

So that He sets on high those who are lowly,
And those who mourn are lifted to safety.

King James Version

To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

Holman Bible

He sets the lowly on high,
and mourners are lifted to safety.

International Standard Version

He sets the lowly on high, and lifts those who mourn to safety.

A Conservative Version

so that he sets up on high those who are low, and those who mourn are exalted to safety.

American Standard Version

So that he setteth up on high those that are low, And those that mourn are exalted to safety.

Amplified


So that He sets on high those who are lowly,
And He lifts to safety those who mourn.

Bible in Basic English

Lifting up those who are low, and putting the sad in a safe place;

Darby Translation

Setting up on high those that are low; and mourners are exalted to prosperity.

Julia Smith Translation

To raise up the humbled to height; and those mourning were exalted to salvation.

King James 2000

To set up on high those that are low; that those who mourn may be lifted to safety.

Lexham Expanded Bible

to set [the] lowly on high, and [those] mourning are lifted to safety.

Modern King James verseion

to set on high those who are low, so that those who mourn may be lifted up to safety;

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

which setteth up them of low degree, and sendeth prosperity to those that are in heaviness;

NET Bible

he sets the lowly on high, that those who mourn are raised to safety.

New Heart English Bible

so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

The Emphasized Bible

Setting the lowly on high, and, mourners, are uplifted to safety;

Webster

To set on high those that are low: that those who mourn may be exalted to safety.

World English Bible

so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
To set up
שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

on high
מרום 
Marowm 
Usage: 54

שׁפל 
Shaphal 
Usage: 18

קדר 
Qadar 
Usage: 17

שׂגב 
Sagab 
Usage: 20

Context Readings

Eliphaz's Response Continues

10 Who is giving rain on the face of the land, And is sending waters on the out-places. 11 To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high in safety. 12 Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.


Cross References

Deuteronomy 33:27

A habitation is the eternal God, And beneath are arms age-during. And He casteth out from thy presence the enemy, and saith, 'Destroy!'

1 Samuel 2:7-8

Jehovah dispossesseth, and He maketh rich, He maketh low, yea, He maketh high.

Psalm 91:14

Because in Me he hath delighted, I also deliver him -- I set him on high, Because he hath known My name.

Psalm 107:41

And setteth on high the needy from affliction, And placeth families as a flock.

Psalm 113:7

He is raising up from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He exalteth the needy.

Ezekiel 17:24

And known have all trees of the field That I, Jehovah, have made low the high tree, I have set on high the low tree, I have dried up the moist tree, And I have caused the dry tree to flourish, I, Jehovah, have spoken, and have done it!'

Luke 1:52-53

He brought down the mighty from thrones, And He exalted the lowly,

Luke 6:21

Happy those hungering now -- because ye shall be filled. 'Happy those weeping now -- because ye shall laugh.

James 1:9

And let the brother who is low rejoice in his exaltation,

James 4:6-10

and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, 'God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,

1 Peter 5:10

And the God of all grace, who did call you to His age-during glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you;

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