Job 9:4

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Summary

Job 9:4

He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?

Wise in heart

Who hath hardened

General references

Exodus 9:17

Leviticus 26:24

Bible References

Wise in heart

If {it is a matter of} strength, look, [he is] mighty. But if {it is a matter of} justice, who can summon me?

Look, God [is] mighty but does not despise [anyone]; [he is] mighty [and] {good in understanding}.

How many are your works, O Yahweh; all of them you have done in wisdom. The earth is full of your creatures.

To [him who] made the heavens with skill, for his loyal love [endures] forever.

Daniel {said}: "Let his name, [the name] of God, be blessed {throughout the ages}, for the wisdom and the power {are his}.

"But at the end of {that period}, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and [then] my reason returned to me; and I blessed the Most High and {the one who lives forever} I praised and I honored. "For his sovereignty [is] [an] everlasting sovereignty, and his kingdom [continues] from generation to generation.

Oh, the depth of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable [are] his judgments and [how] incomprehensible [are] his ways!

that he caused to abound to us in all wisdom and insight,

in order that the many-sided wisdom of God might be made known now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly [places] through the church,

Now to the one who is able to protect you from stumbling and make [you] to stand before his glory blameless with exultation,

Who hath hardened

But it will still be my consolation, and I would recoil in {unrelenting} pain, for I have not denied [the] words of [the] Holy One.

"He is wandering for bread, [saying], 'Where [is it]?' He knows that a day of darkness [is] ready {at hand}.

Or do you have an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

For at this time I [am] sending all of my plagues {to you personally} and among your servants and among your people so that you will know that there is no one like me in all the earth.

And as for me, look, I [am] about to harden the heart of [the] Egyptians [so that] they come after them, and I will display my glory through Pharaoh and through all of his army, through his chariots and through his charioteers.

Happy is the person who fears continuously, but he who is stubborn of heart, will fall into calamity.

A man who is reproved, being stubborn of neck-- suddenly he will be broken, and there will not be healing.

But {when} his heart became arrogant and his spirit became hard [so as] to act proudly, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom and the glory {was taken away from him}.

Or are we attempting to provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than he [is, are we]?

General references

Still you [are] behaving haughtily to my people by not releasing them.

then I myself will also go against you in hostility, and I myself also will strike you seven times for your sins.