Job 40:11
Hebrew Text— Job 40:11Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.
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“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”
Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”
Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Sing to Yahweh a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.
Will you yet say before him who kills you, ‘I am God’? But you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
“The house which I am building will be great; for our God is greater than all gods.
Yahweh has accomplished his wrath. He has poured out his fierce anger. He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured its foundations.
But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.
“I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.
he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.
Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.
When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.
He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.
You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.
Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth!
As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,
For Yahweh is a great God, a great King above all gods.
When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.
Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.
The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.
Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.
They have made it a desolation. It mourns to me, being desolate. The whole land is made desolate, because no one cares.
Now I will shortly pour out my wrath on you, and accomplish my anger against you, and will judge you according to your ways. I will bring on you all your abominations.
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn’t realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn’t realize it.
“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;
He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,
for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, Yahweh’s anger burned against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.
For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised. He also is to be feared above all gods.
Put them in fear, Yahweh. Let the nations know that they are only men.
For you, Yahweh, are most high above all the earth. You are exalted far above all gods.
For I know that Yahweh is great, that our Lord is above all gods.
A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.
The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the arrogance of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!
Behold, they are like stubble. The fire will burn them. They won’t deliver themselves from the power of the flame. It won’t be a coal to warm at or a fire to sit by.
Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?
“Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me?
But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.
I will make them to pass with your enemies into a land which you don’t know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which will burn on you.”
He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger. He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy. He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.
You will be for fuel to the fire. Your blood will be in the middle of the land. You will be remembered no more; for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.” ’ ”
by your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—”
“ ‘therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have set your heart as the heart of God,
The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau.” Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.
This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.
Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’
He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
He burned Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.
You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.
The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.
At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.
Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.
Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.
Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father:
They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.
Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”
For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.
When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.
For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.
Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.
Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle. It set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know. It burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.”
“Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God—
“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”