Job 15:25
Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
In Context
24Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him as a king ready to the battle.
26He runs upon him with a [stiff] neck, with the thick studs of his bucklers,
Cross References
Exodus 5:2And Pharaoh said, Who is LORD, that I should hearken to his voice to let Israel go? I do not know LORD, and moreover I will not let Israel go.
Leviticus 26:23And if by these things ye will not be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me,
1 Samuel 6:6Why then do ye harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?
Job 15:13that against God thou turn thy spirit, and let words go out of thy mouth?
Job 40:9Or have thou an arm like God? And can thou thunder with a voice like him?
Psalms 73:9They have set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.
Matthew Henry on Job 15:18-35
17 I will show thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; 18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: 19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them. 20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. 21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. 22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. 23 He wandereth… Read the whole commentary →