Job 40:12
Look on everyone who is proud, [and] bring him low, and tread down the wicked where they stand.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
In Context
11Pour forth the overflowings of thine anger, and look upon everyone who is proud, and abase him.
13Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden [place].
Cross References
Job 36:20Do not desire the night, when peoples are cut off in their place.
Psalms 94:2Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth. Render to the proud a recompense.
Ecclesiastes 11:3If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth, and if a tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there shall it be.
Isaiah 13:11And I will punish the world for the evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. And I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
Zechariah 10:5And they shall be as mighty men, treading down [their enemies] in the mire of the streets in the battle. And they shall fight, because LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.
Acts 1:25to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas transgressed to go to his own place.
Matthew Henry on Job 40:7-15
Divine Justice and Power; God's Dominion over the Proud. ( b. c. 1520.) 6 Then answered the Lord unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said, 7 Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. 8 Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous? 9 Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him? 10 Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty. 11 Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath:… Read the whole commentary →