Job 15:25
Because he had stretched out against God his hand, and strengthened himself against the Almighty;
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
In Context
24Distress and anguish terrify him: they assail him with might, as a king prepared for the battle.
26[And] he had run against him, with an [extended] neck, with the thick roundings of his bucklers;
Cross References
Exodus 5:2And Pharaoh said, Who is the Everlasting, whose voice I am to obey, to let Israel go? I know not the Everlasting, nor will I let Israel go.
Leviticus 26:23And if notwithstanding these things ye will not be reformed by me, and walk contrary unto me:
1 Samuel 6:6And why will ye harden your heart, just as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their heart? Did not they, when he had wrought wonderful deeds among them, dismiss them, and they departed?
Job 15:13That thou shouldst turn against God thy spirit, and utter [such] words out of thy mouth?
Job 40:9But if thou hast an arm like God, or if thou canst thunder loudly like him:
Psalms 73:9They set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walketh busily on 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 →