Job 40:12
See every proud one—humble him, || And tread down the wicked in their place.
Literal Standard 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
11Scatter abroad the wrath of your anger, || And see every proud one, and make him low.
13Hide them in the dust together, || Bind their faces in secret.
Cross References
Job 36:20Do not desire the night, || For the going up of peoples in their stead.
Psalms 94:2Be lifted up, judging the earth, || Send back a repayment on the proud.
Ecclesiastes 11:3If the thick clouds are full of rain, || On the earth they empty [themselves]; And if a tree falls in the south or to the north, || The place where the tree falls, there it is.
Isaiah 13:11“And I have appointed evil on the world, || And on the wicked their iniquity, || And have caused the excellence of the proud to cease, || And I make the excellence of the terrible low.
Zechariah 10:5And they have been as heroes, || Treading in mire of out-places in battle, || And they have fought, for YHWH [is] with them, || And have put to shame riders of horses.
Acts 1:25to receive the share of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas, by transgression, fell, to go on to his proper 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 →