Job 9:13
God does not turn back His anger, || Proud helpers have bowed under Him.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
In Context
12Behold, He snatches away, who brings it back? Who says to Him, What [are] You doing?
14How much less do I answer Him? Choose out my words with Him?
Cross References
Job 40:9And do you have an arm like God? And do you thunder with a voice like His?
Isaiah 5:25Therefore the anger of YHWH has burned among His people, || And He stretches out His hand against it, || And strikes it, and the mountains tremble, || And their carcass is as filth in the midst of the out-places. With all this His anger did not turn back, || And still His hand is stretched out!
Isaiah 31:2And He [is] also wise, and brings in evil, || And He has not turned aside His words, || And He has risen against a house of evildoers, || And against the help of workers of iniquity.
James 4:6but [God] gives greater grace, for this reason it says, “God sets Himself up against proud ones, and He gives grace to lowly ones.”
Matthew Henry on Job 9:2-14
Job's Reply to Bildad. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? 3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. 4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? 5 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. 6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. 7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth… Read the whole commentary →