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Job 9:4

For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: 1 Who has hardened himself against him and endured? 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?

In Context

3For if he would enter into judgment with him, 1 God would not hearken to him, 1 So that he should answer to one of his charges of a thousand. 1

5Who wears out the mountains, and men know it not: 1 Who overturns them in anger. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 9:14For at this present time do I send forth all my plagues into thy heart, and the heart of thy servants and of thy people; that thou mayest know that there is not another such as I in all the earth.

Exodus 14:17And lo! I will harden the heart of Pharaoh and of all the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them; and I will be glorified upon Pharaoh, and on all his host, and on his chariots and his horses.

2 Chronicles 13:12And, behold, the Lord and his priests are with us at our head, and the signal trumpets to sound an alarm over us. Children of Israel, fight not against the Lord God of our fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

Job 6:10Let the grave be my city, upon the walls of which I have leaped: I will not shrink from it; 1 For I have not denied the holy words of my God. 1

Job 11:6Then shall he declare to thee the power of wisdom; 1 For it shall be double of that which is with thee: 1 And then shalt thou know, that a just recompense of thy sins has come to thee from the Lord. 1

Job 15:13That thou hast vented thy rage before the Lord, 1 And delivered such words from thy mouth? 1

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 →

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