Job 25:2

“God is very powerful; everyone should have an awesome respect for him; he causes everything to be peaceful high up in heaven.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.

In Context

1Then Bildad also replied,

3◄Can anyone count the angels who are in his army in heaven?/No one can count the angels who are in his army in heaven.► [RHQ] ◄Is there any place where his light does not shine?/There is no place where his light does not shine.► [RHQ]

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:11You alone are great and powerful; only you are truly glorious and majestic and wonderful. And that is true because everything in heaven and on the earth is yours. You are the king of all the people in this world; you are the ruler of everything.

Job 26:5“ Because the spirits of dead people are afraid, they tremble in the waters that are deep under the earth.

Psalms 66:3They should say to God, “The things that you do are awesome! You are very powerful, with the result that your enemies ◄cringe/bow down► in front of you.”

Psalms 99:1Yahweh is the supreme king, so all the people-groups should tremble ◄ in his presence/in front of him►! He sits on his throne in the temple above the statues of winged creatures, so the earth should quake/shake!

Isaiah 57:19I will enable them to sing songs to praise me. I will restore all my people, those who live near Jerusalem and those who live far away, and I will cause things to go well for them.

Daniel 4:34“After those seven years ended, I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up toward heaven, and I acknowledged that what God said was true. Then I could think correctly again. I praised and worshiped the Supreme God, and I honored him, the one who lives forever. He rules forever; his kingdom will never end.

Matthew Henry on Job 25:2-6

God Exalted and Man Abased. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 2 Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places. 3 Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise? 4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? 5 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. 6 How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm? Bildad is to be commended here… Read the whole commentary →

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