Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,
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Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,
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For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
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Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, and behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;
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Passages linked to Job 15:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Job 9:4 God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him and prospered?
- Psalms 52:7 “Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”
- Psalms 73:9 They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.
- Daniel 5:23 but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.
- 1 Samuel 6:6 Why then do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, didn’t they let the people go, and they departed?
- Job 36:9 then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
- Psalms 73:11 They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
- Malachi 3:13 “Your words have been stout against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’
- Exodus 5:2-3 Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.” They said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword.”
- Exodus 9:17 because you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go.
- Leviticus 26:23 “ ‘If by these things you won’t be turned back to me, but will walk contrary to me,
- 1 Samuel 4:7-9 The Philistines were afraid, for they said, “God has come into the camp.” They said, “Woe to us! For there has not been such a thing before. Woe to us! Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods that struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness. Be strong and behave like men, O you Philistines, that you not be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Strengthen yourselves like men, and fight!”
- Job 40:9-11 Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him? “Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty. Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.
- Isaiah 8:9-10 Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered! Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”
- Isaiah 10:12-14 Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks. For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding. I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers. My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, I have gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”
- Isaiah 27:4 Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.
- Isaiah 41:4-7 Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.” The islands have seen, and fear. The ends of the earth tremble. They approach, and come. Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, “Be strong!” So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smoothes with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good;” and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.
- Acts 9:5 He said, “Who are you, Lord?” The Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
- Acts 12:1 Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.
- Acts 12:23 Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Job 15:25 For he stretcheth out his hand against…
Job 15:25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
Ver. 25. For he stretcheth out his hand against God] Worthy therefore to have a dead palsy transfused into it, or dried up, as Jeroboam’s was, when but stretched out against a prophet; and as Valens the emperor’s hand was made unable to hold a pen, when he would have subscribed a warrant for the banishing of Basil. Such a giant-like generation there are to this day among men, as face the heavens, cast down the gauntlet against God, Erecto collo valido impetu, arrogantia incurva cervice, saith Brentius upon the text, with stiff necks, full force, and insufferable insolence, as it were on purpose to cross the Almighty, and to wrestle a fall with him; they sin with a high hand, Lev 26:21 Num 15:30, and do as wickedly as they can, Jer 3:5, yea, with both hands earnestly, Mic 7:3; persecuting his people who are unto him as the apple of his eye, and resisting the Holy Ghost always, Act 7:51. Surely he would even destroy God if he could, for he hateth him, Rom 1:30, with a hellish hatred, as the word θεοστυγεις there signifieth, such as striketh at God’s very essence, Psa 18:40; confer 1Jn 3:15.
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And strengtheneth himself against the Almighty] Sed vanae sine viribus irae. To his sinews of iron he hath added brows of brass, Isa 48:4. To his natural crossness habitual hardness and hardiness; so that now, like a stout warrior, he bends all his strength against the Almighty, but with no better success than to be broken in pieces, Isa 8:9, with his iron mace, Psa 2:9, Sennacherib for instance. {See Trapp on "Job 9:4"}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Now he gives the reason of all the forementioned…
Now he gives the reason of all the forementioned calamities which befell him, which was his great wickedness in the time of his peace and prosperity.
He stretcheth out his hand against God, i.e. he commonly and customarily sinned against God with a high and out-stretched hand, i.e. boldly and presumptuously, as one that neither desired his favour, nor feared his anger.
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Strengtheneth himself, i.e. he putteth his forces in array, as if he would fight with him.
Against the Almighty; which aggravates the madness of this poor contemptible worm that durst fight against the omnipotent God.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain He runneth upon him, even on his neck,.... As…
He runneth upon him, even on his neck,.... As a fierce and furious enemy runs upon another with great wrath and fury; as the he goat in Daniel's vision ran upon the ram, in the fury of his power, that is, Alexander upon Darius; which instance Bar Tzemach refers to; and as an adversary, who throws down his weapons, and goes in to closer quarters, and takes his antagonist by the throat, or round the neck, in order to throw him down to the ground; in such a bold and insolent manner does the wicked man encounter with God; he makes up to him, and flies in his face, and most audaciously attacks him: or he runs upon him "with his neck" (y); with a stretched out neck, in the most haughty manner, with a neck like an iron sinew, and with a brow like brass:
upon the thick bosses of his bucklers; alluding to shields, embossed in the middle, where they are thicker than in the other parts, and used to have a spike of iron set in the middle; so that it was daring and dangerous to run upon them: these may design the perfections of God, denied by the wicked man; or his providential dispensations, despised by him; or his purposes and decrees ridiculed, replied unto, and disputed; or the flaming sword of justice, and the curses of a righteous law, in defiance of which wicked men go on in sin: or "with the bosses of his bucklers" (z); with all his family, as Schmidt; or employing all his wealth and riches, his power and authority, against God, and the interest of religion in the world. Some understand this of God, meeting the wicked man, stretching out his hand, and strengthening himself against him, as if he, God, ran upon the wicked man, and upon his neck, and took him by it, and shook him; as in Job 16:12; and upon the thick bosses of his buckler, his bones and nerves, as Mr. Broughton; or on his power and wealth, which are not able to secure him from the vengeance of the Almighty; but the former sense seems best.
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(y) "erecto collo", V. L. Piscator; "duro collo", Drusius, Michaelis; "cum cervice", Cocceius, Schmidt, Schultens. (z) "cum erassitie umbonum clypeorum suorum", Cocceius; so Schmidt, Michaelis, Schultens.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain For - Now he gives the reason of all…
For - Now he gives the reason of all the fore-mentioned calamities, which was his great wickedness. Against God - He sinned against God with an high hand. The Almighty - Which aggravates the madness of this poor worm that durst fight against the omnipotent God.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 25. He stretcheth out his hand against God]…
Verse 25. He stretcheth out his hand against God] While in power he thought himself supreme. He not only did not acknowledge God, by whom kings reign, but stretched out his hand-used his power, not to protect, but to oppress those over whom he had supreme rule; and thus strengthened himself against the Almighty.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Job 15:25. For he stretcheth out his hand against…
Job 15:25. For he stretcheth out his hand against God — He sinned against him with a high and outstretched hand; that is, boldly and presumptuously, as one that neither desired his favour, nor feared his anger. Thus he gives the reason of the fore-mentioned calamities that befell him, which was his great wickedness in the time of his peace and prosperity. And strengthened himself against the Almighty — Putteth his forces in array, as if he would fight with him who is almighty, and therefore irresistible. This aggravates the madness of this weak and contemptible worm, that he should dare to fight against the omnipotent God!
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain For he stretcheth out his hand against God -…
For he stretcheth out his hand against God - The hand is stretched out for battle. It wields the spear or the sword against an enemy. The idea here is, that the wicked man makes God an adversary. He does not contend with his fellow-man, with fate, with the elements, with evil angels, but with God. His opponent is an Almighty Being, and he cannot prevail against him; compare the notes at Isa 27:4.
And strengtheneth himself - As an army does that throws up a rampart, or constructs a fortification. The whole image here is taken from the practice of war; and the sense is, that a wicked man is really making war on the Almighty, and that in that war he must be vanquished; compare Job 9:4.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain stretcheth . . . hand--wielding the spear, as a…
stretcheth . . . hand--wielding the spear, as a bold rebel against God (Job 9:4; Isa 27:4).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain Second strophe — Titans in impiety, they not only…
Second strophe — Titans in impiety, they not only rushed madly against God, but fattened themselves upon the ruin of the innocent. If their punishment be aggravated it springs from aggravated sin, Job_15:25-30.
25. Strengtheneth himself — Boasteth himself. The first reason given for his wretched doom is his stiff-necked hostility to God. (Job_15:25-26.) “When all vices flee from God, pride alone opposes itself to him.” — Boetius.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 25. he stretcheth out] Rather, stretched. The tenses in…
25. he stretcheth out] Rather, stretched. The tenses in the following verses would all be better put in the past, as they describe either distinct or continued past actions. So strengthened, or emboldened himself, lit. behaved himself mightily (Isa_42:13 margin), or, proudly.
25–28. Reason of these terrors of conscience and presentiments of evil—his defiance of heaven and sensual life.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (25) For he stretcheth out his hand.—It is instructive…
(25) For he stretcheth out his hand.—It is instructive to note the difference in time indicated here. “Because he hath stretched out his hand against God. and behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty. He runneth upon Him with haughty neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers; “fully protected as he supposes against the vengeance of the Most High. (Comp. Psa_10:6; Psa_10:11, &c.) The English version, with less probability, represents the armour as being God’s; on the contrary, it is the wicked man’s prosperity which hath thus blinded and hardened him. (See Deu_32:15; Psa_17:10.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain For he stretcheth out his hand against God. The…
For he stretcheth out his hand against God. The wicked man ventures even to threaten the Almighty. So in Eastern legend Nimrod was supposed to have done, and in Greek legend the giants. And strengtheneth himself against the Almighty; rather, behaveth himself proudly. See the Revised Version, and compare Schultens, who renders the Hebrew rBgty, by "ferocius et insolentius se gessit."
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 he has reached out with his hand against God
he has reached out with his hand against God
"he has shook his fist against God." This is a sign of aggression. (See: Symbolic Action)
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runs at God
This speaks of the wicked man acting aggressively against God as if he were running towards him to attack him. AT: "attacks God" or "acts violently against God" (See: Metaphor)
with a thick shield
"with his strong shield"
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 15:25 Job had complained earlier that God was treating…
15:25 Job had complained earlier that God was treating him like a formidable foe (7:19-21; 13:24).
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