Job 40:11

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הָ֭פֵץ עֶבְר֣וֹת אַפֶּ֑ךָ וּרְאֵ֥ה כָל־גֵּ֝אֶ֗ה וְהַשְׁפִּילֵֽהוּ׃

Transliteration

hāpēṣ ʿebrôt ʾappekā û-rəʾēh kol-gēʾeh wə-hašpîlēhû

Grammar Details

• *hāpēṣ*: hiphil imperative, masculine singular - scatter, disperse
• *ʿebrôt*: noun, feminine plural construct - overflowings, outbursts
• *ʾappekā*: noun, masculine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your nose/anger
• *û-rəʾēh*: conjunction + qal imperative, masculine singular - and see
• *kol*: noun, masculine singular construct - all of, every
• *gēʾeh*: adjective, masculine singular - proud, haughty
• *wə-hašpîlēhû*: conjunction + hiphil imperative, masculine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - and humble him

Word Meanings

• *hāpēṣ*: to scatter, disperse, dash to pieces
• *ʿebrôt*: outbursts, overflowings, fury, wrath
• *ʾappekā*: nose, nostril, anger, face
• *rəʾēh*: to see, look at, inspect, perceive
• *gēʾeh*: proud, haughty, arrogant
• *hašpîlēhû*: to make low, humble, abase

Referenced Verses

• Dan 4:37 : 37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
• Isa 2:11-12 : 11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. 12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
• Isa 2:17 : 17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
• Nah 1:6 : 6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
• Mal 4:1 : 1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
• Luke 18:14 : 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
• Acts 12:22-23 : 22 And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. 23 And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
• Rom 2:8-9 : 8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
• Jas 4:6 : 6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
• 1 Pet 5:5-6 : 5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. 6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
• Isa 10:12-19 : 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. 13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man: 14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. 15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood. 16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. 17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day; 18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth. 19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
• Isa 42:25 : 25 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
• Ezek 28:2 : 2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
• Exod 9:16-17 : 16 And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth. 17 As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?
• Exod 15:6 : 6 Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
• Exod 18:11 : 11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.
• Deut 32:22 : 22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
• Job 20:23 : 23 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
• Job 27:22 : 22 For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
• Ps 78:49-50 : 49 He cast{H8762)} upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. 50 He made{H8762)} a way to his anger; he spared{H8804)} not their soul from death, but gave their life over{H8689)} to the pestilence;
• Ps 144:6 : 6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
• Dan 5:20-23 : 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: 21 And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will. 22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this; 23 But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
• Obad 1:3-4 : 3 The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? 4 Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.