Job 40:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Do you have an arm as powerful as God’s, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 37:4-5 : 4 After that a voice roars; he thunders with an exalted voice, and he does not hold back his lightning bolts when his voice is heard. 5 God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.
  • Ps 89:13 : 13 Your arm is powerful, your hand strong, your right hand victorious.
  • Isa 45:9 : 9 The Lord Gives a Warning One who argues with his Creator is in grave danger, one who is like a mere shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter,“What in the world are you doing? Your work lacks skill!”
  • 1 Cor 10:22 : 22 Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we really stronger than he is?
  • Ps 29:3 : 3 The LORD’s shout is heard over the water; the majestic God thunders, the LORD appears over the surging water.
  • Ps 39:3-9 : 3 my anxiety intensified. As I thought about it, I became impatient. Finally I spoke these words: 4 “O LORD, help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass! 5 Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.(Selah) 6 Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away.” 7 But now, O Lord, upon what am I relying? You are my only hope! 8 Deliver me from all my sins of rebellion! Do not make me the object of fools’ insults! 9 I am silent and cannot open my mouth because of what you have done.
  • Ps 89:10 : 10 You crushed the Proud One and killed it; with your strong arm you scattered your enemies.
  • Exod 15:6 : 6 Your right hand, O LORD, was majestic in power, your right hand, O LORD, shattered the enemy.
  • Job 9:4 : 4 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength– who has resisted him and remained safe?
  • Job 23:6 : 6 Would he contend with me with great power? No, he would only pay attention to me.
  • Job 33:12-13 : 12 Now in this, you are not right– I answer you, for God is greater than a human being. 13 Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person’s words?

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