Job 15 · Verse 25

Job 15:25

For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
Job 15:25, King James Version

Job 15:25 in other translations

BSBFor he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,
WEBBecause he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,
ASVBecause he hath stretched out his hand against God, And behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;
YLTFor he stretched out against God his hand, And against the Mighty he maketh himself mighty.
DARBYFor he hath stretched out his hand against God, and strengthened himself against the Almighty:
BBEBecause his hand is stretched out against God, and his heart is lifted up against the Ruler of all,
WebsterFor he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

What does Job 15:25 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
25. stretcheth ... hand--wielding the spear, as a bold rebel against God (Job 9:4; Is 27:4).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 15:17-35

Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable: whence he would infer, that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore Job was so. But because many of God's people have prospered in this world, it does not therefore follow that those who are crossed and made poor, as Job, are not God's people. Eliphaz shows also that wicked people, particularly oppressors, are subject to continual terror, live very…

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Job 15:25 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כִּֽי\־ki-forH3588
נָטָ֣הna.Tahhe has stretched outH5186
אֶל\־'el-againstH413
אֵ֣ל'elGodH410
יָד֑וֹya.Dohand hisH3027
וְאֶל\־ve.'e.lo.Sha-and toH413
שַׁ֝דַּ֗יSha.Dai[the] AlmightyH7706
יִתְגַּבָּֽר\׃yit.ga.Barhe behaves proudlyH1396

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 15:25

  • Psalms 52:7

    Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

  • Job 9:4

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

  • Daniel 5:23

    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:

  • Psalms 73:9

    They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

  • Malachi 3:13

    Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?

  • 1 Samuel 6:6

    Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?

  • Job 36:9

    Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.

  • Psalms 73:11

    And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

  • Isaiah 10:12-14

    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. 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: 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.

  • Leviticus 26:23

    And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;

  • 1 Samuel 4:7-9

    And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there hath not been such a thing heretofore. Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness. Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.

  • Acts 12:1

    Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
he stretcheth.
Le 26:23; Ps 73:9,11; Isa 27:4; Da 5:23; Mal 3:13; Ac 9:5; 12:1,23
strengtheneth.
9:4; 40:9-11; Ex 5:2,3; 9:17; 1Sa 4:7-9; 6:6; Ps 52:7; Isa 8:9,10
Isa 10:12-14; 41:4-7

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Context

  • Job 15:24

    Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

  • Job 15:25

    For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

  • Job 15:26

    He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:

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Job 15:25 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Por cuanto él extendió su mano contra Dios, y se esforzó contra el Todopoderoso,
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Car il a étendu sa main contre ✶Dieu, et il s’élève contre le Tout-puissant;
German
Elberfelder 1871
Weil er seine Hand wider Gott ausgestreckt hat und wider den Allmächtigen trotzte,
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Tetendit enim adversus Deum manum suam, et contra Omnipotentem roboratus est.