Job 9:5
Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
Job 9:5 in other translations
| BSB | He moves mountains without their knowledge and overturns them in His anger. |
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| WEB | He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger. |
| ASV | Him that removeth the mountains, and they know it not, When he overturneth them in his anger; |
| YLT | Who is removing mountains, And they have not known, Who hath overturned them in His anger. |
| DARBY | Who removeth mountains, and they know it not, when he overturneth them in his anger; |
| BBE | It is he who takes away the mountains without their knowledge, overturning them in his wrath: |
| Webster | Who removeth the mountains, and they know not: who overturneth them in his anger. |
What does Job 9:5 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 9:1-13
In this answer Job declared that he did not doubt the justice of God, when he denied himself to be a hypocrite; for how should man be just with God? Before him he pleaded guilty of sins more than could be counted; and if God should contend with him in judgment, he could not justify one out of a thousand, of all the thoughts, words, and actions of his life; therefore he deserved worse than all his present sufferings…
Job 9:5 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 9:5
- Luke 21:11
And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
- Matthew 27:51
And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
- Habakkuk 3:10
The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
- Revelation 11:13
And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
- Revelation 16:18-20
And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
- Psalms 68:8
The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
- Habakkuk 3:6
He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
- Zechariah 14:4-5
And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
- Matthew 21:21
Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.
- Psalms 46:2
Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
- Isaiah 40:12
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
- Psalms 114:6
Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?
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Context
- Job 9:4
He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
- Job 9:5
Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
- Job 9:6
Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
Job 9:5 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Que arranca los montes con su furor, y no conocen quién los trastornó: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Il transporte les montagnes, et elles ne savent pas qu’il les renverse dans sa colère; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Der Berge versetzt, ehe sie es merken, er, der sie umkehrt in seinem Zorn; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Qui transtulit montes, et nescierunt hi quos subvertit in furore suo. |