Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like his?
Exodus 9:17 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised You are still acting arrogantly against my people by not letting them go. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Since you are still exalting yourself [in haughty defiance] against My people by not letting them go, American Standard Version (1901) As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go? Common English Bible You are still abusing your power against my people, and you refuse to let them go. Catholic Public Domain Version Do you still retain my people, and are you still unwilling to release them? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Dost thou yet hold back my people: and wilt thou not let them go? |
Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like his?
God is wise and all-powerful. Who has opposed him and come out unharmed?
However, I have let you live for this purpose: to show you my power and to make my name known on the whole earth.
Tomorrow at this time I will rain down the worst hail that has ever occurred in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.
Does an axe exalt itself above the one who chops with it? Does a saw magnify itself above the one who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the ones who lift it! It would be like a staff lifting the one who isn’t wood!
Lord, your hand is lifted up to take action, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame. Let fire consume your adversaries.
Because your raging against me and your arrogance have reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth; I will make you go back the way you came.
‘Woe to the one who argues with his Maker – one clay pot among many. Does clay say to the one forming it, “What are you making? ” Or does your work say, “He has no hands”?
‘ “Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Because you regard your heart as that of a god,
But when his heart was exalted and his spirit became arrogant, he was deposed from his royal throne and his glory was taken from him.
At once an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.