that thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
Job 15:25 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, And strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Because he has stretched out his hand against God and bids defiance and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty, American Standard Version (1901) Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, And behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty; Common English Bible for they raise a fist against God and try to overpower the Almighty. Catholic Public Domain Version For he has extended his hand against God, and he has strengthened himself against the Almighty. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and hath strengthened himself against the Almighty. |
that thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
then he showeth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
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.
And they say, How doth God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?
They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?
Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
And thou shalt say to Jehoi´akim king of Judah, Thus saith the Lord; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?
Make ye him drunken; for he magnified himself against the Lord: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the Lord.
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:
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.
And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;
Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.
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.
And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
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?