Job 40:9
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Have you an arm like God? or can you thunder with a voice like him?
American King James Version (AKJV)
Have you an arm like God? or can you thunder with a voice like him?
American Standard Version (ASV)
Or hast thou an arm like God? And canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his?
Webster's Revision
Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like his?
World English Bible
Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?
English Revised Version (ERV)
Or hast thou an arm like God? and canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
Clarke's Job 40:9 Bible Commentary
Hast thou an arm like God? - Every word, from this to the end of Job 40:14, has a wonderful tendency to humble the soul; and it is no wonder that at the conclusion of these sayings Job fell in the dust confounded, and ascribed righteousness to his Maker.
Barnes's Job 40:9 Bible Commentary
Hast thou an arm like God? - The arm is the symbol of strength. The question here is, whether Job would venture to compare his strength with the omnipotence of God?
Or canst thou thunder with a voice like him? - Thunder is a symbol of the majesty of the Most High, and is often spoken of as the voice of God; see Psalm 29:1-11. The question here is, whether Job could presume to compare himself with the Almighty, whose voice was the thunder?
