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?