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Job 9:5

"It is God who removes the mountains, and they do not know it, When He overturns them in His anger;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God;   Mountain;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Mountains;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Providence of God;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Omnipotence;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Life;   Pillar;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He removes mountains without their knowledge,overturning them in his anger.
Hebrew Names Version
Who removes the mountains, and they don't know it, When he overturns them in his anger
King James Version
Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
English Standard Version
he who removes mountains, and they know it not, when he overturns them in his anger,
New Century Version
God moves mountains without anyone knowing it and turns them over when he is angry.
New English Translation
He who removes mountains suddenly, who overturns them in his anger;
New American Standard Bible
"It is God who removes the mountains, and they do not know how, When He overturns them in His anger.
World English Bible
Who removes the mountains, and they don't know it, When he overturns them in his anger
Geneva Bible (1587)
He remoueth the mountaines, and they feele not when he ouerthroweth them in his wrath.
Legacy Standard Bible
God is the One who removes the mountains, they know not how,When He overturns them in His anger;
Berean Standard Bible
He moves mountains without their knowledge, when He overturns them in His anger.
Contemporary English Version
When God becomes angry, he can move mountains before they even know it.
Complete Jewish Bible
"He moves the mountains, although they don't know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
Darby Translation
Who removeth mountains, and they know it not, when he overturneth them in his anger;
Easy-to-Read Version
When God is angry, he moves mountains before they know what happened.
George Lamsa Translation
He who removes mountains and overthrows them with his anger, does he not know?
Good News Translation
Without warning he moves mountains and in anger he destroys them.
Lexham English Bible
"He is the one who moves mountains, and they do not know how, who overturns them in his anger.
Literal Translation
He who moves the mountains, and they do not know; when He overturns them in His anger;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He translateth the moutaynes, or euer they be awarre, & ouerthroweth them in his wrath.
American Standard Version
Him that removeth the mountains, and they know it not, When he overturneth them in his anger;
Bible in Basic English
It is he who takes away the mountains without their knowledge, overturning them in his wrath:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Who removeth the mountains, and they know it not, when He overturneth them in His anger.
King James Version (1611)
Which remoueth the mountains, and they know not: which ouerturneth them in his anger:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He translateth the mountaynes, or euer they be aware it is he that ouerthroweth them in his wrath.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Who wears out the mountains, and men know it not: who overturns them in anger.
English Revised Version
Which removeth the mountains, and they know it not, when he overturneth them in his anger.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Which bar hillis fro o place to anothir, and thei wisten not; whiche he distriede in his strong veniaunce.
Update Bible Version
[Him] that removes the mountains, and they do not know it, When he overturns them in his anger;
Webster's Bible Translation
Who removeth the mountains, and they know not: who overturneth them in his anger.
New King James Version
He removes the mountains, and they do not know When He overturns them in His anger;
New Living Translation
"Without warning, he moves the mountains, overturning them in his anger.
New Life Bible
It is He Who takes away the mountains without their knowing it, when He destroys them in His anger.
New Revised Standard
he who removes mountains, and they do not know it, when he overturns them in his anger;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Who removeth mountains, unawares, Who overturneth them in his anger;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Who hath removed mountains, and they whom he overthrew in his wrath, knew it not.
Revised Standard Version
he who removes mountains, and they know it not, when he overturns them in his anger;
Young's Literal Translation
Who is removing mountains, And they have not known, Who hath overturned them in His anger.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"It is God who removes the mountains, they know not how, When He overturns them in His anger;

Contextual Overview

1Then Job answered and said, 2"Yes, I know it is true. But how can a mortal man be right before God? 3"If one should want to contend or dispute with Him, He could not answer Him once in a thousand times. 4"God is wise in heart and mighty in strength; Who has [ever] defied or challenged Him and remained unharmed? 5"It is God who removes the mountains, and they do not know it, When He overturns them in His anger;6Who shakes the earth out of its place, And its pillars tremble; 7Who commands the sun, and it does not shine; Who seals up the stars [from view]; 8Who alone stretches out the heavens And tramples down the waves of the sea; 9Who made [the constellations] the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the [vast starry] spaces of the south; 10Who does great things, [beyond understanding,] unfathomable, Yes, marvelous and wondrous things without number.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

removeth: Job 28:9, Psalms 46:2, Psalms 68:8, Psalms 114:6, Isaiah 40:12, Habakkuk 3:6, Habakkuk 3:10, Zechariah 4:7, Matthew 21:21, 1 Corinthians 13:2, Revelation 6:14, Revelation 11:13

which overturneth: Numbers 1:5, Numbers 1:6, Zechariah 14:4, Zechariah 14:5, Matthew 27:51, Luke 21:11, Revelation 16:18-20

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:22 - foundations Psalms 46:3 - mountains Psalms 95:4 - the strength of the hills is his also

Cross-References

Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
Genesis 9:9
"Now behold, I am establishing My covenant (binding agreement, solemn promise) with you and with your descendants after you
Genesis 9:10
and with every living creature that is with you—the birds, the livestock, and the wild animals of the earth along with you, of everything that comes out of the ark—every living creature of the earth.
Genesis 9:28
Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood.
Genesis 9:29
So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.
Exodus 20:13
"You shall not commit murder (unjustified, deliberate homicide).
Exodus 21:12
"Whoever strikes a man so that he dies must be put to death.
Leviticus 19:16
'You shall not go around as a gossip among your people, and you are not to act against the life of your neighbor [with slander or false testimony]; I am the LORD.
Psalms 9:12
For He who avenges blood [unjustly shed] remembers them (His people); He does not forget the cry of the afflicted and abused.
Matthew 23:35
so that on you will come the guilt of all the blood of the righteous shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah [the priest], the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Which removeth the mountains,.... This and what follow are instances of the power of God, and are full proofs of his being mighty in strength; and may be understood, either literally, not only of what God is able to do if he will, but of what he has done; and history y furnishes us with instances of mountains being removed from one place to another; and Scheuchzer z makes mention of a village in Helvetia, called Plurium, which, in 1618, was covered with the sudden fall of a mountain, and swallowed up in the earth, with 1800 inhabitants, and not the least trace of it to be seen any more; and in the sacred Scriptures is a prediction of the mount of Olives being removed from its place, one half to the north and the other to the south,

Zechariah 14:4; and Josephus a gives a relation much like it, as in fact; besides, Job may have respect to what had been done in his times, or before them, and particularly at the universal deluge, which covered the tops of the highest mountains and hills, and very probably washed away some from their places: or else it may be understood proverbially, of the Lord's doing things marvellous and surprising, and which are impossible and impracticable with men; see Matthew 17:20; or rather figuratively, of kingdoms and mighty kings, as the Targum, comparable to mountains for their height and strength, who yet are removed by God at his pleasure; see Zechariah 4:7;

and they know not; when they are removed, and how it is done; it is imperceptible; either the mountains are not sensible of it, or the inhabitants of the mountains, as Bar Tzemach; or men, the common sort of men, the multitude, as Gersom: R. Saadiah Gaon interprets it of removing the men of the mountains, and they know it not:

which overturneth them in his anger; for the sins or men, which was the case of the old world: Mr. Broughton renders it, "that men cannot mark how he hath removed them out of their place in his anger".

y Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 2. c. 83. Wernerus, Palmerius, Theophanes "a aurus", in Bolduc. in loc. z Physic. Sacr. vol. 4. p. 673. a Antiqu. l. 9. c. 10. sect. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Which removeth the mountains - In order to show how vain it was to contend with God, Job refers to some exhibitions of his power and greatness. The “removal of the mountains” here denotes the changes which occur in earthquakes and other violent convulsions of nature. This illustration of the power of God is often referred to in the Scriptures; compare Jdg 5:5; 1 Kings 19:11; Psalms 65:6; Psalms 114:4; Psalms 144:5; Isaiah 40:12; Jeremiah 4:24.

And they know not - This is evidently a Hebraism, meaning suddenly, or unexpectedly. He does it, as it were, before they are aware of it. A similar expression occurs in the Koran, “God overturns them, and they do not know it;” that is, he does it without their suspecting any such thing; compare Psalms 35:8. “Let destruction come upon him at unawares,” or, as it is in the Hebrew and in the margin, “which he knoweth not of.” Tindal renders this, “He translatethe the mountaynes or ever they be aware.”

Which overturneth them in his anger - As if he were enraged. There could scarcely be any more terrific exhibition of the wrath of God than the sudden and tremendous violence of an earthquake.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 9:5. Removeth the mountains, and they know not — This seems to refer to earthquakes. By those strong convulsions, mountains, valleys, hills, even whole islands, are removed in an instant; and to this latter circumstance the words, they know not, most probably refer. The work is done in the twinkling of an eye; no warning is given; the mountain, that seemed to be as firm as the earth on which it rested, was in the same moment both visible and invisible; so suddenly was it swallowed up.


 
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