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Job 34:24

He sends the strong to destruction without searching out their cause, and puts others in their place.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God;   The Topic Concordance - Affliction;   Consideration;   Hearing;   Knowledge;   Turning;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elihu;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Break;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for February 12;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He shatters the mighty without an investigationand sets others in their place.
Hebrew Names Version
He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, And sets others in their place.
King James Version
He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.
English Standard Version
He shatters the mighty without investigation and sets others in their place.
New Century Version
Without asking questions, God breaks powerful people into pieces and puts others in their place.
New English Translation
He shatters the great without inquiry, and sets up others in their place.
Amplified Bible
"He breaks mighty men without inquiry, And sets others in their place.
New American Standard Bible
"He breaks in pieces the mighty without investigation, And sets others in their place.
World English Bible
He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, And sets others in their place.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He shall breake the mightie without seeking, and shall set vp other in their stead.
Legacy Standard Bible
He breaks in pieces mighty men without searching anything out,And sets others in their place.
Berean Standard Bible
He shatters the mighty without inquiry and sets up others in their place.
Contemporary English Version
Without asking for advice, God removes mighty leaders and puts others in their place.
Complete Jewish Bible
He shatters the mighty without needing to investigate and sets up others in their place.
Darby Translation
He breaketh in pieces mighty men without inquiry, and setteth others in their stead;
Easy-to-Read Version
He does not have to ask questions when people do wrong, even if they are powerful leaders. He simply destroys them and chooses others to take their place.
George Lamsa Translation
For he has brought misfortune to many men without number, and sets others in their places.
Good News Translation
He does not need an investigation to remove leaders and replace them with others.
Lexham English Bible
He shatters the mighty without investigation, and he sets others in their place.
Literal Translation
He will break mighty men in pieces without inquiry, and make others stand in their place.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Many one, yee innumerable doth he punyshe and setteth other in their steades.
American Standard Version
He breaketh in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, And setteth others in their stead.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He breaketh in pieces mighty men without inquisition, and setteth others in their stead.
King James Version (1611)
He shall breake in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He shall destroy the mightie without seeking, and shall set other in their steede.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For the Lord looks down upon all men, who comprehends unsearchable things, glorious also and excellent things without number.
English Revised Version
He breaketh in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, and setteth others in their stead.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
God schal al to-breke many men and vnnoumbrable; and schal make othere men to stonde for hem.
Update Bible Version
He breaks in pieces mighty men [in ways] past finding out, And sets others in their stead.
Webster's Bible Translation
He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.
New King James Version
He breaks in pieces mighty men without inquiry, And sets others in their place.
New Living Translation
He brings the mighty to ruin without asking anyone, and he sets up others in their place.
New Life Bible
He breaks powerful men in pieces without asking any reason, and puts others in their place.
New Revised Standard
He shatters the mighty without investigation, and sets others in their place.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He shattereth mighty ones unsearchably, and setteth up others in their stead:
Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall break in pieces many and innumerable, and shall make others to stand in their stead.
Revised Standard Version
He shatters the mighty without investigation, and sets others in their place.
Young's Literal Translation
He breaketh the mighty -- no searching! And He appointeth others in their stead.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"He breaks in pieces mighty men without inquiry, And sets others in their place.

Contextual Overview

16 If you are wise, take note of this; give ear to the voice of my words. 17 How may a hater of right be a ruler? and will you say that the upright Ruler of all is evil? 18 He who says to a king, You are an evil-doer; and to rulers, You are sinners; 19 Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands. 20 Suddenly they come to an end, even in the middle of the night: the blow comes on the men of wealth, and they are gone, and the strong are taken away without the hand of man. 21 For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps. 22 There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover. 23 For he does not give man a fixed time to come before him to be judged. 24 He sends the strong to destruction without searching out their cause, and puts others in their place. 25 For he has knowledge of their works, overturning them in the night, so that they are crushed.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

break: Job 19:2, Psalms 2:9, Psalms 72:4, Psalms 94:5, Jeremiah 51:20-23, Daniel 2:21, Daniel 2:34, Daniel 2:35, Daniel 2:44, Daniel 2:45

number: Heb. searching out

set: 1 Samuel 2:30-36, 1 Samuel 15:28, 1 Kings 14:7, 1 Kings 14:8, 1 Kings 14:14, Psalms 113:7, Psalms 113:8, Daniel 5:28-31

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 2:35 - in his room Luke 1:52 - put 1 Corinthians 1:28 - to bring

Cross-References

Genesis 17:23
And Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all whose birth had taken place in his house, and all his servants whom he had made his for a price, every male of his house, and on that very day he gave them circumcision in the flesh of their private parts as God had said to him.
Genesis 23:10
Now Ephron was seated among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite gave Abraham his answer in the hearing of the children of Heth, and of all those who came into his town, saying,
Genesis 23:18
Became the property of Abraham before the eyes of the children of Heth and of all who came into the town.
Genesis 34:10
Go on living with us, and the country will be open to you; do trade and get property there.
Genesis 34:16
Then we will give our daughters to you and take your daughters to us and go on living with you as one people.
Genesis 34:28
They took their flocks and their herds and their asses and everything in their town and in their fields,
Genesis 34:29
And all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives; everything in their houses they took and made them waste.
Matthew 7:6
Do not give that which is holy to the dogs, or put your jewels before pigs, for fear that they will be crushed under foot by the pigs whose attack will then be made against you.
1 Corinthians 7:19
Circumcision is nothing, and its opposite is nothing, but only doing the orders of God is of value.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He shall break in pieces mighty men without number,.... Such as are mighty in bodily strength, as the giants of the old world, and such as were inhabitants of some parts of the land of Canaan; or mighty in power and authority, being kings, princes, rulers, and governors, over nations and cities; or mighty in wealth and riches, which give men power and strength; these God can and sometimes does break in pieces like potters' vessels, and even mighty kingdoms and nations themselves he will make like the chaff of the summer threshing floor: and even without number; or there have been and will be numberless instances of this kind; who can tell how many of these mighty men, men of gigantic stature, were drowned in the flood, or cut off by the sword of the Israelites in the land of Canaan? or "without search" d as it may be rendered; either on the part of God, who needs not any, with whom are unnecessary any formal inquiries into a cause, or examination of witnesses, in order to a judicial process against delinquents, all being naked and open before him at once; or on the part of man, with whom the ways and judgments of God are unsearchable and who ought not closely and curiously to inquire into any of his proceedings, and the causes and reasons of them, who does all things after the counsel of his own will. Mr. Broughton renders it "without end", for ever; with an everlasting destruction, an utter and irretrievable one; he so breaks them as that they never can be made whole again, like an earthen vessel that is broke to pieces and cannot be put together again;

and set others in their stead; God always provides for a succession in the world, that as when one generation goes off another comes on; when he destroyed the world with a flood, he preserved a family to replenish the earth; when the fathers of the Jewish nation, their carcasses fell in the wilderness, their children were raised up in their room to enter the good land and possess it; and particularly he provides for the civil government of the world and when he pulls down or removes one king he sets up another, and will not suffer kingdoms and states to fall into anarchy and confusion: and sometimes, when he casts down the mighty from their seats, he exalts men of low degree, as when he rejected Saul he took David from the sheepfold, 1 Samuel 16:11; and makes such kings and kingdoms to "stand" e stable and firm, as the kingdom of David, and as the word here used signifies.

d לא חקר "absque inquisitione", Beza, Mercerus; "sine investigatione", Michaelis; so Cocceius, Schultens. e ויעמד "et stare faciet", Pagninus, Montanus, V. L. so Mercerus, Drusius, Cocceius, Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He shall break in pieces - He crushes or destroys the great. He is not intimidated by their wealth, their rank, or their number.

Without number - Margin, more correctly, “searching out.” That is, he does it without the protracted process of a judicial investigation. The Hebrew word used here (חקר chêqer) means properly “a searching out,” “an examination”; and the meaning here is, that there is no need of his going into a protracted investigation into the lives of wicked people before he brings them to punishment. He sees them at once; knows all their conduct, and may proceed against them without delay. Hence, it is that he comes often in such a sudden manner, and cuts them off. A human tribunal is under a necessity of examining witnesses and of attending to all the palliating circumstances, before it can pronounce a sentence on an offender. But it is not so with God. He judges at once and directly, and comes forth therefore in a sudden manner to cut down the guilty.

And set others in their stead - Place others in the situation which they now occupy. That is, he can with the utmost case make entire revolutions among people.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 34:24. He shall break in pieces — In multitudes of cases God depresses the proud, and raises up the humble and meek. Neither their strength nor number can afford them security.


 
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