Job 38:23

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
which I hold in reserve for times of trouble,for the day of warfare and battle?

Hebrew Names Version
Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, Against the day of battle and war?

King James Version
Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

English Standard Version
which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war?

New Century Version
which I save for times of trouble, for days of war and battle?

New English Translation
which I reserve for the time of trouble, for the day of war and battle?

Amplified Bible
Which I have reserved for the time of trouble, For the day of battle and war?

New American Standard Bible
Which I have reserved for a time of distress, For a day of war and battle?

World English Bible
Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, Against the day of battle and war?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Which I haue hid against the time of trouble, against the day of warre and battell?

Legacy Standard Bible
Which I have reserved for the time of distress,For the day of war and battle?

Contemporary English Version
until I use them to punish and conquer nations?

Complete Jewish Bible
which I save for times of trouble, for days of battle and war?

Darby Translation
Which I have reserved for the time of distress, for the day of battle and war?

Easy-to-Read Version
I save them there for times of trouble, for the times of war and battle.

George Lamsa Translation
Which are reserved against the time of distress, against the day of battle and war?

Good News Translation
I keep them ready for times of trouble, for days of battle and war.

Lexham English Bible
which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war?

Literal Translation
which I have reserved for the time of distress for the day of battle and war?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
which I haue prepared agaynst the tyme of trouble, agaynst the tyme of batell & warre?

American Standard Version
Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, Against the day of battle and war?

Bible in Basic English
Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

King James Version (1611)
Which I haue reserued against the time of trouble, against the day of battaile and warre?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Which I haue prepared against the time of trouble, against the time of battaile and warre?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And is there a store of them, for thee against the time of thine enemies, for the day of wars and battle?

English Revised Version
Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
whiche thingis Y made redy in to the tyme of an enemy, in to the dai of fiytyng and of batel.

Update Bible Version
Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, Against the day of battle and war?

Webster's Bible Translation
Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

New King James Version
Which I have reserved for the time of trouble, For the day of battle and war?

New Living Translation
(I have reserved them as weapons for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war.)

New Life Bible
which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and battle?

New Revised Standard
which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Which I have reserved for a time of distress, for the day of conflict and of war?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Which I have prepared for the time of the enemy, against the day of battle and war?

Revised Standard Version
which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war?

Young's Literal Translation
That I have kept back for a time of distress, For a day of conflict and battle.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Which I have reserved for the time of distress, For the day of war and battle?

Contextual Overview

¹²In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place, ¹³that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it? ¹⁴The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment. ¹⁵Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken. ¹⁶Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep? ¹⁷Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death? ¹⁸Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this. ¹⁹Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides, ²⁰so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home? ²¹Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Job 36:31, Job 36:13, Exodus 9:18, Exodus 9:24, Joshua 10:11, Isaiah 30:30, Ezekiel 13:11-13, Matthew 7:27, Revelation 16:21

Reciprocal: Exodus 9:23 - and hail Psalms 135:7 - he bringeth Psalms 147:17 - casteth Revelation 11:19 - and great

Cross-References

2 Samuel 12:9
Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife as your own, for you have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.

Proverbs 6:33
Wounds and dishonor will befall him, and his reproach will never be wiped away.

Romans 6:21
What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.

2 Corinthians 4:2
Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

Ephesians 5:12
For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.

Revelation 16:15
"Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who remains awake and clothed, so that he will not go naked and let his shame be exposed."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Which I have reserved against the time of trouble,.... For the punishment or affliction of men; and is explained as follows,

against the day of battle and war? as his artillery and ammunition to light his enemies with. Of hail we have instances in Scripture, as employed against the Egyptians and Canaanites, Exodus 9:25; and of a reserve of it in the purposes of God, and in prophecy against the day of battle with antichrist, Revelation 16:21; and so Jarchi interprets it here of the war of Gog and Magog. And though there are no instances of snow being used in this way in Scripture, yet there is in history. Strabo s reports, that at Corzena and Cambysena, which join to Mount Caucasus, such snows have fallen, that whole companies of men have been swallowed up in them; and even armies have been overwhelmed with them, as the army of the Gauls t; and such quantities have been thrown down from mountains, on which they have been lodged, that towns, towers, and villages, have been laid prostrate by them u; and in the year 443, a vast snow destroyed many w. Frequently do we hear in our parts of the disasters occasioned by them. The Targum particularly makes mention of snow; and renders it, "which snow I have reserved", &c. though absurdly applies it to punishment in hell.

s Geograph. l. 11. p. 363. t Cicero de Divinatione, l. 1. u Olaus Magu. de Ritu Gent. Septent. l. 2. c. 13. w Whiston's Chronolog. Tables, cent. 20.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Which I have reserved - As if they were carefully treasured up to be brought forth as they shall be needed. The idea is, that they were entirely under the direction of God.

The time of trouble - Herder “the time of need.” The meaning probably is, that he had kept them in reserve for the time when he wished to bring calamity on his enemies, or that he made use of them to punish his foes; compare the notes at Job 36:31-33.

Against the day of battle and war - Hailstones were employed by God sometimes to overwhelm his foes, and were sent against them in time of battle; see Joshua 10:11; Exodus 9:22-26; Psalms 18:12-13; compare the notes at Isaiah 29:6.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 38:23. Reserved against the time of trouble — לעת צר leeth tsar, "to the season of strictness," i.e., the season when the earth is constringed or bound by the frost.

Against the day of battle and war? — Hailstones being often employed as instruments of God's displeasure against his enemies, and the enemies of his people. There is probably an allusion here to the plague of hail sent on the Egyptians. See Exodus 9:23, and the notes there, for more particulars concerning hailstones, remarkable showers of them, c. There may be also a reference to Joshua 10:10-11, where a destructive shower of what are called hailstones fell upon the Canaanitish kings who fought against Israel. See the note there also.