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Job 34:24

He shall break in pieces many and innumerable, and shall make others to stand in their stead.

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.
Bible in Basic English
He sends the strong to destruction without searching out their cause, and puts others in their place.
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:
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 then thou hast understanding, hear what is said, and hearken to the voice of my words. 17 Can he be healed that loveth not judgment? and how dost thou so far condemn him that is just? 18 Who saith to the king: Thou art an apostate: who calleth rulers ungodly: 19 Who accepteth not the persons of princes: nor hath regarded the tyrant, when he contended against the poor man: for all are the work of his hands. 20 They shall suddenly die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and they shall pass, and take away the violent without hand. 21 For his eyes are upon the ways of men, and he considereth all their steps. 22 There is no darkness, and there is no shadow of death, where they may be hid who work iniquity. 23 For it is no longer in the power of man to enter into judgment with God. 24 He shall break in pieces many and innumerable, and shall make others to stand in their stead. 25 For he knoweth their works: and therefore he shall bring night on them, and they shall be destroyed.

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 Ismael his son, and all that were born in his house: and all whom he had bought, every male among the men of his house: and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin forthwith the very same day, as God had commanded him.
Genesis 23:10
Now Ephron dwelt in the midst of the children of Heth. And Ephron made answer to Abraham in the hearing of all that went in at the gate of the city, saying:
Genesis 23:18
Was made sure to Abraham for a possession, in the sight of the children of Heth, and of all that went in at the gate of his city.
Genesis 34:10
And dwell with us: the land is at your command, till, trade, and possess it.
Genesis 34:16
Then will we mutually give and take your daughters, and ours; and we will dwell with you, and will be one people:
Genesis 34:28
And they took their sheep, and their herds, and their asses, wasting all they had in their houses and in their fields.
Genesis 34:29
And their children and wives they took captive.
Matthew 7:6
Give not that which is holy to dogs; neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turning upon you, they tear you.
1 Corinthians 7:19
Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing: but the observance of the commandments of God.

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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