Job 9:5

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“He moves mountains without their knowledge and overturns them in His anger.”

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BSBPD

“He moves mountains without their knowledge and overturns them in His anger.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Himthat removeth the mountains, and they know it not, When he overturneth them in his anger;”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Who is removing mountains, And they have not known, Who hath overturned them in His anger.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 9:5 — 20 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Numbers 1:5These are the names of the men who are to assist you: From the tribe of Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;
  2. Job 28:9The miner strikes the flint; he overturns mountains at their base.
  3. Job 40:11Unleash the fury of your wrath; look on every proud man and bring him low.
  4. Psalms 46:2Therefore we will not fear, though the earth is transformed and the mountains are toppled into the depths of the seas,
  5. Psalms 68:8the earth shook and the heavens poured down rain before God, the One on Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.
  6. Psalms 114:6O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs?
  7. Isaiah 40:12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?
  8. Nahum 1:5The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence— the world and all its dwellers.
  9. Nahum 1:6Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.
  10. Habakkuk 3:6He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.
  11. Habakkuk 3:10The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.
  12. Zechariah 4:7What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain. Then he will bring forth the capstone accompanied by shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”
  13. Zechariah 14:4On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half the mountain moving to the north and half to the south.
  14. Matthew 21:21“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.
  15. Matthew 27:51At that moment the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.
  16. Luke 21:11There will be great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences in various places, along with fearful sights and great signs from heaven.
  17. 1 Corinthians 13:2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
  18. Revelation 6:14The sky receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.
  19. Revelation 11:13And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand were killed in the quake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.
  20. Revelation 16:18And there were flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder, and a great earthquake the likes of which had not occurred since men were upon the earth—so mighty was the great quake.

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