Job 40:12
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New International Version (©2011)
look at all who are proud and humble them, crush the wicked where they stand.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Humiliate the proud with a glance; walk on the wicked where they stand.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Look on everyone who is proud and bring him low and tread down the wicked where they stand.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him, And tread down the wicked where they stand.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Look on every proud person and humble him; trample the wicked where they stand.

International Standard Version (©2012)
stared down and subdued every proud person, trampled the wicked right where they are,

NET Bible (©2006)
Look at every proud man and abase him; crush the wicked on the spot!

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Look at all who are arrogant, and humble them. Crush wicked people wherever they are.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

American King James Version
Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

American Standard Version
Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; And tread down the wicked where they stand.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Look on all that are proud, and confound them, and crush the wicked in their place.

Darby Bible Translation
Look on every one that is proud, bring him low, and tread down the wicked in their place:

English Revised Version
Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked where they stand.

Webster's Bible Translation
Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

World English Bible
Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.

Young's Literal Translation
See every proud one -- humble him, And tread down the wicked in their place.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

40:6-14 Those who profit by what they have heard from God, shall hear more from him. And those who are truly convinced of sin, yet need to be more thoroughly convinced and more humbled. No doubt God, and he only, has power to humble and bring down proud men; he has wisdom to know when and how to do it, and it is not for us to teach him how to govern the world. Our own hands cannot save us by recommending us to God's grace, much less rescuing us from his justice; and therefore into his hand we must commit ourselves. The renewal of a believer proceeds in the same way of conviction, humbling, and watchfulness against remaining sin, as his first conversion. When convinced of many evils in our conduct, we still need convincing of many more.

Pulpit Commentary

Verses 12, 13. - Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place. Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret. The idea of ver. 11 is still further insisted on. Lot Job manifest himself as a power among men, if he cannot rival God in nature. Let him set the world to rights. Then he may claim to be heard with respect to the moral government of God.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Look on everyone that is proud, and bring him low,.... As the Lord often does; see Isaiah 2:11; this is the same as before;

and tread down the wicked in their place; the same with the proud, for pride makes men wicked; it is a sin, and very odious in the sight of God, and is highly resented by him; he resists the proud: now Job is bid, when he has brought proud men low, and laid their honour in the dust, to keep them there, to trample upon them, and tread them as mire in the street; and that in their own place, or wherever he should find them; the Septuagint render it "immediately"; see Isaiah 28:3.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

12. proud—high (Da 4:37).

in their place—on the spot; suddenly, before they can move from their place. (See on [558]Job 34:26; [559]Job 36:20).

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Job Humbles Himself Before God
…11Cast abroad the rage of your wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him. 12Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place. 13Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret. …

1 Samuel 2:7 The LORD sends poverty and wealth; he humbles and he exalts.
Isaiah 2:12 The LORD Almighty has a day in store for all the proud and lofty, for all that is exalted (and they will be humbled),
Isaiah 13:11 I will punish the world for its evil, the wicked for their sins. I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty and will humble the pride of the ruthless.
Isaiah 22:19 I will depose you from your office, and you will be ousted from your position.
Isaiah 23:9 The LORD Almighty planned it, to bring down her pride in all her splendor and to humble all who are renowned on the earth.
Isaiah 63:3 "I have trodden the winepress alone; from the nations no one was with me. I trampled them in my anger and trod them down in my wrath; their blood spattered my garments, and I stained all my clothing.
Jeremiah 48:29 "We have heard of Moab's pride-- how great is her arrogance!-- of her insolence, her pride, her conceit and the haughtiness of her heart.
Daniel 4:24 "This is the interpretation, Your Majesty, and this is the decree the Most High has issued against my lord the king:
Daniel 4:37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, because everything he does is right and all his ways are just. And those who walk in pride he is able to humble.
Daniel 5:20 But when his heart became arrogant and hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and stripped of his glory.
Malachi 4:3 Then you will trample on the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I act," says the LORD Almighty.