New Revised Standard Version
Because they stretched out their hands against God, and bid defiance to the Almighty,

Contemporary English Version
This is because they rebelled against God All-Powerful

New American Bible
Because he has stretched out his hand against God and arrogantly challenged the Almighty,

Douay-Rheims Bible
For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and hath strengthened himself against the Almighty.

For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and hath strengthened himself against the Almighty.

he stretcheth

Leviticus 26:23 And if even so you will not amend, but will walk contrary to me:

Psalm 73:9,11 They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth. . . .

Isaiah 27:4 There is no indignation in me: who shall make me a thorn and a brier in battle: shall I march against it, shall, I set it on fire together?

Daniel 5:23 But hast lifted thyself up against the Lord of heaven: and the vessels of his house have been brought before thee: and thou, and thy nobles, and thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them: and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and of gold, and of brass, of iron, and of wood, and of stone, that neither see, nor hear, nor feel: but the God who hath thy breath in his hand, and all thy ways, thou hast not glorified.

Malachi 3:13 Your words have been unsufferable to me, saith the Lord.

Acts 9:5 Who said: Who art thou, Lord? And he: I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. It is hard for thee to kick against the goad.

Acts 12:1,23 And at the same time, Herod the king stretched forth his hands, to afflict some of the church. . . .

strengtheneth

Job 9:4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath resisted him, and hath had peace?

Job 40:9-11 And hast thou an arm like God, and canst thou thunder with a voice like him? . . .

Exodus 5:2,3 But he answered: Who is the Lord, that I should hear his voice, and let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go. . . .

Exodus 9:17 Dost thou yet hold back my people; and wilt thou not let them go?

1 Samuel 4:7-9 And the Philistines were afraid, saying: God is come into the camp. And sighing, they said: . . .

1 Samuel 6:6 Why do you harden your hearts, as Egypt and Pharao hardened their hearts? did not he, after he was struck, then let them go, and they departed?

Psalm 52:7 Behold the man that made not God his helper: But trusted in the abundance of his riches: and prevailed in his vanity.

Isaiah 8:9,10 Gather yourselves together, O ye people, and be overcome, and give ear, all ye lands afar off: strengthen yourselves, and be overcome, gird yourselves, and be overcome. . . .

Isaiah 10:12-14 And it shall come to pass, that when the Lord shall have performed all his works in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem, I will visit the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of the haughtiness of his eyes. . . .

Isaiah 41:4-7 Who hath wrought and done these things, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord, I am the first and the last. . . .