Psalm 90:11
New International Version
If only we knew the power of your anger! Your wrath is as great as the fear that is your due.

New Living Translation
Who can comprehend the power of your anger? Your wrath is as awesome as the fear you deserve.

English Standard Version
Who considers the power of your anger, and your wrath according to the fear of you?

Berean Standard Bible
Who knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due.

King James Bible
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

New King James Version
Who knows the power of Your anger? For as the fear of You, so is Your wrath.

New American Standard Bible
Who understands the power of Your anger And Your fury, according to the fear that is due You?

NASB 1995
Who understands the power of Your anger And Your fury, according to the fear that is due You?

NASB 1977
Who understands the power of Thine anger, And Thy fury, according to the fear that is due Thee?

Legacy Standard Bible
Who knows the power of Your anger And Your fury, according to the fear that is due You?

Amplified Bible
Who understands the power of Your anger? [Who connects this brevity of life among us with Your judgment of sin?] And Your wrath, [who connects it] with the [reverent] fear that is due You?

Christian Standard Bible
Who understands the power of your anger? Your wrath matches the fear that is due you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Who understands the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear that is due You.

American Standard Version
Who knoweth the power of thine anger, And thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto thee?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Who knows the power of your passion and the awesomeness of your passion?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Who knows the power of thy wrath?

Contemporary English Version
No one knows the full power of your furious anger, but it is as great as the fear that we owe to you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who knoweth the power of thy anger, and for thy fear

English Revised Version
Who knoweth the power of thine anger, and thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto thee?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Who fully understands the power of your anger? A person fears you more when he better understands your fury.

Good News Translation
Who has felt the full power of your anger? Who knows what fear your fury can bring?

International Standard Version
Who can know the intensity of your anger? Because our fear of you matches your wrath,

JPS Tanakh 1917
Who knoweth the power of Thine anger, And Thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto Thee?

Literal Standard Version
Who knows the power of Your anger? And according to Your fear—Your wrath?

Majority Standard Bible
Who knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due.

New American Bible
Who comprehends the strength of your anger? Your wrath matches the fear it inspires.

NET Bible
Who can really fathom the intensity of your anger? Your raging fury causes people to fear you.

New Revised Standard Version
Who considers the power of your anger? Your wrath is as great as the fear that is due you.

New Heart English Bible
Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

Webster's Bible Translation
Who knoweth the power of thy anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

World English Bible
Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

Young's Literal Translation
Who knoweth the power of Thine anger? And according to Thy fear -- Thy wrath?

Additional Translations ...
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Context
I Will Sing of His Love Forever
10The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong—yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away. 11Who knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due. 12So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.…

Cross References
Nehemiah 5:9
So I continued, "What you are doing is not right. Shouldn't you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies?

Psalm 76:7
You alone are to be feared. When You are angry, who can stand before You?


Treasury of Scripture

Who knows the power of your anger? even according to your fear, so is your wrath.

Leviticus 26:18,21,24,28
And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins…

Deuteronomy 28:59
Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

Deuteronomy 29:20
The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

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Psalm 90
1. Moses, setting forth God's providence
3. Complains of human fragility
7. Divine chastisement
10. and brevity of life
12. He prays for the knowledge and sensible experience of God's good providence.














(11) Who knoweth . . .--Better,

Who regardeth Thine anger

And--in a measure due to reverence--Thy wrath?

Who (no doubt with thought of Israel's enemies) has that just terror of Thy wrath which a truly reverential regard would produce? It is only the persons who have that fearful and bowed apprehension of His Majesty, and that sacred dread of all offence to Him, which is called the "fear of God." And this is not inconsistent with a child-like trust and love, and a peaceful security ("Of whom, then, shall I be afraid?"). On the other hand, those who scoff against religion often become the victims of wild and base terror.

Verse 11 - Who knoweth the power of thins anger? Who can duly estimate the intensity of God's anger against such as have displeased him? Even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath; rather, or who can estimate thy fury as the fear of thee (i.e. the proper fear) requires? The verse is exegetical of ver. 9, and is intended to impress on man the terribleness of God's anger.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Who
מִֽי־ (mî-)
Interrogative
Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

knows
י֭וֹדֵעַ (yō·w·ḏê·a‘)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 3045: To know

the power
עֹ֣ז (‘ōz)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 5797: Strength, might

of Your anger?
אַפֶּ֑ךָ (’ap·pe·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 639: The nose, nostril, the face, a person, ire

Your wrath
עֶבְרָתֶֽךָ׃ (‘eḇ·rā·ṯe·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5678: Overflow, arrogance, fury

matches the fear You are due.
וּ֝כְיִרְאָתְךָ֗ (ū·ḵə·yir·’ā·ṯə·ḵā)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-k | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3374: Fear, reverence


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