Parallel Verses
Amplified
“Out of the north comes golden splendor [and people can hardly look on it];
Around God is awesome splendor and majesty [far too glorious for man’s eyes].
New American Standard Bible
Around God is awesome majesty.
King James Version
Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.
Holman Bible
awesome
International Standard Version
From the north he brings gold; around God is awesome splendor.
A Conservative Version
Out of the north comes golden splendor. God has upon him awesome majesty.
American Standard Version
Out of the north cometh golden splendor: God hath upon him terrible majesty.
Bible in Basic English
A bright light comes out of the north; God's glory is greatly to be feared.
Darby Translation
From the north cometh gold; with +God is terrible majesty.
Julia Smith Translation
From the north, gold shall come: upon God terrible majesty.
King James 2000
Fair weather comes out of the north: with God is awesome majesty.
Lexham Expanded Bible
From [the] north comes gold-- awesome majesty [is] around God.
Modern King James verseion
Golden splendor comes out of the north; God is awesome in His majesty.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Gold is brought out of the North, but the praise and honour of God's fear cometh from God himself.
NET Bible
From the north he comes in golden splendor; around God is awesome majesty.
New Heart English Bible
Out of the north comes golden splendor. With God is awesome majesty.
The Emphasized Bible
Out of the north, a golden light cometh, Upon GOD, is fearful splendour:
Webster
Fair weather cometh from the north: with God is terrible majesty.
World English Bible
Out of the north comes golden splendor. With God is awesome majesty.
Youngs Literal Translation
From the golden north it cometh, Beside God is fearful honour.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 37:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Extols God's Majesty
21
“Now people cannot look at the light when it is bright in the skies [without being blinded],
When the wind has passed and cleared them.
“Out of the north comes golden splendor [and people can hardly look on it];
Around God is awesome splendor and majesty [far too glorious for man’s eyes].
“The Almighty—we cannot find Him;
He is exalted in power
And He will not do violence to [nor disregard] justice and abundant righteousness.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 104:1
O Lord my God, You are very great;
You are clothed with splendor and majesty,
1 Chronicles 29:11
Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and on the earth; Yours is the dominion and kingdom, O Lord, and You exalt Yourself as head over all.
Job 40:10
“Adorn yourself with eminence and dignity [since you question the Almighty],
And array yourself with honor and majesty.
Psalm 29:4
The voice of the Lord is powerful;
The voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
Psalm 66:5
Come and see the works of God,
He is awesome in His deeds toward the children of men.
Psalm 68:7-8
O God, when You went out before Your people,
When You marched through the wilderness, Selah.
Psalm 76:12
He will cut off the spirit of princes;
He is awesome and feared by the kings of the earth.
Psalm 93:1
The Lord has clothed and encircled Himself with strength;
the world is firmly established, it cannot be moved.
Psalm 145:5
On the glorious splendor of Your majesty
And on Your wonderful works, I will meditate.
Proverbs 25:23
The north wind brings forth rain;
And a backbiting tongue, an angry countenance.
Isaiah 2:10
Go among the rocks and hide in the dust
From the terror of the Lord and from the splendor of His majesty.
Isaiah 2:19
They [the stricken, deprived of all in which they had trusted] will go into the caves of the rocks
And into the holes of the ground [fleeing]
From the terror and dread of the Lord
And from the splendor of His majesty,
When He arises to terrify the earth.
Micah 5:4
And He shall stand and shepherd and guide His flock
In the strength of the Lord,
In the majesty of the name of the Lord His God;
And they shall dwell [secure in undisturbed peace],
Because at that time He shall be great [extending His authority]
[Even] to the ends of the earth.
Nahum 1:3
The Lord is slow to anger and great in power
And He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished.
The Lord has His way in the whirlwind and in the storm,
And the clouds are the dust beneath His feet.
Habakkuk 3:3-19
God [approaching from Sinai] comes from Teman (Edom),
And the Holy One from
His splendor and majesty covers the heavens
And the earth is full of His praise.
Hebrews 1:3
The Son is the radiance and only expression of the glory of [our awesome] God [reflecting God’s
Hebrews 12:29
for our God is [indeed] a consuming fire.
Jude 1:25
to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and power, before all time and now and forever. Amen.