Parallel Verses

Amplified


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?

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

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

A Conservative Version

Who knows the power of thine anger, and thy wrath according to the fear that is due to thee?

American Standard Version

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

Darby Translation

Who knoweth the power of thine anger? and thy wrath according to the fear of thee?

Julia Smith Translation

Who shall know the strength of thine anger? and according to thy fear, thy wrath.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Who knows the strength of your anger, and your rage consistent with [the] fear due you?

Modern King James verseion

Who knows the power of Your anger? And as Your fear is, so is Your wrath.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

But who regardeth the power of thy wrath? For even thereafter as a man feareth, so is thy displeasure.

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Who knoweth the strength of thine anger? Even, according to the fear of thee, is thy wrath!

Webster

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?

Youngs Literal Translation

Who knoweth the power of Thine anger? And according to Thy fear -- Thy wrath?

References

American

Hastings

Sin

Context Readings

Eternal God And Mortal Man

10
The days of our life are seventy years—
Or even, if because of strength, eighty years;
Yet their pride [in additional years] is only labor and sorrow,
For it is soon gone and we fly away.
11 
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?
12
So teach us to number our days,
That we may cultivate and bring to You a heart of wisdom.


Cross References

Leviticus 26:18

If in spite of all this you still will not listen to Me and be obedient, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

Leviticus 26:21

‘If then, you act with hostility toward Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times in accordance with your sins.

Leviticus 26:24

then I also will act with hostility against you, and I will strike you seven times for your sins.

Leviticus 26:28

then I will act with hostility against you in wrath, and I also will punish you seven times for your sins.

Deuteronomy 28:59

then the Lord will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, even severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses.

Deuteronomy 29:20-29

the Lord will not be willing to forgive him, but then the anger of the Lord and His jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse which is written in this book will rest on him; the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven.

Psalm 76:7


You, even You, are to be feared [with the submissive wonder of reverence];
Who may stand in Your presence when once You are angry?

Isaiah 33:14


The sinners in Zion are terrified;
Trembling has seized the godless.
[They cry] “Who among us can live with the consuming fire?
Who among us can live with everlasting burning?”

Nahum 1:6


Who can stand before His indignation [His great wrath]?
And who can stand up and endure the fierceness of His anger?
His wrath is poured out like fire
And the rocks are destroyed by Him.

Luke 12:5

But I will point out to you whom you should fear: fear the One who, after He has killed, has authority and power to hurl [you] into hell; yes, I say to you, [stand in great awe of God and] fear Him!

2 Corinthians 5:11

Therefore, since we know the fear of the Lord [and understand the importance of obedience and worship], we persuade people [to be reconciled to Him]. But we are plainly known to God [He knows everything about us]; and I hope that we are plainly known also in your consciences [your God-given discernment].

Revelation 6:17

for the great day of their wrath and vengeance and retribution has come, and who is able to [face God and] stand [before the wrath of the Lamb]?”

King James Version Public Domain

Holman Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers.

International Standard Version Copyright © 1996-2008 by the ISV Foundation.

New American Standard Bible Copyright ©1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org

American Standard Version Public Domain

NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. NetBible