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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
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Intertextuality Pair

Psalms 107:40 → Job 12:21

Quotation

Later text

Psalms 107:40BSB

He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

Earlier text

Job 12:21BSB

He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.

Significance

Psalm 107:40 states that God "pours out contempt on the nobles (נְדִיבִים, nedivim) and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland" — language closely paralleling Job 12:21, which declares God "pours out contempt on nobles (נְדִיבִים, nedivim)" using the identical Hebrew phrase שׁוֹפֵךְ בּוּז עַל־נְדִיבִים (shofekh buz al-nedivim). The verbal correspondence is so precise that the psalmist appears to be quoting directly from Job. Both texts assert God's sovereign authority to humiliate the powerful and reverse social hierarchies, demonstrating that no human position of authority exists independent of divine permission.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — Psalm 107:40 takes up Job 12:21's very phrase "pours out contempt on nobles" (שׁוֹפֵךְ בּוּז עַל־נְדִיבִים) within its litany of divine reversals that ends with the needy raised up (107:41), one canonical theme of God humbling the exalted and exalting the lowly that runs from Job and Hannah's song to the Magnificat at Christ's advent (Luke 1:52).