Job 1 - 42
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There was a man in the land of a Uz whose name was b Job, and that man was c blameless and upright, one who d feared God and e turned away from evil.
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There were born to him f seven sons and three daughters.
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He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all g the people of the east.
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His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
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And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and h consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and i offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my children have sinned, and j cursed God in their hearts." Thus Job did continually.
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Now there was a day when k the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and l Satan also came among them.
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The Lord said to Satan, "From where have you come?" Satan answered the Lord and said, "From m going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it."
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And the Lord said to Satan, "Have you n considered my o servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, p a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?"
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Then Satan answered the Lord and said, "Does Job fear God for no reason?
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Have you not put q a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have r blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
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But s stretch out your hand and t touch all that he has, and he will u curse you v to your face."
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And the Lord said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand." So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.
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Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house,
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and there came a messenger to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them,
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and w the Sabeans fell upon them and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you."
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While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, x "The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you."
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While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, y "The Chaldeans formed z three groups and made a raid on the camels and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you."
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While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, a "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house,
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and behold, a great wind came across b the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you."
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Then Job arose and c tore his d robe and e shaved his head f and fell on the ground and worshiped.
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And he said, g "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I h return. The Lord i gave, and the Lord has taken away; j blessed be the name of the Lord."
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k In all this Job did not sin or charge God with l wrong.
Job 2
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Again m there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the Lord.
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And the Lord said to Satan, "From where have you come?" Satan answered the Lord and said, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it."
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And the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still n holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him o without reason."
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Then Satan answered the Lord and said, "Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life.
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But p stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will q curse you to your face."
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And the Lord said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand; only spare his life."
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So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with loathsome r sores from s the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
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And he took t a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in u the ashes.
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Then his wife said to him, "Do you still v hold fast your integrity? q Curse God and die."
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But he said to her, "You speak as one of the w foolish women would speak. x Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?" y In all this Job did not z sin with his lips.
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Now when Job's three a friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz b the Temanite, Bildad c the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to d show him sympathy and comfort him.
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And when they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him. And they raised their voices and wept, and they e tore their robes and sprinkled f dust on their heads toward heaven.
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And they sat with him on the ground g seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.
Job 3
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After this Job h opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
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And Job said:
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i "Let the day perish on which I was born,
and the night that said,
'A man is conceived.'
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Let that day be darkness!
May God above not seek it,
nor light shine upon it.
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Let gloom and j deep darkness claim it.
Let clouds dwell upon it;
let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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That night - let thick darkness seize it!
Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
let it not come into the number of the months.
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Behold, let that night be barren;
let no joyful cry enter it.
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Let those curse it who curse the day,
who are ready to rouse up k Leviathan.
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Let the stars of its dawn be dark;
let it hope for light, but have none,
nor see l the eyelids of the morning,
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because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb,
nor hide trouble from my eyes.
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"Why m did I not die at birth,
come out from the womb and expire?
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Why did n the knees receive me?
Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?
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For then I would have lain down and been quiet;
I would have slept; then I would have been at rest,
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with kings and counselors of the earth
who o rebuilt ruins for themselves,
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or with princes who had gold,
who filled their houses with silver.
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Or why was I not as a hidden p stillborn child,
as infants who never see the light?
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There the wicked cease from troubling,
and there the weary are at q rest.
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There the prisoners are at ease together;
they hear not the voice of r the taskmaster.
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The small and the great are there,
and the slave is free from his master.
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"Why is light given to him who is in misery,
and life to s the bitter in soul,
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who t long for death, but it comes not,
and dig for it more than for u hidden treasures,
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who rejoice exceedingly
and are glad when they find the grave?
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Why is light given to a man whose v way is hidden,
whom God has w hedged in?
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For my sighing comes x instead of my bread,
and my y groanings are poured out like water.
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z For the thing that I fear comes upon me,
and what I dread befalls me.
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I am not at ease, nor am I quiet;
I have no rest, but trouble comes."
Job 4
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
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"If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?
Yet who can keep from speaking?
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Behold, you have instructed many,
and you have a strengthened the weak hands.
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Your words have upheld him who was stumbling,
and you have a made firm the feeble knees.
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But now it has come to you, and you are impatient;
it touches you, and you are dismayed.
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b Is not your fear of God your c confidence,
and the integrity of your ways your hope?
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"Remember: d who that was innocent ever perished?
Or where were the upright cut off?
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As I have seen, those who e plow iniquity
and sow trouble reap the same.
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By f the breath of God they perish,
and by g the blast of his anger they are consumed.
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The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion,
h the teeth of the young lions are broken.
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The strong lion perishes for lack of prey,
and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
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"Now a word was brought to me stealthily;
my ear received i the whisper of it.
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Amid j thoughts from k visions of the night,
when k deep sleep falls on men,
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dread came upon me, and trembling,
which made all my bones shake.
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A spirit glided past my face;
the hair of my flesh stood up.
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It stood still,
but I could not discern its appearance.
l A form was before my eyes;
there was silence, then I heard m a voice:
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n 'Can mortal man be in the right before God?
Can a man be pure before his Maker?
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Even in his servants o he puts no trust,
and his angels he charges with error;
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how much more those who dwell in houses of p clay,
whose foundation is in q the dust,
who are crushed like r the moth.
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Between s morning and evening they are beaten to pieces;
they perish forever t without anyone regarding it.
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Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them,
u do they not die, and that without wisdom?'
Job 5
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"Call now; is there anyone who will answer you?
To which of v the holy ones will you turn?
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Surely vexation kills the fool,
and jealousy slays the simple.
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w I have seen the fool taking root,
but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.
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His children are x far from safety;
they are crushed in y the gate,
and there is no one to deliver them.
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The hungry eat his harvest,
and he takes it even out of thorns,
and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
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For affliction does not come from the dust,
nor does trouble sprout from the ground,
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but man is z born to trouble
as the sparks fly upward.
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"As for me, I would seek God,
and to God would I commit my cause,
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who a does great things and b unsearchable,
c marvelous things without number:
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he gives d rain on the earth
and sends waters on the fields;
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he e sets on high those who are lowly,
and those who mourn are lifted to safety.
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He f frustrates the devices of the crafty,
so that their hands achieve no success.
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He g catches the wise in their own craftiness,
and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
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They meet with darkness in the daytime
and h grope at noonday as in the night.
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But he i saves the needy from the sword of their mouth
and from the hand of the mighty.
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So the poor have hope,
and j injustice shuts her mouth.
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"Behold, k blessed is the one whom God reproves;
therefore l despise not the discipline of the m Almighty.
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For he wounds, but he n binds up;
he o shatters, but his hands heal.
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He will p deliver you from six troubles;
in seven no q evil shall touch you.
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r In famine he will redeem you from death,
and in war from the power of the sword.
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You shall be s hidden from the lash of the tongue,
and shall not fear destruction when it comes.
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At destruction and famine you shall laugh,
and shall not fear t the beasts of the earth.
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For you shall be in league with the stones of the field,
and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
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You shall know that your u tent is at peace,
and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.
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You shall know also that your v offspring shall be many,
and your descendants as w the grass of the earth.
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You shall come to your grave in x ripe old age,
like a sheaf gathered up in its season.
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Behold, this we have y searched out; it is true.
Hear, and know it for your good."
Job 6
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Then Job answered and said:
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"Oh that my vexation were weighed,
and all my calamity laid in the balances!
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For then it would be heavier than z the sand of the sea;
therefore my words have been rash.
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For a the arrows of the Almighty are in me;
my spirit drinks their poison;
the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
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Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass,
or the ox low over his fodder?
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Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt,
or is there any taste in the juice of the mallow?
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My appetite refuses to touch them;
they are as food that is loathsome to me.
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"Oh that I might have my request,
and that God would fulfill my hope,
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that it would b please God to crush me,
that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
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This would be my comfort;
I would even exult in pain c unsparing,
for I have not denied the words of d the Holy One.
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What is my strength, that I should wait?
And what is my end, that I should be patient?
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Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh bronze?
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Have I any help in me,
when resource is driven from me?
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"He who e withholds kindness from a f friend
forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
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My g brothers are h treacherous as a torrent-bed,
as torrential i streams that pass away,
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which are dark with ice,
and where the snow hides itself.
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When they melt, they disappear;
when it is hot, they vanish from their place.
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The caravans turn aside from their course;
they go up into j the waste and perish.
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The caravans of k Tema look,
the travelers of l Sheba hope.
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They are m ashamed because they were confident;
they come there and are m disappointed.
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For you have now become nothing;
you see my calamity and are afraid.
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Have I said, 'Make me a gift'?
Or, 'From your wealth offer a bribe for me'?
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Or, 'Deliver me from the adversary's hand'?
Or, 'Redeem me from the hand of n the ruthless'?
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"Teach me, and I will be silent;
make me understand how I have gone astray.
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How forceful are upright words!
But what does reproof from you reprove?
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Do you think that you can reprove words,
when the speech of a despairing man is o wind?
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You would even p cast lots over the fatherless,
and bargain over your friend.
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"But now, be pleased to look at me,
for I will not lie to your face.
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q Please turn; let no injustice be done.
Turn now; my vindication is at stake.
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Is there any injustice on my tongue?
Cannot my palate discern the cause of calamity?
Job 7
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"Has not man r a hard service on earth,
and are not his s days like the days of a hired hand?
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Like a slave who longs for t the shadow,
and like u a hired hand who looks for his v wages,
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so I am allotted months of w emptiness,
x and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
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y When I lie down I say, 'When shall I arise?'
But the night is long,
and I am full of tossing till the dawn.
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My flesh is clothed with z worms and a dirt;
my skin hardens, then b breaks out afresh.
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My days are c swifter than d a weaver's shuttle
and come to their end without hope.
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"Remember that my life is a e breath;
my eye will never again see good.
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f The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more;
while your eyes are on me, g I shall be gone.
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As h the cloud fades and vanishes,
so he who i goes down to Sheol does not come up;
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he j returns no more to his house,
nor does his k place know him anymore.
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"Therefore I will not l restrain my mouth;
I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;
I will m complain in n the bitterness of my soul.
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Am I the sea, or o a sea monster,
that you set a guard over me?
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p When I say, 'My bed will comfort me,
my couch will ease my complaint,'
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then you scare me with dreams
and terrify me with visions,
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so that I would choose strangling
and death rather than my q bones.
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I r loathe my life; I would not live forever.
s Leave me alone, for my days are t a breath.
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u What is man, that you make so much of him,
and that you set your heart on him,
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v visit him every morning
and w test him every moment?
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How long will you not x look away from me,
nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit?
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If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind?
Why have you made me y your mark?
Why have I become a burden to you?
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Why do you not pardon my transgression
and take away my iniquity?
For now I shall lie in z the earth;
you will a seek me, b but I shall not be."
Job 8
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Then c Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
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"How long will you say these things,
and the words of your mouth be a d great wind?
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e Does God pervert justice?
Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
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If your f children have sinned against him,
he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression.
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If you will seek God
and g plead with the Almighty for mercy,
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if you are pure and upright,
surely then he will h rouse himself for you
and i restore your rightful habitation.
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And though your beginning was small,
j your latter days will be very great.
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"For k inquire, please, of bygone ages,
and consider what l the fathers have searched out.
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For we are but of yesterday and know nothing,
for our days on earth are m a shadow.
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Will they not teach you and tell you
and utter words out of their understanding?
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"Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh?
Can reeds flourish where there is no water?
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While yet in flower and not cut down,
they n wither before any other plant.
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Such are the paths of all who o forget God;
p the hope of q the godless shall perish.
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His confidence is severed,
and his trust is r a spider's web.
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He leans against his s house, but it does not stand;
he lays hold of it, but it does not endure.
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He is a lush plant before the sun,
and his t shoots spread over his garden.
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His roots entwine the stone heap;
he looks upon a house of stones.
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If he is destroyed from his u place,
then it will deny him, saying, 'I have never v seen you.'
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Behold, this is the joy of his way,
and out of w the soil others will spring.
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"Behold, God will not reject a blameless man,
nor take the hand of evildoers.
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He will yet x fill your mouth with laughter,
and your lips with shouting.
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Those who hate you will be y clothed with shame,
and the tent of the wicked will be no more."
Job 9
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Then Job answered and said:
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"Truly I know that it is so:
But how can a man be z in the right before God?
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If one wished to a contend with him,
one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
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He is b wise in heart and mighty in strength
- who has c hardened himself against him, and succeeded? -
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he who removes mountains, and they know it not,
when he overturns them in his anger,
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who d shakes the earth out of its place,
and e its pillars tremble;
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who commands the sun, and it does not rise;
who seals up the stars;
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who alone f stretched out the heavens
and trampled the waves of the sea;
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who g made h the Bear and i Orion,
the Pleiades j and the chambers of the south;
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who does k great things beyond searching out,
and marvelous things beyond number.
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Behold, he passes by me, and I l see him not;
he moves on, but I do not perceive him.
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Behold, he snatches away; m who can turn him back?
n Who will say to him, 'What are you doing?'
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"God will not turn back his anger;
beneath him bowed the helpers of o Rahab.
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p How then can I q answer him,
choosing my words with him?
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r Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him;
I must s appeal for mercy to my accuser.
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If I summoned him and he answered me,
I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.
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For he crushes me with a tempest
and multiplies my wounds t without cause;
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he will not let me get my breath,
but fills me with bitterness.
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If it is a contest of u strength, behold, he is mighty!
If it is a matter of justice, who can v summon him?
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Though I am in the right, w my own mouth would condemn me;
though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
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I am x blameless; I regard not myself;
I y loathe my life.
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It is all one; therefore I say,
He z destroys both the blameless and the wicked.
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When a disaster brings sudden death,
he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.
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b The earth is given into the hand of the wicked;
he c covers the faces of its judges -
d if it is not he, who then is it?
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"My e days are swifter than f a runner;
they flee away; they see no good.
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They go by like g skiffs of reed,
like h an eagle swooping on the prey.
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If I say, i 'I will forget my complaint,
I will put off my sad face, and j be of good cheer,'
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I become k afraid of all my suffering,
for I know you will not l hold me innocent.
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I shall be m condemned;
why then do I labor in vain?
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If I wash myself with snow
and n cleanse my hands with lye,
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yet you will plunge me into a pit,
and my own clothes will o abhor me.
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For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him,
that we should p come to trial together.
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q There is no arbiter between us,
who might lay his hand on us both.
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r Let him take his s rod away from me,
and let t not dread of him terrify me.
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Then I would speak without fear of him,
for I am not so in myself.
Job 10
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"I u loathe my life;
I will give free utterance to my v complaint;
I will speak in w the bitterness of my soul.
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I will say to God, Do not x condemn me;
let me know why you y contend against me.
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z Does it seem good to you to oppress,
to despise a the work of your hands
b and favor the designs of the wicked?
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Have you c eyes of flesh?
d Do you see as man sees?
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Are your days as the days of man,
or your e years as a man's years,
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that you f seek out my iniquity
and search for my sin,
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although you g know that I am not guilty,
and there is h none to deliver out of your hand?
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i Your hands fashioned and made me,
and now you have destroyed me altogether.
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Remember that you have made me like j clay;
and will you return me to the k dust?
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Did you not pour me out like milk
and curdle me like cheese?
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You clothed me with skin and flesh,
and knit me together with bones and sinews.
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You have granted me life and steadfast love,
and your care has preserved my spirit.
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Yet these things you hid in your heart;
I know that l this was your purpose.
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If I sin, you m watch me
and do not n acquit me of my iniquity.
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o If I am guilty, woe to me!
If I am p in the right, I cannot lift up my head,
for I am filled with disgrace
and q look on my affliction.
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And were my head lifted up, you would hunt me like r a lion
and again work s wonders against me.
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You renew your t witnesses against me
and increase your vexation toward me;
you u bring fresh troops against me.
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v "Why did you bring me out from the womb?
Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
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w and were as though I had not been,
carried from the womb to the grave.
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x Are not my days few?
y Then cease, and leave me alone, z that I may find a little cheer
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before I go - and a I shall not return -
to the land of b darkness and c deep shadow,
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the land of gloom like thick darkness,
like deep shadow without any order,
where light is as thick darkness."
Job 11
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Then d Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:
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"Should e a multitude of words go unanswered,
and a man full of talk be judged right?
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Should your babble silence men,
and when you mock, shall no one shame you?
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For f you say, 'My g doctrine is pure,
and I am clean in God's eyes.'
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But oh, that God would speak
and open his lips to you,
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and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom!
For he is manifold in h understanding.
Know then that God i exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.
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j "Can you find out the deep things of God?
Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?
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It is k higher than heaven - what can you do?
Deeper than Sheol - what can you know?
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Its measure is longer than the earth
and broader than the sea.
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If he l passes through and m imprisons
and summons the court, who can n turn him back?
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For he knows o worthless men;
when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?
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But a stupid man will get understanding
when p a wild donkey's colt is q born a man!
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"If you r prepare your heart,
you will s stretch out your hands toward him.
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If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away,
and let not injustice dwell in your tents.
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Surely then you will t lift up your face without u blemish;
you will be secure and will not fear.
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You will v forget your misery;
you will remember it as waters that have passed away.
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And your life will be w brighter than the noonday;
its darkness will be like the morning.
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And you will feel secure, because there is hope;
you will look around and x take your rest in security.
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You will x lie down, and none will make you afraid;
many will y court your favor.
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But z the eyes of the wicked will fail;
all way of escape will be lost to them,
and their hope is a to breathe their last."
Job 12
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Then Job answered and said:
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"No doubt you are the people,
and wisdom will die with you.
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But I have b understanding as well as you;
I am not inferior to you.
Who does not know c such things as these?
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I am d a laughingstock to my friends;
I, who e called to God and he answered me,
a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
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In the thought of one who is f at ease there is contempt for misfortune;
it is ready for those whose feet slip.
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g The tents of robbers are at peace,
and those who provoke God are secure,
who bring their god in their hand.
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"But ask the beasts, and they will teach you;
the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you;
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or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you;
and the fish of the sea will declare to you.
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Who among all these does not know
that h the hand of the Lord has done this?
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In i his hand is the life of every living thing
and the breath of all mankind.
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Does not j the ear test words
as the palate tastes food?
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Wisdom is with k the aged,
and understanding in length of days.
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l "With God are wisdom and might;
he has counsel and understanding.
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If he tears down, none can rebuild;
if he m shuts a man in, none can open.
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If he n withholds the waters, they dry up;
if he o sends them out, they overwhelm the land.
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With him are strength and p sound wisdom;
the deceived and the deceiver are his.
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He leads q counselors away stripped,
and r judges he makes fools.
18
He s looses the bonds of kings
and binds a waistcloth on their hips.
19
He leads priests away stripped
and overthrows the mighty.
20
He deprives of speech those who are trusted
t and takes away the discernment of the elders.
21
He u pours contempt on princes
and loosens the belt of the strong.
22
He v uncovers the deeps out of darkness
and brings w deep darkness to light.
23
He x makes nations great, and he destroys them;
he enlarges nations, and y leads them away.
24
He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth
and z makes them wander in a pathless waste.
25
They a grope in the dark without light,
and he makes them b stagger like a drunken man.
Job 13
1
"Behold, my eye has seen all this,
my ear has heard and understood it.
2
c What you know, I also know;
I am not inferior to you.
3
d But I would speak to the Almighty,
and I desire to e argue my case with God.
4
As for you, f you whitewash with lies;
g worthless physicians are you all.
5
Oh that you would h keep silent,
and it would be your wisdom!
6
Hear now my argument
and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
7
Will you i speak falsely for God
and speak i deceitfully for him?
8
Will you show partiality toward him?
Will you j plead the case for God?
9
Will it be well with you when he k searches you out?
Or l can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?
10
He will surely rebuke you
if in secret you show partiality.
11
Will not his m majesty terrify you,
and the dread of him fall upon you?
12
Your maxims are proverbs of n ashes;
your defenses are defenses of clay.
13
"Let me have silence, and I will speak,
and let come on me what may.
14
Why should I take my flesh in my teeth
and o put my life in my hand?
15
p Though he slay me, I will q hope in him;
yet I will r argue my ways to his face.
16
This will be my salvation,
that the godless shall not come before him.
17
s Keep listening to my words,
and let my declaration be in your ears.
18
Behold, I have t prepared my case;
I know that I shall be in the right.
19
u Who is there who will contend with me?
For then I would be silent and die.
20
Only grant me two things,
then I will not v hide myself from your face:
21
w withdraw your hand far from me,
and let not x dread of you terrify me.
22
y Then call, and I will answer;
or let me speak, and you reply to me.
23
How many are my iniquities and my sins?
z Make me know my transgression and my sin.
24
Why a do you hide your face
and b count me as your enemy?
25
Will you frighten c a driven leaf
and pursue dry d chaff?
26
For you e write bitter things against me
and make me inherit f the iniquities of my youth.
27
You put my feet in g the stocks
and h watch all my paths;
you set a limit for the soles of my feet.
28
Man wastes away like i a rotten thing,
like a garment that is j moth-eaten.
Job 14
1
"Man who is k born of a woman
is l few of days and m full of trouble.
2
He comes out like n a flower and o withers;
he flees like p a shadow and continues not.
3
And do you q open your eyes on such a one
and r bring me into judgment with you?
4
Who can bring s a clean thing out of an unclean?
There is not one.
5
Since his t days are determined,
and u the number of his months is with you,
and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,
6
v look away from him and leave him alone,
that he may enjoy, like w a hired hand, his day.
7
"For there is hope for a tree,
if it be cut down, that it will sprout again,
and that its shoots will not cease.
8
Though its root grow old in the earth,
and x its stump die in the soil,
9
yet at the scent of water it will bud
and put out y branches like a young plant.
10
But a man dies and is laid low;
man breathes his last, and z where is he?
11
a As waters fail from a lake
and a river wastes away and dries up,
12
so a man lies down and rises not again;
till b the heavens are no more he will not awake
or be c roused out of his sleep.
13
Oh that you would d hide me in e Sheol,
that you would d conceal me f until your wrath be past,
that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
14
If a man dies, shall he live again?
All the days of my g service I would h wait,
till my renewal should come.
15
You would i call, and I would answer you;
you would long for the j work of your hands.
16
For then you would k number my steps;
you would not keep l watch over my sin;
17
my transgression would be m sealed up in a bag,
and you would cover over my iniquity.
18
"But the mountain falls and n crumbles away,
and o the rock is removed from its place;
19
the waters wear away the stones;
the torrents wash away the soil of the earth;
so you destroy the hope of man.
20
You prevail forever against him, and he passes;
you change his countenance, and send him away.
21
His sons come to honor, and he p does not know it;
they are brought low, and he perceives it not.
22
He feels only the pain of his own body,
and he mourns only for himself."
Job 15
1
Then q Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
2
"Should r a wise man answer with s windy knowledge,
and fill his t belly with u the east wind?
3
Should he argue in unprofitable talk,
or in words with which he can do no good?
4
But you are doing away with the fear of God
and hindering meditation before God.
5
For your iniquity teaches your mouth,
and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
6
Your v own mouth condemns you, and not I;
w your own lips testify against you.
7
x "Are you the first man who was born?
Or y were you brought forth z before the hills?
8
Have you listened in a the council of God?
And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
9
b What do you know that we do not know?
What do you understand that is not clear to us?
10
c Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us,
older than your father.
11
Are the comforts of God too small for you,
or the word that deals gently with you?
12
Why does your heart carry you away,
and why do your eyes flash,
13
that you turn your d spirit against God
and bring such words out of your mouth?
14
e What is man, f that he can be pure?
Or he who is g born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
15
Behold, God h puts no trust in his i holy ones,
and the heavens are not pure in his sight;
16
j how much less one who is abominable and k corrupt,
a man who l drinks injustice like water!
17
"I will show you; hear me,
and what I have seen I will declare
18
(what wise men have told,
without hiding it m from their fathers,
19
to whom alone the land was given,
and no n stranger passed among them).
20
The wicked man writhes in pain all his days,
through all the o years that are laid up for p the ruthless.
21
q Dreadful sounds are in his ears;
in r prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
22
He does not believe that he will return out of darkness,
and he is marked for the sword.
23
He s wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?'
He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;
24
distress and anguish terrify him;
they t prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.
25
Because he has stretched out his hand against God
and defies the Almighty,
26
u running v stubbornly against him
with a thickly bossed shield;
27
because he has w covered his face with his fat
and gathered fat upon his waist
28
and has lived in desolate cities,
in houses that none should inhabit,
which were ready to become heaps of ruins;
29
he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure,
nor will his possessions spread over the earth;
30
he will not depart from darkness;
the flame will dry up his shoots,
and by x the breath of his mouth he will depart.
31
Let him not y trust in emptiness, deceiving himself,
for emptiness will be his payment.
32
It will be paid in full z before his time,
and his branch will not be green.
33
He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine,
and cast off his blossom like the olive tree.
34
For a the company of the godless is barren,
and b fire consumes the tents of bribery.
35
They c conceive trouble and give birth to evil,
and their d womb prepares deceit."
Job 16
1
Then Job answered and said:
2
"I have heard e many such things;
f miserable comforters are you all.
3
Shall g windy words have an end?
Or what provokes you that you answer?
4
I also could speak as you do,
if you were in my place;
I could join words together against you
and h shake my head at you.
5
I could strengthen you with my mouth,
and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.
6
"If I speak, my pain is not assuaged,
and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
7
Surely now God has worn me out;
i he has made desolate all my company.
8
And he has shriveled me up,
which is j a witness against me,
and my k leanness has risen up against me;
it testifies to my face.
9
He has l torn me in his wrath m and hated me;
he has n gnashed his teeth at me;
my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
10
Men have o gaped at me with their mouth;
they have p struck me insolently on the cheek;
they q mass themselves together against me.
11
God gives me up to the ungodly
and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
12
I was at ease, and he broke me apart;
he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces;
he set me up as his r target;
13
his s archers surround me.
He slashes open my kidneys t and does not spare;
he u pours out my gall on the ground.
14
He breaks me with v breach upon breach;
he w runs upon me like a warrior.
15
I have sewed x sackcloth upon my skin
and have laid y my strength z in the dust.
16
My face is red with weeping,
and on my eyelids is a deep darkness,
17
although there is no b violence in my hands,
and my prayer is pure.
18
"O earth, c cover not my blood,
and let my d cry find no resting place.
19
Even now, behold, my e witness is in heaven,
and he who testifies for me is f on high.
20
My friends g scorn me;
my eye pours out tears to God,
21
that he would h argue the case of a man with God,
as a son of man does with his neighbor.
22
For when a few years have come
I shall go the way i from which I shall not return.
Job 17
1
"My spirit is broken; my days are j extinct;
k the graveyard is ready for me.
2
Surely there are mockers about me,
and my eye dwells on their l provocation.
3
"Lay down a pledge for me with yourself;
who is there who will put up m security for me?
4
Since you have closed their hearts to understanding,
therefore you will not let them triumph.
5
He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property -
the n eyes of his children will fail.
6
"He has made me o a byword of the peoples,
and I am one before whom men spit.
7
My p eye has grown dim from vexation,
and all my members are like q a shadow.
8
The upright are r appalled at this,
and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.
9
Yet the righteous holds to his way,
and he who has s clean hands grows stronger and stronger.
10
But you, t come on again, all of you,
and I shall not find a wise man among you.
11
My u days are past; my plans are broken off,
the desires of my heart.
12
They v make night into day:
'The light,' they say, 'is near to the darkness.'
13
If I hope for w Sheol as x my house,
if I make my bed in darkness,
14
if I say to the pit, 'You are my father,'
and to the worm, 'My mother,' or 'My sister,'
15
where then is my hope?
Who will see my hope?
16
Will it go down to the bars of w Sheol?
Shall we y descend together z into the dust?"
Job 18
1
Then a Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
2
"How long will you b hunt for words?
Consider, and then we will speak.
3
Why are we counted as c cattle?
Why are we stupid in your sight?
4
You who d tear yourself in your anger,
shall the earth be forsaken for you,
or e the rock be removed out of its place?
5
"Indeed, f the light of the wicked is put out,
and the flame of his fire does not shine.
6
The light is g dark in his tent,
and his lamp above him is put out.
7
His strong steps are shortened,
and his h own schemes throw him down.
8
For he is cast into a net by his own feet,
and he walks on its mesh.
9
i A trap seizes him by the heel;
a snare lays hold of him.
10
A rope is hidden for him in the ground,
a trap for him in the path.
11
j Terrors frighten him on every side,
and chase him at his heels.
12
His strength is famished,
and calamity is k ready for his stumbling.
13
It consumes the parts of his skin;
l the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.
14
He is torn from the tent in which he trusted
and is brought to m the king of terrors.
15
In his tent dwells that which is none of his;
n sulfur is scattered over his habitation.
16
His o roots dry up beneath,
and his branches p wither above.
17
His q memory perishes from the earth,
and he has no name in the street.
18
r He is thrust from light into darkness,
and driven out of the world.
19
He has no s posterity or progeny among his people,
and no survivor where he used to live.
20
They of the west are appalled at his t day,
and u horror seizes them of the east.
21
Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous,
such is the place of him who v knows not God."
Job 19
1
Then Job answered and said:
2
"How long will you torment me
and break me in pieces with words?
3
These w ten times you have cast reproach upon me;
are you not ashamed to wrong me?
4
And even if it be true that I have erred,
my error remains with myself.
5
If indeed you x magnify yourselves against me
and make my disgrace an argument against me,
6
know then that God has y put me in the wrong
and closed his net about me.
7
Behold, I z cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered;
I call for help, but there is no justice.
8
He has a walled up my way, so that I cannot pass,
and he has set darkness upon my paths.
9
He has b stripped from me my glory
and taken the c crown from my head.
10
He breaks me down on every side, and I d am gone,
and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.
11
He has kindled his wrath against me
and e counts me as his adversary.
12
His f troops come on together;
they have g cast up their siege ramp against me
and encamp around my tent.
13
"He has put my h brothers far from me,
and i those who knew me are wholly estranged from me.
14
My relatives j have failed me,
my close k friends have forgotten me.
15
The guests l in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger;
I have become a foreigner in their eyes.
16
I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer;
I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy.
17
My breath is strange to my m wife,
and I am a stench to the children of n my own mother.
18
Even young o children despise me;
when I rise they talk against me.
19
All my p intimate friends abhor me,
and those whom I loved have turned against me.
20
My q bones stick to my skin and to my flesh,
and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21
Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends,
for the hand of God has r touched me!
22
Why do you, like God, s pursue me?
Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
23
"Oh that my words were written!
Oh that they were t inscribed in a book!
24
Oh that with an iron u pen and lead
they were engraved in the rock forever!
25
For I v know that my w Redeemer lives,
and at the last he will stand upon the x earth.
26
And after my skin has been thus destroyed,
yet in my flesh I shall y see God,
27
whom I shall see for myself,
and my eyes shall behold, and not z another.
My heart a faints within me!
28
If you say, 'How we will s pursue him!'
and, 'The root of the matter is found in him,'
29
be afraid of the sword,
for wrath brings the punishment of the sword,
that you may know there is b a judgment."
Job 20
1
Then c Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:
2
"Therefore my d thoughts answer me,
because of my haste within me.
3
I hear censure that insults me,
and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.
4
Do you not know this from of old,
e since man was placed on earth,
5
f that the exulting of the wicked is short,
and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
6
g Though his height mount up to the heavens,
and his head reach to the clouds,
7
he will perish forever like his own h dung;
those who have seen him will say, i 'Where is he?'
8
He will fly away like j a dream and not be found;
he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
9
k The eye that saw him will see him no more,
nor will his place any more behold him.
10
His children will seek the favor of the poor,
and his hands will l give back his wealth.
11
His bones are full of his m youthful vigor,
but it will lie n down with him in the dust.
12
"Though evil is sweet in his mouth,
though he hides it o under his tongue,
13
though he is loath to let it go
and holds it in his mouth,
14
yet his food is turned in his stomach;
it is the venom of p cobras within him.
15
He swallows down riches and vomits them up again;
God casts them out of his belly.
16
He will suck the poison of cobras;
q the tongue of a viper will kill him.
17
He will not look upon r the rivers,
the streams flowing with s honey and t curds.
18
He will u give back the fruit of his toil
and will not v swallow it down;
from the profit of his trading
he will get no enjoyment.
19
For he has crushed and abandoned the poor;
he has seized a house that he did not build.
20
"Because he w knew no x contentment in his belly,
y he will not let anything in which he delights escape him.
21
There was nothing left after he had eaten;
therefore his prosperity will not endure.
22
In the fullness of his sufficiency he will be in distress;
the hand of everyone in misery will come against him.
23
To fill his belly to the full,
God will send his burning anger against him
and rain it upon him z into his body.
24
a He will flee from an iron weapon;
b a bronze arrow will strike c him through.
25
It d is drawn forth and comes out of his body;
e the glittering point comes out of his f gallbladder;
g terrors come upon him.
26
Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures;
h a fire not fanned will devour him;
what is left in his tent will be consumed.
27
i The heavens will reveal his iniquity,
and the earth will rise up against him.
28
The possessions of his house will be carried away,
dragged off in the day of God's wrath.
29
j This is the wicked man's portion from God,
j the heritage decreed for him by God."
Job 21
1
Then Job answered and said:
2
k "Keep listening to my words,
and let this be your comfort.
3
Bear with me, and I will speak,
and after I have spoken, l mock on.
4
As for me, is my m complaint against man?
Why should I not be impatient?
5
Look at me and be appalled,
and n lay your hand over your mouth.
6
When I remember, I am dismayed,
and shuddering seizes my flesh.
7
o Why do the wicked live,
reach old age, and grow mighty in power?
8
Their p offspring are established in their presence,
and their descendants before their eyes.
9
Their houses are q safe from fear,
and r no rod of God is upon them.
10
Their bull breeds without fail;
their cow calves and s does not miscarry.
11
They send out their t little boys like a flock,
and their children dance.
12
They sing to u the tambourine and v the lyre
and rejoice to the sound of v the pipe.
13
They w spend their days in prosperity,
and in x peace they go down to y Sheol.
14
They say to God, z 'Depart from us!
We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.
15
a What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
And what b profit do we get if we pray to him?'
16
Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand?
c The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
17
"How often is it that d the lamp of the wicked is put out?
That their calamity comes upon them?
That God distributes pains in his anger?
18
That they are like e straw before the wind,
and like f chaff that the storm carries away?
19
You say, 'God g stores up their iniquity for their h children.'
Let him pay it out to them, that they may i know it.
20
Let their own eyes see their destruction,
and let them j drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21
For what do they care for their houses after them,
when k the number of their months is cut off?
22
l Will any teach God knowledge,
seeing that he m judges those who are on high?
23
One dies in his full vigor,
being wholly at ease and secure,
24
his pails full of milk
and n the marrow of his bones moist.
25
Another dies in o bitterness of soul,
never having tasted of prosperity.
26
They p lie down alike in the dust,
and q the worms cover them.
27
"Behold, I know your thoughts
and your schemes to wrong me.
28
For you say, r 'Where is the house of the prince?
Where is s the tent in which the wicked lived?'
29
Have you not asked those who travel the roads,
and do you not accept their testimony
30
that t the evil man is spared in the day of calamity,
that he is rescued in the day of wrath?
31
Who declares his way u to his face,
and who v repays him for what he has done?
32
When he is w carried to the grave,
watch is kept over his tomb.
33
x The clods of the valley are sweet to him;
y all mankind follows after him,
and those who go before him are innumerable.
34
How then will you comfort me with empty nothings?
There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood."
Job 22
1
Then z Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
2
a "Can a man be profitable to God?
Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
3
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right,
or is it gain to him if you b make your ways blameless?
4
Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you
and c enters into judgment with you?
5
Is not your evil abundant?
There is no end to your iniquities.
6
For you have d exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing
e and stripped the naked of their clothing.
7
You have given no water to the weary to drink,
and you have f withheld bread from the hungry.
8
g The man with power possessed the land,
and h the favored man lived in it.
9
You have i sent widows away empty,
and j the arms of k the fatherless were crushed.
10
Therefore l snares are all around you,
and sudden terror overwhelms you,
11
or m darkness, so that you cannot see,
and a n flood of o water covers you.
12
"Is not God high in the heavens?
See p the highest stars, how lofty they are!
13
But you say, q 'What does God know?
Can he judge through r the deep darkness?
14
s Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see,
and he walks on the vault of heaven.'
15
Will you keep to the old way
that wicked men have trod?
16
They were snatched away t before their time;
their foundation was washed away.
17
They said to God, u 'Depart from us,'
and v 'What can the Almighty do to us?'
18
Yet he filled their houses with good things -
but w the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
19
x The righteous see it and are glad;
the innocent one y mocks at them,
20
saying, 'Surely our adversaries are cut off,
and what they left z the fire has consumed.'
21
a "Agree with God, and b be at peace;
thereby good will come to you.
22
Receive instruction from c his mouth,
and d lay up his words in your heart.
23
If you e return to the Almighty you will be f built up;
if you g remove injustice far from your tents,
24
if you lay gold in h the dust,
and gold of i Ophir among the stones of the torrent-bed,
25
then the Almighty will be your gold
and your precious silver.
26
For then you j will delight yourself in the Almighty
and k lift up your face to God.
27
You will l make your prayer to him, and he will hear you,
and you will m pay your vows.
28
You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you,
and n light will shine on your ways.
29
For when they are humbled you say, 'It is because of pride';
but he saves o the lowly.
30
He p delivers even the one who is not innocent,
who will be delivered through q the cleanness of your hands."
Job 23
1
Then Job answered and said:
2
"Today also my r complaint is bitter;
my s hand is heavy on account of my groaning.
3
Oh, t that I knew where I might find him,
that I might come even to his u seat!
4
I would v lay my case before him
and fill my mouth with arguments.
5
I would know what he would answer me
and understand what he would say to me.
6
Would he w contend with me in the greatness of his power?
No; he would pay attention to me.
7
There an upright man could argue with him,
and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.
8
"Behold, x I go forward, but he is not there,
and backward, but I do not perceive him;
9
on the left hand when he is working, I do not behold him;
he turns to the right hand, but I do not see him.
10
But he y knows z the way that I a take;
when he has b tried me, I shall come out as gold.
11
My foot c has held fast to his steps;
I have kept his way and have d not turned aside.
12
I have not departed from the commandment of his lips;
I have e treasured the words of his mouth more than my f portion of food.
13
But he is unchangeable, and g who can turn him back?
What he h desires, that he does.
14
For he will complete what he i appoints for me,
and many such things are j in his mind.
15
Therefore I am terrified at his presence;
when I consider, I am in dread of him.
16
God has made my k heart faint;
the Almighty has terrified me;
17
yet I am not silenced because of the darkness,
nor because thick darkness covers my face.
Job 24
1
"Why are l not times of judgment m kept by the Almighty,
and why do those who know him never see his n days?
2
Some move o landmarks;
they seize flocks and pasture them.
3
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;
they p take the widow's ox for a pledge.
4
They q thrust the poor off the road;
the poor of the earth r all hide themselves.
5
Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert
the poor s go out to their toil, t seeking game;
the wasteland yields food for their children.
6
They gather their fodder in the field,
and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.
7
They u lie all night naked, without clothing,
and have no covering in the cold.
8
They are wet with the rain of the mountains
and v cling to the rock for lack of shelter.
9
(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast,
and they take a pledge against the poor.)
10
They go about naked, without clothing;
hungry, they w carry the sheaves;
11
among the olive rows of the wicked they make oil;
they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst.
12
From out of the city the dying groan,
and the soul of x the wounded cries for help;
yet God charges no one with y wrong.
13
"There are those who rebel z against the light,
who are not acquainted with its ways,
and do not stay in its paths.
14
The murderer rises before it is light,
that he a may kill the poor and needy,
and in the night he is like a thief.
15
The eye of the adulterer also waits for b the twilight,
saying, 'No c eye will see me';
and he veils his face.
16
In the dark they d dig through houses;
by day they shut themselves up;
they do not know the light.
17
For e deep darkness is morning to all of them;
for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.
18
"You say, f 'Swift are they on the face of the waters;
their portion is cursed in the land;
no treader turns toward their vineyards.
19
Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters;
so does g Sheol those who have sinned.
20
The womb forgets them;
the worm finds them sweet;
they are h no longer remembered,
so wickedness is broken like i a tree.'
21
"They wrong the barren, childless woman,
and do no good to the widow.
22
Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power;
they rise up when they despair of life.
23
He gives them security, and they are supported,
and his j eyes are upon their ways.
24
They are exalted k a little while, and then l are gone;
they are brought low and gathered up like all others;
they are m cut off like the heads of grain.
25
If it is n not so, who will prove me a liar
and show that there is nothing in what I say?"
Job 25
1
Then o Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
2
"Dominion and fear are with God;
he makes peace in his high heaven.
3
Is there any number to his p armies?
Upon whom does his q light not arise?
4
How then can man be r in the right before God?
How can he who is s born of woman be t pure?
5
Behold, even the moon is not bright,
and the stars are not pure in his eyes;
6
u how much less man, who is v a maggot,
and w the son of man, who is a worm!"
Job 26
1
Then Job answered and said:
2
"How you have x helped him who has no power!
How you have saved y the arm that has no strength!
3
How you have z counseled him who has no wisdom,
and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
4
With whose help have you uttered words,
and whose breath a has come out from you?
5
The b dead tremble
under the waters and their inhabitants.
6
Sheol is c naked before God,
and d Abaddon has no covering.
7
He e stretches out the north over f the void
and hangs the earth on nothing.
8
He g binds up the waters in his thick clouds,
and the cloud is not split open under them.
9
He covers the face of the full moon
and h spreads over it his cloud.
10
He has inscribed i a circle on the face of the waters
at the boundary between light and darkness.
11
j The pillars of heaven tremble
and are astounded at his k rebuke.
12
By his power he l stilled the sea;
by his understanding he shattered m Rahab.
13
n By his wind the heavens were made fair;
his hand pierced o the fleeing serpent.
14
Behold, these are but the outskirts of his p ways,
and how small q a whisper do we hear of him!
But the thunder of his power who can understand?"
Job 27
1
And Job again r took up his discourse, and said:
2
"As God lives, who has s taken away my right,
and the Almighty, who has t made my soul bitter,
3
as long as my breath is in me,
and u the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
4
my lips will not speak v falsehood,
and my tongue will not utter v deceit.
5
Far be it from me to say that you are right;
till I die I will not put away my w integrity from me.
6
I x hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go;
my heart does not y reproach me for any of my days.
7
"Let my enemy be as the wicked,
and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
8
z For what is the hope of the godless a when God cuts him off,
when God takes away his life?
9
b Will God hear his cry
when distress comes upon him?
10
Will he c take delight in the Almighty?
Will he call upon God at all times?
11
I will teach you concerning the hand of God;
d what is with the Almighty I will not conceal.
12
Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves;
why then have you become altogether vain?
13
e "This is the portion of a wicked man with God,
and the heritage that f oppressors receive from the Almighty:
14
If his g children are multiplied, it is for h the sword,
and his descendants have not enough bread.
15
Those who survive him the pestilence buries,
and his i widows do not weep.
16
Though he j heap up silver like dust,
and pile up clothing like clay,
17
he may pile it up, but the righteous will wear it,
and k the innocent will divide the silver.
18
He builds his l house like a moth's,
like m a booth that n a watchman makes.
19
He goes to bed rich, but will o do so no more;
he opens his eyes, and p his wealth is gone.
20
q Terrors overtake him like r a flood;
in the night a whirlwind s carries him off.
21
t The east wind lifts him up and he is gone;
it u sweeps him out of his place.
22
It hurls at him v without pity;
he flees from its power in headlong flight.
23
It w claps its hands at him
and x hisses at him from its place.
Job 28
1
"Surely there is a mine for silver,
and a place for gold that they y refine.
2
Iron is taken out of the earth,
and copper is smelted from the ore.
3
Man puts an end to darkness
and searches out to the farthest limit
the ore in z gloom and a deep darkness.
4
He opens shafts in a valley away from where anyone lives;
they are forgotten by travelers;
they hang in the air, far away from mankind; they swing to and fro.
5
As for the earth, b out of it comes bread,
but underneath it is turned up as by fire.
6
Its stones are the place of c sapphires,
and it has dust of gold.
7
"That path no bird of prey knows,
and the falcon's eye has not seen it.
8
d The proud beasts have not trodden it;
e the lion has not passed over it.
9
"Man puts his hand to f the flinty rock
and overturns mountains by the roots.
10
He cuts out channels in the rocks,
and his eye sees every precious thing.
11
He dams up the streams so that they do not trickle,
and the thing that is hidden he brings out to light.
12
g "But where shall wisdom be found?
And where is the place of understanding?
13
Man does not know its worth,
and it is not found in h the land of the living.
14
i The deep says, 'It is not in me,'
and the sea says, 'It is not with me.'
15
It j cannot be bought for gold,
and silver cannot be weighed as its price.
16
It cannot be valued in k the gold of l Ophir,
in precious m onyx or n sapphire.
17
Gold and glass cannot equal it,
nor can it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
18
No mention shall be made of o coral or of crystal;
the price of wisdom is above o p pearls.
19
q The topaz of Ethiopia cannot equal it,
nor can it be valued in pure gold.
20
"From where, then, does wisdom come?
And where is the place of understanding?
21
It is hidden from the eyes of r all living
and concealed from the birds of the air.
22
s Abaddon and Death say,
'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.'
23
t "God understands the way to it,
and he knows its place.
24
For he u looks to the ends of the earth
and sees everything under the heavens.
25
When he v gave to the wind its weight
and apportioned the waters by measure,
26
when he made a decree for the rain
and w a way for the lightning of the thunder,
27
then he saw it and declared it;
he established it, and searched it out.
28
And he said to man,
'Behold, x the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom,
and to y turn away from evil is understanding.'"
Job 29
1
And Job again z took up his discourse, and said:
2
"Oh, that I were as in the months of old,
as in the days when God watched over me,
3
when his a lamp shone upon my head,
and by his light I walked through darkness,
4
as I was in my prime,
when the b friendship of God was upon my tent,
5
when the Almighty was yet with me,
when my c children were all around me,
6
when my steps were d washed with e butter,
and f the rock poured out for me streams of g oil!
7
When I went out to h the gate of the city,
when I prepared my seat in the square,
8
the young men saw me and withdrew,
and the aged rose and stood;
9
the princes refrained from talking
and i laid their hand on their mouth;
10
the voice of the nobles was hushed,
and their j tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
11
When the ear heard, it called me blessed,
and when the eye saw, it approved,
12
because I k delivered the poor who cried for help,
and the fatherless who had none to help him.
13
l The blessing of him who was m about to perish came upon me,
and I caused n the widow's heart to sing for joy.
14
I o put on righteousness, and it clothed me;
my justice was like a robe and p a turban.
15
I was q eyes to the blind
and feet to the lame.
16
I was a father to the needy,
and I searched out r the cause of him whom I did not know.
17
I s broke t the fangs of the unrighteous
and made him drop his prey from his teeth.
18
u Then I thought, 'I shall die in my v nest,
and I shall multiply my days as w the sand,
19
my x roots spread out to y the waters,
with the dew all night on my z branches,
20
my glory fresh with me,
and my a bow ever b new in my hand.'
21
"Men listened to me and waited
and kept silence for my counsel.
22
After I spoke they did not speak again,
and my word c dropped upon them.
23
They waited for me as for the rain,
and they d opened their mouths as for the e spring rain.
24
I smiled on them when they had no confidence,
and f the light of my g face they did not cast down.
25
I chose their way and sat as chief,
and I lived like h a king among his troops,
like one who comforts mourners.
Job 30
1
"But now they i laugh at me,
men who are j younger than I,
whose fathers I would have disdained
to set with the dogs of my flock.
2
What could I gain from the strength of their hands,
k men whose l vigor is gone?
3
Through want and hard hunger
they m gnaw n the dry ground by night in o waste and desolation;
4
they pick saltwort and the leaves of bushes,
and the roots of the broom tree for their food.
5
p They are driven out from human company;
they shout after them as after a thief.
6
In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell,
in holes of the earth and of q the rocks.
7
Among the bushes they r bray;
under s the nettles they huddle together.
8
A senseless, a nameless brood,
they have been whipped out of the land.
9
"And now I have become their t song;
I am u a byword to them.
10
They v abhor me; they keep aloof from me;
they do not hesitate to w spit at the sight of me.
11
Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me,
they have cast off restraint in my presence.
12
On my x right hand the rabble rise;
they push away my feet;
they y cast up against me their ways of destruction.
13
They break up my path;
they promote my z calamity;
they need no one to help them.
14
As through a wide a breach they come;
amid the crash they roll on.
15
b Terrors are turned upon me;
my honor is pursued as by the wind,
and my prosperity has passed away like c a cloud.
16
"And now my soul is d poured out within me;
days of affliction have taken hold of me.
17
e The night f racks my bones,
and the pain that g gnaws me takes no rest.
18
With great force my garment is h disfigured;
it binds me about like the collar of my tunic.
19
God has cast me into the mire,
and I have become like i dust and ashes.
20
I cry to you for help and you do not answer me;
I stand, and you only look at me.
21
You have j turned cruel to me;
with the might of your hand you k persecute me.
22
l You lift me up on the wind; you make me ride on it,
and you toss me about in the roar of the storm.
23
m For I know that you will bring me to death
and to the house appointed for n all living.
24
"Yet does not one in a o heap of ruins stretch out his hand,
and in his disaster cry for help?
25
Did not I p weep for him whose day was hard?
Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
26
But q when I hoped for good, evil came,
and when I waited for light, r darkness came.
27
My inward parts are in turmoil and never still;
days of affliction s come to meet me.
28
I t go about darkened, but not by the sun;
I stand up in u the assembly and cry for help.
29
I am a brother of v jackals
and a companion of w ostriches.
30
My x skin turns black and falls from me,
and my y bones burn with heat.
31
My z lyre is a turned to mourning,
and my z pipe to the voice of those who weep.
Job 31
1
"I have made a covenant with my b eyes;
how then could I gaze at a virgin?
2
What would be c my portion from God above
and c my heritage from the Almighty on high?
3
Is not calamity for the unrighteous,
and disaster for the workers of iniquity?
4
d Does not he see my ways
and e number all my steps?
5
"If I have walked with falsehood
and my foot has hastened to deceit;
6
(Let me be f weighed in a just balance,
and let God know my integrity!)
7
if my step has turned aside from the way
and g my heart has gone after my eyes,
and if any h spot has stuck to my hands,
8
then let me i sow, and another eat,
and let what grows for me be rooted out.
9
"If my heart has been enticed toward a woman,
and I have j lain in wait at my neighbor's door,
10
then let my wife k grind for another,
and let others l bow down on her.
11
For that would be a heinous crime;
that would be an iniquity m to be punished by the judges;
12
for that would be a fire n that consumes as far as Abaddon,
and it would burn to the root all my increase.
13
"If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant,
when they brought a complaint against me,
14
what then shall I do when God rises up?
When he o makes inquiry, what shall I answer him?
15
Did p not he who made me in the womb make him?
And did not one fashion us in the womb?
16
"If I have q withheld anything that the poor desired,
or have r caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
17
or have eaten my morsel alone,
and the fatherless has not eaten of it
18
(for from my youth the fatherless grew up with me as with a father,
and from my mother's womb I guided the widow ),
19
if I have seen anyone s perish for t lack of clothing,
or the needy without t covering,
20
if his body has not u blessed me,
and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep,
21
if I have raised my hand against v the fatherless,
because I saw my help in w the gate,
22
then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder,
and let my arm be broken from its socket.
23
For I was x in terror of calamity from God,
and I could not have faced his x majesty.
24
y "If I have made gold my z trust
or called a fine gold my confidence,
25
if I have b rejoiced because my wealth was abundant
or because c my hand had found much,
26
d if I have looked at the sun when it shone,
or e the moon moving in splendor,
27
and my heart has been secretly enticed,
and my mouth has kissed my hand,
28
this also would be f an iniquity to be punished by the judges,
for I would have been false to God above.
29
"If I have g rejoiced at the ruin of him who hated me,
or exulted when evil overtook him
30
( h I have not let my mouth sin
by asking for his life with a curse),
31
if the men of my tent have not said,
'Who is there that has not been filled with his i meat?'
32
( j the sojourner has not lodged in the street;
I have opened my doors to the traveler),
33
if I k have concealed my transgressions l as others do
by hiding my iniquity in my bosom,
34
because I stood in great fear of m the multitude,
and the contempt of families terrified me,
so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors -
35
Oh, that I had one to hear me!
(Here is my signature! Let the Almighty n answer me!)
Oh, that I had o the indictment written by my adversary!
36
Surely I would carry it on my p shoulder;
I would q bind it on me as r a crown;
37
I would give him an account of all my steps;
like a prince I would approach him.
38
"If my land has cried out against me
and its furrows have wept together,
39
s if I have eaten its yield without payment
and made its owners t breathe their last,
40
let u thorns grow instead of wheat,
and foul weeds instead of barley."
The words of Job are ended.
Job 32
1
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was v righteous in his own eyes.
2
Then Elihu the son of Barachel w the Buzite, of the family of Ram, burned with anger. He burned with anger at Job because he justified himself x rather than God.
3
He burned with anger also at Job's three friends because they had found no answer, although they had y declared Job to be in the wrong.
4
Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he.
5
And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, he burned with anger.
6
And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said:
"I am young in years,
and you are z aged;
therefore I was timid and afraid
to declare my opinion to you.
7
I said, 'Let days speak,
and many years teach wisdom.'
8
But it is a the spirit in man,
b the breath of the Almighty, that makes him c understand.
9
d It is not the old who are wise,
nor the aged who understand what is right.
10
Therefore I say, 'Listen to me;
let me also declare my opinion.'
11
"Behold, I waited for your words,
I listened for your wise sayings,
while you searched out what to say.
12
I gave you my attention,
and, behold, there was none among you who refuted Job
or who answered his words.
13
Beware e lest you say, 'We have found wisdom;
God may vanquish him, not a man.'
14
He has not directed his words against me,
and I will not answer him with your speeches.
15
"They are dismayed; they answer no more;
they have not a word to say.
16
And shall I wait, because they do not speak,
because they stand there, and answer no more?
17
I also will answer with my share;
I also will declare my opinion.
18
For I am full of words;
the spirit within me constrains me.
19
Behold, my belly is like wine that has no vent;
like new f wineskins ready to burst.
20
g I must speak, that I may find h relief;
I must open my lips and answer.
21
I will not i show partiality to any man
or use flattery toward any person.
22
For I do not know how to flatter,
else my Maker would soon take me away.
Job 33
1
"But now, hear my speech, O Job,
and listen to all my words.
2
Behold, I j open my mouth;
the tongue in my mouth speaks.
3
My words declare the uprightness of my heart,
and what my lips know they speak sincerely.
4
k The Spirit of God has made me,
and l the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
5
m Answer me, if you can;
n set your words in order before me; take your stand.
6
Behold, I am toward God as you are;
I too was pinched off from a piece of o clay.
7
Behold, no p fear of me need terrify you;
my q pressure will not be heavy upon you.
8
"Surely you have spoken in my ears,
and I have heard the sound of your words.
9
You say, 'I am r pure, without s transgression;
I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me.
10
Behold, he finds occasions against me,
he t counts me as his enemy,
11
he u puts my feet in the stocks
and v watches all my paths.'
12
"Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you,
for God is greater than man.
13
Why do you w contend against him,
saying, 'He x will answer none of man's words'?
14
For God y speaks in one way,
z and in two, though man a does not perceive it.
15
In b a dream, in c a vision of d the night,
when c deep sleep falls on men,
while they slumber on their beds,
16
then he e opens the ears of men
and terrifies them with warnings,
17
that he may turn man aside from his f deed
and conceal pride from a man;
18
he keeps back his soul from the pit,
his life from g perishing by the sword.
19
"Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed
and with continual strife in his h bones,
20
so that his i life loathes bread,
and his appetite j the choicest food.
21
His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen,
and his bones that were not seen k stick out.
22
His soul draws near l the pit,
and his life to m those who bring death.
23
If there be for him n an angel,
o a mediator, p one of the thousand,
to declare to man what is q right for him,
24
and he is merciful to him, and says,
'Deliver him from going down into the pit;
I have found r a ransom;
25
let his flesh s become fresh with youth;
let him return to the days of his youthful vigor';
26
then man t prays to God, and he accepts him;
he u sees his face with a shout of joy,
and he v restores to man his righteousness.
27
He sings before men and says:
'I w sinned and perverted what was right,
and it was not repaid to me.
28
He has redeemed my x soul from going down y into the pit,
and my life shall z look upon the light.'
29
"Behold, God does all these things,
twice, a three times, with a man,
30
to bring back his soul from the pit,
that he may be lighted with b the light of life.
31
Pay attention, O Job, listen to me;
be silent, and I will speak.
32
If you have any words, c answer me;
d speak, for I desire to justify you.
33
If not, e listen to me;
be silent, and I will teach you wisdom."
Job 34
1
Then Elihu answered and said:
2
"Hear my words, you wise men,
and give ear to me, you who know;
3
for g the ear tests words
as the palate tastes food.
4
Let us choose h what is right;
let us know among ourselves what is good.
5
For Job has said, 'I am i in the right,
and j God has taken away my right;
6
in spite of my right I am counted a liar;
my wound is incurable, though I am k without transgression.'
7
What man is like Job,
who l drinks up scoffing like water,
8
who travels in company with evildoers
and walks m with wicked men?
9
For n he has said, 'It profits a man nothing
that he should take delight in God.'
10
"Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding:
far be it from God that he should o do wickedness,
and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.
11
For according to p the work of a man he will repay him,
and q according to his ways he will make it befall him.
12
Of a truth, God will not do wickedly,
and r the Almighty will not pervert justice.
13
Who gave him charge over the earth,
and who s laid on him the whole world?
14
If he should t set his heart to it
and u gather to himself his v spirit and his breath,
15
all flesh would perish together,
and man would w return to dust.
16
"If you have understanding, hear this;
listen to what I say.
17
x Shall one who hates justice govern?
Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty,
18
who y says to a king, 'Worthless one,'
and to nobles, 'Wicked man,'
19
who z shows no partiality to princes,
nor regards the rich a more than the poor,
for b they are all the work of his hands?
20
In a moment c they die;
at d midnight the people are shaken and pass away,
and the mighty are taken away by e no human hand.
21
"For his eyes are on f the ways of a man,
and he sees all his f steps.
22
There is no g gloom or h deep darkness
where evildoers may hide themselves.
23
For God has no need to consider a man further,
that he should go before God in i judgment.
24
He j shatters the mighty without investigation
and sets l others in their place.
25
Thus, knowing their works,
he m overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.
26
He strikes them for their wickedness
in a place for all to see,
27
because they turned aside from n following him
and had no regard for any of his ways,
28
so that they o caused the cry of the poor to come to him,
and he p heard the cry of the afflicted -
29
When he is quiet, who can condemn?
When he hides his face, who can behold him,
whether it be a nation or a man? -
30
that a godless man should not reign,
that he should not ensnare the people.
31
"For has anyone said to God,
'I have borne punishment; I will not offend any more;
32
r teach me what I do not see;
if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?
33
Will he then make repayment to suit you,
because you reject it?
For you must choose, and not I;
therefore s declare what you know.
34
Men of understanding will say to me,
and the wise man who hears me will say:
35
'Job t speaks without knowledge;
his words are without insight.'
36
Would that Job were tried to the end,
because he answers like wicked men.
37
For he adds rebellion to his sin;
he u claps his hands among us
and multiplies his words against God."
Job 35
1
And Elihu answered and said:
2
"Do you think this to be just?
Do you say, v 'It is my right before God,'
3
that you ask, w 'What advantage have I?
How am I better off than if I had sinned?'
4
I will answer you
and x your friends with you.
5
y Look at the heavens, and see;
and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.
6
If you have sinned, z what do you accomplish against him?
And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
7
a If you are righteous, what do you give to him?
Or what does he receive from your hand?
8
Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself,
and your righteousness b a son of man.
9
"Because of the multitude of c oppressions people d cry out;
they call for help because of the arm of e the mighty.
10
But none says, 'Where is God my f Maker,
who gives g songs in the night,
11
who teaches us h more than the beasts of the earth
and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?'
12
There they i cry out, but he does not answer,
because of the pride of evil men.
13
Surely God does not hear an empty cry,
nor does the Almighty regard it.
14
How much less when you say that you j do not see him,
that the case is before him, and you are k waiting for him!
15
And now, because l his anger does not punish,
and he does not take much note of transgression,
16
Job opens his mouth in empty talk;
he m multiplies words n without knowledge."
Job 36
1
And Elihu continued, and said:
2
"Bear with me a little, and I will show you,
for I have yet something to say on God's behalf.
3
I will get my knowledge from o afar
and ascribe p righteousness to my q Maker.
4
For truly my words are not false;
one who is r perfect in knowledge is with you.
5
"Behold, God is mighty, and s does not despise any;
he is t mighty in strength of understanding.
6
He does not keep the wicked alive,
but gives u the afflicted their right.
7
He does not withdraw his v eyes from the righteous,
but with w kings on the throne
he sets them forever, and they are x exalted.
8
And if they are y bound in chains
and caught in the cords of affliction,
9
then he declares to them their work
and their transgressions, that they are z behaving arrogantly.
10
He a opens their ears to instruction
and commands that they b return from iniquity.
11
c If they listen and serve him,
they d complete their days in prosperity,
and their years in pleasantness.
12
But if they do not listen, they e perish by the sword
and die f without knowledge.
13
"The g godless in heart cherish anger;
they do not cry for help when he h binds them.
14
They i die in youth,
and their life ends among the cult prostitutes.
15
He delivers j the afflicted by their affliction
and k opens their ear by adversity.
16
He also allured you out of distress
into l a broad place where there was no cramping,
and what was set on your m table was full of n fatness.
17
"But you are full of the judgment on the wicked;
judgment and justice seize you.
18
Beware lest wrath entice you into scoffing,
and let not the greatness of o the ransom turn you aside.
19
Will your p cry for help avail to keep you from distress,
or all the force of your strength?
20
Do not long for q the night,
when peoples vanish r in their place.
21
Take care; s do not turn to iniquity,
for this you have chosen rather than affliction.
22
Behold, God is exalted in his power;
who is t a teacher like him?
23
Who has u prescribed for him his way,
or who can say, v 'You have done wrong'?
24
"Remember to w extol his work,
of which men have x sung.
25
All mankind has looked on it;
man beholds it from afar.
26
Behold, God is great, and we y know him not;
the number of his z years is unsearchable.
27
For he draws up the drops of water;
they distill his a mist in b rain,
28
which c the skies pour down
and drop on mankind abundantly.
29
Can anyone understand d the spreading of the clouds,
the thunderings of his e pavilion?
30
Behold, he scatters his lightning about him
and covers the roots of the sea.
31
For by these he f judges peoples;
he gives g food in abundance.
32
He covers his h hands with the lightning
and commands it to strike the mark.
33
Its crashing declares his presence;
the cattle also declare that he rises.
Job 37
1
"At this also my heart trembles
and leaps out of its place.
2
Keep listening to the thunder of his voice
and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
3
Under the whole heaven he lets it go,
and his i lightning to the j corners of the earth.
4
After it k his voice roars;
l he thunders with his majestic voice,
and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard.
5
God thunders wondrously with his voice;
he does m great things that we cannot n comprehend.
6
For to o the snow he says, 'Fall on the earth,'
likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour.
7
He p seals up the hand of every man,
that all men whom he made may q know it.
8
Then the beasts go into their r lairs,
and remain in their s dens.
9
From t its chamber u comes the whirlwind,
and v cold from the scattering winds.
10
By the breath of God w ice is given,
and x the broad waters are frozen fast.
11
He loads the thick cloud with moisture;
the clouds scatter his lightning.
12
They y turn around and around by his z guidance,
z to accomplish all that he commands them
on the face of a the habitable world.
13
Whether for b correction or for his c land
or for d love, he causes it to happen.
14
"Hear this, O Job;
stop and e consider the wondrous works of God.
15
Do you know how God lays his command upon them
and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
16
Do you know the balancings of the clouds,
the wondrous works of him who is f perfect in knowledge,
17
you whose garments are hot
when the earth is still because of the south wind?
18
Can you, like him, g spread out the skies,
hard as a cast metal h mirror?
19
Teach us what we shall say to him;
we cannot draw up our case because of i darkness.
20
Shall it be told him that I would speak?
Did a man ever wish that he would be swallowed up?
21
"And now no one looks on the light
when it is bright in the skies,
when the wind has passed and cleared them.
22
Out of the north comes golden splendor;
God is clothed with j awesome majesty.
23
The Almighty - we k cannot find him;
he is l great in power;
m justice and abundant righteousness he will not n violate.
24
Therefore men o fear him;
he does not regard any who are p wise in their own conceit."
Job 38
1
Then the Lord q answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
2
"Who is this that r darkens counsel by words s without knowledge?
3
t Dress for action like a man;
I will question you, and you make it known to me.
4
"Where were you when I u laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell me, if you have understanding.
5
Who determined its measurements - surely you know!
Or who stretched the line upon it?
6
On what were its bases sunk,
or who laid its cornerstone,
7
when the morning stars v sang together
and all w the sons of God x shouted for joy?
8
"Or who y shut in the sea with doors
when it burst out from the womb,
9
when I made clouds its garment
and z thick darkness its swaddling band,
10
and prescribed a limits for it
and set bars and doors,
11
and said, 'Thus far shall you come, and no farther,
and here shall your b proud waves be stayed'?
12
"Have you c commanded the morning since your days began,
and caused the dawn to know its place,
13
that it might take hold of d the skirts of the earth,
and the wicked be e shaken out of it?
14
It is changed like clay under the seal,
and its features stand out like a garment.
15
From the wicked their f light is withheld,
and g their uplifted arm is broken.
16
"Have you h entered into the springs of the sea,
or walked in the recesses of the deep?
17
Have i the gates of death been revealed to you,
or have you seen the gates of j deep darkness?
18
Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth?
Declare, if you know all this.
19
"Where is the way to the dwelling of light,
and where is the place of darkness,
20
that you may take it to its territory
and that you may discern k the paths to its home?
21
You know, for l you were born then,
and the number of your days is great!
22
"Have you entered m the storehouses of the snow,
or have you seen m the storehouses of the hail,
23
which I have reserved n for the time of trouble,
n for the day of battle and war?
24
What is the way to the place where the light is distributed,
or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?
25
"Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain
and o a way for the thunderbolt,
26
to bring rain on p a land where no man is,
on q the desert in which there is no man,
27
to satisfy the waste and desolate land,
and to make the ground sprout with r grass?
28
"Has s the rain a father,
or who has begotten the drops of dew?
29
From whose womb did t the ice come forth,
and who has given birth to t the frost of heaven?
30
The waters become hard like stone,
and the face of the deep is u frozen.
31
"Can you bind the chains of v the Pleiades
or loose the cords of v Orion?
32
Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season,
or can you guide v the Bear with its children?
33
Do you know w the ordinances of the heavens?
Can you establish their rule on the earth?
34
"Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
that x a flood of waters may cover you?
35
Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go
and say to you, 'Here we are'?
36
Who has y put wisdom in z the inward parts
or given understanding to the mind?
37
Who can number the clouds by wisdom?
Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens,
38
when the dust runs into a mass
and a the clods stick fast together?
39
"Can you hunt the prey for the lion,
or b satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
40
when they crouch in their c dens
or lie in wait d in their thicket?
41
Who provides for e the raven its prey,
when its young ones cry to God for help,
and wander about for lack of food?
Job 39
1
"Do you know when f the mountain goats give birth?
Do you observe g the calving of the does?
2
Can you number the months that they fulfill,
and do you know the time when they give birth,
3
when they h crouch, bring forth their offspring,
and are delivered of their young?
4
Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open;
they go out and i do not return to them.
5
"Who has let the wild donkey go free?
Who has j loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,
6
to whom I have given k the arid plain for his home
and l the salt land for his dwelling place?
7
He scorns the tumult of the city;
he hears not the shouts of the driver.
8
He ranges the mountains as his pasture,
and he searches after every green thing.
9
"Is m the wild ox willing to serve you?
Will he spend the night at your n manger?
10
Can you bind m him in the furrow with ropes,
or will he harrow the valleys after you?
11
Will you depend on him because his strength is great,
and will you leave to him your labor?
12
Do you have faith in him that he will return your grain
and gather it to your threshing floor?
13
"The wings of the ostrich wave proudly,
but are they the pinions and plumage of love?
14
For she leaves her eggs to the earth
and lets them be warmed on the ground,
15
forgetting that a foot may crush them
and that the wild beast may trample them.
16
She o deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers;
though her p labor be in vain, yet she has no fear,
17
because God has made her forget wisdom
and q given her no share in understanding.
18
When she rouses herself to flee,
she laughs at the horse and his rider.
19
"Do you give the horse his might?
Do you clothe his neck with a mane?
20
Do you make him leap like the locust?
His majestic r snorting is terrifying.
21
He paws in the valley and exults in his strength;
he s goes out to meet the weapons.
22
He laughs at fear and is not dismayed;
he does not turn back from the sword.
23
Upon him rattle the quiver,
the flashing spear, and the javelin.
24
With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground;
he cannot stand still at t the sound of the trumpet.
25
When the trumpet sounds, he says 'Aha!'
He smells the battle from afar,
the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
26
"Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars
and spreads his wings toward the south?
27
Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up
and makes his u nest on high?
28
On the rock he dwells and makes his home,
on v the rocky crag and stronghold.
29
From there he spies out the prey;
his eyes behold it from far away.
30
His young ones suck up blood,
and w where the slain are, there is he."
Job 40
1
And the Lord x said to Job:
2
"Shall a faultfinder y contend with the Almighty?
He who argues with God, let him answer it."
3
Then Job answered the Lord and said:
4
"Behold, I am z of small account; what shall I answer you?
a I lay my hand on my mouth.
5
I have spoken b once, and I will not answer;
b twice, but I will proceed no further."
6
Then the Lord c answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
7
d "Dress for action like a man;
e I will question you, and you make it known to me.
8
Will you even put me in the wrong?
Will you condemn me that f you may be in the right?
9
Have you g an arm like God,
and can you thunder with h a voice like his?
10
"Adorn yourself with majesty and dignity;
i clothe yourself with glory and splendor.
11
Pour out the overflowings of your anger,
and look on everyone who is j proud and abase him.
12
Look on everyone who is proud and bring him low
and k tread down the wicked l where they stand.
13
m Hide them all in n the dust together;
bind their faces in the world below.
14
Then will I also acknowledge to you
that your own o right hand can save you.
15
"Behold, Behemoth,
which I made as I made you;
he eats p grass like an ox.
16
Behold, his strength in his loins,
and his power in the muscles of his belly.
17
He makes his tail stiff like a cedar;
the sinews of his thighs are knit together.
18
His bones are tubes of bronze,
his limbs like bars of iron.
19
"He is q the first of r the works of God;
let him who made him bring near his sword!
20
For the mountains yield food for him
where all the wild beasts play.
21
Under the lotus plants he lies,
in the shelter of s the reeds and in the marsh.
22
For his shade the lotus trees cover him;
the willows of the brook surround him.
23
Behold, if the river is turbulent he is not frightened;
he is confident though Jordan rushes against his mouth.
24
Can one take him by his eyes,
or pierce his nose with a snare?
Job 41
1
"Can you draw out u Leviathan with a fishhook
or press down his tongue with a cord?
2
Can you put v a rope in his nose
or pierce his jaw with v a hook?
3
Will he make many pleas to you?
Will he speak to you soft words?
4
Will he make a covenant with you
to take him for w your servant forever?
5
Will you play with him as with a bird,
or will you put him on a leash for your girls?
6
Will traders bargain over him?
Will they divide him up among the merchants?
7
Can you fill his skin with harpoons
or his head with fishing spears?
8
Lay your hands on him;
remember the battle - you will not do it again!
9
Behold, the hope of a man is false;
he is laid low even at the sight of him.
10
No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up.
Who then is he who can stand before me?
11
x Who has first given to me, that I should repay him?
y Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.
12
"I will not keep silence concerning his limbs,
or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame.
13
Who can strip off his outer garment?
Who would come near him with a bridle?
14
Who can open the doors of his face?
Around his teeth is terror.
15
His back is made of rows of shields,
shut up closely as with a seal.
16
One is so near to another
that no air can come between them.
17
They are z joined one to another;
they clasp each other and cannot be separated.
18
His sneezings flash forth light,
and his eyes are like a the eyelids of the dawn.
19
Out of his mouth go flaming torches;
sparks of fire leap forth.
20
Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke,
as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.
21
His breath b kindles coals,
and a flame comes forth from his mouth.
22
In his neck abides strength,
and terror dances before him.
23
The folds of his flesh c stick together,
firmly cast on him and immovable.
24
His heart is hard as a stone,
hard as the lower millstone.
25
When he raises himself up the mighty are afraid;
at the crashing they are beside themselves.
26
Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail,
nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.
27
He counts iron as straw,
and bronze as rotten wood.
28
The arrow cannot make him flee;
for him sling stones are turned to stubble.
29
Clubs are counted as stubble;
he laughs at the rattle of javelins.
30
His underparts are like sharp d potsherds;
he spreads himself like e a threshing sledge on the mire.
31
He makes the deep boil like a pot;
he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
32
Behind him he leaves a shining wake;
one would think the deep to be white-haired.
33
f On earth there is not his like,
a creature without fear.
34
He sees everything that is high;
he is king over all the g sons of pride."
Job 42
1
Then Job answered the Lord and said:
2
"I know that you can h do all things,
and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
3
i 'Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?'
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
things j too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
4
'Hear, and I will speak;
k I will question you, and you make it known to me.'
5
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,
but now my eye sees you;
6
therefore I despise myself,
and repent in l dust and ashes."
7
After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz m the Temanite: "My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.
8
Now therefore take n seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and o offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall p pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has."
9
q So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the Lord had told them, and the Lord accepted Job's prayer.
10
And the Lord r restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job s twice as much as he had before.
11
Then came to him all his t brothers and sisters and all who had t known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they u showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him. And each of them gave him v a piece of money and w a ring of gold.
12
And the Lord blessed x the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had y 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
13
He had also z seven sons and three daughters.
14
And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch.
15
And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job's daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance a among their brothers.
16
And after this Job lived 140 years, and b saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.
17
And Job died, an old man, and c full of days.
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Jeremiah 25:20
And all the mixed tribes among them; all the kings of the land of Uz and all the kings of the land of the Philistines ( Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod).
Lamentations 4:21
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz; but to you also the cup shall pass; you shall become drunk and strip yourself bare.
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Ezekiel 14:14
Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord God.
Ezekiel 14:20
Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.
James 5:11
Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.
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Job 1:8
And the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?
Job 2:3
And the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason.
Job 9:20
Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.
Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.
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Job 4:6
Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?
Proverbs 16:6
By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the Lord one turns away from evil.
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Cross References
Job 28:28
And he said to man, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.'
Psalms 34:14
Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
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Job 42:13
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
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Judges 6:3
For whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them.
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1 Samuel 16:5
And he said, "Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Consecrate yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice." And he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.
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Job 42:8
Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.
Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
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Job 2:5
But stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.
Psalms 10:3
For the wicked boasts of the desires of his soul, and the one greedy for gain curses and renounces the Lord.
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Job 2:1
Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the Lord.
Job 38:7
When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Genesis 6:2
The sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose.
Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
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1 Chronicles 21:1
Then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel.
Zechariah 3:1
Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.
Revelation 12:9 - 10
And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world - he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
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Job 2:2
And the Lord said to Satan, "From where have you come?" Satan answered the Lord and said, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
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Job 2:3
And the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason.
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Cross References
Numbers 12:7
Not so with my servant Moses. He is faithful in all my house.
2 Samuel 7:5
Go and tell my servant David, 'Thus says the Lord : Would you build me a house to dwell in?
Isaiah 20:3
Then the Lord said, "As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Cush.
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Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.
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Psalms 3:3
But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.
Psalms 34:7
The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.
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Psalms 128:1 - 2
Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways!
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Job 2:5
But stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.
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Job 19:21
Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
Isaiah 53:4
Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
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Cross References
Job 1:5
And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts." Thus Job did continually.
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Isaiah 65:3
A people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens and making offerings on bricks.
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Cross References
Job 6:19
The caravans of Tema look, the travelers of Sheba hope.
1 Kings 10:1
Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to test him with hard questions.
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2 Kings 1:12
But Elijah answered them, "If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty." Then the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.
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Genesis 11:28
Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his kindred, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
2 Kings 24:2
And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldeans and bands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by his servants the prophets.
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Judges 7:16
And he divided the 300 men into three companies and put trumpets into the hands of all of them and empty jars, with torches inside the jars.
1 Samuel 11:11
And the next day Saul put the people in three companies. And they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch and struck down the Ammonites until the heat of the day. And those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.
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Job 1:4
His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
Job 1:13
Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house.
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Isaiah 21:1
The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the Negeb sweep on, it comes from the wilderness, from a terrible land.
Jeremiah 4:11
At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, "A hot wind from the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse.
Hosea 13:15
Though he may flourish among his brothers, the east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come, rising from the wilderness, and his fountain shall dry up; his spring shall be parched; it shall strip his treasury of every precious thing.
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Genesis 37:29
When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he tore his clothes
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Ezra 9:3
As soon as I heard this, I tore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and sat appalled.
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Jeremiah 7:29
"'Cut off your hair and cast it away; raise a lamentation on the bare heights, for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.'
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1 Peter 5:6
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you.
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Ecclesiastes 5:15
As he came from his mother's womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil that he may carry away in his hand.
Psalms 49:17
For when he dies he will carry nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.
1 Timothy 6:7
For we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world.
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Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.
Psalms 90:3
You return man to dust and say, "Return, O children of man!
Ecclesiastes 12:7
And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
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Ecclesiastes 5:19
Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil - this is the gift of God.
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
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Psalms 113:2
Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and forevermore!
Daniel 2:20
Daniel answered and said: "Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might.
Ephesians 5:20
Giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 5:18
Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
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Job 2:10
But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
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Job 24:12
From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God charges no one with wrong.
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Job 1:6
Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them.
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Job 2:9
Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die.
Job 27:5 - 6
Far be it from me to say that you are right; till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
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Job 9:17
For he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause.
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Job 1:11
But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face.
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Job 1:5
And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts." Thus Job did continually.
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Exodus 9:9
It shall become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and become boils breaking out in sores on man and beast throughout all the land of Egypt.
Leviticus 13:18
If there is in the skin of one's body a boil and it heals.
Deuteronomy 28:27
The Lord will strike you with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed.
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Deuteronomy 28:35
The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
Isaiah 1:6
From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but bruises and sores and raw wounds; they are not pressed out or bound up or softened with oil.
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Job 41:30
His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.
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Job 42:6
Therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Ezekiel 27:30
And shout aloud over you and cry out bitterly. They cast dust on their heads and wallow in ashes.
Jonah 3:6
The word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Matthew 11:21
Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
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Job 2:3
And the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason.
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Job 2:5
But stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.
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Psalms 74:18
Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy scoffs, and a foolish people reviles your name.
Psalms 74:22
Arise, O God, defend your cause; remember how the foolish scoff at you all the day!
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James 5:10 - 11
As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
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Job 1:22
In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.
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Psalms 39:1
I said, "I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, so long as the wicked are in my presence.
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Proverbs 17:17
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
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1 Chronicles 1:45
Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.
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Genesis 25:2
She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
1 Chronicles 1:32
The sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.
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Job 42:11
Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him. And each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold.
Romans 12:15
Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
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Genesis 37:29
When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he tore his clothes
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Joshua 7:6
Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they put dust on their heads.
Nehemiah 9:1
Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the people of Israel were assembled with fasting and in sackcloth, and with earth on their heads.
Lamentations 2:10
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth; the young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
Ezekiel 27:30
And shout aloud over you and cry out bitterly. They cast dust on their heads and wallow in ashes.
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Ezekiel 3:15
And I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, who were dwelling by the Chebar canal, and I sat where they were dwelling. And I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.
Genesis 50:10
When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
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Job 33:2
Behold, I open my mouth; the tongue in my mouth speaks.
Psalms 78:2
I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old.
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Job 10:18 - 19
Why did you bring me out from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
Jeremiah 20:14 - 18
Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day when my mother bore me, let it not be blessed!
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Job 10:21 - 22
Before I go - and I shall not return - to the l...
Job 12:22
He uncovers the deeps out of darkness and bring...
Job 24:17
For deep darkness is morning to all of them; fo...
Job 28:3
Man puts an end to darkness and searches out to...
Job 34:22
There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildo...
Job 38:17
Have the gates of death been revealed to you, o...
Psalms 23:4
Even though I walk through the valley of the sh...
Isaiah 9:2
The people who walked in darkness have seen a g...
Matthew 4:16
The people dwelling in darkness have seen a gre...
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Job 41:1
Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord?
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Job 41:18
His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.
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Job 10:18 - 19
Why did you bring me out from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
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Genesis 30:3
Then she said, "Here is my servant Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may give birth on my behalf, that even I may have children through her.
Genesis 50:23
And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation. The children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were counted as Joseph's own.
Isaiah 66:12
For thus says the Lord : "Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip, and bounced upon her knees.
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Isaiah 58:12
And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to dwell in.
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Psalms 58:8
Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life's good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
1 Corinthians 15:8
Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.
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Job 17:16
Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?
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Exodus 3:7
Then the Lord said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings.
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Proverbs 31:6
Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress.
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Revelation 9:6
And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.
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Proverbs 2:4
If you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures.
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Isaiah 40:27
Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God"?
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Job 1:10
Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
Job 19:8
He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
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Psalms 42:3
My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, "Where is your God?
Psalms 80:5
You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in full measure.
Psalms 102:9
For I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink.
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Psalms 22:1
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?
Psalms 38:8
I am feeble and crushed; I groan because of the tumult of my heart.
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Proverbs 10:24
What the wicked dreads will come upon him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
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Isaiah 35:3
Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.
Hebrews 12:12
Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees.
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Job 4:3
Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.
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Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.
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Job 31:24
If I have made gold my trust or called fine gold my confidence.
Proverbs 3:26
For the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.
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Psalms 37:25
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.
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Hosea 10:13
You have plowed iniquity; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your warriors.
Psalms 7:14
Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies.
Proverbs 22:8
Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.
Galatians 6:7 - 8
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
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Isaiah 30:33
For a burning place has long been prepared; indeed, for the king it is made ready, its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.
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Job 15:30
He will not depart from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and by the breath of his mouth he will depart.
Exodus 15:8
At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up; the floods stood up in a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.
Psalms 18:15
Then the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
Isaiah 11:4
But with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.
2 Thessalonians 2:8
And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming.
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Psalms 58:6
O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
Job 29:17
I broke the fangs of the unrighteous and made him drop his prey from his teeth.
Psalms 3:7
Arise, O Lord! Save me, O my God! For you strike all my enemies on the cheek; you break the teeth of the wicked.
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Job 26:14
Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?
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Job 20:2
Therefore my thoughts answer me, because of my haste within me.
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Job 33:15
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds.
Genesis 2:21
So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.
Genesis 15:12
As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, dreadful and great darkness fell upon him.
1 Samuel 26:12
So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul's head, and they went away. No man saw it or knew it, nor did any awake, for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen upon them.
Isaiah 29:10
For the Lord has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes (the prophets), and covered your heads (the seers).
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Job 33:15
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds.
Genesis 2:21
So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.
Genesis 15:12
As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, dreadful and great darkness fell upon him.
1 Samuel 26:12
So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul's head, and they went away. No man saw it or knew it, nor did any awake, for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen upon them.
Isaiah 29:10
For the Lord has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes (the prophets), and covered your heads (the seers).
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Numbers 12:8
With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
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1 Kings 19:12
And after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire the sound of a low whisper.
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Job 9:2
Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God?
Job 10:4
Have you eyes of flesh? Do you see as man sees?
Job 25:4
How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?
Job 32:2
Then Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, burned with anger. He burned with anger at Job because he justified himself rather than God.
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Job 15:15
Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight.
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Job 10:9
Remember that you have made me like clay; and w...
Job 13:12
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defense...
Job 33:6
Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was p...
Isaiah 64:8
But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the...
2 Corinthians 4:7
But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to s...
2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if the tent that is our earthl...
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Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.
Genesis 18:27
Abraham answered and said, "Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.
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Job 13:28
Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
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Psalms 90:5 - 6
You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning:
Isaiah 38:12
My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night you bring me to an end.
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Isaiah 42:25
So he poured on him the heat of his anger and the might of battle; it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand; it burned him up, but he did not take it to heart.
Isaiah 57:1
The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity.
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Job 36:12
But if they do not listen, they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.
Proverbs 5:23
He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray.
Proverbs 10:21
The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.
Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
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Job 15:15
Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight.
Psalms 89:5
Let the heavens praise your wonders, O Lord, your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones!
Psalms 89:7
A God greatly to be feared in the council of the holy ones, and awesome above all who are around him?
Zechariah 14:5
And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.
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Jeremiah 12:2 - 3
You plant them, and they take root; they grow and produce fruit; you are near in their mouth and far from their heart.
Psalms 37:35 - 36
I have seen a wicked, ruthless man, spreading himself like a green laurel tree.
Psalms 73:18 - 20
Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin.
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Psalms 119:155
Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek your statutes.
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Job 29:7
When I went out to the gate of the city, when I...
Psalms 127:5
Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with th...
Proverbs 22:22
Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or cru...
Joshua 20:4
He shall flee to one of these cities and shall ...
Amos 5:12
For I know how many are your transgressions and...
Ruth 4:1
Now Boaz had gone up to the gate and sat down t...
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Job 14:1
Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.
Genesis 3:17 - 19
And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life.
Ecclesiastes 2:23
For all his days are full of sorrow, and his work is a vexation. Even in the night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity.
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Job 9:10
Who does great things beyond searching out, and...
Job 37:5
God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does...
Psalms 40:5
You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondro...
Psalms 72:18
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who alo...
Romans 11:33
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and know...
Revelation 15:3
And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of...
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Job 9:10
Who does great things beyond searching out, and marvelous things beyond number.
Job 11:7
Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?
Job 34:24
He shatters the mighty without investigation and sets others in their place.
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Job 10:16
And were my head lifted up, you would hunt me like a lion and again work wonders against me.
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Psalms 65:9 - 10
You visit the earth and water it; you greatly e...
Psalms 147:8
He covers the heavens with clouds; he prepares ...
Jeremiah 5:24
They do not say in their hearts, 'Let us fear t...
Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the false gods of the natio...
Acts 14:17
Yet he did not leave himself without witness, f...
Psalms 104:10
You make springs gush forth in the valleys; the...
Psalms 104:13
From your lofty abode you water the mountains; ...
Matthew 5:45
So that you may be sons of your Father who is i...
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1 Samuel 2:7
The Lord makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and he exalts.
Psalms 113:7
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap.
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Nehemiah 4:15
When our enemies heard that it was known to us and that God had frustrated their plan, we all returned to the wall, each to his work.
Psalms 33:10
The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.
Isaiah 8:10
Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us.
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1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness.
Psalms 9:15 - 16
The nations have sunk in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.
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Job 12:25
They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.
Deuteronomy 28:29
And you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you.
Isaiah 59:10
We grope for the wall like the blind; we grope like those who have no eyes; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among those in full vigor we are like dead men.
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Psalms 35:10
All my bones shall say, "O Lord, who is like you, delivering the poor from him who is too strong for him, the poor and needy from him who robs him?
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Psalms 107:42
The upright see it and are glad, and all wickedness shuts its mouth.
Psalms 63:11
But the king shall rejoice in God; all who swear by him shall exult, for the mouths of liars will be stopped.
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Psalms 94:12
Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law.
James 1:12
Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
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Proverbs 3:11
My son, do not despise the Lord 's discipline or be weary of his reproof.
Hebrews 12:5
And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him.
Revelation 3:19
Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
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Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.
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Isaiah 30:26
Moreover, the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day when the Lord binds up the brokenness of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.
Isaiah 61:1
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.
Hosea 6:1
Come, let us return to the Lord ; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.
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Deuteronomy 32:39
'See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
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Psalms 34:19
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.
Psalms 91:3
For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence.
1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
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Psalms 91:10
No evil shall be allowed to befall you, no plague come near your tent.
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Psalms 33:19
That he may deliver their soul from death and keep them alive in famine.
Psalms 37:19
They are not put to shame in evil times; in the days of famine they have abundance.
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Psalms 31:20
In the cover of your presence you hide them from the plots of men; you store them in your shelter from the strife of tongues.
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Isaiah 11:8 - 9
The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.
Isaiah 35:9
No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast come up on it; they shall not be found there, but the redeemed shall walk there.
Isaiah 65:25
The wolf and the lamb shall graze together; the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain," says the Lord.
Ezekiel 34:25
I will make with them a covenant of peace and banish wild beasts from the land, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.
Hosea 2:18
And I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety.
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Job 21:9
Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.
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Job 21:8
Their offspring are established in their presence, and their descendants before their eyes.
Psalms 112:2
His offspring will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.
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Psalms 72:16
May there be abundance of grain in the land; on the tops of the mountains may it wave; may its fruit be like Lebanon; and may people blossom in the cities like the grass of the field!
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Genesis 15:15
As for yourself, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
Genesis 25:8
Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
Genesis 35:29
And Isaac breathed his last, and he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
Proverbs 9:11
For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.
Proverbs 10:27
The fear of the Lord prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be short.
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Psalms 111:2
Great are the works of the Lord, studied by all who delight in them.
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Proverbs 27:3
A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.
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Psalms 38:2
For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.
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1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, "It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.
Numbers 11:15
If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness.
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Isaiah 30:14
And its breaking is like that of a potter's vessel that is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a shard is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.
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Leviticus 19:2
Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.
Isaiah 57:15
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Hosea 11:9
I will not execute my burning anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not a man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath.
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Proverbs 11:24
One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.
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Proverbs 17:17
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
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Psalms 38:11
My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague, and my nearest kin stand far off.
Psalms 41:9
Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
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1 Samuel 14:33
Then they told Saul, "Behold, the people are sinning against the Lord by eating with the blood." And he said, "You have dealt treacherously; roll a great stone to me here.
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Jeremiah 15:18
Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?
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Genesis 1:2
The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
Jeremiah 4:23
I looked on the earth, and behold, it was without form and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light.
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Genesis 25:15
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
1 Chronicles 1:30
Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema.
Isaiah 21:14
To the thirsty bring water; meet the fugitive with bread, O inhabitants of the land of Tema.
Jeremiah 25:23
Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair.
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1 Kings 10:1
Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to test him with hard questions.
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Isaiah 1:29
For they shall be ashamed of the oaks that you desired; and you shall blush for the gardens that you have chosen.
Jeremiah 14:3
Her nobles send their servants for water; they come to the cisterns; they find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed and confounded and cover their heads.
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Isaiah 1:29
For they shall be ashamed of the oaks that you desired; and you shall blush for the gardens that you have chosen.
Jeremiah 14:3
Her nobles send their servants for water; they come to the cisterns; they find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed and confounded and cover their heads.
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Job 15:20
The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.
Job 27:13
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty:
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Job 7:7
Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.
Isaiah 41:29
Behold, they are all a delusion; their works are nothing; their metal images are empty wind.
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Joel 3:3
And have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.
Nahum 3:10
Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity; her infants were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; for her honored men lots were cast, and all her great men were bound in chains.
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Job 17:10
But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you.
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Job 14:14
If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.
Isaiah 40:2
Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord 's hand double for all her sins.
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Job 14:5
Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass.
Psalms 39:4
O Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am!
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Song of Solomon 2:17
Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle or a young stag on cleft mountains.
Song of Solomon 4:6
Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, I will go away to the mountain of myrrh and the hill of frankincense.
Jeremiah 6:4
Prepare war against her; arise, and let us attack at noon! Woe to us, for the day declines, for the shadows of evening lengthen!
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Job 14:6
Look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.
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Leviticus 19:13
You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
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Job 7:16
I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.
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Job 30:17
The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.
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Deuteronomy 28:67
In the morning you shall say, 'If only it were evening!' and at evening you shall say, 'If only it were morning!' because of the dread that your heart shall feel, and the sights that your eyes shall see.
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Isaiah 14:11
Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, the sound of your harps; maggots are laid as a bed beneath you, and worms are your covers.
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Job 2:8
And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in the ashes.
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Job 2:7
So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
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Job 9:25
My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they see no good.
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Isaiah 38:12
My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night you bring me to an end.
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Job 6:26
Do you think that you can reprove words, when the speech of a despairing man is wind?
Psalms 78:39
He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again.
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Job 20:9
The eye that saw him will see him no more, nor will his place any more behold him.
Job 8:18
If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, 'I have never seen you.
Psalms 37:36
But he passed away, and behold, he was no more; though I sought him, he could not be found.
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Job 7:2
Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hired hand who looks for his wages.
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Job 30:15
Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.
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Job 21:13
They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.
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Job 10:21
Before I go - and I shall not return - to the land of darkness and deep shadow.
2 Samuel 12:23
But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.
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Job 20:9
The eye that saw him will see him no more, nor will his place any more behold him.
Psalms 103:16
For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.
Job 8:18
If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, 'I have never seen you.
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Psalms 40:9
I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; behold, I have not restrained my lips, as you know, O Lord.
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Job 21:4
As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient?
Psalms 77:3
When I remember God, I moan; when I meditate, my spirit faints. Selah
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Job 10:1
I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 21:25
Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of prosperity.
1 Samuel 1:10
She was deeply distressed and prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly.
Isaiah 38:15
What shall I say? For he has spoken to me, and he himself has done it. I walk slowly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.
Job 3:20
Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul.
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Genesis 1:21
So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
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Job 9:27
If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and be of good cheer.
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Job 19:20
My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Job 30:17
The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.
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Job 9:21
I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life.
Job 10:1
I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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Job 10:20
Are not my days few? Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer
Job 14:6
Look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.
Exodus 14:12
Is not this what we said to you in Egypt: 'Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians'? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.
Psalms 39:13
Look away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more!
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Job 7:3
So I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
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Psalms 8:4
What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?
Psalms 144:3
O Lord, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him?
Hebrews 2:6
It has been testified somewhere, "What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the son of man, that you care for him?
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Psalms 17:3
You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me, and you will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.
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Psalms 11:4 - 5
The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord 's throne is in heaven; his eyes see, his eyelids test the children of man.
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Job 14:6
Look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.
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Job 16:12
I was at ease, and he broke me apart; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target.
Lamentations 3:12
He bent his bow and set me as a target for his arrow.
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Daniel 12:2
And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
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Job 8:5
If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy.
Job 24:5
Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poor go out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children.
Proverbs 1:28
Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me.
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Job 7:8
The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone.
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Job 2:11
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.
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1 Kings 19:11
And he said, "Go out and stand on the mount before the Lord." And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.
Job 15:2
Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
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Job 34:12
Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the A...
Genesis 18:25
Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put t...
Deuteronomy 32:4
The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways...
2 Chronicles 19:7
Now then, let the fear of the Lord be upon you....
Ezra 9:15
O Lord, the God of Israel, you are just, for we...
Daniel 9:14
Therefore the Lord has kept ready the calamity ...
Romans 3:5
But if our unrighteousness serves to show the r...
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Job 1:5
And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts." Thus Job did continually.
Job 1:18 - 19
While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house.
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Job 9:15
Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.
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Psalms 7:6
Arise, O Lord, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
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Proverbs 3:33
The Lord 's curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the dwelling of the righteous.
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Job 42:12
And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
James 5:11
Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.
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Deuteronomy 4:32
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of.
Deuteronomy 32:7
Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you.
Job 15:18
(what wise men have told, without hiding it from their fathers.
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Job 15:18
(what wise men have told, without hiding it from their fathers.
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Job 14:2
He comes out like a flower and withers; he flee...
Job 17:7
My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my ...
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before you and sojourners,...
Psalms 102:11
My days are like an evening shadow; I wither aw...
Psalms 109:23
I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken...
Psalms 144:4
Man is like a breath; his days are like a passi...
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what is good for man while he liv...
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Psalms 37:2
For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.
Psalms 129:6
Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up.
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Psalms 9:17
The wicked shall return to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.
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Proverbs 10:28
The hope of the righteous brings joy, but the expectation of the wicked will perish.
Proverbs 11:7
When the wicked dies, his hope will perish, and the expectation of wealth perishes too.
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Job 13:16
This will be my salvation, that the godless shall not come before him.
Job 15:34
For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.
Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off, when God takes away his life?
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Isaiah 59:5 - 6
They hatch adders' eggs; they weave the spider's web; he who eats their eggs dies, and from one that is crushed a viper is hatched.
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Job 27:18
He builds his house like a moth's, like a booth that a watchman makes.
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Psalms 80:11
It sent out its branches to the sea and its shoots to the River.
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Job 7:10
He returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him anymore.
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Job 7:8
The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone.
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1 Samuel 2:7 - 8
The Lord makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and he exalts.
Psalms 103:16
For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.
Psalms 113:7
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap.
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Psalms 126:2
Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, "The Lord has done great things for them.
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Psalms 35:26
Let them be put to shame and disappointed altogether who rejoice at my calamity! Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me!
Psalms 132:18
His enemies I will clothe with shame, but on him his crown will shine.
Psalms 109:29
May my accusers be clothed with dishonor; may they be wrapped in their own shame as in a cloak!
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Job 4:17
Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
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Job 10:2
I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.
Psalms 143:2
Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.
Romans 3:20
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
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Job 12:13
With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.
Job 36:5
Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise any; he is mighty in strength of understanding.
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Exodus 7:13
Still Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.
Exodus 32:9
And the Lord said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
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Isaiah 2:19
And people shall enter the caves of the rocks a...
Isaiah 2:21
To enter the caverns of the rocks and the cleft...
Isaiah 13:13
Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and ...
Haggai 2:6
For thus says the Lord of hosts: Yet once more,...
Haggai 2:21
Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying,...
Hebrews 12:26
At that time his voice shook the earth, but now...
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Job 26:11
The pillars of heaven tremble and are astounded at his rebuke.
Psalms 75:3
When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, it is I who keep steady its pillars. Selah
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Job 26:7
He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing.
Psalms 104:2
Covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent.
Jeremiah 10:12
It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.
Jeremiah 51:15
It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.
Zechariah 12:1
The burden of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus declares the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him:
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Genesis 1:16
And God made the two great lights - the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night - and the stars.
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Job 38:32
Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season, or can you guide the Bear with its children?
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Job 38:31
Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loose the cords of Orion?
Amos 5:8
He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name.
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Job 37:9
From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds.
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Job 5:9
Who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number:
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Job 23:8 - 9
Behold, I go forward, but he is not there, and backward, but I do not perceive him.
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Job 11:10
If he passes through and imprisons and summons the court, who can turn him back?
Job 23:13
But he is unchangeable, and who can turn him back? What he desires, that he does.
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Isaiah 45:9
Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, 'What are you making?' or 'Your work has no handles'?
Jeremiah 18:6
O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the Lord. Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.
Romans 9:20
But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, "Why have you made me like this?
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Job 26:12
By his power he stilled the sea; by his underst...
Psalms 40:4
Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust...
Psalms 82:4
Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them fro...
Psalms 89:10
You crushed Rahab like a carcass; you scattered...
Isaiah 30:7
Egypt's help is worthless and empty; therefore ...
Isaiah 51:9
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lor...
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Job 15:16
How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water!
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Job 9:3
If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
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Job 10:15
If I am guilty, woe to me! If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look on my affliction.
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Job 8:5
If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy.
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Job 2:3
And the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason.
Job 34:6
In spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.
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Job 9:4
He is wise in heart and mighty in strength - who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded? -
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Jeremiah 49:19
Behold, like a lion coming up from the jungle of the Jordan against a perennial pasture, I will suddenly make him run away from her. And I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who will summon me? What shepherd can stand before me?
Jeremiah 50:44
Behold, like a lion coming up from the thicket of the Jordan against a perennial pasture, I will suddenly make them run away from her, and I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who will summon me? What shepherd can stand before me?
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Job 15:6
Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you.
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Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.
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Job 7:16
I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.
Job 10:1
I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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Ecclesiastes 9:2 - 3
It is the same for all, since the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As the good one is, so is the sinner, and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath.
Ezekiel 21:3
And say to the land of Israel, Thus says the Lord : Behold, I am against you and will draw my sword from its sheath and will cut off from you both righteous and wicked.
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Isaiah 10:26
And the Lord of hosts will wield against them a whip, as when he struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. And his staff will be over the sea, and he will lift it as he did in Egypt.
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Job 10:3
Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked?
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Job 12:17
He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools.
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Job 24:25
If it is not so, who will prove me a liar and show that there is nothing in what I say?
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Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and come to their end without hope.
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2 Chronicles 30:6
So couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his princes, as the king had commanded, saying, "O people of Israel, return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.
Jeremiah 51:31
One runner runs to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every side.
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Isaiah 18:2
Which sends ambassadors by the sea, in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation, tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.
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Habakkuk 1:8
Their horses are swifter than leopards, more fierce than the evening wolves; their horsemen press proudly on. Their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle swift to devour.
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Job 7:13
When I say, 'My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint.
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Psalms 39:13
Look away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more!
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Psalms 119:120
My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I am afraid of your judgments.
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Job 10:14
If I sin, you watch me and do not acquit me of my iniquity.
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Job 10:2
I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.
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Isaiah 1:25
I will turn my hand against you and will smelt away your dross as with lye and remove all your alloy.
Jeremiah 2:22
Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, declares the Lord God.
Job 22:30
He delivers even the one who is not innocent, who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.
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Job 19:19
All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.
Job 30:10
They abhor me; they keep aloof from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me.
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Ecclesiastes 6:10
Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what man is, and that he is not able to dispute with one stronger than he.
Romans 9:20
But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, "Why have you made me like this?
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Job 9:19
If it is a contest of strength, behold, he is mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?
1 Samuel 2:25
If someone sins against a man, God will mediate for him, but if someone sins against the Lord, who can intercede for him?" But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for it was the will of the Lord to put them to death.
Job 16:21
That he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor.
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Psalms 39:10
Remove your stroke from me; I am spent by the hostility of your hand.
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Job 21:9
Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.
Psalms 89:32
Then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes.
Isaiah 10:24
Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: "O my people, who dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrians when they strike with the rod and lift up their staff against you as the Egyptians did.
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Job 13:21
Withdraw your hand far from me, and let not dread of you terrify me.
Job 33:7
Behold, no fear of me need terrify you; my pressure will not be heavy upon you.
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Job 7:16
I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.
Job 9:21
I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life.
Numbers 11:15
If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness.
1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, "It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.
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Job 21:4
As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient?
Job 23:2
Today also my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy on account of my groaning.
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Job 7:11
Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
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Job 9:29
I shall be condemned; why then do I labor in vain?
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Job 9:3
If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
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Job 13:9
Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?
Psalms 89:38
But now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed.
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Job 14:15
You would call, and I would answer you; you would long for the work of your hands.
Psalms 138:8
The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.
Isaiah 64:8
But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.
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Job 9:24
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges - if it is not he, who then is it?
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John 8:15
You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.
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1 Samuel 16:7
But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.
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Job 36:26
Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.
Psalms 77:10
Then I said, "I will appeal to this, to the years of the right hand of the Most High.
Psalms 90:4
For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.
2 Peter 3:8
But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
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Job 14:16
For then you would number my steps; you would not keep watch over my sin.
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Job 2:3
And the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason.
Job 2:9
Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die.
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Deuteronomy 32:39
See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
Isaiah 43:13
Also henceforth I am he; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work, and who can turn it back?
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Psalms 119:73
Your hands have made and fashioned me; give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.
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Job 4:17
Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
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Job 34:15
All flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.
Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.
Psalms 146:4
When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
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Job 23:14
For he will complete what he appoints for me, and many such things are in his mind.
Job 27:11
I will teach you concerning the hand of God; what is with the Almighty I will not conceal.
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Job 13:27
You put my feet in the stocks and watch all my paths; you set a limit for the soles of my feet.
Job 33:11
He puts my feet in the stocks and watches all my paths.
Psalms 130:3
If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
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Job 9:28
I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know you will not hold me innocent.
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Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.
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Job 9:15
Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.
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Psalms 25:18
Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins.
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Job 28:8
The proud beasts have not trodden it; the lion has not passed over it.
Hosea 5:14
For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.
Hosea 13:7
So I am to them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.
Isaiah 38:13
I calmed myself until morning; like a lion he breaks all my bones; from day to night you bring me to an end.
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Job 5:9
Who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number:
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Job 16:8
And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me, and my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face.
Ruth 1:21
I went away full, and the Lord has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi, when the Lord has testified against me and the Almighty has brought calamity upon me?
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Job 19:12
His troops come on together; they have cast up their siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
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Job 3:11
Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire?
Job 3:3
"Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, 'A man is conceived.'
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Obadiah 1:16
For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations shall drink continually; they shall drink and swallow, and shall be as though they had never been.
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Job 14:1
Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.
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Job 7:16
I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.
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Job 9:27
If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and be of good cheer.
Psalms 39:13
Look away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more!
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Job 16:22
For when a few years have come I shall go the way from which I shall not return.
2 Samuel 12:23
But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.
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Job 30:26
But when I hoped for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, darkness came.
Psalms 88:12
Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
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Job 3:5
Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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Job 2:11
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.
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Proverbs 10:19
When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.
Ecclesiastes 5:3
For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words.
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Job 10:7
Although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand?
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Deuteronomy 32:2
May my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, like gentle rain upon the tender grass, and like showers upon the herb.
Proverbs 4:2
For I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching.
Isaiah 29:24
And those who go astray in spirit will come to understanding, and those who murmur will accept instruction.
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Job 5:12
He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.
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Ezra 9:13
And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserved and have given us such a remnant as this.
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Job 5:9
Who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number:
Ecclesiastes 3:11
He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
Ecclesiastes 8:17
Then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out. Even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot find it out.
Psalms 145:3
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.
Romans 11:33
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
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Job 22:12
Is not God high in the heavens? See the highest stars, how lofty they are!
Psalms 139:8
If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
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Job 9:11 - 16
Behold, he passes by me, and I see him not; he moves on, but I do not perceive him.
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Job 12:14
If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.
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Job 9:12
Behold, he snatches away; who can turn him back? Who will say to him, 'What are you doing?
Job 23:13
But he is unchangeable, and who can turn him back? What he desires, that he does.
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Psalms 26:4
I do not sit with men of falsehood, nor do I consort with hypocrites.
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Job 39:5 - 8
Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey.
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Psalms 73:22
I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you.
Ecclesiastes 3:18
I said in my heart with regard to the children of man that God is testing them that they may see that they themselves are but beasts.
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Psalms 78:8
And that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
1 Samuel 7:3
And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, "If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you and direct your heart to the Lord and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
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Psalms 44:20
If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god.
Psalms 88:9
My eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon you, O Lord ; I spread out my hands to you.
Psalms 143:6
I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah
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Job 22:26
For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.
Genesis 4:5
But for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell.
Psalms 119:6
Then I shall not be put to shame, having my eyes fixed on all your commandments.
1 John 3:21
Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God.
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Job 31:7
If my step has turned aside from the way and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has stuck to my hands.
2 Peter 3:14
Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.
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Isaiah 65:16
So that he who blesses himself in the land shall bless himself by the God of truth, and he who takes an oath in the land shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten and are hidden from my eyes.
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Psalms 37:6
He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.
Isaiah 58:8
Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.
Isaiah 58:10
If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.
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Leviticus 26:5 - 6
Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely.
Psalms 4:8
In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.
Proverbs 3:24
If you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.
Isaiah 17:2
The cities of Aroer are deserted; they will be for flocks, which will lie down, and none will make them afraid.
Zephaniah 3:13
Those who are left in Israel; they shall do no injustice and speak no lies, nor shall there be found in their mouth a deceitful tongue. For they shall graze and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
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Job 11:18
And you will feel secure, because there is hope; you will look around and take your rest in security.
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Psalms 45:12
The people of Tyre will seek your favor with gifts, the richest of the people.
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Job 17:5
He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property - the eyes of his children will fail.
Job 31:16
If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail.
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Jeremiah 15:9
She who bore seven has grown feeble; she has fainted away; her sun went down while it was yet day; she has been shamed and disgraced. And the rest of them I will give to the sword before their enemies, declares the Lord.
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Job 13:2
What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
Job 15:9
What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
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Job 16:2
I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.
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Job 16:10
Men have gaped at me with their mouth; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me.
Job 17:2
Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.
Job 17:6
He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.
Job 21:3
Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.
Job 30:1
But now they laugh at me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
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Psalms 91:15
When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him.
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Job 3:18
There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
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Job 21:7
Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?
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Isaiah 41:20
That they may see and know, may consider and understand together, that the hand of the Lord has done this, the Holy One of Israel has created it.
Job 1:21
And he said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
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Numbers 16:22
And they fell on their faces and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?
Daniel 5:23
But you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored.
Acts 17:28
For "'In him we live and move and have our being'; as even some of your own poets have said, "'For we are indeed his offspring.
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Job 34:3
For the ear tests words as the palate tastes food.
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Job 32:7
I said, 'Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.
Psalms 119:100
I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts.
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Job 9:4
He is wise in heart and mighty in strength - who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded? -
Job 36:5
Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise any; he is mighty in strength of understanding.
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Job 11:10
If he passes through and imprisons and summons the court, who can turn him back?
Isaiah 22:22
And I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David. He shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
Revelation 3:7
And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: 'The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.
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Deuteronomy 11:17
Then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and you will perish quickly off the good land that the Lord is giving you.
1 Kings 8:35
When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them.
1 Kings 17:1
Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.
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Genesis 7:11 - 24
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.
Psalms 147:18
He sends out his word, and melts them; he makes his wind blow and the waters flow.
Amos 9:6
Who builds his upper chambers in the heavens and founds his vault upon the earth; who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the surface of the earth - the Lord is his name.
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Job 5:12
He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.
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2 Samuel 17:23
When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to his own city. He set his house in order and hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.
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Job 9:24
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges - if it is not he, who then is it?
Isaiah 40:23
Who brings princes to nothing, and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.
Isaiah 29:14
Therefore, behold, I will again do wonderful things with this people, with wonder upon wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden.
Isaiah 44:25
Who frustrates the signs of liars and makes fools of diviners, who turns wise men back and makes their knowledge foolish.
1 Corinthians 1:19
For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.
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Psalms 116:16
O Lord, I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of your maidservant. You have loosed my bonds.
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Job 32:9
It is not the old who are wise, nor the aged who understand what is right.
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Psalms 107:40
He pours contempt on princes and makes them wander in trackless wastes.
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Daniel 2:22
He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.
1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
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Job 3:5
Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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Isaiah 9:3
You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as they are glad when they divide the spoil.
Isaiah 26:15
But you have increased the nation, O Lord, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
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2 Kings 18:11
The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
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Psalms 107:40
He pours contempt on princes and makes them wander in trackless wastes.
Job 6:18
The caravans turn aside from their course; they go up into the waste and perish.
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Job 5:14
They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night.
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Psalms 107:27
They reeled and staggered like drunken men and were at their wits' end.
Isaiah 19:14
The Lord has mingled within her a spirit of confusion, and they will make Egypt stagger in all its deeds, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
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Job 12:3
But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
Job 15:9
What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
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Job 23:4
I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
Job 31:35
Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary!
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Job 13:15
Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face.
Job 13:18
Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be in the right.
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Psalms 119:69
The insolent smear me with lies, but with my whole heart I keep your precepts.
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Job 16:2
I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.
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Proverbs 17:28
Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.
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Job 27:4
My lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
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Job 27:4
My lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
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Judges 6:31
But Joash said to all who stood against him, "Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? Whoever contends for him shall be put to death by morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because his altar has been broken down.
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Proverbs 28:11
A rich man is wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who has understanding will find him out.
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Galatians 6:7
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
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Job 31:23
For I was in terror of calamity from God, and I could not have faced his majesty.
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Isaiah 44:20
He feeds on ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, "Is there not a lie in my right hand?
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Judges 12:3
And when I saw that you would not save me, I took my life in my hand and crossed over against the Ammonites, and the Lord gave them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day to fight against me?
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Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is overthrown through his evildoing, but the righteous finds refuge in his death.
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Job 14:14
If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.
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Job 13:3
But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.
Job 27:5
Far be it from me to say that you are right; till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
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Job 21:2
Keep listening to my words, and let this be your comfort.
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Job 33:5
Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.
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Isaiah 50:8 - 9
He who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
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Genesis 3:8
And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
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Job 9:34
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not dread of him terrify me.
Psalms 39:10
Remove your stroke from me; I am spent by the hostility of your hand.
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Job 9:34
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not dread of him terrify me.
Job 33:7
Behold, no fear of me need terrify you; my pressure will not be heavy upon you.
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Job 14:15
You would call, and I would answer you; you would long for the work of your hands.
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Psalms 19:12
Who can discern his errors? Declare me innocent from hidden faults.
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Deuteronomy 32:20
And he said, 'I will hide my face from them; I will see what their end will be, For they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.
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Job 19:11
He has kindled his wrath against me and counts me as his adversary.
Job 33:10
Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy.
Lamentations 2:5
The Lord has become like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel; he has swallowed up all its palaces; he has laid in ruins its strongholds, and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
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Leviticus 26:36
And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues.
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Job 21:18
That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?
Psalms 83:13
O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.
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Psalms 149:9
To execute on them the judgment written! This is honor for all his godly ones. Praise the Lord!
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Psalms 25:7
Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O Lord!
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Job 33:11
He puts my feet in the stocks and watches all my paths.
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Job 10:14
If I sin, you watch me and do not acquit me of my iniquity.
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Proverbs 12:4
An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.
Proverbs 14:30
A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot.
Habakkuk 3:16
I hear, and my body trembles; my lips quiver at the sound; rottenness enters into my bones; my legs tremble beneath me. Yet I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us.
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Job 4:19
How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.
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Job 15:14
What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
Job 25:4
How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?
Matthew 11:11
Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
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Job 10:20
Are not my days few? Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer
Job 16:22
For when a few years have come I shall go the way from which I shall not return.
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.
Psalms 39:5
Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah
Psalms 89:47
Remember how short my time is! For what vanity you have created all the children of man!
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Job 5:7
But man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.
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Psalms 103:15
As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field.
Isaiah 40:6 - 7
A voice says, "Cry!" And I said, "What shall I cry?" All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.
James 1:10
And the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away.
1 Peter 1:24
For "All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls.
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Psalms 37:2
For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.
Psalms 90:6
In the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers.
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Job 8:9
For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.
Job 17:7
My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow.
Psalms 109:23
I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.
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Psalms 8:4
What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?
Psalms 144:3
O Lord, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him?
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Job 22:4
Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you and enters into judgment with you?
Psalms 143:2
Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.
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Job 15:14
What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
Psalms 51:5
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
John 3:6
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
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Job 7:1
Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?
Psalms 39:4
O Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am!
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Job 21:21
For what do they care for their houses after them, when the number of their months is cut off?
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Job 7:19
How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit?
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Job 7:1
Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?
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Isaiah 11:1
There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.
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Job 29:19
My roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches.
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Job 29:7
When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the square.
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Isaiah 19:5
And the waters of the sea will be dried up, and the river will be dry and parched.
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Deuteronomy 11:21
That your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.
Psalms 89:29
I will establish his offspring forever and his throne as the days of the heavens.
Psalms 72:5
May they fear you while the sun endures, and as long as the moon, throughout all generations!
Matthew 5:18
For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
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John 11:11
After saying these things, he said to them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.
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Psalms 27:5
For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock.
Psalms 31:20
In the cover of your presence you hide them from the plots of men; you store them in your shelter from the strife of tongues.
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Psalms 27:5
For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock.
Psalms 31:20
In the cover of your presence you hide them from the plots of men; you store them in your shelter from the strife of tongues.
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Job 21:13
They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.
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Isaiah 26:20
Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the fury has passed by.
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Job 7:1
Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?
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Job 13:15
Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face.
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Job 13:22
Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you reply to me.
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Job 10:3
Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked?
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Job 31:4
Does not he see my ways and number all my steps?
Job 34:21
For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.
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Job 10:6
That you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin.
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Deuteronomy 32:34
'Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up in my treasuries?
Hosea 13:12
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is kept in store.
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Isaiah 34:4
All the host of heaven shall rot away, and the skies roll up like a scroll. All their host shall fall, as leaves fall from the vine, like leaves falling from the fig tree.
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Job 18:4
You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?
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Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.
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Job 2:11
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.
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Job 12:3
But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
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Job 16:3
Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
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Job 15:35
They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit.
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Job 6:26
Do you think that you can reprove words, when the speech of a despairing man is wind?
Job 8:2
How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
Hosea 12:1
Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.
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Job 9:20
Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
Luke 19:22
He said to him, 'I will condemn you with your own words, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?
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2 Samuel 1:16
And David said to him, "Your blood be on your head, for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have killed the Lord 's anointed.'
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Job 38:21
You know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!
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Proverbs 8:25
Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth.
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Psalms 90:2
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
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Job 29:4
As I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent.
Jeremiah 23:18
For who among them has stood in the council of the Lord to see and to hear his word, or who has paid attention to his word and listened?
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
Genesis 3:22
Then the Lord God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever -
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Job 12:3
But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
Job 13:2
What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
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Job 12:12
Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.
Job 32:6 - 7
And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said: "I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you.
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Job 21:4
As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient?
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Job 15:14 - 16
What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
Job 25:4 - 6
How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?
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Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? ...
Psalms 14:3
They have all turned aside; together they have ...
Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, "I have made my heart pure; I am c...
Ecclesiastes 7:20
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth wh...
1 John 1:8
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves,...
1 John 1:10
If we say we have not sinned, we make him a lia...
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Job 14:1
Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.
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Job 4:18
Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error.
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Job 5:1
Call now; is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
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Job 9:14
How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?
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Psalms 14:3
They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.
Psalms 53:1
The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity; there is none who does good.
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Job 34:7
What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water.
Proverbs 19:28
A worthless witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.
Proverbs 26:6
Whoever sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off his own feet and drinks violence.
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Job 8:8
For inquire, please, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have searched out.
Psalms 44:1
O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, what deeds you performed in their days, in the days of old:
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Joel 3:17
So you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.
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Job 21:19
You say, 'God stores up their iniquity for their children.' Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it.
Job 24:1
Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days?
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Job 6:23
Or, 'Deliver me from the adversary's hand'? Or, 'Redeem me from the hand of the ruthless'?
Job 27:13
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty:
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Job 18:11
Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.
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1 Thessalonians 5:3
While people are saying, "There is peace and security," then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
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Psalms 59:15
They wander about for food and growl if they do not get their fill.
Psalms 109:10
May his children wander about and beg, seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit!
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Job 14:20
You prevail forever against him, and he passes; you change his countenance, and send him away.
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Job 16:14
He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior.
Daniel 8:6
He came to the ram with the two horns, which I had seen standing on the bank of the canal, and he ran at him in his powerful wrath.
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Psalms 75:5
Do not lift up your horn on high, or speak with haughty neck.'
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Psalms 17:10
They close their hearts to pity; with their mouths they speak arrogantly.
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Job 4:9
By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
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Isaiah 59:4
No one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
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Job 22:16
They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away.
Ecclesiastes 7:17
Be not overly wicked, neither be a fool. Why should you die before your time?
Psalms 55:23
But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.
Psalms 102:24
"O my God," I say, "take me not away in the midst of my days - you whose years endure throughout all generations!"
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Job 16:7
Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.
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Job 20:26
Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures; a fire not fanned will devour him; what is left in his tent will be consumed.
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Psalms 7:14
Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies.
Isaiah 59:4
No one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
Hosea 10:13
You have plowed iniquity; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your warriors.
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Job 15:2
Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
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Job 12:3
But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
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Job 13:4
As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.
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Job 15:2
Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
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2 Kings 19:21
This is the word that the Lord has spoken conce...
Psalms 22:7
All who see me mock me; they make mouths at me;...
Psalms 109:25
I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when th...
Isaiah 37:22
This is the word that the Lord has spoken conce...
Jeremiah 18:16
Making their land a horror, a thing to be hisse...
Lamentations 2:15
All who pass along the way clap their hands at ...
Matthew 27:39
And those who passed by derided him, wagging th...
Mark 15:29
And those who passed by derided him, wagging th...
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Job 15:34
For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.
Job 1:15 - 19
And the Sabeans fell upon them and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.
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Job 10:17
You renew your witnesses against me and increase your vexation toward me; you bring fresh troops against me.
Ruth 1:21
I went away full, and the Lord has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi, when the Lord has testified against me and the Almighty has brought calamity upon me?
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Psalms 109:24
My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt, with no fat.
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Job 18:4
You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?
Hosea 6:1
Come, let us return to the Lord ; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.
Amos 1:11
Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity, and his anger tore perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever.
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Job 30:21
You have turned cruel to me; with the might of your hand you persecute me.
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Psalms 35:16
Like profane mockers at a feast, they gnash at me with their teeth.
Psalms 37:12
The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him.
Psalms 112:10
The wicked man sees it and is angry; he gnashes his teeth and melts away; the desire of the wicked will perish!
Lamentations 2:16
All your enemies rail against you; they hiss, they gnash their teeth, they cry: "We have swallowed her! Ah, this is the day we longed for; now we have it; we see it!
Acts 7:54
Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him.
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Psalms 22:13
They open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion.
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Psalms 3:7
Arise, O Lord! Save me, O my God! For you strik...
Isaiah 50:6
I gave my back to those who strike, and my chee...
Lamentations 3:30
Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes, ...
Micah 5:1
Now muster your troops, O daughter of troops; s...
1 Kings 22:24
Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near an...
Acts 23:2
And the high priest Ananias commanded those who...
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Psalms 35:15
But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered; they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing.
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Lamentations 3:12
He bent his bow and set me as a target for his arrow.
Job 7:20
If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind? Why have you made me your mark? Why have I become a burden to you?
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Jeremiah 50:29
Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her according to all that she has done. For she has proudly defied the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
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Job 27:22
It hurls at him without pity; he flees from its power in headlong flight.
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Job 20:25
It is drawn forth and comes out of his body; the glittering point comes out of his gallbladder; terrors come upon him.
Lamentations 2:11
My eyes are spent with weeping; my stomach churns; my bile is poured out to the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and babies faint in the streets of the city.
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Job 30:14
As through a wide breach they come; amid the crash they roll on.
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Job 15:26
Running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield.
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2 Samuel 3:31
Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, "Tear your clothes and put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner." And King David followed the bier.
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Psalms 75:10
All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.
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Psalms 7:5
Let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust. Selah
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Job 3:5
Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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Isaiah 53:9
And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.
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Isaiah 26:21
For behold, the Lord is coming out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no more cover its slain.
Ezekiel 24:7
For the blood she has shed is in her midst; she put it on the bare rock; she did not pour it out on the ground to cover it with dust.
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Genesis 4:10
And the Lord said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.
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Psalms 89:37
Like the moon it shall be established forever, a faithful witness in the skies." Selah
Romans 1:9
For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you
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Psalms 148:1
Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord from the heavens; praise him in the heights!
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Job 12:5
In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for those whose feet slip.
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Job 31:35
Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary!
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Job 10:21
Before I go - and I shall not return - to the land of darkness and deep shadow.
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Job 18:5 - 6
Indeed, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.
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Psalms 88:3 - 4
For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
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1 Samuel 1:6 - 7
And her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb.
Job 12:6
The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.
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Psalms 119:122
Give your servant a pledge of good; let not the insolent oppress me.
Isaiah 38:14
Like a swallow or a crane I chirp; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my pledge of safety!
Hebrews 7:22
This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant.
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Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last.
Job 31:16
If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail.
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Job 30:9
And now I have become their song; I am a byword to them.
Deuteronomy 28:37
And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away.
Psalms 44:14
You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
Psalms 69:11
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
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Psalms 6:7
My eye wastes away because of grief; it grows weak because of all my foes.
Psalms 31:9
Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also.
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Job 14:2
He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.
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Isaiah 52:14
As many were astonished at you - his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the children of mankind -
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Job 22:30
He delivers even the one who is not innocent, who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.
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Job 6:29
Please turn; let no injustice be done. Turn now; my vindication is at stake.
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Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and come to their end without hope.
Job 9:25
My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they see no good.
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Job 11:17
And your life will be brighter than the noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.
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Job 21:13
They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.
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Ecclesiastes 12:5
They are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets -
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Job 17:13
If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness.
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Job 3:17 - 19
There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
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Job 21:26
They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.
Job 40:13
Hide them all in the dust together; bind their faces in the world below.
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Job 2:11
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.
Job 8:1
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
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Matthew 22:15
Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words.
Mark 12:13
And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodians, to trap him in his talk.
Luke 20:20
So they watched him and sent spies, who pretended to be sincere, that they might catch him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.
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Psalms 73:22
I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you.
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Job 16:9
He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
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Job 14:18
But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place.
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Job 21:17
How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger?
Proverbs 13:9
The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked will be put out.
Proverbs 20:20
If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.
Proverbs 24:20
For the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be put out.
Psalms 18:28
For it is you who light my lamp; the Lord my God lightens my darkness.
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Job 10:22
The land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness.
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Job 5:13
He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
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Psalms 140:5
The arrogant have hidden a trap for me, and with cords they have spread a net; beside the way they have set snares for me. Selah
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Job 15:21
Dreadful sounds are in his ears; in prosperity ...
Job 20:25
It is drawn forth and comes out of his body; th...
Job 27:20
Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night...
Job 30:15
Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued...
Jeremiah 6:25
Go not out into the field, nor walk on the road...
Jeremiah 46:5
Why have I seen it? They are dismayed and have ...
Jeremiah 49:29
Their tents and their flocks shall be taken, th...
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Psalms 38:17
For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever before me.
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Isaiah 14:30
And the firstborn of the poor will graze, and the needy lie down in safety; but I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant it will slay.
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Revelation 9:11
They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.
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Psalms 11:6
Let him rain coals on the wicked; fire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
Ezekiel 38:22
With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him, and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who are with him torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulfur.
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Job 29:19
My roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches.
Hosea 9:16
Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, I will put their beloved children to death.
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Job 14:2
He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.
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Psalms 34:16
The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.
Proverbs 10:7
The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
Psalms 109:13
May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation!
Psalms 109:15
Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth!
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Job 10:21 - 22
Before I go - and I shall not return - to the land of darkness and deep shadow.
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Isaiah 14:22
I will rise up against them," declares the Lord of hosts, "and will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, descendants and posterity," declares the Lord.
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Psalms 37:13
But the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he sees ...
Jeremiah 50:27
Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the sla...
Ezekiel 21:25
And you, O profane wicked one, prince of Israel...
Ezekiel 21:29
While they see for you false visions, while the...
Obadiah 1:12
But do not gloat over the day of your brother i...
1 Samuel 26:10
And David said, "As the Lord lives, the Lord wi...
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Job 21:6
When I remember, I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.
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Judges 2:10
And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the Lord or the work that he had done for Israel.
Jeremiah 9:3
They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 10:25
Pour out your wrath on the nations that know you not, and on the peoples that call not on your name, for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
1 Thessalonians 4:8
Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
2 Thessalonians 1:8
In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
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Genesis 31:7
Yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not permit him to harm me.
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Psalms 35:26
Let them be put to shame and disappointed altogether who rejoice at my calamity! Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me!
Psalms 38:16
For I said, "Only let them not rejoice over me, who boast against me when my foot slips!
Psalms 55:12
For it is not an enemy who taunts me - then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me - then I could hide from him.
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Job 8:3
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
Job 34:12
Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice.
Lamentations 3:36
To subvert a man in his lawsuit, the Lord does not approve.
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Job 24:12
From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God charges no one with wrong.
Habakkuk 1:2
O Lord, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? Or cry to you "Violence!" and you will not save?
Lamentations 3:8
Though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer.
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Lamentations 3:7
He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has made my chains heavy.
Lamentations 3:9
He has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked.
Hosea 2:6
Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths.
Job 3:23
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
Job 13:27
You put my feet in the stocks and watch all my paths; you set a limit for the soles of my feet.
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Psalms 89:44
You have made his splendor to cease and cast his throne to the ground.
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Psalms 89:39
You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust.
Lamentations 5:16
The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!
Job 29:14
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban.
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Job 27:21
The east wind lifts him up and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
Job 10:21
Before I go - and I shall not return - to the land of darkness and deep shadow.
Job 14:20
You prevail forever against him, and he passes; you change his countenance, and send him away.
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Job 13:24
Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?
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Job 10:17
You renew your witnesses against me and increase your vexation toward me; you bring fresh troops against me.
Job 25:2
Dominion and fear are with God; he makes peace in his high heaven.
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Job 30:12
On my right hand the rabble rise; they push away my feet; they cast up against me their ways of destruction.
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Psalms 69:8
I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's sons.
Job 6:15
My brothers are treacherous as a torrent-bed, as torrential streams that pass away.
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Psalms 31:11
Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, especially to my neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me.
Psalms 88:8
You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape.
Psalms 88:18
You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me; my companions have become darkness.
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Psalms 38:11
My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague, and my nearest kin stand far off.
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Psalms 55:13
But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend.
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Genesis 17:27
And all the men of his house, those born in the house and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
Matthew 10:36
And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.
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Job 2:9
Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die.
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Job 3:10
Because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.
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2 Kings 2:23
He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, "Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!
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Psalms 41:9
Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
Psalms 55:13 - 14
But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend.
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Psalms 102:5
Because of my loud groaning my bones cling to my flesh.
Lamentations 4:8
Now their face is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as wood.
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Job 1:11
But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face.
Isaiah 53:4
Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
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Psalms 69:26
For they persecute him whom you have struck down, and they recount the pain of those you have wounded.
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Isaiah 30:8
And now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever.
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Jeremiah 17:1
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of their altars.
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Job 30:23
For I know that you will bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living.
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Isaiah 43:14
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One...
Isaiah 44:6
Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his ...
Isaiah 44:24
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed y...
Isaiah 49:7
Thus says the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel and ...
Genesis 48:16
The angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bl...
Psalms 19:14
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of...
Psalms 103:4
Who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns ...
1 Thessalonians 1:10
And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he ra...
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Job 41:33
On earth there is not his like, a creature without fear.
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Psalms 17:15
As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness.
1 Corinthians 13:12
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
1 John 3:2
Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
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Proverbs 27:2
Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
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Psalms 73:26
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
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Job 19:22
Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
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Ecclesiastes 12:14
For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.
Psalms 58:11
Mankind will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth.
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Job 2:11
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.
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Job 4:13
Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men.
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Deuteronomy 4:32
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of.
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Psalms 37:35 - 36
I have seen a wicked, ruthless man, spreading himself like a green laurel tree.
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Isaiah 14:13 - 14
You said in your heart, 'I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north.
Obadiah 1:3 - 4
The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, in your lofty dwelling, who say in your heart, "Who will bring me down to the ground?
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Psalms 83:10
Who were destroyed at En-dor, who became dung for the ground.
Zephaniah 1:17
I will bring distress on mankind, so that they shall walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the Lord ; their blood shall be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.
1 Kings 14:10
Therefore behold, I will bring harm upon the house of Jeroboam and will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both bond and free in Israel, and will burn up the house of Jeroboam, as a man burns up dung until it is all gone.
2 Kings 9:37
And the corpse of Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the territory of Jezreel, so that no one can say, This is Jezebel.'
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Job 14:10
But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?
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Psalms 73:20
Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.
Psalms 90:5
You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning:
Isaiah 29:7 - 8
And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, all that fight against her and her stronghold and distress her, shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.
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Job 7:8
The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone.
Job 7:10
He returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him anymore.
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Job 20:18
He will give back the fruit of his toil and will not swallow it down; from the profit of his trading he will get no enjoyment.
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Job 13:26
For you write bitter things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
Psalms 25:7
Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O Lord!
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Job 21:26
They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.
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Psalms 10:7
His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.
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Deuteronomy 32:33
Their wine is the poison of serpents and the cruel venom of asps.
Psalms 140:3
They make their tongue sharp as a serpent's, and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah
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Isaiah 59:5
They hatch adders' eggs; they weave the spider's web; he who eats their eggs dies, and from one that is crushed a viper is hatched.
Proverbs 23:32
In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.
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Psalms 36:8
They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights.
Jeremiah 17:6
He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.
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Deuteronomy 32:13 - 14
He made him ride on the high places of the land, and he ate the produce of the field, and he suckled him with honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock.
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Job 29:6
When my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
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Job 20:10
His children will seek the favor of the poor, and his hands will give back his wealth.
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Job 20:15
He swallows down riches and vomits them up again; God casts them out of his belly.
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Isaiah 59:8
The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace.
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Proverbs 17:1
Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.
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Ecclesiastes 5:13 - 14
There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt.
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Numbers 11:33
While the meat was yet between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord struck down the people with a very great plague.
Psalms 78:30 - 31
But before they had satisfied their craving, while the food was still in their mouths.
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Isaiah 24:18
He who flees at the sound of the terror shall fall into the pit, and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
Jeremiah 48:44
He who flees from the terror shall fall into the pit, and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For I will bring these things upon Moab, the year of their punishment, declares the Lord.
Amos 5:19
As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand against the wall, and a serpent bit him.
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2 Samuel 22:35
He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
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Judges 5:26
She sent her hand to the tent peg and her right hand to the workmen's mallet; she struck Sisera; she crushed his head; she shattered and pierced his temple.
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Judges 3:22
And the hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not pull the sword out of his belly; and the dung came out.
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Deuteronomy 32:41
If I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and will repay those who hate me.
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Job 16:13
His archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.
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Job 18:11
Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.
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Job 15:34
For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.
Psalms 21:9
You will make them as a blazing oven when you appear. The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath, and fire will consume them.
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Job 16:18 - 19
O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.
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Job 27:13
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty:
Job 18:21
Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, such is the place of him who knows not God.
Job 31:2 - 3
What would be my portion from God above and my heritage from the Almighty on high?
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Job 27:13
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty:
Job 18:21
Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, such is the place of him who knows not God.
Job 31:2 - 3
What would be my portion from God above and my heritage from the Almighty on high?
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Job 13:17
Keep listening to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.
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Job 16:10
Men have gaped at me with their mouth; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me.
Job 16:20
My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God.
Job 17:2
Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.
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Job 10:1
I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 23:2
Today also my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy on account of my groaning.
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Job 29:9
The princes refrained from talking and laid their hand on their mouth.
Job 40:4
Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
Judges 18:19
And they said to him, "Keep quiet; put your hand on your mouth and come with us and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and clan in Israel?
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Job 12:6
The tents of robbers are at peace, and those wh...
Psalms 17:14
From men by your hand, O Lord, from men of the ...
Psalms 37:1
Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not ...
Psalms 37:35
I have seen a wicked, ruthless man, spreading h...
Psalms 73:3
For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw th...
Psalms 73:5
They are not in trouble as others are; they are...
Psalms 92:7
That though the wicked sprout like grass and al...
Ecclesiastes 8:14
There is a vanity that takes place on earth, th...
Jeremiah 12:1 - 2
Righteous are you, O Lord, when I complain to y...
Habakkuk 1:13
You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and ...
Habakkuk 1:16
Therefore he sacrifices to his net and makes of...
Malachi 3:14 - 15
You have said, 'It is vain to serve God. What i...
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Job 5:25
You shall know also that your offspring shall be many, and your descendants as the grass of the earth.
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Job 5:24
You shall know that your tent is at peace, and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.
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Job 9:34
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not dread of him terrify me.
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Exodus 23:26
None shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.
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Psalms 17:14
From men by your hand, O Lord, from men of the world whose portion is in this life. You fill their womb with treasure; they are satisfied with children, and they leave their abundance to their infants.
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Exodus 15:20
Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing.
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Job 30:31
My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.
Genesis 4:21
His brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe.
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Job 30:31
My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.
Genesis 4:21
His brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe.
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Job 36:11
If they listen and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.
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Job 34:20
In a moment they die; at midnight the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand.
Job 24:19
Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned.
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Job 7:9
As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up.
Job 14:13
Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Job 17:13
If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness.
Psalms 16:10
For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption.
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Job 22:17
They said to God, 'Depart from us,' and 'What can the Almighty do to us?
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Exodus 5:2
But Pharaoh said, "Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and moreover, I will not let Israel go.
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Job 34:9
For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.
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Job 22:18
Yet he filled their houses with good things - but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Psalms 1:1
Book One Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers.
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Job 18:5 - 6
Indeed, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.
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Job 13:25
Will you frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff?
Psalms 83:13
O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.
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Psalms 1:4
The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
Psalms 35:5
Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the Lord driving them away!
Isaiah 17:13
The nations roar like the roaring of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and whirling dust before the storm.
Isaiah 29:5
But the multitude of your foreign foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the ruthless like passing chaff. And in an instant, suddenly.
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Job 15:20
The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.
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Exodus 20:5
You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me.
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Isaiah 9:9
And all the people will know, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart:
Ezekiel 25:14
And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath, and they shall know my vengeance, declares the Lord God.
Hosea 9:7
The days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool; the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred.
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Psalms 60:3
You have made your people see hard things; you ...
Psalms 75:8
For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup with...
Isaiah 51:17
Wake yourself, wake yourself, stand up, O Jerus...
Isaiah 51:22
Thus says your Lord, the Lord, your God who ple...
Jeremiah 25:15
Thus the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: "...
Obadiah 1:16
For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so a...
Revelation 14:10
He also will drink the wine of God's wrath, pou...
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Job 14:5
Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass.
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Isaiah 40:14
Whom did he consult, and who made him understand? Who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?
Romans 11:34
"For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?"
1 Corinthians 2:16
For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
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Job 4:18
Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error.
Job 15:15
Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight.
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Proverbs 3:8
It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.
Isaiah 58:11
And the Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
Isaiah 66:14
You shall see, and your heart shall rejoice; your bones shall flourish like the grass; and the hand of the Lord shall be known to his servants, and he shall show his indignation against his enemies.
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Job 7:11
Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
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Job 20:11
His bones are full of his youthful vigor, but it will lie down with him in the dust.
Ecclesiastes 9:2
It is the same for all, since the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As the good one is, so is the sinner, and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath.
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Isaiah 14:11
Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, the sound of your harps; maggots are laid as a bed beneath you, and worms are your covers.
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Job 20:6 - 7
Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds.
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Job 8:22
Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.
Job 15:34
For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.
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Proverbs 16:4
The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.
2 Peter 2:9
Then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment.
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Deuteronomy 7:10
And repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face.
Hosea 5:5
The pride of Israel testifies to his face; Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt; Judah also shall stumble with them.
Galatians 2:11
But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.
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Deuteronomy 7:10
And repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face.
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Job 10:19
And were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.
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Job 38:38
When the dust runs into a mass and the clods stick fast together?
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Job 30:23
For I know that you will bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living.
Hebrews 9:27
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment.
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Job 2:11
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.
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Job 35:7
If you are righteous, what do you give to him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
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Psalms 18:32
The God who equipped me with strength and made my way blameless.
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Job 14:3
And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?
Psalms 143:2
Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.
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Job 24:3
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; t...
Job 24:9
(There are those who snatch the fatherless chil...
Exodus 22:26
If ever you take your neighbor's cloak in pledg...
Deuteronomy 24:6
No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone ...
Deuteronomy 24:17
You shall not pervert the justice due to the so...
Ezekiel 18:12
Oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, ...
Ezekiel 18:16
Does not oppress anyone, exacts no pledge, comm...
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Job 31:16
If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail.
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Job 31:17
Or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
Isaiah 58:7
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
Ezekiel 18:7
Does not oppress anyone, but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment.
Ezekiel 18:16
Does not oppress anyone, exacts no pledge, commits no robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment.
Matthew 25:42
For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink.
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Job 35:9
Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.
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2 Kings 5:1
Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by him the Lord had given victory to Syria. He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
Isaiah 9:15
The elder and honored man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.
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Luke 1:53
He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty.
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Job 38:15
From the wicked their light is withheld, and their uplifted arm is broken.
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Job 31:21
If I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate.
Isaiah 10:2
To turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Ezekiel 22:7
Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you.
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Job 18:8 - 10
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on its mesh.
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Exodus 10:22 - 23
So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was pitch darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.
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Job 38:34
Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that a flood of waters may cover you?
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Job 27:20
Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night...
Psalms 69:1 - 2
Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to ...
Psalms 69:14 - 15
Deliver me from sinking in the mire; let me be ...
Psalms 124:5
Then over us would have gone the raging waters.
Lamentations 3:54
Water closed over my head; I said, 'I am lost.
Jonah 2:3
For you cast me into the deep, into the heart o...
Jonah 2:5
The waters closed in over me to take my life; t...
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Job 11:8
It is higher than heaven - what can you do? Deeper than Sheol - what can you know?
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Psalms 73:11
And they say, "How can God know? Is there knowl...
Psalms 10:11
He says in his heart, "God has forgotten, he ha...
Psalms 59:7
There they are, bellowing with their mouths wit...
Psalms 64:5
They hold fast to their evil purpose; they talk...
Psalms 94:7
And they say, "The Lord does not see; the God o...
Isaiah 29:15
Ah, you who hide deep from the Lord your counse...
Ezekiel 8:12
Then he said to me, "Son of man, have you seen ...
Ezekiel 9:9
Then he said to me, "The guilt of the house of ...
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Job 38:9
When I made clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band.
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Psalms 139:11 - 12
If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night.
Proverbs 8:27
When he established the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep.
Isaiah 40:22
It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in.
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Job 15:32
It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green.
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Job 21:14
They say to God, 'Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.
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Psalms 4:6
There are many who say, "Who will show us some good? Lift up the light of your face upon us, O Lord!
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Job 21:16
Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand? The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
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Psalms 52:6
The righteous shall see and fear, and shall laugh at him, saying.
Psalms 58:10
The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.
Psalms 107:42
The upright see it and are glad, and all wickedness shuts its mouth.
Psalms 64:10
Let the righteous one rejoice in the Lord and take refuge in him! Let all the upright in heart exult!
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Psalms 2:4
He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.
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Job 1:16
While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, "The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.
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Psalms 119:45
And I shall walk in a wide place, for I have sought your precepts.
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Proverbs 3:2
For length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.
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Proverbs 2:6
For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
Malachi 2:7
For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.
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Psalms 119:11
I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
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Job 8:5 - 6
If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy.
Job 11:13 - 14
If you prepare your heart, you will stretch out your hands toward him.
Malachi 3:7
From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. But you say, 'How shall we return?
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Jeremiah 24:6
I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up, and not tear them down; I will plant them, and not uproot them.
Jeremiah 33:7
I will restore the fortunes of Judah and the fortunes of Israel, and rebuild them as they were at first.
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Job 11:14
If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and let not injustice dwell in your tents.
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Job 20:11
His bones are full of his youthful vigor, but it will lie down with him in the dust.
Job 21:26
They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.
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1 Kings 9:28
And they went to Ophir and brought from there gold, 420 talents, and they brought it to King Solomon.
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Job 27:10
Will he take delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
Psalms 37:4
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Isaiah 58:14
Then you shall take delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
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Job 11:15
Surely then you will lift up your face without blemish; you will be secure and will not fear.
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Job 33:26
Then man prays to God, and he accepts him; he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he restores to man his righteousness.
Psalms 50:14 - 15
Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High.
Isaiah 58:9
Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, 'Here I am.' If you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness.
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Psalms 50:14
Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High.
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Proverbs 4:18
But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.
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Psalms 138:6
For though the Lord is high, he regards the low...
Proverbs 3:34
Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the ...
Proverbs 29:23
One's pride will bring him low, but he who is l...
Matthew 23:12
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and who...
Luke 1:52
He has brought down the mighty from their thron...
James 4:6
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "Go...
1 Peter 5:5
Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to th...
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Genesis 18:26
And the Lord said, "If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.
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Job 17:9
Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he who ...
Psalms 18:20
The Lord dealt with me according to my righteou...
Psalms 18:24
So the Lord has rewarded me according to my rig...
Psalms 24:4
He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who do...
Psalms 26:6
I wash my hands in innocence and go around your...
Job 9:30
If I wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands...
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Job 10:1
I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 21:4
As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient?
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Psalms 32:4
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah
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Job 13:3
But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.
Job 16:21
That he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor.
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Psalms 9:7 - 8
But the Lord sits enthroned forever; he has established his throne for justice.
Isaiah 57:15 - 16
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
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Job 33:5
Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.
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Job 9:34
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not dread of him terrify me.
Job 13:21
Withdraw your hand far from me, and let not dread of you terrify me.
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Job 9:11
Behold, he passes by me, and I see him not; he moves on, but I do not perceive him.
Job 35:14
How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!
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Psalms 139:1 - 3
O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
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Psalms 139:24
And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
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Job 9:35
Then I would speak without fear of him, for I am not so in myself.
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Psalms 17:3
You have tried my heart, you have visited me by...
Psalms 26:2
Prove me, O Lord, and try me; test my heart and...
Psalms 66:10
For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried ...
Psalms 139:23
Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and...
Zechariah 13:9
And I will put this third into the fire, and re...
Malachi 3:3
He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver...
1 Peter 1:7
So that the tested genuineness of your faith - ...
Revelation 3:18
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fi...
James 1:12
Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under ...
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Psalms 17:5
My steps have held fast to your paths; my feet have not slipped.
Psalms 44:18
Our heart has not turned back, nor have our steps departed from your way.
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Psalms 125:5
But those who turn aside to their crooked ways the Lord will lead away with evildoers! Peace be upon Israel!
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Psalms 119:11
I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
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Psalms 119:103
How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
John 4:32
But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about.
John 4:34
Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
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Job 9:12
Behold, he snatches away; who can turn him back? Who will say to him, 'What are you doing?
Job 12:14
If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.
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Psalms 115:3
Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases.
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1 Thessalonians 3:3
That no one be moved by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this.
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Job 10:13
Yet these things you hid in your heart; I know that this was your purpose.
Job 27:11
I will teach you concerning the hand of God; what is with the Almighty I will not conceal.
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Deuteronomy 20:3
And shall say to them, 'Hear, O Israel, today you are drawing near for battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint. Do not fear or panic or be in dread of them.
Psalms 22:14
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast.
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Ecclesiastes 9:12
For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.
Isaiah 13:22
Hyenas will cry in its towers, and jackals in the pleasant palaces; its time is close at hand and its days will not be prolonged.
Jeremiah 27:7
All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.
Ezekiel 22:3
You shall say, Thus says the Lord God : A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself!
Ezekiel 30:3
For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near; it will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.
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Job 15:20
The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.
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Isaiah 2:12
For the Lord of hosts has a day against all tha...
Isaiah 13:6
Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; as destr...
Isaiah 13:9
Behold, the day of the Lord comes, cruel, with ...
Joel 1:15
Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is ne...
Joel 2:1
Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my ho...
Amos 5:18
Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord! Why ...
Job 18:20
They of the west are appalled at his day, and h...
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Deuteronomy 19:14
You shall not move your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set, in the inheritance that you will hold in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
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Job 22:6
For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing and stripped the naked of their clothing.
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Amos 2:7
Those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and turn aside the way of the afflicted; a man and his father go in to the same girl, so that my holy name is profaned.
Amos 5:12
For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins - you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.
Malachi 3:5
Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.
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Proverbs 28:28
When the wicked rise, people hide themselves, but when they perish, the righteous increase.
Job 30:5 - 6
They are driven out from human company; they shout after them as after a thief.
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Psalms 104:23
Man goes out to his work and to his labor until the evening.
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Psalms 104:21
The young lions roar for their prey, seeking their food from God.
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Exodus 22:26 - 27
If ever you take your neighbor's cloak in pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down.
Deuteronomy 24:12 - 13
And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep in his pledge.
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Lamentations 4:5
Those who once feasted on delicacies perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple embrace ash heaps.
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2 Timothy 2:6
It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.
James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
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Jeremiah 51:52
Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will execute judgment upon her images, and through all her land the wounded shall groan.
Ezekiel 30:24
And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before him like a man mortally wounded.
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Job 1:22
In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.
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John 3:19 - 20
And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
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Psalms 10:8
He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless.
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Proverbs 7:9
In the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness.
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Psalms 10:11
He says in his heart, "God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it.
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Exodus 22:2
If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him.
Matthew 6:20
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
Job 31:9
If my heart has been enticed toward a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door.
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Job 3:5
Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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Job 9:26
They go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the prey.
Hosea 10:7
Samaria's king shall perish like a twig on the face of the waters.
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Job 21:13
They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.
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Proverbs 10:7
The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
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Job 18:16
His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.
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Psalms 11:4
The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord 's throne is in heaven; his eyes see, his eyelids test the children of man.
Proverbs 15:3
The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
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Psalms 37:10
In just a little while, the wicked will be no more; though you look carefully at his place, he will not be there.
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Job 27:19
He goes to bed rich, but will do so no more; he opens his eyes, and his wealth is gone.
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Job 14:2
He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.
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Job 9:24
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges - if it is not he, who then is it?
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Job 2:11
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.
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Job 19:12
His troops come on together; they have cast up their siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
Psalms 103:21
Bless the Lord, all his hosts, his ministers, who do his will!
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Matthew 5:45
So that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
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Job 4:17 - 19
Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
Job 9:2
Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God?
Job 15:14 - 16
What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
Psalms 130:3
If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
Psalms 143:2
Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.
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Job 14:1
Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.
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Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
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Job 9:14
How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?
Job 15:16
How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water!
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Psalms 22:6
But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people.
Isaiah 41:14
Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I am the one who helps you, declares the Lord ; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
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Job 35:8
Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.
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Isaiah 40:29
He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.
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Genesis 49:24
Yet his bow remained unmoved; his arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob (from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel).
Hosea 7:15
Although I trained and strengthened their arms, yet they devise evil against me.
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Psalms 73:24
You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory.
James 1:5
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
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Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
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Psalms 88:10
Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah
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Psalms 139:8
If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
Proverbs 15:11
Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the Lord ; how much more the hearts of the children of man!
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Revelation 9:11
They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.
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Job 9:8
Who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the sea.
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Genesis 1:2
The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
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Proverbs 30:4
Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name? Surely you know!
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Job 36:29
Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?
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Proverbs 8:29
When he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth.
Job 38:8 - 11
Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb.
Psalms 33:7
He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap; he puts the deeps in storehouses.
Jeremiah 5:22
Do you not fear me? declares the Lord. Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass over it.
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Job 9:6
Who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble.
Psalms 75:3
When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, it is I who keep steady its pillars. Selah
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Psalms 104:7
At your rebuke they fled; at the sound of your thunder they took to flight.
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Isaiah 51:15
I am the Lord your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar - the Lord of hosts is his name.
Jeremiah 31:35
Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar - the Lord of hosts is his name:
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Job 9:13
God will not turn back his anger; beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab.
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Psalms 33:6
By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host.
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Isaiah 27:1
In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.
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Job 40:19
He is the first of the works of God; let him who made him bring near his sword!
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Job 4:12
Now a word was brought to me stealthily; my ear received the whisper of it.
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Job 29:1
And Job again took up his discourse, and said:
Numbers 23:7
And Balaam took up his discourse and said, "From Aram Balak has brought me, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains: 'Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, denounce Israel!
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Job 34:5
For Job has said, 'I am in the right, and God has taken away my right.
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Ruth 1:20
She said to them, "Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
2 Kings 4:27
And when she came to the mountain to the man of God, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came to push her away. But the man of God said, "Leave her alone, for she is in bitter distress, and the Lord has hidden it from me and has not told me.
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Job 33:4
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
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Job 13:7
Will you speak falsely for God and speak deceitfully for him?
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Job 13:7
Will you speak falsely for God and speak deceitfully for him?
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Job 2:3
And the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason.
Job 2:9
Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die.
Job 13:15
Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face.
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Job 2:3
And the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason.
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Acts 23:1
And looking intently at the council, Paul said, "Brothers, I have lived my life before God in all good conscience up to this day.
Acts 24:16
So I always take pains to have a clear conscience toward both God and man.
1 Corinthians 4:4
For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.
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Job 8:13
Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless shall perish.
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Matthew 16:26
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?
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Psalms 18:41
They cried for help, but there was none to save...
Proverbs 1:28
Then they will call upon me, but I will not ans...
Proverbs 15:29
The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears t...
Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my ...
Jeremiah 11:11
Therefore, thus says the Lord, Behold, I am bri...
Jeremiah 14:12
Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, an...
Ezekiel 8:18
Therefore I will act in wrath. My eye will not ...
Micah 3:4
Then they will cry to the Lord, but he will not...
Zechariah 7:13
As I called, and they would not hear, so they c...
Job 35:12 - 13
There they cry out, but he does not answer, bec...
Psalms 66:18
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lo...
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Job 22:26
For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.
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Job 10:13
Yet these things you hid in your heart; I know that this was your purpose.
Job 23:14
For he will complete what he appoints for me, and many such things are in his mind.
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Job 20:29
This is the wicked man's portion from God, the heritage decreed for him by God.
Job 18:21
Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, such is the place of him who knows not God.
Job 31:2
What would be my portion from God above and my heritage from the Almighty on high?
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Job 6:23
Or, 'Deliver me from the adversary's hand'? Or, 'Redeem me from the hand of the ruthless'?
Job 15:20
The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.
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Deuteronomy 28:41
You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for they shall go into captivity.
Hosea 9:13
Ephraim, as I have seen, was like a young palm planted in a meadow; but Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.
Hosea 9:16
Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, I will put their beloved children to death.
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Jeremiah 15:2
And when they ask you, 'Where shall we go?' you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord : "'Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence, and those who are for the sword, to the sword; those who are for famine, to famine, and those who are for captivity, to captivity.
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Psalms 78:64
Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.
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Zechariah 9:3
Tyre has built herself a rampart and heaped up silver like dust, and fine gold like the mud of the streets.
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Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
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Job 8:14 - 15
His confidence is severed, and his trust is a spider's web.
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Isaiah 1:8
And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a lodge in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.
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Song of Solomon 1:6
Do not gaze at me because I am dark, because the sun has looked upon me. My mother's sons were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept!
Song of Solomon 8:11 - 12
Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard to keepers; each one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.
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Jeremiah 8:2
And they shall be spread before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have gone after, and which they have sought and worshiped. And they shall not be gathered or buried. They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground.
Ezekiel 29:5
And I will cast you out into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your streams; you shall fall on the open field, and not be brought together or gathered. To the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the heavens I give you as food.
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Job 24:24
They are exalted a little while, and then are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like the heads of grain.
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Job 18:11
Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.
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Job 22:11
Or darkness, so that you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.
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Job 34:20
In a moment they die; at midnight the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand.
Job 34:25
Thus, knowing their works, he overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.
Job 36:20
Do not long for the night, when peoples vanish in their place.
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Job 30:22
You lift me up on the wind; you make me ride on it, and you toss me about in the roar of the storm.
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Job 8:18
If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, 'I have never seen you.
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Job 16:13
His archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.
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Lamentations 2:15
All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem: "Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?
Ezekiel 25:6
For thus says the Lord God : Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet and rejoiced with all the malice within your soul against the land of Israel.
Nahum 3:19
There is no easing your hurt; your wound is grievous. All who hear the news about you clap their hands over you. For upon whom has not come your unceasing evil?
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2 Chronicles 29:8
Therefore the wrath of the Lord came on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has made them an object of horror, of astonishment, and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes.
Jeremiah 49:17
Edom shall become a horror. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters.
Lamentations 2:15
All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem: "Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?
Ezekiel 27:36
The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more forever.'
Zephaniah 2:15
This is the exultant city that lived securely, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is no one else." What a desolation she has become, a lair for wild beasts! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
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Malachi 3:3
He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord.
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Job 10:22
The land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness.
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Job 3:5
Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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Psalms 104:14
You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth
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Exodus 24:10
And they saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness.
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Job 41:34
He sees everything that is high; he is king over all the sons of pride.
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Job 10:16
And were my head lifted up, you would hunt me like a lion and again work wonders against me.
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Deuteronomy 8:15
Who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock.
Deuteronomy 32:13
He made him ride on the high places of the land, and he ate the produce of the field, and he suckled him with honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock.
Psalms 114:8
Who turns the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water.
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Proverbs 16:16
How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
Ecclesiastes 7:24
That which has been is far off, and deep, very deep; who can find it out?
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Psalms 27:13
I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living!
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Genesis 49:25
By the God of your father who will help you, by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouches beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
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Proverbs 3:14
For the gain from her is better than gain from silver and her profit better than gold.
Proverbs 8:10 - 11
Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.
Proverbs 8:19
My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver.
Proverbs 16:16
How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
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Psalms 45:9
Daughters of kings are among your ladies of honor; at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.
Isaiah 13:12
I will make people more rare than fine gold, and mankind than the gold of Ophir.
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1 Kings 9:28
And they went to Ophir and brought from there gold, 420 talents, and they brought it to King Solomon.
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Genesis 2:12
And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there.
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Exodus 24:10
And they saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness.
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Ezekiel 27:16
Syria did business with you because of your abundant goods; they exchanged for your wares emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and ruby.
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Ezekiel 27:16
Syria did business with you because of your abundant goods; they exchanged for your wares emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and ruby.
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Proverbs 3:15
She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her.
Proverbs 8:11
For wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.
Proverbs 20:15
There is gold and abundance of costly stones, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
Proverbs 31:10
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.
Lamentations 4:7
Her princes were purer than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than coral, the beauty of their form was like sapphire.
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Exodus 28:17
You shall set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle shall be the first row.
Exodus 39:10
And they set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle was the first row.
Ezekiel 28:13
You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, sardius, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle; and crafted in gold were your settings and your engravings. On the day that you were created they were prepared.
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Job 12:10
In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
Job 30:23
For I know that you will bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living.
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Job 26:6
Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
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Job 28:23 - 28
God understands the way to it, and he knows its place.
Proverbs 8:22 - 31
The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old.
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Proverbs 15:3
The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
Zechariah 4:10
For whoever has despised the day of small things shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. "These seven are the eyes of the Lord, which range through the whole earth.
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Psalms 135:7
He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth, who makes lightnings for the rain and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.
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Job 38:25
Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain and a way for the thunderbolt.
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Deuteronomy 4:6
Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Psalms 111:10
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Ecclesiastes 12:13
The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
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Proverbs 3:7
Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.
Proverbs 14:16
One who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is reckless and careless.
Proverbs 16:6
By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the Lord one turns away from evil.
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Job 27:1
And Job again took up his discourse, and said:
Numbers 23:7
And Balaam took up his discourse and said, "From Aram Balak has brought me, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains: 'Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, denounce Israel!
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Job 18:6
The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.
2 Samuel 21:17
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid and attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then David's men swore to him, "You shall no longer go out with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel.
Psalms 18:28
For it is you who light my lamp; the Lord my God lightens my darkness.
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Psalms 25:14
The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.
Proverbs 3:32
For the devious person is an abomination to the Lord, but the upright are in his confidence.
Job 15:8
Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
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Job 1:2
There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
Psalms 128:3
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.
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Genesis 49:11
Binding his foal to the vine and his donkey's colt to the choice vine, he has washed his garments in wine and his vesture in the blood of grapes.
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Job 20:17
He will not look upon the rivers, the streams flowing with honey and curds.
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Deuteronomy 32:13 - 14
He made him ride on the high places of the land, and he ate the produce of the field, and he suckled him with honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock.
Psalms 81:16
But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.
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Deuteronomy 33:24
And of Asher he said, "Most blessed of sons be Asher; let him be the favorite of his brothers, and let him dip his foot in oil.
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Job 5:4
His children are far from safety; they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
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Job 21:5
Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth.
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Psalms 22:15
My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.
Psalms 137:6
Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy!
Lamentations 4:4
The tongue of the nursing infant sticks to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food, but no one gives to them.
Ezekiel 3:26
And I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be mute and unable to reprove them, for they are a rebellious house.
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Psalms 72:12
For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper.
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Job 31:20
If his body has not blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep.
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Proverbs 31:6
Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress.
Isaiah 27:13
And in that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
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Ruth 2:20
And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "May he be blessed by the Lord, whose kindness has not forsaken the living or the dead!" Naomi also said to her, "The man is a close relative of ours, one of our redeemers.
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Psalms 132:9
Let your priests be clothed with righteousness,...
Isaiah 59:17
He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a...
Isaiah 61:10
I will greatly rejoice in the Lord ; my soul sh...
Isaiah 11:5
Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, a...
Ephesians 6:14
Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of...
1 Thessalonians 5:8
But since we belong to the day, let us be sober...
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Isaiah 62:3
You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
Zechariah 3:5
And I said, "Let them put a clean turban on his head." So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the Lord was standing by.
Job 19:9
He has stripped from me my glory and taken the crown from my head.
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Numbers 10:31
And he said, "Please do not leave us, for you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you will serve as eyes for us.
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Proverbs 29:7
A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.
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Psalms 3:7
Arise, O Lord! Save me, O my God! For you strike all my enemies on the cheek; you break the teeth of the wicked.
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Psalms 58:6
O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
Proverbs 30:14
There are those whose teeth are swords, whose fangs are knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mankind.
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Psalms 30:6
As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved.
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Numbers 24:21
And he looked on the Kenite, and took up his discourse and said, "Enduring is your dwelling place, and your nest is set in the rock.
Job 39:27
Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high?
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Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies.
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Job 18:16
His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.
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Psalms 1:3
He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
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Job 14:9
Yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out branches like a young plant.
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Genesis 49:24
Yet his bow remained unmoved; his arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob (from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel).
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Isaiah 40:31
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Isaiah 41:1
Listen to me in silence, O coastlands; let the peoples renew their strength; let them approach, then let them speak; let us together draw near for judgment.
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Deuteronomy 32:2
May my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, like gentle rain upon the tender grass, and like showers upon the herb.
Deuteronomy 33:28
So Israel lived in safety, Jacob lived alone, in a land of grain and wine, whose heavens drop down dew.
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Psalms 119:131
I open my mouth and pant, because I long for your commandments.
Isaiah 5:14
Therefore Sheol has enlarged its appetite and opened its mouth beyond measure, and the nobility of Jerusalem and her multitude will go down, her revelers and he who exults in her.
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Proverbs 16:15
In the light of a king's face there is life, and his favor is like the clouds that bring the spring rain.
Jeremiah 3:3
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a whore; you refuse to be ashamed.
Zechariah 10:1
Ask rain from the Lord in the season of the spring rain, from the Lord who makes the storm clouds, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone the vegetation in the field.
Deuteronomy 11:14
He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.
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Proverbs 16:15
In the light of a king's face there is life, and his favor is like the clouds that bring the spring rain.
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Genesis 4:5
But for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell.
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Job 15:24
Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.
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Job 12:4
I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
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Job 32:6
And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said: "I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you.
Job 32:4
Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he.
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Job 30:2 - 8
What could I gain from the strength of their hands, men whose vigor is gone?
Job 24:4 - 8
They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.
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Job 5:26
You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in its season.
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Job 30:17
The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.
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Jeremiah 2:6
They did not say, 'Where is the Lord who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that none passes through, where no man dwells?
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Job 38:27
To satisfy the waste and desolate land, and to make the ground sprout with grass?
Zephaniah 1:15
A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress and anguish, a day of ruin and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness.
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1 Samuel 26:19
Now therefore let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who has stirred you up against me, may he accept an offering, but if it is men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for they have driven me out this day that I should have no share in the heritage of the Lord, saying, 'Go, serve other gods.
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1 Samuel 13:6
When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were hard pressed), the people hid themselves in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns.
Jeremiah 4:29
At the noise of horseman and archer every city takes to flight; they enter thickets; they climb among rocks; all the cities are forsaken, and no man dwells in them.
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Job 6:5
Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass, or the ox low over his fodder?
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Proverbs 24:31
And behold, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore, as I live," declares the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, "Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.
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Psalms 69:12
I am the talk of those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me.
Lamentations 3:14
I have become the laughingstock of all peoples, the object of their taunts all day long.
Lamentations 3:63
Behold their sitting and their rising; I am the object of their taunts.
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Job 17:6
He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.
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Psalms 88:8
You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape.
Job 17:6
He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.
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Numbers 12:14
But the Lord said to Moses, "If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be shamed seven days? Let her be shut outside the camp seven days, and after that she may be brought in again.
Isaiah 50:6
I gave my back to those who strike, and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard; I hid not my face from disgrace and spitting.
Matthew 26:67
Then they spit in his face and struck him. And some slapped him.
Matthew 27:30
And they spit on him and took the reed and struck him on the head.
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Psalms 109:6
Appoint a wicked man against him; let an accuser stand at his right hand.
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Job 19:12
His troops come on together; they have cast up their siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
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Job 6:2
Oh that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
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Job 16:14
He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior.
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Job 18:11
Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.
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Job 7:9
As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up.
Isaiah 44:22
I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.
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1 Samuel 1:15
But Hannah answered, "No, my lord, I am a woman troubled in spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have been pouring out my soul before the Lord.
Job 10:1
I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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Job 7:3
So I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
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Job 33:19
Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed and with continual strife in his bones.
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Job 30:3
Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation.
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1 Samuel 28:8
So Saul disguised himself and put on other garments and went, he and two men with him. And they came to the woman by night. And he said, "Divine for me by a spirit and bring up for me whomever I shall name to you.
1 Kings 20:38
So the prophet departed and waited for the king by the way, disguising himself with a bandage over his eyes.
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Job 42:6
Therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Genesis 18:27
Abraham answered and said, "Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.
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Lamentations 4:3
Even jackals offer the breast; they nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Isaiah 63:10
But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit; therefore he turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.
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Job 16:9
He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
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Job 27:21
The east wind lifts him up and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
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Job 19:25
For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.
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Job 28:21
It is hidden from the eyes of all living and concealed from the birds of the air.
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Psalms 79:1
O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
Jeremiah 26:18
"Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah: 'Thus says the Lord of hosts, "'Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height.'
Micah 1:6
Therefore I will make Samaria a heap in the open country, a place for planting vineyards, and I will pour down her stones into the valley and uncover her foundations.
Micah 3:12
Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height.
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Psalms 35:13 - 14
But I, when they were sick - I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting; I prayed with head bowed on my chest.
Romans 12:15
Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
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Jeremiah 8:15
We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror.
Jeremiah 14:19
Have you utterly rejected Judah? Does your soul loathe Zion? Why have you struck us down so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror.
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Job 10:21 - 22
Before I go - and I shall not return - to the land of darkness and deep shadow.
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2 Samuel 22:6
The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.
Psalms 18:5
The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.
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Psalms 38:6
I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all the day I go about mourning.
Psalms 42:9
I say to God, my rock: "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psalms 43:2
For you are the God in whom I take refuge; why have you rejected me? Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
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Proverbs 26:26
Though his hatred be covered with deception, his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
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Micah 1:8
For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.
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Isaiah 13:21
But wild animals will lie down there, and their houses will be full of howling creatures; there ostriches will dwell, and there wild goats will dance.
Isaiah 34:13
Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.
Jeremiah 50:39
Therefore wild beasts shall dwell with hyenas in Babylon, and ostriches shall dwell in her. She shall never again have people, nor be inhabited for all generations.
Micah 1:8
For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.
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Psalms 119:83
For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten your statutes.
Lamentations 4:8
Now their face is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as wood.
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.
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Psalms 102:3
For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.
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Job 21:12
They sing to the tambourine and the lyre and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.
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Job 21:12
They sing to the tambourine and the lyre and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.
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Lamentations 5:15
The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning.
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Isaiah 33:15
He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking on evil.
Matthew 5:28
But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
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Job 20:29
This is the wicked man's portion from God, the heritage decreed for him by God.
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Job 20:29
This is the wicked man's portion from God, the heritage decreed for him by God.
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Job 14:16
For then you would number my steps; you would n...
Job 34:21
For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he s...
2 Chronicles 16:9
For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro through...
Proverbs 5:21
For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lor...
Proverbs 15:3
The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keepin...
Jeremiah 16:17
For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not...
Jeremiah 32:19
Great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes...
Zechariah 4:10
For whoever has despised the day of small thing...
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Job 14:16
For then you would number my steps; you would not keep watch over my sin.
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Daniel 5:27
Tekel, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting.
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Numbers 15:39
And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore after.
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
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Job 11:15
Surely then you will lift up your face without blemish; you will be secure and will not fear.
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Leviticus 26:16
Then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
Deuteronomy 28:30
You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. You shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. You shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit.
Deuteronomy 28:38
You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for the locust shall consume it.
John 4:37
For here the saying holds true, 'One sows and another reaps.
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Job 24:15
The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, 'No eye will see me'; and he veils his face.
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Exodus 11:5
And every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the handmill, and all the firstborn of the cattle.
Isaiah 47:2
Take the millstones and grind flour, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.
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2 Samuel 12:11
Thus says the Lord, 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
Jeremiah 8:10
Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to conquerors, because from the least to the greatest everyone is greedy for unjust gain; from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.
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Job 31:28
This also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have been false to God above.
Leviticus 20:10
If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Deuteronomy 22:22
If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.
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Proverbs 6:27 - 29
Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not be burned?
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Psalms 17:3
You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me, and you will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.
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Job 34:19
Who shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?
Proverbs 14:31
Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.
Proverbs 22:2
The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the maker of them all.
Ephesians 6:9
Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.
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Job 22:7
You have given no water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
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Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last.
Job 17:5
He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property - the eyes of his children will fail.
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Job 29:13
The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
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Job 24:7
They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
Job 24:10
They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they carry the sheaves.
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Job 24:7
They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
Job 24:10
They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they carry the sheaves.
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Job 29:13
The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Deuteronomy 24:13
You shall restore to him the pledge as the sun sets, that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you. And it shall be righteousness for you before the Lord your God.
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Job 22:9
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.
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Job 5:4
His children are far from safety; they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
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Job 13:11
Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you?
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Job 13:11
Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you?
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Mark 10:24 - 25
And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, "Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God!
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Job 4:6
Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?
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Job 28:16
It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
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Psalms 62:10
Put no trust in extortion; set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them.
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Deuteronomy 8:17
Beware lest you say in your heart, 'My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.
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Deuteronomy 4:19
And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.
Deuteronomy 17:3
And has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden.
2 Kings 23:5
And he deposed the priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to make offerings in the high places at the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and the moon and the constellations and all the host of the heavens.
2 Kings 23:11
And he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the precincts. And he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
Ezekiel 8:16
And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the east.
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Jeremiah 44:17 - 19
But we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster.
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Job 31:11
For that would be a heinous crime; that would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
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Proverbs 17:5
Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.
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Matthew 5:44
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
Romans 12:14
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.
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Exodus 16:12
"I have heard the grumbling of the people of Israel. Say to them, 'At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God.'"
1 Samuel 25:11
Shall I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers and give it to men who come from I do not know where?
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Genesis 19:2 - 3
And said, "My lords, please turn aside to your servant's house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way." They said, "No; we will spend the night in the town square.
Judges 19:20 - 21
And the old man said, "Peace be to you; I will care for all your wants. Only, do not spend the night in the square.
Matthew 25:35
For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.
Hebrews 13:2
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
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Proverbs 28:13
Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
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Genesis 3:8
And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3:12
The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.
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Exodus 23:2
You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice.
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Job 13:22
Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you reply to me.
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Job 19:23
Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
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Isaiah 9:6
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 22:22
And I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David. He shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
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Proverbs 6:21
Bind them on your heart always; tie them around your neck.
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Zechariah 6:11
Take from them silver and gold, and make a crown, and set it on the head of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest.
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Job 22:6 - 9
For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Luke 10:7
And remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they provide, for the laborer deserves his wages. Do not go from house to house.
2 Timothy 2:6
It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.
James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
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1 Kings 21:16
And as soon as Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab arose to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
1 Kings 21:19
And you shall say to him, 'Thus says the Lord, "Have you killed and also taken possession?"' And you shall say to him, 'Thus says the Lord : "In the place where dogs licked up the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your own blood."'
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Genesis 3:18
Thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.
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Job 33:9
You say, 'I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me.
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Genesis 22:21
Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram.
Jeremiah 25:23
Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair.
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Job 4:17
Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
Job 34:5
For Job has said, 'I am in the right, and God has taken away my right.
Job 35:2
"Do you think this to be just? Do you say, 'It is my right before God,'
Job 40:8
Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?
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Job 8:6
If you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and restore your rightful habitation.
Job 22:5
Is not your evil abundant? There is no end to your iniquities.
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Job 15:10
Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father.
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Job 33:4
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Job 34:14
If he should set his heart to it and gather to himself his spirit and his breath.
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Job 33:4
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
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Job 35:11
Who teaches us more than the beasts of the eart...
Job 38:36
Who has put wisdom in the inward parts or given...
Job 39:17
Because God has made her forget wisdom and give...
1 Kings 3:12
Behold, I now do according to your word. Behold...
1 Kings 4:29
And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding b...
Proverbs 2:6
For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come ...
Ecclesiastes 2:26
For to the one who pleases him God has given wi...
Daniel 1:17
As for these four youths, God gave them learnin...
Daniel 2:21
He changes times and seasons; he removes kings ...
James 1:5
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, wh...
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1 Corinthians 1:26
For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.
Job 12:20
He deprives of speech those who are trusted and takes away the discernment of the elders.
Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus declared, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children.
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Jeremiah 9:23
Thus says the Lord : "Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches.
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Matthew 9:17
Neither is new wine put into old wineskins. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.
Joshua 9:4
They on their part acted with cunning and went and made ready provisions and took worn-out sacks for their donkeys, and wineskins, worn-out and torn and mended.
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Psalms 39:3
My heart became hot within me. As I mused, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:
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1 Samuel 16:23
And whenever the harmful spirit from God was upon Saul, David took the lyre and played it with his hand. So Saul was refreshed and was well, and the harmful spirit departed from him.
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Leviticus 19:15
You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
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Job 3:1
After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
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Job 27:3
As long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils.
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Job 32:8
But it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand.
Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
Ezekiel 37:9
Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord God : Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.
Acts 17:25
Nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.
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Job 33:32
If you have any words, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.
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Job 13:18
Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be in the right.
Job 23:4
I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
Psalms 5:3
O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.
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Job 4:19
How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.
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Job 9:34 - 35
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not dread of him terrify me.
Job 13:21
Withdraw your hand far from me, and let not dread of you terrify me.
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Job 23:2
Today also my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy on account of my groaning.
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Job 9:21
I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe m...
Job 10:7
Although you know that I am not guilty, and the...
Job 11:4
For you say, 'My doctrine is pure, and I am cle...
Job 12:4
I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who call...
Job 13:18
Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I ...
Job 16:17
Although there is no violence in my hands, and ...
Job 23:10 - 11
But he knows the way that I take; when he has t...
Job 27:5
Far be it from me to say that you are right; ti...
Job 29:14
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my j...
Job 32:1
So these three men ceased to answer Job, becaus...
Job 34:5
For Job has said, 'I am in the right, and God h...
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Job 34:6
In spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.
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Job 13:24
Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?
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Job 13:27
You put my feet in the stocks and watch all my paths; you set a limit for the soles of my feet.
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Job 10:14
If I sin, you watch me and do not acquit me of my iniquity.
Job 14:16
For then you would number my steps; you would not keep watch over my sin.
Job 31:4
Does not he see my ways and number all my steps?
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Job 13:3
But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.
Job 16:21
That he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor.
Job 31:35
Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary!
Job 40:2
"Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."
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Job 9:12
Behold, he snatches away; who can turn him back? Who will say to him, 'What are you doing?
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Job 40:5
I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further.
Psalms 62:11
Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God.
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Job 33:29
Behold, God does all these things, twice, three times, with a man.
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1 Samuel 3:4
Then the Lord called Samuel, and he said, "Here I am!
1 Samuel 3:6
And the Lord called again, "Samuel!" and Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, "Here I am, for you called me." But he said, "I did not call, my son; lie down again.
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Numbers 12:6
And he said, "Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream.
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Job 4:13
Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men.
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Job 4:13
Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men.
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Psalms 17:3
You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me, and you will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.
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Job 36:10
He opens their ears to instruction and commands that they return from iniquity.
Job 36:15
He delivers the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ear by adversity.
Psalms 40:6
In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.
Isaiah 50:5
The Lord God has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious; I turned not backward.
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Job 36:9
Then he declares to them their work and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.
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Job 36:12
But if they do not listen, they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.
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Job 30:17
The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.
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Psalms 107:18
They loathed any kind of food, and they drew near to the gates of death.
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Proverbs 23:3
Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.
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Psalms 22:17
I can count all my bones - they stare and gloat over me.
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Job 33:24
And he is merciful to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going down into the pit; I have found a ransom.
Job 33:28
He has redeemed my soul from going down into the pit, and my life shall look upon the light.
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2 Samuel 24:16 - 17
And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was working destruction among the people, "It is enough; now stay your hand." And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
Psalms 78:49
He let loose on them his burning anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels.
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Genesis 16:7
The angel of the Lord found her by a spring of ...
Genesis 22:11
But the angel of the Lord called to him from he...
Genesis 48:16
The angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bl...
Psalms 34:7
The angel of the Lord encamps around those who ...
Isaiah 63:9
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and t...
Malachi 3:1
Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepar...
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Genesis 42:23
They did not know that Joseph understood them, for there was an interpreter between them.
Isaiah 43:27
Your first father sinned, and your mediators transgressed against me.
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Ecclesiastes 7:28
Which my soul has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. One man among a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I have not found.
Song of Solomon 5:10
My beloved is radiant and ruddy, distinguished among ten thousand.
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Proverbs 14:2
Whoever walks in uprightness fears the Lord, but he who is devious in his ways despises him.
Ezekiel 18:21 - 22
But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is just and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
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Job 36:18
Beware lest wrath entice you into scoffing, and let not the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.
Psalms 49:7
Truly no man can ransom another, or give to God the price of his life.
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2 Kings 5:14
So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
Hebrews 9:12
He entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
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Job 22:27
You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you, and you will pay your vows.
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Psalms 17:15
As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness.
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2 Samuel 12:13
David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord." And Nathan said to David, "The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.
Proverbs 28:13
Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
Luke 15:21 - 24
And the son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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Psalms 106:6
Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedness.
Romans 6:21
But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
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Isaiah 38:17
Behold, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but in love you have delivered my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
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Job 33:22
His soul draws near the pit, and his life to those who bring death.
Job 33:24
And he is merciful to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going down into the pit; I have found a ransom.
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Job 3:9
Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning.
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Job 33:14
For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it.
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Psalms 56:13
For you have delivered my soul from death, yes, my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.
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Job 33:5
Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.
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Job 34:33
Will he then make repayment to suit you, because you reject it? For you must choose, and not I; therefore declare what you know.
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Psalms 34:11
Come, O children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
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Job 12:11
Does not the ear test words as the palate tastes food?
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1 Thessalonians 5:21 - 22
But test everything; hold fast what is good.
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Job 33:9
You say, 'I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me.
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Job 27:2
As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter.
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Cross References
Job 33:9
You say, 'I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me.
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Job 15:16
How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water!
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Psalms 1:1
Book One Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers.
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Job 9:22 - 23
It is all one; therefore I say, He destroys bot...
Job 9:30 - 31
If I wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands...
Job 21:7
Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow...
Job 21:15
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?...
Job 24:1
Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almig...
Job 35:3
That you ask, 'What advantage have I? How am I ...
Malachi 3:14
You have said, 'It is vain to serve God. What i...
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Job 36:23
Who has prescribed for him his way, or who can ...
Genesis 18:25
Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put t...
Deuteronomy 32:4
The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways...
2 Chronicles 19:7
Now then, let the fear of the Lord be upon you....
Psalms 92:15
To declare that the Lord is upright; he is my r...
Romans 9:14
What shall we say then? Is there injustice on G...
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Psalms 62:12
And that to you, O Lord, belongs steadfast love...
Proverbs 24:12
If you say, "Behold, we did not know this," doe...
Matthew 16:27
For the Son of Man is going to come with his an...
Romans 2:6
He will render to each one according to his works:
2 Corinthians 5:10
For we must all appear before the judgment seat...
1 Peter 1:17
And if you call on him as Father who judges imp...
Revelation 22:12
Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompens...
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Jeremiah 17:10
"I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds."
Jeremiah 32:19
Great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of man, rewarding each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
Ezekiel 33:20
Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways.
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Job 8:3
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
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Job 38:4 - 7
Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.
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Job 2:3
And the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason.
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Psalms 104:29
When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
Psalms 146:4
When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.
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Job 32:8
But it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand.
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Cross References
Job 10:9
Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?
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Cross References
Genesis 18:25
Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?
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Exodus 22:28
You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
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Deuteronomy 10:17
For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord o...
2 Chronicles 19:7
Now then, let the fear of the Lord be upon you....
Acts 10:34
So Peter opened his mouth and said: "Truly I un...
Romans 2:11
For God shows no partiality.
Galatians 2:6
And from those who seemed to be influential (wh...
Ephesians 6:9
Masters, do the same to them, and stop your thr...
Colossians 3:25
For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wro...
1 Peter 1:17
And if you call on him as Father who judges imp...
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James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
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Job 31:15
Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?
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Job 21:13
They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.
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Exodus 11:4
So Moses said, "Thus says the Lord : About midnight I will go out in the midst of Egypt.
Job 27:20
Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries him off.
Job 36:20
Do not long for the night, when peoples vanish in their place.
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Daniel 8:25
By his cunning he shall make deceit prosper under his hand, and in his own mind he shall become great. Without warning he shall destroy many. And he shall even rise up against the Prince of princes, and he shall be broken - but by no human hand.
Lamentations 4:6
For the chastisement of the daughter of my people has been greater than the punishment of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment, and no hands were wrung for her.
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Job 14:16
For then you would number my steps; you would not keep watch over my sin.
Job 31:4
Does not he see my ways and number all my steps?
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Job 14:16
For then you would number my steps; you would not keep watch over my sin.
Job 31:4
Does not he see my ways and number all my steps?
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Cross References
Psalms 139:12
Even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.
Amos 9:2 - 3
If they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.
Hebrews 4:13
And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
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Job 3:5
Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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Job 14:3
And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?
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Psalms 2:9
You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
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Job 8:19
Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the soil others will spring.
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Proverbs 12:7
The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand.
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1 Samuel 15:11
I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not performed my commandments." And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the Lord all night.
Psalms 28:5
Because they do not regard the works of the Lord or the work of his hands, he will tear them down and build them up no more.
Isaiah 5:12
They have lyre and harp, tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts, but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord, or see the work of his hands.
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Job 35:9
Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.
James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
Genesis 18:20 - 21
Then the Lord said, "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave.
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Exodus 3:7
Then the Lord said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings.
Exodus 22:23
If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry.
Isaiah 32:17
And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.
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Job 35:11
Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?
Job 36:22
Behold, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?
Psalms 19:12
Who can discern his errors? Declare me innocent from hidden faults.
Psalms 86:11
Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.
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Job 33:32
If you have any words, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.
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Job 35:16
Job opens his mouth in empty talk; he multiplies words without knowledge.
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Job 27:23
It claps its hands at him and hisses at him from its place.
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Job 32:2
Then Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, burned with anger. He burned with anger at Job because he justified himself rather than God.
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Job 34:9
For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.
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Job 34:8
Who travels in company with evildoers and walks with wicked men?
Job 34:36
Would that Job were tried to the end, because he answers like wicked men.
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Job 22:12
Is not God high in the heavens? See the highest stars, how lofty they are!
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Proverbs 8:36
But he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death.
Jeremiah 7:19
Is it I whom they provoke? declares the Lord. Is it not themselves, to their own shame?
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Job 22:2 - 3
Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
Proverbs 9:12
If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it.
Luke 17:10
So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, 'We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.'
Job 41:11
Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.
Romans 11:35
"Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?"
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Job 25:6
How much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm!
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Amos 3:9
Proclaim to the strongholds in Ashdod and to the strongholds in the land of Egypt, and say, "Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see the great tumults within her, and the oppressed in her midst.
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Exodus 2:23
During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.
Job 34:28
So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted -
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Job 22:8
The man with power possessed the land, and the favored man lived in it.
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Job 4:17
Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
Deuteronomy 32:6
Do you thus repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?
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Psalms 42:8
By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
Psalms 77:6
I said, "Let me remember my song in the night; let me meditate in my heart." Then my spirit made a diligent search:
Psalms 149:5
Let the godly exult in glory; let them sing for joy on their beds.
Acts 16:25
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
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Job 36:22
Behold, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?
Psalms 94:12
Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law.
Isaiah 28:26
For he is rightly instructed; his God teaches him.
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Job 27:9
Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him?
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Job 9:11
Behold, he passes by me, and I see him not; he moves on, but I do not perceive him.
Job 23:8 - 9
Behold, I go forward, but he is not there, and backward, but I do not perceive him.
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Job 13:15
Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face.
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Numbers 16:29
If these men die as all men die, or if they are visited by the fate of all mankind, then the Lord has not sent me.
Psalms 89:32
Then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes.
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Job 34:37
For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.
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Job 34:35
'Job speaks without knowledge; his words are without insight.'
Job 36:12
But if they do not listen, they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.
Job 38:2
Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
Job 42:3
Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
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Psalms 78:2
I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old.
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Revelation 15:3 - 4
And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations!
Revelation 16:5
And I heard the angel in charge of the waters say, "Just are you, O Holy One, who is and who was, for you brought these judgments.
Revelation 16:7
And I heard the altar saying, "Yes, Lord God the Almighty, true and just are your judgments!
Revelation 19:1 - 2
After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, crying out, "Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God.
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Job 35:10
But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night.
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Job 37:16
Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge.
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Job 8:20
Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers.
Psalms 138:6
For though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly, but the haughty he knows from afar.
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Job 9:4
He is wise in heart and mighty in strength - who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded? -
Job 12:13
With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.
Job 12:16
With him are strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his.
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Job 36:15
He delivers the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ear by adversity.
Job 34:28
So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted -
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Psalms 33:18
Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love.
Psalms 34:15
The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous and his ears toward their cry.
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Psalms 132:12
If your sons keep my covenant and my testimonies that I shall teach them, their sons also forever shall sit on your throne.
Psalms 113:8
To make them sit with princes, with the princes of his people.
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Psalms 75:10
All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.
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Job 36:13
The godless in heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them.
Psalms 107:10
Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and in irons.
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Job 15:25
Because he has stretched out his hand against God and defies the Almighty.
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Job 33:16
Then he opens the ears of men and terrifies them with warnings.
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Jeremiah 18:11
Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: 'Thus says the Lord, Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Return, every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your deeds.
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Job 36:11 - 12
If they listen and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.
Isaiah 1:19 - 20
If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land.
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Job 21:13
They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.
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Job 33:18
He keeps back his soul from the pit, his life from perishing by the sword.
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Job 4:21
Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?
Job 35:16
Job opens his mouth in empty talk; he multiplies words without knowledge.
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Job 15:34
For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.
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Job 36:8
And if they are bound in chains and caught in the cords of affliction.
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Job 15:32
It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green.
Job 22:16
They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away.
Psalms 55:23
But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.
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Job 36:6
He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the afflicted their right.
Job 33:15 - 28
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds.
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Job 36:10
He opens their ears to instruction and commands that they return from iniquity.
Psalms 119:67
Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word.
Psalms 119:71
It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes.
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Job 37:10
By the breath of God ice is given, and the broad waters are frozen fast.
Psalms 4:1
Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have given me relief when I was in distress. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!
Psalms 18:19
He brought me out into a broad place; he rescued me, because he delighted in me.
Psalms 31:8
And you have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a broad place.
Psalms 118:5
Out of my distress I called on the Lord ; the Lord answered me and set me free.
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Psalms 23:5
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
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Psalms 36:8
They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights.
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Job 33:24
And he is merciful to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going down into the pit; I have found a ransom.
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Proverbs 11:4
Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
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Job 27:20
Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries him off.
Job 34:20
In a moment they die; at midnight the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand.
Job 34:25
Thus, knowing their works, he overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.
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Job 40:12
Look on everyone who is proud and bring him low and tread down the wicked where they stand.
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Psalms 66:18
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
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Job 34:32
Teach me what I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?
Job 35:11
Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?
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Job 34:13
Who gave him charge over the earth, and who laid on him the whole world?
Isaiah 40:13 - 14
Who has measured the Spirit of the Lord, or what man shows him his counsel?
Romans 11:34
"For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?"
1 Corinthians 2:16
For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
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Job 34:10
Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding: far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.
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Luke 1:46
And Mary said, "My soul magnifies the Lord.
Psalms 92:5
How great are your works, O Lord! Your thoughts are very deep!
Revelation 15:3
And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations!
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Job 33:27
He sings before men and says: 'I sinned and perverted what was right, and it was not repaid to me.
Psalms 104:33
I will sing to the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have being.
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Job 37:5
God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that we cannot comprehend.
1 Corinthians 13:12
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
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Psalms 90:2
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
Psalms 102:27
But you are the same, and your years have no end.
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Genesis 2:6
And a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground -
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Psalms 147:8
He covers the heavens with clouds; he prepares rain for the earth; he makes grass grow on the hills.
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Proverbs 3:20
By his knowledge the deeps broke open, and the clouds drop down the dew.
Deuteronomy 33:28
So Israel lived in safety, Jacob lived alone, in a land of grain and wine, whose heavens drop down dew.
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Job 26:9
He covers the face of the full moon and spreads over it his cloud.
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Psalms 18:11
He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him, thick clouds dark with water.
Psalms 105:39
He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light by night.
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Job 37:13
Whether for correction or for his land or for love, he causes it to happen.
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Psalms 104:27 - 28
These all look to you, to give them their food in due season.
Psalms 136:25
He who gives food to all flesh, for his steadfast love endures forever.
Psalms 145:15
The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season.
Psalms 147:9
He gives to the beasts their food, and to the young ravens that cry.
Acts 14:17
Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.
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Habakkuk 3:4
His brightness was like the light; rays flashed from his hand; and there he veiled his power.
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Job 36:30
Behold, he scatters his lightning about him and covers the roots of the sea.
Job 36:32
He covers his hands with the lightning and commands it to strike the mark.
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Job 38:13
That it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?
Isaiah 11:12
He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Ezekiel 7:2
And you, O son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.
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Job 40:9
Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?
Psalms 68:33
To him who rides in the heavens, the ancient heavens; behold, he sends out his voice, his mighty voice.
Psalms 29:3 - 9
The voice of the Lord is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the Lord, over many waters.
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Psalms 18:13
The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire.
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Job 5:9
Who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number:
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Job 36:26
Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.
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Psalms 147:16 - 17
He gives snow like wool; he scatters hoarfrost like ashes.
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Daniel 12:9
He said, "Go your way, Daniel, for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.
Job 14:17
My transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity.
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Psalms 109:27
Let them know that this is your hand; you, O Lord, have done it!
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Job 38:40
When they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in their thicket?
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Psalms 104:22
When the sun rises, they steal away and lie down in their dens.
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Job 9:9
Who made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the chambers of the south.
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Isaiah 21:1
The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the Negeb sweep on, it comes from the wilderness, from a terrible land.
Job 1:19
And behold, a great wind came across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you.
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Psalms 147:17
He hurls down his crystals of ice like crumbs; who can stand before his cold?
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Job 38:29 - 30
From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who has given birth to the frost of heaven?
Psalms 147:17
He hurls down his crystals of ice like crumbs; who can stand before his cold?
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Job 36:16
He also allured you out of distress into a broad place where there was no cramping, and what was set on your table was full of fatness.
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Genesis 3:24
He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.
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Psalms 148:8
Fire and hail, snow and mist, stormy wind fulfilling his word!
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Psalms 148:8
Fire and hail, snow and mist, stormy wind fulfilling his word!
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Proverbs 8:31
Rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the children of man.
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Exodus 9:18
Behold, about this time tomorrow I will cause v...
Exodus 9:23
Then Moses stretched out his staff toward heave...
1 Samuel 12:18 - 19
So Samuel called upon the Lord, and the Lord se...
Ezra 10:9
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin assemble...
Job 36:31
For by these he judges peoples; he gives food i...
Job 38:22 - 23
Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, o...
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Job 38:26 - 27
To bring rain on a land where no man is, on the desert in which there is no man.
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1 Kings 18:45
And in a little while the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel.
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Psalms 111:2
Great are the works of the Lord, studied by all who delight in them.
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Job 36:4
For truly my words are not false; one who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
1 Samuel 2:3
Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
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Isaiah 42:5
Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it:
Isaiah 44:24
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: "I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself.
Genesis 1:6
And God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.
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Exodus 38:8
He made the basin of bronze and its stand of bronze, from the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered in the entrance of the tent of meeting.
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Isaiah 60:2
For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the Lord will arise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you.
Ephesians 4:18
They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.
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Psalms 104:1
Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, you are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty.
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1 Timothy 6:16
Who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.
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Job 36:5
Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise any; he is mighty in strength of understanding.
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Psalms 99:4
The King in his might loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
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Lamentations 3:33
For he does not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men.
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Psalms 130:4
But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared.
Matthew 10:28
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
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Isaiah 5:21
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!
Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus declared, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children.
1 Corinthians 1:26
For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.
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Job 40:6
Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
Job 13:22
Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you reply to me.
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Job 42:3
Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
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Job 35:16
Job opens his mouth in empty talk; he multiplies words without knowledge.
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1 Kings 18:46
And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah, and he gathered up his garment and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
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Psalms 104:5
He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved.
Proverbs 30:4
Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name? Surely you know!
Isaiah 40:12 - 14
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?
Proverbs 8:24 - 29
When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.
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Psalms 19:1 - 4
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
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Job 1:6
Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them.
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Luke 2:13 - 14
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying.
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Genesis 1:9
And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so.
Psalms 33:7
He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap; he puts the deeps in storehouses.
Psalms 104:8 - 9
The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place that you appointed for them.
Jeremiah 5:22
Do you not fear me? declares the Lord. Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass over it.
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Job 22:13
But you say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?
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Job 38:33
Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth?
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Psalms 65:7
Who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, the tumult of the peoples.
Psalms 89:9
You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, you still them.
Psalms 93:4
Mightier than the thunders of many waters, mightier than the waves of the sea, the Lord on high is mighty!
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Psalms 65:8
So that those who dwell at the ends of the earth are in awe at your signs. You make the going out of the morning and the evening to shout for joy.
Psalms 74:16
Yours is the day, yours also the night; you have established the heavenly lights and the sun.
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Job 37:3
Under the whole heaven he lets it go, and his lightning to the corners of the earth.
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Nehemiah 5:13
I also shook out the fold of my garment and said, "So may God shake out every man from his house and from his labor who does not keep this promise. So may he be shaken out and emptied." And all the assembly said "Amen" and praised the Lord. And the people did as they had promised.
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Job 18:5
Indeed, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.
Matthew 6:23
But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
Job 24:13 - 17
There are those who rebel against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths.
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Psalms 10:15
Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call his wickedness to account till you find none.
Psalms 37:17
For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but the Lord upholds the righteous.
Ezekiel 30:21 - 22
Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and behold, it has not been bound up, to heal it by binding it with a bandage, so that it may become strong to wield the sword.
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Psalms 77:19
Your way was through the sea, your path through the great waters; yet your footprints were unseen.
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Psalms 9:13
Be gracious to me, O Lord! See my affliction from those who hate me, O you who lift me up from the gates of death.
Psalms 107:18
They loathed any kind of food, and they drew near to the gates of death.
Isaiah 38:10
I said, In the middle of my days I must depart; I am consigned to the gates of Sheol for the rest of my years.
Matthew 16:18
And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
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Job 3:5
Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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Job 24:13
There are those who rebel against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths.
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Job 15:7
Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?
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Psalms 135:7
He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth, who makes lightnings for the rain and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.
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Psalms 135:7
He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth, who makes lightnings for the rain and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.
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Joshua 10:11
And as they fled before Israel, while they were...
Isaiah 28:17
And I will make justice the line, and righteous...
Isaiah 30:30
And the Lord will cause his majestic voice to b...
Ezekiel 13:11
Say to those who smear it with whitewash that i...
Ezekiel 13:13
Therefore thus says the Lord God : I will make ...
Ezekiel 38:22
With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into...
Revelation 16:21
And great hailstones, about one hundred pounds ...
Job 37:13
Whether for correction or for his land or for l...
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Joshua 10:11
And as they fled before Israel, while they were...
Isaiah 28:17
And I will make justice the line, and righteous...
Isaiah 30:30
And the Lord will cause his majestic voice to b...
Ezekiel 13:11
Say to those who smear it with whitewash that i...
Ezekiel 13:13
Therefore thus says the Lord God : I will make ...
Ezekiel 38:22
With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into...
Revelation 16:21
And great hailstones, about one hundred pounds ...
Job 37:13
Whether for correction or for his land or for l...
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Job 28:26
When he made a decree for the rain and a way for the lightning of the thunder.
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Job 37:13
Whether for correction or for his land or for love, he causes it to happen.
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Psalms 107:35
He turns a desert into pools of water, a parched land into springs of water.
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Genesis 1:11
And God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth." And it was so.
2 Samuel 23:4
He dawns on them like the morning light, like the sun shining forth on a cloudless morning, like rain that makes grass to sprout from the earth.
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Psalms 147:8
He covers the heavens with clouds; he prepares rain for the earth; he makes grass grow on the hills.
Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are you not he, O Lord our God? We set our hope on you, for you do all these things.
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Psalms 147:16 - 17
He gives snow like wool; he scatters hoarfrost like ashes.
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Psalms 147:16 - 17
He gives snow like wool; he scatters hoarfrost like ashes.
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Job 37:10
By the breath of God ice is given, and the broad waters are frozen fast.
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Job 9:9
Who made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the chambers of the south.
Amos 5:8
He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name.
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Job 9:9
Who made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the chambers of the south.
Amos 5:8
He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name.
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Job 38:31
Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loose the cords of Orion?
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Jeremiah 31:35
Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar - the Lord of hosts is his name:
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Job 22:11
Or darkness, so that you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.
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Job 32:8
But it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand.
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Psalms 51:6
Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
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Job 21:33
The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all mankind follows after him, and those who go before him are innumerable.
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Psalms 104:21
The young lions roar for their prey, seeking their food from God.
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Job 37:8
Then the beasts go into their lairs, and remain in their dens.
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Psalms 17:12
He is like a lion eager to tear, as a young lion lurking in ambush.
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Psalms 147:9
He gives to the beasts their food, and to the young ravens that cry.
Luke 12:24
Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!
Matthew 6:26
Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
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1 Samuel 24:2
Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel and went to seek David and his men in front of the Wildgoats' Rocks.
Psalms 104:18
The high mountains are for the wild goats; the rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.
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Psalms 29:9
The voice of the Lord makes the deer give birth and strips the forests bare, and in his temple all cry, "Glory!
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1 Samuel 4:19
Now his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant, about to give birth. And when she heard the news that the ark of God was captured, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed and gave birth, for her pains came upon her.
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Genesis 8:12
Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him anymore.
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Job 12:18
He looses the bonds of kings and binds a waistcloth on their hips.
Psalms 116:16
O Lord, I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of your maidservant. You have loosed my bonds.
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Job 24:5
Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poor go out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children.
Jeremiah 2:24
A wild donkey used to the wilderness, in her heat sniffing the wind! Who can restrain her lust? None who seek her need weary themselves; in her month they will find her.
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Psalms 107:34
A fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the evil of its inhabitants.
Jeremiah 17:6
He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.
Deuteronomy 29:23
The whole land burned out with brimstone and salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath -
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Numbers 23:22
God brings them out of Egypt and is for them like the horns of the wild ox.
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Proverbs 14:4
Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox.
Isaiah 1:3
The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.
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Job 39:9
Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your manger?
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Lamentations 4:3
Even jackals offer the breast; they nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
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Isaiah 49:4
But I said, "I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my right is with the Lord, and my recompense with my God.
Isaiah 65:23
They shall not labor in vain or bear children for calamity, for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord, and their descendants with them.
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Job 35:11
Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?
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Jeremiah 8:16
The snorting of their horses is heard from Dan; at the sound of the neighing of their stallions the whole land quakes. They come and devour the land and all that fills it, the city and those who dwell in it.
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Jeremiah 8:6
I have paid attention and listened, but they have not spoken rightly; no man relents of his evil, saying, 'What have I done?' Everyone turns to his own course, like a horse plunging headlong into battle.
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Jeremiah 4:19
My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh the walls of my heart! My heart is beating wildly; I cannot keep silent, for I hear the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
Amos 3:6
Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the Lord has done it?
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Numbers 24:21
And he looked on the Kenite, and took up his discourse and said, "Enduring is your dwelling place, and your nest is set in the rock.
Jeremiah 49:16
The horror you inspire has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, you who live in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as the eagle's, I will bring you down from there, declares the Lord.
Obadiah 1:4
Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down, declares the Lord.
Habakkuk 2:9
Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm!
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1 Samuel 14:5
The one crag rose on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba.
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Matthew 24:28
Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.
Luke 17:37
And they said to him, "Where, Lord?" He said to them, "Where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.
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Job 38:1
Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
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Job 33:13
Why do you contend against him, saying, 'He will answer none of man's words'?
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Job 42:6
Therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Ezra 9:6
Saying: "O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.
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Job 21:5
Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth.
Job 29:9
The princes refrained from talking and laid their hand on their mouth.
Judges 18:19
And they said to him, "Keep quiet; put your hand on your mouth and come with us and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and clan in Israel?
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Job 33:14
For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it.
Psalms 62:11
Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God.
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Job 33:14
For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it.
Psalms 62:11
Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God.
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Job 38:1
Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
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Job 38:3
Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me.
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Job 38:3
Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me.
Job 42:4
'Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you make it known to me.'
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Job 32:2
Then Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, burned with anger. He burned with anger at Job because he justified himself rather than God.
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Psalms 89:13
You have a mighty arm; strong is your hand, high your right hand.
Isaiah 63:12
Who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to make for himself an everlasting name.
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Job 37:4
After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice, and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard.
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Psalms 93:1
The Lord reigns; he is robed in majesty; the Lord is robed; he has put on strength as his belt. Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.
Psalms 104:1
Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, you are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty.
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Daniel 4:37
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.
Isaiah 2:11 - 17
The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
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Isaiah 63:3
I have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples no one was with me; I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath; their lifeblood spattered on my garments, and stained all my apparel.
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Job 36:20
Do not long for the night, when peoples vanish in their place.
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Isaiah 2:10
Enter into the rock and hide in the dust from before the terror of the Lord, and from the splendor of his majesty.
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Job 21:26
They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.
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Psalms 98:1
Oh sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.
Isaiah 59:16
He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no one to intercede; then his own arm brought him salvation, and his righteousness upheld him.
Isaiah 63:5
I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold; so my own arm brought me salvation, and my wrath upheld me.
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Numbers 22:4
And Moab said to the elders of Midian, "This horde will now lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field." So Balak the son of Zippor, who was king of Moab at that time.
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Proverbs 8:22
The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old.
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Job 26:14
Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?
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Psalms 68:30
Rebuke the beasts that dwell among the reeds, the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples. Trample underfoot those who lust after tribute; scatter the peoples who delight in war.
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Job 3:8
Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up Leviathan.
Psalms 74:14
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
Psalms 104:26
There go the ships, and Leviathan, which you formed to play in it.
Isaiah 27:1
In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.
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2 Kings 19:28
Because you have raged against me and your complacency has come into my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.
Isaiah 37:29
Because you have raged against me and your complacency has come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.
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2 Kings 19:28
Because you have raged against me and your complacency has come into my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.
Isaiah 37:29
Because you have raged against me and your complacency has come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.
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Exodus 21:6
Then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.
Deuteronomy 15:17
Then you shall take an awl, and put it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your slave forever. And to your female slave you shall do the same.
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Romans 11:35
"Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?"
Job 35:7
If you are righteous, what do you give to him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
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Psalms 24:1
The earth is the Lord 's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein.
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Job 41:23
The folds of his flesh stick together, firmly cast on him and immovable.
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Job 3:9
Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning.
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2 Samuel 22:13
Out of the brightness before him coals of fire flamed forth.
Psalms 18:8
Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him.
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Job 41:17
They are joined one to another; they clasp each other and cannot be separated.
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Job 2:8
And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in the ashes.
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Isaiah 28:27
Dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin, but dill is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.
Isaiah 41:15
Behold, I make of you a threshing sledge, new, sharp, and having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains and crush them, and you shall make the hills like chaff.
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Job 19:25
For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.
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Job 28:8
The proud beasts have not trodden it; the lion has not passed over it.
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Genesis 18:14
Is anything too hard for the Lord ? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.
Matthew 19:26
But Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.
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Job 38:2
Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
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Psalms 40:5
You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told.
Psalms 131:1
O Lord, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me.
Psalms 139:6
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.
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Job 38:3
Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me.
Job 40:7
Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me.
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Job 30:19
God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
Genesis 18:27
Abraham answered and said, "Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.
Job 2:8
And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in the ashes.
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Job 2:11
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.
1 Chronicles 1:45
Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.
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Numbers 23:1
And Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.
1 Chronicles 15:26
And because God helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.
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Job 1:5
And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts." Thus Job did continually.
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Genesis 20:7
Now then, return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours.
1 Samuel 12:23
Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, and I will instruct you in the good and the right way.
James 5:16
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
1 John 5:16
If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life - to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that.
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Job 2:11
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.
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Psalms 14:7
Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When the Lord restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.
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Isaiah 40:2
Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord 's hand double for all her sins.
Isaiah 61:7
Instead of your shame there shall be a double portion; instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their lot; therefore in their land they shall possess a double portion; they shall have everlasting joy.
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Job 19:13
He has put my brothers far from me, and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me.
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Job 19:13
He has put my brothers far from me, and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me.
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Job 2:11
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.
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Genesis 33:19
And from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, he bought for a hundred pieces of money the piece of land on which he had pitched his tent.
Joshua 24:32
As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.
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Genesis 24:22
When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half shekel, and two bracelets for her arms weighing ten gold shekels.
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Job 8:7
And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.
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Job 42:10
And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Job 1:3
He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east.
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Job 1:2
There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
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Numbers 27:1 - 8
Then drew near the daughters of Zelophehad the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, from the clans of Manasseh the son of Joseph. The names of his daughters were: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
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Genesis 50:23
And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation. The children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were counted as Joseph's own.
Psalms 128:6
May you see your children's children! Peace be upon Israel!
Isaiah 53:10
Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
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Job 5:26
You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in its season.
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