Job 10 - 22
1
"I u loathe my life;
I will give free utterance to my v complaint;
I will speak in w the bitterness of my soul.
2
I will say to God, Do not x condemn me;
let me know why you y contend against me.
3
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?
4
Have you c eyes of flesh?
d Do you see as man sees?
5
Are your days as the days of man,
or your e years as a man's years,
6
that you f seek out my iniquity
and search for my sin,
7
although you g know that I am not guilty,
and there is h none to deliver out of your hand?
8
i Your hands fashioned and made me,
and now you have destroyed me altogether.
9
Remember that you have made me like j clay;
and will you return me to the k dust?
10
Did you not pour me out like milk
and curdle me like cheese?
11
You clothed me with skin and flesh,
and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12
You have granted me life and steadfast love,
and your care has preserved my spirit.
13
Yet these things you hid in your heart;
I know that l this was your purpose.
14
If I sin, you m watch me
and do not n acquit me of my iniquity.
15
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.
16
And were my head lifted up, you would hunt me like r a lion
and again work s wonders against me.
17
You renew your t witnesses against me
and increase your vexation toward me;
you u bring fresh troops against me.
18
v "Why did you bring me out from the womb?
Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
19
w and were as though I had not been,
carried from the womb to the grave.
20
x Are not my days few?
y Then cease, and leave me alone, z that I may find a little cheer
21
before I go - and a I shall not return -
to the land of b darkness and c deep shadow,
22
the land of gloom like thick darkness,
like deep shadow without any order,
where light is as thick darkness."
Job 11
1
Then d Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:
2
"Should e a multitude of words go unanswered,
and a man full of talk be judged right?
3
Should your babble silence men,
and when you mock, shall no one shame you?
4
For f you say, 'My g doctrine is pure,
and I am clean in God's eyes.'
5
But oh, that God would speak
and open his lips to you,
6
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.
7
j "Can you find out the deep things of God?
Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?
8
It is k higher than heaven - what can you do?
Deeper than Sheol - what can you know?
9
Its measure is longer than the earth
and broader than the sea.
10
If he l passes through and m imprisons
and summons the court, who can n turn him back?
11
For he knows o worthless men;
when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?
12
But a stupid man will get understanding
when p a wild donkey's colt is q born a man!
13
"If you r prepare your heart,
you will s stretch out your hands toward him.
14
If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away,
and let not injustice dwell in your tents.
15
Surely then you will t lift up your face without u blemish;
you will be secure and will not fear.
16
You will v forget your misery;
you will remember it as waters that have passed away.
17
And your life will be w brighter than the noonday;
its darkness will be like the morning.
18
And you will feel secure, because there is hope;
you will look around and x take your rest in security.
19
You will x lie down, and none will make you afraid;
many will y court your favor.
20
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
1
Then Job answered and said:
2
"No doubt you are the people,
and wisdom will die with you.
3
But I have b understanding as well as you;
I am not inferior to you.
Who does not know c such things as these?
4
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.
5
In the thought of one who is f at ease there is contempt for misfortune;
it is ready for those whose feet slip.
6
g The tents of robbers are at peace,
and those who provoke God are secure,
who bring their god in their hand.
7
"But ask the beasts, and they will teach you;
the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you;
8
or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you;
and the fish of the sea will declare to you.
9
Who among all these does not know
that h the hand of the Lord has done this?
10
In i his hand is the life of every living thing
and the breath of all mankind.
11
Does not j the ear test words
as the palate tastes food?
12
Wisdom is with k the aged,
and understanding in length of days.
13
l "With God are wisdom and might;
he has counsel and understanding.
14
If he tears down, none can rebuild;
if he m shuts a man in, none can open.
15
If he n withholds the waters, they dry up;
if he o sends them out, they overwhelm the land.
16
With him are strength and p sound wisdom;
the deceived and the deceiver are his.
17
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;
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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."
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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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Cross References
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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Cross References
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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Cross References
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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Cross References
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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Cross References
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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Cross References
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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Cross References
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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