Job 21:25

American Standard Version (1901)

And another dieth in bitterness of soul, And never tasteth of good.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 7:11 : 11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
  • Job 9:18 : 18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness.
  • Job 10:1 : 1 My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
  • Job 20:23 : 23 When he is about to fill his belly, [God] will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, And will rain it upon him while he is eating.
  • Prov 14:10 : 10 The heart knoweth its own bitterness; And a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy.
  • Eccl 6:2 : 2 a man to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacketh nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but an alien eateth it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
  • Isa 38:15-17 : 15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul. 16 O Lord, by these things men live; And wholly therein is the life of my spirit: Wherefore recover thou me, and make me to live. 17 Behold, [it was] for [my] peace [that] I had great bitterness: But thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; For thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
  • Ezek 4:16-17 : 16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay: 17 that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
  • Ezek 12:18 : 18 Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with fearfulness;
  • 2 Sam 17:8 : 8 Hushai said moreover, Thou knowest thy father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field; and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
  • 1 Kgs 17:12 : 12 And she said, As Jehovah thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
  • Job 3:20 : 20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 33:19-22
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    19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, And with continual strife in his bones;

    20 So that his life abhorreth bread, And his soul dainty food.

    21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; And his bones that were not seen stick out.

    22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit, And his life to the destroyers.

  • Job 21:23-24
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    23 One dieth in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet:

    24 His pails are full of milk, And the marrow of his bones is moistened.

  • 22 But his flesh upon him hath pain, And his soul within him mourneth.

  • 17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he is sore vexed, and hath sickness and wrath.

  • Job 3:20-22
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    20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul;

    21 Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;

    22 Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave?

  • 26 They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them.

  • 21 For what careth he for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?

  • 11 And thou mourn at thy latter end, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

  • 7 The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; But to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

  • 18 Their soul abhorreth all manner of food; And they draw near unto the gates of death.

  • 7 My soul refuseth to touch [them] ; They are as loathsome food to me.

  • Eccl 2:23-25
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    23 For all his days are [but] sorrows, and his travail is grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.

    24 There is nothing better for a man [than] that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

    25 For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

  • Eccl 6:6-7
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    6 yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy no good, do not all go to one place?

    7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

  • 11 His bones are full of his youth, But it shall lie down with him in the dust.

  • 25 The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul; But the belly of the wicked shall want.

  • Job 24:19-21
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    19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [So doth] Sheol [those that] have sinned.

    20 The womb shall forget him; The worm shall feed sweetly on him; He shall be no more remembered; And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

    21 He devoureth the barren that beareth not, And doeth not good to the widow.

  • Eccl 6:2-3
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    70%

    2 a man to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacketh nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but an alien eateth it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

    3 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:

  • 9 They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.

  • Job 20:20-21
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    20 Because he knew no quietness within him, He shall not save aught of that wherein he delighteth.

    21 There was nothing left that he devoured not; Therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

  • Job 21:32-33
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    32 Yet shall he be borne to the grave, And men shall keep watch over the tomb.

    33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, And all men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.

  • 18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness.

  • 15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death, And his widows shall make no lamentation.

  • 7 neither shall men break [bread] for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

  • 19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They shall never see the light.

  • 15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.

  • 25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul have I replenished.

  • 2 It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

  • 24 Howbeit doth not one stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

  • 14 Yet his food in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps within him.

  • 15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than [these] my bones.

  • 20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth [him] in the joy of his heart.

  • 19 He lieth down rich, but he shall not be gathered [to his fathers] ; He openeth his eyes, and he is not.

  • 11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied.

  • 25 The desire of the sluggard killeth him; For his hands refuse to labor.

  • 30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.