Job 10:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ruth 1:21 : 21 I went out full, and the Lord has sent me back again with nothing; why do you give me the name Naomi, seeing that the Lord has given witness against me, and the Ruler of all has sent sorrow on me?
  • Job 16:8 : 8 It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.
  • Job 16:11-16 : 11 God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers. 12 I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows. 13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth. 14 I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war. 15 I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust. 16 My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;
  • Job 19:6-9 : 6 Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net. 7 Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause. 8 My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark. 9 He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head. 10 I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree. 11 His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.
  • Ps 55:19 : 19 God will give thought to me; he who from early times is strong will send pain and trouble on them. (Selah.) Because they are unchanged, they have no fear of God.
  • Jer 48:11 : 11 From his earliest days, Moab has been living in comfort; like wine long stored he has not been drained from vessel to vessel, he has never gone away as a prisoner: so his taste is still in him, his smell is unchanged.
  • Zeph 1:12 : 12 And it will come about at that time, that I will go searching through Jerusalem with lights; and I will send punishment on the men who have become like wine stored over-long, who say to themselves, The Lord will not do good and will not do evil.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 16 And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me:

  • Job 16:7-10
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    7 But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.

    8 It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.

    9 I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;

    10 Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.

  • Job 30:19-22
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    19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

    20 You give no answer to my cry, and take no note of my prayer.

    21 You have become cruel to me; the strength of your hand is hard on me.

    22 Lifting me up, you make me go on the wings of the wind; I am broken up by the storm.

  • Job 19:11-12
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    11 His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.

    12 His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.

  • 3 Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.

  • 2 I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me.

  • 10 See, he is looking for something against me; in his eyes I am as one of his haters;

  • 18 Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,

  • 10 Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.

  • 5 If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,

  • 26 For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;

  • 3 Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.

  • 24 Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?

  • 17 For I would be crushed by his storm, my wounds would be increased without cause.

  • 27 But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.

  • 28 But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.

  • 8 Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

  • 10 No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.

  • 3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

  • 12 Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?

  • 11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • 10 For my haters are waiting secretly for me; and those who are watching for my soul are banded together in their evil designs,

  • 3 Why do you make me see evil-doing, and why are my eyes fixed on wrong? for wasting and violent acts are before me: and there is fighting and bitter argument.

  • 5 He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.

  • 2 Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.

  • 8 My haters say evil of me all day; those who are violent against me make use of my name as a curse.

  • Job 16:13-14
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    13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

    14 I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.

  • 8 Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.

  • 13 So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

  • 6 That you take note of my sin, searching after my wrongdoing,

  • 3 I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

  • 20 You overcome him for ever, and he is gone; his face is changed in death, and you send him away.

  • 10 For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

  • 11 False witnesses got up: they put questions to me about crimes of which I had no knowledge.

  • 10 Was I not drained out like milk, becoming hard like cheese?

  • 18 Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.

  • 17 ...

  • 7 The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.)

  • 19 But they are strong who have hate for me without cause: those who are against me falsely are increased in numbers.

  • 14 That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:

  • 7 There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.

  • 10 The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?