Job 11:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But the eyes of the evil-doers will be wasting away; their way of flight is gone, and their only hope is the taking of their last breath.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 28:65 : 65 And even among these nations there will be no peace for you, and no rest for your feet: but the Lord will give you there a shaking heart and wasting eyes and weariness of soul:
  • Job 17:5 : 5 As for him who is false to his friend for a reward, light will be cut off from the eyes of his children.
  • Job 31:16 : 16 If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;
  • Job 34:22 : 22 There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.
  • Ps 69:3 : 3 I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.
  • Prov 10:24 : 24 The thing feared by the evil-doer will come to him, but the upright man will get his desire.
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 If anyone puts a curse on his father or his mother, his light will be put out in the blackest night.
  • Lam 4:17 : 17 Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.
  • Amos 2:14 : 14 And flight will be impossible for the quick-footed, and the force of the strong will become feeble, and the man of war will not get away safely:
  • Amos 5:19-20 : 19 As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake. 20 Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?
  • Amos 9:1-3 : 1 I saw the Lord stationed by the side of the altar, giving blows to the tops of the pillars so that the doorsteps were shaking: and he said, I will let all of them be broken with earth-shocks; I will put the last of them to the sword: if any one of them goes in flight he will not get away, not one of them will be safe. 2 Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down: 3 Though they take cover on the top of Carmel, I will go in search of them and get them out; though they keep themselves from my eyes in the bed of the sea, I will give orders to the great snake there and he will give them a bite:
  • Luke 16:23-26 : 23 And in hell, being in great pain, lifting up his eyes he saw Abraham, far away, and Lazarus on his breast. 24 And he gave a cry and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, so that he may put the end of his finger in water and put it on my tongue, for I am cruelly burning in this flame. 25 But Abraham said, Keep in mind, my son, that when you were living, you had your good things, while Lazarus had evil things: but now, he is comforted and you are in pain. 26 And in addition, there is a deep division fixed between us and you, so that those who might go from here to you are not able to do so, and no one may come from you to us.
  • Heb 2:3 : 3 What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came;
  • Job 18:14 : 14 He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.
  • Job 27:8 : 8 For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?
  • Job 27:22 : 22 God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand.
  • Job 8:13-14 : 13 So is the end of all who do not keep God in mind; and the hope of the evil-doer comes to nothing: 14 Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread.
  • Lev 26:16 : 16 This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Prov 11:6-7
    2 verses
    79%

    6 The righteousness of the upright will be their salvation, but the false will themselves be taken in their evil designs.

    7 At the death of an upright man his hope does not come to an end, but the hope of the evil-doer comes to destruction.

  • Prov 10:28
    77%

    28 The hope of the upright man will give joy, but the waiting of the evil-doer will have its end in sorrow.

  • Job 41:9
    75%

    9 His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn.

  • Prov 14:32
    74%

    32 The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.

  • Job 20:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8 He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.

    9 The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him.

  • Ps 112:10
    73%

    10 The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.

  • Job 8:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13 So is the end of all who do not keep God in mind; and the hope of the evil-doer comes to nothing:

    14 Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread.

  • Job 18:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5 For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.

    6 The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

  • Job 21:20
    72%

    20 Let his eyes see his trouble, and let him be full of the wrath of the Ruler of all!

  • Job 17:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15 Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?

    16 Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?

  • Eccl 8:13
    71%

    13 But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.

  • Prov 24:20
    71%

    20 For there will be no future for the evil man; the light of sinners will be put out.

  • Job 27:8
    71%

    8 For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?

  • Job 7:7-9
    3 verses
    70%

    7 O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.

    8 The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.

    9 A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.

  • Job 27:19-20
    2 verses
    69%

    19 He goes to rest full of wealth, but does so for the last time: on opening his eyes, he sees it there no longer.

    20 Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.

  • Ps 33:18
    69%

    18 See, the eye of the Lord is on those in whose hearts is the fear of him, on those whose hope is in his mercy;

  • Prov 21:7
    69%

    7 By their violent acts the evil-doers will be pulled away, because they have no desire to do what is right.

  • Ps 69:23
    69%

    23 Let their eyes be blind so that they may not see; let their bodies for ever be shaking.

  • Lam 4:17
    69%

    17 Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.

  • Job 18:18
    69%

    18 He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

  • Job 15:30
    69%

    30 He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.

  • Prov 23:18
    69%

    18 For without doubt there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

  • Job 6:20
    68%

    20 They were put to shame because of their hope; they came and their hope was gone.

  • Ps 91:8
    68%

    8 Only with your eyes will you see the reward of the evil-doers.

  • Rom 11:10
    68%

    10 Let their eyes be made dark so that they may not see, and let their back be bent down at all times.

  • Job 5:16
    68%

    16 So the poor man has hope, and the mouth of the evil-doer is stopped.

  • Job 6:18
    68%

    18 The camel-trains go out of their way; they go up into the waste and come to destruction.

  • Ezek 21:29
    68%

    29 Your vision is to no purpose, your use of secret arts gives a false answer, to put it on the necks of evil-doers who are wounded to death, whose day has come, in the time of the last punishment.

  • Job 24:23
    68%

    23 He takes away his fear of danger and gives him support; and his eyes are on his ways.

  • Amos 2:14
    68%

    14 And flight will be impossible for the quick-footed, and the force of the strong will become feeble, and the man of war will not get away safely:

  • Job 20:26-27
    2 verses
    68%

    26 All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.

    27 The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.

  • Job 18:20
    68%

    20 At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear.

  • Ps 34:21
    68%

    21 Evil will put an end to the sinner, and those who are haters of righteousness will come to destruction.

  • Job 21:16
    68%

    16 Truly, is not their well-being in their power? (The purpose of the evil-doers is far from me.)

  • Job 34:20
    68%

    20 Suddenly they come to an end, even in the middle of the night: the blow comes on the men of wealth, and they are gone, and the strong are taken away without the hand of man.

  • Ps 37:20
    68%

    20 But the wrongdoers will come to destruction, and the haters of the Lord will be like the fat of lambs, they will be burned up; they will go up in smoke, and never again be seen.

  • Job 18:14
    68%

    14 He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.

  • Job 24:17
    68%

    17 For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

  • Job 21:26
    68%

    26 Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

  • Job 34:22
    68%

    22 There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.

  • Ps 55:15
    68%

    15 Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.