Job 12:23
Increasing nations, and sending destruction on them; making wide the lands of peoples, and then giving them up.
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- Isa 9:3 : 3 You have made them very glad, increasing their joy. They are glad before you as men are glad in the time of getting in the grain, or when they make division of the goods taken in war.
- Isa 26:15 : 15 You have made the nation great, O Lord, you have made it great; glory is yours: you have made wide the limits of the land.
- Isa 60:22 : 22 The smallest of their families will become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I, the Lord, will make it come quickly in its time.
- Ps 107:38 : 38 He gives them his blessing so that they are increased greatly, and their cattle do not become less.
- Exod 1:7 : 7 And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.
- Exod 1:20 : 20 And the blessing of God was on these women: and the people were increased in number and became very strong.
- Jer 30:19 : 19 And from them will go out praise and the sound of laughing: and I will make them great in number, and they will not become less; and I will give them glory, and they will not be small.
- Jer 33:22 : 22 As it is not possible for the army of heaven to be numbered, or the sand of the sea measured, so will I make the seed of my servant David, and the Levites my servants.
- Zech 10:8 : 8 With the sound of the pipe I will get them together; for I have given the price to make them free: and they will be increased as they were increased.
- Isa 27:6 : 6 In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.
- Isa 51:2 : 2 Let your thoughts be turned to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth: for when he was but one, my voice came to him, and I gave him my blessing, and made him a great people.
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- Job 12:24-252 verses82%
24 He takes away the wisdom of the rulers of the earth, and sends them wandering in a waste where there is no way.
25 They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.
- Job 12:14-229 verses75%
14 Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.
15 Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.
16 With him are strength and wise designs; he who is guided into error, together with his guide, are in his hands;
17 He takes away the wisdom of the wise guides, and makes judges foolish;
18 He undoes the chains of kings, and puts his band on them;
19 He makes priests prisoners, overturning those in safe positions;
20 He makes the words of responsible persons without effect, and takes away the good sense of the old;
21 He puts shame on chiefs, and takes away the power of the strong;
22 Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;
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23 He makes rulers come to nothing; the judges of the earth are of no value.
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15 You have made the nation great, O Lord, you have made it great; glory is yours: you have made wide the limits of the land.
- Job 34:24-252 verses72%
24 He sends the strong to destruction without searching out their cause, and puts others in their place.
25 For he has knowledge of their works, overturning them in the night, so that they are crushed.
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6 And they were broken by divisions, nation against nation and town against town, because God sent all sorts of trouble on them.
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7 But this is not what is in his mind, and this is not his design; but his purpose is destruction, and the cutting off of more and more nations.
- Ps 107:38-403 verses70%
38 He gives them his blessing so that they are increased greatly, and their cattle do not become less.
39 And when they are made low, and crushed by trouble and sorrow,
40 He puts an end to the pride of kings, and sends them wandering in the waste lands where there is no way.
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22 But God by his power gives long life to the strong; he gets up again, though he has no hope of life.
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6 The Lord is the giver of death and life: sending men down to the underworld and lifting them up.
7 The Lord gives wealth and takes a man's goods from him: crushing men down and again lifting them up;
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23 But the Lord your God will give them up into your hands, overpowering them till their destruction is complete.
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12 And it goes this way and that, round about, turning itself by his guiding, to do whatever he gives orders to be done, on the face of his world of men,
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10 If he goes on his way, shutting a man up and putting him to death, who may make him go back from his purpose?
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12 And the army will be taken away, and his heart will be uplifted: he will be the cause of the downfall of tens of thousands, but he will not be strong.
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6 From his high place he sent shaking on the earth; he saw and nations were suddenly moved: and the eternal mountains were broken, the unchanging hills were bent down; his ways are eternal.
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23 He has taken my strength from me in the way; he has made short my days.
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12 If he puts out his hand to take, by whom may it be turned back? who may say to him, What are you doing?
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10 He overcame great nations, and put strong kings to death;
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3 You have made them very glad, increasing their joy. They are glad before you as men are glad in the time of getting in the grain, or when they make division of the goods taken in war.
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11 His hand is stretched out over the sea, the kingdoms are shaking: the Lord has given orders about Canaan, to make waste its strong places.
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23 Then the Lord will send these nations in flight before you, and you will take the lands of nations greater and stronger than yourselves.
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7 Whenever I say anything about uprooting a nation or a kingdom, and smashing it and sending destruction on it;
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1 See, the Lord is making the earth waste and unpeopled, he is turning it upside down, and sending the people in all directions.
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23 And from the time when they make an agreement with him, he will be working falsely: for he will take up arms suddenly with a small force,
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9 Who sends sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the walled town.
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6 He will be judge among the nations, the valleys will be full of dead bodies; the head over a great country will be wounded by him.
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39 And he will make use of the people of a strange god to keep his strongest places; to those whom he takes note of he will give high honour: and he will make them rulers over the mass of the people, and will make division of the land for a price.
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12 To take their property by force and go off with their goods; turning your hand against the waste places which now are peopled, and against the people who have been got together out of the nations, who have got cattle and goods for themselves, who are living in the middle of the earth.
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6 For see, I am sending the Chaldaeans, that bitter and quick-moving nation; who go through the wide spaces of the earth to get for themselves living-places which are not theirs.
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12 He puts an end to the wrath of rulers; he is feared by the kings of the earth.
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12 For the nation or kingdom which will not be your servant will come to destruction; such nations will be completely waste.
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10 The Lord undoes the designs of the nations; he makes the thoughts of the peoples without effect.
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24 And his people were greatly increased, and became stronger than those who were against them.
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12 By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.
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19 How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.
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17 For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.
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9 And the hearts of numbers of peoples will be troubled, when I send your prisoners among the nations, into a country which is strange to you.