Job 14:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 143:2 : 2 Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.
  • Ps 144:3 : 3 Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?
  • Ps 8:4 : 4 What is man, that you keep him in mind? the son of man, that you take him into account?
  • Rom 3:19 : 19 Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:
  • Job 7:17-18 : 17 What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him, 18 And that your hand is on him every morning, and that you are testing him every minute?
  • Job 9:19-20 : 19 If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day? 20 Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.
  • Job 9:32 : 32 For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.
  • Job 13:25 : 25 Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?
  • Job 13:27 : 27 And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;

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  • Job 14:4-5
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    4 If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

    5 If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;

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

  • Job 15:12-14
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    12 Why is your heart uncontrolled, and why are your eyes lifted up;

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

    14 What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?

  • Job 10:2-6
    5 verses
    78%

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

    3 What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?

    4 Have you eyes of flesh, or do you see as man sees?

    5 Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his,

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

  • 2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

  • Job 22:3-4
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    3 Is it of any interest to the Ruler of all that you are upright? or is it of use to him that your ways are without sin?

    4 Is it because you give him honour that he is sending punishment on you and is judging you?

  • 13 Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?

  • 17 May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?

  • 2 Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.

  • 14 What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?

  • Job 33:12-13
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    12 Truly, in saying this you are wrong; for God is greater than man.

    13 Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?

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

  • 3 Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?

  • 32 For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.

  • 16 For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.

  • 1 You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

  • 3 Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?

  • 14 How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.

  • 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.

  • Job 11:4-5
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    4 You may say, My way is clean, and I am free from sin in your eyes.

    5 But if only God would take up the word, opening his lips in argument with you;

  • 13 And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?

  • 6 If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?

  • 31 Who will make his way clear to his face? and if he has done a thing, who gives him punishment for it?

  • Job 7:17-18
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    17 What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,

    18 And that your hand is on him every morning, and that you are testing him every minute?

  • Job 35:2-3
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    2 Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,

    3 What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?

  • Job 7:20-21
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    20 If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?

    21 And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

  • 23 Who ever gave orders to him, or said to him, You have done wrong?

  • 17 ...

  • 3 Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?

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

  • 4 Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?

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

  • 13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

  • 19 If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?

  • 21 For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.

  • 9 Will it be good for you to be searched out by him, or have you the thought that he may be guided into error like a man?

  • 17 Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?