Job 15:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He has no hope of coming safe out of the dark, and his fate will be the sword;

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 6:33 : 33 While he was still talking to them, the king came down and said, This evil is from the Lord; why am I to go on waiting any longer for the Lord?
  • Job 6:11 : 11 Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?
  • Job 9:16 : 16 If I had sent for him to be present, and he had come, I would have no faith that he would give ear to my voice.
  • Job 19:29 : 29 Be in fear of the sword, for the sword is the punishment for such things, so that you may be certain that there is a judge.
  • Job 20:24-25 : 24 He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him; 25 He is pulling it out, and it comes out of his back; and its shining point comes out of his side; he is overcome by fears.
  • Job 27:14 : 14 If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread.
  • Isa 8:21-22 : 21 And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high; 22 And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.
  • Matt 27:5 : 5 And he put down the silver in the Temple and went out, and put himself to death by hanging.

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    23 He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him:

    24 He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him:

  • Job 15:21
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    21 A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him:

  • Job 15:28-31
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    28 And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.

    29 He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

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

    31 Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.

  • Job 18:17-18
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    17 His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.

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

  • Job 39:22-24
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    22 Do you give strength to the horse? is it by your hand that his neck is clothed with power?

    23 Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?

    24 He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear.

  • Job 33:18
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    18 To keep back his soul from the underworld, and his life from destruction.

  • Job 10:21-22
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    21 Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,

    22 A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

  • Job 20:24-26
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    24 He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him;

    25 He is pulling it out, and it comes out of his back; and its shining point comes out of his side; he is overcome by fears.

    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.

  • Lam 3:2
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    2 By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.

  • Job 18:6
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    6 The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

  • Eccl 5:17
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    17 This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.

  • Job 12:22
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    22 Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;

  • Ps 49:19
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    19 He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.

  • Eccl 6:4-5
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    4 In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.

    5 Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other.

  • Job 7:10
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    10 He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.

  • Job 27:20
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    20 Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.

  • Job 41:9
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    9 His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn.

  • Jer 17:6
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    6 For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.

  • Job 5:14
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    14 In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16 In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

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

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    12 His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.

  • Job 23:17
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    17 For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

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    20 Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?

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

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    20 There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight.

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    13 If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

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    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.

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

  • Job 19:8
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    8 My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

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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.

  • Job 18:20
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    20 At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear.

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    22 Only his flesh still has pain, and his soul is sad.

  • Isa 8:22
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    22 And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.

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    15 Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;

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    6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

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    22 And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death.

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    22 Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.