Job 18:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He is overcome by fears on every side, they go after him at every step.

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  • Job 15:21 : 21 A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him:
  • Jer 6:25 : 25 Go not out into the field or by the way; for there is the sword of the attacker, and fear on every side.
  • Jer 46:5 : 5 What have I seen? they are overcome with fear and turned back; their men of war are broken and have gone in flight, not looking back: fear is on every side, says the Lord.
  • Jer 49:29 : 29 Their tents and their flocks they will take; they will take away for themselves their curtains and all their vessels and their camels: they will give a cry to them, Fear on every side.
  • Lev 26:36 : 36 And as for the rest of you, I will make their hearts feeble in the land of their haters, and the sound of a leaf moved by the wind will send them in flight, and they will go in flight as from the sword, falling down when no one comes after them;
  • Job 20:25 : 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.
  • Ps 53:5 : 5 They were in great fear, where there was no cause for fear: for the bones of those who make war on you have been broken by God; you have put them to shame, because God has no desire for them.
  • Ps 73:19 : 19 How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.
  • Prov 28:1 : 1 The evil man goes running away when no man is after him, but the upright are without fear, like the lion.
  • 2 Kgs 7:6-7 : 6 For the Lord had made the sound of carriages and horses, and the noise of a great army, come to the ears of the Aramaeans, so that they said to one another, Truly, the king of Israel has got the kings of the Hittites and of the Egyptians for a price to make an attack on us. 7 So they got up and went in flight, in the half light, without their tents or their horses or their asses or any of their goods; they went in flight, fearing for their lives.
  • Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.
  • Job 20:8 : 8 He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.
  • 2 Cor 5:11 : 11 Having in mind, then, the fear of the Lord, we put these things before men, but God sees our hearts; and it is my hope that we may seem right in your eyes.
  • Rev 6:15-16 : 15 And the kings of the earth, and the rulers, and the chief captains, and the men of wealth, and the strong, and every servant and free man, took cover in the holes and the rocks of the mountains; 16 And they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Come down on us, covering us from the face of him who is seated on the high seat, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
  • Jer 20:3-4 : 3 Then on the day after, Pashhur let Jeremiah loose. Then Jeremiah said to him, The Lord has given you the name of Magor-missabib (Cause-of-fear-on-every-side), not Pashhur. 4 For the Lord has said, See, I will make you a cause of fear to yourself and to all your friends: they will come to their death by the sword of their haters, and your eyes will see it: and I will give all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will take them away prisoners into Babylon and put them to the sword.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 18:7-10
    4 verses
    81%

    7The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.

    8His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.

    9His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip.

    10The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.

  • Job 18:12-14
    3 verses
    80%

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

    13His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.

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

  • 10For this cause nets are round your feet, and you are overcome with sudden fear.

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

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

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

  • 11Will not his glory put you in fear, so that your hearts will be overcome before him?

  • Isa 24:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17Fear, and death, and the net, are come on you, O people of the earth.

    18And it will be that he who goes in flight from the sound of fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for the windows on high are open, and the bases of the earth are shaking.

  • 5Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered.

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

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

  • Job 20:24-27
    4 verses
    73%

    24He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him;

    25He 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.

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

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

  • 11He puts chains on my feet; he is watching all my ways.

  • 15Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.

  • 22Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.

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

  • 19How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

  • 14Fear came on me and shaking, and my bones were full of trouble;

  • 5What cause have I for fear in the days of evil, when the evil-doing of those who are working for my downfall is round about me?

  • 22God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand.

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

  • 16Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

  • 15For this cause I am in fear before him, my thoughts of him overcome me.

  • 8The evil of their tongues is the cause of their fall; all those who see them are shaking their heads at them.

  • 10The upright are crushed and made low, and the feeble are overcome by his strong ones.

  • Job 39:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    20For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.

    21When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.

  • 4My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me.

  • 12The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:

  • 8Then the nations came against him from the kingdoms round about: their net was stretched over him and he was taken in the hole they had made.

  • 33He makes my feet like roes' feet, and puts me on high places.

  • 25Everything which is high goes in fear of him; he is king over all the sons of pride.

  • 11They have made a circle round our steps: their eyes are fixed on us, forcing us down to the earth;

  • 25All people will give way before you: for the Lord your God will put the fear of you on all the land through which you go, as he has said.

  • 16For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

  • 25Go not out into the field or by the way; for there is the sword of the attacker, and fear on every side.

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

  • 11Your streets will be stamped down by the feet of his horses: he will put your people to the sword, and will send down the pillars of your strength to the earth.

  • 47Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction.

  • 34Let him take away his rod from me and not send his fear on me:

  • 8Let destruction come on them without their knowledge; let them be taken themselves in their secret nets, falling into the same destruction.