Job 19:28

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him:

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 19:22 : 22 Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?
  • Ps 69:26 : 26 Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you.
  • 1 Kgs 14:13 : 13 And all Israel will put his body to rest, weeping over him, because he only of the family of Jeroboam will be put into his resting-place in the earth; for of all the family of Jeroboam, in him only has the Lord, the God of Israel, seen some good.

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  • 22 Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?

  • 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.

  • Jer 11:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19 But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.

    20 But, O Lord of armies, judging in righteousness, testing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them: for I have put my cause before you.

  • 27 Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.

  • Job 13:24-26
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    73%

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

    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?

    26 For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;

  • 10 For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

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

  • 12 But, O Lord of armies, testing the upright and seeing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them; for I have put my cause before you.

  • 35 And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.

  • 5 If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,

  • 19 Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.

  • Job 21:27-28
    2 verses
    71%

    27 See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me;

    28 For you say, Where is the house of the ruler, and where is the tent of the evil-doer?

  • 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.

  • 26 Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you.

  • Job 7:20-21
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    71%

    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.

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

  • 43 Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;

  • 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?

  • Job 18:3-4
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    3 Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?

    4 But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?

  • 27 But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.

  • Job 10:2-3
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    70%

    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?

  • 1 I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath.

  • 17 ...

  • 29 If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;

  • 39 What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?

  • 10 See, he is looking for something against me; in his eyes I am as one of his haters;

  • 23 But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.

  • 4 As for me, is my outcry against man? is it then to be wondered at if my spirit is troubled?

  • 22 And if you say in your heart, Why have these things come on me? because of the number of your sins, your skirts have been uncovered and violent punishment overtakes you.

  • 3 Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.

  • 15 O Lord, you have knowledge: keep me in mind and come to my help, and give their right reward to those who are attacking me; take me not away, for you are slow to be angry: see how I have undergone shame because of you from all those who make little of your word;

  • 35 They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.

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

  • 13 Your words have been strong against me, says the Lord. And still you say, What have we said against you?

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

  • 18 If he is taken away from his place, then it will say, I have not seen you.

  • 20 Saying, Truly, their substance is cut off, and their wealth is food for the fire.

  • 28 But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.

  • 28 Now then, let your eyes be turned to me, for truly I will not say what is false to your face.

  • 8 Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted.

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

  • 15 What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest.

  • 21 Who give help to a man in a wrong cause, and who put a net for the feet of him who gives decisions in the public place, taking away a man's right without cause.