Job 20:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 21:26 : 26 Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.
  • Job 13:26 : 26 For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;
  • Ps 25:7 : 7 Do not keep in mind my sins when I was young, or my wrongdoing: let your memory of me be full of mercy, O Lord, because of your righteousness.
  • Prov 5:11-13 : 11 And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted; 12 And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training; 13 I did not give attention to the voice of my teachers, my ear was not turned to those who were guiding me!
  • Prov 5:22-23 : 22 The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin. 23 He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.
  • Ezek 24:13 : 13 As for your unclean purpose: because I have been attempting to make you clean, but you have not been made clean from it, you will not be made clean till I have let loose my passion on you in full measure.
  • Ezek 32:27 : 27 And they have been put to rest with the fighting men who came to their end in days long past, who went down to the underworld with their instruments of war, placing their swords under their heads, and their body-covers are over their bones; for their strength was a cause of fear in the land of the living.
  • John 8:21 : 21 Then he said to them again, I am going away and you will be looking for me, but death will overtake you in your sins. It is not possible for you to come where I am going.
  • John 8:24 : 24 For this reason I said to you that death will overtake you in your sins: for if you have not faith that I am he, death will come to you while you are in your sins.
  • Acts 1:25 : 25 To take that position as a servant and Apostle, from which Judas by his sin was shut out, so that he might go to his place.
  • Job 19:20 : 20 My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth.

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