Job 20:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I have to give ear to arguments which put me to shame, and your answers to me are wind without wisdom.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 19:3 : 3 Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.
  • 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 20:2 : 2 For this cause my thoughts are troubling me and driving me on.
  • Job 27:11 : 11 I will give you teaching about the hand of God; I will not keep secret from you what is in the mind of the Ruler of all.
  • Job 33:3 : 3 My heart is overflowing with knowledge, my lips say what is true.
  • Ps 49:3 : 3 From my mouth will come words of wisdom; and in the thoughts of my heart will be knowledge.
  • Ps 78:2-5 : 2 Opening my mouth I will give out a story, even the dark sayings of old times; 3 Which have come to our hearing and our knowledge, as they were given to us by our fathers. 4 We will not keep them secret from our children; we will make clear to the coming generation the praises of the Lord and his strength, and the great works of wonder which he has done. 5 He put up a witness in Jacob, and made a law in Israel; which he gave to our fathers so that they might give knowledge of them to their children;

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