Job 20:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Though he is lifted up to the heavens, and his head goes up to the clouds;

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 14:13-14 : 13 For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will make my seat higher than the stars of God; I will take my place on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost parts of the north. 14 I will go higher than the clouds; I will be like the Most High.
  • Obad 1:3-4 : 3 You have been tricked by the pride of your heart, O you whose living-place is in the cracks of the rock, whose house is high up; who has said in his heart, Who will make me come down to earth? 4 Though you go up on high like an eagle, though your house is placed among the stars, I will make you come down from there, says the Lord.
  • Gen 11:4 : 4 And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.
  • Matt 11:23 : 23 And you, Capernaum, were you not to be lifted up to heaven? you will go down into hell: for if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have been here to this day.
  • Dan 4:11 : 11 And the tree became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven, and to be seen from the ends of the earth:
  • Dan 4:22 : 22 It is you, O King, who have become great and strong: for your power is increased and stretching up to heaven, and your rule to the end of the earth.
  • Amos 9:2 : 2 Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down:

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