Job 21:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

They send out their young ones like a flock, and their children have pleasure in the dance,

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  • Ps 107:41 : 41 But he puts the poor man on high from his troubles, and gives him families like a flock.
  • Ps 127:3-5 : 3 See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward. 4 Like arrows in the hand of a man of war, are the children of the young. 5 Happy is the man who has a good store of them; he will not be put to shame, but his cause will be supported by them against his haters.

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    12 They make songs to the instruments of music, and are glad at the sound of the pipe.

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  • Job 21:8-10
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    79%

    8 Their children are ever with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

    9 Their houses are free from fear, and the rod of God does not come on them.

    10 Their ox is ready at all times to give seed; their cow gives birth, without dropping her young.

  • Job 39:3-4
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    77%

    3 Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?

    4 Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?

  • Ps 149:2-3
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    72%

    2 Let Israel have joy in his maker; let the children of Zion be glad in their King.

    3 Let them give praise to his name in the dance: let them make melody to him with instruments of brass and corded instruments of music.

  • Ps 65:12-13
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    71%

    12 Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side.

    13 The grass-land is thick with flocks; the valleys are full of grain; they give glad cries and songs of joy.

  • Ps 148:12
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    12 Young men and virgins; old men and children:

  • Jer 31:12-13
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    12 So they will come with songs on the high places, flowing together to the good things of the Lord, to the grain and the wine and the oil, to the young ones of the flock and of the herd: their souls will be like a watered garden, and they will have no more sorrow.

    13 Then the virgin will have joy in the dance, and the young men and the old will be glad: for I will have their weeping turned into joy, I will give them comfort and make them glad after their sorrow.

  • Job 24:5
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    5 Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

  • Matt 11:16
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    16 But what comparison may I make of this generation? It is like children seated in the market-places, crying out to one another,

  • Ps 114:4
    69%

    4 The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little hills like lambs.

  • Ps 144:13
    68%

    13 Our store-houses are full of all good things; and our sheep give birth to thousands and ten thousands in our fields.

  • Jer 30:19-20
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    68%

    19 And from them will go out praise and the sound of laughing: and I will make them great in number, and they will not become less; and I will give them glory, and they will not be small.

    20 And their children will be as they were in the old days, and the meeting of the people will have its place before me, and I will send punishment on all who are cruel to them.

  • Judg 18:21
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    21 So they went on their way again, putting the little ones and the oxen and the goods in front of them.

  • Hab 1:15
    68%

    15 He takes them all up with his hook, he takes them in his net, getting them together in his fishing-net: for which cause he is glad and full of joy.

  • Ps 104:12
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    12 The birds of the air have their resting-places by them, and make their song among the branches.

  • Isa 3:4
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    4 And I will make children their chiefs, and foolish ones will have rule over them.

  • Isa 11:6-8
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    67%

    6 And the wolf will be living with the lamb, and the leopard will take his rest with the young goat; and the lion will take grass for food like the ox; and the young lion will go with the young ones of the herd; and a little child will be their guide.

    7 And the cow and the bear will be friends while their young ones are sleeping together.

    8 And the child at the breast will be playing by the hole of the snake, and the older child will put his hand on the bright eye of the poison-snake.

  • Ps 68:25
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    25 The makers of songs go before, the players of music come after, among the young girls playing on brass instruments.

  • Ps 127:3
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    3 See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward.

  • Ps 114:6
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    6 You mountains, why were you jumping like goats, and you little hills like lambs?

  • Jer 51:38
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    38 They will be crying out together like lions, their voices will be like the voices of young lions.

  • Hos 11:2
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    2 When I sent for them, then they went away from me; they made offerings to the Baals, burning perfumes to images.

  • Ps 150:4
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    4 Give him praise with instruments of brass and in the dance: give him praise with horns and corded instruments.

  • Isa 5:12
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    12 And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.

  • Hos 11:10
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    10 They will go after the Lord; his cry will be like that of a lion; his cry will be loud, and the children will come from the west, shaking with fear;

  • Hos 9:11
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    11 As for Ephraim, their glory will go in flight like a bird: there will be no birth and no one with child and no giving of life.

  • Luke 7:32
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    32 They are like children who are seated in the market-place, crying out to one another, and saying, We made music for you, but you did not take part in the dance; we gave cries of sorrow, but you were not sad.

  • Job 30:7-8
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    7 They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns.

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    15 The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.

  • Zech 8:5
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    5 And the open spaces of the town will be full of boys and girls playing in its open spaces.

  • Lam 5:13
    66%

    13 The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.

  • Jer 18:21
    66%

    21 For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

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    66%

    20 Is it possible for Leviathan to be pulled out with a fish-hook, or for a hook to be put through the bone of his mouth?

  • Amos 6:5
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    5 Making foolish songs to the sound of corded instruments, and designing for themselves instruments of music, like David;

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    9 Happy is the man who takes your little ones, crushing them against the rocks.

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    66%

    10 Beasts and all cattle; insects and winged birds:

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    66%

    6 He makes them go jumping about like a young ox; Lebanon and Sirion like a young mountain ox.

  • Isa 14:7
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    7 All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song.

  • Ps 8:7
    66%

    7 All sheep and oxen, and all the beasts of the field;