Job 21:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Gen 4:21 : 21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all players on instruments of music.
  • Isa 5:12 : 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.
  • Amos 6:4-6 : 4 Who are resting on beds of ivory, stretched out on soft seats, feasting on lambs from the flock and young oxen from the cattle-house; 5 Making foolish songs to the sound of corded instruments, and designing for themselves instruments of music, like David; 6 Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph.
  • Isa 22:13 : 13 But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.
  • Gen 31:27 : 27 Why did you make a secret of your flight, not giving me word of it, so that I might have sent you away with joy and songs, with melody and music?

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • Ps 149:2-3
    2 verses
    81%

    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 150:3-5
    3 verses
    81%

    3 Give him praise with the sound of the horn: give him praise with corded instruments of music.

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

    5 Give him praise with the loud brass: give him praise with the high-sounding brass.

  • Ps 81:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

    1 <To the chief music-maker; put to the Gittith. Of Asaph.> Make a song to God our strength: make a glad cry to the God of Jacob.

    2 Take up the melody, playing on an instrument of music, even on corded instruments.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 8 Then David and all Israel made melody before God with all their strength, with songs and corded instruments of music, and with brass instruments and horns.

  • 28 So they came to Jerusalem with corded instruments and wind-instruments into the house of the Lord.

  • 8 The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad.

  • 5 And David and all the men of Israel made melody before the Lord with all their power, with songs and with corded instruments and instruments of brass.

  • 13 Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.

  • 16 And David gave orders to the chief of the Levites to put their brothers the music-makers in position, with instruments of music, corded instruments and brass, with glad voices making sounds of joy.

  • 28 So all Israel took up the ark of the agreement of the Lord, with loud cries and with horns and brass and corded instruments sounding loudly.

  • Ps 98:4-6
    3 verses
    73%

    4 Let all the earth send out a glad cry to the Lord; sounding with a loud voice, and praising him with songs of joy.

    5 Make melody to the Lord with instruments of music; with a corded instrument and the voice of song.

    6 With wind instruments and the sound of the horn, make a glad cry before the Lord, the King.

  • Ps 33:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2 Give praise to the Lord on the corded instrument; make melody to him with instruments of music.

    3 Make a new song to him; playing expertly with a loud noise.

  • 3 On a ten-corded instrument, and on an instrument of music with a quiet sound.

  • 21 So the children of Israel who were present in Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread for seven days with great joy: and the Levites and the priests gave praise to the Lord day by day, making melody to the Lord with loud instruments.

  • Jer 31:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    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.

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

  • 29 You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and you will be glad in heart, as when they go with music of the pipe to the mountain of the Lord, the Rock of Israel.

  • Lam 5:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    14 The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.

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

  • 5 That when the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all sorts of instruments, comes to your ears, you are to go down on your faces in worship before the image of gold which Nebuchadnezzar the king has put up:

  • 31 And my music has been turned to sorrow, and the sound of my pipe into the noise of weeping.

  • 12 Let the field be glad, and everything which is in it; yes, let all the trees of the wood be sounding with joy,

  • 40 And all the people came up after him, piping with pipes, and they were glad with great joy, so that the earth was shaking with the sound.

  • 27 And when the time came for the wall of Jerusalem to be made holy, they sent for the Levites out of all their places to come to Jerusalem, to keep the feast with joy, and with praise and melody, with brass and corded instruments of music.

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

  • 20 And Miriam, the woman prophet, the sister of Aaron, took an instrument of music in her hand; and all the women went after her with music and dances.

  • 21 And Mattithiah and Eliphelehu and Mikneiah and Obed-edom and Jeiel and Azaziah, with corded instruments on the octave, to give the first note of the song.

  • 6 Now on their way, when David came back after the destruction of the Philistine, the women came out of all the towns of Israel, with songs and dances, meeting David with melody and joy and instruments of music.

  • 7 Make songs of praise to the Lord; make melody to our God with instruments of music.

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

  • Ps 100:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1 <A Psalm of Praise.> Make a glad sound to the Lord, all the earth.

    2 Give worship to the Lord with joy; come before him with a song.

  • 15 So David and all the men of Israel took up the ark of the Lord with cries of joy and sounding of horns.

  • 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.

  • 11 By you my sorrow is turned into dancing; you have taken away my clothing of grief, and given me robes of joy;

  • 12 And the Levites who made the music, all of them, Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and brothers, robed in fair linen, were in their places with their brass and corded instruments at the east side of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests blowing horns;)

  • 26 So the Levites took their places with David's instruments, and the priests with their horns.