Job 21:25

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And another comes to his end with a bitter soul, without ever tasting good.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 7:11 : 11 So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.
  • Job 9:18 : 18 He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief.
  • Job 10:1 : 1 My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.
  • Job 20:23 : 23 God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.
  • Prov 14:10 : 10 No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.
  • Eccl 6:2 : 2 A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.
  • Isa 38:15-17 : 15 What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest. 16 O Lord, for this cause I am waiting for you, give rest to my spirit: make me well again, and let me come back to life. 17 See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.
  • Ezek 4:16-17 : 16 And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder: 17 So that they may be in need of bread and water and be wondering at one another, wasting away in their sin.
  • Ezek 12:18 : 18 Son of man, take your food with shaking fear, and your water with trouble and care;
  • 2 Sam 17:8 : 8 Hushai said further, You have knowledge of your father and his men, that they are men of war, and that their feelings are bitter, like those of a bear in the field whose young ones have been taken from her: and your father is a man of war, and will not take his night's rest with the people;
  • 1 Kgs 17:12 : 12 Then she said, By the life of the Lord your God, I have nothing but a little meal in my store, and a drop of oil in the bottle; and now I am getting two sticks together so that I may go in and make it ready for me and my son, so that we may have a meal before our death.
  • Job 3:20 : 20 Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;

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    19Pain is sent on him as a punishment, while he is on his bed; there is no end to the trouble in his bones;

    20He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat;

    21His flesh is so wasted away, that it may not be seen, and his bones. ...

    22And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death.

  • Job 21:23-24
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    23One comes to his end in complete well-being, full of peace and quiet:

    24His buckets are full of milk, and there is no loss of strength in his bones.

  • Job 14:22
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    22Only his flesh still has pain, and his soul is sad.

  • Eccl 5:17
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    17This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.

  • Job 3:20-22
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    20Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;

    21To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;

    22Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place;

  • Job 21:26
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    26Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

  • Job 21:21
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    21For what interest has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is ended?

  • Prov 5:11
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    11And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;

  • Prov 27:7
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    7The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.

  • Ps 107:18
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    18They are disgusted by all food, and they come near to the doors of death.

  • Job 6:7
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    7My soul has no desire for such things, they are as disease in my food.

  • Eccl 2:23-25
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    23All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.

    24There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.

    25Who may take food or have pleasure without him?

  • Eccl 6:6-7
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    6And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?

    7All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.

  • Job 20:11
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    11His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.

  • Prov 13:25
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    25The upright man has food to the full measure of his desire, but there will be no food for the stomach of evil-doers.

  • Job 24:19-21
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    19Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.

    20The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.

    21He is not kind to the widow, and he has no pity for her child.

  • Eccl 6:2-3
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    2A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.

    3If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.

  • Lam 4:9
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    9Those who have been put to the sword are better off than those whose death is caused by need of food; for these come to death slowly, burned up like the fruit of the field.

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    20There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight.

    21He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.

  • Job 21:32-33
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    32He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it.

    33The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him.

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    18He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief.

  • Job 27:15
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    15When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them.

  • Jer 16:7
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    7No one will make a feast for them in sorrow, to give them comfort for the dead, or put to their lips the cup of comfort on account of their father or their mother.

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    19He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.

  • Lam 3:15
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    15He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.

  • Jer 31:25
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    25For I have given new strength to the tired soul and to every sorrowing soul in full measure.

  • Eccl 7:2
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    2It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.

  • Job 30:24
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    24Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?

  • Job 20:14
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    14His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.

  • Job 7:15
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    15So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.

  • Job 27:19
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    19He goes to rest full of wealth, but does so for the last time: on opening his eyes, he sees it there no longer.

  • Job 7:11
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    11So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.

  • Prov 27:20
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    20The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough.

  • Prov 21:25
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    25The desire of the hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work.

  • Jer 31:30
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    30But everyone will be put to death for the evil which he himself has done: whoever has taken bitter grapes will himself have his teeth put on edge.