Job 22:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Saying, Truly, their substance is cut off, and their wealth is food for the fire.

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  • Job 1:16 : 16 And this one was still talking when another came, and said, The fire of God came down from heaven, burning up the sheep and the goats and the young men completely, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.
  • 2 Pet 2:6-7 : 6 And sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, burning them up with fire as an example to those whose way of life might in the future be unpleasing to him; 7 And kept safe Lot, the upright man, who was deeply troubled by the unclean life of the evil-doers
  • Gen 19:24 : 24 Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah.
  • Job 4:7 : 7 Have you ever seen destruction come to an upright man? or when were the god-fearing ever cut off?
  • Job 8:3-4 : 3 Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging? 4 If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.
  • Job 15:5-6 : 5 For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself. 6 It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.
  • Job 15:30 : 30 He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.
  • Job 20:18-19 : 18 He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading. 19 Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;
  • Job 20:26 : 26 All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.
  • Job 21:27-28 : 27 See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me; 28 For you say, Where is the house of the ruler, and where is the tent of the evil-doer?
  • Luke 13:1-5 : 1 Now some people who were there at that time, gave him an account of how the blood of some Galilaeans had been mixed by Pilate with their offerings. 2 And he, in answer, said to them, Are you of the opinion that these Galilaeans were worse than all other Galilaeans, because these things were done to them? 3 I say to you, It is not so: but if your hearts are not changed, you will all come to the same end. 4 Or those eighteen men who were crushed by the fall of the tower of Siloam, were they worse than all the other men living in Jerusalem? 5 I say to you, It is not so: but if your hearts are not changed, you will all come to an end in the same way.
  • Luke 17:29-30 : 29 But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all. 30 So will it be in the day of the revelation of the Son of man.

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    18 Though he made their houses full of good things: but the purpose of the evil-doers is far from me!

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  • Job 31:12
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    12 It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.

  • Heb 12:29
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    29 For our God is an all-burning fire.

  • Ps 80:16
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    16 It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.

  • Isa 47:14
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    14 Truly, they have become like dry stems, they have been burned in the fire; they are not able to keep themselves safe from the power of the flame: it is not a coal for warming them, or a fire by which a man may be seated.

  • Isa 9:18-19
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    18 For evil was burning like a fire; the blackberries and thorns were burned up; the thick woods took fire, rolling up in dark clouds of smoke.

    19 The land was dark with the wrath of the Lord of armies: the people were like those who take men's flesh for food.

  • Ezek 15:4-5
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    4 See, it is put into the fire for burning: the fire has made a meal of its two ends and the middle part of it is burned; is it good for any work?

    5 Truly, before it was cut down, it was not used for any purpose: how much less, when the fire has made a meal of it and it is burned, will it be made into anything?

  • Job 20:26
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    26 All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.

  • Isa 29:20
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    20 For the cruel one has come to nothing; and those who make sport of the Lord are gone; and those who are watching to do evil are cut off:

  • Isa 33:12
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    12 And the peoples will be like the burning of chalk: as thorns cut down, which are burned in the fire.

  • Job 21:17-18
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    17 How frequently is the light of the evil-doers put out, or does trouble come on them? how frequently does his wrath take them with cords?

    18 How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

  • Ps 83:14
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    14 As fire burning a wood, and as a flame causing fire on the mountains,

  • Nah 1:10
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    10 For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

  • Exod 22:6
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    6 If there is a fire and the flames get to the thorns at the edge of the field, causing destruction of the cut grain or of the living grain, or of the field, he who made the fire will have to make up for the damage.

  • 2 Chr 20:11
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    11 See now, how as our reward they have come to send us out of your land which you have given us as our heritage.

  • Ps 21:9
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    9 You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.

  • Ezek 22:31
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    31 And I let loose my passion on them, and have put an end to them in the fire of my wrath: I have made the punishment of their ways come on their heads, says the Lord.

  • Isa 1:31
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    31 And the strong will be as food for the fire, and his work as a flame; and they will be burned together, with no one to put out the fire.

  • Isa 44:16
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    16 With part of it he makes a fire, and on the fire he gets meat cooked and takes a full meal: he makes himself warm, and says, Aha! I am warm, I have seen the fire:

  • Isa 1:28
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    28 But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off.

  • Job 18:5
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    5 For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.

  • Isa 42:25
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    25 For this reason he let loose on him the heat of his wrath, and his strength was like a flame; and it put fire round about him, but he did not see it; he was burned, but did not take it to heart.

  • Joel 2:3
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    3 Before them fire sends destruction, and after them flame is burning: the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and after them an unpeopled waste; truly, nothing has been kept safe from them.

  • Ezek 24:10
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    10 Put on much wood, heating up the fire, boiling the flesh well, and making the soup thick, and let the bones be burned.

  • Ps 37:38
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    38 But as for the sinners, they will be cut off together; the end of the wrongdoers is destruction.

  • Jer 25:37
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    37 And there is no sound in the fields of peace, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

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    48 And all flesh will see that I the Lord have had it lighted: it will not be put out.

  • Deut 32:22
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    22 For my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld, burning up the earth with her increase, and firing the deep roots of the mountains.

  • Ps 52:6
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    6 The upright will see it with fear, and will say, laughing at you:

  • Job 4:20
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    20 Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.

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    10 Let burning flames come down on them: let them be put into the fire, and into deep waters, so that they may not get up again.

  • Ps 73:19
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    19 How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

  • Job 20:21
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    21 He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.

  • Ezek 39:10
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    10 And they will take no wood out of the field or have any cut down in the woods; for they will make their fires of the instruments of war: and they will take by force the property of those who took their property, and go off with the goods of those who took their goods, says the Lord.

  • Isa 64:11
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    11 In view of all this, will you still do nothing, O Lord? will you keep quiet, and go on increasing our punishment?

  • Job 6:17
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    17 Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat.

  • Ezek 22:22
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    22 As silver becomes soft in the oven, so you will become soft in it; and you will be certain that I the Lord have let loose my passion on you.

  • Nah 3:15
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    15 There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts.

  • Isa 5:24
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    24 For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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    6 For this cause the earth is given up to the curse, and those in it are judged as sinners: for this cause those living on the earth are burned up, and the rest are small in number.

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    8 They are bent down and made low; but we have been lifted up.

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    7 We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath.

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    16 Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

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    16 Is not food cut off before our eyes? joy and delight from the house of our God?

  • Obad 1:18
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    18 And the children of Jacob will be a fire and those of Joseph a flame, and the children of Esau dry stems of grass, burned up by them till all is gone: and there will be no people living in Esau; for the Lord has said it.