Job 22:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Is not your evil-doing great? and there is no end to your sins.

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  • Job 4:7-9 : 7 Have you ever seen destruction come to an upright man? or when were the god-fearing ever cut off? 8 What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves. 9 By the breath of God destruction takes them, and by the wind of his wrath they are cut off. 10 Though the noise of the lion and the sounding of his voice, may be loud, the teeth of the young lions are broken. 11 The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.
  • Job 11:6 : 6 And would make clear to you the secrets of wisdom, and the wonders of his purpose!
  • Job 11:14 : 14 If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;
  • 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 15:31-34 : 31 Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward. 32 His branch is cut off before its time, and his leaf is no longer green. 33 He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers. 34 For the band of the evil-doers gives no fruit, and the tents of those who give wrong decisions for reward are burned with fire.
  • Job 21:27 : 27 See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me;
  • Job 32:3 : 3 And he was angry with his three friends, because they had been unable to give him an answer, and had not made Job's sin clear.
  • Ps 19:12 : 12 Who has full knowledge of his errors? make me clean from secret evil.
  • Ps 40:12 : 12 For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.

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  • 6 For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.

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    6 If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?

    7 If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand?

    8 Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man.

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    5 Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his,

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  • 22 And if you say in your heart, Why have these things come on me? because of the number of your sins, your skirts have been uncovered and violent punishment overtakes you.

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  • 15 Why are you crying for help because of your wound? for your pain may never be taken away: because your evil-doing was so great and because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.

  • 3 Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers?

  • 5 Will he be angry for ever? will he keep his wrath to the end? These things you have said, and have done evil and have had your way.

  • 3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

  • 13 Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?

  • 6 Is not your fear of God your support, and your upright way of life your hope?

  • 20 What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law?

  • 3 Why do you make me see evil-doing, and why are my eyes fixed on wrong? for wasting and violent acts are before me: and there is fighting and bitter argument.

  • 23 Who ever gave orders to him, or said to him, You have done wrong?

  • 14 If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;

  • 10 Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed?

  • 6 And would make clear to you the secrets of wisdom, and the wonders of his purpose!

  • 1 <To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of David. When Doeg the Edomite came to Saul saying, David has come to the house of Ahimelech.> Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day?

  • 8 Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

  • 3 O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free?

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    2 Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,

    3 What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?

  • 8 They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;

  • 22 The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.

  • 35 And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.

  • 12 For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.

  • 22 For even if you are washed with soda and take much soap, still your evil-doing is marked before me, says the Lord God.

  • 13 So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

  • 11 Because of your name, O Lord, let me have forgiveness for my sin, which is very great.

  • 16 But to the sinner, God says, What are you doing, talking of my laws, or taking the words of my agreement in your mouth?

  • 18 Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.

  • 11 Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

  • 5 If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,

  • 17 You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them; or, Where is God the judge?

  • 28 For you say, Where is the house of the ruler, and where is the tent of the evil-doer?

  • 15 Will you keep the old way by which evil men went?

  • 25 Through your evil-doing these things have been turned away, and your sins have kept back good from you.

  • 3 What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?

  • 6 Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors!

  • 16 How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!

  • 12 In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.

  • 3 Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?

  • 11 Are the comforts of God not enough for you, and the gentle word which was said to you?

  • 17 But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.