Job 23:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For God has made my heart feeble, and my mind is troubled before the Ruler of all.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 27:2 : 2 By the life of God, who has taken away my right; and of the Ruler of all, who has made my soul bitter;
  • Ps 22:14 : 14 I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.
  • Deut 20:3 : 3 Give ear, O Israel: today you are going forward to the fight; let your heart be strong; do not let uncontrolled fear overcome you because of those who are against you;
  • Ruth 1:20 : 20 And she said to them, Do not let my name be Naomi, but Mara, for the Ruler of all has given me a bitter fate.
  • Ps 88:16 : 16 The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 Then I said, The curse is on me, and my fate is destruction; for I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of armies.
  • Isa 57:16 : 16 For I will not give punishment for ever, or be angry without end: for from me breath goes out; and I it was who made the souls.
  • Jer 51:46 : 46 So that your hearts may not become feeble and full of fear because of the news which will go about in the land; for a story will go about one year, and after that in another year another story, and violent acts in the land, ruler against ruler.
  • Joel 1:15 : 15 Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.

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    14 For what has been ordered for me by him will be gone through to the end: and his mind is full of such designs.

    15 For this cause I am in fear before him, my thoughts of him overcome me.

  • 23 For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things.

  • 17 For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

  • 4 My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me.

  • Ps 55:4-5
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    4 My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.

    5 Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered.

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  • 4 Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

  • Job 4:14-15
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    14 Fear came on me and shaking, and my bones were full of trouble;

    15 And a breath was moving over my face; the hair of my flesh became stiff:

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  • Job 3:25-26
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    25 For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled.

    26 I have no peace, no quiet, and no rest; nothing but pain comes on me.

  • 24 He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him:

  • 7 But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.

  • 4 For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.

  • 21 My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:

  • Job 16:11-12
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    11 God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.

    12 I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.

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  • 34 Let him take away his rod from me and not send his fear on me:

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    15 Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.

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    3 I will keep God in memory, with sounds of grief; my thoughts are troubled, and my spirit is overcome. (Selah.)

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    9 If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!

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  • 8 I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.

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  • 20 See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.

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

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  • 8 My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

  • 17 The troubles of my heart are increased: O take me out of my sorrows.

  • 9 He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.

  • 27 My feelings are strongly moved, and give me no rest; days of trouble have overtaken me.