Job 23:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

See, I go forward, but he is not there; and back, but I do not see him;

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 9:11 : 11 See, he goes past me and I see him not: he goes on before, but I have no knowledge of him.
  • Ps 10:1 : 1 Why do you keep far away, O Lord? why are you not to be seen in times of trouble?
  • Job 35:14 : 14 How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.
  • 1 Tim 6:16 : 16 Who only has life for ever, living in light to which no man may come near; whom no man has seen or is able to see: to whom be honour and power for ever. So be it.
  • Ps 13:1-3 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me? 2 How long is my soul to be in doubt, with sorrow in my heart all the day? how long will he who is against me be given power over me? 3 Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;
  • Isa 45:15 : 15 Truly, you have a secret God, the God of Israel is a Saviour!

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    86%

    9 I am looking for him on the left hand, but there is no sign of him; and turning to the right, I am not able to see him.

    10 For he has knowledge of the way I take; after I have been tested I will come out like gold.

    11 My feet have gone in his steps; I have kept in his way, without turning to one side or to the other.

  • Job 9:11-12
    2 verses
    82%

    11 See, he goes past me and I see him not: he goes on before, but I have no knowledge of him.

    12 If he puts out his hand to take, by whom may it be turned back? who may say to him, What are you doing?

  • Job 23:7
    78%

    7 There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.

  • Job 19:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7 Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.

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

  • Job 23:3
    75%

    3 If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat!

  • Job 8:18
    74%

    18 If he is taken away from his place, then it will say, I have not seen you.

  • Job 16:22
    74%

    22 For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.

  • Job 38:19
    74%

    19 Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

  • Job 7:8
    74%

    8 The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.

  • Job 31:4
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    4 Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?

  • Job 23:17
    73%

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

  • Job 10:21
    73%

    21 Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,

  • Ps 37:36
    73%

    36 But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.

  • Job 34:21
    73%

    21 For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.

  • Ps 139:7
    72%

    7 Where may I go from your spirit? how may I go in flight from you?

  • Job 6:13
    71%

    13 I have no help in myself, and wisdom is completely gone from me.

  • Job 23:13-15
    3 verses
    71%

    13 But his purpose is fixed and there is no changing it; and he gives effect to the desire of his soul.

    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.

  • Job 35:14
    71%

    14 How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.

  • Lam 3:2
    71%

    2 By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.

  • Job 34:32
    71%

    32 ...

  • Exod 33:23
    71%

    23 Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back: but my face is not to be seen.

  • Job 14:3
    71%

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

  • Job 9:32
    71%

    32 For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.

  • Job 4:16
    71%

    16 Something was present before me, but I was not able to see it clearly; there was a form before my eyes: a quiet voice came to my ears, saying:

  • Job 5:8
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    8 But as for me, I would make my prayer to God, and I would put my cause before him:

  • Job 37:23
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    23 There is no searching out of the Ruler of all: his strength and his judging are great; he is full of righteousness, doing no wrong.

  • Job 23:5
    70%

    5 I would see what his answers would be, and have knowledge of what he would say to me.

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    23 God has knowledge of the way to it, and of its resting-place;

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    20 You give no answer to my cry, and take no note of my prayer.

  • Job 19:27
    70%

    27 Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.

  • Job 9:19
    70%

    19 If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?

  • Job 7:21
    70%

    21 And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

  • Job 9:28
    70%

    28 I go in fear of all my pains; I am certain that I will not be free from sin in your eyes.

  • Job 33:10-11
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    70%

    10 See, he is looking for something against me; in his eyes I am as one of his haters;

    11 He puts chains on my feet; he is watching all my ways.

  • Isa 40:27
    70%

    27 Why do you say, O Jacob, such words as these, O Israel, The Lord's eyes are not on my way, and my God gives no attention to my cause?

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    25 My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.

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    70%

    11 I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world.

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    70%

    23 Am I only a God who is near, says the Lord, and not a God at a distance?

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    70%

    9 For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in the night.

  • Eccl 7:23
    70%

    23 All this I have put to the test by wisdom; I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.

  • Job 20:9
    70%

    9 The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him.

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    70%

    23 To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?

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    70%

    3 Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.