Job 24:25

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And if it is not so, now, who will make it clear that my words are false, and that what I say is of no value?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 9:24 : 24 The land is given into the power of the evil-doer; the faces of its judges are covered; if not by him, then who has done it?
  • Job 11:2-3 : 2 Are all these words to go unanswered? and is a man seen to be right because he is full of talk? 3 Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?
  • Job 15:2 : 2 Will a wise man make answer with knowledge of no value, or will he give birth to the east wind?
  • Job 27:4 : 4 Truly, there is no deceit in my lips, and my tongue does not say what is false.
  • Job 6:28 : 28 Now then, let your eyes be turned to me, for truly I will not say what is false to your face.

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  • 24 For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.

  • 19 Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.

  • 28 Now then, let your eyes be turned to me, for truly I will not say what is false to your face.

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

  • 3 Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?

  • Job 9:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    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?

    20 Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.

  • 34 Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit?

  • 15 See, they say to me, Where is the word of the Lord? let it come now.

  • 20 How may he have knowledge of my desire for talk with him? or did any man ever say, May destruction come on me?

  • Job 17:2-3
    2 verses
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    2 Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.

    3 Be pleased, now, to be responsible for me to yourself; for there is no other who will put his hand in mine.

  • 15 If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children.

  • 5 If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit;

  • 20 Or let these men here present say what wrongdoing was seen in me when I was before the Sanhedrin,

  • 4 As for me, is my outcry against man? is it then to be wondered at if my spirit is troubled?

  • 35 Then I would say what is in my mind without fear of him; for there is no cause of fear in myself.

  • 4 In no way: but let God be true, though every man is seen to be untrue; as it is said in the Writings, That your words may be seen to be true, and you may be seen to be right when you are judged.

  • Job 27:4-5
    2 verses
    68%

    4 Truly, there is no deceit in my lips, and my tongue does not say what is false.

    5 Let it be far from me! I will certainly not say that you are right! I will come to death before I give up my righteousness.

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

  • 7 Will you say in God's name what is not right, and put false words into his mouth?

  • 7 But if, because I am untrue, God being seen to be true gets more glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner?

  • Job 31:24-25
    2 verses
    68%

    24 If I made gold my hope, or if I ever said to the best gold, I have put my faith in you;

    25 If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;

  • 5 If you are able, give me an answer; put your cause in order, and come forward.

  • 13 May the Lord be judge between me and you, and may the Lord give me my rights against you, but my hand will never be lifted up against you.

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

  • Job 33:32-33
    2 verses
    68%

    32 If you have anything to say, give me an answer; for it is my desire that you may be judged free from sin.

    33 If not, give attention to me, and keep quiet, and I will give you wisdom.

  • 6 Though I am right, still I am in pain; my wound may not be made well, though I have done no wrong.

  • 16 I said, Let them not be glad over me; when my foot is moved, let them not be lifted up with pride against me.

  • 15 Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;

  • Job 31:38-39
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    38 If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;

    39 If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;

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

  • 27 But for the fear that their haters, uplifted in their pride, might say, Our hand is strong, the Lord has not done all this.

  • 12 For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

  • 29 You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing?

  • 11 Though I said in my fear, All men are false.

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    3 O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;

  • 24 I was laughing at them when they had no hope, and the light of my face was never clouded by their fear.

  • 4 And he who is against me may not say, I have overcome him; and those who are troubling me may not be glad when I am moved.

  • 22 For I am not able to give names of honour to any man; and if I did, my Maker would quickly take me away.

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

  • 31 Who will make his way clear to his face? and if he has done a thing, who gives him punishment for it?

  • 15 That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble.

  • 5 A true witness does not say what is false, but a false witness is breathing out deceit.

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

  • 13 And they are not able to give facts in support of the things which they say against me now.