Job 27:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He goes to rest full of wealth, but does so for the last time: on opening his eyes, he sees it there no longer.

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  • Job 24:24 : 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.
  • Jer 8:2 : 2 And they will put them out before the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, whose lovers and servants they have been, after whom they have gone, to whom they have made prayers, and to whom they have given worship: they will not be put together or placed in the earth; they will be waste on the face of the earth.
  • Matt 3:12 : 12 In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned up in the fire which will never be put out.
  • Matt 23:37 : 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not!
  • Job 30:23 : 23 For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.
  • Ps 58:9 : 9 Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.
  • Ps 73:19-20 : 19 How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction. 20 As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.
  • Gen 49:10 : 10 The rod of authority will not be taken from Judah, and he will not be without a law-giver, till he comes who has the right to it, and the peoples will put themselves under his rule.
  • Job 7:8 : 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 8:22 : 22 Your haters will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the sinner will not be seen again.
  • Job 14:10 : 10 But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?
  • Job 14:12-15 : 12 So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep. 13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again! 14 If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free. 15 At the sound of your voice I would give an answer, and you would have a desire for the work of your hands.
  • Job 20:7-9 : 7 Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he? 8 He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night. 9 The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him.
  • Job 21:23-26 : 23 One comes to his end in complete well-being, full of peace and quiet: 24 His buckets are full of milk, and there is no loss of strength in his bones. 25 And another comes to his end with a bitter soul, without ever tasting good. 26 Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.
  • Job 21:30 : 30 How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?

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    28 And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.

    29 He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

  • Job 27:20
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    20 Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.

  • Job 14:12
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    12 So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

  • Ps 49:16-17
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    16 Have no fear when wealth comes to a man, and the glory of his house is increased;

    17 For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.

  • Job 20:7-11
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    7 Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?

    8 He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.

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

    10 His children are hoping that the poor will be kind to them, and his hands give back his wealth.

    11 His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.

  • Job 27:18
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    18 His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.

  • Luke 12:20-21
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    20 But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

    21 So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.

  • Ps 49:19
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    19 He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.

  • Eccl 5:12-14
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    12 There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.

    13 And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.

    14 As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.

  • Job 30:24
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    24 Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?

  • Job 7:8-10
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    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.

    9 A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.

    10 He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    10 But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.

    11 For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.

  • Job 21:32
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    32 He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it.

  • Prov 13:7
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    7 A man may be acting as if he had wealth, but have nothing; another may seem poor, but have great wealth.

  • Ps 39:6
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    6 Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

  • Job 21:13
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    13 Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.

  • Job 27:15-16
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    15 When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them.

    16 Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing;

  • Prov 28:11
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    11 The man of wealth seems to himself to be wise, but the poor man who has sense has a low opinion of him.

  • Luke 16:22
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    22 And in time the poor man came to his end, and angels took him to Abraham's breast. And the man of wealth came to his end, and was put in the earth.

  • Eccl 6:2
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    2 A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.

  • Prov 28:22
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    22 He who is ever desiring wealth goes running after money, and does not see that need will come on him.

  • Job 21:26
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    26 Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

  • Ps 52:7
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    7 See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth.

  • 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.

  • Job 36:19
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    19 ...

  • Ps 37:36
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    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 18:17-18
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    17 His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.

    18 He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

  • Job 24:22
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    22 But God by his power gives long life to the strong; he gets up again, though he has no hope of life.

  • Eccl 6:5
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    5 Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other.

  • Jer 17:11
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    11 Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.

  • Ps 49:10
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    10 For he sees that wise men come to their end, and foolish persons of low behaviour come to destruction together, letting their wealth go to others.

  • Job 14:2
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    2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

  • Prov 27:24
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    24 For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.

  • Prov 11:28
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    28 He who puts his faith in wealth will come to nothing; but the upright man will be full of growth like the green leaf.

  • Job 21:23
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    23 One comes to his end in complete well-being, full of peace and quiet:

  • Job 3:21
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    21 To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;