Job 28:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Man puts out his hand on the hard rock, overturning mountains by the roots.

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Referenced Verses

  • Nah 1:4-6 : 4 He says sharp words to the sea and makes it dry, drying up all the rivers: Bashan is feeble, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon is without strength. 5 The mountains are shaking because of him, and the hills flowing away; the earth is falling to bits before him, the world and all who are in it. 6 Who may keep his place before his wrath? and who may undergo the heat of his passion? his wrath is let loose like fire and the rocks are broken open by him.

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  • Job 9:5-6
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    5It is he who takes away the mountains without their knowledge, overturning them in his wrath:

    6Who is moving the earth out of its place, so that its pillars are shaking:

  • Job 28:10-11
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    10He makes deep ways, cut through the rock, and his eye sees everything of value.

    11He keeps back the streams from flowing, and makes the secret things come out into the light.

  • Job 14:18-19
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    18But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place;

    19The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man.

  • Ps 114:8
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    8Who made the rock into a water-spring, and the hard stone into a fountain.

  • Job 18:4
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    4But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?

  • Ps 95:4
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    4The deep places of the earth are in his hand; and the tops of the mountains are his.

  • Hab 3:6
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    6From his high place he sent shaking on the earth; he saw and nations were suddenly moved: and the eternal mountains were broken, the unchanging hills were bent down; his ways are eternal.

  • Job 28:8
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    8The great beasts have not gone over it, and the cruel lion has not taken that way.

  • Job 12:15
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    15Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

  • Job 8:17
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    17His roots are twisted round the stones, forcing their way in between them.

  • Nah 1:4-6
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    4He says sharp words to the sea and makes it dry, drying up all the rivers: Bashan is feeble, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon is without strength.

    5The mountains are shaking because of him, and the hills flowing away; the earth is falling to bits before him, the world and all who are in it.

    6Who may keep his place before his wrath? and who may undergo the heat of his passion? his wrath is let loose like fire and the rocks are broken open by him.

  • Ps 104:32
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    32At whose look the earth is shaking; at whose touch the mountains send out smoke.

  • Hab 3:10
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    10The mountains saw you and were moved with fear; the clouds were streaming with water: the voice of the deep was sounding; the sun did not come up, and the moon kept still in her place.

  • Job 38:13
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    13So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

  • Ps 65:6
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    6The God by whose strength the mountains are fixed; who is robed with power:

  • Mic 1:4
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    4And the mountains will be turned to water under him, and the deep valleys will be broken open, like wax before the fire, like waters flowing down a slope.

  • Ps 18:7
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    7Then trouble and shock came on the earth; and the bases of the mountains were moved and shaking, because he was angry.

  • Isa 2:21
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    21To take cover in the cracks of the rocks, and in the holes of the hills, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

  • Isa 28:2
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    2See, the Lord has a strong and cruel one; like a rain of ice, a storm of destruction, like the overflowing of a strong river, he will violently overcome them.

  • Job 12:19
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    19He makes priests prisoners, overturning those in safe positions;

  • Job 34:25
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    25For he has knowledge of their works, overturning them in the night, so that they are crushed.

  • Ps 78:15-16
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    15The rocks of the waste land were broken by his power, and he gave them drink as out of the deep waters.

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    2Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down:

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    11The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.

    12By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.

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    25See, I am against you, says the Lord, O mountain of destruction, causing the destruction of all the earth: and my hand will be stretched out on you, rolling you down from the rocks, and making you a burned mountain.

  • Job 28:2-6
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    2Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone is changed into brass by the fire.

    3Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.

    4He makes a deep mine far away from those living in the light of day; when they go about on the earth, they have no knowledge of those who are under them, who are hanging far from men, twisting from side to side on a cord.

    5As for the earth, bread comes out of it; but under its face it is turned up as if by fire.

    6Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.

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

  • Jer 4:24
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    24Looking at the mountains, I saw them shaking, and all the hills were moved about.

  • Job 40:20
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    20Is it possible for Leviathan to be pulled out with a fish-hook, or for a hook to be put through the bone of his mouth?

  • Job 30:6
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    6They have to get a resting-place in the hollows of the valleys, in holes of the earth and rocks.

  • Prov 8:29
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    29When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:

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    12And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.

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    8The mountains came up and the valleys went down into the place which you had made ready for them.

  • Ps 73:18
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    18You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

  • Ps 148:9
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    9Mountains and all hills; fruit-trees and all trees of the mountains:

  • Eccl 10:9
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    9He who gets out stones from the earth will be damaged by them, and in the cutting of wood there is danger.

  • 2 Sam 22:8
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    8Then the earth was moved with a violent shock; the bases of heaven were moved and shaking, because he was angry.

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    21And the Lord said, See, there is a place near me, and you may take your place on the rock: