Job 30:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.

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  • Job 12:4 : 4 It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of!
  • Job 19:13-19 : 13 He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me. 14 My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds. 15 I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country. 16 At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him. 17 My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body. 18 Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me. 19 All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.
  • Job 29:8-9 : 8 The young men saw me, and went away, and the old men got up from their seats; 9 The rulers kept quiet, and put their hands on their mouths; 10 The chiefs kept back their words, and their tongues were joined to the roofs of their mouths.
  • Ps 35:15-16 : 15 But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me. 16 Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.
  • Ps 69:12 : 12 I am a cause of wonder to those in authority; a song to those who are given to strong drink.
  • Isa 3:5 : 5 And the people will be crushed, every one by his neighbour; the young will be full of pride against the old, and those of low position will be lifted up against the noble.
  • Mark 14:65 : 65 And some put shame on him and, covering his face, gave him blows and said to him, Now say what is to come: and the captains took him and gave him blows with their hands.
  • Mark 15:17-20 : 17 And they put a purple robe on him, and twisting a crown of thorns, they put it on him; 18 And, as if honouring him, they said, Long life to the King of the Jews! 19 And they gave him blows on the head with a stick and put shame on him and, going down on their knees, gave him worship. 20 And when they had made sport of him, they took the purple robe off him and put his clothing on him. And they took him out to put him to death on the cross.
  • Luke 23:14 : 14 You say that this man has been teaching the people evil things: now I, after going into the question before you, see nothing wrong in this man in connection with the things which you have said against him:
  • Luke 23:18 : 18 But with loud voices they said all together, Put this man to death, and make Barabbas free.
  • Luke 23:35 : 35 And the people were looking on. And the rulers made sport of him, saying, He was a saviour of others; let him do something for himself, if he is the Christ, the man of God's selection.
  • Luke 23:39 : 39 And one of the evil-doers on the cross, with bitter feeling, said to him, Are you not the Christ? Get yourself and us out of this.
  • Acts 17:5 : 5 But the Jews, being moved with envy, took with them certain low persons from among the common people, and getting together a great number of people, made an outcry in the town, attacking the house of Jason with the purpose of taking them out to the people.
  • Titus 1:12 : 12 One of their prophets has said, The men of Crete are ever false, evil beasts, lovers of food, hating work.
  • 2 Kgs 2:23 : 23 Then from there he went up to Beth-el; and on his way, some little boys came out from the town and made sport of him, crying, Go up, old no-hair! go up, old no-hair!

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  • Job 30:2
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    2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them.

  • Job 19:18-19
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    76%

    18 Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.

    19 All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.

  • Job 15:10
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    10 With us are men who are grey-haired and full of years, much older than your father.

  • Job 30:7-13
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    73%

    7 They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns.

    8 They are sons of shame, and of men without a name, who have been forced out of the land.

    9 And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.

    10 I am disgusting to them; they keep away from me, and put marks of shame on me.

    11 For he has made loose the cord of my bow, and put me to shame; he has sent down my flag to the earth before me.

    12 The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:

    13 They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;

  • Job 29:8
    72%

    8 The young men saw me, and went away, and the old men got up from their seats;

  • Ps 35:15-16
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    71%

    15 But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.

    16 Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.

  • Prov 30:31
    71%

    31 The war-horse, and the he-goat, and the king when his army is with him.

  • Ps 31:11
    71%

    11 Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.

  • Job 17:2
    71%

    2 Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.

  • Lam 3:14
    71%

    14 I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.

  • Ps 22:16
    70%

    16 Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.

  • Job 16:10
    70%

    10 Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.

  • Ps 73:15
    70%

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

  • Prov 17:6
    70%

    6 Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.

  • Job 31:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    20 If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm;

    21 If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;

  • Job 17:6
    70%

    6 He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.

  • Ps 22:6-7
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    70%

    6 But I am a worm and not a man; cursed by men, and looked down on by the people.

    7 I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say,

  • Job 16:7-8
    2 verses
    69%

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

    8 It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.

  • Ps 119:51
    69%

    51 The men of pride have made great sport of me; but I have not been turned from your law.

  • Prov 1:30
    69%

    30 They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.

  • Ps 71:9
    69%

    9 Do not give me up when I am old; be my help even when my strength is gone.

  • Jer 3:24
    69%

    24 But the Baal has taken all the work of our fathers from our earliest days; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

  • Prov 30:17
    69%

    17 The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.

  • Isa 3:5
    69%

    5 And the people will be crushed, every one by his neighbour; the young will be full of pride against the old, and those of low position will be lifted up against the noble.

  • Job 12:3
    69%

    3 But I have a mind as well as you; I am equal to you: yes, who has not knowledge of such things as these?

  • Job 19:3
    69%

    3 Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.

  • Gen 31:38
    69%

    38 These twenty years I have been with you; your sheep and your goats have had young without loss, not one of your he-goats have I taken for food.

  • Job 18:3
    69%

    3 Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?

  • Ps 22:13
    69%

    13 I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

  • Prov 1:26
    69%

    26 So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear;

  • Hab 1:10
    69%

    10 He makes little of kings, rulers are a sport to him; all the strong places are to be laughed at; for he makes earthworks and takes them.

  • Job 31:13
    68%

    13 If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;

  • Ps 17:11
    68%

    11 They have made a circle round our steps: their eyes are fixed on us, forcing us down to the earth;

  • Lam 3:4
    68%

    4 My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

  • Job 16:20
    68%

    20 My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,

  • Ezek 34:19
    68%

    19 And as for my sheep, their food is the grass which has been stamped on by your feet, and their drink the water which has been made dirty by your feet.

  • Job 29:24
    68%

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

  • Lam 3:11
    68%

    11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • Job 32:6
    68%

    6 And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, made answer and said, I am young, and you are very old, so I was in fear, and kept myself from putting my knowledge before you.