Job 30:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 69:26 : 26 Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you.
  • Isa 3:12 : 12 As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.
  • Zech 1:15 : 15 And I am very angry with the nations who are living untroubled: for when I was only a little angry, they made the evil worse.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 30:10-12
    3 verses
    87%

    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:

  • Job 30:14-15
    2 verses
    83%

    14 As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.

    15 Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.

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

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

  • Ps 56:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

    5 Every day they make wrong use of my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

    6 They come together, they are waiting in secret places, they take note of my steps, they are waiting for my soul.

  • Ps 142:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

    3 When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.

    4 Looking to my right side, I saw no man who was my friend: I had no safe place; no one had any care for my soul.

  • Job 16:9-11
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    9 I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;

    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.

    11 God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.

  • 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.

  • 6 They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)

  • 3 For men who are going after me have come out against me, violent men are purposing to take my soul; they have not put God before their eyes. (Selah.)

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

  • 19 They came on me in the day of my trouble: but the Lord was my support.

  • Job 19:12-13
    2 verses
    75%

    12 His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.

    13 He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.

  • 18 They came on me in the day of my trouble; but the Lord was my support.

  • 13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

  • Lam 1:13-14
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    74%

    13 From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

    14 A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.

  • 13 I have been hard pushed by you, so that I might have a fall: but the Lord was my helper.

  • 21 Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.

  • 53 They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.

  • 12 Those who have a desire to take my life put nets for me; those who are designing my destruction say evil things against me, all the day their minds are full of deceit.

  • Ps 59:3-4
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    3 For see, they are watching in secret for my soul; the strong have come together against me? but not because of my sin, or my evil-doing, O Lord.

    4 For no sin of mine they go quickly and get themselves ready; be awake and come to my help, and see.

  • 16 Destruction and trouble are in their ways;

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

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

  • Ps 129:2-3
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    74%

    2 Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young, but my troubles have not overcome me.

    3 The ploughmen were ploughing on my back; long were the wounds they made.

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    1 <A Psalm. Of David. When he went in flight from Absalom his son.> Lord, how greatly are they increased who make attacks on me! in great numbers they come against me.

  • 3 I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

  • 10 For my haters are waiting secretly for me; and those who are watching for my soul are banded together in their evil designs,

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

  • 5 He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.

  • 3 Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.

  • 11 Be not far from me, for trouble is near; there is no one to give help.

  • 14 Let those who go after my soul for its destruction have shame and trouble together; let them be turned back and made foolish who take pleasure in my trouble.

  • 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.

  • 20 They give me back evil for good; they are my haters because I go after the thing which is right.

  • 38 I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

  • 3 Words of hate are round about me; they have made war against me without cause.

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

  • 17 They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me.