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.

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  • Job 30:10-12
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    87%

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

    11For 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.

    12The 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%

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

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

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

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

  • Ps 56:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

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

    6They 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%

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

    4Looking 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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    9I 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;

    10Their 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.

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

  • 15But 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.

  • 6They 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.)

  • 3For 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.)

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

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

  • Job 19:12-13
    2 verses
    75%

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

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

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

  • 13His 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%

    13From 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.

    14A 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.

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

  • 21Give 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.

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

  • 12Those 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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    3For 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.

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

  • 16Destruction and trouble are in their ways;

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

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

  • Ps 129:2-3
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    2Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young, but my troubles have not overcome me.

    3The 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.

  • 3I 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.

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

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

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

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

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

  • 14Let 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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