Job 30:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

You have become cruel to me; the strength of your hand is hard on me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 16:9-9 : 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. 12 I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows. 13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth. 14 I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.
  • Job 10:14-17 : 14 That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin: 15 That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble. 16 And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me: 17 That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.
  • Job 13:25-28 : 25 Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way? 26 For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years; 27 And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps; 28 Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.
  • Job 6:9 : 9 If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!
  • Job 7:20-21 : 20 If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself? 21 And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.
  • Job 10:3 : 3 What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?
  • Job 19:6-9 : 6 Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net. 7 Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause. 8 My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark. 9 He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.
  • Job 19:22 : 22 Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?
  • Job 23:6 : 6 Would he make use of his great power to overcome me? No, but he would give attention to me.
  • Ps 77:7-9 : 7 Will the Lord put me away for ever? will he be kind no longer? 8 Is his mercy quite gone for ever? has his word come to nothing? 9 Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? (Selah.)
  • Ps 89:13 : 13 Yours is an arm of power; strong is your hand and high your right hand.
  • Jer 30:14 : 14 Your lovers have no more thought for you, they go after you no longer; for I have given you the wound of a hater, even cruel punishment;
  • 1 Pet 5:6 : 6 For this cause make yourselves low under the strong hand of God, so that when the time comes you may be lifted up;

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    19Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

    20You give no answer to my cry, and take no note of my prayer.

  • Job 30:22
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    22Lifting me up, you make me go on the wings of the wind; I am broken up by the storm.

  • Ps 39:10
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    10No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.

  • Lam 3:3-5
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    3Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.

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

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

  • Job 10:16-17
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    76%

    16And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me:

    17That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.

  • Ps 43:2
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    2You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

  • Lam 3:11
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    11By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • Job 16:7-8
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    7But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.

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

  • Ps 102:10
    74%

    10Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.

  • Job 13:21
    74%

    21Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you.

  • Job 19:3
    73%

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

  • Ps 38:2
    73%

    2For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand.

  • Job 30:11-13
    3 verses
    73%

    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:

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

  • Job 13:24
    73%

    24Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?

  • Ps 139:5
    73%

    5I am shut in by you on every side, and you have put your hand on me.

  • Job 16:11
    73%

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

  • Ps 18:39
    73%

    39For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who come out against me.

  • Job 36:17
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    17...

  • Job 10:7-8
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    7Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?

    8Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.

  • Lam 3:43
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    43Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;

  • Job 13:26
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    26For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;

  • Ps 88:7
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    7The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.)

  • Job 19:21-22
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    72%

    21Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.

    22Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?

  • Job 19:5-6
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    5If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,

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  • 2 Sam 22:40-41
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    40For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who came out against me.

    41By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

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    16The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.

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    4O my God, take me out of the hand of the sinner, out of the hand of the evil and cruel man.

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

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    72%

    8Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

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    72%

    11His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.

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    71%

    16Be turned to me, and have mercy on me; for I am troubled and have no helper.

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    10But you, O Lord, have mercy on me, lifting me up, so that I may give them their punishment.

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    71%

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    71%

    23But still I am ever with you; you have taken me by my right hand.

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    71%

    5But now it has come on you and it is a weariness to you; you are touched by it and your mind is troubled.

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    9Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong.

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

  • Lam 5:22
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    22But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.