Job 30:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • 2 Kgs 8:18 : 18 He went in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the family of Ahab did: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.
  • 2 Kgs 8:27 : 27 He went in the ways of the family of Ahab, and did evil in the eyes of the Lord as the family of Ahab did, for he was a son-in-law of the family of Ahab.
  • 2 Chr 22:3 : 3 He went in the ways of the family of Ahab, for his mother was his teacher in evil-doing.
  • Job 40:4 : 4 Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his?
  • Ps 15:4 : 4 Who gives honour to those who have the fear of the Lord, turning away from him who has not the Lord's approval. He who takes an oath against himself, and makes no change.
  • Ps 49:10-13 : 10 For he sees that wise men come to their end, and foolish persons of low behaviour come to destruction together, letting their wealth go to others. 11 The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands. 12 But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts. 13 This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. (Selah.)
  • Prov 1:7 : 7 The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?
  • Prov 16:22 : 22 Wisdom is a fountain of life to him who has it; but the punishment of the foolish is their foolish behaviour.
  • Isa 32:6 : 6 For the foolish man will say foolish things, having evil thoughts in his heart, working what is unclean, and talking falsely about the Lord, to keep food from him who is in need of it, and water from him whose soul is desiring it.
  • Jer 7:18 : 18 The children go for wood, the fathers get the fire burning, the women are working the paste to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and drink offerings are drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.
  • Mark 6:24 : 24 And she went out and said to her mother, What is my request to be? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.

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  • Job 30:9
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    9 And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.

  • Job 30:1-2
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    1 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.

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

  • Jer 10:8
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    8 But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.

  • Jer 5:4
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    4 Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.

  • Deut 32:5
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    5 They have become false, they are not his children, the mark of sin is on them; they are an evil and hard-hearted generation.

  • Jer 4:22
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    22 For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

  • Ps 94:8
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    8 Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?

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    5 They have no knowledge or sense; they go about in the dark: all the bases of the earth are moved.

  • Isa 57:3-4
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    3 But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.

    4 Of whom do you make sport? against whom is your mouth open wide and your tongue put out? are you not uncontrolled children, a false seed,

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    17 Foolish men, because of their sins, and because of their wrongdoing, are troubled;

  • Job 19:18
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    18 Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.

  • Job 24:4-5
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    4 The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.

    5 Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

  • Isa 3:4-5
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    4 And I will make children their chiefs, and foolish ones will have rule over them.

    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.

  • Deut 32:28
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    28 For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them.

  • Lam 5:13
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    13 The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.

  • Ps 73:8-9
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    8 Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts.

    9 Their mouth goes up to heaven; their tongues go walking through the earth.

  • Hab 1:10
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    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 5:3-4
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    3 I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly the curse came on his house.

    4 Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.

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

  • Jer 8:9
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    9 The wise men are shamed, they are overcome with fear and taken: see, they have given up the word of the Lord; and what use is their wisdom to them?

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    14 They come to their end while they are still young, their life is short like that of those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of their gods.

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    15 Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.

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    14 With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;

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

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    9 For they are an uncontrolled people, false-hearted, who will not give ear to the teaching of the Lord:

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    22 As for me, I was foolish, and without knowledge; I was like a beast before you.

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    10 Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.

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    7 Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:

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    5 Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.

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    13 This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. (Selah.)

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

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    6 But the evil-doers, all of them, will be like thorns to be pushed away, because they may not be gripped in the hand:

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

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    6 A man without sense has no knowledge of this; and a foolish man may not take it in.

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

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