Job 31:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?

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  • Prov 14:31 : 31 He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.
  • Prov 22:2 : 2 The man of wealth and the poor man come face to face: the Lord is the maker of them all.
  • Job 34:19 : 19 Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.
  • Ps 139:14-16 : 14 I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious. 15 My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed before they had come into being.
  • Neh 5:5 : 5 But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.
  • 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 10:8-9 : 8 Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction. 9 O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust? 10 Was I not drained out like milk, becoming hard like cheese? 11 By you I was clothed with skin and flesh, and joined together with bones and muscles. 12 You have been kind to me, and your grace has been with me, and your care has kept my spirit safe.
  • Isa 58:7 : 7 Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?
  • Mal 2:10 : 10 Have we not all one father? has not one God made us? why are we, every one of us, acting falsely to his brother, putting shame on the agreement of our fathers?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 14 What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?

  • Ps 139:13-16
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    13 My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.

    14 I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious.

    15 My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth.

    16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed before they had come into being.

  • 16 If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;

  • Job 10:8-11
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    75%

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

    9 O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?

    10 Was I not drained out like milk, becoming hard like cheese?

    11 By you I was clothed with skin and flesh, and joined together with bones and muscles.

  • Jer 20:17-18
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    74%

    17 Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.

    18 Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?

  • Job 3:10-12
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    10 Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.

    11 Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?

    12 Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?

  • Job 10:18-19
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    18 Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,

    19 And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.

  • Job 31:18-20
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    18 (For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)

    19 If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;

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

  • Ps 22:9-10
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    9 But it was you who took care of me from the day of my birth: you gave me faith even from my mother's breasts.

    10 I was in your hands even before my birth; you are my God from the time when I was in my mother's body.

  • Isa 45:9-11
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    72%

    9 Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?

    10 Cursed is he who says to a father, To what are you giving life? or to a woman, What are you in birth-pains with?

    11 The Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, says, Will you put a question to me about the things which are to come, or will you give me orders about my sons, and the work of my hands?

  • Rom 9:20-21
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    20 But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?

    21 Or has not the potter the right to make out of one part of his earth a vessel for honour, and out of another a vessel for shame?

  • 5 Before you were formed in the body of your mother I had knowledge of you, and before your birth I made you holy; I have given you the work of being a prophet to the nations.

  • 7 Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?

  • 5 Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

  • 16 Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.

  • 14 What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?

  • 50 Did not my hand make all these things?

  • 5 As you have no knowledge of the way of the wind, or of the growth of the bones in the body of her who is with child, even so you have no knowledge of the works of God who has made all.

  • 4 The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Ruler of all gives me life.

  • 17 May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?

  • 4 Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

  • 9 Will I by whom the birth was started, not make it complete? says the Lord. Will I who make children come to birth, let them be kept back? says your God.

  • 1 Give ear, O sea-lands, to me; and take note, you peoples from far: I have been marked out by the Lord from the first; when I was still in my mother's body, he had my name in mind:

  • 3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

  • 2 What am I to say to you, O Lemuel, my oldest son? and what, O son of my body? and what, O son of my oaths?

  • 6 You have been my support from the day of my birth; you took me out of my mother's body; my praise will be ever of you.

  • 29 Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven?

  • 16 You are turning things upside down! Is the wet earth the same to you as the one who is forming it? will the thing made say of him who made it, He made me not: or the thing formed say of him who gave it form, He has no knowledge?

  • 24 The Lord, who has taken up your cause, and who gave you life in your mother's body, says, I am the Lord who makes all things; stretching out the heavens by myself, and giving the earth its limits; who was with me?

  • 6 See, I am the same as you are in the eyes of God; I was cut off from the same bit of wet earth.

  • 2 For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven?

  • 8 Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;

  • 36 Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north?

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