Job 31:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 13:11 : 11 Will not his glory put you in fear, so that your hearts will be overcome before him?
  • Ps 119:120 : 120 My flesh is moved for fear of you; I give honour to your decisions.
  • Isa 13:6 : 6 Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near; it comes as destruction from the Most High.
  • Joel 1:15 : 15 Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.
  • 2 Cor 5:11 : 11 Having in mind, then, the fear of the Lord, we put these things before men, but God sees our hearts; and it is my hope that we may seem right in your eyes.
  • Job 20:23 : 23 God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.
  • Job 21:20 : 20 Let his eyes see his trouble, and let him be full of the wrath of the Ruler of all!
  • Job 40:9 : 9 Then I will give praise to you, saying that your right hand is able to give you salvation.
  • Job 42:5-6 : 5 Word of you had come to my ears, but now my eye has seen you. 6 For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.
  • Ps 76:7 : 7 You, you are to be feared; who may keep his place before you in the time of your wrath?
  • Gen 39:9 : 9 So that no one has more authority in this house than I have; he has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife; how then may I do this great wrong, sinning against God?

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    15 For this cause I am in fear before him, my thoughts of him overcome me.

    16 For God has made my heart feeble, and my mind is troubled before the Ruler of all.

    17 For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

  • Job 31:22
    79%

    22 May my arm be pulled from my body, and be broken from its base.

  • Job 9:34-35
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    34 Let him take away his rod from me and not send his fear on me:

    35 Then I would say what is in my mind without fear of him; for there is no cause of fear in myself.

  • Job 3:25-26
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    76%

    25 For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled.

    26 I have no peace, no quiet, and no rest; nothing but pain comes on me.

  • Ps 55:4-5
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    4 My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.

    5 Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered.

  • Job 31:24
    76%

    24 If I made gold my hope, or if I ever said to the best gold, I have put my faith in you;

  • Job 31:34
    75%

    34 For fear of the great body of people, or for fear that families might make sport of me, so that I kept quiet, and did not go out of my door;

  • Job 13:21
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    21 Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you.

  • Job 6:9-10
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    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!

    10 So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 31:28-29
    2 verses
    74%

    28 That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high.

    29 If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;

  • Job 9:28
    74%

    28 I go in fear of all my pains; I am certain that I will not be free from sin in your eyes.

  • Job 4:14
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    14 Fear came on me and shaking, and my bones were full of trouble;

  • Job 21:6
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    6 At the very thought of it my flesh is shaking with fear.

  • Job 33:7
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    7 Fear of me will not overcome you, and my hand will not be hard on you.

  • Job 16:12
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    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.

  • Job 37:1
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    1 At this my heart is shaking; it is moved out of its place.

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

  • Deut 32:27
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    27 But for the fear that their haters, uplifted in their pride, might say, Our hand is strong, the Lord has not done all this.

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

  • Isa 21:4
    72%

    4 My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me.

  • Job 31:12
    72%

    12 It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.

  • Job 13:14-15
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    72%

    14 I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.

    15 Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;

  • Job 19:9-10
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    9 He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.

    10 I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.

  • Prov 1:27
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    27 When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.

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

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    4 For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.

  • Job 23:6-7
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    72%

    6 Would he make use of his great power to overcome me? No, but he would give attention to me.

    7 There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.

  • Job 41:9-10
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    72%

    9 His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn.

    10 Out of his mouth go burning lights, and flames of fire are jumping up.

  • Ps 31:22
    71%

    22 And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.

  • Job 15:24
    71%

    24 He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him:

  • Hab 3:16
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    16 Hearing it, my inner parts were moved, and my lips were shaking at the sound; my bones became feeble, and my steps were uncertain under me: I gave sounds of grief in the day of trouble, when his forces came up against the people in bands.

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    16 When my thoughts were turned to see the reason of this, it was a weariness in my eyes;

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

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    18 And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.

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    20 Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,

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    71%

    25 Everything which is high goes in fear of him; he is king over all the sons of pride.

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

  • Lam 1:13
    71%

    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.

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    11 Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.