Job 31:29

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Prov 17:5 : 5 Whoever makes sport of the poor puts shame on his Maker; and he who is glad because of trouble will not go free from punishment.
  • Prov 24:17-18 : 17 Do not be glad at the fall of your hater, and let not your heart have joy at his downfall: 18 For fear that the Lord may see it, and it may be evil in his eyes, and his wrath may be turned away from him.
  • Ps 35:13-14 : 13 But as for me, when they were ill I put on the clothing of sorrow: I went without food and was sad, and my prayer came back again to my heart. 14 My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.
  • Ps 35:25-26 : 25 Let them not say in their hearts, So we will have it: let them not say, We have put an end to him. 26 Let all those who take pleasure in my troubles be shamed and come to nothing: let those who are lifted up against me be covered with shame and have no honour.
  • 2 Sam 1:12 : 12 And till evening they gave themselves to sorrow and weeping, and took no food, weeping for Saul and for Jonathan, his son, and for the people of the Lord and for the men of Israel; because they had come to their end by the sword.
  • 2 Sam 4:10-11 : 10 When one came to me with the news of Saul's death, in the belief that it would be good news, I took him and put him to death in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news: 11 How much more, when evil men have put an upright person to death, in his house, sleeping on his bed, will I take payment from you for his blood, and have you cut off from the earth?
  • 2 Sam 16:5-8 : 5 And when King David came to Bahurim, a man of Saul's family named Shimei, the son of Gera, came out from there, calling curses after him. 6 And he sent stones at David and at all the king's servants and at all the people and at all the men of war by his side, on the right hand and on the left. 7 And Shimei said, with curses, Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, you good-for-nothing: 8 The Lord has sent punishment on you for all the blood of the family of Saul, whose kingdom you have taken; and the Lord has given the kingdom to Absalom, your son: now you yourself are taken in your evil, because you are a man of blood.
  • Obad 1:12 : 12 Do not see with pleasure your brother's evil day, the day of his fate, and do not be glad over the children of Judah on the day of their destruction, or make wide your mouth on the day of trouble.

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    30 (For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life;)

  • Ps 55:12
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    12 For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

  • Ps 7:3-4
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    3 O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;

    4 If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause;

  • Job 31:27-28
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    27 A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth;

    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.

  • Deut 32:41
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    41 If I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is outstretched for judging, I will give punishment to those who are against me, and their right reward to my haters.

  • Ps 139:21-22
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    21 Are not your haters hated by me, O Lord? are not those who are lifted up against you a cause of grief to me?

    22 My hate for them is complete; my thoughts of them are as if they were making war on me.

  • Ps 35:19
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    19 Do not let my haters be glad over me falsely; let not those who are against me without cause make sport of me.

  • Ps 13:4
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    4 And he who is against me may not say, I have overcome him; and those who are troubling me may not be glad when I am moved.

  • Job 33:10
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    10 See, he is looking for something against me; in his eyes I am as one of his haters;

  • Job 27:7
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    7 Let my hater be like the evil man, and let him who comes against me be as the sinner.

  • Job 31:21
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    21 If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;

  • Job 19:11
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    11 His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.

  • Job 31:25
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    25 If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;

  • Prov 24:17-18
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    17 Do not be glad at the fall of your hater, and let not your heart have joy at his downfall:

    18 For fear that the Lord may see it, and it may be evil in his eyes, and his wrath may be turned away from him.

  • Ps 41:7
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    7 All my haters are talking secretly together against me; they are designing my downfall.

  • Job 31:12-13
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    12 It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.

    13 If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;

  • Ps 35:15
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    15 But 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.

  • Job 31:23
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    23 For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things.

  • 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.

  • 2 Sam 22:41
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    41 By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

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    26 Let all those who take pleasure in my troubles be shamed and come to nothing: let those who are lifted up against me be covered with shame and have no honour.

  • Ps 109:20
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    20 Let this be the reward given to my haters from the Lord, and to those who say evil of my soul.

  • Ps 31:6-7
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    6 I am full of hate for those who go after false gods; but my hope is in the Lord.

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    19 But they are strong who have hate for me without cause: those who are against me falsely are increased in numbers.

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    39 If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;

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    5 If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,

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    19 See how those who are against me are increased, for bitter is their hate of me.

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    11 By this I see that you have pleasure in me, because my hater does not overcome me.

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    24 Be my judge, O Lord my God, in your righteousness; do not let them be glad over me.

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    5 They have put on me evil for good; hate in exchange for my love.

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    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;

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    2 Though he is wise, and able to send evil, and his purpose will not be changed; but he will go against the house of the evil-doers, and against those to whom they are looking for help.

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

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    8 Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted.

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    29 Say not, I will do to him as he has done to me; I will give the man the reward of his work.

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    13 False statements against me have come to my ears; fear was on every side: they were talking together against me, designing to take away my life.

  • Jer 20:10
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    10 For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

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    26 For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.

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    21 Evil will put an end to the sinner, and those who are haters of righteousness will come to destruction.

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    38 I go after my haters and overtake them; not turning back till they are all overcome.

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    4 Those who have hate for me without cause are greater in number than the hairs of my head; those who are against me, falsely desiring my destruction, are very strong; I gave back what I had not taken away.