Job 31:38

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 20:27 : 27 The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.
  • Ps 65:13 : 13 The grass-land is thick with flocks; the valleys are full of grain; they give glad cries and songs of joy.
  • Hab 2:11 : 11 For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork.
  • Jas 5:4 : 4 See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • Job 31:37
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    37 I would make clear the number of my steps, I would put it before him like a prince! The words of Job are ended.

  • Job 31:7-8
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    75%

    7 If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;

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

  • Job 31:12-14
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    74%

    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;

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

  • Job 21:4
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    4 As for me, is my outcry against man? is it then to be wondered at if my spirit is troubled?

  • Job 19:7-8
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    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.

  • Job 19:5
    72%

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

  • Job 3:24
    72%

    24 In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.

  • Job 16:18
    72%

    18 O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place!

  • Gen 31:40
    72%

    40 This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes.

  • Job 30:25
    72%

    25 Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need?

  • Job 31:35
    72%

    35 If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!

  • Job 30:31
    71%

    31 And my music has been turned to sorrow, and the sound of my pipe into the noise of weeping.

  • Ps 129:3
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    3 The ploughmen were ploughing on my back; long were the wounds they made.

  • Ps 38:16-18
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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.

    17 My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.

    18 I will make clear my wrongdoing, with sorrow in my heart for my sin.

  • Job 31:16
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    16 If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;

  • Job 23:2
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    2 Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.

  • Job 34:28
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    28 So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears.

  • Joel 1:17-19
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    17 The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

    18 What sounds of pain come from the beasts! the herds of cattle are at a loss because there is no grass for them; even the flocks of sheep are no longer to be seen.

    19 O Lord, my cry goes up to you: for fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste, and all the trees of the field are burned with its flame.

  • Job 13:19
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    19 Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.

  • Job 31:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    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;

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    11 So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.

  • Isa 38:15
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    15 What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest.

  • Ps 55:2
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    2 Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;

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

  • Job 9:31
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    31 Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.

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    4 Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?

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    18 Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.

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    2 I put all my sorrows before him; and made clear to him all my trouble.

  • Jer 48:31
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    31 For this cause I will give cries of grief for Moab, crying out for Moab, even for all of it; I will be sorrowing for the men of Kir-heres.

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.

    10 My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

  • Lam 3:8-9
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    8 Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.

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

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    20 My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,

  • Jer 13:17
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    17 But if you do not give ear to it, my soul will be weeping in secret for your pride; my eye will be weeping bitterly, streaming with water, because the Lord's flock has been taken away as prisoners.

  • 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;

  • Ps 39:12
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    12 Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

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    28 I go about in dark clothing, uncomforted; I get up in the public place, crying out for help.

  • Job 31:29
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    29 If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;

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    14 That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin: