Job 33:27

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.

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  • Rom 6:21 : 21 What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.
  • 2 Sam 12:13 : 13 And David said to Nathan, Great is my sin against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, The Lord has put away your sin; death will not come on you.
  • Ps 14:2 : 2 The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.
  • Ps 19:7-8 : 7 The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish. 8 The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes.
  • Ps 119:128 : 128 Because of it I keep straight in all things by your orders; and I am a hater of every false way.
  • Ps 139:1-4 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets. 2 You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away. 3 You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways. 4 For there is not a word on my tongue which is not clear to you, O Lord.
  • Prov 5:21 : 21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.
  • Prov 15:3 : 3 The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
  • Prov 28:13 : 13 He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.
  • Eccl 5:8 : 8 It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.
  • Jer 2:8 : 8 The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those who were expert in the law had no knowledge of me: and the rulers did evil against me, and the prophets became prophets of the Baal, going after things without value.
  • Jer 3:13 : 13 Only be conscious of your sin, the evil you have done against the Lord your God; you have gone with strange men under every branching tree, giving no attention to my voice, says the Lord.
  • Jer 23:24 : 24 In what secret place may a man take cover without my seeing him? says the Lord. Is there any place in heaven or earth where I am not? says the Lord.
  • Jer 31:18-19 : 18 Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God. 19 Truly, after I had been turned, I had regret for my ways; and after I had got knowledge, I made signs of sorrow: I was put to shame, truly, I was covered with shame, because I had to undergo the shame of my early years.
  • Matt 16:26 : 26 For what profit has a man, if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
  • Luke 15:18-22 : 18 I will get up and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes: 19 I am no longer good enough to be named your son: make me like one of your servants. 20 And he got up and went to his father. But while he was still far away, his father saw him and was moved with pity for him and went quickly and took him in his arms and gave him a kiss. 21 And his son said to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes: I am no longer good enough to be named your son. 22 But the father said to his servants, Get out the first robe quickly, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet:
  • Luke 18:13 : 13 The tax-farmer, on the other hand, keeping far away, and not lifting up even his eyes to heaven, made signs of grief and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
  • 2 Chr 16:9 : 9 For the eyes of the Lord go this way and that, through all the earth, letting it be seen that he is the strong support of those whose hearts are true to him. In this you have done foolishly, for from now you will have wars.
  • Job 7:20 : 20 If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?
  • Job 34:9 : 9 For he has said, It is no profit to a man to take delight in God.
  • Ps 11:4 : 4 The Lord is in his holy Temple, the Lord's seat is in heaven; his eyes are watching and testing the children of men.
  • Rom 7:12-14 : 12 But the law is holy, and its orders are holy, upright, and good. 13 Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good; so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil. 14 For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.
  • Rom 7:16 : 16 But, if I do that which I have no mind to do, I am in agreement with the law that the law is good.
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,
  • 1 John 1:8-9 : 8 If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us. 9 If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil. 10 If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.
  • Gen 16:13 : 13 And to the Lord who was talking with her she gave this name, You are a God who is seen; for she said, Have I not even here in the waste land had a vision of God and am still living?
  • Num 12:11 : 11 Then Aaron said to Moses, O my lord, let not our sin be on our heads, for we have done foolishly and are sinners.

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  • 26 He makes his prayer to God, and he has mercy on him; he sees God's face with cries of joy; he gives news of his righteousness to men;

  • 28 He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.

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    20 If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?

    21 And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

  • 3 What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?

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    6 If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?

    7 If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand?

    8 Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man.

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    9 For he has said, It is no profit to a man to take delight in God.

    10 Now then, you wise, take note; you men of knowledge, give ear to me. Let it be far from God to do evil, and from the Ruler of all to do wrong.

  • Job 10:14-15
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    14 That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:

    15 That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble.

  • 13 He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.

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

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    3 For I am conscious of my error; my sin is ever before me.

    4 Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.

  • 5 I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. (Selah.)

  • 6 That you take note of my sin, searching after my wrongdoing,

  • 35 And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.

  • 39 What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?

  • 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;

  • 20 There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.

  • 30 Then he said, Great is my sin: but still, give me honour now before the heads of my people and before Israel, and come back with me so that I may give worship to the Lord your God.

  • 23 For he does not give man a fixed time to come before him to be judged.

  • 33 If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast,

  • 9 Who is able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin?

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

  • 21 For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.

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    26 When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him; in the evil which he has done death will overtake him.

    27 Again, when the evil-doer, turning away from the evil he has done, does what is ordered and right, he will have life for his soul.

    28 Because he had fear and was turned away from all the wrong which he had done, life will certainly be his, death will not be his fate.

  • 9 I will undergo the wrath of the Lord, because of my sin against him; till he takes up my cause and does what is right for me: when he makes me come out into the light, I will see his righteousness;

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    3 O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;

  • 18 I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me:

  • 5 And whoever is responsible for any such sin, let him make a statement openly of his wrongdoing;

  • 6 In the steps of an evil man there is a net for him, but the upright man gets away quickly and is glad.

  • 5 For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;

  • 11 For in his eyes men are as nothing; he sees evil and takes note of it.

  • 3 And the priest is to put on his linen robes and his linen trousers, and take up what is over of the offering after it has been burned on the altar, and put it by the side of the altar.

  • 9 I am clean, without sin; I am washed, and there is no evil in me:

  • 20 Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.

  • 23 What is the number of my evil-doings and my sins? give me knowledge of them.

  • 24 And if he has mercy on him, and says, Let him not go down to the underworld, I have given the price for his life:

  • 18 Give thought to my grief and my pain; and take away all my sins.

  • 7 See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth.

  • 1 <Of David. Maschil.> Happy is he who has forgiveness for his wrongdoing, and whose sin is covered.

  • 29 Let your minds be changed, and do not have an evil opinion of me; yes, be changed, for my righteousness is still in me.

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