Job 34:37

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For in addition to his sin, he is uncontrolled in heart; before our eyes he makes sport of God, increasing his words against him.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 27:23 : 23 Men make signs of joy because of him, driving him from his place with sounds of hissing.
  • 1 Sam 15:23 : 23 For to go against his orders is like the sin of those who make use of secret arts, and pride is like giving worship to images. Because you have put away from you the word of the Lord, he has put you from your place as king.
  • Isa 1:19-20 : 19 If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours; 20 But if your hearts are turned against me, I will send destruction on you by the sword; so the Lord has said.
  • Job 8:2-3 : 2 How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind? 3 Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?
  • Job 11:2-3 : 2 Are all these words to go unanswered? and is a man seen to be right because he is full of talk? 3 Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?
  • Job 23:2 : 2 Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.
  • Job 35:2-3 : 2 Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say, 3 What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?
  • Job 35:16 : 16 And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.
  • Job 42:7 : 7 And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.

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    35Job's words do not come from knowledge; they are not the fruit of wisdom.

    36May Job be tested to the end, because his answers have been like those of evil men.

  • Job 15:24-25
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    24He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him:

    25Because his hand is stretched out against God, and his heart is lifted up against the Ruler of all,

  • Job 35:15-16
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    15And now ... ;

    16And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.

  • 1And Job again took up the word and said,

  • Ps 36:1-4
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    1<To the chief music-maker. Of the servant of the Lord. Of David.> The sin of the evil-doer says in his heart, There is no fear of the Lord before his eyes.

    2For he takes comfort in the thought that his sin will not be uncovered and hated.

    3In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

    4He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.

  • Job 34:7-9
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    7What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,

    8And goes in the company of evil-doers, walking in the way of sinners?

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

  • 20He has put out his hand against those who were at peace with him; he has not kept his agreement.

  • Job 27:22-23
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    22God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand.

    23Men make signs of joy because of him, driving him from his place with sounds of hissing.

  • 1And Job again took up the word and said,

  • 13So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

  • 27The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.

  • 14His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.

  • Job 40:1-3
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    1Then the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,

    2Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

    3Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right?

  • 7See, 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.

  • 7And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.

  • Job 1:10-11
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    10Have you yourself not put a wall round him and his house and all he has on every side, blessing the work of his hands, and increasing his cattle in the land?

    11But now, put out your hand against all he has, and he will be cursing you to your face.

  • 17For I would be crushed by his storm, my wounds would be increased without cause.

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

  • 22In all this Job did no sin, and did not say that God's acts were foolish.

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

  • 13Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?

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

  • 2Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?

  • 3By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.

  • 6Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors!

  • 3Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.

  • 3What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?

  • 26The evil-doers are broken by his wrath, he puts his hand on them with force before the eyes of all onlookers.

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

  • 1And Job made answer and said,

  • 1And Job made answer and said,

  • 17That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.

  • 3For the evil-doer is lifted up because of the purpose of his heart, and he whose mind is fixed on wealth is turned away from the Lord, saying evil against him.

  • 6Make no addition to his words, or he will make clear your error, and you will be seen to be false.

  • 1And Job made answer and said,

  • 11Then his purpose will be changed, over-stepping the limit; he will make his strength his god.

  • 3And he was angry with his three friends, because they had been unable to give him an answer, and had not made Job's sin clear.

  • 31Who will make his way clear to his face? and if he has done a thing, who gives him punishment for it?