Job 35:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong.

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  • Exod 2:23 : 23 Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God.
  • Job 34:28 : 28 So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears.
  • Job 40:9 : 9 Then I will give praise to you, saying that your right hand is able to give you salvation.
  • Ps 10:15 : 15 Let the arm of the sinner and the evil-doer be broken; go on searching for his sin till there is no more.
  • Ps 12:5 : 5 Because of the crushing of the poor and the weeping of those in need, now will I come to his help, says the Lord; I will give him the salvation which he is desiring.
  • Ps 43:2 : 2 You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
  • Ps 55:2-3 : 2 Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow; 3 I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.
  • Ps 56:1-2 : 1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Jonath elem rehokim. Of David. Michtam. When the Philistines took him in Gath.> Have mercy on me, O God, for man is attempting my destruction; every day he makes cruel attacks against me. 2 My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me.
  • Luke 18:3-7 : 3 And there was a widow in that town, and she kept on coming to him and saying, Give me my right against the man who has done me wrong. 4 And for a time he would not: but later, he said to himself, Though I have no fear of God or respect for man, 5 Because this widow is a trouble to me, I will give her her right; for if not, I will be completely tired out by her frequent coming. 6 And the Lord said, Give ear to the words of the evil judge. 7 And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?
  • Exod 3:7 : 7 And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows;
  • Exod 3:9 : 9 For now, truly, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the cruel behaviour of the Egyptians to them.
  • Neh 5:1-5 : 1 Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews. 2 For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs. 3 And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need. 4 And there were others who said, We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes. 5 But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.
  • Job 12:19 : 19 He makes priests prisoners, overturning those in safe positions;
  • Job 24:12 : 12 From the town come sounds of pain from those who are near death, and the soul of the wounded is crying out for help; but God does not take note of their prayer.

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    12 There they are crying out because of the pride of the evil-doers, but he gives them no answer.

  • 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.

  • Ps 55:2-3
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    2 Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;

    3 I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

  • Job 19:7
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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.

  • Ps 107:39
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    39 And when they are made low, and crushed by trouble and sorrow,

  • Job 36:15
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    15 He makes the wrong done to the poor the way of their salvation, opening their ears by their trouble.

  • Job 35:10
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    10 But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;

  • Ps 12:5
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    5 Because of the crushing of the poor and the weeping of those in need, now will I come to his help, says the Lord; I will give him the salvation which he is desiring.

  • Ps 73:8
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    8 Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts.

  • Ezek 22:29
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    29 The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.

  • Ps 9:12
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    12 When he makes search for blood, he has them in his memory: he is not without thought for the cry of the poor.

  • Ps 34:17
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    17 The cry of the upright comes before the Lord, and he takes them out of all their troubles.

  • Job 27:9
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    9 Will his cry come to the ears of God when he is in trouble?

  • 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.

  • Ps 10:18
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    18 To give decision for the child without a father and for the broken-hearted, so that the man of the earth may no longer be feared.

  • Ps 9:9
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    9 The Lord will be a high tower for those who are crushed down, a high tower in times of trouble;

  • Isa 10:2
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    2 Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.

  • Amos 5:12
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    12 For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.

  • Eccl 4:1
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    1 And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.

  • Ps 44:24
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    24 Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?

  • Job 30:12
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    12 The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:

  • Ps 18:41
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    41 They were crying out, but there was no one to come to their help: even to the Lord, but he gave them no answer.

  • Job 22:9
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    9 You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.

  • Job 10:3
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    3 What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?

  • Jer 5:28
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    28 They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.

  • Job 24:12
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    12 From the town come sounds of pain from those who are near death, and the soul of the wounded is crying out for help; but God does not take note of their prayer.

  • Job 35:8
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    8 Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man.

  • Job 38:15
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    15 And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.

  • Exod 22:23
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    23 If you are cruel to them in any way, and their cry comes up to me, I will certainly give ear;

  • Job 30:21
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    21 You have become cruel to me; the strength of your hand is hard on me.

  • Lam 1:21-22
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    21 Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.

    22 Let all their evil-doing come before you; do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.

  • Ps 35:24
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    24 Be my judge, O Lord my God, in your righteousness; do not let them be glad over me.

  • Eccl 5:8
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    8 It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.

  • Job 3:18
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    18 There the prisoners are at peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears.

  • Amos 8:4
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    4 Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,

  • Job 24:4
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    4 The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.

  • Prov 21:13
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    13 He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.

  • Amos 5:9
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    9 Who sends sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the walled town.

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

  • Isa 5:30
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    30 And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.

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    5 And the people will be crushed, every one by his neighbour; the young will be full of pride against the old, and those of low position will be lifted up against the noble.

  • Hab 1:2-3
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    2 How long, O Lord, will your ears be shut to my voice? I make an outcry to you about violent behaviour, but you do not send salvation.

    3 Why do you make me see evil-doing, and why are my eyes fixed on wrong? for wasting and violent acts are before me: and there is fighting and bitter argument.

  • Job 36:8
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    8 And if they have been prisoned in chains, and taken in cords of trouble,

  • Ps 35:10
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    10 All my bones will say, Lord, who is like you? The saviour of the poor man from the hands of the strong, of him who is poor and in need from him who takes his goods.

  • Ps 142:6
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    6 Give ear to my cry, for I am made very low: take me out of the hands of my haters, for they are stronger than I.

  • Ps 82:4
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    4 Be the saviour of the poor and those who have nothing: take them out of the hand of the evil-doers.

  • Ps 43:2
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    2 You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?