Job 36:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And if they have been prisoned in chains, and taken in cords of trouble,

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 107:10 : 10 Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;
  • Prov 5:22 : 22 The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.
  • Lam 3:9 : 9 He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
  • Ps 116:3 : 3 The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.
  • Job 13:27 : 27 And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;
  • Job 19:6 : 6 Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.
  • Job 33:18-19 : 18 To keep back his soul from the underworld, and his life from destruction. 19 Pain is sent on him as a punishment, while he is on his bed; there is no end to the trouble in his bones;
  • Ps 18:5 : 5 The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.

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