Job 38:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

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  • Job 37:3 : 3 He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.
  • Ps 104:35 : 35 Let sinners be cut off from the earth, and let all evil-doers come to an end. Give praise to the Lord, O my soul. Give praise to the Lord.
  • Ps 139:9-9 : 9 If I take the wings of the morning, and go to the farthest parts of the sea; 10 Even there will I be guided by your hand, and your right hand will keep me. 11 If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night; 12 Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.
  • Ps 19:4-6 : 4 Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he put a tent for the sun, 5 Who is like a newly married man coming from his bride-tent, and is glad like a strong runner starting on his way. 6 His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circle to the ends of it; there is nothing which is not open to his heat.
  • Ps 104:21-22 : 21 The young lions go thundering after their food; searching for their meat from God. 22 The sun comes up, and they come together, and go back to their secret places to take their rest.
  • Exod 14:27 : 27 And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, at dawn the sea came flowing back, meeting the Egyptians in their flight, and the Lord sent destruction on the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.
  • Job 24:13-17 : 13 Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them. 14 He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need. 15 And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about; 16 In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light. 17 For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 9:5-6
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    5 It is he who takes away the mountains without their knowledge, overturning them in his wrath:

    6 Who is moving the earth out of its place, so that its pillars are shaking:

  • Job 38:14-16
    3 verses
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    14 It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;

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

    16 Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

  • 4 But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?

  • 12 Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;

  • Job 38:18-20
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    18 Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.

    19 Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

    20 So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?

  • 24 Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

  • 13 For this cause the heavens will be shaking, and the earth will be moved out of its place, in the wrath of the Lord of armies, and in the day of his burning passion.

  • 13 Who put the earth into his care, or made him responsible for the world?

  • 33 Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?

  • Job 38:4-6
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    4 Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

    5 By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?

    6 On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone,

  • 38 When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?

  • 9 Man puts out his hand on the hard rock, overturning mountains by the roots.

  • 7 Then trouble and shock came on the earth; and the bases of the mountains were moved and shaking, because he was angry.

  • 21 To take cover in the cracks of the rocks, and in the holes of the hills, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

  • 16 Those who see you will be looking on you with care, they will be in deep thought, saying, Is this the troubler of the earth, the shaker of kingdoms?

  • 11 The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.

  • Isa 24:18-19
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    18 And it will be that he who goes in flight from the sound of fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for the windows on high are open, and the bases of the earth are shaking.

    19 The earth is completely broken, it is parted in two, it is violently moved.

  • 18 But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place;

  • 5 Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

  • 8 Then the earth was moved with a violent shock; the bases of heaven were moved and shaking, because he was angry.

  • 17 ...

  • 12 And it goes this way and that, round about, turning itself by his guiding, to do whatever he gives orders to be done, on the face of his world of men,

  • 10 Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;

  • 18 Will you, with him, make the skies smooth, and strong as a polished looking-glass?

  • 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?

  • 21 Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? has not news of it been given to you from the first? has it not been clear to you from the time when the earth was placed on its base?

  • 3 Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.

  • 24 The land is given into the power of the evil-doer; the faces of its judges are covered; if not by him, then who has done it?

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

  • 9 Longer in measure than the earth, and wider than the sea.

  • 8 Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

  • 5 He has made the earth strong on its bases, so that it may not be moved for ever and ever;

  • 18 The voice of your thunder went rolling on; the world was flaming with the light of the storm; the earth was shaking.

  • 18 You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

  • 1 At this my heart is shaking; it is moved out of its place.

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    19 For in the fire of my wrath I have said, Truly, in that day there will be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

    20 So that the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven and the beasts of the field and everything moving on the earth, and all the men who are on the face of the earth, will be shaking before me, and the mountains will be overturned and the high places will come down, and every wall will come falling down to the earth.

  • 15 Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

  • 27 To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

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

  • 15 Will you keep the old way by which evil men went?

  • 7 Why is life given to the evil-doers? why do they become old and strong in power?