Job 40:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Will he make an agreement with you, so that you may take him as a servant for ever?

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 13:10 : 10 And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.
  • Josh 3:15 : 15 And when those who took up the ark came to Jordan, and the feet of the priests who took up the ark were touching the edge of the water (for the waters of Jordan are overflowing all through the time of the grain-cutting),
  • Ps 55:8 : 8 I would quickly take cover from the driving storm and from the violent wind.
  • Isa 28:16 : 16 For this cause says the Lord God, See, I am placing in Zion as a base, a stone, a tested stone, an angle-stone which is certain and of great value: and he who has faith will not give way.
  • Isa 37:25 : 25 I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

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