Job 40:24

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 41:1-2 : 1 He is so cruel that no one is ready to go against him. Who then is able to keep his place before me? 2 Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 40:23
    80%

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

  • Job 41:1-3
    3 verses
    77%

    1 He is so cruel that no one is ready to go against him. Who then is able to keep his place before me?

    2 Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven!

    3 I will not keep quiet about the parts of his body, or about his power, and the strength of his frame.

  • Job 41:18-22
    5 verses
    74%

    18 Iron is to him as dry grass, and brass as soft wood.

    19 The arrow is not able to put him to flight: stones are no more to him than dry stems.

    20 A thick stick is no better than a leaf of grass, and he makes sport of the onrush of the spear.

    21 Under him are sharp edges of broken pots: as if he was pulling a grain-crushing instrument over the wet earth.

    22 The deep is boiling like a pot of spices, and the sea like a perfume-vessel.

  • Job 41:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6 His back is made of lines of plates, joined tight together, one against the other, like a stamp.

    7 One is so near to the other that no air may come between them.

  • Prov 7:22-23
    2 verses
    73%

    22 The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;

    23 Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.

  • Job 18:8-10
    3 verses
    72%

    8 His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.

    9 His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip.

    10 The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.

  • Job 39:20-25
    6 verses
    72%

    20 For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.

    21 When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.

    22 Do you give strength to the horse? is it by your hand that his neck is clothed with power?

    23 Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?

    24 He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear.

    25 In his strength he goes out against the arms of war, turning not away from the sword.

  • Job 28:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10 He makes deep ways, cut through the rock, and his eye sees everything of value.

    11 He keeps back the streams from flowing, and makes the secret things come out into the light.

  • Ps 10:9
    71%

    9 He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.

  • Job 39:29
    71%

    29 Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south?

  • Amos 3:5
    70%

    5 Is it possible for a bird to be taken in a net on the earth where no net has been put for him? will the net come up from the earth if it has taken nothing at all?

  • Job 41:13-15
    3 verses
    70%

    13 Strength is in his neck, and fear goes dancing before him.

    14 The plates of his flesh are joined together, fixed, and not to be moved.

    15 His heart is as strong as a stone, hard as the lower crushing-stone.

  • Job 24:23
    69%

    23 He takes away his fear of danger and gives him support; and his eyes are on his ways.

  • Job 20:13
    69%

    13 Though he takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth;

  • Job 34:21
    69%

    21 For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.

  • Job 20:24
    69%

    24 He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him;

  • Isa 37:29
    69%

    29 Because your wrath against me and your pride have come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.

  • Job 20:16-17
    2 verses
    68%

    16 He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.

    17 Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk.

  • Job 28:7
    68%

    7 No bird has knowledge of it, and the hawk's eye has never seen it.

  • Job 9:12
    67%

    12 If he puts out his hand to take, by whom may it be turned back? who may say to him, What are you doing?

  • Ps 110:7
    67%

    7 He will take of the stream by the way; so his head will be lifted up.

  • Job 15:12
    67%

    12 Why is your heart uncontrolled, and why are your eyes lifted up;

  • Job 11:11
    67%

    11 For in his eyes men are as nothing; he sees evil and takes note of it.

  • Ps 115:6
    67%

    6 They have ears, but no hearing; they have noses, but no sense of smell;

  • Job 21:20
    67%

    20 Let his eyes see his trouble, and let him be full of the wrath of the Ruler of all!

  • Job 41:9
    67%

    9 His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn.

  • Isa 30:28
    67%

    28 And his breath is as an overflowing stream, coming up even to the neck, shaking the nations for their destruction, like the shaking of grain in a basket: and he will put a cord in the mouths of the people, turning them out of their way.

  • Prov 16:30
    67%

    30 He whose eyes are shut is a man of twisted purposes, and he who keeps his lips shut tight makes evil come about.