Job 41:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 1:13-14 : 13 And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying, What do you see? And I said, I see a boiling pot, and its face is from the north. 14 Then the Lord said to me, Out of the north evil will come, bursting out on all the people of the land.

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

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  • Job 41:18-19
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    87%

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

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  • 2 Sam 22:9
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  • Ps 18:8
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    8 There went up a smoke from his nose, and a fire of destruction from his mouth: flames were lighted by it.

  • Job 15:30
    72%

    30 He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.

  • Isa 9:18
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    18 For evil was burning like a fire; the blackberries and thorns were burned up; the thick woods took fire, rolling up in dark clouds of smoke.

  • 2 Sam 22:13
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    13 Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and coals of fire.

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

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  • Job 40:24
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    24 Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women?

  • Job 20:25-26
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    25 He is pulling it out, and it comes out of his back; and its shining point comes out of his side; he is overcome by fears.

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    3 Fire goes before him, burning up all those who are against him round about.

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    11 Your designs will be without profit, and their effect will be nothing: you will be burned up by the fire of my breath.

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    17 And so I saw the horses in the vision, and those who were seated on them, having breastplates of fire and glass and of burning stone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire and smoke and a smell of burning.

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

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

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    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.

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    32 At whose look the earth is shaking; at whose touch the mountains send out smoke.

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    9 Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

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    12 Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and fire.

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    31 And I will let loose my burning passion on you, breathing out on you the fire of my wrath: and I will give you up into the hands of men like beasts, trained to destruction.

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    5 Come down, O Lord, from your heavens: at your touch let the mountains give out smoke.

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    18 And all the mountain of Sinai was smoking, for the Lord had come down on it in fire: and the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a great burning; and all the mountain was shaking.