Job 5:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

When there is need of food he will keep you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 33:19 : 19 To keep their souls from death; and to keep them living in time of need.
  • Ps 37:19 : 19 They will not be shamed in the evil time, and in the days when all are in need of food they will have enough.
  • Ps 49:7 : 7 Truly, no man may get back his soul for a price, or give to God the payment for himself;
  • Ps 144:10 : 10 It is God who gives salvation to kings; and who kept his servant David from the wounding sword.
  • Prov 10:3 : 3 The Lord will not let the upright be in need of food, but he puts far from him the desire of the evil-doers.
  • Isa 33:16 : 16 He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.
  • Hos 13:14 : 14 I will give the price to make them free from the power of the underworld, I will be their saviour from death: O death! where are your pains? O underworld! where is your destruction? my eyes will have no pity.
  • Hab 3:17 : 17 For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:
  • Matt 24:6 : 6 And news will come to you of wars and talk of wars: do not be troubled, for these things have to be; but it is still not the end.
  • Gen 45:7 : 7 God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation.
  • 1 Kgs 17:6 : 6 And the ravens took him bread in the morning and meat in the evening; and the water of the stream was his drink.
  • Ps 27:3 : 3 Even if an army came against me with its tents, my heart would have no fear: if war was made on me, my faith would not be moved.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    19 He will keep you safe from six troubles, and in seven no evil will come near you.

  • Job 5:21-22
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    79%

    21 He will keep you safe from the evil tongue; and you will have no fear of wasting when it comes.

    22 You will make sport of destruction and need, and will have no fear of the beasts of the earth.

  • Job 5:15
    76%

    15 But he keeps safe from their sword those who have no father, and the poor from the power of the strong.

  • Ps 33:19
    75%

    19 To keep their souls from death; and to keep them living in time of need.

  • Job 33:18
    74%

    18 To keep back his soul from the underworld, and his life from destruction.

  • Ezek 7:15
    73%

    15 Outside is the sword, and inside disease and need of food: he who is in the open country will be put to the sword; he who is in the town will come to his end through need of food and disease.

  • Jer 15:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20 And I will make you a strong wall of brass to this people; they will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you to keep you safe, says the Lord.

    21 I will keep you safe from the hands of the evil-doers, and I will give you salvation from the hands of the cruel ones.

  • Jer 39:17-18
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    73%

    17 But I will keep you safe on that day, says the Lord: you will not be given into the hands of the men you are fearing.

    18 For I will certainly let you go free, and you will not be put to the sword, but your life will be given to you out of the hands of your attackers: because you have put your faith in me, says the Lord.

  • Job 20:24
    72%

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

  • Ps 22:20
    72%

    20 Make my soul safe from the sword, my life from the power of the dog.

  • Ps 144:10
    71%

    10 It is God who gives salvation to kings; and who kept his servant David from the wounding sword.

  • Mic 6:14
    71%

    14 You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.

  • Lam 5:9
    71%

    9 We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.

  • Lam 4:9
    71%

    9 Those who have been put to the sword are better off than those whose death is caused by need of food; for these come to death slowly, burned up like the fruit of the field.

  • Ps 17:13
    70%

    13 Up! Lord, come out against him, make him low, with your sword be my saviour from the evil-doer.

  • Isa 51:14
    70%

    14 The prisoner, bent under his chain, will quickly be made free, and will not go down into the underworld, and his bread will not come to an end.

  • Isa 21:15
    70%

    15 For they are in flight from the sharp sword, and the bent bow, and from the trouble of war.

  • Ps 34:19
    70%

    19 Great are the troubles of the upright: but the Lord takes him safely out of them all.

  • Lev 26:7
    70%

    7 And you will put to flight those who are against you, and they will be put to death by your swords.

  • Jer 15:11
    70%

    11 ...

  • Job 18:12
    70%

    12 His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.

  • Jer 42:16
    70%

    16 Then it will come about that the sword, which is the cause of your fear, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and need of food, which you are fearing, will go after you there in Egypt; and there death will come to you.

  • Ps 37:19
    70%

    19 They will not be shamed in the evil time, and in the days when all are in need of food they will have enough.

  • Ezek 5:17
    70%

    17 And I will send on you need of food and evil beasts, and they will be a cause of loss to you; and disease and violent death will go through you; and I will send the sword on you: I the Lord have said it.

  • Ps 41:2
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    2 The Lord will keep him safe, and give him life; the Lord will let him be a blessing on the earth, and will not give him into the hand of his haters.

  • Ps 49:15
    70%

    15 But God will get back my soul; for he will take me from the power of death. (Selah.)

  • Job 6:23
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    23 Or, Get me out of the power of my hater? or, Give money so that I may be free from the power of the cruel ones?

  • Ps 55:18
    70%

    18 He has taken my soul away from the attack which was made against me, and given it peace; for great numbers were against me.

  • Jer 6:25
    70%

    25 Go not out into the field or by the way; for there is the sword of the attacker, and fear on every side.

  • Ps 91:3
    69%

    3 He will take you out of the bird-net, and keep you safe from wasting disease.

  • Jer 20:13
    69%

    13 Make melody to the Lord, give praise to the Lord: for he has made the soul of the poor man free from the hands of the evil-doers.

  • Job 36:18
    69%

    18 ...

  • Ps 106:10
    69%

    10 And he took them safely out of the hands of their haters, and kept them from the attacks of those who were against them.

  • Job 19:29
    69%

    29 Be in fear of the sword, for the sword is the punishment for such things, so that you may be certain that there is a judge.

  • Job 20:22
    69%

    22 Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.

  • Jer 18:21
    69%

    21 For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

  • Deut 28:25
    69%

    25 The Lord will let you be overcome by your haters: you will go out against them one way, and you will go in flight before them seven ways: you will be the cause of fear among all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Deut 32:25
    69%

    25 Outside they will be cut off by the sword, and in the inner rooms by fear; death will take the young man and the virgin, the baby at the breast and the grey-haired man.

  • Ps 138:7
    69%

    7 Even when trouble is round me, you will give me life; your hand will be stretched out against the wrath of my haters, and your right hand will be my salvation.

  • Hos 13:14
    69%

    14 I will give the price to make them free from the power of the underworld, I will be their saviour from death: O death! where are your pains? O underworld! where is your destruction? my eyes will have no pity.

  • Ps 37:39
    69%

    39 But the Lord is the saviour of the upright: he is their strength in the time of trouble.

  • Prov 24:11
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    11 Be the saviour of those who are given up to death, and do not keep back help from those who are slipping to destruction.

  • Job 36:15
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    15 He makes the wrong done to the poor the way of their salvation, opening their ears by their trouble.

  • Isa 1:20
    69%

    20 But if your hearts are turned against me, I will send destruction on you by the sword; so the Lord has said.

  • Jer 5:17
    68%

    17 They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.

  • Ps 91:7
    68%

    7 You will see a thousand falling by your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.

  • Deut 28:55
    68%

    55 And will not give to any of them the flesh of his children which will be his food because he has no other; in the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.