Job 5:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly the curse came on his house.

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  • Ps 73:18-20 : 18 You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction. 19 How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction. 20 As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.
  • Ps 37:35-36 : 35 I have seen the evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree. 36 But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.
  • Ps 69:25 : 25 Give their houses to destruction, and let there be no one in their tents.
  • Ps 73:3-9 : 3 Because of my envy of the men of pride, when I saw the well-being of the wrongdoers. 4 For they have no pain; their bodies are fat and strong. 5 They are not in trouble as others are; they have no part in the unhappy fate of men. 6 For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe. 7 Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire. 8 Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts. 9 Their mouth goes up to heaven; their tongues go walking through the earth.
  • Deut 27:15-26 : 15 Cursed is the man who makes any image of wood or stone or metal, disgusting to the Lord, the work of man's hands, and puts it up in secret. And let all the people say, So be it. 16 Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the people say, So be it. 17 Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's landmark from its place. And let all the people say, So be it. 18 Cursed is he by whom the blind are turned out of the way. And let all the people say, So be it. 19 Cursed is he who gives a wrong decision in the cause of a man from a strange land, or of one without a father, or of a widow. And let all the people say, So be it. 20 Cursed is he who has sex relations with his father's wife, for he has put shame on his father. And let all the people say, So be it. 21 Cursed is he who has sex relations with any sort of beast. And let all the people say, So be it. 22 Cursed is he who has sex relations with his sister, the daughter of his father or of his mother. And let all the people say, So be it. 23 Cursed is he who has sex relations with his mother-in-law. And let all the people say, So be it. 24 Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's life secretly. And let all the people say, So be it. 25 Cursed is he who for a reward puts to death one who has done no wrong. And let all the people say, So be it. 26 Cursed is he who does not take this law to heart to do it. And let all the people say, So be it.
  • Job 24:18 : 18 They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.
  • Job 27:8 : 8 For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?
  • Ps 92:7 : 7 When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.
  • Jer 12:1-3 : 1 You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort? 2 They have been planted by you, they have taken root; they go on and give fruit: you are near in their mouths but far from their thoughts. 3 But you, O Lord, have knowledge of me; you see me, searching and testing how my heart is with you: let them be pulled out like sheep to be put to death, make them ready for the day of death.
  • Acts 1:20 : 20 For in the book of Psalms it says, Let his house be waste, and let no man be living in it: and, Let his position be taken by another.

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    3Because of my envy of the men of pride, when I saw the well-being of the wrongdoers.

  • Ps 37:35
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    35I have seen the evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree.

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    3By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.

  • Prov 3:33
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    33The curse of the Lord is on the house of the evil-doer, but his blessing is on the tent of the upright.

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    15For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him.

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    16Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

  • Prov 17:25
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  • Prov 14:17-18
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    17He who is quickly angry will do what is foolish, but the man of good sense will have quiet.

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  • Prov 1:32
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    32For the turning back of the simple from teaching will be the cause of their death, and the peace of the foolish will be their destruction.

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    13And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.

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    8What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.

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    29The troubler of his house will have the wind for his heritage, and the foolish will be servant to the wise-hearted.

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    19The upright saw it and were glad: and those who had done no wrong made sport of them,

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    5There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, like an error which comes by chance from a ruler:

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    7I saw among the young men one without sense,

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    20Have you seen a man who is quick with his tongue? There is more hope for a foolish man than for him.

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  • Ps 55:15
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    15Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

  • Ps 52:6
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    6The upright will see it with fear, and will say, laughing at you:

  • Prov 22:15
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    15Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.

  • Prov 14:3
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    3In the mouth of the foolish man is a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will keep them safe.

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  • Ps 107:34
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    34He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

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