Job 6:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 And Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, By the living Lord, the God of Israel, whose servant I am, there will be no dew or rain in these years, but only at my word.
  • Job 24:19 : 19 Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.

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  • 18The camel-trains go out of their way; they go up into the waste and come to destruction.

  • 16Which are dark because of the ice, and the snow falling into them;

  • Job 4:19-21
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    19How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

    20Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.

    21If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?

  • Job 24:18-19
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    18They 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.

    19Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.

  • 9By the breath of God destruction takes them, and by the wind of his wrath they are cut off.

  • 16The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.

  • Ps 73:18-19
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    18You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

    19How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

  • 18How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

  • 6In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.

  • Ps 58:7-9
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    7Let them be turned to liquid like the ever-flowing waters; let them be cut off like the grass by the way.

    8Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.

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

  • 2Let them be like smoke before the driving wind; as wax turning soft before the fire, so let them come to an end before the power of God.

  • 11For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.

  • 6And when the sun was high, it was burned; and because it had no root it became dry and dead.

  • 16It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.

  • 14Truly, they have become like dry stems, they have been burned in the fire; they are not able to keep themselves safe from the power of the flame: it is not a coal for warming them, or a fire by which a man may be seated.

  • 26They go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food.

  • 2For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.

  • 12When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

  • 3My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire.

  • 10For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

  • 20Saying, Truly, their substance is cut off, and their wealth is food for the fire.

  • 7When 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.

  • 3So they will be like the morning cloud, like the dew which goes early away, like the dust of the grain which the wind is driving out of the crushing-floor, like smoke going up from the fireplace.

  • 24For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.

  • 12They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.

  • 6His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circle to the ends of it; there is nothing which is not open to his heat.

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    8Then the beasts go into their holes, and take their rest.

    9Out of its place comes the storm-wind, and the cold out of its store-houses.

  • 6And when the sun was high, it was burned; and because it had no root, it became dry and dead.

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

  • 3They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.

  • 18For 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.

  • 17He sends down ice like raindrops: water is made hard by his cold.

  • 29If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.

  • 14As fire burning a wood, and as a flame causing fire on the mountains,

  • 15They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.

  • 3Before them fire sends destruction, and after them flame is burning: the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and after them an unpeopled waste; truly, nothing has been kept safe from them.

  • 18They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.

  • 11They will come to their end; but you are for ever; they will become old as a robe;

  • 6Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth.

  • 24They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.

  • 16Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:

  • 18But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place;

  • 17The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.