Job 6:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So have you now become to me; you see my sad condition and are in fear.

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  • Ps 38:11 : 11 My lovers and my friends keep away from my disease; my relations keep far away.
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.
  • Prov 19:7 : 7 All the brothers of the poor man are against him: how much more do his friends go far from him! ...
  • Isa 2:22 : 22 Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.
  • Jer 17:5-6 : 5 This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord. 6 For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.
  • Jer 51:9 : 9 We would have made Babylon well, but she is not made well: give her up, and let us go everyone to his country: for her punishment is stretching up to heaven, and lifted up even to the skies.
  • Matt 26:31 : 31 Then said Jesus to them, All of you will be turned away from me this night: for it is said in the Writings, I will put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep of the flock will be put to flight.
  • Matt 26:56 : 56 But all this has taken place so that the writings of the prophets might come true. Then all his disciples went from him in flight.
  • 2 Tim 4:16 : 16 At my first meeting with my judges, no one took my part, but all went away from me. May it not be put to their account.
  • Rev 18:9-9 : 9 And the kings of the earth, who made themselves unclean with her, and in her company gave themselves up to evil, will be weeping and crying over her, when they see the smoke of her burning, 10 Watching from far away, for fear of her punishment, saying, Sorrow, sorrow for Babylon, the great town, the strong town! for in one hour you have been judged.
  • Rev 18:17-18 : 17 For in one hour such great wealth has come to nothing. And every shipmaster, and all who are sailing on the sea, and sailors and all who get their living by the sea, were watching from far away, 18 And crying out when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What town is like the great town?
  • Job 2:11-13 : 11 And Job's three friends had word of all this evil which had come on him. And they came every one from his place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. So they came together to a meeting-place, in order that they might go and make clear to Job their grief for him, and give him comfort. 12 And lifting up their eyes when they were still far off, it did not seem that the man they saw was Job because of the change in him. And they gave way to bitter weeping, with signs of grief, and put dust on their heads. 13 And they took their seats on the earth by his side for seven days and seven nights: but no one said a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.
  • Job 6:15 : 15 My friends have been false like a stream, like streams in the valleys which come to an end:
  • Job 13:4 : 4 But you put a false face on things; all your attempts to put things right are of no value.

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    5 But now it has come on you and it is a weariness to you; you are touched by it and your mind is troubled.

    6 Is not your fear of God your support, and your upright way of life your hope?

  • 24 But you are nothing, and your work is of no value: foolish is he who takes you for his gods.

  • 20 They were put to shame because of their hope; they came and their hope was gone.

  • 5 They were in great fear, where there was no cause for fear: for the bones of those who make war on you have been broken by God; you have put them to shame, because God has no desire for them.

  • 11 Will not his glory put you in fear, so that your hearts will be overcome before him?

  • Ps 73:18-19
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    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.

  • 22 Did I say, Give me something? or, Make a payment for me out of your wealth?

  • 35 All the people of the sea-lands are overcome with wonder at you, and their kings are full of fear, their faces are troubled.

  • Isa 41:11-12
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    11 Truly, all those who are angry with you will be made low and put to shame: those desiring to do you wrong will come to nothing and never again be seen.

    12 You will make search for your haters but they will not be there; those who make war against you will be as nothing and will come to destruction.

  • 10 For this cause nets are round your feet, and you are overcome with sudden fear.

  • 27 When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.

  • Isa 14:15-16
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    15 But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts.

    16 Those who see you will be looking on you with care, they will be in deep thought, saying, Is this the troubler of the earth, the shaker of kingdoms?

  • 6 At the very thought of it my flesh is shaking with fear.

  • 4 Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.

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

  • 12 Truly, you have all seen it yourselves; why then have you become completely foolish?

  • 21 Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you.

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

  • 19 All who have knowledge of you among the peoples will be overcome with wonder at you: you have become a thing of fear, and you will never be seen again.

  • 6 But I am a worm and not a man; cursed by men, and looked down on by the people.

  • 12 Be full of wonder, O heavens, at this; be overcome with fear, be completely waste, says the Lord.

  • 21 Because I was in fear of you, for you are a hard man: you take up what you have not put down, and get in grain where you have not put seed.

  • 10 They all make answer and say to you, Have you become feeble like us? have you been made even as we are?

  • 46 They will be wasted away, they will come out of their secret places shaking with fear.

  • 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.

  • 17 All the nations are as nothing before him; even less than nothing, a thing of no value.

  • 11 And of whom were you in fear, so that you were false, and did not keep me in mind, or give thought to it? Have I not been quiet, keeping myself secret, and so you were not in fear of me?

  • 5 But I will make clear to you of whom you are to be in fear: of him who after death has power to send you to hell; yes, truly I say, Have fear of him.

  • 7 You, you are to be feared; who may keep his place before you in the time of your wrath?

  • 26 Have, then, no fear of them: because nothing is covered which will not come to light, or secret which will not be made clear.

  • 20 Put them in fear, O Lord, so that the nations may see that they are only men. (Selah.)

  • 10 Go into a hole in the rock, covering yourselves with dust, in fear of the Lord, before the glory of his power.

  • 27 Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.

  • 21 I will make you a thing of fear, and you will come to an end: even if you are looked for, you will not be seen again for ever, says the Lord.

  • 5 Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered.

  • 15 For see, I have made you small among the nations, looked down on by men.

  • 29 For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.

  • 15 Then truly your face will be lifted up, with no mark of sin, and you will be fixed in your place without fear:

  • 17 They will take dust as their food like a snake, like the things which go flat on the earth; they will come shaking with fear out of their secret places: they will come with fear to the Lord our God, full of fear because of you.

  • 13 You whose joy is in a thing of no value, who say, Have we not taken for ourselves horns by the strength which is ours?

  • 22 Now keep this in mind, you who have no memory of God, for fear that you may be crushed under my hand, with no one to give you help:

  • 22 Your haters will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the sinner will not be seen again.

  • 21 What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.

  • 11 They have made a circle round our steps: their eyes are fixed on us, forcing us down to the earth;

  • 6 You have put to shame the thoughts of the poor, but the Lord is his support.

  • 17 Fear, and death, and the net, are come on you, O people of the earth.