Job 9:31

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 9:20 : 20 Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.
  • Job 15:6 : 6 It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.
  • Isa 59:6 : 6 Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.
  • Isa 64:6 : 6 And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us, and you have given us into the power of our sins.
  • Phil 3:8-9 : 8 Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward, 9 And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

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    29 You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing?

    30 If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap;

  • Job 30:18-19
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    18 With great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat.

    19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

  • 6 For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.

  • Job 16:15-16
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    15 I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.

    16 My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;

  • 32 For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.

  • 3 Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.

  • Job 19:5-6
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    5 If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,

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  • 10 I am disgusting to them; they keep away from me, and put marks of shame on me.

  • 11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • Job 6:9-10
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    9 If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!

    10 So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

  • 9 He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.

  • 5 My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.

  • 24 Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?

  • 3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

  • 4 You may say, My way is clean, and I am free from sin in your eyes.

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

  • 19 How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?

  • 19 All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.

  • Job 9:34-35
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    34 Let him take away his rod from me and not send his fear on me:

    35 Then I would say what is in my mind without fear of him; for there is no cause of fear in myself.

  • 8 You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.

  • 9 He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.

  • 8 Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

  • 14 That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:

  • 9 What profit is there in my blood if I go down into the underworld? will the dust give you praise, or be a witness to your help?

  • 21 I have done no wrong; I give no thought to what becomes of me; I have no desire for life.

  • 6 I will make you completely disgusting and full of shame, and will put you up to be looked at by all.

  • 10 No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.

  • 16 By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.

  • 11 Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.

  • 21 And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

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

  • 13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

  • 4 My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

  • 7 Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.

  • 19 But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.

  • 13 He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.

  • 18 He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief.

  • 7 If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;

  • 10 Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.

  • 8 It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.

  • 45 You have made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples.

  • 11 So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.

  • 26 For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;