Job 29:24

Bishops' Bible (1568)

When I laughed, they beleued it not, & the light of my countenaunce would they not put out.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 4:6 : 6 There be many that say, who wyll shewe vs any good? O God lift thou vp the light of thy countenaunce vpon vs.
  • Ps 89:15 : 15 Blessed is the people that knoweth a triumphant noyse: O God, they shall walke in the light of thy countenaunce.
  • Ps 126:1 : 1 A song of high degrees. When God shall cause them of Sion that were led into captiuitie for to returne: we shalbe as men that dreamed.
  • Luke 24:41 : 41 And whyle they yet beleued not for ioy, and wondred, he sayde vnto them: Haue ye heare any meate?
  • Gen 45:26 : 26 And tolde him, saying: Ioseph is yet aliue, and is gouernour ouer al the land of Egypt. And Iacobs heart wauered, for he beleued them not.

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    25When I agreed vnto their way, I was the chiefe, and sate as a king with his armie about him: and when they were in heauinesse, I was their comfortour.

  • Job 29:21-23
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    21Unto me men gaue eare, me they regarded, and with scilence they taried for my counsell.

    22After my woordes they replied not, and my talke dropped vpon them.

    23They wayted for me as for the raine: and gaped vpon me, as the grounde doeth to receaue the latter shoure.

  • Ps 22:7
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    7All they that see me, laugh me to scorne: they do make a mowe, and nod their head at me.

  • Ps 35:14-16
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    14I kept them company whersoeuer they went, as though they had ben my frende or brother: I went heauyly, as one that mourned for his mother.

    15But in mine aduersitie they reioysed and gathered them together: yea, the very abiectes came together against me, yer I wyst they rented me a peeces and ceassed not.

    16With hypocrites, scoffers, and parasites: they gnashed vpon me with their teeth.

  • Job 31:29
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    29Haue I euer reioyced at the hurt of myne enemie? or was I euer glad that any harme happened vnto him? Oh, no.

  • Prov 1:26
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    26Therfore wyll I also laugh at your destruction, and mocke you, when the thyng that ye feare commeth vpon you,

  • Job 9:27
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    27If I say, I will forget my complayning, I will ceasse from my wrath, and comfort my selfe:

  • Job 29:3
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    3When his light shined vpon my head, when I went after the same light and shining, euen through the darknesse:

  • Ps 55:12
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    12Truely he was not mine enemie that hath done me this dishonour, for then I coulde haue borne it: neither was he one that seemed to hate me that dyd magnifie hym selfe against me, for then I woulde haue hyd my selfe from him.

  • Ps 109:25
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    25I am become also a reproche vnto them: they gase vpon me and they shake their head.

  • Job 31:25-26
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    25Haue I reioyced because my power was great, and because my hande gat so much?

    26Dyd I euer greatly regarde the rysing of the sunne? or had I the goyng downe of the moone in great reputation?

  • Ps 34:5
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    5Let them turne their eyes on him, and make speede to come vnto hym: and their faces shall not be ashamed.

  • Job 12:4
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    4I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, & he heareth him: The iust & the vpright is laughed to scorne.

  • Job 16:10
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    10They haue opened their mouthes wide vpon me, and smitten me vpon the cheeke dispitefully, they gather the selues together against me.

  • Lam 3:14
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    14I am laughed to scorne of all my people, they make songues vpon me all the day long.

  • Jer 15:17
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    17I dwell not among the scorners, neither is my delight therin: but I dwell alone because of thy hande, for thou hast fylled me with bitternesse.

  • Job 23:17
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    17Because I am not cut of before the darkenesse, neither hath he couered the cloude fro my face.

  • Ps 38:16
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    16For I sayde heare me lest that they shoulde triumph on me: who auaunce them selues greatly agaynst me when my foote doth slyp.

  • Job 16:20
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    20My friendes geue me many wordes to scorne, and myne eye powreth out teares vnto God.

  • Job 17:2
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    2Froward men are with me, and myne eye must continue in the bitternesse of them.

  • Job 29:11
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    11When the eare heard me, it blessed me: & when the eye sawe me, it gaue witnesse to me:

  • Job 8:21
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    21Thy mouth shall he fill with laughing, and thy lippes with gladnesse.

  • Job 19:18
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    18Yea, the young men despised me, and when I rose they spake euill vpon me.

  • Ps 2:4
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    4He that dwelleth in heauen wyll laugh them to scorne: the Lorde wyll haue them in derision.

  • Ps 69:20
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    20Reproofe hath broke my heart a peeces, I am full of heauinesse: I loked for some to haue pitie on me, but there was none, and for some that shoulde comfort me, but I coulde fynde none.

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    19The righteous sawe it and were glad, and the innocent laughed them to scorne.

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    21They heare my mournyng, but there is none that wyll comfort me: All myne enemies haue hearde of my trouble, and are glad therof because thou hast done it: and thou hast brought foorth the time which thou calledst, when they also shal be lyke vnto me.

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    1But nowe they that are younger then I haue me in derision: yea euen they whose fathers I would haue thought scorne to haue set with the dogges of my cattell.

  • Ps 35:21
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    21They gaped vpon me with their mouthes: and said this is well, this is wel, our eye hath seene.

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    10They abhorre me and flee farre from me, and stayne my face with spittle.

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    26Yet neuerthelesse, where as I loked for good, euyll came vnto me: & where I wayted for light, there came darkenesse.

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    4Lest myne enemie say, I haue preuayled agaynst hym: lest they that trouble me reioyce yf I shoulde be remoued.

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    10And so the postes went from citie to citie in the lande of Ephraim & Manasse, euen vnto Zabulon: but they laughed them to scorne, and mocked them.

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    7When I went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seate, and when I prepared my seate in the streete:

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    13The blessing of him that was redy to perishe came vpon me, and I caused the widowes heart to reioyce.

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    19O let not my deceiptfull enemies triumph ouer me: let them not winke with an eye, that hate me without a cause.

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    5But if ye wyll aduaunce your selues against me, and rebuke me for the shame that is come vpon me:

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