Job 12:23

Coverdale Bible (1535)

He both increaseth the people, and destroyeth them: He maketh them to multiplie, and dryueth them awaye.

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  • Isa 9:3 : 3 Shalt thou multiplie the people, and not increase the ioye also? They shal reioyse before the euen as men make mery in haruest, and as men that haue gotten the victory, when they deale the spoyle.
  • Isa 26:15 : 15 Agayne, thou increacest the people (o LORDE), thou increacest the people, thou shalt be praysed and magnified in all ye endes of the worlde.
  • Isa 60:22 : 22 The yongest & leest shal growe in to a thousande, & the symplest in to a stronge people. I the LORDE shal shortly bringe this thinge to passe in his tyme.
  • Ps 107:38 : 38 He blesseth them, so that they multiplie exceadingly, and suffreth not their catell to decrease.
  • Exod 1:7 : 7 the children of Israel grewe, and increased, and multiplied, and became exceadinge mightie, so yt the lande was full of them.
  • Exod 1:20 : 20 Therfore God dealt well with the mydwyues. And the people multiplied, and became exceadinge mightie.
  • Jer 30:19 : 19 And out of them shall go thankesgeuynge, and the voyce of ioye. I will multiplie them, and they shall not mynishe: I shall endue them with honoure, and no man shall subdue them.
  • Jer 33:22 : 22 For like as the starres of heauen maye not be nombred, nether the sonde of the see measured: so will I multiplie the sede of Dauid my seruaunt, and of the Leuites my ministers.
  • Zech 10:8 : 8 I wil blowe for them & gather them together, for I wil redeme them. They shall increace, as they increased afore.
  • Isa 27:6 : 6 It wil come to this poynte, yt Iacob shalbe rooted againe, and Israel shalbe grene & beare floures, & they shal fyll ye whole worlde wt their frute.
  • Isa 51:2 : 2 Considre Abraham youre father, & Sara that bare you: how that I called him alone, prospered him wel, & encreased him:

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  • Job 12:24-25
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    24He chaungeth the herte of the prynces and kynges of the earth, and disapoynteth them: so that they go wadringe out of the waye,

    25and grope in the darke without light, stackeringe to and fro like droncken men.

  • Job 12:14-22
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    14Yf he breake downe a thinge, who can set it vp agayne? Yf he shutt a thinge, who wil open it?

    15Beholde, yf he witholde the waters, they drye vp: Yf he let the go, they destroye the earth.

    16With him is strength and wy?dome: he knoweth both the disceauer, and him that is disceaued.

    17He carieth awaye the wyse men, as it were a spoyle, and bryngeth the iudges out of their wyttes.

    18He lowseth the gyrdle of kynges, and gyrdeth their loynes with a bonde.

    19he ledeth awaye the prestes into captiuyte, and turneth the mightie vp syde downe.

    20He taketh the verite from out of the mouth, & disapoynteth ye aged of their wy?dome.

    21He poureth out confucion vpon prynces, and coforteth them that haue bene oppressed.

    22Loke what lyeth hyd in darcknesse, he declareth it opely: and the very shadowe of death bringeth he to light.

  • 23That he bringeth princes to nothinge, and the iudges of the earth to dust:

  • 15Agayne, thou increacest the people (o LORDE), thou increacest the people, thou shalt be praysed and magnified in all ye endes of the worlde.

  • Job 34:24-25
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    24Many one, yee innumerable doth he punyshe and setteth other in their steades.

    25For he knoweth their euell & darcke workes, therfore shal they be destroyed.

  • 6For one people shall all to smyte another, & one cite another: for God shal vexe them wt all maner of trouble.

  • 7Howbeit his meanynge is not so, nether thinketh his harte of this fashion. But he ymagineth only, how he maye ouerthrowe and destroye moch people,

  • Ps 107:38-40
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    38He blesseth them, so that they multiplie exceadingly, and suffreth not their catell to decrease.

    39Whe they are minished & brought lowe thorow oppressio, thorow eny plage or trouble.

    40Though he suffre the to be euell intreated thorow tyrauntes, or let them wandre out of the waye in the wildernesse:

  • 22They plucke downe the mightie wt their power, & when they them selues are gotten vp, they are neuer without feare, as longe as they liue.

  • 1 Sam 2:6-7
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    6The Lorde slayeth, and geueth life: he ledeth vnto hell, and bryngeth out agayne.

    7The LORDE maketh poore and maketh riche: He bryngeth lowe and exalteth.

  • 23The LORDE thy God shall delyuer them before the, and shall smite them with a greate slaughter, tyll they be destroyed.

  • 12He distributeth also on euery syde, acordinge as it pleaseth him to deale out his workes, that they maye do, what so euer he commaundeth the thorow the whole worlde:

  • 10Though he turne all thinges vpsyde downe, close them in, or thrust the together, who darre check him therfore?

  • 12these shal he cary awaye wt greate pryde, for so moch as he hath cast downe so many thousandes, neuertheles he shall not preuayle.

  • 6He stondeth, & measureth the earth: He loketh, & the people consume awaye, the moutaynes of ye worlde fall downe to powlder, and the hilles are fayne to bowe them selues, for his goinges are euerlastinge and sure.

  • 23He hath brought downe my strength in my iourney, and shortened my dayes.

  • 12Yf he be haisty to take eny thinge awaye, who wil make him restore it agayne? Who wil saye vnto him: what doest thou?

  • 10Which smote dyuerse nacions, & slewe mightie kynges.

  • 3Shalt thou multiplie the people, and not increase the ioye also? They shal reioyse before the euen as men make mery in haruest, and as men that haue gotten the victory, when they deale the spoyle.

  • 11Thus the LORDE that remoueth the kingdomes, and hath taken in hande agaynst that mightie Canaan to rote it out:) hath stretched out his honde ouer the see,

  • 23then shall the LORDE dryue out all these nacions before you, so that ye shall coquere greater and mightier nacions then ye youre selues are.

  • 7When I take in honde to rote out, to destroye, or to waist awaye eny people or kigdome:

  • 1Beholde, ye LORDE shal waist and plage the worlde, he shal make the face of the earth desolate, & scatre abrode ye inhabitours therof.

  • 23So after yt he hath taken truce with him, he shal hadle disceatfully: that he maye get vp, & ouer come him with a small flocke:

  • 9He rayseth destruccion vpon the mightie people, & bryngeth downe the stronge holde:

  • 6He shal be iudge amoge the Heithen, he shal fyll them with deed bodies, and smyte in sonder the heades ouer dyuerse countres.

  • 39This shal he do, sekinge helpe and sucoure at the mightie Idols and straunge goddes. Soch as wil receaue him, and take him for God, he shal geue them greate worshipe and power: yee and make them lordes of the multitude, and geue them the londe with rewardes.

  • 12to spoyle them, to robbe the, to laye honde vpon their so wel inhabited wildernesses: agaynst that people, yt is gathered together from amonge the Heithe, which haue gotten catell and good, and dwell in the myddest of the londe.

  • 6For lo, I wil rase vp ye Caldees, that bytter and swifte people: which shal go as wyde as the londe is, to take possession of dwellinge places, that be not their owne.

  • 12Which taketh awaye the breth of prynces, & is wonderfull amoge the kynges of the earth.

  • 12For euery people & kingdome that serueth not the, shal perish, and be distroyed wt the swerde.

  • 10The LORDE bryngeth the councell of the Heithen to naught, and turneth the deuyces of the people.

  • 24But he increased his people exceadingly, and made them stronger then their enemies.

  • 12He stilleth the see with his power, & thorow his wy?dome hath he set forth ye worlde.

  • 19O how sodenly do they consume, perish, & come to a fearfull ende?

  • 17Wherfore they cast out their net agayne, & neuer ceasse to slaye the people.

  • 9I wil trouble the hertes off many people, when I bringe thy destruccion amoge the Heithen and countrees, whom thou knowest not.