Job 19:16

Geneva Bible (1560)

I called my seruant, but he would not answere, though I prayed him with my mouth.

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  • Job 1:15-17 : 15 And the Shabeans came violently, and tooke them: yea, they haue slayne the seruants with the edge of the sworde: but I onely am escaped alone to tell thee. 16 And whiles he was yet speaking, another came, and sayde, The fire of God is fallen from the heauen, & hath burnt vp the sheepe and the seruants, and deuoured them: but I onely am escaped alone to tell thee. 17 And whiles he was yet speaking, another came, and sayd, The Caldeans set on three bands, and fell vpon the camels, and haue taken them, and haue slayne the seruantes with the edge of the sworde: but I onely am escaped alone to tell thee.
  • Job 1:19 : 19 And behold, there came a great wind from beyonde the wildernesse, and smote the foure corners of the house, which fel vpon the children, and they are dead, and I onely am escaped alone to tell thee.

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  • Job 19:17-18
    2 verses
    83%

    17 My breath was strange vnto my wife, though I prayed her for the childrens sake of mine owne body.

    18 The wicked also despised mee, and when I rose, they spake against me.

  • 15 They that dwel in mine house, and my maydes tooke me for a stranger: for I was a stranger in their sight.

  • Job 9:14-16
    3 verses
    74%

    14 Howe much lesse shall I answere him? or howe should I finde out my words with him?

    15 For though I were iust, yet could I not answere, but I would make supplicatio to my Iudge.

    16 If I cry, and he answere me, yet woulde I not beleeue, that he heard my voyce.

  • 20 Whe I cry vnto thee, thou doest not heare me, neither regardest me, when I stand vp.

  • 7 Beholde, I crie out of violence, but I haue none answere: I crie, but there is no iudgement.

  • 22 Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me speake, and answere thou me.

  • 6 I opened to my welbeloued: but my welbeloued was gone, and past: mine heart was gone when hee did speake: I sought him, but I coulde not finde him: I called him, but hee answered mee not.

  • 17 I called vnto him with my mouth, and he was exalted with my tongue.

  • 6 I haue called vpon thee: surely thou wilt heare me, O God: incline thine eare to me, and hearken vnto my wordes.

  • 19 Who is he, that will pleade with me? for if I nowe holde my tongue, I dye.

  • 14 Thus am I as a man, that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofes.

  • 1 A Psalme of Dauid, to giue instruction, and a prayer, when he was in the caue. I cryed vnto the Lord with my voyce: with my voyce I prayed vnto the Lord.

  • 13 If I did contemne the iudgement of my seruant, and of my mayde, when they did contend with me,

  • 6 Though I speake, my sorow can not be asswaged: though I cease, what release haue I?

  • 11 Therefore I will not spare my mouth, but will speake in the trouble of my spirite, and muse in the bitternesse of my minde.

  • 2 O my God, I crie by day, but thou hearest not, and by night, but haue no audience.

  • 24 Because I haue called, & ye refused: I haue stretched out mine hand, & none woulde regarde.

  • 19 I called for my louers, but they deceiued me: my Priestes and mine Elders perished in the citie while they sought their meate to refresh their soules.

  • 2 Hearken vnto me, & answere me: I mourne in my prayer, and make a noyse,

  • 14 Yet hath he not directed his words to me, neyther will I answere him by your wordes.

  • 19 A seruant will not be chastised with words: though he vnderstand, yet he will not answere.

  • 41 They cryed but there was none to saue them, euen vnto the Lorde, but hee answered them not.

  • 19 Howe long will it be yer thou depart from me? thou wilt not let me alone whiles I may swallowe my spettle.

  • 1 A song of degrees. I called vnto the Lorde in my trouble, and hee heard me.

  • 4 Heare, I beseech thee, and I will speake: I will demaunde of thee, & declare thou vnto me.

  • Ps 77:1-2
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    69%

    1 For the excellent musitian Ieduthun. A Psalme committed to Asaph. My voyce came to God, when I cryed: my voyce came to God, and he heard me.

    2 In the day of my trouble I sought ye Lord: my sore ranne and ceased not in the night: my soule refused comfort.

  • 16 When I had wayted (for they spake not, but stood still and answered no more)

  • 15 Thou shalt call me, and I shall answere thee: thou louest the worke of thine own hands.

  • 8 Then cried I vnto thee, O Lord, and praied to my Lord.

  • 8 Also when I cry and showte, hee shutteth out my prayer.

  • 17 And hide not thy face from thy seruant, for I am in trouble: make haste and heare me.

  • 2 I was dumme & spake nothing: I kept silece euen from good, and my sorow was more stirred.

  • 16 But I haue not thrust in my selfe for a pastour after thee, neither haue I desired the day of miserie, thou knowest: that which came out of my lips, was right before thee.

  • 22 Though I said in mine haste, I am cast out of thy sight, yet thou heardest the voyce of my prayer, when I cryed vnto thee.

  • 5 I would knowe the wordes, that he would answere me, & would vnderstand what he would say vnto me.

  • 1 A Psalme of Dauid. O Lord, I call vpon thee: haste thee vnto me: heare my voyce, when I cry vnto thee.

  • 40 I was in the day consumed with heate, and with frost in the night, and my sleepe departed from mine eyes.

  • 15 What shall I say? for he hath said it to me, and he hath done it: I shall walke weakely all my yeeres in the bitternesse of my soule.

  • 56 Thou hast heard my voyce: stoppe not thine eare from my sigh and from my cry.

  • 4 Then I called vpon the Name of the Lord, saying, I beseech thee, O Lord, deliuer my soule.

  • 20 Therefore will I speake, that I may take breath: I will open my lippes, and will answere.

  • 16 Turne thy face vnto mee, and haue mercie vpon me: for I am desolate and poore.

  • 1 Bvt Iob answered, and said,

  • 19 Hearken vnto mee, O Lorde, and heare the voyce of them that contend with me.

  • 20 Rebuke hath broken mine heart, and I am full of heauinesse, and I looked for some to haue pitie on me, but there was none: and for comforters, but I found none.

  • 4 Doe I direct my talke to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled?