Job 21:11

Geneva Bible (1560)

They send forth their children like sheepe, and their sonnes dance.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 107:41 : 41 Yet he raiseth vp the poore out of miserie, and maketh him families like a flocke of sheepe.
  • Ps 127:3-5 : 3 Beholde, children are the inheritance of the Lord, and the fruite of the wombe his rewarde. 4 As are the arrowes in the hand of ye strong man: so are the children of youth. 5 Blessed is the man, that hath his quiuer full of them: for they shall not be ashamed, when they speake with their enemies in the gate.

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  • Job 21:12-13
    2 verses
    84%

    12They take the tabret & harpe, and reioyce in the sound of the organs.

    13They spend their dayes in wealth, and suddenly they go downe to the graue.

  • Job 21:8-10
    3 verses
    79%

    8Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes.

    9Their houses are peaceable without feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them.

    10Their bullocke gendreth, and fayleth not: their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe.

  • Job 39:3-4
    2 verses
    77%

    3(39:6) They bow them selues: they bruise their yong and cast out their sorowes.

    4(39:7) Yet their yong waxe fatte, and growe vp with corne: they goe foorth and returne not vnto them.

  • Ps 149:2-3
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    2Let Israel reioyce in him that made him, and let ye children of Zion reioyce in their King.

    3Let them prayse his Name with the flute: let them sing prayses vnto him with the timbrell and harpe.

  • Ps 65:12-13
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    12They drop vpon the pastures of the wildernesse: and the hils shalbe compassed with gladnes.

    13The pastures are clad with sheepe: the valleis also shalbe couered with corne: therefore they shoute for ioye, and sing.

  • 12Yong men and maidens, also olde men and children:

  • Jer 31:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12Therefore they shall come, and reioyce in the height of Zion, and shall runne to the bountifulnes of the Lord, euen for the wheat and for the wine, and for the oyle, and for the increase of sheepe, & bullocks: and their soule shalbe as a watered garden, and they shall haue no more sorow.

    13Then shall ye virgine reioyce in the dance, and the yong men and the old men together: for I wil turne their mourning into ioy, and wil comfort them, and giue them ioy for their sorowes.

  • 5Behold, others as wilde asses in the wildernesse, goe forth to their businesse, and rise early for a praye: the wildernesse giueth him and his children foode.

  • 16But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like vnto litle children which sit in the markets, and call vnto their fellowes,

  • 4The mountaines leaped like rams, and the hils as lambes.

  • 13That our corners may be full, and abounding with diuers sorts, and that our sheepe may bring forth thousands and ten thousand in our streetes:

  • Jer 30:19-20
    2 verses
    68%

    19And out of them shall proceede thankesgiuing, and the voyce of them that are ioyous, and I will multiplie them, and they shall not bee fewe: I will also glorifie them, and they shall not be diminished.

    20Their children also shall be as afore time, and their congregation shall be established before me: and I will visite all that vexe them.

  • 21And they turned and departed, and put the children, and the cattell, and the substance before them.

  • 15They take vp all with the angle: they catch it in their net, and gather it in their yarne, whereof they reioyce and are glad.

  • 12By these springs shall the foules of the heauen dwell, and sing among the branches.

  • 4And I will appoint children to bee their princes, and babes shall rule ouer them.

  • Isa 11:6-8
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    67%

    6The wolfe also shall dwell with the lambe, and the leopard shall lie with the kid, & the calfe, and the lyon, and the fat beast together, and a litle childe shall leade them.

    7And the kowe and the beare shall feede: their yong ones shall lie together: and the lyon shall eate strawe like the bullocke.

    8And the sucking childe shall play vpon the hole of the aspe, and the wained childe shall put his hand vpon the cockatrice hole.

  • 25The singers went before, the players of instruments after: in the middes were the maides playing with timbrels.

  • 3Beholde, children are the inheritance of the Lord, and the fruite of the wombe his rewarde.

  • 6Ye mountaines, why leaped ye like rams, and ye hils as lambes?

  • 38They shal rore together like lions, and yell as the lyons whelpes.

  • 2They called them, but they went thus from them: they sacrificed vnto Baalim, and burnt incense to images.

  • 4Prayse ye him with timbrell and flute: praise ye him with virginales and organs.

  • 12And the harpe and viole, timbrel, and pipe, and wine are in their feastes: but they regard not the worke of the Lorde, neither consider the worke of his handes.

  • 10They shall walke after the Lorde: he shall roare like a lyon: when hee shall roare, then the children of the West shall feare.

  • 11Ephraim their glorie shall flee away like a birde: from the birth and from the wombe, and from the conception.

  • 32They are like vnto litle children sitting in the market place, and crying one to another, and saying, We haue piped vnto you, and ye haue not daunced: we haue mourned to you, and ye haue not wept.

  • Job 30:7-8
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    67%

    7They roared among the bushes, and vnder the thistles they gathered themselues.

    8They were the children of fooles and the children of villaines, which were more vile then the earth.

  • 15The ioy of our heart is gone, our daunce is turned into mourning.

  • 5And the streetes of the citie shalbe full of boyes and girles, playing in the streetes thereof.

  • 13They tooke the yong men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.

  • 21Therefore, deliuer vp their children to famine, and let them drop away by the force of the sworde, and let their wiues be robbed of their children, and be widowes: and let their husbandes be put to death, and let their yong men be slayne by the sword in the battell.

  • 20(40:15) Surely the mountaines bring him foorth grasse, where all the beastes of the fielde play.

  • 5They sing to the sounde of the viole: they inuent to themselues instruments of musike like Dauid.

  • 9Blessed shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy children against the stones.

  • 10Beasts and all cattell, creeping things and fethered foules:

  • 6He maketh them also to leape like a calfe: Lebanon also and Shirion like a yong vnicorne.

  • 7The whole worlde is at rest and is quiet: they sing for ioye.

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    7All sheepe and oxen: yea, and the beastes of the fielde: