Job 16:18

King James Version 1611 (Original)

O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.

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  • Isa 26:21 : 21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
  • Ezek 24:7 : 7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;
  • Gen 4:11 : 11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
  • Ps 66:18-19 : 18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me: 19 But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
  • Isa 1:15 : 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
  • Neh 4:5 : 5 And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.
  • Job 27:9 : 9 Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?
  • Jas 4:3-4 : 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
  • Isa 58:9-9 : 9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; 10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:
  • Jer 22:29 : 29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.

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  • Job 16:15-17
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    15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

    16My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

    17Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.

  • 19Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.

  • Gen 4:10-11
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    10And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.

    11And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;

  • Ps 30:8-9
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    8I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.

    9What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

  • 12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

  • 56Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

  • 1Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.

  • 7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

  • Ezek 24:7-8
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    7For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;

    8That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.

  • 38If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

  • 13O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

  • 10And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

  • 17A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.

  • 9Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:

  • 1Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

  • 21For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

  • 24Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

  • 1Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.

  • Jer 18:22-23
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    22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

    23Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.

  • 2Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;

  • 12The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.

  • Job 13:19-20
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    19Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

    20Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.

  • 14Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

  • 17Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

  • 15Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

  • 12When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

  • 18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

  • 21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

  • 2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

  • 20I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

  • 3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

  • 1Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

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    5Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

  • 10That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.

  • 1Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

  • 17Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

  • 1Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.

  • 22Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

  • 6In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

  • 20Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.

  • 17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

  • 24Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

  • 8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.