Job 21:27

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices [which] ye wrongfully imagine against me.

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  • Job 4:8-9 : 8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. 9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. 10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. 11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
  • Job 5:3-5 : 3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. 4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither [is there] any to deliver [them]. 5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
  • Job 8:3-6 : 3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? 4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; 5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; 6 If thou [wert] pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
  • Job 15:20-35 : 20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all [his] days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. 21 A dreadful sound [is] in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. 22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. 23 He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. 24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. 25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. 26 He runneth upon him, [even] on [his] neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers: 27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on [his] flanks. 28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, [and] in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps. 29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth. 30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away. 31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence. 32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. 33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive. 34 For the congregation of hypocrites [shall be] desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery. 35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
  • Job 20:5 : 5 That the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite [but] for a moment?
  • Job 20:29 : 29 This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
  • Job 32:3 : 3 Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and [yet] had condemned Job.
  • Job 42:7 : 7 ¶ And it was [so], that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me [the thing that is] right, as my servant Job [hath].
  • Ps 59:4 : 4 They run and prepare themselves without [my] fault: awake to help me, and behold.
  • Ps 119:86 : 86 All thy commandments [are] faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
  • Luke 5:22 : 22 But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, ‹What reason ye in your hearts?›
  • 1 Pet 2:19 : 19 For this [is] thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

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  • 28 For ye say, Where [is] the house of the prince? and where [are] the dwelling places of the wicked?

  • 27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.

  • 28 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.

  • Lam 3:60-62
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    60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance [and] all their imaginations against me.

    61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, [and] all their imaginations against me;

    62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

  • 21 These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether [such an one] as thyself: [but] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.

  • 11 For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, [which] they are not able [to perform].

  • 10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, [that] at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:

  • 23 Yet, 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.

  • 2 And they consider not in their hearts [that] I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.

  • 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

  • Jer 11:18-20
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    18 ¶ And the LORD hath given me knowledge [of it], and I know [it]: then thou shewedst me their doings.

    19 But I [was] like a lamb [or] an ox [that] is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

    20 But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

  • 15 Though I have bound [and] strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.

  • 2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

  • 7 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

  • Ps 56:5-6
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    5 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts [are] against me for evil.

    6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

  • 10 Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,

  • 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

  • 13 And these [things] hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this [is] with thee.

  • 12 ¶ They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me]: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

  • 7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and [there is] none that can deliver out of thine hand.

  • 11 The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they [are] vanity.

  • 5 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, [every one of] them.

  • 10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I [am], and none else beside me.

  • Job 19:5-6
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    5 If indeed ye will magnify [yourselves] against me, and plead against me my reproach:

    6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

  • 2 The wicked in [his] pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

  • 17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee].

  • 13 As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.

  • 3 How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall [shall ye be, and as] a tottering fence.

  • 28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

  • 2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

  • 3 But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

  • 12 But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, [and] seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.

  • 10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, [say they], and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, [saying], Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

  • 27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig [a pit] for your friend.

  • 15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

  • 11 There is [one] come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.

  • 13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear [was] on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

  • 15 And Joseph said unto them, What deed [is] this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?

  • 4 Knowest thou [not] this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

  • 17 ¶ How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

  • 4 For [there is] not a word in my tongue, [but], lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

  • 12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate [from their right].

  • 4 And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, ‹Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?›

  • 26 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.