Job 5:16

Authorized King James Version (1611)

So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 107:42 : 42 The righteous shall see [it], and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
  • 1 Sam 2:8-9 : 8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, [and] lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set [them] among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth [are] the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them. 9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
  • Ps 63:11 : 11 But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
  • Exod 11:7 : 7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.
  • Ps 9:18 : 18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall [not] perish for ever.
  • Isa 14:32 : 32 What shall [one] then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.
  • Zech 9:12 : 12 ¶ Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare [that] I will render double unto thee;
  • Rom 3:19 : 19 ¶ Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

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