Job 6:20

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.

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  • Jer 14:3-4 : 3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads. 4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
  • Jer 17:13 : 13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
  • Rom 5:5 : 5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
  • Rom 9:33 : 33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and ck of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

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  • Job 6:18-19
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    18 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

    19 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.

  • 5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

  • 5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

  • 21 For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.

  • 5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

  • 26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.

  • Ps 83:16-17
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    16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.

    17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:

  • 3 Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.

  • 16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.

  • 5 There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.

  • 5 They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

  • 22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.

  • 9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

  • 15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

  • 26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,

  • Ps 40:14-15
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    14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

    15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

  • 6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

  • 3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.

  • Job 4:5-6
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    5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

    6 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

  • 29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

  • 11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.

  • 54 That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.

  • 3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

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    6 Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.

    7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

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    2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.

    3 Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.

  • 5 They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.

  • 12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

  • 15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

  • 9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?

  • 13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Beth-el their confidence.

  • 20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

  • 7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

  • 20 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

  • 11 But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.

  • 26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

  • 19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

  • 4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

  • 18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

  • 20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

  • 24 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

  • 16 The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

  • 8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.

  • 27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

  • 15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?