Job 12:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

He increases the nations, and destroys them: He enlarges the nations, and shrinks them again.

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  • Isa 9:3 : 3 You have multiplied the nation and not increased the joy; they rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
  • Isa 26:15 : 15 You have increased the nation, O LORD, You have increased the nation; You are glorified; You had removed it far to all the ends of the earth.
  • Isa 60:22 : 22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation. I, the LORD, will hasten it in its time.
  • Ps 107:38 : 38 He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and does not allow their cattle to decrease.
  • Exod 1:7 : 7 And the children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and became exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
  • Exod 1:20 : 20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and became very mighty.
  • Jer 30:19 : 19 And out of them shall come thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not diminish; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
  • Jer 33:22 : 22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the descendants of David my servant, and the Levites that minister to me.
  • Zech 10:8 : 8 I will signal for them and gather them, for I have redeemed them. And they shall increase as they have increased.
  • Isa 27:6 : 6 Those who come from Jacob shall take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
  • Isa 51:2 : 2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

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    24He takes away the heart of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

    25They grope in the dark without light, and He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

  • Job 12:14-22
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    14Behold, He breaks down, and it cannot be rebuilt: He shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.

    15Behold, He withholds the waters, and they dry up: also He sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

    16With Him are strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are His.

    17He leads counselors away plundered, and makes the judges fools.

    18He loosens the bonds of kings, and girds their loins with a belt.

    19He leads princes away plundered, and overthrows the mighty.

    20He removes the speech of the trusted, and takes away the understanding of the aged.

    21He pours contempt on princes, and weakens the strength of the mighty.

    22He reveals deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

  • Isa 40:23
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    23Who brings the princes to nothing; he makes the judges of the earth as vanity.

  • Isa 26:15
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    15You have increased the nation, O LORD, You have increased the nation; You are glorified; You had removed it far to all the ends of the earth.

  • Job 34:24-25
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    24He shall break in pieces mighty men without number and set others in their place.

    25Therefore He knows their works, and He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

  • 2 Chr 15:6
    71%

    6And nation was destroyed by nation, and city by city; for God troubled them with all adversity.

  • Isa 10:7
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    7Yet he does not mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off not a few nations.

  • Ps 107:38-40
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    70%

    38He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and does not allow their cattle to decrease.

    39Again, they are diminished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

    40He pours contempt upon princes, and causes them to wander in the wilderness where there is no way.

  • Job 24:22
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    22He draws also the mighty with his power; he rises up, and no man is sure of life.

  • 1 Sam 2:6-7
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    6The LORD kills and makes alive: he brings down to the grave and brings up.

    7The LORD makes poor and makes rich: he brings low and lifts up.

  • Deut 7:23
    69%

    23But the LORD your God shall deliver them to you, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they are destroyed.

  • Job 37:12
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    12And it turns around by his counsel, so that they may do whatever he commands them on the face of the world in the earth.

  • Job 11:10
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    10If He passes by, and imprisons, or gathers together, then who can stop Him?

  • Dan 11:12
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    12And when he has taken away the multitude, his heart shall be lifted up; and he shall cast down many ten thousands: but he shall not be strengthened by it.

  • Hab 3:6
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    6He stood and measured the earth; He looked and drove asunder the nations. The everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills bowed; His ways are everlasting.

  • Ps 102:23
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    23He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.

  • Job 9:12
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    12Behold, He takes away, who can hinder Him? Who will say to Him, What are you doing?

  • Ps 135:10
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    10He struck great nations, and killed mighty kings;

  • Isa 9:3
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    3You have multiplied the nation and not increased the joy; they rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

  • Isa 23:11
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    11He has stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD has given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy its strongholds.

  • Deut 11:23
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    23Then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall possess greater and mightier nations than yourselves.

  • Jer 18:7
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    7At any moment I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;

  • Isa 24:1
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    1Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty and makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters abroad its inhabitants.

  • Dan 11:23
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    23And after the agreement made with him, he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up and shall become strong with a small number of people.

  • Amos 5:9
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    9That strengthens the plundered against the strong, so that the plundered shall come against the fortress.

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    6He will judge among the nations, he will fill the places with dead bodies; he will wound the heads over many countries.

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    39Thus he shall deal with the strongest fortresses with a foreign god, whom he shall acknowledge and advance its glory; and he shall cause them to rule over many and divide the land for gain.

  • Ezek 38:12
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    12To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn your hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, who have acquired cattle and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land.

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    6For indeed I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation which marches through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwellingplaces that are not theirs.

  • Ps 76:12
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    12He shall cut off the spirit of princes; He is terrible to the kings of the earth.

  • Isa 60:12
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    12For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish, yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

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    10The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he makes the plans of the people of no effect.

  • Ps 105:24
    68%

    24And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.

  • Job 26:12
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    12He divides the sea with His power, and by His understanding He strikes through the proud.

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    19How they are brought into desolation, as in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

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    17Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?

  • Ezek 32:9
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    9I will also trouble the hearts of many people, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.