Job 27:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

Behold, you yourselves have seen it; why then are you altogether vain?

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  • Job 6:25-29 : 25 How forcible are right words! But what does your arguing reprove? 26 Do you imagine to reprove words and the speeches of one who is desperate, which are as wind? 27 Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend. 28 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident to you if I lie. 29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yes, return again, my righteousness is in it.
  • Job 13:4-9 : 4 But you are forgers of lies, you are all worthless physicians. 5 Oh that you would altogether hold your peace, and it should be your wisdom. 6 Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips. 7 Will you speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? 8 Will you accept his person? will you contend for God? 9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocks another, do you so mock him?
  • Job 16:3 : 3 Will vain words ever end? Or what makes you bold enough to answer?
  • Job 17:2 : 2 Are there not mockers with me? And does not my eye continue in their provocation?
  • Job 19:2-3 : 2 How long will you vex my soul and break me in pieces with words? 3 These ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed that you make yourselves strange to me.
  • Job 21:3 : 3 Allow me to speak; and after I have spoken, mock on.
  • Job 21:28-30 : 28 For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? And where are the dwelling places of the wicked?' 29 Have you not asked those who travel the road? And do you not know their signs? 30 That the wicked is reserved for the day of destruction? They shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
  • Job 26:2-4 : 2 How have you helped him who is without power? How have you saved the arm that has no strength? 3 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom? And how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is? 4 To whom have you uttered words? And whose spirit came from you?
  • Eccl 8:14 : 14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth: there are just men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
  • Eccl 9:1-3 : 1 For all this I considered in my heart, even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. No one knows either love or hatred by all that is before them. 2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean, to him that sacrifices, and to him that does not sacrifice; as is the good, so is the sinner; and he who swears, as he who fears an oath. 3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that, they go to the dead.

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  • 11 Since there are many things that increase vanity, what advantage does man have?

  • 12 Why does your heart carry you away, and what do your eyes wink at,

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    24 Remember to magnify his work, which men behold.

    25 Every man may see it; man may behold it from afar.

  • 4 Do You have eyes of flesh? Or do You see as man sees?

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    2 I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.

    3 Will vain words ever end? Or what makes you bold enough to answer?

  • 17 I will show you, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare:

  • 1 Look, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.

  • 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

  • Ezek 13:7-8
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    7 Have you not seen a vain vision, and have you not spoken a lying divination, when you say, 'The LORD says it,' although I have not spoken?

    8 Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have spoken vanity and seen lies, behold, I am against you, says the Lord GOD.

  • Ps 39:5-6
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    5 Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

    6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are troubled in vain: he heaps up riches, and does not know who shall gather them.

  • 8 Vanity of vanities, says the preacher; all is vanity.

  • 11 For He knows deceptive men; He sees wickedness also; will He not then consider it?

  • 21 And do not turn aside: for then you should go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

  • 34 How then can you comfort me with empty words, seeing in your answers there lies falsehood?

  • 11 I will teach you by the hand of God; what is with the Almighty I will not conceal.

  • Job 21:28-29
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    28 For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? And where are the dwelling places of the wicked?'

    29 Have you not asked those who travel the road? And do you not know their signs?

  • 21 For now you are nothing; you see my downfall and are afraid.

  • 14 You have said, 'It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?'.

  • 3 And do You open Your eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with You?

  • 17 What is man, that you should magnify him, and that you should set your heart upon him?

  • 29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

  • 4 Do you not know this of old, since man was placed on earth,

  • 28 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident to you if I lie.

  • 27 Behold this, we have searched it out, it is true; hear it, and know it for your good.

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    2 O you sons of men, how long will you turn my glory into shame? How long will you love vanity, and seek after lies? Selah.

  • 4 But you are forgers of lies, you are all worthless physicians.

  • 3 Why are we counted as beasts, and considered vile in your sight?

  • 10 For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, 'No one sees me.' Your wisdom and your knowledge have perverted you; and you have said in your heart, 'I am, and there is none else besides me.'

  • 3 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom? And how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is?

  • Job 15:8-9
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    8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?

    9 What do you know that we don't know? What do you understand that is not in us?

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    12 Yes, I paid attention to you, and behold, there was none of you who convinced Job or who answered his words.

    13 Lest you should say, We have found out wisdom: God will thrust him down, not man.

  • 1 Why, since times are not hidden from the Almighty, do those who know Him not see His days?

  • 9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocks another, do you so mock him?

  • 2 For what portion of God is there from above? And what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

  • 60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their schemes against me.

  • 20 And again, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

  • 9 Behold, the hope of capturing him is vain; will not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

  • 18 Have you perceived the breadth of the earth? Declare, if you know it all.

  • 2 No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

  • 17 You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, How have we wearied him? When you say, Everyone that does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them; or, Where is the God of justice?

  • 47 Remember how short my time is; why have you made all men in vain?

  • 11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labor I had toiled to do; and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

  • 17 But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.