Job 19:29

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Fear the sword yourselves, for wrath brings the punishment by the sword, so that you may know that there is judgment.”

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  • Job 13:7-9 : 7 Will you speak wickedly on God’s behalf? Will you speak deceitfully for him? 8 Will you show him partiality? Will you argue the case for God? 9 Would it turn out well if he would examine you? Or as one deceives a man would you deceive him? 10 He would certainly rebuke you if you secretly showed partiality! 11 Would not his splendor terrify you and the fear he inspires fall on you?
  • Job 15:22 : 22 He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword;
  • Job 22:4 : 4 Is it because of your piety that he rebukes you and goes to judgment with you?
  • Ps 1:5 : 5 For this reason the wicked cannot withstand judgment, nor can sinners join the assembly of the godly.
  • Ps 9:7 : 7 But the LORD rules forever; he reigns in a just manner.
  • Ps 58:10-11 : 10 The godly will rejoice when they see vengeance carried out; they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked. 11 Then observers will say,“Yes indeed, the godly are rewarded! Yes indeed, there is a God who judges in the earth!”
  • Eccl 11:9 : 9 Enjoy Life to the Fullest under the Fear of God Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes, but know that God will judge your motives and actions.
  • Eccl 12:14 : 14 For God will evaluate every deed, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.
  • Matt 7:1-2 : 1 Do Not Judge“Do not judge so that you will not be judged. 2 For by the standard you judge you will be judged, and the measure you use will be the measure you receive.
  • Rom 13:1-4 : 1 Submission to Civil Government Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except by God’s appointment, and the authorities that exist have been instituted by God. 2 So the person who resists such authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will incur judgment 3 (for rulers cause no fear for good conduct but for bad). Do you desire not to fear authority? Do good and you will receive its commendation 4 because it is God’s servant for your well-being. But be afraid if you do wrong because government does not bear the sword for nothing. It is God’s servant to administer punishment on the person who does wrong.
  • Jas 4:11-12 : 11 Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge. 12 But there is only one who is lawgiver and judge– the one who is able to save and destroy. On the other hand, who are you to judge your neighbor?

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    8You fear the sword, so the sword I will bring against you,’ declares the Sovereign LORD.

    9‘But I will take you out of the city. And I will hand you over to foreigners. I will execute judgments on you.

    10You will die by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

  • Job 36:17-18
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    17But now you are preoccupied with the judgment due the wicked, judgment and justice take hold of you.

    18Be careful that no one entices you with riches; do not let a large bribe turn you aside.

  • Job 19:28
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    28If you say,‘How we will pursue him, since the root of the trouble is found in him!’

  • Ezek 21:13
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    13“‘For testing will come, and what will happen when the scepter, which the sword despises, is no more? declares the Sovereign LORD.’

  • Prov 19:29
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    29Penalties have been prepared for scorners, and floggings for the backs of fools.

  • Ezek 21:9-11
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    9“Son of man, prophesy and say:‘This is what the Lord says:“‘A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also polished.

    10It is sharpened for slaughter, it is polished to flash like lightning!“‘Should we rejoice in the scepter of my son? No! The sword despises every tree!

    11“‘He gave it to be polished, to be grasped in the hand– the sword is sharpened, it is polished– giving it into the hand of the executioner.

  • Prov 19:19
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    19A person with great anger bears the penalty, but if you deliver him from it once, you will have to do it again.

  • Deut 19:20-21
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    20The rest of the people will hear and become afraid to keep doing such evil among you.

    21You must not show pity; the principle will be a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, and a foot for a foot.

  • Jer 25:29
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    29For take note, I am already beginning to bring disaster on the city that I call my own. So how can you possibly avoid being punished? You will not go unpunished! For I am proclaiming war against all who live on the earth. I, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, affirm it!’

  • Ezek 21:3-5
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    3and say to them,‘This is what the LORD says: Look, I am against you. I will draw my sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.

    4Because I will cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked, my sword will go out from its sheath against everyone from the south to the north.

    5Then everyone will know that I am the LORD, who drew my sword from its sheath– it will not be sheathed again!’

  • Ps 149:7
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    7in order to take revenge on the nations, and punish foreigners.

  • 2 Chr 19:6
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    6He told the judges,“Be careful what you do, for you are not judging for men, but for the LORD, who will be with you when you make judicial decisions.

  • Matt 26:52
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    52Then Jesus said to him,“Put your sword back in its place! For all who take hold of the sword will die by the sword.

  • Ezek 21:30
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    30Return it to its sheath! In the place where you were created, in your native land, I will judge you.

  • Isa 1:20
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    20But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” Know for certain that the LORD has spoken.

  • Ps 119:120
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    120My body trembles because I fear you; I am afraid of your judgments.

  • Rom 13:4
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    4because it is God’s servant for your well-being. But be afraid if you do wrong because government does not bear the sword for nothing. It is God’s servant to administer punishment on the person who does wrong.

  • Ezek 16:40
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    40They will summon a mob who will stone you and hack you in pieces with their swords.

  • Deut 32:41
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    41I will sharpen my lightning-like sword, and my hand will grasp hold of the weapon of judgment; I will execute vengeance on my foes, and repay those who hate me!

  • Ezek 32:11
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    11“‘For this is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘The sword of the king of Babylon will attack you.

  • Ezek 14:17
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    17“Or suppose I were to bring a sword against that land and say,‘Let a sword pass through the land,’ and I were to kill both people and animals.

  • Exod 22:24
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    24and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless.

  • Heb 10:27
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    27but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume God’s enemies.

  • Ezek 29:8
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    8“‘Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will kill every person and every animal.

  • Jer 44:29
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    29Moreover the LORD says,‘I will make something happen to prove that I will punish you in this place. I will do it so that you will know that my threats to bring disaster on you will prove true.

  • Rev 13:10
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    10If anyone is meant for captivity, into captivity he will go. If anyone is to be killed by the sword, then by the sword he must be killed.This requires steadfast endurance and faith from the saints.

  • Deut 32:25
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    25The sword will make people childless outside, and terror will do so inside; they will destroy both the young man and the virgin, the infant and the gray-haired man.

  • Isa 34:5
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    5He says,“Indeed, my sword has slaughtered heavenly powers. Look, it now descends on Edom, on the people I will annihilate in judgment.”

  • Ezek 7:15
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    15The sword is outside; pestilence and famine are inside the house. Whoever is in the open field will die by the sword, and famine and pestilence will consume everyone in the city.

  • Rev 19:15
    70%

    15From his mouth extends a sharp sword, so that with it he can strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod, and he stomps the winepress of the furious wrath of God, the All-Powerful.

  • Jer 42:16
    70%

    16the wars you fear will catch up with you there in the land of Egypt. The starvation you are worried about will follow you there to Egypt. You will die there.

  • Jer 6:25
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    25Do not go out into the countryside. Do not travel on the roads. For the enemy is there with sword in hand. They are spreading terror everywhere.”

  • Exod 21:25
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    25burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

  • Jer 18:21
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    21So let their children die of starvation. Let them be cut down by the sword. Let their wives lose their husbands and children. Let the older men die of disease and the younger men die by the sword in battle.

  • Luke 22:49
    70%

    49When those who were around him saw what was about to happen, they said,“Lord, should we use our swords?”

  • Prov 19:25
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    25Flog a scorner, and as a result the simpleton will learn prudence; correct a discerning person, and as a result he will understand knowledge.

  • Ps 90:11
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    11Who can really fathom the intensity of your anger? Your raging fury causes people to fear you.

  • 2 Chr 29:8
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    8The LORD was angry at Judah and Jerusalem and made them an appalling object of horror at which people hiss out their scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.

  • Job 20:25
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    25When he pulls it out and it comes out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver, terrors come over him.

  • Prov 16:14
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    14A king’s wrath is like a messenger of death, but a wise person appeases it.

  • Prov 19:23
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    23Fearing the LORD leads to life, and one who does so will live satisfied; he will not be afflicted by calamity.

  • Prov 24:18
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    18lest the LORD see it, and be displeased, and turn his wrath away from him.