Job 20:25

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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  • Job 16:13 : 13 his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.
  • Job 18:11 : 11 Terrors frighten him on all sides and dog his every step.
  • Deut 32:41 : 41 I 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!
  • 2 Sam 18:14 : 14 Joab replied,“I will not wait around like this for you!” He took three spears in his hand and thrust them into the middle of Absalom while he was still alive in the middle of the oak tree.
  • Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God’s sudden terrors are arrayed against me.
  • Job 15:21 : 21 Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.
  • Job 27:20 : 20 Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off.
  • Ps 7:12 : 12 If a person does not repent, God will wield his sword. He has prepared to shoot his bow.
  • Ps 73:19 : 19 How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!
  • Ps 88:15 : 15 I am oppressed and have been on the verge of death since my youth. I have been subjected to your horrors and am numb with pain.
  • Jer 20:3-4 : 3 But the next day Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks. When he did, Jeremiah said to him,“The LORD’s name for you is not‘Pashhur’ but‘Terror is Everywhere.’ 4 For the LORD says,‘I will make both you and your friends terrified of what will happen to you. You will see all of them die by the swords of their enemies. I will hand all the people of Judah over to the king of Babylon. He will carry some of them away into exile in Babylon and he will kill others of them with the sword.
  • 2 Cor 5:11 : 11 The Message of Reconciliation Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people, but we are well known to God, and I hope we are well known to your consciences too.

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  • Job 20:22-24
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    22In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. The full force of misery will come upon him.

    23“While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him.

    24If he flees from an iron weapon, then an arrow from a bronze bow pierces him.

  • Job 39:22-23
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    22It laughs at fear and is not dismayed; it does not shy away from the sword.

    23On it the quiver rattles; the lance and javelin flash.

  • Job 20:26-27
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    26Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

    27The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.

  • 13his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.

  • Job 20:14-16
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    14his food is turned sour in his stomach; it becomes the venom of serpents within him.

    15The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.

    16He sucks the poison of serpents; the fangs of a viper kill him.

  • Job 41:25-26
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    25When it rises up, the mighty are terrified, at its thrashing about they withdraw.

    26Whoever strikes it with a sword will have no effect, nor with the spear, arrow, or dart.

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    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.

  • 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.

  • Job 18:11-14
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    11Terrors frighten him on all sides and dog his every step.

    12Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.

    13It eats away parts of his skin; the most terrible death devours his limbs.

    14He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors.

  • Job 15:21-22
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    21Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.

    22He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword;

  • Job 41:21-22
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    21Its breath sets coals ablaze and a flame shoots from its mouth.

    22Strength lodges in its neck, and despair runs before it.

  • 13ה(He) He shot his arrows into my heart.

  • 20Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off.

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    20They will fall among those killed by the sword. The sword is drawn; they carry her and all her hordes away.

    21The bravest of the warriors will speak to him from the midst of Sheol along with his allies, saying:‘The uncircumcised have come down; they lie still, killed by the sword.’

  • 23till an arrow pierces his liver– like a bird hurrying into a trap, and he does not know that it will cost him his life.

  • 24Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack,

  • 18He spares a person’s life from corruption, his very life from crossing over the river.

  • 30He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth.

  • 15For they flee from the swords– from the drawn sword and from the battle-ready bow and from the severity of the battle.

  • 22The handle went in after the blade, and the fat closed around the blade, for Ehud did not pull the sword out of his belly.

  • 29Fear the sword yourselves, for wrath brings the punishment by the sword, so that you may know that there is judgment.”

  • 4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God’s sudden terrors are arrayed against me.

  • Job 33:21-22
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    21His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.

    22He draws near to the place of corruption, and his life to the messengers of death.

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

  • 22It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power.

  • 30Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge.

  • 28Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones become like chaff to it.

  • 13Rise up, LORD! Confront him! Knock him down! Use your sword to rescue me from the wicked man!

  • 19It ranks first among the works of God, the One who made it has furnished it with a sword.

  • 26defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield!

  • 21His words are as smooth as butter, but he harbors animosity in his heart. His words seem softer than oil, but they are really like sharp swords.

  • 19Out of its mouth go flames, sparks of fire shoot forth!

  • 15So hearts melt with fear and many stumble. At all their gates I have stationed the sword for slaughter. Ah! It is made to flash, it is drawn for slaughter!

  • 3The charioteers will charge ahead; their swords will flash and their spears will glimmer! There will be many people slain; there will be piles of the dead, and countless casualties– so many that people will stumble over the corpses.

  • 2He made my mouth like a sharp sword, he hid me in the hollow of his hand; he made me like a sharpened arrow, he hid me in his quiver.