Job 23:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Indeed, God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 27:2 : 2 “As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter–
  • Ps 22:14 : 14 My strength drains away like water; all my bones are dislocated; my heart is like wax; it melts away inside me.
  • Deut 20:3 : 3 “Listen, Israel! Today you are moving forward to do battle with your enemies. Do not be fainthearted. Do not fear and tremble or be terrified because of them,
  • Ruth 1:20 : 20 But she replied to them,“Don’t call me‘Naomi’! Call me‘Mara’ because the Sovereign One has treated me very harshly.
  • Ps 88:16 : 16 Your anger overwhelms me; your terrors destroy me.
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 I said,“Woe to me! I am destroyed, for my lips are contaminated by sin, and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. My eyes have seen the king, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.”
  • Isa 57:16 : 16 For I will not be hostile forever or perpetually angry, for then man’s spirit would grow faint before me, the life-giving breath I created.
  • Jer 51:46 : 46 Do not lose your courage or become afraid because of the reports that are heard in the land. For a report will come in one year. Another report will follow it in the next. There will be violence in the land with ruler fighting against ruler.”
  • Joel 1:15 : 15 How awful that day will be! For the day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Divine Destroyer.

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    14For he fulfills his decree against me, and many such things are his plans.

    15That is why I am terrified in his presence; when I consider, I am afraid because of him.

  • Job 31:23
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    23For the calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his majesty I was powerless.

  • Job 23:17
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    17Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

  • Isa 21:4
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    4My heart palpitates, I shake in fear; the twilight I desired has brought me terror.

  • Ps 55:4-5
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    4My heart beats violently within me; the horrors of death overcome me.

    5Fear and panic overpower me; terror overwhelms me.

  • Job 37:1
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    1At this also my heart pounds and leaps from its place.

  • Ps 143:4
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    4My strength leaves me; I am absolutely shocked.

  • Job 4:14-15
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    14dread gripped me and trembling, which made all my bones shake.

    15Then a breath of air passes by my face; it makes the hair of my flesh stand up.

  • Job 21:6
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    6For, when I think about this, I am terrified and my body feels a shudder.

  • Job 3:25-26
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    25For the very thing I dreaded has happened to me, and what I feared has come upon me.

    26I have no ease, I have no quietness; I cannot rest; turmoil has come upon me.”

  • Job 15:24
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    24Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack,

  • Job 16:7
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    7Surely now he has worn me out, you have devastated my entire household.

  • Job 6:4
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    4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God’s sudden terrors are arrayed against me.

  • Ps 73:21
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    21Yes, my spirit was bitter, and my insides felt sharp pain.

  • Job 16:11-12
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    11God abandons me to evil men, and throws me into the hands of wicked men.

    12I was in peace, and he has shattered me. He has seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;

  • Job 7:14
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    14then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

  • Job 9:34
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    34who would take his rod away from me so that his terror would not make me afraid.

  • Lam 3:11
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    11He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.

  • Jer 8:18
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    18Then I said,“There is no cure for my grief! I am sick at heart!

  • Job 30:15-16
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    15Terrors are turned loose on me; they drive away my honor like the wind, and like a cloud my deliverance has passed away.

    16Job’s Despondency“And now my soul pours itself out within me; days of suffering take hold of me.

  • Job 27:2
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    2“As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter–

  • Ps 77:3-4
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    3I said,“I will remember God while I groan; I will think about him while my strength leaves me.”(Selah)

    4You held my eyelids open; I was troubled and could not speak.

  • Job 13:21
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    21Remove your hand far from me and stop making me afraid with your terror.

  • Job 6:9-10
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    9And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.

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    6Would he contend with me with great power? No, he would only pay attention to me.

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    8I am numb with pain and severely battered; I groan loudly because of the anxiety I feel.

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    13Is not my power to help myself nothing, and has not every resource been driven from me?

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    21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me.

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    28I dread all my sufferings, for I know that you do not hold me blameless.

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    20ר(Resh) Look, O LORD! I am distressed; my stomach is in knots! My heart is pounding inside me. Yes, I was terribly rebellious! Out in the street the sword bereaves a mother of her children; Inside the house death is present.

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    16Habakkuk Declares His Confidence I listened and my stomach churned; the sound made my lips quiver. My frame went limp, as if my bones were decaying, and I shook as I tried to walk. I long for the day of distress to come upon the people who attack us.

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    7Therefore no fear of me should terrify you, nor should my pressure be heavy on you.

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    18He does not allow me to recover my breath, for he fills me with bitterness.

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    15What can I say? He has decreed and acted. I will walk slowly all my years because I am overcome with grief.

  • Job 16:15-16
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    15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and buried my horn in the dust;

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    23He has taken away my strength in the middle of life; he has cut short my days.

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    4Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient?

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    8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

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    17Deliver me from my distress; rescue me from my suffering!

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    27My heart is in turmoil unceasingly; the days of my affliction confront me.