Job 28:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

On the flinty rock man has set to work with his hand; he has overturned mountains at their bases.

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  • Nah 1:4-6 : 4 He shouts a battle cry against the sea and makes it dry up; he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither; the blossom of Lebanon withers. 5 The mountains tremble before him, the hills convulse; the earth is laid waste before him, the world and all its inhabitants are laid waste. 6 No one can withstand his indignation! No one can resist his fierce anger! His wrath is poured out like volcanic fire, boulders are broken up as he approaches.

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    5He who removes mountains suddenly, who overturns them in his anger;

    6he who shakes the earth out of its place so that its pillars tremble;

  • Job 28:10-11
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    10He has cut out channels through the rocks; his eyes have spotted every precious thing.

    11He has searched the sources of the rivers and what was hidden he has brought into the light.

  • Job 14:18-19
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    18But as a mountain falls away and crumbles, and as a rock will be removed from its place,

    19as water wears away stones, and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy man’s hope.

  • Ps 114:8
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    8who turned a rock into a pool of water, a hard rock into springs of water!

  • Job 18:4
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    4You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, will the earth be abandoned for your sake? Or will a rock be moved from its place?

  • Ps 95:4
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    4The depths of the earth are in his hand, and the mountain peaks belong to him.

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    6He took his battle position and shook the earth; with a mere look he frightened the nations. The ancient mountains disintegrated; the primeval hills were flattened. His are ancient roads.

  • Job 28:8
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    8Proud beasts have not set foot on it, and no lion has passed along it.

  • Job 12:15
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    15If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.

  • Job 8:17
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    17It wraps its roots around a heap of stones and it looks for a place among stones.

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    4He shouts a battle cry against the sea and makes it dry up; he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither; the blossom of Lebanon withers.

    5The mountains tremble before him, the hills convulse; the earth is laid waste before him, the world and all its inhabitants are laid waste.

    6No one can withstand his indignation! No one can resist his fierce anger! His wrath is poured out like volcanic fire, boulders are broken up as he approaches.

  • Ps 104:32
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    32He looks down on the earth and it shakes; he touches the mountains and they start to smolder.

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    10When the mountains see you, they shake. The torrential downpour sweeps through. The great deep shouts out; it lifts its hands high.

  • Job 38:13
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    13that it might seize the corners of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

  • Ps 65:6
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    6You created the mountains by your power, and demonstrated your strength.

  • Mic 1:4
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    4The mountains will crumble beneath him; and the valleys will split apart, like wax before a fire, like water dumped down a steep slope.

  • Ps 18:7
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    7The earth heaved and shook; the roots of the mountains trembled; they heaved because he was angry.

  • Isa 2:21
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    21so they themselves can go into the crevices of the rocky cliffs and the openings under the rocky overhangs, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the LORD and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth.

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    2Look, the Lord sends a strong, powerful one. With the force of a hailstorm or a destructive windstorm, with the might of a driving, torrential rainstorm, he will knock that crown to the ground with his hand.

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    19He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the potentates.

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    25Therefore, he knows their deeds, he overthrows them in the night and they are crushed.

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    15He broke open rocks in the wilderness, and gave them enough water to fill the depths of the sea.

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    25The LORD says,“Beware! I am opposed to you, Babylon! You are like a destructive mountain that destroys all the earth. I will unleash my power against you; I will roll you off the cliffs and make you like a burned-out mountain.

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    2Iron is taken from the ground, and rock is poured out as copper.

    3Man puts an end to the darkness; he searches the farthest recesses for the ore in the deepest darkness.

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    9He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable.

  • Jer 4:24
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    24I looked at the mountains and saw that they were shaking. All the hills were swaying back and forth!

  • Job 40:20
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    20For the hills bring it food, where all the wild animals play.

  • Job 30:6
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    6so that they had to live in the dry stream beds, in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.

  • Job 41:30
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    30Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge.

  • Prov 8:29
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    12The fortified city(along with the very tops of your walls) he will knock down, he will bring it down, he will throw it down to the dusty ground.

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    8as the mountains rose up, and the valleys went down– to the place you appointed for them.

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    18Surely you put them in slippery places; you bring them down to ruin.

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    9you mountains and all you hills, you fruit trees and all you cedars,

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    9One who quarries stones may be injured by them; one who splits logs may be endangered by them.

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    8The earth heaved and shook; the foundations of the sky trembled. They heaved because he was angry.

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    21The LORD said,“Here is a place by me; you will station yourself on a rock.