Job 3:25

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For the very thing I dreaded has happened to me, and what I feared has come upon me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 1:5 : 5 When the days of their feasting were finished, Job would send for them and sanctify them; he would get up early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job thought,“Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s customary practice.
  • Job 30:15 : 15 Terrors are turned loose on me; they drive away my honor like the wind, and like a cloud my deliverance has passed away.
  • Job 31:23 : 23 For the calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his majesty I was powerless.

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