Job 38:14

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features are dyed like a garment.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 104:6 : 6 The watery deep covered it like a garment; the waters reached above the mountains.
  • Ps 104:2 : 2 He covers himself with light as if it were a garment. He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,

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

  • Job 38:15
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    15Then from the wicked the light is withheld, and the arm raised in violence is broken.

  • Job 38:38
    73%

    38when the dust hardens into a mass, and the clumps of earth stick together?

  • Isa 29:16
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    16Your thinking is perverse! Should the potter be regarded as clay? Should the thing made say about its maker,“He didn’t make me”? Or should the pottery say about the potter,“He doesn’t understand”?

  • Heb 1:11-12
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    72%

    11They will perish, but you continue. And they will all grow old like a garment,

    12and like a robe you will fold them up and like a garment they will be changed, but you are the same and your years will never run out.”

  • Job 14:17-19
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    72%

    17My offenses would be sealed up in a bag; you would cover over my sin.

    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 102:26
    71%

    26They will perish, but you will endure. They will wear out like a garment; like clothes you will remove them and they will disappear.

  • Job 30:18-19
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    18With great power God grasps my clothing; he binds me like the collar of my tunic.

    19He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.

  • Job 13:28
    71%

    28So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.

  • Job 38:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9when I made the storm clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,

    10when I prescribed its limits, and set in place its bolts and doors,

  • Ps 109:18-19
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    70%

    18He made cursing a way of life, so curses poured into his stomach like water and seeped into his bones like oil.

    19May a curse attach itself to him, like a garment one puts on, or a belt one wears continually!

  • Job 27:16
    70%

    16If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,

  • Job 37:12
    70%

    12The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world.

  • Isa 14:16
    69%

    16Those who see you stare at you, they look at you carefully, thinking:“Is this the man who shook the earth, the one who made kingdoms tremble?

  • Job 38:30
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    30when the waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?

  • Jer 18:4
    69%

    4Now and then there would be something wrong with the pot he was molding from the clay with his hands. So he would rework the clay into another kind of pot as he saw fit.

  • Job 37:17-18
    2 verses
    69%

    17You, whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind,

    18will you, with him, spread out the clouds, solid as a mirror of molten metal?

  • Job 41:23
    69%

    23The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm on it, immovable.

  • Job 4:19
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    19how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?

  • Job 13:12
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    12Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

  • Job 28:2
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    2Iron is taken from the ground, and rock is poured out as copper.

  • Job 33:6
    68%

    6Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.

  • Job 6:17
    68%

    17When they are scorched, they dry up, when it is hot, they vanish from their place.

  • Ps 73:6
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    6Arrogance is their necklace, and violence covers them like clothing.

  • Job 29:14
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    14I put on righteousness and it clothed me, my just dealing was like a robe and a turban;

  • Job 21:18
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    18How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?

  • 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.

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

  • Job 37:7-8
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    7He causes everyone to stop working, so that all people may know his work.

    8The wild animals go to their lairs, and in their dens they remain.

  • Isa 40:22
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    22He is the one who sits on the earth’s horizon; its inhabitants are like grasshoppers before him. He is the one who stretches out the sky like a thin curtain, and spreads it out like a pitched tent.

  • Ps 83:14
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    14Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides,

  • Isa 30:14
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    14It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough to scoop a hot coal from a fire or to skim off water from a cistern.”

  • Rev 6:14
    67%

    14The sky was split apart like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.

  • Job 19:24
    67%

    24that with an iron chisel and with lead they were engraved in a rock forever!

  • Job 41:31
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    31It makes the deep boil like a cauldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment,

  • Job 9:6
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    6he who shakes the earth out of its place so that its pillars tremble;

  • Ps 111:8
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    8They are forever firm, and should be faithfully and properly carried out.

  • Isa 47:14
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    14Look, they are like straw, which the fire burns up; they cannot rescue themselves from the heat of the flames. There are no coals to warm them, no firelight to enjoy.

  • Isa 50:3
    67%

    3I can clothe the sky in darkness; I can cover it with sackcloth.”

  • Job 34:15
    67%

    15all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.

  • Nah 3:14
    67%

    14Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!

  • Job 28:5
    67%

    5The earth, from which food comes, is overturned below as though by fire;