Job 8:19

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Indeed, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others spring up.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 20:5 : 5 that the elation of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.
  • 1 Sam 2:8 : 8 He lifts the weak from the dust; he raises the poor from the ash heap to seat them with princes– he bestows on them an honored position. The foundations of the earth belong to the LORD– he placed the world on them.
  • Ps 113:7 : 7 He raises the poor from the dirt, and lifts up the needy from the garbage pile,
  • Ezek 17:24 : 24 All the trees of the field will know that I am the LORD. I make the high tree low; I raise up the low tree. I make the green tree wither, and I make the dry tree sprout. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it!’”
  • Matt 3:9 : 9 and don’t think you can say to yourselves,‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!
  • Matt 13:20-21 : 20 The seed sown on rocky ground is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy. 21 But he has no root in himself and does not endure; when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.
  • Ps 75:7 : 7 For God is the judge! He brings one down and exalts another.

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  • Job 8:16-18
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    16He is a well-watered plant in the sun, its shoots spread over its garden.

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

    18If he is uprooted from his place, then that place will disown him, saying,‘I have never seen you!’

  • Job 8:20-21
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    20“Surely, God does not reject a blameless man, nor does he grasp the hand of the evildoers.

    21He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with gladness.

  • Job 31:8
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    8then let me sow and let another eat, and let my crops be uprooted.

  • Prov 8:31
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    31rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and delighting in its people.

  • Job 14:7-9
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    7The Inevitability of Death“But there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.

    8Although its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump begins to die in the soil,

    9at the scent of water it will flourish and put forth shoots like a new plant.

  • Job 21:8
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    8Their children are firmly established in their presence, their offspring before their eyes.

  • Job 18:16
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    16Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.

  • Ps 112:2
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    2His descendants will be powerful on the earth; the godly will be blessed.

  • Job 34:21
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    21For his eyes are on the ways of an individual, he observes all a person’s steps.

  • Job 20:27
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    27The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.

  • Job 33:26
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    26He entreats God, and God delights in him, he sees God’s face with rejoicing, and God restores to him his righteousness.

  • Ps 25:13
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    13They experience his favor; their descendants inherit the land.

  • Eccl 5:20
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    20For he does not think much about the fleeting days of his life because God keeps him preoccupied with the joy he derives from his activity.

  • Job 8:6-7
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    6if you become pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself for you, and will restore your righteous home.

    7Your beginning will seem so small, since your future will flourish.

  • Job 5:17
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    17“Therefore, blessed is the man whom God corrects, so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

  • Job 20:4-5
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    4“Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,

    5that the elation of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.

  • Job 21:33
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    33The clods of the torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng.

  • Job 22:19
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    19The righteous see their destruction and rejoice; the innocent mock them scornfully, saying,

  • Job 8:12
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    12While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass!

  • Job 24:23
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    23God may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways.

  • Job 21:19-21
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    19You may say,‘God stores up a man’s punishment for his children!’ Instead let him repay the man himself so that he may be humbled!

    20Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the anger of the Almighty.

    21For what is his interest in his home after his death, when the number of his months has been broken off?

  • Job 14:2-3
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    2He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.

    3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

  • Job 18:20
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    20People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror, saying,

  • Job 4:8
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    8Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

  • Job 34:11
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    11For he repays a person for his work, and according to the conduct of a person, he causes the consequences to find him.

  • Eccl 3:22
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    22So I perceived there is nothing better than for people to enjoy their work, because that is their reward; for who can show them what the future holds?

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    28He redeemed my life from going down to the place of corruption, and my life sees the light!’

  • Job 9:22-23
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    22Accusation of God’s Justice“It is all one! That is why I say,‘He destroys the blameless and the guilty.’

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    19“In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,

  • Eccl 8:14
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    14Here is another enigma that occurs on earth: Sometimes there are righteous people who get what the wicked deserve, and sometimes there are wicked people who get what the righteous deserve. I said,“This also is an enigma.”

  • Job 3:22
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    22who rejoice even to jubilation, and are exultant when they find the grave?

  • Job 34:9
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    9For he says,‘It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.’

  • Prov 21:15
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    15Doing justice brings joy to the righteous and terror to those who do evil.

  • Job 5:6
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    6For evil does not come up from the dust, nor does trouble spring up from the ground,

  • Job 19:27
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    27whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.

  • Job 15:29
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    29He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

  • Job 8:4
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    4If your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.

  • Job 20:18
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    18He gives back the ill-gotten gain without assimilating it; he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce.

  • Job 36:24
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    24Remember to extol his work, which people have praised in song.