Job 20:4

World English Bible (2000)

Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 1:28 : 28 God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
  • Gen 9:1-3 : 1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. 2 The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand. 3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.
  • Job 8:8-9 : 8 "Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers. 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
  • Job 15:10 : 10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much elder than your father.
  • Job 32:7 : 7 I said, 'Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.'
  • Ps 115:16 : 16 The heavens are the heavens of Yahweh; but the earth has he given to the children of men.

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