Job 21:25

World English Bible (2000)

Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.

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  • Job 7:11 : 11 "Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
  • Job 9:18 : 18 He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
  • Job 10:1 : 1 "My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
  • Job 20:23 : 23 When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.
  • Prov 14:10 : 10 The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.
  • Eccl 6:2 : 2 a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
  • Isa 38:15-17 : 15 What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul. 16 Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them: you restore me, and cause me to live. 17 Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
  • Ezek 4:16-17 : 16 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay: 17 that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
  • Ezek 12:18 : 18 Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness;
  • 2 Sam 17:8 : 8 Hushai said moreover, "You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
  • 1 Kgs 17:12 : 12 She said, "As Yahweh your God lives, I don't have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die."
  • Job 3:20 : 20 "Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

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  • Job 33:19-22
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    19 He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones;

    20 So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

    21 His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.

    22 Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

  • Job 21:23-24
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    23 One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

    24 His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.

  • 22 But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns."

  • 17 All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.

  • Job 3:20-22
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    20 "Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

    21 Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

    22 who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

  • 26 They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

  • 21 For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

  • 11 You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

  • 7 A full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.

  • 18 Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death.

  • 7 My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.

  • Eccl 2:23-25
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    23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

    24 There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

    25 For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

  • Eccl 6:6-7
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    6 Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don't all go to one place?

    7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

  • 11 His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.

  • 25 The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.

  • Job 24:19-21
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    19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.

    20 The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

    21 He devours the barren who don't bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.

  • Eccl 6:2-3
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    2 a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

    3 If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:

  • 9 Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.

  • Job 20:20-21
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    20 "Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.

    21 There was nothing left that he didn't devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

  • Job 21:32-33
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    32 Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over the tomb.

    33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

  • 18 He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

  • 15 Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.

  • 7 neither shall men break [bread] for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

  • 19 he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

  • 15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.

  • 25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul have I replenished.

  • 2 It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.

  • 24 "However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

  • 14 yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.

  • 15 so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.

  • 20 For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life; because God occupies him with the joy of his heart.

  • 19 He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

  • 11 "Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man's eyes are never satisfied.

  • 25 The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

  • 30 But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.