Job 21:31

World English Bible (2000)

Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?

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  • Deut 7:10 : 10 and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him who hates him, he will repay him to his face.
  • Gal 2:11 : 11 But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.
  • Jas 2:13 : 13 For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
  • 2 Sam 12:7-9 : 7 Nathan said to David, "You are the man. This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul. 8 I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things. 9 Why have you despised the word of Yahweh, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. 10 Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.' 11 "This is what Yahweh says: 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 12 For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.'"
  • 1 Kgs 21:19-24 : 19 You shall speak to him, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Have you killed and also taken possession?"' You shall speak to him, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh, "In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours."'" 20 Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, my enemy?" He answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh. 21 Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will utterly sweep you away and will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall, and him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel. 22 I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger, and have made Israel to sin." 23 Yahweh also spoke of Jezebel, saying, "The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel. 24 The dogs will eat he who dies of Ahab in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field."
  • Job 21:19 : 19 You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
  • Job 41:11 : 11 Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.
  • Ps 50:21 : 21 You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
  • Isa 59:13 : 13 transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
  • Jer 2:33-35 : 33 How well you prepare your way to seek love! Therefore you have taught even the wicked women your ways. 34 Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things. 35 "Yet you said, 'I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.' "Behold, I will judge you, because you say, 'I have not sinned.'
  • Mark 6:18 : 18 For John said to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife."
  • Acts 24:25 : 25 As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, "Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you."
  • Rom 12:19 : 19 Don't seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord."

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  • 23 Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, 'You have committed unrighteousness?'

  • 30 that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

  • Job 21:19-22
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    19 You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

    20 Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

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

    22 "Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?

  • 11 For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

  • 3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

  • Job 31:2-4
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    2 For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

    3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

    4 Doesn't he see my ways, and number all my steps?

  • 10 and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him who hates him, he will repay him to his face.

  • Job 41:10-11
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    10 None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?

    11 Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.

  • 6 who "will pay back to everyone according to their works:"

  • 35 "Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?"

  • 2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.

  • 32 Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over the tomb.

  • 29 When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? Alike whether to a nation, or to a man,

  • 14 What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?

  • 29 A wicked man hardens his face; but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.

  • 27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity. The earth shall rise up against him.

  • 29 Don't say, "I will do to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work."

  • 13 Why do you strive against him, because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?

  • Job 35:6-7
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    6 If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

    7 If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

  • 4 Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?

  • 13 Who put him in charge of the earth? or who has appointed him over the whole world?

  • 21 who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

  • 21 "For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.

  • 33 Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.

  • 31 Behold, the righteous shall be repaid in the earth; how much more the wicked and the sinner!

  • 4 Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve.

  • 12 Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'

  • 13 Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, "God won't call me into account?"

  • 7 The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

  • 24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

  • 11 Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

  • 2 "Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."

  • 18 That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.

  • 20 Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.

  • 10 If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

  • 16 The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

  • 64 You will render to them a recompense, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.

  • 17 'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

  • 39 Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

  • 13 Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

  • 13 That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

  • 13 Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?

  • 21 Misfortune pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.