Job 30:21

World English Bible (2000)

You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 16:9-9 : 9 He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me. 10 They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me. 11 God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked. 12 I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target. 13 His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground. 14 He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.
  • Job 10:14-17 : 14 if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity. 15 If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction. 16 If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me. 17 You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.
  • Job 13:25-28 : 25 Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble? 26 For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth: 27 You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet, 28 though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
  • Job 6:9 : 9 even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
  • Job 7:20-21 : 20 If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself? 21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."
  • Job 10:3 : 3 Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?
  • Job 19:6-9 : 6 know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net. 7 "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice. 8 He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths. 9 He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
  • Job 19:22 : 22 Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
  • Job 23:6 : 6 Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.
  • Ps 77:7-9 : 7 "Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more? 8 Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations? 9 Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?" Selah.
  • Ps 89:13 : 13 You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.
  • Jer 30:14 : 14 All your lovers have forgotten you; they don't seek you: for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.
  • 1 Pet 5:6 : 6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;

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  • Job 30:22
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  • Lam 3:3-5
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  • Job 10:16-17
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    16 If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

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  • Lam 3:11
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    11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.

  • Job 16:7-8
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    7 But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.

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    2 For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.

  • Job 30:11-13
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    11 For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.

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    24 Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?

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    5 You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.

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    11 God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

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    17 "But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

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    7 Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

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  • Job 13:26
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    26 For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

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    5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach;

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    22 But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.