Job 31:29

World English Bible (2000)

"If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 17:5 : 5 Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.
  • Prov 24:17-18 : 17 Don't rejoice when your enemy falls. Don't let your heart be glad when he is overthrown; 18 lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
  • Ps 35:13-14 : 13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom. 14 I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
  • Ps 35:25-26 : 25 Don't let them say in their heart, "Aha! That's the way we want it!" Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up!" 26 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.
  • 2 Sam 1:12 : 12 They mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
  • 2 Sam 4:10-11 : 10 when someone told me, 'Behold, Saul is dead,' thinking to have brought good news, I took hold of him, and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news. 11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?"
  • 2 Sam 16:5-8 : 5 When king David came to Bahurim, behold, a man of the family of the house of Saul came out, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out, and cursed still as he came. 6 He cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left. 7 Shimei said when he cursed, "Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and base fellow! 8 Yahweh has returned on you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned! Yahweh has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son! Behold, you are caught by your own mischief, because you are a man of blood!"
  • Obad 1:12 : 12 But don't look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don't rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don't speak proudly in the day of distress.

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    27 and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

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    25 If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

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    7 All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

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    12 For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

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    15 But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.

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    23 For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.

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    27 were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, 'Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.'"

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    41 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

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    20 This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, of those who speak evil against my soul.

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    6 I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Yahweh.

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    16 For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."

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    13 For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

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    4 Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn't take away.