Job 38:23

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

That I have kept back for a time of distress, For a day of conflict and battle.

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 10:11 : 11 And it cometh to pass, in their fleeing from the face of Israel -- they `are' in the descent of Beth-Horon -- and Jehovah hath cast upon them great stones out of the heavens, unto Azekah, and they die; more are they who have died by the hailstones than they whom the sons of Israel have slain by the sword.
  • Isa 30:30 : 30 And caused to be heard hath Jehovah The honour of His voice, And the coming down of His arm He doth shew with the raging of anger, And the flame of a consuming fire, Scattering, and inundation, and hailstone.
  • Rev 16:21 : 21 and great hail (as of talent weight) doth come down out of the heaven upon men, and men did speak evil of God because of the plague of the hail, because its plague is very great.
  • Exod 9:18 : 18 lo, I am raining about `this' time to-morrow hail very grievous, such as hath not been in Egypt, even from the day of its being founded, even until now.
  • Exod 9:24 : 24 and there is hail, and fire catching itself in the midst of the hail, very grievous, such as hath not been in all the land of Egypt since it hath become a nation.
  • Job 36:13 : 13 And the profane in heart set the face, They cry not when He hath bound them.
  • Job 36:31 : 31 For by them He doth judge peoples, He giveth food in abundance.
  • Ezek 13:11-13 : 11 Say to those daubing with chalk -- It falleth, There hath been an overflowing shower, And ye, O hailstones, do fall, And a tempestuous wind doth rend, 12 And lo, fallen hath the wall! Doth not one say unto you, Where `is' the daubing that ye daubed? 13 Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: I have rent with a tempestuous wind in My fury, And an overflowing shower is in Mine anger, And hailstones in My fury -- to consume.
  • Matt 7:27 : 27 and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 38:21-22
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    82%

    21Thou hast known -- for then thou art born And the number of thy days `are' many!

    22Hast thou come in unto the treasure of snow? Yea, the treasures of hail dost thou see?

  • Job 38:24-25
    2 verses
    79%

    24Where `is' this, the way light is apportioned? It scattereth an east wind over the earth.

    25Who hath divided for the flood a conduit? And a way for the lightning of the voices?

  • 34Is it not laid up with Me? Sealed among My treasures?

  • Job 38:8-13
    6 verses
    72%

    8And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.

    9In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its swaddling band,

    10And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,

    11And say, `Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.'

    12Hast thou commanded morning since thy days? Causest thou the dawn to know its place?

    13To take hold on the skirts of the earth, And the wicked are shaken out of it,

  • Job 38:29-30
    2 verses
    71%

    29From whose belly came forth the ice? And the hoar-frost of the heavens, Who hath begotten it?

    30As a stone waters are hidden, And the face of the deep is captured.

  • Job 38:37-38
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    71%

    37Who doth number the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, Who doth cause to lie down,

    38In the hardening of dust into hardness, And clods cleave together?

  • 24Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster.

  • Job 38:15-17
    3 verses
    70%

    15And withheld from the wicked is their light, And the arm lifted up is broken.

    16Hast thou come in to springs of the sea? And in searching the deep Hast thou walked up and down?

    17Revealed to thee were the gates of death? And the gates of death-shade dost thou see?

  • 18Thou hast made an expanse with Him For the clouds -- strong as a hard mirror!

  • 6For to snow He saith, `Be `on' the earth.' And the small rain and great rain of His power.

  • 16I have heard, and my belly trembleth, At the noise have my lips quivered, Rottenness doth come into my bones, And in my place I do tremble, That I rest for a day of distress, At the coming up of the people, he overcometh it.

  • 8In measure, in sending it forth, thou strivest with it, He hath taken away by His sharp wind, In the day of an east wind,

  • Jer 15:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11Jehovah said, Did I not direct thee for good? Did not I intercede for thee in a time of evil, And in a time of adversity, with the enemy?

    12Doth one break iron -- northern iron, and brass?

  • Job 37:9-10
    2 verses
    68%

    9From the inner chamber cometh a hurricane, And from scatterings winds -- cold,

    10From the breath of God is frost given, And the breadth of waters is straitened,

  • 34Dost thou lift up to the cloud thy voice, And abundance of water doth cover thee?

  • 19Where `is' this -- the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where `is' this -- its place?

  • 4Where wast thou when I founded earth? Declare, if thou hast known understanding.

  • 22From the golden north it cometh, Beside God `is' fearful honour.

  • 15Dost thou know when God doth place them, And caused to shine the light of His cloud?

  • 7Be prepared, yea, prepare for thee, Thou and all thine assemblies who are assembled unto thee, And thou hast been to them for a guard.

  • 8Fire and hail, snow and vapour, Whirlwind doing His word;

  • 30That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought.

  • 40I have been `thus': in the day consumed me hath drought, and frost by night, and wander doth my sleep from mine eyes.

  • 39And Thou girdest me `with' strength for battle, Causest my withstanders to bow under me.

  • 16And I hastened not from feeding after Thee, And the desperate day I have not desired, Thou -- Thou hast known, The produce of my lips, before Thy face it hath been,

  • 3Though a host doth encamp against me, My heart doth not fear, Though war riseth up against me, In this I `am' confident.

  • 28And thy sitting down, and thy going out, And thy coming in, I have known, And thy anger towards Me.

  • 4As to doings of man, Through a word of Thy lips I have observed The paths of a destroyer;

  • 8I hasten escape for myself, From a rushing wind, from a whirlwind.

  • 8My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.

  • 13O that in Sheol Thou wouldst conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.

  • 19And in My zeal, in the fire of My wrath, I have spoken: Is there not in that day a great rushing on the land of Israel?

  • 22Thou dost call as `at' a day of appointment, My fears from round about, And there hath not been in the day of the anger of Jehovah, An escaped and remaining one, They whom I stretched out and nourished, My enemy hath consumed!

  • 9Who is brightening up the spoiled against the strong, And the spoiled against a fortress cometh.

  • 7Wo! for great `is' that day, without any like it, Yea, a time of adversity it `is' to Jacob, Yet out of it he is saved.

  • 19Who `is' he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.