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Job
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Job

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The messenger of God visits Job and tells him that God is his friend and that He will bring him back. The chapter ends with a reminder that God’s wisdom is greater than any human counsel.

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(1) My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 19:17Job 6:11Job 42:16Isaiah 57:16Job 17:13Job 17:14Psalms 88:3Psalms 88:4Psalms 88:5Isaiah 38:10Isaiah 38:11Isaiah 38:12

(2) Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 12:4Job 13:9Job 16:20Job 21:3Psalms 35:14Psalms 35:15Psalms 35:16Matthew 27:39Matthew 27:40Matthew 27:41Matthew 27:42Matthew 27:43

Related verses (shared words)

Luke 6:42Deuteronomy 19:21Luke 11:34

(3) Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 9:33Genesis 43:9Genesis 44:32Proverbs 11:15Proverbs 20:16Hebrews 7:22Proverbs 6:11Proverbs 17:18Proverbs 22:26

(4) For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

II Samuel 15:31II Samuel 17:14II Chronicles 25:16Isaiah 19:14Matthew 11:25Matthew 13:11Romans 11:8I Corinthians 1:20

(5) He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 32:21Job 32:22Psalms 12:2Psalms 12:3Proverbs 20:19Proverbs 29:5I Thessalonians 2:5Exodus 20:5Deuteronomy 28:65I Kings 11:12Lamentations 4:17

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I Corinthians 14:2

(6) He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 30:9I Kings 9:7Psalms 44:14Genesis 31:27Isaiah 5:12

(7) Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 16:16Psalms 6:7Psalms 31:9Psalms 31:10Lamentations 5:17Psalms 109:23Ecclesiastes 6:12

Related verses (shared words)

Luke 6:42Deuteronomy 19:21Luke 11:34I Corinthians 6:15

(8) Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 73:12Psalms 73:13Psalms 73:14Psalms 73:15Ecclesiastes 5:8Habakkuk 1:13Romans 11:33Job 34:30Acts 13:46

(9) The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
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Psalms 84:7Psalms 84:11Proverbs 4:18Proverbs 14:16Isaiah 35:8Isaiah 35:9Isaiah 35:10I Peter 1:5I John 2:19Genesis 20:5Psalms 24:4Psalms 26:6

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II Samuel 3:1I Kings 20:23Matthew 10:41

(10) But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 6:29Malachi 3:18Job 17:4Job 15:9Job 32:9Job 42:7I Corinthians 1:20I Corinthians 6:5

Related verses (shared words)

Ecclesiastes 8:17Song of Solomon 6:13Jeremiah 15:19Jeremiah 44:14Ezekiel 16:55Malachi 3:7

(11) My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
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Job 7:6Job 9:25Job 9:26Isaiah 38:10Proverbs 16:9Proverbs 19:21Ecclesiastes 9:10Isaiah 8:10Lamentations 3:37Romans 1:13II Corinthians 1:15II Corinthians 1:16

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Ecclesiastes 12:6Isaiah 8:9

(12) They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 7:3Job 7:4Job 7:13Job 7:14Job 24:14Job 24:15Job 24:16Deuteronomy 28:67

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Exodus 14:20Job 10:22Psalms 139:12Isaiah 5:20Matthew 6:23John 12:35

(13) If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 14:14Psalms 27:14Lamentations 3:25Lamentations 3:26Job 17:1Job 10:21Job 10:22Job 30:23Psalms 139:8Isaiah 57:2

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Job 10:22Matthew 6:23I John 2:11

(14) I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 21:32Job 21:33Psalms 16:10Psalms 49:9Acts 2:27Acts 2:28Acts 2:29Acts 2:30Acts 2:31Acts 13:34Acts 13:35Acts 13:36

Related verses (shared words)

Luke 12:53

(15) And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 4:6Job 6:11Job 13:15Job 19:10

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Romans 8:24I Corinthians 9:10Romans 4:18Romans 15:13

(16) They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 18:13Job 18:14Job 33:18Job 33:19Job 33:20Job 33:21Job 33:22Job 33:23Job 33:24Job 33:25Job 33:26Job 33:27

Related verses (shared words)

Revelation 9:2

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