But Job answered and said,
Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
Hear
Job 13:3,4 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God…
Job 18:2 How long will it be ere you make an end of words? mark, and afterwards …
Job 33:1,31-33 Why, Job, I pray you, hear my speeches, and listen to all my words…
Job 34:2 Hear my words, O you wise men; and give ear to me, you that have knowledge.
Judges 9:7 And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of …
Isaiah 55:2 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor …
Hebrews 2:1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which …
let this be
Job 15:11 Are the consolations of God small with you? is there any secret thing with you?
Job 16:2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are you all.
Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
that I may
Job 13:13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
Job 33:31-33 Mark well, O Job, listen to me: hold your peace, and I will speak…
mock on
Job 12:4,5 I am as one mocked of his neighbor, who calls on God, and he answers …
Job 13:9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocks another, …
Job 16:10,20 They have gaped on me with their mouth; they have smitten me on the …
Job 17:2 Are there not mockers with me? and does not my eye continue in their …
As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
is my complaint
Job 7:11-21 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish …
Job 10:1,2 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint on myself; …
1 Samuel 1:16 Count not your handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the …
Psalm 22:1-3 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? why are you so far from …
Psalm 77:3-9 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was …
Psalm 102:1-28 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come to you…
Psalm 142:2,3 I poured out my complaint before him; I showed before him my trouble…
Matthew 26:38 Then said he to them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even to death: …
if it were
2 Kings 6:26,27 And as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, there cried …
Psalm 42:11 Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within …
troubled. Heb. shortened
Exodus 6:9 And Moses spoke so to the children of Israel: but they listened not …
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
Mark me. Heb. Look unto me. be astonished
Job 2:12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they …
Job 17:8 Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir …
Job 19:20,21 My bone sticks to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with …
lay your
Job 29:9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
Job 40:4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer you? I will lay my hand on my mouth.
Judges 18:19 And they said to him, Hold your peace, lay your hand on your mouth, …
Psalm 39:9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because you did it.
Proverbs 30:32 If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have …
Amos 5:13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
Micah 7:16 The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they …
Romans 11:33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! …
Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
their cow
Exodus 23:26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in your land: …
Deuteronomy 7:13,14 And he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you: he will also …
Deuteronomy 28:11 And the LORD shall make you plenteous in goods, in the fruit of your …
Psalm 144:13,14 That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that …
Ecclesiastes 9:1,2 For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that …
Luke 12:16-21 And he spoke a parable to them, saying, The ground of a certain rich …
Luke 16:19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine …
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
Genesis 4:21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as …
Genesis 31:27 Why did you flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and did not …
Isaiah 5:12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in …
Isaiah 22:13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating …
Amos 6:4-6 That lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, …
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
They
Job 36:11 If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, …
Psalm 73:4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
Matthew 24:38,39 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and …
Luke 12:19,20 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have much goods laid up for …
Luke 17:28,29 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, …
wealth. or, mirth
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
they say
Job 22:17 Which said to God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
Psalm 10:4,11 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after …
Luke 8:28,37 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with …
Habakkuk 1:15 They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their …
John 15:23,24 He that hates me hates my Father also…
Romans 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject …
for we
Proverbs 1:7,22,29 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise …
John 3:19,20 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, …
John 8:45-47 And because I tell you the truth, you believe me not…
Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God …
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 And with all delusion of unrighteousness in them that perish; because …
2 Timothy 4:3,4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; …
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
What is
Exodus 5:2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to …
Psalm 12:4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our …
Proverbs 30:9 Lest I be full, and deny you, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I …
Hosea 13:6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, …
and what
Job 34:9 For he has said, It profits a man nothing that he should delight …
Job 35:3 For you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit …
Isaiah 30:11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy …
Malachi 1:13,14 You said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and you have snuffed …
if we
Isaiah 45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said …
Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, …
John 16:24 Till now have you asked nothing in my name: ask, and you shall receive, …
Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Lo
Job 1:21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I …
Job 12:9,10 Who knows not in all these that the hand of the LORD has worked this…
Psalm 49:6,7 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude …
Psalm 52:5-7 God shall likewise destroy you for ever, he shall take you away, …
Ecclesiastes 8:8 There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; …
Luke 16:2,25 And he called him, and said to him, How is it that I hear this of …
the counsel
Job 22:18 Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the …
Genesis 49:6 O my soul, come not you into their secret; to their assembly, my …
Psalm 1:1 Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, …
Proverbs 1:10 My son, if sinners entice you, consent you not.
Proverbs 5:8 Remove your way far from her, and come not near the door of her house:
How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
oft
Job 18:5,6,18 Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his …
Proverbs 13:9 The light of the righteous rejoices: but the lamp of the wicked shall …
Proverbs 20:20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out …
Proverbs 24:20 For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked …
Matthew 25:8 And the foolish said to the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps …
candle. or, lamp. distributeth
Psalm 32:10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusts in the LORD, …
Psalm 90:7-9 For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath are we troubled…
Luke 12:46 The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looks not for …
Romans 2:8,9 But to them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but …
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
as stubble
Job 13:25 Will you break a leaf driven to and fro? and will you pursue the dry stubble?
Exodus 15:7 And in the greatness of your excellency you have overthrown them …
Psalm 1:4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
Psalm 35:5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.
Psalm 83:13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
Isaiah 5:24 Therefore as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes …
Isaiah 17:13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall …
Isaiah 29:5 Moreover the multitude of your strangers shall be like small dust…
Isaiah 40:24 Yes, they shall not be planted; yes, they shall not be sown: yes, …
Isaiah 41:15,16 Behold, I will make you a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: …
Jeremiah 13:24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passes away by …
Hosea 13:3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and as the early dew …
Nahum 1:10 For while they be entwined together as thorns, and while they are …
Matthew 3:12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, …
carrieth. Heb. stealeth
God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
layeth
Job 22:24 Then shall you lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the …
Deuteronomy 32:34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
Matthew 6:19,20 Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust …
Romans 2:5 But after your hardness and impenitent heart treasure up to yourself …
iniquity. that is, the punishment of his iniquity
Genesis 4:7 If you do well, shall you not be accepted? and if you do not well, …
Isaiah 53:4-6 Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did …
2 Corinthians 5:21 For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might …
for his
Exodus 20:5 You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the …
Psalm 109:9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Isaiah 14:21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; …
Ezekiel 18:14,19,20 Now, see, if he beget a son, that sees all his father's sins which …
Matthew 23:31-35 Why you be witnesses to yourselves, that you are the children of …
he rewardeth
Deuteronomy 32:41 If I whet my glittering sword, and my hand take hold on judgment; …
2 Samuel 3:39 And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons …
Psalm 54:5 He shall reward evil to my enemies: cut them off in your truth.
Matthew 16:27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his …
2 Timothy 4:14 Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according …
Revelation 18:6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double to her double according …
he shall
Malachi 3:18 Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the …
His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
see
Job 27:19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he opens …
Luke 16:23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and sees Abraham …
drink
Psalm 75:8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; …
Isaiah 51:17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which have drunk at the hand …
Jeremiah 25:15,16 For thus said the LORD God of Israel to me; Take the wine cup of …
Jeremiah 51:7 Babylon has been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the …
Revelation 14:10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured …
Revelation 19:15 And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite …
For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
For what
Job 14:21 His sons come to honor, and he knows it not; and they are brought …
Ecclesiastes 2:18,19 Yes, I hated all my labor which I had taken under the sun: because …
Luke 16:27,28 Then he said, I pray you therefore, father, that you would send him …
the number
Job 14:5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with …
Psalm 55:23 But you, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction: …
Psalm 102:24 I said, O my God, take me not away in the middle of my days: your …
Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
teach
Job 40:2 Shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproves …
Isaiah 40:13,14 Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counselor has …
Isaiah 45:9 Woe to him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with …
Romans 11:34 For who has known the mind of the Lord? or who has been his counselor?
1 Corinthians 2:16 For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? …
he judgeth
Job 34:17-19 Shall even he that hates right govern? and will you condemn him that …
Psalm 113:5,6 Who is like to the LORD our God, who dwells on high…
Ecclesiastes 5:8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of …
Isaiah 40:22,23 It is he that sits on the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants …
1 Corinthians 6:3 Know you not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that …
2 Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down …
Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their …
Revelation 20:1-3,12-15 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless …
One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
in the bitterness
Job 3:20 Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;
Job 7:11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish …
Job 9:18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
Job 10:1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint on myself; …
2 Samuel 17:8 For, said Hushai, you know your father and his men, that they be …
Proverbs 14:10 The heart knows his own bitterness; and a stranger does not intermeddle …
Isaiah 38:15-17 What shall I say? he has both spoken to me, and himself has done …
never
Job 20:23 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his …
1 Kings 17:12 And she said, As the LORD your God lives, I have not a cake, but …
Ecclesiastes 6:2 A man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he …
Ezekiel 4:16,17 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff …
Ezekiel 12:18 Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with …
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
I know
Job 4:8-11 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, …
Job 5:3-5 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation…
Job 8:3-6 Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice…
Job 15:20 The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and the number of …
Job 20:5,29 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite …
Luke 5:22 But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said to them, …
ye wrongfully
Job 32:3 Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they …
Job 42:7 And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, …
Psalm 59:4 They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.
Psalm 119:86 All your commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help you me.
1 Peter 2:19 For this is thank worthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure …
For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
Where
Job 20:7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen …
Psalm 37:36 Yet he passed away, and, see, he was not: yes, I sought him, but …
Psalm 52:5,6 God shall likewise destroy you for ever, he shall take you away, …
Habakkuk 2:9-11 Woe to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he …
Zechariah 5:4 I will bring it forth, said the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter …
dwelling places. Heb. tent of the tabernacles
Numbers 16:26-34 And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from …
Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
the wicked
Proverbs 16:4 The LORD has made all things for himself: yes, even the wicked for …
Nahum 1:2 God is jealous, and the LORD revenges; the LORD revenges, and is …
2 Peter 2:9-17 The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to …
2 Peter 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are …
Jude 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, …
day
Job 20:28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow …
Psalm 110:5 The Lord at your right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
Proverbs 11:4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivers from death.
Zephaniah 1:15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day …
Romans 2:5 But after your hardness and impenitent heart treasure up to yourself …
Revelation 6:17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
wrath. Heb. wraths
Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
declare
2 Samuel 12:7-12 And Nathan said to David, You are the man. Thus said the LORD God …
1 Kings 21:19-24 And you shall speak to him, saying, Thus said the LORD, Have you …
Psalm 50:21 These things have you done, and I kept silence; you thought that …
Jeremiah 2:33-35 Why trim you your way to seek love? therefore have you also taught …
Mark 6:18 For John had said to Herod, It is not lawful for you to have your …
Acts 24:25 And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to …
Galatians 2:11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, …
repay
Job 21:19 God lays up his iniquity for his children: he rewards him, and he shall know it.
Job 41:11 Who has prevented me, that I should repay him? whatever is under …
Deuteronomy 7:10 And repays them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he …
Isaiah 59:13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from …
Romans 12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place to wrath: …
James 2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; …
Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
