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Job 17 (NET)
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Job 17:11My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 38:10-14Ps 88:3-5Isa 57:16Job 17:13-14Job 19:17Job 42:16Job 6:11
Job 17:22Surely mockery is with me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 1:6-7Job 12:4Job 16:20Matt 27:39-44Job 13:9Job 21:3Ps 25:13Ps 35:14-16Ps 91:1
Job 17:33Set my pledge beside you. Who else will put up security for me?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 7:22Isa 38:14Prov 11:15Gen 43:9Gen 44:32Ps 119:122Job 9:33Prov 22:26Prov 17:18Prov 20:16
Job 17:44Because you have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 11:25Matt 13:111 Cor 1:202 Sam 17:14Isa 19:14Rom 11:82 Chr 25:162 Sam 15:31
Job 17:55If a man denounces his friends for personal gain, the eyes of his children will fail.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 12:2-3Prov 20:19Prov 29:51 Kgs 11:12Deut 28:65Exod 20:5Job 11:20Job 32:21-221 Thess 2:5Lam 4:17
Job 17:66He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 30:9Ps 44:141 Kgs 9:7Gen 31:27Isa 5:12
Job 17:77My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 16:16Ps 6:7Ps 31:9-10Eccl 6:12Job 16:8Lam 5:17Ps 109:23
Job 17:88Upright men are appalled at this; the innocent man is troubled with the godless.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eccl 5:8Hab 1:13Acts 13:46Job 22:19Job 34:30Ps 73:12-15Rom 11:33
Job 17:99But the righteous man holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 4:18Isa 1:15-16Job 22:302 Cor 12:9-10Prov 14:16Ps 84:7Gen 20:5Isa 40:29-31Ps 26:6Ps 73:13
Job 17:1010“But turn, all of you, and come now! I will not find a wise man among you.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 42:7Job 6:291 Cor 1:201 Cor 6:5Job 12:2Job 15:9Job 17:4Job 32:9Mal 3:18
Job 17:1111My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 7:6Isa 38:10Prov 16:92 Cor 1:15-17Isa 8:10Jas 4:13-15Lam 3:37Eccl 9:10Job 9:25-26Prov 19:21
Job 17:1212These men change night into day; they say, ‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 28:67Job 24:14-16Job 7:13-14Job 7:3-4
Job 17:1313If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 10:21-22Isa 57:2Job 14:14Job 17:1Job 3:13Job 30:23Lam 3:25-26Ps 139:8Ps 27:14
Job 17:1414if I cry out to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 16:101 Cor 15:421 Cor 15:53-54Acts 13:34-37Acts 2:27-31Isa 14:11Job 13:28Job 21:26Job 21:32-33Job 24:20
Job 17:1515where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 13:15Job 19:10Job 4:6Job 6:11Job 7:6
Job 17:1616Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 3:17-19Jonah 2:62 Cor 1:9Ezek 37:11Isa 38:17-18Job 18:13-14Job 33:18-28Ps 143:7Ps 88:4-8
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