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Job 12:1–10

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AND Job answered and said,
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this?
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
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From verse 2

  1. Isaiah 5:21Rank 1 from verse 2
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    21Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

  2. 1 Corinthians 4:10Rank 2 from verse 2
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    10We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.

  3. 1 Corinthians 6:5Rank 3 from verse 2
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    5I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?

  4. Job 11:12Rank 4 from verse 2
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    12For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.

  5. Job 11:2Rank 5 from verse 2
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    2Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?

From verse 3

  1. Job 13:2–5Rank 1 from verse 3
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    2What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

    3Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

    4But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

    5O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

  2. 2 Corinthians 11:21–23Rank 2 from verse 3
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    21I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

    22Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

    23Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

  3. Proverbs 26:4Rank 3 from verse 3
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    4Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.

  4. 2 Corinthians 11:5Rank 4 from verse 3
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    5For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

  5. Job 26:2–3Rank 5 from verse 3
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    2How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?

    3How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

From verse 4

  1. Job 30:1Rank 1 from verse 4
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    1BUT now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

  2. Job 17:6Rank 2 from verse 4
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    6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

  3. Job 21:3Rank 3 from verse 4
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    3Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

  4. Psalms 91:15Rank 4 from verse 4
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    15He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.

  5. Jeremiah 33:3Rank 5 from verse 4
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    3Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

From verse 5

  1. Matthew 25:8Rank 1 from verse 5
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    8And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.

  2. Proverbs 13:9Rank 2 from verse 5
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    9The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

  3. Psalms 17:5Rank 3 from verse 5
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    5Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

  4. Amos 6:1–6Rank 4 from verse 5
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    1WOE to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!

    2Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?

    3Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;

    4That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;

    5That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;

    6That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

  5. Deuteronomy 32:35Rank 5 from verse 5
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    35To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

From verse 6

  1. Job 9:24Rank 1 from verse 6
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    24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

  2. Psalms 73:11–12Rank 2 from verse 6
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    11And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

    12Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

  3. Job 21:7–15Rank 3 from verse 6
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    7Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

    8Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

    9Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

    10Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

    11They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

    12They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

    13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

    14Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

    15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

  4. Psalms 17:14Rank 4 from verse 6
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    14From men which are thy hand, O Lord, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

  5. Psalms 37:1Rank 5 from verse 6
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    1FRET not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

From verse 7

  1. Isaiah 1:3Rank 1 from verse 7
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    3The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

  2. Jeremiah 8:7Rank 2 from verse 7
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    7Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.

  3. Proverbs 6:6Rank 3 from verse 7
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    6¶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

  4. Job 21:29–30Rank 4 from verse 7
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    29Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,

    30That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

From verse 9

  1. Isaiah 41:20Rank 1 from verse 9
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    20That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.

  2. Jeremiah 27:5–6Rank 2 from verse 9
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    5I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.

    6And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.

  3. Romans 11:36Rank 3 from verse 9
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    36For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

  4. 1 Samuel 2:7Rank 4 from verse 9
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    7The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.

  5. Acts 19:35Rank 5 from verse 9
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    35And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?

From verse 10

  1. Acts 17:28Rank 1 from verse 10
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    28For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

  2. Job 33:4Rank 2 from verse 10
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    4The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.

  3. Acts 17:25Rank 3 from verse 10
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    25Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

  4. Job 27:3Rank 4 from verse 10
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    3All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

  5. Numbers 16:22Rank 5 from verse 10
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    22And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?

WORDS IN THIS PASSAGE

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DEFINED WORDS

Job 12:1

COMBINED MEANING

answered

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of answer, meaning to reply, respond, or give account.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Job 12:2

COMBINED MEANING

doubt

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Sense 1: Uncertainty, perplexity, or wavering of mind; hesitation to believe or be settled in opinion. Sense 2: To be uncertain, question, or waver in judgment.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

ye

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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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people

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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

wisdom

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Knowledge, understanding, judgment, skill, or prudence.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Job 12:3

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

understanding

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1. The capacity or act of perceiving, comprehending, discerning, judging, interpreting, or applying knowledge. 2. Knowledge, insight, wisdom, or prudent judgment possessed or gained. 3. Skill or ability in a work, art, subject, vision, saying, or interpretation.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

inferior

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Lower in place, rank, quality, or station; a person of lower station or rank.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Bullokar 1616

COMBINED MEANING

yea

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1. Indeed, marking confirmation, emphasis, addition, continuation, or heightening of what is said; it may also emphasize a question. 2. Yes, expressing an affirmative answer or declaration.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Job 12:4

COMBINED MEANING

mocked

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Past-tense or past-participial form of mock. Ridiculed or treated with scorn.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

upon

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1. Marks the person, place, thing, or basis to which something is related: on or onto; above or over; toward or against as the target of action, speech, thought, attention, or force; resting on, assigned to, or affecting as a state, gift, burden, duty, guilt, or judgment; supported by or based on; or one placed, added, or repeated on or after another. 2. With a stated time or occasion, or a preceding event, at that time or point, or at or after that event: on, at, when, then, or following it.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

upright

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1. Honest, just, or morally right; also a person so characterized. 2. Straight, erect, or standing up.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

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laughed

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Expressed mirth, joy, or gladness by laughter; or laughed at in mockery, scorn, or derision.

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scorn

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1. To despise, deride, ridicule, or mock. 2. Contempt, derision, ridicule, or mockery.

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DEFINED WORDS

Job 12:5

COMBINED MEANING

ready

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Prepared; in a state requiring no delay; willing or prompt.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

slip

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Sense 1: To slide or lose firm footing. Sense 2: To escape or be lost from one's hold or attention.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

lamp

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Sense 1: An oil vessel and burning wick used for light. Sense 2: By figure, a source, bearer, continuance, or sign of light.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

thought

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Sense 1: Past tense and past participle of think: considered, supposed, intended, purposed, judged, reckoned, or called to mind. Sense 2: A thought, intention, purpose, judgment, or matter of the mind or heart. Sense 3: In the phrase ‘take thought,’ anxious care or concern.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

ease

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Sense 1: Freedom or relief from pain, labour, trouble, or restraint. Sense 2: To relieve, quiet, or make less difficult.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Job 12:6

COMBINED MEANING

prosper

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To succeed, advance, thrive, flourish, increase, or accomplish an intended purpose.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

secure

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Careless or free from concern; without fear.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Bullokar 1616 · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

hand

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Sense 1: The part of the body at the end of the arm. Sense 2: Figuratively, power, possession, aid, or agency.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Job 12:7

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

teach

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To instruct, inform, train, show, counsel, or communicate knowledge or doctrine.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

fowls

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1. Winged creatures, especially birds. 2. In the law's phrase “fowls that creep,” winged creeping creatures.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

tell

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1. To speak, relate, declare, report, inform, explain, reveal, recount, or make known. 2. To know, discern, or determine, especially in 'cannot tell' or 'who can tell.' 3. To count, number, or enumerate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Job 12:8

COMBINED MEANING

speak

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Sense 1: To utter words or articulate sounds, or to use a language. Sense 2: To address or converse with someone. Sense 3: To state, declare, make mention of, or otherwise make a matter known.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

earth

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Sense 1: The world in distinction from heaven. Sense 2: Dry land, ground, soil, or dust. Sense 3: A land, region, or its inhabitants.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

teach

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To instruct, inform, train, show, counsel, or communicate knowledge or doctrine.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

sea

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1. A great body or expanse of gathered waters, including a named sea or lake, in which ships and creatures move. 2. The large brazen or molten basin made for the temple and called a sea. 3. Something represented or compared as a sea.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

declare

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To make known, tell, announce, proclaim, explain, show, or state plainly.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

DEFINED WORDS

Job 12:9

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

hand

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Sense 1: The part of the body at the end of the arm. Sense 2: Figuratively, power, possession, aid, or agency.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

wrought

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Worked, laboured, acted, made, formed, fashioned, performed, produced, or brought about.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Job 12:10

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

hand

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Sense 1: The part of the body at the end of the arm. Sense 2: Figuratively, power, possession, aid, or agency.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

soul

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Sense 1: A living person or creature; a life or self. Sense 2: The inward self distinguished from the body. Sense 3: The seat of desire or appetite.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

every

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Each individual or member of the class, group, place, time, side, or kind named; all distributively.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

living

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Sense 1: Alive or having life. Sense 2: As a noun, one's means of support or possessions.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

breath

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Sense 1: Air drawn in or breathed out. Sense 2: The breath by which bodily life is sustained; by extension, bodily life.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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1AND Job answered and said,

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2No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

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3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

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4I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.

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5He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

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6The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

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7But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:

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8Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

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9Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this?

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10In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

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11Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?

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