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Job 14:11

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
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  1. Isaiah 19:5Rank 1 from verse 11
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    5And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

  2. Jeremiah 15:18Rank 2 from verse 11
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    18Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

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    15My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

    16Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:

    17What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

    18The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

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Job 14:11

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fail

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Sense 1: To become deficient; to be insufficient; to cease to be abundant for supply. Sense 2: To be entirely wanting.

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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.

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10But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

11As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

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12So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

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