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Job 15:20
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Job 15:20
20The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
20The wicked man trauaileth with paine all his dayes, and the number of yeeres is hidden to the oppressour.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 15:20
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Suffering, distress, or bodily torment; as a verb, to cause distress.
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Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
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A count or quantity; also to count, reckon, appoint, or include among a group.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Periods of twelve months.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Concealed or kept from sight, discovery, or knowledge.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
One that oppresses; one that imposes unjust burdens on others; one that harasses others with unjust laws or unreasonable severity.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study1GO to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
4Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
5Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
6Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
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Open the full verse study13This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
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Open the full verse study1WHY, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
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Open the full verse study19And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
20But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
21So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
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Open the full verse study3This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
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Open the full verse study12So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
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Open the full verse study3Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
4For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
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Open the full verse study22For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
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