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Job 21:27–28

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Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
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From verse 27

  1. Luke 5:22Rank 1 from verse 27
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    22But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts?

  2. Psalms 119:86Rank 2 from verse 27
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    86All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.

  3. 1 Peter 2:19Rank 3 from verse 27
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    19For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

  4. Job 15:20–35Rank 4 from verse 27
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    20The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

    21A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

    22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

    23He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

    24Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

    25For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

    26He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:

    27Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

    28And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

    29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

    30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

    31Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

    32It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

    33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

    34For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

    35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

  5. Job 20:29Rank 5 from verse 27
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    29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.

From verse 28

  1. Job 20:7Rank 1 from verse 28
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    7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

  2. Job 8:22Rank 2 from verse 28
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    22They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.

  3. Habakkuk 2:9–11Rank 3 from verse 28
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    9¶ Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

    10Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.

    11For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

  4. Job 1:3Rank 4 from verse 28
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    3His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

  5. Job 31:37Rank 5 from verse 28
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    37I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.

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Job 21:27

COMBINED MEANING

behold

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1. Used as an attention word or command directing someone to look at or take notice of the person, thing, statement, or event presented: look; see; take notice. 2. As a verb, to look upon, see, observe, or witness.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

know

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To perceive, understand, recognize, experience, or be assured of something.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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your

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The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.

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thoughts

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Things thought or purposed in the mind or heart; ideas, reasonings, intentions, or purposes.

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which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

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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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against

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Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.

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

DEFINED WORDS

Job 21:28

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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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say

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Sense 1: To speak, declare, tell, or express. Sense 2: What is said.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

house

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Sense 1: A building or dwelling. Sense 2: The people of a household or family. Sense 3: A lineage or family line. Sense 4: As a verb, to shelter, lodge, or provide a dwelling for.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

prince

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A chief, head, ruler, governor, commander, noble, or person of leading authority.

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dwelling

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Sense 1: Residing, remaining, or abiding. Sense 2: A habitation, home, resting place, or territory.

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

COMBINED MEANING

places

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1. Physical locations or rooms. 2. Positions or offices. 3. Occasions, circumstances, or passages.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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Read all 34 verses in Job 21:1–34

21:1BUT Job answered and said,

21:2Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.

21:3Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

21:4As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

21:5Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

21:6Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.

21:7Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

21:8Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

21:9Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

21:10Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

21:11They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

21:12They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

21:13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

21:14Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

21:15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

21:16Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

21:17How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

21:18They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

21:19God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

21:20His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

21:21For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

21:22Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

21:23One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

21:24His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

21:25And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.

21:26They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

21:27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

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21:28For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

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21:29Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,

21:30That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

21:31Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?

21:32Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

21:33The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

21:34How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

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