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Job 21:27
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Job 21:27
27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the deuices which yee wrongfully imagine against me.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 21:27
To look upon or see; as an interjection, look or take notice.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To perceive, understand, recognize, experience, or be assured of something.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Ideas, judgments, purposes, plans, reflections, or anxieties of the mind.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Plans, purposes, designs, or contrivances.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
wrongfully
Unjustly; in a manner contrary to the moral law or to justice.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To form an idea, purpose, or plan in the mind.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
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Open the full verse study22But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts?
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Open the full verse study86All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
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Open the full verse study19For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
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Open the full verse study20The 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.
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Open the full verse study29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
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Open the full verse study5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
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Open the full verse study3Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
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Open the full verse study8Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
9By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
11The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
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Open the full verse study7¶ And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
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Open the full verse study3I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
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Open the full verse study3Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
4If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
5If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
6If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
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Open the full verse study4They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.
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