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Job 21:9

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Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
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  1. Job 9:34Rank 1 from verse 9
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    34Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

  2. Psalms 73:5Rank 2 from verse 9
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    5They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.

  3. Isaiah 57:19–21Rank 3 from verse 9
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    19I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the Lord; and I will heal him.

    20But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

    21There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

  4. Job 15:21Rank 4 from verse 9
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    21A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

  5. Job 18:11Rank 5 from verse 9
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    11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

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Job 21:9

COMBINED MEANING

houses

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Buildings or dwelling places; by extension, the families, households, estates, possessions, royal lines, or bodies of people associated with them.

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safe

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1. Free from danger, harm, injury, or loss; secure. 2. Protective or conducive to safety.

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

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fear

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1. Alarm, dread, terror, or apprehension. 2. Reverence, awe, or respectful regard. 3. A person, thing, or event feared or revered. 4. To fear, dread, or reverence.

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neither

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1. Also not; nor, introducing or joining a further negative statement or prohibition. 2. Not either, or none, of the alternatives named, commonly in a neither ... nor construction.

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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.

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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.

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

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