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nkjv@Job:1:1 @ There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil.

nkjv@Job:1:3 @ Also, his possessions were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East.

nkjv@Job:1:5 @ So it was, when the days of feasting had run their course, that Job would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." Thus Job did regularly.

nkjv@Job:1:6 @ Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them.

nkjv@Job:1:13 @ Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house;

nkjv@Job:1:16 @ While he was still speaking, another also came and said, "The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them; and I alone have escaped to tell you!"

nkjv@Job:1:17 @ While he was still speaking, another also came and said, "The Chaldeans formed three bands, raided the camels and took them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you!"

nkjv@Job:1:18 @ While he was still speaking, another also came and said, "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house,

nkjv@Job:2:1 @ Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.

nkjv@Job:2:13 @ So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

nkjv@Job:3:3 @ "May the day perish on which I was born, And the night in which it was said, "A male child is conceived.'

nkjv@Job:3:16 @ Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, Like infants who never saw light?

nkjv@Job:4:4 @ Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, And you have strengthened the feeble knees;

nkjv@Job:4:12 @ "Now a word was secretly brought to me, And my ear received a whisper of it.

nkjv@Job:4:16 @ It stood still, But I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; There was silence; Then I heard a voice saying:

nkjv@Job:8:7 @ Though your beginning was small, Yet your latter end would increase abundantly.

nkjv@Job:9:16 @ If I called and He answered me, I would not believe that He was listening to my voice.

nkjv@Job:9:30 @ If I wash myself with snow water, And cleanse my hands with soap,

nkjv@Job:10:13 @ "And these things You have hidden in Your heart; I know that this was with You:

nkjv@Job:14:19 @ As water wears away stones, And as torrents wash away the soil of the earth; So You destroy the hope of man.

nkjv@Job:15:7 @ "Are you the first man who was born? Or were you made before the hills?

nkjv@Job:15:19 @ To whom alone the land was given, And no alien passed among them:

nkjv@Job:16:12 @ I was at ease, but He has shattered me; He also has taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces; He has set me up for His target,

nkjv@Job:20:4 @ "Do you not know this of old, Since man was placed on earth,

nkjv@Job:22:9 @ You have sent widows away empty, And the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

nkjv@Job:23:17 @ Because I was not cut off from the presence of darkness, And He did not hide deep darkness from my face.

nkjv@Job:29:4 @ Just as I was in the days of my prime, When the friendly counsel of God was over my tent;

nkjv@Job:29:5 @ When the Almighty was yet with me, When my children were around me;

nkjv@Job:29:10 @ The voice of nobles was hushed, And their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.

nkjv@Job:29:14 @ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; My justice was like a robe and a turban.

nkjv@Job:29:15 @ I was eyes to the blind, And I was feet to the lame.

nkjv@Job:29:16 @ I was a father to the poor, And I searched out the case that I did not know.

nkjv@Job:30:3 @ They are gaunt from want and famine, Fleeing late to the wilderness, desolate and waste,

nkjv@Job:30:25 @ Have I not wept for him who was in trouble? Has not my soul grieved for the poor?

nkjv@Job:31:20 @ If his heart has not blessed me, And if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

nkjv@Job:31:25 @ If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because my hand had gained much;

nkjv@Job:32:1 @ So these three men ceased answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

nkjv@Job:32:2 @ Then the wrath of Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was aroused against Job; his wrath was aroused because he justified himself rather than God.

nkjv@Job:32:3 @ Also against his three friends his wrath was aroused, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

nkjv@Job:32:5 @ When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was aroused.

nkjv@Job:32:6 @ So Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, answered and said: "I am young in years, and you are very old; Therefore I was afraid, And dared not declare my opinion to you.

nkjv@Job:33:21 @ His flesh wastes away from sight, And his bones stick out which once were not seen.

nkjv@Job:33:27 @ Then he looks at men and says, "I have sinned, and perverted what was right, And it did not profit me.'

nkjv@Job:38:27 @ To satisfy the desolate waste, And cause to spring forth the growth of tender grass?

nkjv@Job:42:7 @ And so it was, after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, that the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is aroused against you and your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.

nkjv@Psalms:6:7 @ My eye wastes away because of grief; It grows old because of all my enemies.

nkjv@Psalms:7:4 @ If I have repaid evil to him who was at peace with me, Or have plundered my enemy without cause,

nkjv@Psalms:18:7 @ Then the earth shook and trembled; The foundations of the hills also quaked and were shaken, Because He was angry.

nkjv@Psalms:18:11 @ He made darkness His secret place; His canopy around Him was dark waters And thick clouds of the skies.

nkjv@Psalms:18:18 @ They confronted me in the day of my calamity, But the LORD was my support.

nkjv@Psalms:18:23 @ I was also blameless before Him, And I kept myself from my iniquity.

nkjv@Psalms:18:41 @ They cried out, but there was none to save; Even to the LORD, but He did not answer them.

nkjv@Psalms:22:10 @ I was cast upon You from birth. From My mother's womb You have been My God.

nkjv@Psalms:26:6 @ I will wash my hands in innocence; So I will go about Your altar, O LORD,

nkjv@Psalms:30:7 @ LORD, by Your favor You have made my mountain stand strong; You hid Your face, and I was troubled.

nkjv@Psalms:31:9 @ Have mercy on me, O LORD, for I am in trouble; My eye wastes away with grief, Yes, my soul and my body!

nkjv@Psalms:31:10 @ For my life is spent with grief, And my years with sighing; My strength fails because of my iniquity, And my bones waste away.

nkjv@Psalms:32:4 @ For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was turned into the drought of summer.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:33:9 @ For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.

nkjv@Psalms:35:13 @ But as for me, when they were sick, My clothing was sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting; And my prayer would return to my own heart.

nkjv@Psalms:37:36 @ Yet he passed away, and behold, he was no more; Indeed I sought him, but he could not be found.

nkjv@Psalms:39:2 @ I was mute with silence, I held my peace even from good; And my sorrow was stirred up.

nkjv@Psalms:39:3 @ My heart was hot within me; While I was musing, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:

nkjv@Psalms:39:9 @ I was mute, I did not open my mouth, Because it was You who did it.

nkjv@Psalms:44:3 @ For they did not gain possession of the land by their own sword, Nor did their own arm save them; But it was Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your countenance, Because You favored them.

nkjv@Psalms:50:21 @ These things you have done, and I kept silent; You thought that I was altogether like you; But I will rebuke you, And set them in order before your eyes.

nkjv@Psalms:51:2 @ Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin.

nkjv@Psalms:51:5 @ Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.

nkjv@Psalms:51:7 @ Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

nkjv@Psalms:53:5 @ There they are in great fear Where no fear was, For God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you; You have put them to shame, Because God has despised them.

nkjv@Psalms:55:13 @ But it was you, a man my equal, My companion and my acquaintance.

nkjv@Psalms:55:18 @ He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, For there were many against me.

nkjv@Psalms:55:21 @ The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, But war was in his heart; His words were softer than oil, Yet they were drawn swords.

nkjv@Psalms:58:10 @ The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance; He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,

nkjv@Psalms:60:8 @ Moab is My washpot; Over Edom I will cast My shoe; Philistia, shout in triumph because of Me."

nkjv@Psalms:66:14 @ Which my lips have uttered And my mouth has spoken when I was in trouble.

nkjv@Psalms:66:17 @ I cried to Him with my mouth, And He was extolled with my tongue.

nkjv@Psalms:68:8 @ The earth shook; The heavens also dropped rain at the presence of God; Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

nkjv@Psalms:68:9 @ You, O God, sent a plentiful rain, Whereby You confirmed Your inheritance, When it was weary.

nkjv@Psalms:68:11 @ The Lord gave the word; Great was the company of those who proclaimed it:

nkjv@Psalms:68:14 @ When the Almighty scattered kings in it, It was white as snow in Zalmon.

nkjv@Psalms:69:20 @ Reproach has broken my heart, And I am full of heaviness; I looked for someone to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.

nkjv@Psalms:73:3 @ For I was envious of the boastful, When I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

nkjv@Psalms:73:13 @ Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, And washed my hands in innocence.

nkjv@Psalms:73:16 @ When I thought how to understand this, It was too painful for me--

nkjv@Psalms:73:21 @ Thus my heart was grieved, And I was vexed in my mind.

nkjv@Psalms:73:22 @ I was so foolish and ignorant; I was like a beast before You.

nkjv@Psalms:76:8 @ You caused judgment to be heard from heaven; The earth feared and was still,

nkjv@Psalms:77:2 @ In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord; My hand was stretched out in the night without ceasing; My soul refused to be comforted.

nkjv@Psalms:77:3 @ I remembered God, and was troubled; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:77:18 @ The voice of Your thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lit up the world; The earth trembled and shook.

nkjv@Psalms:77:19 @ Your way was in the sea, Your path in the great waters, And Your footsteps were not known.

nkjv@Psalms:78:8 @ And may not be like their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that did not set its heart aright, And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

nkjv@Psalms:78:21 @ Therefore the LORD heard this and was furious; So a fire was kindled against Jacob, And anger also came up against Israel,

nkjv@Psalms:78:30 @ They were not deprived of their craving; But while their food was still in their mouths,

nkjv@Psalms:78:35 @ Then they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their Redeemer.

nkjv@Psalms:78:37 @ For their heart was not steadfast with Him, Nor were they faithful in His covenant.

nkjv@Psalms:78:59 @ When God heard this, He was furious, And greatly abhorred Israel,

nkjv@Psalms:78:62 @ He also gave His people over to the sword, And was furious with His inheritance.

nkjv@Psalms:79:3 @ Their blood they have shed like water all around Jerusalem, And there was no one to bury them.

nkjv@Psalms:79:7 @ For they have devoured Jacob, And laid waste his dwelling place.

nkjv@Psalms:87:4 @ "I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to those who know Me; Behold, O Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia: "This one was born there.'

nkjv@Psalms:87:6 @ The LORD will record, When He registers the peoples: "This one was born there."Selah

nkjv@Psalms:88:9 @ My eye wastes away because of affliction. LORD, I have called daily upon You; I have stretched out my hands to You.

nkjv@Psalms:91:6 @ Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.

nkjv@Psalms:95:10 @ For forty years I was grieved with that generation, And said, "It is a people who go astray in their hearts, And they do not know My ways.'

nkjv@Psalms:99:6 @ Moses and Aaron were among His priests, And Samuel was among those who called upon His name; They called upon the LORD, and He answered them.

nkjv@Psalms:105:17 @ He sent a man before them-- Joseph--who was sold as a slave.

nkjv@Psalms:105:18 @ They hurt his feet with fetters, He was laid in irons.

nkjv@Psalms:105:37 @ He also brought them out with silver and gold, And there was none feeble among His tribes.

nkjv@Psalms:105:38 @ Egypt was glad when they departed, For the fear of them had fallen upon them.

nkjv@Psalms:106:11 @ The waters covered their enemies; There was not one of them left.

nkjv@Psalms:106:18 @ A fire was kindled in their company; The flame burned up the wicked.

nkjv@Psalms:106:30 @ Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, And the plague was stopped.

nkjv@Psalms:106:31 @ And that was accounted to him for righteousness To all generations forevermore.

nkjv@Psalms:106:38 @ And shed innocent blood, The blood of their sons and daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with blood.

nkjv@Psalms:106:40 @ Therefore the wrath of the LORD was kindled against His people, So that He abhorred His own inheritance.

nkjv@Psalms:107:12 @ Therefore He brought down their heart with labor; They fell down, and there was none to help.

nkjv@Psalms:108:9 @ Moab is My washpot; Over Edom I will cast My shoe; Over Philistia I will triumph."

nkjv@Psalms:116:6 @ The LORD preserves the simple; I was brought low, and He saved me.

nkjv@Psalms:118:23 @ This was the LORD's doing; It is marvelous in our eyes.

nkjv@Psalms:119:67 @ Before I was afflicted I went astray, But now I keep Your word.

nkjv@Psalms:122:1 @ I was glad when they said to me, "Let us go into the house of the LORD."

nkjv@Psalms:124:1 @ "If it had not been the LORD who was on our side," Let Israel now say--

nkjv@Psalms:124:2 @ "If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, When men rose up against us,

nkjv@Psalms:124:3 @ Then they would have swallowed us alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;

nkjv@Psalms:126:2 @ Then our mouth was filled with laughter, And our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them."

nkjv@Psalms:139:15 @ My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

nkjv@Psalms:142:3 @ When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, Then You knew my path. In the way in which I walk They have secretly set a snare for me.

nkjv@Proverbs:4:3 @ When I was my father's son, Tender and the only one in the sight of my mother,

nkjv@Proverbs:5:14 @ I was on the verge of total ruin, In the midst of the assembly and congregation."

nkjv@Proverbs:7:11 @ She was loud and rebellious, Her feet would not stay at home.

nkjv@Proverbs:7:12 @ At times she was outside, at times in the open square, Lurking at every corner.

nkjv@Proverbs:8:23 @ I have been established from everlasting, From the beginning, before there was ever an earth.

nkjv@Proverbs:8:24 @ When there were no depths I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water.

nkjv@Proverbs:8:25 @ Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills, I was brought forth;

nkjv@Proverbs:8:27 @ When He prepared the heavens, I was there, When He drew a circle on the face of the deep,

nkjv@Proverbs:8:30 @ Then I was beside Him as a master craftsman; And I was daily His delight, Rejoicing always before Him,

nkjv@Proverbs:8:31 @ Rejoicing in His inhabited world, And my delight was with the sons of men.

nkjv@Proverbs:13:23 @ Much food is in the fallow ground of the poor, And for lack of justice there is waste.

nkjv@Proverbs:23:8 @ The morsel you have eaten, you will vomit up, And waste your pleasant words.

nkjv@Proverbs:23:35 @ "They have struck me, but I was not hurt; They have beaten me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake, that I may seek another drink?

nkjv@Proverbs:24:31 @ And there it was, all overgrown with thorns; Its surface was covered with nettles; Its stone wall was broken down.

nkjv@Proverbs:26:19 @ Is the man who deceives his neighbor, And says, "I was only joking!"

nkjv@Proverbs:29:3 @ Whoever loves wisdom makes his father rejoice, But a companion of harlots wastes his wealth.

nkjv@Proverbs:30:12 @ There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, Yet is not washed from its filthiness.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:12 @ I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:1 @ I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure"; but surely, this also was vanity.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:3 @ I searched in my heart how to gratify my flesh with wine, while guiding my heart with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under heaven all the days of their lives.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:10 @ Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, For my heart rejoiced in all my labor; And this was my reward from all my labor.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:11 @ Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done And on the labor in which I had toiled; And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind. There was no profit under the sun.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:15 @ So I said in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, It also happens to me, And why was I then more wise?" Then I said in my heart, "This also is vanity."

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:17 @ Therefore I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me, for all is vanity and grasping for the wind.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:24 @ Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:16 @ Moreover I saw under the sun: In the place of judgment, Wickedness was there; And in the place of righteousness, Iniquity was there.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:14 @ For he comes out of prison to be king, Although he was born poor in his kingdom.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:16 @ There was no end of all the people over whom he was made king; Yet those who come afterward will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:5:6 @ Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger of God that it was an error. Why should God be angry at your excuse and destroy the work of your hands?

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:7:23 @ All this I have proved by wisdom. I said, "I will be wise"; But it was far from me.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:9:14 @ There was a little city with few men in it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great snares around it.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:9:15 @ Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that same poor man.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:12:7 @ Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, And the spirit will return to God who gave it.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:12:9 @ And moreover, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yes, he pondered and sought out and set in order many proverbs.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:12:10 @ The Preacher sought to find acceptable words; and what was written was upright--words of truth.

nkjv@Songs:2:3 @ Like an apple tree among the trees of the woods, So is my beloved among the sons. I sat down in his shade with great delight, And his fruit was sweet to my taste.

nkjv@Songs:2:4 @ He brought me to the banqueting house, And his banner over me was love.

nkjv@Songs:4:2 @ Your teeth are like a flock of shorn sheep Which have come up from the washing, Every one of which bears twins, And none is barren among them.

nkjv@Songs:5:3 @ I have taken off my robe; How can I put it on again? I have washed my feet; How can I defile them?

nkjv@Songs:5:6 @ I opened for my beloved, But my beloved had turned away and was gone. My heart leaped up when he spoke. I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

nkjv@Songs:5:12 @ His eyes are like doves By the rivers of waters, Washed with milk, And fitly set.

nkjv@Songs:6:6 @ Your teeth are like a flock of sheep Which have come up from the washing; Every one bears twins, And none is barren among them.

nkjv@Songs:6:12 @ Before I was even aware, My soul had made me As the chariots of my noble people.

nkjv@Songs:8:11 @ Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon; He leased the vineyard to keepers; Everyone was to bring for its fruit A thousand silver coins.