Job 16:20
My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,
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Job 16:20
My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,
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Genesis 42:23
They were not conscious that the sense of their words was clear to Joseph, for he had been talking to them through one who had knowledge of their language.
2 Chronicles 32:31
However, in the business of the representatives sent by the rulers of Babylon to get news of the wonder which had taken place in the land, God gave up guiding him, testing him to see what was in his heart.
Job 33:23
If now there may be an angel sent to him, one of the thousands which there are to be between him and God, and to make clear to man what is right for him;
Isaiah 43:27
Your first father was a sinner, and your guides have gone against my word.
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1 Samuel 1:15
And Hannah, answering him, said, No, my lord, I am a woman whose spirit is broken with sorrow: I have not taken wine or strong drink, but I have been opening my heart before the Lord.
1 Samuel 7:6
So they came together to Mizpah, and got water, draining it out before the Lord, and they took no food that day, and they said, We have done evil against the Lord. And Samuel was judge of the children of Israel in Mizpah.
2 Samuel 14:14
For death comes to us all, and we are like water drained out on the earth, which it is not possible to take up again; and God will not take away the life of the man whose purpose is that he who has been sent away may not be completely cut off from him.
Job 30:28
I go about in dark clothing, uncomforted; I get up in the public place, crying out for help.
Psalms 35:14
My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.
Psalms 102:9
I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:
Psalms 119:136
Rivers of water are flowing from my eyes, because men do not keep your law.
Psalms 142:2
I put all my sorrows before him; and made clear to him all my trouble.
Jeremiah 9:1
If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!
Jeremiah 14:17
And you are to say this word to them, Let my eyes be streaming with water night and day, and let it not be stopped; for the virgin daughter of my people is wounded with a great wound, with a very bitter blow.
Lamentations 1:2
She is sorrowing bitterly in the night, and her face is wet with weeping; among all her lovers she has no comforter: all her friends have been false to her, they have become her haters.
Lamentations 1:16
For these things I am weeping; my eye is streaming with water; because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me: my children are made waste, because the hater is strong.
Lamentations 2:19
Up! give cries in the night, at the starting of the night-watches; let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of the Lord, lifting up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down, feeble for need of food, at the top of every street.
Luke 7:38
And went in and took her place at the back of him, near his feet, weeping, so that his feet were washed with the drops from her eyes, and with her hair she made them dry, and kissing his feet she put the perfume on them.
John 11:35
And Jesus himself was weeping.
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1 Samuel 25:10
And Nabal gave them his answer and said, Who is David? who is the son of Jesse? there are a number of servants in these days running away from their masters.
1 Samuel 25:39
And David, hearing that Nabal was dead, said, May the Lord be praised, who has taken up my cause against Nabal for the shame which he put on me, and has kept back his servant from evil, and has sent on Nabal's head the reward of his evil-doing. And David sent word to Abigail, desiring to take her as his wife.
2 Samuel 16:7
And Shimei said, with curses, Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, you good-for-nothing:
2 Samuel 16:8
The Lord has sent punishment on you for all the blood of the family of Saul, whose kingdom you have taken; and the Lord has given the kingdom to Absalom, your son: now you yourself are taken in your evil, because you are a man of blood.
Job 19:2
How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?
Job 19:3
Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.
Psalms 39:8
Make me free from all my sins; do not let me be shamed by the man of evil behaviour.
Psalms 42:10
The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?
Psalms 68:9
You, O God, did freely send the rain, giving strength to the weariness of your heritage.
Psalms 68:10
Those whose resting-place was there, even the poor, were comforted by your good things, O God.
Psalms 68:11
The Lord gives the word; great is the number of the women who make it public.
Psalms 68:19
Praise be to the Lord, who is our support day by day, even the God of our salvation. (Selah.)
Psalms 68:20
Our God is for us a God of salvation; his are the ways out of death.
Psalms 119:22
Take away from me shame and bitter words; for I have kept your unchanging word in my heart.
Psalms 119:39
Take away the shame which is my fear; for your decisions are good.
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2 Kings 19:14
And Hezekiah took the letter from the hands of those who had come with it; and after reading it, Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, opening the letter there before the Lord.
2 Kings 19:15
And Hezekiah made his prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord, the God of Israel, seated between the winged ones, you only are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
Psalms 25:9
He will be an upright guide to the poor in spirit: he will make his way clear to them.
Psalms 46:1
To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah; put to Alamoth. A Song. God is our harbour and our strength, a very present help in trouble.
Daniel 2:49
And at Daniel's request, the king gave Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego authority over the business of the land of Babylon: but Daniel was kept near the king's person.
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Job 2:11
And Job's three friends had word of all this evil which had come on him. And they came every one from his place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. So they came together to a meeting-place, in order that they might go and make clear to Job their grief for him, and give him comfort.
Job 6:14
He whose heart is shut against his friend has given up the fear of the Ruler of all.
Job 42:7
And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
Proverbs 17:17
A friend is loving at all times, and becomes a brother in times of trouble.
Proverbs 18:24
There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.
Proverbs 27:10
Do not give up your friend and your father's friend; and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your trouble: better is a neighbour who is near than a brother far off.
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Job 13:10
He will certainly put you right, if you have respect for persons in secret.
Job 13:15
Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;
Job 17:9
Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength.
Job 19:29
Be in fear of the sword, for the sword is the punishment for such things, so that you may be certain that there is a judge.
Job 23:4
I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments.
James 5:11
We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.
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Job 16:1
And Job made answer and said,
Job 17:3
Be pleased, now, to be responsible for me to yourself; for there is no other who will put his hand in mine.
Job 17:4
You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.
Job 17:10
But come back, now, all of you, come; and I will not see a wise man among you.
Job 17:12
They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.
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Job 20:29
This is the reward of the evil man, and the heritage given to him by God.
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Job 33:32
If you have anything to say, give me an answer; for it is my desire that you may be judged free from sin.
Job 34:33
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Job 16:4
It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:
Job 16:9
I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;
Job 19:22
Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?
Job 30:9
And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.
Job 30:10
I am disgusting to them; they keep away from me, and put marks of shame on me.
Psalms 35:15
But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.
Psalms 35:16
Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.
Psalms 116:3
The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.
Matthew 27:39
And those who went by said bitter words to him, shaking their heads and saying,
Matthew 27:40
You who would give the Temple to destruction and put it up again in three days, get yourself free: if you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.
Matthew 27:41
In the same way, the chief priests, making sport of him, with the scribes and those in authority, said,
Matthew 27:42
A saviour of others, he has no salvation for himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will have faith in him.
Matthew 27:43
He put his faith in God; let God be his saviour now, if he will have him; for he said, I am the Son of God.
Matthew 27:44
And the thieves who were on the crosses said evil words to him.
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Job 17:7
My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.
Psalms 38:10
My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.
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2 Samuel 16:12
It may be that the Lord will take note of my wrongs, and give me back good in answer to his cursing of me today.
Psalms 119:42
So that I may have an answer for the man who would put me to shame; for I have faith in your word.
Psalms 119:51
The men of pride have made great sport of me; but I have not been turned from your law.
Psalms 123:3
Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for all men are looking down on us.
Psalms 123:4
For long enough have men of pride made sport of our soul.
Hebrews 13:13
Let us then go out to him outside the circle of the tents, taking his shame on ourselves.
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Psalms 126:5
Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy.
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Psalms 126:6
Though a man may go out weeping, taking his vessel of seed with him; he will come again in joy, with the corded stems of grain in his arms.
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Proverbs 3:34
He makes sport of the men of pride, but he gives grace to the gentle-hearted.
Proverbs 19:28
A good-for-nothing witness makes sport of the judge's decision: and the mouth of evil-doers sends out evil like a stream.
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Song of Solomon 7:4
Your neck is as a tower of ivory; your eyes like the waters in Heshbon, by the doorway of Bath-rabbim; your nose is as the tower on Lebanon looking over Damascus:
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Isaiah 54:5
For your Maker is your husband; the Lord of armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is he who takes up your cause; he will be named the God of all the earth.
Hosea 12:4
He had a fight with the angel and overcame him; he made request for grace to him with weeping; he came face to face with him in Beth-el and there his words came to him;
Hosea 12:5
Even the Lord, the God of armies; the Lord is his name.
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Lamentations 3:50
Till the Lord's eye is turned on me, till he sees my trouble from heaven.
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Luke 6:11
But they were full of wrath, and were talking together about what they might do to Jesus.
Luke 6:12
And it came about in those days that he went out to the mountain for prayer; and he was all night in prayer to God.
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Acts 24:16
And in this, I do my best at all times to have no reason for shame before God or men.
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