Job 29:9

Job 29:9
The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

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Deuteronomy 21:19
then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place.

Ruth 4:1
Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. Boaz said to him, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He came over, and sat down.

Ruth 4:11
All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.

Job 31:21
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;

Proverbs 22:22
Don’t exploit the poor because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

Amos 5:12
For I know how many are your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.

Amos 5:13
Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

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2 Samuel 16:23
The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the inner sanctuary of God. All the counsel of Ahithophel was like this both with David and with Absalom.

2 Kings 2:23
He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”

Job 19:13
“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

Job 19:14
My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.

Job 19:15
Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.

Job 19:16
I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.

Job 19:17
My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.

Job 19:18
Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.

Job 19:19
All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.

Isaiah 3:5
The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the wicked against the honorable.

Lamentations 1:19
“I called for my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls.

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1 Kings 21:11
The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had instructed them in the letters which she had written and sent to them.

1 Kings 21:12
They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

1 Kings 21:13
The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.

1 Kings 21:14
Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned and is dead.”

1 Kings 21:15
When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”

Job 22:8
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

Job 31:34
because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—

Psalms 12:8
The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.

Micah 7:3
Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe. The powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

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Job 1:3
His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

Job 9:34
Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;

Job 29:2
“Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;

Job 29:3
when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

Job 29:4
as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent,

Job 29:5
when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,

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Job 3:14
with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

Job 19:9
He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

Psalms 49:16
Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;

Psalms 49:17
for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.

Psalms 89:44
You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground.

Isaiah 61:6
But you will be called Yahweh’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations. You will boast in their glory.

Hosea 9:11
As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.

Hosea 13:1
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but when he became guilty through Baal, he died.

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Job 7:11
“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Proverbs 10:19
In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

James 1:19
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

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Job 12:15
Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

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Job 17:8
Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.

Romans 11:33
Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

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Job 32:9
It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.

Job 32:11
“Behold, I waited for your words, and I listened for your reasoning, while you searched out what to say.

Job 32:12
Yes, I gave you my full attention, but there was no one who convinced Job, or who answered his words, among you.

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Job 40:5
I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”

Psalms 107:42
The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.

Romans 3:19
Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

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Psalms 72:9
Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him. His enemies shall lick the dust.

Psalms 72:10
The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

Psalms 72:11
Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall serve him.

Isaiah 49:7
Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

Isaiah 49:23
Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me won’t be disappointed.”

Micah 7:17
They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth, they will come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to Yahweh our God, and will be afraid because of you.

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Ecclesiastes 8:1
Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.

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Jeremiah 37:13
When he was in Benjamin’s gate, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans!”

Jeremiah 38:7
Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king was then sitting in Benjamin’s gate),

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Isaiah 3:2
the mighty man, the man of war, the judge, the prophet, the diviner, the elder,

Isaiah 3:3
the captain of fifty, the honorable man, the counselor, the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter.

Lamentations 1:4
The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to the solemn assembly. All her gates are desolate. Her priests sigh. Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.

Lamentations 2:10
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground. They keep silence. They have cast up dust on their heads. They have clothed themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

Lamentations 5:14
The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music.

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