Job 29:10
The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
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Job 29:10
The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of 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.
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.
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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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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.
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Nehemiah 5:8
I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.
Job 21:5
Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
Ecclesiastes 3:7
a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
Habakkuk 2:20
But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”
Zechariah 2:13
Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”
Matthew 22:12
and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.
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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 2:4
Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
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 32:11
“Behold, I waited for your words, and I listened for your reasoning, while you searched out what to say.
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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 4:2
“If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
Job 32:15
“They are amazed. They answer no more. They don’t have a word to say.
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Psalms 69:3
I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.
Psalms 69:21
They also gave me poison for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
Psalms 102:5
By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.
Lamentations 4:4
The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young children ask bread, and no one breaks it for them.
John 19:28
After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty!”
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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 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.
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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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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