Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand.

New American Standard Bible

“For it will hurl at him without sparing;
He will surely try to flee from its power.

King James Version

For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

Holman Bible

It blasts at him without mercy,
while he flees desperately from its grasp.

International Standard Version

It will toss him around without pity. He'll try to break free from its grip,

A Conservative Version

For [God] shall hurl at him, and not spare. He would gladly flee out of his hand.

American Standard Version

For God'shall hurl at him, and not spare: He would fain flee out of his hand.

Amplified


“For it will hurl [thunderbolts of God’s wrath] at him unsparingly and without compassion;
He flees in haste from its power.

Darby Translation

And God shall cast upon him and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

Julia Smith Translation

For he shall cast upon him and not spare: fleeing, he will flee from his hand.

King James 2000

For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would scarcely flee out of his hand.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And it hurls at him, and it has no compassion; he will quickly flee from its power.

Modern King James verseion

For it will hurl at him, and will not spare; he will surely flee out of its hand.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

It rusheth in upon him, and spareth him not, he may not escape from the power thereof.

NET Bible

It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power.

New Heart English Bible

For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.

The Emphasized Bible

And He will cast upon him and not spare, Out of his hand, shall he, swiftly flee;

Webster

For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

World English Bible

For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.

Youngs Literal Translation

And it casteth at him, and doth not spare, From its hand he diligently fleeth.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁלך 
Shalak 
Usage: 125

upon him, and not spare
חמל 
Chamal 
Usage: 41

he would fain
בּרח 
Barach 
Usage: 64

בּרח 
Barach 
Usage: 64

References

Hastings

Job

Context Readings

Job Continues His Final Speech

21 The east wind takes him up and he is gone; he is forced violently out of his place. 22 God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand. 23 Men make signs of joy because of him, driving him from his place with sounds of hissing.

Cross References

Exodus 9:14

For this time I will send all my punishments on yourself and on your servants and on your people; so that you may see that there is no other like me in all the earth.

Exodus 14:25-28

And made the wheels of their war-carriages stiff, so that they had hard work driving them: so the Egyptians said, Let us go in flight from before the face of Israel, for the Lord is fighting for them against the Egyptians.

Deuteronomy 29:20

The Lord will have no mercy on him, but the wrath of the Lord will be burning against that man, and all the curses recorded in this book will be waiting for him, and the Lord will take away his name completely from the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:23

I will send a rain of troubles on them, my arrows will be showered on them.

Joshua 10:11

And in their flight before Israel, on the way down from Beth-horon, the Lord sent down great stones from heaven on them all the way to Azekah, causing their death: those whose death was caused by the stones were more than those whom the children of Israel put to death with the sword.

Judges 4:17-21

But Sisera went in flight on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin, king of Hazor, and the family of Heber the Kenite.

Job 11:20

But the eyes of the evil-doers will be wasting away; their way of flight is gone, and their only hope is the taking of their last breath.

Job 20:24

He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him;

Isaiah 10:3

And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the destruction which is coming from far? to whom will you go for help, and what will become of your glory?

Jeremiah 13:14

I will have them smashed against one another, fathers and sons together, says the Lord: I will have no pity or mercy, I will have no feeling for them to keep me from giving them to destruction.

Ezekiel 5:11

For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have made my holy place unclean with all your hated things and all your disgusting ways, you will become disgusting to me; my eye will have no mercy and I will have no pity.

Ezekiel 9:5-6

And to these he said in my hearing, Go through the town after him using your axes: do not let your eyes have mercy, and have no pity:

Ezekiel 24:14

I the Lord have said the word and I will do it; I will not go back or have mercy, and my purpose will not be changed; in the measure of your ways and of your evil doings you will be judged, says the Lord.

Amos 2:14

And flight will be impossible for the quick-footed, and the force of the strong will become feeble, and the man of war will not get away safely:

Amos 9:1-3

I saw the Lord stationed by the side of the altar, giving blows to the tops of the pillars so that the doorsteps were shaking: and he said, I will let all of them be broken with earth-shocks; I will put the last of them to the sword: if any one of them goes in flight he will not get away, not one of them will be safe.

Romans 8:32

He who did not keep back his only Son, but gave him up for us all, will he not with him freely give us all things?

2 Peter 2:4-5

For if God did not have pity for the angels who did evil, but sent them down into hell, to be kept in chains of eternal night till they were judged;

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