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'Against' in the Bible

And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, 'Hast thou set thy heart against My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God, and turning aside from evil?'

Verse ConceptsBehaviourJustice, In Believers' LivesServants Of The LordNames And Titles For SatanAcclaimingUnique IndividualsIndividuals Fearing Godservanthoodshunning

The work of his hands Thou hast blessed, and his substance hath spread in the land, and yet, put forth, I pray Thee, Thy hand, and strike against anything that he hath -- if not: to Thy face he doth bless Thee!'

Verse Conceptsevil, origins ofHand Of GodSatan, Work OfTouching To HarmWoundsCursing God

And lo, a great wind hath come from over the wilderness, and striketh against the four corners of the house, and it falleth on the young men, and they are dead, and I am escaped -- only I alone -- to declare it to thee.'

Verse ConceptsStormsActing AloneFour CornersDestruction Of HousesFour SidesDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsDeathHurricanes

And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, 'Hast thou set thy heart unto My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God and turning aside from evil? and still he is keeping hold on his integrity, and thou dost move Me against him to swallow him up for nought!'

Verse ConceptsdiseasesInciting To EvilServants Of The LordFear Of God, Examples OfUnique IndividualsIndividuals Fearing Godshunning

Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare are with me.

Verse ConceptsGod's IndignationThe Witness Of GodHardship

Lo, He breaketh down, and it is not built up, He shutteth against a man, And it is not opened.

Verse ConceptsGod DestroyingImprisonmentsrebuilding

For Thou writest against me bitter things, And causest me to possess iniquities of my youth:

Verse ConceptsFruits Of SinLimitations Of YouthJudgements Writtenaccusations

Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips testify against thee.

Verse ConceptsLipscondemnation

For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth:

Verse ConceptsCurbing Speechventing

For he stretched out against God his hand, And against the Mighty he maketh himself mighty.

I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head.

Verse ConceptsMere Talkcriticism

And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth.

Verse ConceptsDiseases, Kinds OfPeople WitheredThin Bodies

They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves.

Verse ConceptsCheeksRidicule, Objects OfSmitten CheeksSmiting Of The Righteous

Go round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins, and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall.

Verse ConceptsKidneys

Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent against the profane Stirreth himself up.

Verse ConceptsPeople Appalled

If, truly, over me ye magnify yourselves, And decide against me my reproach;

Verse ConceptsHumiliation

Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,

Verse ConceptsNetsGod TrappingIs God Unjust?

And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries.

Verse ConceptsGod As Enemy

Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my tent.

Verse ConceptsThe Nations Attacked

Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me.

Verse ConceptsAbhorTurning Against MenUnlovingHating IndividualsFriendsBest FriendsFriendship And Love

Though his excellency go up to the heavens, And his head against a cloud he strike --

Verse ConceptsClouds, Natural Use

It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating.

Verse ConceptsRainPeople EatingGod Will Be Angryventing

Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him.

Verse ConceptsExposure Of SinSin Made KnownThe Universe Affected

Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully.

Verse ConceptsPeople With General KnowledgeWronging Other PeopleThoughtsimagination

Against the flint he sent forth his hand, He overturned from the root mountains.

Verse ConceptsFlintMineralsRootsMountains RemovedTurning Upside Down

From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them as a thief),

Verse ConceptsPeople Ostracised

On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity.

Verse ConceptsRight Sides

He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away.

Verse ConceptsLossWeather, As God's JudgmentNot ProsperingLosing Honour

Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety.

Verse ConceptsBrokennessDisastersCrying For Help

If against me my land doth cry out, And together its furrows weep,

Verse ConceptsEcological ConcernsComplaining

and burn doth the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram; against Job hath his anger burned, because of his justifying himself more than God;

Verse ConceptsJustification, Necessity OfSelf Righteousness, And The GospelPeople In RighteousnessNamed People Angry With Others

and against his three friends hath his anger burned, because that they have not found an answer, and condemn Job.

Verse ConceptsReasonThree MenOthers Not AnsweringNamed People Angry With OthersFamily And Friends

Lo, occasions against me He doth find, He doth reckon me for an enemy to Him,

Verse ConceptsGod As Enemy

Wherefore against Him hast thou striven, When for all His matters He answereth not?

Verse ConceptsComplaintsGod Is ImmanentComplaining

Against my right do I lie? Mortal is mine arrow -- without transgression.'

Verse ConceptsArrows, Figurative OfPlea Of Innocence

Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely,

If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him?

He sheweth by it to his friend substance, Anger against perversity.

Verse ConceptsStormsSoundThunder Showing God's Presence

Against him rattle doth quiver, The flame of a spear, and a halbert.

Verse ConceptsQuiversJavelins

And it cometh to pass after Jehovah's speaking these words unto Job, that Jehovah saith unto Eliphaz the Temanite, 'Burned hath Mine anger against thee, and against thy two friends, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.

Verse ConceptsGod Angry With IndividualsFriends

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Against (2892 instances)