11 occurrences

'Off' in the Bible

Then Job got up, and after parting his clothing and cutting off his hair, he went down on his face to the earth, and gave worship, and said,

Verse ConceptsMantlesClothing, Tearing OfBarbersBaldnessBereavement, Experience OfHairsShavingTearing Of ClothesDressThose Who Tore Clothes

And lifting up their eyes when they were still far off, it did not seem that the man they saw was Job because of the change in him. And they gave way to bitter weeping, with signs of grief, and put dust on their heads.

Verse ConceptsDust, Figurative UseRobesSprinklingTearing Of ClothesWeepingSeeing At A DistanceDust On The HeadNot Recognising PeopleThose Who Tore Clothes

For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.

Verse ConceptsAbhorWorldly AmbitionHumbling The Proud

They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.

Verse ConceptsRootsSaltGod Is HolyTreestoughness

My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.

Verse ConceptsBodydiseasesSkinFeverDamage To The BodyHot ThingsBlack PeopleColor

What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?

Verse ConceptsInfidelity To God

When it comes to his ears he says, Aha! He is smelling the fight from far off, and hearing the thunder of the captains, and the war-cries.

Verse ConceptsNosesShouting

From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off.

Verse ConceptsGood Things From Far Away

Who has ever taken off his outer skin? who may come inside his inner coat of iron?

Verse ConceptsHorsesOuter GarmentsScales

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