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'Against' in the Bible

So Yahweh said to Satan, "Look, {all that belongs to him} is in your {power}. Only do not stretch out your hand {against} him." So Satan went out from Yahweh's {presence}.

Verse ConceptsFingersevil, victory overGod, Purpose OfPainSatan, Kingdom OfSatan, Resistance ToSatan, Limitations OfSatan, Power OfLeaving God's PresenceSatanThe DevilThe Presence Of GodTestsexams

While this one was still speaking, {another} came and said, "The fire of God fell from the heavens, and it blazed up against the sheep and goats and against the servants, and it consumed them. But I escaped, [even] I alone, to tell you."

Verse ConceptsLightningLossSuffering, Causes OfWeather, God's Sovereignty OverConflagrationsActing AloneBurning PeopleWhile Still Speaking

So Yahweh {asked} Satan, "Have you {considered} my servant Job? Indeed, there is no one like him on the earth--a blameless man and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil. And still he persists in his blamelessness {even though} you incited me against him to destroy him for nothing."

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

If your children sinned against him, then he sent them into the {power} of their transgression.

Verse ConceptsSin Clings To The Sinner

He will lean himself against his house, but it will not stand; he will take hold of it, but it will not endure.

Verse ConceptsHouses Under Attackstructure

I will say to God, 'You should not condemn me; let me know why you contend [against] me.

Verse ConceptsAfflictions, Prayer DuringDisputesWhy Does God Do This?condemnation

And [if my head] grows bold, you would hunt me as the lion in its prime; {and you repeat your exploits against me}.

Verse ConceptsLionsSelf RespectGod Like A LionLike Creatures

You renew your witnesses against me, and you increase your vexation against me; {relief forces} [are] against me.

Verse ConceptsGod's IndignationThe Witness Of GodHardship

"Indeed, you write bitter things against me, and you make me reap the iniquities of my childhood.

Verse ConceptsFruits Of SinLimitations Of YouthJudgements Writtenaccusations

Your mouth condemns you, and not I; and your lips testify against you.

Verse ConceptsLipscondemnation

that you turn your spirit against God, and you let [such] words go out of your mouth?

Verse ConceptsCurbing Speechventing

Sounds of terror [are] in his ears; in prosperity [the] destroyer will come [against] him.

Verse ConceptsThose Who DestroyFear Is Due

Because he stretched out his hand against God, and he was arrogant to Shaddai;

he {stubbornly} runs against him {with his thick-bossed shield}.

Verse Conceptsreinforcement

I myself also could talk as you, if {you were in my place}; I could join against you with words, and I could shake at you with my head.

Verse ConceptsMere Talkcriticism

Thus you shriveled me up; it became a witness. And my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face.

Verse ConceptsDiseases, Kinds OfPeople WitheredThin Bodies

His wrath has torn, and he has been hostile toward me; he gnashed at me with his teeth. My foe sharpens his eyes against me.

Verse ConceptsTeethGnashing Of TeethGod Seeing All PeopleGod Angry With Individuals

They gaped at me with their mouth; they struck my cheeks with disgrace; they have massed themselves together against me.

Verse ConceptsCheeksRidicule, Objects OfSmitten CheeksSmiting Of The Righteous

If indeed you must magnify yourselves against me, and you must let my disgrace argue against me,

Verse ConceptsHumiliation

and he has kindled his wrath against me, and {he has counted me as one of his foes}.

Verse ConceptsGod As Enemy

His troops have come together and have thrown up their rampart against me and have encamped around my tent.

Verse ConceptsThe Nations Attacked

All {my intimate friends} abhor me, and these [whom] I have loved have turned against me.

Verse ConceptsAbhorTurning Against MenUnlovingHating IndividualsFriendsBest FriendsFriendship And Love

[The] heavens will reveal his guilt, and [the] earth will rise up against him.

Verse ConceptsExposure Of SinSin Made KnownThe Universe Affected

"Those are among [the ones] rebelling [against the] light; they do not recognize his ways, and they do not stay in his paths.

Verse ConceptsBeing A LightCharacter Of WickedRebellion Against God, Shown InPaths Of The WickedPurgatory

On [the] right hand the brood rises up; {they put me to flight}, and they build up their {siege ramps} against me.

Verse ConceptsRight Sides

"Surely someone must not send a hand against [the] needy when, in his misfortune, [there is] a cry of help for them.

Verse ConceptsBrokennessDisastersCrying For Help

"If I have rejected my male or female slave's case when their complaint [was] against me,

Verse ConceptsEmployersMasters Duties Towards ServantsSlavesWhat Sin?

if I have raised my hand against an orphan because I saw my supporters at the gate,

Verse ConceptsOppression, Nature OfLifting Hands

If my land has cried out against me, and its furrows have wept together,

Verse ConceptsEcological ConcernsComplaining

Look, he finds fault against me; he reckons me as his enemy;

Verse ConceptsGod As Enemy

Why do you contend against him, that he will not answer all a person's words?

Verse ConceptsComplaintsGod Is ImmanentComplaining

for he adds transgression to his sin; he claps hands among us, and he multiplies his words against God.'"

Verse ConceptsClappingApplauseRebellion against Godrebellion

If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And [if] your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

Look, [if the] river is turbulent, it is not frightened; it is confident even though [the] Jordan rushes against its mouth.

{And then} after Yahweh spoke these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "{My wrath has been kindled} against you and against [the] two of your friends, for you have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job [has].

Verse ConceptsGod Angry With IndividualsFriends

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