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'Against' in the Bible

So the Lord said to Satan, "All right then, everything he has is in your power. Only do not extend your hand against the man himself!" So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.

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

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God's sudden terrors are arrayed against me.

Verse ConceptsBeverages, FigurativeArrows, Figurative OfPoisonAnxiety, Examples OfThe AlmightySevere AfflictionsGod Appointed AfflictionsTerror Of GodArrows

If your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.

Verse ConceptsSin Clings To The Sinner

He leans against his house but it does not hold up, he takes hold of it but it does not stand.

Verse ConceptsHouses Under Attackstructure

If I lift myself up, you hunt me as a fierce lion, and again you display your power against me.

Verse ConceptsLionsSelf RespectGod Like A LionLike Creatures

You bring new witnesses against me, and increase your anger against me; relief troops come against me.

Verse ConceptsGod's IndignationThe Witness Of GodHardship

But if only God would speak, if only he would open his lips against you,

Verse ConceptsLipsGod Speaking

For you write down bitter things against me and cause me to inherit the sins of my youth.

Verse ConceptsFruits Of SinLimitations Of YouthJudgements Writtenaccusations

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

Verse ConceptsLipscondemnation

when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?

Verse ConceptsCurbing Speechventing

Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack,

Verse ConceptsAfflictions Of The WickedFear Will ComeOvercoming AdversityBeing Overwhelmedpressure

for he stretches out his hand against God, and vaunts himself against the Almighty,

defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield!

Verse Conceptsreinforcement

I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could pile up words against you and I could shake my head at you.

Verse ConceptsMere Talkcriticism

You have seized me, and it has become a witness; my leanness has risen up against me and testifies against me.

Verse ConceptsDiseases, Kinds OfPeople WitheredThin Bodies

People have opened their mouths against me, they have struck my cheek in scorn; they unite together against me.

Verse ConceptsCheeksRidicule, Objects OfSmitten CheeksSmiting Of The Righteous

He breaks through against me, time and time again; he rushes against me like a warrior.

Verse ConceptsGod As A Warrior

If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me,

Verse ConceptsHumiliation

Thus his anger burns against me, and he considers me among his enemies.

Verse ConceptsGod As Enemy

His troops advance together; they throw up a siege ramp against me, and they camp around my tent.

Verse ConceptsThe Nations Attacked

"While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him.

Verse ConceptsRainPeople EatingGod Will Be Angryventing

The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.

Verse ConceptsExposure Of SinSin Made KnownThe Universe Affected

Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient?

Verse ConceptsComplaintsDanger From MenComplaining

For he fulfills his decree against me, and many such things are his plans.

Verse ConceptsPredestination, Of Persons

They spend the night naked because they lack clothing; they have no covering against the cold.

Verse ConceptsOvernightNaked In PovertyCold Weather

There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths.

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

But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.

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

On my right the young rabble rise up; they drive me from place to place, and build up siege ramps against me.

Verse ConceptsRight Sides

"Surely one does not stretch out his hand against a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.

Verse ConceptsBrokennessDisastersCrying For Help

if I have raised my hand to vote against the orphan, when I saw my support in the court,

Verse ConceptsOppression, Nature OfLifting Hands

"If my land cried out against me and all its furrows wept together,

Verse ConceptsEcological ConcernsComplaining

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

Verse ConceptsComplaintsGod Is ImmanentComplaining

For he adds transgression to his sin; in our midst he claps his hands, and multiplies his words against God."

Verse ConceptsClappingApplauseRebellion against Godrebellion

With his hands he covers the lightning, and directs it against its target.

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodAccuracyGod's Handclouds

After the Lord had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.

Verse ConceptsGod Angry With IndividualsFriends

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