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'Against' in the Bible

Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause."

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

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

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

If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.

Verse ConceptsSin Clings To The Sinner

You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.

Verse ConceptsGod's IndignationThe Witness Of GodHardship

But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,

Verse ConceptsLipsGod Speaking

For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

Verse ConceptsFruits Of SinLimitations Of YouthJudgements Writtenaccusations

You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.

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

Verse ConceptsLipscondemnation

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

Verse ConceptsCurbing Speechventing

Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

Verse ConceptsAfflictions Of The WickedFear Will ComeOvercoming AdversityBeing Overwhelmedpressure

Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul's place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

Verse ConceptsMere Talkcriticism

You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.

Verse ConceptsDiseases, Kinds OfPeople WitheredThin Bodies

They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

Verse ConceptsCheeksRidicule, Objects OfSmitten CheeksSmiting Of The Righteous

Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.

Verse ConceptsPeople Appalled

If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach;

Verse ConceptsHumiliation

He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.

Verse ConceptsGod As Enemy

His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.

Verse ConceptsThe Nations Attacked

The heavens shall reveal his iniquity. The earth shall rise up against him.

Verse ConceptsExposure Of SinSin Made KnownThe Universe Affected

saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed the remnant of them.'

Verse ConceptsMaterialism, As An Aspect Of Sin

"These are of those who rebel against the light. They don't know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

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

"Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

Verse ConceptsOvercoming Enemies

On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.

Verse ConceptsRight Sides

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

Verse ConceptsOppression, Nature OfLifting Hands

If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;

Verse ConceptsEcological ConcernsComplaining

Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.

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

Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

Verse ConceptsReasonThree MenOthers Not AnsweringNamed People Angry With OthersFamily And Friends

for he has not directed his words against me; neither will I answer him with your speeches.

Verse ConceptsOthers Not Answering

Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.

Verse ConceptsGod As Enemy

Why do you strive against him, because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?

Verse ConceptsComplaintsGod Is ImmanentComplaining

For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God."

Verse ConceptsClappingApplauseRebellion against Godrebellion

If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

Verse ConceptsReady For WarWarConflictBattle

The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.

Verse ConceptsQuiversJavelins

It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

Verse ConceptsGod Angry With IndividualsFriends

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