39 occurrences in 12 translations

'Own' in the Bible

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

Verse ConceptsBad FriendsGood FriendsLove, For One AnotherSympathyVisitingComfort, Of FriendsCondolenceVisiting Of The SickVisitationThree MenMeeting PeopleBest FriendsLosing A FriendLosing FriendsTrue Friends

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.

Verse ConceptsBlacknessBlackGod Is JustColors, BlackEclipse

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

Verse ConceptsCraftinessIntelligenceUnreliabilityWisdom, Source Of HumanWorldly WisdomFalse Wisdom

"Look! We have thought all this through, and what we've said is true; So please listen and learn for your own good!"

Verse ConceptsInvestigating

If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

Verse ConceptsSelf CondemnationHuman ImperfectionPlea Of Innocencecondemnation

Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

Verse ConceptsClean, Spiritual Use

Then I would speak and not fear Him.But that is not the case; I am on my own. >

Verse ConceptsThose Frightened Of God

“The tents of the destroyers prosper;And those who provoke God are [apparently] secure,Whom God brings into their power.

Verse ConceptsSecurityTentsApparent InjusticeThe Wicked Prosperthieves

“He loosens the bond of kingsAnd binds their loins with a loincloth.

Verse ConceptsGod Freeing Captives

Why do I put myself at riskand take my life in my own hands?

Verse ConceptsDamage To The Bodyrisk

Pay attention to what I have to say and listen to my testimony with your own ears."

Verse ConceptsPay Attention To People!

He feels only the pain of his own bodyand mourns only for himself.

Verse ConceptsBodySelfishnessActing AloneMourning In Regret

Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

Verse ConceptsLipscondemnation

The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

Verse ConceptsWeakness, Physical

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

Verse ConceptsNets

He has no children or descendants within his own people; and no survivors where he once lived.

Verse ConceptsNo SurvivorsReasons For Barrenness

I call for my servant, but he does not answer,even if I beg him with my own mouth.

Verse ConceptsBeggarsServants, BadBeggingOthers Not AnsweringExamples Of Bad Servants

My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.

Verse ConceptsOffencePeople Being Hatedreuniting

whom I will see for myself. My own eyes will look at him there won't be anyone else for me! He is the culmination of my innermost desire."

Verse ConceptsHeart, HumanHuman Desiresmyself

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

Verse Conceptsdung and manurePeople Passing AwayDefecationpoop

His children will beg from the poor,for his own hands must give back his wealth.

Verse ConceptsBlessings Of The Poor

But their prosperity is not of their own doing.The counsel of the wicked is far from me!

Verse ConceptsadvisersMan's Counsel

Let his own eyes see his demise;let him drink from the Almighty’s wrath!

Verse ConceptsdrinkingActing For Oneself

“They harvest their fodder in a field [that is not their own],And glean the vineyard of the wicked.

Verse ConceptsGleaningVineyard

Then He saw wisdom and declared it;He established it and searched it out.

Verse ConceptsThings Revealed

"But now they mock me; men who are far younger than I, whose fathers I would have hated to entrust with my own sheep dogs.

Verse ConceptsdogsMockeryOld Age, Attitudes ToRidicule, Objects OfDisrespect For Old AgeDerisionDisdainFun

let my own wife grind grain for another man,and let other men sleep with her.

Verse ConceptsGrindingGrinding Food

if I have rejoiced because my wealth is greator because my own hand has acquired so much,

Verse ConceptsRiches, Dangers OfSatisfied With RichesWealth And Prosperity

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Verse ConceptsPride, Examples OfThree MenIndividuals Being Silent

Elihu’s anger burned against Job’s three friends because they had found no answer [and were unable to determine Job’s error], and yet they had condemned Job and declared him to be in the wrong [and responsible for his own afflictions].

Verse ConceptsReasonThree MenOthers Not AnsweringNamed People Angry With OthersFamily And Friends

That He may turn man aside from his conduct,And keep him from pride;

Verse ConceptsCausing People To Turn

Job has been speaking from his own ignorance, and what he has to say lacks insight!

Verse ConceptsInsightLack Of InsightFoolish PeopleThose Who Were Ignorantspeakingignorance

“Men therefore fear Him;He does not regard nor respect any who are wise in heart [in their own understanding and conceit].”

Verse ConceptsWorldly WisdomFalse WisdomRespecting Your Body

She treats her young harshly, as if they were not her own,with no fear that her labor may have been in vain.

Verse ConceptsStrictness

Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.

Verse Conceptsconfessing

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