'Set' in the Bible

And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, 'Hast thou set thy heart against My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God, and turning aside from evil?'

And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, 'Hast thou set thy heart unto My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God and turning aside from evil? and still he is keeping hold on his integrity, and thou dost move Me against him to swallow him up for nought!'

Thus Job's three friends heard of this calamity that had come upon him. So each set out from his [own] place: Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. And they met together to come to console him and to comfort him.

Both small and great are there,and the slave is set free from his master.

"But as for me, I would seek God, and to God I would set forth my case.

To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

“Am I the sea, or the sea monster,That You set a guard over me?

What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?

There is not yet a mediator between us, who would set his hand on the two of us,

If thou set thy heart aright, And stretch out thy hands toward him;

Lo, I pray you, I have set in order the cause, I have known that I am righteous.

“You put my feet in the stocksAnd watch all my paths;You set a limit for the soles of my feet,

Since man’s days are determinedand the number of his months depends on You,and since You have set limits he cannot pass,

O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves.

I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.

When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak.

Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His sayings in thy heart.

So as to set on the dust a defence, And on a rock of the valleys a covering.

I would set my cause in order before him, And fill my mouth with arguments.

“Why does the Almighty not set seasons for judgment?Why do those who know Him not see His days [for punishment of the wicked]?

I will never declare that you three are in the right; until I die, I will not set aside my integrity!

The house he built is like a moth’s cocoonor a booth set up by a watchman.

An end hath he set to darkness, And to all perfection he is searching, A stone of darkness and death-shade.

Proud beasts have not set foot on it, and no lion has passed along it.

On the flinty rock man has set to work with his hand; he has overturned mountains at their bases.

It is not set in the balance with gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, and the sapphire.

The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be compared to it, neither shall it be set in the balance with pure gold.

He set in place ordinances for the rain; and determined the pathway for thunder that accompanies lightning.

I set an example of the way to live, as a leader would; I lived like a king among his army; like one who comforts mourners."

But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

And he hath not set in array words for me, And with your sayings I do not answer him.

If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.

“Man is also disciplined with pain on his bed,And with unceasing complaint in his bones,

If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;

He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.

He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne doth he even set them for ever; and they are exalted.

And the profane in heart set the face, They cry not when He hath bound them.

Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.

Let us know what we say to Him, We set not in array because of darkness.

Who set its measurement? Am I to assume you know? Who stretched a boundary line over it?

On what were its bases set? Who laid its corner stone

And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,

and I said, 'You shall come up to here, but you shall not go further, and here it will set [a boundary] {for your proud surging waves}'?

Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?

Who set the wild donkey free?Who released the swift donkey from its harness?

“Will you really annul My judgment and set it aside as void?Will you condemn Me [your God] that you may [appear to] be righteous and justified?