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Job 18:4

Job 18:4 is verse 4 of Job chapter 18, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

You who tear yourself in anger— should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?

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King James Version

He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

World English Bible

You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?

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Job 18:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 “How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.

3 Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?

4 You who tear yourself in anger— should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?

5 Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.

6 The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 5:2

For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.

Job 13:14

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

Job 16:9

His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.

Jonah 4:9

Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”

Mark 9:18

Whenever it seizes him, it throws him to the ground. He foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked Your disciples to drive it out, but they were unable.”

Luke 9:39

A spirit keeps seizing him, and he screams abruptly. It throws him into convulsions so that he foams at the mouth. It keeps mauling him and rarely departs from him.

Job 40:8

Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?

Ezekiel 9:9

He replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.’

Job 14:18

But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and a rock is dislodged from its place,

Isaiah 54:10

Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

Matthew 24:35

Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.

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