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Job 19:29

Job 19:29 is verse 29 of Job chapter 19, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”

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King James Version

Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

World English Bible

be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”

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Job 19:27–29 · Berean Standard Bible

27 I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!

28 If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’

29 then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”

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Cross-references

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

Job 13:7

Will you speak wickedly on God’s behalf or speak deceitfully for Him?

Job 13:8

Would you show Him partiality or argue in His defense?

Job 13:9

Would it be well when He examined you? Could you deceive Him like a man?

Job 13:10

Surely He would rebuke you if you secretly showed partiality.

Job 13:11

Would His majesty not terrify you? Would the dread of Him not fall upon you?

Romans 13:1

Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which is from God. The authorities that exist have been appointed by God.

Romans 13:2

Consequently, whoever resists authority is opposing what God has set in place, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.

Romans 13:3

For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the one in authority? Then do what is right, and you will have his approval.

Romans 13:4

For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not carry the sword in vain. He is God’s servant, an agent of retribution to the wrongdoer.

Psalms 58:10

The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.

Psalms 58:11

Then men will say, “There is surely a reward for the righteous! There is surely a God who judges the earth!”

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.

Matthew 7:1

“Do not judge, or you will be judged.

Matthew 7:2

For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

James 4:11

Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.

James 4:12

There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

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