Job 21:27
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Job 21:27 in other translations
| BSB | Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me. |
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| WEB | “Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me. |
| ASV | Behold, I know your thoughts, And the devices wherewith ye would wrong me. |
| YLT | Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully. |
| DARBY | Lo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me. |
| BBE | See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me; |
| Webster | Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. |
What does Job 21:27 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 21:27-34
Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain
Job 21:27 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 21:27
- Luke 5:22
But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts?
- Psalms 119:86
All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
- 1 Peter 2:19
For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
- Job 42:7
And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
- Job 8:3-6
Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
- Job 15:20-35
The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. …
- Job 4:8-11
Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
- Job 20:29
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
- Job 32:3
Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
- Job 20:5
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
- Job 5:3-5
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them. Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
- Psalms 59:4
They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.
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Context
- Job 21:26
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
- Job 21:27
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
- Job 21:28
For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
Job 21:27 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | He aquí, yo conozco vuestros pensamientos, y las imaginaciones que contra mí forjáis. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Voici, je connais vos pensées, et vos plans contre moi pour me faire violence. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Siehe, ich kenne eure Gedanken, und die Anschläge, womit ihr mir Gewalt antut. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Certe novi cogitationes vestras, et sententias contra me iniquas. |