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Job 21

Job 21:27 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Behold, I know
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
your thoughts
machashabah (Hebrew #4284)
from 2803; a contrivance, i.e. (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice)
KJV usage: cunning (work), curious work, device(-sed), imagination, invented, means, purpose, thought.
Pronounce: makh-ash-aw-baw'
Origin: or machashebeth {makh-ash-eh'-beth}
, and the devices
mzimmah (Hebrew #4209)
a plan, usually evil (machination), sometimes good (sagacity)
KJV usage: (wicked) device, discretion, intent, witty invention, lewdness, mischievous (device), thought, wickedly.
Pronounce: mez-im-maw'
Origin: from 2161
which ye wrongfully imagine
chamac (Hebrew #2554)
to be violent; by implication, to maltreat
KJV usage: make bare, shake off, violate, do violence, take away violently, wrong, imagine wrongfully.
Pronounce: khaw-mas'
Origin: a primitive root
against me.

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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I know.
Job 4:8‑11• 8Even as I have seen, they that plough iniquity and sow mischief, reap the same.
 9By the breath of +God they perish, and by the blast of his nostrils are they consumed.
 10The roar of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken;
 11The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered. (Job 4:8‑11)
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Job 5:3‑5• 3I myself saw the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
 4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer:
 5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh even out of the thorns; and the snare gapeth for his substance. (Job 5:3‑5)
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Job 8:3‑6• 3Doth *God pervert judgment, and the Almighty pervert justice?
 4If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression.
 5If thou seek earnestly unto *God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,
 6If thou be pure and upright, surely now he will awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous; (Job 8:3‑6)
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Job 15:20‑35• 20All his days the wicked man is tormented, and numbered years are allotted to the violent.
 21The sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer cometh upon him.
 22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is singled out for the sword.
 23He wandereth abroad for bread,--where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
 24Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for the battle.
 25For he hath stretched out his hand against *God, and strengthened himself against the Almighty:
 26He runneth against him, with outstretched neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers;
 27For he hath covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon his flanks.
 28And he dwelleth in desolate cities, in houses that no man inhabiteth, which are destined to become heaps.
 29He shall not become rich, neither shall his substance continue, and their possessions shall not extend upon the earth.
 30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches; and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
 31Let him not trust in vanity: he is deceived, for vanity shall be his recompense;
 32It shall be complete before his day, and his branch shall not be green.
 33He shall shake off his unripe grapes as a vine, and shall cast his flower as an olive.
 34For the family of the ungodly shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
 35They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their belly prepareth deceit. (Job 15:20‑35)
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Job 20:5,29• 5The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment?
 29This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by *God. (Job 20:5,29)
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Luke 5:22• 22But Jesus, knowing their reasonings, answering said to them, Why reason ye in your hearts? (Luke 5:22)
ye wrongfully.
Job 32:3• 3and against his three friends was his anger kindled, because they found no answer, and yet condemned Job. (Job 32:3)
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Job 42:7• 7And it came to pass after Jehovah had spoken these words to Job, that Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, Mine anger is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken rightly of me, like my servant Job. (Job 42:7)
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Psa. 59:4• 4They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to meet me, and behold. (Psa. 59:4)
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Psa. 119:86• 86All thy commandments are faithfulness. They persecute me wrongfully: help thou me. (Psa. 119:86)
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1 Peter 2:19• 19For this is acceptable, if one, for conscience sake towards God, endure griefs, suffering unjustly. (1 Peter 2:19)
• He charges the friends (vers. 27-31). (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Lo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me.