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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 plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
 9By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
 10The roaring 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 stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad. (Job 4:8‑11)
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Job 5:3‑5• 3I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
 4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
 5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance. (Job 5:3‑5)
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Job 8:3‑6• 3Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
 4If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
 5If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
 6If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. (Job 8:3‑6)
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Job 15:20‑35• 20The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
 21A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
 22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
 23He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
 24Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
 25For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
 26He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
 27Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
 28And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
 29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof 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 not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
 32It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
 33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
 34For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
 35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit. (Job 15:20‑35)
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Job 20:5,29• 5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
 29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God. (Job 20:5,29)
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Luke 5:22• 22But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts? (Luke 5:22)
ye wrongfully.
Job 32:3• 3Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job. (Job 32:3)
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Job 42:7• 7And 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 42:7)
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Psa. 59:4• 4They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold. (Psa. 59:4)
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Psa. 119:86• 86All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me. (Psa. 119:86)
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1 Peter 2:19• 19For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. (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.