Job 9:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

See, he goes past me and I see him not: he goes on before, but I have no knowledge of him.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 23:8-9 : 8 See, I go forward, but he is not there; and back, but I do not see him; 9 I am looking for him on the left hand, but there is no sign of him; and turning to the right, I am not able to see him.
  • Job 35:14 : 14 How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.
  • 1 Tim 6:16 : 16 Who only has life for ever, living in light to which no man may come near; whom no man has seen or is able to see: to whom be honour and power for ever. So be it.
  • Ps 77:19 : 19 Your way was in the sea, and your road in the great waters; there was no knowledge of your footsteps.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 23:8-9
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    82%

    8See, I go forward, but he is not there; and back, but I do not see him;

    9I am looking for him on the left hand, but there is no sign of him; and turning to the right, I am not able to see him.

  • 10Who does great things not to be searched out; yes, wonders without number.

  • 12If he puts out his hand to take, by whom may it be turned back? who may say to him, What are you doing?

  • 21For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.

  • 4Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?

  • 36But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.

  • 8The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.

  • 9Who does great things outside our knowledge, wonders without number:

  • Job 22:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?

    14Thick clouds are covering him, so that he is unable to see; and he is walking on the arch of heaven.

  • Job 20:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.

    9The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him.

  • 1Why are times not stored up by the Ruler of all, and why do those who have knowledge of him not see his days?

  • Job 11:10-11
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    74%

    10If he goes on his way, shutting a man up and putting him to death, who may make him go back from his purpose?

    11For in his eyes men are as nothing; he sees evil and takes note of it.

  • 18If he is taken away from his place, then it will say, I have not seen you.

  • 3Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

  • 3Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.

  • Ps 139:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6Such knowledge is a wonder greater than my powers; it is so high that I may not come near it.

    7Where may I go from your spirit? how may I go in flight from you?

  • Job 19:7-8
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    73%

    7Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.

    8My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

  • 14For what has been ordered for me by him will be gone through to the end: and his mind is full of such designs.

  • 27Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.

  • 16Something was present before me, but I was not able to see it clearly; there was a form before my eyes: a quiet voice came to my ears, saying:

  • 25My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.

  • 27Why do you say, O Jacob, such words as these, O Israel, The Lord's eyes are not on my way, and my God gives no attention to my cause?

  • 14How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.

  • 32For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.

  • 21And now the light is not seen, for it is dark because of the clouds; but a wind comes, clearing them away.

  • 11I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world.

  • Job 9:2-4
    3 verses
    72%

    2Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?

    3If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.

    4He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?

  • 7No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?

  • Job 33:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?

    14For God gives his word in one way, even in two, and man is not conscious of it:

  • 23There is no searching out of the Ruler of all: his strength and his judging are great; he is full of righteousness, doing no wrong.

  • Job 36:25-26
    2 verses
    71%

    25All people are looking on it; man sees it from far.

    26Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out.

  • 14See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.

  • 19If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?

  • 32...

  • 3He goes after them safely, not touching the road with his feet.

  • 9Who does not see by all these that the hand of the Lord has done this?

  • 11He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.

  • 7Are you able to take God's measure, to make discovery of the limits of the Ruler of all?

  • 20Seeing much, but keeping nothing in mind; his ears are open, but there is no hearing.

  • 19Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;