Job 12:18

Bishops' Bible (1568)

He taketh away the subiection of the people from their kinges, and girdeth their loynes with a bonde.

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  • Ps 116:16 : 16 It is euen so O God, for I am thy seruaunt and the sonne of thy handemayde: thou hast loosed my bondes in sunder.
  • Dan 2:21 : 21 He chaungeth the times and seasons, he taketh away kinges, he setteth vp kinges: he geueth wysdome vnto the wyse, and vnderstanding to those that vnderstande.
  • Jer 52:31-34 : 31 In the thirtie and seuenth yere after that Iehoakim the kyng of Iuda was caryed away, in the fiue and twentith day of the twelft moneth, Euilmerodach kyng of Babylon (the same yere that he raigned) gaue Iehoakim the kyng of Iuda his pardon, and let hym out of prison, 32 And spake louyngly to hym, and set his throne aboue the thrones of the other kynges that were with hym in Babylon. 33 He chaunged also the clothes of his prison, yea and did eate with hym all his life long. 34 And he had a continuall lyuyng geuen hym of the kyng of Babylon, euery day a certayne thyng alowed hym, all the dayes of his life, vntyll he dyed.
  • 2 Chr 33:11-14 : 11 Wherfore the Lord brought vpon them the captaynes of the hoast of the king of the Assyrians, whiche toke Manasse in holde, and bounde him with chaynes, and caried him to Babylon. 12 And when he was in tribulation, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled him selfe exceedingly before the God of his fathers, 13 And made intercession to him: and God was intreated of him, and hearde his prayer, and brought him againe to Hierusalem into his kingdome: and then Manasse knewe that the Lorde was God. 14 After this he buylt a wall without the citie of Dauid on the west side of Gion, in the valley, as they came to the fishe gate, and round about Ophel, & brought it vp of a very great heyght, and put captaynes of warre in all the strong cities of Iuda.
  • Rev 19:16 : 16 And hath on his vesture and on his thygh a name written, King of kinges, and Lorde of lordes.

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  • Job 12:19-25
    7 verses
    82%

    19He leadeth away the great men into captiuitie, and turneth the mightie vpside downe.

    20He stoppeth the mouth of them that speake trueth, & disapoynteth the aged of their reason.

    21He powreth contempt vpon princes, and maketh the strength of the mightie weake.

    22Loke what lyeth hid in darkenesse he declareth it openly, and the very shadowe of death bringeth he to light.

    23He both increaseth the people and destroyeth them, he maketh them to multiplie, and diminisheth them.

    24He taketh away the hearte of them that be heades of ye people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in the wildernesse out of the way.

    25They grope in the darke without light, and he maketh them to stacker like a drunken man.

  • Job 12:14-17
    4 verses
    79%

    14Beholde if he breake downe a thing, who can set it vp againe? yf he shut a thing, who wyll open it?

    15Beholde, if he withholde the waters, they drye vp: yf he let them go, they destroy the earth.

    16With him is strength and wysdome: both the deceauer and he that is deceaued are his.

    17He carieth away the wyse men as it were a spoyle, and bringeth the iudges out of their wittes.

  • 8That they may bynde their kynges in chaynes: and their nobles with iron fetters.

  • 8But if they be layde in chaynes, or bounde with the bondes of trouble,

  • 5Righteousnesse shalbe the gyrdle of his loynes, and faythfulnesse the gyrding vp of his raynes.

  • 11Because God hath loosed my corde and humbled me, they haue loosed the bridle before me.

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    3Let vs breake say they their bondes a sunder: and cast away their cordes from vs.

  • 22That he might enfourme his princes according to his minde: and teache his senatours wysdome.

  • 19Let it be vnto hym as the garment that he is wrapt in: and as the gyrdle that he is alway gyrded withall.

  • Jer 13:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1Thus saith the Lorde vnto me: Go thy way and get thee a lynnen girdle, and girde it about thy loynes, let it not be wet.

    2Then I got me a girdle accordyng to the commaundement of the Lorde, and put it about my loynes.

  • 23He bringeth princes to nothing, and the iudges of the earth as though they were not.

  • 12He turneth the heauens about by his gouernement, that they may do whatsoeuer he commaundeth them vpon the whole worlde.

  • 20The king sent and caused hym to be let go: yea the prince of the people opened a way foorth for hym.

  • 13And nowe I will breake of his yoke from vpon thee, and I will breake thy bondes in sunder.

  • 40He bringeth princes into contempt: & he maketh them to wander in a wildernesse where there is no way at all.

  • 4The bowe with the mightie men are broken, and they that were weake haue gyrde them selues with strength.

  • 12He abateth the spirite of princes: he is dreadfull to the kynges of the earth.

  • 21He chaungeth the times and seasons, he taketh away kinges, he setteth vp kinges: he geueth wysdome vnto the wyse, and vnderstanding to those that vnderstande.

  • 15And girded with girdles vpon their loynes and with dyed attire vpon their heades, lokyng all like princes, after the maner of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the lande where they were borne.

  • 24He shall destroy the mightie without seeking, and shall set other in their steede.

  • Job 36:15-16
    2 verses
    67%

    15The poore shall he deliuer out of his affliction, and rounde them in the eare when they be in trouble.

    16Euen so would he take thee out of the straite place, into a brode place in the which there is no straitnes: yea, & make thy table quiet replenished with fatnesse.

  • 26A wyse kyng disperseth the vngodly, and bringeth the wheele ouer them.

  • 21And with thy garmentes wyll I clothe hym, and with thy girdle wyll I strength hym: thy power also wyll I commit into his hande, and he shalbe a father of such as dwell in Hierusalem, and in the house of Iuda.

  • 6And this is the cause that pride compasse them rounde about: and crueltie couereth them as a garment.

  • 4Like as when a king geueth a charge, his commaundement is mightie: Euen so, who may say vnto him, what doest thou?

  • 39Thou hast gyrded me with strength vnto battayle: thou hast made them to bowe downe vnder me who haue rysen vp agaynst me.

  • 32It is God that hath gyrded me with valiauntnesse of warre: and he hath made my way playne.

  • 11He bindeth the fluddes that they do not ouerflow: and the thing that is hid bringeth he to light.

  • 18For the vehemencie of sorowe is my garment chaunged, whiche compasseth me about as the coller of my coote.

  • 10They let hym go naked without clothing, and haue taken away the sheafe of the hungrie.

  • 10Who geueth victorie vnto kynges: who redeemeth Dauid his seruaunt from peryll of the sworde.

  • 7God looseth those that be bounde: God geueth syght to the blynde.

  • 14Lyke as the kinges and lordes of the earth, which haue buylded them selues speciall places,

  • 19I wyll driue thee from thy place, and out of thy dwellyng shal he ouerthrowe thee.

  • 22He drue the mightie after hym with his power, and when he was gotten vp no man was sure of lyfe.

  • 17Is this he that made the worlde in a maner waste, and layde the cities to the grounde, which let not his prisoners go out?

  • 6Then chaunged the king his countenaunce, & his thoughtes troubled hym, so that the ioyntes of his loynes were loosed, and his knees smote one against the other.

  • 8For in that day saith the Lorde of hoastes, I wyll take his yoke from of thy necke, and breake thy bondes, and straungers shall no more haue dominion ouer them:

  • 13His archers compasse me rounde about, he woundeth my raines, and doth not spare, my bowels hath he powred vpon the grounde.