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Job 21:27

See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Self-Righteousness;   Wicked (People);   The Topic Concordance - Wickedness;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Wealth;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I know your thoughts very well,the schemes by which you would wrong me.
Hebrew Names Version
"Behold, I know your thoughts, The devices with which you would wrong me.
King James Version
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
English Standard Version
"Behold, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me.
New Century Version
"I know very well your thoughts and your plans to wrong me.
New English Translation
"Yes, I know what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
Amplified Bible
"Behold, I know your thoughts, And the plots by which you would wrong me.
New American Standard Bible
"Behold, I know your thoughts, And the plots you devise against me.
World English Bible
"Behold, I know your thoughts, The devices with which you would wrong me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the enterprises, wherewith ye do me wrong.
Legacy Standard Bible
"Behold, I know your thoughts,And the plans by which you do violence against me.
Berean Standard Bible
Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
Contemporary English Version
My friends, I know that you are plotting against me.
Complete Jewish Bible
"Look, I know what you are thinking and your plans to do me wrong.
Darby Translation
Lo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Easy-to-Read Version
"But I know what you are thinking, and I know you want to hurt me.
George Lamsa Translation
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which you wrongfully imagine against me.
Good News Translation
I know what spiteful thoughts you have.
Lexham English Bible
"Look, I know your thoughts and the schemes you devise against me.
Literal Translation
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the plots you would wrongfully do against me;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But I knowe what ye thinke, yee and what ye ymagin agaynst me vnrightuously.
American Standard Version
Behold, I know your thoughts, And the devices wherewith ye would wrong me.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
King James Version (1611)
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the deuices which yee wrongfully imagine against me.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Beholde, I know what ye thinke, yea and the subtiltie that ye imagine against me.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So I know you, that ye presumptuously attack me:
English Revised Version
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Certis Y knowe youre wickid thouytis, and sentensis ayens me.
Update Bible Version
Look, I know your thoughts, And the devices with which you would wrong me.
Webster's Bible Translation
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices [which] ye wrongfully imagine against me.
New King James Version
"Look, I know your thoughts, And the schemes with which you would wrong me.
New Living Translation
"Look, I know what you're thinking. I know the schemes you plot against me.
New Life Bible
"See, I know your thoughts and your plans to wrong me.
New Revised Standard
"Oh, I know your thoughts, and your schemes to wrong me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Lo! I know your plans, and the devices, wherewith ye would do me violence!
Douay-Rheims Bible
Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against me.
Revised Standard Version
"Behold, I know your thoughts, and your schemes to wrong me.
Young's Literal Translation
Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully.
THE MESSAGE
"I'm not deceived. I know what you're up to, the plans you're cooking up to bring me down. Naively you claim that the castles of tyrants fall to pieces, that the achievements of the wicked collapse. Have you ever asked world travelers how they see it? Have you not listened to their stories Of evil men and women who got off scot-free, who never had to pay for their wickedness? Did anyone ever confront them with their crimes? Did they ever have to face the music? Not likely—they're given fancy funerals with all the trimmings, Gently lowered into expensive graves, with everyone telling lies about how wonderful they were.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Behold, I know your thoughts, And the plans by which you would wrong me.

Contextual Overview

27 See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me; 28 For you say, Where is the house of the ruler, and where is the tent of the evil-doer? 29 Have you not put the question to the travellers, and do you not take note of their experience? 30 How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath? 31 Who will make his way clear to his face? and if he has done a thing, who gives him punishment for it? 32 He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it. 33 The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him. 34 Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I know: Job 4:8-11, Job 5:3-5, Job 8:3-6, Job 15:20-35, Job 20:5, Job 20:29, Luke 5:22

ye wrongfully: Job 32:3, Job 42:7, Psalms 59:4, Psalms 119:86, 1 Peter 2:19

Reciprocal: Job 9:29 - General Job 13:4 - ye are forgers Job 16:17 - Not for Job 19:7 - I cry Job 20:19 - Because Job 22:5 - not thy Job 22:20 - our substance Job 33:32 - General Job 36:4 - my John 9:3 - Neither 1 Corinthians 13:5 - thinketh James 2:4 - judges

Cross-References

Genesis 21:22
Now at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, said to Abraham, I see that God is with you in all you do.
Genesis 21:23
Now, then, give me your oath, in the name of God, that you will not be false to me or to my sons after me, but that as I have been good to you, so you will be to me and to this land where you have been living.
Genesis 21:28
And Abraham put seven young lambs of the flock on one side by themselves.
Genesis 21:31
So he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there the two of them had given their oaths.
Genesis 31:44
Come, let us make an agreement, you and I; and let it be for a witness between us.
1 Samuel 18:3
Then Jonathan and David made an agreement together, because of Jonathan's love for David.
Proverbs 17:8
An offering of money is like a stone of great price in the eyes of him who has it: wherever he goes, he does well.
Proverbs 18:16
A man's offering makes room for him, letting him come before great men.
Proverbs 18:24
There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.
Proverbs 21:14
By a secret offering wrath is turned away, and the heat of angry feelings by money in the folds of the robe.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, I know your thoughts,.... God only truly, really, and in fact, knows the thoughts of men; this is his peculiar prerogative, he only is the searcher of the hearts and the trier of the reins of the children of men. Christ, the eternal Logos, or Word, by his being a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart, appears to be truly God. No man knows the things of a than, or the thoughts of his heart, but himself, and such to whomsoever he reveals them; but a wise and understanding man, a careful observer of men and things, may make some shrewd guesses at the thoughts of others, by hints and half words, or sentences expressed by them; by the show of their countenance, which is the index of the mind, and by the gestures and motions of their bodies; by these they may in a good measure judge whether they like or dislike, approve or, disapprove, of what is said to them: and thus Job knew the thoughts of his friends, that they were different from his, that the sentiments of their minds did not agree with his; and though he had so clearly proved his point, yet he saw by their looks and gestures that what he had said was not satisfactory to them; that they did not think it a sufficient confutation of their arguments, and a full answer to their objections:

and the devices [which] ye wrongfully imagine against me; that he was an hypocrite, a wicked man, guilty of crimes, and which they were devising to produce against him, and charge and load him with, as Eliphaz does in the following chapter; he knew they meant him in all that they had said concerning wicked men, and their afflictions, and what would be their portion at death, and after it; and though they did not name his name, they might as well have done it, since he was the man they struck at in all, particularly it, Job 20:5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Behold, I know your thoughts - That is, “I see that you are not satisfied, and that you are disposed still to maintain your former position. You will be ready to ask, Where “are” the proofs of the prosperity of the wicked? Where “are” the palaces of the mighty? Where “are” the dwelling places of ungodly men!”

And the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me - The course of sophistical argument which you pursue, the tendency and design of which is to prove that I am a wicked man. You artfully lay down the position, that the wicked must be, and are in fact, overwhelmed with calamities, and then you infer, that because “I” am overwhelmed in this manner, I “must be” a wicked man.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 21:27. I know your thoughts — Ye still think that, because I am grievously afflicted, I must therefore be a felonious transgressor.


 
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