Job 15:13 Cross References - NSB

¹³ »Why do you vent your rage against God and pour out such words from your mouth?

⁴ »God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?

³ »‘Does it please you to oppress me, to spurn the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?

²⁵ »He shakes his fist at God and vaunts (brags) (shows off) himself against the Almighty, ²⁶ »He defiantly charges against him with a thick, strong shield. ²⁷ »His face is covered with fat and his waist bulges with flesh.

⁶ »The tents of marauders prosper and those who provoke God are secure in what God’s hand brings them.

¹³ Keep your tongue from speaking evil and your lips from deceit.

¹³ »You have said terrible things about me,« said Jehovah of Hosts. »Yet you ask: ‘What have we said about you?’«

⁷ This is because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God. It is not subject to the law of God for it cannot be. ⁸ Those influenced by the sinful flesh cannot please God.

²⁶ If any man thinks he is religious, while he does not control his tongue but deceives his heart, this man's religion is vain (worthless) (useless).

² We all stumble in many things. If any do not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able to restrain (control) the whole body. ³ We put bits in horses' mouths that they may obey us. We guide their whole bodies. ⁴ Look at ships. They are large and are driven by rough winds. Yet a very small rudder can control them, wherever the captain wills. ⁵ The tongue also is a little member. It boasts great things. Consider how great a forest fire a small fire kindles! ⁶ The tongue is like fire, the place of iniquity among our members. It defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of our life. It is set ablaze like the ever-burning fires in the Valley of Hinnom (Greek: Gehenna: symbolic of total destruction).