Job 27:2

WEB

²“As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter

KJV

²As God^[+] liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;

BSB

²“As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice— the Almighty, who has embittered my soul—

FBV

²“^[+] I promise you—as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter,

Extra References

Job 34:5

⁵For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right.

²⁷When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is troubled within her; and the LORD has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”

Numbers 14:21

²¹but in very deed—as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the LORD’s glory—

Jeremiah 5:2

²Though they say, ‘As the LORD lives,’ surely they swear falsely.”

1 Samuel 14:45

⁴⁵The people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As the LORD lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he has worked with God today!” So the people rescued Jonathan, so he didn’t die.

1 Samuel 25:26

²⁶Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD lives and as your soul lives, since the LORD has withheld you from blood guiltiness and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies and those who seek evil to my lord be as Nabal.

2 Samuel 2:27

²⁷Joab said, “As God ^[+] lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother.”

Ruth 1:20-21

²⁰She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi.^[+] Call me Mara,^[+] for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. ²¹I went out full, and the LORD has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”

Isaiah 40:27

²⁷Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God”?

1 Kings 17:1

¹Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”