33,354 verses contain “The” (in the KJV: 32,434, in the BSB: 26,201) — showing 12,401–12,500
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Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side— men much older than your father.
Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
Are the consolations of God not enough for you, even words spoken gently to you?
Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
what was declared by wise men and was not concealed from their fathers,
Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them.
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.
He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.
Then Job answered and said,
Then Job answered:
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?
But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.
They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.
God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
My days have passed; my plans are broken off— even the desires of my heart.
They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”
How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
“How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.
Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”
Then Job answered and said,
Then Job answered:
These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.
Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,
Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.
Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth,
Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.
His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
His sons will seek the favor of the poor, for his own hands must return his wealth.
His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.
That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.
He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading.
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
In the midst of his plenty, he will be distressed; the full force of misery will come upon him.
It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
It is drawn out of his back, the gleaming point from his liver. Terrors come over him.