Job 16:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ “O earth, do not cover my blood; let my outcry find no resting place.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ O earth, cover not thou my blood, And let my cry have no place.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry have no resting-place [where it will cease being heard].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ O earth, cover not thou my blood, And let my cry have no resting-place.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Earth, don’t cover my blood; let my outcry never cease.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ These things I have endured without iniquity in my hand, while I held pure prayers before God.

Job 16:18 Cross References

Ezekiel 24:7

For the blood she shed is inside it; she placed it on a bare rock; she did not pour it out on the ground, to cover it with earth.

Isaiah 26:21

For the Lord comes out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; the earth will disclose the blood shed on it and will no longer cover its slain.

Genesis 4:11

And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

Jeremiah 22:29

O land, land, land, hear the word of the Lord!

Isaiah 1:15

When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.

Job 27:9

Will God hear their cry when trouble comes upon them?

Nehemiah 4:5

Do not cover their guilt, and do not let their sin be blotted out from your sight, for they have raged against the builders.

Job 16:17

though there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

Job 16:19

Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.

Psalm 119:169

Let my cry come before you, O Lord; give me understanding according to your word.