Job 27:2

New International Version

“As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter,

Cross References

2 Samuel 2:27

Joab answered, “As surely as God lives, if you had not spoken, the men would have continued pursuing them until morning.”

1 Kings 17:1

Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.”

1 Kings 18:15

Elijah said, “As the Lord Almighty lives, whom I serve, I will surely present myself to Ahab today.”

2 Kings 4:27

When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she took hold of his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone! She is in bitter distress, but the Lord has hidden it from me and has not told me why.”

Job 10:3

Does it please you to oppress me, to spurn the work of your hands, while you smile on the plans of the wicked?

Job 16:11

God has turned me over to the ungodly and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.

Job 19:6

then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me.

Job 23:16

God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

Job 34:5

“Job says, ‘I am innocent, but God denies me justice.

Job 35:2

“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am in the right, not God.’

Job 40:8

“Would you discredit my justice? Would you condemn me to justify yourself?

Job 9:17

He would crush me with a storm and multiply my wounds for no reason.

Job 9:18

He would not let me catch my breath but would overwhelm me with misery.

Isaiah 40:27

Why do you complain, Jacob? Why do you say, Israel, “My way is hidden from the Lord; my cause is disregarded by my God”?

Jeremiah 12:16

And if they learn well the ways of my people and swear by my name, saying, ‘As surely as the Lord lives’—even as they once taught my people to swear by Baal—then they will be established among my people.

Jeremiah 4:2

and if in a truthful, just and righteous way you swear, ‘As surely as the Lord lives,’ then the nations will invoke blessings by him and in him they will boast.”

Jeremiah 5:2

Although they say, ‘As surely as the Lord lives,’ still they are swearing falsely.”

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, people of Israel?’

Numbers 14:21

Nevertheless, as surely as I live and as surely as the glory of the Lord fills the whole earth,

Ruth 3:13

Stay here for the night, and in the morning if he wants to do his duty as your guardian-redeemer, good; let him redeem you. But if he is not willing, as surely as the Lord lives I will do it. Lie here until morning.”

1 Samuel 14:39

As surely as the Lord who rescues Israel lives, even if the guilt lies with my son Jonathan, he must die.” But not one of them said a word.

1 Samuel 14:45

But the men said to Saul, “Should Jonathan die—he who has brought about this great deliverance in Israel? Never! As surely as the Lord lives, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground, for he did this today with God’s help.” So the men rescued Jonathan, and he was not put to death.

1 Samuel 20:21

Then I will send a boy and say, ‘Go, find the arrows.’ If I say to him, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them here,’ then come, because, as surely as the Lord lives, you are safe; there is no danger.

1 Samuel 25:26

And now, my lord, as surely as the Lord your God lives and as you live, since the Lord has kept you from bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hands, may your enemies and all who are intent on harming my lord be like Nabal.

1 Samuel 25:34

Otherwise, as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, who has kept me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, not one male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by daybreak.”