Job 39:7
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7 He scorns the tumult of the city;
he hears not the shouts of the driver.
Job 3:18
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18 There the prisoners are at ease together;
they hear not the voice of (A)the taskmaster.
Exodus 5:18
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18 Go now and work. No straw will be given you, but you must still deliver the same number of bricks.”
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Isaiah 58:3
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3 (A)‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not?
Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’
Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure,[a]
(B)and oppress all your workers.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 58:3 Or pursue your own business
Isaiah 31:4
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4 For thus the Lord said to me,
(A)“As a lion or a young lion growls over his prey,
and when a band of shepherds is called out against him
he is not terrified by their shouting
or daunted at their noise,
(B)so the Lord of hosts will come down
to fight[a] on Mount Zion and on its hill.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 31:4 The Hebrew words for hosts and to fight sound alike
Job 39:18
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18 When she rouses herself to flee,[a]
she laughs at the horse and his rider.
Footnotes
- Job 39:18 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Exodus 5:13-16
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13 The (A)taskmasters were urgent, saying, “Complete your work, your daily task each day, as when there was straw.” 14 And the foremen of the people of Israel, whom Pharaoh's (B)taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, “Why have you not done all your task of making bricks today and yesterday, as in the past?”
15 Then the foremen of the people of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, “Why do you treat your servants like this? 16 No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ And behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.”
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