Job 39:7
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7 It scorns the tumult of the city;
it does not hear the shouts of the driver.
Job 3:18
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18 There the prisoners are at ease together;
they do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
Exodus 5:18
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18 Go now and work, for no straw shall be given you, but you shall still deliver the same number of bricks.”
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Isaiah 58:3
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3 “Why do we fast, but you do not see?
Why humble ourselves, but you do not notice?”
Look, you serve your own interest on your fast day
and oppress all your workers.(A)
Isaiah 31:4
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4 For thus the Lord said to me,
“As a lion or a young lion growls over its prey
and, when a band of shepherds is called out against it,
is not terrified by their shouting
or daunted at their noise,
so the Lord of hosts will come down
to fight upon Mount Zion and upon its hill.(A)
Job 39:18
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18 When it spreads its plumes aloft,[a]
it laughs at the horse and its rider.
Footnotes
- 39.18 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Exodus 5:13-16
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13 The taskmasters urged them on, saying, “Complete your work, the same daily assignment as when you were given straw.”[a] 14 And the Israelite supervisors whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them were beaten and were asked, “Why did you not finish the required quantity of bricks yesterday and today, as you did before?”(A)
15 Then the Israelite supervisors came to Pharaoh and cried, “Why do you treat your servants like this? 16 No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ Look how your servants are beaten! But the fault is with you.”[b]
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