Job 16:18
O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.
BSB
ASV
O earth, cover not thou my blood, And let my cry have no resting-place.
KJV
O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
O earth, cover not thou my blood - This is evidently an allusion to the murder of Abel, and the verse has been understood in two different ways: 1. Job here calls for justice against his destroyers. His blood is his life, which he considers as taken away by violence, and therefore calls for vengeance. Let my blood cry against my murderers, as the blood of Abel cried against Cain.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Isaiah 1:15When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
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Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.
Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.
And just as I had called and they would not listen, so when they called I would not listen, says the LORD of Hosts.
But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.
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Genesis 4:11Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
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For behold, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will reveal her bloodshed and will no longer conceal her slain.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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Isaiah 26:21For behold, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will reveal her bloodshed and will no longer conceal her slain.
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Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones
And when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony they had upheld.