Job 21:27 Cross References - EJ2000

²⁷ ¶ Behold, I know your thoughts and the imaginations which ye devise against me.

⁸ Even as I have seen, those that plow iniquity and sow wickedness, reap the same. ⁹ By the breath of God they perish, and by the spirit of his anger they are consumed. ¹⁰ The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. ¹¹ The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.

³ I have seen the foolish taking root, but at the same time I cursed his habitation. ⁴ His sons are far from saving health, and they shall be crushed in the gate, and there shall be no one to deliver them. ⁵ The hungry shall eat up his harvest, and even take it out from among the thorns, and the thirsty shall drink up their substance.

³ Shall God pervert that which is right or shall the Almighty pervert justice? ⁴ Because thy sons sinned against him, he cast them away in the place of their rebellion; ⁵ if thou would seek God early and make thy supplication to the Almighty, ⁶ if thou wert pure and upright, surely now he would awake upon thee and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

²⁰ The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden from the violent. ²¹ Fearful sounds are in his ears; in peace the destroyer shall come upon him. ²² He will not believe that he shall return out of darkness, and he is always watching the sword. ²³ He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is prepared for him. ²⁴ Tribulation and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. ²⁵ Because he extended his hand against God and strengthens himself against the Almighty, ²⁶ he shall run him through in the neck, upon the thick shoulder pieces of his shields; ²⁷ for he covered his face with his fatness and made collops of fat on his flanks; ²⁸ and he dwelt in desolate cities and in houses which no one inhabited, which were in heaps. ²⁹ He shall not become rich, nor shall his strength be established, neither shall he extend his beauty upon the earth. ³⁰ He shall not escape from the darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth he shall perish. ³¹ He shall not be established; in vanity he shall err; therefore, he shall be changed into vanity. ³² He shall be cut off before his time, and his branch shall not be green. ³³ He shall shake off his sour grapes as the vine and shall cast off his flower as the olive. ³⁴ For the congregation of the hypocrites shall be made desolate, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery. ³⁵ They conceive pain and bring forth iniquity, and their belly meditates deceit.

⁵ that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

²⁹ This is the portion of a wicked man from God and the heritage that God appoints unto him by his word.

³ Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

⁷ ¶ And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz, the Temanite, My wrath has been kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken by me in uprightness, as my slave Job has.

⁴ They run and prepare themselves when I have committed no iniquity; awake to help me and behold.

⁸⁶ All thy commandments are of the same truth; they persecute me wrongfully; help me.

²² Then Jesus, knowing their thoughts and answering them said, What reason ye in your hearts?

¹⁹ For this is due to grace, if a man for conscience toward God endures grief, suffering wrongfully.