Job 18 Cross References - ISV

¹ Bildad Speaks AgainBildad from Shuah replied, saying: ² “When are you going to stop your word hunt? Think first, and then we can talk. ³ Why do you think we’re like dumb animals? Do you think we’re stupid? ⁴ You’re tearing yourself to pieces in your anger. Will the land be abandoned because of you, or the rock be moved from its place?”
⁵ The Wicked are Trapped“Indeed, the light of the wicked is extinguished; the flame from his fire doesn’t shine. ⁶ Light in his tent is dark, and his lamp goes out above him. ⁷ His strong steps are restricted, and his own advice trips him up. ⁸ “For he has stumbled into a net with his own feet; he walked right into the network! ⁹ The trap seizes him by the heel; a snare tightens its hold on him. ¹⁰ A rope lies hidden in the dirt; a trap lies waiting for him where he is walking.”
¹¹ The Wicked Perish without Descendants“He is petrified by terror that surrounds him on all sides; they chase at his heels. ¹² He is starved for strength; and is ripe for a fall. ¹³ Something gnaws on his skin; a deadly disease consumes his limbs. ¹⁴ Torn from the security of his home, he is brought before the king of terrors. ¹⁵ “There’s nothing in his tent that belongs to him; sulfur is scattered all over his dwelling place. ¹⁶ His roots wither underneath, while his branches above are being cut off. ¹⁷ No one remembers him anywhere in the land; no one names streets in his honor. ¹⁸ He is driven away from light to darkness, made to wander the landscape. ¹⁹ He has no children or descendants within his own people; and no survivors where he once lived. ²⁰ People who live west of him are appalled at his fate; those who live east of him are seized with terror. ²¹ Indeed, the residences of the wicked are like this; and so are the homes of those who don’t know God.”

¹¹ Job’s Friends VisitWhen Job’s three friends heard all these tragedies that happened to him, they each traveled from their home towns to visit him. Eliphaz came from Teman, Bildad came from Shuah, and Zophar came from Naamath. They met together and went to console and comfort him.

¹ Bildad: God Rewards the GodlyThen in response, Bildad from Shuah said:

¹ Bildad Speaks a Third TimeBildad from Shuah responded and said:

⁷ Job’s Friends are RestoredAfter these words had been spoken by the LORD to Job, the LORD spoke to Eliphaz from Teman: “My anger is burning against you along with your two friends, since you haven’t spoken correctly about me, as did my servant Job. ⁸ So take seven bulls and seven rams and bring them to my servant Job. And bring a whole burnt offering for yourselves and my servant Job will pray for you. I’ll encourage him by not responding as your disgraceful folly deserves, since you didn’t speak about me correctly as did my servant Job. ⁹ So Eliphaz from Teman, Bildad from Shuah, and Zophar from Naamath did precisely as the LORD had spoken to them, because the LORD showed favor to Job.

⁵ Let darkness and deep gloom reclaim it; let clouds settle down on it; let blackness in mid-day terrify it. ⁶ Let darkness carry that night away; let it not take its place joyfully among the days of the year; let it not be entered into the calendar.

¹⁷ In that place, the wicked stop causing trouble, and there, those whose strength is exhausted are at rest.

² “How long will you keep talking like this? How long will you keep talking like a wind storm?

² “Shouldn’t a multitude of words be answered, or a person who talks too much be vindicated?

⁵ I wish you’d all just shut up. Then at least you would appear to be wise. ⁶ “Now listen to my dispute! Pay attention to my arguments.

² “I’ve heard many things like this. What miserable comforters you all are! ³ Will windy words like yours never end? What is upsetting you that you keep on arguing?

² “Listen carefully to my words; let this encourage all of you.

¹ Elihu Begins His Discourse “Now please listen to what I have to say, Job. Listen to every word!

¹³ Whoever answers before listening is both foolish and shameful.

¹⁹ You must understand this, my dear brothers. Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.

⁷ Wisdom Can Be Found in God’s Creation“Ask the wild animals, and they’ll teach you; the birds of the sky will tell you. ⁸ Or ask the green plants of the earth and they’ll teach you; let the fish in the sea tell you.

⁴ “Because you’re the one who closed their hearts to compassion; therefore, you won’t let them triumph.

¹⁰ Job Prepares for Death“Come here now, all of you, and I won’t find a wise person among you.

²² Then, I was too stupid and didn’t realize I was acting like a wild animal with you.

¹⁸ “As for human beings,” I told myself, “God puts them to the test, that they might see themselves as mere animals.”

¹⁰ Be devoted to each other with mutual affection. Excel at showing respect for each other.

² For wrath will slay a fool; zealous anger will kill the naive.

¹⁴ Why shouldn’t I bite my flesh or take my life in my hands?

¹⁸ “Mountains fall and crumble; rocks are dislodged from their places.

⁹ His anger tears me in his persistent resentment against me; he gnashes his teeth at me. My adversary glares at me.

⁸ Indeed would you annul my justice and condemn me, just so you can claim that you’re righteous?

¹⁰ For the mountains may collapse and the hills may reel, but my gracious love will not depart from you, neither will my covenant of peace totter,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

⁹ “The house of Israel and Judah is guilty—and theirs is a stubborn guilt, at that!” he replied to me. “The land is filled with blood, and the city overflows with injustice, because they keep saying, ‘The LORD has abandoned the land,’ and ‘The LORD isn’t watching.’

⁹ Then God asked Jonah, “Is your anger about the vine plant justified?”
And he answered, “Absolutely! I’m so angry I could die!”

³⁵ Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will never disappear.”

¹⁸ Whenever it brings on a seizure, it throws him to the ground. Then he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes stiff. So I asked your disciples to drive the spirit out, but they didn’t have the power.”

³⁹ Without warning a spirit takes control of him, and he suddenly screams, goes into convulsions, and foams at the mouth. The spirit mauls him and refuses to leave him.

⁵ The wicked triumph only briefly; the joy of the godless is momentary.

¹⁷ God will Punish the Wicked“How often do the wicked have their lights put out? Does calamity ever fall on them? Will God in his anger ever apportion their destruction?

¹⁹ But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness, and they do not know what they are stumbling over.

⁹ The light of the righteous shines, but the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

²⁰ Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the deepest darkness.

²⁰ For the wicked man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.

¹¹ Look! All those who light a fire, who surround yourselves with flaming torches— walk by the light of your fire, and by the torches that you have set ablaze! This is what you will receive from my hand: you will lie down in torment.

²⁸ For you, LORD, make my lamp shine; my God enlightens my darkness.

²³ The light from a lamp will never shine within you again. The voice of a bridegroom and bride will never be heard within you again. For your merchants were the important people of the world, and all the nations were deceived by your witchcraft.

³¹ Just then, someone told David, “Ahithophel is one of Absalom’s conspirators!”
So David prayed, “LORD, please turn Ahithophel’s counsel into foolishness.”

¹⁴ Absalom and all of the Israelis replied, “The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than Ahithophel’s!”
Hushai Warns DavidBut the LORD had planned to circumvent the sound advice of Ahithophel so the LORD could bring Absalom to destruction.

¹² He frustrates the plans of the crafty; so that what they work for never succeeds. ¹³ He captures the wise in their own craftiness, bringing a quick end to their cunning advice.

⁶ Your own mouth is condemning you, not I; your own lips will testify against you.”

²² Even though he is satiated and self-sufficient, he suffers— everyone in any sort of trouble will attack him.

¹⁶ God is an All-Powerful and Just Teacher“Indeed, he drew you away from the brink of distress to a spacious place without constraints, filling your festive table with bountiful food.

³⁶ You make a broad place for my steps, so my feet won’t slip.

¹⁰ The LORD makes void the counsel of nations; he frustrates the plans of peoples.

³⁰ they did not want my advice, and they rejected all my correction. ³¹ They will eat the fruit of their way, and they will be filled with their own devices. ³² Indeed, the waywardness of the naïve will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.

¹² When you walk, your step will not be hindered, and when you run, you will not stumble.

⁶ Indeed, that glory will be carried to Assyria— it will become a present for an avenging king. Ephraim will be disgraced, and Israel will become ashamed of its decision.

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is nonsense in God’s sight. For it is written, “He catches the wise with their own trickery,”

⁹ If the king approves, let it be decreed that they’re to be destroyed, and I’ll measure out 10,000 silver talents and bring it to the king’s treasury for those who will do the work.”

¹³ Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him. His wise friends and his wife Zeresh told him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is one of the Jewish people, you won’t prevail against him. Instead, you will surely fall before him.”

⁵ Then King Ahasuerus asked Queen Esther, “Who is this, and where is the person who would dare do this?”

¹⁰ So they hanged Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai, and then the king’s anger subsided.

¹⁰ That’s why disaster surrounds you, terror suddenly overwhelms you,

¹⁵ The nations have sunk down into the pit they made, their feet are ensnared in the trap they set.

⁸ Let destruction come upon them unawares, and let the net that he hid catch him; let him fall into destruction.

²² The wicked person’s iniquities will capture him, and he will be held with the cords of his sin.

⁶ The Wicked and Righteous ContrastedAn evil man is trapped by transgression, but the righteous person sings and rejoices.

³ “This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I’m coming fishing for you! Right in the sight of many nations they’ll haul you up in my dragnet.

⁷ He must be well thought of by outsiders, so he doesn’t fall into disgrace and the trap set for him by the devil.

⁹ But people who want to get rich keep toppling into temptation and are trapped by many stupid and harmful desires that plunge them into destruction and ruin.

²⁶ so that they might escape from the devil’s snare, even though they’ve been held captive by him to do his will.

¹⁵ when the Sabeans attacked, captured the servants, and killed them with swords. I alone escaped to tell you!”

¹⁷ While this messenger was still speaking, another came and announced, “The Chaldeans formed three companies, raided the camels, captured the servants, and killed them with swords. Only I alone escaped to tell you.”

⁵ Then the hungry will devour his harvest, snatching it even from the midst of thorns, while the thirsty covet their wealth.

¹⁴ Then he will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel he’ll also be a stone with which someone strikes himself, a rock one stumbles over, a trap and a snare to those who live in Jerusalem. ¹⁵ Many will stumble on them; They’ll fall and be broken; They’ll be snared and captured.

⁶ He rains on the wicked burning coals and sulfur; a scorching wind is their destiny.

¹³ But I’ll throw my net over him. As a result, he’ll be captured with my net, and with it I’ll bring him to Babel, the land of the Chaldeans. He won’t see it, though he’ll die there.

⁹ And David says, “Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a punishment for them.

³⁶ “As for the remnants among you, I’ll bring despair in their hearts in the land of their enemies so that even the sound of a blown leaf will chase them and they flee as though pursued by the sword and fall when no one is pursuing.

⁶ The LORD had made the Aramean army hear the sounds of chariots, horses, and a large army, so they told one another, “Look! The king of Israel has hired the kings of the Hittites and the Egyptians to come attack us!” ⁷ So the Arameans got up and ran away in the gathering darkness. They left behind their tents, horses, and donkeys just as they were—and fled for their lives!

⁴ “The arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit absorbs their poison; God’s terrors have been arranged just for me!

²¹ Terrifying sounds ring in his ears; when times are prosperous, the Destroyer will attack him.

⁸ He’ll vanish like a dream, and no one will find him; he will be chased away like a night vision.”

²⁵ It will impale him and come out through his back; the point will glisten as it protrudes through his gall bladder, and he will be terrified.

⁵ There the Israelis were seized with terror, when there was nothing to fear. For God scattered the bones of those who laid siege against you— you put them to shame, for God rejected them.

¹⁹ How desolate they quickly become, completely destroyed by calamities.

¹ Contrasting Good and Evil The wicked flee, though no one pursues, but the righteous are bold like a lion.

²⁵ Don’t go out into the field, and don’t travel on the road, because the enemy has a sword, and terror is on every side.

³ The next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, and Jeremiah told him, “The LORD has not named you Pashhur, but rather Magor-missabib. ⁴ For this is what the LORD says: ‘Look, I’m going to make you a terror to yourself and to all your loved ones. They’ll fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes will see it. I’ll give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon. He will take them into exile to Babylon, and he will execute them with swords.

⁵ Why am I seeing this? They’re terrified, they have turned back. Their warriors are crushed, and they take flight. They don’t look back. Terror is on every side,” declares the LORD.

²⁹ Take their tents and their flocks, their tent curtains and all their goods. Take their camels away from them. Cry out against them, ‘Terror is all around!’

¹¹ The Messiah’s Love Controls UsTherefore, since we know what it means to fear the Lord, we try to persuade people. We ourselves are perfectly known to God. I hope we are also really known to your consciences.

¹⁵ Then the kings of the earth, the important people, the generals, the rich, the powerful, and all the slaves and free people concealed themselves in caves and among the rocks in the mountains. ¹⁶ They told the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb.

⁵ Those who had an abundance of bread now hire themselves out, and those who were hungry hunger no more. While the barren woman gives birth to seven children, she who had many children languishes.

³⁶ Anyone who remains in your family will come and prostrate themselves before him for a small wage or a loaf of bread and will say, “Please put me in one of the priest’s offices so I can eat a piece of bread.”’”

²³ He wanders around for food—where is it? He knows that a time of darkness is near. ²⁴ Distress and pressure terrify him; they overwhelm him, like a king poised for attack.

¹² If the ungodly one doesn’t repent, God will sharpen his sword; he will string his bow and prepare it. ¹³ He prepares weapons of death for himself, he makes his arrows into fiery shafts. ¹⁴ But the wicked one travails with evil, he conceives malice and gives birth to lies.

¹⁰ Young lions lack and go hungry, but those who seek the LORD will never lack any good thing.

¹⁰ May his children roam around begging, seeking food while driven far from their ruined homes.

²¹ “They’ll pass through the land, while greatly distressed and hungry. When they are hungry, they’ll become enraged, and they’ll curse their king and their god. They’ll turn their faces upwards,

³ When people say, “There is peace and security,” destruction will strike them as suddenly as labor pains come to a pregnant woman, and they will not be able to escape.

³ In their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. The ancient verdict against them is still in force, and their destruction is not delayed.

³ On the Future of Reuben“Reuben, you’re my firstborn, my strength, and the first fruit of my vitality. You excel in rank and excel in power.

¹⁶ Will it go down to the bars that lock the doors of the afterlife? Will we descend together into the dust?”

³⁰ The firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety; but I’ll kill your root by famine, and I’ll execute your survivors.

⁶ I sank to the roots of the mountains; the earth’s prison bars closed around me forever. Yet you resurrect the dead from the Pit, LORD my God!

¹² God’s Judgment on Jerusalem’s Attackers“This will be the plague with which the LORD inflicts all of the people who have attacked Jerusalem: he will cause their flesh to rot away, even while they’re standing on their feet. He will cause their eyes to rot away in their sockets, and their tongues to rot away in their mouths.

⁸ I looked, and there was a pale green horse! Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed him. They were given authority over one-fourth of the earth to kill people using wars, famines, plagues, and the wild animals of the earth.

¹⁴ his confidence is shattered; his trust is in a spider’s web.

²² Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will no longer exist.

²⁰ But what the wicked look for will fail; their way of escape will be taken away from them; their only hope is to take their final breath.”

¹⁷ As a group, deep darkness is their morning time; fear that lives in darkness is their friend.”

³⁴ He looks down on everything that is high; he rules over every kind of pride.”

⁴ My heart is trembling within me, and the terrors of death have assaulted me.

¹⁰ The wicked person sees this and flies into a rage; his teeth gnash and wear away. The desire of the wicked will amount to nothing.

²⁸ What the righteous hope for brings joy, but the expectation of the wicked dies.

³² The wicked person is thrown down by his own wrongdoing, but the righteous person has a place of safety in death.

²⁶ “Everyone who keeps on hearing these messages of mine and never puts them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. ²⁷ The rain fell, the floods came, the winds blew and battered that house, and it collapsed—and its collapse was total.”

⁵⁵ “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”
⁵⁶ Now death’s stinger is sin, and sin’s power is the Law.

¹⁵ and might free those who were slaves all their lives because they were terrified by death.

²⁴ Then the LORD rained sulfur and fire out of the sky from the LORD on Sodom and Gomorrah,

²³ The whole land will be covered with salt pits and burning sulfur, with nothing planted, nothing sprouting, and producing no vegetation—overthrown like Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, when the LORD overthrew them in his raging fury.

¹² He is starved for strength; and is ripe for a fall. ¹³ Something gnaws on his skin; a deadly disease consumes his limbs.

¹⁸ “He will restore what he has attained from his work and won’t consume it; he won’t enjoy the profits from his business transactions, ¹⁹ because he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house that he didn’t build. ²⁰ “Since his appetite won’t quit; he won’t let anything escape his lust. ²¹ Because nothing was left for him to devour, therefore his prosperity won’t last.

³⁸ No Abuse of the Land“If my land were to cry out against me or if all its furrows wept as one, ³⁹ If I’ve consumed its produce without paying for it and snuffed out the life of its owners;

⁹ Edom’s streams will be turned into burning sulfur, and its dust into sulfur; its land will become pitch. ¹⁰ It will burn night and day, and will never be extinguished. Its smoke will rise from generation to generation, and it will lie desolate forever and ever. And no one will pass through it.

¹³ An Oracle against Jehoiakim“How terrible for him who builds his house without righteousness, and its upper rooms without justice, who makes his neighbor work for nothing, and does not pay him his wage.

⁶ Judgment on the Plunderer of Nations“Will not all of these ridicule him with mocking scorn? They will say, ‘Woe to the one who hordes for himself what isn’t his. How long will you enrich yourself by extortion?’ ⁷ Won’t your creditors revolt unexpectedly? Won’t those who make you tremble wake up? As a result, you’ll become their prey! ⁸ Because you plundered many nations, all of their remnants will plunder you. Human blood has been shed, and violence has been done to the land, to the city, and to all who live in it.”
⁹ Judgment on Those who Think They are Safe“Woe to the one who amasses profit upon unjust profit in order to establish his household, so he can establish a secure place on the heights and escape from the power of evil. ¹⁰ You have brought shame to yourself by killing many people— you are forfeiting your own life. ¹¹ Indeed, the stone will cry out from the wall and the rafter will respond from the woodwork.”

⁴ “I am bringing this about,” declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies. “The curse will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who lies in my name. The curse will remain in his house until that house has been completely destroyed, right down to its timber and stones.”

²⁰ The beast was captured, along with the false prophet who had performed signs on its behalf. By these signs the false prophet had deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and worshipped its image. Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

⁸ But people who are cowardly, unfaithful, detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars will find themselves in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

³ “I myself saw a fool becoming established, but I suddenly cursed where he lived. ⁴ His children are far from deliverance; they’ll be maltreated before they leave home, with no one to rescue them.

³⁰ He won’t escape darkness; a flame will wither his shoots; and he’ll depart by the breath of God’s mouth.

¹⁹ My roots have spread out and have found water, and dew settles at night on my branches.

²⁴ The Effects of Divine JudgmentTherefore, as flames of fire devour straw, as dry grass collapses in flames, so their root will be rotten, and their blossom will blow away like dust, because they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁶ Ephraim is blighted; its roots shriveled. It can bear no fruit. Even if they bear children, I will kill their cherished offspring.

⁹ Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorites in front of them, though their height seemed like a cedar, though their strength seemed like an oak, but whose fruit I destroyed from above and the roots from beneath.

¹ The Great Day of the LORD“The coming day is certainly going to burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and all who practice evil will be stubble—the coming day will set them on fire,” says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

¹² Your maxims are just worthless proverbs; your defensive arguments are made of clay.”

¹⁶ The face of the LORD is set against those who do evil, and he will remove people’s recollection of them from the earth.

⁴ They say, “Let us go and erase them as a nation so the name of Israel will not be remembered anymore.”

¹³ May his descendants be eliminated, and their memory be erased from the next generation.

²² But the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be uprooted from it.

⁷ The reputation of the righteous leads to blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

²⁰ “Why does God give light to the sufferer or life to the bitter person:

¹⁴ They meet with darkness in broad daylight; at noonday they grope around as if it were night.

²² It’s a gloomy land, like deepest darkness; where there’s no order, and where even the brightness is like darkness.’”

¹⁴ If you have any iniquity, throw it far away. Don’t let evil live in your residence.

²¹ “They’ll pass through the land, while greatly distressed and hungry. When they are hungry, they’ll become enraged, and they’ll curse their king and their god. They’ll turn their faces upwards, ²² or they’ll look toward the earth, but they’ll see only distress and darkness, the gloom that comes from anguish, and then they’ll be thrown into total darkness.”

¹³ The nations roar like the rushing of many waters, but the LORD will rebuke them, and they will run far away, chased like chaff blown down from the mountains or like thick dust that rolls along, blown along by a wind storm. ¹⁴ When the evening arrives, watch out—sudden terror! By morning they will be there no longer! So it will be for those who plunder us and what will happen to those who rob us.”

³³ The decree was fulfilled against Nebuchadnezzar immediately. He was driven away from people to eat grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with dew from the sky, until his hair grew like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.”

²¹ He was driven away from human society and given the mind of an animal. He lived with wild donkeys, ate grass like cattle, and his body was soaked with dew from the sky until he realized that the Most High God is sovereign over human kingdoms and places over them whomever he desires.

¹³ They are wild waves of the sea, churning up the foam of their own shame. They are wandering stars for whom the deepest darkness has been reserved forever.

¹⁹ when a strong wind came straight out of the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people, and they died. I alone escaped to tell you!”

⁴ “If your children sin against him, he’ll make them a prisoner of their sins.

²⁶ “Total darkness has been reserved for his treasures; a fire that has no need to be kindled will devour him and consume whatever remains in his possession. ²⁷ Heaven will reveal his iniquity, while the earth will rise up against him. ²⁸ A flood will wash away his house; dragging it away when God becomes angry.

¹⁴ If he has many children, their destiny is to die by the sword, and his descendants won’t have enough food. ¹⁵ Those who do survive him disease will bury, and his widow won’t even weep.

¹³ He also had seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴ He named the first daughter Jemima, the second Keziah, and the name of the third was Keren-happuch. ¹⁵ No one could find more beautiful women in the whole land than Job’s daughters. Their father gave them their inheritance along with their brothers. ¹⁶ Job lived 140 years after this, and saw his children and grandchildren to the fourth generation.

⁸ Judgment on Land Barons“How terrible it will be for you who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more room, and you have settled yourselves alone in the middle of the land!” ⁹ The LORD of the Heavenly Armies has declared this so I could hear it: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great and beautiful houses, without occupants.

²¹ Prepare a massacre for his sons because of the guilt of their forefathers! They are not to rise and inherit the earth, and cover the surface of the world with cities.”
²² Babylon’s Desolation“I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, “and I will eliminate from Babylon her name and survivors, her offspring and descendants,” declares the LORD.

³⁰ This is what the LORD says: ‘Write this man off as childless, a man who does not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will succeed in sitting on the throne of David, or ever ruling in Judah again.’”

²³ The whole land will be covered with salt pits and burning sulfur, with nothing planted, nothing sprouting, and producing no vegetation—overthrown like Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, when the LORD overthrew them in his raging fury. ²⁴ All the nations will ask, ‘Why did the LORD do this to this land? What is the meaning of this fierce and great anger?’

⁸ “This Temple will become a pile of ruins. Everyone who passes by it will be so astounded that they will ask, ‘Why did the LORD do this to this land and to this Temple?’

¹² Observing him from a distance, at first they didn’t even recognize him, so they raised their voices and burst into tears. They each ripped their robes, threw ashes into the air on their heads, ¹³ and sat with Job on the ground for a full week without saying a word, since they could see the great extent of his anguish.

¹³ Job’s Family and Friends Abandoned Him“My brothers are alienated from me; my acquaintances are estranged; ¹⁴ my relatives have failed me; and my friends have abandoned me. ¹⁵ Those who live in my house— and my maidservants, too!— treat me like a stranger; they think I’m a foreigner. ¹⁶ “I call to my servant, but he doesn’t respond, even though I beg to him earnestly. ¹⁷ My wife says my breath stinks; even my children say I smell bad! ¹⁸ Even little children hate me; when I get up, they mock me. ¹⁹ My closest friends detest me; even the ones I love have turned against me.

¹³ But the Lord laughs at him because he sees that his day is coming!

⁷ Remember the day of Jerusalem’s fall, LORD, because of the Edomites, who kept saying, “Tear it down! Tear it right down to its foundations!”

¹⁶ They make their land into a desolate place, an object of lasting scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will shake their heads.

²⁷ Put all her bulls to the sword, let them go down to the slaughter. How terrible for them because their day has come, the time of their judgment.

²⁵ “So now, you dishonored and wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come in this time of final punishment,

¹¹ “On the day you just stood by, when strangers carried away Jacob’s wealth and foreigners entered his gates, casting lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them. ¹² “You should not have gloated over your brother, on the day of his calamity. You should not have rejoiced when the descendants of Judah were perishing. You should not have boasted when they were in distress. ¹³ “You should not have entered the gate of my people on the day of their disaster. Also, you should not have gloated over Judah’s misfortune on the day of his disaster, nor should you have plundered his wealth on the day of his disaster. ¹⁴ And you should not have taken your stand at the crossroads to cut down his fleeing refugees, nor should you have handed over his survivors on the day of his distress.”
The LORD’s Judgment and Israel’s Final Victory ¹⁵ “Indeed, the Day of the LORD approaches all nations. As you have done it will be done to you— your deeds will return to haunt you!

⁴² “If you had only known today what could have brought you peace! But now it is hidden from your sight,

⁴⁴ They will level you to the ground—you and those who live within your city limits. They will not leave one stone on another within your walls, because you didn’t recognize the time when you were visited.”

² Pharaoh said, “Who is the LORD that I should listen to him and let Israel go? I don’t know about the LORD, nor will I let Israel go!”

¹⁰ After that whole generation had died, another generation grew up after them that was not acquainted with the LORD or with what he had done for Israel.

¹² Eli’s Wicked SonsNow the sons of Eli were worthless men who did not know the LORD.

⁹ David Addresses Solomon Directly“Now as for you, my son Solomon, get to know the God of your father. Serve him with a sound heart and a devoted soul, because the LORD is searching every heart, every plan and thought. He will be found by you, assuming you are seeking him, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you forever.

¹⁴ “They say to God, ‘Turn away from us! We have no desire to know your ways.

²⁸ You ask, ‘Where is the noble person’s house?’ and ‘Where are the tents where the wicked live?’

⁶ Pour out your wrath upon the nations that do not acknowledge you, and over the kingdoms that do not call on your name.

³ They use their tongues like a bow. Lies rather than truth fly throughout the land. They progress from one evil to another, and they don’t know me,” declares the LORD.

²⁵ Pour out your anger on the nations that don’t acknowledge you, and on the families that don’t call on your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured and consumed him; they have devastated his habitation.

²⁸ Furthermore, because they did not think it worthwhile to keep knowing God fully, God delivered them to degraded minds to perform acts that should not be done.

⁵ not with passion and lust like the gentiles who do not know God.

⁸ in blazing fire. He will take revenge on those who do not know God and on those who refuse to obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

¹⁶ They claim to know God, but they deny him by their actions. They are detestable, disobedient, and disqualified to do anything good.