Job 22:20 Cross References - ISV

²⁰ ‘Our enemies are sure to be destroyed, and fire will burn up what’s left of their riches.”

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

¹⁶ While this messenger was still speaking, another came and announced, “A lightning storm struck and incinerated the flock and the servants while they were eating. I alone escaped to tell you!”

⁷ Now please think: Who has ever perished when they’re innocent? Where have the upright been destroyed?

³ Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what’s right? ⁴ “If your children sin against him, he’ll make them a prisoner of their sins.

⁵ Because your sin dictates your speech, you have chosen the language of the crafty. ⁶ Your own mouth is condemning you, not I; your own lips will testify against you.”

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

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.

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 Job Suspects His Friends of Treachery“Look! I know your thoughts, your plans are going to harm me. ²⁸ You ask, ‘Where is the noble person’s house?’ and ‘Where are the tents where the wicked live?’

¹ Repent or DieAt that time, some people who were there told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. ² He asked them, “Do you think that these Galileans were more sinful than all the other Galileans because they suffered like this? ³ Absolutely not, I tell you! But if you don’t repent, then you, too, will all die. ⁴ What about those eighteen people who were killed when the tower at Siloam fell on them? Do you think they were worse offenders than all the other people living in Jerusalem? ⁵ Absolutely not, I tell you! But if you don’t repent, then you, too, will all die.”

²⁹ But on the day when Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed all of them. ³⁰ The day when the Son of Man is revealed will be like that.

⁶ and if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and destroyed them by burning them to ashes, making them an example to ungodly people of what is going to happen to them; ⁷ and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man who was greatly distressed by the immoral conduct of lawless people—