Job 15:20 Cross References - JPS_ASV_Byz

²⁰ The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

¹ Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do not they that know Him see His days?

¹³ This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.

³ Thou turnest man to contrition; and sayest: 'Return, ye children of men.' ⁴ For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

¹² So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom.

³ This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event unto all; yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years, take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry. ²⁰ But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee, and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be? ²¹ So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

²² For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

¹ Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you. ² Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. ³ Your gold and your silver are rusted, and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days. ⁴ Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out; and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. ⁵ Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure, ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter. ⁶ Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous one, he doth not resist you.