Job 21:27 Cross References - KJ2000

²⁷ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which you wrongfully imagine against me.

⁸ Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. ⁹ By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they 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 strong lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.

³ I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. ⁴ His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them. ⁵ Whose harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the robber swallows up their wealth.

³ Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice? ⁴ If your children have sinned against him, and he has cast them away for their transgression; ⁵ If you would seek unto God early, and make your supplication to the Almighty; ⁶ If you were pure and upright; surely now he would awake for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

²⁰ The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden for the oppressor. ²¹ A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. ²² He believes not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for by the sword. ²³ He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. ²⁴ Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready for battle. ²⁵ For he stretches out his hand against God, and strengthens himself against the Almighty. ²⁶ He runs stubbornly against him, with his heavily embossed shield. ²⁷ Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes heavy fat on his waist. ²⁸ And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps. ²⁹ He shall not be rich, neither shall his wealth continue, neither shall he overspread the earth with it. ³⁰ He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away. ³¹ Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for futility shall be his reward. ³² It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. ³³ He shall shake off his unripe grapes like the vine, and shall cast off his blossom like the olive. ³⁴ For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery. ³⁵ They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their heart prepares 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 appointed unto him by God.

³ Also against his three friends was his wrath aroused, 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 is kindled against you, and against your two friends: for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

⁴ They run and prepare themselves apart from my fault: awake to help me, and behold.

⁸⁶ All your commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help me.

²² But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, Why reason you in your hearts?

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