Job 21:27 Cross References - MSTC

²⁷ "But I know what ye think; yea, and what ye imagine against me unrighteously.

⁸ For, as I have proved by experience, they that plow iniquity and sow wretchedness, reap the same. ⁹ With the blast of God they perish, and with the breath of his anger are they consumed away. ¹⁰ The roaring of the lion, the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the lion's whelps are broken. ¹¹ The lion perisheth, for lack of prey, and the lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

³ I have seen myself, when the foolish was deep rooted, that his beauty was suddenly destroyed, ⁴ that his children were without prosperity or health; that they were slain in the door, and no man to deliver them; ⁵ that his harvest was eaten up of the hungry; that the weaponed man had spoiled it, and that the thirsty had drunk up his riches.

³ Doth God pervert the thing that is lawful? Or, doth the Almighty destroy the thing that is right? ⁴ When thy sons sinned against him, did not he punish them for their wickedness? ⁵ If thou wouldest now resort unto God betimes, and make thy humble prayer to the Almighty; ⁶ If thou wouldest live a pure and godly life; should he not wake up unto thee immediately, and give thee the beauty of righteousness again?

²⁰ The ungodly despaireth all the days of his life, and the number of a tyrant's years is unknown. ²¹ A fearful sound is ever in his ears, and when it is peace yet feareth he destruction. ²² He believeth never to be delivered out of darkness; the sword is always before his eyes. ²³ When he goeth forth to get his living, he thinketh plainly, that the day of darkness is at hand. ²⁴ Sorrow and carefulness make him afraid, and compass him round about, like as it where a king with his host ready to the battle. ²⁵ For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and armed himself against the Almighty. ²⁶ He runneth proudly upon him, and with a stiff neck fighteth he against him: ²⁷ whereas he covereth his face with fatness, and maketh his body well liking. ²⁸ Therefore shall his dwelling be in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, but are become heaps of stones. ²⁹ He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, nor increase upon earth. ³⁰ He shall never come out of darkness, the flame shall dry up his branches, with the blast of the mouth of God shall he be taken away. ³¹ He will never apply himself to faithfulness and truth, so sore is he deceived with vanity. ³² He shall perish, before his time be worn out, and his hand shall not be green. ³³ He shall be plucked off as an untimely grape from the vine, and shall let his flower fall, as the olive doth. ³⁴ For the congregation of hypocrites is unfruitful, and the fire shall consume the houses of such as are greedy to receive gifts. ³⁵ He conceiveth travail, he beareth mischief, and his body bringeth forth deceit."

⁵ the praise of the ungodly hath been short, and that the joy of the hypocrites continued but the twinkling of an eye?

²⁹ This is the portion that the wicked shall have of God, and the heritage that he may look for of the LORD."

³ And with Job's three friends he was angry also, because they had found no reasonable answer to overcome him.

⁷ Now when the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, he said unto Eliphaz the Temanite, "I am displeased with thee and thy two friends, for ye have not spoken the thing that is right before me, like as my servant Job hath done.

⁴ They run and prepare themselves, without my fault; Arise thou therefore to help me, and behold.

⁸⁶ All thy commandments are true. They persecute me falsely; O be thou my help.

²² When Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answered and said unto them, "What think ye in your hearts?

¹⁹ For it is thankworthy if a man, for conscience toward God, endure grief, suffering wrongfully.