Job 18:20 Cross References - NSB

²⁰ »Men of the west are appalled at him. Men of the east are seized with horror.

²³ »All its land is brimstone and salt. It is a burning waste, unsown and unproductive. No grass grows on it. Like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his wrath. ²⁴ »All the nations will say: Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?'

⁸ This house will become a mass of broken walls. Everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder at it and make whistling sounds. They will say: Why has Jehovah done this to this land and to this house?

¹² They saw him from a distance and did not even recognize him. They cried out loud and wept. Each of them tore his clothes in grief. They threw dust on their heads. ¹³ Then they sat down on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him because they saw that he was in such great pain.

¹³ »My brothers stay far away from me. My friends are complete strangers to me. ¹⁴ »My relatives and my closest friends have stopped coming. My houseguests have forgotten me. ¹⁵ »My female slaves consider me to be a stranger. I am like a foreigner to them. ¹⁶ »I call my slave, but he does not answer, even when I beg him. ¹⁷ »I am repulsive to my wife and my children think I stink. ¹⁸ »Even young children despise me. If I stand up, they make fun of me. ¹⁹ »All my closest friends are disgusted with me. Those I love have turned against me.

¹³ Jehovah laughs at him, for he sees that his day will come.

⁷ O Jehovah, remember the people of Edom. Remember what they did the day Jerusalem was captured. They said: »Tear it down! Tear it down to its foundation.«

¹⁶ »‘They make their land desolation. It becomes an object of perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and shake his head.

²⁷ Kill all their young bulls. Let them go to be slaughtered. How horrible it will be for them when their time has come, the time for them to be punished.

²⁵ »You dishonest and wicked prince of Israel, the time for your final punishment has come.

¹¹ »In that day you stood on the other side! In that day strangers carried away his wealth. Foreigners entered his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem! It was as if you were one of them! ¹² Do not look on the day of your brother’s disaster. Do not rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction! Do not speak proudly in the day of distress. ¹³ »Do not enter the gate of my people in the day of their calamity! Do not look on their affliction in the day of their tragedy! Do not loot their wealth in the day of their disaster. ¹⁴ »Do not stand in the way of those who escape and do not hand over his survivors in the day of distress. ¹⁵ »The Day of Jehovah draws near upon all the nations. It will be done to you just as you have done. Your dealings will return upon you head!

⁴² He said: »If you only knew today the things needed to bring peace! But they are hidden from your eyes.

⁴⁴ »They will knock you and your children down to the ground. They will not leave one stone upon another. What’s more you do not know when this visit will take place.«