Job 14:19

and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”

It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.

The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

“For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.

where then is my hope? as for my hope, who will see it?

Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.

and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

“You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: ‘You say this, “Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them. How then can we live?” ’

I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even all of it. The cities will be inhabited, and the waste places will be built.

Again he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, ‘You dry bones, hear Yahweh’s word.

“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Now I will reverse the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel. I will be jealous for my holy name.

Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,

But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”

Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.

You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

“As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.

A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.

It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.

Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks.

But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.”

“At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”

I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”

Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”

He caused me to pass by them all around: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry.

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.

Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”

He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?

For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:

for an unloved woman when she is married, and a servant who is heir to her mistress.

For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Shall the plunder be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered?

“Keep your feet from being bare, and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and I will go after them.’

When you offer your gifts, when you make your sons pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your idols to this day? Should I be inquired of by you, house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you!

“ ‘For the Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.

Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are completely cut off.’

Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—