Job 15:20

“Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.”

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”

‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief.

How long will the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? Because of the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals and birds are consumed; because they said, “He won’t see our latter end.”

They have made it a desolation. It mourns to me, being desolate. The whole land is made desolate, because no one cares.

He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.

When the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,

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

“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?

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

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”

You will conceive chaff. You will give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

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.”

Yahweh said, “Will I hide from Abraham what I do,

They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door.

The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the middle of the sea: all of Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.

They rose up early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which Yahweh has promised; for we have sinned.”

Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have mocked me, I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you.”

Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”

Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother, answered, “Don’t let my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men the king’s sons; for Amnon only is dead; for by the appointment of Absalom this has been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.

Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, “Please notice how this man seeks mischief; for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn’t deny him.”

The king of Israel went to his house sullen and angry, and came to Samaria.

Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, “Man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty of your servants, be precious in your sight.

Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?

If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men.

“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood?

Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you, your righteousness to the upright in heart.

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.

So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.

Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.

All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes 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.

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, the sort of error which proceeds from the ruler.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and arrogant, and for all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low:

Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting iniquity.

For that day is of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge himself of his adversaries. The sword will devour and be satiated, and will drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings, and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship,

But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus.

But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!

While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.”

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,