Job 15:23

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”

for then there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.

For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.

For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

His offspring will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.

He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit.

“Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

Hear this, you elders, And listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.

For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.

pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren’t satisfied.

Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.

Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.

For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, in the valley of vision, a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.”

Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.

When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and make its stars dark. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon won’t give its light.

You will ascend. You will come like a storm. You will be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.”

They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.

Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent among you.

But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

for our God is a consuming fire.

No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,

I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.

“ ‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.

No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.

the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’ ”

His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.

He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones will flourish like the tender grass. Yahweh’s hand will be known among his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies.

Shout against her all around. She has submitted herself. Her bulwarks have fallen. Her walls have been thrown down, for it is the vengeance of Yahweh. Take vengeance on her. As she has done, do to her.

How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast the beauty of Israel down from heaven to the earth, and hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.” ’

“At that time Michael will stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there will be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time. At that time your people will be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book.

The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.

“Therefore wait for me”, says Yahweh, “until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

But immediately after the suffering of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;

But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,

Some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us, bringing one Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we would stay.

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.”

Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

Let it fall on the head of Joab, and on all his father’s house. Let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has a discharge, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.”

Therefore the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your offspring forever.” He went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow.

If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.

He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.

He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

His children will seek the favor of the poor. His hands will give back his wealth.

The heavens will reveal his iniquity. The earth will rise up against him.

“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

They are driven out from among men. They cry after them as after a thief;

if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.

saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”

He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry. It will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,

and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.

For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

Therefore their way will be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They will be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.

He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

This was fulfilled the same hour on Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.

He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.

A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

Won’t the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.