Job 15:34

The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

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?

Moses was very angry, and said to Yahweh, “Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them.”

You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said, “Hasn’t Yahweh anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?

He said to his men, “Yahweh forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, Yahweh’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is Yahweh’s anointed.”

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.”

This also will be my salvation, that a godless man will not come before him.

“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

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

Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on himself, his crown will shine.”

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

Through Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, the land is burned up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.

I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

“Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says Yahweh, “and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widows. Let their men be killed and their young men struck by the sword in battle.

but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

“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?’

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

He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure.

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.

he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

Yahweh’s curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.

The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish.

Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

Therefore Yahweh’s anger burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the middle of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me,” says Yahweh, “because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.”

Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit on the ground, and will tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.

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.

Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

“You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

Moses said to Korah, “You and all your company go before Yahweh, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow.

Now, behold, the king walks before you. I am old and gray-headed. Behold, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my youth to this day.

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’

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

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

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

For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’

But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,

in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive plants around your table.

He doesn’t delight in the strength of the horse. He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.

If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand.

The Syrians in front, and the Philistines behind; and they will devour Israel with open mouth. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.

I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation.

“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the bloody city, to the cauldron whose rust is in it, and whose rust hasn’t gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece. No lot is fallen on it.

There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.

For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.

Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

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 our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.

It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish.

His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a bribe to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”

Did I say, ‘Give to me?’ or, ‘Offer a present for me from your substance?’

Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”

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

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

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

Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

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

Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice.

Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.

Meanwhile, he also hoped that money would be given to him by Paul, that he might release him. Therefore also he sent for him more often and talked with him.

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;