Job 18:14

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

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.

For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking Yahweh to anger.

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

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

He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

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 them vanish like water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

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

The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

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

But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

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

When a wicked man dies, hope perishes, and expectation of power comes to nothing.

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

The shepherds will have no way to flee. The leader of the flock will have no escape.

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.

There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God’s Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside.

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

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

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

He who denounces his friends for plunder, Even the eyes of his children will fail.

Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.

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?’

He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.

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

The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.

“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn’t there.

Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant.

He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.

for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.

Speak and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the middle of his rivers, that has said, ‘My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.’

that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;

He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s flee from the face of Israel, for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!”

then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

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

Whose confidence will break apart, Whose trust is a spider’s web.

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

If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’

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

“ ‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

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.”

For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride.”

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living.

My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.

The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.

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

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor?

you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, ‘Haven’t we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?’

and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”