Job 18:19

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

Therefore Yahweh says concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: “He will have no one to sit on David’s throne. His dead body will be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.

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.”

“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother. You shall not approach his wife. She is your aunt.

It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.

You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from among the children of men.

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

The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.

You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will not be named forever.

You will sow, but won’t reap. You will tread the olives, but won’t anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won’t drink the wine.

His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.

For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.

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

Yahweh says, “Record this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his days; for no more will a man of his offspring prosper, sitting on David’s throne, and ruling in Judah.”

The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. He also killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

Yahweh has commanded concerning you: “No more descendants will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, I will cut off the engraved image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile.”

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

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.

Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.”

You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.

Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I find favor.” She said to her, “Go, my daughter.”

She took it up, and went into the city. Then her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned; and she brought out and gave to her that which she had left after she had enough.

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

So Jehu struck all that remained of Ahab’s house in Jezreel, with all his great men, his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him no one remaining.

His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above.

“Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;

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

You will keep them, Yahweh. You will preserve them from this generation forever.

Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”

There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

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.”

therefore Yahweh says, “Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his offspring. He will not have a man to dwell among this people. He won’t see the good that I will do to my people,” says Yahweh, “because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh.” ’ ”

A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled.

For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’

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

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,

Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.

These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,

Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness. They shall bear their sin. They shall die childless.

They will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed. They also won’t leave you grain, new wine, oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the children of the east came up against them.

Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.

The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said, “My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!”

But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben Hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner room.

So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth.

“See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the evil on his house in his son’s day.”

and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.”

By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.

The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.

His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.

He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth.

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 restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.

There was nothing left that he didn’t devour, therefore his prosperity will not endure.

They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.

If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring will not be satisfied with bread.

then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

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

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

Yahweh helps them and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked and saves them, because they have taken refuge in him.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Yahweh preserves all those who love him, but he will destroy all the wicked.

that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.

“For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.”

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.