Job 18:4
Hebrew Text— Job 18:4You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?
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The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”
but the Lord’s word endures forever.” This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.
“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants will die in the same way, but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.
I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.
They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.
The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.
in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:
Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”
All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;
“My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name.
The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.
You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.
All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”
Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say, ‘Yahweh doesn’t see us. Yahweh has forsaken the land.’ ”
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.
For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.
He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.
When I saw that you didn’t save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me today, to fight against me?”
When the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate.
Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?
“But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place;
He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.
Should even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?—
I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.
One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
“ ‘Make chains; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger. Behold, they put the branch to their nose.
Then the nations that are left around you will know that I, Yahweh, have built the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate. I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I will do it.”
Yahweh said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.
It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,
But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
Yahweh said to Moses, “Has Yahweh’s hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not.”
for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”
The woman came to Saul, and saw that he was very troubled, and said to him, “Behold, your servant has listened to your voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have listened to your words which you spoke to me.
Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; in addition to his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.
Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.
He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”
The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.
They say, “Yah will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”
My soul is continually in my hand, yet I won’t forget your law.
The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.
Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger.
Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”
For you have trusted in your wickedness. You have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you. You have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’
In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.
Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You didn’t find them breaking in, but it is because of all these things.
I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void, and the heavens, and they had no light.
For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.
It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “You shall surely drink.
Her adversaries have become the head. Her enemies prosper; for Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions. Her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.
“Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.
But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’ ”
But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him.
But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy
Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.
but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”
For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.
Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.
Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.
For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.
Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’
God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?” He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren’t able.”
Behold, a spirit takes him, he suddenly cries out, and it convulses him so that he foams, and it hardly departs from him, bruising him severely.