Job 18:5
Hebrew Text— Job 18:5“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.
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Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.
The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.
There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.
Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.
Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
for there will be no reward to the evil man. The lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.
For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
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.
Behold, isn’t it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
“ ‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon himself.
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.
Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others will spring.
He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
“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?
From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.
For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous.
They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.
But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.
The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says Yahweh of Armies.
For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’
choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,
The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed.
Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”
They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,
They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,
Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.
“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.
Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.
Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong arm, and that which was broken. I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.
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.
In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.
Give them—Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven; for its people will mourn over it, Along with its priests who rejoiced over it, for its glory, because it has departed from it.
Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’
Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.
Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”
But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”
For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burned with fire; and his bands dropped from off his hands.
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.
When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great plunder that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they had finished eating. When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, “Why is this noise of the city being in an uproar?”
In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria for two years.
In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.
that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.
Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat over me.
How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.
Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.
Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves, walk in the flame of your fire, and among the torches that you have kindled. You will have this from my hand: you will lie down in sorrow.
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.
As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.
Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’
The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’
then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn’t expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.
But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.