Job 18:9

Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees, while his father Terah was still alive.

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

The sons of Cush were: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah were: Sheba and Dedan.

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”

Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them.

They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves.

Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet.

the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; all of them desirable young men, governors and rulers, princes and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.

For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the width of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

The sons of Shem were: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.

One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. At that time, he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner. They were allies of Abram.

Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.

A nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always,

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.

Yahweh’s angel came and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites.

David said to him, “Where do you come from?” He said to him, “I have escaped out of the camp of Israel.”

The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.

Yahweh sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.

Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

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, “The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

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.”

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

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

He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on him.

The increase of his house will depart. They will rush away in the day of his wrath.

There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

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.

Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.

Don’t let the foot of pride come against me. Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away.

The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don’t hold regard for you before them.

The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won’t forget your law.

The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.

The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don’t destroy his resting place;

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. This people didn’t exist. The Assyrians founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. They set up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. They made it a ruin.

Yahweh says: “The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you, and they will be yours. They will go after you. They shall come over in chains. They will bow down to you. They will make supplication to you: ‘Surely God is in you; and there is no one else. There is no other god.

Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, “Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have labored,

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.

“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out.

I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. The nations will not flow any more to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall.

The Lord has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.

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.”

“The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her. With men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads.

“ ‘ “Haran, Canneh, and Eden, the traders of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad, were your traders.

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the men of Sheba, to a faraway nation, for Yahweh has spoken it.”

They sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.