Job 20:29

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

“This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.

This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me,” says Yahweh, “because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.”

For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

It will happen, when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go out?’ then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh says: “Such as are for death, to death; such as are for the sword, to the sword; such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.” ’

For I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence;

by your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—”

Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn’t done it?

but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

That night, Yahweh’s angel went out, and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

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

On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.

“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.

For Yahweh says: “Just as I have brought all this great evil on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have promised them.

But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he will not be able to hide himself. His offspring is destroyed, with his brothers and his neighbors; and he is no more.

Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”

Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don’t expect him.”

He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn’t know Yahweh, nor the work which he had done for Israel.

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”

If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”

My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.

Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it,

your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together”, says Yahweh, “who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills. Therefore I will first measure their work into their bosom.”

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up,

Pharaoh king of Egypt, with his servants, his princes, and all his people;

Now therefore know certainly that you will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence in the place where you desire to go to live there.”

Why do you boast in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? You trusted in her treasures, saying, ‘Who will come to me?’

Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken mute for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered, “Belteshazzar, don’t let the dream, or the interpretation, trouble you.” Belteshazzar answered, “My lord, may the dream be for those who hate you, and its interpretation to your adversaries.

Then I said, “I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each other’s flesh.”

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,

punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

“So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.

As for your donkeys who were lost three days ago, don’t set your mind on them; for they have been found. For whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you, and for all your father’s house?”

They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.

After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, those who set their hearts to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his reward.

“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.

“Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.

“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’

But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches—

Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

“It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.

At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.

The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.”

Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed?

“Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and we are in agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’ ”

then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth.

The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night.

Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed, and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.

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.’

No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.

“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.

Israel was holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him will be held guilty. Evil will come on them,” ’ 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.

He will come, and will strike the land of Egypt; such as are for death will be put to death, and such as are for captivity to captivity, and such as are for the sword to the sword.

Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

so that they will take no wood out of the field, and not cut down any out of the forests; for they will make fires with the weapons. They will plunder those who plundered them, and rob those who robbed them,” says the Lord Yahweh.

“This is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which has come on my lord the king:

and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.

Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, “How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!”

I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’

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.

Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.