Job 20:8

I am eighty years old, today. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear the voice of singing men and singing women any more? Why then should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?

A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.

As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone.

Now king David was old and advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn’t keep warm.

But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

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

To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old; behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.

Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”

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.

The voice of one saying, “Cry!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.

Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror are on every side.

It will be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the middle of the Euphrates.

I will make you a terror, and you will no more have any being. Though you are sought for, yet you will never be found again,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

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.

When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Extol him who rides on the clouds: to Yah, his name! Rejoice before him!

My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

“Don’t let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape. In the north by the river Euphrates they have stumbled and fallen.

Yahweh’s glory went out from over the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.

The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”

Then he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land; but he will stumble and fall, and won’t be found.

Was Yahweh displeased with the rivers? Was your anger against the rivers, or your wrath against the sea, that you rode on your horses, on your chariots of salvation?

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

Their dead bodies will be in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

“ ‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.

the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’ ”

He draws it out, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.

who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

Yahweh reigns! Let the peoples tremble. He sits enthroned among the cherubim. Let the earth be moved.

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, and it will fall and not rise again.

Why have I seen it? They are dismayed and are turned backward. Their mighty ones are beaten down, have fled in haste, and don’t look back. Terror is on every side,” says Yahweh.

They will take their tents and their flocks. they will carry away for themselves their curtains, all their vessels, and their camels; and they will cry to them, ‘Terror on every side!’

Then you shall say, ‘Thus will Babylon sink, and will not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they will be weary.’ ” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

It will happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the book, and to break its seals?”

The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.

He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

Men will clap their hands at him, and will hiss him out of his place.

You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.

When I looked for good, then evil came. When I waited for light, darkness came.

From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.

He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.

There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.

How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew.

and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?

Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.

They didn’t prevail. No place was found for them any more in heaven.

standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one hour.’

A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, “Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all.

The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you.

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.