Job 21:10

Yahweh your God will make you prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers,

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.

You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.

They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.

You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’

No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

Mordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted and was glad.

Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.

You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

“ ‘I will have respect for you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.

Many say, “Who will show us any good?” Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.

“ ‘ “Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters. She also didn’t strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

They clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him.

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls!

Abraham gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?”

“These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks.

Isaac gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.

I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.

However there will be no poor with you (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess)

Yahweh will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.

The weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold, in addition to the crescents, and the pendants, and the purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and in addition to the chains that were about their camels’ necks.

The men of the city said to Elisha, “Behold, please, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land is barren.”

Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.

who said to God, ‘Depart from us;’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’

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

For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’

So Job died, being old and full of days.

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

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

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.

He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of provision. Our sheep produce thousands and ten thousands in our fields.

Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

She makes linen garments and sells them, and delivers sashes to the merchant.

I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;” and behold, this also was vanity.

Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock, which have come up from the washing, where every one of them has twins. None is bereaved among them.

the hand mirrors, the fine linen garments, the tiaras, and the shawls.

The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”

“No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child will die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.

Thus you were decked with gold and silver. Your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered work. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil. You were exceedingly beautiful, and you prospered to royal estate.

Your sail was of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt, that it might be to you for a banner. Blue and purple from the islands of Elishah was your awning.

Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.

I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.

Give them—Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.”

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the middle of the stall;

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?

Behold, they cried out, saying, “What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.

But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!

But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse babies in those days!

When they had mocked him, they took the purple off him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him.

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

Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, that it’s good for a man to remain as he is.

who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth.

However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.’