Job 21:13

If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.

When the king of Ai saw it, they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn’t know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.

but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. Walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’

One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus’ breast.

Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God and listen to his voice.

Ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel came over against Gibeah, and the battle was severe; but they didn’t know that disaster was close to them.

so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men will keep watch over the tomb.

Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.”

The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.

Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

Therefore disaster will come on you. You won’t know when it dawns. Mischief will fall on you. You won’t be able to put it away. Desolation will come on you suddenly, which you don’t understand.

He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.

Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey Yahweh your God’s voice; then Yahweh will relent from the evil that he has pronounced against you.

until the ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”

For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.

He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.

I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

“To these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.

Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

“Then a remnant of the nobles and the people came down. Yahweh came down for me against the mighty.

Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah.

For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’

In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.

They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

“Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you.

If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.

Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.

So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

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

They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

He subdues nations under us, and peoples under our feet.

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.

Precious in Yahweh’s sight is the death of his saints.

The evil bow down before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory forever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land;

‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!”

But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

They will not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

But the saints of the Most High will receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.’

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven,

and they didn’t know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.

Then he will send out his angels, and will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the sky.

“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?’

“The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.

The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that no one may cross over from there to us.’

Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”

Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This was the disciple whom Jesus loved, the one who had also leaned on Jesus’ breast at the supper and asked, “Lord, who is going to betray you?”

For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable.

Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.

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

He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father:

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.’

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

having a great and high wall; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.