Job 21:17

“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.

For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury.”

He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which Yahweh has cursed.”

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

He who heeds the Word finds prosperity. Whoever trusts in Yahweh is blessed.

Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?

because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

“ ‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon himself.

“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.

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

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

Misfortune pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.

Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

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

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

For you are my lamp, Yahweh. Yahweh will light up my darkness.

You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.

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

Life will be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning.

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.

For you will bless the righteous. Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.

Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god. Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take their names on my lips.

Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

Yahweh of Armies, blessed is the man who trusts in you.

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

Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.

“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples. They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a waste.”

For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and make its stars dark. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon won’t give its light.

But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”

“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

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.

The merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise any more:

To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.

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.

They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.

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

The heavens will reveal his iniquity. The earth will rise up against him.

or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

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

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

when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

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

Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in Yahweh.

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

The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.

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.

for there will be no reward to the evil man. The lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.

So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.

This was fulfilled the same hour on Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.

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

and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.

The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’

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.

wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

The light of a lamp will shine no more at all in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you; for your merchants were the princes of the earth; for with your sorcery all the nations were deceived.