Job 21:28

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on himself, his crown will shine.”

When the wicked increase, sin increases; but the righteous will see their downfall.

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

He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure.

I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.

For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn’t there.

Yahweh’s curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.

Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

“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.

Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit on the ground, and will tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.

The merchants among the peoples hiss at you. You have become a terror, and you will be no more.” ’ ”

He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, ‘There seems to me to be some sort of plague in the house.’

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.

So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the children of the east came up against them.

Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall, he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung, until it is all gone.

and the body of Jezebel will be as dung on the face of the field on Jezreel’s land, so that they won’t say, “This is Jezebel.” ’ ”

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

The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.

Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”

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

There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.

yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

The eye which saw him will see him no more, neither will his place see him any more.

This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.”

Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.

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.

who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive plants around your table.

The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand.

The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

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.

Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck. Yahweh says: “Arise, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east.

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.”

Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. The stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”

Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

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.

Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.

He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Yahweh brought back the waters of the sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea.

You shall not bring an abomination into your house and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it. You shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.

His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

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

He will return no more to his house, neither will his place know him any more.

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.”

If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’

If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?

For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

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

All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire will devour him. It will consume that which is left in his tent.

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.

He lies down rich, but he will not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

I would declare to him the number of my steps. as a prince would I go near to him.

He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the afflicted.

“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

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

My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?”

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

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

The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, and brings the wicked to ruin.

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

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.

They will spread them before the sun, the moon, and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, which they have served, after which they have walked, which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They will not be gathered or be buried. They will be like dung on the surface of the earth.

Yahweh says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”

but don’t seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and don’t pass to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing.

I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

I will cause it to go out,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.”

Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.

In him we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

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.