Job 21:30

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

“Therefore wait for me”, says Yahweh, “until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

“Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.

and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth,

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’

I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,

You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?

Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’ ”

But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud.

They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold won’t be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath. They won’t satisfy their souls or fill their bellies; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.

A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

Yahweh of Armies says: “I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.”

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?

for you shall worship no other god; for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to him who hates him. He will repay him to his face.

Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”

Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”

Joshua said to the people, “You can’t serve Yahweh, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living.

When the Almighty scattered kings in her, it snowed on Zalmon.

A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, in the valley of vision, a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.”

Yahweh will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. He will triumph over his enemies.

“Behold, I have created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame, and forges a weapon for his work; and I have created the destroyer to destroy.

Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it. It is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he will be saved out of it.

and Yahweh has brought it, and done according as he spoke. Because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing has come on you.

But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon.

He who is far off will die of the pestilence. He who is near will fall by the sword. He who remains and is besieged will die by the famine. Thus I will accomplish my wrath on them.

Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness. None of them will remain, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth. There will be nothing of value among them.

Yahweh thunders his voice before his army; for his forces are very great; for he is strong who obeys his command; for the day of Yahweh is great and very awesome, and who can endure it?

“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;

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?

“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name,

For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him.

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

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”

For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me;” says the Lord, “I will repay.” Again, “The Lord will judge his people.”

Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”

for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.

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.

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.

The increase of his house will depart. They will rush away in the day of his wrath.

God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every day.

But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.

According to their deeds, he will repay as appropriate, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; he will repay the islands their due.

Jericho’s king sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered into your house; for they have come to spy out all the land.”

Joshua said, “Roll large stones to cover the cave’s entrance, and set men by it to guard them;

Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.

“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.

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

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

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

Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?

The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.

But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

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

Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.

That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

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

for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?”