Job 21:7

that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

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.

“Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.

“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

“In his place a contemptible person will stand up, to whom they had not given the honor of the kingdom; but he will come in time of security, and will obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

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.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

“Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

It is time to act, Yahweh, for they break your law.

Don’t be envious of evil men, neither desire to be with them;

The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them.

All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.

Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’

He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings, and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding.

He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.

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

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

and he said, “Yahweh, the God of our fathers, aren’t you God in heaven? Aren’t you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in your hand, so that no one is able to withstand you.

because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.

The arrogant will not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands.

Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.

May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.

I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.

Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

Don’t let your heart envy sinners, but rather fear Yahweh all day long.

There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness can’t enter.

‘I have made the earth, the men, and the animals that are on the surface of the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm. I give it to whom it seems right to me.

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.

“You, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty.

You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.

He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

They struck at that time about ten thousand men of Moab, every strong man and every man of valor. No man escaped.

But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.

Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,

Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.

Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men.

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

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

For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.

Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

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

They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.

Don’t fret yourself because of evildoers, neither be envious of the wicked;

There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then, do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.

I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!”

Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

“ ‘To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth. You will lie in the middle of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. “ ‘This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

“ ‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’

The army was given over to it together with the continual burnt offering through disobedience. It cast down truth to the ground, and it did its pleasure and prospered.

Hear this, you elders, And listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again; and I would heal them.’

For this people’s heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, then I would heal them.’

I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?