Job 21:8

a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will not be named forever.

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.

We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

Yahweh says, “Record this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his days; for no more will a man of his offspring prosper, sitting on David’s throne, and ruling in Judah.”

Of Edom, Yahweh of Armies says: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

So Jehu struck all that remained of Ahab’s house in Jezreel, with all his great men, his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him no one remaining.

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

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

If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring will not be satisfied with bread.

to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

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

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”

Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz. Basemath bore Reuel.

These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,

chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of the Edomites.

Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.

For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,

Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They plundered the Egyptians.

Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.

“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

If the sun has risen on him, he is guilty of bloodshed. He shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

“ ‘All flying insects that walk on all fours are an abomination to you.

If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness. They shall bear their sin. They shall die childless.

We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;

Your ox will be slain before your eyes, and you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be violently taken away from before your face, and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you.

There was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

He must restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity!”

Nevertheless, I will not do it in your days, for David your father’s sake; but I will tear it out of your son’s hand.

Nevertheless for David’s sake, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;

‘Behold, the days come that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ says Yahweh.

and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.”

His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.

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

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

Who doesn’t know that in all these, Yahweh’s hand has done this,

There was nothing left that he didn’t devour, therefore his prosperity will not endure.

For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?

then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

for it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from among the children of men.

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 every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.

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

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

Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.

Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.

Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.

if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house.

Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.

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

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.

I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.

Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they will drag them away, the little ones of the flock. Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them.

therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “I will stretch out my hand on Edom, and will cut off man and animal from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman. They will fall by the sword even to Dedan.

‘These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who will arise out of the earth.

It will happen, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.

God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.

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.

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.”

For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.

The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, “Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”

For you are our glory and our joy.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

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

For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.’ Every ship master, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,

He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.

His children will seek the favor of the poor. His hands will give back his wealth.

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

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.

Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.