Job 21:9
Hebrew Text— Job 21:9Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
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What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror are on every side.
For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.
“ ‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.
Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.
But these two things will come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in their full measure, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.
Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;
Shall not his majesty make you afraid, and his dread fall on you?
withdraw your hand far from me, and don’t let your terror make me afraid.
He draws it out, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.
Behold, my terror will not make you afraid, neither will my pressure be heavy on you.
May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.
They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.
Why have I seen it? They are dismayed and are turned backward. Their mighty ones are beaten down, have fled in haste, and don’t look back. Terror is on every side,” says Yahweh.
They will take their tents and their flocks. they will carry away for themselves their curtains, all their vessels, and their camels; and they will cry to them, ‘Terror on every side!’
and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph’s house; and they said, “Because of the money that was returned in our sacks the first time, we’re brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, along with our donkeys.”
Yahweh had said to Moses, “Tell the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up among you for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.’ ”
When they went into the Tent of Meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.
“Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!”
He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.
When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly.
Then Saul fell immediately his full length on the earth, and was terrified, because of Samuel’s words. There was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all day long or all night long.
For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear the sound of chariots, and the sound of horses, even the noise of a great army; and they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us.”
Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.” ’ ”
They struck all the cities around Gerar; for the fear of Yahweh came on them, and they plundered all the cities; for there was much plunder in them.
Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, “Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman’s house.” The king said, “Hang him on it!”
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.
Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.
that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.
Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.
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.
Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.
For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.
In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.
“Yes, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place.
Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”
There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.
Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.
How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
Don’t be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes;
The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be nothing but terror to understand the message.”
therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.
The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?
Therefore disaster will come on you. You won’t know when it dawns. Mischief will fall on you. You won’t be able to put it away. Desolation will come on you suddenly, which you don’t understand.
For Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes will see it. I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will carry them captive to Babylon, and will kill them with the sword.
Then the king’s face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.
The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him; and he was very perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead,
“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’
him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;
Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.
But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.
Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.
For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.
But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.
As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is “Abaddon”, but in Greek, he has the name “Apollyon”.
standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one hour.’