Job 22:16

The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.

He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

by which means the world that existed then, being overflowed with water, perished.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.

The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.

Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, “Behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?” He said, “Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it.”

I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of Ahab’s house; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.

Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.

that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the middle of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.

though hail flattens the forest, and the city is leveled completely.

The voice of one saying, “Cry!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.

God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.”

God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.

All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.

Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.

Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.

For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.

and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

Let his days be few. Let another take his office.

By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.

Therefore Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will send you away from off the surface of the earth. This year you will die, because you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh.’ ”

I will enter into judgment with him with pestilence and with blood. I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, with great hailstones, fire, and sulfur.

Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.

By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.

He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.

Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

The eternal God is your dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, ‘Destroy!’

and that captain answered the man of God, and said, “Now, behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, might such a thing be?” and he said, “Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it.”

though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.

He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.

They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.

But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.

Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant.

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

It was so, when they came into the middle of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, and cast them into the middle of the pit, he, and the men who were with him.

“For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘When I make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I bring up the deep on you, and the great waters cover you;

At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.

“I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, and the piece where it didn’t rain withered.

For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

After the seven days, the floodwaters came on the earth.

The waters rose, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.

“They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.

Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

As through a wide breach they come. They roll themselves in amid the ruin.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

I said, “My God, don’t take me away in the middle of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.

Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.