Job 27:13
Hebrew Text— Job 27:13“This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
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No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.”
Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.
This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me,” says Yahweh, “because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.”
Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.
Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;
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?
to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
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.
he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.
Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
“ ‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “ ‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?
But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly: Yahweh will hear when I call to him.
For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.
For in Yahweh’s hand there is a cup, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.
An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.
He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
“Now I will arise,” says Yahweh. “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.
But everyone will die for his own iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.
Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’
Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.
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;
But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.
“ ‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.
But if Yahweh makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.”
“But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.
You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates.
You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;
‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
But if you keep doing evil, you will be consumed, both you and your king.”
But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.
Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”
“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?
But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die without knowledge.
Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless.
This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.
He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.
“There is no peace”, says Yahweh, “for the wicked.”
because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says Yahweh.
He spread it before me. It was written within and without; and lamentations, mourning, and woe were written in it.
When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.
Therefore speak to them, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I Yahweh will answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols;
I, Yahweh, have spoken it. It will happen, and I will do it. I won’t go back. I won’t spare. I won’t repent. According to your ways, and according to your doings, they will judge you,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”
When I tell the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man will die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at your hand.
Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”
Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
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.
Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”
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.
Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.
Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.
It will be for a sign and for a witness to Yahweh of Armies in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to Yahweh because of oppressors, and he will send them a savior and a defender, and he will deliver them.
Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.
Your Lord Yahweh, your God who pleads the cause of his people, says, “Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. You will not drink it any more.
“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath. There will be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.
I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.
and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.
What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.