Job 3:13

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

It shall be that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, you shall rise early and rush on the city. Behold, when he and the people who are with him come out against you, then may you do to them as you shall find occasion.”

All the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, neither will any of us turn to his house.

Ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel came over against Gibeah, and the battle was severe; but they didn’t know that disaster was close to them.

Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; also onyx stones, stones to be set, stones for inlaid work, of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.

After him, Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired another portion, from the turning of the wall to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.

As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.

But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

“Surely I will not come into the structure of my house, nor go up into my bed;

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

“This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for Yahweh’s house to be built.’ ”

whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.

For the priests who bore the ark stood in the middle of the Jordan until everything was finished that Yahweh commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua; and the people hurried and passed over.

So Joshua rose up early in the morning and brought Israel near by their tribes. The tribe of Judah was selected.

Joshua therefore came to them suddenly. He marched from Gilgal all night.

Joshua said to the children of Israel, “How long will you neglect to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you?

“Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which Yahweh your God spoke concerning you. All have happened to you. Not one thing has failed of it.

Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. Midian’s camp was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to Yahweh, “I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”

The days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty two years, then he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.

Gehazi went ahead of them, and laid the staff on the child’s face; but there was no voice and no hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, “The child has not awakened.”

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”

before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’ ”

If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.

“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, and the grave is ready for me.

If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

whom I, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me.

They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.

There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn’t there.

though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!

You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.

They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!

Yahweh, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.

I said, “I won’t see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants will die in the same way, but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.

He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.

“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things will not be remembered, nor come into mind.

“For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me,” says Yahweh, “so your offspring and your name shall remain.

They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed through, and where no man lived?’

Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.

the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that no one may cross over from there to us.’

For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

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.