Job 30:14

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

The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

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.

As they emptied their sacks, behold, each man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.

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

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

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

The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.

then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul;

They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.

For Yahweh will rise up as on Mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his unusual work, and bring to pass his act, his extraordinary act.

Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

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.

They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”

He said to his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”

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.”

With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.”

The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.

accuses her of shameful things, gives her a bad name, and says, “I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity;”

Behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, ‘I didn’t find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;’ and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity.” They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, because we have seen God.”

But his father and his mother didn’t know that it was of Yahweh; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.

David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there. Then he said, “Yahweh has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of waters.” Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.

David said to him, “Don’t be afraid; for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your father. You will eat bread at my table continually.”

For the waves of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

So they came up to Baal Perazim, and David defeated them there. David said, God has broken my enemies by my hand, like waters breaking out. Therefore they called the name of that place Baal Perazim.

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.

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

who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

“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.

The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.

though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with their swelling.

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.

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.

Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!

When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me,

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

Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:

You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.

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

David’s house was told, “Syria is allied with Ephraim.” His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.

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.

The sea has come up on Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of its waves.

For Yahweh lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice! Their waves roar like many waters. The noise of their voice is uttered.

Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”

The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”

In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, “Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me.

But Herod, when he heard this, said, “This is John, whom I beheaded. He has risen from the dead.”

All the city was moved and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.

But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.

He said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.

“I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm.”