Job 30:24

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.”

shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’

all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

he will make your righteousness shine out like light, and your justice as the noon day sun.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.

His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”

Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

The land had rest forty years, then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

The king said to the Cushite, “Is it well with the young man Absalom?” The Cushite answered, “May the enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise up against you to do you harm, be as that young man is.”

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

I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.

But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish— vanish like smoke.

Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”

You who love Yahweh, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place?

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.

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

Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up his spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.

and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered;

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba, after the greatest man among the Anakim. Then the land had rest from war.

So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. Then the land had rest eighty years.

“So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.

Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along the side of the Arnon for three hundred years! Why didn’t you recover them within that time?

Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. “Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.”

Samuel said, “Why then do you ask me, since Yahweh has departed from you and has become your adversary?

Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, ‘Don’t lodge tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.’ ”

Then Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this with you.” He took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the middle of the oak.

He built fortified cities in Judah; for the land was quiet, and he had no war in those years, because Yahweh had given him rest.

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!

“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

“Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.

I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’

oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!

For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

How much less when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!

Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

But let all those who take refuge in you rejoice. Let them always shout for joy, because you defend them. Let them also who love your name be joyful in you.

lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him;” lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.

They are bowed down and fallen, but we rise up, and stand upright.

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”

There the workers of iniquity are fallen. They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise.

By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.

Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments.

Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,

Let them be turned because of their shame who say, “Aha! Aha!”

For, behold, your enemies, Yahweh, for, behold, your enemies shall perish. All the evildoers will be scattered.

Zion heard and was glad. The daughters of Judah rejoiced because of your judgments, Yahweh.

Let sinners be consumed out of the earth. Let the wicked be no more. Bless Yahweh, my soul. Praise Yah!

Let your priests be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!”

Yahweh, don’t grant the desires of the wicked. Don’t let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud.

Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices. When the wicked perish, there is shouting.

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

Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?”

At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.

Come near, you nations, to hear! Listen, you peoples. Let the earth and all it contains hear, the world, and everything that comes from it.

For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, “Violence and destruction!” because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day.

therefore prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;”

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

The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him.

But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

“Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her.”

Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.