Job 4:20

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.

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.

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;

Yahweh’s face is against those who do evil, to cut off their memory from the earth.

As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places.

Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.

You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.

In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

When the wicked increase, sin increases; but the righteous will see their downfall.

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?

Therefore Yahweh says concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: “They won’t lament for him, saying, ‘Ah my brother!’ or, ‘Ah sister!’ They won’t lament for him, saying ‘Ah lord!’ or, ‘Ah his glory!’

Then he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land; but he will stumble and fall, and won’t be found.

For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

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

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.

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

yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

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

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth;

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which no one delights? Why are they cast out, he and his offspring, and cast into a land which they don’t know?

The merchants among the peoples hiss at you. You have become a terror, and you will be no more.” ’ ”

Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her.”

for he has looked at the humble state of his servant. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.

Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”

therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall, he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung, until it is all gone.

and the body of Jezebel will be as dung on the face of the field on Jezreel’s land, so that they won’t say, “This is Jezebel.” ’ ”

When they had departed from him (for they left him very sick), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died. They buried him in David’s city, but they didn’t bury him in the tombs of the kings.

So Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings, for they said, “He is a leper.” Jotham his son reigned in his place.

Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem, because they didn’t bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.

Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the tombs of the sons of David. All Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him at his death. Manasseh his son reigned in his place.

I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?”

The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.

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

I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

“For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.

The eye which saw him will see him no more, neither will his place see him any more.

For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.

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

who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

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

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.

Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, evil will go out from nation to nation, and a great storm will be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth.”

I will make you a terror, and you will no more have any being. Though you are sought for, yet you will never be found again,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. The stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There will be famines and troubles. These things are the beginning of birth pains.

Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.

Jesus said, “Who touched me?” When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, “Master, the multitudes press and jostle you, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”

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.

You will roll them up like a mantle, and they will be changed; but you are the same. Your years won’t fail.”

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God troubled them with all adversity.

He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He departed without being missed; and they buried him in David’s city, but not in the tombs of the kings.

So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. They had slain Athaliah with the sword.

He will return no more to his house, neither will his place know him any more.

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

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

You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.

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

His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.

After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.

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

But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.

Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more.”

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.

I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him.

Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?

who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works.