Job 4:21

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help.

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die without knowledge.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on himself, his crown will shine.”

You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

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

what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings.

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

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 lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up.

“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.

Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit on the ground, and will tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.

The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”

While the word was in the king’s mouth, a voice came from the sky, saying, “O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: ‘The kingdom has departed from you.

When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

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.

As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn’t know Yahweh, nor the work which he had done for Israel.

On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.

What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

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

This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.”

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

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

(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day,

My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

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

Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain.

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

The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.

For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals; for all is vanity.

As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

How the hammer of the whole earth is cut apart and broken! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!

until the ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.

Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.

but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,

punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”

They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.”

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.

A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish.

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, “Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms,

All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.

But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.