Job 7:15

Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.

In those days Hezekiah was sick and dying. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order; for you will die, and not live.’ ”

In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.’ ”

The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the inner sanctuary of God. All the counsel of Ahithophel both was like this with David and with Absalom.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”

Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me!” But his armor bearer would not; for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it.

When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the fortified part of the king’s house, and burned the king’s house over him with fire, and died,

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”

“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.

Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”

The Son of Man indeed goes, as it has been determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!”

Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

At midnight, Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock.

They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?

and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by Yahweh’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.”

If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!

Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you didn’t believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”

Then he called hastily to the young man, his armor bearer, and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, that men not say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’ His young man thrust him through, and he died.”

Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

Absalom happened to meet David’s servants. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.

That night, Yahweh’s angel went out, and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.

Who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!

Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

Don’t desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.

Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.

Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels. Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

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

Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

Their sword shall enter into their own heart. Their bows shall be broken.

Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is among them, in their dwelling.

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.

This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, of those who speak evil against my soul.

I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless.

The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

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

Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.

The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.

So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there shall it be.

Heshbon cries out with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. Their souls tremble within them.

The spirit of Egypt will fail within it. I will destroy its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards.

Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel says, ‘Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,

who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?

Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.

Yahweh has taken away your judgments. He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel, Yahweh, is among you. You will not be afraid of evil any more.

He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.

according to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.

The people were waiting for Zacharias, and they marveled that he delayed in the temple.

“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?’

to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”

The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.