Job 7:8

Destruction on destruction is decreed, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, and my curtains gone in a moment.

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

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

Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?

He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.’

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

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

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

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

You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.

Yahweh says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”

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

who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.

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

if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

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

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.

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.

“In those days they will say no more, “ ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’

“What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?

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

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

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

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

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.

for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.

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

For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

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

“Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your habitations; don’t spare: lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.

They will spread them before the sun, the moon, and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, which they have served, after which they have walked, which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They will not be gathered or be buried. They will be like dung on the surface of the earth.

We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.

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.

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

Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Yahweh brought back the waters of the sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea.

They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

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

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

“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.

Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?

You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

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?’

Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

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

that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?

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

He lies down rich, but he will not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

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

My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

His flesh is so consumed away that it can’t be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.

For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

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.”

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have taken me up and thrown me away.

The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand.

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.

My tent has been destroyed, and all my cords are broken. My children have gone away from me, and they are no more. There is no one to spread my tent any more, to set up my curtains.

Her adversaries have become the head. Her enemies prosper; for Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions. Her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.

Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.

Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

They didn’t prevail. No place was found for them any more in heaven.

A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, “Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all.