Job 8:15

Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and named the city after the name of his son, Enoch.

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,

He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.

Let them vanish like water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!” Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.

Yahweh’s curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.

When a wicked man dies, hope perishes, and expectation of power comes to nothing.

The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.

There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God’s Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside.

He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to Yahweh, the God of Israel’s word, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath Hepher.

But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”

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

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.

Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive plants around your table.

The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.

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

I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.

But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

Nobah went and took Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,

She said to the men, “I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.

Now therefore, O king, come down. According to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part will be to deliver him up into the king’s hand.”

Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar which is in the king’s valley, for he said, “I have no son to keep my name in memory.” He called the pillar after his own name. It is called Absalom’s monument, to this day.

When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

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

For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.

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

“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him

He says in his heart, “I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble.”

Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. My body shall also dwell in safety.

Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living.

The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.

Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.

The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.

Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.

The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish.

He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

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

The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, and brings the wicked to ruin.

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither do they any longer have a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

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.”

Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you will be melted in the middle of it.

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

“I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, ‘Haven’t we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?’

Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these?” He answered me, “These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”

I will cause it to go out,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.”

but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’

and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren’t able.”

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” They went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies saw them.