Job 8:18

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.

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

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.

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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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;

I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.

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.” ’ ”

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

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.

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.”

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 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.

Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, “Pick him up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how, when you and I rode together after Ahab his father, Yahweh laid this burden on him:

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

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.”

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

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?

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

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

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

(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.

The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.

Men will clap their hands at him, and will hiss him out of his place.

He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the afflicted.

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

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

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

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

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

For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.”

“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?

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.

For this is what Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land;

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

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