Proverbs 30:16
Hebrew Text— Proverbs 30:16Sheol, the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that doesn’t say, ‘Enough.’
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Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.
All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.
Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
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.”
You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with you?’ ”
The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.
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.
Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is among them, in their dwelling.
For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.
Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.
It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.
Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh’s breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.
Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. An arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.
They ate, they drank, they married, and they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”
As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.
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.”
Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh’s people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!”
The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all of Korah’s men, and all their goods.
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.”
He said, “What then is to be done for her?” Gehazi answered, “Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old.”
Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me’?”
“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.
Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.
Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.
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.
They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron, Yahweh’s saint.
because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.
The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.
Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh— how much more then the hearts of the children of men!
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.
Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then, do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.
The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the arrogance of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!
What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,” says Yahweh, “and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around. I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says Yahweh.
Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will possess their houses. I will also make the pride of the strong to cease. Their holy places will be profaned.
Because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. He killed whom he wanted to, and he kept alive whom he wanted to. He raised up whom he wanted to, and he put down whom he wanted to.
“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.
But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.
The devil said to him, “I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want.
You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades.
he left Judea and departed into Galilee.
For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
So on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp, and they had entered into the place of hearing with the commanding officers and the principal men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.
for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?
Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.
For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.
And behold, a pale horse, and the name of he who sat on it was Death. Hades followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to him.
You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.