Verse 24
As for the worlde it is geuen ouer into the hande of the wicked, and he shall couer the faces of the iudges therof: if not, where is he, or who is he that can shewe the contrarie?
Referenced Verses
- Job 10:3 : 3 Thinkest thou it welldone to oppresse me? to cast me of beyng the workes of thy handes? and to mayntayne the counsell of the vngodly?
- Job 24:25 : 25 Is it not so? Who will then reproue me as a lyer, and say that my wordes are nothing worth? Bildad proueth that no man is cleane nor without sinne before God.
- Job 32:2 : 2 But Elihu the sonne of Barachel the Buzite, of the kinred of Ram, was very sore displeased at Iob, because he called hym selfe iust before God.
- Ps 17:14 : 14 Whose children haue aboundaunce: & they leaue enough of that they haue remaynyng to their babes.
- Ps 73:3-7 : 3 For I enuied at the case of the foolishe: I sawe the wicked flowe in all kynde of prosperitie. 4 For there be no bondes of death that can holde them: and the galaries of their houses be strong. 5 They come in no misfortune lyke other folke: neither are they plagued lyke other men. 6 And this is the cause that pride compasse them rounde about: and crueltie couereth them as a garment. 7 Their eyes stande out for fatnesse: and the cogitations of their heartes do passe from them.
- Jer 12:1-2 : 1 O Lorde thou art more righteous, then that I shoulde dispute with thee: neuerthelesse, let me talke with thee in thynges reasonable. Howe happeneth it that the way of the vngodly is so prosperous? and that it goeth so well with them which without any shame offend and liue in wickednesse, 2 Thou plantest them, they take roote, they growe, and bryng foorth fruite: they boast much of thee, yet art thou farre from their raynes.
- Jer 14:4 : 4 For the grounde is dryed, because there commeth no rayne vpon it: the plowmen also be ashamed and couer their heades.
- Dan 4:17 : 17 This sentence is according to the decree of the watchers, and the request according to the word of the holy ones: because liuing men should knowe that the hyghest hath power ouer the kingdome of men, and geueth it to whom it liketh hym, and setteth vp ouer it the basese among men.
- Dan 5:18-21 : 18 O thou king, the most high god gaue vnto Nabuchodonozor thy father a kingdome, and maiestie, and honour, & glorie. 19 And for the maiestie that he gaue him, al people, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him: he slue whom he would, he smote whom it pleased him: againe, whom he would he set vp, and whom he list he put downe. 20 But because his heart was loftie, and his minde strengthened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they toke his glory from him. 21 He was driuen out from the sonnes of men, his heart was made lyke the beastes, and his dwelling was with the wilde Asses, they fed him with grasse lyke Oxen, and his body was wet with the deawe of the heauen, till he knewe that the most hie God bare rule ouer the kingdome of men, and that he appoynteth ouer it whom so euer he pleaseth.
- Dan 7:7-9 : 7 After this I saw in a vision by night, & beholde, the fourth beast was grimme and horrible, and marueylous strong: it had great iron teeth, it deuoured & destroyed, & stamped the residue vnder his feete, it was vnlike yt other beastes that were before it, for it had ten hornes. 8 As I considered the hornes, beholde, there came vp among them another little horne, before whom there were three of the first hornes pluckt away: and behold, this horne had eyes lyke the eyes of a man, & a mouth speaking presumptuous thinges. 9 I behelde till the thrones were set vp, & the auncient of dayes did sit: whose garment was white as snowe, and the heeres of his head lyke the pure wooll: his throne was like the firie flambe, and his wheeles as burning fire. 10 There issued foorth a firie streame, and went out from before him: a thousand thousandes ministred vnto him, and ten thousand thousandes stoode before him: the iudgement was set, & the bookes opened. 11 Then toke I heede therunto, because of the voyce of the proude words which the horne spake: I behelde till the beast was slaine, and his body destroyed, and geuen to be brent in the fire. 12 As concerning the other beastes, they had their dominion taken away, but their liues were prolonged for a certaine time and season. 13 I saw in visions by night, and behold there came one in the cloudes of heauen, lyke the sonne of man: which went vnto the aucient of dayes, before whom they brought him. 14 And he gaue him dominion & honour, and a kingdome, that al people, nations, and languages should serue him: his dominion is an euerlasting dominion which shall neuer be taken away, and his kingdome shall neuer be destroyed. 15 I Daniel was troubled in my spirite in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head made me afrayde. 16 I gate me vnto one of them that stoode by, and asked him the trueth concerning all these thinges: so he tolde me, and made me vnderstand the interpretation of these thinges. 17 These great beastes which are foure, are foure kinges which shall arise out of the earth: 18 But the High saintes shall receaue a kingdome, and possesse a kingdome for euer, euen for euer and euer. 19 After this, I required to knowe the trueth concerning ye fourth beast, which was so vnlyke the other beastes, and so horrible, whose teeth were of iron, and his nayles of brasse, which deuoured and destroyed, and stamped the residue vnder his feete: 20 I desired also to knowe the trueth as touching the ten hornes that he had vpon his head, and this other which came vp afterwarde, before whose face there fell downe three, which horne had eyes and a mouth that spake presumptuous thinges, and loked with a grimmer visage then his felowes. 21 I behelde, and the same horne made battaile against the sainctes, yea & preuayled against them. 22 Until the auncient of dayes came that the iudgement was geuen to the high sainctes, and till the time came that the sainctes had the kingdome in possession. 23 He gaue me this aunswer: That fourth beast, shalbe the fourth kingdome vpon earth, it shalbe vnlike to all the kingdomes: it shall deuour, treade downe, and destroy all other landes. 24 The ten hornes, are ten kinges that shall arise out of that kingdome: after whom there shall stande vp another, which shalbe vnlike to the first, and he shall subdue three kinges: 25 And he shall speake wordes against the highest of all, he shall destroy the high sainctes, and thinke that he may chaunge times and lawes: they shalbe geuen into his hande vntill a time, and times, and the deuiding of a time. 26 But the iudgement shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and destroy it vnto the ende. 27 And the kingdome and dominion, & the greatnes of the kingdome vnder the whole heaue, shalbe geuen to the people of high sainctes, whose kingdome is an euerlasting kingdome, and all powers shal serue and obey it. 28 Hitherto the ende of the wordes: I Daniel had many cogitations which troubled me, & my coutenauce chaunged in me: but the wordes I kept still in my heart.
- Hab 1:14-17 : 14 And makest men as the fishe of the sea, and as the creeping thinges that haue no ruler ouer them. 15 They take vp all with the angle, they catche it in their net, and gather it in their yarne: wherof they reioyce and are glad. 16 Therfore they sacrifice vnto their net, and burne incense vnto their yarne: because by them their portion is fat, and their meate plenteous. 17 Shall they therfore stretche out their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
- Job 12:6-9 : 6 The houses of robbers are in wealth and prosperitie, and they that maliciouslie meddle against God dwell without care, in those thinges that God hath geuen richely with his hande. 7 Aske the cattaile, and they shall enfourme thee: the foules of the ayre, and they shall tell thee. 8 Or the encrease of the earth, and it shall shew thee: or the fishes of the sea, and they shall certifie thee. 9 What is he but he knoweth that the hande of the Lorde made all these? 10 In whose hande is the soule of euery liuing thing, and the breath of all mankinde.
- Job 12:17 : 17 He carieth away the wyse men as it were a spoyle, and bringeth the iudges out of their wittes.
- Job 16:11 : 11 God hath shut me vp with the vngodly, and deliuered me into the handes of the wicked.
- Job 21:7-9 : 7 Wherefore do wicked men liue, come to their olde age, and increase in richesse? 8 Their children lyue in their sight, and their generation before their eyes. 9 Their houses are safe from all feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them. 10 Their bullocke gendreth and that not out of time, their cowe calueth and is not vnfruitfull. 11 They sende foorth their children by flockes, & their sonnes leade the daunce. 12 They beare with them tabrets and harpes, and reioyce in the sounde of the organs. 13 They spend their dayes in wealthines, but sodainely they go downe to the graue. 14 They say also vnto God: Go from vs, we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes. 15 Who is the almightie that we should serue him? And what profite should we haue if we should pray vnto him?
- 2 Sam 15:30 : 30 And Dauid went vpon mount Oliuet, and wept as he went vp, and had his head couered, & went barefoote: And all the people that was with him, had euery man his head couered: & as they went vp, they wept.
- 2 Sam 19:4 : 4 But the king hyd his face, and cryed with a loude voyce: O my sonne Absalom, O Absalom my sonne, my sonne.
- Esth 6:12 : 12 And Mardocheus came againe to the kinges gate: but Haman gat him home in all the haste mourning, and his head couered,
- Esth 7:8 : 8 And when the king came againe out of the palace garde into the place where they dranke wine: Haman had layde him vpon the bed that Esther sate vpon. Then saide the king: wil he force the queene also before me in the house? As soone as that worde went out of the kinges mouth, they couered Hamans face.