Job 11:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

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  • Deut 28:65 : 65 And among these nations shall you find no ease, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest: but the LORD shall give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
  • Job 17:5 : 5 He that speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
  • Job 31:16 : 16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
  • Job 34:22 : 22 There is no darkness nor shadow of death where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
  • Ps 69:3 : 3 I am weary of my crying; my throat is dry; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.
  • Prov 10:24 : 24 The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him, but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.
  • Lam 4:17 : 17 As for us, our eyes failed as we watched for a nation that could not save us.
  • Amos 2:14 : 14 Therefore flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not reinforce his strength, neither shall the mighty save himself:
  • Amos 5:19-20 : 19 As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. 20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, with no brightness in it?
  • Amos 9:1-3 : 1 I saw the Lord standing upon the altar, and he said, Strike the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake; and cut them in the head, all of them. I will slay the last of them with the sword; he who flees from them shall not flee away, and he who escapes of them shall not be delivered. 2 Though they dig into hell, from there my hand will take them; though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down. 3 And though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there; and though they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
  • Luke 16:23-26 : 23 And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. 25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and you are tormented. 26 And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who would pass from here to you cannot; neither can they pass to us who would come from there.
  • Heb 2:3 : 3 How shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those that heard him;
  • Job 18:14 : 14 His confidence shall be uprooted from his dwelling, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
  • Job 27:8 : 8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God takes away his soul?
  • Job 27:22 : 22 For God will hurl upon him, and not spare; he would gladly flee out of His hand.
  • Job 8:13-14 : 13 So are the paths of all that forget God; the hypocrite's hope shall perish: 14 Whose hope will be cut off, and whose trust is a spider's web.
  • Lev 26:16 : 16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning fever, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

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  • Prov 11:6-7
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    6The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but transgressors shall be captured by their own evil.

    7When a wicked man dies, his hope shall perish, and the expectation of unjust men perishes.

  • 28The hope of the righteous shall be gladness, but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

  • 9Behold, the hope of capturing him is vain; will not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

  • 32The wicked is banished in his wickedness, but the righteous has hope in his death.

  • Job 20:8-9
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    8He shall fly away like a dream and shall not be found; yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

    9The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place behold him any longer.

  • 10The wicked shall see it and be grieved; he shall gnash his teeth and melt away; the desire of the wicked shall perish.

  • Job 8:13-14
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    13So are the paths of all that forget God; the hypocrite's hope shall perish:

    14Whose hope will be cut off, and whose trust is a spider's web.

  • Job 18:5-6
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    5Indeed, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

    6The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

  • 20His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

  • Job 17:15-16
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    15And where now is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?

    16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

  • 13But it will not be well with the wicked, nor will he prolong his days, which are like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

  • 20For there shall be no reward for the evil man; the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

  • 8For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God takes away his soul?

  • Job 7:7-9
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    7Oh, remember that my life is a breath; my eye shall see good no more.

    8The eye of him who has seen me shall see me no more; your eyes are upon me, and I am not.

    9As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to the grave shall come up no more.

  • Job 27:19-20
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    19The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered; he opens his eyes, and he is no more.

    20Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest steals him away in the night.

  • 18Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his mercy,

  • 7The robbery of the wicked will destroy them, because they refuse to do justice.

  • 23Let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see, and make their loins continually to shake.

  • 17As for us, our eyes failed as we watched for a nation that could not save us.

  • 18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

  • 30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth he shall go away.

  • 18For surely there is an end, and your expectation shall not be cut off.

  • 20They were confounded because they had hoped; they came there and were ashamed.

  • 8Only with your eyes shall you behold and see the reward of the wicked.

  • 10Let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see, and bend their backs always.

  • 16So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

  • 18The paths of their way turn aside; they go to nothing and perish.

  • 29While they see vanity to you, while they divine a lie to you, to bring you upon the necks of the slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.

  • 23Though it be given him to be in safety, on which he rests, yet his eyes are on their ways.

  • 14Therefore flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not reinforce his strength, neither shall the mighty save himself:

  • Job 20:26-27
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    26Total darkness is reserved for his treasures; a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with the one who remains in his tent.

    27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.

  • 20Those who come after him shall be astonished at his day, as those who went before were terrified.

  • 21Evil shall slay the wicked: and those who hate the righteous shall be desolate.

  • 16Indeed, their prosperity is not in their hand; the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  • 20In a moment they shall die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight and pass away; and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.

  • 20But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs; they shall consume; into smoke they shall vanish away.

  • 14His confidence shall be uprooted from his dwelling, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

  • 17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if one knows them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • 26They lie down alike in the dust, and worms cover them.

  • 22There is no darkness nor shadow of death where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

  • 15Let death seize upon them, and let them go down alive into hell, for wickedness is in their dwellings and among them.