Job 15:20

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

All his days the wicked man suffers torment, throughout the number of the years that are stored up for the tyrant.

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  • Job 24:1 : 1 The Apparent Indifference of God“Why are times not appointed by the Almighty? Why do those who know him not see his days?
  • Job 27:13 : 13 This is the portion of the wicked man allotted by God, the inheritance that evildoers receive from the Almighty.
  • Ps 90:3-4 : 3 You make mankind return to the dust, and say,“Return, O people!” 4 Yes, in your eyes a thousand years are like yesterday that quickly passes, or like one of the divisions of the nighttime.
  • Ps 90:12 : 12 So teach us to consider our mortality, so that we might live wisely.
  • Eccl 9:3 : 3 This is the unfortunate fact about everything that happens on earth: the same fate awaits everyone. In addition to this, the hearts of all people are full of evil, and there is folly in their hearts during their lives– then they die.
  • Luke 12:19-21 : 19 And I will say to myself,“You have plenty of goods stored up for many years; relax, eat, drink, celebrate!”’ 20 But God said to him,‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’ 21 So it is with the one who stores up riches for himself, but is not rich toward God.”
  • Rom 8:22 : 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now.
  • Jas 5:1-6 : 1 Warning to the Rich Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you. 2 Your riches have rotted and your clothing has become moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have hoarded treasure! 4 Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. 5 You have lived indulgently and luxuriously on the earth. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, although he does not resist you.

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