Job 18:20

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror, saying,

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  • Ps 37:13 : 13 The Lord laughs in disgust at them, for he knows that their day is coming.
  • Jer 50:27 : 27 Kill all her soldiers! Let them be slaughtered! They are doomed, for their day of reckoning has come, the time for them to be punished.”
  • Ezek 21:25 : 25 “‘As for you, profane and wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come, the time of final punishment,
  • Obad 1:11-15 : 11 You stood aloof while strangers took his army captive, and foreigners advanced to his gates. When they cast lots over Jerusalem, you behaved as though you were in league with them. 12 You should not have gloated when your relatives suffered calamity. You should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah when they were destroyed. You should not have boasted when they suffered adversity. 13 You should not have entered the city of my people when they experienced distress. You should not have joined in gloating over their misfortune when they suffered distress. You should not have looted their wealth when they endured distress. 14 You should not have stood at the fork in the road to slaughter those trying to escape. You should not have captured their refugees when they suffered adversity. 15 The Coming Day of the Lord“For the day of the LORD is approaching for all the nations! Just as you have done, so it will be done to you. You will get exactly what your deeds deserve.
  • Luke 19:42 : 42 saying,“If you had only known on this day, even you, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
  • Luke 19:44 : 44 They will demolish you– you and your children within your walls– and they will not leave within you one stone on top of another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”
  • Deut 29:23-24 : 23 The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed in his intense anger. 24 Then all the nations will ask,“Why has the LORD done all this to this land? What is this fierce, heated display of anger all about?”
  • 1 Kgs 9:8 : 8 This temple will become a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by it will be shocked and will hiss out their scorn, saying,‘Why did the LORD do this to this land and this temple?’
  • Job 2:12-13 : 12 But when they gazed intently from a distance but did not recognize him, they began to weep loudly. Each of them tore his robes, and they threw dust into the air over their heads. 13 Then they sat down with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, yet no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.
  • Job 19:13-19 : 13 Job’s Forsaken State“He has put my relatives far from me; my acquaintances only turn away from me. 14 My kinsmen have failed me; my friends have forgotten me. 15 My guests and my servant girls consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes. 16 I summon my servant, but he does not respond, even though I implore him with my own mouth. 17 My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my brothers. 18 Even youngsters have scorned me; when I get up, they scoff at me. 19 All my closest friends detest me; and those whom I love have turned against me.
  • Ps 137:7 : 7 Remember, O LORD, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. They said,“Tear it down, tear it down, right to its very foundation!”
  • Jer 18:16 : 16 So their land will become an object of horror. People will forever hiss out their scorn over it. All who pass that way will be filled with horror and will shake their heads in derision.

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  • Job 18:14-19
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    14He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors.

    15Fire resides in his tent; over his residence burning sulfur is scattered.

    16Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.

    17His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

    18He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

    19He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.

  • Job 18:21
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    21‘Surely such is the residence of an evil man; and this is the place of one who has not known God.’”

  • Job 21:30-31
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    30that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God’s wrath?

    31No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done.

  • Job 20:7-9
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    7he will perish forever, like his own excrement; those who used to see him will say,‘Where is he?’

    8Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

    9People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.

  • Job 20:26-28
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    26Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

    27The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.

    28A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.

  • Eccl 8:13
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    13But it will not go well with the wicked, nor will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not stand in fear before God.

  • Job 18:11
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    11Terrors frighten him on all sides and dog his every step.

  • Job 15:21
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    21Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.

  • Job 24:17
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    17For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.

  • Hab 1:11
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    11They sweep by like the wind and pass on. But the one who considers himself a god will be held guilty.”

  • Jer 18:16
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    16So their land will become an object of horror. People will forever hiss out their scorn over it. All who pass that way will be filled with horror and will shake their heads in derision.

  • Job 7:10
    71%

    10He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more.

  • Ps 49:19
    71%

    19But he will join his ancestors; they will never again see the light of day.

  • Job 18:6-7
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    6The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.

    7His vigorous steps are restricted, and his own counsel throws him down.

  • Job 17:8
    71%

    8Upright men are appalled at this; the innocent man is troubled with the godless.

  • Job 14:21
    71%

    21If his sons are honored, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he does not see it.

  • Job 15:24
    71%

    24Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack,

  • Ps 52:6
    71%

    6When the godly see this, they will be filled with awe, and will mock the evildoer, saying:

  • Job 27:15
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    15Those who survive him are buried by the plague, and their widows do not mourn for them.

  • Isa 14:16
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    16Those who see you stare at you, they look at you carefully, thinking:“Is this the man who shook the earth, the one who made kingdoms tremble?

  • Job 34:20
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    20In a moment they die, in the middle of the night, people are shaken and they pass away. The mighty are removed effortlessly.

  • Job 4:20
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    20They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

  • Ps 18:45
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    45foreigners lose their courage; they shake with fear as they leave their strongholds.

  • Job 13:11
    71%

    11Would not his splendor terrify you and the fear he inspires fall on you?

  • Ps 73:19
    71%

    19How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!

  • Job 8:22
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    22Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”

  • 2 Sam 22:46
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    46Foreigners lose their courage; they shake with fear as they leave their strongholds.

  • Job 15:28
    71%

    28he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.

  • Job 8:19
    71%

    19Indeed, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others spring up.

  • Isa 17:14
    70%

    14In the evening there is sudden terror; by morning they vanish. This is the fate of those who try to plunder us, the destiny of those who try to loot us!

  • Job 21:18
    70%

    18How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?

  • Job 21:20
    70%

    20Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the anger of the Almighty.

  • Job 20:21
    70%

    21“Nothing is left for him to devour; that is why his prosperity does not last.

  • Job 22:20
    70%

    20‘Surely our enemies are destroyed, and fire consumes their wealth.’

  • Jer 17:6
    70%

    6They will be like a shrub in the arid rift valley. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the stony wastes in the wilderness, in a salt land where no one can live.

  • Ps 14:5
    70%

    5They are absolutely terrified, for God defends the godly.

  • Job 27:20
    70%

    20Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off.

  • Ps 55:19
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    19God, the one who has reigned as king from long ago, will hear and humiliate them.(Selah) They refuse to change, and do not fear God.

  • Deut 19:20
    70%

    20The rest of the people will hear and become afraid to keep doing such evil among you.