Job 21:20

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

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  • Isa 51:17 : 17 Wake up! Wake up! Get up, O Jerusalem! You drank from the cup the LORD passed to you, which was full of his anger! You drained dry the goblet full of intoxicating wine.
  • Rev 14:10 : 10 that person will also drink of the wine of God’s anger that has been mixed undiluted in the cup of his wrath, and he will be tortured with fire and sulfur in front of the holy angels and in front of the Lamb.
  • Ps 75:8 : 8 For the LORD holds in his hand a cup full of foaming wine mixed with spices, and pours it out. Surely all the wicked of the earth will slurp it up and drink it to its very last drop.”
  • Rev 19:15 : 15 From his mouth extends a sharp sword, so that with it he can strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod, and he stomps the winepress of the furious wrath of God, the All-Powerful.
  • Job 27:19 : 19 He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more. When he opens his eyes, it is all gone.
  • Ps 60:3 : 3 You have made your people experience hard times; you have made us drink intoxicating wine.
  • Jer 25:15-16 : 15 Judah and the Nations Will Experience God’s Wrath So the LORD, the God of Israel, spoke to me in a vision.“Take this cup from my hand. It is filled with the wine of my wrath. Take it and make the nations to whom I send you drink it. 16 When they have drunk it, they will stagger to and fro and act insane. For I will send wars sweeping through them.”
  • Jer 51:7 : 7 Babylonia had been a gold cup in the LORD’s hand. She had made the whole world drunk. The nations had drunk from the wine of her wrath. So they have all gone mad.
  • Luke 16:23 : 23 And in Hades, as he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far off with Lazarus at his side.

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  • 19You may say,‘God stores up a man’s punishment for his children!’ Instead let him repay the man himself so that he may be humbled!

  • 21For what is his interest in his home after his death, when the number of his months has been broken off?

  • Job 20:26-29
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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.

    29Such is the lot God allots the wicked, and the heritage of his appointment from God.”

  • Job 20:20-23
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    20For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite; he does not let anything he desires escape.

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

    22In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. The full force of misery will come upon him.

    23“While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him.

  • 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.

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

  • Job 20:9-11
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    9People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.

    10His sons must recompense the poor; his own hands must return his wealth.

    11His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.

  • 17How Often Do the Wicked Suffer?“How often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished? How often does their misfortune come upon them? How often does God apportion pain to them in his anger?

  • Job 20:15-18
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    15The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.

    16He sucks the poison of serpents; the fangs of a viper kill him.

    17He will not look on the streams, the rivers, which are the torrents of honey and butter.

    18He gives back the ill-gotten gain without assimilating it; he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce.

  • 10When the wicked see this, they will worry; they will grind their teeth in frustration and melt away; the desire of the wicked will perish.

  • 13This is the portion of the wicked man allotted by God, the inheritance that evildoers receive from the Almighty.

  • 21For his eyes are on the ways of an individual, he observes all a person’s steps.

  • 15Therefore, his disaster will come suddenly; in an instant he will be broken, and there will be no remedy.

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

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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.

  • 30He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth.

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

  • 17Surely, he ate in darkness every day of his life, and he suffered greatly with sickness and anger.

  • 20But the eyes of the wicked fail, and escape eludes them; their one hope is to breathe their last.”

  • 12Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.

  • 18“You say,‘He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.

  • 22It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power.

  • 27whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.

  • 16He becomes the victim of his own destructive plans and the violence he intended for others falls on his own head.

  • 22He draws near to the place of corruption, and his life to the messengers of death.

  • 3Is it not misfortune for the unjust, and disaster for those who work iniquity?

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

  • 22His flesh only has pain for him, and he mourns for himself.”

  • 11Woe to the wicked sinners! For they will get exactly what they deserve.

  • 20People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror, saying,

  • 12The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked; he overthrows the wicked to their ruin.

  • 8Let destruction take them by surprise! Let the net they hid catch them! Let them fall into destruction!

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

  • 10that person will also drink of the wine of God’s anger that has been mixed undiluted in the cup of his wrath, and he will be tortured with fire and sulfur in front of the holy angels and in front of the Lamb.

  • 14He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors.

  • 7The violence done by the wicked will drag them away because they have refused to do what is right.

  • 22The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin.