Job 11:20

World English Bible (2000)

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. They shall have no way to flee. Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit."

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  • Deut 28:65 : 65 Among these nations you shall find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of your foot: but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul;
  • Job 17:5 : 5 He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
  • Job 31:16 : 16 "If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
  • Job 34:22 : 22 There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
  • Ps 69:3 : 3 I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
  • Prov 10:24 : 24 What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
  • Lam 4:17 : 17 Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
  • Amos 2:14 : 14 Flight will perish from the swift; and the strong won't strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;
  • Amos 5:19-20 : 19 As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him. 20 Won't the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
  • Amos 9:1-3 : 1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, "Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape. 2 Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down. 3 Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.
  • Luke 16:23-26 : 23 In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom. 24 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 in anguish in this flame.' 25 "But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish. 26 Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that none may cross over from there to us.'
  • Heb 2:3 : 3 how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation--which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;
  • Job 18:14 : 14 He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.
  • Job 27:8 : 8 For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
  • Job 27:22 : 22 For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.
  • Job 8:13-14 : 13 So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish, 14 Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web.
  • Lev 26:16 : 16 I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

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  • 9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won't one be cast down even at the sight of him?

  • 32 The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

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    8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

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  • 10 The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.

  • Job 8:13-14
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    13 So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,

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    5 "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.

    6 The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.

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  • Job 17:15-16
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    15 where then is my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

    16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?"

  • 13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.

  • 20 for there will be no reward to the evil man; and the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.

  • 8 For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

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    7 Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.

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    19 He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

    20 Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

  • 18 Behold, Yahweh's eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness;

  • 7 The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

  • 23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see. Let their backs be continually bent.

  • 17 Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

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

  • 30 He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.

  • 18 Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.

  • 20 They were distressed because they were confident. They came there, and were confounded.

  • 8 You will only look with your eyes, and see the recompense of the wicked.

  • 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Bow down their back always."

  • 16 So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

  • 18 The caravans that travel beside them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.

  • 29 while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the end.

  • 23 God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.

  • 14 Flight will perish from the swift; and the strong won't strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;

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    26 All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

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  • 21 Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

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

  • 20 In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.

  • 20 But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish-- vanish like smoke.

  • 14 He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.

  • 17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

  • 26 They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

  • 22 There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

  • 15 Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.