Job 18:20

World English Bible (2000)

Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.

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  • Ps 37:13 : 13 The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.
  • Jer 50:27 : 27 Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
  • Ezek 21:25 : 25 You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day is come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,
  • Obad 1:11-15 : 11 In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them. 12 But don't look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don't rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don't speak proudly in the day of distress. 13 Don't enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don't look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity. 14 Don't stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don't deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress. 15 For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.
  • Luke 19:42 : 42 saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.
  • Luke 19:44 : 44 and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn't know the time of your visitation."
  • Deut 29:23-24 : 23 [and that] the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 24 even all the nations shall say, "Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?"
  • 1 Kgs 9:8 : 8 Though this house is so high, yet shall everyone who passes by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, 'Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house?'
  • Job 2:12-13 : 12 When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn't recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky. 13 So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
  • Job 19:13-19 : 13 "He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. 14 My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me. 15 Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight. 16 I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth. 17 My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother. 18 Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me. 19 All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
  • Ps 137:7 : 7 Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; who said, "Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!"
  • Jer 18:16 : 16 to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 18:14-19
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    78%

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

    15There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation.

    16His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.

    17His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.

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

    19He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.

  • 21Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn't know God."

  • Job 21:30-31
    2 verses
    73%

    30that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

    31Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?

  • Job 20:7-9
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    7yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'

    8He shall fly away as 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 any more see him.

  • Job 20:26-28
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    26All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

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

    28The increase of his house shall depart. They shall rush away in the day of his wrath.

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

  • 11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.

  • 21A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.

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

  • 11Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength is his god."

  • 16to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

  • 10He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

  • 19he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

  • Job 18:6-7
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    6The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.

    7The steps of his strength shall be shortened. His own counsel shall cast him down.

  • 8Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.

  • 21His sons come to honor, and he doesn't know it. They are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them.

  • 24Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

  • 6The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,

  • 15Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.

  • 16Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, "Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms;

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

  • 20Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

  • 45The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their close places.

  • 11Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall on you?

  • 19How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

  • 22Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more."

  • 46The foreigners will fade away, and will come trembling out of their close places.

  • 28He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

  • 19Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others shall spring.

  • 14At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.

  • 18How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

  • 20Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

  • 21There was nothing left that he didn't devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

  • 20saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed the remnant of them.'

  • 6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

  • 5There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous.

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

  • 19God, who is enthroned forever, will hear, and answer them. Selah. They never change, who don't fear God.

  • 20Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of you.