Daniel 5:6

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Daniel 5:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible

4 As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

5 At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing,

6 his face grew pale and his thoughts so alarmed him that his hips gave way and his knees knocked together.

7 The king called out for the enchanters, astrologers, and diviners to be brought in, and he said to these wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this inscription and tells me its interpretation will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around his neck, and he will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”

8 So all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the inscription or interpret it for him.

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Job 15:20

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Job 15:21

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Job 15:22

He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.

Job 15:23

He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

Job 15:24

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Job 15:25

For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,

Job 15:26

rushing headlong at Him with a thick, studded shield.

Job 15:27

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Job 20:19

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Job 20:21

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Job 20:22

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Job 20:23

When he has filled his stomach, God will vent His fury upon him, raining it down on him as he eats.

Job 20:24

Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow will pierce him.

Job 20:25

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A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”

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Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees.