Job 18:20

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Job 18:18–21 · Berean Standard Bible

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

19 He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.

20 Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.

21 Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”

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Deuteronomy 29:23

All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.

Deuteronomy 29:24

So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’

1 Kings 9:8

And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’

Jeremiah 18:16

They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.

Psalms 37:13

but the Lord laughs, seeing that their day is coming.

Psalms 137:7

Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”

Ezekiel 21:25

And you, O profane and wicked prince of Israel, the day has come for your final punishment.’

Obadiah 1:11

On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.

Obadiah 1:12

But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.

Obadiah 1:13

You should not enter the gate of My people in the day of their disaster, nor gloat over their affliction in the day of their disaster, nor loot their wealth in the day of their disaster.

Obadiah 1:14

Nor should you stand at the crossroads to cut off their fugitives, nor deliver up their survivors in the day of their distress.

Obadiah 1:15

For the Day of the LORD is near for all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your recompense will return upon your own head.

Luke 19:42

and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.

Luke 19:44

They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”

Job 2:12

When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.

Job 2:13

Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.

Job 19:13

He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.

Job 19:14

My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.

Job 19:15

My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.

Job 19:16

I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mouth.

Job 19:17

My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.

Job 19:18

Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.

Job 19:19

All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.