Job 21:27 Cross References - Leeser

²⁷ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the opinions which ye wrongfully devise against me.

⁸ Even as I have seen, that those who plough wrong-doing, and sow trouble, have to reap the same. ⁹ Before the breathing of God they perish, and before the breath of his nostrils they come to their end. ¹⁰ The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. ¹¹ The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness have to scatter themselves abroad.

³ I have myself seen the foolish taking root; but I suddenly held his habitation as accursed. ⁴ His children are far from help, and men crush them in the gate, with no one to deliver them. ⁵ He it is whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber snatcheth eagerly after their substance.

³ Should God pervert justice? or should the Almighty pervert righteousness? ⁴ If thy children have sinned against him, then did he send them off through the means of their transgression. ⁵ If thou wilt earnestly seek for God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; ⁶ If thou become pure and upright: surely then will he watch over thee, and restore thy righteous habitation.

²⁰ All his days is the wicked plagued with pain, and the number of years which are laid by for the tyrant. ²¹ A sound of terrors is in his ears: during peace will the waster come over him. ²² He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is looked for by the sword. ²³ He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that there is ready at his hand the day of darkness. ²⁴ Distress and anguish terrify him: they assail him with might, as a king prepared for the battle. ²⁵ Because he had stretched out against God his hand, and strengthened himself against the Almighty; ²⁶ And he had run against him, with an extended neck, with the thick roundings of his bucklers; ²⁷ Because he had covered his face with his fat, and had made thick folds of fat on his flanks; ²⁸ And he dwelt in abandoned cities, in houses which none inhabited, which were destined to be ruinous heaps. ²⁹ Yet will he not remain rich, neither will his wealth endure, nor will he attain their perfection on earth. ³⁰ He will never depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his shoots, and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth. ³¹ Let him that goeth astray not trust in vanity; for vanity will be what he obtaineth thereby. ³² Even before his time will it be overfull, and his branches will not be green. ³³ He will shake off like the vine his unripe grapes, and cast off like the olive his blossoms. ³⁴ For the assembly of hypocrites will remain desolate, and fire will consume the tents of bribery. ³⁵ They conceive trouble, and bring forth wrong-doing, and their body prepareth deceit.

⁵ That the triumphal shouting of the wicked is ever of but a recent date, and the joy of the hypocrite endureth only for a moment.

²⁹ This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and his decreed heritage from God.

³ And against his three friends was his wrath kindled; because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

⁷ And it came to pass, after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Themanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; because ye have not spoken of me properly, like my servant Job.

^{4 (59:5)} Without guilt in me they run and make themselves ready: awake, come toward me, and behold.

⁸⁶ All thy commandments are founded on truth: without cause they persecute me; help thou me.