Job 15:20 Cross References - Thomson

²⁰ The whole life of the wicked is spent in anxiety. Though a certain number of years is given to the oppressor:

¹ But why have set times escaped the notice of the Lord;

¹³ "This is the portion of a wicked man from the Lord: and the possession of oppressors, which shall come to them from the Almighty.

³ Wilt thou turn man away to despondency; when thou hast said, Return ye sons of men? ⁴ Since in thy sight a thousand years are but as yesterday which is past; or as a watch in the night:

¹² so to number them. Thus make known thy right hand; and them whose hearts are instructed in wisdom.

³ There is this evil in every thing done under the sun, that one event happeneth to them all, so that the heart of the children of men being filled with evil there is an instability in their heart during their life, and it followeth them to the dead.

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul; Soul, thou hast many good things laid up in store for many years: take thine ease; eat; drink; and be joyful. ²⁰ Whereupon God said to him; Fool, this very night this soul of thine will be demanded of thee. Whose then will those things be which thou hast provided? ²¹ Thus let every one [say] to himself who is heaping up treasure and is not rich for God.

²² For we know that this whole creation are groaning together, and even till now are all in pain as a woman in travail.

¹ Come, now, ye rich; weep, and raise a mournful cry for the miseries which are coming upon you. ² Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth eaten. ³ Your gold and your silver are covered with rust; and the rust of them will be a witness against you, and corrode your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days. ⁴ Behold the wages of the labourers who have reaped your fields, which you have withholden, raise a cry; and the outcries of these reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. ⁵ You have lived luxuriously on the earth. You have indulged voluptuousness. You have pampered your hearts, as on a day of public feasting. ⁶ You have condemned you have murdered the just one. Is he not setting himself in array against you?