Job 21:27 Cross References - Thomson

²⁷ I know you charge me with presumption,

⁸ As I have seen men ploughing improper grounds: they who sow such places shall reap sorrows. ⁹ By the decree of the Lord they shall perish; and by the blast of his ire be utterly consumed. ¹⁰ The strength of a lion and the roaring of a lioness and the boastful pride of dragons have been extinguished. ¹¹ The myrmekoleon hath perished for want of food: and young lions have forsaken each other.

³ Now I have seen the foolish taking root, but their sustenance was quickly consumed. ⁴ Let their children be but far from safety, and insulted at the gates of minors, there will then be none to deliver them. ⁵ For what they have collected the righteous shall eat. Nor will they themselves be exempt from wrongs, should their power be exhausted.

³ Will the Lord in judging pass an unrighteous judgment? Or will he who made all things pervert justice? ⁴ If thy children have sinned in his sight, he hath dismissed them for their transgression: ⁵ But rise thou betimes and supplicate the Lord Almighty. ⁶ If thou art pure and upright, he will hear thy prayer; and render to thee the reward of righteousness.

²⁰ The whole life of the wicked is spent in anxiety. Though a certain number of years is given to the oppressor: ²¹ yet the sound of terror is in his ears. When he seemeth to be at peace his destruction shall come. ²² Let him not hope to return out of darkness; for he is already doomed to the edge of the sword; ²³ and destined to be food for vultures. He knoweth within himself that he waiteth for a fall; and a dark day will torture him. ²⁴ Distress and anguish will overwhelm him; like a general at the head of troops falling upon him. ²⁵ Because he lifted up his hands against the Lord, and hardened his neck against the Lord Almighty: ²⁶ therefore he ran upon him contemptuously, with the thick boss of his buckler. ²⁷ Because he covered his face with fatness; and made collops of fat upon his thighs: ²⁸ let him therefore lodge in deserted cities; and go into uninhabited houses: and what they had got ready, let others carry off. ²⁹ Let him neither be enriched, nor what he hath continue. ³⁰ Let him never cast a shadow on the ground, nor escape out of darkness. ³¹ Let the wind blast his bud, and his blossom fall prematurely. Let him not hope to continue, for vanity shall be his portion. ³² Let his branch lopped unseasonably, die; and let not his young shoot flourish. ³³ Let him be gathered like unripe grapes before his time, and fall like the olive blossom. ³⁴ For death is the testimonial of a wicked man: and a fire shall consume the tents of bribery. He shall conceive sorrows and bring forth vanity, and his belly shall produce an illusion.

⁵ But the mirth of the wicked is sudden ruin, and the joy of transgressors, destruction,

²⁹ This is the portion of a wicked man from the Lord, and this his possession, from the superintending Being.

³ And with the three friends he was very angry, because they were not able to answer Job's defence: though they had charged him with being wicked.

⁷ Now after the Lord had spoken all these things to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz, the Thaimanite, Thou hast sinned and thy two friends. For you have not spoken any thing true before me, as my servant Job hath.

⁴ Without transgression I ran and kept a straight course; awake to meet me and behold.

⁸⁶ All thy commandments are truth. They persecuted me without cause, do thou assist me.

²² Thereupon Jesus, knowing their surmises, addressed them, saying, Why reason ye in your hearts?

¹⁹ For this is pleasing, if from a conscientious regard to God one endureth grief suffering wrongfully.