Job 11:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

The eyes

Lamentations 4:17

They shall not escape

Their hope

General references

Job 27:8

Proverbs 11:7

Bible References

The eyes

If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,

I also do this to you, and I have appointed over you trouble, the consumption, and the burning fever, consuming eyes, and causing pain of soul; and your seed in vain ye have sowed, and your enemies have eaten it;

'And among those nations thou dost not rest, yea, there is no resting-place for the sole of thy foot, and Jehovah hath given to thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and grief of soul;

I have been wearied with my calling, Burnt hath been my throat, Consumed have been mine eyes, waiting for my God.

While we exist -- consumed are our eyes for our vain help, In our watch-tower we have watched for a nation that saveth not.

They shall not escape

And perished hath refuge from the swift, And the strong strengtheneth not his power, And the mighty delivereth not his soul.

As when one fleeth from the face of the lion, And the bear hath met him, And he hath come in to the house, And hath leant his hand on the wall, And the serpent hath bitten him.

I have seen the Lord standing by the altar, and He saith: 'Smite the knob, and the thresholds shake, And cut them off by the head -- all of them, And their posterity with a sword I do slay, Not flee to them doth the fleer, Nor escape to them doth a fugitive.

how shall we escape, having neglected so great salvation? which a beginning receiving -- to be spoken through the Lord -- by those having heard was confirmed to us,

Their hope

So are the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,

Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors.

For what is the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?

The feared thing of the wicked it meeteth him, And the desire of the righteous is given.

Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.

and in the hades having lifted up his eyes, being in torments, he doth see Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom,

General references

For what is the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?

In the death of a wicked man, hope perisheth, And the expectation of the iniquitous hath been lost.