Job 27:8

Job Continues His Final Speech

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“May my enemy be as the wicked,
And he who rises up against me be as the unrighteous (unjust).
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“For what is the hope of the godless, even though he has gained [in this world],
When God takes his life?
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“Will God hear his cry
When trouble and distress come upon him?

Job

Job 11:20

“But the eyes of the wicked will fail,
And they will not escape [the justice of God];
And their hope is to breathe their last [and die].”

Job 8:13

“So are the paths of all who forget God;
And the hope of the godless will perish,

Matthew 16:26

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world [wealth, fame, success], but forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

Job 13:16

“This also will be my salvation,
For a godless man may not come before Him.

Job 15:34

“For the company of the godless is barren,
And fire consumes the tents of bribery (wrong and injustice).

Job 20:5

That the triumphing of the wicked is short,
And the joy of the godless is only for a moment?

Job 31:3

“Does not tragedy fall [justly] on the unjust
And disaster to those who work wickedness?

Isaiah 33:14-15

The sinners in Zion are terrified;
Trembling has seized the godless.
[They cry] “Who among us can live with the consuming fire?
Who among us can live with everlasting burning?”

Matthew 23:13

“But woe (judgment is coming) to you, [self-righteous] scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut off the kingdom of heaven in front of people; for you do not enter yourselves, nor do you allow those who are [in the process of] entering to do so.

Mark 8:36-37

For what does it benefit a man to gain the whole world [with all its pleasures], and forfeit his soul?

Luke 9:25

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world [wealth, fame, success], and loses or forfeits himself?

Luke 12:20-21

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your soul is required of you; and now who will own all the things you have prepared?’

1 Timothy 6:9-10

But those who [are not financially ethical and] crave to get rich [with a compulsive, greedy longing for wealth] fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction [leading to personal misery].

James 5:1-3

Come [quickly] now, you rich [who lack true faith and hoard and misuse your resources], weep and howl over the miseries [the woes, the judgments] that are coming upon you.