Job 15:22

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They despair of returning from darkness, and they are destined for the sword.

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Throwing down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself.

If their children are multiplied, it is for the sword, and their offspring have not enough to eat.

be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”

If I summoned him and he answered me, I do not believe that he would listen to my voice.

What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should be patient?

While he was still speaking with them, the king came down to him and said, “This trouble is from the Lord! Why should I hope in the Lord any longer?”

They wander abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ They know that a day of darkness is ready at hand;

they will not escape from darkness; the flame will dry up their shoots, and their blossom will be swept away by the wind.

to spare their souls from the Pit, their lives from traversing the River.

But if they do not listen, they shall perish by the sword and die without knowledge.