4894 verses about World

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’

Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?

The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’

Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,

who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

who said to God, ‘Depart from us;’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’

The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,

There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.

“These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye shall see me.’ He disguises his face.

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.

“They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.

They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;

“The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.

Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.

Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.

The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.

He puts his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.

Man doesn’t know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

The deep says, ‘It isn’t in me.’ The sea says, ‘It isn’t with me.’

Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky.

For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole sky.

They are driven out from among men. They cry after them as after a thief;

They are children of fools, yes, children of wicked men. They were flogged out of the land.

“Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.

On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.

As through a wide breach they come, in the middle of the ruin they roll themselves in.

if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—

Please don’t let me respect any man’s person, neither will I give flattering titles to any man.

Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?

Who put him in charge of the earth? or who has appointed him over the whole world?

In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.

He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, and sets others in their place.

that the godless man may not reign, that there be no one to ensnare the people.

That you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?’

Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”

But if they don’t listen, they shall perish by the sword; they shall die without knowledge.

Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.

All men have looked on it. Man sees it afar off.

Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.

He sends it out under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.

By the breath of God, ice is given, and the width of the waters is frozen.

It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world,

Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

“Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place;

that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.

Have you comprehended the earth in its width? Declare, if you know it all.

“What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.

Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?

Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord?

Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?

Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants?

Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.

He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride.”

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

“Let’s break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us.”

He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth.

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.

You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:

You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.

He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

Put them in fear, Yahweh. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

His ways are prosperous at all times. He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

He says in his heart, “I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble.”

The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.

He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”

Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account?”

Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land.

For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?