4894 verses about World

Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

Which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself.

“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.

Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider’s web.

He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.

He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. They shall have no way to flee. Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit.”

In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.

“But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.

He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.

He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.

He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.

He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

For the company of the godless shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”

If I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’ to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘my sister;’

Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.

Don’t you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, ‘Where is he?’

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

There was nothing left that he didn’t devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.

The heavens shall reveal his iniquity. The earth shall rise up against him.

The increase of his house shall depart. They shall rush away in the day of his wrath.

“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.

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.