Thursday, December 10, 2020

HOW we are corrupting ourselves

 

Job 15:20-35 

King James Version

20 The wicked man 

travaileth with pain all his days

and the number of years is hidden 

to the oppressor.

21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: 

in prosperity the destroyer 

shall come upon him.

22 He believeth not 

that he shall return out of darkness, 

and he is waited for of the sword.

23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, 

Where is it? 

he knoweth that the day of darkness 

is ready at his hand.

24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; 

they shall prevail against him, 

as a king ready to the battle.

25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God

and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

26 He runneth upon him, 

even on his neck, 

upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:

27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, 

and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities

and in houses which no man inhabiteth, 

which are ready to become heaps.

29 He shall not be rich

neither shall his substance continue, 

neither shall he prolong 

the perfection thereof upon the earth.

30 He shall not depart out of darkness

the flame shall dry up his branches, 

and by the breath of his mouth 

shall he go away.

31 Let not him that is deceived 

trust in vanity

for vanity shall be his recompence.

32 It shall be accomplished before his time, 

and his branch shall not be green.

33 He shall shake off his unripe grape 

as the vine, 

and shall cast off his flower 

as the olive.

34 For the congregation of hypocrites 

shall be desolate

and fire shall consume 

the tabernacles of bribery.

35 They conceive mischief, 

and bring forth vanity, 

and their belly prepareth deceit.


Those powerful, revealing verses come from the oldest book in the Bible -- The BOOK of JOB.

What hope have we got?

Only in the LORD JESUS, of course!

Romans 6:23 

King James Version

23 For the wages of sin is death

but the gift of God is eternal life 

through Jesus Christ our Lord.



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