15 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver. 16 Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight? 17 There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.
Job 3:15–17
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Job 3:20–22
20 Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul, 21 who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure, 22 who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave?
Baruch 3:15–17
15 Who has found out her place? Who has come into her treasuries? (WEB) 16 Where are the princes of the heathen, and those who ruled the beasts that are on the earth, (WEB) 17 those who had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and those who hoarded up silver and gold, in which… (WEB)
Psalms 49:18–20
18 Though in his lifetime he blesses his soul— and men praise you when you prosper— 19 he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of day. 20 A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.
Job 21:6–8
6 When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror. 7 Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power? 8 Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes.
2 Baruch 11:3–5
3 Who will be judge regarding these things? Or to whom shall we complain regarding that which has befallen us? O Lord, how hast Thou borne (it)? (2BA) 4 Our fathers went to rest without grief And lo! the righteous sleep in the earth in tranquillity; (2BA) 5 For they knew not thi… (2BA)
Job 22:15–17
15 Will you stay on the ancient path that wicked men have trod? 16 They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood. 17 They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’
Job 21:27–29
27 Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me. 28 For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’ 29 Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their report…
Job 10:17–19
17 You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave. 18 Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me! 19 If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the…
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