Job 15:30
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.”
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“He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath ofGod’smouth shall he go away.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His mouth!”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 15:30 — 22 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 4:9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.
- Job 5:14They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
- Job 10:21before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom,
- Job 15:22He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.
- Job 18:5Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
- Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
- Job 20:26Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
- Job 22:20‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire has consumed their excess.’
- Job 31:12For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon; it would root out my entire harvest.
- Isaiah 11:4but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.
- Isaiah 30:33For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.
- Ezekiel 15:4No, it is cast into the fire for fuel. The fire devours both ends, and the middle is charred. Can it be useful for anything?
- Ezekiel 20:47Say to the forest of the Negev: Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the Lord GOD says: I am about to ignite in you a fire, and it will devour all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and by it every face from south to north will be scorched.
- Hosea 6:5Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth, and My judgments go forth like lightning.
- Matthew 8:12But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
- Matthew 22:13Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
- Matthew 25:41Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
- Mark 9:43If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:8in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
- 2 Peter 2:17These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.
- Jude 1:13They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
- Revelation 19:15And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.
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