Job 8:13

Bildad declares this is the destiny of all who forget God: the hope of the godless perishes. He states the moral he draws from the reed.

Cross-references · 21

• Ps 9:17The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
• Job 13:16This also shall be my salvation, that a godless man shall not come before him.
• Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. They shall have no way to flee. Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit.”
• Prov 10:28The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish.
• Job 15:34For the company of the godless shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
• Ps 50:22“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
• Prov 12:7The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand.
• Luke 12:1–2Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
• Job 20:5that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
• Deut 8:19It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish.
• Deut 8:11Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today;
• Job 36:13“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.
• Deut 8:14then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
• Lam 3:18I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”
• Ps 10:4The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
• Isa 51:13Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor?
• Isa 33:14The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?
• Job 27:8–10For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
• Deut 6:12then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
• Job 18:14He shall be rooted out of the security of his tent. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.
• Matt 24:51and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.

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