Quotes About Judgment

Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?

For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.

If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,

Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.

For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,

Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh,

He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of Godís mouth will carry him away.

It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not flourish.

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

I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?

Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.

It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.

He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.

Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.

He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.

Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”

If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,

then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”

Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,

he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ëWhere is he?í

Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,

He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.