Job 15:22

²² He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.

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Job 33:21–23

²¹ His flesh wastes away from sight, and his hidden bones protrude. ²² He draws near to the Pit, and his life to the messengers of death. ²³ Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,

2 Baruch 67:7–8

⁷ But the king of Babylon will arise who has now destroyed Zion, And he will boast over the people, And he will speak great things in his heart in the presence of the Most High. (2BA) ⁸ But he also shall fall at last. These are the black waters. (2BA)

Job 18:17–19

¹⁷ The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land. ¹⁸ He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world. ¹⁹ He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.

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 18:11–13

¹¹ Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step. ¹² His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side. ¹³ It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.

Job 10:20–22

²⁰ Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort, ²¹ before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom, ²² to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

Jeremiah 22:11–13

¹¹ For this is what the LORD says concerning Shallum son of Josiah, king of Judah, who succeeded his father Josiah but has gone forth from this place: “He will never return, ¹² but he will die in the place to which he was exiled; he will never see this land again.” ¹³ “…

2 Esdras 16:2–4

² Put on sackcloth and garments of goats’ hair, wail for your children and lament; for your destruction is at hand. (WEB) ³ A sword has been sent upon you, and who is there to turn it back? (WEB) ⁴ A fire has been sent upon you, and who is there to quench it? (WEB)

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