3 You will eat up your leaves, destroy your fruit, and leave yourself like a dry tree. (WEB)
Sirach 6:3
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Wisdom of Solomon 4:4–6
4 For even if they grow branches and flourish for a season, standing unsure, they will be shaken by the wind. They will be uprooted by the violence of winds. (WEB) 5 Their branches will be broken off before they come to maturity. Their fruit will be useless, never ripe… (WEB) 6 … (WEB)
Proverbs 23:7–9
7 for he is keeping track, inwardly counting the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you. 8 You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words. 9 Do not speak to a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Proverbs 5:10–12
10 lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner. 11 At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent, 12 and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
Isaiah 1:29–31
29 Surely you will be ashamed of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be embarrassed by the gardens that you have chosen. 30 For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, like a garden without water. 31 The strong man will become tinder and…
Micah 6:13–15
13 Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins. 14 You will eat but not be satisfied, and your hunger will remain with you. What you acquire, you will not preserve; and what you save, I will give to the sword. 15 You will sow but not reap; you…
Isaiah 10:17–19
17 And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles. 18 The splendor of its forests and orchards, both soul and body, it will completely destroy, as a sickness consumes a man. 19 …
Deuteronomy 28:41–43
41 You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity. 42 Swarms of locusts will consume all your trees and the produce of your land. 43 The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you…
Job 20:20–22
20 Because his appetite is never satisfied, he cannot escape with his treasure. 21 Nothing is left for him to consume; thus his prosperity will not endure. 22 In the midst of his plenty, he will be distressed; the full force of misery will come upon him.
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