2Sa 19:10, Job 20:5-29, Psa 73:18-19 | ESV | STEP | But Absalom , whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle . Now therefore why do you say nothing about bringing the king back?

2 Samuel 19:10

10 But Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why do you say nothing about bringing the king back?”

Job 20:5-29

5 ^athat the exulting of the wicked is short,
and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
6 ^bThough his height mount up to the heavens,
and his head reach to the clouds,
7 he will perish forever like his own ^cdung;
those who have seen him will say, ^d‘Where is he?’
8 He will fly away like ^ea dream and not be found;
he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
9 ^fThe eye that saw him will see him no more,
nor will his place any more behold him.
10 His children will seek the favor of the poor,
and his hands will ^ggive back his wealth.
11 His bones are full of his ^hyouthful vigor,
but it will lie ⁱdown with him in the dust.
12 “Though evil is sweet in his mouth,
though he hides it ^junder his tongue,
13 though he is loath to let it go
and holds it in his mouth,
14 yet his food is turned in his stomach;
it is the venom of ^kcobras within him.
15 He swallows down riches and vomits them up again;
God casts them out of his belly.
16 He will suck the poison of cobras;
^lthe tongue of a viper will kill him.
17 He will not look upon ^mthe rivers,
the streams flowing with ⁿhoney and ^ocurds.
18 He will ^pgive back the fruit of his toil
and will not ^qswallow it down;
from the profit of his trading
he will get no enjoyment.
19 For he has crushed and abandoned the poor;
he has seized a house that he did not build.
20 “Because he ^rknew no ^scontentment in his belly,
^the will not let anything in which he delights escape him.
21 There was nothing left after he had eaten;
therefore his prosperity will not endure.
22 In the fullness of his sufficiency he will be in distress;
the hand of everyone in misery will come against him.
23 To fill his belly to the full,
God ^{▼▼Hebrew he} will send his burning anger against him
and rain it upon him ^vinto his body.
24 ^wHe will flee from an iron weapon;
^xa bronze arrow will strike ^yhim through.
25 It ^zis drawn forth and comes out of his body;
^aathe glittering point comes out of his ^abgallbladder;
^acterrors come upon him.
26 Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures;
^ada fire not fanned will devour him;
what is left in his tent will be consumed.
27 ^aeThe heavens will reveal his iniquity,
and the earth will rise up against him.
28 The possessions of his house will be carried away,
dragged off in the day of God’s ^{▼▼Hebrew his} wrath.
29 ^agThis is the wicked man’s portion from God,
^ahthe heritage decreed for him by God.”

Psalms 73:18-19

18 Truly you set them in ^aislippery places;
you make them fall to ruin.
19 How they are destroyed ^ajin a moment,
swept away utterly by ^akterrors!