Job 12 Cross References - ACV

¹ Then Job answered and said, ² No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. ³ But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who does not know such things as these? ⁴ I am as a man who is a laughing-stock to his neighbor. I who called upon God, and he answered. The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock. ⁵ In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for calamity. It is ready for those whose foot slips. ⁶ The tents of robbers prosper, and those who provoke God are secure. Into whose hand God brings abundantly. ⁷ But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee, and the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee. ⁸ Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee, and the fishes of the sea shall declare to thee. ⁹ Who does not know in all these, that the hand of LORD has wrought this, ¹⁰ in whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind? ¹¹ Does not the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food? ¹² With aged men is wisdom, and in length of days understanding. ¹³ With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding. ¹⁴ Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again. He shuts up a man, and there can be no opening. ¹⁵ Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth. ¹⁶ With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his. ¹⁷ He leads counselors away stripped, and he makes judges fools. ¹⁸ He loosens the bond of kings, and he binds their loins with a belt. ¹⁹ He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty. ²⁰ He removes the speech of the trustworthy, and takes away the understanding of the elders. ²¹ He pours contempt upon rulers, and weakens the strength of the strong. ²² He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death. ²³ He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive. ²⁴ He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way. ²⁵ They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man.

²⁴ Teach me, and I will be quiet. And cause me to understand how I have erred. ²⁵ How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

⁸ For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out ⁹ (for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow). ¹⁰ Shall they not teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?

² Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be justified?

⁶ and that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know therefore that God exacts of thee less than thine iniquity deserves.

¹² But vain man is void of understanding. Yea, man is born as a wild donkey's colt.

² Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

⁴ For thou have hid their heart from understanding. Therefore thou shall not exalt them.

¹⁰ But as for you all, come on now again, and I shall not find a wise man among you.

³ I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame, and the spirit of my understanding answers me.

⁷ I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom. ⁸ But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding. ⁹ It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice. ¹⁰ Therefore I said, Hearken to me, I also will show my opinion. ¹¹ Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your reasonings, while ye searched out what to say. ¹² Yea, I attended to you. And, behold, there was none who convinced Job, or who answered his words among you. ¹³ Beware lest ye say, We have found wisdom. God may vanquish him, not man.

¹¹ The rich man is wise in his own conceit, but a poor man who has understanding searches him out.

²¹ Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

¹⁰ We are foolish for the sake of Christ, but ye are wise in Christ. We are weak, but ye are strong. Ye are esteemed, but we are disreputable.

⁵ I speak shame about you. So there is not among you not even one wise man who will be able to arbitrate between his brother? ⁶ Can that which has no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? ⁷ My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.

² What ye know, I also know; I am not inferior to you. ³ Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. ⁴ But ye are forgers of lies. Ye are all physicians of no value. ⁵ O that ye would altogether be silent! And it would be your wisdom.

² How thou have helped him who is without power! How thou have saved the arm that has no strength! ³ How thou have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge! ⁴ Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like to him.

⁵ For I reckon to come short in nothing of those, superlative apostles.

²¹ I speak as from shame, that we were so weak. Yet in whatever any man may be bold in foolishness, I say I too am bold. ²² Are they Hebrews? I too. Are they Israelites? I too. Are they a seed of Abraham? I too. ²³ Are they helpers of Christ? (I speak as being mad) I more: in toils, more abundantly; in stripes, countless; in prisons, more frequently; in deaths often.

²⁹ Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice. Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.

³ Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mock, shall no man make thee ashamed?

¹⁰ They have gaped upon me with their mouth. They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

²⁰ My friends scoff at me. My eye pours out tears to God

² Surely there are mockers with me, and my eye dwells upon their provocation.

⁶ But he has made me a byword of the people, and they spit in my face.

³ Allow me, and I also will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.

¹ But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

⁷ All those who see me laugh me to scorn. They shoot out the lip. They shake the head, saying, ⁸ He trusted on LORD. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.

¹⁶ Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

¹⁵ He shall call upon me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

² He who walks in his uprightness fears LORD, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.

³ Call to me, and I will answer thee, and will show thee great things, and difficult, which thou know not.

⁷ But as for me, I will look to LORD. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

²⁹ And having woven a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand. And having knelt down before him, they ridiculed him, saying, Hail, king of the Jews!

⁴⁰ And they ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, takes the father of the child and the mother and those with him, and enters in where the child was lying.

¹⁴ And the Pharisees, being lovers of money, heard all these things, and they sneered him.

³² But when they heard the resurrection of the dead, of course they mocked, but others said, We will hear thee again about this.

³⁶ And others took a trial of mockings and scourgings, and moreover of bonds and imprisonment.

³⁵ Vengeance is for me, and recompense at the time when their foot shall slide. For the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.

⁵ Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or the ox moo over his fodder?

⁴ I also could speak as ye do, if your soul were in my soul's stead. I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.

⁵ Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

⁵ My steps have held fast to thy paths. My feet have not slipped.

¹⁸ When I said, My foot slips, thy loving kindness, O LORD, held me up.

³ Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. ⁴ Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

⁹ The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

²⁰ He who curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

¹⁶ Give glory to LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains. And, while ye look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

¹ Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure in the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come! ² Pass ye to Calneh, and see, and from there go ye to Hamath the great, then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms? Or is their border greater than your border? ³ Ye who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near, ⁴ who lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall, ⁵ who sing idle songs to the sound of the viol, who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David, ⁶ who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief oils, but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

⁸ And the foolish said to the wise, Give us from your olive oil, because our lamps are going out.

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou have many goods laid up for many years. Take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry.

¹⁹ Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously daily. ²⁰ But there was a certain poor man named Lazarus, who had been placed near his gate, covered with sores,

²⁴ The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of the judges of it. If not he, who then is it?

⁷ Why do the wicked live, become old, yea, grow mighty in power? ⁸ Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses are safe from fear, nor is the rod of God upon them. ¹⁰ Their bull breeds, and does not fail. Their cow brings forth safely, and does not miscarry. ¹¹ They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. ¹² They sing to the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe. ¹³ They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment they go down to Sheol. ¹⁴ And they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of thy ways. ¹⁵ What is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray to him?

¹⁸ Yet he filled their houses with good things. But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

¹⁴ from men by thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world whose portion is in this life, and whose belly thou fill with thy treasure. They are satisfied with sons, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

¹ Fret not thyself because of evildoers, nor be thou envious against those who work unrighteousness.

³⁵ I have seen a wicked man in great power, and spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

¹¹ And they say, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High? ¹² Behold, these are the wicked, and those who always prosper. They have possessed wealth.

²⁷ As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grown rich.

²⁹ Have ye not asked wayfaring men? And do ye not know their evidences, ³⁰ that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

⁶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise.

³ The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib, but Israel does not know; my people does not consider.

⁷ Yea, the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times, and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming, but my people know not the law of LORD.

¹⁷ And lest thou say in thy heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth. ¹⁸ But thou shall remember LORD thy God, for it is he who gives thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to thy fathers, as at this day.

⁷ LORD makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.

³ But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who does not know such things as these?

²⁰ that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of LORD has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

⁵ I have made the earth, the men and the beasts that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and I give it to whom it seems right to me. ⁶ And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant. And the beasts of the field I have also given him to serve him.

¹⁸ O thou king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom and greatness and glory and majesty.

¹⁷ Now therefore, O our God, hearken to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.

³⁵ And when the town clerk calmed the multitude, he says, Ephesian men, now who is the man who does not know the city of the Ephesians being temple-guardian of the great goddess Artemis, and of what fell from Zeus?

³⁶ Because from him, and through him, and for him, are all things. To him is the glory into the ages. Truly.

⁵ Listen, my beloved brothers, did not God choose the poor of the world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he promised to those who love him? ⁶ But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich exploit you, and they themselves drag you into courts? ⁷ Do they not blaspheme the good name that was called upon you?

⁷ And LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

¹⁷ And I, behold, I bring the flood of waters upon this earth, to destroy all flesh, in which is the breath of life, from under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.

²² And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will thou be angry with all the congregation?

³ (For my life is yet whole in me. And the spirit of God is in my nostrils.)

⁴ The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

¹⁴ If he sets his heart upon himself, if he gathers his spirit and his breath to himself, ¹⁵ all flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again to dust.

²⁹ Thou hide thy face, they are troubled. Thou take away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

³ Put not your trust in rulers, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. ⁴ His breath goes forth, he returns to his earth. In that very day his thoughts perish.

²³ but have lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven. And they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy lords, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine from them. And thou have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor know. And the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, thou have not glorified.

⁶ That which is begotten from the flesh is flesh, and that which is begotten from the Spirit is spirit.

²⁵ nor is he served by the hands of men, as needing anything, since he himself gives to all life, and breath, with all things.

²⁸ For in him we live, and move, and exist, as also some of the performers from you have said, For of him we are also offspring.

³⁰ Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern mischievous things?

³ For the ear tries words as the palate tastes food.

¹⁵ I speak as to wise men, judge ye what I say.

¹⁰ for you to examine the things that are significant. So that ye may be tested by sunlight and not stumbling toward the day of Christ,

¹⁴ But solid food is for mature men, those having their sensibilities trained through practice for the discernment of both good and evil.

³ if indeed ye have tasted that the Lord is excellent.

⁸ For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out

¹⁰ With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than thy father.

⁷ I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

⁴ He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?

¹⁶ With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.

²⁰ Where then does wisdom come from? And where is the place of understanding? ²¹ Since it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept closed from the birds of the heavens. ²² Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumor of it with our ears. ²³ God understands the way of it, and he knows the place of it. ²⁴ For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole heaven, ²⁵ to make a weight for the wind. Yea, he distributes the waters by measure. ²⁶ When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder, ²⁷ then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yea, and searched it out. ²⁸ And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.

⁶ And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old. Therefore I held back, and dared not show you my opinion. ⁷ I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom. ⁸ But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding. ⁹ It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.

⁵ Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise. He is mighty in strength of understanding.

³⁶ Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

⁵ Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.

⁶ For LORD gives wisdom. Out of his mouth is knowledge and understanding. ⁷ He lays up sound wisdom for the upright, a shield to those who walk in integrity,

¹⁴ Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge. I am understanding, I have might.

¹³ Who has known the mind of LORD, or being his counselor has taught him? ¹⁴ With whom did he take counsel. And who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice. And taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?

¹⁰ declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure,

¹² He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.

²⁰ Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and might are his.

¹⁵ For I will give you a mouth and wisdom that all those who oppose you will not be able to contradict or to resist.

³⁴ For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who became his counselor?

²⁴ But to them, to the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

⁸ which he abounded for us in all wisdom and intelligence.

¹¹ in him in whom also we obtained an inheritance. Having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the deliberation of his will,

³ In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

⁵ And if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from God who gives to all generously and not reproaching, and it will be given to him.

⁴⁶ This day LORD will deliver thee into my hand, and I will smite thee, and take thy head from off thee. And I will give the dead bodies of the armies of the Philistines this day to the birds of the heavens, and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,

¹⁸ And thou have declared this day how that thou have dealt well with me, inasmuch as when LORD had delivered me up into thy hand, thou killed me not.

⁸ Then said Abishai to David, God has delivered up thine enemy into thy hand this day. Now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not smite him the second time.

¹² Behold, he seizes; who can hinder him? Who will say to him, What are thou doing? ¹³ God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

¹⁰ If he passes through, and shuts up, and all to judgment, then who can hinder him?

¹¹ God delivers me to the perverse, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

¹⁰ He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. And he has plucked up my hope like a tree.

⁷ He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he has made may know it.

²³ I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. And I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says LORD of hosts.

²² And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his shoulder, and he shall open, and none shall shut, and he shall shut, and none shall open.

² For thou have made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It shall never be built.

⁵⁸ Thus says LORD of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire. And the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire, and they shall be weary.

⁶⁴ And thou shall say, Thus Babylon shall sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring upon her, and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

⁴ Whereas Edom says, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places, thus says LORD of hosts: They shall build, but I will throw down, and men shall call them the border of wickedness, and the people against whom LORD has indignation forever.

³² For God has confined all men in disobedience, so that he might be merciful to all.

⁷ And to the agent of the congregation in Philadelphia write, These things says the Holy, the True, he who has the key of David, who opens, and none will shut it except he who opens, and none will open:

¹³ And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them, and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

¹⁷ and the anger of LORD be kindled against you, and he shut up the heavens, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit, and ye perish quickly from off the good land which LORD gives you.

³⁵ When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain because they have sinned against thee, if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin when thou afflict them, ³⁶ then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and send rain upon thy land, which thou have given to thy people for an inheritance.

¹ And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the sojourners of Gilead, said to Ahab, As LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

¹⁰ in whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

⁷ At thy rebuke they fled. At the voice of thy thunder they hastened away. ⁸ The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place which thou had founded for them. ⁹ Thou have set a bound that they may not pass over, that they turn not again to cover the earth.

²² Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are not thou he, O LORD our God? Therefore we will wait for thee, for thou have made all these things.

⁸ seek him who makes the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night, who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth (LORD is his name),

⁴ He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languishes.

²⁵ But in truth I say to you, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months, when a great famine occurred on all the land.

¹⁷ Elijah was a man of the same nature as we. And by prayer, he asked for it not to rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months. ¹⁸ And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.

⁶ These men have authority to shut the sky, so that it may not rain the days of their prophecy. And they have authority over the waters to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they may desire.

²² And LORD said to him, With what? And he said, I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shall entice him, and shall also prevail. Go forth, and do so. ²³ Now therefore, behold, LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and LORD has spoken evil concerning thee.

¹³ With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

⁷ Will ye speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?

⁹ Is it good that he should search you out? Or as deceiving a man, will ye deceive him?

⁹ And if the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, LORD, have deceived that prophet. And I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.

¹³ And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, because from thee is the kingdom and the power and the glory into the ages. Truly.

³¹ And it was told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.

¹⁴ And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For LORD had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.

²³ And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and got home to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself. And he died, and was buried in the sepulcher of his father.

¹⁴ with kings and counselors of the earth, who built waste places for themselves,

¹² Where then are thy wise men? And let them tell thee now, and let them know what LORD of hosts has purposed concerning Egypt. ¹³ The rulers of Zoan have become fools. The rulers of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, the chief of her tribes. ¹⁴ LORD has mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her, and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work of it, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

¹⁴ Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder. I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.

¹⁹ For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will frustrate the understanding of those of understanding. ²⁰ Where is a wise man? Where is a scholar? Where is a researcher of this age? Did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?

¹¹ Therefore LORD brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. ¹² And when he was in distress, he besought LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. ¹³ And he prayed to him. And he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that LORD he was God. ¹⁴ Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate. And he encompassed Ophel around with it, and raised it up to a very great height. And he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.

¹⁶ O LORD, truly I am thy servant. I am thy servant, the son of thy handmaid. Thou have loosed my bonds.

³¹ And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty-fifth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison. ³² And he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon, ³³ and changed his prison garments. And he ate bread before him continually all the days of his life. ³⁴ And for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

²¹ And he changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings, and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding.

¹⁶ And he has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

²⁴ And it came to pass, when they brought forth those kings to Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them.

⁴² And all these kings and their land Joshua took at one time, because LORD, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.

⁴⁵ Then David said to the Philistine, Thou come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin, but I come to thee in the name of LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou have defied. ⁴⁶ This day LORD will deliver thee into my hand, and I will smite thee, and take thy head from off thee. And I will give the dead bodies of the armies of the Philistines this day to the birds of the heavens, and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,

²² Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.

²⁸ so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted.

⁹ Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help because of the arm of the mighty.

³⁶ And the agent of LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. ³⁷ So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. ³⁸ And it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword, and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.

¹ Thus says LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held to subdue nations before him. And I will loose the loins of kings to open the doors before him. And the gates shall not be shut.

¹⁴ These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, because he is Lord of lords and King of kings. And those with him are the called and chosen and faithful.

¹⁹ And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies gathered together to make war against him who sits upon the horse, and against his army. ²⁰ And the beast was taken, and the false prophet with it who did the signs in its sight by which he led astray those who received the mark of the beast and those who worship its image. The two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with brimstone. ²¹ And the others were killed by the sword that comes forth out of his mouth (of him who sits upon the horse), and all the birds were filled from their flesh.

²⁴ He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

⁹ It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.

¹⁷ because God has deprived her of wisdom, nor has he imparted understanding to her.

²¹ The lips of a righteous man feeds many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

¹⁹ The lips of truth shall be established forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

²² Lying lips are an abomination to LORD, but those who deal truly are his delight.

¹ For, behold, the Lord, LORD of hosts, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and staff, the whole support of bread, and the whole support of water, ² the mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and the elder, ³ the captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counselor, and the expert craftsman, and the skilful enchanter.

² And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs.

²⁴ And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade, and it did not become foul, neither was there any worm in it.

²³ And LORD spoke also of Jezebel, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel. ²⁴ He who dies of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat, and he who dies in the field shall the birds of the heavens eat.

²⁶ Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, says LORD, and I will requite thee in this plot, says LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plot of ground, according to the word of LORD.

³⁴ And when he came in, he ate and drank, and he said, Now see to this cursed woman, and bury her, for she is a king's daughter. ³⁵ And they went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands. ³⁶ Therefore they came back, and told him. And he said, This is the word of LORD, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall the dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel, ³⁷ and the body of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel, so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.

⁴⁰ He pours contempt upon rulers, and causes them to wander in the waste, where there is no way.

²⁷ None shall be weary nor stumble among them. None shall slumber nor sleep, nor shall the belt of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken,

⁵ And righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his loins.

²¹ And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy belt. And I will commit thy government into his hand, and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

⁹ LORD of hosts has purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

²¹ And it shall come to pass in that day, that LORD will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. ²² And they shall be gathered together as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison. And after many days they shall be visited.

³⁸ And it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword, and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.

²¹ And he changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings, and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding. ²² He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

³² And thou shall be driven from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. Thou shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will. ³³ The same hour the thing was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar. And he was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen. And his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair was grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.

¹² And divinely warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed into their own country by another way. ¹³ Now after they departed, behold, an agent of the Lord appears to Joseph in a dream, saying, After rising, take the child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and thou be there until I tell thee, for Herod is going to seek the child to destroy it.

²³ And immediately an agent of the Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And after becoming worm-eaten, he expired.

¹⁰ Finally my brothers, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.

¹⁴ Stand ye therefore having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

¹² And one of his servants said, No, my lord, O king, but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel tells the king of Israel the words that thou speak in thy bedchamber.

⁵ Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell upon it. Let blackness come upon it.

¹⁷ For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness. For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

²⁰ Where then does wisdom come from? And where is the place of understanding? ²¹ Since it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept closed from the birds of the heavens. ²² Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumor of it with our ears. ²³ God understands the way of it, and he knows the place of it.

²² There is no darkness, nor thick gloom where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

²¹ will not God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

¹² even the darkness hides not from thee, but the night shines as the day. The darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

²² He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

²⁶ Fear them not therefore, for there is nothing covered, that will not be revealed, and hid, that will not be known.

⁷⁹ to give light to those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into a way of peace.

¹⁰ But God disclosed it to us through his Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

⁵ Therefore do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make public the deliberations of the hearts. And then praise will come to each man from God.

⁷ And the sons of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty, and the land was filled with them.

²⁰ And God dealt well with the midwives. And the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

³⁸ He also blesses them, so that they are multiplied greatly, and he does not allow their cattle to decrease.

³ Thou have multiplied the nation. Thou have increased their joy. They joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

¹⁵ Thou have increased the nation, O LORD, thou have increased the nation. Thou are glorified. Thou have enlarged all the borders of the land.

⁶ In days to come Jacob shall take root; Israel shall blossom and bud. And they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.

² Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you. For when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.

²² The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation. I, LORD, will hasten it in its time.

¹⁹ And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry. And I will multiply them, and they shall not be few. I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

²² As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured, so I will multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister to me.

⁸ I will whistle for them, and gather them. For I have redeemed them, and they shall increase as they have increased.

²⁰ He removes the speech of the trustworthy, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

⁴ They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city of habitation.

⁹ And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but do not understand, and see ye indeed, but do not perceive. ¹⁰ Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn, and be healed.

¹ The burden of Egypt. Behold, LORD rides upon a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. And the idols of Egypt shall tremble at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.

¹⁶ Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given to him. And let seven times pass over him.

³³ The same hour the thing was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar. And he was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen. And his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair was grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.

¹¹ And Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

¹¹ And they smote the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

²⁹ and thou shall grope at noonday, as the blind man gropes in darkness. And thou shall not prosper in thy ways. And thou shall only be oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save thee.

¹⁴ They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.

²⁷ They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

¹⁴ LORD has mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her, and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work of it, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

²⁰ The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway to and fro like a hammock. And the transgression of it shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.

¹⁰ We grope for the wall like the blind. Yea, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noonday as in the twilight. We are as dead men in desolate places.

¹¹ And now, behold, a hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou will be blind, not seeing the sun until a time. And immediately there fell on him gloom and darkness, and going around he sought hand-guides.

¹¹ But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and he goes about in the darkness, and knows not where he goes, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.