Job 15 Cross References - ACV

¹ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said, ² Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind? ³ Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good? ⁴ Yea, thou do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God. ⁵ For thine iniquity teaches thy mouth. And thou choose the tongue of the crafty. ⁶ Thine own mouth condemns thee, and not I. Yes, thine own lips testify against thee. ⁷ Are thou the first man who was born? Or were thou brought forth before the hills? ⁸ Have thou heard the secret counsel of God? And do thou limit wisdom to thyself? ⁹ What do thou know, that we do not know? What do thou understand, which is not in us? ¹⁰ With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than thy father. ¹¹ Are the consolations of God too small for thee, even the word that is gentle toward thee? ¹² Why does thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash, ¹³ that against God thou turn thy spirit, and let words go out of thy mouth? ¹⁴ What is man, that he should be clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? ¹⁵ Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. ¹⁶ How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water! ¹⁷ I will show thee. Hear thou me, and that which I have seen I will declare, ¹⁸ which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it, ¹⁹ to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them: ²⁰ The wicked man travails with pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor. ²¹ A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. ²² He does not believe that he shall return out of darkness. And he is awaited by the sword. ²³ He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. ²⁴ Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him as a king ready to the battle. ²⁵ Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty. ²⁶ He runs upon him with a stiff neck, with the thick studs of his bucklers, ²⁷ because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon his loins. ²⁸ And he has dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man inhabited, which were ready to become heaps. ²⁹ He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth. ³⁰ He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of God's mouth he shall go away. ³¹ Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself. For vanity shall be his recompense. ³² It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. ³³ He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive tree. ³⁴ For the company of the hypocrites shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery. ³⁵ They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their heart prepares deceit.

¹¹ Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that came upon him, they came each one from his own place-Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite-and they made an appointment together to come to bemoan him and to comfort him.

¹ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,

¹ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,

⁷ And it was so, that, after LORD had spoken these words to Job, LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends. For ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

⁹ So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did according as LORD commanded them, and LORD accepted Job.

²⁶ Do ye think to reprove words, seeing that the speeches of a man who is desperate are as wind?

² How long will thou speak these things? And how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a mighty wind?

² Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be justified? ³ Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mock, shall no man make thee ashamed?

² What ye know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.

¹ Ephraim feeds on wind, and follows after the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. And they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

¹³ Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show from his good behavior his works in meekness of wisdom.

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 I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are ye all. ³ Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes thee that thou answer?

¹ Then Job answered, and said, 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!

¹³ Your words have been stout against me, says LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee? ¹⁴ Ye have said, It is vain to serve God, and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before LORD of hosts? ¹⁵ And now we call the proud happy. Yea, those who work wickedness are built up. Yea, they challenge God, and escape.

³⁶ But I say to you, that every idle word, whatever men may speak, they will render account about it in the day of judgment. ³⁷ For from thy words thou will be justified, and from thy words thou will be condemned.

⁶ your speech always with grace, seasoned with salt, to know how it is fitting for you to answer each one.

⁴ he is puffed up, understanding nothing, but doting about disputes and word controversies, from which develop envy, strife, revilings, evil surmisings, ⁵ constant frictions of men corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing piety to be a means of gain. Withdraw from such.

¹³ So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against LORD, because of the word of LORD, which he did not keep, and also because he asked counsel of a spiritist, to inquire thereby, ¹⁴ and did not inquire of LORD. Therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom to David the son of Jesse.

⁵ But now it comes to thee, and thou faint. It touches thee, and thou are troubled. ⁶ Is not thy fear of God thy confidence, the integrity of thy ways thy hope?

⁸ But as for me, I would seek to God. And to God I would commit my cause,

¹⁴ To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be from his friend, even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

¹⁰ Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?

¹ The transgression of the wicked man says within my heart, There is no fear of God before his eyes. ² For he flatters himself in his own eyes, that his iniquity will not be found out and be hated. ³ The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

¹²⁶ It is time for LORD to work. They have made void thy law.

¹⁴ And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howl upon their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They rebel against me.

¹⁰ And when a man's uncle shall take him up, even he who burns him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say to him who is in the innermost parts of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No, then he shall say, Hold thy peace, for we may not make mention of the name of LORD.

⁶ and those who are turned back from following LORD, and those who have not sought LORD, nor inquired after him.

¹ And he also spoke a parable to them about it being necessary to always pray, and not to give up,

³¹ Do we then make law void through faith? May it not happen! Instead, we establish law.

²¹ I do not disregard the grace of God, for if righteousness is through law, then Christ died in vain.

¹³ He takes the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

²² It is all one thing. Therefore I say, He destroys the perfect and the wicked. ²³ If the scourge kills suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. 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?

⁶ The tents of robbers prosper, and those who provoke God are secure. Into whose hand God brings abundantly.

¹⁹ Thou give thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frames deceit. ²⁰ Thou sit and speak against thy brother; thou slander thine own mother's son.

² Thy tongue devises wickedness, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. ³ Thou love evil more than good, and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. ⁴ Thou love all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

³ who have whet their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,

² Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue. ³ What shall be given to thee, and what shall be done more to thee, thou deceitful tongue?

³ And they bend their tongue-their bow-for falsehood, and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says LORD. ⁴ Take ye heed each one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother, for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders. ⁵ And they will deceive each one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves to commit iniquity.

⁸ Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit. He speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lies wait for him.

²¹ For from inside the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, ²² covetings, wickednesses, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, reviling, pride, foolishness.

⁴⁵ The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth the good, and the bad man out of the bad treasure of his heart brings forth the bad, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

²⁶ If any man among you seems to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is futile.

⁵ So also the tongue is a little body-part, and boasts greatly. Behold a little fire, how much wood it kindles. ⁶ And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell. ⁷ For every species, both of beasts and of birds, both of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by the human species. ⁸ But no man is able to tame the tongue of men, an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

²⁰ Though I be righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.

⁸ Surely thou have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying, ⁹ I am clean, without transgression. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me. ¹⁰ Thou say, Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy. ¹¹ He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths. ¹² Behold, I will answer thee. In this thou are not just, for God is greater than man.

⁵ For Job has said, I am righteous, and God has taken away my right. ⁶ Notwithstanding my right I am accounted a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression. ⁷ What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water, ⁸ saying, I have not sinned, nor committed unrighteousness, nor had fellowship with workers of iniquity to go with the profane. ⁹ For thou should not say, There shall be no visitation to a man, whereas visitation is to him from the Lord.

² What is this thou think in judgment? Who are thou that thou said, I am righteousness before the Lord? ³ That thou said, What advantage will it be to thee? And, What profit shall I have more than if I had sinned?

⁸ Will thou even annul my judgment? Will thou condemn me, that thou may be justified?

³ Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

⁸ So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them. All who see them shall wag the head.

³⁷ For from thy words thou will be justified, and from thy words thou will be condemned.

⁶⁵ Then the high priest tore his garments, saying, He has blasphemed. What further need have we of witnesses? Behold, now ye heard his blasphemy.

²² He says to him, Out of thy mouth I will judge thee, thou evil bondman. Thou had known that I am an austere man taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow.

¹ And the man knew Eve his wife, and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from LORD.

¹² With aged men is wisdom, and in length of days understanding.

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

⁴ Where were thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou have understanding. ⁵ Who determined the measures of it, if thou know? Or who stretched the line upon it? ⁶ Upon what were the foundations of it fastened? Or who laid the cornerstone of it ⁷ when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? ⁸ Or who shut up the sea with doors when it broke forth, like it had issued out of the womb, ⁹ when I made clouds the garment of it, and thick darkness a swaddling-band for it, ¹⁰ and marked out for it my bound, and set bars and doors, ¹¹ and said, This far thou shall come, but no farther, and here thy proud waves shall be stayed? ¹² Have thou commanded the morning since thy days began, and caused the dayspring to know its place ¹³ that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it? ¹⁴ It is changed as clay under the seal, and all things stand forth as a garment. ¹⁵ And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the high arm is broken. ¹⁶ Have thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or have thou walked in the recesses of the deep? ¹⁷ Have the gates of death been revealed to thee? Or have thou seen the gates of the shadow of death? ¹⁸ Have thou comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if thou know it all. ¹⁹ Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place of it ²⁰ that thou should take it to the bound of it, and that thou should discern the paths to the house of it? ²¹ Thou know, for thou were born then, and the number of thy days is great! ²² Have thou entered the treasuries of the snow, or have thou seen the treasures of the hail, ²³ which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war? ²⁴ By what way is the light divided, or the east wind scattered upon the earth? ²⁵ Who has cleft a channel for the water flood, or the way for the lightning of the thunder, ²⁶ to cause it to rain on a land where no man is, on the wilderness, in which there is no man, ²⁷ to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, and to cause the tender grass to spring forth? ²⁸ Has the rain a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew? ²⁹ Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of heaven, who has engendered it? ³⁰ The waters hide themselves and become like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen. ³¹ Can thou bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? ³² Can thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? Or can thou guide the Bear with her train? ³³ Do thou know the ordinances of the heavens? Can thou establish the dominion of it on the earth? ³⁴ Can thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee? ³⁵ Can thou send forth lightnings, that they may go, and say to thee, Here we are? ³⁶ Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind? ³⁷ Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven ³⁸ when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods cleave fast together? ³⁹ Can thou hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions ⁴⁰ when they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait? ⁴¹ Who provides for the raven his prey when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?

² Before the mountains were brought forth, or thou had ever formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou are God.

²² LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. ²³ I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth was, ²⁴ when there were no depths. I was brought forth when there were no fountains abounding with water, ²⁵ before the mountains were settled, before the hills. I was brought forth

²⁹ The secret things belong to LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

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.

² No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

⁵ O that ye would altogether be silent! And it would be your wisdom. ⁶ Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

⁴ as I was in the ripeness of my days, when the friendship of God was upon my tent,

¹⁴ The friendship of LORD is with those who fear him, and he will show them his covenant.

³² For the perverse man is an abomination to LORD, but his friendship is with the upright.

¹⁸ For who has stood in the council of LORD, that he should perceive and hear his word? Who has marked my word, and heard it?

⁷ Surely the lord LORD will do nothing unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

²⁵ Jesus having responded at that time, said, I extol thee, O Father, Lord of the heaven and the earth, because thou hid these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to the childlike.

¹¹ And having answered, he said to them, Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to those men it has not been given.

³⁵ so that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled, which says, I will open my mouth in parables. I will utter things concealed from the foundation of the world.

¹⁵ I no longer call you bondmen, because the bondman does not know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I made known to you.

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

²⁵ Now to him who is able to establish you according to my good news, and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to a revelation of the mystery that has been kept secret for eternal times, ²⁶ but that was now revealed, and by prophetic scriptures, according to a commandment of the eternal God that was made known to all the nations for obedience of faith,

⁹ But as it is written, What an eye has not seen, and an ear has not heard, and have not arisen in a heart of a man, are things that God prepared for those who love him. ¹⁰ But God disclosed it to us through his Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. ¹¹ For what man knows the things of the man, except the spirit of the man in him? And so nobody knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

¹⁶ For who has known the mind of the Lord that he will stand with him? But we have the mind of Christ.

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

³ How thou have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge! ⁴ To whom have thou uttered words? And whose spirit came forth from thee?

⁷ Do ye look at things according to appearance. If any man has convinced himself to be of Christ, let him consider this again of himself, that, as he is of Christ, so also are we of Christ.

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. ²⁴ From the Jews five times I received forty save one. ²⁵ Thrice I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I was shipwrecked, I have done a night and a day in the depth, ²⁶ in frequent journeys, in perils of flowing waters, in perils of bandits, in perils from my race, in perils from Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils at sea, in perils among false brothers, ²⁷ in toil and hardship, in frequent sleeplessness, in hunger and thirst, in frequent fasts, in cold and nakedness. ²⁸ Besides the external things, crowding upon me daily is the care of all the congregations. ²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I am not made fiery? ³⁰ If it is necessary to boast, I will boast of the things of my weakness.

⁷ Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask thy father, and he will show thee, thine elders, and they will tell thee.

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?

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

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.

³¹ The hoary head is a crown of glory. It shall be found in the way of righteousness.

²⁴ Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way did the Spirit of LORD go from me to speak to thee?

⁸ But as for me, I would seek to God. And to God I would commit my cause, ⁹ who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number, ¹⁰ who gives rain upon the earth, and sends waters upon the fields, ¹¹ so that he sets up on high those who are low, and those who mourn are exalted to safety. ¹² He frustrates the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. ¹³ He takes the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong. ¹⁴ They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night. ¹⁵ But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty. ¹⁶ So a poor man has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth. ¹⁷ Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise thou the chastening of the Almighty. ¹⁸ For he injures, and binds up. He wounds, and his hands make whole. ¹⁹ He will deliver thee in six troubles. Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. ²⁰ In famine he will redeem thee from death, and in war from the power of the sword. ²¹ Thou shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue. Neither shall thou be afraid of destruction when it comes. ²² At destruction and dearth thou shall laugh, nor shall thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth. ²³ For thou shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee. ²⁴ And thou shall know that thy tent is in peace, and thou shall visit thy fold, and shall miss nothing. ²⁵ Thou shall know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth. ²⁶ Thou shall come to thy grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

¹³ If thou set thy heart aright, and stretch out thy hands toward him, ¹⁴ if iniquity is in thy hand, put it far away, and let not unrighteousness dwell in thy tents. ¹⁵ Surely then thou shall lift up thy face without spot. Yea, thou shall be steadfast, and shall not fear. ¹⁶ For thou shall forget thy misery. Thou shall remember it as waters that are passed away. ¹⁷ And thy life shall be clearer than the noonday. Though there be darkness, it shall be as the morning. ¹⁸ And thou shall be secure, because there is hope. Yea, thou shall search about thee, and shall take thy rest in safety. ¹⁹ Also thou shall lie down, and none shall make thee afraid. Yea, many shall correspond with thee.

⁸ Have thou heard the secret counsel of God? And do thou limit wisdom to thyself?

¹⁶ Yea, he would have allured thee out of distress into a broad place, where there is no confinement, and that which is set on thy table would be full of fatness.

³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all encouragement, ⁴ who encourages us in all our affliction, in order for us to be able to encourage those in every affliction, through the encouragement of which we ourselves are encouraged by God. ⁵ Because, as the sufferings of the Christ abound to us, so also our encouragement abounds through the Christ.

⁶ Nevertheless God, who encourages the lowly, encouraged us by the arrival of Titus.

¹³ If thou set thy heart aright, and stretch out thy hands toward him,

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

¹⁹ Let not those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me. Neither let them wink with the eye who hate me without a cause.

¹³ who winks with his eyes, who speaks with his feet, who makes signs with his fingers,

⁹ Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes. But know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

³ But Peter said, Ananias, why did Satan fill thy heart for thee to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back from the price of the land? ⁴ While it remained, did it not remain to thee? And after it was sold, it was in thine authority. Why is it that thou have placed this matter in thy heart? Thou have not lied to men, but to God.

²² Repent therefore from this thine evil, and beg God, if perhaps the thought of thy heart will be forgiven thee.

¹⁴ But each man is tempted by his own lust, being drawn away and enticed. ¹⁵ Then the lust having conceived, it gives birth to sin, and after being complete the sin brings forth death.

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

³ Is it good to thee that thou should oppress, that thou should despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

²⁵ Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty. ²⁶ He runs upon him with a stiff neck, with the thick studs of his bucklers, ²⁷ because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon his loins.

¹³ Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking deceit.

¹³ Your words have been stout against me, says LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?

⁷ Because the mentality of the flesh is enmity against God, for it is not submissive to the law of God, for neither is it able. ⁸ And those who are in flesh cannot please God.

² For we all stumble in many things. If any man does not stumble in word, this is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body. ³ Behold we put bits into the mouths of horses for them to obey us, and we guide about their whole body. ⁴ Behold also the ships, being so great and driven by fierce winds, are guided about by a very small rudder, wherever the impulse of the man who steers determines. ⁵ So also the tongue is a little body-part, and boasts greatly. Behold a little fire, how much wood it kindles. ⁶ And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell.

⁴⁶ If they sin against thee (for there is no man that sins not), and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, afar off or near,

³⁶ If they sin against thee (for there is no man that sins not), and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near,

² Of a truth I know that it is so. But how can man be just with God?

⁴ Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

⁴ How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman? ⁵ Behold, even the moon has no brightness. And the stars are not pure in his sight. ⁶ How much less man, who is a worm! And the son of man, who is a worm!

³ They are all gone aside. They are together become filthy. There is none who does good, no, not one.

⁵ Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.

⁹ Who can say, I have made my heart clean. I am pure from my sin?

²⁰ Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth that does good, and sins not.

²⁹ Behold, this only I have found: That God made man upright, but they have sought out many contrivances.

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

¹⁸ For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, for to will is present in me, but to do the good, I find not.

²² But scripture confined all things under sin, so that the promise from faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

² in which ye once walked according to the era of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience. ³ Among whom we also all once behaved in the lusts of our flesh, doing the intentions of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath as also the others.

⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we lead ourselves astray, and the truth is not in us. ⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous so that he will forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from every unrighteousness. ¹⁰ If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

¹⁸ Behold, he puts no trust in his servants, and he charges his agents with folly.

¹ Call now, is there any who will answer thee? And to which of the holy ones will thou turn?

⁵ Behold, even the moon has no brightness. And the stars are not pure in his sight.

² Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings, with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. ³ And one cried to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is LORD of hosts. The whole earth is full of his glory. ⁴ And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who cried, and the house was filled with vapor. ⁵ Then I said, Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. For my eyes have seen the King, LORD of hosts.

¹⁹ How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

¹² Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

⁷ What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water,

⁶ Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

¹ The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none that does good. ² LORD looked down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God. ³ They are all gone aside. They are together become filthy. There is none who does good, no, not one.

³ Every one of them has gone back. They have together become filthy. There is none who does good, no, not one.

²⁸ A worthless witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked swallows iniquity.

²⁸ And just as they did not approve having God in knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do things that are not fit; ²⁹ having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; ³⁰ being gossips, slanderous, God-hating, aggressors, arrogant boasters, contrivers of evil things, disobedient to parents;

⁹ What then? Are we better? Not at all. For we already charged both Jews and Greeks to all be under sin, ¹⁰ as it is written, There is no righteous man, not even one. ¹¹ There is no man who understands. There is no man who seeks God. ¹² All turned away. Together they became useless. There is not a man who does goodness; there is not as much as one. ¹³ Their throat is an open grave. With their tongues they deceive. The poison of asps is under their lips, ¹⁴ whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. ¹⁵ Their feet are swift to shed blood. ¹⁶ Destruction and misery are in their ways, ¹⁷ and the way of peace they have not known. ¹⁸ There is no fear of God before their eyes. ¹⁹ Now we know that as many things as the law says, it says to those in the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become accountable to God.

³ For we also were formerly foolish, disobedient, being led astray, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in evil and envy, hateful, hating each other.

²⁷ Lo this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

¹ However, Job, I pray thee, hear my speech, and hearken to all my words.

² Hear my words, ye wise men, and give ear to me, ye who have knowledge.

² Allow me a little, and I will show thee. For I have yet somewhat to say on God's behalf.

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

¹⁸ Yea, even when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not, until I have declared thy strength to a generation, thy might to everyone who is to come.

³ which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. ⁴ We will not hide them from their sons, telling to the generation to come the praises of LORD, and his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done. ⁵ For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their sons, ⁶ that the generation to come might know, even the sons who should be born, who should arise and tell to their sons,

¹⁹ The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day. The father to the sons shall make known thy truth.

²⁵ And to Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg. For in his days the earth was divided. And his brother's name was Joktan.

³² These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations. And from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood.

⁸ When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.

¹⁷ So ye shall know that I am LORD your God, dwelling in Zion my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem shall be holy, and no strangers shall pass through her any more.

¹ Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do those who know him not see his days?

¹³ This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.

³ Thou turn man to destruction, and say, Return, ye sons of men. ⁴ For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

¹² So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom.

³ This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

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. ²⁰ But God said to him, Thou foolish man, they demand thy soul from thee this night, and the things that thou prepared, whose will they be? ²¹ So is he who stores up for himself, and is not being rich toward God.

²² For we know that the whole creation is groaning and travailing together until now.

¹ Go now, ye rich, weep, howling for your miseries that are approaching. ² Your wealth has decayed, and your garments have become moth-eaten. ³ Your gold and your silver have cankered, and their corrosion will be testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. Ye have hoarded in the last days. ⁴ Behold the wage of the workmen who reaped your fields. The man who was defrauded by you cries out. And the outcries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts. ⁵ Ye have lived in luxury on the earth, and were self-indulgent. Ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter. ⁶ Ye have condemned, ye have murdered the righteous man. He is not hostile to you.

⁹ And LORD God called to the man, and said to him, Where are thou? ¹⁰ And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked. And I hid myself.

³⁶ And as for those who are left of you, I will send a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee as a man flees from the sword, and they shall fall when no man pursues.

³⁶ And Abigail came to Nabal, and, behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light. ³⁷ And it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. ³⁸ And it came to pass about ten days after, that LORD smote Nabal, so that he died.

⁶ For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great army. And they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.

¹³ And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house, ¹⁴ that there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them, ¹⁵ and the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away. Yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee. ¹⁶ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God fell from heaven, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee. ¹⁷ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have taken them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee. ¹⁸ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house. ¹⁹ And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee.

¹¹ Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.

⁵ that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the profane but for a moment? ⁶ Though his height mounts up to the heavens, and his head reaches to the clouds, ⁷ yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, Where is he?

²² In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come upon him. ²³ When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, and will rain it upon him while he is eating. ²⁴ He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of brass shall strike him through. ²⁵ He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body, yea, the glittering point comes out of his gall. Terrors are upon him.

²⁰ Terrors overtake him like waters. A tempest steals him away in the night.

¹⁸ Surely thou set them in slippery places. Thou cast them down to destruction. ¹⁹ How they have become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors. ²⁰ As a dream from awakening, O Lord, when thou waken, thou will despise their form.

⁷ When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed forever,

²⁶ I also will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your fear comes, ²⁷ when your fear comes as a storm, and your calamity comes on as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.

²¹ And at a set day Herod, having arrayed himself in royal apparel, and having sat on the tribunal, he made an oration to them. ²² And the populace shouted, The voice of a god, and not of a man. 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 And ye should not grumble as some of them grumbled, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

³ For when they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction approaches them, as the woman having birth pangs in her womb, and they will, no, not escape.

¹¹ Having a king over them, the agent of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in the Greek he has the name Apollyon.

³³ And while he was yet talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him, and he said, Behold, this evil is of LORD. Why should I wait for LORD any longer?

¹¹ What is my strength that I should wait? And what is my end that I should be patient?

¹⁶ If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I would not believe that he hearkened to my voice.

²⁹ be ye afraid of the sword. For wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

¹⁴ If his sons be multiplied, it is for the sword. And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

²¹ And they shall pass through it, greatly distressed and hungry. And it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward. ²² And they shall look to the earth, and, behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, and into thick darkness to be driven away.

⁵ And having cast down the silver pieces in the temple, he departed, and after going away, he hanged himself.

¹² When thou till the ground, it shall not henceforth yield to thee its strength. A fugitive and a wanderer thou shall be on the earth.

⁵ Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. ⁶ The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp above him shall be put out.

¹² His strength shall be weakened by hunger, and calamity shall be ready at his side.

¹⁸ He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

³ They are gaunt with want and famine. They gnaw the dry ground in the gloom of waste and desolation. ⁴ They pluck mallows by the bushes, and the roots of the juniper are their food.

¹⁵ They shall wander up and down for food, and tarry all night if they be not satisfied.

¹⁰ Let his sons be vagabonds, and beg, and let them seek out of their desolate places.

⁸ Yea, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

⁶ We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

⁹ We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

² a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the dawn spreads upon the mountains, a great people and a strong, there has not ever been the like, nor shall be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

²⁰ Shall not the day of LORD be darkness, and not light, even very dark, and no brightness in it?

¹⁵ That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

²⁷ but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and of fire, a fervor that is going to devour the opposition.

³⁷ They were stoned, they were sawed apart, they were tempted, they died in murder by sword. They wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, restricted, tormented ³⁸ (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.

² O that my grief were but weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances! ³ For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas. Therefore my words have been rash. ⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which my spirit drinks up. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

¹⁴³ Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me. Thy commandments are my delight.

²⁷ when your fear comes as a storm, and your calamity comes on as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.

¹¹ so thy poverty shall come as a robber, and thy want as an armed man.

³⁴ so thy poverty shall come as a robber, and thy want as an armed man.

³ I have commanded my consecrated ones, yea, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.

³⁷ And having taken Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and distressed. ³⁸ Then Jesus says to them, My soul is deeply grieved, as far as of death. Remain ye here and watch with me.

⁹ pressure and restriction, upon every soul of man who produces evil, both of the Jew first, and of the Greek,

² And Pharaoh said, Who is LORD, that I should hearken to his voice to let Israel go? I do not know LORD, and moreover I will not let Israel go. ³ And they said, The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to LORD our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.

¹⁷ As yet thou exalt thyself against my people, that thou will not let them go?

²³ And if by these things ye will not be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me,

⁷ And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God has come into the camp. And they said, Woe to us! For there has not been such a thing heretofore. ⁸ Woe to us! Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods that smote the Egyptians with all manner of plagues in the wilderness. ⁹ Be strong, and strengthen yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Conduct yourselves like men, and fight.

⁶ Why then do ye harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?

⁹ then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

⁹ Or have thou an arm like God? And can thou thunder with a voice like him? ¹⁰ Deck thyself now with excellency and dignity, and array thyself with honor and majesty. ¹¹ Pour forth the overflowings of thine anger, and look upon everyone who is proud, and abase him.

⁷ Lo, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

⁹ They have set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.

¹¹ And they say, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?

⁹ Make an uproar, O ye peoples, and be broken in pieces. And give ear, all ye of far countries. Gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces. Gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces. ¹⁰ Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nothing. Speak the word, and it shall not stand, for God is with us.

¹² Therefore it shall come to pass, that, when the Lord has performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. ¹³ For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding. And I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. And like a valiant man I have brought down those who sit on thrones. ¹⁴ And my hand has found as a nest the riches of the peoples. And like a gathering of eggs that are forsaken, I have gathered all the earth. And there was none that moved the wing, or that opened the mouth, or chirped.

⁴ Wrath is not in me. Would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them. I would burn them together.

⁴ Who has wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, LORD, the first, and with the last, I am he. ⁵ The isles have seen, and fear. The ends of the earth tremble, they draw near, and come. ⁶ They help every man his neighbor, and says to his brother, Be of good courage. ⁷ So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith, he who smoothes with the hammer, him who smites the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good, and he fastens it with nails, that it should not be moved.

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.

⁵ And he said, Who are thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecute.

¹ Now about that time Herod the king threw on hands to harm some of those from the church.

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.

⁸ Judah, thy brothers shall praise thee. Thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies. Thy father's sons shall bow down before thee.

²² And in the time of his distress he trespassed yet more against LORD, this same king Ahaz.

¹³ Know ye not what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any way able to deliver their land out of my hand? ¹⁴ Who was there among all the gods of those nations, which my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand? ¹⁵ Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you after this manner, neither believe ye him. For no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers. How much less shall your God deliver you out of my hand? ¹⁶ And his servants spoke yet more against LORD God, and against his servant Hezekiah. ¹⁷ He also wrote letters, to rail on LORD, the God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand.

¹² I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yea, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his mark.

⁴⁰ Thou have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

¹⁵ But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. Thou have grown fat. Thou have grown thick. Thou have become sleek. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

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

¹⁰ They are enclosed in their own fat. With their mouth they speak proudly.

⁷ Their eyes stand out with fatness. They have more than heart could wish.

³¹ when the anger of God went up against them, and killed of the fattest of them, and smote down the young men of Israel.

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.

²⁸ They have grown fat. They shine. Yea, they overflow in deeds of wickedness. They do not plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper. And they do not judge the right of the needy.

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

¹⁵ There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

⁸ Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, till there is no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land! ⁹ In my ears says LORD of hosts, of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. ¹⁰ For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.

¹¹ And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

¹⁸ Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says LORD of hosts: Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

³⁷ And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

¹² Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

¹⁸ Who is a God like to thee, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

²² In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come upon him. ²³ When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, and will rain it upon him while he is eating. ²⁴ He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of brass shall strike him through. ²⁵ He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body, yea, the glittering point comes out of his gall. Terrors are upon him. ²⁶ All darkness is laid up for his treasures. A fire not blown shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent. ²⁷ The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him. ²⁸ The increase of his house shall depart, flowed away in the day of his wrath.

¹⁵ Will thou keep the old way which wicked men have trodden? ¹⁶ Who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream, ¹⁷ who said to God, Depart from us, and, What can the Almighty do for us? ¹⁸ Yet he filled their houses with good things. But the counsel of the wicked is far from me. ¹⁹ The righteous see it, and are glad. And the innocent laugh them to scorn, ²⁰ Saying, Surely those who rose up against us are cut off, and the remnant of them, the fire has consumed.

¹⁶ Though he heaps up silver as the dust, and prepares raiment as the clay, ¹⁷ he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

¹⁶ Be not thou afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased. ¹⁷ For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall not descend after him.

² And having called him, he said to him, What is this I hear about thee? Render the account of thy management, for thou can no longer manage.

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, ²¹ and longing to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. But even the dogs that came licked his sores. ²² And it came to pass for the poor man to die and be carried by the agents to Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died and was buried.

¹¹ For the sun rose up with the burning heat, and withered the grass. And the flower of it fell, and the beauty of its appearance perished. So also the rich man will fade away among his pursuits.

¹ Go now, ye rich, weep, howling for your miseries that are approaching. ² Your wealth has decayed, and your garments have become moth-eaten. ³ Your gold and your silver have cankered, and their corrosion will be testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. Ye have hoarded in the last days.

⁹ By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.

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

²¹ before I go where I shall not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death, ²² the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as midnight.

²² He does not believe that he shall return out of darkness. And he is awaited by the sword.

²⁶ All darkness is laid up for his treasures. A fire not blown shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

²⁰ Saying, Surely those who rose up against us are cut off, and the remnant of them, the fire has consumed.

⁴ but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth. And he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.

³³ For a Topheth is prepared of old, yea, it is made ready for the king. He has made it deep and large. The pile of it is fire and much wood. The breath of LORD kindles it, like a stream of brimstone.

⁴ Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel. The fire has devoured both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it profitable for any work? ⁵ Behold, when it was whole, it was fit for no work. How much less, when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned, shall it yet be fit for any work! ⁶ Therefore thus says the lord LORD: As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ⁷ And I will set my face against them. They shall go forth from the fire, but the fire shall devour them. And ye shall know that I am LORD when I set my face against them.

⁴⁷ And say to the forest of the South, Hear the word of LORD. Thus says the lord LORD: Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree. The flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burnt by it. ⁴⁸ And all flesh shall see that I, LORD, have kindled it. It shall not be quenched.

¹² but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

¹³ Then the king said to the helpers, After binding him hands and feet, take him away and cast him out into the outer darkness. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

⁴¹ Then he will also say to those at the left hand, Depart from me, ye accursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his agents.

⁴³ And if thy hand may cause thee to stumble, cut it off. It is good for thee to enter into life maimed, than having thy two hands to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire, ⁴⁴ where their worm does not perish, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁵ And if thy foot may cause thee to stumble, cut it off. It is good for thee to enter into life crippled, than having thy two feet to be cast into hell, into the unquenchable fire ⁴⁶ where their worm does not perish, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁷ And if thine eye may cause thee to stumble, pluck it out. It is good for thee to enter into the kingdom of God one-eyed, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire, ⁴⁸ where their worm does not perish, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁹ For every man will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be salted with salt material.

⁸ in a fire of flame rendering vengeance to those who have not known God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ Men who will suffer punishment, a penalty of eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

¹⁷ These men are waterless wells, and clouds driven by a fierce wind, for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved into an age.

¹³ wild waves of the sea foaming out their own shame, wandering stars for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved into an age.

¹⁵ And a sharp two-edged sword comes out of his mouth, so that he would smite the nations by it. And he will tend them with a rod of iron. And he treads the winepress of the wine of the wrath of the anger of the Almighty God.

⁸ According as I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

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

¹⁰ Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery. If riches increase, set not your heart on it.

⁸ He who sows iniquity shall reap calamity, and the rod of his wrath shall fail.

¹⁰ For thou have forgotten the God of thy salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of thy strength. Therefore thou plant pleasant plants, and set it with foreign slips. ¹¹ In the day of thy planting thou hedge it in, and in the morning thou make thy seed to blossom. But the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

²⁰ He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

⁴ No man sues in righteousness, and no man pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

⁷ For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The blade shall yield no meal. If so be it yields, strangers shall swallow it up.

⁸ Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

³ For if some man presumes to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

⁷ Be not misled, God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows this he will also reap. ⁸ Because he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

⁶ Let no man deceive you by empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

¹⁶ He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden. ¹⁷ His roots are wrapped around the stone heap. He beholds the place of stones. ¹⁸ If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee. ¹⁹ Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others shall spring.

⁷ For there is hope of a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch of it will not cease. ⁸ Though the root of it grows old in the earth, and the trunk of it dies in the ground, ⁹ yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.

¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. ¹⁷ His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

¹⁶ Who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

⁵ God will likewise destroy thee forever. He will take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah. ⁶ The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, saying, ⁷ Lo, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness. ⁸ But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the loving kindness of God forever and ever.

²³ But thou, O God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in thee.

¹⁷ Do not much wrong, nor be thou a fool. Why should thou die before thy time?

¹¹ When the boughs of it are withered, they shall be broken off. The women shall come, and set them on fire, for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion upon them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

⁸ It was planted in a good soil by many waters that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit that it might be a goodly vine. ⁹ Say thou, Thus says the lord LORD: Shall it flourish? Shall he not pull up the roots of it, and cut off the fruit of it, that it may wither? It shall wither in all its fresh springing leaves, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots of it. ¹⁰ Yea, behold, being planted, shall it flourish? Shall it not utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It shall wither in the beds where it grew.

¹⁶ Ephraim is smitten. Their root is dried up. They shall bear no fruit. Yea, though they bring forth, yet I will kill the beloved fruit of their womb.

⁵ I will be as the dew to Israel. He shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. ⁶ His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. ⁷ Those who dwell under his shadow shall return. They shall revive as the grain, and blossom as the vine. The scent of it shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

⁶ If any man does not dwell in me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered. And they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and are burned.

³⁹ Thou shall plant vineyards and dress them, but thou shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather, for the worm shall eat them. ⁴⁰ Thou shall have olive trees throughout all thy borders, but thou shall not anoint thyself with the oil, for thine olive shall drop off.

⁹ The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

¹³ And the stars of the sky fell to the earth as a fig tree that casts its unripe figs being shaken by a great wind.

³ And his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

³ Here I am. Witness against me before LORD, and before his anointed: Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or of whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? And I will restore it to you.

¹³ So are the paths of all who forget God. And the hope of the profane man shall perish,

²² Those who hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.

¹⁴ if iniquity is in thy hand, put it far away, and let not unrighteousness dwell in thy tents.

¹ Then Zophar the Naamathite answered, and said,

⁵ Is not thy wickedness great? Neither is there any end to thine iniquities. ⁶ For thou have taken pledges from thy brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing. ⁷ Thou have not given water to the weary to drink, and thou have withheld bread from the hungry. ⁸ But as for the mighty man, he had the land. And the honorable man, he dwelt in it. ⁹ Thou have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

⁸ For what is the hope of the profane, though he gets him gain, when God takes away his soul?

¹² Because I delivered the poor who cried, also the fatherless who had none to help him. ¹³ The blessing of him who was ready to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. ¹⁴ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem. ¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind, and I was feet to the lame. ¹⁶ I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the case of him whom I did not know. ¹⁷ And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

¹³ But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They do not cry for help when he binds them.

¹⁴ The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the profane. Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings? ¹⁵ He who walks righteously, and speaks uprightly. He who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes away his hands from taking a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking upon evil.

¹¹ Inasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions of wheat from him. Ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them. Ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof. ¹² For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins-ye who afflict the just man, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the gate.

² The devout man has perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood. They hunt every man his brother with a net.

⁵¹ and he will cut him in two, and place his share with the hypocrites. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

¹⁴ Behold the wicked man, he travails with iniquity. Yea, he has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

⁴ No man sues in righteousness, and no man pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. ⁵ They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web. He who eats of their eggs dies, and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.

¹³ Ye have plowed wickedness. Ye have reaped iniquity. Ye have eaten the fruit of lies. For thou trusted in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.

¹⁵ Then the lust having conceived, it gives birth to sin, and after being complete the sin brings forth death.