Job 17 Cross References - ACV

¹ My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me. ² Surely there are mockers with me, and my eye dwells upon their provocation. ³ Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself. Who is there that will strike hands with me? ⁴ For thou have hid their heart from understanding. Therefore thou shall not exalt them. ⁵ He who denounces his friends for a prey, even the eyes of his sons shall fail. ⁶ But he has made me a byword of the people, and they spit in my face. ⁷ My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. ⁸ Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir himself up against the profane. ⁹ Yet the righteous shall hold on his way. And he who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger. ¹⁰ But as for you all, come on now again, and I shall not find a wise man among you. ¹¹ My days are past. My purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. ¹² They change the night into day. The light, they say, is near to the darkness. ¹³ If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness, ¹⁴ if I have said to corruption, Thou are my father, to the worm, My mother, and my sister, ¹⁵ where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it? ¹⁶ It shall go down to the bars of Sheol when once there is rest in the dust.

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

¹³ If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness, ¹⁴ if I have said to corruption, Thou are my father, to the worm, My mother, and my sister,

¹⁷ My breath is strange to my wife, and my supplication to the sons of my own mother.

¹⁶ And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

³ For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol. ⁴ I am reckoned with those who go down into the pit. I am as a man who has no help, ⁵ cast off among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom thou remember no more, and they are cut off from thy hand.

¹⁰ I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years. ¹¹ I said, I shall not see LORD, even LORD in the land of the living. I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. ¹² My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night thou will make an end of me. ¹³ I quieted myself until morning. As a lion, so he breaks all my bones. From day even to night will thou make an end of me. ¹⁴ Like a swallow or a crane, so I chattered. I moaned as a dove. My eyes fail with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

¹⁶ For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry, for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls that I have made.

⁶ And her rival provoked her greatly, to make her fret, because LORD had shut up her womb. ⁷ And as he did so year by year when she went up to the house of LORD, so she provoked her. Therefore she wept, and did not eat.

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.

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

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

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

¹³ His soul shall dwell at ease, and his seed shall inherit the land.

¹⁴ I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as he who bewails his mother. ¹⁵ But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The wretches gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not. They tore me, and ceased not. ¹⁶ Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

¹ He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

³⁹ And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads, ⁴⁰ and saying, Thou who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save thyself. If thou are the Son of God, come down from the cross. ⁴¹ And likewise also the chief priests, ridiculing with the scholars, and elders, and Pharisees, said, ⁴² He saved others, he cannot save himself. If he is the king of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe in him. ⁴³ He trusted in God, let him rescue him now, if he wants him, for he said, I am the Son of God. ⁴⁴ And also the robbers who were crucified with him reviled him the same way.

⁹ I will be surety for him, of my hand shall thou require him. If I do not bring him to thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame forever.

³² For thy servant became surety for the young man to my father, saying, If I do not bring him to thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father forever.

³³ There is no umpire between us who might lay his hand upon us both.

¹²² Be surety for thy servant for good. Let not the proud oppress me.

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

¹⁵ He who is surety for a stranger shall smart for it, but he who hates suretyship is secure.

¹⁸ A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes surety in the presence of his neighbor.

¹⁶ Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge for foreigners.

²⁶ Be thou not one of those who strike hands, or of those who are sureties for debts.

¹⁴ Like a swallow or a crane, so I chattered. I moaned as a dove. My eyes fail with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

²² By so much, Jesus has become the surety of a better covenant.

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.

¹⁶ And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said to him, Have we made thee of the king's counsel? Cease. Why should thou be smitten? Then the prophet ceased, and said, I know that God has determined to destroy thee, because thou have done this, and have not hearkened to my counsel.

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.

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.

⁸ just as it is written that God gave them a spirit of slumber: eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, until this very day.

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?

⁵ Thou shall not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them, for I, LORD thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of those who hate me,

⁶⁵ And among these nations thou shall find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of thy foot, but LORD will give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul.

¹² Notwithstanding I will not do it in thy days, for David thy father's sake, but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.

²⁰ But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no way to flee. And their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit.

²¹ Let me not, I pray you, respect any man's person. Neither will I give flattering titles to any man. ²² For I know not to give flattering titles, else my maker would soon take me away.

² They speak falsehood everyone with his neighbor. With flattering lip, and with a double heart, they speak. ³ LORD will cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaks great things,

¹⁹ He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets. Therefore do not associate with him who opens wide his lips.

⁵ A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his steps.

¹⁷ Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

⁵ For we came neither in word of flattery (at any time as ye know) nor a pretense of greed (God is witness)

²⁷ Why did thou flee secretly, and creep away from me, and did not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp,

⁷ then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them. And this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight. And Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

⁹ And now I have become their song, Yea, I am a byword to them.

¹⁴ Thou make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

¹² And the harp and the lute, the tambourine and the pipe, and wine, are in their feasts, but they do not regard the work of LORD, nor have they considered the operation of his hands.

⁸ And thou have laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me. And my leanness rises up against me; it testifies to my face.

¹⁶ My face is red with weeping, and the shadow of death is on my eyelids,

⁷ My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.

⁹ Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in distress. My eye wastes away with grief, yea, my soul and my body. ¹⁰ For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are wasted away.

²³ I am gone like the shadow when it declines. I am tossed up and down as the locust.

¹² For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

¹⁷ For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim,

¹⁹ The righteous see it, and are glad. And the innocent laugh them to scorn,

³⁰ that the profane man not reign, that there be none to ensnare the people.

¹² Behold, these are the wicked, and those who always prosper. They have possessed wealth. ¹³ Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence, ¹⁴ for all the day long I have been plagued, and chastened every morning. ¹⁵ If I had said, I will speak thus, behold, I would have dealt treacherously with the generation of thy sons.

⁸ If thou see the oppression of a poor man, and the violent wresting of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter. For a man higher than the high is observing, and there are higher men than they.

¹³ Thou who are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and who cannot look on perverseness, why do thou look upon those who deal treacherously, and hold thy peace when the wicked man swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

⁴⁶ But having spoken boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, It was necessary for the word of God to be spoken first to you, but since ye thrust it away, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

³³ O the depth of wealth, both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond finding out!

⁵ Did he not himself say to me, She is my sister? And she, even she herself said, He is my brother. In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.

³⁰ He will deliver even him who is not innocent. Yea, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of thy hands.

⁴ He who has clean hands, and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

⁶ I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will encompass thine altar, O LORD,

¹³ Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence,

⁷ They go from strength to strength; each one of them appears before God in Zion.

¹¹ For LORD God is a sun and a shield. LORD will give grace and glory. He will withhold no good thing from those who walk uprightly.

¹⁸ But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light, that shines more and more to the perfect day.

¹⁶ A wise man fears, and departs from evil, but the fool bears himself insolently, and is confident.

¹⁵ And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

⁸ And a highway shall be there, and a way. And it shall be called The way of holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for the redeemed, the wayfaring men. Yea fools shall not err in it. ⁹ No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast go up in it. They shall not be found there, but the redeemed shall walk there. ¹⁰ And the ransomed of LORD shall return, and come with singing to Zion. And everlasting joy shall be upon their heads. They shall obtain gladness and joy. And sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

²⁹ He gives power to the faint. And to him who has no might he increases strength. ³⁰ Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall. ³¹ But those who wait for LORD shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run, and not be weary. They shall walk, and not faint.

² And having seen some of his disciples eating their loaves with profane hands, that is, unwashed, they accused them.

⁹ And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee, for my power is made fully perfect in weakness. More gladly therefore I will boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of the Christ may reside in me. ¹⁰ Therefore I am pleased in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in restrictions, for the sake of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

⁵ men being kept by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us. For if they were of us, they would have continued with us, but-so that they might be made known, that they are not all of us.

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

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

⁹ What do thou know, that we do not know? What do thou understand, which is not in us?

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

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

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.

¹⁸ Then ye shall return and discern between the righteous man and the wicked man, between him who serves God and him who does not serve him.

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 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

²⁵ Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good, ²⁶ They are passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

⁹ A man's heart devises his way, but LORD directs his steps.

²¹ There are many devices in a man's heart, but the counsel of LORD, that shall stand.

¹⁰ Whatever thy hand finds to do, do with thy might, for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where thou go.

¹⁰ Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nothing. Speak the word, and it shall not stand, for God is with us.

¹⁰ I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.

³⁷ Who is he that says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord does not command it?

¹³ But I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I might have some fruit also among you, even as among the other Gentiles.

¹⁵ And in this confidence I intended to come to you earlier, so that ye might have a second benefit, ¹⁶ and to pass through you into Macedonia, and to come again from Macedonia to you, and by you to be helped on the way toward Judea. ¹⁷ Therefore intending this, did I accordingly employ anything in lightness? Or what I decide, do I decide according to flesh, so that it would be with me the yes, yes and the no, no?

¹³ Go now, men who say, Today and tomorrow we will go into this city, and will operate one year there, and will engage in trade and will get gain- ¹⁴ men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away- ¹⁵ in place of your saying, If the Lord should will, then we will live and do this or that.

⁶⁷ In the morning thou shall say, Would it were evening! and at evening thou shall say, Would it were morning! for the fear of thy heart which thou shall fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shall see.

³ so I am made to possess months of misery, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. ⁴ When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossing to and fro to the dawning of the day.

¹³ When I say, My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint. ¹⁴ Then thou scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions,

¹⁴ The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. And in the night he is as a thief. ¹⁵ The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me. And he disguises his face. ¹⁶ In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They do not know the light.

¹³ For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest

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.

¹⁴ If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare I would wait till my release should come.

¹ My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.

²³ For I know that thou will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

¹⁴ Wait for LORD. Be strong, and let thy heart take courage. Yea, wait thou for LORD.

⁸ If I ascend up into heaven, thou are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou are there.

² He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.

²⁵ LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. ²⁶ It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of LORD.

²⁸ Though I am like a rotten thing that decays, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

²⁶ And after my skin, this body, is destroyed, then outside my flesh I shall see God,

²⁶ They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covers them.

³² Yet he shall be borne to the grave, and men shall keep watch over the tomb. ³³ The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. And all men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

²⁰ The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

³⁰ My skin is black, and falls from me. And my bones are burned with heat.

¹⁰ For thou will not leave my soul to Sheol, nor will thou allow thy holy man to see corruption.

⁹ that he should still live always, that he should not see corruption.

¹¹ Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the noise of thy viols. The worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.

²⁷ Because thou will not leave my soul in Hades, nor will thou give thy Holy man to see decay. ²⁸ Thou made known to me the paths of life. Thou will fill me of joy with thy countenance. ²⁹ Men, brothers, being permitted to speak to you with openness about the patriarch David, that he both perished and was buried, and his sepulcher is with us to this day. ³⁰ Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, to raise the Christ from the fruit of his loins according to flesh to sit upon his throne. ³¹ Having foreseen this, he spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul was not left behind in Hades, nor did his flesh see decay.

³⁴ And because he raised him from the dead, no longer going to return to decay, he has spoken this way: I will give to you the faithful holy things of David. ³⁵ Therefore also he says in another, Thou will not give thy Holy Man to see decay. ³⁶ For indeed David, who served his own generation in the plan of God, became asleep, and was added near his fathers, and saw decay. ³⁷ But he whom God raised up saw no decay.

⁴² So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in the perishable, it is raised in imperishability.

⁵³ For this perishable must put on imperishability, and this mortal put on immortality. ⁵⁴ But when this perishable will have put on imperishability, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come to pass the saying that is written, Death was swallowed up in victory.

⁶ Is not thy fear of God thy confidence, the integrity of thy ways thy hope?

¹⁵ Behold, he will kill me; I have no hope. Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.

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

¹⁷ There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. ¹⁸ There the prisoners are at ease together. They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster. ¹⁹ The small and the great are there. And the servant is free from his master.

¹³ The members of his body shall be devoured. The firstborn of death shall devour his body-parts. ¹⁴ He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts, and he shall be brought to the king of terrors.

¹⁸ He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword. ¹⁹ He also is chastened with pain upon his bed, and with continual strife in his bones, ²⁰ so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food. ²¹ His flesh is consumed away that it cannot be seen. And his bones that were not seen stick out. ²² Yea, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers. ²³ If there be with him an agent, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him, ²⁴ then God is gracious to him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom. ²⁵ His flesh shall be fresher than a child's. He returns to the days of his youth. ²⁶ He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy, and he restores to man his righteousness. ²⁷ He sings before men, and says, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it did not profit me. ²⁸ He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit, and my life shall behold the light.

⁴ I am reckoned with those who go down into the pit. I am as a man who has no help, ⁵ cast off among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom thou remember no more, and they are cut off from thy hand. ⁶ Thou have laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps. ⁷ Thy wrath lays hard upon me, and thou have afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. ⁸ Thou have put my acquaintances far from me. Thou have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

⁷ Make haste to answer me, O LORD, my spirit fails. Hide not thy face from me, lest I become like those who go down into the pit.

¹⁷ Behold, for peace I had great bitterness. But thou have by love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption. For thou have cast all my sins behind thy back. ¹⁸ For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee. Those who go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

¹¹ Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are clean cut off.

⁶ I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth with its bars closed upon me forever. Yet thou have brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.

⁹ But we ourselves have had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we should not be trusting in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead.