Job 19 Cross References - ACV

¹ Then Job answered, and said, ² How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? ³ These ten times ye have reproached me. Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me. ⁴ And be it indeed that I have erred, my error remains with myself. ⁵ If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach, ⁶ know now that God has subverted me, and has encompassed me with his net. ⁷ Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice. ⁸ He has walled up my way that I cannot pass, and has set darkness in my paths. ⁹ He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. ¹⁰ He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. And he has plucked up my hope like a tree. ¹¹ He has also kindled his wrath against me. And he considers me to him as his adversaries. ¹² His troops come on together, and cast up their way against me, and encamp round about my tent. ¹³ He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. ¹⁴ My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. ¹⁵ Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, reckon me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. ¹⁶ I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I entreat him with my mouth. ¹⁷ My breath is strange to my wife, and my supplication to the sons of my own mother. ¹⁸ Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me. ¹⁹ All my familiar friends abhor me, and those whom I loved are turned against me. ²⁰ My bone cleaves to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth. ²¹ Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends, for the hand of God has touched me. ²² Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? ²³ O that my words were now written! O that they were inscribed in a book, ²⁴ that they were engraved in the rock forever with an iron pen and lead! ²⁵ But as for me I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand up upon the earth. ²⁶ And after my skin, this body, is destroyed, then outside my flesh I shall see God, ²⁷ whom I, even I, shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me. ²⁸ If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me, ²⁹ be ye afraid of the sword. For wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

¹⁶ And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was vexed to death.

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

² How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

² As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has vexed my soul.

² Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am withered away. O LORD, heal me, for my bones are troubled. ³ My soul also is greatly troubled. And thou, O LORD, how long?

¹ How long, O LORD? Will thou forget me forever? How long will thou hide thy face from me?

¹⁰ As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me; while they continually say to me, Where is thy God?

²¹ His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

⁷ Behold, they belch out with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, for they say, Who hears?

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

¹⁸ There is he who speaks rashly like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is health.

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it shall eat the fruit of it.

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.

⁷ and he rescued righteous Lot, being distressed by the conduct of the lawless in their licentiousness ⁸ (for that righteous man dwelling among them day after day, in the sight and hearing of their lawless deeds, it anguished his righteous soul),

¹⁰ And they cried out in a great voice, saying, Master, Holy and True, how long do thou not judge and avenge our blood from those who dwell on the earth?

⁷ And your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.

⁷ And Joseph saw his brothers, and he knew them, but made himself foreign to them, and spoke roughly with them. And he said to them. From where come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

²⁶ When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight, and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.

²² because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have challenged me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice,

¹² And it came to pass that, when the Jews who dwelt by them came, they said to us ten times, From all places from where ye shall return to us they will be upon you.

⁶ Is not thy fear of God thy confidence, the integrity of thy ways thy hope? ⁷ Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off? ⁸ According as I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same. ⁹ By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed. ¹⁰ The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. ¹¹ The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.

³ I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation. ⁴ His sons are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

⁴ If thy sons have sinned against him, and he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression, ⁵ if thou would seek diligently to God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty, ⁶ if thou were pure and upright, surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

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

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

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.

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,

⁴ Thou who tear thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place? 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. ⁷ The steps of his strength shall be restricted, and his own counsel shall cast him down. ⁸ For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon the toils. ⁹ A trap shall take him by the heel. A snare shall lay hold on him. ¹⁰ A noose is hid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. ¹¹ Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels. ¹² His strength shall be weakened by hunger, and calamity shall be ready at his side. 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. ¹⁵ There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. 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. ¹⁸ He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. ¹⁹ He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, nor any remaining where he sojourned. ²⁰ Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened. ²¹ Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, and this is the place of him who does not know God.

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

⁸ I have become a stranger to my brothers, and an alien to my mother's sons.

²⁰ And in every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm.

¹⁷ And David spoke to LORD when he saw the agent who smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done perversely, but these sheep, what have they done? Let thy hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.

³ Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mock, shall no man make thee ashamed? ⁴ For thou say, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes. ⁵ But O that God would speak, and open his lips against thee, ⁶ and that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know therefore that God exacts of thee less than thine iniquity deserves.

¹² If thou are wise, thou are wise for thyself. And if thou scoff, thou alone shall bear it.

⁴ Behold, all souls are mine, as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine. The soul that sins, it shall die.

¹⁰ For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of the Christ, so that each man may receive back about the things that he did through the body, whether good or bad.

⁵ For each man will bear his own burden.

⁶ And her rival provoked her greatly, to make her fret, because LORD had shut up her womb.

³ And they said to me, The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. Also the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and the gates of it are burned with fire.

²⁶ Let them be put to shame and confounded together who rejoice at my hurt. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

¹⁶ For I said, Lest they rejoice over me. When my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.

¹¹ By this I know that thou delight in me, because my enemy does not triumph over me.

¹² For it was not an enemy who reproached me. Then I could have borne it. Neither was it he who hated me that magnified himself against me. Then I would have hid myself from him.

¹ And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel. Only let us be called by thy name; take thou away our reproach.

⁸ Rejoice not against me, O my enemy. When I fall, I shall arise. When I sit in darkness, LORD will be a light to me.

¹⁰ They shall have this for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of LORD of hosts.

⁷ LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.

²⁵ Thus the Lord has done to me during the days in which he looked, to take away my shame among men.

² And having answered, Jesus said to them, Do ye suppose that these Galileans became sinful above all the Galileans because they have suffered such things? ³ I tell you, no, but if ye do not repent, ye will all perish similarly. ⁴ Or those eighteen upon whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them. Do ye think that these became debtors above all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?

² And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?

³⁴ They answered and said to him, Thou were born entirely in sins, and thou teach us? And they cast him outside.

²⁰ If I have sinned, what do I do to thee, O thou watcher of men? Why have thou set me as a mark for thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

¹¹ God delivers me to the perverse, and casts me into the hands of the wicked. 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. ¹³ His archers encompass me round about. He splits my reins apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall upon the ground. ¹⁴ He breaks me with breach upon breach. He runs upon me like a giant.

⁸ For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon the toils. ⁹ A trap shall take him by the heel. A snare shall lay hold on him. ¹⁰ A noose is hid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

⁹ But now thou have cast off, and brought us to dishonor, and go not forth with our armies. ¹⁰ Thou make us to turn back from the adversary. And those who hate us take spoil for themselves. ¹¹ Thou have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations. ¹² Thou sell thy people for nothing, and have not increased by their price. ¹³ Thou make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are round about us. ¹⁴ Thou make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

¹⁰ For thou, O God, have proved us. Thou have tried us as silver is tried. ¹¹ Thou brought us into the net. Thou laid a great burden upon our loins. ¹² Thou caused men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water. But thou brought us out into a wealthy place.

¹² Is it nothing to you, all ye who pass by? Behold, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought upon me. Therewith LORD has afflicted in the day of his fierce anger. ¹³ From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and faint all the day.

¹³ I will also spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare. And I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans, yet he shall not see it, though he shall die there.

³ Thus says the lord LORD: I will spread out my net upon thee with a company of many peoples, and they shall bring thee up in my net.

¹² When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them. I will bring them down as the birds of the heavens. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.

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?

³² For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

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?

¹⁵ If I be wicked, woe to me. And if I be righteous, yet I shall not lift up my head, being filled with shame, and looking upon my affliction. ¹⁶ And if my head exalts itself, thou hunt me as a lion. And again thou show thyself marvelous upon me. ¹⁷ Thou renew thy witnesses against me, and increase thine indignation upon me. Changes and warfare are with me.

¹⁵ Behold, he will kill me; I have no hope. Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him. ¹⁶ This also shall be my salvation, that a profane man shall not come before him. ¹⁷ Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears. ¹⁸ Behold now, I have set my case in order. I know that I am righteous. ¹⁹ Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would keep silent and give up the spirit. ²⁰ Only do not do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from thy face: ²¹ Withdraw thy hand far from me, and do not let thy dread make me afraid. ²² Then call thou, and I will answer, or let me speak, and answer thou me. ²³ How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.

¹⁷ although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure. ¹⁸ O earth, do not cover thou my blood, and let my cry have no resting place. ¹⁹ Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who vouches for me is on high.

²¹ that he would maintain the right of a man with God, and of a son of man with his neighbor!

²⁷ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices with which ye would wrong me.

³ O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat! ⁴ I would set my case in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. ⁵ I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me. ⁶ Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would give heed to me. ⁷ There the upright might reason with him. So I should be delivered forever from my judge.

²⁰ I cry to thee, and thou do not answer me. I stand up, and thou gaze at me.

³⁵ O that I had someone to hear me (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me), and that I had the indictment which my adversary has written! ³⁶ Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder. I would bind it to me as a crown.

⁵ For Job has said, I am righteous, and God has taken away my right.

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

² O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answer not, and in the night season, and I am not silent.

⁸ For as often as I speak, I cry out. I cry, Violence and destruction! Because the word of LORD is made a reproach to me, and a derision, all the day.

⁸ Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

² O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou will not hear? I cry out to thee of violence, and thou will not save. ³ Why do thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? For destruction and violence are before me, and there is strife, and contention rises up.

⁷ And when they cried out to LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them. And your eyes saw what I did in Egypt, and ye dwelt in the wilderness many days.

²³ Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in?

²⁶ When I looked for good, then evil came. And when I waited for light, there came darkness.

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.

¹⁹ The way of the wicked is as darkness. They know not at what they stumble.

¹⁰ Who is among you that fears LORD, who obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of LORD, and rely upon his God.

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

¹² Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They shall be driven on, and fall in it. For I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, says LORD.

⁷ He has walled me around, that I cannot go forth. He has made my chain heavy.

⁹ He has walled up my ways with hewn stone. He has made my paths crooked.

⁶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths.

¹² Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world. He who follows me would, no, not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.

¹⁷ He leads counselors away stripped, and he makes judges fools.

⁷ when I went forth to the gate to the city, when I prepared my seat in the street. ⁸ The young men saw me and hid themselves, and the aged rose up and stood. ⁹ The rulers refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. ¹⁰ The voice of the ranking men was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth. ¹¹ For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me. 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.

²⁰ My glory is fresh in me, and my bow is renewed in my hand. ²¹ To me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel.

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

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.

³⁹ Thou have abhorred the covenant of thy servant. Thou have profaned his crown to the ground.

⁴⁴ Thou have made his brightness to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.

⁶ But ye shall be named the priests of LORD. Men shall call you the ministers of our God. Ye shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory ye shall boast yourselves.

¹⁶ The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us! For we have sinned.

¹¹ As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird. There shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.

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.

⁷ So Satan went forth from the presence of LORD, and smote Job with severe boils from the sole of his foot to his crown.

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

⁶ My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

¹³ So are the paths of all who forget God. And the hope of the profane man shall perish, ¹⁴ whose confidence shall break apart, and whose trust is a spider's web. ¹⁵ He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand. He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure. 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.

¹⁴ Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again. He shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.

¹¹ My days are past. My purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

¹⁵ where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

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.

³⁵ I have seen a wicked man in great power, and spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil. ³⁶ But I passed by, and, lo, he was not. Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

¹³ But to thee, O LORD, I have cried, and in the morning my prayer shall come before thee. ¹⁴ LORD, why do thou cast off my soul? Why do thou hide thy face from me? ¹⁵ I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer thy terrors I am confounded. ¹⁶ Thy fierce wrath has gone over me. Thy terrors have cut me off. ¹⁷ They came round about me like water all the day long. They encompassed me around together. ¹⁸ Thou have put beloved and friend far from me, and my acquaintances into darkness.

¹¹ My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.

⁵ The Lord has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. And he has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah. ⁶ And he has taken away his tabernacle violently, as a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. LORD has caused solemn assembly and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. And in the indignation of his anger has despised the king and the priest.

⁸ restricted in everything, yet not confined, perplexed but not despairing, ⁹ persecuted but not forsaken, cast down but not destroyed.

²² For a fire is kindled in my anger, and burns to the lowest Sheol, and devours the earth with its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

²⁴ Why do thou hide thy face, and reckon me for thine enemy?

⁹ He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed upon me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes upon me.

¹⁰ Thou say, Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.

⁴⁶ How long, O LORD? Will thou hide thyself forever? Shall thy wrath burn like fire?

⁷ For we are consumed in thine anger, and in thy wrath are we troubled.

⁵ The Lord has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. And he has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.

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

¹³ His archers encompass me round about. He splits my reins apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall upon the ground.

¹² Upon my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, and they cast up against me their ways of destruction.

⁵ Ho, Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation! ⁶ I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath. I will give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

²³ And I will put it into the hand of those who afflict thee, who have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over, and thou have laid thy back as the ground, and as the street, to those who go over.

²¹ For now ye are nothing. Ye see a terror, and are afraid. ²² Did I say, Give to me? Or, Offer a present for me from your substance? ²³ Or, Deliver me from the adversary's hand? Or, Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?

⁷ But now he has made me weary. Thou have made desolate all my company.

¹¹ I have become a reproach because of all my adversaries, yea, to my neighbors exceedingly, and a fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me outside fled from me.

¹¹ Those I love and my friends stand aloof from my plague, and my kinsmen stand afar off.

²⁰ Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.

¹⁸ Thou have put beloved and friend far from me, and my acquaintances into darkness.

⁵⁶ But all this has come to pass, so that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples fled, having forsook him.

¹⁶ At my first defense no man came with me, but all forsook me. May it not be reckoned to them.

²³ And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the oracle of God; so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.

¹² For it was not an enemy who reproached me. Then I could have borne it. Neither was it he who hated me that magnified himself against me. Then I would have hid myself from him. ¹³ But it was thou, a man my equal, my companion, and my familiar friend. ¹⁴ We took sweet counsel together. We walked in the house of God with the throng.

²⁴ He who makes many friends does it to his own destruction, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

¹⁰ For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

⁵ Trust ye not in a neighbor. Put ye not confidence in a friend. Keep the doors of thy mouth from her who lies in thy bosom. ⁶ For the son dishonors the father. The daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man's enemies are the men of his own house.

²¹ And a brother will deliver up a brother to death, and a father a child. And children will rise up against parents, and condemn them to death.

¹⁸ I speak not about you all. I have seen whom I chose, but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He who eats bread with me lifted up his heel against me.

³¹ if the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one who has not been filled with his food? ³² (the sojourner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);

³ Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

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.

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.

⁹ Then his wife said to him, Do thou still hold fast thine integrity? Renounce God, and die. ¹⁰ But he said to her, Thou speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

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

²³ And he went up from there to Bethel. And as he was going up by the way, there came forth young lads out of the city, and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, thou baldhead; go up, thou baldhead.

⁵ And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor. The child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.

¹⁴ To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be from his friend, even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty. ¹⁵ My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away,

⁹ Yea, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

²⁰ He has put forth his hands against such as were at peace with him. He has profaned his covenant.

⁴ For my love they are my adversaries, but I make prayer. ⁵ And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

⁴⁸ But Jesus said to him, Judas, thou betray the Son of man with a kiss?

⁴ And Satan answered LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man has he will give for his life. ⁵ But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face. ⁶ And LORD said to Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand, only spare his life.

⁵ My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

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

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.

¹⁴ I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me. ¹⁵ My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws, and thou have brought me into the dust of death. ¹⁶ For dogs have encompassed me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They pierced my hands and my feet. ¹⁷ I may count all my bones. They look and stare upon me.

³ When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long. ⁴ For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me. My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. Selah.

³ There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation, nor is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

³ For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.

⁵ Because of the voice of my groaning my bones cling to my flesh.

⁴ He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.

⁸ Their visage is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like a stick.

¹⁰ Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.

¹¹ But put forth thy hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce thee to thy face.

⁵ But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.

¹⁰ But he said to her, Thou speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

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.

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

² For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presses me severely.

¹⁵ Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep,

²⁶ And if one part suffers, all the parts suffer together, or one part is honored, all the parts rejoice together.

³ Remember the prisoners as being in bondage together, those who are ill-treated as also yourselves being in the body.

¹⁶ And if my head exalts itself, thou hunt me as a lion. And again thou show thyself marvelous upon me.

²⁵ Will thou harass a driven leaf? And will thou pursue the dry stubble?

³¹ if the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one who has not been filled with his food?

²⁶ For they persecute him whom thou have smitten, and they tell of the sorrow of those whom thou have wounded.

³ who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

³⁵ O that I had someone to hear me (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me), and that I had the indictment which my adversary has written!

¹ And LORD said to me, Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it with the pen of a man, For Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

⁸ Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it on a scroll, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.

¹¹ With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, thou shall engrave the two stones, according to the names of the sons of Israel. Thou shall make them to be enclosed in settings of gold. ¹² And thou shall put the two stones upon the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the sons of Israel. And Aaron shall bear their names before LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.

²¹ And the stones shall be according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one according to his name; they shall be for the twelve tribes.

¹⁶ And the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved upon the tablets.

² And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over the Jordan to the land which LORD thy God gives thee, that thou shall set up for thee great stones, and plaster them with plaster. ³ And thou shall write upon them all the words of this law when thou have passed over, that thou may go in to the land which LORD thy God gives thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, as LORD, the God of thy fathers, has promised thee.

⁸ And thou shall write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.

¹ The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. It is engraved upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars,

¹⁵ And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. He shall bruise thy head, and thou shall bruise his heel.

¹⁸ and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou have obeyed my voice.

¹⁹ Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who vouches for me is on high.

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.

¹⁴ Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my rock, and my redeemer.

³⁵ And they remembered that God was their rock, and the Most High God their redeemer.

¹¹ for their Redeemer is strong. He will plead their cause against thee.

¹⁴ Thus says LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring down all of them as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.

⁵ For thy maker is thy husband. LORD of hosts is his name. And the Holy One of Israel is thy Redeemer. He shall be called the God of the whole earth.

²⁰ And he who redeems will come to Zion, and to those who turn from transgression in Jacob, says LORD. ²¹ And as for me, this is my covenant with them, says LORD: My Spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, says LORD, from henceforth and forever.

³⁴ Their Redeemer is strong. LORD of hosts is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

²² For neither does the Father judge any man, but he has given all judgment to the Son, ²³ so that all would honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. The man not honoring the Son, does not honor the Father who sent him. ²⁴ Truly, truly, I say to you, that he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life. And he does not come into condemnation, but has passed from death into life. ²⁵ Truly, truly, I say to you, that an hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. ²⁶ For as the Father has life in himself, so also he gave to the Son to have life in himself. ²⁷ And he also gave him authority to execute judgment because he is a son of man. ²⁸ Marvel not at this, because an hour comes in which all those in the sepulchers will hear his voice, ²⁹ and will come forth, those who have done right to a resurrection of life, and those who have practiced wrong to a resurrection of judgment.

⁷ In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of transgressions, according to the wealth of his grace,

¹⁴ And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men, saying, Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,

⁹ Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices. My flesh also shall dwell in hope.

¹¹ Thou made known to me the path of life. Thou will fill me of joy with thy countenance.

¹⁵ As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy form.

⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart, because they will see God.

¹² For now we see by polished metal, in dimness, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know just as also I was known.

⁵³ For this perishable must put on imperishability, and this mortal put on immortality.

²¹ who will transform the body of our lowliness, in order for it to become similar in form to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power even to subject all things to himself.

² Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet made known what we will be. But we know that whenever he is made known we will be like him, because we will see him as he is.

⁷ Behold, he comes with the clouds and every eye will see him, even the men who pierced him. And all the tribes of the earth will wail against him. Yea, Truly.

¹⁷ I see him, but not now. I behold him, but not near. There shall come forth a star out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite through the corners of Moab, and break down all the sons of tumult.

²⁶ My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

¹⁹ Thy dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, ye who dwell in the dust, for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.

¹³ And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him, for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward LORD, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

²² Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

⁷ Will ye speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him? ⁸ Will ye show partiality to him? Will ye contend for God? ⁹ Is it good that he should search you out? Or as deceiving a man, will ye deceive him? ¹⁰ He will surely reprove you if ye secretly show partiality. ¹¹ Shall not his majesty make you afraid, and his dread fall upon you?

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

⁴ Is it for thy fear of him that he reproves thee, that he enters with thee into judgment?

⁵ Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

⁷ but LORD will endure forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment,

¹⁰ A righteous man shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked, ¹¹ so that men shall say, Truly there is a reward for the righteous man. Truly there is a God who judges in the earth.

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.

¹⁴ For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.

¹ Do not criticize, that ye may not be criticized. ² For by what criticism ye criticize, ye will be criticized, and by what measure ye measure, it will be measured to you.

¹ Let every soul be subject to offices of authority that rank higher. For there is no office of authority if not by God, and the offices of authority that are by God are those that have been instituted. ² So that he who resists the office of authority has opposed the ordinance of God, and those who have opposed will receive condemnation to themselves. ³ For rulers are not a source of fear to the good works, but to the evil. And do thou desire not to fear the office of authority? Do what is good, and thou will have praise from it. ⁴ For he is a helper of God to thee for what is good. But if thou do what is evil, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is a helper of God, vengeful for wrath to the man who commits evil.

¹¹ Speak not against each other, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against law and judges law. But if thou judge law, thou are not a doer of law, but a judge. ¹² There is one lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy, but thou, who are thou who judge the other man?