Job 23 Cross References - ACV

¹ Then Job answered and said, ² Even today my complaint is rebellious. My stroke is heavier than my groaning. 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. ⁸ Behold, I go forward, but he is not there, and backward, but I cannot perceive him, ⁹ on the left hand, when he works, but I cannot behold him. He hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him. ¹⁰ But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold. ¹¹ My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned aside. ¹² I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips, I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. ¹³ But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? And what his soul desires, even that he does. ¹⁴ For he performs that which is appointed for me. And many such things are with him. ¹⁵ Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him. ¹⁶ For God has made my heart faint, and the Almighty has terrified me, ¹⁷ because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

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.

¹¹ Therefore I will not refrain my mouth. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

¹ My soul is weary of my life. I will give free reign to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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.

⁴ For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me. My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. Selah.

² In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not. My soul refused to be comforted. ³ I remember God, and am disquieted. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah. ⁴ Thou have held my eyelids watching. I am so troubled that I cannot speak. ⁵ I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. ⁶ I call to remembrance my song in the night. I commune with my own heart, and my spirit makes diligent search. ⁷ Will the Lord cast off forever? And will he be favorable no more? ⁸ Has his loving kindness entirely gone forever? Does his promise fail for evermore? ⁹ Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

¹⁹ Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. ²⁰ My soul still has them in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.

³ Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

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

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. ³⁷ I would declare to him the number of my steps. I would go near to him as a prince.

¹ Moreover LORD answered Job, and said, ² Shall he who quibbles contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it. ³ Then Job answered LORD, and said, ⁴ Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth. ⁵ I have spoken once, and I will not answer, yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.

⁸ Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, we have waited for thee, to thy name. Even to thy memorial, is the desire of our soul.

⁶ Seek ye LORD while he may be found. Call ye upon him while he is near. ⁷ Let the wicked man forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. And let him return to LORD, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

⁷ Though our iniquities testify against us, work thou for thy name's sake, O LORD. For our backslidings are many. We have sinned against thee.

¹⁹ How that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not imputing to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation. ²⁰ We are therefore, ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were calling through us. We plead on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.

⁶ Since therefore it remains for some to enter into it, and those who formerly had good news did not enter because of disobedience,

²⁵ That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay a righteous man with a wicked man, that so the righteous man should be as the wicked man. Far be it from thee. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? ²⁶ And LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous men within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake. ²⁷ And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes. ²⁸ Perhaps there shall lack five of the fifty righteous men. Will thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find there forty-five. ²⁹ And he spoke to him yet again, and said, Perhaps there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for the forty's sake. ³⁰ And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Perhaps there shall be thirty found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. ³¹ And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak to the Lord. Perhaps there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake. ³² And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. Perhaps ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.

¹² And thou said, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

¹² Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, He brought them forth for evil, to kill them on the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and relent of this evil against thy people. ¹³ Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swore by thine own self, and said to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven. And all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.

¹³ And Moses said to LORD, Then the Egyptians will hear it, for thou brought up this people in thy might from among them, ¹⁴ and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that thou LORD are in the midst of this people, for thou LORD are seen face to face, and thy cloud stands over them, and thou go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night. ¹⁵ Now if thou shall kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, ¹⁶ Because LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness. ¹⁷ And now, I pray thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as thou have spoken, saying, ¹⁸ LORD is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, upon the third and upon the fourth generation. ¹⁹ Pardon, I pray thee, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of thy loving kindness, and according as thou have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.

⁸ Oh, Lord, what shall I say after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies! ⁹ For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will encompass us around, and cut off our name from the earth, and what will thou do for thy great name?

¹⁸ Behold now, I have set my case in order. I know that I am righteous.

¹⁹ Teach us what we shall say to him. We cannot set in array because of darkness.

¹¹ For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

¹ Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against a profane nation. O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

²⁶ Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Set thou forth thy case that thou may be justified.

¹⁸ O my God, incline thine ear, and hear. Open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name. For we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousness, but for thy great mercies' sake. ¹⁹ O Lord, hear. O Lord, forgive. O Lord, hearken and do. Defer not, for thine own sake, O my God, because thy city and thy people are called by thy name.

² I will say to God, Do not condemn me. Show me why thou contend with me.

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.

² I know that thou can do all things, and that no purpose of thine can be restrained. 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. ⁴ Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak, I will ask of thee, and declare thou to me. ⁵ I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees thee. ⁶ Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

³ But it is a very small thing to me that I might be appraised by you or by a day of mankind. Yet neither do I appraise myself, ⁴ for I know nothing on myself. Yet I have not been made righteous in this, but he who appraises me is the Lord.

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

¹⁹ If of strength, lo, he is mighty! And if of justice, who will summon me?

³³ There is no umpire between us who might lay his hand upon us both. ³⁴ Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his terror make me afraid.

²¹ Withdraw thy hand far from me, and do not let thy dread make me afraid.

³ Thou answered me in the day that I called. Thou encouraged me with strength in my soul.

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.

⁸ In measure, in sending it forth, thou contend with it. He has removed with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.

³³ As I live, says the lord LORD, surely with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, I will be king over you.

³⁵ and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples. And there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

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.

¹⁵ Whom, though I were righteous, yet I would not answer. I would make supplication to my judge.

¹⁸ Come now, and let us reason together, says LORD, though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

⁵ Will he retain his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou have spoken, and have done evil things, and have had thy way.

¹ Thou are righteous, O LORD, when I contend with thee. Yet I would reason the case with thee. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those at ease who deal very treacherously?

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. ²⁰ Because from works of law no flesh will be made right before him, for through law is knowledge of sin. ²¹ But now a righteousness of God has been manifested independent of law, being witnessed by the law and the prophets. ²² And the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ is for all and upon all those who believe, for there is no distinction.

¹ Consequently nothing is condemnation now to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to flesh but according to Spirit.

³³ Who will accuse against the chosen of God? God is he who makes righteous. ³⁴ Who is he who will condemn? It is Christ who died, but more, who also was raised up, who also is at the right hand of God, who also appeals for us.

¹¹ Lo, he goes by me, and I do not see him. He also passes on, but I do not perceive him.

¹⁴ How much less when thou say thou do not behold him. The case is before him, and thou wait for him!

¹ Why do thou stand afar off, O LORD? Why do thou hide thyself in times of trouble?

¹ How long, O LORD? Will thou forget me forever? How long will thou hide thy face from me? ² How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? ³ Consider and answer me, O LORD my God. Lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the death,

¹⁵ Verily thou are a God who hides thyself, O God of Israel, the Savior.

¹⁶ who alone has immortality, dwelling in irreproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see, to whom is honor and eternal dominion. Truly.

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

¹⁷ And I will wait for LORD, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will be a man who has trusted in him.

¹⁹ For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of LORD, to do righteousness and justice, to the end that LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he has spoken of him.

² And thou shall remember all the way which LORD thy God has led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou would keep his commandments, or not.

³ Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept greatly.

¹¹ But put forth thy hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce thee to thy face. ¹² And LORD said to Satan, Behold, all that he has is in thy power, only upon himself do not put forth thy hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of LORD.

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 I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees thee. ⁶ Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. 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. ⁸ Now therefore, take to you seven bullocks and seven rams. And go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for him I will accept, that I not deal with you after your folly. For ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

⁶ For LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

³ Thou have proved my heart. Thou have visited me in the night. Thou have tried me, and find nothing. I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

¹⁰ For thou, O God, have proved us. Thou have tried us as silver is tried.

¹ O LORD, thou have searched me, and known. ² Thou know my sitting down and my rising up. Thou understand my thought afar off. ³ Thou search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

³ The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but LORD tries the hearts.

⁹ And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, It is my people, and they shall say, LORD is my God.

² But who can abide the day of his coming? And who shall stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap. ³ And he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver. And he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver. And they shall offer to LORD offerings in righteousness.

¹⁷ He says to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonah, do thou love me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Do thou love me? And he said to him, Lord, thou know all things. Thou know that I love thee. Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep.

¹⁹ Nevertheless the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, The Lord knows those who are his, and, Let every man who names the name of the Lord keep away from unrighteousness.

¹⁷ By faith Abraham, being tested, offered Isaac. And he who received the promises offered his only begotten son,

² Consider it all joy, my brothers, when ye encounter various trials, ³ knowing that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. ⁴ And let perseverance have a perfect work, so that ye may be perfect and complete, falling short in nothing.

¹² Blessed is a man who endures temptation, because, having become approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

⁷ so that the proof of your faith, much more precious than gold that perishes, and though proven by fire, may be found for praise and esteem and for glory at the revealing of Jesus Christ.

² And now, behold, the king walks before you. And I am old and gray headed, and, behold, my sons are with you. And I have walked before you from my youth to this day. 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. ⁴ And they said, Thou have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have thou taken anything of any man's hand. ⁵ And he said to them, LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found anything in my hand. And they said, He is witness.

⁹ Yet the righteous shall hold on his way. And he who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

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

²⁰ LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me. ²¹ For I have kept the ways of LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. ²² For all his ordinances were before me, and I put not away his statutes from me. ²³ I was also perfect with him, and I kept myself from my iniquity. ²⁴ Therefore LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

³ The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

¹⁸ Our heart is not turned back, nor have our steps declined from thy way,

⁵ But as for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, LORD will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel.

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

¹³ And those on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy. And these have no root, who believe for a time, and withdraw in time of trial. ¹⁴ And that which fell in the thorns, these are those who heard, and as they go they are choked by cares and wealth and pleasures of life, and do not bring to maturity. ¹⁵ But those in the good ground, these are those who in an good and right heart, having heard the word, hold it firm, and bring forth fruit in perseverance.

¹⁸ And when they came to him, he said to them, Ye know, from the first day in which I stepped in Asia, how I became with you all the time, ¹⁹ serving the Lord with all humility, and many tears and trials that befell me by the conspiracies of the Jews.

³³ I coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel. ³⁴ Ye yourselves know that these hands served my needs, and to those who were with me.

⁷ to those who indeed seek by perseverance of good work, glory and esteem and immortality-eternal life-

¹² For our pride is this (the testimony from our conscience), that we behave in the world in the simplicity and purity of God, not by fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.

¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and God, how piously and justly and blamelessly we became to you who believe,

²⁰ For if, having escaped the defilements of the world by knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and, having been again entangled in these, they are overcome, the last things have become worse for them than the first. ²¹ For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. ²² But that of the true proverb has happened to them, The dog returning to his own vomit, and the sow that washed to wallowing in mire.

¹⁰ And be it still my consolation, yea, let me exult (in pain that does not spare), that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

²² Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.

⁹ The fear of LORD is clean, enduring forever. The ordinances of LORD are true, and righteous altogether. ¹⁰ More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold. Sweeter also than honey and the droppings of the honeycomb.

¹¹ I have laid thy word up in my heart that I might not sin against thee.

¹⁰³ How sweet are thy words to my taste, than honey to my mouth!

¹²⁷ Therefore I love thy commandments above gold, yea, above fine gold.

¹⁶ Thy words were found, and I ate them. And thy words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart. For I am called by thy name, O LORD, God of hosts.

⁴² And the Lord said, Who then is the faithful and wise manager whom his lord will appoint over his service to give the provision on time?

⁴⁶ the lord of that bondman will arrive in a day that he does not expect, and in an hour that he is not aware, and will cut him in two, and will place his portion with the unbelieving.

³² But he said to them, I have food to eat that ye know not.

³⁴ Jesus says to them, My food is that I do the will of him who sent me, and may finish his work.

⁶⁶ From this, many of his disciples went back at these things, and walked no more with him. ⁶⁷ Jesus said therefore to the twelve, Do ye not also want to go? ⁶⁸ Simon Peter therefore answered him, Lord, to whom will we go? Thou have sayings of eternal life. ⁶⁹ And we have believed and know that thou are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

³¹ Jesus therefore said to those Jews who believed him, If ye remain in my word, ye are truly my disciples,

²² strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that it was necessary for us to enter into the kingdom of God through many tribulations.

³⁸ But the righteous man will live from faith, and if he should withdraw, my soul is not pleased with him. ³⁹ But we are not of retreat for destruction, but of faith for the preservation of the soul.

² as newborn babes, long for the genuine intellectual milk, so that ye may grow by it,

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.

¹⁹ God is not a man, that he should lie, neither the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? ²⁰ Behold, I have received to bless. And he has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.

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

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

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

²⁹ When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? And when he hides his face, who then can behold him? It is the same whether to a nation, or to a man,

³ But our God is in the heavens. He has done whatever he pleased.

⁶ Whatever LORD pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps,

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

¹⁵ That which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

¹⁴ I know that, whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it. And God has done it that men should fear before him.

²⁴ LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely, as I have thought, so shall it come to pass, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand, ²⁵ that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot upon my mountains. Then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulder. ²⁶ This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. ²⁷ For LORD of hosts has purposed, and who shall annul it? And his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

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

³⁵ And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing, and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth. And none can stay his hand, or say to him, What are thou doing?

¹⁹ Thou will say to me therefore, Why does he still find fault? For who has resisted his purpose?

⁹ Having made known to us the mystery of his will according to his desire, which he purposed within himself ¹⁰ for an administration of the fullness of the times. To gather together all things in the Christ, things in the heavens and things upon the earth, ¹¹ in him in whom also we obtained an inheritance. Having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the deliberation of his will,

¹⁷ Every good gift and every perfect endowment is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation nor shadow of turning.

³ so I am made to possess months of misery, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

¹⁹ Thy way was in the sea, and thy paths in the great waters. And thy footsteps were not known.

² Clouds and darkness are round about him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

²⁷ Why do thou say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hid from LORD. And the justice due to me is passed away from my God? ²⁸ Have thou not known? Have thou not heard? The everlasting God, LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, nor is weary. There is no searching of his understanding.

⁹ The voice of LORD cries to the city, and the man of wisdom will see thy name. Hear ye the rod, and who has appointed it.

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!

³ for no man to be disturbed by these afflictions. For ye yourselves know that we are set for this.

⁹ Because God appointed us not for wrath, but for an acquired possession of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us.

⁸ and, A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, men who stumble at the word, being disobedient, for which also they were set.

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.

³ O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!

²³ For calamity from God is a terror to me, and I can do nothing because of his majesty.

³ I remember God, and am disquieted. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.

¹²⁰ My flesh trembles for fear of thee, and I am afraid of thy judgments.

¹⁶ I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.

³ and shall say to them, Hear, O Israel, ye draw near this day to battle against your enemies. Let not your heart faint. Fear not, nor tremble, neither be ye frightened at them.

²⁰ And she said to them, Call me not Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

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

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.

¹⁶ Thy fierce wrath has gone over me. Thy terrors have cut me off.

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.

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.

⁴⁶ And let not your heart faint. Neither fear ye for the news that shall be heard in the land. For news shall come one year, and after that in another year, news, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

¹⁵ Alas for the day! For the day of LORD is at hand, and it shall come as destruction from the Almighty.

²⁰ Therefore, behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shall be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.

⁹ Even that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

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

⁶ The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp above him shall be put out.

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

⁸ He has walled up my way that I cannot pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

¹¹ or darkness, so that thou cannot see, and abundance of waters cover thee.

¹ The righteous man perishes, and no man lays it to heart. And merciful men are taken away; none considering that the righteous man is taken away from the evil.