Job 29 Cross References - ACV

¹ And Job again took up his discourse, and said, ² O that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me, ³ when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness, ⁴ as I was in the ripeness of my days, when the friendship of God was upon my tent, ⁵ when the Almighty was yet with me, and my sons were about me, ⁶ when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil to me, 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. ¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind, and I was feet to the lame. ¹⁶ I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the case of him whom I did not know. ¹⁷ And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth. ¹⁸ Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand. ¹⁹ My root is spread out to the waters, and the dew lays all night upon my branch. 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. ²² After my words they spoke not again, and my speech distilled upon them. ²³ And they waited for me as for the rain. And they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain. ²⁴ I smiled on them when they had no confidence, and they did not cast down the light of my countenance. ²⁵ I chose out their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as a man who comforts the mourners.

⁷ And he took up his oracle, and said, From Aram Balak has brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, defy Israel.

¹² Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.

¹ And Job again took up his discourse, and said,

¹ There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was perfect and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil. ² And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters. ³ His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-donkeys, and a very great household, so that this man was the greatest of all the sons of the east. ⁴ And his sons went and held a feast in the house of each one upon his day, and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. ⁵ And it was so, when the days of their feasting were completed, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts. Thus Job did continually.

¹⁰ Have thou not made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he has, on every side? Thou have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

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

²⁸ For LORD loves justice, and forsakes not his sanctified. They are preserved forever, but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

²⁸ And it shall come to pass that, just as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says LORD.

¹ Jude, a bondman of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the called, sanctified in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

¹⁷ And thy life shall be clearer than the noonday. Though there be darkness, it shall be as the morning.

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

¹⁷ How often is it that the lamp of the profane is put out, that their calamity comes upon them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger,

²⁸ Thou shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to thee. And light shall shine upon thy ways.

⁶ Many there are who say, Who will show us good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

²⁸ For thou will light my lamp. LORD my God will lighten my darkness.

⁴ Yea, tho I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou are with me, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

¹ LORD is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? LORD is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?

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.

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

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

²⁰ For there shall be no reward to the evil man. The lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

⁴ And he will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

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.

⁴⁶ I have come a light into the world, so that every man who believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

⁸ For ye were once darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light

¹⁴ Therefore he says, Awake, thou who sleep. And arise from the dead, and the Christ will shine upon thee.

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

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

⁵ For in the day of trouble he will hide me in his pavilion. In the covert of his tabernacle he will hide me. He will lift me up upon a rock.

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

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

³ For ye died, and your life has been hidden with the Christ in God.

²⁷ The eternal God is thy dwelling-place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy from before thee, and said, Destroy. ²⁸ And Israel dwells in safety, the fountain of Jacob alone, in a land of grain and new wine. Yea, his heavens drop down dew. ²⁹ Happy are thou, O Israel. Who is like thee, a people saved by LORD, the shield of thy help, and the sword of thy excellency! And thine enemies shall submit themselves to thee, and thou shall tread upon their high places.

⁹ Have I not commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage. Be not frightened, neither be thou dismayed, for LORD thy God is with thee wherever thou go.

¹² And the agent of LORD appeared to him, and said to him, LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valor. ¹³ And Gideon said to him, Oh, my lord, if LORD is with us, then why has all this befallen us? And where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not LORD bring us up from Egypt? But now LORD has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.

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

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.

¹³ He had also seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴ And he called the name of the first, Jemimah, and the name of the second, Keziah, and the name of the third, Keren-happuch. ¹⁵ And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job. And their father gave them inheritance among their brothers. ¹⁶ And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

⁷ Thou, LORD, of thy favor had made my mountain to stand strong. Thou hid thy face; I was troubled.

² For thou are the God of my strength. Why have thou cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

⁸ In God we have made our boast all the day long, and we will give thanks to thy name forever. Selah. ⁹ But now thou have cast off, and brought us to dishonor, and go not forth with our armies.

³ Lo, sons are a heritage of LORD, and the fruit of the womb is a reward. ⁴ As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the sons of youth. ⁵ Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They shall not be put to shame when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

³ Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of thy house, thy sons like olive plants round about thy table.

⁶ Son's sons are the crown of old men, and the glory of sons are their fathers.

⁴ He brought me to the banquet house, and his banner over me was love.

¹ By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I did not find him. ² I said, I will rise now, and go around the city. In the streets and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.

⁸ O thou hope of Israel, the Savior of it in the time of trouble, why should thou be as a sojourner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to tarry for a night?

¹⁵ And Jesus said to them, The sons of the wedding hall cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them. But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

¹¹ Binding his foal to the vine, and his donkey's colt to the choice vine, he has washed his garments in wine, and his vesture in the blood of grapes.

¹³ He made him ride on the high places of the earth, and he ate the increase of the field, and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock, ¹⁴ butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat, and of the blood of the grape thou drank wine.

²⁴ And of Asher he said, Blessed be Asher with sons. Let him be acceptable to his brothers, and let him dip his foot in oil.

¹⁷ He shall not look upon the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.

¹⁶ He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat. And I would satisfy thee with honey out of the rock.

¹⁸ Thou shall make judges and officers for thee in all thy gates, which LORD thy God gives thee, according to thy tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

¹⁹ then his father and his mother shall lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place.

¹ Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat down there. And, behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by, to whom he said, Such man, stay, turn aside. Sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down. ² And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down.

¹¹ And all the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. LORD make the woman that has come into thy house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel, and do thou worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.

²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

¹⁶ These are the things that ye shall do: Speak ye every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates.

³² Thou shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and thou shall fear thy God. I am LORD.

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

⁸ A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.

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.

⁷ Render therefore to all, the things due: tax to the man of tax, tribute to the man of tribute, fear to the man of fear, esteem to the man of esteem.

¹ Remind them to be submissive to principle offices and positions of authority, to be obedient, to be prepared for every good work,

¹⁷ Respect all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Respect the king.

⁵ Likewise younger men should be subordinate to the elder men. And all being subordinate to each other, clothe yourselves with humility, because God sets himself against the haughty, but gives grace to the lowly.

¹⁹ And they said to him, Hold thy peace, lay thy hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for thee to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?

² If a man tries to converse with thee, will thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

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.

⁵ Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

⁴ Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth.

¹⁹ Transgression is not lacking in the multitude of words, but he who refrains his lips does wisely.

³² If thou have done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou have thought evil, lay thy hand upon thy mouth.

¹⁹ Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

⁶ Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember thee, if I do not prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.

²⁶ And I will make thy tongue cling to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shall be mute, and shall not be a reprover to them, for they are a rebellious house.

²⁰ if his loins have not blessed me, and if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

² When the righteous are increased, the people rejoice, but when a wicked man bears rule, the people sigh.

²² And all witnessed to him, and wondered at the words of grace that proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is this not the son of Joseph?

²⁷ And it came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman, having lifted up her voice out of the crowd, said to him, Blessed is the belly that bore thee, and the breasts that thou suckled.

²² Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. ²³ If thou afflict them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry, ²⁴ and my wrath shall grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your sons fatherless.

¹⁸ He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the sojourner in giving him food and raiment.

² For there were who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain that we may eat and live. ³ There were some also who said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain because of the dearth. ⁴ There were also who said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute upon our fields and our vineyards. ⁵ Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our sons as their sons. And, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already. Neither is it in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards. ⁶ And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words. ⁷ Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the ranking men and the rulers, and said to them, Ye exact usury, everyone of his brother. And I held a great assembly against them. ⁸ And I said to them, According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers the Jews, who were sold to the nations, and would ye even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us? Then they were silent, and found not a word. ⁹ Also I said, The thing that ye do is not good. Ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies? ¹⁰ And I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. I pray you, let us leave off this usury. ¹¹ Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them. ¹² Then they said, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them, so will we do, even as thou say. Then I called the priests, and took an oath from them that they would do according to this promise. ¹³ Also I shook out my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, who does not perform this promise, even thus be he shaken out and emptied. And all the assembly said, Truly, and praised LORD. And the people did according to this promise.

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

⁴ They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

¹⁷ or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

⁵ A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

¹² For he will deliver a needy man when he cries, and a poor man, who has no helper.

² How long will ye judge unjustly, and respect the persons of the wicked? Selah. ³ Judge the poor man and the orphan. Do justice to the afflicted and destitute man. ⁴ Rescue the poor and needy man. Deliver from the hand of the wicked man.

¹³ He who stops his ears at the cry of a poor man, he also shall cry, but shall not be heard.

¹¹ Deliver those who are carried away to death, and hold thou back those who are ready to be slain. ¹² If thou say, Behold, we did not know this, Does not he who weighs the hearts consider it? And he who keeps thy soul, does he not know it? And shall not he render to every man according to his work?

¹⁶ He judged the cause of the poor and needy man, then it was well. Was not this to know me? says LORD.

²⁷ Pure religion and undefiled from God and the Father is this, to go help the orphaned and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

¹¹ And thou shall rejoice before LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite who is within thy gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of thee, in the place which LORD thy God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there,

¹³ Thou shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless thee. And it shall be righteousness to thee before LORD thy God.

⁵ And thou shall answer and say before LORD thy God, My father was a Syrian ready to perish, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number. And he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.

¹⁰ Then he said to them, Go your way, eat fat things, and drink sweet things, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared. For this day is holy to our Lord; neither be ye grieved, for the joy of LORD is your strength. ¹¹ So the Levites quieted all the people, saying, Be silent, for the day is holy, neither be ye grieved. ¹² And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.

⁹ Thou have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

¹⁹ if I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering; ²⁰ if his loins have not blessed me, and if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

⁴ O let the nations be glad and sing for joy. For thou will judge the peoples with equity, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.

⁶ Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish, and wine to the bitter in soul. ⁷ Let him drink, and forget his need, and remember his misery no more. ⁸ Open thy mouth for the mute, in the cause of all such as are left desolate. ⁹ Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and minister justice to the poor and needy.

¹³ And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown. And they shall come who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt. And they shall worship LORD in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

¹⁴ Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for vexation of spirit.

³⁹ And after rising, Peter went with them, whom, after coming, they brought into the upper chamber. And all the widows stood by him weeping, and exhibiting the coats and garments, as many things as Dorcas made being with them. ⁴⁰ But Peter, having sent them all out, having knelt down, he prayed. And having turned to the body, he said, Tabitha, arise. And the woman opened her eyes. And when she saw Peter, she sat up. ⁴¹ And having given her a hand, he raised her up. And after calling the sanctified and the widows, he presented her alive.

¹² Because the service of this ministry is not only supplying the needs of the sanctified, but also abounding through many thanksgivings to God ¹³ through the evidence of this service, glorifying God at the subjection of your confession toward the good news of the Christ, and at the generosity of the participation, for them and for all, ¹⁴ and by their supplication about you, yearning for you because of the transcending grace of God in you.

¹⁶ May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain. ¹⁷ But when he happened to be in Rome he sought me more diligently and found me ¹⁸ (may the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord in that day), and in how many things he ministered at Ephesus, thou know very well.

⁷ For we have much joy and encouragement in thy love, because the bowels of the sanctified have been refreshed by thee, brother.

⁶ I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

⁹ Let thy priest be clothed with righteousness, and let thy sanctified shout for joy.

⁵ In that day LORD of hosts will become a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, to the residue of his people,

¹⁷ And he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head. And he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

¹⁰ I will greatly rejoice in LORD. My soul shall be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

³ Thou shall also be a crown of beauty in the hand of LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

¹⁴ But clothe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no forethought for lusts of the flesh.

⁷ in word of truth, in power of God, through the weapons of righteousness of the right hand and of the left,

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

⁸ But we, being of the day, should be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and a helmet, the hope of salvation.

⁸ And it was given her that she clothe herself in fine linen, bright and pure. For the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the sanctified.

³¹ And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee, inasmuch as thou know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou shall be to us instead of eyes.

⁵ the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor are proclaimed good news.

¹² For just as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ. ¹³ For also by one Spirit we are all immersed into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bondmen or freemen, and we were all made to drink into one Spirit. ¹⁴ For the body also is not one part, but many. ¹⁵ If the foot should say, Because I am not a hand I am not of the body, it is not by this not of the body. ¹⁶ And if the ear should say, Because I am not an eye I am not of the body, it is not by this not of the body. ¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? ¹⁸ But now God has placed the parts, each one of them, in the body just as he intended. ¹⁹ And if they were all one part, where would be the body? ²⁰ But now of course there are many body-parts, but one body. ²¹ And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee, nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. ²² Instead, much more the parts of the body that seem to be more feeble are necessary. ²³ And those things of the body presumed to be without esteem, we place around these more abundant worth. And our unpresentable parts have more abundant propriety, ²⁴ whereas our presentable parts have no need. Instead, God united the body together, having given more abundant worth to the part that lacks, ²⁵ so that there would be no schisms in the body, but that the parts would have the same care for each other. ²⁶ And if one part suffers, all the parts suffer together, or one part is honored, all the parts rejoice together. ²⁷ Now ye are the body of Christ, and body-parts individually. ²⁸ And in the church God has placed men who are first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, kinds of tongues. ²⁹ Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all do miracles? ³⁰ Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? ³¹ But be zealous for the better gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way.

²⁶ and they judged the people at all seasons. The hard cases they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

¹⁴ then thou shall inquire, and make search, and ask diligently. And, behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in the midst of thee,

⁸ If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates, then thou shall arise, and get thee up to the place which LORD thy God shall choose. ⁹ And thou shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days, and thou shall inquire. And they shall show thee the sentence of judgment. ¹⁰ And thou shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show thee from that place which LORD shall choose. And thou shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach thee,

¹⁶ Then two women who were harlots came to the king, and stood before him. ¹⁷ And the one woman said, Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. And I was delivered of a child with her in the house. ¹⁸ And it came to pass the third day after I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also. And we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, except we two in the house. ¹⁹ And this woman's child died in the night, because she lay upon it. ²⁰ And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me while thy handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom. ²¹ And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead. But when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son whom I bore. ²² And the other woman said, No, but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And the other woman said, No, but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spoke before the king. ²³ Then the king said, The one says, This is my son that lives, and thy son is the dead. And the other says, No, but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living. ²⁴ And the king said, Fetch me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king. ²⁵ And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other. ²⁶ Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means kill it. But the other said, It shall be neither mine nor thine. Divide it. ²⁷ Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and by no means kill it; she is the mother of it. ²⁸ And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged. And they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

⁷ And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter. For she had neither father nor mother, and the maiden was fair and beautiful. And when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

¹⁸ (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and her I have guided from my mother's womb);

² It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

⁷ A righteous man takes knowledge of the cause of the poor. A wicked man has no such understanding to know.

¹ Become ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

³⁵ I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth. And when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and killed him.

⁷ Arise, O LORD. Save me, O my God. For thou have smitten all my enemies upon the cheek bone. Thou have broken the teeth of the wicked.

⁸ as a snail which melts and passes away, as the untimely birth of a woman, that has not seen the sun.

³ then they would have swallowed us up alive when their wrath was kindled against us,

⁶ Blessed be LORD, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.

¹⁴ There is a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw teeth, knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

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.

⁴⁹ And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering, for it was without number.

²⁶ Thou shall come to thy grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

¹⁶ And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations. ¹⁷ So Job died, being old and full of days.

⁶ As for me, I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved. ⁷ Thou, LORD, of thy favor had made my mountain to stand strong. Thou hid thy face; I was troubled.

¹⁶ I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation.

²³ O inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes thy nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied thou shall be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!

¹⁶ As for thy formidableness, the pride of thy heart has deceived thee, O thou who dwells in the clefts of the rock, who holds the height of the hill. Though thou should make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from there, says LORD.

⁴ Though thou mount on high as the eagle, and though thy nest be set among the stars, I will bring thee down from there, says LORD.

⁹ Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

³ And he shall be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. And whatever he does shall prosper.

⁸ For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green, and shall not be worried in the year of drought, nor shall cease from yielding fruit.

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

¹³ And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen. And ye shall hasten and bring down my father here.

²⁴ but his bow abode in strength. And the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob (From there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),

⁹ He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

¹⁴ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

³ But thou, O LORD, are a shield about me, my glory and he who lifts up of my head.

³⁴ He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of brass.

⁵ who satisfies thy desire with good things, and thy youth is renewed like the eagle.

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.

¹⁶ Therefore we are not discouraged, but even if the outer man of us is perishing, yet the inner man is renewed day by day.

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 Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your reasonings, while ye searched out what to say. ¹² Yea, I attended to you. And, behold, there was none who convinced Job, or who answered his words among you.

² My doctrine shall drop as the rain. My speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb.

¹⁵ They are amazed, they answer no more. They have not a word to say. ¹⁶ And shall I wait because they do not speak, because they stand still, and answer no more?

³¹ Mark well, O Job, hearken to me. Keep silent, and I will speak. ³² If thou have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify thee. ³³ If not, hearken thou to me. Keep silent, and I will teach thee.

¹¹ Thy lips, O my bride, drop the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under thy tongue, and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

¹⁵ so shall he sprinkle many nations. Kings shall shut their mouths at him. For that which had not been told them they shall see, and that which they had not heard they shall understand.

⁴⁶ Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the South.

¹⁶ Now therefore hear thou the word of LORD: Thou say, Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not drop thy word against the house of Isaac.

⁶ Prophesy ye not, they prophesy. They shall not prophesy to these, so reproaches shall not depart.

⁴⁶ And no man was able to answer him a word, nor did any man from that day dare to question him any more.

⁶ He will come down like rain upon the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

³ And let us know, let us follow on to know LORD. His going forth is sure as the morning, and he will come to us as the rain, as the latter rain that waters the earth.

¹ Ask ye of LORD rain in the time of the latter rain, even of LORD who makes lightnings, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone grass in the field.

²⁶ And they told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt. And his heart fainted, for he did not believe them.

¹⁵ Blessed is the people who know the joyful sound. They walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.

¹ When LORD brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

⁴¹ And while they still disbelieved from joy and wondering, he said to them, Have ye anything to eat here?

¹⁴ And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan. ¹⁵ And he divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and smote them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. ¹⁶ And he brought back all the goods, and also brought back his brother Lot, and his goods, and also the women, and the people. ¹⁷ And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (the same is the King's Valley).

⁴⁰ Thou shall be over my house, and according to thy word all my people shall be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than thou.

⁵ And he was king in Jeshurun when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together.

⁸ And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, For that reason we turned again to thee now, that thou may go with us, and fight with the sons of Ammon. And thou shall be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

² In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was thou who led out and brought in Israel. And LORD said to thee, Thou shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and thou shall be prince over Israel.

¹ And David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader. ² And David said to all the assembly of Israel, If it seems good to you, and if it be of LORD our God, let us send abroad everywhere to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have suburbs, that they may gather themselves to us. ³ And let us bring again the ark of our God to us, for we did not inquire from it in the days of Saul. ⁴ And all the assembly said that they would do so, for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.

³ His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-donkeys, and a very great household, so that this man was the greatest of all the sons of the east.

³ Behold, thou have instructed many, and thou have strengthened the weak hands. ⁴ Thy words have upheld him who was falling, and thou have made firm the feeble knees.

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

³ Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. ⁴ Say to those who are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not. Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you.

¹ The Spirit of the lord LORD is upon me, because LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, and the opening of bonds to those who are bound, ² to proclaim the acceptable year of LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, ³ to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of LORD, that he may be glorified.

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

⁵ For even when we came into Macedonia our flesh had not one relief, but being oppressed in everything: battles outside, fears within. ⁶ Nevertheless God, who encourages the lowly, encouraged us by the arrival of Titus. ⁷ And not only by his presence, but also by the encouragement with which he was encouraged by you, reporting to us your earnest desire, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced the more.

² And we sent Timothy, our brother, and a helper of God, and our fellow workman in the good news of the Christ, in order to establish you and to encourage you about your faith, ³ for no man to be disturbed by these afflictions. For ye yourselves know that we are set for this.