Job 31 Cross References - ACV

¹ I made a covenant with my eyes. How then should I look upon a virgin? ² For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high? ³ Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity? ⁴ Does he not see my ways, and number all my steps? ⁵ If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hastened to deceit ⁶ (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity); ⁷ if my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any spot has clung to my hands, ⁸ then let me sow, and let another eat, yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out. ⁹ If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door, ¹⁰ then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down upon her. ¹¹ For that is a heinous crime, yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges. ¹² For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase. ¹³ If I have despised the case of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me, ¹⁴ what then shall I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what shall I answer him? ¹⁵ Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb? ¹⁶ If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, ¹⁷ or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it ¹⁸ (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and her I have guided from my mother's womb); 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; ²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate, ²² then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and my arm be broken from the bone. ²³ For calamity from God is a terror to me, and I can do nothing because of his majesty. ²⁴ If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, Thou are my confidence; ²⁵ if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much; ²⁶ if I have beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness, ²⁷ and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand ²⁸ (this also is an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have denied the God that is above); ²⁹ if I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him ³⁰ (yea, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse); 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); ³³ if like Adam I have covered my transgressions by hiding my iniquity in my bosom ³⁴ because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me so that I kept silence, and did not go out of the door- 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. ³⁸ If my land cries out against me, and the furrows of it weep together; ³⁹ if I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused the owners of it to lose their lives, ⁴⁰ let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

² that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair. And they took to them wives of all that they chose.

² And it came to pass at evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. ³ And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? ⁴ And David sent messengers, and took her. And she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness), and she returned to her house.

³⁷ Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity, and enliven me in thy ways.

²⁵ Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

²⁵ Do not lust after her beauty in thy heart, nor let her take thee with her eyelids.

³¹ Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly. ³² At the end it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder. ³³ Thine eyes shall behold strange things, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.

²⁸ But I say to you, that every man who looks on a woman to crave her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. ²⁹ And if thy right eye causes thee to stumble, remove it and cast it from thee, for it is advantageous for thee that one of thy body-parts should perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.

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

¹⁶ Because everything in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the arrogance of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

²⁹ This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by God.

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

⁴ Marriage is precious in every way, and the undefiled bed, but God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

³⁰ that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

²² There is no darkness, nor thick gloom where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

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

¹⁸ Surely thou set them in slippery places. Thou cast them down to destruction.

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

²⁹ The way of LORD is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

¹⁵ It is joy to the righteous to do justice, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

²¹ For LORD will rise up as in mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

¹³ Enter ye in by the narrow gate, because wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many are they who enter through it.

²² And if God, wanting to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

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

⁹ Men who will suffer punishment, a penalty of eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

¹ But false prophets also developed among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will sneak in pernicious denominations, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

⁷ As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, the same kind of way with these who indulged in fornication, and who went rear of queer flesh, are set forth an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

¹³ And she called the name of LORD who spoke to her, Thou are a God who sees, for she said, Have I even here looked behind him who sees me?

⁹ For the eyes of LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is perfect toward him. In this thou have done foolishly, for from henceforth thou shall have wars.

¹⁶ But now thou number my steps. Do thou not watch over my sin?

²¹ For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, and he sees all his goings.

²¹ will not God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

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.

²¹ For the ways of man are before the eyes of LORD, and he makes level all his paths.

³ The eyes of LORD are in every place, keeping watch upon the evil and the good.

¹⁷ For my eyes are upon all their ways. They are not hid from my face, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.

¹⁹ great in counsel, and mighty in work, whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings,

⁴⁸ Nathanael says to him, How do thou know me? Jesus answered and said to him, Before Philip called thee, being under the fig tree, I saw thee.

¹³ And there is no creature concealed from his presence, but all things are naked and vulnerable to his eyes, before whom is the word to us.

² O ye sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will ye love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.

³ O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there be iniquity in my hands, ⁴ if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me, (yea, I have delivered him without cause who was my adversary), ⁵ let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it. Yea, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

² They speak falsehood everyone with his neighbor. With flattering lip, and with a double heart, they speak.

²⁰ If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god, ²¹ will not God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

¹¹ He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who pursues vanities is void of understanding.

⁵ Thus says LORD: What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?

⁸ Therefore thus says the lord LORD: Because ye have spoken falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, says the lord LORD.

¹¹ If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies, saying, I will prophesy to thee of wine and of strong drink, he shall even be the prophet of this people.

²² The Mighty One, God, LORD, the Mighty One, God, LORD, he knows, and Israel he shall know, if it is in rebellion, or if in trespass against LORD (do not save us this day),

³ Talk no more so very proudly. Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth, for LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

² O that my grief were but weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!

⁵ Far be it from me that I should justify you. Till I die I will not put away my integrity from me. ⁶ I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

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

⁸ LORD shall judge the peoples. Judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me. ⁹ O let the wickedness of the wicked man come to an end, but establish thou the righteous man. For the righteous God tries the minds and hearts.

² Let my justice come forth from thy presence. Let thine eyes look upon equity. 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.

¹ Judge me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity. I have also trusted in LORD without wavering.

²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts,

¹¹ A just balance and scales are LORD's. All the weights of the bag are his work.

⁷ The way of the just is uprightness. Thou who are upright directs the path of the just.

²⁷ TEKEL, thou are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

¹¹ Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

²³ And then I will profess to them, I never acknowledged you. Depart from me, ye who work lawlessness.

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.

³⁹ And it shall be to you for a hem, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of LORD, and do them, and that ye not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to play the harlot,

³⁰ If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean,

¹¹ My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned aside.

³ I will set no base thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who turn aside. It shall not cleave to me.

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.

¹⁵ He who walks righteously, and speaks uprightly. He who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes away his hands from taking a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking upon evil.

⁹ And those of you who escape shall remember me among the nations where they shall be carried captive, how I have broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the harlot after their idols. And they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

³ Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them?

⁷ For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, that separates himself from me, and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me, I LORD will answer him by myself.

²⁹ And if thy right eye causes thee to stumble, remove it and cast it from thee, for it is advantageous for thee that one of thy body-parts should perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.

¹⁶ I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. And ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

³⁰ Thou shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. Thou shall build a house, and thou shall not dwell in it. Thou shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use the fruit of it. ³¹ Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shall not eat of it. Thy donkey shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee. Thy sheep shall be given to thine enemies, and thou shall have none to save thee. ³² Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given to another people. And thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day, and there shall be nothing in the power of thy hand. ³³ The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labors, shall a nation eat up which thou know not. And thou shall only be oppressed and crushed always,

³⁸ Thou shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in, for the locust shall consume it.

⁵¹ and shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, until thou be destroyed, that also shall not leave thee grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of thy cattle, or the young of thy flock, until they have caused thee to perish.

³ And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the sons of the east, they came up against them. ⁴ And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come to Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey. ⁵ For they came up with their cattle and their tents. They came in as locusts for multitude. Both they and their camels were without number, and they came into the land to destroy it. ⁶ And Israel was brought very low because of Midian, and the sons of Israel cried to LORD.

⁴ His sons are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them, ⁵ whose harvest the hungry eat up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapes for their substance.

³⁰ He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of God's mouth he shall go away.

¹⁹ He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, nor any remaining where he sojourned.

¹⁸ That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.

⁶ They cut their provender in the field, and they glean the vintage of the wicked.

¹³ Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

¹⁵ Thou shall sow, but shall not reap, thou shall tread the olives, but shall not anoint thee with oil, and the vintage, but shall not drink the wine.

⁵ And the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Entice him, and see in what his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him. And we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.

⁴ For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods. And his heart was not perfect with LORD his God as was the heart of David his father.

²⁶ Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet there was no king like him among many nations, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.

¹⁵ The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me. And he disguises his face. ¹⁶ In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They do not know the light.

¹⁶ to deliver thee from the interloping woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words, ¹⁷ who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God ¹⁸ (for her house inclines to death, and her paths to the dead; ¹⁹ none who go to her return again, nor do they attain to the paths of life),

³ For the lips of an interloping woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil. ⁴ But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. ⁵ Her feet go down to death. Her steps take hold on Sheol, ⁶ so that she does not find the level path of life. Her ways are unstable, and she does not know. ⁷ Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth. ⁸ Remove thy way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house, ⁹ lest thou give thine honor to others, and thy years to the cruel, ¹⁰ lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labors be in the house of an alien, ¹¹ and thou mourn at thy latter end when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, ¹² and say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof. ¹³ Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me! ¹⁴ I was almost in all evil in the midst of the assembly and congregation. ¹⁵ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. ¹⁶ Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, and streams of water in the streets? ¹⁷ Let them be for thyself alone, and not for strangers with thee. ¹⁸ Let thy fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of thy youth: ¹⁹ a loving hind and a pleasant doe. Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravished always with her love. ²⁰ For why should thou, my son, be ravished with an interloping woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? ²¹ For the ways of man are before the eyes of LORD, and he makes level all his paths. ²² His own iniquities shall take a wicked man, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin. ²³ He shall die for lack of instruction. And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

²¹ With her much fair speech she causes him to yield. With the flattering of her lips she forces him along.

¹⁴ The mouth of interloping women is a deep pit. He who is abhorred of LORD shall fall in it.

²⁶ And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are chains. He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.

⁸ They were as fed horses roaming at large; everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife.

⁴ They are all adulterers. They are as an oven heated by the baker. He ceases to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.

⁵ and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits upon his throne, even to the firstborn of the maid-servant that is behind the mill, and all the firstborn of cattle.

³⁰ Thou shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. Thou shall build a house, and thou shall not dwell in it. Thou shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use the fruit of it.

¹¹ Thus says LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house. And I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them to thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

² Take the millstones, and grind meal. Remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

¹⁰ Therefore I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall possess them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

¹³ They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow of it is good. Therefore your daughters play the harlot, and your brides commit adultery. ¹⁴ I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when they commit adultery. For themselves go apart with harlots, and they sacrifice with the prostitutes. And the people who do not understand shall be overthrown.

⁴¹ Two women grinding at the mill, one is taken, and one is left.

⁹ Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, What have thou done to us? And in what have I sinned against thee, that thou have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? Thou have done deeds to me that ought not to be done.

¹⁰ And Abimelech said, What is this thou have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with thy wife, and thou would have brought guiltiness upon us.

²⁴ And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law has played the harlot, and moreover, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.

⁹ He is not greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but thee, because thou are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

¹⁴ Thou shall not commit adultery.

¹⁰ And the man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

²² If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman. So shall thou put away the evil from Israel. ²³ If there be a damsel who is a virgin betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her, ²⁴ then ye shall bring them both out to the gate of that city. And ye shall stone them to death with stones, the damsel, because she did not cry out, being in the city, and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife. So thou shall put away the evil from the midst of thee.

²⁸ (this also is an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have denied the God that is above);

²⁹ So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her shall not be unpunished. ³⁰ Men do not despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry. ³¹ Yet if he is found, he shall restore sevenfold. He shall give all the substance of his house. ³² He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who would destroy his own soul does it. ³³ Wounds and dishonor he shall get, and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

³⁸ And I will judge thee, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged. And I will bring upon thee the blood of wrath and jealousy.

²⁸ The increase of his house shall depart, flowed away in the day of his wrath.

⁶ Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

³³ The curse of LORD is in the house of a wicked man, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.

²⁷ Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

⁷ How can I pardon thee? Thy sons have forsaken me, and sworn by those who are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots' houses. ⁸ They were as fed horses roaming at large; everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife. ⁹ Shall I not visit for these things? says LORD. And shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

⁵ And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says LORD of hosts.

²⁰ And if a man smites his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished. ²¹ Notwithstanding, if he continues a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his money.

²⁶ And if a man smites the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. ²⁷ And if he knocks out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

⁴³ Thou shall not rule over him with rigor, but shall fear thy God.

⁴⁶ And ye shall make them an inheritance for your sons after you, to hold for a possession. Ye shall take your permanent bondmen from them, but over your brothers the sons of Israel ye shall not rule, one over another, with rigor.

¹² If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to thee, and serves thee six years, then in the seventh year thou shall let him go free from thee. ¹³ And when thou let him go free from thee, thou shall not let him go empty. ¹⁴ Thou shall furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy winepress. As LORD thy God has blessed thee thou shall give to him. ¹⁵ And thou shall remember that thou were a bondman in the land of Egypt, and LORD thy God redeemed thee. Therefore I command thee this thing today.

¹⁴ Thou shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brothers, or of thy sojourners that are in thy land within thy gates. ¹⁵ Thou shall give him his hire in his day, neither shall the sun go down upon it, for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it, lest he cry against thee to LORD, and it be sin to thee.

¹⁴ At the end of seven years ye shall let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to thee, and has served thee six years. Thou shall let him go free from thee. But your fathers hearkened not to me, nor inclined their ear. ¹⁵ And ye were now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor. And ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name. ¹⁶ But ye turned and profaned my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had let go free at their pleasure, to return. And ye brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids. ¹⁷ Therefore thus says LORD: Ye have not hearkened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty, says LORD-to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. And I will make you to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth.

⁹ And ye masters, do the same things to them, easing up the threats, knowing also that the master of you yourselves is in the heavens, and there is no partiality from him.

¹ Masters, present to the bondmen what is right and equitable, knowing that ye also have a Master in heavens.

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

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

⁶ Arise, O LORD, in thine anger. Lift up thyself against the rage of my adversaries, and awake for me the justice thou have commanded.

¹² For he who makes inquiry for blood remembers them. He does not forget the cry of the poor.

¹⁹ Arise, O LORD, let not man prevail. Let the nations be judged in thy sight.

¹² Arise, O LORD, O God, lift up thy hand. Do not forget the poor. ¹³ Why does the wicked man despise God, and say in his heart, Thou will not require it? ¹⁴ Thou have seen. For thou behold mischief and spite, to repay with thy hand. The poor man commits himself to thee. Thou have been the helper of the fatherless. ¹⁵ Break thou the arm of the sinner and the evil man. His wickedness shall be sought, and shall not be found.

⁹ when God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.

² And enter not into judgment with thy servant. For in thy sight no man living is righteous.

³ And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? To whom will ye flee for help? And where will ye leave your glory?

⁷ The days of visitation have come. The days of recompense have come. Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the abundance of thine iniquity, and because the enmity is great.

⁴ The best of them is as a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, has come. Now shall be their perplexity.

¹³ Be silent, all flesh, before LORD, for he has arisen out of his holy habitation.

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

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.

¹³ For the judgment is merciless to him who did no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

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.

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?

⁸ Thy hands have made me and fashioned me together round about, yet thou destroy me. ⁹ Remember, I beseech thee, that thou have fashioned me as clay. And will thou bring me into dust again? ¹⁰ Have thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? ¹¹ Thou have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. ¹² Thou have granted me life and loving kindness, and thy visitation has preserved my spirit.

¹⁹ who does not respect the persons of rulers, nor regards the rich more than the poor. For they all are the work of his hands.

¹⁴ I will give thanks to thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are thy works, and that my soul knows right well. ¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from thee, when I was made in secret, curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. ¹⁶ Thine eyes saw my unformed substance, and in thy book they were all written, even the days that were ordained, when as yet there was none of them.

³¹ He who oppresses a poor man reproaches his maker, but he who has mercy on a needy man honors him.

² The rich and the poor meet together. LORD is the maker of them all.

⁷ Is it not to deal thy bread to a hungry man, and that thou bring the poor who are cast out to thy house, when thou see a naked man, that thou cover him, and that thou not hide thyself from thine own flesh?

¹⁰ Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

⁷ If there be with thee a poor man, one of thy brothers, within any of thy gates in thy land which LORD thy God gives thee, thou shall not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother, ⁸ but thou shall surely open thy hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need which he wants. ⁹ Beware that there not be a base thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand, and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou give him nothing, and he cry to LORD against thee, and it be sin to thee. ¹⁰ Thou shall surely give him, and thy heart shall not be grieved when thou give to him, because for this thing LORD thy God will bless thee in all thy work, and in all that thou put thy hand to.

³² Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given to another people. And thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day, and there shall be nothing in the power of thy hand.

¹⁶ So a poor man has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.

¹⁹ For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

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.

³ I am weary with my crying. My throat is dried. My eyes fail while I wait for my God.

⁹ He has scattered, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn shall be exalted with honor.

⁸² My eyes fail for thy word, while I say, When will thou comfort me?

¹²³ My eyes fail for thy salvation, and for thy righteous word.

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

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

²¹ and longing to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. But even the dogs that came licked his sores.

²⁹ And the disciples, as any man prospered, determined, each of them regarding aid, to send to the brothers who dwell in Judea,

¹⁰ only that we should remember the poor, which this same thing I also was eager to do.

¹¹ For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shall surely open thy hand to thy brother, to thy needy, and to thy poor, in thy land.

¹⁴ Thou shall furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy winepress. As LORD thy God has blessed thee thou shall give to him.

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.

⁷ Thou have not given water to the weary to drink, and thou have withheld bread from the hungry.

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.

⁷ and has not wronged any man, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to a hungry man, and has covered a naked man with a garment,

¹⁶ nor has wronged any man, has not taken anything to pledge, nor has taken by robbery, but has given his bread to a hungry man, and has covered a naked man with a garment,

⁴¹ But give compassion, things that are inside, and behold, all things are clean to you.

²⁹ For some thought, since Judas had the purse, that Jesus said to him, Buy what things we have need of for the feast, or that he should give something to the poor.

³² And the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. And not even one man said that anything of the things that was possessed by him was his own, but all things were common to them.

¹³ sharing for the needs of the sanctified, pursuing love for strangers.

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.

¹⁷ But whoever has the world's living, and sees his brother having need, and closes his bowels from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

¹⁵ And the men who have been mentioned by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all who were naked among them, and dressed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.

⁶ For thou have taken pledges from thy brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

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

¹³ The blessing of him who was ready to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

³⁶ naked, and ye clothed me. I was feeble, and ye came to help me. I was in prison, and ye came to me.

⁴³ I was a stranger, and ye did not take me in, naked, and ye did not clothe me, weak, and in prison, and ye did not come to help me.

¹¹ And having answered, he says to them, He who has two coats, let him share with him not having, and he who has food, let him do likewise.

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.

¹⁶ and some man of you would say to them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and fed, but ye would not give them the things necessary for the body, what is the benefit?

¹⁸ My little children, we should not love in word, nor with the tongue, but in deed and in truth.

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.

¹¹ For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me.

²⁷ Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

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

⁹ There are men who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

¹² Because I delivered the poor who cried, also the fatherless who had none to help him.

¹⁰ Remove not the ancient landmark. And enter not into the fields of the fatherless, ¹¹ for their Redeemer is strong. He will plead their cause against thee.

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

⁷ In thee they have made light of father and mother. In the midst of thee they have dealt with the sojourner by oppression. In thee they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

¹ Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. ² And they covet fields, and seize them, and houses, and take them away. And they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

³ Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler asks, and the judge asks for a bribe. And the great man, he utters the evil desire of his soul. Thus they weave it together.

²² The Mighty One, God, LORD, the Mighty One, God, LORD, he knows, and Israel he shall know, if it is in rebellion, or if in trespass against LORD (do not save us this day), ²³ that we have built us an altar to turn away from following LORD, or if to offer burnt offering or meal offering on it, or if to offer sacrifices of peace offerings on it, let LORD himself require it,

¹⁰ then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down upon her.

⁴⁰ let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

¹⁵ And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the high arm is broken.

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.

¹¹ Shall not his majesty make you afraid, and his dread fall upon you?

²³ When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, and will rain it upon him while he is eating.

²⁰ Let his own eyes see his destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

⁹ Or have thou an arm like God? And can thou thunder with a voice like him?

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 Thou, even thou, are to be feared. And who may stand in thy sight when once thou are angry?

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

⁶ Wail ye, for the day of LORD is at hand. It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.

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

¹¹ Having seen therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men. But we have been manifested to God, and I hope also to have been manifested in your consciences.

¹ And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob has taken away all that was our father's, and he has gotten all this glory of that which was our father's.

¹² Lest, when thou have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and dwelt in it, ¹³ and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou have is multiplied, ¹⁴ then thy heart be lifted up, and thou forget LORD thy God, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage,

⁶ Those who trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches, ⁷ none can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him

¹⁷ For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall not descend after him.

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

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

¹⁵ The rich man's wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

²⁸ He who trusts in his riches shall fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

⁹ lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and use the name of my God profanely.

²⁴ And the disciples were astonished at his words. But again having answered, Jesus says to them, Children, how difficult it is for those who trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God. ²⁵ It is easier for a camel to go through the hole of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

¹⁵ And he said to them, Watch, and keep away from greed, because to any man, life to him is not in the abundance of things possessed by him.

⁵ Put to death therefore your body-parts on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all the evils, of which some aspiring have wandered from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

¹⁷ Command the rich in the present age not to be arrogant, nor hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in the living God, who supplies us all things abundantly for enjoyment,

¹⁷ And lest thou say in thy heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth. ¹⁸ But thou shall remember LORD thy God, for it is he who gives thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to thy fathers, as at this day.

¹¹ And Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his sons, and all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the rulers and servants of the king.

⁵ Will thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For it certainly makes itself wings, like an eagle that flies toward heaven.

¹³ For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding. And I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. And like a valiant man I have brought down those who sit on thrones. ¹⁴ And my hand has found as a nest the riches of the peoples. And like a gathering of eggs that are forsaken, I have gathered all the earth. And there was none that moved the wing, or that opened the mouth, or chirped.

²³ Thus says LORD: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, nor let the mighty man glory in his might. Let not the rich man glory in his riches,

⁵ By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic thou have increased thy riches. And thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches.

³⁰ The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?

⁸ And Ephraim said, Surely I have become rich. I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors they shall find no iniquity in me that is sin.

¹⁶ Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his drag, because by them his portion is fat, and his food plentiful.

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou have many goods laid up for many years. Take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry.

¹⁹ Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously daily.

²⁵ But Abraham said, Child, remember that thou in thy lifetime received thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now here he is comforted and thou are in agony.

¹⁶ And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night, also the stars. ¹⁷ And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, ¹⁸ and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

¹⁹ And lest thou lift up thine eyes to heaven, and when thou see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven, thou be drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which LORD thy God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.

¹⁶ Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them,

³ and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded,

⁵ And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

¹¹ And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs. And he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

³ When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou have ordained, ⁴ what is man that thou remember him? And the son of man that thou succor him?

² And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They shall not be gathered, nor be buried. They shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

¹⁷ But we will certainly perform every word that has gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our rulers, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.

¹⁶ And he brought me into the inner court of LORD's house. And, behold, at the door of the temple of LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple of LORD, and their faces toward the east, and they were worshiping the sun toward the east.

⁶ If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, who is as thine own soul, entices thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou have not known, thou, nor thy fathers,

¹⁸ Yet I have reserved for me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him.

¹² Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish in the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.

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

² And now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves.

²¹ Because, although knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding.

²⁸ And just as they did not approve having God in knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do things that are not fit;

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?

² If there be found in the midst of thee, within any of thy gates which LORD thy God gives thee, man or woman, who does that which is evil in the sight of LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant, ³ and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded, ⁴ and it be told thee, and thou have heard of it, then shall thou inquire diligently. And, behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel, ⁵ then thou shall bring forth that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to thy gates, even the man or the woman, and thou shall stone them to death with stones. ⁶ At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is to die be put to death. He shall not be put to death at the mouth of one witness. ⁷ The hand of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So thou shall put away the evil from the midst of thee.

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.

²³ Now therefore, he said, put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to LORD, the God of Israel.

²⁷ And Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of LORD which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest ye deny your God.

²⁷ I therefore have not sinned against thee, but thou do me wrong to war against me. LORD, the Judge, be judge this day between the sons of Israel and the sons of Ammon.

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

⁷ There the upright might reason with him. So I should be delivered forever from my judge.

¹¹ For that is a heinous crime, yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

⁶ And the heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God is judge himself. Selah.

¹⁶ They profess to know God, but in their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and worthless for every good work.

²³ to a festal gathering and assembly of firstborn sons who were enrolled in the heavens, and to God, a Judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men who were made fully perfect,

²³ Every man who denies the Son, also does not have the Father.

⁴ For certain men have sneaked in, those written about formerly for this condemnation, irreverent men, perverting the grace of our God into licentiousness, and denying our only Master God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹² And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of LORD, and for the house of Israel, because they were fallen by the sword.

¹⁰ when he who told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good news, I took hold of him, and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news. ¹¹ How much more, when evil men have slain a righteous man in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

⁵ And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, there came out from there a man of the family of the house of Saul whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out, cursing as he came. ⁶ And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left. ⁷ And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Begone, begone, thou man of blood, and base fellow. ⁸ LORD has returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul in whose stead thou have reigned. And LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son, and, behold, thou are taken in thine own mischief because thou are a man of blood.

¹³ But as for me, when they were sick my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned into my own bosom. ¹⁴ I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as he who bewails his mother.

²⁵ Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have it. Let them not say, We have swallowed him up. 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.

⁵ He who mocks a poor man reproaches his maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

¹⁷ Rejoice not when thine enemy falls, and let not thy heart be glad when he is overthrown, ¹⁸ lest LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

¹² But look not thou on the day of thy brother in the day of his disaster, and rejoice not over the sons of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor speak proudly in the day of distress.

⁴ If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, thou shall surely bring it back to him again. ⁵ If thou see the donkey of him who hates thee lying under his burden, thou shall refrain leaving him. Thou shall surely release it with him.

² Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter anything before God. For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth. Therefore let thy words be few.

⁶ Do not allow thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin, nor say thou before the agent, that is was an error. Why should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?

²² But I say to you, that every man who is angry at his brother without cause will be liable to the judgment, and whoever speaks an insult to his brother will be liable to the council, and whoever says, Foolish man, will be liable to the hell of fire.

⁴³ Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shall love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. ⁴⁴ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

³⁶ But I say to you, that every idle word, whatever men may speak, they will render account about it in the day of judgment.

¹⁴ Bless those who persecute you. Bless ye and do not curse.

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.

⁹ By it we bless the God and Father, and by it we curse men, who were made according to a likeness of God. ¹⁰ Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and curse. My brothers, these things ought not to happen this way.

²² Who did no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth. ²³ Who, being reviled, did not revile in return. Suffering, he did not threaten, but yielded to him who judges righteously.

⁹ not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling, but instead giving praise, knowing that ye were called for this, so that ye might inherit a blessing.

⁴ And the men of David said to him, Behold, the day of which LORD said to thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thy hand, and thou shall do to him as it shall seem good to thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe secretly.

¹⁰ Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that LORD had delivered thee today into my hand in the cave. And some bade me kill thee, but I spared thee. And I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord, for he is LORD's anointed.

⁸ Then said Abishai to David, God has delivered up thine enemy into thy hand this day. Now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not smite him the second time.

⁹ Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head. ¹⁰ And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because LORD has said to him, Curse David, who then shall say, Why have thou done so?

²¹ But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed LORD's anointed? ²² And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries to me? Shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? For do I not know that I am this day king over Israel?

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

² When evildoers came upon me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

²⁵ Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have it. Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

¹¹ If they say, Come with us. Let us lay wait for blood. Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause. ¹² Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those who go down into the pit.

¹⁸ and these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

¹⁵ Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it. Why should he take thy life, that all the Jews who are gathered to thee should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish? ¹⁶ But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, Thou shall not do this thing, for thou speak falsely of Ishmael.

² Ye who hate the good, and love the evil, who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones, 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.

⁵⁴ And his disciples James and John having seen, they said, Lord, do thou want that we should call fire to come down from the sky, and consume them, as also Elijah did? ⁵⁵ But having turned around, he rebuked them, and said, Ye do not know what kind of spirit ye are.

⁵⁰ And a certain one of them struck the bondman of the high priest, and cut off his right ear. ⁵¹ But having answered, Jesus said, Allow ye as far as this. And having touched his ear, he healed him.

² and he said, Behold now, my lords, turn aside, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your way. And they said, No, but we will abide in the street all night. ³ And he urged them greatly. And they turned in to him, and entered into his house. And he made a feast for them, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

¹⁵ And they turned aside there, to go in to lodge in Gibeah. And he went in, and sat down in the street of the city, for there was no man that took them into his house to lodge.

²⁰ And the old man said, Peace be to thee. However let all thy wants lie upon me, only do not lodge in the street. ²¹ So he brought him into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder. And they washed their feet, and ate and drank.

¹⁷ or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it ¹⁸ (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and her I have guided from my mother's womb);

³⁵ For I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat. I was thirsty, and ye gave me to drink. I was a stranger, and ye took me in,

⁴⁰ And having answered, the King will say to them, Truly I say to you, inasmuch as ye did it to one of these my brothers, the least, ye did it to me.

⁴⁴ Then they will also answer, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungering, or thirsting, or a stranger, or naked, or weak, or in prison, and did not serve thee? ⁴⁵ Then he will answer them, saying, Truly I say to you, inasmuch as ye did it not to one of these least, ye did it not to me.

¹⁰ being testified in good works: if she has reared children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the feet of the sanctified, if she has relieved those who are afflicted, if she has followed every good work.

² Do not forget love for strangers, for by this some lodged agents, unaware.

⁹ stranger-loving toward each other without complaints.

⁷ And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. ⁸ And they heard the voice of LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.

¹² And the man said, The woman whom thou gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.

¹¹ Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken from what was set apart, and have also stolen, and also dissembled. And they have even put it among their own stuff.

¹³ He who covers his transgressions shall not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them shall obtain mercy.

⁷ But like Adam they have transgressed the covenant. There they have dealt treacherously against me.

⁸ And Peter responded to her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much. And she said, Yes, for so much.

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

² Thou shall not follow a multitude to do evil, neither shall thou speak in a case to turn aside after a multitude to distort justice,

²⁷ And he said to them, Thus says LORD, the God of Israel, Put ye every man his sword upon his thigh, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.

¹⁴ Now the name of the man of Israel who was slain, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a ruler of a fathers' house among the Simeonites. ¹⁵ And the name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur. He was head of the people of a fathers' house in Midian.

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.

⁴ Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God, being allied to Tobiah, ⁵ had prepared for him a great chamber, where formerly they laid the meal offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the heave offerings for the priests. ⁶ But in all this time I was not at Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king. And after certain days I asked leave of the king, ⁷ and I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God. ⁸ And it grieved me greatly. Therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber.

²⁸ And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I chased him from me.

¹¹ All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, know, that whoever, whether man or woman, shall come to the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king shall hold out the golden scepter that he may live. But I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.

¹⁴ For if thou altogether keep quiet at this time, then relief and deliverance will arise to the Jews from another place, but thou and thy father's house will perish. And who knows whether thou have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

⁸ But as for the mighty man, he had the land. And the honorable man, he dwelt in it.

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?

²⁵ The fear of man brings a snare, but he who puts his trust in LORD shall be safe.

⁴ Then the rulers said to the king, Let this man, we pray thee, be put to death, inasmuch as he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them. For this man seeks not the welfare of this people, but the hurt. ⁵ And Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand, for the king is not he who can do anything against you.

¹⁶ So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, As LORD lives, who made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, nor will I give thee into the hand of these men who seek thy life.

¹⁹ And Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews who have fallen away to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they abuse me.

¹¹ Inasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions of wheat from him. Ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them. Ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof. ¹² For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins-ye who afflict the just man, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the gate. ¹³ Therefore he who is prudent shall keep silence in such a time, for it is an evil time.

²⁰ But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes that they should ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus. ²¹ Now the governor having answered, he said to them, Which of the two do ye want I would release to you? And they said, Barabbas. ²² Pilate says to them, What then shall I do to Jesus who is called Christ? They all say to him, He should be crucified. ²³ And the governor said, For what evil has he done? But they cried out even more, saying, He should be crucified. ²⁴ And when Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but rather an uproar was developing, after taking water, he washed his hands in front of the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this righteous man. See ye to it. ²⁵ And having answered, all the people said, His blood be on us, and on our children. ²⁶ Then he released Barabbas to them, and having scourged Jesus he delivered him so that he would be crucified.

¹⁶ So that henceforth we know no man according to flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we know him no longer.

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

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.

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

³ Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself. Who is there that will strike hands with me?

⁷ Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

¹¹ He has also kindled his wrath against me. And he considers me to him as his adversaries.

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!

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.

⁷ Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

²⁸ I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

⁶ Behold, I am toward God even as thou are. I also am formed out of the clay.

¹⁰ Thou say, Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy. ¹¹ He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.

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

¹ Then LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, ² Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? ³ Gird up now thy loins like a man, for I will demand of thee, and declare thou to me.

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.

²⁵ Be agreeing with thine opponent quickly, while thou are with him on the way, lest the opponent deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the subordinate, and thou will be cast into prison.

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.

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

²² And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his shoulder, and he shall open, and none shall shut, and he shall shut, and none shall open.

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

¹ So then, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord this way beloved.

²⁸ And he said, Thy name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel, for thou have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.

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 If he is pleased to contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

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

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.

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.

¹² Who can discern his errors? Clear thou me from hidden faults.

¹² in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through his faith.

¹⁵ For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but who was tempted in all things in the same way, without sin. ¹⁶ Let us therefore come near with boldness to the throne of grace, so that we may take mercy, and may find grace for timely help.

¹⁹ And by this we know that we are of the truth, and will assure our hearts before him. ²⁰ Because if our heart should condemn us, that God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart should not condemn us, we have confidence toward God,

²⁷ The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.

¹³ The pastures are clothed with flocks. The valleys also are covered over with grain. They shout for joy; they also sing.

¹¹ For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

⁴ Behold the wage of the workmen who reaped your fields. The man who was defrauded by you cries out. And the outcries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

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

¹³ And the two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him. And the base fellows bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth cursed God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him to death with stones. ¹⁴ Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead. ¹⁵ And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money, for Naboth is not alive, but dead. ¹⁶ And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite to take possession of it.

¹⁹ And thou shall speak to him, saying, Thus says LORD, Have thou killed and also taken possession? And thou shall speak to him, saying, Thus says LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.

¹⁹ So are the ways of everyone who is greedy of gain. It takes away the life of the owners of it.

²¹ For, behold, LORD comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

⁶ Behold, the rulers of Israel, each one according to his power, have been in thee to shed blood.

¹² In thee they have taken bribes to shed blood. Thou have taken interest and increase. And thou have greedily gained from thy neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the lord LORD. ¹³ Behold, therefore, I have smitten my hand at thy dishonest gain which thou have made, and at thy blood which has been in the midst of thee.

¹⁷ And to Adam he said, Because thou have hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shall not eat of it, cursed is the ground for thy sake. In toil thou shall eat of it all the days of thy life. ¹⁸ Also, thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to thee, and thou shall eat the herb of the field.

²⁰ The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

²³ And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver coins, shall be for briers and thorns.

⁹ Therefore as I live, says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The residue of my people shall make a prey of them, and the remnant of my nation shall inherit them.

³ but Esau I regarded inferior, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.