Job 16 Cross References - AKJV

¹ Then Job answered and said, ² I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are you all. ³ Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldens you that you answer? ⁴ I also could speak as you do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you. ⁵ But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief. ⁶ Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? ⁷ But now he has made me weary: you have made desolate all my company. ⁸ And you have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face. ⁹ He tears me in his wrath, who hates me: he gnashes on me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes on me. ¹⁰ They have gaped on me with their mouth; they have smitten me on the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. ¹¹ God has delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. ¹² I was at ease, but he has broken me asunder: he has also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. ¹³ His archers compass me round about, he splits my reins asunder, and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground. ¹⁴ He breaks me with breach on breach, he runs on me like a giant. ¹⁵ I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. ¹⁶ My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; ¹⁷ Not for any injustice in my hands: also my prayer is pure. ¹⁸ O earth, cover not you my blood, and let my cry have no place. ¹⁹ Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. ²⁰ My friends scorn me: but my eye pours out tears to God. ²¹ O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor! ²² When a few years are come, then I shall go the way from where I shall not return.

¹¹ And now are you cursed from the earth, which has opened her mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand;

⁵⁰ If you shall afflict my daughters, or if you shall take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness between me and you.

³⁴ And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

²³ The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:

²⁰ The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie on him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

⁸ And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelled in the top of the rock Etam.

²¹ I went out full and the LORD has brought me home again empty: why then call you me Naomi, seeing the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?

¹⁰ The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder on them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.

⁵ And he said to them, The LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found ought in my hand. And they answered, He is witness.

¹⁸ And you have showed this day how that you have dealt well with me: for as much as when the LORD had delivered me into your hand, you killed me not.

²⁷ And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

²⁴ But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak to you?

²¹ This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion has despised you, and laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

²³ Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak to you?

⁵ And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before you: for they have provoked you to anger before the builders.

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 asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

¹³ And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house: ¹⁴ And there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: ¹⁵ And the Sabeans fell on them, and took them away; yes, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell you. ¹⁶ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and has burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell you. ¹⁷ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell on the camels, and have carried them away, yes, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell you. ¹⁸ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house: ¹⁹ And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell you.

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

¹⁷ There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

²⁶ I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

³ Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands. ⁴ Your words have upheld him that was falling, and you have strengthened the feeble knees.

¹⁰ The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

² Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! ³ For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. ⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinks up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinks up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me. ⁵ Does the wild ass bray when he has grass? or lows the ox over his fodder? ⁶ Can that which is unsavory be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

¹⁰ Then should I yet have comfort; yes, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

¹⁴ To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend; but he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

²⁵ How forcible are right words! but what does your arguing reprove? ²⁶ Do you imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

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

⁹ As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away: so he that goes down to the grave shall come up no more. ¹⁰ He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

¹² Am I a sea, or a whale, that you set a watch over me?

¹⁶ I loathe it; I would not live always: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

²⁰ I have sinned; what shall I do to you, O you preserver of men? why have you set me as a mark against you, so that I am a burden to myself?

² How long will you speak these things? and how long shall the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?

⁵ If you would seek to God betimes, and make your supplication to the Almighty; ⁶ If you were pure and upright; surely now he would awake for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

¹⁷ For he breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

³⁴ Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me: ³⁵ Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.

¹ My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint on myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁶ For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion: and again you show yourself marvelous on me. ¹⁷ You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me; changes and war are against me.

¹⁷ You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me; changes and war are against me.

² Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?

² Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? ³ Should your lies make men hold their peace? and when you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

¹⁴ If iniquity be in your hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in your tabernacles.

⁴ I am as one mocked of his neighbor, who calls on God, and he answers him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn. ⁵ He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

³ Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. ⁴ But you are forgers of lies, you are all physicians of no value. ⁵ O that you would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

²² Then call you, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer you me.

²⁴ Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?

²⁷ You put my feet also in the stocks, and look narrowly to all my paths; you set a print on the heels of my feet.

⁵ Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with you, you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

¹⁰ But man dies, and wastes away: yes, man gives up the ghost, and where is he?

¹⁴ If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

² Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

²⁰ The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

²⁶ He runs on him, even on his neck, on the thick bosses of his bucklers:

³⁴ For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

⁴ I also could speak as you do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.

² Are there not mockers with me? and does not my eye continue in their provocation?

⁷ My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

⁴ He tears himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for you? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

² How long will you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? ³ These ten times have you reproached me: you are not ashamed that you make yourselves strange to me.

¹¹ He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts me to him as one of his enemies.

²⁰ My bone sticks to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

²⁷ Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

³ I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.

²⁵ It is drawn, and comes out of the body; yes, the glittering sword comes out of his gall: terrors are on him.

²⁷ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which you wrongfully imagine against me. ²⁸ For you say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

⁵ Is not your wickedness great? and your iniquities infinite? ⁶ For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing. ⁷ You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry. ⁸ But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honorable man dwelled in it. ⁹ You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

³ Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! ⁴ I would order my cause 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 Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me. ⁷ There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

² Dominion and fear are with him, he makes peace in his high places.

² How have you helped him that is without power? how save you the arm that has no strength? ³ How have you counceled him that has no wisdom? and how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is?

⁶ My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live. ⁷ Let my enemy be as the wicked, and he that rises up against me as the unrighteous.

⁹ Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

³ When his candle shined on my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;

⁵ When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me; ⁶ When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; ⁷ When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! ⁸ The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up. ⁹ The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. ¹⁰ The nobles held their peace, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth. ¹¹ 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 that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

¹² Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. ¹³ The blessing of him that was ready to perish came on me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

¹³ The blessing of him that was ready to perish came on me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. ¹⁴ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

¹⁴ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. ¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. ¹⁶ I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

¹⁶ I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. ¹⁷ And I broke the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

¹⁷ And I broke the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. ¹⁸ Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

¹⁸ Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand. ¹⁹ My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night on my branch.

¹⁹ My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night on my branch. ²⁰ My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand. ²¹ To me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel. ²² After my words they spoke not again; and my speech dropped on them. ²³ And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain. ²⁴ If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down. ²⁵ I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelled as a king in the army, as one that comforts the mourners.

²⁵ I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelled as a king in the army, as one that comforts the mourners.

¹⁹ He has cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

¹ I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think on a maid? ² For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? ³ Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? ⁴ Does not he see my ways, and count all my steps? ⁵ If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hurried 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 blot has stuck to my hands; ⁸ Then let me sow, and let another eat; yes, let my offspring be rooted out. ⁹ If my heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor's door; ¹⁰ Then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down on her. ¹¹ For this is an heinous crime; yes, 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 did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, 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 that 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 myself alone, and the fatherless has not eaten thereof; ¹⁸ (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) ¹⁹ If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; ²⁰ If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; ²¹ If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: ²² Then let my arm fall from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone. ²³ For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure. ²⁴ If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, You are my confidence; ²⁵ If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much; ²⁶ If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; ²⁷ And my heart has been secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand: ²⁸ This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above. ²⁹ If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him: ³⁰ Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul. ³¹ If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied. ³² The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the travelers. ³³ If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom: ³⁴ Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door? ³⁵ Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book.

³⁵ Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book. ³⁶ Surely I would take it on my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. ³⁷ I would declare to him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near to him. ³⁸ If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; ³⁹ If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: ⁴⁰ Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

³ Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job. ⁴ Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he. ⁵ When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled. ⁶ And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and you are very old; why I was afraid, and dared not show you my opinion.

¹⁶ Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.

¹ Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said, ² Shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproves God, let him answer it. ³ Then Job answered the LORD, and said, ⁴ Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer you? I will lay my hand on my mouth. ⁵ Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yes, twice; but I will proceed no further.

⁶ I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. ⁷ My eye is consumed because of grief; it waxes old because of all my enemies.

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 that was at peace with me; (yes, I have delivered him that without cause is my enemy:) ⁵ Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yes, let him tread down my life on the earth, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah.

⁵ Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yes, let him tread down my life on the earth, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah.

¹² If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready. ¹³ He has also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordains his arrows against the persecutors. ¹⁴ Behold, he travails with iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

⁷ All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

¹³ They gaped on me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

¹⁶ For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. ¹⁷ I may tell all my bones: they look and stare on me.

¹² Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

¹⁴ Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

⁸ And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: you have set my feet in a large room. ⁹ Have mercy on me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my belly.

³ When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

¹⁵ But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yes, the attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not: ¹⁶ With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed on me with their teeth.

²¹ Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.

¹² The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes on him with his teeth.

⁷ Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterspouts: all your waves and your billows are gone over me.

¹⁴ You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

¹⁷ All this is come on us; yet have we not forgotten you, neither have we dealt falsely in your covenant. ¹⁸ Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from your way; ¹⁹ Though you have sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

¹⁹ Though you have sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. ²⁰ If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; ²¹ Shall not God search this out? for he knows the secrets of the heart.

²² Now consider this, you that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

¹⁸ If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me: ¹⁹ But truly God has heard me; he has attended to the voice of my prayer.

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

²⁶ For they persecute him whom you have smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded.

⁵ Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

¹⁰ All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

¹ I cried to God with my voice, even to God with my voice; and he gave ear to me. ² In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. ³ I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. ⁴ You hold my eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. ⁵ I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. ⁶ I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with my own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. ⁷ Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favorable no more? ⁸ Is his mercy clean gone for ever? does his promise fail for ever more? ⁹ Has God forgotten to be gracious? has he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

¹⁵ I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer your terrors I am distracted. ¹⁶ Your fierce wrath goes over me; your terrors have cut me off. ¹⁷ They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. ¹⁸ Lover and friend have you put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness.

²¹ They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

³ For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. ⁴ My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. ⁵ By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones stick to my skin.

⁹ For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.

¹⁵ And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.

⁴ For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself to prayer.

²⁴ My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh fails of fatness. ²⁵ I became also a reproach to them: when they looked on me they shook their heads.

⁵ Who is like to the LORD our God, who dwells on high,

³ The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell got hold on me: I found trouble and sorrow.

² I poured out my complaint before him; I showed before him my trouble.

¹¹ My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: ¹² For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights.

¹⁹ In the multitude of words there wants not sin: but he that refrains his lips is wise.

⁸ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

⁹ Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so does the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

¹⁷ Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.

¹⁰ That which has been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

¹⁴ A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

⁵ Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goes to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:

¹⁵ And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

¹⁶ Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.

¹² And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

¹⁶ From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe to me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yes, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.

²¹ For, behold, the LORD comes 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.

³ Strengthen you the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. ⁴ Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will come and save you.

⁹ Woe to him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What make you? or your work, He has no hands?

⁴ The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as the learned.

⁶ I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

¹⁴ As many were astonished at you; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:

⁹ Then shall you call, and the LORD shall answer; you shall cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If you take away from the middle of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; ¹⁰ And if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light rise in obscurity, and your darkness be as the noon day:

⁶ Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

¹⁶ To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passes thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.

²⁹ O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.

¹⁶ For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

¹¹ My eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

¹⁵ All that pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? ¹⁶ All your enemies have opened their mouth against you: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

³ Surely against me is he turned; he turns his hand against me all the day. ⁴ My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.

⁴ My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones. ⁵ He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

¹⁰ He was to me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. ¹¹ He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he has made me desolate. ¹² He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. ¹³ He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

³⁰ He gives his cheek to him that smites him: he is filled full with reproach.

¹¹ Why, as I live, said the Lord GOD; Surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish you; neither shall my eye spare, neither will I have any pity.

⁷ For her blood is in the middle of her; she set it on the top of a rock; she poured it not on the ground, to cover it with dust;

⁷ When they took hold of you by your hand, you did break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned on you, you brake, and made all their loins to be at a stand.

¹⁴ For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.

¹ Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has smitten, and he will bind us up.

⁴ Yes, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us; ⁵ Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial.

⁷ They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:

¹ Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God out of the fish's belly, ² And said, I cried by reason of my affliction to the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and you heard my voice. ³ For you had cast me into the deep, in the middle of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all your billows and your waves passed over me. ⁴ Then I said, I am cast out of your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple. ⁵ The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. ⁶ I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet have you brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God. ⁷ When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy temple. ⁸ They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. ⁹ But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD. ¹⁰ And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.

⁸ But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God: yes, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

¹ Now gather yourself in troops, O daughter of troops: he has laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.

¹³ Therefore also will I make you sick in smiting you, in making you desolate because of your sins.

⁸ Rejoice not against me, O my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light to me.

¹⁵ This is the rejoicing city that dwelled carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passes by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

¹² Therefore all things whatever you would that men should do to you, do you even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

⁴⁴ And whoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

⁴⁶ And no man was able to answer him a word, neither dared any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.

⁶⁷ Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,

³⁹ And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, ⁴⁰ And saying, You that destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself. If you be the Son of God, come down from the cross.

³⁴ And said to them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful to death: tarry you here, and watch.

¹¹ And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus. ¹² And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

³⁵ And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God. ³⁶ And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,

²² And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answer you the high priest so?

¹⁶ Then delivered he him therefore to them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.

²⁷ For of a truth against your holy child Jesus, whom you have anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,

⁵⁴ When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.

² And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.

⁹ For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;

³² He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

¹ I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

²⁰ No but, O man, who are you that reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus?

³² For God has concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy on all.

¹⁵ Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

⁴ Who have for my life laid down their own necks: to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.

²⁶ And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it.

²³ Moreover I call God for a record on my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet to Corinth.

²⁰ For you suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

³¹ The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for ever more, knows that I lie not.

⁷ And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

¹ Brothers, if a man be overtaken in a fault, you which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering yourself, lest you also be tempted.

²⁷ That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

¹⁶ The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:

⁵ For neither at any time used we flattering words, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness; God is witness:

¹⁰ You are witnesses, and God also, how piously and justly and blamelessly we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

⁸ I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

¹¹ Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

⁸ Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

⁷ Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

¹⁹ Why, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

³ You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your lusts. ⁴ You adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

⁵ And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly;