Job Cross References - BBE

¹ There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil. ² And he had seven sons and three daughters. ³ And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east. ⁴ His sons regularly went to one another's houses, and every one on his day gave a feast: and at these times they sent for their three sisters to take part in their feasts with them. ⁵ And at the end of their days of feasting, Job sent and made them clean, getting up early in the morning and offering burned offerings for them all. For, Job said, It may be that my sons have done wrong and said evil of God in their hearts. And Job did this whenever the feasts came round. ⁶ And there was a day when the sons of the gods came together before the Lord, and the Satan came with them. ⁷ And the Lord said to the Satan, Where do you come from? And the Satan said in answer, From wandering this way and that on the earth, and walking about on it. ⁸ And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil? ⁹ And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Is it for nothing that Job is a god-fearing man? ¹⁰ Have you yourself not put a wall round him and his house and all he has on every side, blessing the work of his hands, and increasing his cattle in the land? ¹¹ But now, put out your hand against all he has, and he will be cursing you to your face. ¹² And the Lord said to the Satan, See, I give all he has into your hands, only do not put a finger on the man himself. And the Satan went out from before the Lord. ¹³ And there was a day when his sons and daughters were feasting in the house of their oldest brother, ¹⁴ And a man came to Job, and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses were taking their food by their side: ¹⁵ And the men of Sheba came against them and took them away, putting the young men to the sword, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news. ¹⁶ And this one was still talking when another came, and said, The fire of God came down from heaven, burning up the sheep and the goats and the young men completely, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news. ¹⁷ And this one was still talking when another came, and said, The Chaldaeans made themselves into three bands, and came down on the camels and took them away, putting the young men to the sword, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news. ¹⁸ And this one was still talking when another came, and said, Your sons and your daughters were feasting together in their oldest brother's house, ¹⁹ When a great wind came rushing from the waste land against the four sides of the house, and it came down on the young men, and they are dead; and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news. ²⁰ Then Job got up, and after parting his clothing and cutting off his hair, he went down on his face to the earth, and gave worship, and said, ²¹ With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised. ²² In all this Job did no sin, and did not say that God's acts were foolish.

⁹ These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.

²³ And the sons of Aram: Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash.

¹ When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,

¹² And he said, Let not your hand be stretched out against the boy to do anything to him; for now I am certain that the fear of God is in your heart, because you have not kept back your son, your only son, from me.

²⁰ After these things, Abraham had news that Milcah, the wife of his brother Nahor, had given birth to children; ²¹ Uz the oldest, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel, the father of Aram,

²⁸ These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

²¹ But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens;

³ O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.

¹⁷ The sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram and Uz and Hul and Gether and Meshech.

⁴² The sons of Ezer: Bilhan and Zaavan, Jaakan. The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

²⁰ This Hezekiah did through all Judah; he did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God. ²¹ And for everything he undertook, in connection with the work of the house of God and his law and orders, he got directions from God and did it with serious purpose; and things went well for him.

⁸ And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil?

³ And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil? and he still keeps his righteousness, though you have been moving me to send destruction on him without cause.

¹¹ My feet have gone in his steps; I have kept in his way, without turning to one side or to the other. ¹² I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.

²⁸ And he said to man, Truly the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to keep from evil is the way to knowledge.

¹ I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin? ² For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven? ³ Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers? ⁴ Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered? ⁵ If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit; ⁶ Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness: ⁷ If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands; ⁸ Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted. ⁹ If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door; ¹⁰ Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body. ¹¹ For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges: ¹² It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce. ¹³ If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me; ¹⁴ What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions? ¹⁵ Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies? ¹⁶ If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose; ¹⁷ If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father; ¹⁸ For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother; ¹⁹ If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him; ²⁰ If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm; ²¹ If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges; ²² May my arm be pulled from my body, and be broken from its base. ²³ For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things. ²⁴ If I made gold my hope, or if I ever said to the best gold, I have put my faith in you; ²⁵ If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store; ²⁶ If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way, ²⁷ A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth; ²⁸ That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high. ²⁹ If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him; ³⁰ For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life; ³¹ If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat? ³² The traveller did not take his night's rest in the street, and my doors were open to anyone on a journey; ³³ If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast, ³⁴ For fear of the great body of people, or for fear that families might make sport of me, so that I kept quiet, and did not go out of my door; ³⁵ If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing! ³⁶ Truly I would take up the book in my hands; it would be to me as a crown; ³⁷ I would make clear the number of my steps, I would put it before him like a prince! The words of Job are ended. ³⁸ If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow; ³⁹ If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners; ⁴⁰ Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.

¹³ The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me.

⁶ By mercy and good faith evil-doing is taken away: and by the fear of the Lord men are turned away from evil.

²⁰ And all the mixed people and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon and Gaza and Ekron and the rest of Ashdod;

²¹ Have joy and be glad, O daughter of Edom, living in the land of Uz: the cup will be given to you in your turn, and you will be overcome with wine and your shame will be seen.

¹⁴ Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, only themselves would they keep safe by their righteousness, says the Lord.

²⁰ Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, by my life, says the Lord, they would not keep son or daughter safe; only themselves would they keep safe through their righteousness.

⁶ They were upright in the eyes of God, keeping all the rules and orders of God, and doing no wrong.

¹¹ We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.

¹¹ And let him be turned from evil and do good; searching for peace and going after it with all his heart.

¹¹ And he gave them an account of the glories of his wealth, and the number of children he had, and the ways in which he had been honoured by the king, and how he had put him over the captains and servants of the king.

¹³ Keep quiet, and let me say what is in my mind, whatever may come to me.

¹³ And he had seven sons and three daughters.

³⁸ He gives them his blessing so that they are increased greatly, and their cattle do not become less.

³ See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward. ⁴ Like arrows in the hand of a man of war, are the children of the young. ⁵ Happy is the man who has a good store of them; he will not be put to shame, but his cause will be supported by them against his haters.

³ Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.

⁵ And Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their goods and the servants which they had got in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan.

¹⁶ And because of her, he was good to Abram, and he had sheep and oxen and asses, and men-servants and women-servants, and camels.

⁶ So that the land was not wide enough for the two of them: their property was so great that there was not room for them together.

⁶ But to the sons of his other women he gave offerings, and sent them away, while he was still living, into the east country.

¹ Then Jacob went on his journey till he came to the land of the children of the East.

²³ Then will not their cattle and their goods and all their beasts be ours? so let us come to an agreement with them so that they may go on living with us.

⁷ And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, From Aram Balak has sent for me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East: come, put curses on Jacob for me and be angry with Israel.

³² Now the beasts taken, in addition to what the fighting-men took for themselves, were six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep, ³³ And seventy-two thousand oxen, ³⁴ And sixty-one thousand asses;

³ And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them;

⁵ For they came up regularly with their oxen and their tents; they came like the locusts in number; they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land for its destruction.

¹² Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east were covering the valley like locusts; and their camels were like the sand by the seaside, without number.

¹⁰ Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, those of all the army of the children of the east who were still living; for a hundred and twenty thousand of their swordsmen had been put to death.

² Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel; he was a great man and had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats: and he was cutting the wool of his sheep in Carmel.

³⁰ And Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.

⁴ Now Mesha, king of Moab, was a sheep-farmer; and he gave regularly to the king of Israel the wool from a hundred thousand lambs and a hundred thousand sheep.

¹⁰ And he put up towers in the waste land and made places for storing water, for he had much cattle, in the low hills and in the table land; and he had farmers and vine-keepers in the mountains and in the fertile land, for he was a lover of farming.

²⁹ And he made towns for himself, and got together much property in flocks and herds: for God had given him great wealth.

⁹ The rulers kept quiet, and put their hands on their mouths; ¹⁰ The chiefs kept back their words, and their tongues were joined to the roofs of their mouths.

²⁵ I took my place as a chief, guiding them on their way, and I was as a king among his army (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) .

¹² And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

²² The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.

¹ A Song of the going up. Of David. See how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to be living together in harmony!

¹ Go on loving your brothers in the faith.

⁵ And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.

²⁰ And Noah made an altar to the Lord, and from every clean beast and bird he made burned offerings on the altar.

³ And Abraham got up early in the morning, and made ready his ass, and took with him two of his young men and Isaac, his son, and after the wood for the burned offering had been cut, he went on his way to the place of which God had given him word.

² Then Jacob said to all his people, Put away the strange gods which are among you, and make yourselves clean, and put on a change of clothing: ³ And let us go up to Beth-el: and there I will make an altar to God, who gave me an answer in the day of my trouble, and was with me wherever I went.

¹² Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, made a burned offering to God: and Aaron came, with the chiefs of Israel, and had a meal with Moses' father-in-law, before God.

¹⁰ And the Lord said to Moses, Go to the people and make them holy today and tomorrow, and let their clothing be washed.

⁵ And he sent some of the young men of the children of Israel to make burned offerings and peace-offerings of oxen to the Lord.

³ If the offering is a burned offering of the herd, let him give a male without a mark: he is to give it at the door of the Tent of meeting so that he may be pleasing to the Lord. ⁴ And he is to put his hand on the head of the burned offering and it will be taken for him, to take away his sin. ⁵ And the ox is to be put to death before the Lord: then Aaron's sons, the priests, are to take the blood and put some of it on and round the altar which is at the door of the Tent of meeting. ⁶ And the burned offering is to be skinned and cut up into its parts.

¹⁰ And a son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel and had a fight with a man of Israel by the tents; ¹¹ And the son of the Israelite woman said evil against the holy Name, with curses; and they took him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. ¹² And they kept him shut up, till a decision might be given by the mouth of the Lord. ¹³ And the Lord said to Moses, ¹⁴ Take the curser outside the tent-circle; and let all in whose hearing the words were said put their hands on his head, and let him be stoned by all the people. ¹⁵ And say to the children of Israel, As for any man cursing God, his sin will be on his head. ¹⁶ And he who says evil against the name of the Lord will certainly be put to death; he will be stoned by all the people; the man who is not of your nation and one who is an Israelite by birth, whoever says evil against the holy Name is to be put to death.

⁵ And he said, In peace: I have come to make an offering to the Lord: make yourselves clean and come with me to make the offering. And he made Jesse and his sons clean, and sent for them to be present at the offering.

³¹ And Elijah took twelve stones, the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the Lord had said, Israel will be your name:

¹⁰ And get two good-for-nothing persons to come before him and give witness that he has been cursing God and the king. Then take him out and have him stoned to death.

¹³ And the two good-for-nothing persons came in and took their seats before him and gave witness against Naboth, in front of the people, saying, Naboth has been cursing God and the king. Then they took him outside the town and had him stoned to death.

³⁰ And the priests and the Levites made themselves clean; and they made the people clean, and the doorways and the wall.

¹¹ But now, put out your hand against all he has, and he will be cursing you to your face.

⁹ And his wife said to him, Are you still keeping your righteousness? Say a curse against God, and put an end to yourself.

⁴ If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.

¹⁰ Will he take delight in the Ruler of all, and make his prayer to God at all times?

²⁵ When he gets ready for the fight, the strong are overcome with fear.

⁸ And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.

³ My voice will come to you in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I send my prayer to you, and keep watch.

¹⁰ Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

¹⁴ O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?

⁹ The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it? ¹⁰ I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.

²¹ Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures, ²² The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts: ²³ All these evil things come from inside, and make the man unclean.

⁷⁵ In righteousness and holy living before him all our days.

⁷ And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?

⁵⁵ Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and numbers of people went up from the country to Jerusalem to make themselves clean before the Passover.

²² Let your heart be changed, and make prayer to God that you may have forgiveness for your evil thoughts.

²⁶ Then Paul took the men, and on the day after, making himself clean with them, he went into the Temple, giving out the statement that the days necessary for making them clean were complete, till the offering was made for every one of them.

⁵ For this reason let there be no judging before the time, till the Lord comes, who will make clear the secret things of the dark, and the designs of the heart; and then will every man have his praise from God.

² For I have a very great care for you: because you have been married by me to one husband, and it is my desire to give you completely holy to Christ.

¹⁸ With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints,

² The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.

⁴ There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name.

¹⁹ And he said, Give ear now to the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord seated on his seat of power, with all the army of heaven in their places round him at his right hand and at his left.

¹ Now Satan, designing evil against Israel, put into David's mind the impulse to take the number of Israel.

¹ And there was a day when the sons of the gods came together before the Lord, and the Satan came with them.

⁷ When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy?

²⁰ Give praise to the Lord, you his angels, who are great in strength, doing his orders, and waiting for his voice.

²⁵ He made answer and said, Look! I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are not damaged; and the form of the fourth is like a son of the gods.

¹ And he let me see Joshua, the high priest, in his place before the angel of the Lord, and the Satan at his right hand ready to take up a cause against him.

¹⁰ Let it not seem to you that one of these little ones is of no value; for I say to you that in heaven their angels see at all times the face of my Father in heaven.

³⁸ The son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

⁷⁰ Then Jesus said, Did I not make a selection of you, the twelve, and one of you is a son of the Evil One?

⁹ And the great dragon was forced down, the old snake, who is named the Evil One and Satan, by whom all the earth is turned from the right way; he was forced down to the earth, and his angels were forced down with him. ¹⁰ And a great voice in heaven came to my ears, saying, Now is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ: because he who says evil against our brothers before our God day and night is forced down.

²⁵ Then he came in and took his place before his master. And Elisha said to him, Where have you come from, Gehazi? And he said, Your servant went nowhere.

² And the Lord said to the Satan, Where do you come from? And the Satan said in answer, From wandering this way and that on the earth, and walking about on it.

¹⁰ And the man who was between the mountains, answering me, said, These are those whom the Lord has sent to go up and down through the earth. ¹¹ And the man who was between the mountains, answering, said to the angel of the Lord, We have gone up and down through the earth, and all the earth is quiet and at rest.

⁷ And the red ones go to the east; and they made request that they might go up and down through the earth: and he said, Go up and down through the earth. So they went up and down through the earth.

⁴³ But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of a man, goes through dry places looking for rest, and getting it not.

⁸ Be serious and keep watch; the Evil One, who is against you, goes about like a lion with open mouth in search of food;

⁹ And the great dragon was forced down, the old snake, who is named the Evil One and Satan, by whom all the earth is turned from the right way; he was forced down to the earth, and his angels were forced down with him.

¹² Be glad then, O heavens, and you who are in them. But there is trouble for the earth and the sea: because the Evil One has come down to you, being very angry, having the knowledge that he has but a short time. ¹³ And when the dragon saw that he was forced down to the earth, he made cruel attacks on the woman who gave birth to the male child. ¹⁴ And there were given to the woman two wings of a great eagle, so that she might go in flight into the waste land, to her place, where she is given food for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the snake. ¹⁵ And the snake sent out of his mouth after the woman a river of water, so that she might be taken away by the stream. ¹⁶ And the earth gave help to the woman, and with open mouth took up the river which the dragon sent out of his mouth. ¹⁷ And the dragon was angry with the woman and went away to make war on the rest of her seed, who keep the orders of God, and the witness of Jesus:

⁸ And will go out to put in error the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to get them together to the war, the number of whom is like the sands of the sea.

³ Now the man Moses was more gentle than any other man on earth.

⁷ My servant Moses is not so; he is true to me in all my house: ⁸ With him I will have talk mouth to mouth, openly and not in dark sayings; and with his eyes he will see the form of the Lord: why then had you no fear of saying evil against my servant Moses?

⁷ Only take heart and be very strong; take care to do all the law which Moses my servant gave you, not turning from it to the right hand or to the left, so that you may do well in all your undertakings.

³⁰ And Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt. ³¹ For he was wiser than all men, even than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman and Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and he had a great name among all the nations round about.

²⁵ Never before had there been a king like him, turning to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his power, as the law of Moses says; and after him there was no king like him.

¹⁵ But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

¹ There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.

²⁰ Truly, God will not give up him who is without sin, and will not take evil-doers by the hand.

²² It is all the same to me; so I say, He puts an end to the sinner and to him who has done no wrong together. ²³ If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.

⁴ It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of!

⁸ The upright are surprised at this, and he who has done no wrong is troubled because of the evil-doers. ⁹ Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength.

¹⁴ If he made his spirit come back to him, taking his breath into himself again,

⁷ And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has. ⁸ And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.

²³ And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.

¹⁴ Be turned from evil, and do good; make a search for peace, desiring it with all your heart.

¹ To the chief music-maker. Of the servant of the Lord. Of David. The sin of the evil-doer says in his heart, There is no fear of the Lord before his eyes.

²⁷ Be turned from evil, and do good; and your place will be for ever.

¹¹ The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.

²⁰ I have made discovery of David my servant; I have put my holy oil on his head.

¹⁶ Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;

¹ See my servant, whom I am supporting, my loved one, in whom I take delight: I have put my spirit on him; he will give the knowledge of the true God to the nations.

⁴ And the man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes and give hearing with your ears, and take to heart everything I am going to let you see; for in order that I might let you see them, you have come here: and give an account of all you see to the children of Israel.

³⁹ And one of the evil-doers on the cross, with bitter feeling, said to him, Are you not the Christ? Get yourself and us out of this. ⁴⁰ But the other, protesting, said, Have you no fear of God? for you have a part in the same punishment,

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him, See, here is a true son of Israel in whom there is nothing false.

²¹ With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.

¹⁰ And he said to her, You are talking like one of the foolish women. If we take the good God sends us, are we not to take the evil when it comes? In all this Job kept his lips from sin.

¹⁴ Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways. ¹⁵ What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?

¹⁰ If only there was one among you who would see that the doors were shut, so that you might not put a light to the fire on my altar for nothing! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of armies, and I will not take an offering from your hands.

²⁶ For what profit has a man, if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

⁸ For the training of the body is of profit for a little, but religion is of profit in every way, giving hope for the life which now is, and for that which is to come.

⁶ But true faith, with peace of mind, is of great profit:

¹ After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Have no fear, Abram: I will keep you safe, and great will be your reward.

¹² Now Isaac, planting seed in that land, got in the same year fruit a hundred times as much, for the blessing of the Lord was on him.

³⁰ For before I came you had little, and it has been greatly increased; and the Lord has given you a blessing in everything I have done; but when am I to do something for my family?

⁴³ So Jacob's wealth was greatly increased; he had great flocks and women-servants and men-servants and camels and asses.

⁵ And from the time when he made him overseer and gave him control of all his property, the blessing of the Lord was with the Egyptian, because of Joseph; the blessing of the Lord was on all he had, in the house and in the field.

²⁵ Even by the God of your father, who will be your help, and by the Ruler of all, who will make you full with blessings from heaven on high, blessings of the deep stretched out under the earth, blessings of the breasts and of the fertile body:

¹³ And he will give you his love, blessing you and increasing you: he will send his blessing on the offspring of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which by his oath to your fathers he undertook to give you.

² And all these blessings will come on you and overtake you, if your ears are open to the voice of the Lord your God. ³ A blessing will be on you in the town, and a blessing in the field. ⁴ A blessing will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herd, and the young of your flock. ⁵ A blessing will be on your basket and on your bread-basin. ⁶ A blessing will be on your coming in and on your going out.

¹¹ Let your blessing, O Lord, be on his substance, may the work of his hands be pleasing to you: may those who take up arms against him and all who have hate for him, be wounded through the heart, never to be lifted up again.

²⁷ The God of your fathers is your safe resting-place, and under you are his eternal arms: driving out the forces of your haters from before you, he said, Let destruction overtake them.

¹⁶ But day and night they were like a wall round us while we were with them, looking after the sheep.

³ And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.

⁶ When my steps were washed with milk, and rivers of oil were flowing out of the rock for me.

²⁵ If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;

¹² For you, Lord, will send a blessing on the upright man; your grace will be round him, and you will be his strength.

⁷ The angel of the Lord is ever watching over those who have fear of him, to keep them safe.

²¹ You will make me greater than before, and give me comfort on every side.

¹² Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit?

¹⁷ Let the pleasure of the Lord our God be on us: O Lord, give strength to the work of our hands.

¹ A Song of the going up. Happy is the worshipper of the Lord, who is walking in his ways. ² You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you. ³ Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table. ⁴ See! this is the blessing of the worshipper of the Lord.

² And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.

⁵ And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;

⁵ For I, says the Lord, will be a wall of fire round about her, and I will be the glory inside her.

⁸ For this is what the Lord of armies has said: In the way of glory he has sent me to the nations which have taken your goods: for anyone touching you is touching what is most dear to him.

⁵ Who, by the power of God are kept, through faith, for that salvation, which will be seen at the last day.

¹¹ And Abimelech gave orders to his people that anyone touching Isaac or his wife was to be put to death.

⁵ And at the end of their days of feasting, Job sent and made them clean, getting up early in the morning and offering burned offerings for them all. For, Job said, It may be that my sons have done wrong and said evil of God in their hearts. And Job did this whenever the feasts came round.

¹² And the Lord said to the Satan, See, I give all he has into your hands, only do not put a finger on the man himself. And the Satan went out from before the Lord.

⁵ But now, if you only put your hand on his bone and his flesh, he will certainly be cursing you to your face.

⁵ But now it has come on you and it is a weariness to you; you are touched by it and your mind is troubled.

²¹ Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.

¹⁵ Saying, Put not your hand on those who have been marked with my holy oil, and do my prophets no wrong.

²⁵ For this reason the wrath of the Lord has been burning against his people, and his hand has been stretched out against them in punishment, and the hills were shaking, and their dead bodies were like waste in the open places of the town.

²¹ And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high;

¹³ Your words have been strong against me, says the Lord. And still you say, What have we said against you? ¹⁴ You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies?

⁹ And men were burned with great heat: and they said evil things against the name of the God who has authority over these punishments; and they were not turned from their evil ways to give him glory.

¹¹ And they said evil things against the God of heaven because of their pain and their wounds; and they were not turned from their evil works.

²¹ And great drops of ice, every one about the weight of a talent, came down out of heaven on men: and men said evil things against God because of the punishment of the ice-drops; for it is very great.

⁶ And Abram said, The woman is in your power; do with her whatever seems good to you. And Sarai was cruel to her, so that she went running away from her.

²³ And now, see, the Lord has put a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and the Lord has said evil against you.

⁴ And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Skin for skin, all a man has he will give for his life. ⁵ But now, if you only put your hand on his bone and his flesh, he will certainly be cursing you to your face. ⁶ And the Lord said to the Satan, See, he is in your hands, only do not take his life. ⁷ And the Satan went out from before the Lord, and sent on Job an evil disease covering his skin from his feet to the top of his head.

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⁸ Your anger against her has been made clear by driving her away; he has taken her away with his storm-wind in the day of his east wind.

⁵ Then Zedekiah the king said, See, he is in your hands: for the king was not able to do anything against them.

³² Now there was a great herd of pigs in that place, getting food on the mountain: and the evil spirits made a request to him that he would let them go into the pigs, and he let them. ³³ And the evil spirits came out of the man and went into the pigs: and the herd went rushing down a sharp slope into the water and came to destruction.

³¹ Simon, Simon, Satan has made a request to have you, so that he may put you to the test as grain is tested: ³² But I have made prayer for you, that your faith may not go from you: and when you are turned again, make your brothers strong.

³⁵ The Father has love for the Son and has put all things into his hands. ³⁶ He who has faith in the Son has eternal life; but he who has not faith in the Son will not see life; God's wrath is resting on him.

¹¹ Jesus gave this answer: You would have no power at all over me if it was not given to you by God; so that he who gave me up to you has the greater sin.

¹³ You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.

⁷ And because the revelations were so very great, in order that I might not be overmuch lifted up, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, one sent from Satan to give me pain.

⁴ His sons regularly went to one another's houses, and every one on his day gave a feast: and at these times they sent for their three sisters to take part in their feasts with them.

¹ Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.

¹² Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them.

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy. ²⁰ But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

²⁷ They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction. ²⁸ In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building; ²⁹ But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all.

³⁴ But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:

¹⁷ And the man said, Israel went in flight from the Philistines, and there has been great destruction among the people, and your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been taken.

¹³ And one came to David and said, The hearts of the men of Israel have gone after Absalom.

³¹ One man, running, will give word to another, and one who goes with news will be handing it on to another, to give word to the king of Babylon that his town has been taken from every quarter:

⁷ And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

²⁸ And Obal and Abimael and Sheba

³ And Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan. And from Dedan came the Asshurim and Letushim and Leummim.

²⁰ And Abiathar, one of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, got away and went in flight after David; ²¹ And gave him the news of how Saul had put to death the Lord's priests.

¹⁶ And this one was still talking when another came, and said, The fire of God came down from heaven, burning up the sheep and the goats and the young men completely, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news. ¹⁷ And this one was still talking when another came, and said, The Chaldaeans made themselves into three bands, and came down on the camels and took them away, putting the young men to the sword, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.

¹⁹ When a great wind came rushing from the waste land against the four sides of the house, and it came down on the young men, and they are dead; and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.

¹⁹ The camel-trains of Tema were searching with care, the bands of Sheba were waiting for them:

¹⁰ Let the kings of Tarshish and of the islands come back with offerings; let the kings of Sheba and Seba give of their stores.

¹⁴ The Lord says, The workmen of Egypt, and the traders of Ethiopia, and the tall Sabaeans, will come over the sea to you, and they will be yours; they will go after you; in chains they will come over: and they will go down on their faces before you, and will make prayer to you, saying, Truly, God is among you; and there is no other God.

⁴² (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) and they put jewels on her hands and beautiful crowns on her head.

⁸ I will give your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah for a price, and they will give them for a price to the men of Sheba, a nation far off: for the Lord has said it.

²⁴ Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah.

²⁸ Make prayer to the Lord; for there has been enough of these thunderings of God and this ice-storm; and I will let you go and will keep you no longer.

²⁴ And fire came out from before the Lord, burning up the offering on the altar and the fat: and when all the people saw it, they gave a loud cry, falling down on their faces.

² And fire came out from before the Lord, burning them up and causing their destruction before the Lord.

¹ Now the people were saying evil against the Lord; and the Lord, hearing it, was angry and sent fire on them, burning the outer parts of the tent-circle. ² And the people made an outcry to Moses, and Moses made prayer to the Lord, and the fire was stopped. ³ So that place was named Taberah, because of the fire of the Lord which had been burning among them.

¹⁵ And there was great fear in the tents and in the field and among all the men of the armed force, and the attackers were shaking with fear; even the earth was moved with a great shaking and there was a fear as from God.

³⁸ Then the fire of the Lord came down, burning up the offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and drinking up the water in the drain.

¹⁰ And Elijah in answer said to the captain of fifty, If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven on you and on your fifty men, and put an end to you. Then fire came down from heaven and put an end to him and his fifty men.

¹² And Elijah in answer said, If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven on you and on your fifty men, and put an end to you. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and put an end to him and his fifty men.

¹⁴ For fire came down from heaven and put an end to the first two captains of fifty and their fifties; but now let my life be of value in your eyes.

⁴ This is what the Lord let me see: and I saw that the Lord God sent for a great fire to be the instrument of his punishment; and, after burning up the great deep, it was about to put an end to the Lord's heritage.

¹³ And he does great signs, even making fire come down from heaven on the earth before the eyes of men.

²⁸ And death came to Haran when he was with his father Terah in the land of his birth, Ur of the Chaldees.

³¹ And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time.

³ And David said to him, Where have you come from? And he said, I have come in flight from the tents of Israel.

¹⁵ And the men of Sheba came against them and took them away, putting the young men to the sword, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.

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⁶ For see, I am sending the Chaldaeans, that bitter and quick-moving nation; who go through the wide spaces of the earth to get for themselves living-places which are not theirs.

²⁸ Now Absalom had given orders to his servants, saying, Now take note when Amnon's heart is glad with wine; and when I say to you, Make an attack on Amnon, then put him to death without fear: have I not given you orders? be strong and without fear.

¹³ And there was a day when his sons and daughters were feasting in the house of their oldest brother,

² If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble! ³ For then its weight would be more than the sand of the seas: because of this my words have been uncontrolled.

¹⁴ I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.

⁹ He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head. ¹⁰ I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.

² Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.

¹⁴ If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread.

¹⁹ Great are the troubles of the upright: but the Lord takes him safely out of them all.

² Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.

¹⁹ Whenever they come through they will overtake you; for they will come through morning after morning, by day and by night: and the news will be nothing but fear.

¹² Come to me, all you who go by! Keep your eyes on me, and see if there is any pain like the pain of my wound, which the Lord has sent on me in the day of his burning wrath.

⁶ But in all your towns I have kept food from your teeth, and in all your places there has been need of bread: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord. ⁷ And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste. ⁸ So two or three towns went wandering to one town looking for water, and did not get enough: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord. ⁹ I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens, your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord. ¹⁰ I have sent disease among you, as it was in Egypt: I have put your young men to the sword, and have taken away your horses; I have made the evil smell from your tents come up to your noses: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord. ¹¹ And I have sent destruction among you, as when God sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick pulled out of the fire: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

³² And they took the coat to their father, and said, We came across this; is it your son's coat or not? ³³ And he saw that it was, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast has put him to death; without doubt Joseph has come to a cruel end.

³⁶ And Jacob their father said to them, You have taken my children from me: Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone, and now you would take Benjamin away; all these things have come on me.

³⁰ And Samson said, Let death overtake me with the Philistines. And he put out all his strength, and the house came down on the chiefs and on all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he sent to destruction by his death were more than all those on whom he had sent destruction in his life.

³³ Then the king was much moved, and went up into the room over the door, weeping, and saying, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! if only my life might have been given for yours, O Absalom, my son, my son!

³⁰ But the rest went in flight to Aphek, into the town, where a wall came down on the twenty-seven thousand who were still living. And Ben-hadad went in flight into the town, into an inner room.

¹¹ At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A burning wind from the open hilltops in the waste land is blowing on the daughter of my people, not for separating or cleaning the grain; ¹² A full wind will come for me: and now I will give my decision against them.

²⁷ And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.

¹ Now some people who were there at that time, gave him an account of how the blood of some Galilaeans had been mixed by Pilate with their offerings. ² And he, in answer, said to them, Are you of the opinion that these Galilaeans were worse than all other Galilaeans, because these things were done to them? ³ I say to you, It is not so: but if your hearts are not changed, you will all come to the same end. ⁴ Or those eighteen men who were crushed by the fall of the tower of Siloam, were they worse than all the other men living in Jerusalem? ⁵ I say to you, It is not so: but if your hearts are not changed, you will all come to an end in the same way.

⁴ And when the people saw it hanging on his hand, they said to one another, Without doubt this man has put someone to death, and though he has got safely away from the sea, God will not let him go on living.

² In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;

²⁹ Now when Reuben came back to the hole, Joseph was not there; and giving signs of grief,

³⁴ Then Jacob, giving signs of grief, put on haircloth, and went on weeping for his son day after day.

¹⁸ And I went down on my face before the Lord, as at the first, for forty days and forty nights, without taking food or drinking water, because of all your sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord and moving him to wrath.

¹⁶ So David made prayer to God for the child; and he took no food day after day, and went in and, stretching himself out on the earth, was there all night. ¹⁷ And the chief men of his house got up and went to his side to make him get up from the earth, but he would not; and he would not take food with them. ¹⁸ And then on the seventh day the child's death took place. And David's servants were in fear of giving him the news of the child's death: for they said, Truly, while the child was still living he gave no attention when we said anything to him: what will he do to himself if we give him word that the child is dead? ¹⁹ But when David saw that his servants were talking together quietly, he was certain that the child was dead: and he said to his servants, Is the child dead? and they said, He is. ²⁰ Then David got up from the earth, and after washing and rubbing himself with oil and changing his clothing, he went into the house of the Lord and gave worship: then he went back to his house, and at his order they put food before him and he had a meal.

³ And all the children of Israel were looking on when the fire came down, and the glory of the Lord was on the house; and they went down on their knees, with their faces to the earth, worshipping and praising the Lord, and saying, He is good; for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

³ And hearing this, with signs of grief and pulling out the hair of my head and my chin, I took my seat on the earth deeply troubled.

³⁹ And he went forward a little, and falling down on his face in prayer, he said, O my Father, if it is possible, let this cup go from me; but let not my pleasure, but yours be done.

⁶ For this cause make yourselves low under the strong hand of God, so that when the time comes you may be lifted up;

¹⁹ With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

² But Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said, Am I in the place of God, who has kept your body from having fruit?

⁵ Now do not be troubled or angry with yourselves for sending me away, because God sent me before you to be the saviour of your lives.

⁷ The Lord gives wealth and takes a man's goods from him: crushing men down and again lifting them up;

¹⁸ Then Samuel gave him an account of everything, keeping nothing back. And he said, It is the Lord; let him do what seems good to him.

¹² It may be that the Lord will take note of my wrongs, and give me back good in answer to his cursing of me today.

¹⁵ So the king did not give ear to the people; and this came about by the purpose of the Lord, so that what he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, son of Nebat, might be effected.

¹⁹ Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which you have said. Then he said, (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) if in my time there is peace and righteousness?

¹ Of David. When he made a change in his behaviour before Abimelech, who sent him away, and he went. I will be blessing the Lord at all times; his praise will be ever in my mouth.

⁹ I was quiet, and kept my mouth shut; because you had done it.

¹⁷ For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.

³⁸ But you have put him away in disgust; you have been angry with the king of your selection. ³⁹ You have made your agreement with your servant of no effect: you have had no respect for his crown, it has come down even to the earth. ⁴⁰ All his walls are broken down; you have given his strong towers to destruction. ⁴¹ All those who come by take away his goods; he is laughed at by his neighbours. ⁴² You have given power to the right hand of his haters; you have made glad all those who are against him. ⁴³ His sword is turned back; you have not been his support in the fight. ⁴⁴ You have put an end to his glory: the seat of his kingdom has been levelled to the earth. ⁴⁵ You have made him old before his time; he is covered with shame. Selah. ⁴⁶ How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire? ⁴⁷ See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose? ⁴⁸ What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? Selah. ⁴⁹ Lord, where are your earlier mercies? where is the oath which you made to David in unchanging faith? ⁵⁰ Keep in mind, O Lord, the shame of your servants, and how the bitter words of all the people have come into my heart; ⁵¹ The bitter words of your haters, O Lord, shaming the footsteps of your king. ⁵² Let the Lord be praised for ever. So be it, So be it.

¹⁵ As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.

¹⁹ Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God.

⁷ And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

¹⁵ Give praise to the Lord in the east, to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the sea-lands.

²⁴ Who gave up Jacob to those who took away his goods, and Israel to his attackers? Did not the Lord? he against whom they did wrong, and in whose ways they would not go, turning away from his teaching.

⁷ I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

³⁸ Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High?

⁶ If the horn is sounded in the town will the people not be full of fear? will evil come on a town if the Lord has not done it?

¹⁵ Have I not the right to do as seems good to me in my house? or is your eye evil, because I am good?

²⁸ To do that which had been fixed before by your hand and your purpose.

²⁰ Giving praise at all times for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

¹⁸ In everything give praise: for this is the purpose of God in Christ Jesus for you.

⁷ For we came into the world with nothing, and we are not able to take anything out;

¹⁷ Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.

¹⁰ Now then, you wise, take note; you men of knowledge, give ear to me. Let it be far from God to do evil, and from the Ruler of all to do wrong.

¹⁸ He who says to a king, You are an evil-doer; and to rulers, You are sinners; ¹⁹ Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.

⁴ Truly, I am of no value; what answer may I give to you? I will put my hand on my mouth. ⁵ I have said once, and even twice, what was in my mind, but I will not do so again. ⁶ Then the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said, ⁷ Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers. ⁸ Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right?

²⁰ But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?

⁴ But let this power have its full effect, so that you may be made complete, needing nothing.

¹² There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.

⁷ So that the true metal of your faith, being of much greater value than gold which, though it comes to an end, is tested by fire, may come to light in praise and glory and honour, at the revelation of Jesus Christ: