Job 14 Cross References - BBE

¹ As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble. ² He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again. ³ Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him? ⁴ If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible. ⁵ If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go; ⁶ Let your eyes be turned away from him, and take your hand from him, so that he may have pleasure at the end of his day, like a servant working for payment. ⁷ For there is hope of a tree; if it is cut down, it will come to life again, and its branches will not come to an end. ⁸ Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust; ⁹ Still, at the smell of water, it will make buds, and put out branches like a young plant. ¹⁰ But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he? ¹¹ The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry; ¹² So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep. ¹³ If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again! ¹⁴ If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free. ¹⁵ At the sound of your voice I would give an answer, and you would have a desire for the work of your hands. ¹⁶ For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked. ¹⁷ My wrongdoing is corded up in a bag, and my sin is shut up safe. ¹⁸ But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place; ¹⁹ The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man. ²⁰ You overcome him for ever, and he is gone; his face is changed in death, and you send him away. ²¹ His sons come to honour, and he has no knowledge of it; they are made low, but he is not conscious of it. ²² Only his flesh still has pain, and his soul is sad.

⁹ And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.

⁷ But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.

¹ Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?

⁶ My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

²⁵ My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.

¹⁴ What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?

⁴ How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?

⁵ You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. Selah.

⁵ Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

¹⁷ So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.

²³ All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.

¹¹ Truly I say to you, Among the sons of women there has not been a greater than John the Baptist: but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

¹⁵ For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

⁹ For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:

²⁵ My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good. ²⁶ They go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food.

⁵ (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) ⁶ In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry. ⁷ We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath. ⁸ You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face. ⁹ For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.

⁷ When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.

¹² The good man will be like a tall tree in his strength; his growth will be as the wide-stretching trees of Lebanon.

¹¹ My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field. ¹⁶ The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.

⁴ Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

¹³ But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.

⁶ A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field. ⁷ The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass. ⁸ The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal.

¹⁰ But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end. ¹¹ For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.

¹⁴ When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.

²⁴ For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:

¹⁷ What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him, ¹⁸ And that your hand is on him every morning, and that you are testing him every minute?

¹⁹ If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day? ²⁰ Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.

³² For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.

²⁵ Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?

²⁷ And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;

⁴ What is man, that you keep him in mind? the son of man, that you take him into account?

² Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.

³ Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?

¹⁹ Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:

³ Adam had been living for a hundred and thirty years when he had a son like himself, after his image, and gave him the name of Seth:

⁴ How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman? ⁵ See, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not clean in his eyes: ⁶ How much less man who is an insect, and the son of man who is a worm!

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³⁵ And the angel in answer said to her, The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will come to rest on you, and so that which will come to birth will be named holy, Son of God.

⁶ That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.

¹² For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil:

⁸ So that those who are in the flesh are not able to give pleasure to God. ⁹ You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.

³ Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

¹⁰ In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh of man.

¹⁴ If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.

²¹ For what interest has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is ended?

¹³ But his purpose is fixed and there is no changing it; and he gives effect to the desire of his soul. ¹⁴ For what has been ordered for me by him will be gone through to the end: and his mind is full of such designs.

⁴ Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.

⁹ You made a limit over which they might not go, so that the earth would never again be covered by them.

²⁹ If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.

³⁵ And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?

²⁶ This is the sense of the words: Mene; your kingdom has been numbered by God and ended.

³⁰ That very night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans, was put to death.

²⁴ Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place.

³⁶ And the king will do his pleasure; he will put himself on high, lifting himself over every god, and saying things to be wondered at against the God of gods; and all will be well for him till the wrath is complete; for what has been purposed will be done.

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?

²⁶ And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,

²⁷ And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;

¹⁸ And I was dead, and see, I am living for ever, and I have the keys of death and of Hell.

⁷ And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia say: These things says he who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, opening the door so that it may be shut by no one, and shutting it so that it may be open to no one.

¹ Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment? ² As a servant desiring the shades of evening, and a workman looking for his payment:

¹⁶ I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.

¹⁹ How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?

²⁰ Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,

¹³ Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.

¹ For the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a house, who went out early in the morning to get workers into his vine-garden. ² And when he had made an agreement with the workmen for a penny a day, he sent them into his vine-garden. ³ And he went out about the third hour, and saw others in the market-place doing nothing; ⁴ And he said to them, Go into the vine-garden with the others, and whatever is right I will give you. And they went to work. ⁵ Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did the same. ⁶ And about the eleventh hour he went out and saw others doing nothing; and he says to them, Why are you here all the day doing nothing? ⁷ They say to him, Because no man has given us work. He says to them, Go in with the rest, into the vine-garden. ⁸ And when evening came, the lord of the vine-garden said to his manager, Let the workers come, and give them their payment, from the last to the first.

¹⁰ I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.

¹ And there will come a rod out of the broken tree of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will give fruit.

⁶ In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.

¹⁵ But keep its broken end and its roots still in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass; let him have the young grass of the field for food, and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his part be with the beasts.

²³ And as for the vision which the king saw of a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven, saying, Let the tree be cut down and given to destruction; ²⁴ This is the sense of it, O King, and it is the decision of the Most High which has come on my lord the king: ²⁵ That they will send you out from among men, to be with the beasts of the field; they will give you grass for your food like the oxen, and you will be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven times will go by you, till you are certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure.

¹⁹ Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the shades.

²⁴ Truly I say to you, If a seed of grain does not go into the earth and come to an end, it is still a seed and no more; but through its death it gives much fruit.

³⁶ Foolish man, it is necessary for the seed which you put into the earth to undergo death in order that it may come to life again:

³ And say, This is what the Lord has said: A great eagle with great wings, full of long feathers of different colours, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar: ⁴ Biting off the highest of its young branches, he took it to the land of Canaan, and put it in a town of traders. ⁵ And he took some of the seed of the land, planting it in fertile earth, placing it by great waters; he put it in like a willow-tree. ⁶ And its growth went on and it became a vine, low and widely stretching, whose branches were turned to him and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, putting out branches and young leaves. ⁷ And there was another eagle with great wings and thick feathers: and now this vine, pushing out its roots to him, sent out its branches in his direction from the bed where it was planted, so that he might give it water. ⁸ He had it planted in a good field by great waters so that it might put out branches and have fruit and be a strong vine. ⁹ Say, This is what the Lord has said: Will it do well? will he not have its roots pulled up and its branches cut off, so that all its young leaves may become dry and it may be pulled up by its roots? ¹⁰ And if it is planted will it do well? will it not become quite dry at the touch of the east wind, drying up in the bed where it was planted?

²² This is what the Lord has said: Further, I will take the highest top of the cedar and put it in the earth; cutting off from the highest of his young branches a soft one, I will have it planted on a high and great mountain; ²³ It will be planted on the high mountain of Israel: it will put out branches and have fruit and be a fair cedar: under it all birds of every sort will make their living-place, resting in the shade of its branches. ²⁴ And it will be clear to all the trees of the field that I the Lord have made low the high tree and made high the low tree, drying up the green tree and making the dry tree full of growth; I the Lord have said it and have done it.

¹⁰ Your mother was in comparison like a vine, planted by the waters: she was fertile and full of branches because of the great waters.

¹⁷ But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile, ¹⁸ Do not be uplifted in pride over the branches: because it is not you who are the support of the root, but it is by the root that you are supported. ¹⁹ You will say, Branches were broken off so that I might be put in. ²⁰ Truly, because they had no faith they were broken off, and you have your place by reason of your faith. Do not be lifted up in pride, but have fear; ²¹ For, if God did not have mercy on the natural branches, he will not have mercy on you. ²² See then that God is good but his rules are fixed: to those who were put away he was hard, but to you he has been good, on the condition that you keep in his mercy; if not, you will be cut off as they were. ²³ And they, if they do not go on without faith, will be united to the tree again, because God is able to put them in again. ²⁴ For if you were cut out of a field olive-tree, and against the natural use were united to a good olive-tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be united again with the olive-tree which was theirs?

³³ And when Jacob had come to the end of these words to his sons, stretching himself on his bed, he gave up his spirit, and went the way of his people.

¹¹ Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?

⁷ O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good. ⁸ The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone. ⁹ A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again. ¹⁰ He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.

¹⁸ Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,

²⁰ But the eyes of the evil-doers will be wasting away; their way of flight is gone, and their only hope is the taking of their last breath.

¹² So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

¹³ If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark; ¹⁴ If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister; ¹⁵ Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire? ¹⁶ Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?

²⁶ And (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) without my flesh I will see God;

³² The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.

⁵⁰ And Jesus gave another loud cry, and gave up his spirit.

²² And in time the poor man came to his end, and angels took him to Abraham's breast. And the man of wealth came to his end, and was put in the earth. ²³ And in hell, being in great pain, lifting up his eyes he saw Abraham, far away, and Lazarus on his breast.

¹⁰ And straight away she went down at his feet, and her life went from her: and the young men came in and saw her dead, and they took her out and put her in the earth with her husband.

¹⁵ My friends have been false like a stream, like streams in the valleys which come to an end: ¹⁶ Which are dark because of the ice, and the snow falling into them; ¹⁷ Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat. ¹⁸ The camel-trains go out of their way; they go up into the waste and come to destruction.

⁵ And the waters of the sea will be cut off, and the river will become dry and waste:

¹⁸ Why is my pain unending and my wound without hope of being made well? Sorrow is mine, for you are to me as a stream offering false hope and as waters which are not certain.

¹³ For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,

²¹ And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

²¹ Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black, ²² A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

²⁵ But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust; ²⁶ And (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) without my flesh I will see God; ²⁷ Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.

²³ For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.

²⁶ They will come to an end, but you will still go on; they all will become old like a coat, and like a robe they will be changed:

¹⁹ Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose. ²⁰ All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again. ²¹ Who is certain that the spirit of the sons of men goes up to heaven, or that the spirit of the beasts goes down to the earth?

⁵ And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets;

⁶ Let your eyes be lifted up to the heavens, and turned to the earth which is under them: for the heavens will go in flight like smoke, and the earth will become old like a coat, and its people will come to destruction like insects: but my salvation will be for ever, and my righteousness will not come to an end.

¹⁷ For see, I am making a new heaven and a new earth: and the past things will be gone completely out of mind.

²² For as the new heaven and the new earth which I will make will be for ever before me, says the Lord, so will your seed and your name be for ever.

² And a number of those who are sleeping in the dust of the earth will come out of their sleep, some to eternal life and some to eternal shame.

³⁵ Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.

¹¹ These things said he: and after that he said to them, Lazarus our friend is at rest; but I go so that I may make him come out of his sleep. ¹² Then his disciples said to him, Lord, if he is resting he will get well. ¹³ Jesus, however, was talking of his death: but they had the idea that he was talking about taking rest in sleep.

²¹ Who is to be kept in heaven till the time when all things are put right, of which God has given word by the mouth of his holy prophets, who have been from the earliest times.

²⁰ For every living thing was put under the power of change, not by its desire, but by him who made it so, in hope

¹⁴ For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.

¹⁴ For if we have faith that Jesus underwent death and came back again, even so those who are sleeping will come again with him by God's power. ¹⁵ For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are still living at the coming of the Lord, will not go before those who are sleeping.

⁷ But the present heaven and the present earth have been kept for destruction by fire, which is waiting for them on the day of the judging and destruction of evil men.

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up. ¹¹ Seeing then that all these things are coming to such an end, what sort of persons is it right for you to be, in all holy behaviour and righteousness, ¹² Looking for and truly desiring the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will come to an end through fire, and the substance of the earth will be changed by the great heat? ¹³ But having faith in his word, we are looking for a new heaven and a new earth, which will be the resting-place of righteousness.

¹¹ And I saw a great white seat, and him who was seated on it, before whose face the earth and the heaven went in flight; and there was no place for them.

¹ And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were gone; and there was no more sea.

¹ And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went down.

¹⁷ There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest. ¹⁸ There the prisoners are at peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears. ¹⁹ The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from his master.

⁴ Keep me in mind, O Lord, when you are good to your people; O let your salvation come to me;

¹ And in that day you will say I will give praise to you, O Lord; for though you were angry with me, your wrath is turned away, and I am comforted.

²⁰ Come, my people, into your secret places, and let your doors be shut: keep yourself safe for a short time, till his wrath is over. ²¹ For the Lord is coming out of his place to send punishment on the people of the earth for their evil-doing: the earth will let the blood drained out on her be seen, and will keep her dead covered no longer.

¹ The upright man goes to his death, and no one gives a thought to it; and god-fearing men are taken away, and no one is troubled by it; for the upright man is taken away because of evil-doing, and goes into peace. ² They are at rest in their last resting-places, every one going straight before him.

³² But of that day or that hour no one has knowledge, not even the angels in heaven, or the Son, but the Father.

⁴² And he said, Jesus, keep me in mind when you come in your kingdom.

⁷ And he said to them, It is not for you to have knowledge of the time and the order of events which the Father has kept in his control.

³¹ Because a day has been fixed in which all the world will be judged in righteousness by the man who has been marked out by him for this work; of which he has given a sign to all men by giving him back from the dead.

¹⁵ Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;

⁵ If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;

²⁵ But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust; ²⁶ And (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) without my flesh I will see God;

¹⁶ And after this Job had a hundred and forty years of life, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

¹⁴ Let your hope be in the Lord: take heart and be strong; yes, let your hope be in the Lord.

¹ To the chief music-maker. Of David. A Psalm. When I was waiting quietly for the Lord, his heart was turned to me, and he gave ear to my cry. ² He took me up out of a deep waste place, out of the soft and sticky earth; he put my feet on a rock, and made my steps certain.

²⁵ The Lord is good to those who are waiting for him, to the soul which is looking for him. ²⁶ It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord.

¹ The hand of the Lord had been on me, and he took me out in the spirit of the Lord and put me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones; ² And he made me go past them round about: and I saw that there was a very great number of them on the face of the wide valley, and they were very dry. ³ And he said to me, Son of man, is it possible for these bones to come to life? And I made answer, and said, It is for you to say, O Lord. ⁴ And again he said to me, Be a prophet to these bones, and say to them, O you dry bones, give ear to the word of the Lord. ⁵ This is what the Lord has said to these bones: See, I will make breath come into you so that you may come to life; ⁶ And I will put muscles on you and make flesh come on you, and put skin over you, and breath into you, so that you may have life; and you will be certain that I am the Lord. ⁷ So I gave the word as I was ordered: and at my words there was a shaking of the earth, and the bones came together, bone to bone. ⁸ And looking I saw that there were muscles on them and flesh came up, and they were covered with skin: but there was no breath in them. ⁹ And he said to me, Be a prophet to the wind, be a prophet, son of man, and say to the wind, The Lord has said: Come from the four winds, O wind, breathing on these dead so that they may come to life. ¹⁰ And I gave the word at his orders, and breath came into them, and they came to life and got up on their feet, a very great army. ¹¹ Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are all the children of Israel: and see, they are saying, Our bones have become dry our hope is gone, we are cut off completely. ¹² For this cause be a prophet to them, and say, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am opening the resting-places of your dead, and I will make you come up out of your resting-places, O my people; and I will take you into the land of Israel. ¹³ And you will be certain that I am the Lord by my opening the resting-places of your dead and making you come up out of your resting-places, O my people. ¹⁴ And I will put my spirit in you, so that you may come to life, and I will give you a rest in your land: and you will be certain that I the Lord have said it and have done it, says the Lord.

²⁹ But Jesus said to them in answer, You are in error, not having knowledge of the Writings, or of the power of God. ³⁰ For when they come back from the dead there are no husbands and wives, but they are as the angels in heaven. ³¹ But about the dead coming back to life, have you no knowledge of what was said to you by God in the Writings: ³² I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead but of the living.

²⁸ Do not be surprised at this: for the time is coming when his voice will come to all who are in the place of the dead, ²⁹ And they will come out; those who have done good, into the new life; and those who have done evil, to be judged.

⁸ Why, in your opinion, is it outside belief for God to make the dead come to life again?

⁴² So is it with the coming back from the dead. It is planted in death; it comes again in life: ⁴³ It is planted in shame; it comes again in glory: feeble when it is planted, it comes again in power: ⁴⁴ It is planted a natural body; it comes again as a body of the spirit. If there is a natural body, there is equally a body of the spirit.

⁵¹ See, I am giving you the revelation of a secret: we will not all come to the sleep of death, but we will all be changed. ⁵² In a second, in the shutting of an eye, at the sound of the last horn: for at that sound the dead will come again, free for ever from the power of death, and we will be changed.

²¹ By whom this poor body of ours will be changed into the image of the body of his glory, in the measure of the working by which he is able to put all things under himself.

¹⁴ For if we have faith that Jesus underwent death and came back again, even so those who are sleeping will come again with him by God's power. ¹⁵ For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are still living at the coming of the Lord, will not go before those who are sleeping. ¹⁶ Because the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a word of authority, with the voice of the chief angel, with the sound of a horn: and the dead in Christ will come to life first;

⁷ Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come. ⁸ Be as calm in your waiting; let your hearts be strong: because the coming of the Lord is near.

¹³ And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and Hell gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged every man by his works.

³ What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?

⁸ Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.

²² Then at the sound of your voice I will give answer; or let me put forward my cause for you to give me an answer.

⁴ His voice will go out to the heavens and to the earth, for the judging of his people: ⁵ Let my saints come together to me; those who have made an agreement with me by offerings.

⁸ The Lord will make all things complete for me: O Lord, your mercy is eternal; do not give up the works of your hands.

¹⁷ Then we who are still living will be taken up together with them into the clouds to see the Lord in the air: and so will we be for ever with the Lord.

¹⁹ For this reason let those who by the purpose of God undergo punishment, keep on in well-doing and put their souls into the safe hands of their Maker.

²⁸ And now, my children, keep your hearts in him; so that at his revelation, we may have no fear or shame before him at his coming.

⁶ That you take note of my sin, searching after my wrongdoing,

¹⁴ That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:

⁴ Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?

¹¹ He puts chains on my feet; he is watching all my ways.

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

⁶ They come together, they are waiting in secret places, they take note of my steps, they are waiting for my soul.

¹ To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets. ² You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away. ³ You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways. ⁴ For there is not a word on my tongue which is not clear to you, O Lord.

²¹ For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.

¹⁹ Great in wisdom and strong in act: whose eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, giving to everyone the reward of his ways and the fruit of his doings:

³⁴ Is not this among my secrets, kept safe in my store-house?

¹⁹ You say, God keeps punishment stored up for his children. Let him send it on the man himself, so that he may have the punishment of it!

¹² The wrongdoing of Ephraim is shut up; his sin is put away in secret.

⁴ But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?

²⁵ In the past you put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the work of your hands. ²⁶ They will come to an end, but you will still go on; they all will become old like a coat, and like a robe they will be changed:

¹² In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?

¹⁵ See, I will make you like a new grain-crushing instrument with teeth, crushing the mountains small, and making the hills like dry stems. ¹⁶ You will send the wind over them, and it will take them away; they will go in all directions before the storm-wind: you will have joy in the Lord, and be glad in the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁰ For the mountains may be taken away, and the hills be moved out of their places, but my love will not be taken from you, or my agreement of peace broken, says the Lord, who has had mercy on you.

¹ O let the heavens be broken open and come down, so that the mountains may be shaking before you,

²⁴ Looking at the mountains, I saw them shaking, and all the hills were moved about.

⁵¹ And the curtain of the Temple was parted in two from end to end; and there was an earth-shock; and the rocks were broken;

¹⁴ And the heaven was taken away like the roll of a book when it is rolled up; and all the mountains and islands were moved out of their places.

⁸ And at the sounding of the second angel, it was as if a great mountain burning with fire was sent into the sea: and a third part of the sea became blood,

¹⁷ For truly, I will send a great flow of waters over the earth, for the destruction from under the heaven of all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything on the earth will come to an end.

²¹ And destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man. ²² Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end. ²³ Every living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death.

⁸ For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?

⁶ When things went well for me I said, I will never be moved. ⁷ Lord, by your grace you have kept my mountain strong: when your face was turned from me I was troubled.

¹¹ Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are all the children of Israel: and see, they are saying, Our bones have become dry our hope is gone, we are cut off completely.

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?

¹² And lifting up their eyes when they were still far off, it did not seem that the man they saw was Job because of the change in him. And they gave way to bitter weeping, with signs of grief, and put dust on their heads.

⁸ No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man's time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.

⁸ Their face is blacker than night; in the streets no one has knowledge of them: their skin is hanging on their bones, they are dry, they have become like wood.

²⁰ And when she was very near death the women who were with her said, Have no fear, for you have given birth to a son. But she made no answer and gave no attention to it.

⁶ Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

¹⁸ Hate had I for all my work which I had done, because the man who comes after me will have its fruits. ¹⁹ And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.

⁵ The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.

⁷ And your sons, even your offspring, will they take away to be unsexed servants in the house of the king of Babylon. ⁸ Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which you have said. And he said in his heart, There will be peace and quiet in my days.

¹⁶ For you are our father, though Abraham has no knowledge of us, and Israel gives no thought to us: you, O Lord, are our father; from the earliest days you have taken up our cause.

²⁰ My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth.

²² Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?

¹⁹ Pain is sent on him as a punishment, while he is on his bed; there is no end to the trouble in his bones; ²⁰ He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat; ²¹ His flesh is so wasted away, that it may not be seen, and his bones (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) .

²³ And in hell, being in great pain, lifting up his eyes he saw Abraham, far away, and Lazarus on his breast. ²⁴ And he gave a cry and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, so that he may put the end of his finger in water and put it on my tongue, for I am cruelly burning in this flame.