Job 17 Cross References - BBE

¹ My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me. ² Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing. ³ Be pleased, now, to be responsible for me to yourself; for there is no other who will put his hand in mine. ⁴ You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour. ⁵ As for him who is false to his friend for a reward, light will be cut off from the eyes of his children. ⁶ He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport. ⁷ My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade. 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. ¹⁰ But come back, now, all of you, come; and I will not see a wise man among you. ¹¹ My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart. ¹² They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark. 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?

¹¹ Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?

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;

¹⁷ My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body.

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

³ For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld. ⁴ I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help: ⁵ My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.

¹⁰ I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me. ¹¹ I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world. ¹² My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain. ¹³ I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones. ¹⁴ I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.

¹⁶ For I will not give punishment for ever, or be angry without end: for from me breath goes out; and I it was who made the souls.

⁶ And the other wife did everything possible to make her unhappy, because the Lord had not let her have children; ⁷ And year by year, whenever she went up to the house of the Lord, she kept on attacking her, so that Hannah gave herself up to weeping and would take no food.

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!

⁹ Will it be good for you to be searched out by him, or have you the thought that he may be guided into error like a man?

²⁰ My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,

³ Let me say what is in my mind, and after that, go on making sport of me.

¹³ His soul will be full of good things, and his seed will have the earth for its heritage.

¹⁴ My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead. ¹⁵ But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me. ¹⁶ Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.

¹ Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;

³⁹ And those who went by said bitter words to him, shaking their heads and saying, ⁴⁰ You who would give the Temple to destruction and put it up again in three days, get yourself free: if you are the Son of God, come down from the cross. ⁴¹ In the same way, the chief priests, making sport of him, with the scribes and those in authority, said, ⁴² A saviour of others, he has no salvation for himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will have faith in him. ⁴³ He put his faith in God; let God be his saviour now, if he will have him; for he said, I am the Son of God. ⁴⁴ And the thieves who were on the crosses said evil words to him.

⁹ Put him into my care and make me responsible for him: if I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.

³² For I made myself responsible for the boy to my father, saying, If I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.

³³ There is no one to give a decision between us, who might have control over us.

¹²² Take your servant's interests into your keeping; let me not be crushed by the men of pride.

¹¹ Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man

¹⁵ He who makes himself responsible for a strange man will undergo much loss; but the hater of such undertakings will be safe.

¹⁸ A man without sense gives his hand in an agreement, and makes himself responsible before his neighbour.

¹⁶ Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.

²⁶ Be not one of those who give their hands in an agreement, or of those who make themselves responsible for debts:

¹⁴ I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.

²² By so much is it a better agreement which we have through Jesus.

³¹ And word came to David, saying, Ahithophel is among those who are joined to Absalom. And David said, O Lord, let the wisdom of Ahithophel be made foolish.

¹⁴ Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, Hushai's suggestion is better than that of Ahithophel. For it was the purpose of the Lord to make the wise designs of Ahithophel without effect, so that the Lord might send evil on Absalom.

¹⁶ But while he was talking to him the king said to him, Have we made you one of the king's government? say no more, or it will be the cause of your death. Then the prophet gave up protesting, and said, It is clear to me that God's purpose is your destruction, because you have done this and have not given ear to my words.

¹⁴ The Lord has sent among them a spirit of error: and by them Egypt is turned out of the right way in all her doings, as a man overcome by wine is uncertain in his steps.

²⁵ At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children.

¹¹ And he said to them in answer, To you is given the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

⁸ As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day.

²⁰ Where is the wise? where is he who has knowledge of the law? where is the man of this world who has a love of discussion? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

⁵ You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

⁶⁵ And even among these nations there will be no peace for you, and no rest for your feet: but the Lord will give you there a shaking heart and wasting eyes and weariness of soul:

¹² I will not do it in your life-time, because of your father David, but I will take it from your son.

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.

²¹ Let me not give respect to any man, or give names of honour to any living. ²² For I am not able to give names of honour to any man; and if I did, my Maker would quickly take me away.

² Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit. ³ The smooth lips and the tongue of pride will be cut off by the Lord.

¹⁹ He who goes about talking of the business of others gives away secrets: so have nothing to do with him whose lips are open wide.

⁵ A man who says smooth things to his neighbour is stretching out a net for his steps.

¹⁷ Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.

⁵ For it is common knowledge among you that we never made use of smooth-sounding false words, and God is witness that at no time were we secretly desiring profit for ourselves,

²⁷ Why did you make a secret of your flight, not giving me word of it, so that I might have sent you away with joy and songs, with melody and music?

⁷ Then I will have Israel cut off from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for myself, I will put away from before my eyes; and Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.

⁹ And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.

¹⁴ Our name is a word of shame among the nations, a sign for the shaking of heads among the peoples.

¹² And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.

⁸ It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.

¹⁶ My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;

⁷ My eyes are wasting away with trouble; they are becoming old because of all those who are against me.

⁹ Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body. ¹⁰ My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

²³ I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.

¹² Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?

¹⁷ Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;

¹⁹ The upright saw it and were glad: and those who had done no wrong made sport of them,

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¹² Truly, such are the sinners; they do well at all times, and their wealth is increased. ¹³ As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness; ¹⁴ For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment. ¹⁵ If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children.

⁸ If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.

¹³ Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?

⁴⁶ Then Paul and Barnabas without fear said, It was necessary for the word of God to be given to you first; but because you will have nothing to do with it, and have no desire for eternal life, it will now be offered to the Gentiles.

³³ O how deep is the wealth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! no one is able to make discovery of his decisions, and his ways may not be searched out.

⁵ Did he not say to me himself, She is my sister? and she herself said, He is my brother: with an upright heart and clean hands have I done this.

³⁰ He makes safe the man who is free from sin, and if your hands are clean, salvation will be yours.

⁴ He who has clean hands and a true heart; whose desire has not gone out to foolish things, who has not taken a false oath.

⁶ I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;

¹³ As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;

⁷ They go from strength to strength; every one of them comes before God in Zion.

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.

¹⁸ But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.

¹⁶ The wise man, fearing, keeps himself from evil; but the foolish man goes on in his pride, with no thought of danger.

¹⁵ And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;

⁸ And a highway will be there; its name will be, The Holy Way; the unclean and the sinner may not go over it, and those who go on it will not be turned out of the way by the foolish. ⁹ No lion will be there, or any cruel beast; they will not be seen there; but those for whom the Lord has given a price, ¹⁰ Even those whom he has made free, will come back again; they will come with songs to Zion; on their heads will be eternal joy; delight and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and sounds of grief will be gone for ever.

²⁹ He gives power to the feeble, increasing the strength of him who has no force. ³⁰ Even the young men will become feeble and tired, and the best of them will come to the end of his strength; ³¹ But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness.

² And had seen that some of his disciples took their bread with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands.

⁹ And he said to me, My grace is enough for you, for my power is made complete in what is feeble. Most gladly, then, will I take pride in my feeble body, so that the power of Christ may be on me. ¹⁰ So I take pleasure in being feeble, in unkind words, in needs, in cruel attacks, in troubles, on account of Christ: for when I am feeble, then am I strong.

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

¹⁹ They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us.

²⁹ Let your minds be changed, and do not have an evil opinion of me; yes, be changed, for my righteousness is still in me.

² No doubt you have knowledge, and wisdom will come to an end with you.

⁹ What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours?

⁴ You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.

⁹ It is not the old who are wise, and those who are full of years have not the knowledge of what is right.

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.

¹⁸ Then you will again see how the upright man is different from the sinner, and the servant of God from him who is not.

⁵ I say this to put you to shame. Is there not among you one wise man who may be able to give a decision between his brothers?

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. ²⁶ They go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food.

⁹ A man may make designs for his way, but the Lord is the guide of his steps.

²¹ A man's heart may be full of designs, but the purpose of the Lord is unchanging.

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.

¹⁰ Let your designs be formed, and they will come to nothing; give your orders, and they will not be effected: for God is with us.

¹⁰ I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.

³⁷ Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord?

¹³ You may be certain, my brothers, that it has frequently been in my mind to come to you but till now I was kept from it, so that I might have some fruit from you in the same way as I have had it from the other nations.

¹⁵ And being certain of this, it was my purpose to come to you before, so that you might have a second grace; ¹⁶ And by way of Corinth to go into Macedonia, and from there to come back again to you, so that you might send me on my way to Judaea. ¹⁷ If then I had such a purpose, did I seem to be changing suddenly? or am I guided in my purposes by the flesh, saying, Yes, today, and, No, tomorrow?

¹³ How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth: 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. ¹⁵ But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that.

⁶⁷ In the morning you will say, If only it was evening! And at evening you will say, If only morning would come! Because of the fear in your hearts and the things which your eyes will see.

³ So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me. ⁴ When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.

¹³ When I say, In my bed I will have comfort, there I will get rest from my disease; ¹⁴ Then you send dreams to me, and visions of fear;

¹⁴ He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need. ¹⁵ And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about; ¹⁶ In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

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

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.

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.

¹ My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

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

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

⁸ If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.

² They are at rest in their last resting-places, every one going straight before him.

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.

²⁸ Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.

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

²⁶ Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

³² He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it. ³³ The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him.

²⁰ The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.

³⁰ My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.

¹⁰ For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death.

⁹ So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld.

¹¹ Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.

²⁷ For you will not let my soul be in hell and you will not give up your Holy One to destruction. ²⁸ You have made me see the ways of life; I will be full of joy when I see your face. ²⁹ My brothers, I may say to you openly that David came to his death, and was put in the earth, and his resting-place is with us today. ³⁰ But being a prophet, and having in mind the oath which God had given to him, that of the fruit of his body one would take his place as a king, ³¹ He, having knowledge of the future, was talking of the coming again of Christ from the dead, that he was not kept in hell and his body did not see destruction.

³⁴ And about his coming back from the dead, never again to go to destruction, he has said these words, I will give you the holy and certain mercies of David. ³⁵ Because he says in another Psalm, You will not let your Holy One see destruction. ³⁶ Now David, having done God's work for his generation, went to sleep, and was put with his fathers, and his body came to destruction: ³⁷ But he, who was lifted up by God, did not see destruction.

⁴² So is it with the coming back from the dead. It is planted in death; it comes again in life:

⁵³ For this body which comes to destruction will be made free from the power of death, and the man who is under the power of death will put on eternal life. ⁵⁴ But when this has taken place, then that which was said in the Writings will come true, Death is overcome by life.

⁶ Is not your fear of God your support, and your upright way of life your hope?

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

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

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.

¹³ His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases. ¹⁴ He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.

¹⁸ To keep back his soul from the underworld, and his life from destruction. 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) . ²² And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death. ²³ If now there may be an angel sent to him, one of the thousands which there are to be between him and God, and to make clear to man what is right for him; ²⁴ And if he has mercy on him, and says, Let him not go down to the underworld, I have given the price for his life: ²⁵ Then his flesh becomes young again, and he comes back to the days of his early strength; ²⁶ He makes his prayer to God, and he has mercy on him; he sees God's face with cries of joy; he gives news of his righteousness to men; ²⁷ He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin. ²⁸ He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.

⁴ I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help: ⁵ My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care. ⁶ You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places. ⁷ The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. Selah. ⁸ You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.

⁷ Be quick in answering me, O Lord, for the strength of my spirit is gone: let me see your face, so that I may not be like those who go down into the underworld.

¹⁷ See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory. ¹⁸ For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.

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.

⁶ I went down to the bases of the mountains; as for the earth, her walls were about me for ever: but you have taken up my life from the underworld, O Lord my God.

⁹ Yes, we ourselves have had the answer of death in ourselves, so that our hope might not be in ourselves, but in God who is able to give life to the dead: