Job 19 Cross References - BBE

¹ And Job made answer and said, ² How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words? ³ Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong. ⁴ And, truly, if I have been in error, the effect of my error is only on myself. ⁵ If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me, ⁶ Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net. ⁷ Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause. ⁸ My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark. 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. ¹¹ His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters. ¹² His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine. ¹³ He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me. ¹⁴ My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds. ¹⁵ I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country. ¹⁶ At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him. ¹⁷ My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body. ¹⁸ Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me. ¹⁹ All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me. ²⁰ My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth. ²¹ Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me. ²² Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me? ²³ If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book! ²⁴ And with an iron pen and lead be cut into the rock for ever! 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. ²⁸ If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him: ²⁹ Be in fear of the sword, for the sword is the punishment for such things, so that you may be certain that there is a judge.

¹⁶ So day after day she gave him no peace, for ever questioning him till his soul was troubled to death.

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

² How long will it be before you have done talking? Get wisdom, and then we will say what is in our minds.

² By the life of God, who has taken away my right; and of the Ruler of all, who has made my soul bitter;

² Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am wasted away: make me well, for even my bones are troubled. ³ My soul is in bitter trouble; and you, O Lord, how long?

¹ To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me?

¹⁰ The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?

²¹ The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, but they were sharp swords.

⁷ See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to it?

³ Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;

¹⁸ There are some whose uncontrolled talk is like the wounds of a sword, but the tongue of the wise makes one well again.

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and those to whom it is dear will have its fruit for their food.

⁶ And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell. ⁷ For every sort of beast and bird and every living thing on earth and in the sea has been controlled by man and is under his authority; ⁸ But the tongue may not be controlled by man; it is an unresting evil, it is full of the poison of death.

⁷ And kept safe Lot, the upright man, who was deeply troubled by the unclean life of the evil-doers ⁸ Because the soul of that upright man living among them was pained from day to day by seeing and hearing their crimes:

¹⁰ And they gave a great cry, saying, How long will it be, O Ruler, holy and true, before you take your place as judge and give punishment for our blood to those on the earth?

⁷ But your father has not kept faith with me, and ten times he has made changes in my payment; but God has kept him from doing me damage.

⁷ And when Joseph saw his brothers, it was clear to him who they were, but he made himself strange to them, and talking roughly to them, said, Where do you come from? And they said, From the land of Canaan, to get food.

²⁶ When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.

²² Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice;

¹² And it came about that when the Jews who were living near them came, they said to us ten times, From all directions they are coming against us.

⁶ Is not your fear of God your support, and your upright way of life your hope? ⁷ Have you ever seen destruction come to an upright man? or when were the god-fearing ever cut off? ⁸ What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves. ⁹ By the breath of God destruction takes them, and by the wind of his wrath they are cut off. ¹⁰ Though the noise of the lion and the sounding of his voice, may be loud, the teeth of the young lions are broken. ¹¹ The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.

³ I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly the curse came on his house. ⁴ Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.

⁴ If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand. ⁵ If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all; ⁶ If you are clean and upright; then he will certainly be moved to take up your cause, and will make clear your righteousness by building up your house again.

³ Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?

¹⁴ If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;

⁴ Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry. ⁵ For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself. ⁶ It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.

¹¹ Are the comforts of God not enough for you, and the gentle word which was said to you? ¹² Why is your heart uncontrolled, and why are your eyes lifted up;

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? ⁵ For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining. ⁶ The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out. ⁷ The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him. ⁸ His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords. ⁹ His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip. ¹⁰ The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way. ¹¹ He is overcome by fears on every side, they go after him at every step. ¹² His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep. 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. ¹⁵ In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house. ¹⁶ Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off. ¹⁷ His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name. ¹⁸ He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world. ¹⁹ He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name. ²⁰ At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear. ²¹ Truly, these are the houses of the sinner, and this is the place of him who has no knowledge of God.

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

⁸ I have become strange to my brothers, and like a man from a far country to my mother's children.

²⁰ And in any business needing wisdom and good sense, about which the king put questions to them, he saw that they were ten times better than all the wonder-workers and users of secret arts in all his kingdom.

¹⁷ And when David saw the angel who was causing the destruction of the people, he said to the Lord, Truly, the sin is mine; I have done wrong: but these are only sheep; what have they done? let your hand be against me and against my family.

³ Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame? ⁴ You may say, My way is clean, and I am free from sin in your eyes. ⁵ But if only God would take up the word, opening his lips in argument with you; ⁶ And would make clear to you the secrets of wisdom, and the wonders of his purpose!

¹² If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if your heart is full of pride, you only will have the pain of it.

⁴ See, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so the soul of the son is mine: death will be the fate of the sinner's soul.

¹⁰ For we all have to come before Christ to be judged; so that every one of us may get his reward for the things done in the body, good or bad.

⁵ Because every man is responsible for his part of the work.

⁶ And the other wife did everything possible to make her unhappy, because the Lord had not let her have children;

³ They said to me, The small band of Jews now living there in the land are in great trouble and shame: the wall of Jerusalem has been broken down, and its doorways burned with fire.

²⁶ Let all those who take pleasure in my troubles be shamed and come to nothing: let those who are lifted up against me be covered with shame and have no honour.

¹⁶ I said, Let them not be glad over me; when my foot is moved, let them not be lifted up with pride against me.

¹¹ By this I see that you have pleasure in me, because my hater does not overcome me.

¹² For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

¹ And in that day seven women will put their hands on one man, saying, There will be no need for you to give us food or clothing, only let us go under your name, so that our shame may be taken away.

⁸ Do not be glad because of my sorrow, O my hater: after my fall I will be lifted up; when I am seated in the dark, the Lord will be a light to me.

¹⁰ This will be their fate because of their pride, because they have said evil, lifting themselves up against the people of the Lord of armies.

⁷ And the Lord will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the family of David and the glory of the people of Jerusalem may not be greater than that of Judah.

²⁵ The Lord has done this to me, for his eyes were on me, to take away my shame in the eyes of men.

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?

² And his disciples put a question to him, saying, Master, was it because of this man's sin, or the sin of his father and mother, that he has been blind from birth?

³⁴ Their answer was: You came to birth through sin; do you make yourself our teacher? And they put him out of the Synagogue.

²⁰ If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?

¹¹ God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers. ¹² I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows. ¹³ His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth. ¹⁴ I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.

⁸ His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords. ⁹ His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip. ¹⁰ The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.

⁹ But now you have sent us away from you, and put us to shame; you do not go out with our armies. ¹⁰ Because of this we are turned back by the attacker: those who have hate for us take our goods for themselves. ¹¹ You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat; we are put to flight among the nations. ¹² You let your people go for nothing; your wealth is not increased by their price. ¹³ You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us. ¹⁴ Our name is a word of shame among the nations, a sign for the shaking of heads among the peoples.

¹⁰ For you, O God, have put us to the test: testing us by fire like silver. ¹¹ You let us be put in prison; chains were put on our legs. ¹² You let men go driving over our heads; we went through fire and through water; but you took us out into a wide place.

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. ¹³ From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

¹³ And my net will be stretched out on him, and he will be taken in my cords: and I will take him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldaeans; but he will not see it, and there death will come to him.

³ This is what the Lord has said: My net will be stretched out over you, and I will take you up in my fishing-net.

¹² When they go, my net will be stretched out over them; I will take them like the birds of heaven, I will give them punishment, I will take them away in the net for their sin.

²⁴ The land is given into the power of the evil-doer; the faces of its judges are covered; if not by him, then who has done it?

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.

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?

¹⁵ That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble. ¹⁶ And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me: ¹⁷ That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.

¹⁵ Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him; ¹⁶ And that will be my salvation, for an evil-doer would not come before him, ¹⁷ Give ear with care to my words, and keep what I say in your minds. ¹⁸ See now, I have put my cause in order, and I am certain that I will be seen to be right. ¹⁹ Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath. ²⁰ Only two things do not do to me, then I will come before your face: ²¹ Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you. 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. ²³ What is the number of my evil-doings and my sins? give me knowledge of them.

¹⁷ Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean. ¹⁸ O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place! ¹⁹ Even now my witness is in heaven, and the supporter of my cause is on high.

²¹ So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.

²⁷ See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me;

³ If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat! ⁴ I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments. ⁵ I would see what his answers would be, and have knowledge of what he would say to me. ⁶ Would he make use of his great power to overcome me? No, but he would give attention to me. ⁷ There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.

²⁰ You give no answer to my cry, and take no note of my prayer.

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;

⁵ For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;

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?

² O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.

⁸ For every word I say is a cry for help; I say with a loud voice, Violent behaviour and wasting: because the word of the Lord is made a shame to me and a cause of laughing all the day.

⁸ Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.

² How long, O Lord, will your ears be shut to my voice? I make an outcry to you about violent behaviour, but you do not send salvation. ³ Why do you make me see evil-doing, and why are my eyes fixed on wrong? for wasting and violent acts are before me: and there is fighting and bitter argument.

⁷ And at their cry, the Lord made it dark between you and the Egyptians, and made the sea go over them, covering them with its waters; your eyes have seen what I did in Egypt: then for a long time you were living in the waste land.

²³ To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?

²⁶ For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.

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.

¹⁹ The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

¹⁰ Who among you has the fear of the Lord, giving ear to the voice of his servant who has been walking in the dark and has no light? Let him put his faith in the name of the Lord, looking to his God for support.

¹⁶ Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

¹² For this cause their steps will be slipping on their way: they will be forced on into the dark and have a fall there: for I will send evil on them in the year of their punishment, says the Lord.

⁷ He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.

⁹ He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.

⁶ For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.

¹² Then again Jesus said to them, I am the light of the world; he who comes with me will not be walking in the dark but will have the light of life.

¹⁷ He takes away the wisdom of the wise guides, and makes judges foolish;

⁷ When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place, ⁸ The young men saw me, and went away, and the old men got up from their seats; 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. ¹¹ For when it came to their ears, men said that I was truly happy; and when their eyes saw, they gave witness to me; ¹² For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter. ¹³ The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart. ¹⁴ I put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress.

²⁰ My glory will be ever new, and my bow will be readily bent in my hand. ²¹ Men gave ear to me, waiting and keeping quiet for my suggestions.

¹ But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.

¹⁶ Have no fear when wealth comes to a man, and the glory of his house is increased; ¹⁷ For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.

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.

⁴⁴ You have put an end to his glory: the seat of his kingdom has been levelled to the earth.

⁶ But you will be named the priests of the Lord, the servants of our God: you will have the wealth of the nations for your food, and you will be clothed with their glory.

¹⁶ The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.

¹¹ As for Ephraim, their glory will go in flight like a bird: there will be no birth and no one with child and no giving of life.

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.

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.

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

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

¹³ So is the end of all who do not keep God in mind; and the hope of the evil-doer comes to nothing: ¹⁴ Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread. ¹⁵ He is looking to his family for support, but it is not there; he puts his hope in it, but it comes to nothing. ¹⁶ He is full of strength before the sun, and his branches go out over his garden. ¹⁷ His roots are twisted round the stones, forcing their way in between them. ¹⁸ If he is taken away from his place, then it will say, I have not seen you.

¹⁴ Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.

¹¹ My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

¹⁵ Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?

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.

³⁵ I have seen the evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree. ³⁶ But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.

¹³ But to you did I send up my cry, O Lord; in the morning my prayer came before you. ¹⁴ Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me? ¹⁵ I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength. ¹⁶ The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments. ¹⁷ They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me. ¹⁸ You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.

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

⁵ The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah. ⁶ And he has violently taken away his tent, as from a garden; he has made waste his meeting-place: the Lord has taken away the memory of feast and Sabbath in Zion, and in the passion of his wrath he is against king and priest.

⁸ Troubles are round us on every side, but we are not shut in; things are hard for us, but we see a way out of them; ⁹ We are cruelly attacked, but not without hope; we are made low, but we are not without help;

²² For my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld, burning up the earth with her increase, and firing the deep roots of the mountains.

²⁴ Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?

⁹ I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;

¹⁰ See, he is looking for something against me; in his eyes I am as one of his haters;

⁴⁶ How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire?

⁷ We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath.

⁵ The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.

¹¹ God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.

¹³ His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

¹² The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:

⁵ Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment! ⁶ I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.

²³ And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.

²¹ So have you now become to me; you see my sad condition and are in fear. ²² Did I say, Give me something? or, Make a payment for me out of your wealth? ²³ Or, Get me out of the power of my hater? or, Give money so that I may be free from the power of the cruel ones?

⁷ But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.

¹¹ Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.

¹¹ My lovers and my friends keep away from my disease; my relations keep far away.

²⁰ My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.

¹⁸ You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.

⁵⁶ But all this has taken place so that the writings of the prophets might come true. Then all his disciples went from him in flight.

¹⁶ At my first meeting with my judges, no one took my part, but all went away from me. May it not be put to their account.

²³ In those days the opinions of Ahithophel were valued as highly as if through him a man might get direction from God; so were they valued by David as much as by Absalom.

¹² For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place; ¹³ But it was you, my equal, my guide, my well-loved friend. ¹⁴ We had loving talk together, and went to the house of God in company.

²⁴ There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.

¹⁰ For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing there is fear on every side: they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

⁵ Put no faith in a friend, do not let your hope be placed in a relation: keep watch on the doors of your mouth against her who is resting on your breast. ⁶ For the son puts shame on his father, the daughter goes against her mother and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man's haters are those of his family.

²¹ And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child: and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.

¹⁸ I am not talking of you all: I have knowledge of my true disciples, but things are as they are, so that the Writings may come true, The foot of him who takes bread with me is lifted up against me.

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;

³ Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for all men are looking down on us.

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.

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.

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

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

²³ Then from there he went up to Beth-el; and on his way, some little boys came out from the town and made sport of him, crying, Go up, old no-hair! go up, old no-hair!

⁵ And the people will be crushed, every one by his neighbour; the young will be full of pride against the old, and those of low position will be lifted up against the noble.

¹⁴ He whose heart is shut against his friend has given up the fear of the Ruler of all. ¹⁵ My friends have been false like a stream, like streams in the valleys which come to an end:

⁹ Even my dearest friend, in whom I had faith, who took bread with me, is turned against me.

²⁰ He has put out his hand against those who were at peace with him; he has not kept his agreement.

⁴ For my love they give me back hate; but I have given myself to prayer. ⁵ They have put on me evil for good; hate in exchange for my love.

⁴⁸ But Jesus said to him, Judas, will you be false to the Son of man with a kiss?

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.

⁵ My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.

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

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.

¹⁴ I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body. ¹⁵ My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips. ¹⁶ Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet. ¹⁷ I am able to see all my bones; their looks are fixed on me:

³ When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day. ⁴ For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. Selah.

³ My flesh is wasted because of your wrath; and there is no peace in my bones because of my sin.

³ My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire.

⁵ Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.

⁴ My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

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.

¹⁰ Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.

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

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

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.

⁴ For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.

¹⁴ He whose heart is shut against his friend has given up the fear of the Ruler of all.

² For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand.

¹⁵ Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and in the grief of those who are sorrowing.

²⁶ And if there is pain in one part of the body, all the parts will be feeling it; or if one part is honoured, all the parts will be glad.

³ Keep in mind those who are in chains, as if you were chained with them, and those who are in trouble, as being yourselves in the body.

¹⁶ And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me:

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?

³¹ If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat?

²⁶ Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you.

³ Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.

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!

¹ And the Lord said to me, Take a great writing-board, and on it put down in common letters, Maher-shalal-hash-baz;

⁸ Now go, put it in writing before them on a board, and make a record of it in a book, so that it may be for the future, a witness for all time to come.

¹¹ With the work of a jeweller, like the cutting of a stamp, the names of the children of Israel are to be cut on them, and they are to be fixed in twisted frames of gold. ¹² And the two stones are to be placed on the ephod, over the arm-holes, to be stones of memory for the children of Israel: Aaron will have their names on his arms when he goes in before the Lord, to keep the Lord in mind of them.

²¹ The jewels are to be twelve in number, for the names of the children of Israel; every jewel having the name of one of the twelve tribes cut on it as on a stamp.

¹⁶ The stones were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, cut on the stones.

² And on the day when you go over Jordan into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, put up great stones, coating them with building-paste, ³ And writing on them all the words of this law, after you have gone over; so that you may take the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has said.

⁸ And put on the stones all the words of this law, writing them very clearly.

¹ The sin of Judah is recorded with a pen of iron, and with the sharp point of a jewel it is cut on their hearts of stone, and on the horns of their altars for a sign to them:

¹⁵ And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.

¹⁸ And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.

¹⁹ Even now my witness is in heaven, and the supporter of my cause is on high.

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:

¹⁴ Let the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart be pleasing in your eyes, O Lord, my strength and my salvation.

³⁵ In the memory that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their saviour.

¹¹ For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.

¹⁴ The Lord, who has taken up your cause, the Holy One of Israel, says, Because of you I have sent to Babylon, and made all their seers come south, and the Chaldaeans whose cry is in the ships.

⁵ For your Maker is your husband; the Lord of armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is he who takes up your cause; he will be named the God of all the earth.

²⁰ And as a saviour he will come to Zion, turning away sin from Jacob, says the Lord. ²¹ And as for me, this is my agreement with them, says the Lord: my spirit which is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, will not go away from your mouth, or from the mouth of your seed, or from the mouth of your seed's seed, says the Lord, from now and for ever.

³⁴ Their saviour is strong; the Lord of armies is his name: he will certainly take up their cause, so that he may give rest to the earth and trouble to the people of Babylon.

²² The Father is not the judge of men, but he has given all decisions into the hands of the Son; ²³ So that all men may give honour to the Son even as they give honour to the Father. He who gives no honour to the Son gives no honour to the Father who sent him. ²⁴ Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life. ²⁵ Truly I say to you, The time is coming, it has even now come, when the voice of the Son of God will come to the ears of the dead, and those hearing it will have life. ²⁶ For even as the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the Son to have life in himself. ²⁷ And he has given him authority to be judge because he is the Son of man. 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.

⁷ In whom we have salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, through the wealth of his grace,

¹⁴ The prophet Enoch, who was the seventh after Adam, said of these men, The Lord came with tens of thousands of his saints,

⁹ Because of this my heart is glad, and my glory is full of joy: while my flesh takes its rest in hope.

¹¹ You will make clear to me the way of life; where you are joy is complete; in your right hand there are pleasures for ever and ever.

¹⁵ As for me, I will see your face in righteousness: when I am awake it will be joy enough for me to see your form.

⁸ Happy are the clean in heart: for they will see God.

¹² For now we see things in a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now my knowledge is in part; then it will be complete, even as God's knowledge of me.

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.

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.

² My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.

⁷ See, he comes with the clouds, and every eye will see him, and those by whom he was wounded; and all the tribes of the earth will be sorrowing because of him. Yes, so be it.

¹⁷ I see him, but not now: looking on him, but not near: a star will come out of Jacob, and a rod of authority out of Israel, sending destruction to the farthest limits of Moab and on the head of all the sons of Sheth.

²⁶ My flesh and my heart are wasting away: but God is the Rock of my heart and my eternal heritage.

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.

¹³ And all Israel will put his body to rest, weeping over him, because he only of the family of Jeroboam will be put into his resting-place in the earth; for of all the family of Jeroboam, in him only has the Lord, the God of Israel, seen some good.

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

⁷ Will you say in God's name what is not right, and put false words into his mouth? ⁸ Will you have respect for God's person in this cause, and put yourselves forward as his supporters? 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? ¹⁰ He will certainly put you right, if you have respect for persons in secret. ¹¹ Will not his glory put you in fear, so that your hearts will be overcome before him?

²² He has no hope of coming safe out of the dark, and his fate will be the sword;

⁴ Is it because you give him honour that he is sending punishment on you and is judging you?

⁵ For this cause there will be no mercy for sinners when they are judged, and the evil-doers will have no place among the upright,

⁷ But the Lord is King for ever: he has made ready his high seat for judging.

¹⁰ The upright man will be glad when he sees their punishment; his feet will be washed in the blood of the evil-doer. ¹¹ So that men will say, Truly there is a reward for righteousness; truly there is a God who is judge on the earth.

⁹ Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

¹⁴ God will be judge of every work, with every secret thing, good or evil.

¹ Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged. ² For as you have been judging, so you will be judged, and with your measure will it be measured to you.

¹ Let everyone put himself under the authority of the higher powers, because there is no power which is not of God, and all powers are ordered by God. ² For which reason everyone who puts himself against the authority puts himself against the order of God: and those who are against it will get punishment for themselves. ³ For rulers are not a cause of fear to the good work but to the evil. If you would have no fear of the authority, do good and you will have praise; ⁴ For he is the servant of God to you for good. But if you do evil, have fear; for the sword is not in his hand for nothing: he is God's servant, making God's punishment come on the evil-doer.

¹¹ Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, not a doer of the law but a judge. ¹² There is only one judge and law-giver, even he who has the power of salvation and of destruction; but who are you to be your neighbour's judge?