Job 2 Cross References - BBE

¹ And there was a day when the sons of the gods came together before the Lord, and the Satan came with them. ² And the Lord said to the Satan, Where do you come from? And the Satan said in answer, From wandering this way and that on the earth, and walking about on it. ³ And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil? and he still keeps his righteousness, though you have been moving me to send destruction on him without cause. ⁴ And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Skin for skin, all a man has he will give for his life. ⁵ But now, if you only put your hand on his bone and his flesh, he will certainly be cursing you to your face. ⁶ And the Lord said to the Satan, See, he is in your hands, only do not take his life. ⁷ And the Satan went out from before the Lord, and sent on Job an evil disease covering his skin from his feet to the top of his head. ⁸ And he took a broken bit of a pot, and, seated in the dust, was rubbing himself with the sharp edge of it. 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. ¹¹ And Job's three friends had word of all this evil which had come on him. And they came every one from his place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. So they came together to a meeting-place, in order that they might go and make clear to Job their grief for him, and give him comfort. 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. ¹³ And they took their seats on the earth by his side for seven days and seven nights: but no one said a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

⁶ And there was a day when the sons of the gods came together before the Lord, and the Satan came with them.

¹ In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord seated in his place, high and lifted up, and the Temple was full of the wide skirts of his robe. ² Over him were the winged ones: every one had six wings; two for covering his face, two for covering his feed, and two for flight.

¹⁹ And the angel, answering, said, I am Gabriel, whose place is before God; I have been sent to say these words to you and to give you this good news.

¹⁴ Are they not all helping spirits, who are sent out as servants to those whose heritage will be salvation?

⁸ And he said, Hagar, Sarai's servant, where have you come from and where are you going? And she said, I am running away from Sarai, my master's wife.

⁷ And the Lord said to the Satan, Where do you come from? And the Satan said in answer, From wandering this way and that on the earth, and walking about on it.

³⁰ After this I will not say much to you, because the ruler of this world comes: and he has no power over me;

⁴ Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.

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

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

²⁰ And Joab, answering her, said, Far, far be it from me to be a cause of death or destruction;

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

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

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

²¹ With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised. ²² In all this Job did no sin, and did not say that God's acts were foolish.

¹⁷ For I would be crushed by his storm, my wounds would be increased without cause.

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.

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

⁵ Let it be far from me! I will certainly not say that you are right! I will come to death before I give up my righteousness. ⁶ I will keep it safe, and will not let it go: my heart has nothing to say against any part of my life.

¹ Of David. O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.

³⁷ Give attention to the good man, and take note of the upright; because the end of that man is peace.

¹² And as for me, you are my support in my righteousness, giving me a place before your face for ever.

⁸ The upright man is taken out of trouble, and in his place comes the sinner.

⁶ Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.

² He who goes on his way in righteousness has before him the fear of the Lord; but he whose ways are twisted gives him no honour.

⁸ The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.

¹⁷ The highway of the upright is to be turned away from evil: he who takes care of his way will keep his soul.

³ Jesus said in answer, It was not because of his sin, or because of his father's or mother's; it was so that the works of God might be seen openly in him.

¹² Not as if I had even now got the reward or been made complete: but I go on in the hope that I may come to the knowledge of that for which I was made the servant of Christ Jesus.

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

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

¹⁰ And after you have undergone pain for a little time, the God of all grace who has given you a part in his eternal glory through Christ Jesus, will himself give you strength and support, and make you complete in every good thing;

³ Then Esther the queen, answering, said, If I have your approval, O king, and if it is the king's pleasure, let my life be given to me in answer to my prayer, and my people at my request: ⁴ For we are given up, I and my people, to destruction and death and to be cut off. If we had been taken as men-servants and women-servants for a price, I would have said nothing, for our trouble is little in comparison with the king's loss.

²⁰ In that day men will put their images of silver and of gold, which they made for worship, in the keeping of the beasts of the dark places; ²¹ To take cover in the cracks of the rocks, and in the holes of the hills, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

⁸ But there were ten men among them who said to Ishmael, Do not put us to death, for we have secret stores, in the country, of grain and oil and honey. So he did not put them to death with their countrymen.

²⁵ So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing?

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

¹⁸ And, still fighting the storm with all our strength, the day after they made a start at getting the goods out of the ship; ¹⁹ And on the third day, they let all the sailing apparatus go over the side.

⁸ Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward, ⁹ And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: ¹⁰ That I may have knowledge of him, and of the power of his coming back from the dead, and a part with him in his pains, becoming like him in his death;

¹⁵ And say to the children of Israel, As for any man cursing God, his sin will be on his head.

¹⁷ And David said to God, Was it not I who gave the order for the people to be numbered? It is I who have done the sin and the great wrong; but these are only sheep; what have they done? let your hand, O Lord God, be lifted up against me and against my family, but not against your people to send disease on them.

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

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

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.

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.

² For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand. ³ My flesh is wasted because of your wrath; and there is no peace in my bones because of my sin. ⁴ For my crimes have gone over my head; they are like a great weight which is more than my strength. ⁵ My wounds are poisoned and evil-smelling, because of my foolish behaviour. ⁶ I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day. ⁷ For my body is full of burning; all my flesh is unhealthy.

¹⁰ No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.

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

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

¹⁰ Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors; ¹¹ And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?

⁷ Who makes the loud voice of the sea quiet, and puts an end to the sound of its waves.

²⁹ For he gave an order to the evil spirit to come out of the man. For frequently it would take a grip of him: and he was kept under control, and prisoned with chains; but parting the chains in two, he would be sent by the driving of the evil spirit into waste places. ³⁰ And Jesus said to him, What is your name? And he said, Legion; for a number of spirits had gone into him. ³¹ And they made a request to him that he would not give them an order to go away into the deep. ³² Now there was a great herd of pigs in that place, getting food on the mountain: and the evil spirits made a request to him that he would let them go into the pigs, and he let them. ³³ And the evil spirits came out of the man and went into the pigs: and the herd went rushing down a sharp slope into the water and came to destruction.

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

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

¹⁰ Have no fear of the things which you will have to undergo: see, the Evil One will send some of you into prison, so that you may be put to the test; and you will have great trouble for ten days. Be true till death, and I will give you the crown of life.

¹ And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the great deep and a great chain in his hand. ² And he took the dragon, the old snake, which is the Evil One and Satan, and put chains on him for a thousand years,

⁷ And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be let loose out of his prison,

⁹ And it will become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and will be a skin-disease bursting out in wounds on man and beast through all the land of Egypt. ¹⁰ So they took some dust from the fire, and placing themselves before Pharaoh, Moses sent it out in a shower up to heaven; and it became a skin-disease bursting out on man and on beast. ¹¹ And the wonder-workers were not able to take their places before Moses, because of the disease; for the disease was on the wonder-workers and on all the Egyptians.

²⁷ The Lord will send on you the disease of Egypt, and other sorts of skin diseases which nothing will make well.

³⁵ The Lord will send a skin disease, attacking your knees and your legs, bursting out from your feet to the top of your head, so that nothing will make you well.

²² And the Lord said, How? And he said, I will go out and be a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Your trick will have its effect on him: go out and do so.

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

¹⁷ The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains. ¹⁸ With great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat. ¹⁹ Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

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

⁶ The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds.

¹⁷ The Lord will send disease on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will let their secret parts be seen.

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

¹⁹ And Tamar, in her grief, put dust on her head; and she put her hand on her head and went away crying loudly.

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.

⁶ For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.

⁵ My wounds are poisoned and evil-smelling, because of my foolish behaviour.

⁷ For my body is full of burning; all my flesh is unhealthy.

³ To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.

²⁶ O daughter of my people, put on haircloth, rolling yourself in the dust: give yourself to sorrow, as for an only son, with most bitter cries of grief; for he who makes waste will come on us suddenly.

³⁰ And their voices will be sounding over you, and crying bitterly they will put dust on their heads, rolling themselves in the dust:

⁶ And the word came to the king of Nineveh, and he got up from his seat of authority, and took off his robe, and covering himself with haircloth, took his seat in the dust.

²¹ Unhappy are you, Chorazin! Unhappy are you, Beth-saida! For if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have been turned from their sins in days gone by, clothing themselves in haircloth and putting dust on their heads.

²⁰ And a certain poor man, named Lazarus, was stretched out at his door, full of wounds, ²¹ Desiring the broken bits of food which came from the table of the man of wealth; and even the dogs came and put their tongues on his wounds.

⁶ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.

¹² And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree and I took it.

⁴ For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.

³³ While he was still talking to them, the king came down and said, This evil is from the Lord; why am I to go on waiting any longer for the Lord?

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

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

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

¹⁴ You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies?

¹⁷ And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.

²⁰ Then David came back to give a blessing to his family. And Michal, Saul's daughter, came out to him and said, How full of glory was the king of Israel today, who let himself be seen uncovered by his servant-girls like a foolish person uncovering himself without shame! ²¹ And David said to Michal, I was dancing before the Lord, who put me over your father and all his sons, to make me a ruler over the people of the Lord, over his people Israel: and I will go on playing before the Lord;

¹³ What will become of me in my shame? and as for you, you will be looked down on with disgust by all Israel. Now then, go and make your request to the king, for he will not keep me from you.

²² And David said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you put yourselves against me today? is it right for any man in Israel to be put to death today? for I am certain today that I am king in Israel.

²⁸ For all my father's family were only dead men before my lord the king: and still you put your servant among those whose place is at the king's table. What right then have I to say anything more to the king?

¹⁰ And after the people had been numbered, David's heart was troubled. And David said to the Lord, Great has been my sin in doing this; but now, O Lord, be pleased to take away the sin of your servant, for I have done very foolishly

⁹ For the eyes of the Lord go this way and that, through all the earth, letting it be seen that he is the strong support of those whose hearts are true to him. In this you have done foolishly, for from now you will have wars.

¹ There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil. ² And he had seven sons and three daughters. ³ And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.

¹⁰ Have you yourself not put a wall round him and his house and all he has on every side, blessing the work of his hands, and increasing his cattle in the land?

¹ To the chief music-maker. Of Jeduthun. A Psalm. Of David. I said, I will give attention to my ways, so that my tongue may do no wrong; I will keep my mouth under control, while the sinner is before me.

¹² Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

⁶ Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge.

¹³ The foolish woman is full of noise; she has no sense at all.

³⁸ Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High? ³⁹ What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin? ⁴⁰ Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord; ⁴¹ Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.

³⁴ You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth. ³⁵ The good man out of his good store gives good things; and the evil man out of his evil store gives evil things. ³⁶ And I say to you that in the day when they are judged, men will have to give an account of every foolish word they have said. ³⁷ For by your words will your righteousness be seen, and by your words you will be judged.

²³ But he, turning to Peter, said, Get out of my way, Satan: you are a danger to me because your mind is not on the things of God, but on the things of men.

² And five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

¹¹ Then Jesus said to Peter, Put back your sword: am I not to take the cup which my Father has given to me?

¹² Being glad in hope, quiet in trouble, at all times given to prayer,

⁹ And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life? ¹⁰ For they truly gave us punishment for a short time, as it seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, so that we may become holy as he is. ¹¹ At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.

² For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control.

¹⁰ Take as an example of pain nobly undergone and of strength in trouble, the prophets who gave to men the words of the Lord. ¹¹ We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.

² She became the mother of Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah.

¹¹ The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.

¹⁵ These were the chiefs among the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz, Esau's first son: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,

³⁵ And all his sons and all his daughters came to give him comfort, but he would not be comforted, saying with weeping, I will go down to the underworld to my son. So great was his father's sorrow for him.

³² And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's servant-wife: she was the mother of Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.

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

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

¹ Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said,

⁴ But you put a false face on things; all your attempts to put things right are of no value.

¹ And Eliphaz the Temanite made answer and said,

² Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.

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

¹ Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said,

¹⁹ All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.

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

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.

¹¹ And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.

¹⁷ A friend is loving at all times, and becomes a brother in times of trouble.

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

¹⁰ Do not give up your friend and your father's friend; and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your trouble: better is a neighbour who is near than a brother far off.

¹⁹ These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction; death from need of food, and from the sword; how may you be comforted?

⁷ About Edom. This is what the Lord of armies has said. Is there no more wisdom in Teman? have wise suggestions come to an end among men of good sense? has their wisdom completely gone?

¹⁹ And a number of Jews had come to Martha and Mary to give them comfort about their brother.

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.

³⁴ And hearing the words of his father, Esau gave a great and bitter cry, and said to his father, Give a blessing to me, even to me, O my father!

⁶ Then Joshua, in great grief, went down on the earth before the ark of the Lord till the evening, and all the chiefs of Israel with him, and they put dust on their heads.

⁴ Now on hearing these words which the angel of the Lord said to all the children of Israel, the people gave themselves up to loud crying and weeping.

¹⁹ So the two of them went on till they came to Beth-lehem. And when they came to Beth-lehem all the town was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi? ²⁰ And she said to them, Do not let my name be Naomi, but Mara, for the Ruler of all has given me a bitter fate. ²¹ I went out full, and the Lord has sent me back again with nothing; why do you give me the name Naomi, seeing that the Lord has given witness against me, and the Ruler of all has sent sorrow on me?

⁴ So they sent representatives to Saul's town Gibeah, and these gave the news to the people: and all the people gave themselves to weeping.

⁴ Then David and the people who were with him gave themselves up to weeping till they were able to go on weeping no longer.

³⁶ And while he was talking, the king's sons came, with weeping and loud cries: and the king and all his servants were weeping bitterly.

¹ Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel came together, taking no food and putting haircloth and dust on their bodies.

¹ Now when Mordecai saw what was done, pulling off his robe, he put on haircloth, with dust on his head, and went out into the middle of the town, crying out with a loud and bitter cry.

²⁰ Then Job got up, and after parting his clothing and cutting off his hair, he went down on his face to the earth, and gave worship, and said,

¹⁴ My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.

¹⁰ The responsible men of the daughter of Zion are seated on the earth without a word; they have put dust on their heads, they are clothed in haircloth: the heads of the virgins of Jerusalem are bent down to the earth.

⁷ Her holy ones were cleaner than snow, they were whiter than milk, their bodies were redder than corals, their form was as the sapphire: 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.

¹⁹ And they put dust on their heads, and were sad, weeping and crying, and saying, Sorrow, sorrow for the great town, in which was increased the wealth of all who had their ships on the sea because of her great stores! for in one hour she is made waste.

⁵ Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

⁸ And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

¹⁰ And they came to the grain-floor of Atad on the other side of Jordan, and there they gave the last honours to Jacob, with great and bitter sorrow, weeping for their father for seven days.

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

⁴ Then, after hearing these words, for some days I gave myself up to weeping and sorrow, seated on the earth; and taking no food I made prayer to the God of heaven,

² If one says a word, will it be a weariness to you? but who is able to keep from saying what is in his mind?

⁴ You keep my eyes from sleep; I am so troubled that no words come.

²⁶ And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.

¹ Come and take your seat in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; come down from your seat of power, and take your place on the earth, O daughter of the Chaldaeans: for you will never again seem soft and delicate.

¹⁵ Then I came to those who had been taken away as prisoners, who were at Telabib by the river Chebar, and I was seated among them full of wonder for seven days.