Job 20 Cross References - BBE

¹ Then Zophar the Naamathite made answer and said, ² For this cause my thoughts are troubling me and driving me on. ³ I have to give ear to arguments which put me to shame, and your answers to me are wind without wisdom. ⁴ Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth, ⁵ That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute? ⁶ Though he is lifted up to the heavens, and his head goes up to the clouds; ⁷ Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he? ⁸ He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night. ⁹ The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him. ¹⁰ His children are hoping that the poor will be kind to them, and his hands give back his wealth. ¹¹ His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust. ¹² Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue; ¹³ Though he takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth; ¹⁴ His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him. ¹⁵ He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God. ¹⁶ He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death. ¹⁷ Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk. ¹⁸ He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading. ¹⁹ Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up; ²⁰ There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight. ²¹ He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end. ²² Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him. ²³ God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain. ²⁴ He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him; ²⁵ He is pulling it out, and it comes out of his back; and its shining point comes out of his side; he is overcome by fears. ²⁶ All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent. ²⁷ The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him. ²⁸ The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath. ²⁹ This is the reward of the evil man, and the heritage given to him by God.

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.

¹ Then Zophar the Naamathite made answer and said,

⁹ And Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as the Lord had said. And the Lord gave ear to Job.

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?

¹⁹ Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.

³ I have to give ear to arguments which put me to shame, and your answers to me are wind without wisdom.

¹³ Take care that you do not say, Wisdom is here; God may overcome him, but not man. ¹⁴ I will not put forward words like these, or make use of your sayings in answer to him. ¹⁵ Fear has overcome them, they have no more answers to give; they have come to an end of words. ¹⁶ And am I to go on waiting while they have nothing to say? while they keep quiet and give no more answers? ¹⁷ I will give my answer; I will put forward my knowledge: ¹⁸ For I am full of words, I am unable to keep in my breath any longer: ¹⁹ My stomach is like wine which is unable to get out; like skins full of new wine, it is almost burst. ²⁰ Let me say what is in my mind, so that I may get comfort; let me give answer with open mouth.

²² And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.

² I made no sound, I said no word, even of good; and I was moved with sorrow. ³ My heart was burning in my breast; while I was deep in thought the fire was lighted; then I said with my tongue,

¹¹ Though I said in my fear, All men are false.

²⁹ He who is slow to be angry has great good sense; but he whose spirit is over-quick gives support to what is foolish.

²⁰ Have you seen a man who is quick with his tongue? There is more hope for a foolish man than for him.

⁹ Be not quick to let your spirit be angry; because wrath is in the heart of the foolish.

⁹ And if I say, I will not keep him in mind, I will not say another word in his name; then it is in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am tired of keeping myself in, I am not able to do it.

²⁵ And she came in quickly to the king, and said, My desire is that you give me straight away on a plate the head of John the Baptist.

² For I give witness of them that they have a strong desire for God, but not with knowledge.

¹⁹ You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;

³ Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.

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.

² For this cause my thoughts are troubling me and driving me on.

¹¹ I will give you teaching about the hand of God; I will not keep secret from you what is in the mind of the Ruler of all.

³ My heart is overflowing with knowledge, my lips say what is true.

³ From my mouth will come words of wisdom; and in the thoughts of my heart will be knowledge.

² Opening my mouth I will give out a story, even the dark sayings of old times; ³ Which have come to our hearing and our knowledge, as they were given to us by our fathers. ⁴ We will not keep them secret from our children; we will make clear to the coming generation the praises of the Lord and his strength, and the great works of wonder which he has done. ⁵ He put up a witness in Jacob, and made a law in Israel; which he gave to our fathers so that they might give knowledge of them to their children;

²⁸ And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.

¹ And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full. ² And the fear of you will be strong in every beast of the earth and every bird of the air; everything which goes on the land, and all the fishes of the sea, are given into your hands. ³ Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.

⁸ Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers: ⁹ For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:

¹⁰ With us are men who are grey-haired and full of years, much older than your father.

⁷ I said to myself, It is right for the old to say what is in their minds, and for those who are far on in years to give out wisdom.

¹⁶ The heavens are the Lord's; but the earth he has given to the children of men.

⁹ Egypt said, I will go after them, I will overtake, I will make division of their goods: my desire will have its way with them; my sword will be uncovered, my hand will send destruction on them. ¹⁰ You sent your wind and the sea came over them: they went down like lead into the great waters.

²¹ So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes; then they took him down to Gaza, and, chaining him with bands of brass, put him to work crushing grain in the prison-house. ²² But the growth of his hair was starting again after it had been cut off. ²³ And the chiefs of the Philistines came together to make a great offering to Dagon their god, and to be glad; for they said, Our god has given into our hands Samson our hater. ²⁴ And when the people saw him, they gave praise to their god; for they said, Our god has given into our hands the one who was fighting against us, who made our country waste, and who put great numbers of us to death. ²⁵ Now when their hearts were full of joy, they said, Send for Samson to make sport for us. And they sent for Samson out of the prison-house, and he made sport before them; and they put him between the pillars. ²⁶ And Samson said to the boy who took him by the hand, Let me put my hand on the pillars supporting the house, so that I may put my back against them. ²⁷ Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and about three thousand men and women were on the roof, looking on while Samson made sport. ²⁸ And Samson, crying out to the Lord, said, O Lord God, do have me now in mind, and do make me strong only this once, O God, so that I may take one last payment from the Philistines for my two eyes. ²⁹ Then Samson put his arms round the two middle pillars supporting the house, putting his weight on them, on one with his right hand and on the other with his left. ³⁰ And Samson said, Let death overtake me with the Philistines. And he put out all his strength, and the house came down on the chiefs and on all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he sent to destruction by his death were more than all those on whom he had sent destruction in his life.

¹¹ And he gave them an account of the glories of his wealth, and the number of children he had, and the ways in which he had been honoured by the king, and how he had put him over the captains and servants of the king. ¹² And Haman said further, Truly, Esther the queen let no man but myself come in to the feast which she had made ready for the king; and tomorrow again I am to be her guest with the king.

¹⁰ So Haman was put to death by hanging him on the pillar he had made for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath became less.

³ I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly the curse came on his house.

¹² When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant. ¹³ So is the end of all who do not keep God in mind; and the hope of the evil-doer comes to nothing:

¹⁹ Such is the joy of his way, and out of the dust another comes up to take his place.

²⁹ He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth. ³⁰ He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud. ³¹ Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward. ³² His branch is cut off before its time, and his leaf is no longer green. ³³ He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers. ³⁴ For the band of the evil-doers gives no fruit, and the tents of those who give wrong decisions for reward are burned with fire.

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.

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

¹³ This is the punishment of the evil-doer from God, and the heritage given to the cruel by the Ruler of all. ¹⁴ If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread. ¹⁵ When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them. ¹⁶ Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing; ¹⁷ He may get them ready, but the upright will put them on, and he who is free from sin will take the silver for a heritage. ¹⁸ His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent. ¹⁹ He goes to rest full of wealth, but does so for the last time: on opening his eyes, he sees it there no longer. ²⁰ Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away. ²¹ The east wind takes him up and he is gone; he is forced violently out of his place. ²² God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand. ²³ Men make signs of joy because of him, driving him from his place with sounds of hissing.

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.

¹⁸ You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction. ¹⁹ How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction. ²⁰ As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.

²¹ Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will go into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the pleasure of my Father in heaven.

²⁰ And that which went on the stones, this is he who, hearing the word, straight away takes it with joy; ²¹ But having no root in himself, he goes on for a time; and when trouble comes or pain, because of the word, he quickly becomes full of doubts.

²² And the people, with loud cries, said, It is the voice of a god, not of a man. ²³ And straight away the angel of the Lord sent a disease on him, because he did not give the glory to God: and his flesh was wasted away by worms, and so he came to his end.

⁴ But let every man make test of his work, and then will his cause for glory be in himself only, and not in his neighbour.

¹⁶ But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil.

⁴ And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.

¹³ For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will make my seat higher than the stars of God; I will take my place on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost parts of the north. ¹⁴ I will go higher than the clouds; I will be like the Most High.

¹¹ And the tree became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven, and to be seen from the ends of the earth:

²² It is you, O King, who have become great and strong: for your power is increased and stretching up to heaven, and your rule to the end of the earth.

² Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down:

³ You have been tricked by the pride of your heart, O you whose living-place is in the cracks of the rock, whose house is high up; who has said in his heart, Who will make me come down to earth? ⁴ Though you go up on high like an eagle, though your house is placed among the stars, I will make you come down from there, says the Lord.

²³ And you, Capernaum, were you not to be lifted up to heaven? you will go down into hell: for if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have been here to this day.

¹⁰ So I will send evil on the line of Jeroboam, cutting off from his family every male child, those who are shut up and those who go free in Israel; the family of Jeroboam will be brushed away like a man brushing away waste till it is all gone.

³⁷ And the dead body of Jezebel will be like waste dropped on the face of the earth in the heritage of Jezreel; so that they will not be able to say, This is Jezebel.

²⁰ Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.

¹⁰ He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.

¹⁸ If he is taken away from his place, then it will say, I have not seen you.

¹⁰ But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

¹⁰ Who came to destruction at En-dor; their bodies became dust and waste.

² And they will put them out before the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, whose lovers and servants they have been, after whom they have gone, to whom they have made prayers, and to whom they have given worship: they will not be put together or placed in the earth; they will be waste on the face of the earth.

¹⁸ He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

¹⁰ And he went in flight through the air, seated on a storm-cloud: going quickly on the wings of the wind.

²⁰ As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.

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⁷ And all the nations making war on Ariel, and all those who are fighting against her and shutting her in with their towers, will be like a dream, like a vision of the night. ⁸ And it will be like a man desiring food, and dreaming that he is feasting; but when he is awake there is nothing in his mouth: or like a man in need of water, dreaming that he is drinking; but when he is awake he is feeble and his soul is full of desire: so will all the nations be which make war on Mount Zion.

⁸ The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.

⁷ Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?

³ For all my breath is still in me, and the spirit of God is my life;

¹⁰ For in a short time the evil-doer will be gone: you will go searching for his place, and it will not be there.

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.

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

² For if you will not let them go, but still keep them in your power,

³⁶ And the Lord had given the people grace in the eyes of the Egyptians so that they gave them whatever was requested. So they took away all their goods from the Egyptians.

¹ If a man takes without right another man's ox or his sheep, and puts it to death or gets a price for it, he is to give five oxen for an ox, or four sheep for a sheep, in payment: the thief will have to make payment for what he has taken; if he has no money, he himself will have to be exchanged for money, so that payment may be made.

³ But if it is after dawn, he will be responsible.

⁶ And he will have to give back four times the value of the lamb, because he has done this and because he had no pity.

⁴ Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.

¹⁸ He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.

¹⁶ Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing; ¹⁷ He may get them ready, but the upright will put them on, and he who is free from sin will take the silver for a heritage.

¹⁰ Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.

³¹ But if he is taken in the act he will have to give back seven times as much, giving up all his property which is in his house.

³ A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food.

⁸ And Zacchaeus, waiting before him, said to the Lord, See, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken anything from anyone wrongly, I give him back four times as much.

²⁶ For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;

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

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

⁷ Do not keep in mind my sins when I was young, or my wrongdoing: let your memory of me be full of mercy, O Lord, because of your righteousness.

¹¹ And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted; ¹² And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training; ¹³ I did not give attention to the voice of my teachers, my ear was not turned to those who were guiding me!

²² The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin. ²³ He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.

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

¹³ As for your unclean purpose: because I have been attempting to make you clean, but you have not been made clean from it, you will not be made clean till I have let loose my passion on you in full measure.

²⁷ And they have been put to rest with the fighting men who came to their end in days long past, who went down to the underworld with their instruments of war, placing their swords under their heads, and their body-covers are over their bones; for their strength was a cause of fear in the land of the living.

²¹ Then he said to them again, I am going away and you will be looking for me, but death will overtake you in your sins. It is not possible for you to come where I am going.

²⁴ For this reason I said to you that death will overtake you in your sins: for if you have not faith that I am he, death will come to you while you are in your sins.

²⁵ To take that position as a servant and Apostle, from which Judas by his sin was shut out, so that he might go to his place.

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.

¹⁶ How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!

⁷ His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.

¹⁷ As he took pleasure in cursing, so let it come on him; and as he had no delight in blessing, let it be far from him. ¹⁸ He put on cursing like a robe, and it has come into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

¹⁷ Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing. ¹⁸ But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.

¹⁷ Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but after, his mouth will be full of sand.

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.

¹⁸ And say to the people, Make yourselves clean before tomorrow and you will have flesh for your food: for in the ears of the Lord you have been weeping and saying, Who will give us flesh for food? for we were well off in Egypt: and so the Lord will give you flesh, and it will be your food; ¹⁹ Not for one day only, or even for five or ten or twenty days; ²⁰ But every day for a month, till you are tired of it, turning from it in disgust: because you have gone against the Lord who is with you, and have been weeping before him saying, Why did we come out of Egypt?

²⁹ And if your right eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell. ³⁰ And if your right hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.

⁴³ And if your hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off; it is better for you to go into life with one hand than to have two hands and go into hell, into the eternal fire. ⁴⁴ (OMITTED TEXT) ⁴⁵ And if your foot is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off: it is better for you to go into life with one foot than to have two feet and go into hell. ⁴⁶ (OMITTED TEXT) ⁴⁷ And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out: it is better for you to go into the kingdom of God with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into hell, ⁴⁸ Where their worm is ever living and the fire is not put out. ⁴⁹ Everyone will be salted with fire.

¹³ For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.

²⁴ They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.

² Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. ³ And David sent to get knowledge who the woman was. And one said, Is this not Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittite? ⁴ And David sent and took her; and she came to him, and he took her to his bed: for she had been made clean; then she went back to her house. ⁵ And the woman became with child; and she sent word to David that she was with child.

¹⁰ So now the sword will never be turned away from your family; because you have had no respect for me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife. ¹¹ The Lord says, From those of your family I will send evil against you, and before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to your neighbour, and he will take your wives to his bed by the light of this sun.

¹⁶ He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.

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.

¹ A Psalm. Of David. To keep in memory. O Lord, be not bitter with me in your wrath; let not your hand be on me in the heat of your passion. 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. ⁸ I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.

⁸ Make me full of joy and rapture; so that the bones which have been broken may be glad. ⁹ Let your face be turned from my wrongdoing, and take away all my sins.

³¹ So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.

²⁰ Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat: ²¹ For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed.

²⁹ Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark? ³⁰ Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine. ³¹ Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down: ³² In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake. ³³ Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things. ³⁴ Yes, you will be like him who takes his rest on the sea, or on the top of a sail-support. ³⁵ They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.

¹⁹ The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.

² If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart.

¹³ Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:

⁸ The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.

³ Then Judas, who was false to him, seeing that he was to be put to death, in his regret took back the thirty bits of silver to the chief priests and those in authority, ⁴ Saying, I have done wrong in giving into your hands an upright man. But they said, What is that to us? it is your business.

⁶ The word about the Beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and grief, the land of the she-lion and the voice of the lion, of the snake and the burning winged snake, they take their wealth on the backs of young asses, and their stores on camels, to a people in whom is no profit.

⁷ But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?

³ But when Paul had got some sticks together and put them on the fire, a snake came out, because of the heat, and gave him a bite on the hand. ⁴ And when the people saw it hanging on his hand, they said to one another, Without doubt this man has put someone to death, and though he has got safely away from the sea, God will not let him go on living. ⁵ But shaking off the beast into the fire, he got no damage. ⁶ But they had the idea that they would see him becoming ill, or suddenly falling down dead; but after waiting a long time, and seeing that no damage came to him, changing their opinion, they said he was a god.

²³ They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been honoured will see it.

¹³ He put him on the high places of the earth, his food was the increase of the field; honey he gave him out of the rock and oil out of the hard rock; ¹⁴ Butter from his cows and milk from his sheep, with fat of lambs and sheep of Bashan, and goats, and the heart of the grain; and for your drink, wine from the blood of the grape.

²⁹ And honey and butter and sheep and milk-cheeses, for David and his people: for they said, This people is in the waste land, needing food and drink and rest.

² Then the captain whose arm was supporting the king said to the man of God, Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, would such a thing be possible? And he said, Your eyes will see it, but you will not have a taste of the food.

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

⁸ The delights of your house will be showered on them; you will give them drink from the river of your pleasures. ⁹ For with you is the fountain of life: in your light we will see light.

¹⁶ I would give them the best grain for food; you would be full of honey from the rock.

¹⁵ Butter and honey will be his food, when he is old enough to make a decision between evil and good.

²² And they will give so much milk that he will be able to have butter for his food: for butter and honey will be the food of all who are still living in the land.

¹⁷ The poor and crushed are looking for water where no water is, and their tongue is dry for need of it: I the Lord will give ear to their prayer, I the God of Israel will not give them up.

⁶ For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land. ⁷ A blessing is on the man who puts his faith in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. ⁸ For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, pushing out its roots by the stream; he will have no fear when the heat comes, but his leaf will be green; in a dry year he will have no care, and will go on giving fruit.

²⁴ And he gave a cry and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, so that he may put the end of his finger in water and put it on my tongue, for I am cruelly burning in this flame.

¹ And I saw a river of water of life, clear as glass, coming out of the high seat of God and of the Lamb,

⁵ That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?

¹⁰ His children are hoping that the poor will be kind to them, and his hands give back his wealth.

¹⁵ He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.

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

²⁹ If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;

¹² Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

⁷ The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief. ⁸ The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad. ⁹ There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it. ¹⁰ The town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up, so that no man may come in. ¹¹ There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; there is an end of all delight, the joy of the land is gone.

¹⁵ About Judah. What have you to do in my house? is it your thought that oaths and holy flesh will get you out of your trouble? will you make yourself safe in this way? ¹⁶ You had been named by the Lord, A branching olive-tree, fair with beautiful fruit: with the noise of a great rushing he has put it on fire and its branches are broken.

¹³ A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;

¹⁷ But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.

³⁴ Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a meal of me, violently crushing me, he has made me a vessel with nothing in it, he has taken me in his mouth like a dragon, he has made his stomach full with my delicate flesh, crushing me with his teeth.

⁴⁴ And I will send punishment on Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what went into it; no longer will the nations be flowing together to him: truly, the wall of Babylon will come down.

¹⁶ All your haters are opening their mouths wide against you; making hisses and whistling through their teeth, they say, We have made a meal of her: certainly this is the day we have been looking for; it has come, we have seen it.

¹² The time has come, the day is near: let not him who gives a price for goods be glad, or him who gets the price have sorrow:

⁷ For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it. ⁸ Israel has come to destruction; now they are among the nations like a cup in which there is no pleasure.

¹ Have no joy, O Israel, and do not be glad like the nations; for you have been untrue to your God; your desire has been for the loose woman's reward on every grain-floor.

⁴ Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,

¹³ But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.

²⁴ You blind guides, who take out a fly from your drink, but make no trouble over a camel.

⁸ Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind. ⁹ Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.

³³ The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever:

³ Here I am: give witness against me before the Lord and before the man on whom he has put the holy oil: whose ox or ass have I taken? to whom have I been untrue? who has been crushed down by me? from whose hand have I taken a price for the blinding of my eyes? I will give it all back to you. ⁴ And they said, You have never been untrue to us or cruel to us; you have taken nothing from any man.

¹⁹ Say to him, The Lord says, Have you put a man to death and taken his heritage? Then say to him, The Lord says, In the place where dogs have been drinking the blood of Naboth, there will your blood become the drink of dogs.

¹⁵ In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.

²⁷ See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me; ²⁸ For you say, Where is the house of the ruler, and where is the tent of the evil-doer?

⁶ For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.

² The landmarks are changed by evil men, they violently take away flocks, together with their keepers. ³ They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt. ⁴ The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together. ⁵ Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children. ⁶ They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth. ⁷ They take their rest at night without clothing, and have no cover in the cold. ⁸ They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover. ⁹ The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt. ¹⁰ Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields. ¹¹ Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes. ¹² From the town come sounds of pain from those who are near death, and the soul of the wounded is crying out for help; but God does not take note of their prayer.

¹³ If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me; ¹⁴ What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions? ¹⁵ Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies? ¹⁶ If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose; ¹⁷ If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father; ¹⁸ For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother; ¹⁹ If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him; ²⁰ If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm; ²¹ If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges; ²² May my arm be pulled from my body, and be broken from its base.

³⁸ If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow; ³⁹ If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;

⁹ Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong.

¹⁸ To give decision for the child without a father and for the broken-hearted, so that the man of the earth may no longer be feared.

⁵ Because of the crushing of the poor and the weeping of those in need, now will I come to his help, says the Lord; I will give him the salvation which he is desiring.

³¹ He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.

²² Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge: ²³ For the Lord will give support to their cause, and take the life of those who take their goods.

¹ And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.

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.

⁷ For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help. ⁸ Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land!

³⁴ In a man's crushing under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

²⁹ The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.

¹ Give ear to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the hill of Samaria, by whom the poor are kept down, and those in need are crushed; who say to their lords, Get out the wine and give us drink. ² The Lord God has taken an oath by his holy name, that the days are coming when they will take you away with hooks, and the rest of you with fish-hooks. ³ And you will go out through the broken places, every one going straight before her, and you will be sent into Harmon, says the Lord.

² They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.

⁹ The women of my people you have been driving away from their dearly loved children; from their young ones you are taking my glory for ever.

⁶ But you have put the poor man to shame. Are not the men of wealth rulers over you? do they not take you by force before their judges?

¹³ For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.

⁴ See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.

¹³ There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall. ¹⁴ And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.

²⁰ But the evil-doers are like the troubled sea, for which there is no rest, and its waters send up earth and waste. ²¹ There is no peace, says my God, for the evil-doers.

²⁹ He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

¹⁹ He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.

¹¹ Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.

²⁴ And he gave a cry and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, so that he may put the end of his finger in water and put it on my tongue, for I am cruelly burning in this flame. ²⁵ But Abraham said, Keep in mind, my son, that when you were living, you had your good things, while Lazarus had evil things: but now, he is comforted and you are in pain.

² And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldaeans and of the Edomites and of the Moabites and of the children of Ammon; sending them against Judah for its destruction, as he had said by his servants the prophets.

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.

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.

¹⁷ There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.

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

⁷ The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.

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

¹⁸ Hate had I for all my work which I had done, because the man who comes after me will have its fruits. ¹⁹ And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose. ²⁰ So my mind was turned to grief for all the trouble I had taken and all my wisdom under the sun.

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.

⁷ As she gave glory to herself, and became more evil in her ways, in the same measure give her pain and weeping: for she says in her heart, I am seated here a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see sorrow.

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

²³ And Moses put out his rod to heaven: and the Lord sent thunder, and an ice-storm, and fire running down on the earth; the Lord sent an ice-storm on the land of Egypt.

³³ But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was tasted, the wrath of the Lord was moved against the people and he sent a great outburst of disease on them.

⁶ On the evil-doer he will send down fire and flames, and a burning wind; with these will their cup be full.

³⁰ But they were not turned from their desires; and while the food was still in their mouths, ³¹ The wrath of God came on them, and put to death the fattest of them, and put an end to the young men of Israel.

⁴ My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me.

¹⁷ And he said to himself, What is to be done? for I have no place in which to put all my fruit. ¹⁸ And he said, This I will do: I will take down my store-houses and make greater ones, and there I will put all my grain and my goods. ¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy. ²⁰ But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

³⁵ He makes my hands expert in war, so that a bow of brass is bent by my arms.

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

²³ Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.

¹⁸ And it will be that he who goes in flight from the sound of fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for the windows on high are open, and the bases of the earth are shaking.

⁴³ Fear and death and the net have come on you, O people of Moab, says the Lord. ⁴⁴ He who goes in flight from the fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for I will make this come on Moab, even the year of their punishment, says the Lord.

¹⁹ As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.

¹ I saw the Lord stationed by the side of the altar, giving blows to the tops of the pillars so that the doorsteps were shaking: and he said, I will let all of them be broken with earth-shocks; I will put the last of them to the sword: if any one of them goes in flight he will not get away, not one of them will be safe. ² Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down: ³ Though they take cover on the top of Carmel, I will go in search of them and get them out; though they keep themselves from my eyes in the bed of the sea, I will give orders to the great snake there and he will give them a bite:

⁴¹ If I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is outstretched for judging, I will give punishment to those who are against me, and their right reward to my haters.

¹⁴ Then Joab said, I would have made it safe for you. And he took three spears in his hand, and put them through Absalom's heart, while he was still living, in the branches of the tree.

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.

²¹ A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him:

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

¹¹ He is overcome by fears on every side, they go after him at every step.

²⁰ Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.

¹² If a man is not turned from his evil, he will make his sword sharp; his bow is bent and ready.

¹⁹ How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

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.

³ Then on the day after, Pashhur let Jeremiah loose. Then Jeremiah said to him, The Lord has given you the name of Magor-missabib Cause-of-fear-on-every-side, not Pashhur. ⁴ For the Lord has said, See, I will make you a cause of fear to yourself and to all your friends: they will come to their death by the sword of their haters, and your eyes will see it: and I will give all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will take them away prisoners into Babylon and put them to the sword.

¹¹ Having in mind, then, the fear of the Lord, we put these things before men, but God sees our hearts; and it is my hope that we may seem right in your eyes.

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.

⁹ You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.

⁹ Let his children have no father, and his wife be made a widow. ¹⁰ Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends. ¹¹ Let his creditor take all his goods; and let others have the profit of his work. ¹² Let no man have pity on him, or give help to his children when he is dead. ¹³ Let his seed be cut off; in the coming generation let their name go out of memory. ¹⁴ Let the Lord keep in mind the wrongdoing of his fathers; and may the sin of his mother have no forgiveness. ¹⁵ Let them be ever before the eyes of the Lord, so that the memory of them may be cut off from the earth.

⁴ Sharp arrows of the strong, and burning fire.

²² And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.

²⁰ As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man. ²¹ Make ready a place of death for his children, because of the evil-doing of their father; so that they may not come up and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the world with waste places. ²² For I will come up against them, says the Lord of armies, cutting off from Babylon name and offspring, son and son's son, says the Lord.

³³ For a place of fire has long been ready; yes, it has been made ready for the king; he has made it deep and wide: it is massed with fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of fire, puts a light to it.

¹² In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned up in the fire which will never be put out.

¹² But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.

¹³ Violent waves of the sea, streaming with their shame, wandering stars for whom the darkest night is kept in store for ever.

²⁸ Get together before me all those who are in authority in your tribes, and your overseers, so that I may say these things in their hearing, and make heaven and earth my witnesses against them.

¹⁸ O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place!

²⁰ If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god, ²¹ Will not God make search for it? for he sees the secrets of the heart.

²¹ For the Lord is coming out of his place to send punishment on the people of the earth for their evil-doing: the earth will let the blood drained out on her be seen, and will keep her dead covered no longer.

²³ Because they have done shame in Israel, and have taken their neighbours' wives, and in my name have said false words, which I did not give them orders to say; and I myself am the witness, says the Lord.

⁵ And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.

² But nothing is covered up, which will not come to light, or secret, which will not be made clear. ³ So, whatever you have said in the dark, will come to men's hearing in the light, and what you have said secretly inside the house, will be made public from the house-tops.

¹⁶ In the day when God will be a judge of the secrets of men, as it says in the good news of which I am a preacher, through Jesus Christ.

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

³¹ Your ox will be put to death before your eyes, but its flesh will not be your food: your ass will be violently taken away before your face, and will not be given back to you: your sheep will be given to your haters, and there will be no saviour for you.

¹⁷ Truly, days are coming when everything in your house, and whatever your fathers have put in store till this day, will be taken away to Babylon: all will be gone, says the Lord.

⁵ Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

¹⁸ He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading. ¹⁹ Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up; ²⁰ There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight. ²¹ He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end. ²² Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.

³⁰ How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?

¹⁴ If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread. ¹⁵ When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them. ¹⁶ Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing; ¹⁷ He may get them ready, but the upright will put them on, and he who is free from sin will take the silver for a heritage. ¹⁸ His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent. ¹⁹ He goes to rest full of wealth, but does so for the last time: on opening his eyes, he sees it there no longer.

⁴ Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.

¹⁸ Even their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the Lord's wrath; but all the land will be burned up in the fire of his bitter wrath: for he will put an end, even suddenly, to all who are living in the land.

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?

¹ Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you. ² Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing. ³ Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.

¹⁷ For in one hour such great wealth has come to nothing. And every shipmaster, and all who are sailing on the sea, and sailors and all who get their living by the sea, were watching from far away,

²⁰ The Lord will have no mercy on him, but the wrath of the Lord will be burning against that man, and all the curses recorded in this book will be waiting for him, and the Lord will take away his name completely from the earth. ²¹ He will be marked out by the Lord, from all the tribes of Israel, for an evil fate, in keeping with all the curses of the agreement recorded in this book of the law. ²² And future generations, your children coming after you, and travellers from far countries, will say, when they see the punishments of that land and the diseases which the Lord has sent on it; ²³ And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath: ²⁴ Truly all the nations will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land? what is the reason for this great and burning wrath? ²⁵ Then men will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he took them out of the land of Egypt: ²⁶ And they went after other gods and gave them worship, gods who were strange to them, and whom he had not given them: ²⁷ And so the wrath of the Lord was moved against this land, to send on it all the curse recorded in this book: ²⁸ Rooting them out of their land, in the heat of his wrath and passion, and driving them out into another land, as at this day.

²¹ Truly, these are the houses of the sinner, and this is the place of him who has no knowledge of God.

¹³ This is the punishment of the evil-doer from God, and the heritage given to the cruel by the Ruler of all.

² For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven? ³ Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers?

⁵ The Lord puts the upright and the sinner to the test, but he has hate in his soul for the lover of violent acts. ⁶ On the evil-doer he will send down fire and flames, and a burning wind; with these will their cup be full.

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

⁵¹ And will have him cut in two, and will give him a part in the fate of the false ones: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.