Job 24 Cross References - BBE

¹ Why are times not stored up by the Ruler of all, and why do those who have knowledge of him not see his days? 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 Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them. ¹⁴ He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need. ¹⁵ And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about; ¹⁶ In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light. ¹⁷ For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark. ¹⁸ They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden. ¹⁹ Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld. 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. ²¹ He is not kind to the widow, and he has no pity for her child. ²² But God by his power gives long life to the strong; he gets up again, though he has no hope of life. ²³ He takes away his fear of danger and gives him support; and his eyes are on his ways. ²⁴ For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off. ²⁵ And if it is not so, now, who will make it clear that my words are false, and that what I say is of no value?

⁴ For after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, for the destruction of every living thing which I have made on the face of the earth.

¹⁷ And the Lord said, Am I to keep back from Abraham the knowledge of what I do;

²⁰ And the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is very great, and their sin is very evil, ²¹ I will go down now, and see if their acts are as bad as they seem from the outcry which has come to me; and if they are not, I will see.

¹⁰ And those who have knowledge of your name will put their faith in you; because you, Lord, have ever given your help to those who were waiting for you.

¹⁵ The chances of my life are in your hand; take me out of the hands of my haters, and of those who go after me.

¹⁰ O let there be no end to your loving mercy to those who have knowledge of you, or of your righteousness to the upright in heart.

¹⁶ When my thoughts were turned to see the reason of this, it was a weariness in my eyes; ¹⁷ Till I went into God's holy place, and saw the end of the evil-doers. 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.

¹⁷ I said in my heart, God will be judge of the good and of the bad; because a time for every purpose and for every work has been fixed by him.

⁶ For every purpose there is a time and a decision, because the sorrow of man is great in him. ⁷ No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?

¹¹ And again I saw under the sun that the reward goes not to him who is quick, or the fruits of war to the strong; and there is no bread for the wise, or wealth for men of learning, or respect for those who have knowledge; but time and chance come to all. ¹² Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them.

¹² For the day of the Lord of armies is coming on all the pride of men, and on all who are high and lifted up;

²² The smallest of their families will become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I, the Lord, will make it come quickly in its time.

¹ You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort? ² They have been planted by you, they have taken root; they go on and give fruit: you are near in their mouths but far from their thoughts. ³ But you, O Lord, have knowledge of me; you see me, searching and testing how my heart is with you: let them be pulled out like sheep to be put to death, make them ready for the day of death.

¹⁰ But that day is the day of the Lord, the Lord of armies, a day of punishment when he will take payment from his haters: and the sword will have all its desire, drinking their blood in full measure: for there is an offering to the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the north country by the river Euphrates.

²¹ By him times and years are changed: by him kings are taken away and kings are lifted up: he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those whose minds are awake:

³⁸ Because as in those days before the overflowing of the waters, they were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day when Noah went into the ark,

²² For these are the days of punishment, in which all the things in the Writings will be put into effect. ²³ It will be hard for women who are with child, and for her with a baby at the breast, in those days. For great trouble will come on the land, and wrath on this people. ²⁴ And they will be put to death with the sword, and will be taken as prisoners into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be crushed under the feet of the Gentiles, till the times of the Gentiles are complete.

³ And this is eternal life: to have knowledge of you, the only true God, and of him whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ.

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

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

⁵ But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

¹ But about the times and their order, my brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you.

¹ But the Spirit says clearly that in later times some will be turned away from the faith, giving their minds to spirits of deceit, and the teachings of evil spirits,

¹⁵ Which at the right time he will make clear, who is the eternal and only Ruler, King of kings, and Lord of lords;

³ And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.

⁷ But the present heaven and the present earth have been kept for destruction by fire, which is waiting for them on the day of the judging and destruction of evil men. ⁸ But, my loved ones, keep in mind this one thing, that with the Lord one day is the same as a thousand years, and a thousand years are no more than one day.

¹⁴ Your neighbour's landmark, which was put in its place by the men of old times, is not to be moved or taken away in the land of your heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

¹⁷ Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's landmark from its place. And let all the people say, So be it.

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.

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.

²⁸ Let not the old landmark be moved which your fathers have put in place.

¹⁰ Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;

¹⁰ The rulers of Judah are like those who take away a landmark; I will let loose my wrath on them like flowing water.

⁶ No one is to take, on account of a debt, the stones with which grain is crushed: for in doing so he takes a man's living.

¹⁰ If you let your brother have the use of anything which is yours, do not go into his house and take anything of his as a sign of his debt; ¹¹ But keep outside till he comes out and gives it to you. ¹² If he is a poor man, do not keep his property all night; ¹³ But be certain to give it back to him when the sun goes down, so that he may have his clothing for sleeping in, and will give you his blessing: and this will be put to your account as righteousness before the Lord your God.

¹⁷ Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt: ¹⁸ But keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God made you free: for this is why I give you orders to do this. ¹⁹ When you get in the grain from your field, if some of the grain has been dropped by chance in the field, do not go back and get it, but let it be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow: so that the blessing of the Lord your God may be on all the work of your hands. ²⁰ When you are shaking the fruit from your olive-trees, do not go over the branches a second time: let some be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow. ²¹ When you are pulling the grapes from your vines, do not take up those which have been dropped; let them be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow.

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.

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. ⁷ You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread. ⁸ For it was the man with power who had the land, and the man with an honoured name who was living in it. ⁹ You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.

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;

¹⁴ He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

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.

²⁵ Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need?

¹⁶ If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;

¹ To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. Happy is the man who gives thought to the poor; the Lord will be his saviour in the time of trouble.

¹⁶ Because he had no mercy, but was cruel to the low and the poor, designing the death of the broken-hearted.

¹⁶ He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.

¹² When the upright do well, there is great glory; but when evil-doers are lifted up, men do not let themselves be seen.

²⁸ When evil-doers are lifted up, men take cover; but when destruction overtakes them, the upright are increased.

¹⁴ There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.

² Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.

¹² Has done wrong to the poor and to him who is in need, and taken property by force, and has not given back to one in his debt what is his, and has given worship to images and has done disgusting things,

¹⁸ As for his father, because he was cruel, took goods by force, and did what is not good among his people, truly, death will overtake him in his evil-doing.

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.

⁷ Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:

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, ⁵ Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit; ⁶ Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.

¹ A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power. 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.

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. ⁵ You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction. ⁶ You have given your decision against the upright man and have put him to death. He puts up no fight against you.

¹² And he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and he will keep his place against all his brothers.

⁴⁰ By your sword will you get your living and you will be your brother's servant; but when your power is increased his yoke will be broken from off your neck.

⁶ There is wealth in the tents of those who make destruction, and those by whom God is moved to wrath are safe; even those whose god is their strength.

⁵ Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast? ⁶ To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place. ⁷ He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;

²³ Man goes out to his work, and to his business, till the evening.

¹⁶ For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

²⁴ An untrained ass, used to the waste land, breathing up the wind in her desire; at her time, who is able to send her away? all those who are looking for her will have no need to make themselves tired; in her month they will get her.

⁶ For they have made their hearts ready like an oven, while they are waiting secretly; their wrath is sleeping all night; in the morning it is burning like a flaming fire.

⁹ For they have gone up to Assyria like an ass going by himself; Ephraim has given money to get lovers.

¹ A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

³ Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.

²⁸ So they took Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not go into the Praetorium, so that they might not become unclean, but might take the Passover.

¹² And when it was day, the Jews came together and put themselves under an oath that they would take no food or drink till they had put Paul to death.

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:

⁵¹ He will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land till death puts an end to you: he will let you have nothing of your grain or wine or oil or any of the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, till he has made your destruction complete.

³ And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them; ⁴ And put their army in position against them; and they took all the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, till there was no food in Israel, or any sheep or oxen or asses. ⁵ For they came up regularly with their oxen and their tents; they came like the locusts in number; they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land for its destruction. ⁶ And Israel was in great need because of Midian; and the cry of the children of Israel went up to the Lord.

¹⁵ You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.

⁴⁰ This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes.

²⁶ If ever you take your neighbour's clothing in exchange for the use of your money, let him have it back before the sun goes down: ²⁷ For it is the only thing he has for covering his skin; what is he to go to sleep in? and when his cry comes up to me, I will give ear, for my mercy is great.

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.

¹⁰ Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.

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 She has no fear of the snow for her family, for all those in her house are clothed in red.

⁷ Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?

³¹ And so the church through all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was made strong; and, living in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, was increased greatly.

² I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.

⁵ Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.

³⁸ Wandering in waste places and in mountains and in holes in the rocks; for whom the world was not good enough.

¹ Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.

⁵ But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.

¹⁹ When you get in the grain from your field, if some of the grain has been dropped by chance in the field, do not go back and get it, but let it be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow: so that the blessing of the Lord your God may be on all the work of your hands.

⁷ Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name: ⁸ By every altar they are stretched on clothing taken from those who are in their debt, drinking in the house of their god the wine of those who have made payment for wrongdoing.

¹¹ So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine. ¹² For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.

⁴ Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.

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;

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 And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do: ¹⁴ And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.

²³ Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God. ²⁴ And at the sound of their weeping the agreement which God had made with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob came to his mind.

²⁷ For it is the only thing he has for covering his skin; what is he to go to sleep in? and when his cry comes up to me, I will give ear, for my mercy is great.

¹⁶ So they put away the strange gods from among them, and became the Lord's servants; and his soul was angry because of the sorrows of Israel.

²³ If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.

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.

²¹ These things have you done, and I said nothing; it seemed to you that I was such a one as yourself; but I will make a protest against you, and put them in order before your eyes.

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.

²² For I am poor and in need, and my heart is wounded in me.

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.

¹¹ Because punishment for an evil work comes not quickly, the minds of the sons of men are fully given to doing evil. ¹² Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his life is long, I am certain that it will be well for those who go in fear of God and are in fear before him.

⁵ Now then, what have I here? says the Lord, for my people are taken away without cause; they are made waste and give cries of sorrow, says the Lord, and all the day the nations put shame on my name.

¹⁷ You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them; or, Where is God the judge?

¹⁵ And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe.

⁴ Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart? ⁵ But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

¹⁵ And be certain that the long waiting of the Lord is for salvation; even as our brother Paul has said in his letters to you, from the wisdom which was given to him;

¹¹ My feet have gone in his steps; I have kept in his way, without turning to one side or to the other. ¹² I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.

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

⁴⁷ And the servant who had knowledge of his lord's desires and was not ready for him and did not do as he was ordered, will be given a great number of blows; ⁴⁸ But he who, without knowledge, did things for which punishment is given, will get only a small number of blows. The man to whom much is given, will have to give much; if much is given into his care, of him more will be requested.

¹⁹ And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil. ²⁰ The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.

³¹ Then Jesus said to the Jews who had faith in him, If you keep my word, then you are truly my disciples;

⁴⁴ You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

³⁹ And Jesus said, I came into this world to be a judge, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind. ⁴⁰ These words came to the ears of the Pharisees who were with him and they said to him, Are we, then, blind? ⁴¹ Jesus said to them, If you were blind you would have no sin: but now that you say, We see; your sin is there still.

³⁵ Jesus said to them, For a little time longer the light will be among you; while you have the light go on walking in it, so that the dark may not overtake you: one walking in the dark has no knowledge of where he is going.

⁴⁰ He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well.

⁶ If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.

²² If I had not come and been their teacher they would have had no sin: but now they have no reason to give for their sin. ²³ He who has hate for me has hate for my Father. ²⁴ If I had not done among them the works which no other man ever did, they would have had no sin: but now they have seen, and they have had hate in their hearts for me and my Father.

³² Who, though they have knowledge of the law of God, that the fate of those who do these things is death, not only go on doing these things themselves, but give approval to those who do them.

¹⁷ But as for you who have the name of Jew, and are resting on the law, and take pride in God, ¹⁸ And have knowledge of his desires, and are a judge of the things which are different, having the learning of the law, ¹⁹ In the belief that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in the dark, ²⁰ A teacher of the foolish, having in the law the form of knowledge and of what is true; ²¹ You who give teaching to others, do you give it to yourself? you who say that a man may not take what is not his, do you take what is not yours? ²² You who say that a man may not be untrue to his wife, are you true to yours? you who are a hater of images, do you do wrong to the house of God? ²³ You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law? ²⁴ For the name of God is shamed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is said in the holy Writings.

¹¹ Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God; ¹² They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one: 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: ¹⁴ Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words: ¹⁵ Their feet are quick in running after blood; ¹⁶ Destruction and trouble are in their ways; ¹⁷ And of the way of peace they have no knowledge:

¹⁰ And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation. ¹¹ And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false: ¹² So that they all may be judged, who had no faith in what is true, but took pleasure in evil.

¹⁷ The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

²⁰ For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first. ²¹ For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it. ²² They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth.

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

⁶ And the angels who did not keep to their kingdom but went out from the place which was theirs, he has put in eternal chains and in dark night till the great day of the judging.

¹⁴ Now in the morning, David gave Uriah a letter to take to Joab. ¹⁵ And in the letter he said, Take care to put Uriah in the very front of the line, where the fighting is most violent, and go back from him, so that he may be overcome and put to death. ¹⁶ So while Joab was watching the town, he put Uriah in the place where it was clear to him the best fighters were. ¹⁷ And the men of the town went out and had a fight with Joab: and a number of David's men came to their death in the fight, and with them Uriah the Hittite.

⁸ He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor. ⁹ He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net. ¹⁰ The upright are crushed and made low, and the feeble are overcome by his strong ones.

³⁹ But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house be broken into.

⁷ Have no part with such men; ⁸ For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light ⁹ Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true, ¹⁰ Testing by experience what is well-pleasing to the Lord; ¹¹ And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;

² For you yourselves have the knowledge that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

³ Keep in mind, then, the teaching which was given to you, and be ruled by it and have a change of heart. If then you do not keep watch, I will come like a thief, and you will have no knowledge of the hour when I will come on you.

¹⁴ She took off her widow's clothing, and covering herself with her veil, she took her seat near Enaim on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was now a man, but she had not been made his wife. ¹⁵ When Judah saw her he took her to be a loose woman of the town, because her face was covered.

¹⁴ Do not be false to the married relation.

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. ⁶ And David sent to Joab saying, Send Uriah the Hittite to me. And Joab sent Uriah to David. ⁷ And when Uriah came to him, David put questions to him about how Joab and the people were, and how the war was going. ⁸ And David said to Uriah, Go down to your house and let your feet be washed. And Uriah went away from the king's house, and an offering from the king was sent after him. ⁹ But Uriah took his rest at the door of the king's house, with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house. ¹⁰ And when word was given to David that Uriah had not gone down to his house, David said to Uriah, Have you not come from a journey? why did you not go down to your house? ¹¹ And Uriah said to David, Israel and Judah with the ark are living in tents, and my lord Joab and the other servants of my lord are sleeping in the open field; and am I to go to my house and take food and drink, and go to bed with my wife? By the living Lord, and by the life of your soul, I will not do such a thing. ¹² And David said to Uriah, Be here today, and after that I will let you go. So Uriah was in Jerusalem that day and the day after. ¹³ And when David sent for him, he took meat and drink with him, and David made him the worse for drink: and when evening came, he went to rest on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.

¹² You did it secretly; but I will do this thing before all Israel and in the light of the sun.

¹³ And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark? ¹⁴ Thick clouds are covering him, so that he is unable to see; and he is walking on the arch of heaven.

¹¹ He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.

¹⁸ When you saw a thief, you were in agreement with him, and you were joined with those who took other men's wives.

¹¹ And they say, How will the Lord see this? is there knowledge in the Most High?

⁷ And they say, Jah will not see it, the God of Jacob will not give thought to it.

³² He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul. ³³ Wounds will be his and loss of honour, and his shame may not be washed away. ³⁴ For bitter is the wrath of an angry husband; in the day of punishment he will have no mercy. ³⁵ He will not take any payment; and he will not make peace with you though your money offerings are increased.

⁹ At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night. ¹⁰ And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;

¹² And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the responsible men of the children of Israel do in the dark, every man in his room of pictured images? for they say, The Lord does not see us; the Lord has gone away from the land.

⁹ Then he said to me, The sin of the children of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is full of blood and the town full of evil ways: for they say, The Lord has gone away from the land, and the Lord does not see.

² If a thief is taken in the act of forcing his way into a house, and his death is caused by a blow, the owner of the house is not responsible for his blood. ³ But if it is after dawn, he will be responsible.

¹³ Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them.

¹² Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place; ¹³ So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

⁵ Make a hole in the wall, before their eyes, and go out through it. ⁶ And before their eyes, take your goods on your back and go out in the dark; go with your face covered: for I have made you a sign to the children of Israel. ⁷ And I did as I was ordered: I took out my vessels by day, like those of one who is taken away, and in the evening I made a hole through the wall with a tent-pin; and in the dark I went out, taking my things on my back before their eyes.

¹² And the ruler who is among them will take his goods on his back in the dark and go out: he will make a hole in the wall through which to go out: he will have his face covered so that he may not be seen.

¹⁹ Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.

⁴³ But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house be broken into.

²⁰ The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.

¹¹ And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear; ¹² For the things which are done by them in secret it is shame even to put into words. ¹³ But all things, when their true quality is seen, are made clear by the light: because everything which is made clear is light.

⁵ Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

²⁶ As the thief is shamed when he is taken, so is Israel shamed; they, their kings and their rulers, their priests and their prophets;

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. 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.

¹⁶ And they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Come down on us, covering us from the face of him who is seated on the high seat, and from the wrath of the Lamb: ¹⁷ For the great day of their wrath is come, and who may keep his place?

¹⁶ You will be cursed in the town and cursed in the field. ¹⁷ A curse will be on your basket and on your bread-basin. ¹⁸ A curse will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock. ¹⁹ You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out. ²⁰ The Lord will send on you cursing and trouble and punishment in everything to which you put your hand, till sudden destruction overtakes you; because of your evil ways in which you have been false to me.

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

¹⁶ Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:

⁷ Let them be turned to liquid like the ever-flowing waters; let them be cut off like the grass by the way.

²² Let their table before them be for their destruction; let their feasts become a net to take them.

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.

³³ The curse of the Lord is on the house of the evil-doer, but his blessing is on the tent of the upright.

¹⁰ Let your land be worked with the plough, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer any harbour.

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.

¹⁵ My friends have been false like a stream, like streams in the valleys which come to an end: ¹⁶ Which are dark because of the ice, and the snow falling into them; ¹⁷ Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat.

¹³ Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.

²³ One comes to his end in complete well-being, full of peace and quiet:

³² He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it. ³³ The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him. ³⁴ Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit?

¹⁴ Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

⁸ Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun. ⁹ Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

² Let them be like smoke before the driving wind; as wax turning soft before the fire, so let them come to an end before the power of God.

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

⁴ For him who is joined to all the living there is hope; a living dog is better than a dead lion. ⁵ The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them. ⁶ Their love and their hate and their envy are now ended; and they have no longer a part for ever in anything which is done under the sun.

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?

²² And in time the poor man came to his end, and angels took him to Abraham's breast. And the man of wealth came to his end, and was put in the earth.

⁷ For there is hope of a tree; if it is cut down, it will come to life again, and its branches will not come to an end. ⁸ Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust; ⁹ Still, at the smell of water, it will make buds, and put out branches like a young plant. ¹⁰ But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

¹⁴ If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;

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.

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

⁷ The memory of the upright is a blessing, but the name of the evil-doer will be turned to dust.

¹⁰ And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.

¹⁴ The dead will not come back to life: their spirits will not come back to earth; for this cause you have sent destruction on them, so that the memory of them is dead.

¹⁴ Crying out with a loud voice; and this is what he said: Let the tree be cut down and its branches broken off; let its leaves be taken off and its fruit sent in every direction: let the beasts get away from under it and the birds from its branches:

¹⁰ And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.

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

⁹ You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.

³ They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.

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.

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;

⁸ And Haman said to King Ahasuerus, There is a certain nation living here and there in small groups among the people in all the divisions of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of any other nation, and they do not keep the king's laws: for this reason it is not right for the king to let them be. ⁹ If it is the king's pleasure, let a statement ordering their destruction be put in writing: and I will give to those responsible for the king's business, ten thousand talents of silver for the king's store-house. ¹⁰ And the king took his ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the hater of the Jews.

⁴ Then the chief rulers and the captains were looking for some cause for putting Daniel in the wrong in connection with the kingdom, but they were unable to put forward any wrongdoing or error against him; because he was true, and no error or wrong was to be seen in him. ⁵ Then these men said, We will only get a reason for attacking Daniel in connection with the law of his God. ⁶ Then these chief rulers and the captains came to the king and said to him, O King Darius, have life for ever. ⁷ All the chief rulers of the kingdom, the chiefs and the captains, the wise men and the rulers, have made a common decision to put in force a law having the king's authority, and to give a strong order, that whoever makes any request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions' hole. ⁸ Now, O King, put the order in force, signing the writing so that it may not be changed, like the law of the Medes and Persians which may not come to an end. ⁹ For this reason King Darius put his name on the writing and the order.

¹² Hearing this, Pilate had a desire to let him go free, but the Jews said in a loud voice, If you let this man go, you are not Caesar's friend: everyone who makes himself a king goes against Caesar. ¹³ So when these words came to Pilate's ear, he took Jesus out, seating himself in the judge's seat in a place named in Hebrew, Gabbatha, or the Stone Floor. ¹⁴ It was the day when they made ready for the Passover; and it was about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, There is your King! ¹⁵ Then they gave a loud cry, Away with him! away with him! to the cross! Pilate said to them, Am I to put your King to death on the cross? The chief priests said in answer, We have no king but Caesar. ¹⁶ So then he gave him up to them to be put to death on the cross. And they took Jesus away;

¹³ And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, like frogs. ¹⁴ For they are evil spirits, working signs; who go out even to the kings of all the earth, to get them together to the war of the great day of God, the Ruler of all.

² With whom the kings of the earth made themselves unclean, and those who are on the earth were full of the wine of her evil desires.

¹¹ For in his eyes men are as nothing; he sees evil and takes note of it.

¹³ Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it? ¹⁴ You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.

⁴ The Lord is in his holy Temple, the Lord's seat is in heaven; his eyes are watching and testing the children of men. 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.

³ Because of my envy of the men of pride, when I saw the well-being of the wrongdoers. ⁴ For they have no pain; their bodies are fat and strong. ⁵ They are not in trouble as others are; they have no part in the unhappy fate of men. ⁶ For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe. ⁷ Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire. ⁸ Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts. ⁹ Their mouth goes up to heaven; their tongues go walking through the earth. ¹⁰ For this reason they are full of bread; and water is ever flowing for them. ¹¹ And they say, How will the Lord see this? is there knowledge in the Most High? ¹² Truly, such are the sinners; they do well at all times, and their wealth is increased.

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

³ The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

²¹ If your hater is in need of food, give him bread; and if he is in need of drink, give him water: ²² For so you will put coals of fire on his head, and the Lord will give you your reward. ²³ As the north wind gives birth to rain, so is an angry face caused by a tongue saying evil secretly.

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.

¹¹ Because punishment for an evil work comes not quickly, the minds of the sons of men are fully given to doing evil.

⁸ For he says, Are not all my captains kings? ⁹ Will not the fate of Calno be like that of Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? ¹⁰ As my hand has come on the kingdoms of the images, whose pictured images were more in number than those of Jerusalem and Samaria; ¹¹ So, as I have done to Samaria and her images, I will do to Jerusalem and her images.

¹² Come, they say, I will get wine, and we will take strong drink in full measure; and tomorrow will be like today, full of pleasure.

⁷ The Lord has taken an oath by the pride of Jacob, Truly I will ever keep in mind all their works.

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:

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

¹⁶ And he said to them, in a story, The land of a certain man of great wealth was very fertile: 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?

⁴⁵ But if that servant says to himself, My lord is a long time coming; and goes about giving blows to the men-servants and the women-servants, feasting and taking overmuch wine;

³ When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.

²³ And I will put her children to death; and all the churches will see that I am he who makes search into the secret thoughts and hearts of men: and I will give to every one of you the reward of your works.

²² Your haters will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the sinner will not be seen again.

²¹ His sons come to honour, and he has no knowledge of it; they are made low, but he is not conscious of it.

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

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.

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.

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

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

⁵ And it will be like a man cutting the growth of his grain, pulling together the heads of the grain with his arm; even as when they get in the grain in the valley of Rephaim. ⁶ But it will be like a man shaking an olive-tree, something will still be there, two or three berries on the top of the highest branch, four or five on the outside branches of a fertile tree, says the Lord, the God of Israel.

¹¹ For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.

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.

¹⁴ And I saw a white cloud, and on the cloud I saw one seated, like a son of man, having on his head a crown of gold, and in his hand a sharp curved blade. ¹⁵ And another angel came out from the house of God, crying with a loud voice to him who was seated on the cloud, Put in your blade, and let the grain be cut: because the hour for cutting it is come; for the grain of the earth is over-ready. ¹⁶ And he who was seated on the cloud sent in his blade on the earth; and the grain of the earth was cut. ¹⁷ And another angel came out from the house of God which is in heaven, having a sharp curved blade. ¹⁸ And another angel came out from the altar, who has power over fire; and he gave a loud cry to him who had the sharp curved blade, saying, Put in your sharp blade, and let the grapes of the vine of the earth be cut; for her grapes are fully ready. ¹⁹ And the angel sent his blade into the earth, and the vine of the earth was cut, and he put it into the great wine-crusher of the wrath of God. ²⁰ And the grapes were crushed under foot outside the town, and blood came out from them, even to the head-bands of the horses, two hundred miles.

²⁸ Now then, let your eyes be turned to me, for truly I will not say what is false to your face.

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?

² Are all these words to go unanswered? and is a man seen to be right because he is full of talk? 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?

² Will a wise man make answer with knowledge of no value, or will he give birth to the east wind?

⁴ Truly, there is no deceit in my lips, and my tongue does not say what is false.