Job 26 Cross References - BBE

¹ Then Job made answer and said, ² How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength! ³ How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge! ⁴ To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you? ⁵ The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them. ⁶ The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil. ⁷ By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing. ⁸ By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them. ⁹ By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it. ¹⁰ By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark. ¹¹ The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words. ¹² By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded. ¹³ By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through. ¹⁴ See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.

²⁷ And in the middle of the day, Elijah made sport of them, saying, Give louder cries, for he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or he may have gone away for some purpose, or he may be on a journey, or by chance he is sleeping and has to be made awake.

³ Truly, you have been a helper to others, and you have made feeble hands strong; ⁴ He who was near to falling has been lifted up by your words, and you have given strength to bent knees.

¹² Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh brass?

²⁵ How pleasing are upright words! but what force is there in your arguments?

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

⁴ It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you: ⁵ I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips.

⁹ Do not give me up when I am old; be my help even when my strength is gone.

³ Make strong the feeble hands, give support to the shaking knees. ⁴ Say to those who are full of fear, Be strong and take heart: see, your God will give punishment; the reward of God will come; he himself will come to be your saviour.

¹⁴ Who gave him suggestions, and made clear to him the right way? who gave him knowledge, guiding him in the way of wisdom?

⁵ The sea-lands saw it, and were in fear; the ends of the earth were shaking: they came near. ⁶ They gave help everyone to his neighbour; and everyone said to his brother, Take heart! ⁷ So the metal-worker put heart into the gold-worker, and he who was hammering the metal smooth said kind words to the iron-worker, saying of the plate, It is ready: and he put it together with nails, so that there might be no slipping.

¹³ I have no help in myself, and wisdom is completely gone from me.

³ But I have a mind as well as you; I am equal to you: yes, who has not knowledge of such things as these?

⁵ If only you would keep quiet, it would be a sign of wisdom!

⁸ Were you present at the secret meeting of God? and have you taken all wisdom for yourself? ⁹ What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours? ¹⁰ With us are men who are grey-haired and full of years, much older than your father.

¹⁰ But come back, now, all of you, come; and I will not see a wise man among you.

¹¹ I was waiting for your words, I was giving ear to your wise sayings; while you were searching out what to say, ¹² I was taking note; and truly not one of you was able to make clear Job's error, or to give an answer to his words. ¹³ Take care that you do not say, Wisdom is here; God may overcome him, but not man.

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

³³ If not, give attention to me, and keep quiet, and I will give you wisdom.

² Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?

¹ Alamoth. To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm. Give attention to this, all you peoples; let your ears be open, all you who are living in the world. ² High and low together, the poor, and those who have wealth. ³ From my mouth will come words of wisdom; and in the thoughts of my heart will be knowledge. ⁴ I will put my teaching into a story; I will make my dark sayings clear with music.

¹⁵ My mouth will make clear your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for they are more than may be measured. ¹⁶ I will give news of the great acts of the Lord God; my words will be of your righteousness, and of yours only. ¹⁷ O God, you have been my teacher from the time when I was young; and I have been talking of your works of wonder even till now. ¹⁸ Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come.

⁶ Give ear, for my words are true, and my lips are open to give out what is upright. ⁷ For good faith goes out of my mouth, and false lips are disgusting to me. ⁸ All the words of my mouth are righteousness; there is nothing false or twisted in them. ⁹ They are all true to him whose mind is awake, and straightforward to those who get knowledge.

²⁰ And how I kept back nothing which might be of profit to you, teaching you publicly and privately,

²⁷ For I have not kept back from you anything of the purpose of God.

²³ And now, see, the Lord has put a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and the Lord has said evil against you. ²⁴ Then Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, came near and gave Micaiah a blow on the side of the face, saying, Where is the spirit of the Lord whose word is in you?

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

¹⁸ For I am full of words, I am unable to keep in my breath any longer:

⁷ And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

³ So it is my desire for you to be clear about this; that no one is able to say by the Spirit of God that Jesus is cursed; and no one is able to say that Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.

¹ My loved ones, do not put your faith in every spirit, but put them to the test, to see if they are from God: because a great number of false prophets have gone out into the world. ² By this you may have knowledge of the Spirit of God: every spirit which says that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God: ³ And every spirit which does not say this is not from God: this is the spirit of Antichrist, of which you have had word; and it is in the world even now.

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.

⁴ There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name.

¹ Is it possible for Leviathan to be pulled out with a fish-hook, or for a hook to be put through the bone of his mouth? ² Will you put a cord into his nose, or take him away with a cord round his tongue? ³ Will he make prayers to you, or say soft words to you? ⁴ Will he make an agreement with you, so that you may take him as a servant for ever? ⁵ Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women? ⁶ Will the fishermen make profit out of him? will they have him cut up for the traders? ⁷ Will you put sharp-pointed irons into his skin, or fish-spears into his head? ⁸ Only put your hand on him, and see what a fight you will have; you will not do it again! ⁹ Truly, the hope of his attacker is false; he is overcome even on seeing him! ¹⁰ He is so cruel that no one is ready to go against him. Who then is able to keep his place before me? ¹¹ Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven! ¹² I will not keep quiet about the parts of his body, or about his power, and the strength of his frame. ¹³ Who has ever taken off his outer skin? who may come inside his inner coat of iron? ¹⁴ Who has made open the doors of his face? Fear is round about his teeth. ¹⁵ His back is made of lines of plates, joined tight together, one against the other, like a stamp. ¹⁶ One is so near to the other that no air may come between them. ¹⁷ They take a grip of one another; they are joined together, so that they may not be parted. ¹⁸ His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn. ¹⁹ Out of his mouth go burning lights, and flames of fire are jumping up. ²⁰ Smoke comes out of his nose, like a pot boiling on the fire. ²¹ His breath puts fire to coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth. ²² Strength is in his neck, and fear goes dancing before him. ²³ The plates of his flesh are joined together, fixed, and not to be moved. ²⁴ His heart is as strong as a stone, hard as the lower crushing-stone. ²⁵ When he gets ready for the fight, the strong are overcome with fear. ²⁶ The sword may come near him but is not able to go through him; the spear, or the arrow, or the sharp-pointed iron. ²⁷ Iron is to him as dry grass, and brass as soft wood. ²⁸ The arrow is not able to put him to flight: stones are no more to him than dry stems. ²⁹ A thick stick is no better than a leaf of grass, and he makes sport of the onrush of the spear. ³⁰ Under him are sharp edges of broken pots: as if he was pulling a grain-crushing instrument over the wet earth. ³¹ The deep is boiling like a pot of spices, and the sea like a perfume-vessel. ³² After him his way is shining, so that the deep seems white. ³³ On earth there is not another like him, who is made without fear. ³⁴ Everything which is high goes in fear of him; he is king over all the sons of pride.

¹⁰ Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? Selah.

²⁵ There is the great, wide sea, where there are living things, great and small, more than may be numbered. ²⁶ There go the ships; there is that great beast, which you have made as a plaything.

³ Say to them, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great river-beast stretched out among his Nile streams, who has said, The Nile is mine, and I have made it for myself. ⁴ And I will put hooks in your mouth, and the fish of your streams will be hanging from your skin; and I will make you come up out of your streams, with all the fish of your streams hanging from your skin. ⁵ And I will let you be in the waste land, you and all the fish of your streams: you will go down on the face of the land; you will not be taken up or put to rest in the earth; I have given you for food to the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven.

⁸ They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;

²² Destruction and Death say, We have only had word of it with our ears.

¹¹ Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven!

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

¹¹ If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

¹¹ Before the Lord are the underworld and destruction: how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men!

⁹ The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats.

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 And there is nothing made which is not completely clear to him; there is nothing covered, but all things are open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

¹ At the first God made the heaven and the earth. ² And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.

⁸ By whose hand the heavens were stretched out, and who is walking on the waves of the sea:

² For by him it was based on the seas, and made strong on the deep rivers.

² You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain: ³ The arch of your house is based on the waters; you make the clouds your carriage; you go on the wings of the wind: ⁴ He makes winds his angels, and flames of fire his servants. ⁵ He has made the earth strong on its bases, so that it may not be moved for ever and ever;

²³ From eternal days I was given my place, from the birth of time, before the earth was. ²⁴ When there was no deep I was given birth, when there were no fountains flowing with water. ²⁵ Before the mountains were put in their places, before the hills was my birth: ²⁶ When he had not made the earth or the fields or the dust of the world. ²⁷ When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep:

²² It is he who is seated over the arch of the earth, and the people in it are as small as locusts; by him the heavens are stretched out like an arch, and made ready like a tent for a living-place.

²⁶ Let your eyes be lifted up on high, and see: who has made these? He who sends out their numbered army: who has knowledge of all their names: by whose great strength, because he is strong in power, all of them are in their places.

⁵ God the Lord, even he who made the heavens, measuring them out on high; stretching out the earth, and giving its produce; he who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who go about on it, says:

⁶ And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters. ⁷ And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so.

²⁹ And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent?

¹¹ The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light; ¹² And it goes this way and that, round about, turning itself by his guiding, to do whatever he gives orders to be done, on the face of his world of men, ¹³ For a rod, or for a curse, or for mercy, causing it to come on the mark. ¹⁴ Give ear to this, O Job, and keep quiet in your place; and take note of the wonders worked by God. ¹⁵ Have you knowledge of God's ordering of his works, how he makes the light of his cloud to be seen? ¹⁶ Have you knowledge of the balancings of the clouds, the wonders of him who has all wisdom?

⁹ When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,

³⁷ By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,

¹⁰ And he went in flight through the air, seated on a storm-cloud: going quickly on the wings of the wind. ¹¹ He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

⁷ He makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes thunder-flames for the rain; he sends out the winds from his store-houses.

⁴ Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say?

⁶ And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.

¹³ At the sound of his voice there is a massing of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain, and sends out the wind from his store-houses.

²¹ And the people kept their places far off, but Moses went near to the dark cloud where God was.

²⁰ But it is not possible for you to see my face, for no man may see me and still go on living. ²¹ And the Lord said, See, there is a place near me, and you may take your place on the rock: ²² And when my glory goes by, I will put you in a hole in the rock, covering you with my hand till I have gone past: ²³ Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back: but my face is not to be seen.

³ No one is to come up with you, and let no man be seen anywhere on the mountain; let no flocks or herds come near to get their food at its foot.

¹² Then Solomon said, O Lord, to the sun you have given the heaven for a living-place, but your living-place was not seen by men;

¹⁴ Thick clouds are covering him, so that he is unable to see; and he is walking on the arch of heaven.

² Dark clouds are round him; his kingdom is based on righteousness and right judging.

³ God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. The heavens were covered with his glory, and the earth was full of his praise. ⁴ He was shining like the light; he had rays coming out from his hand: there his power was kept secret. ⁵ Before him went disease, and flames went out at his feet.

¹⁶ Who only has life for ever, living in light to which no man may come near; whom no man has seen or is able to see: to whom be honour and power for ever. So be it.

²² While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.

⁸ Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place; ⁹ When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it, ¹⁰ Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors; ¹¹ And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?

⁷ He makes the waters of the sea come together in a mass; he keeps the deep seas in store-houses.

⁶ Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains; ⁷ At the voice of your word they went in flight; at the sound of your thunder they went away in fear; ⁸ The mountains came up and the valleys went down into the place which you had made ready for them. ⁹ You made a limit over which they might not go, so that the earth would never again be covered by them.

²⁹ When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:

⁹ For this is like the days of Noah to me: for as I took an oath that the waters of Noah would never again go over the earth, so have I taken an oath that I will not again be angry with you, or say bitter words to you. ¹⁰ For the mountains may be taken away, and the hills be moved out of their places, but my love will not be taken from you, or my agreement of peace broken, says the Lord, who has had mercy on you.

²² Have you no fear of me? says the Lord; will you not be shaking with fear before me, who have put the sand as a limit for the sea, by an eternal order, so that it may not go past it? and though it is ever in motion, it is not able to have its way; though the sound of its waves is loud, they are not able to go past it.

⁸ Lifting the poor out of the dust, and him who is in need out of the lowest place, to give them their place among rulers, and for their heritage the seat of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he has made them the base of the world.

¹⁵ Truly, he puts no faith in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes;

⁷ Then trouble and shock came on the earth; and the bases of the mountains were moved and shaking, because he was angry.

²¹ Say to Zerubbabel, ruler of Judah, I will make a shaking of the heavens and the earth,

²⁶ Whose voice was the cause of the shaking of the earth; but now he has made an oath, saying, There will be still one more shaking, not only of the earth, but of heaven. ²⁷ And the words, Still one more, make it clear that there will be a taking away of those things which are shaking, as of things which are made, so that there may be only those things of which no shaking is possible.

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up.

¹¹ And I saw a great white seat, and him who was seated on it, before whose face the earth and the heaven went in flight; and there was no place for them.

²¹ And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, the Lord with a strong east wind made the sea go back all night, and the waters were parted in two and the sea became dry land. ²² And the children of Israel went through the sea on dry land: and the waters were a wall on their right side and on their left. ²³ Then the Egyptians went after them into the middle of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses and his war-carriages and his horsemen. ²⁴ And in the morning watch, the Lord, looking out on the armies of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, sent trouble on the army of the Egyptians; ²⁵ And made the wheels of their war-carriages stiff, so that they had hard work driving them: so the Egyptians said, Let us go in flight from before the face of Israel, for the Lord is fighting for them against the Egyptians. ²⁶ And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out over the sea, and the waters will come back again on the Egyptians, and on their war-carriages and on their horsemen. ²⁷ And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, at dawn the sea came flowing back, meeting the Egyptians in their flight, and the Lord sent destruction on the Egyptians in the middle of the sea. ²⁸ And the waters came back, covering the war-carriages and the horsemen and all the army of Pharaoh which went after them into the middle of the sea; not one of them was to be seen. ²⁹ But the children of Israel went through the sea walking on dry land, and the waters were a wall on their right side and on their left. ³⁰ So that day the Lord gave Israel salvation from the hands of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the sea's edge. ³¹ And Israel saw the great work which the Lord had done against the Egyptians, and the fear of the Lord came on the people and they had faith in the Lord and in his servant Moses.

¹³ God's wrath may not be turned back; the helpers of Rahab were bent down under him.

¹³ With him there is wisdom and strength; power and knowledge are his.

¹¹ Let your wrath be overflowing; let your eyes see all the sons of pride, and make them low. ¹² Send destruction on all who are lifted up, pulling down the sinners from their places.

¹⁰ The Lord had his seat as king when the waters came on the earth; the Lord is seated as king for ever.

¹³ The sea was parted in two by your strength; the heads of the great sea-beasts were broken.

⁹ You have rule over the sea in storm; when its waves are troubled, you make them calm. ¹⁰ Rahab was crushed by you like one wounded to death; with your strong arm you put to flight all your haters.

³ The rivers send up, O Lord, the rivers send up their voices; they send them up with a loud cry. ⁴ The Lord in heaven is stronger than the noise of great waters, yes, he is stronger than the great waves of the sea.

² Judah became his holy place, and Israel his kingdom. ³ The sea saw it, and went in flight; Jordan was turned back. ⁴ The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little hills like lambs. ⁵ What was wrong with you, O sea, that you went in flight? O Jordan, that you were turned back? ⁶ You mountains, why were you jumping like goats, and you little hills like lambs? ⁷ Be troubled, O earth, before the Lord, before the God of Jacob;

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;

⁹ Awake! awake! put on strength, O arm of the Lord, awake! as in the old days, in the generations long past. Was it not by you that Rahab was cut in two, and the dragon Wounded?

¹⁵ For I am the Lord your God, who makes the sea calm when its waves are thundering: the Lord of armies is his name.

³⁵ These are the words of the Lord, who has given the sun for a light by day, ordering the moon and stars for a light by night, who puts the sea in motion, causing the thunder of its waves; the Lord of armies is his name.

³⁷ Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give worship and praise and honour to the King of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are right: and those who go in pride he is able to make low.

⁶ But he gives more grace. So that the Writings say, God is against the men of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low before him.

² And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.

⁶ By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the army of heaven by the breath of his mouth. ⁷ He makes the waters of the sea come together in a mass; he keeps the deep seas in store-houses.

¹³ The sea was parted in two by your strength; the heads of the great sea-beasts were broken. ¹⁴ The heads of the great snake were crushed by you; you gave them as food to the fishes of the sea.

³⁰ If you send out your spirit, they are given life; you make new the face of the earth.

¹ In that day the Lord, with his great and strong and cruel sword, will send punishment on Leviathan, the quick-moving snake, and on Leviathan, the twisted snake; and he will put to death the dragon which is in the sea.

⁹ And the great dragon was forced down, the old snake, who is named the Evil One and Satan, by whom all the earth is turned from the right way; he was forced down to the earth, and his angels were forced down with him.

¹⁰ Those who make war against the Lord will be broken; against them he will send his thunder from heaven: the Lord will be judge of the ends of the earth, he will give strength to his king, lifting up the horn of him on whom the holy oil has been put.

¹² A word was given to me secretly, and the low sound of it came to my ears.

⁷ Are you able to take God's measure, to make discovery of the limits of the Ruler of all? ⁸ They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge; ⁹ Longer in measure than the earth, and wider than the sea.

⁹ Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his?

³ The voice of the Lord is on the waters: the God of glory is thundering, the Lord is on the great waters.

⁶ Such knowledge is a wonder greater than my powers; it is so high that I may not come near it.

³ Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; his power may never be searched out.

²⁶ Let your eyes be lifted up on high, and see: who has made these? He who sends out their numbered army: who has knowledge of all their names: by whose great strength, because he is strong in power, all of them are in their places. ²⁷ Why do you say, O Jacob, such words as these, O Israel, The Lord's eyes are not on my way, and my God gives no attention to my cause? ²⁸ Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? The eternal God, the Lord, the Maker of the ends of the earth, is never feeble or tired; there is no searching out of his wisdom. ²⁹ He gives power to the feeble, increasing the strength of him who has no force.

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

⁹ For our knowledge is only in part, and the prophet's word gives only a part of what is true: ¹⁰ But when that which is complete is come, then that which is in part will be no longer necessary. ¹¹ When I was a child, I made use of a child's language, I had a child's feelings and a child's thoughts: now that I am a man, I have put away the things of a child. ¹² For now we see things in a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now my knowledge is in part; then it will be complete, even as God's knowledge of me.