Job 37 Cross References - BBE

¹ At this my heart is shaking; it is moved out of its place. ² Give ear to the rolling noise of his voice; to the hollow sound which goes out of his mouth. ³ He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth. ⁴ After it a voice is sounding, thundering out the word of his power; he does not keep back his thunder-flames; from his mouth his voice is sounding. ⁵ He does wonders, more than may be searched out; great things of which we have no knowledge; ⁶ For he says to the snow, Make the earth wet; and to the rain-storm, Come down. ⁷ He puts an end to the work of every man, so that all may see his work. ⁸ Then the beasts go into their holes, and take their rest. ⁹ Out of its place comes the storm-wind, and the cold out of its store-houses. ¹⁰ By the breath of God ice is made, and the wide waters are shut in. 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? ¹⁷ You, whose clothing is warm, when the earth is quiet because of the south wind, ¹⁸ Will you, with him, make the skies smooth, and strong as a polished looking-glass? ¹⁹ Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark. ²⁰ How may he have knowledge of my desire for talk with him? or did any man ever say, May destruction come on me? ²¹ And now the light is not seen, for it is dark because of the clouds; but a wind comes, clearing them away. ²² A bright light comes out of the north; God's glory is greatly to be feared. ²³ There is no searching out of the Ruler of all: his strength and his judging are great; he is full of righteousness, doing no wrong. ²⁴ For this cause men go in fear of him; he has no respect for any who are wise in heart.

¹⁶ And when morning came on the third day, there were thunders and flames and a thick cloud on the mountain, and a horn sounding very loud; and all the people in the tents were shaking with fear.

¹⁴ Fear came on me and shaking, and my bones were full of trouble;

⁶ At the very thought of it my flesh is shaking with fear.

¹ And the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,

⁷ God is greatly to be feared among the saints, and to be honoured over all those who are about him.

¹²⁰ My flesh is moved for fear of you; I give honour to your decisions.

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.

⁷ And I, Daniel, was the only one who saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see it; but a great shaking came on them and they went in flight to take cover. ⁸ So I was by myself, and I saw this great vision, and all my strength went from me; and the colour went from my face.

¹⁶ Hearing it, my inner parts were moved, and my lips were shaking at the sound; my bones became feeble, and my steps were uncertain under me: I gave sounds of grief in the day of trouble, when his forces came up against the people in bands.

² And there was a great earth-shock; for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, rolling back the stone, took his seat on it. ³ His form was shining like the light, and his clothing was white as snow: ⁴ And for fear of him the watchmen were shaking, and became as dead men.

²⁶ And suddenly there was an earth-shock, so that the base of the prison was moved: and all the doors came open, and everyone's chains came off.

²⁹ And he sent for lights and came rushing in and, shaking with fear, went down on his face before Paul and Silas,

¹⁶ And when morning came on the third day, there were thunders and flames and a thick cloud on the mountain, and a horn sounding very loud; and all the people in the tents were shaking with fear. ¹⁷ And Moses made the people come out of their tents and take their places before God; and they came to the foot of the mountain, ¹⁸ And all the mountain of Sinai was smoking, for the Lord had come down on it in fire: and the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a great burning; and all the mountain was shaking. ¹⁹ And when the sound of the horn became louder and louder, Moses' words were answered by the voice of God.

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

³³ The thunder makes clear his passion, and the storm gives news of his wrath.

⁵ He does wonders, more than may be searched out; great things of which we have no knowledge;

³ The voice of the Lord is on the waters: the God of glory is thundering, the Lord is on the great waters. ⁴ The voice of the Lord is full of power; the voice of the Lord has a noble sound. ⁵ By the voice of the Lord are the cedar-trees broken, even the cedars of Lebanon are broken by the Lord. ⁶ He makes them go jumping about like a young ox; Lebanon and Sirion like a young mountain ox. ⁷ At the voice of the Lord flames of fire are seen. ⁸ At the voice of the Lord there is a shaking in the waste land, even a shaking in the waste land of Kadesh. ⁹ At the voice of the Lord the roes give birth, the leaves are taken from the trees: in his Temple everything says, Glory.

⁷ At the voice of your word they went in flight; at the sound of your thunder they went away in fear;

¹³ So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

¹³ Your way, O God, is holy: what god is so great as our God?

⁴ His bright flames give light to the world; the earth saw it with fear.

¹² And he will put up a flag as a sign to the nations, and he will get together those of Israel who had been sent away, and the wandering ones of Judah, from the four ends of the earth.

²⁷ Because as in a thunderstorm the bright light coming from the east is seen even in the west; so will be the coming of the Son of man.

¹⁹ And the house of God which is in heaven was open; and the ark of his agreement was seen in his house, and there were flames and voices and thunders and an earth-shock and a rain of ice.

⁷ When you are lifted up in power, all those who come against you are crushed: when you send out your wrath, they are burned up like dry grass. ⁸ By your breath the waves were massed together, the flowing waters were lifted up like a pillar; the deep waters became solid in the heart of the sea.

²⁶ No other is like the God of Jeshurun, coming on the heavens to your help, and letting his glory be seen in the skies.

²⁷ For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain, ²⁸ Flowing down from the sky, and dropping on the peoples. ²⁹ And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent? ³⁰ See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it. ³¹ For by these he gives food to the peoples, and bread in full measure. ³² He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark. ³³ The thunder makes clear his passion, and the storm gives news of his wrath.

³³ To him who goes or the clouds of heaven, the heaven which was from earliest times; he sends out his voice of power.

¹⁴ The Lord made thunder in the heavens, and the voice of the Highest was sounding out. ¹⁵ And he sent out his arrows, driving them in all directions; by his flames of fire they were troubled.

⁹ Who does great things outside our knowledge, wonders without number:

¹⁰ Who does great things not to be searched out; yes, wonders without number.

⁷ Are you able to take God's measure, to make discovery of the limits of the Ruler of all?

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.

²⁶ Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out.

¹¹ He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.

²¹ Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? has not news of it been given to you from the first? has it not been clear to you from the time when the earth was placed on its base? 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.

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.

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.

³ And they give the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and full of wonder are your works, O Lord God, Ruler of all; true and full of righteousness are your ways, eternal King.

¹⁰ And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth. ¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open; ¹² And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

⁹ Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin came together to Jerusalem before three days were past; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people were seated in the wide square in front of the house of God, shaking with fear because of this business and because of the great rain.

¹³ But the number of people is great, and it is a time of much rain; it is not possible for us to go on waiting outside, and this is not a thing which may be done in one day or even two: for our sin in this business is great.

²⁷ For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,

²² Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops,

¹⁶ He gives snow like wool; he sends out ice-drops like dust. ¹⁷ He sends down ice like raindrops: water is made hard by his cold. ¹⁸ At the outgoing of his word, the ice is turned to water; when he sends out his wind, there is a flowing of waters.

⁸ Fire and rain of ice, snow and mists; storm-wind, doing his word:

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

¹¹ Say to those who put whitewash on it, There will be an overflowing shower; and you, O ice-drops, will come raining down; and it will be broken in two by the storm-wind.

¹³ For this reason, the Lord has said: I will have it broken in two by a storm-wind in my passion; and there will be an overflowing shower in my wrath, and you, O ice-drops, will come raining angrily down.

⁶ It is he who makes his rooms in the heaven, basing his arch on the earth; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, and sends them flowing over the face of the earth; the Lord is his name.

²⁵ And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house, but it was not moved; because it was based on the rock. ²⁶ And everyone to whom my words come and who does them not, will be like a foolish man who made his house on sand; ²⁷ And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.

¹² Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes.

⁷ Who gives orders to the sun, and it does not give its light; and who keeps the stars from shining.

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

²⁴ See that you give praise to his work, about which men make songs.

⁸ Come, see the works of the Lord, the destruction which he has made in the earth.

⁹ And in fear men make public the works of God; and giving thought to his acts they get wisdom.

⁴ For you, O Lord, have made me glad through your work; I will have joy in the works of your hands.

²⁷ So that they may see that it is the work of your hand; that you, Lord, have done it.

² The works of the Lord are great, searched out by all those who have delight in them.

¹⁷ Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.

¹² And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.

¹¹ Lord, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see: let them see (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) yes, your haters will be burned up in the fire.

⁴⁰ When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood?

²² The sun comes up, and they come together, and go back to their secret places to take their rest.

⁹ Who made the Bear and Orion, and the Pleiades, and the store-houses of the south:

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:

¹ The word about the waste land. As storm-winds in the South go rushing through, it comes from the waste land, from the land greatly to be feared.

¹⁴ And the Lord will be seen over them, and his arrow will go out like the thunder-flame: and the Lord God, sounding the war-horn, will go in the storm-winds of the South.

²⁹ Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven? ³⁰ The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.

⁴⁷ He sent ice for the destruction of their vines; their trees were damaged by the bitter cold.

²⁷ For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain, ²⁸ Flowing down from the sky, and dropping on the peoples. ²⁹ And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent? ³⁰ See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it.

³² He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.

⁴ For this is what the Lord has said to me: I will be quiet, watching from my place; like the clear heat when the sun is shining, like a mist of dew in the heat of summer.

⁵ While he was still talking, a bright cloud came over them: and a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased; give ear to him.

⁹ You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain. ¹⁰ You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth.

²⁴ O Lord, how great is the number of your works! in wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of the things you have made.

²² Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.

²³ Be glad, then, you children of Zion, and have joy in the Lord your God: for he gives you food in full measure, making the rain come down for you, the early and the late rain as at the first.

⁷ And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste.

¹⁷ Elijah was a man of flesh and blood as we are, and he made a strong prayer that there might be no rain; and there was no rain on the earth for three years and six months. ¹⁸ And he made another prayer, and the heaven sent down rain and the earth gave her fruit.

⁶ These have the power to keep the heaven shut, so that there may be no rain in the days when they are prophets: and they have power over the waters to make them into blood, and to send every sort of disease on the earth as their pleasure is.

¹⁸ Truly, tomorrow about this time I will send down an ice-storm, such as never was in Egypt from its earliest days till now. ¹⁹ Then send quickly and get in your cattle and all you have from the fields; for if any man or beast in the field has not been put under cover, the ice-storm will come down on them with destruction. ²⁰ Then everyone among the servants of Pharaoh who had the fear of the Lord, made his servants and his cattle come quickly into the house: ²¹ And he who gave no attention to the word of the Lord, kept his servants and his cattle in the field. ²² And the Lord said to Moses, Now let your hand be stretched out to heaven so that there may be an ice-storm on all the land of Egypt, on man and on beast and on every plant of the field through all the land of Egypt. 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. ²⁴ So there was an ice-storm with fire running through it, coming down with great force, such as never was in all the land of Egypt from the time when it became a nation. ²⁵ And through all the land of Egypt the ice-storm came down on everything which was in the fields, on man and on beast; and every green plant was crushed and every tree of the field broken.

¹⁸ So Samuel made prayer to the Lord; and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people were in fear of the Lord and of Samuel. ¹⁹ And all the people said to Samuel, Make prayer for us to the Lord your God so that death may not overtake us: for in addition to all our sins we have done this evil, in desiring a king.

¹⁰ And Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, took haircloth, placing it on the rock as a bed for herself, from the start of the grain-cutting till rain came down on them from heaven; and she did not let the birds of the air come near them by day, or the beasts of the field by night.

¹⁴ And they put them with the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the resting-place of Kish, his father, in Zela in the country of Benjamin; they did all the king had given them orders to do. And after that, God gave ear to their prayers for the land.

⁴⁵ And after a very little time, the heaven became black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab went in his carriage to Jezreel.

³¹ For by these he gives food to the peoples, and bread in full measure.

⁶ For he says to the snow, Make the earth wet; and to the rain-storm, Come down.

²⁶ Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people; ²⁷ To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

³⁷ By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth, ³⁸ When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?

¹³ But Moses said, Keep where you are and have no fear; now you will see the salvation of the Lord which he will give you today; for the Egyptians whom you see today you will never see again.

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.

¹⁰ Be at peace in the knowledge that I am God: I will be lifted up among the nations, I will be honoured through all the earth.

⁵ My thoughts will be of the honour and glory of your rule, and of the wonder of your works. ⁶ Men will be talking of the power and fear of your acts; I will give word of your glory.

¹⁰ All the works of your hands give praise to you, O Lord; and your saints give you blessing. ¹¹ Their words will be of the glory of your kingdom, and their talk of your strength; ¹² So that the sons of men may have knowledge of his acts of power, and of the great glory of his kingdom.

²⁰ But the Lord is in his holy Temple: let all the earth be quiet before him.

²⁴ For his eyes go to the ends of the earth, and he sees everything under heaven. ²⁵ When he made a weight for the wind, measuring out the waters; ²⁶ When he made a law for the rain, and a way for the thunder-flames; ²⁷ Then he saw it, and put it on record; he gave it its fixed form, searching it out completely.

¹³ Who put the earth into his care, or made him responsible for the world?

³⁰ See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it. ³¹ For by these he gives food to the peoples, and bread in full measure. ³² He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.

¹¹ The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light;

⁴ Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge. ⁵ By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it? ⁶ On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone, ⁷ When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy? 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? 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? ¹⁴ It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe; ¹⁵ And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken. ¹⁶ Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep? ¹⁷ Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you? ¹⁸ Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all. ¹⁹ Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark; ²⁰ So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house? ²¹ No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great. ²² Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops, ²³ Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting? ²⁴ Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth? ²⁵ By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder; ²⁶ Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people; ²⁷ To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass? ²⁸ Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist? ²⁹ Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven? ³⁰ The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered. ³¹ Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose? ³² Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you? ³³ Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth? ³⁴ Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters? ³⁵ Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are? ³⁶ Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north? ³⁷ By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth, ³⁸ When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses? ³⁹ Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough, ⁴⁰ When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood? ⁴¹ Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?

⁹⁰ Your faith is unchanging from generation to generation: you have put the earth in its place, and it is not moved. ⁹¹ They are ruled this day by your decisions; for all things are your servants.

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.

⁸ By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

⁴ For truly my words are not false; one who has all knowledge is talking with you.

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:

⁵ Great is our Lord, and great his power; there is no limit to his wisdom.

¹⁹ The Lord by wisdom put in position the bases of the earth; by reason he put the heavens in their place. ²⁰ By his knowledge the deep was parted, and dew came dropping from the skies.

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.

¹² He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out. 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.

¹⁷ Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat.

³¹ Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose?

¹⁸ At the outgoing of his word, the ice is turned to water; when he sends out his wind, there is a flowing of waters.

⁵⁵ And when you see a south wind blowing, you say, There will be heat; and so it is.

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

⁸ And he made the washing-vessel of brass on a brass base, using the polished brass looking-glasses given by the women who did work at the doors of the Tent of meeting.

⁸ By whose hand the heavens were stretched out, and who is walking on the waves of the sea: ⁹ Who made the Bear and Orion, and the Pleiades, and the store-houses of the south:

² You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:

⁴ Give praise to him, you highest heavens, and you waters which are over the heavens. ⁵ Let them give praise to the name of the Lord: for he gave the order, and they were made. ⁶ He has put them in their places for ever; he has given them their limits which may not be broken.

¹ Let the Lord be praised. Give praise to God in his holy place: give him praise in the heaven of his power.

²⁷ When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep:

¹² In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?

²⁴ The Lord, who has taken up your cause, and who gave you life in your mother's body, says, I am the Lord who makes all things; stretching out the heavens by myself, and giving the earth its limits; who was with 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?

³ But I would have talk with the Ruler of all, and my desire is to have an argument with God.

⁶ Give ear to the argument of my mouth, and take note of the words of my lips.

²⁰ From where then does wisdom come, and where is the resting-place of knowledge? ²¹ For it is kept secret from the eyes of all living, unseen by the birds of the air.

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

³ Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.

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.

²² As for me, I was foolish, and without knowledge; I was like a beast before you.

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

² For I am more like a beast than any man, I have no power of reasoning like a man: ³ I have not got wisdom by teaching, so that I might have the knowledge of the Holy One. 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?

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.

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

³ For then its weight would be more than the sand of the seas: because of this my words have been uncontrolled.

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;

⁴ For there is not a word on my tongue which is not clear to you, O Lord.

³⁶ And I say to you that in the day when they are judged, men will have to give an account of every foolish word they have said. ³⁷ For by your words will your righteousness be seen, and by your words you will be judged.

⁹ By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.

²⁵ By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;

¹¹ Yours, O Lord, is the strength and the power and the glory, and the authority and the honour: for everything in heaven and on earth is yours; yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are lifted up as head over all.

¹⁰ Put on the ornaments of your pride; be clothed with glory and power:

⁴ The voice of the Lord is full of power; the voice of the Lord has a noble sound.

⁵ Come and see the works of God: he is to be feared in all he does to the children of men.

⁷ O God, when you went out before your people, wandering through the waste land; Selah. ⁸ The earth was shaking and the heavens were streaming, because God was present; even Sinai itself was moved before God, the God of Israel.

¹² He puts an end to the wrath of rulers; he is feared by the kings of the earth.

¹ The Lord is King; he is clothed with glory; the Lord is clothed with strength; power is the cord of his robe; the world is fixed, so that it may not be moved.

¹ Give praise to the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, you are very great; you are robed with honour and power.

⁵ My thoughts will be of the honour and glory of your rule, and of the wonder of your works.

²³ As the north wind gives birth to rain, so is an angry face caused by a tongue saying evil secretly.

¹⁰ Go into a hole in the rock, covering yourselves with dust, in fear of the Lord, before the glory of his power.

¹⁹ And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

⁴ And he will take his place and give food to his flock in the strength of the Lord, in the glory of the name of the Lord his God; and their resting-place will be safe: for now he will be great to the ends of the earth.

³ The Lord is slow to get angry and great in power, and will not let the sinner go without punishment: the way of the Lord is in the wind and the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

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. ⁶ From his high place he sent shaking on the earth; he saw and nations were suddenly moved: and the eternal mountains were broken, the unchanging hills were bent down; his ways are eternal. ⁷ The curtains of Cushan were troubled, and the tents of Midian were shaking. ⁸ Was your wrath burning against the rivers? were you angry with the sea, that you went on your horses, on your war-carriages of salvation? ⁹ Your bow was quite uncovered. Selah. By you the earth was cut through with rivers. ¹⁰ The mountains saw you and were moved with fear; the clouds were streaming with water: the voice of the deep was sounding; the sun did not come up, and the moon kept still in her place. ¹¹ At the light of your arrows they went away, at the shining of your polished spear. ¹² You went stepping through the land in wrath, crushing the nations in your passion. ¹³ You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of the one on whom your holy oil was put; wounding the head of the family of the evil-doer, uncovering the base even to the neck. Selah. ¹⁴ You have put your spears through his head, his horsemen were sent in flight like dry stems; they had joy in driving away the poor, in making a meal of them secretly. ¹⁵ The feet of your horses were on the sea, on the mass of great waters. ¹⁶ Hearing it, my inner parts were moved, and my lips were shaking at the sound; my bones became feeble, and my steps were uncertain under me: I gave sounds of grief in the day of trouble, when his forces came up against the people in bands. ¹⁷ For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house: ¹⁸ Still, I will be glad in the Lord, my joy will be in the God of my salvation. ¹⁹ The Lord God is my strength, and he makes my feet like roes' feet, guiding me on my high places. For the chief music-maker on corded instruments.

³ Who, being the outshining of his glory, the true image of his substance, supporting all things by the word of his power, having given himself as an offering making clean from sins, took his seat at the right hand of God in heaven;

²⁹ For our God is an all-burning fire.

²⁵ To the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, let us give glory and honour and authority and power, before all time and now and for ever. So be it.

³ Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?

⁴ He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?

¹⁹ If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?

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

⁷ But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble. ⁸ It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face. ⁹ I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes; ¹⁰ Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me. ¹¹ God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers. ¹² I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows. ¹³ His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth. ¹⁴ I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war. ¹⁵ I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust. ¹⁶ My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark; ¹⁷ Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.

⁵ Truly, God gives up the hard-hearted, and will not give life to the sinner.

¹⁹ Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark.

⁵ For his wrath is only for a minute; in his grace there is life; weeping may be for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

⁵ Your mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens, and your strong purpose is as high as the clouds. ⁶ Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judging is like the great deep; O Lord, you give life to man and beast. ⁷ How good is your loving mercy, O God! the children of men take cover under the shade of your wings.

¹¹ Once has God said, twice has it come to my ears, that power is God's:

⁶ The God by whose strength the mountains are fixed; who is robed with power:

³ Say to God, How greatly to be feared are your works! because of your great power your haters are forced to put themselves under your feet.

⁴ The king's power is used for righteousness; you give true decisions, judging rightly in the land of Jacob.

⁶ Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things in them; who keeps faith for ever: ⁷ Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down; and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free;

²¹ Give the word, put forward your cause, let us have a discussion together: who has given news of this in the past? who made it clear in early times? did not I, the Lord? and there is no God but me; a true God and a saviour; there is no other.

⁹ It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.

³² For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love. ³³ For he has no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men.

²³ Have I any pleasure in the death of the evil-doer? says the Lord: am I not pleased if he is turned from his way so that he may have life?

³² For I have no pleasure in the death of him on whom death comes, says the Lord: be turned back then, and have life.

¹³ And let us not be put to the test, but keep us safe from the Evil One.

²² All things have been given to me by my Father: and no one has knowledge of the Son, but only the Father: and of the Father, but only the Son, and he to whom the Son will make it clear.

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.

¹⁰ For they truly gave us punishment for a short time, as it seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, so that we may become holy as he is.

¹³ He takes the wise in their secret designs, and the purposes of the twisted are cut off suddenly.

⁴ But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be feared.

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.

²¹ Cursed are those who seem wise to themselves, and who take pride in their knowledge!

³⁹ And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may go on in the worship of me for ever, for their good and the good of their children after them:

⁹ And this town will be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth, who, hearing of all the good which I am doing for them, will be shaking with fear because of all the good and the peace which I am doing for it.

⁵ And after that, the children of Israel will come back and go in search of the Lord their God and David their king; and they will come in fear to the Lord and to his mercies in the days to come.

²⁸ And have no fear of those who put to death the body, but are not able to put to death the soul. But have fear of him who has power to give soul and body to destruction in hell.

²⁵ At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children. ²⁶ Yes, Father, for so it was pleasing in your eyes.

²¹ In that same hour he was full of joy in the Holy Spirit and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children: for so, O Father, it was pleasing in your eyes.

⁴ And I say to you, my friends, Have no fear of those who may put the body to death, and are able to do no more than that. ⁵ But I will make clear to you of whom you are to be in fear: of him who after death has power to send you to hell; yes, truly I say, Have fear of him.

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?

²⁰ Truly, because they had no faith they were broken off, and you have your place by reason of your faith. Do not be lifted up in pride, but have fear; ²¹ For, if God did not have mercy on the natural branches, he will not have mercy on you. ²² See then that God is good but his rules are fixed: to those who were put away he was hard, but to you he has been good, on the condition that you keep in his mercy; if not, you will be cut off as they were.

²⁶ For you see God's design for you, my brothers, that he has not taken a great number of the wise after the flesh, not the strong, not the noble:

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs: