Job 42 Cross References - BBE

¹ And Job said in answer to the Lord, ² I see that you are able to do every thing, and to give effect to all your designs. 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. ⁴ Give ear to me, and I will say what is in my mind; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers. ⁵ Word of you had come to my ears, but now my eye has seen you. ⁶ For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust. ⁷ And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has. ⁸ And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has. ⁹ And Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as the Lord had said. And the Lord gave ear to Job. ¹⁰ And the Lord made up to Job for all his losses, after he had made prayer for his friends: and all Job had before was increased by the Lord twice as much. ¹¹ And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring. ¹² And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses. ¹³ And he had seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴ And he gave the first the name of Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch; ¹⁵ And there were no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job in all the earth: and their father gave them a heritage among their brothers. ¹⁶ And after this Job had a hundred and forty years of life, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations. ¹⁷ And Job came to his end, old and full of days.

¹⁴ Is there any wonder which the Lord is not able to do? At the time I said, in the spring, I will come back to you, and Sarah will have a child.

¹³ But his purpose is fixed and there is no changing it; and he gives effect to the desire of his soul.

²¹ Will not God make search for it? for he sees the secrets of the heart.

² You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.

²¹ A man's heart may be full of designs, but the purpose of the Lord is unchanging.

¹⁴ I am certain that whatever God does will be for ever. No addition may be made to it, nothing may be taken from it; and God has done it so that man may be in fear before him.

²⁷ For it is the purpose of the Lord of armies, and who will make it of no effect? when his hand is stretched out, by whom may it be turned back?

¹³ From time long past I am God, and from this day I am he: there is no one who is able to take you out of my hand: when I undertake a thing, by whom will my purpose be changed?

¹⁰ Making clear from the first what is to come, and from past times the things which have not so far come about; saying, My purpose is fixed, and I will do all my pleasure;

¹⁰ I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.

¹⁷ Ah Lord God! see, you have made the heaven and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm, and there is nothing you are not able to do:

¹⁰ This is what the Lord has said: In that day it will come about that things will come into your mind, and you will have thoughts of an evil design:

³⁵ And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?

²⁶ And Jesus, looking at them, said, With men this is not possible; but with God all things are possible.

²⁷ Jesus, looking on them, said, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for all things are possible with God.

³⁶ And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible to you; take away this cup from me: but even so let not my pleasure, but yours be done.

²⁷ But he said, Things which are not possible with man are possible with God.

²⁴ But Jesus did not have faith in them, because he had knowledge of them all. ²⁵ He had no need for any witness about man; for he himself had knowledge of what was in man.

¹⁷ He said to him a third time, Simon, son of John, am I dear to you? Now Peter was troubled in his heart because he put the question a third time, Am I dear to you? And he said to him, Lord, you have knowledge of all things; you see that you are dear to me. Jesus said to him, Then give my sheep food.

¹¹ In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;

¹² For the word of God is living and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through and making a division even of the soul and the spirit, the bones and the muscles, and quick to see the thoughts and purposes of the heart. 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.

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

⁵ O Lord my God, great are the wonders which you have done in your thought for us; it is not possible to put them out in order before you; when I would give an account of them, their number is greater than I may say.

¹ A Song of the going up. Of David. Lord, there is no pride in my heart and my eyes are not lifted up; and I have not taken part in great undertakings, or in things over-hard for me.

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?

²⁷ And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:

³⁰ And he said, Let not the Lord be angry with me if I say, What if there are thirty there? And he said, I will not do it if there are thirty. ³¹ And he said, See now, I have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord: what if there are twenty there? And he said, I will have mercy because of the twenty. ³² And he said, O let not the Lord be angry and I will say only one word more: by chance there may be ten there. And he said, I will have mercy because of the ten.

³ Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

⁷ Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

⁶ And he said, Now give ear to my words: if there is a prophet among you I will give him knowledge of myself in a vision and will let my words come to him in a dream. ⁷ My servant Moses is not so; he is true to me in all my house: ⁸ With him I will have talk mouth to mouth, openly and not in dark sayings; and with his eyes he will see the form of the Lord: why then had you no fear of saying evil against my servant Moses?

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

⁸ See, I go forward, but he is not there; and back, but I do not see him; ⁹ I am looking for him on the left hand, but there is no sign of him; and turning to the right, I am not able to see him.

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.

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

¹⁶ Then he makes his secrets clear to men, so that they are full of fear at what they see;

¹ In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord seated in his place, high and lifted up, and the Temple was full of the wide skirts of his robe.

⁵ Then I said, The curse is on me, and my fate is destruction; for I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of armies.

¹⁸ No man has seen God at any time; the only Son, who is on the breast of the Father, he has made clear what God is.

⁴¹ Isaiah said these words because he saw his glory. His words were about him.

⁴⁵ And he who sees me, sees him who sent me.

⁵⁵ But he was full of the Holy Spirit, and looking up to heaven, he saw the glory of God and Jesus at the right hand of God. ⁵⁶ And he said, Now I see heaven open, and the Son of man at the right hand of God.

¹⁷ So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

¹⁷ That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him; ¹⁸ And that having the eyes of your heart full of light, you may have knowledge of what is the hope of his purpose, what is the wealth of the glory of his heritage in the saints,

²⁷ Hearing these words, Ahab, in great grief, put haircloth on his flesh and went without food, sleeping in haircloth, and going about quietly.

⁶ I said, O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face to you, my God: for our sins are increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven.

¹ Now when Mordecai saw what was done, pulling off his robe, he put on haircloth, with dust on his head, and went out into the middle of the town, crying out with a loud and bitter cry. ² And he came even before the king's doorway; for no one might come inside the king's door clothed in haircloth. ³ And in every part of the kingdom, wherever the king's word and his order came, there was great sorrow among the Jews, and weeping and crying and going without food; and numbers of them were stretched on the earth covered with dust and haircloth.

⁸ And he took a broken bit of a pot, and, seated in the dust, was rubbing himself with the sharp edge of it.

³¹ Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.

¹⁹ Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

³ And Job said in answer to the Lord, ⁴ Truly, I am of no value; what answer may I give to you? I will put my hand on my mouth.

¹⁷ The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.

⁵ And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;

⁵ Have I given orders for such a day as this? a day for keeping yourselves from pleasure? is it only a question of the bent head, of putting on haircloth, and being seated in the dust? is this what seems to you a holy day, well-pleasing to the Lord?

¹⁹ Truly, after I had been turned, I had regret for my ways; and after I had got knowledge, I made signs of sorrow: I was put to shame, truly, I was covered with shame, because I had to undergo the shame of my early years.

⁶³ So that, at the memory of these things, you may be at a loss, never opening your mouth because of your shame; when you have my forgiveness for all you have done, says the Lord.

⁴³ And there, at the memory of your ways and of all the things you did to make yourselves unclean, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of all the evil things you have done.

³¹ And at the memory of your evil ways and your wrongdoings, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of your evil-doings and your disgusting ways, O children of Israel.

³ And turning my face to the Lord God, I gave myself up to prayer, requesting his grace, going without food, in haircloth and dust.

⁶ And the word came to the king of Nineveh, and he got up from his seat of authority, and took off his robe, and covering himself with haircloth, took his seat in the dust. ⁷ And he had it given out in Nineveh, By the order of the king and his great men, no man or beast, herd or flock, is to have a taste of anything; let them have no food or water: ⁸ And let man and beast be covered with haircloth, and let them make strong prayers to God: and let everyone be turned from his evil way and the violent acts of their hands. ⁹ Who may say that God will not be turned, changing his purpose and turning away from his burning wrath, so that destruction may not overtake us? ¹⁰ And God saw what they did, how they were turned from their evil way; and God's purpose was changed as to the evil which he said he would do to them, and he did it not.

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

¹³ A curse is on you, Chorazin! A curse is on you, Beth-saida! For if such works of power had been done in Tyre and Sidon as have been done in you, they would have been turned from their sins, in days gone by, seated in the dust.

¹⁸ I will get up and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes: ¹⁹ I am no longer good enough to be named your son: make me like one of your servants.

⁸ And last of all, as by one whose birth was out of the right time, he was seen by me. ⁹ For I am the least of the Apostles, having no right to be named an Apostle, because of my cruel attacks on the church of God.

¹³ Though I had said violent words against God, and done cruel acts, causing great trouble: but I was given mercy, because I did it without knowledge, not having faith; ¹⁴ And the grace of our Lord was very great, with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ It is a true saying, in which all may put their faith, that Christ Jesus came into the world to give salvation to sinners, of whom I am the chief: ¹⁶ But for this reason I was given mercy, so that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might make clear all his mercy, as an example to those who in the future would have faith in him to eternal life.

⁷ For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you. ⁸ Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind. ⁹ Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief. ¹⁰ Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.

¹¹ And Job's three friends had word of all this evil which had come on him. And they came every one from his place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. So they came together to a meeting-place, in order that they might go and make clear to Job their grief for him, and give him comfort.

¹ And Eliphaz the Temanite made answer and said,

¹ Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said,

¹ Then Zophar the Naamathite made answer and said,

⁵ But if only God would take up the word, opening his lips in argument with you; ⁶ And would make clear to you the secrets of wisdom, and the wonders of his purpose!

² And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was angry, burning with wrath against Job, because he seemed to himself more right than God; ³ And he was angry with his three friends, because they had been unable to give him an answer, and had not made Job's sin clear.

⁵ And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men, he was very angry.

⁴ Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.

¹⁷ Then Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech well again, and his wife and his women-servants, so that they had children.

¹² Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, made a burned offering to God: and Aaron came, with the chiefs of Israel, and had a meal with Moses' father-in-law, before God.

¹ And Balaam said to Balak, Make me here seven altars and get ready seven oxen and seven male sheep.

¹⁴ So he took him into the country of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and there they made seven altars, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar.

²⁹ And Balaam said to Balak, Make me seven altars here and get seven oxen and seven male sheep ready for me.

³⁵ Then David took from her hands her offering: and he said to her, Go back to your house in peace; see, I have given ear to your voice, and taken your offering with respect.

²⁶ And when God gave help to the Levites who were lifting up the ark of the agreement of the Lord, they made an offering of seven oxen and seven sheep.

²¹ And they took with them seven oxen and seven male sheep and seven lambs and seven he-goats as a sin-offering for the kingdom and for the holy house and for Judah. And he gave orders to the sons of Aaron, the priests, that these were to be offered on the altar of the Lord.

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

³⁰ He makes safe the man who is free from sin, and if your hands are clean, salvation will be yours.

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

¹⁰ He has not given us the punishment for our sins, or the reward of our wrongdoing.

¹⁴ And the sons of those who were cruel to you will come before you with bent heads; and those who made sport of you will go down on their faces at your feet; and you will be named, The Town of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

¹¹ And the Lord said to me, Make no prayer for this people for their good.

¹ Then the Lord said to me, Even if Moses and Samuel came before me, I would have no desire for this people: send them away from before me, and let them go.

¹⁴ Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, only themselves would they keep safe by their righteousness, says the Lord.

²³ And on the seven days of the feast he is to give a burned offering to the Lord, seven oxen and seven sheep without any mark on them, every day for seven days; and a he-goat every day for a sin-offering.

⁸ And when you give what is blind for an offering, it is no evil! and when you give what is damaged and ill, it is no evil! Give it now to your ruler; will he be pleased with you, or will you have his approval? says the Lord of armies. ⁹ And now, make request for the grace of God so that he may have mercy on us: this has been your doing: will he give his approval to any of you? says the Lord of armies.

¹⁷ And a voice came out of heaven, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.

²³ If then you are making an offering at the altar and there it comes to your mind that your brother has something against you, ²⁴ While your offering is still before the altar, first go and make peace with your brother, then come and make your offering.

⁶ To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:

¹⁴ Alexander the copper-worker did me much wrong: the Lord will give him the reward of his works:

²⁵ So that he is fully able to be the saviour of all who come to God through him, because he is ever living to make prayer to God for them.

⁴ Because it is not possible for the blood of oxen and goats to take away sins.

¹⁰ By that pleasure we have been made holy, by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for ever. ¹¹ And every priest takes his place at the altar day by day, doing what is necessary, and making again and again the same offerings which are never able to take away sins. ¹² But when Jesus had made one offering for sins for ever, he took his place at the right hand of God; ¹³ And has been waiting there from that time, till all who are against him are made a foot-rest for his feet. ¹⁴ Because by one offering he has made complete for ever those who are made holy.

¹⁴ Is anyone among you ill? let him send for the rulers of the church; and let them say prayers over him, putting oil on him in the name of the Lord.

¹⁶ So then, make a statement of your sins to one another, and say prayers for one another so that you may be made well. The prayer of a good man is full of power in its working.

⁶ This is he who came by water and by blood, Jesus Christ; not by water only but by water and by blood.

¹⁶ If a man sees his brother doing a sin which is not bad enough for death, let him make a prayer to God, and God will give life to him whose sin was not bad enough for death. There is a sin whose punishment is death: I do not say that he may make such a request then.

⁹ See, I will make those of the Synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews, and are not, but say what is false; I will make them come and give worship before your feet, and see my love for you.

²⁷ You will make your prayer to him, and be answered; and you will give effect to your oaths.

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⁸ And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.

¹¹ My son, do not make your heart hard against the Lord's teaching; do not be made angry by his training: ¹² For to those who are dear to him the Lord says sharp words, and makes the son in whom he has delight undergo pain.

⁷ Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.

²⁴ Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock;

⁵ His mother said to the servants, Whatever he says to you, do it.

⁶ But get up, and go into the town, and it will be made clear to you what you have to do.

³³ So, straight away, I sent for you; and you have done well to come. And now, we are all present before God, ready to give attention to all the things which the Lord has given you to say.

⁸ By faith Abraham did as God said when he was ordered to go out into a place which was to be given to him as a heritage, and went out without knowledge of where he was going.

⁴ And Moses, crying out to the Lord, said, What am I to do to this people? they are almost ready to put me to death by stoning. ⁵ And the Lord said to Moses, Go on before the people, and take some of the chiefs of Israel with you, and take in your hand the rod which was stretched out over the Nile, and go.

² And they said, Have the words of the Lord been given to Moses only? have they not come to us? And the Lord took note of it.

¹³ And Moses, crying to the Lord, said, Let my prayer come before you, O God, and make her well.

¹ Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all that night they gave themselves up to weeping. ² And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land! ³ Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt? ⁴ And they said to one another, Let us make a captain over us, and go back to Egypt.

¹⁰ But all the people said they were to be stoned. Then the glory of the Lord was seen in the Tent of meeting, before the eyes of all the children of Israel.

¹³ And Moses said to the Lord, Then it will come to the ears of the Egyptians; for by your power you took this people out from among them; ¹⁴ And they will give the news to the people of this land: they have had word that you, Lord, are present with this people, letting yourself be seen face to face, and that your cloud is resting over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night. ¹⁵ Now if you put to death all this people as one man, then the nations who have had word of your glory will say, ¹⁶ Because the Lord was not able to take this people into the land which he made an oath to give them, he sent destruction on them in the waste land. ¹⁷ So now, may my prayer come before you, and let the power of the Lord be great, as you said: ¹⁸ The Lord is slow to wrath and great in mercy, overlooking wrongdoing and evil, and will not let wrongdoers go free; sending punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation. ¹⁹ May the sin of this people have forgiveness, in the measure of your great mercy, as you have had mercy on them from Egypt up till now. ²⁰ And the Lord said, I have had mercy, as you say:

²¹ Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them. ²² Then falling down on their faces they said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, because of one man's sin will your wrath be moved against all the people?

⁴⁶ And Moses said to Aaron, Take your vessel and put in it fire from the altar, and sweet spices, and take it quickly into the meeting of the people, and make them free from sin: for wrath has gone out from the Lord, and the disease is starting. ⁴⁷ And at the words of Moses, Aaron took his vessel, and went running among the people; and even then the disease had made a start among them; and he put spices in his vessel to take away the sin of the people. ⁴⁸ And he took his place between the dead and the living: and the disease was stopped.

¹⁸ But keep in mind the Lord your God: for it is he who gives you the power to get wealth, so that he may give effect to the agreement which he made by his oath with your fathers, as at this day.

²⁰ And the Lord, in his wrath, would have put Aaron to death: and I made prayer for Aaron at the same time.

³ Then the Lord will have pity on you, changing your fate, and taking you back again from among all the nations where you have been forced to go.

⁷ The Lord gives wealth and takes a man's goods from him: crushing men down and again lifting them up;

⁹ Then Amaziah said to the man of God, But what is to be done about the hundred talents which I have given for the armed band of Israel? And the man of God in answer said, God is able to give you much more than this.

³ And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.

¹⁸ For after his punishment he gives comfort, and after wounding, his hands make you well. ¹⁹ He will keep you safe from six troubles, and in seven no evil will come near you. ²⁰ When there is need of food he will keep you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

⁶ If you are clean and upright; then he will certainly be moved to take up your cause, and will make clear your righteousness by building up your house again. ⁷ And though your start was small, your end will be very great.

²⁴ And put your gold in the dust, even your gold of Ophir among the rocks of the valleys; ²⁵ Then the Ruler of all will be your gold, and his teaching will be your silver;

⁷ May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! when the fate of his people is changed by the Lord, Jacob will have joy and Israel will be glad.

⁶ May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! When the fate of his people is changed by God, Jacob will have joy, and Israel will be glad.

¹ To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. Lord, you were good to your land: changing the fate of Jacob. ² The wrongdoing of your people had forgiveness; all their sin had been covered. Selah. ³ You were no longer angry: you were turned from the heat of your wrath.

¹ A Song of the going up. When the Lord made a change in Zion's fate, we were like men in a dream.

⁴ Let our fate be changed, O Lord, like the streams in the South. ⁵ Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy. ⁶ Though a man may go out weeping, taking his vessel of seed with him; he will come again in joy, with the corded stems of grain in his arms.

⁴ The reward of a gentle spirit and the fear of the Lord is wealth and honour and life.

² Say kind words to the heart of Jerusalem, crying out to her that her time of trouble is ended, that her punishment is complete; that she has been rewarded by the Lord's hand twice over for all her sins.

⁷ As they had twice as much grief, and marks of shame were their heritage, so in their land they will be rewarded twice over, and will have eternal joy.

⁸ The silver is mine and the gold is mine, says the Lord of armies.

²⁷ And he said, Father, it is my request that you will send him to my father's house;

⁵⁰ Did not my hand make all these things?

⁶⁰ And going down on his knees, he said in a loud voice, Lord, do not make them responsible for this sin. And when he had said this, he went to his rest.

²² And when the camels had had enough, the man took a gold nose-ring, half a shekel in weight, and two ornaments for her arms of ten shekels weight of gold;

⁵³ Then he took jewels of silver and jewels of gold and fair robes and gave them to Rebekah: and he gave things of value to her mother and her brother.

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

³² And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had taken up from Egypt, they put in the earth in Shechem, in the property which Jacob had got from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred shekels: and they became the heritage of the children of Joseph.

²⁷ But certain good-for-nothing persons said, How is this man to be our saviour? And having no respect for him, they gave him no offering.

⁴ He who was near to falling has been lifted up by your words, and you have given strength to bent knees.

²² Did I say, Give me something? or, Make a payment for me out of your wealth? ²³ Or, Get me out of the power of my hater? or, Give money so that I may be free from the power of the cruel ones?

⁵ I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips.

¹³ He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me. ¹⁴ My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.

⁷ When a man's ways are pleasing to the Lord, he makes even his haters be at peace with him.

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.

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

¹⁵ Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and in the grief of those who are sorrowing.

²⁶ And if there is pain in one part of the body, all the parts will be feeling it; or if one part is honoured, all the parts will be glad.

¹² For this cause let the hands which are hanging down be lifted up, and let the feeble knees be made strong,

³ Keep in mind those who are in chains, as if you were chained with them, and those who are in trouble, as being yourselves in the body.

³⁵ The Lord has given my master every blessing, and he has become great: he has given him flocks and herds and silver and gold, and men-servants and women-servants and camels and asses.

¹² Now Isaac, planting seed in that land, got in the same year fruit a hundred times as much, for the blessing of the Lord was on him. ¹³ And his wealth became very great, increasing more and more; ¹⁴ For he had great wealth of flocks and herds and great numbers of servants; so that the Philistines were full of envy.

¹⁶ Who gave you manna for your food in the waste land, a food which your fathers had never seen; so that your pride might be broken and your hearts tested for your good in the end;

⁷ And though your start was small, your end will be very great.

³⁸ He gives them his blessing so that they are increased greatly, and their cattle do not become less.

¹³ Our store-houses are full of all good things; and our sheep give birth to thousands and ten thousands in our fields. ¹⁴ Our oxen are well weighted down; our cows give birth safely; there is no going out, and there is no cry of sorrow in our open places. ¹⁵ Happy is the nation whose ways are so ordered: yes, happy is the nation whose God is the Lord.

²² The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.

⁸ The end of a thing is better than its start, and a gentle spirit is better than pride.

¹⁷ Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use;

¹¹ We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.

² And he had seven sons and three daughters.

⁴¹ But he puts the poor man on high from his troubles, and gives him families like a flock.

³ See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward.

²⁰ The children to whom you gave birth in other lands will say in your ears, The place is not wide enough for me: make room for me to have a resting-place.

⁷ What the daughters of Zelophehad say is right: certainly you are to give them a heritage among their father's brothers: and let the property which would have been their father's go to them.

¹⁸ Now when she came to him, he put into her mind the idea of requesting a field from her father: and she got down from her ass; and Caleb said to her, What is it? ¹⁹ And she said, Give me a blessing; because you have put me in dry south-land, now give me springs of water. So he gave her the higher spring and the lower spring.

⁴ Take from among you three men from every tribe; and I will send them to go through the land and make a record of it for distribution as their heritage; then let them come back to me.

¹² Our sons are like tall young plants; and our daughters like the shining stones of a king's house;

²⁰ At which time Moses came to birth, and he was very beautiful; and he was kept for three months in his father's house:

³² And all the years of Terah's life were two hundred and five: and Terah came to his end in Haran.

⁷ Now the years of Abraham's life were a hundred and seventy-five.

²⁸ And Isaac was a hundred and eighty years old.

²⁸ And Jacob was living in the land of Goshen for seventeen years; so the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.

²³ And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: and the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, came to birth on Joseph's knees.

²⁶ So Joseph came to his death, being a hundred and ten years old: and they made his body ready, and he was put in a chest in Egypt.

⁷ And Moses at his death was a hundred and twenty years old: his eye had not become clouded, or his natural force become feeble.

²⁹ Now after these things, the death of Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, took place, he being then a hundred and ten years old.

¹⁰ The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.

⁶ May you see your children's children. Peace be on Israel.

⁶ Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.

¹⁵ As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place.

⁸ And Abraham came to his death, an old man, full of years; and he was put to rest with his people.

² So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.

²⁶ You will come to your last resting-place in full strength, as the grain is taken up to the crushing-floor in its time.

¹⁶ With long life will he be rewarded; and I will let him see my salvation.

¹⁶ Long life is in her right hand, and in her left are wealth and honour.