Job 8 Cross References - BBE

¹ Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said, ² How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind? ³ Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging? ⁴ If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand. ⁵ If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all; 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. ⁸ Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers: ⁹ For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade: ¹⁰ Will they not give you teaching, and say words of wisdom to you? ¹¹ Will the river-plant come up in its pride without wet earth? will the grass get tall without water? ¹² When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant. ¹³ So is the end of all who do not keep God in mind; and the hope of the evil-doer comes to nothing: ¹⁴ Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread. ¹⁵ He is looking to his family for support, but it is not there; he puts his hope in it, but it comes to nothing. ¹⁶ He is full of strength before the sun, and his branches go out over his garden. ¹⁷ His roots are twisted round the stones, forcing their way in between them. ¹⁸ If he is taken away from his place, then it will say, I have not seen you. ¹⁹ Such is the joy of his way, and out of the dust another comes up to take his place. ²⁰ Truly, God will not give up him who is without sin, and will not take evil-doers by the hand. ²¹ The time will come when your mouth will be full of laughing, and cries of joy will come from your lips. ²² Your haters will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the sinner will not be seen again.

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.

³ Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you be lifted up in your pride before me? let my people go so that they may give me worship.

⁷ And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long is this man to be the cause of evil to us? let the men go so that they may give worship to the Lord their God: are you not awake to Egypt's danger?

¹¹ Then he said, Go out and take your place on the mountain before the Lord. Then the Lord went by, and mountains were parted by the force of a great wind, and rocks were broken before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind there was an earth-shock, but the Lord was not in the earth-shock.

⁹ If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!

²⁶ My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind.

¹¹ So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.

² Are all these words to go unanswered? and is a man seen to be right because he is full of talk? ³ Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?

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

³ May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?

² How long will it be before you have done talking? Get wisdom, and then we will say what is in our minds.

² How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words? ³ Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.

²² How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?

²⁵ Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right?

⁴ He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.

⁷ So now let the fear of the Lord be in you; do your work with care; for in the Lord our God there is no evil, or respect for high position, or taking of payment to do wrong.

¹⁷ May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?

² Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?

³ What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?

⁷ Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.

¹⁵ What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?

²⁰ Let his eyes see his trouble, and let him be full of the wrath of the Ruler of all!

⁵ For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;

¹⁰ Now then, you wise, take note; you men of knowledge, give ear to me. Let it be far from God to do evil, and from the Ruler of all to do wrong. ¹¹ For he gives to every man the reward of his work, and sees that he gets the fruit of his ways. ¹² Truly, God does not do evil, and the Ruler of all is not a false judge.

¹⁷ How may a hater of right be a ruler? and will you say that the upright Ruler of all is evil? ¹⁸ He who says to a king, You are an evil-doer; and to rulers, You are sinners; ¹⁹ Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.

¹³ But God will not give ear to what is false, or the Ruler of all take note of it;

² Will he who is protesting give teaching to the Ruler of all? Let him who has arguments to put forward against God give an answer.

⁸ Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right?

¹⁴ The seat of your kingdom is resting on righteousness and right judging: mercy and good faith come before your face.

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

²⁵ But you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Give ear, now, O children of Israel; is my way not equal? are not your ways unequal?

¹⁷ But the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: when it is they whose way is not equal.

²⁰ And still you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O children of Israel, I will be your judge, giving to everyone the reward of his ways.

¹⁴ So the Lord has been watching over this evil and has made it come on us: for the Lord our God is upright in all his acts which he has done, and we have not given ear to his voice.

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

⁴ In no way: but let God be true, though every man is seen to be untrue; as it is said in the Writings, That your words may be seen to be true, and you may be seen to be right when you are judged. ⁵ But if the righteousness of God is supported by our wrongdoing what is to be said? is it wrong for God to be angry as men may say? ⁶ In no way: because if it is so, how is God able to be the judge of all the world?

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.

⁷ And a voice came from the altar, saying, Even so, O Lord God, Ruler of all, true and full of righteousness is your judging.

¹³ Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.

¹³ For we are about to send destruction on this place, because a great outcry against them has come to the ears of the Lord; and the Lord has sent us to put an end to the town. ¹⁴ And Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were married to his daughters, Come, let us go out of this place, for the Lord is about to send destruction on the town. But his sons-in-law did not take him seriously. ¹⁵ And when morning came, the angels did all in their power to make Lot go, saying, Get up quickly and take your wife and your two daughters who are here, and go, for fear that you come to destruction in the punishment of the town. ¹⁶ But while he was waiting, the men took him and his wife and his daughters by the hand, for the Lord had mercy on them, and put them outside the town. ¹⁷ And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction. ¹⁸ And Lot said to them, Not so, O my Lord; ¹⁹ See now, your servant has had grace in your eyes and great is your mercy in keeping my life from destruction, but I am not able to get as far as the mountain before evil overtakes me and death; ²⁰ This town, now, is near, and it is a little one: O, let me go there is it not a little one? so that my life may be safe. ²¹ And he said, See, I have given you your request in this one thing more: I will not send destruction on this town. ²² Go there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till you have come there. For this reason, the town was named Zoar. ²³ The sun was up when Lot came to Zoar. ²⁴ Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah. ²⁵ And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing in the land.

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.

¹⁸ And this one was still talking when another came, and said, Your sons and your daughters were feasting together in their oldest brother's house, ¹⁹ When a great wind came rushing from the waste land against the four sides of the house, and it came down on the young men, and they are dead; and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.

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

¹⁶ Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off. ¹⁷ His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name. ¹⁸ He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world. ¹⁹ He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.

¹² And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers, ¹³ And made prayer to him; and in answer to his prayer God let him come back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh was certain that the Lord was God.

⁸ But as for me, I would make my prayer to God, and I would put my cause before him:

¹³ But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;

²¹ Put yourself now in a right relation with him and be at peace: so will you do well in your undertakings. ²² Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your heart. ²³ If you come back to the Ruler of all, making yourself low before him; if you put evil far away from your tents; 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; ²⁶ For then you will have delight in the Ruler of all, and your face will be lifted up to God. ²⁷ You will make your prayer to him, and be answered; and you will give effect to your oaths. ²⁸ Your purposes will come about, and light will be shining on your ways. ²⁹ For God makes low those whose hearts are lifted up, but he is a saviour to the poor in spirit. ³⁰ He makes safe the man who is free from sin, and if your hands are clean, salvation will be yours.

⁶ Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near: ⁷ Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.

⁷ Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you: ⁸ Because to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire, and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.

⁷ And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears, ⁸ Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,

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.

⁸ And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil?

⁶ Is not your fear of God your support, and your upright way of life your hope? ⁷ Have you ever seen destruction come to an upright man? or when were the god-fearing ever cut off?

²⁴ And you will be certain that your tent is at peace, and after looking over your property you will see that nothing is gone.

¹⁷ Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.

¹⁴ Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways. ¹⁵ What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?

⁶ Come up, Lord, in your wrath; be lifted up against my haters; be awake, my God, give orders for the judging.

⁵ I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners. ⁶ I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;

²³ Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever.

⁴ For no sin of mine they go quickly and get themselves ready; be awake and come to my help, and see. ⁵ You, O Lord God of armies, are the God of Israel; come now and give punishment to the nations; have no mercy on any workers of deceit. Selah.

⁸ The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.

¹⁵ And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.

¹⁰ Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.

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?

⁸ It is my desire, then, that in every place men may give themselves to prayer, lifting up holy hands, without wrath or argument.

¹⁹ In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him, ²⁰ When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things. ²¹ My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him; ²² And he gives us all our requests, because we keep his laws and do the things which are pleasing in his eyes.

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;

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.

¹⁸ But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.

²⁰ Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.

¹⁰ For who has had a poor opinion of the day of small things? for they will be glad when they see the weighted measuring-line in the hand of Zerubbabel. Then he said in answer to me, These seven lights are the eyes of the Lord which go quickly up and down through all the earth.

⁷ And it will be unbroken day, such as the Lord has knowledge of, without change of day and night, and even at nightfall it will be light.

¹² Because whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have more; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.

³¹ He put another story before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his field: ³² Which is smaller than all seeds; but when it has come up it is greater than the plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of heaven come and make their resting-places in its branches.

²⁰ For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.

³² Give thought now to the days which are past, before your time, from the day when God first gave life to man on the earth, and searching from one end of heaven to the other, see if such a great thing as this has ever been, or if anything like it has been talked of in story.

⁷ Keep in mind the days of the past, give thought to the years of generations gone by: go to your father and he will make it clear to you, to the old men and they will give you the story.

¹² Old men have wisdom, and a long life gives knowledge.

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

¹⁸ {\I The things which wise men have got from their fathers, and have not kept secret from us;

⁶ And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, made answer and said, I am young, and you are very old, so I was in fear, and kept myself from putting my knowledge before you. ⁷ I said to myself, It is right for the old to say what is in their minds, and for those who are far on in years to give out wisdom.

¹ To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah Maschil. It has come to our ears, O God, our fathers have given us the story, of the works which you did in their days, in the old times,

³ Which have come to our hearing and our knowledge, as they were given to us by our fathers. ⁴ We will not keep them secret from our children; we will make clear to the coming generation the praises of the Lord and his strength, and the great works of wonder which he has done.

¹⁹ The living, the living man, he will give you praise, as I do this day: the father will give the story of your mercy to his children.

⁴ Now those things which were put down in writing before our time were for our learning, so that through quiet waiting and through the comfort of the holy Writings we might have hope.

¹¹ Now these things were done as an example; and were put down in writing for our teaching, on whom the last days have come.

⁹ And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.

¹⁵ For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

⁶ My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

² He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

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

⁴ For to you a thousand years are no more than yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.

¹¹ My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.

⁴ Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

⁷ Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up.

¹⁹ Teaching them to your children, and talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up:

⁷ But put now a question to the beasts, and get teaching from them; or to the birds of the heaven, and they will make it clear to you; ⁸ Or to the things which go flat on the earth, and they will give you wisdom; and the fishes of the sea will give you news of it.

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

⁴ One generation after another will give praise to your great acts, and make clear the operation of your strength.

²³ The heart of the wise man is the teacher of his mouth, and gives increased learning to his lips.

¹⁵ The heart of the man of good sense gets knowledge; the ear of the wise is searching for knowledge.

³⁵ The good man out of his good store gives good things; and the evil man out of his evil store gives evil things.

⁴ By faith Abel made a better offering to God than Cain, and he had witness through it of his righteousness, God giving his approval of his offering: and his voice still comes to us through it though he is dead.

¹ For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,

³ And when she was no longer able to keep him secret, she made him a basket out of the stems of water-plants, pasting sticky earth over it to keep the water out; and placing the baby in it she put it among the plants by the edge of the Nile.

⁵ And the waters of the sea will be cut off, and the river will become dry and waste: ⁶ And the rivers will have an evil smell; the stream of Egypt will become small and dry: all the water-plants will come to nothing. ⁷ The grass-lands by the Nile, and everything planted by the Nile, will become dry, or taken away by the wind, and will come to an end.

⁶ Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth. ⁷ He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.

⁶ For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.

²⁰ And that which went on the stones, this is he who, hearing the word, straight away takes it with joy;

¹⁰ But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end. ¹¹ For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.

²⁴ For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:

¹² Then take care that you keep your hearts true to the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.

¹¹ Then take care that you are not turned away from the Lord your God and from keeping his orders and decisions and laws which I give you this day:

¹⁴ Take care that your hearts are not lifted up in pride, giving no thought to the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house;

¹⁹ And it is certain that if at any time you are turned away from the Lord your God, and go after other gods, to be their servants and to give them worship, destruction will overtake you.

²⁰ But the eyes of the evil-doers will be wasting away; their way of flight is gone, and their only hope is the taking of their last breath.

¹⁶ And that will be my salvation, for an evil-doer would not come before him,

³⁴ For the band of the evil-doers gives no fruit, and the tents of those who give wrong decisions for reward are burned with fire.

¹⁴ He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.

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

⁸ For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul? ⁹ Will his cry come to the ears of God when he is in trouble? ¹⁰ Will he take delight in the Ruler of all, and make his prayer to God at all times?

¹³ Those who have no fear of God keep wrath stored up in their hearts; they give no cry for help when they are made prisoners.

¹⁷ The sinners and all the nations who have no memory of God will be turned into the underworld.

⁴ The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

²² Now keep this in mind, you who have no memory of God, for fear that you may be crushed under my hand, with no one to give you help:

²⁸ The hope of the upright man will give joy, but the waiting of the evil-doer will have its end in sorrow.

⁷ Evil-doers are overturned and never seen again, but the house of upright men will keep its place.

¹⁴ The sinners in Zion are full of fear; the haters of God are shaking with wonder. Who among us may keep his place before the burning fire? who among us may see the eternal burnings?

¹³ And you have given no thought to the Lord your Maker, by whom the heavens were stretched out, and the earth placed on its base; and you went all day in fear of the wrath of the cruel one, when he was making ready for your destruction. And where is the wrath of the cruel one?

¹⁸ And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.

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

¹ At that time, when thousands of the people had come together, in such numbers that they were crushing one another, he said first to his disciples, Have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees, which is deceit. ² But nothing is covered up, which will not come to light, or secret, which will not be made clear.

⁵ They give birth to snake's eggs, and make spider's threads: whoever takes their eggs for food comes to his death, and the egg which is crushed becomes a poison-snake. ⁶ Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.

¹⁸ His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.

¹¹ The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands.

⁵ But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. Selah. ⁶ The upright will see it with fear, and will say, laughing at you: ⁷ See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth.

¹⁰ The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.

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; 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.

⁴⁷ Everyone who comes to me and gives ear to my words and does them, I will make clear to you what he is like: ⁴⁸ He is like a man building a house, who went deep and put the base of it on a rock; and when the water came up and the river was driving against that house, it was not moved, because the building was good. ⁴⁹ But he who gives hearing, without doing, is like a man building a house on the earth without a base for it; and when the force of the river came against it, straight away it came down; and the destruction of that house was great.

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

⁷ Why is life given to the evil-doers? why do they become old and strong in power? ⁸ Their children are ever with them, and their offspring before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses are free from fear, and the rod of God does not come on them. ¹⁰ Their ox is ready at all times to give seed; their cow gives birth, without dropping her young. ¹¹ They send out their young ones like a flock, and their children have pleasure in the dance, ¹² They make songs to the instruments of music, and are glad at the sound of the pipe. ¹³ Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.

³⁵ I have seen the evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree. ³⁶ But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.

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

¹¹ It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River.

¹⁶ You had been named by the Lord, A branching olive-tree, fair with beautiful fruit: with the noise of a great rushing he has put it on fire and its branches are broken.

¹⁶ Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

¹⁹ My root will be open to the waters, and the night mist will be on my branches,

²⁴ For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.

²⁴ They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.

¹ You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort? ² They have been planted by you, they have taken root; they go on and give fruit: you are near in their mouths but far from their thoughts.

²⁰ And when they were going by in the morning, they saw the fig-tree dead from the roots.

¹² These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,

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

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

⁹ The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him.

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

³⁶ But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.

¹⁸ You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction. ¹⁹ How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

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

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.

⁷ But God is the judge, putting down one, and lifting up another.

⁷ He takes the poor man out of the dust, lifting him up from his low position;

²⁴ And it will be clear to all the trees of the field that I the Lord have made low the high tree and made high the low tree, drying up the green tree and making the dry tree full of growth; I the Lord have said it and have done it.

⁹ And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham.

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

⁷ Have you ever seen destruction come to an upright man? or when were the god-fearing ever cut off?

²² It is all the same to me; so I say, He puts an end to the sinner and to him who has done no wrong together.

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

²⁴ Even if he has a fall he will not be without help: for the hand of the Lord is supporting him.

³⁷ Give attention to the good man, and take note of the upright; because the end of that man is peace.

¹⁴ The Lord will not give up his people, or take away his support from his heritage;

¹ The Lord says to the man of his selection, to Cyrus, whom I have taken by the right hand, putting down nations before him, and taking away the arms of kings; making the doors open before him, so that the ways into the towns may not be shut;

⁶ And Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and everyone who has news of it will be laughing with me.

¹¹ And they gave praise to the Lord, answering one another in their songs and saying, For he is good, for his mercy to Israel is eternal. And all the people gave a great cry of joy, when they gave praise to the Lord, because the base of the Lord's house was put in place. ¹² But a number of the priests and Levites and the heads of families, old men who had seen the first house, when the base of this house was put down before their eyes, were overcome with weeping; and a number were crying out with joy: ¹³ So that in the ears of the people the cry of joy was mixed with the sound of weeping; for the cries of the people were loud and came to the ears of those who were a long way off.

⁴³ And on that day they made great offerings and were glad; for God had made them glad with great joy; and the women and the children were glad with them: so that the joy of Jerusalem came to the ears of those who were far off.

²² You will make sport of destruction and need, and will have no fear of the beasts of the earth.

¹¹ Be glad in the Lord with joy, you upright men; give cries of joy, all you whose hearts are true.

⁴ Let all the earth send out a glad cry to the Lord; sounding with a loud voice, and praising him with songs of joy.

¹ A Psalm of Praise. Make a glad sound to the Lord, all the earth.

² Then our mouths were full of laughing, and our tongues gave a glad cry; they said among the nations, The Lord has done great things for them.

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.

¹³ For this cause says the Lord God, My servants will have food, but you will be in need of food: my servants will have drink, but you will be dry: my servants will have joy, but you will be shamed: ¹⁴ My servants will make songs in the joy of their hearts, but you will be crying for sorrow, and making sounds of grief from a broken spirit.

²¹ Happy are you who are in need of food now: for you will be made full. Happy are you who are weeping now; for you will be glad.

²¹ And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

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

²⁶ Let all those who take pleasure in my troubles be shamed and come to nothing: let those who are lifted up against me be covered with shame and have no honour.

²⁹ Let my haters be clothed with shame, covering themselves with shame as with a robe.

¹⁸ His haters will be clothed with shame; but I will make his crown shining.

⁵ And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low.