Job 9 Cross References - BBE

¹ And Job made answer and said, ² Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God? ³ If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions. ⁴ He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it? ⁵ It is he who takes away the mountains without their knowledge, overturning them in his wrath: ⁶ Who is moving the earth out of its place, so that its pillars are shaking: ⁷ Who gives orders to the sun, and it does not give its light; and who keeps the stars from shining. 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: ¹⁰ Who does great things not to be searched out; yes, wonders without number. ¹¹ See, he goes past me and I see him not: he goes on before, but I have no knowledge of him. ¹² If he puts out his hand to take, by whom may it be turned back? who may say to him, What are you doing? ¹³ God's wrath may not be turned back; the helpers of Rahab were bent down under him. ¹⁴ How much less may I give an answer to him, using the right words in argument with him? ¹⁵ Even if my cause was good, I would not be able to give an answer; I would make request for grace from him who was against me. ¹⁶ If I had sent for him to be present, and he had come, I would have no faith that he would give ear to my voice. ¹⁷ For I would be crushed by his storm, my wounds would be increased without cause. ¹⁸ He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief. 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? ²⁰ Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner. ²¹ I have done no wrong; I give no thought to what becomes of me; I have no desire for life. 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. ²³ If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong. ²⁴ The land is given into the power of the evil-doer; the faces of its judges are covered; if not by him, then who has done it? ²⁵ My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good. ²⁶ They go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food. ²⁷ If I say, I will put my grief out of mind, I will let my face be sad no longer and I will be bright; ²⁸ I go in fear of all my pains; I am certain that I will not be free from sin in your eyes. ²⁹ You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing? ³⁰ If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap; ³¹ Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing. ³² For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge. ³³ There is no one to give a decision between us, who might have control over us. ³⁴ Let him take away his rod from me and not send his fear on me: ³⁵ Then I would say what is in my mind without fear of him; for there is no cause of fear in myself.

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.

¹⁶ And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars.

⁹ And Moses said these words to the children of Israel, but they gave no attention to him, because of the grief of their spirit and the cruel weight of their work.

¹⁴ For this time I will send all my punishments on yourself and on your servants and on your people; so that you may see that there is no other like me in all the earth. ¹⁵ For if I had put the full weight of my hand on you and your people, you would have been cut off from the earth: ¹⁶ But, for this very reason, I have kept you from destruction, to make clear to you my power, and so that my name may be honoured through all the earth. ¹⁷ Are you still uplifted in pride against my people so that you will not let them go?

²¹ And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out to heaven, and all the land of Egypt will be dark, so that men will be feeling their way about in the dark. ²² And when Moses' hand was stretched out, dark night came over all the land of Egypt for three days;

¹⁷ And I will make the heart of the Egyptians hard, and they will go in after them: and I will be honoured over Pharaoh and over his army, his war-carriages, and his horsemen. ¹⁸ And the Egyptians will see that I am the Lord, when I get honour over Pharaoh and his war-carriages and his horsemen.

¹¹ Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? who is like you, in holy glory, to be praised with fear, doing wonders?

⁷ You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged a sinner by the Lord

⁵ These are the names of those who are to be your helpers: from Reuben, Elizur, the son of Shedeur; ⁶ From Simeon, Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai;

¹⁹ God is not a man, to say what is false; or the son of man, that his purpose may be changed: what he has said, will he not do? and will he not give effect to the words of his mouth?

¹² It was on the day when the Lord gave up the Amorites into the hands of the children of Israel that Joshua said to the Lord, before the eyes of Israel, Sun, be at rest over Gibeon; and you, O moon, in the valley of Aijalon.

¹³ Then Gideon said to him, O my lord, if the Lord is with us why has all this come on us? And where are all his works of power, of which our fathers have given us word, saying, Did not the Lord take us out of Egypt? But now he has given us up, handing us over to the power of Midian.

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.

²⁵ If one man does wrong to another, God will be his judge: but if a man's sin is against the Lord, who will take up his cause? But they gave no attention to the voice of their father, for it was the Lord's purpose to send destruction on them.

⁷ But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not take note of his face or how tall he is, because I will not have him: for the Lord's view is not man's; man takes note of the outer form, but the Lord sees the heart.

²³ Saul and Jonathan were loved and pleasing; in their lives and in their death they were not parted; they went more quickly than eagles, they were stronger than lions.

¹⁵ And now it is my fear of the people which has made me come to say these words to my lord the king: and your servant said, I will put my cause before the king, and it may be that he will give effect to my request.

¹⁷ Then your servant said, May the word of my lord the king give me peace! for my lord the king is as the angel of God in his hearing of good and bad: and may the Lord your God be with you!

³⁰ And David went up the slopes of the Mount of Olives weeping all the way, with his head covered and no shoes on his feet: and all the people who were with him, covering their heads, went up weeping.

⁴ But the king, covering his face, gave a great cry, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!

¹⁶ Then two loose women of the town came and took their places before the king; ¹⁷ And one of them said, O my lord, I and this woman are living in the same house; and I gave birth to a child by her side in the house. ¹⁸ And three days after the birth of my child, this woman had a child: we were together, no other-person was with us in the house but we two only. ¹⁹ In the night, this woman, sleeping on her child, was the cause of its death. ²⁰ And she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your servant was sleeping; and she took it in her arms and put her dead child in my arms. ²¹ And when I got up to give my child the breast, I saw that it was dead; but in the morning, looking at it with care, I saw that it was not my son. ²² And the other woman said, No; but the living child is my son and the dead one yours. But the first said, No; the dead child is your son and the living one mine. So they kept on talking before the king. ²³ Then the king said, One says, The living child is my son, and yours is the dead: and the other says, Not so; but your son is the dead one and mine is the living. ²⁴ Then he said, Get me a sword. So they went and put a sword before the king. ²⁵ And the king said, Let the living child be cut in two and one half given to one woman and one to the other. ²⁶ Then the mother of the living child came forward, for her heart went out to her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the child; do not on any account put it to death. But the other woman said, It will not be mine or yours; let it be cut in two. ²⁷ Then the king made answer and said, Give her the child, and do not put it to death; she is the mother of it. ²⁸ And news of this decision which the king had made went through all Israel; and they had fear of the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to give decisions.

²⁷ But is it truly possible that God may be housed on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place; how much less this house which I have made!

³⁸ Whatever prayer or request for your grace is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, whatever his trouble may be, whose hands are stretched out to this house: ³⁹ Give ear in heaven your living-place, acting in mercy; and give to every man whose secret heart is open to you, the reward of all his ways; for you, and you only, have knowledge of the hearts of all the children of men:

⁴⁶ If they do wrong against you, for no man is without sin, and you are angry with them and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away as prisoners into a strange land, far off or near;

¹² And now God is with us at our head, and his priests with their loud horns sounding against you. O children of Israel, do not make war on the Lord, the God of your fathers, for it will not go well for you.

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.

¹² And Mordecai came back to the king's doorway. But Haman went quickly back to his house, sad and with his head covered.

⁸ Then the king came back from the garden into the room where they had been drinking; and Haman was stretched out on the seat where Esther was. Then the king said, Is he taking the queen by force before my eyes in my house? And while the words were on the king's lips, they put a cloth over Haman's face.

¹⁴ So the men went out on the quick-running horses used on the king's business, wasting no time and forced on by the king's order; and the order was given out in Shushan, the king's town.

¹ There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.

¹³ And there was a day when his sons and daughters were feasting in the house of their oldest brother, ¹⁴ And a man came to Job, and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses were taking their food by their side: ¹⁵ And the men of Sheba came against them and took them away, putting the young men to the sword, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news. ¹⁶ And this one was still talking when another came, and said, The fire of God came down from heaven, burning up the sheep and the goats and the young men completely, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news. ¹⁷ And this one was still talking when another came, and said, The Chaldaeans made themselves into three bands, and came down on the camels and took them away, putting the young men to the sword, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news. 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.

³ 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? and he still keeps his righteousness, though you have been moving me to send destruction on him without cause.

⁷ And the Satan went out from before the Lord, and sent on Job an evil disease covering his skin from his feet to the top of his head.

¹³ And they took their seats on the earth by his side for seven days and seven nights: but no one said a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

²⁰ Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;

²⁵ For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled.

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

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

¹⁹ How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

⁸ But as for me, I would make my prayer to God, and I would put my cause before him: ⁹ Who does great things outside our knowledge, wonders without number:

¹⁰ So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

⁶ My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope. ⁷ O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.

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.

¹³ When I say, In my bed I will have comfort, there I will get rest from my disease;

¹⁵ So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains. ¹⁶ I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.

¹⁹ How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?

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.

⁵ If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all;

²⁰ Truly, God will not give up him who is without sin, and will not take evil-doers by the hand.

² Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God? ³ If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions. 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? ²⁰ Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.

²⁰ Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner. ²¹ I have done no wrong; I give no thought to what becomes of me; I have no desire for life. 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.

³² For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge. ³³ There is no one to give a decision between us, who might have control over us.

² I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me. 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 Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands? ⁸ Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.

¹⁴ That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:

¹⁴ That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin: ¹⁵ That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble.

¹⁵ That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble. ¹⁶ And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me: ¹⁷ That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.

⁴ You may say, My way is clean, and I am free from sin in your eyes. 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!

¹⁰ If he goes on his way, shutting a man up and putting him to death, who may make him go back from his purpose?

⁶ There is wealth in the tents of those who make destruction, and those by whom God is moved to wrath are safe; even those whose god is their strength. 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. ⁹ Who does not see by all these that the hand of the Lord has done this? ¹⁰ In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh of man.

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

¹⁷ He takes away the wisdom of the wise guides, and makes judges foolish;

¹¹ Will not his glory put you in fear, so that your hearts will be overcome before him?

¹⁸ See now, I have put my cause in order, and I am certain that I will be seen to be right. ¹⁹ Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath. ²⁰ Only two things do not do to me, then I will come before your face:

²⁰ Only two things do not do to me, then I will come before your face: ²¹ Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you.

²¹ Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you. ²² Then at the sound of your voice I will give answer; or let me put forward my cause for you to give me an answer.

²² Then at the sound of your voice I will give answer; or let me put forward my cause for you to give me an answer. ²³ What is the number of my evil-doings and my sins? give me knowledge of them.

³ Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him? ⁴ If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

¹⁶ For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.

⁵ For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself. ⁶ It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.

⁶ It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.

²³ He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him: ²⁴ He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him: ²⁵ Because his hand is stretched out against God, and his heart is lifted up against the Ruler of all, ²⁶ Running against him like a man of war, covered by his thick breastplate; even like a king ready for the fight, ²⁷ Because his face is covered with fat, and his body has become thick;

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.

¹⁴ I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.

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

⁶ At the very thought of it my flesh is shaking with fear. 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. 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? ¹⁶ Truly, is not their well-being in their power? The purpose of the evil-doers is far from me. ¹⁷ How frequently is the light of the evil-doers put out, or does trouble come on them? how frequently does his wrath take them with cords?

²⁷ See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me;

⁵ Is not your evil-doing great? and there is no end to your sins. ⁶ For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it. ⁷ You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread. ⁸ For it was the man with power who had the land, and the man with an honoured name who was living in it. ⁹ You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father. ¹⁰ For this cause nets are round your feet, and you are overcome with sudden fear. ¹¹ Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters. ¹² Is not God as high as heaven? and see the stars, how high they are! ¹³ And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark? ¹⁴ Thick clouds are covering him, so that he is unable to see; and he is walking on the arch of heaven. ¹⁵ Will you keep the old way by which evil men went? ¹⁶ Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters: ¹⁷ Who said to God, Go away from us; and, What is the Ruler of all able to do to us? ¹⁸ Though he made their houses full of good things: but the purpose of the evil-doers is far from me! ¹⁹ The upright saw it and were glad: and those who had done no wrong made sport of them, ²⁰ Saying, Truly, their substance is cut off, and their wealth is food for the fire. 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.

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.

³ If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat! ⁴ I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments.

⁴ I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments. ⁵ I would see what his answers would be, and have knowledge of what he would say to me. ⁶ Would he make use of his great power to overcome me? No, but he would give attention to me. ⁷ There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.

⁷ There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge. 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.

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

¹⁵ For this cause I am in fear before him, my thoughts of him overcome me.

¹² From the town come sounds of pain from those who are near death, and the soul of the wounded is crying out for help; but God does not take note of their prayer.

²⁵ And if it is not so, now, who will make it clear that my words are false, and that what I say is of no value?

⁴ How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?

⁶ How much less man who is an insect, and the son of man who is a worm!

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.

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.

² By the life of God, who has taken away my right; and of the Ruler of all, who has made my soul bitter;

⁹ Man puts out his hand on the hard rock, overturning mountains by the roots.

² If only I might again be as I was in the months which are past, in the days when God was watching over me! ³ When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light. ⁴ As I was in my flowering years, when my tent was covered by the hand of God; ⁵ While the Ruler of all was still with me, and my children were round me; ⁶ When my steps were washed with milk, and rivers of oil were flowing out of the rock for me. ⁷ When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place, ⁸ The young men saw me, and went away, and the old men got up from their seats; ⁹ The rulers kept quiet, and put their hands on their mouths; ¹⁰ The chiefs kept back their words, and their tongues were joined to the roofs of their mouths. ¹¹ For when it came to their ears, men said that I was truly happy; and when their eyes saw, they gave witness to me; ¹² For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter. ¹³ The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart. ¹⁴ I put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress. ¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking. ¹⁶ I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me. ¹⁷ By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away. ¹⁸ Then I said, I will come to my end with my children round me, my days will be as the sand in number; ¹⁹ My root will be open to the waters, and the night mist will be on my branches, ²⁰ My glory will be ever new, and my bow will be readily bent in my hand. ²¹ Men gave ear to me, waiting and keeping quiet for my suggestions. ²² After I had said what was in my mind, they were quiet and let my words go deep into their hearts; ²³ They were waiting for me as for the rain, opening their mouths wide as for the spring rains. ²⁴ I was laughing at them when they had no hope, and the light of my face was never clouded by their fear.

²⁴ I was laughing at them when they had no hope, and the light of my face was never clouded by their fear. ²⁵ I took my place as a chief, guiding them on their way, and I was as a king among his army (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) .

²² Lifting me up, you make me go on the wings of the wind; I am broken up by the storm.

⁷ If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;

²³ For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things.

³⁵ If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!

³⁵ If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing! ³⁶ Truly I would take up the book in my hands; it would be to me as a crown; ³⁷ I would make clear the number of my steps, I would put it before him like a prince! The words of Job are ended.

¹ So these three men gave no more answers to Job, because he seemed to himself to be right. 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;

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;

⁵ If you are able, give me an answer; put your cause in order, and come forward.

⁵ If you are able, give me an answer; put your cause in order, and come forward. ⁶ See, I am the same as you are in the eyes of God; I was cut off from the same bit of wet earth. ⁷ Fear of me will not overcome you, and my hand will not be hard on you.

⁷ Fear of me will not overcome you, and my hand will not be hard on you. ⁸ But you said in my hearing, and your voice came to my ears: ⁹ I am clean, without sin; I am washed, and there is no evil in me:

⁹ I am clean, without sin; I am washed, and there is no evil in me: ¹⁰ See, he is looking for something against me; in his eyes I am as one of his haters; ¹¹ He puts chains on my feet; he is watching all my ways. ¹² Truly, in saying this you are wrong; for God is greater than man.

¹² Truly, in saying this you are wrong; for God is greater than man. ¹³ Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?

¹³ Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?

⁵ For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right; ⁶ Though I am right, still I am in pain; my wound may not be made well, though I have done no wrong.

¹⁴ If he made his spirit come back to him, taking his breath into himself again, ¹⁵ All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

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³⁵ Job's words do not come from knowledge; they are not the fruit of wisdom.

⁵ Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you. ⁶ If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him? ⁷ If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand?

¹⁴ How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.

¹⁶ And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.

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

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¹ At this my heart is shaking; it is moved out of its place.

⁷ He puts an end to the work of every man, so that all may see his work.

⁹ Out of its place comes the storm-wind, and the cold out of its store-houses.

¹⁸ Will you, with him, make the skies smooth, and strong as a polished looking-glass?

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.

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?

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?

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?

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?

²⁷ Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high? ²⁸ On the rock is his house, and on the mountain-top his strong place. ²⁹ From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off. ³⁰ His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen.

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.

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

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

⁹ Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his? ¹⁰ Put on the ornaments of your pride; be clothed with glory and power:

¹⁰ Put on the ornaments of your pride; be clothed with glory and power: ¹¹ Let your wrath be overflowing; let your eyes see all the sons of pride, and make them low.

¹⁴ With your hand, O Lord, from men, even men of the world, whose heritage is in this life, and whom you make full with your secret wealth: they are full of children; after their death their offspring take the rest of their goods.

⁶ In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came before him, even into his ears.

¹² Who has full knowledge of his errors? make me clean from secret evil.

³ Let no servant of yours be put to shame; may those be shamed who are false without cause.

⁶ I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;

⁵ By the voice of the Lord are the cedar-trees broken, even the cedars of Lebanon are broken by the Lord.

⁶ By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the army of heaven by the breath of his mouth.

³³ The Lord will not give him into their hands, or be against him when he is judged.

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.

¹⁰ No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand. ¹¹ By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. Selah.

¹³ Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.

¹² For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.

⁷ Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me.

²² Truly, because of you we are put to death every day; we are numbered like sheep for destruction.

² For this cause we will have no fear, even though the earth is changed, and though the mountains are moved in the heart of the sea;

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

¹⁸ I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me: ¹⁹ But truly God's ear has been open; he has give attention to the voice of my prayer. ²⁰ Praise be to God who has not taken away his good faith and his mercy from me.

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.

¹⁵ My mouth will make clear your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for they are more than may be measured.

¹⁸ Praise be to the Lord God, the God of Israel, the only doer of wonders.

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.

¹³ As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;

³ When the earth and all its people become feeble, I am the support of its pillars. Selah.

² In the day of my trouble, my heart was turned to the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night without resting; my soul would not be comforted. ³ I will keep God in memory, with sounds of grief; my thoughts are troubled, and my spirit is overcome. Selah.

¹⁹ Your way was in the sea, and your road in the great waters; there was no knowledge of your footsteps.

¹⁵ So go after them with your strong wind, and let them be full of fear because of your storm.

⁷ The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. Selah.

¹⁵ I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.

¹⁵ I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength. ¹⁶ The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.

¹⁶ The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments. ¹⁷ They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me. ¹⁸ You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.

¹⁰ Rahab was crushed by you like one wounded to death; with your strong arm you put to flight all your haters.

⁴⁷ See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

⁹ For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath. 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. ¹¹ Who has knowledge of the power of your wrath, or who takes note of the weight of your passion?

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

² 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:

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:

¹³ He sends down rain from his store-houses on the hills: the earth is full of the fruit of his works.

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.

²³ And he was purposing to put an end to them if Moses, his special servant, had not gone up before him, between him and his people, turning back his wrath, to keep them from destruction.

⁶ You mountains, why were you jumping like goats, and you little hills like lambs? ⁷ Be troubled, O earth, before the Lord, before the God of Jacob;

¹ I have given my love to the Lord, because he has given ear to the voice of my cry and my prayer. ² He has let my request come before him, and I will make my prayer to him all my days.

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

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

³ O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free?

⁴ To him who only does great wonders: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. ⁵ To him who by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

²³ O God, let the secrets of my heart be uncovered, and let my wandering thoughts be tested: ²⁴ See if there is any way of sorrow in me, and be my guide in the eternal way.

² Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.

⁴ He sees the number of the stars; he gives them all their names.

¹⁹ Where there is much talk there will be no end to sin, but he who keeps his mouth shut does wisely.

²⁰ Nothing good comes to him whose heart is fixed on evil purposes: and he who has an evil tongue will come to trouble.

⁵ Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.

¹³ He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy. ¹⁴ Happy is the man in whom is the fear of the Lord at all times; but he whose heart is hard will come into trouble.

²⁶ He whose faith is in himself is foolish; but everyone walking wisely will be kept safe.

¹ A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again.

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.

¹⁰ That which is, has been named before, and of what man is there is knowledge. He has no power against one stronger than he.

¹ All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them. ² Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it. ³ This is evil in all things which are done under the sun: that there is one fate for all, and the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; while they have life their hearts are foolish, and after that--to the dead.

¹⁶ Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning; ¹⁷ Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow. ¹⁸ Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?

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.

²¹ To take cover in the cracks of the rocks, and in the holes of the hills, 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.

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.

¹⁰ For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.

¹³ For this cause the heavens will be shaking, and the earth will be moved out of its place, in the wrath of the Lord of armies, and in the day of his burning passion. ¹⁴ And it will be that, like a roe in flight, and like wandering sheep, they will go every man to his people and to his land.

² Which sends its representatives by the sea, even in ships of papyrus on the waters. Go back quickly, O representatives, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers.

¹ See, the Lord is making the earth waste and unpeopled, he is turning it upside down, and sending the people in all directions.

¹⁹ The earth is completely broken, it is parted in two, it is violently moved. ²⁰ The earth will be moving uncertainly, like a man overcome by drink; it will be shaking like a tent; and the weight of its sin will be on it, crushing it down so that it will not get up again.

¹⁷ And I will make right decision the measuring-line, and righteousness the weight: and the ice-storm will take away the safe place of false words, and the secret place will be covered by the flowing waters.

⁷ For there is no use or purpose in the help of Egypt: so I have said about her, She is Rahab, who has come to an end.

² Though he is wise, and able to send evil, and his purpose will not be changed; but he will go against the house of the evil-doers, and against those to whom they are looking for help. ³ For the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit: and when the Lord's hand is stretched out, the helper and he who is helped will come down together.

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?

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

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

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

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?

⁹ Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?

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

¹⁵ For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed. ¹⁶ For I will not give punishment for ever, or be angry without end: for from me breath goes out; and I it was who made the souls.

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.

⁶ For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.

²² For even if you are washed with soda and take much soap, still your evil-doing is marked before me, says the Lord God.

³⁵ And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.

¹³ See, he will come up like the clouds, and his war-carriages like the storm-wind: his horses are quicker than eagles. Sorrow is ours, for destruction has come on us. ¹⁴ O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?

²⁴ Looking at the mountains, I saw them shaking, and all the hills were moved about.

¹⁸ Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.

¹¹ This is what you are to say to them: The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth will be cut off from the earth and from under the heavens.

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.

⁴ Those who do work on the land are in fear, for there has been no rain on the land, and the farmers are shamed, covering their heads.

⁹ The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it? 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.

⁶ O Israel, am I not able to do with you as this potter does? says the Lord. See, like earth in the potter's hand are you in my hands, O Israel.

¹⁹ See, the storm-wind of the Lord, even the heat of his wrath, has gone out, a rolling storm, bursting on the heads of the evil-doers.

⁹ They will come with weeping, and going before them I will be their guide: guiding them by streams of water in a straight way where there is no falling: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is the first of my sons.

¹⁹ See, he will come up like a lion from the thick growth of Jordan against the resting-place of Teman: but I will suddenly make him go in flight from her; and I will put over her the man of my selection: for who is like me? and who will put forward his cause against me? and what keeper of sheep will be able to keep his place before me?

³ Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.

¹⁵ He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.

¹⁸ And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord. ¹⁹ Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.

¹⁹ Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.

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.

¹⁹ Or if I send disease into that land, letting loose my wrath on it in blood, cutting off from it man and beast: ²⁰ Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, by my life, says the Lord, they would not keep son or daughter safe; only themselves would they keep safe through their righteousness. ²¹ For this is what the Lord has said: How much more when I send my four bitter punishments on Jerusalem, the sword and need of food and evil beasts and disease, cutting off from it man and beast?

³ And say to the land of Israel, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, and I will take my sword out of its cover, cutting off from you the upright and the evil. ⁴ Because I am going to have the upright and the evil cut off from you, for this cause my sword will go out from its cover against all flesh from the south to the north:

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⁷ And when I put out your life, the heaven will be covered and its stars made dark; I will let the sun be covered with a cloud and the moon will not give her light. ⁸ All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over you, and put dark night on your land, says the Lord.

²⁰ And Daniel said in answer, May the name of God be praised for ever and ever: for wisdom and strength are his:

² It has seemed good to me to make clear the signs and wonders which the Most High God has done with me. ³ How great are his signs! and how full of power are his wonders! his kingdom is an eternal kingdom and his rule goes on from generation to generation.

¹⁷ This order is fixed by the watchers, and the decision is by the word of the holy ones: so that the living may be certain that the Most High is ruler over the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure, lifting up over it the lowest of men.

³⁴ And at the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifting up my eyes to heaven, got back my reason, and, blessing the Most High, I gave praise and honour to him who is living for ever, whose rule is an eternal rule and whose kingdom goes on from generation to generation. 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?

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? ³⁶ At the same time my reason came back to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my honour and my great name came back to me; and my wise men and my lords were turned to me again; and I was made safe in my kingdom and had more power than before. ³⁷ Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give worship and praise and honour to the King of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are right: and those who go in pride he is able to make low.

¹⁸ As for you, O King, the Most High God gave to Nebuchadnezzar, your father, the kingdom and great power and glory and honour: ¹⁹ And because of the great power he gave him, all peoples and nations and languages were shaking in fear before him: some he put to death and others he kept living, at his pleasure, lifting up some and putting others down as it pleased him. ²⁰ But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became hard with pride, he was put down from his place as king, and they took his glory from him:

²⁰ But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became hard with pride, he was put down from his place as king, and they took his glory from him: ²¹ And he was sent out from among the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts', and he was living with the asses of the fields; he had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he was certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives power over it to anyone at his pleasure.

²¹ And he was sent out from among the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts', and he was living with the asses of the fields; he had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he was certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives power over it to anyone at his pleasure. ²² And you, his son, O Belshazzar, have not kept your heart free from pride, though you had knowledge of all this; ²³ But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory; ²⁴ Then the part of the hand was sent out from before him, and this writing was recorded. ²⁵ And this is the writing which was recorded, Mene, tekel, peres. ²⁶ This is the sense of the words: Mene; your kingdom has been numbered by God and ended. ²⁷ Tekel; you have been put in the scales and seen to be under weight. ²⁸ Peres; your kingdom has been cut up and given to the Medes and Persians. ²⁹ Then, by the order of Belshazzar, they put a purple robe on Daniel, and a gold chain round his neck, and a public statement was made that he was to be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom. ³⁰ That very night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans, was put to death.

⁷ After this, in my vision of the night, I saw a fourth beast, a thing causing fear and very troubling, full of power and very strong; and it had great iron teeth: it took its food, crushing some of it to bits and stamping down the rest with its feet: it was different from all the beasts before it; and it had ten horns. ⁸ I was watching the horns with care, and I saw another coming up among them, a little one, before which three of the first horns were pulled up by the roots: and there were eyes like a man's eyes in this horn, and a mouth saying great things. ⁹ I went on looking till the seats of kings were placed, and one like a very old man took his seat: his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head was like clean wool; his seat was flames of fire and its wheels burning fire. ¹⁰ A stream of fire was flowing and coming out from before him: a thousand thousands were his servants, and ten thousand times ten thousand were in their places before him: the judge was seated and the books were open. ¹¹ Then I saw--because of the voice of the great words which the horn said--I saw till the beast was put to death, and its body was given to destruction, and the beast was given to the burning of fire. ¹² As for the rest of the beasts, their authority was taken away: but they let them go on living for a measure of time. ¹³ I saw in visions of the night, and there was coming with the clouds of heaven one like a man, and he came to the one who was very old, and they took him near before him. ¹⁴ And to him was given authority and glory and a kingdom; and all peoples, nations, and languages were his servants: his authority is an eternal authority which will not come to an end, and his kingdom is one which will not come to destruction. ¹⁵ As for me, Daniel, my spirit was pained because of this, and the visions of my head were troubling me. ¹⁶ I came near to one of those who were waiting there, questioning him about what all this was. And he said to me that he would make clear to me the sense of these things. ¹⁷ These great beasts are four kings who will be cut off from the earth. ¹⁸ But the saints of the Most High will take the kingdom, and it will be theirs for ever, even for ever and ever. ¹⁹ Then it was my desire to have certain knowledge about the fourth beast, which was different from all the others, a cause of great fear, whose teeth were of iron and his nails of brass; who took his food, crushing some of it to bits and stamping on the rest with his feet; ²⁰ And about the ten horns on his head and the other which came up, causing the fall of three; that horn which had eyes, and a mouth saying great things, which seemed to be greater than the other horns. ²¹ And I saw how that horn made war on the saints and overcame them, ²² Till he came, who was very old, and the decision was made and the authority was given to the saints of the Most High; and the time came when the saints took the kingdom. ²³ This is what he said: The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom which will come on earth, different from all the kingdoms, and it will overcome all the earth, crushing it down and smashing it. ²⁴ And as for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings will come to power; and after them another will come up: he will be different from the first ones and will put down three kings. ²⁵ And he will say words against the Most High, attempting to put an end to the saints of the Most High; and he will have the idea of changing times and law; and the saints will be given into his hands for a time and times and half a time. ²⁶ But the judge will be seated, and they will put an end to his authority, to overcome it and send complete destruction on it. ²⁷ And the kingdom and the authority and the power of the kingdoms under all the heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High: his kingdom is an eternal kingdom, and all powers will be his servants and do his pleasure. ²⁸ Here is the end of the account. As for me, Daniel, I was greatly troubled by my thoughts, and the colour went from my face: but I kept the thing in my heart.

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.

¹⁸ O my God, let your ear be turned and give hearing; let your eyes be open and see how we have been made waste and the town which is named by your name: for we are not offering our prayers before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercies.

¹⁰ The earth is troubled before them and the heavens are shaking: the sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining:

¹³ For see, he who gave form to the mountains and made the wind, giving knowledge of his purpose to man, who makes the morning dark, and is walking on the high places of the earth: the Lord, the God of armies, is his name.

⁸ Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;

⁹ And it will come about in that day, says the Lord God, that I will make the sun go down in the middle of the day, and I will make the earth dark in daylight:

⁸ And their horses are quicker than leopards and their horsemen more cruel than evening wolves; they come from far away, like an eagle in flight rushing on its food.

¹⁴ He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them. ¹⁵ He takes them all up with his hook, he takes them in his net, getting them together in his fishing-net: for which cause he is glad and full of joy. ¹⁶ For this reason he makes an offering to his net, burning perfume to his fishing-net; because by them he gets much food and his meat is fat. ¹⁷ For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.

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.

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.

⁶ For this is what the Lord of armies has said: In a short time I will make a shaking of the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land;

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

⁷ Who are you, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel you will become level: and he will let all see the headstone, with cries of Grace, grace, to it.

¹ The word of the Lord about Israel. The Lord by whom the heavens are stretched out and the bases of the earth put in place, and the spirit of man formed inside him, has said:

⁴ And in that day his feet will be on the Mount of Olives, which is opposite Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives will be parted in the middle to the east and to the west, forming a very great valley; and half the mountain will be moved to the north and half of it to the south. ⁵ And the valley will be stopped (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) and you will go in flight as you went in flight from the earth-shock in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah: and the Lord my God will come, and all his holy ones with him.

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

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.

²⁶ Yes, Father, for so it was pleasing in your eyes.

²⁰ The crushed stem will not be broken by him; and the feebly burning light will he not put out, till he has made righteousness overcome all.

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.

²⁵ And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea. ²⁶ And when they saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they gave cries of fear. ²⁷ But straight away Jesus said to them, Take heart; it is I, have no fear. ²⁸ And Peter, answering, said to him, Lord, if it is you, give me the order to come to you on the water. ²⁹ And he said, Come. And Peter got out of the boat, and walking on the water, went to Jesus. ³⁰ But when he saw the wind he was in fear and, starting to go down, he gave a cry, saying, Help, Lord.

¹⁵ Have I not the right to do as seems good to me in my house? or is your eye evil, because I am good?

²¹ And Jesus in answer said to them, Truly I say to you, If you have faith, without doubting, not only may you do what has been done to the fig-tree, but even if you say to this mountain, Be taken up and put into the sea, it will be done.

²⁹ But straight away, after the trouble of those days, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light and the stars will come down from heaven and the powers of heaven will be moved:

⁵¹ And the curtain of the Temple was parted in two from end to end; and there was an earth-shock; and the rocks were broken;

²⁹ But he, desiring to put himself in the right, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbour?

² And he, in answer, said to them, Are you of the opinion that these Galilaeans were worse than all other Galilaeans, because these things were done to them? ³ I say to you, It is not so: but if your hearts are not changed, you will all come to the same end. ⁴ Or those eighteen men who were crushed by the fall of the tower of Siloam, were they worse than all the other men living in Jerusalem?

¹⁵ And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.

¹¹ There will be great earth-shocks and outbursts of disease in a number of places, and men will be without food; and there will be wonders and great signs from heaven.

²⁵ And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars; and on the earth, fear among the nations and doubt because of the loud noise of the sea and the waves; ²⁶ Men's strength will go from them in fear and in waiting for the things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of the heavens will be moved.

⁴¹ And because, for joy and wonder, they were still in doubt, he said to them, Have you any food here?

¹⁹ After they had gone three or four miles they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near to the boat; and they had great fear.

³ Jesus said in answer, It was not because of his sin, or because of his father's or mother's; it was so that the works of God might be seen openly in him.

²⁵ This comes about so that the writing in their law may be made true, Their hate for me was without cause.

¹⁴ And hearing the voice of Peter, in her joy she went running, without opening the door, to say that Peter was outside. ¹⁵ And they said to her, You are off your head. But still she said, with decision, that it was so. And they said, It is his angel. ¹⁶ But Peter went on giving blows on the door: and when it was open and they saw him, they were full of wonder.

¹³ And from there, going about in a curve, we came to Rhegium: and after one day a south wind came up and on the day after we came to Puteoli:

²⁰ Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

¹⁸ So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard. ¹⁹ But you will say to me, Why does he still make us responsible? who is able to go against his purpose? ²⁰ But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?

²⁰ But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?

³ Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God.

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. ³⁴ Who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord? or who has taken part in his purposes?

²⁵ Because what seems foolish in God is wiser than men; and what seems feeble in God is stronger than men.

⁴ For I am not conscious of any wrong in myself; but this does not make me clear, for it is the Lord who is my judge.

²² Or may we be the cause of envy to the Lord? are we stronger than he?

² And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing.

⁸ Which he gave us in full measure in all wisdom and care;

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;

¹⁹ And how unlimited is his power to us who have faith, as is seen in the working of the strength of his power,

¹⁰ So that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavens might be made clear through the church the wide-shining wisdom of God,

²⁰ Now to him who is able to do in full measure more than all our desires or thoughts, through the power which is working in us,

⁸ Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward, ⁹ And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

¹² Not as if I had even now got the reward or been made complete: but I go on in the hope that I may come to the knowledge of that for which I was made the servant of Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brothers, it is clear to me that I have not come to that knowledge; but one thing I do, letting go those things which are past, and stretching out to the things which are before, ¹⁴ I go forward to the mark, even the reward of the high purpose of God in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Then let us all, who have come to full growth, be of this mind: and if in anything you are of a different mind, even this will God make clear to you:

⁵ Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.

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.

³⁶ And others were tested by being laughed at or by blows, and even with chains and prisons: ³⁷ They were stoned, they were cut up with knives, they were tested, they were put to death with the sword, they went about in sheepskins and in goatskins; being poor and in pain and cruelly attacked,

¹¹ At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.

²⁶ Whose voice was the cause of the shaking of the earth; but now he has made an oath, saying, There will be still one more shaking, not only of the earth, but of heaven.

² For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control.

⁶ But he gives more grace. So that the Writings say, God is against the men of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low before him. ⁷ For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you.

¹⁴ When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.

²³ To sharp words he gave no sharp answer; when he was undergoing pain, no angry word came from his lips; but he put himself into the hands of the judge of righteousness:

⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.

¹ My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may be without sin. And if any man is a sinner, we have a friend and helper with the Father, Jesus Christ, the upright one: ² He is the offering for our sins; and not for ours only, but for all the world.

²⁰ When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things.

²⁴ Now to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to give you a place in his glory, free from all evil, with great joy, 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.

¹⁴ And the heaven was taken away like the roll of a book when it is rolled up; and all the mountains and islands were moved out of their places.

¹³ And in that hour there was a great earth-shock and a tenth part of the town came to destruction; and in the earth-shock seven thousand persons came to their end: and the rest were in fear, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

¹⁸ And there were flames and voices and thunders; and there was a great earth-shock so that never, from the time when men were on the earth, had there been so great an earth-shock, so full of power. ¹⁹ And the great town was cut into three parts, and the towns of the nations came to destruction: and Babylon the great came into mind before God, to be given the cup of the wine of his wrath. ²⁰ And every island went in flight, and the mountains were seen no longer.

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