Job 35 Cross References - BSB

¹ And Elihu went on to say: ² “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’ ³ For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’ ⁴ I will reply to you and to your friends as well. ⁵ Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you. ⁶ If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him? ⁷ If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand? ⁸ Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man. ⁹ Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty. ¹⁰ But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night, ¹¹ who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’ ¹² There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men. ¹³ Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it. ¹⁴ How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him, ¹⁵ and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly! ¹⁶ So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”

¹⁷ For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.

⁷ though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?

¹⁷ yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.

⁶ then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me. ⁷ Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.

² “As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice—the Almighty, who has embittered my soul— ³ as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils, ⁴ my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will not utter deceit. ⁵ I will never say that you are right; I will maintain my integrity until I die. ⁶ I will cling to my righteousness and never let go. As long as I live, my conscience will not accuse me.

⁵ For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.

⁸ Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?

³⁶ But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. ³⁷ For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”

²² His master replied, ‘You wicked servant, I will judge you by your own words. So you knew that I am a harsh man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?

²¹ Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life. ²² It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’

³⁰ If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye, ³¹ then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.

¹⁵ If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.

¹⁵ Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’

² For what is the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high?

⁹ For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’

¹³ Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.

¹⁴ You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?

⁸ He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.

²⁰ He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.

⁵ And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”

²⁷ But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.

¹² Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!

⁵ If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight, ⁶ how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”

²⁶ Indeed, God is great—beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable.

¹⁶ Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?

²² Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him. ²³ The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.

³ When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place— ⁴ what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

²² He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. ²³ He brings the princes to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth meaningless.

⁹ “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

³ The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.

³⁶ But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”

¹² If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage; but if you scoff, you alone will bear the consequences.

¹⁹ But am I the One they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?

¹⁴ But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? For everything comes from You, and from Your own hand we have given to You.

² “Can a man be of use to God? Can even a wise man benefit Him? ³ Does it delight the Almighty that you are righteous? Does He profit if your ways are blameless?

² I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.”

¹⁰ So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”

³⁵ “Who has first given to God, that God should repay him?”

² I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

²⁴ What if there are fifty righteous ones in the city? Will You really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous ones who are there? ²⁵ Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?” ²⁶ So the LORD replied, “If I find fifty righteous ones within the city of Sodom, on their account I will spare the whole place.” ²⁷ Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes— ²⁸ suppose the fifty righteous ones lack five. Will You destroy the whole city for the lack of five?” He replied, “If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.” ²⁹ Once again Abraham spoke to the LORD, “Suppose forty are found there?” He answered, “On account of the forty, I will not do it.” ³⁰ Then Abraham said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak further. Suppose thirty are found there?” He replied, “If I find thirty there, I will not do it.” ³¹ And Abraham said, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord, suppose twenty are found there?” He answered, “On account of the twenty, I will not destroy it.” ³² Finally, Abraham said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak once more. Suppose ten are found there?” And He answered, “On account of the ten, I will not destroy it.” ³³ When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, He departed, and Abraham returned home.

²⁹ So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.

¹ The Israelites, however, acted unfaithfully regarding the things devoted to destruction. Achan son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of what was set apart. So the anger of the LORD burned against the Israelites. ² Meanwhile, Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven to the east of Bethel, and told them, “Go up and spy out the land.” So the men went up and spied out Ai. ³ On returning to Joshua, they reported, “There is no need to send all the people; two or three thousand men are enough to go up and attack Ai. Since the people of Ai are so few, you need not wear out all our people there.” ⁴ So about three thousand men went up, but they fled before the men of Ai. ⁵ And the men of Ai struck down about thirty-six of them, chasing them from the gate as far as the quarries and striking them down on the slopes. So the hearts of the people melted and became like water.

²⁰ Was not Achan son of Zerah unfaithful regarding what was set apart for destruction, bringing wrath upon the whole congregation of Israel? Yet it was not only Achan who perished because of his sin!’”

⁸ So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.”

²³ So He said He would destroy them—had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.

³⁰ But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.

¹⁸ Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

³⁰ I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no one.

¹² “Pick me up,” he answered, “and cast me into the sea, so it may quiet down for you. For I know that I am to blame for this violent storm that has come upon you.”

²⁴ and said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. And look, God has granted you the lives of all who sail with you.’

⁷ By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

²³ After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.

⁷ The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.

⁹ And now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me, and I have seen how severely the Egyptians are oppressing them.

¹ About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews. ² Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive.” ³ Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.” ⁴ Still others were saying, “We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards. ⁵ We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless to redeem them because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

¹⁹ He leads priests away barefoot and overthrows the established.

¹² From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.

²⁸ They caused the cry of the poor to come before Him, and He heard the outcry of the afflicted.

⁹ Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like His?

¹⁵ Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.

⁵ “For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”

² For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?

² Attend to me and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and distraught ³ at the voice of the enemy, at the pressure of the wicked. For they release disaster upon me and revile me in their anger.

¹ For the choirmaster. To the tune of “A Dove on Distant Oaks.” A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be merciful to me, O God, for men are hounding me; all day they press their attack. ² My enemies pursue me all day long, for many proudly assail me.

³ And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ ⁴ For a while he refused, but later he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect men, ⁵ yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her justice. Then she will stop wearing me out with her perpetual requests.’” ⁶ And the Lord said, “Listen to the words of the unjust judge. ⁷ Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He continue to defer their help?

¹³ So Saul died for his unfaithfulness to the LORD, because he did not keep the word of the LORD and even consulted a medium for guidance, ¹⁴ and he failed to inquire of the LORD. So the LORD put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David son of Jesse.

²² In the time of his distress, King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD. ²³ Since Damascus had defeated him, he sacrificed to their gods and said, “Because the gods of the kings of Aram have helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But these gods were the downfall of Ahaz and of all Israel.

¹⁰ Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?

²² For I do not know how to flatter, or my Maker would remove me in an instant.

³ I get my knowledge from afar, and I will ascribe justice to my Maker.

¹³ The godless in heart harbor resentment; even when He binds them, they do not cry for help.

⁸ The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.

⁶ At night I remembered my song; in my heart I mused, and my spirit pondered:

⁶² At midnight I rise to give You thanks for Your righteous judgments.

⁵ Let the saints exult in glory; let them shout for joy upon their beds.

¹ Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”

²¹ They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.

¹³ But you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You live in terror all day long because of the fury of the oppressor who is bent on destruction. But where is the fury of the oppressor?

⁵ For your husband is your Maker—the LORD of Hosts is His name—the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; He is called the God of all the earth.

²⁵ About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.

¹⁹ So then, those who suffer according to God’s will should entrust their souls to their faithful Creator and continue to do good.

²⁶ Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”

⁷ Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

⁸ But there is a spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding.

²² Behold, God is exalted in His power. Who is a teacher like Him?

¹² Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,

⁴¹ They cried for help, but there was no one to save them—to the LORD, but He did not answer.

⁶ Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them. ⁷ From their prosperity proceeds iniquity; the imaginations of their hearts run wild. ⁸ They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.

³ Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt. ⁴ We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.

²⁸ Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.

¹⁴ I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.” ¹⁵ But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit. ¹⁶ Those who see you will stare; they will ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made the kingdoms tremble, ¹⁷ who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”

³¹ We know that God does not listen to sinners, but He does listen to the one who worships Him and does His will.

²² Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart. ²³ If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents ²⁴ and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines, ²⁵ then the Almighty will be your gold and the finest silver for you. ²⁶ Surely then you will delight in the Almighty and lift up your face to God. ²⁷ You will pray to Him, and He will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows.

⁸ For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life? ⁹ Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him?

²⁰ I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.

¹⁷ He will turn toward the prayer of the destitute; He will not despise their prayer.

⁸ The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.

²⁹ The LORD is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.

⁹ Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.

¹ Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong. ² Do not be quick to speak, and do not be hasty in your heart to utter a word before God. After all, God is in heaven and you are on earth. So let your words be few. ³ As a dream comes through many cares, so the speech of a fool comes with many words.

¹⁵ When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.

¹¹ Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them.

¹⁴ They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.

² Israel cries out to Me, “O our God, we know You!” ³ But Israel has rejected good; an enemy will pursue him.

²² Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.

⁷ And when you pray, do not babble on like pagans, for they think that by their many words they will be heard.

²¹ “What do you want?” He inquired. She answered, “Declare that in Your kingdom one of these two sons of mine may sit at Your right hand, and the other at Your left.” ²² “You do not know what you are asking,” Jesus replied. “Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?” “We can,” the brothers answered.

³ And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.

¹¹ Were He to pass by me, I would not see Him; were He to move, I would not recognize Him.

¹⁹ If it is a matter of strength, He is indeed mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?

⁷ Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.

³ If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.

⁸ If I go east, He is not there, and if I go west, I cannot find Him. ⁹ When He is at work in the north, I cannot behold Him; when He turns to the south, I cannot see Him. ¹⁰ Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

¹² Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence. ¹³ Still I am certain to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. ¹⁴ Wait patiently for the LORD; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the LORD!

⁵ Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will do it. ⁶ He will bring forth your righteousness like the dawn, your justice like the noonday sun.

⁵ Rest in God alone, O my soul, for my hope comes from Him.

⁸ Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is our refuge. Selah

⁵ I considered the days of old, the years long in the past. ⁶ At night I remembered my song; in my heart I mused, and my spirit pondered: ⁷ “Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again? ⁸ Is His loving devotion gone forever? Has His promise failed for all time? ⁹ Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has His anger shut off His compassion?” Selah ¹⁰ So I said, “I am grieved that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”

² Clouds and darkness surround Him; righteousness and justice are His throne’s foundation.

¹⁸ Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him.

¹⁰ Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of His Servant? Who among you walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD; let him lean on his God.

¹⁷ No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.

⁷ But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me. ⁸ Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light. ⁹ Because I have sinned against Him, I must endure the rage of the LORD, until He argues my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see His righteousness.

³³ Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. ³⁴ Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God—and He is interceding for us.

¹² But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”

⁵ But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.

¹⁴ How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?

¹⁵ Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.

¹⁵ Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud. ¹⁶ And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction grip me. ¹⁷ Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest. ¹⁸ With great force He grasps my garment; He seizes me by the collar of my tunic. ¹⁹ He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes. ²⁰ I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me. ²¹ You have ruthlessly turned on me; You oppose me with Your strong hand. ²² You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm. ²³ Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living. ²⁴ Yet no one stretches out his hand to a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress. ²⁵ Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has my soul not grieved for the needy? ²⁶ But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell. ²⁷ I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me. ²⁸ I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help. ²⁹ I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches. ³⁰ My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever. ³¹ My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.

¹¹ Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon? ¹² Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion? ¹³ But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You. ¹⁴ Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me? ¹⁵ From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair. ¹⁶ Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.

³² I will attend to their transgression with the rod, and to their iniquity with stripes.

⁸ How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred! ⁹ I will not execute the full fury of My anger; I will not turn back to destroy Ephraim. For I am God and not man—the Holy One among you—and I will not come in wrath.

²⁰ And now you will be silent and unable to speak until the day this comes to pass, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled at their proper time.”

¹¹ No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it. ¹² Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees.

¹⁹ Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.

¹ After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

² Behold, I will open my mouth; my address is on the tip of my tongue.

⁸ Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard these very words: ⁹ ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me. ¹⁰ Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy. ¹¹ He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’ ¹² Behold, you are not right in this matter. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.

³⁵ ‘Job speaks without knowledge; his words lack insight.’ ³⁶ If only Job were tried to the utmost for answering like a wicked man. ³⁷ For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”

² “Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?