Job 14 Cross References - Brenton

¹ For a mortal born of a woman is short lived, and full of wrath. ² Or he falls like a flower that has bloomed; and he departs like a shadow, and cannot continue. ³ Hast thou not taken account even of him, and caused him to enter into judgment before thee? ⁴ For who shall be pure from uncleanness? not even one; ⁵ if even his life should be but one day upon the earth: and his months are numbered by him: thou hast appointed him for a time, and he shall by no means exceed it. ⁶ Depart from him, that he may be quiet, and take pleasure in his life, though as a hireling. ⁷ For there is hope for a tree, even if it should be cut down, that it shall blossom again, and its branch shall not fail. ⁸ For though its root should grow old in the earth, and its stem die in the rock; ⁹ it will blossom from the scent of water, and will produce a crop, as one newly planted. ¹⁰ But a man that has died is utterly gone; and when a mortal has fallen, he is no more. ¹¹ For the sea wastes in length of time, and a river fails and is dried up. ¹² And man that has lain down in death shall certainly not rise again till the heaven be dissolved, and they shall not awake from their sleep. ¹³ For oh that thou hadst kept me in the grave, and hadst hidden me until thy wrath should cease, and thou shouldest set me a time in which thou wouldest remember me! ¹⁴ For if a man should die, shall he live again, having accomplished the days of his life? I will wait till I exist again? ¹⁵ Then shalt thou call, and I will hearken to thee: but do not thou reject the work of thine hands. ¹⁶ But thou hast numbered my devices: and not one of my sins shall escape thee? ¹⁷ An thou hast sealed up my transgressions in a bag, and marked if I have been guilty of any transgression unawares. ¹⁸ And verily a mountain falling will utterly be destroyed, and a rock shall be worn out of its place. ¹⁹ The waters wear the stones, and waters falling headlong overflow a heap of the earth: and thou destroyest the hope of man. ²⁰ Thou drivest him to an end, and he is gone: thou settest thy face against him, and sendest him away; ²¹ and though his children be multiplied, he knows it not; and if they be few, he is not aware. ²² But his flesh is in pain, and his soul mourns.

⁹ And Jacob said to Pharao, The days of the years of my life, wherein I sojourn, are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, they have not attained to the days of the life of my fathers, in which days they sojourned.

⁷ yet man is born to labour, and even so the vulture's young seek the high places.

¹ Is not the life of man upon earth a state of trial? and his existence as that of a hireling by the day?

⁶ And my life is lighter than a word, and has perished in vain hope.

²⁵ But my life is swifter than a post: my days have fled away, and they knew it not.

¹⁴ For who, being a mortal, is such that he shall be blameless? or, who that is born of a woman, that he should be just?

⁴ For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself?

^{5 (38:5)} Behold, thou hast made my days old; and my existence is as nothing before thee: nay, every man living is altogether vanity. Pause.

^{5 (50:5)} For, behold, I was conceived in iniquities, and in sins did my mother conceive me.

¹⁷ So I hated life; because the work that was wrought under the sun was evil before me: for all is vanity and waywardness of spirit.

²³ For all his days are days of sorrows, and vexation of spirit is his; in the night also his heart rests not. This is also vanity.

¹⁵ for we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days upon the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

⁹ (for we are of yesterday, and know nothing; for our life upon the earth is a shadow:)

²⁵ But my life is swifter than a post: my days have fled away, and they knew it not. ²⁶ Or again, is there a trace of their path left by ships? or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks its prey?

^{5 (89:5)} Years shall be vanity to them: let the morning pass away as grass. ^{6 (89:6)} In the morning let it flower, and pass away: in the evening let it droop, let it be withered and dried up. ^{7 (89:7)} For we have perished in thine anger, and in thy wrath we have been troubled. ^{8 (89:8)} Thou hast set our transgressions before thee: our age is in the light of thy countenance. ^{9 (89:9)} For all our days are gone, and we have passed away in thy wrath: our years have spun out their tale as a spider.

^{7 (91:7)} When the sinners spring up as the grass, and all the workers of iniquity have watched; it is that they may be utterly destroyed for ever.

^{12 (91:12)} The righteous shall flourish as a palm-tree: he shall be increased as the cedar in Libanus.

^{11 (101:11)} My days have declined like a shadow; and I am withered like grass.

^{15 (102:15)} As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so shall he flourish. ^{16 (102:16)} For the wind passes over it, and it shall not be; and it shall know its place no more.

^{4 (143:4)} Man is like to vanity: his days pass as a shadow.

¹³ but it shall not be well with the ungodly, and he shall not prolong his days, which are as a shadow; forasmuch as he fears not before God.

⁶ The voice of one saying, Cry; and I said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass: ⁷ (OMITTED TEXT) ⁸ The grass withers, and the flower fades: but the word of our God abides for ever.

¹⁷ For what is man, that thou hast magnified him? or that thou givest heed to him? ¹⁸ Wilt thou visit him till the morning, and judge him till the time of rest?

¹⁹ For indeed he is strong in power: who then shall resist his judgment? ²⁰ For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane: and though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse.

³² For thou art not man like me, with whom I could contend, that we might come together to judgment.

²⁵ Wilt thou be startled at me, as at a leaf shaken by the wind? or wilt thou set thyself against me as against grass borne upon the breeze?

²⁷ And thou hast placed my foot in the stocks; and thou hast watched all my works, and hast penetrated my heels.

⁴ What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

^{2 (142:2)} And enter not into judgment with thy servant, for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

^{3 (143:3)} Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou takest account of him?

³ And Adam lived two hundred and thirty years, and begot a son after his own form, and after his own image, and he called his name Seth.

⁴ For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself? ⁵ If he gives an order to the moon, then it shines not; and the stars are not pure before him. ⁶ But alas! man is corruption, and the son of man a worm.

^{5 (89:5)} Years shall be vanity to them: let the morning pass away as grass.

¹⁰ Whereas the life of all living things is in his hand, and the breath of every man.

¹⁴ For if a man should die, shall he live again, having accomplished the days of his life? I will wait till I exist again?

²¹ For his desire is in his house with him, and the number of his months has been suddenly cut off.

¹³ And if too he has thus judged, who is he that has contradicted, for he has both willed a thing and done it. ¹⁴ (OMITTED TEXT)

^{4 (38:4)} O Lord, make me to know mine end, and the number of my days, what it is; that I may know what I lack.

^{9 (103:9)} Thou hast set a bound which they shall not pass, neither shall they turn again to cover the earth.

^{29 (103:29)} But when thou hast turned away thy face, they shall be troubled: thou wilt take away their breath, and they shall fail, and return to their dust.

^{35 (4:32)} and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and there is none who shall withstand his power, and say to him, What has thou done?

²⁶ This is the interpretation of the sentence: Mane; God has measured thy kingdom, and finished it.

³⁰ In the same night was Baltasar the Chaldean king slain.

²⁴ Seventy weeks have been determined upon thy people, and upon the holy city, for sin to be ended, and to seal up transgressions, and to blot out the iniquities, and to make atonement for iniquities, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal the vision and the prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy.

³⁶ And he shall do according to his will, and the king shall exalt and magnify himself against every god, and shall speak great swelling words, and shall prosper until the indignation shall be accomplished: for it is coming to an end.

¹ Is not the life of man upon earth a state of trial? and his existence as that of a hireling by the day? ² Or as a servant that fears his master, and one who has grasped a shadow? or as a hireling waiting for his pay?

¹⁶ For I shall not live for ever, that I should patiently endure: depart from me, for my life is vain.

¹⁹ How long dost thou not let me alone, nor let me go, until I shall swallow down my spittle?

²⁰ Is not the time of my life short? suffer me to rest a little,

^{13 (38:13)} Spare me, that I may be refreshed, before I depart, and be no more.

¹⁰ He has torn me around about, and I am gone: and he has cut off my hope like a tree.

¹ And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a blossom shall come up from his root:

⁶ they that are coming are the children of Jacob. Israel shall bud and blossom, and the world shall be filled with his fruit.

^{15 (4:12)} Only leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and bind it with an iron and brass band; and it shall lie in the grass that is without and in the dew of heaven, and its portion shall be with the wild beasts in the grass of the field.

^{23 (4:20)} And whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from heaven, and he said, Strip the tree, and destroy it; only leave the stump of its roots in the ground, and bind it with a band of iron and brass; and it shall lie in the grass that is without, and in the dew of heaven, and its portion shall be with wild beasts, until seven times have passed over it; ^{24 (4:21)} this is the interpretation of it, O king, and it is a decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king. ^{25 (4:22)} And they shall drive thee forth from men, and thy dwelling shall be with wild beasts, and they shall feed thee with grass as an ox, and thou shall have thy lodging under the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou known that the Most High is Lord of the kingdom of men, and will give it to whom he shall please.

¹⁹ The dead shall rise, and they that are in the tombs shall be raised, and they that are in the earth shall rejoice: for the dew from thee is healing to them: but the land of the ungodly shall perish.

³ and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord; A great eagle with large wings, spreading them out very far, with many claws, which has the design of entering into Libanus — and he took the choice branches of the cedar: ⁴ he cropped off the ends of the tender twigs, and brought them into the land of Chanaan; he laid them up in a walled city. ⁵ And he took of the seed of the land, and sowed it in a field planted by much water; he set it in a conspicuous place. ⁶ And it sprang up, and became a weak and little vine, so that the branches thereof appeared upon it, and its roots were under it: and it became a vine, and put forth shoots, and sent forth its tendrils. ⁷ And there was another great eagle, with great wings and many claws: and, behold, this vine bent itself round toward him, and her roots were turned towards him, and she sent forth her branches towards him, that he might water her together with the growth of her plantation. ⁸ She thrives in a fair field by much water, to produce shoots and bear fruit, that she might become a great vine. ⁹ Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord; Shall it prosper? shall not the roots of her tender stem and her fruit be blighted? yea, all her early shoots shall be dried up, and that not by a mighty arm, nor by many people, to tear her up from her roots. ¹⁰ And, behold, it thrives: shall it prosper? shall it not wither as soon as the east wind touches it? it shall be withered together with the growth of its shoots.

²² For thus saith the Lord; I will even take of the choice branches of the cedar from the top thereof, I will crop off their hearts, and I will plant it on a high mountain: ²³ and I will hang it on a lofty mountain of Israel: yea, I will plant it, and it shall put forth shoots, and shall bear fruit, and it shall be a great cedar: and every bird shall rest beneath it, even every fowl shall rest under its shadow: its branches shall be restored. ²⁴ And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord that bring low the high tree, and exalt the low tree, and wither the green tree, and cause the dry tree to flourish: I the Lord have spoken, and will do it.

¹⁰ Thy mother was as a vine and as a blossom on a pomegranate tree, planted by water: her fruit and her shoot abounded by reason of much water.

³³ And Jacob ceased giving charges to his sons; and having lifted up his feet on the bed, he died, and was gathered to his people.

¹¹ For why died I not in the belly? and why did I not come forth from the womb and die immediately?

⁷ Remember then that my life is breath, and mine eye shalt not yet again see good. ⁸ The eye of him that sees me shall not see me again: thine eyes are upon me, and I am no more. ⁹ I am as a cloud that is cleared away from the sky: for if a man go down to the grave, he shall not come up again: ¹⁰ and he shall surely not return to his own house, neither shall his place know him any more.

¹⁸ Why then didst thou bring me out of the womb? and why did I not die, and no eye see me,

²⁰ But safety shall fail them; for their hope is destruction, and the eyes of the ungodly shall waste away.

¹² And man that has lain down in death shall certainly not rise again till the heaven be dissolved, and they shall not awake from their sleep.

¹³ For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness. ¹⁴ I have called upon death to be my father, and corruption to be my mother and sister. ¹⁵ Where then is yet my hope? or where shall I see my good? ¹⁶ Will they go down with me to Hades, or shall we go down together to the tomb?

²⁶ and to raise up upon the earth my skin that endures these sufferings: for these things have been accomplished to me of the Lord;

³² The ungodly shall be driven away in his wickedness: but he who is secure in his own holiness is just.

¹⁵ My nearest relations have not regarded me; they have passed me by like a failing brook, or like a wave. ¹⁶ They who used to reverence me, now have come against me like snow or congealed ice. ¹⁷ When it has melted at the approach of heat, it is not known what it was. ¹⁸ Thus I also have been deserted of all; and I am ruined, and become an outcast.

⁵ And the Egyptians shall drink the water that is by the sea, but the river shall fail, and be dried up.

¹⁸ Why do they that grieve me prevail against me? my wound is severe; whence shall I be healed? it is indeed become to me as deceitful water, that has no faithfulness.

¹³ Now I should have lain down and been quiet, I should have slept and been at rest,

²¹ Why hast thou not forgotten my iniquity, and purged my sin? but now I shall depart to the earth; and in the morning I am no more.

²¹ before I go whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess; ²² to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither can any one see the life of mortals.

²⁵ For I know that he is eternal who is about to deliver me, ²⁶ and to raise up upon the earth my skin that endures these sufferings: for these things have been accomplished to me of the Lord; ²⁷ which I am conscious of in myself, which mine eye has seen, and not another, but all have been fulfilled to me in my bosom.

²³ For I know that death will destroy me: for the earth is the house appointed for every mortal.

^{26 (101:26)} They shall perish, but thou remainest: and they all shall wax old as a garment; and as a vesture shalt thou fold them, and they shall be changed.

¹⁹ Also to them is the event of the sons of man, and the event of the brute; one event befalls them: as is the death of the one, so also the death of the other; and there is one breath to all: and what has the man more than the brute? nothing; for all is vanity. ²⁰ All go to one place; all were formed of the dust, and all will return to dust. ²¹ And who has seen the spirit of the sons of man, whether it goes upward? and the spirit of the beast, whether it goes downward to the earth?

⁵ and they shall look up, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the locust shall increase, and the caper shall be scattered: because man has gone to his eternal home, and the mourners have gone about the market:

⁶ Lift up your eyes to the sky, and look on the earth beneath: for the sky was darkened like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and the inhabitants shall die in like manner: but my righteousness shall not fail.

¹⁷ For there shall be a new heaven and a new earth: and they shall not at all remember the former, neither shall they at all come into their mind.

²² For as the new heaven and the new earth, which I make, remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name continue.

² And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to reproach and everlasting shame.

¹ And God remembered Noe, and all the wild beasts, and all the cattle, and all the birds, and all the reptiles that creep, as many as were with him in the ark, and God brought a wind upon the earth, and the water stayed.

¹⁷ There the ungodly have burnt out the fury of rage; there the wearied in body rest. ¹⁸ And the men of old time have together ceased to hear the exactor's voice. ¹⁹ The small and great are there, and the servant that feared his lord.

^{4 (105:4)} Remember us, O Lord, with the favour thou hast to thy people: visit us with thy salvation;

¹ And in that day thou shalt say, I will bless thee, O Lord; for thou wast angry with me, but thou hast turned aside thy wrath, and hast pitied me.

²⁰ Go, my people, enter into thy closets, shut thy door, hide thyself for a little season, until the anger of the Lord have passed away. ²¹ For, behold, the Lord is bringing wrath from his holy place upon the dwellers on the earth: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall not cover her slain.

¹ See how the just man has perished, and no one lays it to heart: and righteous men are taken away, and no one considers: for the righteous has been removed out of the way of injustice. ² His burial shall be in peace: he has been removed out of the way.

¹⁵ Though the Mighty One should lay hand upon me, forasmuch as he has begun, verily I will speak, and plead before him.

⁵ if even his life should be but one day upon the earth: and his months are numbered by him: thou hast appointed him for a time, and he shall by no means exceed it.

²⁵ For I know that he is eternal who is about to deliver me, ²⁶ and to raise up upon the earth my skin that endures these sufferings: for these things have been accomplished to me of the Lord;

¹⁶ And Job lived after his affliction a hundred and seventy years: and all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: and Job saw his sons and his sons' sons, the fourth generation.

^{14 (26:14)} Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and let thy heart be strengthened: yea wait on the Lord.

^{1 (39:1)} For the end, a Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; and he attended to me, and hearkened to my supplication. ^{2 (39:2)} And he brought me up out of a pit of misery, and from miry clay: and he set my feet on a rock, and ordered my goings aright.

²⁵ TETH. The Lord is good to them that wait for him: the soul which shall seek him ²⁶ is good, and shall wait for, and quietly expect salvation of the Lord.

¹ And the hand of the Lord came upon me, and the Lord brought me forth by the Spirit, and set me in the midst of the plain, and it was full of human bones. ² And he led me round about them every way: and, behold, there were very many on the face of the plain, very dry. ³ And he said to me, Son of man, will these bones live? and I said, O Lord God, thou knowest this. ⁴ And he said to me, Prophesy upon these bones, and thou shalt say to them, Ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. ⁵ Thus saith the Lord to these bones; Behold, I will bring upon you the breath of life: ⁶ and I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and will spread skin upon you, and will put my Spirit into you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord. ⁷ So I prophesied as the Lord commanded me: and it came to pass while I was prophesying, that, behold, there was a shaking, and the bones approached each one to his joint. ⁸ And I looked, and behold, sinews and flesh grew upon them, and skin came upon them above: but there was not breath in them. ⁹ And he said to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord; Come from the four winds, and breathe upon these dead men, and let them live. ¹⁰ So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath entered into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, a very great congregation. ¹¹ And the Lord spoke to me, saying, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: and they say, Our bones are become dry, our hope has perished, we are quite spent. ¹² therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will open your tombs, and will bring you up out of your tombs, and will bring you into the land of Israel. ¹³ And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, that I may bring up my people from their graves. ¹⁴ And I will put my Spirit within you, and ye shall live, and I will place you upon your own land: and ye shall know that I am the Lord; I have spoken, and will do it, saith the Lord.

³ Is it good before thee if I be unrighteous? for thou hast disowned the work of thy hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly.

⁸ Thy hands have formed me and made me; afterwards thou didst change thy mind, and smite me.

²² Then shalt thou call, and I will hearken to thee: or thou shalt speak, and I will give thee an answer.

^{4 (49:4)} He shall summon the heaven above, and the earth, that he may judge his people. ^{5 (49:5)} Assemble ye his saints to him, those that have engaged in a covenant with him upon sacrifices.

^{8 (137:8)} O Lord, thou shalt recompense them on my behalf: thy mercy, O Lord, endures for ever: overlook not the works of thine hands.

⁶ that thou hast enquired into mine iniquity, and searched out my sins?

¹⁴ And if I should sin, thou watchest me; and thou hast not cleared me from iniquity.

⁴ Will he not see my way, and number all my steps?

¹¹ And he has put my foot in the stocks, and has watched all my ways.

²¹ For he surveys the works of men, and nothing of what they do has escaped him.

^{6 (55:6)} They will dwell near and hide themselves; they will watch my steps, accordingly as I have waited patiently in my soul.

^{1 (138:1)} For the end, a Psalm of David.O Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me. ^{2 (138:2)} Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising: thou understandest my thoughts long before. ^{3 (138:3)} Thou hast traced my path and my bed, and hast foreseen all my ways. ^{4 (138:4)} For there is no unrighteous word in my tongue: behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things,

²¹ For the ways of a man are before the eyes of God, and he looks on all his paths.

^{19 (39:19)} the Lord of great counsel, and mighty in deeds, the great Almighty God, and Lord of great name: thine eyes are upon the ways of the children of men, to give to every one according to his way:

³⁴ Lo! are not these things stored up by me, and sealed among my treasures?

¹⁹ Let his substance fail to supply his children: God shall recompense him, and he shall know it.

¹² Ephraim has framed a conspiracy of unrighteousness, his sin is hidden.

⁴ Anger has possessed thee: for what if thou shouldest die; would the earth under heaven be desolate? or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations?

^{25 (101:25)} In the beginning thou, O Lord, didst lay the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands. ^{26 (101:26)} They shall perish, but thou remainest: and they all shall wax old as a garment; and as a vesture shalt thou fold them, and they shall be changed.

¹² Who has measured the water in his hand, and the heaven with a span, and all the earth in a handful? Who has weighed the mountains in scales, and the forests in a balance?

¹⁵ Behold, I have made thee as new saw-shaped threshing wheels of a waggon; and thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat the hills to powder, and make them as chaff: ¹⁶ and thou shalt winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and a tempest shall scatter them: but thou shalt rejoice in the holy ones of Israel.

¹⁰ shall the mountains depart, nor shall thy hills be removed: so neither shall my mercy fail thee, nor shall the covenant of thy peace be at all removed: for the Lord who is gracious to thee has spoken it.

¹ If thou wouldest open the heaven, trembling will take hold upon the mountains from thee, and they shall melt,

²⁴ I beheld the mountains, and they trembled, and I saw all the hills in commotion.

^{17 (6:18)} And behold I bring a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven, and whatsoever things are upon the earth shall die.

²¹ And there died all flesh that moved upon the earth, of flying creatures and cattle, and of wild beasts, and every reptile moving upon the earth, and every man. ²² And all things which have the breath of life, and whatever was on the dry land, died. ²³ And God blotted out every offspring which was upon the face of the earth, both man and beast, and reptiles, and birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth, and Noe was left alone, and those with him in the ark.

⁸ For what is the hope of the ungodly, that he holds to it? will he indeed trust in the Lord and be saved?

^{6 (29:6)} And I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved. ^{7 (29:7)} O Lord, in thy good pleasure thou didst add strength to my beauty: but thou didst turn away thy face, and I was troubled.

¹¹ And the Lord spoke to me, saying, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: and they say, Our bones are become dry, our hope has perished, we are quite spent.

¹² And when they saw him from a distance they did not know him; and they cried with a loud voice, and wept, and rent every one his garment, and sprinkled dust upon their heads,

⁸ There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; and there is no power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in the day of the battle; neither shall ungodliness save her votary.

⁸ HETH. Their countenance is become blacker than smoke; they are not known in the streets: their skin has cleaved to their bones; they are withered, they are become as a stick.

²⁰ And in her time she was at the point of death; and the women that stood by her, said to her, Fear not, for thou hast born a son: but she answered not, and her heart did not regard it.

^{6 (38:6)} Surely man walks in a shadow; nay, he is disquieted in vain: he lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them.

¹⁸ And I hated the whole of my labour which I took under the sun; because I must leave it to the man who will come after me. ¹⁹ And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? and whether he will have power over all my labour in which I laboured, and wherein I grew wise under the sun? this is also vanity.

⁵ For the living will know that they shall die: but the dead know nothing, and there is no longer any reward to them; for their memory is lost.

⁷ that they shall take also of thy children whom thou shalt beget; and they shall make them eunuchs in the house of the king of the Babylonians. ⁸ And Ezekias said to Esaias, Good is the word of the Lord, which he hath spoken: let there, I pray, be peace and righteousness in my days.

¹⁶ For thou art our Father; for though Abraham knew us not, and Israel did not acknowledge us, yet do thou, O Lord, our Father, deliver us: thy name has been upon us from the beginning.

²⁰ My flesh is corrupt under my skin, and my bones are held in my teeth.

²² Wherefore do ye persecute me as also the Lord does, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

¹⁹ And again, he chastens him with sickness on his bed, and the multitude of his bones is benumbed. ²⁰ And he shall not be able to take any food, though his soul shall desire meat; ²¹ until his flesh shall be consumed, and he shall shew his bones bare.