Job 39 Cross References - Brenton

¹ Say if thou knowest the time of the bringing forth of the wild goats of the rock, and if thou hast marked the calving of the hinds: ² and if thou has hast numbered the full months of their being with young, and if thou hast relieved their pangs: ³ and hast reared their young without fear; and wilt thou loosen their pangs? ⁴ Their young will break forth; they will be multiplied with offspring: their young will go forth, and will not return to them. ⁵ And who is he that sent forth the wild ass free? and who loosed his bands? ⁶ whereas I made his habitation the wilderness, and the salt land his coverts. ⁷ He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, and hears not the chiding of the tax-gatherer. ⁸ He will survey the mountains as his pasture, and he seeks after every green thing. ⁹ And will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or to lie down at thy manger? ¹⁰ And wilt thou bind his yoke with thongs, or will he plough furrows for thee in the plain? ¹¹ And dost thou trust him, because his strength is great? and wilt thou commit thy works to him? ¹² And wilt thou believe that he will return to thee thy seed, and bring it in to thy threshing-floor? ¹³ The peacock has a beautiful wing: if the stork and the ostrich conceive, it is worthy of notice, ¹⁴ for the ostrich will leave her eggs in the ground, and warm them on the dust, ¹⁵ and has forgotten that the foot will scatter them, and the wild beasts of the field trample them. ¹⁶ She has hardened herself against her young ones, as though she bereaved not herself: she labours in vain without fear. ¹⁷ For God has withholden wisdom from her, and not given her a portion in understanding. ¹⁸ In her season she will lift herself on high; she will scorn the horse and his rider. ¹⁹ Hast thou invested the horse with strength, and clothed his neck with terror? ²⁰ And hast thou clad him in perfect armour, and made his breast glorious with courage? ²¹ He paws exulting in the plain, and goes forth in strength into the plain. ²² He laughs to scorn a king as he meets him, and will by no means turn back from the sword. ²³ The bow and sword resound against him; and his rage will swallow up the ground: ²⁴ and he will not believe until the trumpet sounds. ²⁵ And when the trumpet sounds, he says, Aha! and afar off he smells the war with prancing and neighing. ²⁶ And does the hawk remain steady by thy wisdom, having spread out her wings unmoved, looking toward the region of the south? ²⁷ And does the eagle rise at thy command, and the vulture remain sitting over his nest, ²⁸ on a crag of a rock, and in a secret place? ²⁹ Thence he seeks food, his eyes observe from far. ³⁰ And his young ones roll themselves in blood, and wherever the carcasses may be, immediately they are found.

⁵ the stag, and doe, and pygarg, and wild goat, and camelopard.

^{2 (24:3)} And he took with him three thousand men, chosen out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men in front of Saddaeem.

^{9 (28:9)} The voice of the Lord strengthens the hinds, and will uncover the thickets: and in his temple every one speaks of his glory.

^{18 (103:18)} The high mountains are a refuge for the stags, and the rock for the rabbits.

⁵ And hinds calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.

²⁴ she has extended her ways over the waters of the desert; she was hurried along by the lusts of her soul; she is given up to them, who will turn her back? none that seek her shall be weary; at the time of her humiliation they shall find her.

¹² He shall be a wild man, his hands against all, and the hands of all against him, and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

¹⁴ Issachar has desired that which is good; resting between the inheritances.

⁵ What then? will the wild ass bray for nothing, if he is not seeking food? or again, will the ox low at the manger, when he has a fodder?

¹² But man vainly buoys himself up with words; and a mortal born of woman is like an ass in the desert.

⁵ And they have departed like asses in the field, having gone forth on my account according to their own order: his bread is sweet to his little ones.

^{11 (103:11)} They shall give drink to all the wild beasts of the field: the wild asses shall take of them to quench their thirst.

¹⁴ As for the rich city, the houses are deserted; they shall abandon the wealth of the city, and the pleasant houses: and the villages shall be caves for ever, the joy of wild asses, shepherds' pastures;

⁶ The wild asses stood by the forests, and snuffed up the wind; their eyes failed, because there was no grass.

²¹ And he was driven forth from men; and his heart was given him after the nature of wild beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses; and they fed him with grass as an ox, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven; until he knew that the most high God is Lord of the kingdom of men, and will give it to whomsoever he shall please.

⁹ For they have gone up to the Assyrians: Ephraim has been strengthened against himself; they loved gifts.

²³ brimstone and burning salt, (the whole land shall not be sown, neither shall any green thing spring, nor rise upon it, as Sodom and Gomorrha were overthrown, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord overthrew in his wrath and anger:) —

^{34 (106:34)} a fruitful land into saltness, for the wickedness of them that dwell in it.

⁶ And he shall be as the wild tamarisk in the desert: he shall not see when good comes; but he shall dwell in barren places, and in the wilderness, in a salt land which is not inhabited.

¹¹ But at the outlet of the water, and the turn of it, and where it overflows its banks, they shall not heal at all; they are given to salt.

¹³ and the taskmasters hastened them, saying, Fulfil your regular daily tasks, even as when straw was given you. ¹⁴ And the accountants of the race of the children of Israel, who were set over them by the masters of Pharao, were scourged, {\I and questioned,} men saying, Why have ye not fulfilled your rates of brick-work as yesterday and the third day, to-day also? ¹⁵ And the accountants of the children of Israel went in and cried to Pharao, saying, Why dost thou act thus to thy servants? ¹⁶ Straw is not given to thy servants, and they tell us to make brick; and behold thy servants have been scourged: thou wilt therefore injure thy people.

¹⁸ Now then go and work, for straw shall not be given to you, yet ye shall return the rate of bricks.

¹⁸ And the men of old time have together ceased to hear the exactor's voice.

¹⁸ In her season she will lift herself on high; she will scorn the horse and his rider.

⁴ For thus said the Lord to me, As a lion would roar, or a lion's whelp over prey which he has taken, and cry over it, until the mountains are filled with his voice, and the animals are awe-struck and tremble at the fierceness of his wrath: so the Lord of hosts shall descend to fight upon the mount Sion, even upon her mountains.

³ saying, Why have we fasted, and thou regardest not? why have we afflicted our souls, and thou didst not know it? Nay, in the days of your fasts ye find your pleasures, and all them that are under your power ye wound.

²⁹ And God said, Behold I have given to you every seed-bearing herb sowing seed which is upon all the earth, and every tree which has in itself the fruit of seed that is sown, to you it shall be for food. ³⁰ And to all the wild beasts of the earth, and to all the flying creatures of heaven, and to every reptile creeping on the earth, which has in itself the breath of life, even every green plant for food; and it was so.

^{15 (40:10)} But now look at the wild beasts with thee; they eat grass like oxen.

^{20 (40:15)} And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep. ^{21 (40:16)} He lies under trees of every kind, by the papyrus, and reed, and bulrush. ^{22 (40:17)} And the great trees make a shadow over him with their branches, and so do the bushes of the field.

^{27 (103:27)} All wait upon thee, to give them their food in due season. ^{28 (103:28)} When thou hast given it them, they will gather it; and when thou hast opened thine hand, they shall all be filled with good.

^{15 (144:15)} The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their food in due season. ^{16 (144:16)} Thou openest thine hands, and fillest every living thing with pleasure.

²² It was God who brought him out of Egypt; he has as it were the glory of a unicorn.

¹⁷ His beauty is as the firstling of his bull, his horns are the horns of a unicorn; with them he shall thrust the nations at once, even from the end of the earth: these are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and these are the thousands of Manasse.

^{21 (21:21)} Save me from the lion's mouth; and regard my lowliness from the horns of the unicorns.

^{10 (91:10)} But my horn shall be exalted as the horn of a unicorn; and mine old age with rich mercy.

³ The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel does not know me, and the people has not regarded me.

¹⁴ And, behold, there came a messenger to job, and said to him, The yokes of oxen were ploughing, and the she-asses were feeding near them;

⁵ And who is he that sent forth the wild ass free? and who loosed his bands?

⁷ He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, and hears not the chiding of the tax-gatherer.

^{5 (40:24)} And wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or bind him as a sparrow for a child?

^{3 (128:3)} The sinners wrought upon my back: they prolonged their iniquity.

¹⁰ to chastise them shall not overtake them on the hill, the nations shall be gathered against them, when they are chastened for their two sins, ¹¹ Ephraim is a heifer taught to love victory, but I will come upon the fairest part of her neck: I will mount Ephraim; I will pass over Juda in silence; Jacob shall prevail against him.

¹³ even a sound of chariots and horsemen: the inhabitants of Lachis, she is the leader of sin to the daughter of Sion: for in thee were found the transgressions of Israel.

²⁶ And God said, Let us make man according to our image and likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the flying creatures of heaven, and over the cattle and all the earth, and over all the reptiles that creep on the earth.

²⁸ And God blessed them, saying, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the seas and flying creatures of heaven, and all the cattle and all the earth, and all the reptiles that creep on the earth.

² And the dread and the fear of you shall be upon all the wild beasts of the earth, on all the birds of the sky, and on all things moving upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea, I have placed them under you power.

²⁶ And having put the corn on the asses, they departed thence.

^{7 (19:7)} Some glory in chariots, and some in horses: but we will glory in the name of the Lord our God.

^{16 (32:16)} A king is not saved by reason of a great host; and a giant shall not be delivered by the greatness of his strength. ^{17 (32:17)} A horse is vain for safety; neither shall he be delivered by the greatness of his power.

^{14 (143:14)} Their oxen are fat: there is no falling down of a hedge, nor going out, nor cry in their folds.

^{10 (146:10)} He will not take pleasure in the strength of a horse; neither is he well-pleased with the legs of a man.

⁴ Where no oxen are, the cribs are clean; but where there is abundant produce, the strength of the ox is apparent.

⁶ THE VISION OF THE QUADRUPEDS IN THE DESERT. In affliction and distress, where are the lion and lion's whelp, thence come also asps, and the young of flying asps, there shall they be who bore their wealth on asses and camels to a nation which shall not profit them.

¹⁶ but ye said, We will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will be aided by swift riders; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

¹ Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, who trust in horses and chariots, for they are many; and in horses, which are a great multitude; and have not trusted in the Holy One of Israel, and have not sought the Lord. ² Therefore he has wisely brought evils upon them, and his word shall not be frustrated; and he shall rise up against the houses of wicked men, and against their vain hope, ³ even an Egyptian, a man, and not God; the flesh of horses, and there is no help in them: but the Lord shall bring his hand upon them, and the helpers shall fail, and all shall perish together.

¹ Bel has fallen, Nabo is broken to pieces, their graven images are gone to the wild beasts and the cattle: ye take them packed up as a burden to the weary, exhausted, hungry, and at the same time helpless man;

¹⁵ In those days I saw in Juda men treading wine-presses on the sabbath, and carrying sheaves, and loading asses with both wine, and grapes, and figs, and every kind of burden, and bringing them into Jerusalem on the sabbath-day:

¹⁶ For length of existence and years of life are in her right hand; and in her left hand are wealth and glory: ^(3:16A) out of her mouth proceeds righteousness, and she carries law and mercy upon her tongue.

¹³ Therefore, behold, I roll under you, as a waggon full of straw is rolled.

^{19 (2:20)} consider in your hearts, whether this shall be known on the corn-floor, and whether yet the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-trees that bear no fruit are with you: from this day will I bless you.

¹⁹ and the heron, and the lapwing, and the like to it, and the hoopoe and the bat.

²² For Solomon had a ship of Tharsis in the sea with the ships of Chiram: one ship came to the king every three years out of Tharsis, laden with gold and silver, and wrought stones, and hewn stones.

²¹ For a ship went for the king to Tharsis with the servants of Chiram: once every three years came vessels from Tharsis to the king, laden with gold, and silver, and ivory, and apes.

²⁹ I am become a brother of monsters, and a companion of ostriches.

^{17 (103:17)} There the sparrows will build their nests; and the house of the heron takes the lead among them.

⁷ Yea, the stork in the heaven knows her time, also the turtle-dove and wild swallow; the sparrows observe the times of their coming in; but this my people knows not the judgments of the Lord.

⁹ And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, two women coming forth, and the wind was in their wings; and they had stork's wings: and they lifted up the measure between the earth and the sky.

⁵⁶ And she that is tender and delicate among you, whose foot has not assayed to go upon the earth for delicacy and tenderness, shall look with an evil eye on her husband in her bosom, and her son and her daughter, ⁵⁷ and her offspring that comes out between her feet, and the child which she shall bear; for she shall eat them because of the want of all things, secretly in thy straitness, and in thy affliction, with which thine enemy shall afflict thee in thy cities.

²⁶ And the woman whose the living child was, answered and said to the king, (for her bowels yearned over her son) and she said, I pray thee, my lord, give her the child, and in nowise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor hers; divide it. ²⁷ Then the king answered and said, Give the child to her that said, æGive it to her, and by no means slay it:' she is its mother.

²⁸ And the king said to her, What is the matter with thee? And the woman said to him, This woman said to me, Give thy son, and we will eat him to-day, and we will eat my son to-morrow. ²⁹ So we boiled my son, and ate him; and I said to her on the second day, Give thy son, and let us eat him: and she has hidden her son.

¹⁵ The labour of fools will afflict them, as that of one who knows not to go to the city.

²⁰ RHECHS. Behold, O Lord, and see for whom thou has gathered thus. Shall the women eat the fruit of their womb? the cook has made a gathering: shall the infants sucking at the breasts be slain? wilt thou slay the priest and prophet in the sanctuary of the Lord?

³ GIMEL. Nay, serpents have drawn out the breasts, they give suck to their young, the daughters of my people are incurably cruel, as an ostrich in a desert.

¹³ Are not these things of the Lord Almighty? surely many people have been exhausted in the fire, and many nations have fainted.

³⁰ And Seon king of Esebon would not that we should pass by him, because the Lord our God hardened his spirit, and made his heart stubborn, that he might be delivered into thy hands, as on this day.

³¹ Notwithstanding, in regard to the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who were sent to him to enquire of him concerning the prodigy which came upon the land, the Lord left him, to try him, to know what was in his heart.

⁴ For thou hast hid their heart from wisdom; therefore thou shalt not exalt them.

¹¹ who makes me to differ from the four-footed beasts of the earth, and from the birds of the sky?

¹¹ And the princes of Tanis shall be fools: as for the king's wise counsellors, their counsel shall be turned into folly: how will ye say to the king, we are sons of wise men, sons of ancient kings? ¹² Where are now thy wise men? and let them declare to thee, and say, What has the Lord of hosts purposed upon Egypt? ¹³ The princes of Tanis have failed, and the princes of Memphis are lifted up with pride, and they shall cause Egypt to wander by tribes. ¹⁴ For the Lord has prepared for them a spirit of error, and they have caused Egypt to err in all their works, as one staggers who is drunken and vomits also.

¹⁷ On account of sin for a little while I grieved him, and smote him, and turned away my face from him; and he was grieved, and he went on sorrowful in his ways.

²¹ This is the word which the Lord has spoken against him; The virgin daughter of Sion has made light of thee, and mocked thee; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at thee.

²² Thou shalt laugh at the unrighteous and the lawless: and thou shalt not be afraid of wild beasts.

²² He laughs to scorn a king as he meets him, and will by no means turn back from the sword.

^{29 (41:20)} Mauls are counted as stubble; and he laughs to scorn the waving of the firebrand.

¹ Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song to God, and spoke, saying, Let us sing to the Lord, for he is very greatly glorified: horse and rider he has thrown into the sea.

²⁵ And when the trumpet sounds, he says, Aha! and afar off he smells the war with prancing and neighing.

^{1 (92:1)} For the day before the Sabbath, when the land was first inhabited, the praise of a Song by David. The Lord reigns; he has clothed himself with honour: the Lord has clothed and girded himself with strength; for he has established the world, which shall not be moved.

^{1 (103:1)} A Psalm of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou hast clothed thyself with praise and honour:

^{20 (41:11)} Out of his nostrils proceeds smoke of a furnace burning with fire of coals. ^{21 (41:12)} His breath is as live coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

¹⁶ We shall hear the neighing of his swift horses out of Dan: the whole land quaked at the sound of the neighing of his horses; and he shall come, and devour the land and the fullness of it; the city, and them that dwell in it.

⁵ As the sound of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, and as the sound of a flame of fire devouring stubble, and as a numerous and strong people setting themselves in array for battle.

²² When the hoofs of the horse were entangled, his mighty ones earnestly hasted

⁴ And there went forth a mighty man out of the army of the Philistines, Goliath, by name, out of Geth, his height was four cubits and a span. ⁵ And he had a helmet upon his head, and he wore a breastplate of chain armour; and the weight of his breastplate was five thousand shekels of brass and iron. ⁶ And greaves of grass were upon his legs, and a brazen target was between his shoulders. ⁷ And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and the spear's head was formed of six hundred shekels of iron; and his armour-bearer went before him. ⁸ And he stood and cried to the army of Israel, and said to them, Why are ye come forth to set yourselves in battle array against us? Am not I a Philistine, and ye He brews of Saul? Choose for yourselves a man, and let him come down to me. ⁹ And if he shall be able to fight against me, and shall smite me, then will we be your servants: but if I should prevail and smite him, ye shall be our servants, and serve us. ¹⁰ And the Philistine said, Behold, I have defied the armies of Israel this very day: give me a man, and we will both of us fight in single combat.

⁴² And Goliath saw David, and despised him; for he was a lad, and ruddy, with a fair countenance.

^{5 (18:5)} In the sun he has set his tabernacle; and he comes forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber: he will exult as a giant to run his course.

³¹ A horse is prepared for the day of battle; but help is of the Lord.

⁶ Hearken, I pray you, and hear: will they not speak thus, There is no man that repents of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? the runner has failed from his course, as a tired horse in his neighing.

²³ Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, and let not the strong man boast in his strength, and let not the rich man boast in his wealth;

¹⁶ She has hardened herself against her young ones, as though she bereaved not herself: she labours in vain without fear.

^{33 (41:24)} There is nothing upon the earth like to him, formed to be sported with by my angels.

^{26 (41:17)} If spears should come against him, men will effect nothing, either with the spear or the breast-plate. ^{27 (41:18)} For he considers iron as chaff, and brass as rotten wood. ^{28 (41:19)} The bow of brass shall not would him, he deems a slinger as grass. ^{29 (41:20)} Mauls are counted as stubble; and he laughs to scorn the waving of the firebrand.

¹⁶ And if I should call and he should not hearken, I cannot believe that he has listened to my voice.

²⁴ Were I to laugh on them, they would not believe it; and the light of my face has not failed.

²⁰ Have I a book or a scribe my me, that I may stand and put man to silence?

¹⁹ I am pained in my bowels, my bowels, and the sensitive powers of my heart; my soul is in great commotion, my heart is torn: I will not be silent, for my soul has heard the sound of a trumpet, the cry of war, and of distress: it calls on destruction;

⁶ Shall the trumpet sound in the city, and the people not be alarmed? shall there be evil in a city which the Lord has not wrought?

⁸ And his horses shall bound more swiftly than leopards, and they are fiercer than the wolves of Arabia: and his horsemen shall ride forth, and shall rush from far; and they shall fly as an eagle hasting to eat. ⁹ Destruction shall come upon ungodly men, resisting with their adverse front, and he shall gather the captivity as the sand.

^{3 (69:3)} Let them that say to me, Aha, aha, be turned back and put to shame immediately.

² Son of man, because Sor has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is crushed: the nations are destroyed: she is turned to me: she that was full is made desolate:

² Thus saith the Lord God; Because the enemy has said against you, Aha, the old waste places are become a possession for us:

¹¹ And Aaron shall bring the calf for his sin, and he shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and he shall kill the calf for his sin-offering.

¹⁵ and the sparrow, and the owl, and the seamew,

¹² The flowers are seen in the land; the time of pruning has arrived; the voice of the turtle-dove has been heard in our land.

⁴ Ye have seen all that I have done to the Egyptians, and I took you up as upon eagles' wings, and I brought you near to myself.

¹³ And these are the things which ye shall abhor of birds, and they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle and the ossifrage, and the sea-eagle.

^{5 (102:5)} who satisfies thy desire with good things: so that thy youth shall be renewed like that of the eagle.

⁵ If thou shouldest fix thine eye upon him, he will disappear; for wings like an eagle's are prepared for him, and he returns to the house of his master.

³¹ but they that wait on God shall renew their strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not hunger.

^{16 (29:16)} Thine insolence has risen up against thee, the fierceness of thine heart has burst the holes of the rocks, it has seized upon the strength of a lofty hill; for as an eagle he set his nest on high: thence will I bring thee down.

¹ He shall come into their midst as the land, as an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant, and have sinned against my law.

⁴ If thou shouldest mount up as the eagle, and if thou shouldest make thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.

⁴ And in the midst of the passage whereby Jonathan sought to pass over to the encampment of the Philistines, there was both a sharp rock on this side, and a sharp rock on the other side: the name of the one was Bases, and the name of the other Senna.

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?

¹⁷ And thou, son of man, say, Thus saith the Lord; Say to every winged bird, and to all the wild beasts of the field, Gather yourselves, and come; gather yourselves from all places round about to my sacrifice, which I have made for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, and ye shall eat flesh, and drink blood. ¹⁸ Ye shall eat the flesh of mighty men, and ye shall drink the blood of princes of the earth, rams, and calves and goats, and they are all fatted calves. ¹⁹ And ye shall eat fat till ye are full, and shall drink wine till ye are drunken, of my sacrifice which I have prepared for you.