Job 8 Cross References - Brenton

¹ Then Baldad the Sauchite answered, and said, ² How long wilt thou speak these things, how long shall the breath of thy mouth be abundant in words? ³ Will the Lord be unjust when he judges; or will he that has made all things pervert justice? ⁴ If thy sons have sinned before him, he has cast them away because of their transgression. ⁵ But be thou early in prayer to the Lord Almighty. ⁶ If thou art pure and true, he will hearken to thy supplication, and will restore to thee the habitation of righteousness. ⁷ Though then thy beginning should be small, yet thy end should be unspeakably great. ⁸ For ask of the former generation, and search diligently among the race of our fathers: ⁹ (for we are of yesterday, and know nothing; for our life upon the earth is a shadow:) ¹⁰ shall not these teach thee, and report to thee, and bring out words from their heart? ¹¹ Does the rush flourish without water, or shall the flag grow up without moisture? ¹² When it is yet on the root, and though it has not been cut down, does not any herb wither before it has received moisture? ¹³ Thus then shall be the end of all that forget the Lord: for the hope of the ungodly shall perish. ¹⁴ For his house shall be without inhabitants, and his tent shall prove a spider's web. ¹⁵ If he should prop up his house, it shall not stand: and when he has taken hold of it, it shall not remain. ¹⁶ For it is moist under the sun, and his branch shall come forth out of his dung-heap. ¹⁷ He lies down upon a gathering of stones, and shall live in the mist of flints. ¹⁸ If God should destroy him, his place shall deny him. Hast thou not seen such things, ¹⁹ that such is the overthrow of the ungodly? and out of the earth another shall grow. ²⁰ For the Lord will by no means reject the harmless man; but he will not receive any gift of the ungodly. ²¹ But he will fill with laughter the mouth of the sincere, and their lips with thanksgiving. ²² But their adversaries shall clothe themselves with shame; and the habitation of the ungodly shall perish.

¹¹ Now his three friends having heard of all the evil that was come upon him, came to him each from his own country: Eliphaz the king of the Thaemans, Baldad sovereign of the Saucheans, Sophar king of he Minaeans: and they came to him with one accord, to comfort and to visit him.

³ And Moses and Aaron went in before Pharao, and they said to him, These things saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, How long dost thou refuse to reverence me? Send my people away, that they may serve me.

⁷ And the servants of Pharao say to him, How long shall this be a snare to us? send away the men, that they may serve their God; wilt thou know that Egypt is destroyed?

¹¹ And he said, Thou shalt go forth to-morrow, and shalt stand before the Lord in the mount; behold, the Lord will pass by. And, behold, a great and strong wind rending the mountains, and crushing the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake:

⁹ Let the Lord begin and wound me, but let him not utterly destroy me.

²⁶ Neither will your reproof cause me to cease my words, for neither will I endure the sound of your speech.

¹¹ Then neither will I refrain my mouth: I will speak being in distress; being in anguish I will disclose the bitterness of my soul.

² He that speaks much, should also hear on the other side: or does the fluent speaker think himself to be righteous? blessed is the short lived offspring of woman. ³ Be not a speaker of many words; for is there none to answer thee?

² Will a wise man give for answer a mere breath of wisdom? and does he fill up the pain of his belly,

³ What! is there any reason in vain words? or what will hinder thee from answering?

² How long wilt thou continue? forbear, that we also may speak.

² How long will ye vex my soul, and destroy me with words? only know that the Lord has dealt with me thus. ³ Ye speak against me; ye do not feel for me, but bear hard upon me.

²² So long as the simple cleave to justice, they shall not be ashamed: but the foolish being lovers of haughtiness, having become ungodly have hated knowledge, and are become subject to reproofs.

²⁵ By no means shalt thou do as this thing is so as to destroy the righteous with the wicked, so the righteous shall be as the wicked: by no means. Thou that judgest the whole earth, shalt thou not do right?

⁴ As for God, his works are true, and all his ways are judgment: God is faithful, and there is no unrighteousness in him; just and holy is the Lord.

⁷ And now let the fear of the Lord be upon you, and be wary, and do your duty: for there is no unrighteousness with the Lord our God, neither is it for him to respect persons, nor take bribes.

¹⁷ What, shall a mortal be pure before the Lord? or a man be blameless in regard to his works?

² I know of a truth that it is so: for how shall a mortal man be just before 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.

⁷ Behold, I laugh at reproach; I will not speak: or I will cry out, but there is nowhere judgment.

¹⁵ What is the Mighty One, that we should serve him? and what profit is there that we should approach him?

²⁰ Let his eyes see his own destruction, and let him not be saved by the Lord.

⁵ For Job has said, I am righteous: the Lord has removed my judgment.

¹⁰ Wherefore hear me, ye that are wise in heart: far be it from me to sin before the Lord, and to pervert righteousness before the almighty. ¹¹ Yea, he renders to a man accordingly as each of them does, and in a man's path he will find him. ¹² And thinkest thou that the Lord will do wrong, or will the Almighty who made the earth wrest judgment?

¹⁷ Behold then the one that hates iniquities, and that destroys the wicked, who is for ever just. ¹⁸ He is ungodly that says to a king, Thou art a transgressor, that says to princes, O most ungodly one. ¹⁹ Such a one as would not reverence the face of an honourable man, neither knows how to give honour to the great, so as that their persons should be respected.

¹³ For the Lord desires not to look on error, for he is the Almighty One.

^{2 (39:32)} Will any one pervert judgment with the Mighty One? and he that reproves God, let him return it for answer.

^{8 (40:3)} Do not set aside my judgment: and dost thou think that I have dealt with thee in any other way, than that thou mightest appear to be righteous?

^{14 (88:14)} Justice and judgment are the establishment of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

^{4 (98:4)} And the king's honour loves judgment; thou hast prepared equity, thou hast wrought judgment and justice in Jacob.

²⁵ Yet ye have said, The way of the Lord is not straight. Hear now, all the house of Israel; will not my way be straight? Is your way straight?

¹⁷ Yet the children of thy people will say, The way of the Lord is not straight: whereas this their way is not straight.

²⁰ And this is that which ye said, The way of the Lord is not straight. I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one for his ways.

¹⁴ The Lord also has watched, and brought the evils upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his work which he has executed, but we have not hearkened to his voice.

¹³ But the men of Sodom were evil, and exceedingly sinful before God.

¹³ For we are going to destroy this place; for their cry has been raised up before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it. ¹⁴ And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law who had married his daughters, and said, Rise up, and depart out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city; but he seemed to be speaking absurdly before his sons-in-law. ¹⁵ But when it was morning, the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise and take thy wife, and thy two daughters whom thou hast, and go forth; lest thou also be destroyed with the iniquities of the city. ¹⁶ And they were troubled, and the angels laid hold on his hand, and the hand of his wife, and the hands of his two daughters, in that the Lord spared him. ¹⁷ And it came to pass when they brought them out, that they said, Save thine own life by all means; look not round to that which is behind, nor stay in all the country round about, escape to the mountain, lest perhaps thou be overtaken together with them. ¹⁸ And Lot said to them, I pray, Lord, ¹⁹ since thy servant has found mercy before thee, and thou hast magnified thy righteousness, in what thou doest towards me that my soul may live, — but I shall not be able to escape to the mountain, lest perhaps the calamity overtake me and I die. ²⁰ Behold this city is near for me to escape thither, which is a small one, and there shall I be preserved, is it not little? and my soul shall live because of thee. ²¹ And he said to him, Behold, I have had respect to thee also about this thing, that I should not overthrow the city about which thou hast spoken. ²² Hasten therefore to escape thither, for I shall not be able to do anything until thou art come thither; therefore he called the name of that city, Segor. ²³ The sun was risen upon the earth, when Lot entered into Segor. ²⁴ And the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. ²⁵ And he overthrew these cities, and all the country round about, and all that dwelt in the cities, and the plants springing out of the ground.

⁵ And when the days of the banquet were completed, Job sent and purified them, having risen up in the morning, and offered sacrifices for them, according to their number, and one calf for a sin-offering for their souls: for Job said, Lest peradventure my sons have thought evil in their minds against God. Thus, then Job did continually.

¹⁸ While he is yet speaking, another messenger comes, saying to Job, While thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking with their elder brother, ¹⁹ suddenly a great wind came on from the desert, and caught the four corners of the house, and the house fell upon thy children, and they are dead; and I have escaped alone, and am come to tell thee.

⁴ Let their children be far from safety, and let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer.

¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above. ¹⁷ Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out. ¹⁸ Let one drive him from light into darkness. ¹⁹ He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.

¹² And when he was afflicted, he sought the face of the Lord his God, and was greatly humbled before the face of the God of his fathers; ¹³ and he prayed to him: and he hearkened to him, and listened to his cry, and brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom: and Manasses knew that the Lord he is God.

⁸ Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the sovereign of all;

¹³ For if thou hast made thine heart pure, and liftest up thine hands towards him;

²¹ Be firm, I pray thee, if thou canst endure; then thy fruit shall prosper. ²² And receive a declaration from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart. ²³ And if thou shalt turn and humble thyself before the Lord, thou hast thus removed unrighteousness far from thy habitation. ²⁴ Thou shalt lay up for thyself treasure in a heap on the rock; and Sophir shall be as the rock of the torrent. ²⁵ So the Almighty shall be thy helper from enemies, and he shall bring thee forth pure as silver that has been tried by fire. ²⁶ Then shalt thou have boldness before the Lord, looking up cheerfully to heaven. ²⁷ And he shall hear thee when thou prayest to him, and he shall grant thee power to pay thy vows. ²⁸ And he shall establish to thee again a habitation of righteousness and there shall be light upon thy paths. ²⁹ Because thou hast humbled thyself; and thou shalt say, Man has behaved proudly, but he shall save him that is of lowly eyes. ³⁰ He shall deliver the innocent, and do thou save thyself by thy pure hands.

⁶ Seek ye the Lord, and when ye find him, call upon him; and when he shall draw nigh to you, ⁷ let the ungodly leave his ways, and the transgressor his counsels: and let him return to the Lord, and he shall find mercy; for he shall abundantly pardon your sins.

⁸ And the Lord said to him, Hast thou diligently considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a man blameless, true, godly, abstaining from everything evil?

⁶ Is not thy fear founded in folly, thy hope also, and the mischief of thy way? ⁷ Remember then who has perished, being pure? or when were the true-hearted utterly destroyed?

²⁴ Then shalt thou know that thy house shall be at peace, and the provision for thy tabernacle shall not fail.

^{17 (16:18)} Yet there was no injustice in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

¹⁴ Yet such a man says to the Lord, Depart from me; I desire not to know thy ways. ¹⁵ What is the Mighty One, that we should serve him? and what profit is there that we should approach him?

⁶ Arise, O Lord, in thy wrath; be exalted in the utmost boundaries of mine enemies: awake, O Lord my God, according to the decree which thou didst command.

^{5 (25:5)} I have hated the assembly of wicked doers; and will not sit with ungodly men. ^{6 (25:6)} I will wash my hands in innocency, and compass thine altar, O Lord:

^{23 (43:23)} Awake, wherefore sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and do not cast us off for ever.

^{4 (58:4)} Without iniquity I ran and directed my course aright: awake to help me, and behold. ^{5 (58:5)} And thou, Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, draw nigh to visit all the heathen; pity not any that work iniquity. Pause.

⁸ The sacrifices of the ungodly are an abomination to the Lord; but the prayers of them that walk honestly are acceptable with him.

¹⁵ When ye stretch forth your hands, I will turn away mine eyes from you: and though ye make many supplications, I will not hearken to you; for your hands are full of blood.

¹⁰ Woe to their soul, for they have devised an evil counsel against themselves, saying against themselves, Let us bind the just, for he is burdensome to us: therefore shall they eat the fruits of their works.

⁹ Awake, awake, O Jerusalem, and put on the strength of thine arm; awake as in the early time, as the ancient generation.

¹⁶ who fed thee with manna in the wilderness, which thou knewest not, and thy fathers knew not; that he might afflict thee, and thoroughly try thee, and do thee good in thy latter days.

¹² And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job, more than the beginning: and his cattle were fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, a thousand she-asses of the pastures. ¹³ And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

¹⁸ But the ways of the righteous shine like light; they go on and shine, until the day be fully come.

²⁰ Hear, son, the instruction of thy father, that thou mayest be wise at thy latter end.

¹⁰ For who has despised the small days? surely they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet of tin in the hand of Zorobabel: these are the seven eyes that look upon all the earth.

⁷ and there shall be for one day cold and frost, and that day shall be known to the Lord, and it shall not be day nor night: but towards evening it shall be light.

³² Ask of the former days which were before thee, from the day when God created man upon the earth, and beginning at the one end of heaven to the other end of heaven, if there has happened any thing like to this great event, if such a thing has been heard:

⁷ Remember the days of old, consider the years for past ages: ask thy father, and he shall relate to thee, thine elders, and they shall tell thee.

¹² In length of time is wisdom, and in long life knowledge.

¹⁰ Truly among us are both the old and very aged man, more advanced in days than thy father.

¹⁸ things wise men say, and their fathers have not hidden.

⁶ And Elius the Buzite the son of Barachiel answered and said, I am younger in age, and ye are elder, wherefore I kept silence, fearing to declare to you my own knowledge. ⁷ And I said, It is not time that speaks, though in many years men know wisdom:

^{1 (43:1)} For the end, a Psalm for instruction, for the sons of Core. O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, the work which thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old.

^{3 (77:3)} All which we have heard and known, and our fathers have declared to us. ^{4 (77:4)} They were not hid from their children to a second generations; the fathers declaring the praises of the Lord, and his mighty acts, and his wonders which he wrought.

¹⁹ The living shall bless thee, as I also do: for from this day shall I beget children, who shall declare thy righteousness,

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.

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.

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

² Or he falls like a flower that has bloomed; and he departs like a shadow, and cannot continue.

^{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.

^{4 (89:4)} For a thousand years in thy sight are as the yesterday which is past, and as a watch in the night.

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

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

⁷ And thou shalt teach them to thy children, and thou shalt speak of them sitting in the house, and walking by the way, and lying down, and rising up.

¹⁹ And ye shall teach them to your children, so as to speak about them when thou sittest in the house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou sleepest, and when thou risest up.

⁷ But ask now the beasts, if they may speak to thee; and the birds of the air, if they may declare to thee. ⁸ Tell the earth, if it may speak to thee: and the fishes of the sea shall explain to thee.

⁷ And I said, It is not time that speaks, though in many years men know wisdom:

^{4 (144:4)} Generation after generation shall praise thy works, and tell of thy power.

²³ The heart of the wise will discern the things which proceed from his own mouth; and on his lips he will wear knowledge.

¹⁵ The heart of the sensible man purchases discretion; and the ears of the wise seek understanding.

³ And when they could no longer hide him, his mother took for him an ark, and besmeared it with bitumen, and cast the child into it, and put it in the ooze by the river.

⁵ And the Egyptians shall drink the water that is by the sea, but the river shall fail, and be dried up. ⁶ And the streams shall fail, and the canals of the river; and every reservoir of water shall be dried up, in every marsh also of reed and papyrus. ⁷ And all the green herbage round about the river, and everything sown by the side of the river, shall be blasted with the wind and dried up.

^{6 (128:6)} Let them be as the grass of the house-tops, which withers before it is plucked up. ^{7 (128:7)} Wherewith the reaper fills not his hand, nor he that makes up the sheaves, his bosom.

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.

¹² beware lest thou forget the Lord thy God that brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

¹¹ Take heed to thyself that thou forget not the Lord thy God, so as not to keep his commands, and his judgments, and ordinances, which I command thee this day:

¹⁴ thou shouldest be exalted in heart, and forget the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage:

¹⁹ And it shall come to pass if thou do at all forget the Lord thy God, and shouldest go after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall surely perish.

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

¹⁶ And this shall turn to me for salvation; for fraud shall have no entrance before him.

³⁴ For death is the witness of an ungodly man, and fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts.

¹⁴ And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king.

⁵ But the mirth of the ungodly is a signal downfall, and the joy of transgressors is destruction:

⁸ For what is the hope of the ungodly, that he holds to it? will he indeed trust in the Lord and be saved? ⁹ Will God hear his prayer? or, when distress has come upon him, ¹⁰ has he any confidence before him? or will God hear him as he calls upon him?

¹³ And the hypocrites in heart will array wrath against themselves; they will not cry, because he has bound them.

¹⁷ Let sinners be driven away into Hades, even all the nations that forget God.

⁴ The sinner has provoked the Lord: according to the abundance of his pride he will not seek after him: God is not before him.

^{22 (49:22)} Now consider these things, ye that forget God, lest he rend you, and there is no deliverer.

²⁸ Joy rests long with the righteous: but the hope of the ungodly shall perish.

⁷ When the ungodly is overthrown, he vanishes away; but the houses of the just remain.

¹⁴ The sinners in Sion have departed; trembling shall seize the ungodly. Who will tell you that a fire is kindled? Who will tell you of the eternal place?

¹³ And thou hast forgotten God who made thee, who made the sky and founded the earth; and thou wert continually afraid because of the wrath of him that afflicted thee: for whereas he counselled to take thee away, yet now where is the wrath of him that afflicted thee?

¹⁸ Therefore my success has perished, and my hope from the Lord.

⁵ They have hatched asps' eggs, and weave a spider's web: and he that is going to eat of their eggs, having crushed an addled egg, has found also in it a basilisk. ⁶ Their web shall not become a garment, nor shall they at all clothe themselves with their works; for their works are works of iniquity.

¹⁸ And his house is gone like moths, and like a spider's web.

^{11 (48:11)} And their sepulchres are their houses for ever, even their tabernacles to all generations: they have called their lands after their own names.

^{5 (51:5)} Therefore may God destroy thee for ever, may he pluck thee up and utterly remove thee from thy dwelling, and thy root from the land of the living. Pause. ^{6 (51:6)} And the righteous shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, and say, ^{7 (51:7)} Behold the man who made not God his help; but trusted in the abundance of his wealth, and strengthened himself in his vanity.

^{10 (111:10)} The sinner shall see and be angry, he shall gnash his teeth, and consume away: the desire of the sinner shall perish.

³ And I have seen foolish ones taking root: but suddenly their habitation was devoured.

⁷ Wherefore do the ungodly live, and grow old even in wealth? ⁸ Their seed is according to their desire, and their children are in their sight. ⁹ Their houses are prosperous, neither have they any where cause for fear, neither is there a scourge from the Lord upon them. ¹⁰ Their cow does not cast her calf, and their beast with young is safe, and does not miscarry. ¹¹ And they remain as an unfailing flock, and their children play before them, taking up the psaltery and harp; ¹² and they rejoice at the voice of a song. ¹³ And they spend their days in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of the grave.

^{35 (36:35)} I saw the ungodly very highly exalting himself, and lifting himself up like the cedars of Libanus. ^{36 (36:36)} Yet I passed by, and lo! he was not: and I sought him, but his place was not found.

^{3 (72:3)} For I was jealous of the transgressors, beholding the tranquility of sinners. ^{4 (72:4)} For there is no sign of reluctance in their death: and they have firmness under their affliction. ^{5 (72:5)} They are not in the troubles of other men; and they shall not be scourged with other men. ^{6 (72:6)} Therefore pride has possessed them; they have clothed themselves with their injustice and ungodliness. ^{7 (72:7)} Their injustice shall go forth as out of fatness: they have fulfilled their intention. ^{8 (72:8)} They have taken counsel and spoken in wickedness: they have uttered unrighteousness loftily. ^{9 (72:9)} They have set their mouth against heaven, and their tongue has gone through upon the earth. ^{10 (72:10)} Therefore shall my people return hither: and full days shall be found with them. ^{11 (72:11)} And they said, How does God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High? ^{12 (72:12)} Behold, these are the sinners, and they that prosper always: they have possessed wealth.

^{11 (79:11)} It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river.

¹⁶ The Lord called thy name a fair olive tree, of a goodly shade in appearance, at the noise of its being lopped, fire was kindled against it; great is the affliction coming upon thee: her branches are become good for nothing.

¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above.

¹⁹ My root was spread out by the water, and the dew would lodge on my crop.

²⁴ Therefore as stubble shall be burnt by a coal of fire, and shall be consumed by a violent flame, their root shall be as chaff, and their flower shall go up as dust: for they rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and insulted the word of the Holy One of Israel.

²⁴ For they shall not plant, neither shall they sow, neither shall their root be fixed in the ground: he has blown upon them, and they are withered, and a storm shall carry them away like sticks.

¹ Righteous art thou, O Lord, that I may make my defence to thee, yea, I will speak to thee of judgments. Why is it that the way of ungodly men prospers? that all hat deal very treacherously are flourishing? ² Thou hast planted them, and they have taken root; they have begotten children, and become fruitful; thou art near to their mouth, and far from their reins.

⁸ The eye of him that sees me shall not see me again: thine eyes are upon me, and I am no more.

¹⁰ and he shall surely not return to his own house, neither shall his place know him any more.

⁹ The eye has looked upon him, but shall not see him again; and his place shall no longer perceive him.

^{10 (36:10)} And yet a little while, and the sinner shall not be, and thou shalt seek for his place, and shalt not find it.

^{36 (36:36)} Yet I passed by, and lo! he was not: and I sought him, but his place was not found.

^{18 (72:18)} Surely thou hast appointed judgments to them because of their crafty dealings: thou hast cast them down when they were lifted up. ^{19 (72:19)} How have they become desolate! suddenly they have failed: they have perished because of their iniquity.

^{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.

⁸ He lifts up the poor from the earth, and raises the needy from the dunghill; to seat him with the princes of the people, and causing them to inherit the throne of glory:

^{7 (74:7)} For God is the judge; he puts down one, and raises up another.

^{7 (112:7)} who lifts up the poor from the earth, and raises up the needy from the dunghill;

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.

⁷ Remember then who has perished, being pure? or when were the true-hearted utterly destroyed?

²² Wherefore I said, Wrath slays the great and mighty man.

³⁰ For the wicked hastens to the day of destruction: they shall be led away for the day of his vengeance.

^{24 (36:24)} When he falls, he shall not be ruined: for the Lord supports his hand.

^{37 (36:37)} Maintain innocence, and behold uprightness: for there is a remnant to the peaceable man.

^{14 (93:14)} For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance;

¹ Thus saith the Lord God to my anointed Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, that nations might be obedient before him; and I will break through the strength of kings; I will open doors before him, and cities shall not be closed.

⁶ And Sarrha said, The Lord has made laughter for me, for whoever shall hear shall rejoice with me.

¹¹ And they answered each other with praise and thanksgiving to the Lord, saying, For it is good, for his mercy to Israel endures for ever. And all the people shouted with a loud voice to praise the Lord at the laying the foundation of the house of the Lord. ¹² But many of the priests and the Levites, and the elder men, heads of families, who had seen the former house on its foundation, and who saw this house with their eyes, wept with a loud voice: but the multitude shouted with joy to raise a song. ¹³ And the people did not distinguish the voice of the glad shout from the voice of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud voice, and the voice was heard even from afar off.

⁴³ And in that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced; for God had made them very joyful: and their wives and their children rejoiced: and the joy in Jerusalem was heard from afar off.

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

^{11 (31:11)} Be glad in the Lord, and exult, ye righteous: and glory, all ye that are upright in heart.

^{4 (97:4)} Shout to God, all the earth; sing, and exult, and sing psalms.

^{1 (99:1)} A Psalm for Thanksgiving. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth.

^{2 (125:2)} Then was our mouth filled with joy, and our tongue with exultation: then would they say among the Gentiles,

^{6 (125:6)} They went on and wept as they cast their seeds; but they shall surely come with exultation, bringing their sheaves with them.

¹³ Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall hunger: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall thirst: behold my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed: ¹⁴ behold, my servants shall exult with joy, but ye shall cry for the sorrow of your heart, and shall howl for the vexation of your spirit.

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.

¹⁸ If God should destroy him, his place shall deny him. Hast thou not seen such things,

^{26 (34:26)} Let them be confounded and ashamed together that rejoice at my afflictions: let them be clothed with shame and confusion that speak great swelling words against me.

^{29 (108:29)} Let those that falsely accuse me be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their shame as with a mantle.

^{18 (131:18)} His enemies will I clothe with a shame; but upon himself shall my holiness flourish.