Job 23 Cross References - CAB

¹ Then Job answered and said, ² Yes, I know that pleading is out of my reach; and His hand has been made heavy upon my groaning. ³ Oh, that I knew where I might find Him, and come to an end of the matter! ⁴ And I would plead my own cause, and He would fill my mouth with arguments. ⁵ And I would know the remedies which He would speak to me, and I would perceive what He would tell me. ⁶ Though He should come on me in His great strength, then He would not threaten me; ⁷ for truth and reproof are from Him, and He would bring forth my judgment to an end. ⁸ For if I shall go first, and exist no longer, still what do I know concerning the latter end? ⁹ When He worked on the left hand, then I observed it not: His right hand shall encompass me but I shall not see it. ¹⁰ For He already knows my way, and He has tried me as gold. ¹¹ And I will go forth according to His commandments, for I have kept His ways; and I shall not turn aside from His commandments, ¹² neither shall I transgress; but I have hid His words in my bosom. ¹³ And if He too has thus judged, who is he that has contradicted, for He has both willed a thing and done it. ¹⁴ (TEXT OMITTED) ^{15 (23:14)} Therefore am I troubled at Him; and when I was reproved, I thought of Him. ^(23:15) Therefore let me take good heed before Him: I will consider, and be terrified of Him. ¹⁶ But the Lord has softened my heart, and the Almighty has troubled me. ¹⁷ For I knew not that darkness would come upon me, and thick darkness has covered me before my face.

² Oh that one would indeed weigh the wrath that is upon me, and take up my grief in a balance together! ³ And surely they would be heavier than the sand by the seashore: but, as it seems, my words are vain.

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.

¹ Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon Him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul.

⁶ Then shall He declare to you the power of wisdom, for it shall be double of that which is with you; and then shall you know, that a just recompense of your sins has come to you from the Lord.

⁴ For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; I became thoroughly miserable while a thorn was fastened in me. Pause.

² In the day of my affliction I earnestly sought the Lord; even with my hands by night before Him, and I was not deceived; my soul refused to be comforted. ³ I remembered God, and rejoiced; I poured out my complaint, and my soul fainted. Pause. ⁴ All my enemies set a watch against me; I was troubled, and spoke not. ⁵ I considered the days of old, and remembered ancient ears. ⁶ And I meditated; I communed with my heart by night, and diligently searched my spirit, saying, ⁷ Will the Lord cast off forever? And will He be well pleased no more? ⁸ Will He cut off His mercy forever, even forever and ever? ⁹ Will God forget to pity? Or will He shut up His compassions in His wrath? Pause.

¹⁹ ( { ζ}) ZAIN. I remembered by reason of my poverty, and because of persecution my bitterness and gall shall be remembered; ²⁰ and my soul shall meditate with me.

³ Nevertheless I will speak to the Lord, and I will reason before Him, if He will.

^{21 (16:22)} Oh that a man might plead before the Lord, even as the son of man with his neighbor!

³⁵ (Oh that I had a hearer!) And if I had not feared the hand of the Lord; and as to the written charge which I had against anyone, ³⁶ I would place it as a chaplet on my shoulders, and read it. ³⁷ And if I did not read it and return it, having taken nothing from the debtor:

^{1 (39:31)} And the Lord God answered Job and said, ^{2 (39:32)} Will anyone pervert judgment with the Mighty One? And he that reproves God, let him answer it. ^{3 (39:33)} And Job answered and said to the Lord, ^{4 (39:34)} Why do I yet plead? Being rebuked even while reproving the Lord: hearing such things, whereas I am nothing: and what shall I answer to these arguments? I will lay my hand upon my mouth. ^{5 (39:35)} I have spoken once, but I will not do so a second time.

⁸ For the way of the Lord is judgment; we have hoped in Your name, and on the remembrance of You,

⁶ Seek the Lord, and when you find Him, call upon Him; and when He draws near 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.

⁷ Our sins have risen up against us. O Lord, do for us for Your name's sake; for our sins are many before You; for we have sinned against You.

¹⁹ that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not reckoning their transgressions to them, and committing to us the word of this reconciliation. ²⁰ Now then, we serve as ambassadors for Christ, as though God were appealing through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.

⁶ Therefore since it remains for some to enter into it, and those formerly having the gospel preached to them did not enter on account of disobedience,

²⁵ Far be it from You to do such at thing, so as to destroy the righteous with the wicked, so the righteous shall be as the wicked: far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? ²⁶ And the Lord said, If there should be in Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole city, and the whole place for their sakes. ²⁷ And Abraham answered and said, Now I have begun to speak to my Lord, and I am but dust and ashes. ²⁸ But if the fifty righteous should be diminished to forty-five, will You destroy the whole city because of the five that are lacking? And He said, I will not destroy it, if I should find there forty-five. ²⁹ And he continued to speak to Him still, and said, But if there should be found there forty? And He said, I will not destroy it for the forty's sake. ³⁰ And he said, Will there be anything against me, Lord, if I shall speak? But if there be found there thirty? And He said, I will not destroy it for the thirty's sake. ³¹ And he said, Since I am able to speak to the Lord, what if there should be found there twenty? And He said, I will not destroy it, if I should find there twenty. ³² And he said, Will there be anything against me, Lord, if I speak yet once more? But if there should be found there ten? And He said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.

¹² But You said, I will do you good, and will make your seed as the sand of the sea, which shall not be numbered for multitude.

¹² Take heed lest at any time the Egyptians speak, saying, With evil intent He brought them out to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from off the earth; cease from Your wrathful anger, and be merciful to the sin of Your people, ¹³ remembering Abraham and Isaac and Jacob Your servants, to whom You have sworn by Yourself, and have spoken to them, saying, I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of heaven for multitude, and all this land which You spoke of to give to them, so that they shall possess it forever.

¹³ And Moses said to the Lord, So Egypt shall hear, for You have brought up this people from them by Your might. ¹⁴ Moreover all the inhabitants of this land have heard that You are Lord in the midst of this people, who, O Lord, are seen by them face to face, and Your cloud rests upon them, and You go before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire. ¹⁵ And if You shall destroy this nation as one man; then all the nations that have heard Your name shall speak, saying, ¹⁶ Because the Lord could not bring this people into the land which He swore to them, He has overthrown them in the wilderness. ¹⁷ And now, O Lord, let Your strength be exalted, as You spoke, saying, ¹⁸ The Lord is longsuffering and merciful, and true, removing transgressions and iniquities and sins, and He shall by no means clear the guilty, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. ¹⁹ Forgive this people their sin according to Your great mercy, as You were favorable to them from Egypt until now.

⁸ And what shall I say since Israel has turned his back before his enemy? ⁹ And when the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land hear it, they shall compass us round about and destroy us from off the land: and what will You do for Your great name?

¹⁸ Behold, I am near my judgment: I know that I shall appear evidently just.

¹⁹ Therefore teach me what shall we say to Him? And let us cease from saying much.

¹¹ For Your name's sake, O Lord, be merciful to my sin; for it is great.

¹ A Psalm of David. Judge me, O God, and plead my cause, against an ungodly nation; deliver me from the unjust and crafty;

²⁶ Put Me in rememberance, and let us contend together; confess your transgressions first, that you may be justified.

¹⁸ Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and behold our desolation, and that of the city which is called by Your name; for we do not bring our pitiful case before You on the grounds of our righteousness, but because of Your manifold compassions, O Lord. ¹⁹ Hearken, O Lord; be propitious, O Lord; attend, O Lord; delay not, O my God, for Your own sake; for Your city and Your people are called by Your name.

² And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and wherefore have You thus judged me?

²² Then shall You call, and I will listen to You: or You shall speak, and I will give You an answer. ²³ How many are my sins and my transgressions? Teach me what they are.

² I know that You can do all things, and nothing is impossible with You. ³ For who is he that hides counsel from You? Or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from You? And who will tell me what I knew not, great and wonderful things which I understood not? ⁴ But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask You, and You shall teach me. ⁵ I have heard the report of You by the ear before; but now my eye has seen You. ⁶ Therefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes.

³ But to me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a human court. Indeed, I do not even judge myself. ⁴ For I am conscious of nothing, but I have not been justified by this; but He who judges me is the Lord.

⁴ For He is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: who has hardened himself against Him and endured?

¹⁹ For indeed He is strong in power: who then shall resist His judgment?

³³ Would that He our mediator were present, and a reprover, and one who should hear the cause between both. ³⁴ Let Him remove His rod from me, and let not His fear terrify me.

²¹ Withhold Your hand from me, and let not Your fear terrify me.

³ In whatsoever day I shall call upon You, hear me speedily; You shall abundantly provide me with Your power in my soul.

⁴ There is no woman that has not taken hold of it; who will set me to watch stubble in the field? Because of this enemy I have set her aside; therefore on this account the Lord has done all that He appointed.

⁸ Fighting and reproaching he will dismiss them; did you not meditate with a harsh spirit, to slay them with a wrathful spirit?

³³ Therefore, as I live, says the Lord, I will reign over you with a strong hand, and with a high arm, and with outpoured wrath.

³⁵ And I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, and will plead with you there face to face.

⁹ And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may rest upon me. ¹⁰ Therefore I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in calamities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For whenever I am weak, then I am strong.

¹⁵ For though I am righteous, He will not listen to me: I will intreat His judgment.

¹⁸ And come, let us reason together, says the Lord; and though your sins be as purple, I will make them white as snow; and though they be as scarlet, I will make them white as wool.

⁵ Will God's anger continue forever, or be preserved to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done these bad things, as you were able.

¹ Righteous are You, O Lord, that I may make my defense to You: yet I will speak to You of judgments. Why is it that the way of the ungodly prospers? And all that deal very treacherously are flourishing?

¹⁹ Now we know that as many things as the law says, it speaks to those under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. ²⁰ Therefore by works of the law no flesh shall be justified in His sight, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin. ²¹ But now the righteousness of God apart from the law has been revealed, being witnessed to by the Law and the Prophets, ²² even the righteousness of God, through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ, to all and upon all those that believe. For there is no distinction;

¹ There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

³³ Who shall bring an accusation against God's elect? It is God who justifies. ³⁴ Who is he that condemns? Christ is the One having died, but rather also having been raised, who is even at the right hand of God, who also intercedes on our behalf.

¹¹ If ever He should go beyond me, I shall not see Him: if He should pass by me, neither thus have I known it.

¹⁴ He beholds them that perform lawless deeds, and He will save me: and do you plead before Him, if you can praise Him, as it is possible even now?

¹ Why do You stand afar off, O Lord? Why do You overlook us in times of need, in affliction?

¹ For the end, A Psalm of David. How long, O Lord, will You forget me? Forever? How long will You turn away Your face from me? ² How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrows in my heart daily? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? ³ Look on me, hearken to me, O Lord my God: lighten my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

¹⁵ For you are God, yet we knew it not, the God of Israel, the Savior.

¹⁶ who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or is able to see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.

⁴⁶ How long, O Lord? Will You turn away, forever? Shall Your anger flame out as fire?

¹⁷ And one shall say, I will wait for God, who has turned away His face from the house of Jacob, and I will trust in Him.

¹⁹ For I know that he will order his sons, and his house after him, and they will keep the ways of the Lord, to do justice and judgment, that the Lord may bring upon Abraham all things whatsoever He has spoken to him.

² And you shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you in the wilderness, that He might afflict you, and try you, and that the things in your heart might be made manifest, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

³ O Lord, remember, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in Your eyes. And Hezekiah wept with a great weeping.

¹¹ But put forth Your hand, and touch all that he has, and he will curse You to Your face. ¹² Then the Lord said to the devil, Behold, I give all that he has into your hand, but touch not himself. So the devil went out from the presence of the Lord.

⁵ Ah, but put forth Your hand, and touch his bones and his flesh — surely he will curse You to Your face! ⁶ And the Lord said to the devil, Behold, I deliver him up to you; only save his life.

⁵ I have heard the report of You by the ear before; but now my eye has seen You. ⁶ Therefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes. ⁷ And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken all these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, You have sinned, and your two friends, for you have not said anything true before Me, as My servant Job has. ⁸ Now then take seven bullocks, and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and he shall offer a burnt offering for you. And My servant Job shall pray for you, for I will only accept him: for but his sake, I would have destroyed you, for you have not spoken the truth against My servant Job.

⁶ For the Lord knows the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

³ You has tested my heart; You have visited me in the night; You have tried me as with fire, and unrighteousness has not been found in me; I am purposed that my mouth shall not speak amiss.

¹⁰ For You, O God, have proved us; You have tried us with fire as silver is tried.

¹ For the end, A Psalm of David. O Lord, You have proved me, and known me. ² You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thoughts long before. ³ You have traced my path and my bed, and have foreseen all my ways.

³ As silver and gold are tried in a furnace, so are choice hearts with the Lord.

⁹ And I will bring the third part through the fire, and I will try them as silver is tried, and I will prove them as gold is proved: they shall call upon My name, and I will hear them, and say, This is My people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

² And who will abide the day of His coming? Or who will withstand at His appearing? For He is coming in as the fire of a furnace and as the herb of fullers. ³ He shall sit to melt and purify as it were silver, and as it were gold: and He shall purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver, and they shall offer to the Lord an offering in righteousness.

¹⁷ He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you care for Me?" Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, "Do you care for Me?" And he said to Him, "Lord, You know all things; You know that I care for You." Jesus said to him, "Feed My sheep.

¹⁹ Nevertheless the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal: "The Lord knows those that are His," and, "Let everyone naming the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness."

¹⁷ By faith Abraham, when he was tested, had offered up Isaac, and he that received the promises offered up his only begotten son,

² Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various trials, ³ knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. ⁴ But let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.

¹² Blessed is the man who endures temptation; because when he is approved, he shall receive the crown of life which the Lord promised to those who love Him.

⁷ so that the genuineness of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes, though being tested with fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

² And now behold, the king goes before you; and I have grown old and shall rest. And look, my sons are among you; I have gone about before you from my youth to this day. ³ Behold, here am I, answer against me before the Lord and before His anointed. Whose calf have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or who among you have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe, even as much as a sandal? Bear witness against me, and I will make restitution to you. ⁴ And they said to Samuel, You have not injured us, and you have not oppressed us; and you have not afflicted us, and you have not taken anything from anyone's hand. ⁵ And Samuel said to the people, The Lord is witness among you, and His anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand. And they said, He is witness.

⁹ But let the faithful hold on his own way, and let him that is pure of hands take courage.

⁵ Direct my steps in Your paths, that my steps slip not.

²⁰ And the Lord shall recompense me according to my righteousness; even according to the purity of my hands shall He recompense me. ²¹ For I have kept the way of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God. ²² For all His judgments were before me, and His ordinances departed not from me. ²³ And I shall be blameless before Him, and shall keep myself from my iniquity. ²⁴ And the Lord shall recompense me according to my righteousness, and according to the purity of my hands before His eyes.

³ The words of his mouth are transgression and deceit; he is not inclined to understand how to do good.

¹⁸ And our heart has not gone back; but You have turned aside our paths from Your way.

⁵ But them that turn aside to crooked ways the Lord will lead away with the workers of iniquity; but peace shall be upon Israel.

⁶ and them that turn aside from the Lord, and them that seek not the Lord, and them that cleave not to the Lord.

¹³ But those on the rock are they that, whenever they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for a while and in time of testing fall away. ¹⁴ And that which fell among thorns, these are those, who when they heard, go out and are choked with anxieties, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity. ¹⁵ But that which fell on the good ground, these are such who when they heard the word, with a noble and good heart, hold on to it and bear fruit with endurance.

¹⁸ And when they were present with him, he said to them: "You know from the first day which I arrived in Asia, how I was with you the whole time, ¹⁹ serving the Lord with all humility, and many tears and trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

³³ I have desired the silver or gold or clothes of no one. ³⁴ You yourselves know that these hands rendered service to my needs, and those who were with me.

⁷ to those who by the endurance of good works are seeking glory and honor and incorruption--eternal life.

¹² For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that we have conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and especially toward you.

¹⁰ You are witnesses, and so is God, how devoutly and justly and blamelessly we were to you that believe;

²⁰ For if having escaped from the corruptions of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, yet by these, having become entangled they are defeated, the latter end has become worse for them than the first. ²¹ For it was better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than knowing it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. ²² But it has happened to them according to the saying of the true proverb: "A dog returns to his own vomit," and, "A sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire."

¹⁰ Let the grave be my city, upon the walls of which I have leaped: I will not shrink from it, for I have not denied the holy words of my God.

²² And receive a declaration from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.

⁹ The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever and ever: the judgments of the Lord are true, and justified altogether. ¹⁰ To be desired more than gold, and much precious stone; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

¹¹ I have hidden Your oracles in my heart, that I might not sin against You.

¹⁰³ How sweet are Your oracles to my taste! More so than honey to my mouth!

¹²⁷ Therefore have I loved Your commandments more than gold, or topaz.

¹⁶ Consume them, and Your word shall be to me for the joy and gladness of my heart. For Your name has been called upon me, O Lord Almighty.

⁴² And the Lord said, "Who then is a faithful and wise steward, whom his master will make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of food in due season?

⁴⁶ the master of that servant will come on a day which he does not expect, and at an hour which he does not know, and he will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.

³² But He said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know."

³⁴ Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.

⁶⁶ From this time many of His disciples turned back and no longer would walk with Him. ⁶⁷ Then Jesus said to the twelve, "Do you also want to go away?" ⁶⁸ But Simon Peter answered Him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. ⁶⁹ Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

³¹ Then Jesus said to those Jews who had believed Him, "If you abide in My word, truly you are My disciples.

²² strengthening the souls of the disciples, urging them to continue in the faith, saying, "Through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God."

³⁸ But the just shall live by faith, and if he withdraws, My soul has no pleasure in him." ³⁹ But we are not of those shrinking back to destruction, but of faith, to the saving of the soul.

² as newborn babes, desire the genuine milk of the word, that by it you may grow,

¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out in order that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.

¹⁹ God is not as a man that He should waver, nor as a son of man that He should be threatened; shall He say and not perform? Shall He speak and not keep His word? ²⁰ Behold, I have received commandment to bless: I will bless, and not turn back.

¹² If He would take away, who shall turn Him back? Or who shall say to Him, What have You done? ¹³ For if He has turned away His anger, the whales under heaven have stooped under Him.

¹⁰ And if He should overthrow all things, who will say to Him, What have You done?

¹⁴ If He should cast down, who will build up? If He should shut up against man, who shall open?

²⁹ And He will give quiet, and who will condemn? And He will hide His face, and who shall see Him? Whether it be done against a nation, or against a man, also:

³ But our God has done in heaven and on earth, whatsoever He has pleased.

⁶ all that the Lord willed, He did in heaven, and on the earth, in the sea, and in all the deep.

²¹ There are many thoughts in a man's heart, but the counsel of the Lord abides forever.

¹⁵ That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and what is lacking cannot be numbered.

¹⁴ I know that whatsoever things God has done, they shall be forever. It is impossible to add to it, and it is impossible to take away from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before Him.

²⁴ Thus says the Lord of hosts, As I have said, so it shall be; and as I have purposed, so the matter shall remain; ²⁵ even to destroy the Assyrians upon My land, and upon My mountains; and they shall be for trampling; and their yoke shall be taken away from them, and their glory shall be taken away from their shoulders. ²⁶ This is the purpose which the Lord has purposed upon the whole earth; and this the hand that is uplifted against all the nations. ²⁷ For what the Holy God has purposed, who shall frustrate? And who shall turn back His uplifted hand?

¹⁰ declaring beforehand the latter events before they come to pass, and they are accomplished together; and I said, all My counsel shall stand, and I will do all things that I have planned;

³⁵ All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and He does according to His will in the host of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and there is none who shall withstand His power, and say to Him, What have You done?

¹⁹ You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who has ever resisted His will?"

⁹ having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, ¹⁰ for an administration of the fullness of the times, He might bring together all things in Christ, those in heaven and those on the earth--In Him. ¹¹ In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will,

¹⁷ Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

³ So have I also endured months of vanity, and nights of pain have been appointed me.

¹⁹ Your way is in the sea, and Your paths in many waters, and Your footsteps cannot be known.

² Clouds and darkness are round about Him; righteousness and judgment are the establishment of His throne.

²⁷ For do not say, O Jacob, and why have you spoken, O Israel, saying, My way is hid from God, and my God has taken away my judgment, and has departed? ²⁸ And now, have you not known? Have you not heard? The eternal God, the God that formed the ends of the earth, shall not hunger, nor be weary, and there is no searching of His understanding.

⁹ The Lord's voice shall be proclaimed in the city, and He shall save those that fear His name: hear, O tribe; and who shall order the city?

³³ Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and untraceable are His ways!

³ that no one should be disturbed by these afflictions; for you yourselves know that we are appointed unto this.

⁹ For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

⁸ and "a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense." They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed.

¹⁵ Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and if I should be righteous, I cannot lift myself up, for I am full of dishonor.

³ Oh, that I knew where I might find Him, and come to an end of the matter!

²³ For the fear of the Lord constrained me, and I cannot bear up by reason of His burden.

³ I remembered God, and rejoiced; I poured out my complaint, and my soul fainted. Pause.

¹²⁰ Penetrate my flesh with Your fear; for I am afraid of Your judgments.

¹⁶ I watched, and my belly trembled at the sound of the prayer of my lips, and trembling entered into my bones, and my frame was troubled within me; I will rest in the day of affliction, from going up to the people of my sojourning.

³ Hear, O Israel; you are going this day to battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint; fear not, neither be confounded, neither turn aside from their face.

²⁰ And she said to them, No, do not call me Naomi; call me 'Bitter,' for the Mighty One has dealt very bitterly with me.

² As God lives, who has thus judged me; and the Almighty, who has embittered my soul;

¹⁴ I am poured out like water, and all My bones are loosened; My heart in the midst of My belly has become like melting wax.

¹⁶ Your wrath has passed over me; and Your terrors have greatly disquieted me.

⁵ And I said, Woe is me, for I am pricked to the heart; for being a man, and having unclean lips, I dwell in the midst of a people having unclean lips; and I have seen with my eyes the King, the Lord of hosts.

¹⁶ I will not take vengeance on you forever, neither will I be always angry with you; for My Spirit shall go forth from Me, and I have created all breath.

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¹⁵ Alas, Alas, Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and it will come as trouble upon trouble.

²⁰ It shall not be so. Therefore, behold, I will add you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your tomb in peace, and your eyes shall not see any among all the evils which I bring upon this place.

⁹ Let the Lord begin to wound me, but let Him not utterly destroy me.

²² Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, for he has been already made over to the power of the sword.

⁶ His light shall be darkness in his habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

¹⁸ Let one drive him from light into darkness.

⁸ I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape: He has set darkness before my face.

¹¹ The light has proved darkness to you, and water has covered you on your lying down.

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.