Job 23:11 Cross References - CAB

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,

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."