Job 29 Cross References - CAB

¹ And Job continued and said in his discourse, ² Oh that I were as in months past, in the days when God preserved me! ³ As when His lamp shone over my head; when by His light I walked through darkness. ⁴ As when I steadfastly pursued my ways, when God took care of my house. ⁵ When I was very fruitful, and my children were about me; ⁶ when my ways were moistened with butter, and the mountains flowed for me with milk. ⁷ When I went forth early in the city, and the seat was placed for me in the streets. ⁸ The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and all the old men stood up. ⁹ And the great men ceased speaking, and laid their finger on their mouth. ¹⁰ And they that heard me blessed me, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth. ¹¹ For the ear heard, and blessed me; and the eye saw me, and turned aside. ¹² For I saved the poor out of the hand of the oppressor, and helped the fatherless who had no helper. ¹³ Let the blessing of the perishing one come upon me; yea, the mouth of the widow has blessed me. ¹⁴ Also I put on righteousness, and clothed myself with judgment like a mantle. ¹⁵ I was the eye of the blind, and the foot of the lame. ¹⁶ I was the father of the helpless, and I searched out the cause which I knew not. ¹⁷ And I broke the fangs of the wicked; I plucked the spoil out of the midst of their teeth. ¹⁸ And I said, My age shall continue as the stem of a palm tree; I shall live a long while. ¹⁹ My root was spread out by the water, and the dew would lodge on my crop. ²⁰ My glory was fresh in me, and my bow prospered in my hand. ²¹ Men heard me, and gave heed, and they were silent at my counsel. ²² At my word they spoke not again, and they were very glad whenever I spoke to them. ²³ As the thirsty earth expecting the rain, so they waited for my speech. ²⁴ Were I to laugh at them, they would not believe it; and the light of my face has not failed. ²⁵ I chose out their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the midst of warriors, as one comforting mourners.

⁷ And he took up his parable, and said, Balak king of Moab sent for me out of Mesopotamia, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, call for a curse upon Israel for me.

¹² And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, and your body like a body of clay.

¹ And Job further continued and said in his discourse,

¹ There was a certain man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was true, blameless, righteous, and godly, abstaining from everything evil. ² And he had seven sons and three daughters. ³ And his substance consisted of seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys in the pastures, and a very great household, and he had a great husbandry on the earth; and that man was most noble of the men of the east. ⁴ And his sons, visiting one another, prepared a banquet every day, taking with them also their three sisters to eat and drink with them. 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 perhaps my sons have thought evil, and cursed God in their minds. Thus, then Job did continually.

¹⁰ Have You not made a hedge about him, and about his household, and all his possessions round about? And have You not blessed the works of his hands, and multiplied his substance upon the land?

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

²⁸ For the Lord loves judgment, and will not forsake His saints; they shall be preserved forever; the blameless shall be avenged, but the seed of the ungodly shall be utterly destroyed.

²⁸ And it shall come to pass, that as I watched over them, to pull down, and to afflict, so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, says the Lord.

¹ Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, having been sanctified by God the Father, and having been kept in Jesus Christ:

¹⁷ And your prayer shall be as the morning star, and life shall arise to you as from the noonday.

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

¹⁷ Nevertheless, the lamp of the ungodly also shall be put out, and destruction shall come upon them, and pangs of vengeance shall seize them.

²⁸ And He shall establish to you again a habitation of righteousness, and there shall be light upon your paths.

⁶ Many say, Who will show us good things? The light of Your countenance, O Lord, has been manifested towards us.

²⁸ For You, O Lord, shall light my lamp: my God, You shall lighten my darkness.

⁴ Yea, though I walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

¹ A Psalm of David, before he was anointed. The Lord is my light and my Savior; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the defender of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

¹¹ For the Lord loves mercy and truth; God will give grace and glory; the Lord will not withhold good things from them that walk in innocence.

⁹ The righteous always have light, but the light of the ungodly is quenched. ^(13:9A) Crafty souls go astray in sins, but just men have pity, and are merciful.

²⁰ The lamp of him that reviles father or mother shall be put out, and his eyes shall see darkness.

²⁰ For the evil man shall have no posterity, and the light of the wicked shall be put out.

⁴ And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into sickles; and nation shall not take up sword against nation, neither shall they learn to war anymore.

¹² Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world. He that follows Me shall by no means walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

⁴⁶ I have come as a light into the world, so that whoever believes in Me may not abide in darkness.

⁸ For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light--

¹⁴ Therefore He says: "Awake, you who are sleeping, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

⁸ Or have you heard the ordinance of the Lord? Or has God used you as His counselor? Has wisdom come only to you?

¹⁴ The Lord is the strength of them that fear Him; and His covenant is to manifest truth to them.

⁵ For in the day of my afflictions He hid me in His tabernacle; He sheltered me in the secret of His tabernacle; He set me up on a rock.

¹ Praise of a Song, by David. He that dwells in the help of the Highest, shall sojourn under the shelter of the God of heaven.

³² For every transgressor is unclean before the Lord, neither does he sit among the righteous.

³ For you died, and your life has been hidden with Christ in God.

²⁷ And the rule of God shall protect you, and that under the strength of the everlasting arms; and He shall cast forth the enemy from before your face, saying, Perish. ²⁸ And Israel shall dwell in confidence alone on the land of Jacob, with grain and wine; and the sky shall be misty with dew upon you. ²⁹ Blessed are you, O Israel; who is like you, O people saved by the Lord? Your helper shall hold His shield over you, and His sword is your boast; and your enemies shall speak falsely to you, and you shall tread upon their neck.

⁹ Behold, I have commanded you; be strong and courageous, be not cowardly nor fearful, for the Lord your God is with you in all places in which you go.

¹² And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, The Lord is with you, you who are mighty in strength! ¹³ And Gideon said to him, Be gracious with me, my Lord: but if the Lord is with us, why have these evils found us? And where are all His miracles, which our fathers have related to us, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt? And now He has cast us out, and given us into the hand of Midian.

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

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.

¹³ And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴ And he called the first Jemimah, and the second Keziah, and the third was Keren-Happuch. ¹⁵ And there were not found in comparison with the daughters of Job, fairer women than they in all the world: and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. ¹⁶ And Job lived after his affliction one hundred and seventy years: and all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: and Job saw his sons and his sons' sons, to the fourth generation.

⁷ O Lord, in Your good pleasure You added strength to my beauty; but You turned away Your face, and I was troubled.

² for You are my strength; why have You cast me off? And why do I go mourning, while the enemy oppresses me?

⁸ In God will we make our boast all the day, and to Your name will we give thanks forever. Pause. ⁹ But now You have cast off, and put us to shame; and You will not go forth with our hosts.

³ Behold, the inheritance of the Lord, children, the reward of the fruit of the womb. ⁴ As arrows in the hand of a mighty man; so are the children of those who were outcasts. ⁵ Blessed is the man who shall satisfy his desire with them; they shall not be ashamed when they shall speak to their enemies in the gates.

³ Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine on the sides of your house; your children as young olive-plants round about your table.

⁶ Children's children are the crown of old men; and their fathers are the glory of children. ^(17:6A) The faithful has the whole world full of wealth; but the faithless not even a farthing.

⁴ Bring me into the wine house; set love before me.

¹ By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he hearkened not to me. ² I will rise now, and go about in the city, in the market places, and in the streets, and I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not.

⁸ O Lord, You are the hope of Israel, and deliver us in times of trouble; why have You become as a sojourner upon the land, or as one born in the land, yet turning aside for a resting place?

¹⁵ And Jesus said to them, "Can the groomsmen mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

¹¹ Binding his foal to the vine, and the foal of his donkey to the branch of it, he shall wash his robe in wine, and his garment in the blood of the grape.

¹³ He brought them up on the strength of the land; He fed them with the fruits of the fields; they sucked honey out of the rock, and oil out of the solid rock. ¹⁴ Butter of cows, and milk of sheep, with the fat of lambs and rams, of calves and kids, with fat of kidneys of wheat; and he drank wine, the blood of the grape.

²⁴ And to Asher he said, Asher is blessed with children; and he shall be acceptable to his brethren: he shall dip his food in oil.

¹⁷ Let him not see the milk of the pastures, nor the supplies of honey and butter.

¹⁶ And He fed them with the fat of wheat; and satisfied them with honey out of the rock.

¹⁸ You shall make for yourself judges and officers in your cities, which the Lord your God gives you in your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment;

¹⁹ then shall his father and his mother take hold of him, and bring him forth to the elders of his city, and to the gate of the place;

¹ And Boaz went up to the gate, and sat there. And behold, the relative passed by, of whom Boaz spoke. And Boaz said to him, Turn aside, and sit down here. And he turned aside and sat down. ² And Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit here; and they sat down.

¹¹ And all the people who were in the gate said, We are witnesses; and the elders said, The Lord make your wife who goes into your house, as Rachel and as Leah, who both together built the house of Israel, and wrought mightily in Ephratha, and there shall be a name to you in Bethlehem.

²¹ if I lifted my hand against an orphan, trusting that my strength was far superior to his:

¹⁶ These are the things which you shall do: speak truth everyone with his neighbor; judge truth and peaceable judgment in your gates:

³² You shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and shall fear your God: I am the Lord your God.

³¹ Old age is a crown of honor, but it is found in the ways of righteousness.

⁸ Whenever a righteous king sits on the throne, no evil thing can stand before his presence.

³ For rulers are not a fear to good works, but to evil. And do you wish not to fear the authority? Do what is good, and you shall have praise from the same. ⁴ For he is God's servant to you for good. But if you do evil, fear; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God's servant, an avenger for wrath to the one practicing evil.

⁷ Render therefore to all their dues: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.

¹ Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

¹⁷ Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

⁵ Likewise, younger people, subject yourselves to the elders. And all of you be subject to one another, and be clothed with humility, because "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

¹⁹ And they said to him, Be silent, lay your hand upon your mouth, and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for you to be the priest of the house of one man, or to be the priest of a tribe and house for a family of Israel?

² Have you been often spoken to in distress? But who shall endure the force of your words?

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.

⁵ Look upon me and wonder, laying your hand upon your cheek.

^{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.

¹⁹ By a multitude of words you shall not escape sin, but if you refrain your lips you will be prudent.

³² If you abandon yourself to mirth, and stretch forth your hand in a quarrel, you shall be disgraced.

¹⁹ So then, my beloved brothers, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

⁶ May my tongue cleave to my throat, if I do not remember you; if I do not prefer Jerusalem as the chief of my joy.

²⁶ Also I will bind your tongue, and you shall be dumb, and shall not be to them a reprover; because they are a provoking house.

²⁰ and if the poor did not bless me, and their shoulders were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;

² When the righteous are praised, the people will rejoice, but when the ungodly rule, men mourn.

²² And all were bearing witness to Him, and were marveling at the gracious words which came out of His mouth. And they said, "Is this not Joseph's son?"

²⁷ And it happened, while He spoke these things, that a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, "Blessed is the womb which bore You, and the breasts which nursed You!"

²² You shall hurt no widow or orphan. ²³ And if you should afflict them by ill treatment, and they should cry aloud to Me, I will surely hear their voice. ²⁴ And I will be very angry, and will slay you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children orphans.

¹⁸ executing judgment for the stranger and orphan and widow, and He loves the stranger, to give him food and clothing.

² And some said, We are numerous with our sons and our daughters; so we will take grain, and eat, and live. ³ And some said, As to our fields and vineyards and houses, let us pledge them, and we will take grain, and eat. ⁴ And some said, We have borrowed money for the king's tributes — our fields, and our vineyards, and houses are pledged. ⁵ And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet behold, we are reducing our sons and our daughters to slavery, and some of our daughters are enslaved; and there is no power of our hands, for our fields and our vineyards belong to the nobles. ⁶ And I was very angry as I heard their cry and these words. ⁷ And my heart took counsel within me, and I contended against the nobles, and the princes, and I said to them, Should every man demand of his brother what you demand? And I appointed against them a great assembly, ⁸ and I said to them, We of our free will have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the Gentiles; and do you sell your brothers? And shall they be delivered to us? And they were silent, and found no answer. ⁹ And I said, The thing which you do is not good; you will not so walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the Gentiles our enemies. ¹⁰ Both my brothers, and my acquaintances, and I, have lent them money and grain. Let us now leave off this usury! ¹¹ Restore to them, I pray, as at this day, their fields, and their vineyards, and their olive yards, and their houses, and bring forth to them grain and wine and oil of the money. ¹² And they said, We will restore, and we will not exact of them; we will do thus as you say. Then I called the priests, and bound them by oath to do according to this word. ¹³ And I shook out my garment, and said, So may God shake out every man who shall not keep to this word, from his house, and from his labors, he shall be even thus shaken out, as an outcast and empty. And all the congregation said, Amen, and they praised the Lord; and the people did this thing.

⁵ Is not your wickedness abundant, and your sins innumerable? ⁶ And you have taken the security of your brethren for nothing, and have taken away the clothing of the naked. ⁷ Neither have you given water to the thirsty to drink, but have taken away the morsel of the hungry. ⁸ And you have accepted the persons of some; and you have established those that were already settled on the earth. ⁹ But you have sent widows away empty, and have afflicted orphans.

⁴ They have turned aside the weak from the right way, and the meek of the earth have hidden themselves together.

¹⁷ And if I also ate my morsel alone, and did not impart of it to the orphan;

⁵ who is the Father of the orphans, and Judge of the widows; such is God in His holy place.

¹² For He has delivered the poor from the oppressor; and the needy who had no helper.

² How long will you judge unrighteously, and accept the persons of sinners? Pause. ³ Judge the orphan and poor; do justice to the low and needy. ⁴ Rescue the needy, and deliver the poor out of the hand of the sinner.

¹³ He that stops his ears from hearing the poor, himself also shall cry, and there shall be none to hear him.

¹¹ Deliver them that are led away to death, and redeem them that are appointed to be slain; spare not your help. ¹² But if you should say, I know not this man; know that the Lord knows the hearts of all; and He that formed breath for all, He knows all things, who renders to every man according to his works.

¹⁶ They understood not, they judged not the cause of the afflicted, nor the cause of the poor — is not this your not knowing Me? Says the Lord.

²⁷ Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

¹¹ And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son, and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which dwells among you, in whatsoever place the Lord your God shall choose, that His name should be called there.

¹³ You shall surely restore his pledge at sunset, and he shall sleep in his own garment, and he shall bless you; and it shall be mercy to you before the Lord your God.

⁵ and he shall answer and say before the Lord your God, My father abandoned Syria, and went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a small number, and became there a mighty nation and a great multitude.

¹⁰ And the governor said to them, Go, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions to them that have nothing; for this day is holy to our Lord: and faint not, for the Lord is our strength. ¹¹ And the Levites caused all the people to be silent, saying, Be silent, for it is a holy day, and do not be grieved. ¹² So all the people departed to eat and drink, to send portions and rejoice greatly, for they understood the words which he made known to them.

⁹ But you have sent widows away empty, and have afflicted orphans.

¹⁹ And if I too overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him; ²⁰ and if the poor did not bless me, and their shoulders were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;

⁴ Let the nations rejoice and exalt, for You shall judge the people in equity, and shall guide the nations on the earth. Pause.

⁶ Give strong drink to those that are in sorrow, and the wine to drink to those in pain, ⁷ that they may forget their poverty, and may not remember their troubles anymore. ⁸ Open your mouth with the word of God, and judge all fairly. ⁹ Open your mouth and judge justly, and plead the cause of the poor and weak.

¹³ And it shall come to pass in that day that they shall blow the great trumpet, and the lost ones in the land of the Assyrians shall come, and the lost ones in Egypt, and shall worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.

¹⁴ behold, My servants shall exalt with joy, but you shall cry for the sorrow of your heart, and shall howl for the vexation of your spirit.

³⁹ And arising, Peter went with them. When he arrived, they took him into the upper room, and all the widows stood beside him weeping, showing him tunics and cloaks which Dorcas was making, while being with them. ⁴⁰ But Peter, having put them all outside, knelt down and prayed. And turning to the body he said, "Tabitha, arise." And she opened her eyes, and seeing Peter, she sat up. ⁴¹ And giving to her his hand, he raised her up; and when he called the saints and the widows, he presented her living.

¹² Because the ministry of this service not only is supplying the needs of the saints, but also is abounding through many thanksgivings to God, ¹³ while through the approved character of this ministry, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the gospel of Christ, and for the generosity of your sharing toward them and toward all, ¹⁴ and by their prayer for you, who long for you because of the surpassing grace of God in you.

¹⁶ May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me, and he was not ashamed of my chain; ¹⁷ but when he arrived in Rome, he more diligently sought me out and found me. ¹⁸ May the Lord grant to him to find mercy from the Lord in that Day--and you very well know how many ways he served in Ephesus.

⁷ For we have much thanksgiving and encouragement over your love, because the affections of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

⁶ but keeping fast to my righteousness, I will by no means let it go: for I am not conscious to myself of having done anything amiss.

⁹ Your priests shall clothe themselves with righteousness; and Your saints shall rejoice.

⁵ In that day the Lord of hosts shall be the crown of hope, the woven crown of glory, to the remnant of the people.

¹⁷ And He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and placed the helmet of salvation on His head; and He clothed himself with the garment of vengeance, and with His cloak,

¹⁰ and they shall greatly rejoice in the Lord. Let my soul rejoice in the Lord; for He has clothed me with the robe of salvation, and the garment of joy; He has put a turban on me as on a bridegroom, and adorned me with ornaments as a bride.

³ And you shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

¹⁴ But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

⁷ through the word of truth, through the power of God, through the weapons of righteousness on the right hand and on the left hand,

¹⁴ Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

⁸ But we, since we are of the day, let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.

⁸ And to her it was granted that she should be dressed in fine linen, bright and pure, for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.

³¹ And he said, Leave us not, because you have been with us in the wilderness, and you shall be an elder among us.

⁵ The blind receive sight, and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear; the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

¹² For just as the body is one and has many parts, but all the parts of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. ¹³ For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body--whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free--and we were all given to drink into one Spirit. ¹⁴ For in fact the body is not one part but many. ¹⁵ If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body? ¹⁶ And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body? ¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? ¹⁸ But now God has set the parts, each one of them, in the body just as He desired. ¹⁹ And if all parts were one part, where would be the body? ²⁰ But now indeed there are many parts, but one body. ²¹ And the eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you"; nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you." ²² But to a greater degree the parts of the body which seem weaker are necessary. ²³ And the parts of the body which we consider to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater propriety. ²⁴ But our presentable parts have no need. But God united the body, giving greater honor to the part being inferior, ²⁵ lest there be divisions in the body, but the parts care the same for one another. ²⁶ And if one part suffers, all the parts suffer together; or if one part is honored, all the parts rejoice together. ²⁷ Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. ²⁸ And those whom God has appointed in the church are: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, kinds of tongues. ²⁹ All are not apostles, are they? All are not prophets, are they? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles? ³⁰ Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? ³¹ But strive for the better gifts. And yet I make known a more excellent way.

²⁶ And they judged the people at all times; and every matter too burdensome they brought to Moses, but every light matter they judged themselves.

¹⁴ then you shall inquire and ask, and search diligently, and behold, if the thing is clearly true, and this abomination has taken place among you,

⁸ And if a matter shall be too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, and between cause and cause, and between stroke and stroke, and between contradiction and contradiction, matters of judgment in your cities; ⁹ then you shall arise and go up to the place which the Lord your God shall choose, and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days, and they shall search out the matter and report the judgment to you. ¹⁰ And you shall do according to the sentence which they shall report to you out of the place in which the Lord your God shall choose, and you shall observe to do all things having been appointed to you by the law.

¹⁶ Then there appeared two harlots before the king, and they stood before him. ¹⁷ And the one woman said, Hear me, my lord; I and this woman dwelt in one house, and we both delivered a child in the house. ¹⁸ And it came to pass on the third day after I was delivered, this woman also was delivered. And we were together; and there was no one with us besides our two selves in the house. ¹⁹ And this woman's child died in the night; because she laid on him. ²⁰ And she arose in the middle of the night, and took my son from my arms, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom. ²¹ And I arose in the morning to suckle my son, and he was dead. And behold, I looked at him in the morning, and behold, it was not my son whom I bore. ²² And the other woman said, No, but the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son. So they spoke before the king. ²³ And the king said to them, You say, This is my son, even the living one, and this woman's son is the dead one. And you say, No, but the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son. ²⁴ And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king. ²⁵ And the king said, Divide the live child, the suckling, in two; and give half of it to one, and half of it to the other. ²⁶ And the woman whose the living child was, answered and said to the king, (for her heart yearned over her son), I beseech you, my lord, give her the child, and by no means 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, 'Give it to her, and by no means slay it: she is its mother. ²⁸ And all Israel heard this judgment which the king judged, and they feared before the king; because they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to execute judgment.

⁷ And he had a foster child, daughter of Aminadab his father's brother, and her name was Esther. And when her parents were dead, he brought her up for a wife for himself. And the woman was beautiful.

¹⁸ (for I nourished them as a father from my youth and guided them from my mother's womb.)

² The glory of God conceals a matter, but the glory of a king honors business.

⁷ A righteous man knows how to judge for the poor, but the ungodly understands not knowledge, and the poor man has not an understanding mind.

¹ Therefore be imitators of God as beloved children.

³⁵ then I went forth after him, and killed him, and drew the spoil out of his mouth. And as he rose up against me, then I caught hold of his throat, and struck him, and killed him.

⁷ Arise, O Lord; deliver me, my God; for You have struck all who were my enemies without cause; You have broken the teeth of sinners.

⁸ They shall be destroyed as melted wax; the fire has fallen, and they have not seen the sun.

³ verily they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us:

⁶ Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us for a prey to their teeth.

¹⁴ A wicked generation have swords for teeth and jaw-teeth as knives, so as to destroy and devour the lowly from the earth, and the poor of them from among men.

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.

⁴⁹ And Joseph gathered very much grain as the sand of the sea, until it could not be numbered, for there was no number of it.

²⁶ And you shall come to the grave like ripe grain reaped in its season, or as a sheaf of grain collected in its season.

¹⁶ And Job lived after his affliction one hundred and seventy years: and all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: and Job saw his sons and his sons' sons, to the fourth generation. ¹⁷ And Job died, an old man and full of days: ^(42:17A) and it is written that he will rise again with those whom the Lord raises up. ^(42:17B) This man is described in the Syriac book as living in the land of Uz, on the borders of Edom and Arabia: and his name before was Jobab; ^(42:17C) and having taken an Arabian wife, he begot a son whose name was Ennon. And he himself was the son of his father Zare, one of the sons of Esau, and of his mother Bosorrha, so that he was the fifth from Abraham. ^(42:17D) And these were the kings who reigned in Edom, which country he also ruled over: first, Balak, the son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dennaba: but after Balak, Jobab, who is called Job, and after him Asom, who was governor out of the country of Teman: and after him Adad, the son of Barad, who destroyed Midian in the plain of Moab; and the name of his city was Gethaim. ^(42:17E) And his friends who came to him were Eliphaz, of the children of Esau, king of the Thaemanites, Bildad sovereign of the Sauchaeans, and Zophar king of the Minaeans.

⁶ And I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved. ⁷ O Lord, in Your good pleasure You added strength to my beauty; but You turned away Your face, and I was troubled.

¹⁶ I will satisfy him with length of days, and show him My salvation.

²³ O inhabitant of Lebanon, making your nest in the cedars, you shall groan heavily, when pangs as of a travailing woman have come upon you.

¹⁶ Your insolence has risen up against you, the fierceness of your 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; from there will I bring you down.

⁴ If you should mount up as the eagle, and if you should make your nest among the stars, from there will I bring you down, says the Lord.

⁹ Woe to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evils.

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

³ And he shall be as a tree planted by the brooks of waters, which shall yield its fruit in its season, and its leaf shall not fall off; and whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.

⁸ And he shall be as a thriving tree by the waters, and he shall cast forth his root toward a moist place. He shall not fear when heat comes, and there shall be shady branches upon him; he shall not fear in a year of drought, and he shall not fail to bear fruit.

⁵ I will be as dew to Israel: he shall bloom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. ⁶ His branches shall spread, and he shall be as a fruitful olive, and his smell shall be as the smell of Lebanon. ⁷ They shall return, and dwell under his shadow: they shall live and be satisfied with grain, and he shall flower like a vine. His memorial shall be to Ephraim as the wine of Lebanon.

¹³ Therefore report to my father all my glory in Egypt, and all things that you have seen, and make haste and bring my father down here.

²⁴ But their bow and arrows were mightily consumed, and the sinews of their arms were slackened by the hand of the Mighty One of Jacob; this is he that strengthened Israel from the God of your father;

⁹ And He has stripped me of my glory, and has taken the crown from my head.

¹⁴ Also I put on righteousness, and clothed myself with judgment like a mantle.

³ But You, O Lord, are my helper; my glory, and the One that lifts up my head.

³⁴ He instructs my hands for war; and You have made my arms as a bronze bow.

⁵ who satisfies your desire with good things; so that your youth shall be renewed like that of the eagle.

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 faint.

¹⁶ Therefore we do not despair, but even if our outward man is being destroyed, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.

⁹ And the great men ceased speaking, and laid their finger on their mouth. ¹⁰ And they that heard me blessed me, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.

¹¹ Give ear to my words; for I will speak in your hearing, until you have tried the matter with words: ¹² I have paid close attention to you; and behold, not one of you convinced Job, or answered his words —

² Let my speech be looked for as the rain, and my words come down as dew, as the shower upon the herbage, and as snow upon the grass.

¹⁵ They were afraid, they answered no longer; they gave up their speaking. ¹⁶ I waited, (for I had not spoken) because they stood still, and they did not speak.

³¹ Give ear, Job, and hear me: be silent, and I will speak. ³² If you have words, answer me: speak, for I desire you to be justified. ³³ If not, listen to me: be silent, and I will teach you.

¹¹ Your lips drop honeycomb, my spouse: honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your garments is as the smell of Lebanon.

¹⁵ Thus shall many nations wonder at Him; and kings shall keep their mouths shut; for they to whom no report was brought concerning Him shall see; and they who have not heard, shall consider.

⁴⁶ Son of man, set your face against Thaman, and look toward Darom, and prophesy against the chief forest of Negev,

¹⁶ And now hear the word of the Lord: You say, Do not prophesy to Israel, and do not raise a tumult against the house of Jacob.

⁶ Weep not with tears in the assembly of the Lord, neither let any weep for these things; for He shall not remove the reproaches,

⁴⁶ And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare question Him any longer.

⁶ He shall come down as rain upon a fleece, and as drops falling upon the earth.

³ Let us follow on to know the Lord: we shall find Him ready as the morning, and He will come to us as the early and latter rain to the earth.

¹ Ask of the Lord rain in its season, the early and the latter rain. The Lord has given bright signs, and will give them abundant rain, to everyone grass in the field.

²⁶ And they reported to him, saying, Your son Joseph is living, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt; and Jacob was amazed, for he did not believe them.

¹⁵ Blessed are the people that knows the joyful sound; they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of Your countenance.

¹ A Song of Degrees. When the Lord turned the captivity of Zion, we became as those that are comforted.

⁴¹ But as they still disbelieved for joy, and marveled, He said to them, "Do you have any food here?"

¹⁴ And Abram, having heard that Lot his nephew had been taken captive, numbered his own home-born servants three hundred and eighteen, and pursued after them to Dan. ¹⁵ And he came upon them by night, he and his servants, and he struck them, and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus. ¹⁶ And he recovered all the cavalry of Sodom, and he recovered Lot his nephew, and all his possessions, and the women and the people. ¹⁷ And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after he returned from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and the kings with him, to the valley of Shaveh; this was the plain of the kings.

⁴⁰ You shall be over my house, and all my people shall be obedient to your word; only in the throne will I excel you.

⁵ And he shall be prince with the beloved one, when the princes of the people are gathered together with the tribes of Israel.

⁸ And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, Therefore have we now turned to you, that you should go with us, and fight against the sons of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

² And before, when Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel out and brought them in; and the Lord said to you, You shall feed My people Israel, and you shall be for a leader to My people Israel.

¹ And David took counsel with the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and with every commander. ² And David said to the whole congregation of Israel, If it seems good to you, and it should be prospered by the Lord our God, let us send to our brethren that are left in all the land of Israel, and let the priests the Levites who are with them in the cities of their possession come, and let them be gathered to us. ³ And let us bring over to us the ark of our God; for men have not inquired at it since the days of Saul. ⁴ And all the congregation said that they would do thus; for the saying was right in the eyes of all the people.

³ And his substance consisted of seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys in the pastures, and a very great household, and he had a great husbandry on the earth; and that man was most noble of the men of the east.

³ For seeing you have instructed many, and have strengthened the hands of the weak one, ⁴ and have supported the failing with words, and have imparted courage to feeble knees.

³⁷ And if I did not read it and return it, having taken nothing from the debtor:

³ Be strong, you relaxed hands and feeble knees. ⁴ Comfort one another, you fainthearted; be strong, fear not; behold, our God renders judgment, and He will render it; He will come and save us.

¹ The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me; He has sent Me to preach the gospel to the poor, to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind; ² to declare the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of recompense; to comfort all that mourn; ³ that there should be given to them that mourn in Zion glory instead of ashes, the oil of joy to the mourners, the garment of glory for the spirit of heaviness; and they shall be called generations of righteousness, the planting of the Lord for glory.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, ⁴ who comforts us in all our tribulation, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, by means of the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

⁵ For indeed, when we came to Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted on every side; outside were fightings, inside were fears. ⁶ Nevertheless God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus, ⁷ and not only by his coming, but also by the consolation with which he was comforted over you, as he reported to us your earnest longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced even more.

² and sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God, and our fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, in order to establish you and encourage you concerning your faith, ³ that no one should be disturbed by these afflictions; for you yourselves know that we are appointed unto this.