Job 31 Cross References - CAB

¹ I made a covenant with my eyes, and I will not think upon a virgin. ² Now what portion has God given from above? And is there an inheritance given of the Mighty One from on high? ³ Alas! Destruction to the unrighteous, and rejection to them that do iniquity! ⁴ Will He not see my way, and number all my steps? ⁵ But if I had gone with scorners, and if my foot too has hastened to deceit: ⁶ (for I am weighed in a just balance, and the Lord knows my innocence:) ⁷ if my foot has turned aside out of the way, or if my heart has followed my eye, and if I too have touched gifts with my hands; ⁸ then let me sow, and let others eat; and let me be uprooted on the earth. ⁹ If my heart has gone forth after another man's wife, and if I laid wait at her doors; ¹⁰ then let my wife also please another, and let my children be brought low. ¹¹ For the rage of anger is not to be controlled, in the case of defiling another man's wife. ¹² For it is a fire burning on every side, and whoever it attacks, it utterly destroys. ¹³ And if I also despised the judgment of my servant or my handmaid, when they pleaded with me; ¹⁴ what then shall I do if the Lord should try me? And if also He should at all visit me, can I make an answer? ¹⁵ Were not they formed too, as I also was formed in the womb? Yea, we were formed in the same womb. ¹⁶ But the helpless missed not whatever need they had, and I did not cause the eye of the widow to fail. ¹⁷ And if I also ate my morsel alone, and did not impart of it to the orphan; ¹⁸ (for I nourished them as a father from my youth and guided them from my mother's womb.) 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; ²¹ if I lifted my hand against an orphan, trusting that my strength was far superior to his: ²² then let my shoulder start from the blade bone, and my arm be crushed off from the elbow. ²³ For the fear of the Lord constrained me, and I cannot bear up by reason of His burden. ²⁴ If I made gold my treasure, and if I too trusted the precious stone; ²⁵ and if I also rejoiced when my wealth was abundant, and if I laid my hand on innumerable treasures: ²⁶ (do we not see the shining sun eclipsed, and the moon waning? For they have not power to continue:) ²⁷ and if my heart was secretly deceived, and if I have laid my hand upon my mouth and kissed it: ²⁸ let this also then be reckoned to me as the greatest iniquity: for I should have lied against the Lord Most High. ²⁹ And if I too was glad at the fall of my enemies, and my heart said, Aha! ³⁰ Then let my ear hear my curse, and let me be a byword among my people in my affliction. ³¹ And if my handmaids have often said, Oh that we might be satisfied with his flesh; (whereas I was very kind: ³² for the stranger did not lodge without, and my door was opened to everyone that came:) ³³ or if also having sinned unintentionally, I hid my sin; ³⁴ (for I did not stand in awe of a great multitude, so as not to declare boldly before them:) and if I also permitted a poor man to go out of my door with an empty bosom — 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: ³⁸ If at any time the land groaned against me, and if its furrows mourned together; ³⁹ and if I ate its strength alone without price, and if I too grieved the heart of the owner of the soil, by taking from him, ⁴⁰ then let the thistles come up to me instead of wheat, and a bramble instead of barley. And Job ceased speaking.

^{2 (6:3)} that the sons of God, having seen the daughters of men, that they were beautiful, took to themselves wives of all whom they chose.

² And it came to pass toward evening, that David arose off his couch, and walked on the roof of the king's house, and saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. ³ And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba the daughter of Eliab, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? ⁴ And David sent messengers, and took her, and went in to her, and he lay with her. And she was purified from her uncleanness, and returned to her house.

³⁷ Turn away my eyes that I may not behold vanity; revive me in Your way.

²⁵ Let your eyes look right on, and let your eyelids assent to just things.

²⁵ Let not the desire of beauty overcome you, neither be caught by her eyes, or captivated with her eyelids.

³¹ For if you should set your eyes on bowls and cups, you shall afterwards go more naked than a pestle. ³² But at last such a one stretches himself out as one smitten by a serpent, and venom is diffused through him as by a horned serpent. ³³ Whenever your eyes shall behold a strange woman, then your mouth shall speak perverse things.

²⁸ But I say to you, that whoever looks at a woman in order to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. ²⁹ If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is better for you that one of your members be lost, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.

¹⁴ But each one is tempted by his own lusts, being drawn away and being seduced by them. ¹⁵ Then lust, when it conceives, gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.

¹⁶ Because everything that is in the world--the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life--is not from the Father but is from the world.

²⁹ This is the portion of an ungodly man from the Lord, and the possession of his goods appointed him by the all-seeing God.

¹³ This is the portion of an ungodly man from the Lord, and the possession of oppressors shall come upon them from the Almighty.

⁴ Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

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

²² Neither shall there be a place for the workers of iniquity to hide themselves.

²³ But You, O God, shall bring them down to the pit of destruction; bloody and crafty men shall not live out half their days; but I will hope in You, O Lord.

¹⁸ Surely You have appointed judgments to them because of their crafty dealings; You have cast them down when they were lifted up.

²⁷ yea when dismay suddenly comes upon you, and your overthrow shall arrive like a tempest; and when tribulation and distress shall come upon you, or when ruin shall come upon you.

²⁹ The fear of the Lord is a stronghold of the saints, but ruin comes to them that work wickedness.

¹⁵ It is the joy of the righteous to do judgment, but a holy man is abominable with evildoers.

²¹ The Lord shall rise up as against a mountain of ungodly men, and shall be in the valley of Gibeon; He shall perform His works with wrath, even a work of bitterness, and His wrath shall deal strangely, and His destruction shall be strange.

¹³ "Enter in through the narrow gate; because wide is the gate, and broad is the way which leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in through it.

²² But what if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make known His power, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath having been prepared for destruction,

³ For when they say, "Peace and safety!" then sudden destruction comes upon them, just as labor pains upon the woman that is pregnant, and they shall by no means escape.

⁹ These shall pay a penalty--eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His might,

¹ But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master, the One having bought them, and bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

⁷ as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to fornication and having gone after other flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

¹³ And she called the name of the Lord God who spoke to her, You are the God who sees; for she said, For I have openly seen Him that appeared to me.

⁹ For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout all the earth, to strengthen every heart that is perfect toward Him. In this you have done foolishly; henceforth there shall be war with you.

¹⁶ But You have numbered my devices: and not one of my sins shall escape You.

²¹ For He surveys the works of men, and nothing of what they do has escaped Him.

²¹ for He knows the secrets of the heart.

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.

²¹ For the ways of a man are before the eyes of God, and He looks on all his paths.

³ The eyes of the Lord behold both the evil and the good in every place.

¹⁷ For My eyes are upon all their ways; and their iniquities have not been hidden from My eyes.

¹⁹ the Lord of great counsel, and mighty in deeds, the Great Almighty God, and Lord of great name. Your eyes are upon the ways of the children of men, to give to everyone according to his way;

⁴⁸ Nathanael said to Him, "From where do You know me?" Jesus answered and said to him, "Before Philip called you, while you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

¹³ And there is no creature hidden before Him, but all things are naked and open to His eyes, to whom we must give an account.

² O you sons of men, how long will you be slow to hear? Why do you love vanity, and seek falsehood? Pause.

³ O Lord my God, if I have done this; (if there is unrighteousness in my hands) ⁴ if I have requited with evil those who requited me with good; may I then perish empty by means of my enemies. ⁵ Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; and let him trample my life on the ground, and lay my glory in the dust. Pause.

² Everyone has spoken vanity to his neighbor: their lips are deceitful, they have spoken with a double heart.

²⁰ If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread out our hands to a strange god; shall not God search these things out? ²¹ for He knows the secrets of the heart.

¹¹ He that tills his own land shall be satisfied with bread; but they that pursue vanities are void of understanding. ^(12:11A) He that enjoys himself in banquets of wine, shall leave dishonor in his own strongholds.

⁵ Thus says the Lord, What trespass have your fathers found in Me, that they have revolted far from Me, and gone after vanities, and have become vain?

⁸ And therefore say, Thus says the Lord: Because your words are false, and your prophecies are vain, therefore behold, I am against you, says the Lord.

¹¹ you have fled, no one pursues you: your spirit has framed falsehood, it has dropped on you for wine and strong drink. But it shall come to pass, that out of the dropping of this people,

²² God, even God is the Lord, and even God Himself knows, and Israel shall know; if we have transgressed before the Lord by apostasy, let Him not deliver us this day.

³ Boast not, and utter not high things; let not high sounding words come out of your mouth, for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and God prepares His own designs.

² Oh that one would indeed weigh the wrath that is upon me, and take up my grief in a balance together!

⁵ Far be it from me that I should justify you till I die! For I will not let go my innocence, 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.

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

⁸ The Lord shall judge the nations: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to my innocence that is in me. ⁹ Oh let the wickedness of sinners come to an end; and then You shall direct the righteous, O God that searches the hearts and minds.

² Let my judgment come forth from Your presence; let my eyes behold righteousness. 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.

¹ A Psalm of David. Judge me, O Lord; for I have walked in my innocence; and hoping in the Lord I shall not be moved.

²³ Prove me, O God, and know my heart; examine me, and know my paths;

¹¹ The poise of the balance is righteousness with the Lord, and his works are righteous measures.

⁷ The way of the godly is made straight; the way of the godly is also prepared.

²⁷ Tekel; it has been weighed in the balance, and found wanting.

¹¹ Shall the wicked be justified by the balanced, or deceitful weights in the bag,

²³ "And then I will confess to them, 'I never knew you! Depart from Me, you who work iniquity!'

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."

³⁹ And it shall be on your fringes, and you shall look on them, and you shall remember all the commands of the Lord, and do them. And you shall not turn back after your imaginations, and after the sight of your eyes in the things after which you go a whoring,

³⁰ For if I should wash myself with snow, and purge myself with pure hands,

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,

³ I have not set before my eyes any unlawful thing; I have hated transgressors.

⁹ Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart blameless, but not in the sight of your eyes: yet know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

¹⁵ He that walks in righteousness, speaking rightly, hating transgression and iniquity, and shaking his hands from gifts, stopping his ears that he should not hear the judgment of blood, shutting his eyes that he should not see injustice.

⁹ then those of you that escape among the nations where they were carried captive shall remember Me; (I have sworn an oath against their heart that goes a-whoring from Me, and their eyes that go a-whoring after their practices) and they shall mourn over themselves for all their abominations.

³ Son of man, these men have conceived their devices in their hearts, and have set before their faces the punishment of their iniquities: shall I indeed answer them?

⁷ For any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, who shall separate himself from Me, and conceive his imaginations in his heart, and set before his face the punishment of his iniquity, and come to the prophet to inquire of him concerning Me; I the Lord will answer him, according to the things in which he is entangled.

²⁹ If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is better for you that one of your members be lost, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.

¹⁶ then will I do thus to you: I will even bring upon you perplexity and the itch, and the fever that causes your eyes to waste away, and disease that consumes your life; and you shall sow your seeds in vain, and your enemies shall eat them.

³⁰ You shall take a wife, and another man shall have her; you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes of it. ³¹ Your calf shall be slain before you, and you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be violently taken away from you, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no helper. ³² Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another nation, and your eyes, wasting away, shall look for them; your hand shall have no strength. ³³ A nation which you know not shall eat the produce of your land, and all your labors; and you shall be perpetually injured and crushed.

³⁸ You shall carry forth much seed into the field, and you shall bring in little, because the locust shall devour it.

⁵¹ And it shall eat up the young of your livestock, and the fruits of your land, so as not to leave to you grain, wine, oil, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep, until it has destroyed you;

³ And it came to pass when the children of Israel sowed, that Midian and Amalek went up, and the children of the east went up together with them. ⁴ And they encamped against them, and destroyed their fruits until they came to Gaza; and they left not the support of life in the land of Israel, not even ox or donkey among the herds. ⁵ For they and their stock came up, and their tents were with them, as the locust in multitude, and there was no number to them and their camels; and they came to the land of Israel, and laid it waste. ⁶ And Israel was greatly impoverished because of Midian.

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. ⁵ For what they have collected, the just shall eat; but they shall not be delivered out of calamities — let their strength be utterly exhausted.

³⁰ And he shall by no means escape the darkness: let the wind blast his blossom, and let his flower fall off.

¹⁹ He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.

¹⁸ He has labored unprofitably and in vain, for wealth of which he shall not taste: it is as a lean thing, unfit for food, which he cannot swallow.

⁶ They have reaped a field that was not their own before the time; the poor have labored in the vineyards of the ungodly without pay and without food.

¹³ Let his children be given up to utter destruction; in one generation let his name be blotted out.

¹⁵ You shall sow, but you shall not reap; you shall press the olive, but you shall not anoint yourself with oil; and shall make wine, but you shall drink no wine: and the ordinances of My people shall be utterly abolished.

⁵ And the princes of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Beguile him, and see where his great strength is, and by what means we may prevail against him, and bind him to humble him; and we will give you each eleven hundred pieces of silver.

⁴ And it came to pass in the time of Solomon's old age, that his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.

²⁶ Did not Solomon king of Israel sin thus? Yet there was no king like him among many nations, and he was beloved of God, and God made him king over all Israel; yet strange women turned him aside.

¹⁵ And the eye of the adulterer has watched for the darkness, saying, Eye shall not see me, and he puts a covering on his face. ¹⁶ In darkness he digs through houses; by day they conceal themselves securely; they know not the light.

¹⁶ to remove you far from the straight way, and to estrange you from a righteous purpose. My son, let not evil counsel overtake you, ¹⁷ of her who has forsaken the instruction of her youth, and has forgotten the covenant of God. ¹⁸ For she has fixed her house near death, and guided her wheels near Hades with the giants. ¹⁹ None that go by her shall return, neither shall they take hold of right paths, for they have not apprehended of the years of life.

³ for honey drops from the lips of a harlot, who for a season pleases your palate; ⁴ but afterwards you will find her more bitter than gall, and sharper than a two-edged sword. ⁵ For the feet of folly lead those who deal with her down to the grave with death, and her steps are not established. ⁶ For she goes not upon the paths of life; but her ways are slippery, and not easily known. ⁷ Now then my son, hear me, and make not my words of no effect. ⁸ Remove your way far from her; draw not near to the doors of her house: ⁹ lest you give away your life to others, and your substance to the merciless; ¹⁰ lest strangers be filled with your strength, and your labors come into the houses of strangers; ¹¹ And you repent at last, when the flesh of your body is consumed, ¹² and you shall say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart avoided reproofs! ¹³ I heard not the voice of him that instructed me, and taught me, neither did I incline my ear. ¹⁴ I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. ¹⁵ Drink waters out of your own vessels, and out of your own springing wells. ¹⁶ Let not waters out of your fountain be spilled by you, but let your waters go into your streets. ¹⁷ Let them be yours alone, and let no stranger partake with you. ¹⁸ Let your fountain of water be truly your own, and rejoice with the wife of your youth. ¹⁹ Let your loving deer and your graceful colt company with you, and let her be considered your own, and be with you at all times, for ravished with her love you shall be greatly increased. ²⁰ Be not intimate with a strange woman, neither fold yourself in the arms of a woman not your own. ²¹ For the ways of a man are before the eyes of God, and He looks on all his paths. ²² Iniquities ensnare a man, and everyone is bound in the chains of his own sins. ²³ Such a man dies with the uninstructed, and he is cast forth from the abundance of his own substance, and has perished through folly.

²¹ So with much conversation she prevailed on him to go astray, and with the snares of her lips forced him from the right path.

¹⁴ The mouth of a transgressor is a deep pit, and he that is hated of the Lord shall fall into it. ^(22:14A) Evil ways are before a man, and he does not like to turn away from them, but it is needful to turn aside from a perverse and bad way.

²⁶ And I find her to be, and I will pronounce to be more bitter than death, the woman which is a snare, and her heart nets, who has a band in her hands. He that is good in the sight of God shall be delivered from her; but the sinner shall be caught by her.

⁸ They became as wanton horses — each one neighed after his neighbor's wife.

⁴ They are all adulterers, as an oven glowing with flame for hot baking, on account of the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.

⁵ And every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sits on the throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant that is by the mill, and to the firstborn of all cattle.

³⁰ You shall take a wife, and another man shall have her; you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes of it.

¹¹ Thus says the Lord: Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house, and I will take your wives from before your eyes, and will give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in broad daylight.

² Take a millstone, grind meal; remove your veil, uncover your white hairs, make bare the leg, pass through the rivers.

¹⁰ Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to new inheritors; and they shall gather their fruits, says the Lord.

¹³ They have sacrificed on the tops of the mountains, and on the hills they have sacrificed under the oak and poplar, and under the shady tree, because the shade was good: therefore your daughters shall go a-whoring, and your daughters-in-law shall commit adultery. ¹⁴ And I will not visit upon your daughters when they shall commit fornication, nor your daughters-in-law when they shall commit adultery: for they themselves mingled themselves with harlots, and sacrificed with polluted ones, and the people that understood not entangled itself with a harlot.

⁴¹ Two will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken, and one will be left.

⁹ And Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, What is this that you have done to us? Have we sinned against you, that you have brought upon me and upon my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me a deed, which no one ought to do.

¹⁰ And Abimelech said to him, Why have you done this to us? One of my kindred might soon have lain with your wife, and you would have brought a sin of ignorance upon us.

²⁴ And it came to pass after three months, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar your daughter-in-law has grievously played the harlot, and behold she is with child by harlotry; and Judah said, Bring her out, and let her be burned.

⁹ and in this house there is nothing above me, nor has anything been kept back from me, but you, because you are his wife — how then shall I do this wicked thing, and sin against God?

¹⁴ You shall not commit adultery.

¹⁰ Whatever man shall commit adultery with the wife of a man, or whoever shall commit adultery with the wife of his neighbor, let them die the death, the adulterer and the adulteress.

²² And if a man be found lying with a woman married to a man, you shall kill them both, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; so shall you remove the wicked one out of Israel. ²³ And if there be a young woman espoused to a man, and a man should have found her in the city and have lain with her; ²⁴ you shall bring them both out to the gate of their city, and they shall be stoned with stones, and they shall die; the young woman, because she cried not in the city; and the man, because he humbled his neighbor's spouse: so shall you remove the evil one from yourselves.

²⁸ let this also then be reckoned to me as the greatest iniquity: for I should have lied against the Lord Most High.

²⁹ So is he that goes in to a married woman; he shall not be held guiltless, neither anyone that touches her. ³⁰ It is not to be wondered at if one should be caught stealing, for he steals that when hungry, he may satisfy his soul: ³¹ but if he should be caught, he shall repay sevenfold, and shall deliver himself by giving all his goods. ³² But the adulterer through lack of understanding procures destruction to his soul. ³³ He endures both pain and disgrace, and his reproach shall never be wiped off.

³⁸ And I will be avenged on you with the vengeance of an adulteress, and I will bring upon you blood of fury and jealousy.

²⁸ Let destruction bring his house to an end; let a day of wrath come upon him.

⁶ Hell is naked before Him, and destruction has no covering.

³³ The curse of God is in the houses of the ungodly, but the habitations of the just are blessed.

²⁷ Shall anyone bind fire in his bosom, and not burn his garments?

⁷ In what way shall I forgive you for these things? Your sons have forsaken Me, and sworn by them that are not gods. And I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and lodged in harlots' houses. ⁸ They became as wanton horses — each one neighed after his neighbor's wife. ⁹ Shall I not punish them for these things? Says the Lord: and shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

⁵ And I will draw near to you in judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the witches, and against the adulteresses, and against them that swear falsely by My name, and against them that keep back the hireling's wages, and them that oppress the widow, and afflict orphans, and that wrest the judgment of the stranger, and do not fear Me, says the Lord Almighty.

²⁰ And if a man beats his manservant or his maidservant with a rod, and the party dies under his hands, he shall be surely punished. ²¹ But if the servant continues to live a day or two, let not the master be punished; for he is his property.

²⁶ And if one strike the eye of his manservant, or the eye of his maidservant, and put it out, he shall let them go free for their eye's sake. ²⁷ And if he should strike out the tooth of his manservant, or the tooth of his maidservant, he shall send them away free for their tooth's sake.

⁴³ You shall not oppress him with labor, and shall fear the Lord your God.

⁴⁶ And you shall distribute them to your children after you, and they shall be to you permanent possessions forever. But of your brothers the children of Israel, one shall not oppress his brother in labors.

¹² And if your brother or sister, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, are sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall send him out free from you. ¹³ And when you shall send him out free from you, you shall not send him out empty. ¹⁴ You shall give him provision for the way from your flock, and from your grain, and from your wine; as the Lord your God has blessed you, so you shall give to him. ¹⁵ And you shall remember that you also were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I charge you to do this thing.

¹⁴ You shall not unjustly withhold the wages of the poor and needy of your brothers, or of the strangers who are in your cities. ¹⁵ You shall pay him his wages the same day, the sun shall not go down upon it, because he is poor and he trusts in it; and he shall cry against you to the Lord, and it shall be sin to you.

¹⁴ When six years are accomplished, you shall set free your brother the Hebrew, who shall be sold to you; for he shall serve you six years, and then you shall let him go free. But they hearkened not to Me, and inclined not their ear. ¹⁵ And this day they turned to do that which was right in My sight, to proclaim everyone the release of his neighbor; and they had made a covenant before Me, in the house which is called by My name. ¹⁶ But you turned and profaned My name, to bring back everyone his servant, and everyone his handmaid, whom you had set free and at their own disposal, to be to you male and female slaves. ¹⁷ Therefore thus said the Lord: You have not hearkened to Me, to proclaim a release everyone to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim a release to you, to the sword, and to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will give you up to dispersion among all the kingdoms of the earth.

⁹ And masters, do the same things towards them, giving up threatening, knowing that your own Master is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him.

¹ Masters, provide to your bondservants what is just and fair, knowing that you also have a Master in the heavens.

³² For You are not a man like me, with whom I could contend, that we might come together to judgment.

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

⁶ Arise, O Lord, in Your wrath; be exalted in the utmost boundaries of my enemies: awake, O Lord my God, according to the decree which You did command.

¹² For He remembered them, in making inquisition for blood; He has not forgotten the supplication of the poor.

¹⁹ Arise, O Lord, let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged before You.

¹² Arise, O Lord God; let Your hand be lifted up: forget not the poor. ¹³ Why has the wicked provoked God? For he has said in his heart, He will not require it. ¹⁴ You see it; for You observe trouble and wrath, to deliver them into Your hands; the poor has been left to You; You are a helper to the orphan. ¹⁵ Break the arm of the sinner and wicked man: his sin shall be sought for, and shall not be found.

⁹ when God arose to judgment, to save all the meek in heart. Pause.

² And enter not into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight shall no man living be justified.

³ And what will they do in the day of visitation? For affliction shall come to you from afar; and to whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your glory,

⁷ The days of vengeance have come, the days of your recompense have come; and Israel shall be afflicted as the prophet that is mad, as a man deranged. By reason of the multitude of your iniquities your madness has abounded.

⁴ therefore I will take away their goods as a devouring moth, and as one who acts by a rigid rule in a day of visitation. Woe, woe, your times of vengeance have come; now shall be their lamentations.

¹³ Let all flesh fear before the Lord, for He has risen up from His holy clouds.

² Now when they saw some of His disciples eat bread with ceremonially unclean, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault.

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.

¹³ For judgment is without mercy to the one who does not show mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

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.

³ Is it good before You if I am unrighteous? For You have disowned the work of Your hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly.

⁸ Your hands have formed me and made me; afterwards You changed Your mind, and struck me. ⁹ Remember that You have made me as clay, and You turn me again into dust. ¹⁰ Have You not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese? ¹¹ And You clothed me with skin and flesh, and framed me with bones and sinews. ¹² And You bestowed upon me life and mercy, and Your oversight has preserved my spirit.

¹⁹ Such a one as would not reverence the face of an honorable man, neither knows how to give honor to the great, so as that their persons should be respected.

¹⁴ I will give You thanks; for You are fearfully wondrous; wondrous are Your works; and my soul knows it well. ¹⁵ My bones, which You made in secret, were not hidden from You, nor my substance, in the lowest parts of the earth. ¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unwrought substance, and all men shall be written in Your book; they shall be formed by day, though there should for a time be no one among them.

³¹ He that oppresses the needy provokes his Maker, but he that honors Him has pity upon the poor.

² The rich and the poor meet together, but the Lord made them both.

⁷ Break your bread to the hungry, and lead the unsheltered poor to your house; if you see one naked, clothe him, and you shall not disregard the relations of your own seed.

¹⁰ Have you not all one Father? Did not one God create you? Why have you forsaken every man his brother, to profane the covenant of your fathers?

⁷ And if there shall be in the midst of you a poor man from among your brothers, in one of your cities in the land, which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, neither shall you by any means close up your hand from your brother who is in need. ⁸ You shall surely open your hands to him, and shall lend to him as much as he wants according to his need. ⁹ Take heed to yourself that there be not a secret thing in your heart — an iniquity, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is approaching. And your eye shall be evil to your brother that is in need, and you shall not give to him, and he shall cry against you to the Lord, and there shall be great sin in you. ¹⁰ You shall surely give to him, and you shall lend to him as much as he wants, according as he is in need. And you shall not grudge in your heart as you give to him, because on this account the Lord your God will bless you in all your works, and in all things on which you shall lay your hand.

³² Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another nation, and your eyes, wasting away, shall look for them; your hand shall have no strength.

¹⁶ And let the weak have hope, but the mouth of the unjust be stopped.

¹⁹ For he has broken down the houses of many mighty men, and he has plundered a house, though he built it not.

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.

³ I am weary of crying, my throat has become hoarse; my eyes have failed by my waiting on my God.

⁹ He has dispersed abroad; he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn shall be exalted with honor.

⁸² My eyes failed from searching for Your word, saying, When will You comfort me?

¹²³ My eyes have failed for Your salvation, and for the word of Your righteousness.

¹⁴ As a swallow, so will I cry, and as a dove, so do I mourn; for my eyes have failed from looking to the height of heaven to the Lord, who has delivered me,

¹⁷ ( { τ}) PHE. While we yet lived our eyes failed, while we looked in vain for our help. ( { φ}) TSADE. We looked to a nation that could not save.

²¹ and longing to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. And even the dogs came and would lick his sores.

²⁹ Then the disciples, each according to his ability, determined as a ministry to send relief to the brothers dwelling in Judea;

¹⁰ only they desired that we should remember the poor, which indeed I made every effort to do this very thing.

¹¹ For the poor shall not fail off your land, therefore I charge you to do this thing, saying, You shall surely open your hands to your poor brother, and to him that is distressed upon your land.

¹⁴ You shall give him provision for the way from your flock, and from your grain, and from your wine; as the Lord your God has blessed you, so you shall give to him.

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.

⁷ Neither have you given water to the thirsty to drink, but have taken away the morsel of the hungry.

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.

⁷ and shall not oppress any man, but shall return the pledge of the debtor, and shall be guilty of no plunder, shall give his bread to the hungry, and clothe the naked;

¹⁶ and has not oppressed a man, and has not retained the pledge, nor committed robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has clothed the naked,

⁴¹ Nevertheless give what is inside as alms; and see, all things are clean to you.

²⁹ For some were thinking, since Judas had the money box, that Jesus was saying to him, "Buy the things of which we need for the feast," or that he should give something to the poor.

³² Now the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and one soul; neither did anyone say that any of the things belonging to him was his own, but they had all things in common.

¹³ sharing in the needs of the saints, pursuing hospitality.

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.

¹⁷ But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother having need, and shuts off his compassion towards him, how does the love of God abide in him?

¹⁵ And the men who were called by name rose up, and took hold of the prisoners, and clothed all the naked from the spoils, and gave them garments and shoes, and gave them food to eat, and oil to anoint themselves with, and they let everyone that was weak to ride on donkeys, and placed them in Jericho, the city of palm trees, with their brethren; and they returned to Samaria.

⁶ And you have taken the security of your brethren for nothing, and have taken away the clothing of the naked.

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

¹³ Let the blessing of the perishing one come upon me; yea, the mouth of the widow has blessed me.

³⁶ I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.'

⁴³ I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.'

¹¹ He answered and said to them, "He who has two shirts, let him give to him who has none; and he who has food, let him do likewise."

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.

¹⁶ and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," but you do not give them the necessary things of the body, what is the benefit?

¹⁸ My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

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.

¹¹ For the ear heard, and blessed me; and the eye saw me, and turned aside.

²⁷ Even because you attack the fatherless, and insult your friend.

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

⁹ They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, and have afflicted the outcast.

¹² For I saved the poor out of the hand of the oppressor, and helped the fatherless who had no helper.

¹⁰ Remove not the ancient landmarks, and enter not upon the possession of the fatherless; ¹¹ for the Lord is their redeemer; He is mighty, and will plead their cause with you.

²⁸ They have transgressed the rule of judgment; they have not judged the cause of the orphan, nor have they judged the cause of the widow.

⁷ In you they have reviled father and mother; and in you they have behaved unjustly toward the stranger; they have oppressed the orphan and widow.

¹ They meditated troubles, and wrought wickedness on their beds, and they put it in execution with the daylight; for they have not lifted up their hands to God. ² And they desired fields, and plundered orphans, and oppressed families, and spoiled a man and his house, even a man and his inheritance.

³ They prepare their hands for mischief, the prince asks a reward, and the judge speaks flattering words; it is the desire of their soul;

²² God, even God is the Lord, and even God Himself knows, and Israel shall know; if we have transgressed before the Lord by apostasy, let Him not deliver us this day. ²³ And if we have built to ourselves an altar, so as to apostatize from the Lord our God, so as to offer upon it a sacrifice of whole burnt offerings, so as to offer upon it a sacrifice of peace offering, the Lord shall require it.

¹⁰ then let my wife also please another, and let my children be brought low.

⁴⁰ then let the thistles come up to me instead of wheat, and a bramble instead of barley. And Job ceased speaking.

¹⁵ Have you removed light from the ungodly, and crushed the arm of the proud?

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.

¹¹ shall not His whirlpool sweep around you, and terror from Him fall upon you?

²³ If by any means he would fill his belly, let God send upon him the fury of wrath; let Him bring a torrent of pains upon him.

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

^{9 (40:4)} Have you an arm like the Lord's? Or can you thunder with a voice like His?

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 For You are to be feared; and who shall withstand You, because of Your anger?

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

⁶ Howl, for the day of the Lord is near, and destruction from God shall arrive.

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

¹¹ Knowing, therefore, the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but we have been made known to God. And I also hope to have been made known in your consciences.

¹ And Jacob heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying, Jacob has taken all that was our father's, and of our father's property has he gotten all this glory.

¹² lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built nice houses, and dwelt in them; ¹³ and your oxen and your sheep are multiplied to you, and your silver and your gold are multiplied to you, and all your possessions are multiplied to you, ¹⁴ that you should be exalted in your heart, and forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

⁶ They that trust in their strength, and boast themselves in the multitude of their wealth — ⁷ a brother does not redeem, shall a man redeem? He shall not give to God a ransom for himself,

¹⁷ For he shall take nothing when he dies; neither shall his glory descend with him.

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 Trust not in unrighteousness, and lust not after robberies. If wealth should flow in, set not your heart upon it.

¹⁵ The wealth of rich men is a strong city, but poverty is the ruin of the ungodly.

²⁸ He that trusts in wealth shall fall, but he that helps righteous men shall rise.

⁹ lest I be filled and become false, and say, Who sees me? Or be poor and steal, and swear vainly by the name of God.

²⁴ And the disciples were astonished at His words. But Jesus, answering again, says to them, "Children, how difficult it is for those who trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God! ²⁵ It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter into the kingdom of God."

¹⁵ And He said to them, "Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."

⁵ Therefore put to death your members on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all evils, of which some by aspiring have strayed away from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

¹⁷ Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to put their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who provides all things richly for us to enjoy,

¹⁷ Lest you should say in your heart, My strength, and the power of my own hand have worked for me this great wealth! ¹⁸ But you shall remember the Lord your God, that He gives you strength to get wealth; even that He may establish His covenant, which the Lord swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

¹¹ And he showed them his wealth, and the glory with which the king had invested him, and how he had caused him to take precedence and bear chief rule in the kingdom.

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

¹³ For he said, I will act in strength, and in the wisdom of my understanding I will remove the boundaries of nations, and will spoil their strength. ¹⁴ And I will shake the inhabited cities; and I will take with My hand all the world as a nest; and I will even take them as eggs that have been left; and there is none that shall escape Me, or contradict Me.

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

⁵ By your abundant knowledge and your traffic you have multiplied your power; your heart has been lifted up by your power.

³⁰ the king answered and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for a royal residence, by the might of my power, for the honor of my glory?

⁸ And Ephraim said, Nevertheless I am rich, I have found refreshment for myself. None of his labors shall be found available to him, by reason of the sins which he has committed.

¹⁶ Therefore will he sacrifice to his drag, and burn incense to his casting net, because by them he has made his portion fat, and his meats choice.

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid away for many years; relax; eat, drink, and be merry." '

¹⁹ "Now there was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen, enjoying himself splendidly every day.

²⁵ But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things, but now here he is comforted and you are suffering.

¹⁶ And God made two great lights, the greater light for regulating the day, and the lesser light for regulating the night; the stars also. ¹⁷ And God placed them in the firmament of the heaven, so as to shine upon the earth, ¹⁸ and to regulate day and night, and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

¹⁹ and lest having looked up to the sky, and having seen the sun and the moon and the stars, and all the heavenly bodies, you should go astray and worship them, and serve them, which the Lord your God has distributed to all the nations under heaven.

¹⁶ take heed to yourself that your heart be not puffed up, and you transgress, and serve other gods, and worship them;

³ and they should go and serve other gods, and worship them, the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which He commanded you not to do,

⁵ And he burned the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had appointed (and they burned incense in the high places and in the cities of Judah, and the places around about Jerusalem); and those that burned incense to Baal, and to the sun, and to the moon, and to Mazuroth, and to the whole host of heaven.

¹¹ And he burned the horses which the king of Judah had given to the sun in the entrance of the house of the Lord, by the treasury of Nathan the king's eunuch, in the suburbs; and he burned the chariot of the sun with fire.

³ For I will regard the heavens, the work of Your fingers; the moon and stars, which You have established. ⁴ What is man, that You are mindful of him? Or the son of man, that You visit him?

² and they shall spread them out to the sun, and the moon, and to all the stars, and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and to which they have held, and which they have worshipped. They shall not be mourned for, neither shall they be buried; but they shall be for an example on the face of the earth,

¹⁷ For we will surely perform every word that shall proceed out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour drink offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, and our kings and princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem. And so we were filled with bread, and were well, and saw no evils.

¹⁶ And He brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord, and at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty men, with their back parts toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces turned the opposite way; and these were worshipping the sun.

⁶ And if your brother by your father or mother, or your son, or daughter, or your wife in your bosom, or friend who is equal to your own soul, entreat you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known,

¹⁸ And you shall leave in Israel seven thousand men, all the knees which had not bowed themselves to Baal, and every mouth which had not worshipped him.

¹² Accept correction, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you should perish from the righteous way. Whenever His wrath shall be suddenly kindled, blessed are all they that trust in Him.

²⁰ Know that their heart is ashes, and they err, and no one is able to deliver his soul; see, you will not say, There is a lie in my right hand.

² And now they have sinned increasingly, and have made for themselves a molten image of their silver, according to the fashion of idols, the work of artificers accomplished for them. they say, Sacrifice men, for the calves have come to an end.

²¹ Because, having known God, they did not glorify Him as God, or give thanks, but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.

²⁸ And just as they did not approve to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do the things which are not fitting;

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?

² And if there should be found in any of your cities which the Lord your God gives you, a man or a woman who shall do that which is evil before the Lord your God, so as to transgress His covenant, ³ and they should go and serve other gods, and worship them, the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which He commanded you not to do, ⁴ and it be told you, and you shall have inquired diligently, and behold, the thing really took place, this abomination has been done in Israel; ⁵ then shall you bring out that man, or that woman, and you shall stone them with stones, and they shall die. ⁶ He shall die on the testimony of two or three witnesses; a man who is put to death shall not be put to death for one witness. ⁷ And the hand of the witnesses shall be upon him among the first to put him to death, and the hand of the people at the last; so shall you remove the evil one from among yourselves.

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.

²³ And now take away the strange gods that are among you, and set your heart right toward the Lord God of Israel.

²⁷ And Joshua said to the people, Behold, this stone shall be among you for a witness, for it has heard all the words that have been spoken to it by the Lord; for He has spoken to you this day; and this stone shall be among you for a witness in the last days, whenever you shall deal falsely with the Lord my God.

²⁷ And now I have not sinned against you, but you wronged me in preparing war against me: may the Lord, the Judge, render judgment this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.

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

⁷ for truth and reproof are from Him, and He would bring forth my judgment to an end.

¹¹ For the rage of anger is not to be controlled, in the case of defiling another man's wife.

⁶ And the heavens shall declare His righteousness; for God is Judge. Pause.

¹⁶ They profess to know God, but in their works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.

²³ to the general assembly and church of the firstborn having been enrolled in the heavens, to God the Judge of all, and to spirits of just men made perfect,

²³ Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either.

⁴ For certain men have crept in unawares, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, changing the grace of our God into licentiousness and denying the only Master God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹² And they lamented, and wept, and fasted till evening, for Saul and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Judah, and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

¹⁰ he that reported to me that Saul was dead, even he was as one bringing glad tidings before me. But I seized him and killed him in Ziklag, to whom I ought, as he thought, to have given a reward or his tidings. ¹¹ And now evil men have slain a righteous men in his house, and on his bed. Now then, I will require his blood from your hand, and I will destroy you from off the earth.

⁵ And King David came to Bahurim; and behold, there came out from there a man of the family of the house of Saul, and his name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came forth and cursed as he went, ⁶ and cast stones at David, and at all the servants of King David. And all the people and all the mighty men were on the right and left hand of the king. ⁷ And thus Shimei said when he cursed him, Go out, go out, you bloody man, and man of sin. ⁸ The Lord has returned upon you all the blood of the house of Saul, because you have reigned in his place; and the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son: and behold, you are taken in your mischief, because you are a bloody man.

¹³ But I, when they troubled me, put on sackcloth, and humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer shall return to my own bosom. ¹⁴ I behaved agreeably towards them as if it had been our neighbor or brother; I humbled myself as one mourning and sad of countenance.

²⁵ Let them not say in their hearts, Aha, aha, it is pleasing to our soul; neither let them say, We have devoured him. 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.

⁵ He that laughs at the poor provokes Him that made him, and he that rejoices at the destruction of another shall not be held guiltless; but he that has compassion shall find mercy.

¹⁷ If your enemy should fall, rejoice not over him, neither be elated at his overthrow. ¹⁸ For the Lord will see it, and it will not please Him, and He will turn away His wrath from him.

¹² And you should not have looked on the day of your brother in the day of strangers; nor should you have rejoiced against the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither should you have boasted in the day of their affliction.

⁴ And if you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall turn them back and restore them to him. ⁵ And if you see your enemy's donkey fallen under its burden, you shall not pass by it, but you shall help to raise it with him.

² Be not hasty with your mouth, and let not your heart be swift to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven above, and you are on earth; therefore let your words be few.

⁶ Do not allow your mouth to lead your flesh to sin; and say not in the presence of God, It was an error; lest God be angry at your voice, and destroy the works of your hands.

²² But I say to you that whoever gets angry with his brother without cause will be liable to the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, 'Empty-head!' will be liable to the council. But whoever says, ' fool!' will be liable to the fiery hell.

⁴³ "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and you shall hate your enemy.' ⁴⁴ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

³⁶ But I say to you, that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

¹⁴ Bless those that persecute you; bless and do not curse.

⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. Thus the tongue is set among our members, as that which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.

⁹ With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are created according to the likeness of God. ¹⁰ Out of the same mouth come blessings and curses. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

²² "Who committed no sin, nor was deceit found in His mouth"; ²³ who, being verbally abused, did not return verbal insults, when He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously;

⁹ not rendering evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called for this purpose, that you may inherit a blessing.

^{4 (24:5)} And the men of David said to him, Behold, this is the day of which the Lord spoke to you, that He would deliver your enemy into your hands; and you shall do to him as it is good in your sight. So David arose and cut off the skirt of Saul's garment secretly.

^{10 (24:11)} Behold, your eyes have seen this day how that the Lord has delivered you into my hands in the cave. And I would not kill you, but I spared you, and said, I will not lift up my hand against my master, for he is the Lord's anointed.

⁸ And Abishai said to David, The Lord has delivered your enemy into your hands this day, and now I will strike him to the earth with this spear, once for all, and I will not have to strike him again.

⁹ Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, Why does this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over now and take off his head! ¹⁰ And the king said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Let him alone, and so let him curse, for the Lord has told him to curse David: and who shall say, Why have you done thus?

²¹ But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the Lord's anointed? ²² And David said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you lie in wait against me this day? Today no man in Israel shall be put to death, for I know not this day if I reign over Israel.

²² Why do you persecute me as also the Lord does, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

² When evildoers drew near against me to eat up my flesh, my persecutors and my enemies, they fainted and fell.

²⁵ Let them not say in their hearts, Aha, aha, it is pleasing to our soul; neither let them say, We have devoured him.

¹¹ If they should exhort you, saying, Come with us, partake in blood, and let us unjustly hide the just man in the earth: ¹² and let us swallow him alive, as Hades would, and remove the memorial of him from the earth:

¹⁸ For they that are concerned in murder store up evils for themselves; and the overthrow of transgressors is evil.

¹⁵ And Johanan said to Gedaliah secretly in Mizpah, I will go now and kill Ishmael, and let no man know it; lest he kill you, and all the Jews that are gathered to you be dispersed, and the remnant of Judah perish. ¹⁶ But Gedaliah said to Johanan, Do not do this thing, for you speak lies concerning Ishmael.

² Who hate good, and seek evil; who tear their skins off them, and their flesh off their bones: ³ even as they devoured the flesh of My people, and stripped their skins off them, and broke their bones, and divided them as flesh for the caldron, and as meat for the pot,

⁵⁴ And when they saw this, James and John His disciples said, "Lord, do You wish that we should call down fire from heaven and consume them, as Elijah did?" ⁵⁵ But turning, He rebuked them, and said, "You do not know of what sort of spirit you are.

⁵⁰ And a certain one of them struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his right ear. ⁵¹ But Jesus answered and said, "Stop right there." And touching his ear, He healed him.

² Lo! My lords, turn aside to the house of your servant, and rest from your journey, and wash your feet, and having risen early in the morning you shall depart on your journey. And they said, No, but we will lodge in the street. ³ And he constrained them, and they turned aside to him, and they entered into his house, and he made a feast for them, and baked unleavened cakes for them, and they did eat.

¹⁵ And they turned aside there to go in to lodge in Gibeah. And they went in, and sat down in the street of the city, and there was no one would take them into his house to spend the night.

²⁰ And the old man said, Peace be unto you; however let all your needs be upon me, and by no means lodge in the street. ²¹ And he brought him into his house, and made room for his donkeys; and they washed their feet, and ate and drank.

¹⁷ And if I also ate my morsel alone, and did not impart of it to the orphan; ¹⁸ (for I nourished them as a father from my youth and guided them from my mother's womb.)

³⁵ for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in;

⁴⁰ "And the King will answer and say to them, 'Assuredly I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brothers, you did it to Me.'

⁴⁴ "Then they also will answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and we did not minister to You?' ⁴⁵ "Then He will answer them, saying, 'Assuredly I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, neither did you do it to Me.'

¹⁰ having a reputation for good works, if she has brought up children, if she has lodged strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.

² Do not forget hospitality, for through this some have unwittingly entertained angels.

⁹ Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.

^{7 (3:8)} And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they perceived that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves coverings to go around them. ^{8 (3:9)} And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day; and both Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of the Lord God in the midst of the trees of the garden.

^{12 (3:13)} And Adam said, The woman whom You gave to be with me — she gave me of the tree, and I ate.

¹¹ The people have sinned, and transgressed the covenant which I made with them; they have stolen from the accursed thing, and put it into their store.

¹³ He that covers his own ungodliness shall not prosper, but he that blames himself shall be loved.

⁷ But they are as a man transgressing a covenant.

⁸ And Peter answered her, "Tell me whether you sold the land for so much?" She said, "Yes, for so much."

⁸ If we claim that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us. ⁹ If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ¹⁰ If we claim that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.

² You shall not associate with the multitude for evil. You shall not join yourself with a multitude to turn aside with the majority so as to shut out judgment.

²⁷ And he said to them, Thus says the Lord God of Israel, Let every man put his sword on his thigh, and go through and return from gate to gate through the camp, and kill every man his brother, and every man his neighbor, and every man that is nearest to him.

¹⁴ Now the name of the smitten Israelite man, who was smitten with the Midianite woman, was Zambri son of Salmon, prince of a house of the tribe of Simeon. ¹⁵ And the name of the Midianite woman who was smitten, was Cozbi, daughter of Zur, a prince of the nation of Hommoth: it is a chief house among the people of Midian.

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,

⁴ And before this time Eliashib the priest dwelt in the treasury of the house of our God, connected with Tobiah; ⁵ and he made himself a great treasury, and there they were formerly in the habit of bestowing the offerings, and the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithe of the grain, and the wine, and the oil, the ordered portion of the Levites, and singers, and porters; and the firstfruits of the priests. ⁶ But in all this time I was not in Jerusalem; for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I came to the king, and after a certain time I made my request of the king; ⁷ and I came to Jerusalem, and I understood the evil which Eliashib had done in the case of Tobiah, in making for him a treasury in the court of the house of God. ⁸ And it appeared very evil to me; so I cast forth all the furniture of the house of Tobiah from the treasury.

²⁸ And Elishub the high priest, one of the sons of Joiada, son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite, I chased away from me.

¹¹ All the nations of the empire know, that whoever, man or woman, shall go in to the king into the inner court uncalled, that person cannot live. Only to whomsoever the king shall stretch out his golden scepter, he shall live; and I have not been called to go into the king, for these thirty days.

¹⁴ For if you shall refuse to heed on this occasion, help and protection will be to the Jews from another quarter; but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows if you have been made queen for this very occasion.

⁸ And you have accepted the persons of some; and you have established those that were already settled on the earth.

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.

²⁵ Those fearing and reverencing men unreasonably have been overthrown, but he that trusts in the Lord shall rejoice. Ungodliness causes a man to stumble, but he that trusts in his master shall be safe.

⁴ And they said to the king, Let that man be slain, for he weakens the hands of the fighting men that are left in the city, and the hands of all the people, speaking to them according to these words; for this man does not prophesy peace to this people, but evil. ⁵ Then the king said, Behold, he is in your hands. For the king could not resist them.

¹⁶ And the king swore to him, saying, As the Lord lives who gave us this soul, I will not slay you, neither will I give you into the hands of these men.

¹⁹ And the king said to Jeremiah, I consider the Jews that have gone over to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hands, and they mock me.

¹¹ Therefore because they have smitten the poor with their fists, and you have received of them choice gifts, you have built polished houses, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted desirable vineyards, but you shall not drink the wine of them. ¹² For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the just, taking bribes, and turning aside the judgment of the poor in the gates. ¹³ Therefore the prudent shall be silent at that time; for it is a time of evils.

²⁰ But the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowds that they should ask for Barabbas, but they should destroy Jesus. ²¹ The governor answered and said to them, "Which of the two do you wish me to release to you?" They said, "Barabbas!" ²² Pilate said to them, "What then shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?" They all said to him, "Let Him be crucified!" ²³ Then the governor said, "Why, what evil did He do?" But they cried out all the more, saying, "Let Him be crucified!" ²⁴ And Pilate, seeing that nothing was being gained, but rather a riot was starting, taking water, he washed his hands clean in front of the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this just Man. You see to it." ²⁵ And all the people answered and said, "His blood be on us and on our children." ²⁶ Then he released Barabbas to them; and having scourged Jesus, he delivered Him to be crucified.

¹⁶ Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer.

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

²¹ Withhold Your hand from me, and let not Your fear terrify me. ²² Then shall You call, and I will listen to You: or You shall speak, and I will give You an answer.

²⁴ Why do You hide Yourself from me, and regard me as Your enemy?

³ Who is this? Let him join hands with me.

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

¹¹ And He has dreadfully handled me in anger, and has counted me for an enemy.

²³ For oh that my words were written, and that they were recorded in a book forever, ²⁴ with an iron pen and lead, or engraved in the rocks!

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.

⁷ But on the contrary, let my enemies be as the overthrow of the ungodly, and they that rise up against me as the destruction of transgressors.

²⁸ I went mourning without restraint, and I have stood and cried out in the assembly.

⁶ You are formed out of the clay as I also: we have been formed out of the same substance.

¹⁰ Yet He has discovered a charge against me, and He has reckoned me as an adversary. ¹¹ And He has put my foot in the stocks, and has watched all my ways.

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 And after Elihu had ceased from speaking, the Lord spoke to Job through the whirlwind and clouds, saying, ² Who is this that hides counsel from Me, and confines words in his heart, and thinks to conceal them from Me? ³ Gird your loins like a man, and I will ask you, and you shall answer Me!

^{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.

²⁵ Make friends with your adversary quickly, while you are on the road with him, lest your adversary hand you over to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

¹² And you shall put the two stones on the shoulders of the ephod, for they are memorial stones for the children of Israel; and Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel before the Lord on his two shoulders, as a memorial for them.

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

²² And I will give him the glory of David; and he shall rule, and there shall be none to speak against him; and I will give him the key of the house of David upon his shoulder. And he shall open, and there shall be none to shut; and he shall shut, and there shall be none to open.

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.

¹ Therefore, my beloved and longed for brothers, my joy and crown, in this way stand fast in the Lord, beloved.

²⁸ And He said to him, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name; for you have prevailed with God, and shall be mighty with men.

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 if he would enter into judgment with Him, God would not listen to him, so that he should answer to one of His charges of a thousand.

¹⁵ Though the Mighty One should lay His hand upon me, forasmuch as He has begun, verily I will speak, and plead before Him.

²⁵ I chose out their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the midst of warriors, as one comforting mourners.

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.

¹² Who will understand his transgressions? Purge me from my secret sins.

¹² in whom we have the boldness and the access with confidence through faith in Him.

¹⁵ For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but having been tempted in all respects in quite the same way as we are, yet without sin. ¹⁶ Therefore let us come boldly to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

¹⁹ And in this we know that we are from the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him. ²⁰ Because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and He knows all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God.

²⁷ And let the heavens reveal his iniquities, and the earth rise up against him.

¹³ The rams of the flock are clothed with wool, and the valleys shall abound in grain; they shall cry aloud; yea, they shall sing hymns.

¹¹ For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beetle out of the timber shall speak.

⁴ Indeed, the wages of the laborers who reaped your fields, which were kept back by you, cry out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

¹² When you till the earth, then it shall not continue to give its strength to you: you shall be groaning and trembling on the earth.

¹³ And two men, sons of transgressors, came in, and sat opposite him, and bore witness against him, saying, You have 6blasphemed God and the king. And they led him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, and he died. ¹⁴ And they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth has been stoned, and is dead. ¹⁵ And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard it, that she said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, who would not sell it to you; for Naboth is not alive, for he is dead. ¹⁶ And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth the Jezreelite was dead, that he tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth. And it came to pass afterward, that Ahab arose and went down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

¹⁹ And you shall speak to him, saying, Thus says the Lord: Forasmuch as you have slain and taken possession, therefore thus says the Lord, In every place where the swine and the dogs have licked the blood of Naboth, there shall the dogs lick your blood; and the harlots shall wash themselves in your blood.

¹⁹ These are the ways of all that perform lawless deeds; for by ungodliness they destroy their own life.

²¹ For behold, the Lord is bringing wrath from His holy place on those that dwell upon the earth; the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall not cover her slain.

⁶ Behold, the princes of the house of Israel have conspired in you each one with his kindred, that they might shed blood.

¹² In you they have received gifts to shed blood; they have received in you interest and usurious increase; and by oppression you have brought your wickedness to the full, and have forgotten Me, says the Lord. ¹³ And if I shall smite My hand at your iniquities which you have accomplished, which you have wrought, and at your blood that has been shed in the midst of you,

^{17 (3:18)} And to Adam He said, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat of it — of that you have eaten, cursed is the ground in your labors, in pain shall you eat of it all the days of your life. ^{18 (3:19)} Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to you, and you shall eat the herb of the field.

²⁰ The hymns of David the son of Jesse are ended.

²³ And it shall come to pass in that day, for every place where there shall be a thousand vines at a thousand shekels, they shall become barren land and thorns.

⁹ Therefore, as I live, says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah; and Damascus shall be left as a heap of the threshing floor, and desolate forever: and the remnant of My people shall plunder them, and the remnant of My nations shall inherit them.

³ and hated Esau and laid waste his borders, and made his heritage as dwellings of the wilderness?