Job 37 Cross References - CAB

¹ At this also my heart is troubled, and moved out of its place. ² Hear a report by the anger of the Lord's wrath, and a discourse shall come out of His mouth. ³ His dominion is under the whole heaven, and His light is at the extremities of the earth. ⁴ After Him shall be a cry with a loud voice; He shall thunder with the voice of His excellency, yet He shall not cause men to pass away, for one shall hear His voice. ⁵ The Mighty One shall thunder wonderfully with His voice: for He has done great things which we knew not; ⁶ for He says to the snow, Fall on the earth, and the stormy rain, and the storm of the showers of His might. ⁷ He seals up the hand of every man, that every man may know his own weakness. ⁸ And the wild beasts come in under the covert, and rest in their lair. ⁹ Troubles come on out of the secret chambers, and cold from the mountain tops. ¹⁰ And from the breath of the Mighty One He will send frost; and He guides the water in whatever way He pleases. ¹¹ And if a cloud obscures what is precious to Him, His light will disperse the cloud. ¹² And He will carry round the encircling clouds by His governance, to perform their works: whatsoever He shall command them, ¹³ this has been appointed by Him on the earth, whether for correction, or for His land, or if He shall find him an object for mercy. ¹⁴ Listen to this, O Job: stand still, and be admonished of the power of the Lord. ¹⁵ We know that God has disposed His works, having made light out of darkness. ¹⁶ And He knows the divisions of the clouds, and the signal overthrows of the ungodly. ¹⁷ But your robe is warm, and there is quiet upon the land. ¹⁸ Will you establish with Him foundations for the ancient heavens? They are as strong as a cast iron mirror. ¹⁹ Therefore teach me what shall we say to Him? And let us cease from saying much. ²⁰ Have I a book or a scribe by me, that I may stand and put man to silence? ²¹ But the light is not visible to all: it shines afar off in the heavens, as that which is from Him in the clouds. ²² From the north come the clouds shining like gold: in these are the glory and honor of the Almighty; ²³ and we do not find another His equal in strength: as for Him that judges justly, do you not think that He listens? ²⁴ Therefore men shall fear Him, and the wise also in heart shall fear Him.

¹⁶ And it came to pass on the third day, as the morning drew nigh, there were voices and lightnings and a dark cloud on Mount Sinai. The voice of the trumpet sounded loud, and all the people in the camp trembled.

¹⁴ horror and trembling seized me, and caused all my bones greatly to shake.

⁶ For even when I remember, I am alarmed, and pains seize my flesh.

¹ And after Elihu had ceased from speaking, the Lord spoke to Job through the whirlwind and clouds, saying,

⁷ God is glorified in the council of the saints; great and terrible toward all that are round about Him.

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

²² Will you not fear Me? Says the Lord; and will you not fear before Me, who has set the sand as a boundary for the sea, as a perpetual ordinance, and it shall not pass it. Yes, it shall rage, but not prevail; and its waves shall roar, but not pass over it.

⁷ And I, Daniel alone saw the vision: and the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great amazement fell upon them, and they fled in fear. ⁸ So I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there was no strength left in me, and my glory was turned into corruption, and I retained no strength.

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

² And behold, a great earthquake occurred; for an angel of the Lord, having come down out of heaven, came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat on it. ³ And His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow. ⁴ And the guards were shaken for fear of him, and became like dead men.

²⁶ And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and all the bonds were loosed.

²⁹ And asking for a light he rushed in, and coming trembling, he fell before Paul and Silas,

¹⁶ And it came to pass on the third day, as the morning drew nigh, there were voices and lightnings and a dark cloud on Mount Sinai. The voice of the trumpet sounded loud, and all the people in the camp trembled. ¹⁷ And Moses led the people forth out of the camp to meet God, and they stood by under the camp. ¹⁸ Now Mount Sinai was altogether in smoke, because God had descended upon it in fire; and the smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the people were exceedingly amazed. ¹⁹ And the sounds of the trumpet were growing much louder. Moses spoke, and God answered him with a voice.

²⁹ And though one should understand the outspreadings of the clouds, or the measure of His tabernacle;

³³ The Lord will declare concerning this to His friend: but there is a portion also for unrighteousness.

⁵ The Mighty One shall thunder wonderfully with His voice: for He has done great things which we knew not;

³ The voice of the Lord is upon the waters; the God of glory has thundered; the Lord is upon many waters. ⁴ The voice of the Lord is mighty; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty. ⁵ The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars; the Lord will break the cedars of Lebanon. ⁶ And He will beat them small, even Lebanon itself, like a calf; and the beloved one is as a young unicorn. ⁷ The voice of the Lord divides the flames of fire. ⁸ The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness; the Lord will shake the wilderness of Kadesh. ⁹ The voice of the Lord strengthens the deer, and will uncover the thickets; and in His temple everyone speaks of His glory.

⁷ At Your rebuke they shall flee; at the voice of Your thunder they shall be alarmed.

¹³ to lay hold of the extremities of the earth, to cast out the ungodly out of it?

¹³ O God, Your way is in the sanctuary; who is a great God as our God?

⁴ His lightnings light the world; the earth saw, and trembled.

¹² And He shall lift up a standard for the nations, and He shall gather the lost ones of Israel, and He shall gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

²⁷ For as the lightning comes out from the east and flashes to the west, so shall also be the coming of the Son of Man.

¹⁹ Then the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of the covenant of the Lord appeared in His temple. And there were lightnings and voices and thunders, and great hail.

⁷ And in the abundance of Your glory You have broken the adversaries to pieces: You sent forth Your wrath, it devoured them as stubble. ⁸ And by the breath of Your anger the waters were parted; the waters were congealed as a wall, the waves were congealed in the midst of the sea.

²⁶ There is not any such as the God of the beloved; He who rides upon the heaven is your helper, and the Magnificent One of the firmament.

²⁷ And the drops of rain are numbered by Him, and shall be poured out in rain to form a cloud. ²⁸ The ancient heavens shall flow, and the clouds overshadow innumerable mortals: ^(36:28A) He has fixed a time to cattle, and they know the order of rest. ^(36:28B) Yet by all these things your understanding is not astonished, neither is your mind disturbed in your body. ²⁹ And though one should understand the outspreadings of the clouds, or the measure of His tabernacle; ³⁰ behold, He will stretch His bow against him, and He covers the bottom of the sea. ³¹ For by them He will judge the nations: He will give food to him that has strength. ³² He has hidden the light in His hands, and given charge concerning it to the interposing cloud. ³³ The Lord will declare concerning this to His friend: but there is a portion also for unrighteousness.

³³ Sing to God that rides on the heaven of heavens, eastward: lo, He will utter a mighty sound with His voice.

¹⁴ The Lord thundered out of heaven, and the Most High uttered His voice. ¹⁵ And He sent forth arrows, and scattered them, and He flashed lightning, and dismayed them.

⁹ who does great and untraceable things, glorious things also, and marvelous, of which there is no number:

¹⁰ Who does great and unsearchable things; glorious also and excellent things, innumerable.

⁷ Will you find out the traces of the Lord? Or have you come to the end of that which the Almighty has made?

¹⁴ Behold, these are parts of His way; and we will hearken to Him at the least intimation of His word: but who knows the strength of His thunder, when He shall employ it?

²⁶ Behold, the Mighty One is great, and we shall not know Him: the number of His years is infinite.

¹¹ All the things which He has made are beautiful in His time. He has also set the whole world in their heart, that man might not find out the work which God has done from the beginning, even to the end.

²¹ Will you not know? Will you not hear? Has it not been told to you of old? Have you not known the foundations of the earth? ²² It is He that comprehends the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants in it are as grasshoppers; He that set up the heaven as a chamber, and stretched it out as a tent to dwell in;

²⁸ And now, have you not known? Have you not heard? The eternal God, the God that formed the ends of the earth, shall not hunger, nor be weary, and there is no searching of His understanding.

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

³ And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: "Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty! Righteous and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!

¹⁰ And it came to pass after the seven days that the water of the flood came upon the earth. ¹¹ In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the abyss were broken up, and the flood gates of heaven were opened. ¹² And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

⁹ So all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. This was the ninth month. On the twentieth day of the month all the people sat down in the street of the house of the Lord, because of their alarm concerning the word, and because of the storm.

¹³ But the people are numerous, and the season is stormy, and there is no power to stand without, and the work is more than enough for one day or for two; for we have greatly sinned in this matter.

²⁷ And the drops of rain are numbered by Him, and shall be poured out in rain to form a cloud.

²² But have you gone to the treasures of snow? And have you seen the treasures of hail?

¹⁶ He gives snow like wool; He scatters the mist like ashes. ¹⁷ Casting forth His ice like morsels; who shall stand before His cold? ¹⁸ He shall send out His word, and melt them; He shall blow with His wind, and the waters shall flow.

⁸ Fire, hail, snow, ice, and stormy wind; the things that perform His word.

³ A bold man oppresses the poor by ungodly deeds. As an impetuous and profitable rain,

¹¹ Say to them that plaster it, It shall fall; and there shall be a flooding rain; and I will send great stones upon their joinings, and they shall fall; and there shall be a sweeping wind, and it shall be broken.

¹³ Therefore thus says the Lord: I will even cause to burst forth a sweeping blast with fury, and there shall be a flooding rain in My wrath; and in My fury I will bring on great hailstones for complete destruction.

⁶ It is He that builds His ascent up to the sky, and establishes His promise on the earth; who calls the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth; the Lord Almighty is His name.

²⁵ and the rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew and fell against that house; and it did not fall, for it had been founded upon the rock. ²⁶ And everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not do them, will be compared to a foolish man who built his house on the sand: ²⁷ and the rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And its fall was great."

¹² frustrating the counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not perform the truth:

⁷ Who commands the sun, and it rises not; and He seals up the stars.

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

²⁴ Remember that His works are great beyond those which men have attempted.

⁸ Come, and behold the works of the Lord, what wonders He has achieved on the earth.

⁹ and every man was alarmed, and they related the works of God, and understood His deeds.

⁴ For You, O Lord, have made me glad with Your work; and in the operations of Your hands will I rejoice.

²⁷ And let them know that this is Your hand, and that You, O Lord, have done it.

² The works of the Lord are great, sought out according to all His will.

¹⁷ And I beheld all the works of God, that a man shall not be able to discover the work which is done under the sun. Whatever things a man shall endeavor to seek, however a man may labor to seek it, yet he shall not find it. Moreover, though a wise man may speak of knowing it, he shall not be able to find it; for I applied all this to my heart, and my heart has seen all this.

¹² For they drink wine with harp, and psaltery, and drums, and pipes; but they regard not the works of the Lord, and consider not the works of His hands.

¹¹ O Lord, Your arm is exalted, yet they knew it not; but when they know they shall be ashamed; jealously shall seize upon an untaught nation, and now fire shall devour the adversaries.

⁴⁰ For they fear in their lairs, crouching, and lying in wait in the woods.

²² The sun arises, and they shall be gathered together, and shall lie down in their dens.

⁹ Who makes Pleias, and Hesperus, and Arcturus, and the chambers of the south.

³ Who covers His chambers with waters; who makes the clouds His chariot; who walks on the wings of the wind.

¹ The vision of the desert. As though a whirlwind should pass through the desert, coming from a desert, even from such a land,

¹⁴ And the Lord shall be over them, and His arrow shall go forth as lightning: and the Lord Almighty shall blow with the trumpet; and shall proceed with the tumult of His threatening.

²⁹ And out of whose womb comes the ice? And who has produced the frost in the sky, ³⁰ which descends like flowing water? Who has terrified the face of the ungodly?

⁴⁷ He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamores with frost.

²⁷ And the drops of rain are numbered by Him, and shall be poured out in rain to form a cloud. ²⁸ The ancient heavens shall flow, and the clouds overshadow innumerable mortals: ^(36:28A) He has fixed a time to cattle, and they know the order of rest. ^(36:28B) Yet by all these things your understanding is not astonished, neither is your mind disturbed in your body. ²⁹ And though one should understand the outspreadings of the clouds, or the measure of His tabernacle; ³⁰ behold, He will stretch His bow against him, and He covers the bottom of the sea.

³² He has hidden the light in His hands, and given charge concerning it to the interposing cloud.

⁴ For thus said the Lord to me, There shall be security in My city, as the light of noonday heat, and it shall be as a cloud of dew in the day of harvest.

⁵ While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!"

⁹ You have visited the earth, and saturated it; You have abundantly enriched it. The river of God is filled with water; You have prepared their food, for thus is the preparation of it. ¹⁰ Saturate her furrows, multiply her fruits; the crop springing up shall rejoice in its drops.

²⁴ How great are Your works, O Lord! In wisdom have You done them all; the earth is filled with Your creation.

²² Is there anyone among the idols of the Gentiles that can give rain? And will the sky yield His fullness at their bidding? Are not You He? We will even wait on You, O Lord, for You have made all these things.

²³ Rejoice then and be glad, you children of Zion, in the Lord your God; for He has given you food fully, and He will rain on you the early and the latter rain, as before.

⁷ Also I withheld from you the rain three months before the harvest, and I will rain upon one city, and on another city I will not rain; one part shall be rained upon, and the part on which I shall not rain shall be dried up.

¹⁷ Elijah was a man of similar nature to us, and with a prayer, he prayed earnestly for it not to rain, and it did not rain upon the land for three years and six months. ¹⁸ And again he prayed, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.

⁶ These men have power to shut heaven, so that no rain falls during the days of their prophecy; and they have authority over the waters to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they wish.

¹⁸ Behold, tomorrow at this hour I will rain a very great hail, such as has not been in Egypt from the time it was created until this day. ¹⁹ Now then hasten to gather your livestock, and all that you have in the fields, for all the men and the livestock, as many as shall be found in the fields, and shall not enter into a house, (but the hail shall fall upon them,) shall die. ²⁰ He who feared the word of the Lord among Pharaoh's servants gathered his cattle into the houses. ²¹ And he that did not attend in his mind to the word of the Lord left the cattle in the fields. ²² And the Lord said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward heaven, and there shall be hail on all the land of Egypt, both on the men and on the cattle, and on all the herbs on the land. ²³ And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail; and the fire ran along upon the ground, and the Lord rained hail on all the land of Egypt. ²⁴ So there was hail and flaming fire mingled with hail; and the hail was very great, such as was not in Egypt from the time there was a nation upon it. ²⁵ And the hail struck both man and beast in all the land of Egypt, and the hail struck all the grass in the field, and the hail broke in pieces all the trees in the field.

¹⁸ And Samuel called upon the Lord, and the Lord sent thunders and rain in that day. And all the people feared greatly the Lord and Samuel. ¹⁹ And all the people said to Samuel, Pray for your servants to the Lord your God, and let us not die; for we have added to all our sins this iniquity, in asking for us a king.

¹⁰ And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and fixed it for herself on the rock in the beginning of the barley harvest, until water dropped upon them out of heaven. And she did not allow the birds of the air to rest upon them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

¹⁴ And they buried the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son, and the bones of them that had been hanged, in the land of Benjamin in the hill, in the tomb of Kish his father; and they did all things that the king commanded. And after this God hearkened to the prayers of the land.

⁴⁵ And it came to pass in the meanwhile, that the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab wept, and went to Jezreel.

³¹ For by them He will judge the nations: He will give food to him that has strength.

⁶ for He says to the snow, Fall on the earth, and the stormy rain, and the storm of the showers of His might.

²⁶ to rain upon the land where there is no man, the wilderness, where there is not a man in it; so as to feed the untrodden and uninhabited land, ²⁷ and cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs?

³⁷ And who is he that numbers the clouds in wisdom, and has bowed the heaven down to the earth? ³⁸ For it is spread out as dusty earth, and I have cemented it as one hewn stone to another.

¹³ And Moses said to the people, Be of good courage: stand still and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will work for us this day; for as you have seen the Egyptians today, you shall see them again no more forever.

⁶ Hell is naked before Him, and destruction has no covering. ⁷ He stretches out the north wind upon nothing, and He hangs the earth upon nothing; ⁸ binding water in His clouds, and the cloud does not break under it. ⁹ He keeps back the face of His throne, stretching out His cloud upon it. ¹⁰ He has encompassed the face of the water by an appointed ordinance, until the end of light and darkness. ¹¹ The pillars of heaven are prostrate and astonished at His rebuke. ¹² He has calmed the sea with His might, and by His wisdom the whale has been overthrown. ¹³ And the barriers of heaven fear Him, and by a command He has slain the apostate dragon. ¹⁴ Behold, these are parts of His way; and we will hearken to Him at the least intimation of His word: but who knows the strength of His thunder, when He shall employ it?

¹⁰ Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.

⁵ And they shall speak of the glorious majesty of Your holiness, and recount Your wonders. ⁶ And they shall speak of the power of Your awesome acts; and recount of Your greatness.

¹⁰ Let all Your works, O Lord, give thanks to You; and let Your saints bless You. ¹¹ They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom, and talk of Your dominion; ¹² to make known to the sons of men Your power, and the glorious majesty of Your kingdom.

²⁰ But the Lord is in His holy temple: let all the earth fear before Him.

²⁴ For He surveys the whole earth under heaven, knowing the things in the earth; ²⁵ all that He has made; the weight of the winds, the measures of the water. ²⁶ When He made them, thus He saw and numbered them, and made a way for the pealing of the thunder. ²⁷ Then He saw it, and declared it: He prepared it, and traced it out.

¹³ And who is He that made the whole world under heaven, and all things therein?

³⁰ behold, He will stretch His bow against him, and He covers the bottom of the sea. ³¹ For by them He will judge the nations: He will give food to him that has strength. ³² He has hidden the light in His hands, and given charge concerning it to the interposing cloud.

¹¹ And if a cloud obscures what is precious to Him, His light will disperse the cloud.

⁴ Where were you when I founded the earth? Tell me now, if you have knowledge. ⁵ Who set the measures of it, if you know? Or who stretched a line upon it? ⁶ On what are its rings fastened? And who is He that laid the cornerstone upon it? ⁷ When the stars were made, all My angels praised Me with a loud voice. ⁸ And I shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed out, coming forth out its mother's womb. ⁹ And I made a cloud its clothing, and swathed it in mist. ¹⁰ And I set bounds to it, surrounding it with bars and gates. ¹¹ And I said to it, To this point you shall come, but you shall not go beyond, but your waves shall be confined within you. ¹² Or did I order the morning light in your time; and did the morning star then first see his appointed place; ¹³ to lay hold of the extremities of the earth, to cast out the ungodly out of it? ¹⁴ Or did you take the clay of the ground, and form a living creature with it, and set it with the power of speech upon the earth? ¹⁵ Have you removed light from the ungodly, and crushed the arm of the proud? ¹⁶ Or have you gone to the source of the sea, and walked in the tracks of the deep? ¹⁷ And do the gates of death open to you out of fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw you? ¹⁸ And have you been instructed in the breadth of the whole earth under heaven? Tell me now, what is the extent of it? ¹⁹ And in what land does the light dwell? And where is the place of darkness? ²⁰ If you could bring Me to their uttermost boundaries, and if also you know their paths; ²¹ I know then that you were born at that time, and the number of your years is great. ²² But have you gone to the treasures of snow? And have you seen the treasures of hail? ²³ And is there a store of them, for you against the time of your enemies, for the day of wars and battle? ²⁴ And from where proceeds the frost? Or where is the south wind dispersed over the whole world under heaven? ²⁵ And who prepared a course for the violent rain, and a way for the thunders; ²⁶ to rain upon the land where there is no man, the wilderness, where there is not a man in it; so as to feed the untrodden and uninhabited land, ²⁷ and cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs? ²⁸ Who is the rain's father? And who has generated the drops of dew? ²⁹ And out of whose womb comes the ice? And who has produced the frost in the sky, ³⁰ which descends like flowing water? Who has terrified the face of the ungodly? ³¹ And do you understand the band of Pleiades, and have you opened the barrier of Orion? ³² Or will you reveal Mazuroth in his season, and the evening star with his rays? Will you guide them? ³³ Do you know the changes of heaven, or the events which take place together under heaven? ³⁴ And will you call a cloud by your voice, and will it obey you with a violent shower of much rain? ³⁵ And will you send lightnings, and they shall go? And shall they say to you, What is your pleasure? ³⁶ And who has given to women skill in weaving, or knowledge of embroidery? ³⁷ And who is he that numbers the clouds in wisdom, and has bowed the heaven down to the earth? ³⁸ For it is spread out as dusty earth, and I have cemented it as one hewn stone to another. ³⁹ And will you hunt a prey for the lions? And satisfy the desires of the serpents? ⁴⁰ For they fear in their lairs, crouching, and lying in wait in the woods. ⁴¹ And who has prepared food for the raven? For its young ones wander and cry to the Lord, in search of food.

⁹⁰ Your truth endures to all generations; You have founded the earth, and it abides. ⁹¹ The day continues by Your arrangement; for all things are Your servants.

²⁶ Lift up your eyes on high, and see, who has displayed all these things? Even He that brings forth His host by number; He shall call them all by name by means of His great glory, and by the power of His might; nothing has escaped you.

⁸ binding water in His clouds, and the cloud does not break under it.

⁴ I will speak just things truly, and you shall not unjustly receive unjust words.

² who cover Yourself with light as with a garment; spreading out the heaven as a curtain. ³ Who covers His chambers with waters; who makes the clouds His chariot; who walks on the wings of the wind.

⁵ Great is our Lord, and great is His strength; and His understanding is infinite.

¹⁹ God by wisdom founded the earth, and by understanding He prepared the heavens. ²⁰ By His knowledge were the depths broken up, and the clouds dropped water.

²² It is He that comprehends the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants in it are as grasshoppers; He that set up the heaven as a chamber, and stretched it out as a tent to dwell in;

¹² It is the Lord that made the earth by His strength, who set up the world by His wisdom, and by His understanding stretched out the sky, ¹³ and set abundance of waters in the sky, and brought up clouds from the ends of the earth. He made lightnings for the rain, and brought forth light out of His treasures.

¹⁷ When it has melted at the approach of heat, it is not known what it was.

³¹ And do you understand the band of Pleiades, and have you opened the barrier of Orion?

¹⁸ He shall send out His word, and melt them; He shall blow with His wind, and the waters shall flow.

⁵⁵ And whenever you see the south wind blow, you say, 'There will be hot weather'; and it happens.

⁶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water, and let it be a division between water and water, and it was so. ⁷ And God made the firmament, and God divided between the water which was under the firmament and the water which was above the firmament. ⁸ And God called the firmament Heaven, and God saw that it was good, and there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

⁸ overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings.

⁸ Who alone has stretched out the heavens, and walks on the sea as on firm ground. ⁹ Who makes Pleias, and Hesperus, and Arcturus, and the chambers of the south.

² who cover Yourself with light as with a garment; spreading out the heaven as a curtain.

⁴ Praise Him, you heavens of heavens, and the water that is above the heavens. ⁵ Let them praise the name of the Lord; for He spoke, and they were made; He commanded, and they were created. ⁶ He has established them forever, even forever and ever; He has made an ordinance, and it shall not pass away.

¹ Alleluia. Praise God in His holy places; praise Him in the firmament of His power.

²⁷ When He prepared the heaven, I was present with Him; and when He prepared His throne upon the winds;

¹² Who has measured the water in His hand, and the heaven with a span, and all the earth in a handful? Who has weighed the mountains in scales, and the forests in a balance?

²⁴ Thus says the Lord that redeems you, and who formed you from the womb: I am the Lord that performs all things; I stretched out the heaven alone, and established the earth.

³ But I also have a heart as well as you.

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

⁶ But hear now the reasoning of my mouth, and attend to the judgment of my lips.

²⁰ Where then is wisdom found? And of what kind is the place of understanding? ²¹ It has escaped the notice of every man, and has been hidden from the birds of the sky.

² Who is this that hides counsel from Me, and confines words in his heart, and thinks to conceal them from Me?

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?

¹⁶ And I undertook to understand this, but it is too hard for me, ¹⁷ until I go into the sanctuary of God, and so understand the latter end.

²² But I was vile and knew not: I became brutish before You.

⁶ The knowledge of You is too wonderful for me; it is very difficult, I cannot attain to it.

² For I am the most simple of all men, and there is not in me the wisdom of men. ³ God has taught me wisdom, and I know the knowledge of the Holy One. ⁴ Who has gone up to heaven, and come down? Who has gathered the winds in His bosom? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has dominion of all the ends of the earth? What is His name? Or what is the name of His children?

¹² For now we see through a mirror by reflection, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

² Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.

³ And surely they would be heavier than the sand by the seashore: but, as it seems, my words are vain.

⁷ Will you find out the traces of the Lord? Or have you come to the end of that which the Almighty has made? ⁸ Heaven is high, and what will you do? And there are deeper things than those in hell; what do you know?

⁴ For there is no unrighteous word on my tongue: behold, O Lord, You have known all things,

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. ³⁷ For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned."

⁹ He keeps back the face of His throne, stretching out His cloud upon it.

²⁵ And who prepared a course for the violent rain, and a way for the thunders;

¹¹ Yours, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the might; for You are Lord of all things that are in heaven and upon the earth; before Your face every king and nation is troubled.

^{10 (40:5)} Assume now a lofty bearing and power; and clothe yourself with glory and honor.

⁴ The voice of the Lord is mighty; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

⁵ Come and behold the works of God; He is mighty in His counsels beyond the children of men,

⁷ O God, when You went forth before Your people, when You went through the wilderness; Pause: ⁸ the earth quaked; yea, the heavens dropped water at the presence of the God of Sinai, at the presence of the God of Israel.

¹² even to Him that is awesome, and that takes away the spirits of princes; to Him that is awesome among the kings of the earth.

¹ For the day before the Sabbath, when the land was first inhabited, the praise of a Song by David. The Lord reigns; He has clothed Himself with honor; the Lord has clothed and girded Himself with strength; for He has established the world, which shall not be moved.

¹ A Psalm of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, You are very great; You have clothed Yourself with praise and honor;

⁵ And they shall speak of the glorious majesty of Your holiness, and recount Your wonders.

²³ The north wind raises clouds; so an impudent face provokes the tongue.

¹⁰ Now therefore enter into the rocks, and hide yourselves in the earth, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of His might, when He shall arise to strike mightily the earth.

¹⁹ having carried them into the caves, and into the clefts of the rocks, and into the caverns of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of His might, when He shall arise to strike mightily the earth.

⁴ And the Lord shall stand, and see, and feed His flock with power, and they shall dwell in the glory of the name of the Lord their God: for now shall they be magnified to the ends of the earth.

³ The Lord is longsuffering, and His power is great, and the Lord will not hold any guiltless: His way is in destruction and in the whirlwind, and the clouds are the dust of His feet.

³ God shall come from Teman, and the Holy One from the dark shady Mount Paran. Pause. ⁴ His excellence covered the heavens, and the earth was full of His praise. And His brightness shall be as light; there were horns in His hands, and He caused a mighty love of His strength. ⁵ Before His face shall go a report, and it shall go forth into the plains, ⁶ the earth stood at His feet and trembled: He beheld, and the nations melted away: the mountains were violently burst through, the everlasting hills melted at His everlasting going forth. ⁷ Because of troubles I looked upon the tents of the Ethiopians: the tabernacles also of the land of Midian shall be dismayed. ⁸ Were You angry, O Lord, with the rivers? Or was Your wrath against the rivers, or Your anger against the sea? For You will mount on Your horses, and Your chariots are salvation. ⁹ Surely you bent your bow at scepters, says the Lord. Pause. The land of rivers shall be torn asunder. ¹⁰ The nations shall see You and be in pain, as You divided the moving waters: the deep uttered her voice, and raised her form on high. ¹¹ The sun was exalted, and the moon stood still in her course: Your darts shall go forth at the light, at the brightness of the gleaming of Your spear. ¹² You will bring low the land with threatening, and in wrath You will break down the nations. ¹³ You went forth for the salvation of Your people, to save Your anointed: You shall bring death on the heads of transgressors; You have brought bands upon their neck. Pause. ¹⁴ You thrust through the heads of princes with amazement, they shall tremble in it; they shall burst their bridles, they shall be as a poor man devouring in secret. ¹⁵ And You caused Your horses to enter the sea, disturbing much water. ¹⁶ I watched, and my belly trembled at the sound of the prayer of my lips, and trembling entered into my bones, and my frame was troubled within me; I will rest in the day of affliction, from going up to the people of my sojourning. ¹⁷ For though the fig tree shall bear no fruit, and there shall be no produce on the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall produce no food: the sheep have failed from the pasture, and there are no oxen at the cribs; ¹⁸ yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in God my Savior. ¹⁹ The Lord God is my strength, and He will perfectly strengthen my feet; He mounts me upon high places, that I may conquer by His song.

³ who being the effulgence of His glory and the exact expression of His substance, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

²⁹ For our God is a consuming fire.

²⁵ To the only wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.

³ Will the Lord be unjust when He judges; or will He that has made all things pervert justice?

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

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

¹³ With Him are wisdom and power, with Him counsel and understanding.

^{7 (16:8)} But now He has made me weary, and a worn out fool, and He has laid hold of me. ^{8 (16:9)} My falsehood has become a testimony, and has risen up against me: it has confronted me to my face. ^{9 (16:10)} In His anger He has cast me down; He has gnashed His teeth upon me: the weapons of His robbers have fallen upon me. ^{10 (16:11)} He has attacked me with the keen glances of His eyes; with His sharp spear He has struck me down upon my knees, and they have run upon me with one accord. ^{11 (16:12)} For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men, and thrown me upon the ungodly. ^{12 (16:13)} When I was at peace He distracted me: He took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: He set me up as a mark. ^{13 (16:14)} They surrounded me with spears, aiming at my reins: without sparing me they poured out my gall upon the ground. ^{14 (16:15)} They overthrew me with fall upon fall: they ran upon me in their might. ^{15 (16:16)} They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and my strength has been spent on the ground. ^{16 (16:17)} My belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on my eyelids. ^{17 (16:18)} Yet there was no injustice on my hands, and my prayer is pure.

⁵ But know that the Lord will not cast off an innocent man: being mighty in strength of wisdom,

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

⁵ For anger is in His wrath, but life in His favor; weeping shall tarry for the evening, but joy comes in the morning.

⁵ O Lord, Your mercy is in the heavens; and Your truth reaches to the clouds. ⁶ Your righteousness is as the mountains of God, Your judgments are as a great deep; O Lord, You will preserve men and beasts. ⁷ How have You multiplied Your mercy, O God! So the children of men shall trust in the shelter of Your wings.

¹¹ God has spoken once, and I have heard these two things, that power is of God;

⁶ who establish the mountains in Your strength, being girded about with power;

³ Say unto God, How awesome are Your works! Through the greatness of Your power Your enemies shall submit themselves to You.

⁴ And the king's honor loves judgment; You have prepared equity, You have established judgment and justice in Jacob.

⁶ who made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things in them; who keeps truth forever; ⁷ who executes judgment for the wronged: who gives food to the hungry. The Lord looses the fettered ones.

²¹ If they will declare, let them draw near, that they may know together, who has caused these things to be heard from the beginning; then was it told you. I am God, and there is not another beside Me; a just God and a Savior; there is none besides Me.

⁹ out of all their affliction; not an ambassador, nor a messenger, but He Himself saved them, because He loved them and spared them; He Himself redeemed them, and took them up, and lifted them up all the days of old.

³² ( { λ}) CHAPH. For He that has brought down will pity, and that according to the abundance of His mercy. ³³ He has not answered in anger from His heart, though He has brought low the children of a man.

²³ Shall I in any way desire the death of the sinner, says he Lord, as I desire that he should turn from his evil way, and live?

³² For I desire not the death of him that dies, says the Lord.

¹³ And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

²² And turning to His disciples He said, "All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him."

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

¹⁰ For they indeed for a few days were disciplining us, as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, in order to partake of His holiness.

¹³ who takes the wise in their wisdom, and subverts the counsel of the crafty.

⁴ For with You is forgiveness;

¹¹ I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, nor yet wealth to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of knowledge; for time and chance will happen to them all.

²¹ Woe to them that are wise in their own conceit, and knowing in their own sight.

³⁹ And I will give them another way, and another heart, to fear Me continually, and that for good to them and their children after them.

⁹ And it shall be for joy and praise, and for glory to all the people of the earth, who shall hear all the good that I will do. And they shall fear and be provoked for all the good things and for all the peace which I will bring upon them.

⁵ And afterward shall the children of Israel return, and shall seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall be amazed at the Lord and at His goodness in the latter days.

²⁸ And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both the soul and the body in hell.

²⁵ At that time Jesus answered and said, "I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them to babes. ²⁶ Yes, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight.

²¹ In that hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit and said, "I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to babes. Yes, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight."

⁴ "And I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have nothing further they can do. ⁵ But I will show you whom you should fear: fear Him who after He kills, has authority to cast into hell; yes, I say to you, fear Him!

⁴ Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, and forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

²⁰ Well said. By unbelief they were broken off, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear. ²¹ For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps He may not spare you either. ²² Behold then the kindness and severity of God: upon those that fell, severity; but upon you, kindness, if you continue in His kindness. Otherwise you also shall be cut off.

²⁶ For you see your calling, brothers, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many powerful, not many noble, are called.

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness";