Job 12 Cross References - EJ2000

¹ ¶ And Job answered and said, ² No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. ³ But I have a heart as well as you; I am not inferior to you; and who shall not be able to say as much again? ⁴ He who invokes God and he answers him is mocked by his friend; the just and perfect man is laughed to scorn. ⁵ The torch is held in low esteem in the thought of him that is prosperous, which was prepared to guard against a slip of the feet. ⁶ ¶ The tents of robbers are at ease, and those that provoke God and those who carry gods in their hands live secure. ⁷ But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the heavens, and they shall show thee; ⁸ or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; the fishes of the sea shall declare it unto thee also. ⁹ What thing of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD made them? ¹⁰ In his hand is the soul of every living thing and the spirit of all flesh of man. ¹¹ Certainly the ear proves words and the mouth tastes foods. ¹² ¶ With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days intelligence. ¹³ With him is wisdom and strength; he has counsel and intelligence. ¹⁴ Behold, he shall break down, and it shall not be built again; he shall shut up a man, and no one shall be able to open unto him. ¹⁵ Behold, he shall withhold the waters, and they shall dry up; also he shall send them forth, and they shall destroy the earth. ¹⁶ With him is strength and existence; he who errs and he who leads astray are his. ¹⁷ He causes the counsellors to walk away stripped of counsel and makes the judges to be fools. ¹⁸ He looses the bond of kings and girds their loins with a girdle. ¹⁹ He leads priests away spoiled and overthrows the mighty. ²⁰ He impedes the lips of those that speak the truth and takes away the counsel of the aged. ²¹ He pours contempt upon princes and weakens the strength of the mighty. ²² He uncovers the depths of the darkness and brings out to light the shadow of death. ²³ He multiplies the Gentiles and destroys them; he scatters the Gentiles and gathers them again. ²⁴ He takes away the heart of the heads of the people of the earth and causes them to become lost, wandering without a way. ²⁵ They grope in the darkness and not the light, and he causes them to err like drunken men.

⁷ And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

¹³ ¶ And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

¹⁷ And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, in which is the spirit of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

¹¹ ¶ In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of the heavens were opened.

¹¹ And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

⁷ And the sons of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly and multiplied and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

²⁰ Therefore God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and waxed very mighty.

² And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:

²⁴ And they laid it up until the morning as Moses bade; and it did not stink, neither was there any worm in it.

²² And they fell upon their faces and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?

¹⁷ and thou say in thy heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth. ¹⁸ But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God, for it is he that gives thee the power to get wealth that he may confirm his covenant which he swore unto thy fathers, as it is this day.

¹⁷ and then the LORD’s wrath be kindled against you and he shut up the heavens, that there be no rain and that the land yield not her fruit, and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD gives you.

²⁹ And thou shalt grope at noonday as the blind grope in the darkness, and thou shalt not be prospered in thy ways; and thou shalt only be oppressed and spoiled all the days, and there shall be no one to save thee.

³⁵ Vengeance and recompense are mine, in the time when their foot shall slide; for the day of their calamity is at hand and that which is determined upon them makes haste.

²⁴ And when they had brought those kings out unto Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel and said unto the captains of the men of war who went with him, Come near; put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near and put their feet upon the necks of them.

⁴² All these kings and their lands Joshua took at one time because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.

⁷ The LORD makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and lifts up.

⁴⁵ Then David said to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword and with a spear and with a shield, but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of the hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast dishonoured. ⁴⁶ This day the LORD will deliver thee into my hand, and I will smite thee and take thy head from thee, and I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the heaven and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

⁴⁶ This day the LORD will deliver thee into my hand, and I will smite thee and take thy head from thee, and I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the heaven and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

¹⁸ And thou hast showed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me; forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me into thy hand, thou didst not kill me.

⁸ Then Abishai said to David, God has delivered thy enemy into thy hand today; now, therefore, let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear and pin him to the earth at once, and I will not need a second opportunity.

³¹ ¶ And it was told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. Then David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into folly.

¹⁴ Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai, the Archite, is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had given orders to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.

²³ And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass and arose, and went home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order and hanged himself and died and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

³⁵ When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against thee, if they pray in this place and confess thy name and turn from their sin when thou hast afflicted them, ³⁶ then thou shalt hear in the heavens and forgive the sin of thy slaves and of thy people Israel, teaching them the good way in which they should walk and shalt give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.

¹ ¶ Then Elijah, the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

²³ And of Jezebel, the LORD has also spoken, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel. ²⁴ Him that dies of Ahab in the city, the dogs shall eat, and him that dies in the field, shall the fowls of the air eat.

²² And the LORD said unto him, In what manner? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also; go forth and do so. ²³ Now, therefore, behold, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD has decreed evil concerning thee.

¹² Then one of his slaves said, None, my lord, O king, but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.

²⁶ Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons, said the LORD, and I will requite thee in this portion, said the LORD. Now, therefore, take and cast him into the portion, according to the word of the LORD.

³⁴ And he entered in, and after he ate and drank, he said, Go, see now this cursed woman and bury her; for after all she is a king’s daughter. ³⁵ But when they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands. ³⁶ And they returned and told him. And he said, This is the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his slave Elijah, the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel. ³⁷ And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel so that no one shall be able to say, This is Jezebel.

¹¹ ¶ Therefore, the LORD brought upon them the princes of the host of the king of Assyria who took Manasseh and bound him with fetters of brass and carried him to Babylon. ¹² And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, ¹³ and when he prayed unto him, he was heard; for he heard his supplication and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God. ¹⁴ Now after this he built the wall outside the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, and at the entrance of the fish gate, and fenced Ophel and raised it up to a very great height and put captains of the army in all the fenced cities of Judah.

⁵ Let darkness and the shadow of death redeem it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

¹⁴ with the kings and the counsellors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves;

¹⁴ They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope in the noonday as in the night.

⁵ Does the wild ass bray when he has grass? Does the ox low over his fodder? ⁶ Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? ⁷ The things that my soul refused to touch before, now by my sorrow are my food.

²⁴ Teach me, and I will be silent; and cause me to understand in what I have erred. ²⁵ How forcible are the words of rectitude! But what does your argument reprove?

²⁹ Turn now, and there is no iniquity; return again to look for my righteousness in this. ³⁰ If there is iniquity in my tongue or if my taste cannot discern the torments.

⁸ ¶ Ask, I pray thee, of the former age, and be willing to enquire of thy fathers regarding them;

⁸ ¶ Ask, I pray thee, of the former age, and be willing to enquire of thy fathers regarding them; ⁹ for we are but of yesterday and know nothing because our days upon earth are as a shadow. ¹⁰ Shall they not teach thee and tell thee and utter these words out of their heart?

⁴ He is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has hardened himself against him and remained in peace?

¹² Behold, he shall take away, who can cause him to restore? Who shall say unto him, What doest thou? ¹³ God will not withdraw his anger, and under him those who help, unto pride are bent over.

²⁴ The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he who does this then, who is it and where is he?

² Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be justified? ³ Should thy lies make men be silent? Shalt thou mock, and shall no man make thee ashamed?

⁶ and that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom! For thou dost deserve double according to sound wisdom; and thou dost know that God has forgotten thee because of thine iniquity.

¹⁰ If he cuts off, or shuts up, or gathers together, then who can hinder him?

¹² The vain man shall make himself understood, though man is born like a wild ass’s colt.

³ But I have a heart as well as you; I am not inferior to you; and who shall not be able to say as much again?

¹⁰ In his hand is the soul of every living thing and the spirit of all flesh of man.

¹³ With him is wisdom and strength; he has counsel and intelligence.

¹⁶ With him is strength and existence; he who errs and he who leads astray are his.

²⁰ He impedes the lips of those that speak the truth and takes away the counsel of the aged.

²⁴ He takes away the heart of the heads of the people of the earth and causes them to become lost, wandering without a way.

² As you know it, I know it; I am not inferior unto you. ³ But I would speak with the Almighty, and I desired to dispute with God. ⁴ That ye are certainly forgers of lies; ye are all physicians of no value. ⁵ O that ye would altogether be silent! And it would be unto you instead of wisdom.

⁷ Are ye to speak iniquity for God? Are ye to speak deceitfully for him?

⁹ Would it be good for him to search you out? As one man mocks another, do ye so mock him?

² Should a wise man utter vain knowledge and fill his belly with the east wind?

¹⁰ Among us are also gray hairs; there are also aged men, much elder than thy father.

⁴ I also could speak as ye do. I wish your soul were in my soul’s stead, that I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

¹⁰ They have opened their mouth against me; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. ¹¹ God has delivered me unto the liar, and in the hands of the wicked he has caused me to tremble.

²⁰ Those who dispute with me are my friends, but my eyes shall pour out tears unto God.

² Now there are only mockers with me, upon whose bitterness my eye continues to gaze.

⁴ For with these, thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore, thou shalt not exalt them.

⁶ He has made me a byword of the peoples; and before them I have been as a tambourine.

¹⁰ ¶ But return all of you, and come now; for I shall not find one that is wise among you.

⁵ ¶ The light of the wicked shall certainly be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

¹⁰ He has pulled me up on every side, and I am dried up; he has caused my hope to pass like an uprooted tree.

³ I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my intelligence causes me to answer.

³ Suffer me that I may speak; and after I have spoken, mock on.

⁷ ¶ Why do the wicked live and become old and even increase in riches? ⁸ Their seed is with them, established in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses are safe from fear; neither is the rod of God upon them. ¹⁰ Their cows conceive, and do not abort; their cows calve and do not cast forth their young. ¹¹ They send forth their little ones like a flock of sheep, and their children dance. ¹² They jump at the sound of the timbrel and harp and rejoice at the sound of the organ. ¹³ They spend their days in pleasure and in a moment go down to Sheol. ¹⁴ Therefore, they say unto God, Depart from us; for we do not desire the knowledge of thy ways. ¹⁵ Who is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what profit should we have if we pray unto him?

²⁹ Have ye not asked those that go by the way, and do ye not know their tokens? ³⁰ That the wicked is reserved for the day of destruction, they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

¹⁸ He had filled their houses with good things. Therefore, the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

¹⁷ For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if they are known, the terrors of the shadow of death come over them.

²² He furthered the violent with his power; he did not lend to anyone in his life.

² How hast thou helped the one who has no power? Hast thou saved with thy arm the one who has no strength? ³ How hast thou counselled the one that has no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

³ that all the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,

²⁰ ¶ Where then does wisdom come from? And where is the place of understanding?

²⁰ ¶ Where then does wisdom come from? And where is the place of understanding? ²¹ Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living and kept concealed from every fowl of the heaven.

²¹ Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living and kept concealed from every fowl of the heaven. ²² Hell and death say, We have heard its fame with our ears.

²² Hell and death say, We have heard its fame with our ears. ²³ God understands its way, and he alone knows its place.

²³ God understands its way, and he alone knows its place. ²⁴ For he looks unto the ends of the earth and sees under the whole heaven, ²⁵ To make a weight for the wind and to supply water by measure, ²⁶ when he made a law for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunders. ²⁷ Then he saw it and counted it; he prepared it and also searched it out. ²⁸ And unto man he said, Behold, that the fear of the Lord, is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

¹ ¶ But now those that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

⁶ ¶ And Elihu, the son of Barachel, the Buzite, answered and said, I am younger, and ye are older; therefore, I was afraid, and I feared to declare unto you my opinion. ⁷ I said, Days shall speak, and the multitude of years shall declare wisdom.

⁷ I said, Days shall speak, and the multitude of years shall declare wisdom.

⁷ I said, Days shall speak, and the multitude of years shall declare wisdom. ⁸ Certainly there is a spirit in man, and the inspiration of the Almighty gives them understanding.

⁸ Certainly there is a spirit in man, and the inspiration of the Almighty gives them understanding. ⁹ Great men are not always wise; neither do the aged understand judgment.

⁹ Great men are not always wise; neither do the aged understand judgment.

⁹ Great men are not always wise; neither do the aged understand judgment. ¹⁰ Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will declare my knowledge. ¹¹ Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your arguments, while ye searched out what to say. ¹² Even so, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you to reprove Job or to answer his words. ¹³ Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom; it is needful that God thrust him down, and not man.

⁴ The Spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life.

³ For the ear tries words, as the mouth tastes food.

¹⁴ If he were to set his heart upon man and gather unto himself his spirit and his breath, ¹⁵ all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again unto dust.

²² There is no darkness nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

²⁸ so that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he hears the cry of the afflicted.

⁹ ¶ By reason of the great violence they shall call out; they cry out because of the strength of the many.

⁵ ¶ Behold, God is mighty and does not despise; he is mighty in virtue of heart.

⁷ He seals up the hand of every man that all men may know his work.

³⁶ Who put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who gave intelligence to understanding?

¹⁷ because God caused her to forget wisdom and did not give her understanding.

⁵ Sustain my steps in thy ways that my footsteps not slip.

¹⁴ from men, with thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, who have their portion in this life and whose belly thou dost fill with thy provision: they satisfy their sons and leave the rest to their family.

⁷ All those that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, ⁸ Turn him over to the LORD, let him deliver him, let him save him, seeing he delighted in him.

¹⁶ With immature hypocritical mockers, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

¹ A Psalm of David. ¶ Aleph Do not be angry with the evildoers, neither be thou envious of the workers of iniquity.

³⁵ Resh I have seen the wicked in great power and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

²¹ shall not God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

¹¹ And they say, How does God know? and is there knowledge in the most High? ¹² Behold, these ungodly men, without being troubled by the world obtain riches.

¹⁵ He shall call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and glorify him.

¹⁸ When I said, My foot slips, thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.

⁷ At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away. ⁸ The mountains were exposed; they descended through the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. ⁹ Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over, that they not turn again to cover the earth.

²⁹ Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; thou takest away their spirit, they cease to exist and return to their dust.

⁴ They wandered lost in the wilderness, alone and out of the way; they found no city to dwell in.

²⁷ They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man, and all of their knowledge is of no avail.

³⁸ He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly and suffers not their cattle to decrease.

⁴⁰ He pours contempt upon princes and causes them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.

¹⁶ This is so, O LORD, because I am thy slave; I am thy slave, the son of thine handmaid; thou hast loosed my bonds.

³ Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we are exceedingly weary of being held in contempt. ⁴ Our soul is exceedingly weary of the scorning of those that are at ease and of the contempt of the proud.

¹² Even the darkness does not hide from thee; but the night shines as the day; the darkness is as the light.

³ Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man in whom there is no salvation. ⁴ His spirit shall go forth, he shall return to his earth; in that very day all his thoughts shall perish.

⁵ Great is our Lord and of great power; his intelligence is infinite.

⁶ For the LORD gives wisdom; out of his mouth comes knowledge and intelligence. ⁷ He keeps the person of the upright; he is a buckler to those that walk perfectly,

⁶ ¶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise,

¹⁴ With me is counsel, and existence; I am understanding; strength belongs to me.

²¹ The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of wisdom.

¹⁹ ¶ The lip of truth shall be established for ever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

²² ¶ Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but the workers of the truth are his delight.

⁹ ¶ The light of the righteous shall rejoice: but the fire of the wicked shall be put out.

² ¶ He that walks in his uprightness fears the LORD, but he that is perverse in his ways despises him.

²⁰ ¶ Whosoever curses his father or his mother, his fire shall be put out in obscure darkness.

⁴ ¶ Never answer a fool according to his folly lest thou also be like unto him.

¹¹ ¶ The rich man is wise in his own conceit, but the poor that has understanding is wiser than he.

³ The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master’s crib; but Israel does not know, my people do not have understanding.

¹ ¶ For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of the hosts, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread and the whole stay of water, ² the mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the prophet, the fortune-teller and the ancient, ³ the captain of fifty and the honourable man and the counsellor and the cunning artificer and the eloquent wise man.

²¹ Woe unto those that are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight!

²⁷ None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken;

⁹ ¶ Then he said, Go and tell this people, Hear indeed, but do not understand; and see indeed, but do not perceive. ¹⁰ Make the heart of this people fat and make their ears heavy and blind their eyes that they not see with their eyes, nor hear with their ears, nor understand with their heart, nor convert and there be healing for him.

³ As thou hast multiplied the nation, thou hast not increased the joy. They shall rejoice before thee as they rejoice in the harvest and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

⁵ And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faith the girdle of his kidneys.

²³ I will also make it a possession for the bittern and pools of water, and I will sweep it with brooms of destruction, saith the LORD of the hosts.

¹ ¶ The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rides upon a swift cloud and shall come into Egypt, and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.

¹² Where are they? Where are thy wise men? Let them tell thee now, or let them cause thee to know what the LORD of the hosts has purposed upon Egypt. ¹³ The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even those that are the stay of the tribes thereof. ¹⁴ The LORD has mingled a perverse spirit in its midst, and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

¹⁴ The LORD has mingled a perverse spirit in its midst, and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

²¹ And I will clothe him with thy robe and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand, and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. ²² And the key of the house of David I will lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and no one shall shut; and he shall shut, and no one shall open.

⁹ The LORD of the hosts has purposed it to stain the pride of all glory and to bring down all those who are exalted in the earth.

²⁰ The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard and shall be removed like a cottage; and its transgression shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall and never rise again. ²¹ And it shall come to pass in that day that the LORD shall visit punishment upon the host of the high ones that are on high and upon the kings of the earth on the earth. ²² And they shall be gathered together as prisoners are gathered in the pit and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days they shall be visited.

² That thou hast turned the city into a heap; the defenced city into a ruin: the palace of strangers to not be a city; it shall never be rebuilt.

¹⁵ Thou hast added the Gentiles, O LORD, thou hast added the Gentiles: thou hast made thyself glorious: thou hast extended thyself unto all the ends of the earth.

⁶ Days shall come when Jacob shall take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and the face of the world shall be filled with fruit.

¹⁴ Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvellous work among this people with a fearful miracle: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the prudence of their prudent men shall fade away.

³⁶ Then the angel of the LORD went forth and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. ³⁷ So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went and returned and dwelt at Nineveh. ³⁸ And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

³⁸ And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

¹³ Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD or being his counsellor has taught him? ¹⁴ With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him? Who taught him in the path of judgment and taught him knowledge and showed unto him the way of intelligence?

²⁰ That they may see and know and take warning and understand together that the hand of the LORD does this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

¹ ¶ Thus saith the LORD to his Messiah, to Cyrus, whom I have taken by his right hand to subdue Gentiles before him and to loose the loins of kings. To open before him the two-leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut:

¹⁰ declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

² Look unto Abraham your father and unto Sarah that bore you; for I called him alone and blessed him and multiplied him.

¹⁰ We grope for the wall like the blind, and as if we had no eyes we walk by touch; we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in graves as dead men.

²² The small one shall be as a thousand; the youngest as a strong nation; I the LORD will hasten it in its time.

²⁷ As a cage full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit; thus they became great and rich.

⁷ Even the stork in the heaven knows her appointed time; and the turtle dove and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people did not know the judgment of the LORD.

¹² He that makes the earth by his power, he that orders the world with his wisdom and extends the heavens with his intelligence:

¹⁶ Give glory to the LORD your God before he causes darkness and before your feet stumble in mountains of darkness, and while ye look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death and makes it gross darkness.

²² Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause it to rain? or can the heavens give rain? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee, for thou hast made all these things.

⁵ I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom was upright in my eyes. ⁶ And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my slave; and even the beasts of the field I have given him that they might serve him.

¹⁹ And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of people that live in joy: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be decreased; I will multiply them, and they shall not be cut down.

³ Call unto me, and I will answer thee and show thee great and difficult things, which thou dost not know.

²² As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the seed of David my slave and the Levites that minister unto me.

⁵⁸ Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly cast down, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and peoples and nations shall labour in vain in the fire to save her, and they shall become weary.

⁶⁴ and thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be overcome. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

³¹ ¶ And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty-fifth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him forth out of prison ³² and spoke kindly unto him and set his seat above the seat of the kings that were with him in Babylon ³³ and changed his prison garments: and he continually ate bread before him all the days of his life. ³⁴ And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every thing in its day for all the days of his life, until the day of his death.

⁹ And the prophet when he is deceived and speaks a word, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him and will destroy him from among my people Israel.

²⁰ And Daniel spoke and said, Blessed be the name of God from age to age for wisdom and might are his; ²¹ and it is he that changes the times and the opportunities; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom unto the wise and knowledge unto those that know understanding:

²¹ and it is he that changes the times and the opportunities; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom unto the wise and knowledge unto those that know understanding: ²² He reveals that which is deep and hidden; he knows what is in darkness, and the light dwells with him.

²² He reveals that which is deep and hidden; he knows what is in darkness, and the light dwells with him.

¹⁶ let his heart be changed from a man’s heart, and let a beast’s heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.

³² and they drive thee from among men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; and they shall feed thee as the oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee until thou know that the most High takes rule in the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever he will. ³³ The same hour the word was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from among men and ate grass as the oxen, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven until his hair grew like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.

³³ The same hour the word was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from among men and ate grass as the oxen, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven until his hair grew like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.

¹⁸ O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom and the greatness and the glory and the magnificence:

²³ but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy princes, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; furthermore, thou hast praised gods of silver and of gold, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone, which do not see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand is thy soul and whose are all thy ways, thou hast never honoured.

¹⁷ Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy slave and his supplications and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is made desolate, by the Lord.

¹¹ Ephraim also was like a deceived dove, without understanding; they shall call to Egypt, they shall go to Assyria.

⁸ look unto him that makes the seven stars and Orion and turns the shadow of death into the morning and makes the day dark with night, that calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name;

¹ ¶ Woe unto those that are at ease in Zion and to those that trust in the mountain of Samaria, who are named principals among the same nations which shall come upon them, O house of Israel! ² Pass unto Calneh and see, and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Palestinians. Are they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border? ³ Ye that put far away the evil day and cause the seat of violence to come near; ⁴ that lie upon beds of ivory and stretch themselves upon their couches and eat the lambs out of the flock and the calves out of the midst of the stall; ⁵ that chant to the sound of the flute and invent to themselves instruments of music, like David; ⁶ that drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments, but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

⁷ ¶ Therefore I will wait for the LORD; I will wait for the God of my saving health; my God will hear me.

⁴ He reprehends the sea and makes it dry and dries up all the rivers; Bashan was destroyed, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon was destroyed.

⁸ I will hiss for them and gather them; for I have ransomed them; and they shall be multiplied as they were multiplied.

⁴ When Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The province of wickedness and The people against whom the LORD has indignation for ever.

¹² And being warned by divine revelation in dreams that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way. ¹³ ¶ And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in dreams, saying, Arise and take the young child and his mother and flee into Egypt and remain there until I bring thee word, for Herod will seek the young child to kill him.

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

²⁶ Fear them not therefore, for there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, nor hid that shall not be known.

⁸ And the foolish said unto the prudent, Give us of your oil, for our lamps are going out.

²⁹ And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head and a reed in his right hand; and they bowed the knee before him and mocked him, saying, Receive joy, King of the Jews!

⁴⁰ And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he took the father and the mother of the damsel and those that were with him and entered in where the damsel was lying.

⁷⁹ to give light to those that dwell in darkness and in the shadow of death, to direct our feet into the way of peace.

²⁵ But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land,

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

¹⁴ And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and they derided him.

¹⁹ ¶ There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day; ²⁰ and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, who was laid at his gate, full of sores

¹⁵ for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.

⁶ That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

²³ And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him because he did not give God the glory, and he expired eaten of worms.

¹¹ And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is against thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness, and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.

²⁵ neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he gives to all life and breath and all things

²⁸ for in him we live and move and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also of his lineage.

³² ¶ And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.

³⁵ Then the town scribe, appeasing the people, said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that does not know how the city of the Ephesians is honored of the great goddess Diana and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?

³² For God enclosed everyone in disobedience, that he might have mercy upon everyone.

³⁴ For who has understood the intent of the Lord? or who has been his counsellor?

³⁶ For of him and by him and in him are all things. To him be the glory for the ages. Amen.

¹⁹ For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. ²⁰ Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the philosopher of this world? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

²⁴ but unto those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

¹⁰ But God has revealed this unto us by his Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

⁵ Therefore, judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall each one have praise of God.

¹⁰ We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are prudent in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.

⁵ I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brothers?

¹⁵ ¶ I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.

⁵ ¶ I reckon that I have not been inferior in any way to those grandiose apostles.

²¹ I speak as concerning the reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit in that in which another is bold, (I speak foolishly), I am bold also. ²² ¶ Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. ²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more, in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.

⁸ which has over abounded in us in all wisdom and prudence;

¹¹ in him in whom likewise we have obtained an inheritance, having had the way marked out beforehand according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his own will,

¹⁰ ¶ Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.

¹⁴ Stand firm, therefore, having your loins girt about with truth and having on the breastplate, {the coat of mail and coat of arms} of righteousness,

¹⁰ that ye may approve the best, that ye may be sincere and without offense until the day of Christ,

³ in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

¹⁴ But strong food belongs to those that are perfect, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

³⁶ and others experienced cruel mockings and scourgings, and added to this, bonds and imprisonment;

⁵ And if any of you lacks wisdom, let them ask of God (who gives abundantly to all, and without reproach), and it shall be given them.

⁵ Hearken, my beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the poor of this world that they might be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those that love him? ⁶ But ye have despised the poor. Do not the rich oppress you with tyranny and draw you with violence to the courts? ⁷ Do they not blaspheme that worthy name by which ye are called?

¹⁷ Elijah was a man subject to passions like unto ours, and he asked in prayer that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months. ¹⁸ And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

³ if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is benevolent;

¹¹ But he that hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness and does not know where he goes, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

⁷ ¶ And to the angel of the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} in Philadelphia write; These things, saith he that is Holy and True, he who has the key of David, who opens and no one shuts and shuts, and no one opens;

⁶ These have power to shut the heaven, that it not rain in the days of their prophecy and have power over the waters to turn them to blood and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.

¹⁴ ¶ These shall make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them; for he is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those that are with him are called and chosen and faithful.

¹⁶ And he has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

¹⁹ And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against him that was seated upon the horse and against his army. ²⁰ And the beast was taken and with it the false prophet that wrought miracles in its presence, with which he had deceived those that had taken the mark of the beast and had worshipped its image. These two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone. ²¹ And the others were slain with the sword that proceeded out of the mouth of him that was seated upon the horse; and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.