Job 7 Cross References - EJ2000

¹ ¶ Man certainly has an appointed amount of time upon earth, and his days are like the days of a hireling. ² As a slave earnestly desires the shade and as a hireling waits for rest from his work, ³ so I am made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. ⁴ When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise? I measure the night, and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day. ⁵ My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and abominable. ⁶ My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and are spent without hope. ⁷ ¶ Remember thou that my life is wind and that my eyes shall not return to see good. ⁸ The eyes of those that see me now shall not see me again; thine eyes shall be upon me, and I will cease to be. ⁹ As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he that goes down to Sheol, who shall not come up again; ¹⁰ he shall return no more to his house; neither shall his place know him any more. ¹¹ Therefore, I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. ¹² Am I a sea, or a dragon, that thou settest a watch over me? ¹³ When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; ¹⁴ then thou dost scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions. ¹⁵ And my soul thought it better to be strangled and desired death more than my bones. ¹⁶ I loathed life; I do not desire to live for ever; let me alone; for my days are vanity. ¹⁷ ¶ What is man that thou should magnify him and that thou should set thine heart upon him ¹⁸ and that thou should visit him every morning and try him every moment? ¹⁹ For how long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone until I swallow down my spittle? ²⁰ If I have sinned, what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself? ²¹ And why dost thou not take away my rebellion and pass over my iniquity? For now I shall sleep in the dust; and if thou shalt seek me in the morning, I shall not be found.

¹ ¶ And it came to pass after these things that God proved Abraham and said unto him, Abraham; and he said, Behold, here I am.

⁴⁶ And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these who are of the daughters of this land, why should I want to live?

⁵ ¶ And both of them dreamed a dream, each man his dream in the same night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison. ⁶ And Joseph came in unto them in the morning and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad. ⁷ And he asked Pharaoh’s officers that were with him in the prison of his lord’s house, saying, Why look ye so sad today?

⁸ And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all the wise men thereof; and Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.

²¹ ¶ And they said one to another, We are truly guilty concerning our brother in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

³⁶ And Jacob, their father, said unto them, Ye have bereaved me of my sons: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away; all these things are upon me.

⁵ Thou shalt not bow down to them nor serve them; for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons unto the third and fourth generation of those that hate me

³⁴ Therefore go now, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee; behold, my Angel shall go before thee; nevertheless in the day of my visitation I will visit their sin in them.

¹³ Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him. Do not detain the wages of the work of the hired man in thy house until the morning.

⁵⁰ And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years, according to the time of a hired servant shall it be with him.

¹⁶ who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, a food which thy fathers knew not, afflicting thee and proving thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;

¹⁸ It shall not seem hard unto thee when thou sendest him away free from thee, for he has served thee for half the cost of a hired servant for six years; and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.

¹⁵ In his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor and with it sustains his life, lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.

⁶⁷ In the morning thou shalt say, I wish it were evening, and in the evening thou shalt say, I wish it were morning! For the fear of thine heart with which thou shalt fear and for that which thine eyes shall see.

¹³ And when Gideon arrived, behold, a man was telling a dream to his fellow, saying, Behold, I dreamed a dream that I saw a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and come unto the tents, and it smote them so that they fell and overturned them, and the tents fell. ¹⁴ And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else but the sword of Gideon, the son of Joash, a man of Israel, for God has delivered the Midianites with all the camp into his hand.

¹⁰ And she was in bitterness of soul and prayed unto the LORD and wept sore;

¹⁴ After whom is the king of Israel come out? After whom dost thou pursue? After a dead dog? After a flea?

²³ But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

¹⁴ For it is certain that we die and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does God respect any person; yet he does devise means that his outcasts not be expelled from him.

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.

¹⁰ ¶ And David’s heart smote him after he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in having done this; but now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy slave, for I have done very foolishly.

⁴ But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and desiring to die, he said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am not better than my fathers.

²⁷ And when she came to the man of God in the mountain, she caught him by the feet. And Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, Let her alone, for her soul is bitter within her; and the LORD has hid it from me and has not revealed it to me. ²⁸ Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? Did I not say, Do not deceive me?

⁸ Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou didst command thy slave Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the peoples;

⁶ Thou, O LORD, art alone; thou hast made the heavens and the heavens of the heavens, with all their host, the earth and all things that are therein, the seas and all that is therein, and thou givest life to them all; and the host of the heavens worship thee.

⁷ ¶ So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto the crown of his head. ⁸ And he took a potsherd to scratch himself with, and he was sitting among the ashes.

¹³ For now I should have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept; then I would have been at rest,

²⁰ ¶ Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; ²¹ who long for death, but it comes not; and search for it more than for hid treasures; ²² who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they can find the grave;

²⁴ For my sighing comes before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

⁷ yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks of the poison; and terrors of God combat me.

⁹ Even that it would please God to destroy me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

¹¹ What is my strength that I should hope? What is my end that I should prolong my life?

²⁶ Are ye not thinking up words of reproof and throw to the wind words that are lost?

³ so I am made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. ⁴ When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise? I measure the night, and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

⁸ The eyes of those that see me now shall not see me again; thine eyes shall be upon me, and I will cease to be.

¹¹ Therefore, I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. ¹² Am I a sea, or a dragon, that thou settest a watch over me?

¹² Am I a sea, or a dragon, that thou settest a watch over me? ¹³ When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; ¹⁴ then thou dost scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions.

¹⁷ ¶ What is man that thou should magnify him and that thou should set thine heart upon him

¹⁸ If he is uprooted from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

¹⁸ He will not suffer me to take my breath but has filled me with bitterness.

²¹ If I say I am imperfect, I know not my soul; I would condemn my life.

²⁵ ¶ Now my days are swifter than a post; they fled away, they never saw good.

²⁷ If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness and comfort myself; ²⁸ I am afraid of all my troubles; I know that thou wilt not hold me guiltless. ²⁹ If I am wicked, why then shall I toil in vain? ³⁰ If I wash myself with snow water and make my hands never so clean; ³¹ yet thou shalt plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes shall abhor me.

³¹ yet thou shalt plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes shall abhor me.

¹ ¶ My soul is cut off in my life; therefore, I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

⁹ Remember now that thou hast formed me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

¹⁴ ¶ If I sinned, wilt thou mark me and not cleanse me from my iniquity? ¹⁵ If I am wicked, woe unto me; and if I am righteous, I will not lift up my head, being full of dishonour and of seeing my affliction.

²⁰ Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, ²¹ before I go, to not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

²¹ before I go, to not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; ²² land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

⁸ It is higher than the heavens; what canst thou do? It is deeper than Sheol; how canst thou know it?

¹³ ¶ Listen to me, and I will speak, and afterward let come on me what will.

¹⁵ Though he slay me, yet I will trust in him; but I will defend my ways before him.

²³ ¶ How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin. ²⁴ Why dost thou hide thy face, and hold me for thine enemy?

²⁶ Why dost thou write bitter things against me and make me carry the iniquities of my youth. ²⁷ Thou dost put my feet also in the stocks and look narrowly unto all my paths; thou dost set a print upon the heels of my feet.

³ And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with thee?

⁵ Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass. ⁶ If thou should leave him, he will cease to exist; until then, he shall desire, as a hireling, his day.

⁶ If thou should leave him, he will cease to exist; until then, he shall desire, as a hireling, his day.

¹⁰ But when man shall die and be cut off, and the man shall perish, where shall he be? ¹¹ The waters from the sea went, and the river ran out, it dried up. ¹² So man lies down and does not rise; until there is no heaven, they shall not awake nor be raised out of their sleep. ¹³ O that thou would hide me in Sheol, that thou would keep me covered until thy wrath is past, that thou would appoint me a set time and remember me! ¹⁴ If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time I will wait until my transformation comes.

¹⁶ ¶ For now thou dost number my steps; thou dost not open up my sin.

⁶ ¶ Though if I speak, my pain does not cease; and if I forbear to speak, it does not depart from me. ⁷ But now he has made me weary; thou hast made desolate all my company.

¹² I was prosperous, but he has broken me asunder; he has taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for his mark. ¹³ His archers compassed me round about; he cleaved my kidneys asunder and did not spare; he poured out my gall upon the ground. ¹⁴ He broke me with breach upon breach; he ran upon me like a giant.

²² When the counted years are come, then I shall go the way from which I shall not return.

¹¹ My days are past, my thoughts were broken off, even the purposes of my heart. ¹² They changed the night into day; the light is short because of the darkness.

¹⁴ I have said to the pit, Thou art my father; to the worms, my mother, and my sister. ¹⁵ And where shall my hope be now? As for my hope, who shall see it?

²⁶ and afterward from this, my stricken skin and from my own flesh, I must see God:

⁹ The eye which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place behold him any more.

³ Suffer me that I may speak; and after I have spoken, mock on. ⁴ As for me, is my complaint to man? And if so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

²⁵ And another dies in the bitterness of his soul, never having eaten with pleasure.

³² He shall yet be brought to the grave and shall remain in the tomb. ³³ The clods of the river valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall be drawn after him, as there were innumerable before him.

⁵ ¶ Certainly thy wickedness is great and thine iniquities have no end.

²⁰ The Merciful One shall forget them; the worm shall feed sweetly on them; they shall never be remembered again; and iniquity shall be broken as a tree.

²¹ The east wind shall take him away, and he shall depart; the storm shall catch him up out of his place.

²³ Men shall clap their hands at him, and from his place they shall hiss at him.

² Oh, that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

¹⁵ ¶ They have loosed terrors upon me; they fought my will as the wind and my saving health as a cloud that passes.

¹⁷ My bones pierce me in the night, and my sinews take no rest. ¹⁸ By the great force of my disease my garment is changed; it binds me about as the collar of my coat. ¹⁹ He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

³³ ¶ If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom;

⁹ I am clean without rebellion, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.

²⁷ He looks upon men, and if any say, I have sinned and perverted that which was right, and it did not profit me;

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.

⁶ If thou dost sin, what hast thou done against him? Or if thy rebellion is multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

¹¹ In addition to this, with clarity he wearies the thick clouds; and he scatters them with his light.

⁶ Upon what are its foundations founded? Or who laid its corner stone; ⁷ when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? ⁸ Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? ⁹ When I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness a swaddling band for it, ¹⁰ and established my decree upon it, and set bars and doors, ¹¹ and said, Thou shalt come unto here, but no further; and there shall the pride of thy waves be stayed.

¹ ¶ Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook or with the cord which thou lettest down on his tongue? ² Canst thou put a hook into his nose or bore his jaw through with a thorn? ³ Will he make many supplications unto thee? Will he speak soft words unto thee? ⁴ Will he make a covenant with thee that thou shall take him for a slave for ever? ⁵ Wilt thou play with him as with a bird, or wilt thou tie him up for thy maidens? ⁶ Shall the companions make a banquet of him? Shall they part him among the merchants? ⁷ Canst thou cut his skin with knives or his head with a fish spear? ⁸ Lay thine hand upon him; thou shalt remember the battle and do no more. ⁹ Behold, your hope regarding him shall fail; for even at the sight of him they shall faint. ¹⁰ No one is so bold as to dare stir him up; who then shall be able to stand before me? ¹¹ ¶ Who has preceded me, that I should repay him? All that is under the whole heaven is mine. ¹² I will not conceal his lies, nor his might, nor the beauty of his order. ¹³ Who shall uncover the face of his garment? Or who shall come to him with a double bridle? ¹⁴ Who shall open the doors of his face? The orders of his teeth are terrible. ¹⁵ His scales {Heb. shields} are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal. ¹⁶ One is so near to another, that no air can come between them. ¹⁷ They are joined one to another; they stick together, that they cannot be separated. ¹⁸ By his sneezings lights are lit, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. ¹⁹ Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out. ²⁰ Out of his nostrils goes forth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron. ²¹ His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth. ²² In his neck dwells strength, and before him the work is undone. ²³ The failings of his flesh are joined together; his flesh is firm in him and does not move. ²⁴ His heart is as firm as a stone; as hard as a piece of the lower millstone. ²⁵ Of his greatness, the mighty are afraid; by reason of breakings they remove sin from themselves. ²⁶ When one catches up to him, no sword or spear or dart or coat of mail shall endure against him. ²⁷ He esteems iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood. ²⁸ The arrow cannot make him flee; with him, slingstones are turned into stubble. ²⁹ He counts any weapon as stubble; he laughs at the shaking of a spear. ³⁰ Broken clay vessels are under him; he carves his imprint upon the mire. ³¹ He makes the deep to boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment. ³² He makes the path shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary. ³³ Upon earth there is not his like, who behaves without fear. ³⁴ He despises all exalted things; he is king over all the sons of pride.

³ My soul is also greatly troubled; but thou, O LORD, how long?

⁶ I am weary with my groaning; all the night I flood my bed; I water my couch with my tears.

⁴ what is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou dost visit him?

¹ To the Overcomer,
A Psalm of David. ¶ How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? ² How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me? ³ Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes lest I sleep the sleep of death,

¹² Therefore shalt thou separate them; thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

⁶ Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God; thy judgments are a great deep; O LORD, thou dost preserve man and beast.

³⁶ Yet he passed away, and, behold, he was not: I sought him, but he could not be found.

⁵ My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. ⁶ I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. ⁷ For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease, and there is no soundness in my flesh.

³ My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue, ⁴ LORD, make me to know my end and the measure of my days, what it is that I may know how long I am to be of this world. ⁵ Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth, and my age is as nothing before thee; verily every man that lives is altogether vanity. Selah.

¹⁰ Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. ¹¹ When thou with chastening dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his greatness to consume away like a moth; surely every man is vanity. Selah.

¹³ O spare me, that I may recover strength before I go from here and be no more.

⁹ I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; behold, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

⁹ Surely the sons of Adam are vanity, and the sons of nobles are a lie; to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

¹⁸ ¶ Remember this, that the enemy has spoken against the LORD and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

²² Arise, O God, plead thine own cause; remember how the foolish man reproaches thee daily.

⁴ Thou didst hold my eyelids open; I am broken and did not speak.

³³ Therefore he consumed their days in vanity and their years in tribulation.

³⁹ For he remembered that they were but flesh: a wind that passes away and does not come again.

⁴ O LORD God of the hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

⁴⁷ Remember how short my time is; why hast thou made all men subject to vanity?

⁵⁰ Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy slaves; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of many peoples,

⁵ Thou dost cause them to pass by as the waters of a river; they are as a dream, which is strong in the morning like grass. ⁶ In the morning it blossoms and grows up; in the evening it is cut down and withers.

⁸ Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. ⁹ For all our days decline because of thy wrath; we end our years according to the word.

³ LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?

¹¹ My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are as grass; as an open flower of the field, so he blossoms.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are as grass; as an open flower of the field, so he blossoms. ¹⁶ For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place shall know it no more.

¹⁶ For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place shall know it no more.

²³ I am gone like the shadow when it declines; I am tossed up and down by the wind as the locust.

¹³¹ ¶ I opened my mouth and panted; for I longed for thy commandments.

⁶ My soul has waited for the Lord more than those that watch for the morning: I say, more than those that watch for the morning.

⁶ I stretched forth my hands unto thee; my soul thirsted after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.

³ LORD, what is man that thou knowest him? or the son of man, that thou esteemeth him? ⁴ Man is like unto vanity; his days are as a shadow that passes away.

³² ¶ For his wickedness shall the wicked be cast out, but the righteous in his death has hope.

¹⁴ I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

¹¹ ¶ Certainly the many words multiply vanity, what more does man have? ¹² For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of the life of his vanity which he causes to be as a shadow? for who shall teach the man what shall be after him under the sun?

⁸ There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death, and weapons are of no use in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

⁷ and the dust returns to the earth as it was before and the spirit returns unto God who gave it.

⁶ From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in him; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

¹¹ Thy pride is brought down to Sheol, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

¹⁶ For thus has the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall be undone:

¹⁴ They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise because thou hast visited and destroyed them and made all their memory to perish.

¹⁹ Thy dead shall live, and together with my body they shall arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the covering of light, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

⁵ Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer; I have seen thy tears behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.

¹¹ I said, I shall not see JAH, even JAH, in the land of the living; I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. ¹² My dwelling place has been moved and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent; he has cut off my life like a weaver: he has cut me off with sickness: between the day and the night thou shalt consume me. ¹³ I reckoned that I had until morning. As a lion, he broke all my bones: from the morning even unto the night thou shalt make an end of me.

¹⁵ What shall I say? He has both spoken unto me, and he himself has done it; I shall walk softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁷ Behold, for peace I had great bitterness; but it has pleased thee to deliver my life from the pit of corruption, for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

² Speak ye according to the heart of Jerusalem and cry unto her that her time is now fulfilled that her iniquity is pardoned; for she has received of the LORD’s hand double for all her sins.

⁶ The voice that said, Cry. And I said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the mercy thereof is as the open flower of the field: ⁷ The grass withers, the flower fades because the spirit of the LORD blows upon it; surely the people is grass.

¹¹ ¶ O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will cement thy stones upon carbuncle and lay thy foundations upon sapphires.

⁹ Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever; behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

²⁴ And they shall go forth and look upon the carcasses of the men that rebelled against me; for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.

²⁵ Withhold thy foot from being unshod and thy throat from thirst; but thou didst say, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.

⁴ Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up towards the south. Woe unto us! for the day goes away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

⁷ Therefore thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, Behold, I will melt them and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

¹⁵ ¶ O LORD, thou knowest: remember me and visit me and revenge me of my enemies; do not take me away in the prolongation of thy anger, know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

⁷ Gimel He has hedged me about that I cannot get out; he has made my chain heavy.

¹² Daleth He has bent his bow and set me as a mark for the arrow.

⁴² ¶ Nun We have rebelled and been disloyal; therefore thou hast not forgiven. ⁴³ Samech Thou hast unfurled anger and persecuted us; thou hast slain, thou hast not forgiven. ⁴⁴ Samech Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud that our prayer should not pass through.

²⁰ Why should thou forget us for ever and forsake us for such a long time? ²¹ Turn us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as at the beginning. ²² For in stepping back thou hast rejected us; thou hast become very angry against us.

⁴³ And there ye shall remember your ways and all your doings, in which ye have been defiled; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.

² Son of man, raise up lamentations upon Pharaoh king of Egypt and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as the whale in the seas, that dost dry up thy rivers, and trouble the waters with thy feet, and foul their streams. ³ Thus hath the Lord GOD said: I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many peoples, and they shall bring thee up in my net.

¹ ¶ And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, with which his spirit was troubled, and his sleep fled from him.

² And many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth shall be awakened, some for eternal life, and some for shame and everlasting confusion.

¹⁰ Many shall be purified and made white and purged, but the wicked shall get worse; and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.

² Take with you words, and be converted unto the LORD; say unto him, Take away all iniquity and receive us graciously, so will we render the calves of our lips.

³ Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me, for I would rather die than live.

⁸ And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah that he fainted and wished in his soul to die and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

¹⁸ Who is a God like unto thee that pardons iniquity, and passes over the rebellion with the remnant of his heritage? He did not retain his anger for ever because he delights in mercy. ¹⁹ He will turn again, he will have mercy on us; he will subdue our iniquities; and will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.

⁹ And I will put the third part into the fire and will refine them as silver is refined and will try them as gold is tried; He shall call on my name, and I will hear him; I will say, My people, and he shall say, The LORD is my God.

⁵ And I will come near unto you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against false swearers and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, said the LORD of the hosts.

¹ ¶ For the kingdom of the heavens is like unto a man, the husband of a house, who went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. ² And when he had agreed with the labourers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. ³ And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace ⁴ and said unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you. And they went. ⁵ Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour and did likewise. ⁶ And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle and said unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? ⁷ They say unto him, Because no one has hired us. He said unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatever is right, that shall ye receive. ⁸ So when evening was come, the lord of the vineyard said unto his steward, Call the labourers and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first. ⁹ And when those came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a denarius. ¹⁰ But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more but they likewise received each one a denarius. ¹¹ And when they had received it, they murmured against the husband of the house, ¹² saying, These last have worked but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us who have borne the burden and heat of the day. ¹³ But he answered one of them and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong; didst not thou agree with me for a denarius? ¹⁴ Take that which is thine and go, for I desire to give unto this last one, even as unto thee. ¹⁵ Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil because I am good?

³⁷ And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and very heavy. ³⁸ Then he said unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death; tarry ye here and watch with me.

⁵ And casting down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed and went and hanged himself.

¹⁹ When he was seated upon the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man, for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.

⁴⁴ And being in agony, he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

²⁹ ¶ The next day John saw Jesus coming unto him and said, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.

⁹ Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble because he sees the light of this world. ¹⁰ But he who walks in the night stumbles because there is no light in him.

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

⁴ For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know how much more charity I have towards you.

¹² that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world,

¹⁴ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto himself a people of his own, zealous of good works.

⁶ But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou dost visit him?

¹¹ For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and its flower falls, and the beautiful appearance of it perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

¹⁴ and ye do not know what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? Certainly it is a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

⁴ Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped your fields (which you have kept back by fraud) cries out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of the hosts.

⁷ that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold (which perishes, nevertheless it is tried with fire), might be found unto praise and glory and honour when Jesus, the Christ, is made manifest;

¹³ ¶ Therefore, having the loins of your understanding girded with temperance, wait perfectly in the grace that is presented unto you when Jesus, the Christ, is manifested unto you,

²⁴ ¶ For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,

⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

⁵ And ye know that he appeared to take away our sins, and there is no sin in him.

¹⁰ And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on those that dwell in the earth?