Job 19 Cross References - ISV

¹ Job Responds to BildadIn response, Job said: ² “How long do you intend to keep torturing me and trying to break me by what you’re saying? ³ Ten times you’ve tried to humiliate me! You’re not ashamed to wrong me! ⁴ Even if it’s true that I’ve erred, my error only affects me. ⁵ If you really intend to vaunt yourselves over me, and make my problems the basis of your case against me, ⁶ then at least you must know that God has accused me of wrong, and trapped me with his net.”
⁷ Job Accuses God of Being Angry“Although I cried out ‘Violence!’ I received no answer; I cried for help, but there was no justice. ⁸ He blocked my path, so I cannot pass; and he turned out the lights on my pathways. ⁹ “He has stripped me of my honor; he has stolen the crown off my head! ¹⁰ He is breaking me down on every side, and now it’s too late for me; he has uprooted my hopes like a tree. ¹¹ His anger burns against me; he regards me as his adversary. ¹² His troops march in a column against me, erecting their siege ramps against me; they surround my tent.”
¹³ Job’s Family and Friends Abandoned Him“My brothers are alienated from me; my acquaintances are estranged; ¹⁴ my relatives have failed me; and my friends have abandoned me. ¹⁵ Those who live in my house— and my maidservants, too!— treat me like a stranger; they think I’m a foreigner. ¹⁶ “I call to my servant, but he doesn’t respond, even though I beg to him earnestly. ¹⁷ My wife says my breath stinks; even my children say I smell bad! ¹⁸ Even little children hate me; when I get up, they mock me. ¹⁹ My closest friends detest me; even the ones I love have turned against me. ²⁰ I’m a pile of skin and bones; I have barely escaped by the skin of my teeth.”
²¹ Job Pleads with His Friends“Be gracious to me, be gracious to me, my friends, because God’s hand has struck me. ²² Why are you chasing me, as God has been doing? Aren’t you satisfied that I’m sick? ²³ If only my words were written down; if only they were inscribed in a book ²⁴ using an iron stylus with lead for ink! Then they’d be engraved in rock forever. ²⁵ “As for me, I know that my Vindicator is alive; And he, the Last One, will take his stand on the soil. ²⁶ Even after my skin has been destroyed, clothed in my flesh I will see God, ²⁷ whom I will see for myself. My own eyes will look at him— there won’t be anyone else for me!— He is the culmination of my innermost desire.”
²⁸ Job Reminds His Friends of Judgment“When you’re thinking about asking yourselves, ‘How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem is with him?’ ²⁹ Make sure that you remain wary of God’s sword, for God’s wrath brings with it the sword of punishment, by which you’ll know there’s a judgment.”

¹⁶ She nagged him every day with this speech, pestering him until he was annoyed nearly to death.

² “How long will you keep talking like this? How long will you keep talking like a wind storm?

² “When are you going to stop your word hunt? Think first, and then we can talk.

² “The living God has withheld justice from me; the Almighty has made my life bitter.

² Be gracious to me, LORD, because I am fading away. Heal me, because my body is distressed. ³ And my soul is deeply distressed. But you, LORD, how long do I wait?

¹ To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.
A Prayer for Deliverance How long? LORD, will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

¹⁰ Like the shattering of my bones are the taunts of my oppressors, saying to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

²¹ His mouth is as smooth as butter, while war is in his heart. His words were as smooth as olive oil, while his sword is drawn.

⁷ Look what pours out of their mouths! They use their lips like swords, saying “Who will hear us?”

³ who sharpen their tongues like swords, and aim their bitter words like arrows,

¹⁸ Some speak rashly like the cutting of a sword, but what the wise say promotes healing.

²¹ The power of the tongue is life and death— those who love to talk will eat what it produces.

⁶ The tongue is a fire, a world of evil. Placed among the parts of our bodies, the tongue contaminates the whole body and sets on fire the course of life, and is itself set on fire by hell. ⁷ For all kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and sea creatures can be or have been tamed by humans, ⁸ but no one can tame the tongue. It is an uncontrollable evil filled with deadly poison.

⁷ and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man who was greatly distressed by the immoral conduct of lawless people— ⁸ for as long as that righteous man lived among them, day after day he was being tortured in his righteous soul by what he saw and heard in their lawless actions—

¹⁰ They cried out in a loud voice, “Holy and true Sovereign, how long will it be before you judge and take revenge on those living on the earth who shed our blood?”

⁷ Even so, your father has cheated me. He broke our wage agreement ten times. However, God didn’t allow him to harm me.

⁷ As soon as Joseph saw his brothers, he knew who they were, but he remained disguised and asked them gruffly, “Where are you from?”
“From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We’re here to buy food.”

²⁶ When I destroy the source of your bread, ten women will bake bread in one oven. Then they’ll return back your bread by weight. You’ll eat but won’t be satisfied.

²² none of those men who saw my glory and watched my miracles that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness—even though they’ve tested me these ten times and never listened to my voice—

¹² The Jews who lived near them kept coming to us, reporting at least ten times, “They’ll attack us from every direction.”

⁶ “Your fear of God has been your confidence, hasn’t it? The integrity of your life has been your hope, hasn’t it? ⁷ Now please think: Who has ever perished when they’re innocent? Where have the upright been destroyed? ⁸ It’s been my experience that those who plow the soil of iniquity and those who sow the seed of trouble will reap their harvest! ⁹ They perish by the breath of God; they are consumed by the storm that is his anger. ¹⁰ “The lioness may roar, and the lion cub may growl; but even the ivory teeth of the full grown lion are broken. ¹¹ Full grown lions die when they cannot find prey; that’s when the lion cubs are scattered.

³ “I myself saw a fool becoming established, but I suddenly cursed where he lived. ⁴ His children are far from deliverance; they’ll be maltreated before they leave home, with no one to rescue them.

⁴ “If your children sin against him, he’ll make them a prisoner of their sins. ⁵ If you seek God, if you ask the Almighty for mercy, ⁶ if you are clean and upright, surely then, he’ll act on your behalf and restore your rightful place.

³ Will your irrational babble silence people, and when you mock them, will you escape without being shamed?

¹⁴ If you have any iniquity, throw it far away. Don’t let evil live in your residence.

⁴ Yet you dispense with fear of God and hinder meditations before God. ⁵ Because your sin dictates your speech, you have chosen the language of the crafty. ⁶ Your own mouth is condemning you, not I; your own lips will testify against you.”

¹¹ Are God’s encouragements inconsequential to you, even a word that has been spoken gently to you? ¹² Why have your emotions carried you away? And why do your eyes flash

⁴ You’re tearing yourself to pieces in your anger. Will the land be abandoned because of you, or the rock be moved from its place?”
⁵ The Wicked are Trapped“Indeed, the light of the wicked is extinguished; the flame from his fire doesn’t shine. ⁶ Light in his tent is dark, and his lamp goes out above him. ⁷ His strong steps are restricted, and his own advice trips him up. ⁸ “For he has stumbled into a net with his own feet; he walked right into the network! ⁹ The trap seizes him by the heel; a snare tightens its hold on him. ¹⁰ A rope lies hidden in the dirt; a trap lies waiting for him where he is walking.”
¹¹ The Wicked Perish without Descendants“He is petrified by terror that surrounds him on all sides; they chase at his heels. ¹² He is starved for strength; and is ripe for a fall. ¹³ Something gnaws on his skin; a deadly disease consumes his limbs. ¹⁴ Torn from the security of his home, he is brought before the king of terrors. ¹⁵ “There’s nothing in his tent that belongs to him; sulfur is scattered all over his dwelling place. ¹⁶ His roots wither underneath, while his branches above are being cut off. ¹⁷ No one remembers him anywhere in the land; no one names streets in his honor. ¹⁸ He is driven away from light to darkness, made to wander the landscape. ¹⁹ He has no children or descendants within his own people; and no survivors where he once lived. ²⁰ People who live west of him are appalled at his fate; those who live east of him are seized with terror. ²¹ Indeed, the residences of the wicked are like this; and so are the homes of those who don’t know God.”

¹⁷ My wife says my breath stinks; even my children say I smell bad!

⁸ I am a stranger to my brothers, a foreigner to my mother’s sons.

²⁰ In every matter of wisdom or understanding that the king discussed with them, he found them ten times superior to all the astrologers and enchanters in his entire palace.

¹⁷ When David saw the angel who had been attacking the people, he told the LORD, “Look, I’m the one who has sinned! I did the evil. These are only sheep! What did they do? Please, let your hand fall on me and on my household!”

³ Will your irrational babble silence people, and when you mock them, will you escape without being shamed? ⁴ You’ve said, ‘My teaching is flawless; I’m clean in God’s sight.’ ⁵ “But what if God were to speak? What if he were to talk with you, ⁶ and disclose his wise secrets? After all, there’s so much more to understanding. So be aware that God will exact from you less than your sin deserves.”

¹² If you are wise, your wisdom will assist you. If you mock, you alone will be held responsible.

⁴ Look! Every living soul belongs to me—the father’s as well as the son’s. So pay attention! The person who keeps on sinning is going to die.”

¹⁰ For all of us must appear before the judgment seat of the Messiah, so that each of us may receive what he deserves for what he has done in his body, whether good or worthless.

⁵ For everyone must carry his own load.

⁶ Her rival would provoke her severely so that she complained loudly because the LORD had closed her womb.

³ They told me, “The survivors of the captivity there in the province are living in great distress and shame. Furthermore, the Jerusalem wall remains broken down and its gates have been burned by fire.”

²⁶ Instead, let those who gloat over the evil directed against me be ashamed and confounded together; Let those who exalt themselves over me be clothed with shame and dishonor.

¹⁶ For I said, “Do not let them gloat over me, as they congratulate themselves when my foot slips.”

¹¹ In this way I will know that you are pleased with me, and that my enemies will not shout in triumph over me.

¹² For it is not an enemy who insults me— I could have handled that— nor is it someone who hates me and who now arises against me— I could have hidden myself from him—

¹ “At that time, seven women will cling tightly to one man and will make him this offer: ‘We’ll provide our own bread. We’ll provide our own clothes. Just let us marry you so we won’t be stigmatized anymore.’”

⁸ Don’t be glad on my account, my enemy. When I fall, I’ll get up. Though I sit in darkness, the LORD is a light for me.

¹⁰ This they will have in lieu of their pride, because they have insulted and mocked the people of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

⁷ The LORD will deliver the tents of Judah first, so that neither the glory of the house of David nor the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem overshadows Judah.

²⁵ “This is what the Lord did for me when he looked favorably on me and took away my public disgrace.”

² He asked them, “Do you think that these Galileans were more sinful than all the other Galileans because they suffered like this? ³ Absolutely not, I tell you! But if you don’t repent, then you, too, will all die. ⁴ What about those eighteen people who were killed when the tower at Siloam fell on them? Do you think they were worse offenders than all the other people living in Jerusalem?

² His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that caused him to be born blind?”

³⁴ They asked him, “You were born a sinner and you are trying to instruct us?” And they threw him out.

²⁰ So what if I sin? What have I done against you, you observer of humankind? Why have you made me your target? Why burden yourself with me?

¹¹ God has delivered me over to the ungodly, throwing me into the control of the wicked. ¹² “He tore me apart when I was at ease; grabbing me by my neck, he shook me to pieces— then he really made me his target. ¹³ His archers surround me, slashing open my kidneys without pity; he pours out my gall on the ground. ¹⁴ Attack follows attack as he breaks through my defenses! He runs over me like a mighty warrior.

⁸ “For he has stumbled into a net with his own feet; he walked right into the network! ⁹ The trap seizes him by the heel; a snare tightens its hold on him. ¹⁰ A rope lies hidden in the dirt; a trap lies waiting for him where he is walking.”

⁹ However, you cast us off and made us ashamed! You did not even march with our armies! ¹⁰ You made us retreat from our oppressors. Our enemies ransacked us. ¹¹ You handed us over to be slaughtered like sheep and you scattered us among the nations. ¹² You sold out your people for nothing, and made no profit at that price. ¹³ You made us a laughing stock to our neighbors, a source of mockery and derision to those around us. ¹⁴ You made us an object lesson among the nations; people shake their heads at us.

¹⁰ For you, God, tested us, to purify us like fine silver. ¹¹ You have led us into a trap and set burdens on our backs. ¹² You caused men to ride over us. You brought us through fire and water, but you led us to abundance.

¹² May it not befall you, all who pass along the road! Look and see: Is there any grief like my grief dealt out to me, by which the LORD afflicted me in the time of his fierce wrath? ¹³ He sent fire from on high, making it penetrate my bones. He stretched out a net at my feet, forcing me to turn back. He made me desolate; I’m fainting all day long.

¹³ But I’ll throw my net over him. As a result, he’ll be captured with my net, and with it I’ll bring him to Babel, the land of the Chaldeans. He won’t see it, though he’ll die there.

³ “This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I’m coming fishing for you! Right in the sight of many nations they’ll haul you up in my dragnet.

¹² When they go, I’ll cast my net over them. I’ll bring them down, as one shoots birds in the sky. I’ll chasten them, as the assembly has already heard.

²⁴ A land is given into the hands of a wicked person; he covers the faces of its judges. If it is not God, then who is it?”

³² He’s not a man like me, so that I can answer him, or that we can enter into litigation with one another.

³ Does it delight you to oppress or despise what you have made, while you smile at the plans of the wicked?

¹⁵ “‘Woe to me if I’m guilty! If I’m innocent, I cannot lift my head, because I am filled with disgrace. Look at my affliction! ¹⁶ But if I do lift up my head, you will hunt me like a lion! You will perform miracles in order to fight against me. ¹⁷ “‘You have brought new witnesses against me, you’re even more angry with me— you’ve brought fresh troops to attack me!

¹⁵ Even though he kills me, I’ll continue to hope in him. At least I’ll be able to argue my case to his face! ¹⁶ I have this as my salvation: the godless person won’t be appearing before him. ¹⁷ Pay attention to what I have to say and listen to my testimony with your own ears.”
¹⁸ Job Presents His Conditions“Look, now! I’ve prepared my case for court. I know that I’m going to win. ¹⁹ Who can oppose me? If they do, I’ll be silent and die. ²⁰ Grant me only two things as you deal with me; then I won’t hide from you. ²¹ Withdraw your hand far from me and keep me from being petrified with terror. ²² Then call and I’ll answer, or let me speak and then you reply to me!”
²³ Job Presents Himself for Cross-Examination“How many of my iniquities and sins have you counted? Show me my transgression and sin.

¹⁷ even though violence is not my intention, and my prayer is pure.”
¹⁸ Job Appeals to Witnesses“Listen, earth! Don’t cover my blood, for my outcry has no place to rest. ¹⁹ Even now, behold! I have a witness in heaven, my Advocate is on high.

²¹ crying for him to arbitrate between this man and God; as a human being does with his fellow neighbor.

²⁷ Job Suspects His Friends of Treachery“Look! I know your thoughts, your plans are going to harm me.

³ If only I knew where to find him, I would visit him where he has taken his seat. ⁴ I would lay out my case before him; and fill my mouth with arguments. ⁵ I know how he would answer me; I understand what he’ll tell me. ⁶ “Would he use his great power to fight me? No, he’ll pay attention to me. ⁷ In that place, the upright can reason with him; and I’ll be acquitted once and for all by my judge.”

²⁰ I cry for help to you, but you won’t answer me; I stand still, but you only look at me.

³⁵ Request for A Hearing“Who will grant me a hearing? Here’s my signature—let the Almighty answer! Since my adversary indicted me, ³⁶ I’ll wear it on my shoulder, or tie it on my head for a crown!

⁵ Elihu Reviews Job’s Complaint against God’s InjusticeNow this is Job’s claim: ‘Even though I’m innocent, God has stopped treating me righteously.

⁸ Indeed would you annul my justice and condemn me, just so you can claim that you’re righteous?

² My God, I cry out to you throughout the day, but you do not answer; and throughout the night, but I have no rest.

⁸ Indeed, as often as I speak, I cry out, and shout, “Violence and destruction!” For this message from the LORD has caused me constant reproach and derision.

⁸ Indeed, when I cry out, calling for help, he shuts out my prayer.

² The Prophet’s First Complaint“How long, LORD, must I cry out for help, but you won’t listen? I’m crying out to you, ‘Violence!’ but you aren’t providing deliverance. ³ Why are you forcing me to look at iniquity and to stare at wickedness? Social havoc and oppression are all around me; there are legal conflicts, and disputes abound.

⁷ But when they cried out to the LORD, he placed darkness between you and the Egyptians, brought the sea upon the Egyptians, and swallowed them up. Your own eyes saw what I did in Egypt. Then you lived in the desert for a long time.

²³ To the formerly successful man who lost his way in life, and God fenced him in?

²⁶ I have hoped for good, but evil came instead; I have hoped for light, but darkness came.

⁸ You caused my acquaintances to shun me; you make me extremely abhorrent to them. Restrained, I am unable to go out.

¹⁹ But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness, and they do not know what they are stumbling over.

¹⁰ Who among you fears the LORD, obeying the voice of his servant, who among you walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD, and rely upon his God.

¹⁶ Give glory to the LORD your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the mountains at twilight. You hope for light, but he turns it into deep darkness. He changes it into heavy gloom.

¹² Therefore their way will be slippery. They’ll be driven out into the darkness, where they’ll fall. For I’ll bring disaster on them, the year of their judgment,” declares the LORD.

⁷ He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he placed heavy chains on me.

⁹ He impeded my way with blocks of stone, making my paths uneven.

⁶ “Look how I’m blocking her path with thorns and building a wall to hinder her, so she can’t find her way.

¹² Jesus the Light of the WorldLater on, Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

¹⁷ He leads counselors away naked; he turns judges into fools.

⁷ Job Remembers His Respected Position“Whenever I went out to the city gate, a seat had been reserved for me in the plaza. ⁸ The young men would see me and withdraw, and the aged would rise and stand. ⁹ Nobles would refrain from speaking, covering their mouths with their hands. ¹⁰ The voices of the commanders-in-chief were hushed, and their tongues would cling to the roofs of their mouths.”
¹¹ Job Remembers His Acts of Kindness“When people heard me speak, they blessed me; when people saw me, they approved me, ¹² because I delivered the poor who were crying for help, along with orphans who had no one to help them. ¹³ Those who were about to die blessed me, and I made widows sing for joy. ¹⁴ I put on righteousness like clothing; my just decisions were like a robe and a turban.

²⁰ My glory renews for me and my bow is as good as new in my hand.’ ²¹ “They listened and waited for me, as they remained in silence for my counsel.

¹ Job Describes His Current Status in Life“But now they mock me; men who are far younger than I, whose fathers I would have hated to entrust with my own sheep dogs.

¹⁶ Don’t be afraid when someone gets rich, when the glory of his household increases. ¹⁷ When he dies, he will not be able to take it all with him— his possessions will not follow him to the grave,

³⁹ You have dishonored the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown on the ground.

⁴⁴ You have caused his splendor to cease and cast down his throne to the ground.

⁶ But as for you, you will be called priests of the LORD, and you will be named ministers of our God. You will feed on the wealth of the nations, and you will boast about their riches.

¹⁶ The crown has fallen from our head— woe to us, because we have sinned!

¹¹ The glory of Ephraim will fly away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, not even a conception.

¹³ Some time later, when his children were celebrating in their oldest brother’s house, ¹⁴ a messenger approached Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the female donkeys were grazing nearby ¹⁵ when the Sabeans attacked, captured the servants, and killed them with swords. I alone escaped to tell you!”
¹⁶ While this messenger was still speaking, another came and announced, “A lightning storm struck and incinerated the flock and the servants while they were eating. I alone escaped to tell you!”
¹⁷ While this messenger was still speaking, another came and announced, “The Chaldeans formed three companies, raided the camels, captured the servants, and killed them with swords. Only I alone escaped to tell you.”
¹⁸ While this messenger was still speaking, another came and announced, “Your children were celebrating in their oldest brother’s house ¹⁹ when a strong wind came straight out of the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people, and they died. I alone escaped to tell you!”

⁷ So Satan left the LORD’s presence and struck Job with terrible boils from the sole of his feet to the top of his head.

¹¹ “Do I have the strength to wait? And why should I be patient?

⁶ My days pass as swiftly as a hand-loom; they come to their conclusion without hope.

¹³ Such are the paths of everyone who forgets God— the hope of the godless will be destroyed: ¹⁴ his confidence is shattered; his trust is in a spider’s web. ¹⁵ He leans against his house, but it won’t stand; he grabs hold of it firmly, but it doesn’t last. ¹⁶ He is a fresh sapling planted in the sunlight, spreading out its branches over its garden. ¹⁷ Its roots weave around a pile of stones, seeking to entrench itself among the rocks. ¹⁸ If he is uprooted from his place,
then it will deny him: ‘I never saw you.’

¹⁴ When he tears down, nobody rebuilds; when he incarcerates, nobody escapes.

¹¹ My days are passed; my plans have been shattered; along with my heart’s desires.

¹⁵ where would my hope be? “And speaking of my hope, who would notice it?

²⁰ The womb will forget them. Maggots will find them to be a delicacy! They won’t be remembered anymore, their iniquity will be cut to pieces like firewood.

³⁵ I once observed a wicked and oppressive person, flourishing like a green tree in native soil. ³⁶ But then he passed away; in fact, he simply was not there. When I looked for him, he could not be found.

¹³ As for me, I cry out to you LORD, and in the morning my prayer greets you. ¹⁴ Why, LORD, have you rejected me? Why have you hidden your face from me? ¹⁵ Since my youth I have been oppressed and in danger of death. I bear your dread and am overwhelmed. ¹⁶ Your burning anger overwhelms me; your terrors destroy me. ¹⁷ Like waters, they engulf me all day long; they surround me on all sides. ¹⁸ You caused my friend and neighbor to shun me; and my acquaintances are confused.

¹¹ My life is like a declining shadow, and I am withering like a plant.

⁵ The Lord has become like an enemy— he has devoured Israel. He has devoured all of her palaces, destroying her fortresses. He filled cherished Judah with mourning and lament. ⁶ He plowed under his Temple like a garden, spoiling his tent. The LORD abolished in Zion both festivals and Sabbaths. In his fierce wrath he despised both king and priest.

⁸ In every way we’re troubled but not crushed, frustrated but not in despair, ⁹ persecuted but not abandoned, struck down but not destroyed.

²² For a fire breaks out in my anger— burning to the deepest part of the afterlife, consuming the earth and its produce and igniting the foundations of the mountains.

²⁴ Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy?

⁹ His anger tears me in his persistent resentment against me; he gnashes his teeth at me. My adversary glares at me.

¹⁰ Nevertheless, God has found a pretext to attack me; he considers me his enemy.

⁴⁶ How long, LORD, will you hide yourself? Forever? Will your anger continuously burn like fire?

⁷ Indeed, we are consumed by your anger and terrified by your wrath.

⁵ The Lord has become like an enemy— he has devoured Israel. He has devoured all of her palaces, destroying her fortresses. He filled cherished Judah with mourning and lament.

¹¹ God has delivered me over to the ungodly, throwing me into the control of the wicked.

¹³ His archers surround me, slashing open my kidneys without pity; he pours out my gall on the ground.

¹² “A wretched crowd ambushes me to my right; they trip my feet; they build up their path of calamity for me.

⁵ Assyria is an Instrument of Judgment“How terrible it will be for Assyria, the rod of my anger! The club is in their hands! ⁶ I’m sending my fury against a godless nation, and I’ll command him against the people with whom I’m angry to seize loot and snatch plunder, and to trample them down like mud in the streets.

²³ But I will put it into the hands of those who tormented and oppressed you, those who said to you, ‘Lie down, so we can step over you,’ so that you had to make your back like the ground, and like a street for them to walk over.”

²¹ “And now you’re all just like them, aren’t you? You see my terror and are terrified. ²² When did I ever ask you for anything, say ‘Offer a bribe for me from your wealth?’ ²³ or say ‘Deliver me from my enemy’s control,’ or ‘Redeem me from the domination of ruthless people’?”

⁷ Job Claims of God’s Mistreatment“God has certainly worn me out; you devastated my entire world.

¹¹ I have become an object of reproach to all my enemies, especially to my neighbors. I have become an object of fear to my friends, and whoever sees me outside runs away from me.

¹¹ As for my friends and my neighbors, they stand aloof from my distress; even my close relatives stand at a distance.

²⁰ Insults broke my heart. I despaired and looked for sympathy; but there was none, for comforters, but I found none.

¹⁸ You caused my friend and neighbor to shun me; and my acquaintances are confused.

⁵⁶ But all of this has happened so that the writings of the prophets might be fulfilled.”
Then all the disciples deserted Jesus and ran away.

¹⁶ At my first trial no one came to my defense. Everyone abandoned me. May it not be held against them!

²³ Ahithophel Tries to Crush David’s SupportersNow Ahithophel’s advice that he provided at that time was being compared to one who inquired of God, so highly regarded was Ahithophel’s counsel by both David and Absalom.

¹² For it is not an enemy who insults me— I could have handled that— nor is it someone who hates me and who now arises against me— I could have hidden myself from him— ¹³ but it is you— a man whom I treated as my equal— my personal confidant, my close friend! ¹⁴ We had good fellowship together; and we even walked together in the house of God!

²⁴ A man with many friends can still be ruined, but a true friend sticks closer than a brother.

¹⁰ Indeed, I hear many people whispering, “Terror on every side. Denounce him, let’s denounce him!” All my close friends watch my steps and say, “Perhaps he will be deceived, and we can prevail against him and take vengeance on him.”

⁵ Don’t trust your friends, don’t confide in a companion, watch what you say to your wife. ⁶ The son disrespects his father, the daughter rebels against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and a man’s enemies are the people of his own house.

²¹ “Brother will hand brother over for execution, and a father his child. Children will rebel against parents and have them put to death.

¹⁸ I’m not talking about all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But the Scripture must be fulfilled: ‘The one who ate bread with me has turned against me.’

³¹ People in my household have said, ‘We cannot find anyone who has not been satisfied with his meat,’ haven’t they? ³² No stranger ever spent the night in the street, because I opened my doors to travelers.”

³ Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy, for we have had more than enough of contempt.

¹⁵ when the Sabeans attacked, captured the servants, and killed them with swords. I alone escaped to tell you!”
¹⁶ While this messenger was still speaking, another came and announced, “A lightning storm struck and incinerated the flock and the servants while they were eating. I alone escaped to tell you!”
¹⁷ While this messenger was still speaking, another came and announced, “The Chaldeans formed three companies, raided the camels, captured the servants, and killed them with swords. Only I alone escaped to tell you.”

¹⁹ when a strong wind came straight out of the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people, and they died. I alone escaped to tell you!”

⁹ Job Refuses to Curse GodThen his wife told him, “Do you remain firm in your integrity? Curse God and die!”
¹⁰ But he replied to her, “You’re talking like foolish women do. Are we to accept what is good from God but not tragedy?”
Throughout all of this, Job did not sin by what he said.

¹ Job Laments and Prepares for Death “My spirit is crushed, my days are over; it’s the grave for me!

²³ Elisha Rebukes Some MockersLater, Elisha left there to go up to Bethel, and as he was traveling along the road, some insignificant young men came from the city and started mocking him. They told him, “Get on up, baldy! Get on up, baldy!”

⁵ People will oppress one another— It will be man against man and neighbor against neighbor. The young will be disrespectful to the old, and the worthless to the honorable.

¹⁴ Job Accuses His Friends of TreacheryThe friend shows gracious love for his friend, even if he has forsaken the fear of the Almighty. ¹⁵ But my brothers have acted treacherously like a cascading river, like torrential rivers that overflow.

⁹ As for my best friend, the one in whom I trusted, the one who ate my bread, even he has insulted me!

²⁰ Each of my friends raises his hand against his allies; each of my friends breaks his word.

⁴ Instead of receiving my love, they accuse me, though I continue in prayer. ⁵ They devise evil against me instead of good, and hatred in place of my love.

⁴⁸ But Jesus asked him, “Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?”

⁴ Satan answered the LORD, “Skin for skin! The man will give up everything that he owns in exchange for his health. ⁵ However, stretch out your hand and strike his bones and flesh, and he’ll curse you to your face, won’t he?”
⁶ Then the LORD told Satan, “Very well then, he is under your control. Just preserve his life.”

⁵ My skin is covered with worms and clods of dirt; my skin becomes rough and then breaks out afresh.

³⁰ My skin turns black all over me; and my bones seem burned from the heat.

¹⁹ “He is being reproved by painful bed rest, with continual aching in his bones. ²⁰ He cannot stand his food, and he has no desire for appetizing food. ²¹ His flesh wastes away; his bones, which once couldn’t be seen, are visible. ²² His soul is getting close to the Pit; his life is approaching its executioner.”

¹⁴ I am poured out like water; all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax, melting within me. ¹⁵ My strength is dried up like broken pottery; my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth, and you have brought me down to the dust of death. ¹⁶ For dogs have surrounded me; a gang of those who practice of evil has encircled me. They gouged my hands and my feet. ¹⁷ I can count all my bones. They look at me; they stare at me.

³ When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away by my groaning all day long. ⁴ For your hand was heavy upon me day and night; my strength was exhausted as in a summer drought. Interlude

³ My body is unhealthy due to your anger, and my bones have no rest due to my sin.

³ For my days are vanishing like smoke; my bones are charred as in a fireplace.

⁵ Because of the sound of my sighing, my bones cling to my skin.

⁴ He made my flesh and skin prematurely old; he broke my bones.

⁸ Now their faces are blacker than coal; they are unrecognized in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones; it has become dry like a stick.

¹⁰ Our skin blisters as from an oven, due to ravaging blasts of the famine.

¹¹ However, stretch out your hand and strike everything he owns, and he will curse you to your face.”

⁵ However, stretch out your hand and strike his bones and flesh, and he’ll curse you to your face, won’t he?”

¹⁰ But he replied to her, “You’re talking like foolish women do. Are we to accept what is good from God but not tragedy?”
Throughout all of this, Job did not sin by what he said.

⁴ “The arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit absorbs their poison; God’s terrors have been arranged just for me!

¹⁴ Job Accuses His Friends of TreacheryThe friend shows gracious love for his friend, even if he has forsaken the fear of the Almighty.

² because your arrows have sunk deep into me, and your hand has come down hard on me.

¹⁵ Rejoice with those who are rejoicing. Cry with those who are crying.

²⁶ If one part suffers, every part suffers with it. If one part is praised, every part rejoices with it.

³ Continue to remember those in prison as if you were in prison with them, as well as those who are mistreated, since they also are only mortal.

¹⁶ But if I do lift up my head, you will hunt me like a lion! You will perform miracles in order to fight against me.

²⁵ Are you a god who would make a leaf tremble or who would prosecute a dry straw?

³¹ People in my household have said, ‘We cannot find anyone who has not been satisfied with his meat,’ haven’t they?

²⁶ For they persecute those whom you have struck, and they brag about the pain of those you have wounded.

³ You eat the flesh of my people, flaying their skin from them. You break their bones, chopping them in pieces like meat for a pot, like meat destined for a soup kettle.’

³⁵ Request for A Hearing“Who will grant me a hearing? Here’s my signature—let the Almighty answer! Since my adversary indicted me,

¹ Isaiah’s Son is BornThe LORD also told me, “Take a large tablet and write on it with a stylus pen, ‘For Maher-shalal-hash-baz’.

⁸ The Illusions of False Prophecy“Go now, and write it down on a tablet in their presence, inscribing it in a book, so that for times to come it may be an everlasting witness.

¹¹ With work like a jeweler engraves on a signet, you are to inscribe the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel, and you are to mount them in settings of gold filigree. ¹² You are to put the two stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as stones of remembrance representing the sons of Israel, and Aaron is to carry their names into the LORD’s presence on his two shoulders as a memorial.

²¹ The stones are to correspond to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve stones corresponding to their names. They are to be engraved like a signet, each with the name of one of the twelve tribes.

¹⁶ The tablets were the work of God and the writing was God’s writing, inscribed on the tablets.

² On the day you cross over the Jordan River to the land that the LORD your God is about to give you, set up large stones and coat them with plaster. ³ Then inscribe on them all the words of this law when you’ve crossed over into the land that the LORD your God is about to give you—a land flowing with milk and honey—just as the LORD God of your ancestors promised you.

⁸ Inscribe on the stones plainly and distinctly all the words of this Law.”

¹ Judah’s Sin and Its Consequence The sin of Judah is engraved with an iron stylus. It is inscribed with a diamond point on the tablet of their heart and on the horns of their altars.

¹⁵ “I’ll place hostility between you and the woman, between your offspring and her offspring. He’ll strike you on the head, and you’ll strike him on the heel.”

¹⁸ Furthermore, through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed my command.”

¹⁹ Even now, behold! I have a witness in heaven, my Advocate is on high.

²³ God Delivers through His Ransom“If there’s a messenger appointed to mediate for Job —one out of a thousand— to represent the man’s integrity on his behalf, ²⁴ to show favor to him and to plead, ‘Deliver him from having to go down to the Pit— I know where his ransom is!’

¹⁴ May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.

³⁵ Then they remembered that God was their rock, and the Most High God was their deliverer.

¹¹ for strong is their Redeemer who will take up their case against you.

¹⁴ This is what the LORD says, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake I will send to Babylon, and bring them all down as fugitives. Now as for the Babylonians, their ringing cry will become lamentation.

⁵ For your Maker is your husband; the LORD of the Heavenly Armies is his name, and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of the whole earth.

²⁰ “And a Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,” says the LORD.
²¹ “As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD. “And my Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, won’t depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of your children, or from the mouths of your children’s children, from now on and forever.”

³⁴ Their Redeemer is strong, the LORD of the Heavenly Armies is his name. He will vigorously plead their case in order to bring rest to the earth, but turmoil to the inhabitants of Babylon.

²² The Father judges no one, but has given all authority to judge to the Son, ²³ so that everyone may honor the Son as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
²⁴ “Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, whoever hears what I say and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged, but has passed from death to life. ²⁵ Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the time approaches, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live. ²⁶ Just as the Father has life in himself, so also he has granted the Son to have life in himself, ²⁷ and he has given him authority to judge, because he is the Son of Man. ²⁸ Don’t be amazed at this, because the time is approaching when everyone in their graves will hear the Son of Man’s voice ²⁹ and will come out—those who have done what is good to the resurrection that leads to life, and those who have practiced what is evil to the resurrection that ends in condemnation.

⁷ In union with him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our offenses, according to the riches of God’s grace

¹⁴ Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied about these people when he said, “Look! The Lord has come with countless thousands of his holy ones.

⁹ Therefore, my heart is glad, my whole being rejoices, and my body will dwell securely.

¹¹ You cause me to know the path of life; in your presence is joyful abundance, at your right hand there are pleasures forever.

¹⁵ But as for me, justified, I will behold your face; when I awake, your presence will satisfy me.

⁸ “How blessed are those who are pure in heart, because it is they who will see God!

¹² Now we see only an indistinct image in a mirror, but then we will be face to face. Now what I know is incomplete, but then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.

⁵³ For what is decaying must be clothed with what cannot decay, and what is dying must be clothed with what cannot die.

²¹ He will change our unassuming bodies and make them like his glorious body through the power that enables him to bring everything under his authority.

² Dear friends, we are now God’s children, but what we will be like has not been revealed yet. We know that when the Messiah is revealed, we will be like him, because we will see him as he is.

⁷ Look! He is coming in the clouds. Every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of him.So be it! Amen.

¹⁷ I can see him, but not right now. I observe him, but from a distance. A star streams forth from Jacob; a scepter arises from Israel. He will crush Moab’s forehead, along with all of Seth’s descendants.

²⁶ My body and mind may fail, but God is my strength and my portion forever.

¹⁹ The Resurrection of the Dead“But your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Those who live in the dust will wake up and shout for joy! For your dew is like the dew of dawn, and the earth will give birth to the dead.

¹³ Everyone in Israel will mourn for him and will bury him, because he alone from Jeroboam’s family will receive a decent burial, because something good was observed in him with respect to the LORD God of Israel out of all the household of Jeroboam!

²² Why are you chasing me, as God has been doing? Aren’t you satisfied that I’m sick?

⁷ Why do you speak falsely on God’s behalf and speak deceitfully about him? ⁸ Will you show partiality to him? Will you plead God’s case? ⁹ Will things go well for you under his cross-examination? Can you lie to him, as you would to a human being? ¹⁰ “He will be sure to rebuke you, if you show partiality in secret. ¹¹ His splendor will petrify you with terror, paralyzing you with fear, won’t it?

²² He does not believe he will escape darkness; he is destined for the sword.

⁴ Will he acquit you just because you fear him, and render a verdict on your behalf?

⁵ Therefore the wicked will not escape judgment, nor will sinners have a place in the assembly of the righteous.

⁷ But the LORD sits on his throne forever; his throne is established for judgment.

¹⁰ The righteous person will rejoice when he sees your vengeance; when he washes his feet in the blood of the wicked. ¹¹ A person will say, “Certainly, the righteous are rewarded; certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”

⁹ So enjoy yourself in your youth, young man, and be encouraged during your younger days. Live as you like, consistent with your world view, but keep in mind that God will bring you to account for everything.

¹⁴ For God will judge every deed, along with every secret, whether good or evil.

¹ Judging Others
“Stop judging, so that you won’t be judged, ² because the way that you judge others will be the way that you will be judged, and you will be evaluated by the standard with which you evaluate others.

¹ Obey Your GovernmentEvery person must be subject to the governing authorities, for no authority exists except by God’s permission. The existing authorities have been established by God, ² so that whoever resists the authorities opposes what God has established, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. ³ For the authorities are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you like to live without being afraid of the authorities? Then do what is right, and you will receive their approval. ⁴ For they are God’s servants, working for your good.
But if you do what is wrong, you should be afraid, for it is not without reason that they bear the sword. Indeed, they are God’s servants to administer punishment to anyone who does wrong.

¹¹ Do Not Criticize Each OtherDo not criticize each other, brothers. Whoever makes it his habit to criticize his brother or to judge his brother is judging the Law and condemning the Law. But if you condemn the Law, you are not a practicer of the Law but its judge. ¹² There is only one Lawgiver and Judge—the one who can save and destroy. So who are you to judge your neighbor?