Job Cross References - LITV

¹ There was a man in the land of Uz, his name was Job. And this man was perfect and upright, and fearing God, and turning away from evil. ² And seven sons and three daughters were born to him. ³ And his possessions were seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household, so that this man was greater than all the sons of the east. ⁴ And his sons feasted in the house of each one on his day. And they sent and called their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. ⁵ And it happened, when the day of feasting had gone around, Job would send and sanctify them. And he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt sacrifices according to all their number. For Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. This Job always did. ⁶ And a day came when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah. And Satan also came among them. ⁷ And Jehovah said to Satan, From where have you come? And Satan answered Jehovah and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. ⁸ And Jehovah said to Satan, Have you set your heart on My servant Job because there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil? ⁹ And Satan answered Jehovah and said, Does Job fear God for nothing? ¹⁰ Have You not made a hedge for him, and for his house, and for all that is his all around? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land. ¹¹ But put out Your hand now, and touch against all that is his, and see if he will not then curse You to Your face. ¹² And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, all that is his is in your hand! Only, do not lay your hand on him. And Satan went out from the face of Jehovah. ¹³ And a day came when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their brother's house, the first-born. ¹⁴ And a messenger came to Job and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses were feeding beside them. ¹⁵ And the Sabeans fell on, and took them away. And they killed the young men with the edge of the sword; and I, I alone have escaped to tell you. ¹⁶ While this one was still speaking, this other also came and said, The fire of God has fallen from the heavens and has burned up the sheep and the young men. And it has destroyed them; and I, I alone have escaped to tell you. ¹⁷ While this one was still speaking, this other also came and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands and swooped down on the camels. And they have taken them away. And they have killed the young men with the edge of the sword; and I, I alone have escaped to tell you. ¹⁸ While this one was still speaking, this other came and said, Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the first-born, ¹⁹ And, behold! A great wind came from the wilderness and touched the four corners of the house. And it fell on the young men and they died; and I, I alone have escaped to tell you. ²⁰ And Job rose up and tore his robe, and shaved his head. And he fell down on the ground and worshiped. ²¹ And he said, I came naked out of my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. Jehovah gave, and Jehovah has taken away. Blessed be the name of Jehovah. ²² In all this Job did not sin, nor charge wrong to God.

⁹ These are the generations of Noah. Noah, a righteous man, had been perfected among his family. Noah walked with God.

²³ And Aram's sons were Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

¹ And when Abram was ninety nine years old, Jehovah appeared to Abram and said to him, I am the Almighty God! Walk before me and be perfect;

¹² And He said, Do not lay your hand on the boy, nor do anything to him. For now I know that you are a God-fearer, and you have not withheld your son, your only one, from Me.

²⁰ And it happened after these things it was told to Abraham, saying, Behold! Milcah, she also, has borne sons to your brother Nahor: ²¹ Uz, his firstborn, Buz, and his brother Kemuel, the father of Aram,

²⁸ These were the sons of Dishan: Uz, and Aran.

²¹ And you, you shall look out men of ability out of all the people, who fear God, men of truth, haters of unjust gain. And you place these over them as rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

³ I pray to You, O Jehovah, please remember how I have walked always before your face in truth, and with a perfect heart, and I have done the good in Your eyes. And Hezekiah wept with a great weeping.

¹⁷ The sons of Shem were Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.

⁴² The sons of Ezer: Bilhan and Zaavan and Jakan. The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

²⁰ And Hezekiah did this in all Judah, and did the good and the right and true before Jehovah his God. ²¹ And in every work that he began for the service of the house of God, and in the Law, and in the commandment, to seek his God with all his heart, he worked and prospered.

⁸ And Jehovah said to Satan, Have you set your heart on My servant Job because there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil?

³ And Jehovah said to Satan, Have you set your heart on My servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright man, fearing God, and turning away from evil? And he is still holding to his integrity, although you incited Me against him, to swallow him for nothing.

¹¹ My foot has held fast in His steps; I have kept His way and have not turned; ¹² nor have I departed from the command of His lips; I treasured the words of His mouth more than my portion.

²⁸ And to man He said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom! And to turn from evil is understanding.

¹ I made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look intently on a virgin? ² For what is the portion from God above? And what is the legacy from the Almighty on high? ³ Is it not disaster to the perverse, and calamity to the workers of iniquity? ⁴ Does He not see my ways and count all my steps? ⁵ If I have walked with vanity, or my foot has hurried to deceit, ⁶ let me be weighed in a just balance so that God may know my integrity. ⁷ If my step has turned aside out of the way, or my heart has walked after my eyes, and if any blot has held fast to my hands, ⁸ let me sow, and let another eat; and let my harvests be rooted out. ⁹ If my heart has been enticed by a woman; or I have laid wait at my neighbor's door, ¹⁰ let my wife grind to another, and let others crouch over her. ¹¹ For that would be an evil scheme, and is iniquity for judges. ¹² For it is a fire that devours to the Place of Ruin, and it would root up all my gain. ¹³ If I despised the cause of my male slave or my slave-girl when they contended with me, ¹⁴ what then shall I do when God rises up? And when He calls me to account, what shall I answer Him? ¹⁵ Did not He who made me in the belly make him? And did not One shape us in the womb? ¹⁶ If I have withheld from the desire of the poor, or I have caused the widow's eyes to fail, ¹⁷ or have eaten my bit alone, and the orphan has not eaten it, ¹⁸ for from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and from my mother's womb I guided her. ¹⁹ If I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or there was no covering for the needy; ²⁰ if his loins have not blessed me, and he warmed himself with the fleece of my flock; ²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the orphan, when I watched over my help in the gate; ²² let my shoulder fall from the back, and let my arm be broken from the elbow. ²³ for trouble from God is a terror to me, and I could not do the thing because of His majesty. ²⁴ If I have made gold my hope or have called fine gold my trust; ²⁵ if I rejoiced because my wealth was great; or because my hand had gotten much; ²⁶ if I looked to the light when it shone, or the moon marching in splendor, ²⁷ and my heart was secretly enticed. or my mouth has kissed my hand; ²⁸ this also would be an iniquity for the judges; for I would have denied God above. ²⁹ If I rejoiced at the ruin of my enemy, and I was excited when evil found him; ³⁰ also I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse; ³¹ if the men of my tent did not say, Who can find one not being satisfied from his meat, ³² the stranger did not sleep in the street, for I opened my doors to the traveler; ³³ if I covered my transgressions like Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom, ³⁴ then let me fear before a great multitude, and let the scorn of families frighten me and I will be silent, and not go out the door. ³⁵ Oh that I had one to hear me! See, my mark! Let the Almighty answer me, and let my Accuser write an indictment. ³⁶ Surely I would carry it on my shoulder, and bind it like crowns to me. ³⁷ I would tell Him the number of my steps. Like a prince I would go near Him. ³⁸ If my land cries out against me, or its furrows weep together; ³⁹ if I have eaten its strength without silver, or have caused its owner to expire; ⁴⁰ let thorns come forth instead of wheat, and a weed instead of barley. The words of Job are finished.

¹³ The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; I hate pride and loftiness, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

⁶ Iniquity is covered by mercy and truth, and in the fear of Jehovah, men turn aside from evil.

²⁰ and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Askelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,

²¹ Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, living in the land of Uz, The cup also shall pass through to you; you shall be drunken and stripped naked.

¹⁴ And though these three men were in its midst, Noah, Daniel, and Job, by their righteousness they should deliver only their souls, declares the Lord Jehovah.

²⁰ though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in its midst, as I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they by their righteousness would deliver only their souls.

⁶ And they were both righteous before God, walking blameless in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

¹¹ Behold, we call those blessed who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you saw the end of the Lord, "that the Lord is full of tender mercy and pity." Psa. 103:8

¹¹ Let him turn aside from evil, and let him do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it;

¹¹ And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and his many sons, and all to which the king had promoted him, and how he lifted him up above the princes and the servants of the king.

¹³ Be silent from me, that I may speak; and let what will pass over me.

¹³ And he had seven sons and three daughters.

³⁸ He also blesses them, so that they multiply greatly; and He does not allow their cattle to diminish;

³ Behold! Children are an inheritance of Jehovah; the fruit of the womb is His reward. ⁴ As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the sons of the young. ⁵ Blessed is the man who has filled his quiver with them; they shall not be ashamed, for they shall speak with their enemies in the gate.

³ Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine by the sides of your house; your sons shall be like olive plants around your table.

⁵ And Abram took his wife Sarai, and his brother's son, Lot, and all their substance that they had gained, and the persons they had gotten in Haran. And they went out to go into the land of Canaan. And they came into the land of Canaan.

¹⁶ And he did good to Abram because of her. And he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and male slaves, and slave-girls, and she-asses, and camels.

⁶ And the land was not able to bear them, for dwelling together, for their wealth was great, so that they could not dwell together.

⁶ And to the sons of the concubines who were to Abraham, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away eastward, from his son Isaac, while still alive to an eastern land.

¹ And Jacob lifted his feet and went to the land of the sons of the east.

²³ Shall not their livestock, and their property, and all their beasts of burden be ours? Only let us consent to them, and let them live with us.

⁷ And he took up his parable and said, He has led me from Aram, Balak king of Moab; from the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse Jacob for me; and, come, rage at Israel.

³² And the prey, the rest of the spoil which the people of the army plundered, was six hundred and seventy five thousand sheep, ³³ and seventy two thousand oxen, ³⁴ sixty one thousand of the asses;

³ And it happened after Israel had sown crops, Midian, and Amalek, and the sons of the east came; and they came against them,

⁵ For they came up with their livestock, and with their tents. They came in like locusts for number, and there was no number to them, to their camels. And they came into the land to destroy it.

¹² And Midian and Amalek, and all the sons of the east, were lying in the valley, as the locusts for multitude. And there was no number of their camels being as the sand on the lip of the sea for multitude.

¹⁰ And Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand, all who were left of all the army of the sons of the east. And those who fell were a hundred and twenty thousand men drawing sword.

² And a certain man was in Maon, and his work was in Carmel. And the man was very great, and there were three thousand sheep and a thousand goats to him. And he was shearing his flock in Carmel.

³⁰ And Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the sons of the east, and than all the wisdom of Egypt.

⁴ And Mesha the king of Moab was a sheepmaster. And he paid a hundred thousand lambs to the king of Israel and a hundred thousand rams with wool.

¹⁰ And he built towers in the wilderness, and dug many wells, for he had many cattle, both in the low country and in the plain; also he had farmers and vinedressers in the mountains, and in Carmel; for he was a lover of the earth.

²⁹ and he made cities for himself, and had stocks of flocks and very many herds, for God had given him very much property.

⁹ the rulers held back with words, and they laid a hand on their mouth; ¹⁰ the leaders' voice was hidden; yea, their tongue clung to the roof of their mouth.

²⁵ I chose out their way, and sat as chief; and I lived like a king among the troops; as the mourners, and he who comforts.

¹² And Jehovah blessed the latter days of Job more than the earlier days . And to him were fourteen thousand sheep and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

²² The blessing of Jehovah, it makes rich, and he adds no pain with it.

¹ A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold! How good and how pleasant is the living of brothers, even in unity.

¹ Let brotherly love continue.

⁵ And Jehovah saw that the evil of man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the day long.

²⁰ And Noah built an altar to Jehovah, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

³ And Abraham started up early in the morning and saddled his ass, and he took two of his youths with him, and his son Isaac. And he split wood for a burnt offering, and rose up and went to the place which God had said to him.

² And Jacob said to his house, and to all those with him, Put away the strange gods in your midst, and purify yourselves, and change your clothing. ³ And let us rise up and go up to Bethel. And I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress. And He was with me in the way in which I went.

¹² And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, took a burnt offering and sacrifices to God. And Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat bread before God with Moses' father-in-law.

¹⁰ And Jehovah said to Moses, Go to the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow. And let them wash their clothes.

⁵ And he sent young men of the sons of Israel. And they offered up burnt offerings, and offered sacrifices of bullocks, peace offerings to Jehovah.

³ If his offering is out of the herd, a male, a perfect one, he shall bring it to the opening of the tabernacle of the congregation, at his pleasure, before the face of Jehovah. ⁴ And he shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it is accepted for him to make atonement for him. ⁵ And he shall kill the son of the herd before the face of Jehovah. And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall bring near the blood and sprinkle the blood on the altar all around at the opening of the tabernacle of the congregation. ⁶ And he shall skin the burnt offering, and shall cut it into pieces.

¹⁰ And the son of an Israelite woman, and a son of an Egyptian man, went out among the sons of Israel. And the son of the woman of Israel and a man of Israel struggled together in the camp. ¹¹ And the son of the woman of Israel blasphemed the Name, and cursed. And they brought him in to Moses; and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. ¹² And they put him under guard, that it might be declared to them at the mouth of Jehovah. ¹³ And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁴ Bring out the reviler to the outside of the camp. And all those who heard shall lay their hands on his head, and all the congregation shall stone him. ¹⁵ And you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, When any man curses his God then he shall bear his sin. ¹⁶ And he who blasphemes the name of Jehovah shall certainly be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly cast stones at him. As to the alien, so to a native, when he blasphemes the Name, he is to be put to death.

⁵ And he said, Peace! I have come to sacrifice to Jehovah. Sanctify yourselves and you shall come to me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.

³¹ And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of Jehovah came, saying, Israel shall be your name.

¹⁰ And set two men, sons of worthlessness, across from him; and they shall testify of him, saying, You have cursed God and the king. And they shall bring him out and stone him; and he shall die.

¹³ And two men, sons of worthlessness, came in and sat across from him. And the men of worthlessness testified of him before the people, even Naboth, saying, Naboth has cursed God and the king. And they took him out to the outside of the city, and stoned him with stones. And he died.

³⁰ And the priests and the Levites purified themselves. And they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

¹¹ But put out Your hand now, and touch against all that is his, and see if he will not then curse You to Your face.

⁹ And his wife said to him, Are you still holding fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!

⁴ If your sons have sinned against Him, and if He has sent them away in the hand of their transgression,

¹⁰ Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call on God at every time?

²⁵ The mighty are afraid from his arising; from the crashings they miss the way.

⁸ And now take for you seven young bulls and seven rams and go to My servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And My servant Job will pray for you. Surely I will lift up his face so as not to do with you according to your folly, in that you have not spoken the right about Me, as My servant Job.

³ You will hear my voice in the morning, O Jehovah, I will set myself for You in the morning, and I will look up.

¹⁰ All that your hand finds to do, do it with your strength. For there is no work, or planning, or knowledge, or wisdom, in Sheol, there where you go.

¹⁴ O Jerusalem, cleanse your heart from evil so that you may be saved. Until when will your vain thoughts lodge within you?

⁹ The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is incurable; who can know it? ¹⁰ I, Jehovah, search the heart, I try the reins, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

²¹ For from within, out of the heart of men, pass out the evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, ²² thefts, greedy desires, iniquities, deceit, lustful desires, a wicked eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. ²³ All these evil things pass out from within and defile the man.

⁷⁵ in consecration and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.

⁷ and will God not at all execute the avenging of His elect, those crying to Him day and night, also having been long-suffering over them?

⁵⁵ And the Passover of the Jews was near. And many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover, that they might purify themselves.

²² Repent, then, from this wickedness of yours, and petition God if perhaps you will be forgiven the thought of your heart.

²⁶ Then taking the men on the next day, being purified with them, Paul went into the temple, declaring the fulfillment of the days of the purification, until the offering should be offered for each one of them.

⁵ Then do not judge anything before time, until the Lord comes, who will both shed light on the hidden things of darkness and will reveal the counsels of the hearts. And then praise will be to each one from God.

² For I am jealous over you with a jealousy of God. For I have promised you to one Man, to present you a pure virgin to Christ.

¹⁸ through all prayer and petition, praying at every time in the Spirit, and watching to this same thing with all perseverance and petition concerning all the saints.

² The sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were good. And they took wives for themselves from all those whom they chose.

⁴ The giants were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when the sons of God came into the daughters of men, and they bore to them; they were heroes which existed from ancient time, the men of name.

¹⁹ And he said, Therefore, hear the word of Jehovah: I saw Jehovah sitting on His throne, and all the host of Heaven were standing by Him, on His right and on His left.

¹ And Satan stood up against Israel and moved David to number Israel.

¹ And it happened that a day came when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah. And Satan also came among them to present himself before Jehovah.

⁷ when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

²⁰ Bless Jehovah, O angels of His; mighty in strength; doing His word; listening to the voice of His word.

²⁵ {cf9 : He answered and said, Behold! I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and there is no harm among them. And the form of the fourth is like a son of the gods.}

¹ And he made me see Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of Jehovah, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.

¹⁰ See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that their angels in Heaven continually look on the face of My Father in Heaven.

³⁸ son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

⁷⁰ Jesus answered them, Did I not choose you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!

⁹ And the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent being called Devil, and, Satan; he deceiving the whole habitable world was cast out onto the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. ¹⁰ And I heard a great voice saying in Heaven, Now has come the salvation and power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because the accuser of our brothers is thrown down, the one accusing them before our God day and night.

²⁵ And he went in and stood by his lord. And Elisha said to him, Where from Gehazi? And he said, Your servant did not go here or there.

² And Jehovah said to Satan, From where have you come? And Satan answered Jehovah and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it.

¹⁰ And the Man who stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are those whom Jehovah has sent to walk to and fro through the earth. ¹¹ And they answered the Angel of Jehovah who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sits still and is at peace.

⁷ And the strong colored ones went forth and sought to go, to walk to and fro in the earth. And he said, Go! Walk to and fro in the earth. So they walked to and fro in the earth.

⁴³ But when the unclean spirit goes from a man, he goes through dry places seeking rest and does not find it .

⁸ Be sensible, watch, because your adversary the Devil walks about as a roaring lion seeking someone he may devour;

⁹ And the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent being called Devil, and, Satan; he deceiving the whole habitable world was cast out onto the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

¹² Because of this, be glad, the heavens and those tabernacling in them. Woe to the ones dwelling on the earth, and in the sea, because the Devil came down to you having great anger, knowing that he has a little time! ¹³ And when the dragon saw that he was cast out onto the earth, he pursued the woman who bore the male. ¹⁴ And two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness, to her place, where she is nourished there a time, and times, and half a time, away from the serpent's face. ¹⁵ And the serpent threw water out of his mouth like a river after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried off by the river. ¹⁶ And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river which the dragon threw out of his mouth. ¹⁷ And the dragon was enraged over the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, those keeping the commandments of God, and having the testimony of Jesus Christ.

⁸ and he will go to mislead the nations in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to assemble them in war, whose number is as the sand of the sea.

³ And the man Moses was very meek, more than any man who was on the face of the earth.

⁷ It is not so with My servant Moses! He is faithful in all My house. ⁸ I speak to him mouth to mouth, and by an appearance, and not in riddles; and he carefully looks upon the form of Jehovah. So why have you not been afraid to speak against My servant, against Moses?

⁷ Only be strong and very brave, so that you may take heed to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may act wisely wherever you go.

³⁰ And Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the sons of the east, and than all the wisdom of Egypt. ³¹ For he was wiser than all men; wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his name was in all nations all around.

²⁵ And there was no king before him like him, who turned to Jehovah with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; and after him none rose up like him.

¹⁵ The former governors that had been before me were too heavy on the people, and had taken bread and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people. But I did not do this, because of the fear of God.

¹ There was a man in the land of Uz, his name was Job. And this man was perfect and upright, and fearing God, and turning away from evil.

²⁰ Behold, God will not cast away the innocent, and He will not help the evildoers,

²² It is One; so then I said He is consuming the perfect and the wicked. ²³ If the whip kills suddenly, He will mock at the testing of the innocent.

⁴ I am a laughingstock to his friends; calling on God, and He answers him; the just, the upright one is a mockery;

⁸ Upright ones shall be amazed at this; and the innocent shall stir himself against the ungodly. ⁹ And the righteous shall hold firmly on his way; and he of clean hands adds strength.

¹⁴ If He sets His heart on him, if He gathers his spirit and his breath to Himself,

⁷ And it happened, after Jehovah spoke these words to Job, Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My anger flows against you and your two friends. For You have not spoken the right about Me, as My servant Job. ⁸ And now take for you seven young bulls and seven rams and go to My servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And My servant Job will pray for you. Surely I will lift up his face so as not to do with you according to your folly, in that you have not spoken the right about Me, as My servant Job.

²³ For I was upright with Him, and kept myself from my guilt.

¹⁴ depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

¹ To the chief musician; of the servant of Jehovah; of David. The oracle utters transgression to the wicked within my heart: There is no fear of God before his eyes.

²⁷ Depart from evil and do good, and live forevermore.

¹¹ For Jehovah God is a sun and shield; Jehovah will give grace and glory; He will withhold nothing good from those who walk in integrity.

²⁰ I have found My servant David; I have anointed him with My holy oil.

¹⁶ Wash yourselves, purify yourselves. Put away the evil of your doings from My sight; stop doing evil.

¹ Behold My Servant; I will uphold Him; My Elect in whom My soul delights! I have put My Spirit on Him; He shall bring forth justice to the nations.

⁴ And the man said to me, Son of man, look with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you. For in order to show you, you are brought here. Declare to the house of Israel all that you see.

³⁹ And one of the hanged criminals blasphemed Him, saying, If you are the Christ, save yourself and us. ⁴⁰ But answering, the other rebuked him, saying, Do you not fear God, for you are in the same judgment?

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him and said concerning him, Behold, truly an Israelite in whom is no guile!

²¹ And he said, I came naked out of my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. Jehovah gave, and Jehovah has taken away. Blessed be the name of Jehovah.

¹⁰ But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish ones speak. Also, shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

¹⁴ And they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways. ¹⁵ What is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what do we profit if we entreat Him?

¹⁰ Who is even among you that will shut the doors, and you not kindle fire on My altar in vain? There is no delight to Me in you, says Jehovah of hosts. I will not be pleased with a food offering from you.

²⁶ For what will a man be benefited if he should gain the whole world, but forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give as an exchange for his soul?

⁸ For bodily exercise is profitable to a little, but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the present life and of that coming.

⁶ But godliness with contentment is great gain.

¹ After these things the word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision, saying, Do not fear, Abram; I am your shield, your reward will increase greatly.

¹² And Isaac sowed in that land. And a hundredfold was found in that year, and Jehovah blessed him.

³⁰ For little was yours before my presence, and it has spread out into a host. And Jehovah has blessed you at my foot. And now when shall I work for my house, I also?

⁴³ And the man increased very much, and many flocks were his, and slave-girls, and male slaves, and camels and asses.

⁵ And it came about that from the time he appointed him over his house and over all he owned, Jehovah blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake. And the blessing of Jehovah was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.

²⁵ From the God of your father, may He help you. And may the Almighty bless you with blessings of Heaven from above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts and womb.

¹³ And He will love you, and bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your oxen and the wealth of your flock, in the land which He has sworn to your fathers, to give it to you.

² And all these blessings shall come on you and overtake you. If you will listen to the voice of Jehovah your God. ³ You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field. ⁴ The fruit of your body shall be blessed, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your livestock, the offspring of your oxen, and the young ones of your flock. ⁵ Your basket and your kneadingtrough shall be blessed. ⁶ You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out.

¹¹ O Jehovah, bless his strength, and accept the work of his hands. Dash the loins of those rising against him, those who hate him, that they may not rise!

²⁷ The God of old is a refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And He shall cast the enemy out from before you, and shall say, Destroy!

¹⁶ They have been a wall to us both by day and by night, all the days we have been with them, feeding the flock.

³ And his possessions were seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household, so that this man was greater than all the sons of the east.

⁶ when I washed my steps with curds, and the rock poured out rivers of oil for me;

²⁵ if I rejoiced because my wealth was great; or because my hand had gotten much;

¹² For You, O Jehovah, will bless the righteous; You will surround him with favor, as with a shield.

⁷ The Angel of Jehovah camps around those who fear Him, and He delivers them.

²¹ You will multiply my greatness and surround and comfort me.

¹² Why have You broken down its walls, so that it is plucked by all who pass by the way?

¹⁷ And let the delight of the Lord our God be upon us; and establish the works of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands, establish it!

¹ A Song of Ascents. Blessed is everyone who fears Jehovah, who walks in His ways. ² For you shall surely eat the labor of your hands; you shall be happy, and all is good to you. ³ Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine by the sides of your house; your sons shall be like olive plants around your table. ⁴ Behold! So shall the man be blessed who fears Jehovah.

² And He dug it, and cleared it of stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in its midst, and also hewed out a wine vat in it. And He waited for it to produce grapes, but it produced rotten grapes.

⁵ And now I will make known to you what I will do then to My vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be burned. I will breach its wall, and it will become a trampling ground.

⁵ And I will be to her a wall of fire all around, and I will be for glory in her midst, declares Jehovah.

⁸ For so says Jehovah of hosts: He has sent Me after glory, to the nations who plundered you; for he who touches you touches the pupil of His eye.

⁵ by the power of God, having been guarded through faith to a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time;

¹¹ And Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, Anyone touching this man and his wife shall surely be put to death.

⁵ And it happened, when the day of feasting had gone around, Job would send and sanctify them. And he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt sacrifices according to all their number. For Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. This Job always did.

¹² And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, all that is his is in your hand! Only, do not lay your hand on him. And Satan went out from the face of Jehovah.

⁵ But indeed put out Your hand now and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse You to Your face.

⁵ But now it has come upon you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

²¹ Have pity on me! Have pity on me, you my friends. For the hand of God has touched me.

¹⁵ saying, Touch not My anointed; and, Do My prophets no harm.

²⁵ On account of this the anger of Jehovah is kindled on His people, and He has stretched out His hand against them, and has struck them; and the mountains quaked, and their dead bodies were as filth in the midst of the streets. In all this His anger does not turn away, but His hand is stretched out still.

²¹ And they shall pass through it, hard pressed and hungry. And it shall be, they shall be hungry; he will rave and curse his king and his God, and face upward.

¹³ Your words have been strong against Me, says Jehovah. Yet you say, What have we spoken against you? ¹⁴ You have said, It is vain to serve God. And, What profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked as mourners before Jehovah of hosts?

⁹ And men were burned with great heat. And they blasphemed the name of God, the One having authority over these plagues and they did not repent to give Him glory.

¹¹ And they blasphemed the God of Heaven, from their pains and from their sores. And they did not repent of their works.

²¹ And a great hail, as the size of a talent, came down out of the heaven upon men. And men blasphemed God from the plague of the hail, because its plague is exceedingly great.

⁶ But Abram said to Sarai, See, your slave girl is in your hand. Do to her what is good in your eyes. And Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from before her.

²³ And now, behold, Jehovah has put a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of all these prophets of yours; and Jehovah has spoken evil as to you!

⁴ And Satan answered Jehovah and said, Skin for skin. Yea, all that a man has he will give for his life. ⁵ But indeed put out Your hand now and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse You to Your face. ⁶ And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, He is in your hand; but preserve his life. ⁷ And Satan went out from before the face of Jehovah. And he struck Job with bad burning ulcers from the sole of his foot to the top of his head.

¹⁰ For the wraths of man thank You; You encircle Yourself with the wraths left over.

⁸ You will contend with her by driving her away, by sending her away. He shall take away by His harsh wind, in the day of the east wind.

⁵ And Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand. For. the king cannot do anything against you.

³² And there was a herd of many pigs feeding there in the mount. And they begged Him that He would allow them to enter into those. And He allowed them. ³³ And coming out from the man, the demons entered into the pigs; and the herd rushed down the cliff into the lake and was choked.

³¹ And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold! Satan asked for you, to sift you as wheat; ³² but I entreated concerning you, that your faith might not fail. And when you have turned back, confirm your brothers.

³⁵ The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand. ³⁶ The one believing into the Son has everlasting life; but the one disobeying the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

¹¹ Jesus answered, You would have no authority against Me, not any, if it were not given to you from above. Because of this, the one delivering Me to you has a greater sin.

¹³ No temptation has taken you except what is human; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able. But with the temptation, He will also make the way out, so that you may be able to bear it .

⁷ And by surpassing revelations, that I not be made haughty, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan, that he might buffet me, that I not be made haughty.

⁴ And his sons feasted in the house of each one on his day. And they sent and called their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

¹ Do not boast in the day of tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.

¹² For man also does not know his time. As the fish that are taken in the evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the trap, like them are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take rest, eat, drink, and be glad. ²⁰ But God said to him, Fool! This night they demand your soul from you; and that which you prepared, to whom will it be?

²⁷ They were eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage, until the day Noah went into the ark. And the flood came and destroyed all. ²⁸ And likewise, as it was in the days of Lot, they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building; ²⁹ but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from the heaven and destroyed all.

³⁴ But take heed to yourselves that your hearts not be loaded down with headaches, and drinking, and anxieties of life, and that day come suddenly upon you

¹⁷ And he bearing the news answered and said, Israel has fled before the Philistines; and also there has been a great slaughter among the people. And also your two sons have died, Hophni and Phinehas. And the ark of God has been taken.

¹³ And a messenger came to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel have gone after Absalom.

³¹ A runner shall run to meet a runner, and a herald to meet a herald, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city is captured from end to end,

⁷ And the sons of Cush were Seba and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And Raamah's sons were Sheba and Dedan.

²⁸ and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

³ And Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim and Leummim.

²⁰ And one son escaped of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. And his name was Abiathar, and he fled after David. ²¹ And Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of Jehovah.

¹⁶ While this one was still speaking, this other also came and said, The fire of God has fallen from the heavens and has burned up the sheep and the young men. And it has destroyed them; and I, I alone have escaped to tell you. ¹⁷ While this one was still speaking, this other also came and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands and swooped down on the camels. And they have taken them away. And they have killed the young men with the edge of the sword; and I, I alone have escaped to tell you.

¹⁹ And, behold! A great wind came from the wilderness and touched the four corners of the house. And it fell on the young men and they died; and I, I alone have escaped to tell you.

¹⁹ The troops of Tema looked; the travelers of Sheba hoped for them;

¹⁰ The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents; the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

¹⁴ So says Jehovah, The labor of Egypt, and the goods of Ethiopia, and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come to you; and they shall be yours. They shall come after you; they shall cross in chains; and they shall bow to you; they shall plead to you. Surely God is in you, and there is none else, no other God.

⁴² And the sound of a crowd at ease was with her, and drunkards from the wilderness were brought with the men of the host of mankind. And they put bracelets on their hands and crowns of beauty on their heads.

⁸ And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far off. For Jehovah has spoken it.

²⁴ And Jehovah rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from Jehovah out of the heavens.

²⁸ Pray to Jehovah and let it be enough of the thunders and hail of God. And I will send you away and you shall not continue any longer.

²⁴ And fire came out from before Jehovah and consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. And all the people saw, and cried aloud, and fell on their faces.

² And fire went out from before Jehovah and consumed them; and they died before Jehovah.

¹ And the people were evil, as those complaining in the ears of Jehovah. And Jehovah heard, and His anger glowed, and the fire of Jehovah burned among them and devoured in the extreme edge of the camp. ² And the people cried to Moses, and Moses prayed to Jehovah, and the fire was quenched. ³ And he called the name of that place Taberah, because the fire of Jehovah burned among them.

¹⁵ And there was trembling in the camp in the field, and among all the people; the fort and the spoilers trembled, even them. And the ground quaked, and it was for a trembling of God.

³⁸ And fire fell from Jehovah and burned up the burnt offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and the water in the trench was licked up.

¹⁰ And Elijah answered and said to the commander of fifty, And if I am a man of God, fire will come down from the heavens and consume you and your fifty. And fire came down from the heavens and consumed him and his fifty.

¹² And Elijah answered and said to them, If I am a man of God, fire will come down from the heavens and will consume you and your fifty. And fire from God came down from the heavens and consumed him and his fifty.

¹⁴ Behold, fire has come down from the heavens and has consumed the two commanders of the former fifties and their fifties. And now let my life be precious in your eyes.

⁴ The Lord Jehovah made me to see this: And, behold, the Lord Jehovah was calling to contend by fire. And it consumed the great deep, and it was devouring part of it.

¹³ And it does great signs, that even fire it causes to come down out of the heaven onto the earth before men.

²⁸ And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

³¹ And Terah took his son Abram, and Lot, Haran's son, his grandson and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife. And he went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan. And they came to Haran and lived there.

³ And David said to him, From where do you come? And he said to him, I have escaped out of the camp of Israel.

¹⁵ And the Sabeans fell on, and took them away. And they killed the young men with the edge of the sword; and I, I alone have escaped to tell you.

¹³ Behold, the land of the Chaldeans! This people did not exist! Assyria founded it for those who live in the desert. They set up their siege towers; they stripped its palaces. They made it a ruin.

⁶ For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, the bitter and impetuous nation which is going into the broad spaces of the land, to possess dwellings not his own.

²⁸ And Absalom commanded his young men, saying, Now watch when Amnon's heart is glad with wine, and when I say to you, Strike Amnon, you shall kill him. Do not fear. Did not I command you? Be strong, and be valiant.

¹³ And a day came when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their brother's house, the first-born.

² Oh that my vexation were carefully weighed, and my ruin lifted in the balances together! ³ For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; on account of this my words have been rash.

¹⁴ He breaks me with break on top of break; He runs on me like a warrior.

⁹ He has stripped me of my honor, and He has taken the crown from my head. ¹⁰ He has broken me on every side, and I go; and He has uprooted my hope like a tree.

² Even today my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy over my groaning.

¹⁴ If his sons become numerous, the sword is for them; and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

¹⁹ Many are the evils of the righteous, but Jehovah helps him out of them all,

² All happens alike to all; one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him who sacrifices, and to him who does not sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who swears is as he that fears an oath.

¹⁹ As often as it passes, it shall take you; for morning by morning it shall pass; and by day and by night, it shall only be a terror to understand the message.

¹² Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Behold, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow which is done to me, with which Jehovah has afflicted me in the day of His burning anger.

⁶ And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in your places; and you have not returned to Me, declares Jehovah. ⁷ And I have also withheld the rain from you when it was yet three months to the harvest. And I caused rain to fall on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One piece was rained on, and the piece where it did not rain was dried up. ⁸ So two or three cities staggered to one city in order to drink water, but they were not satisfied; yet you have not returned to Me, declares Jehovah. ⁹ I have struck you with blasting and mildew. The multitude of your gardens and your vineyards, and your figs, and your olives are devoured by the creeping locust; yet you have not returned to Me, declares Jehovah. ¹⁰ I have sent a plague among you in the way of Egypt; I have killed your young men with the sword and your horses with captivity. And I have made the stench of your camps to come up even into your nostrils; yet you have not returned to Me, declares Jehovah. ¹¹ I have overthrown among you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand plucked out of the burning; yet you have not returned to Me, declares Jehovah.

³² And they sent the tunic reaching to the soles of his feet, and they took it to their father, and said, We have found this. Now look, is it your son's tunic? ³³ And he knew it, and said, My son's tunic! An evil beast has eaten him. Surely Joseph is torn in pieces.

³⁶ And their father Jacob said to them, You have bereaved me. Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and you will take Benjamin? All of these are against me.

³⁰ And Samson said, Let my soul die with the Philistines! And he bowed mightily, and the house fell on the rulers, and on all the people who were in it. And the dead that he killed in his death were more than those the killed in his life.

³³ And the king trembled. And he went up to the upper room of the gate and wept. And he said this as he went, My son! My son Absalom! My son Absalom! Oh that I had died instead of you, my son Absalom, my son!

³⁰ And those remaining fled to Aphek, to the city. And the wall fell on twenty seven thousand of those left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner room.

¹¹ At that time it shall be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind from the bare hills in the desert toward the daughter of My people, not to sift nor to cleanse! ¹² A wind more full than these shall come for Me. Now I also will utter judgments against them.

²⁷ and the rain came down, and the rivers came up, and the winds blew and beat against that house; and it fell, and great was the fall of it.

¹ And some were present at the same time reporting to Him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate mixed with their sacrifices. ² And answering, Jesus said to them, Do you think that these Galileans were sinners beyond all the Galileans, because they suffered such things? ³ No, I say to you; but if you do not repent, you will all perish in the same way. ⁴ Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them, do you think that these were sinners beyond all men who lived in Jerusalem? ⁵ No, I say to you; but if you do not repent, you will all perish in the same way.

⁴ And when the foreigners saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said to one another, By all means this man is a murderer, whom being saved out of the sea, Justice did not permit to live.

² in which you then walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit now working in the sons of disobedience,

²⁹ And Reuben came back to the pit. And, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

³⁴ And Jacob tore his clothing and put sackcloth on his loins. And he mourned many days for his son.

¹⁸ And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water; because of all your sins which you had sinned, in doing that which was evil in the eyes of Jehovah, to make Him angry.

¹⁶ And David sought God for the child. And David fasted a fast, and went in and stayed the night, and lay on the earth. ¹⁷ And the elders of his house rose up toward him, to raise him up from the earth. But he was not willing; and he ate no bread with them. ¹⁸ And it happened on the seventh day, the boy died. And David's servants feared to tell him that the boy was dead, for they said, Behold, while the boy was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to our voice. And how shall we say to him, The boy is dead? Then he may do harm. ¹⁹ And David saw that his servants were whispering among themselves. And David understood that the boy was dead. And David said to his servants, Is the boy dead? And they said, He is dead. ²⁰ And David rose up from the earth, and bathed, and anointed. And he changed his clothing, and came into the house of Jehovah, and worshiped. And he came to his house, and commanded, and they brought bread for him; and he ate.

³ And all the sons of Israel were watching, when the fire came down, and the glory of Jehovah was on the house and they bowed their noses to the earth, on the pavement, and worshiped, and gave thanks to Jehovah: for He is good, for His mercy endures forever.

³ And when I heard this thing, I tore my garments and my robe, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down stunned.

³⁹ And going forward a little, He fell on His face, praying, and saying, My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will .

⁶ Then be humbled under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in time;

¹⁹ By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until your return to the ground. For you have been taken out of it; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.

² And Jacob's anger glowed against Rachel, and he said, Am I in God's place, who has kept back from you the fruit of the womb?

⁵ And now do not be grieved, and let no anger be in your eyes because you sold me here for God sent me before you to save life.

⁷ Jehovah brings down, and He gives riches; He brings low; yea, He lifts up high.

¹⁸ And Samuel told him all the words, and did not hide from him. And he said, It is Jehovah; He does which is good in His eyes.

¹² It may be Jehovah will look on my affliction, and Jehovah will return good to me for his cursing this day.

¹⁵ And the king did not listen to the people, for the revolution was from Jehovah, in order to establish His word that Jehovah spoke by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

¹⁹ And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, The word of Jehovah that you have spoken is good. And he said, Is it not good if peace and truth are in my days?

¹ A Psalm of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech; and he drove him away, and he went. I will bless Jehovah at all times; His praise shall always be in my mouth.

⁹ I was dumb; I did not open my mouth, because You had done it .

¹⁷ for when he dies, he shall take nothing; his glory shall not go down after him.

³⁸ But You have cast off and rejected us; You have been angry with Your anointed. ³⁹ You have turned away from the covenant of your servant; You have defiled his crown on the ground. ⁴⁰ You have broken down all his hedges; You have brought his strongholds to ruin. ⁴¹ All who pass by the way plunder him; he is a curse to his neighbors. ⁴² You have set up the right hand of his enemies; You have made all his enemies rejoice. ⁴³ And you have turned back the edge of his sword, and have not held him up in battle. ⁴⁴ You have made his glory to cease and have hurled his throne to the ground. ⁴⁵ You have shortened the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah. ⁴⁶ O Jehovah, until when will You hide Yourself? Shall Your wrath burn like fire forever? ⁴⁷ Remember, I pray, the time of life; for what vanity have you created all the sons of men? ⁴⁸ What man lives and never sees death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of Sheol? Selah. ⁴⁹ Lord, where are Your former kindnesses that You swore to David in Your faithfulness? ⁵⁰ Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, my bearing in my bosom the insults of the many peoples; ⁵¹ with which Your enemies have cursed, O Jehovah; with which they have cursed the footsteps of Your anointed. ⁵² Blessed be Jehovah forever. Amen and amen!

¹⁵ As he came forth from his mother's womb naked, he shall return to go as he came. And from his labor he may not carry anything that may go in his hand.

¹⁹ Also every man to whom God has given riches and treasures, and gives him power to eat of it, and to take his share, and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.

⁷ then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.

¹⁵ On account of this, glorify Jehovah in the flames, the name of Jehovah God of Israel, in the coasts of the sea.

²⁴ Who gave Jacob to the plunderer, and Israel to the robbers? Did not Jehovah, He against whom we have sinned? For they willed not to walk in His ways, and they did not obey His law.

⁷ forming light, and creating darkness; making peace, and creating evil.

³⁸ Both the evil and the good do not go out from the mouth of the Most High.

⁶ If a ram's horn is blowing in a city, will the people not also tremble? If there is a calamity in a city, has Jehovah not even done it ?

¹⁵ Or is it not lawful for me to do what I desire with my things? Or is your eye evil because I am good?

²⁸ to do whatever Your hand and Your counsel before-determined to be done.

²⁰ giving thanks at all times for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, even to God the Father,

¹⁸ In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

⁷ For we have brought nothing into the world, and it is plain that neither can we carry anything out.

¹⁷ every act of good giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom is no change or shadow of turning.

¹⁰ So, O man of heart, listen to me; far be it from God to do wickedness; and the Almighty, to do evilly.

¹⁸ who says to a king, O worthless one; to nobles, O evil one? ¹⁹ How much less to Him who does not lift up the face of rulers, nor regard the rich before the poor; for all of them are the work of His hands.

⁴ Behold, I am vile! What shall I answer You? I will put my hand to my mouth. ⁵ Once I have spoken, but I will not answer; yea, twice, but I will go no further. ⁶ And Jehovah answered Job out of the tempest and said: ⁷ Now gird up your loins like a man, and I will question you; and you teach Me. ⁸ Will you also set aside My judgment; will you condemn Me so that you may be justified?

²⁰ Yes, rather, O man, who are you answering against God? Shall the thing formed say to the One forming it, Why did You make me like this? Isa. 29:16

⁴ But let patience have its perfective work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

¹² Blessed is the man who endures temptation, because having been approved he will receive the crown of life which the Lord promised to the ones loving Him.

⁷ so that the proving of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, but having been proved through fire, may be found to praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ;