Job 11 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ Then Sophar the Minaean answered and said, ² He that speaks much, should also hear on the other side: or does the fluent speaker think himself to be righteous? blessed [is] the short lived offspring of woman. ³ Be not a speaker of many words; for is there none to answer you? ⁴ For say not, I am pure in my works, and blameless before him. ⁵ But oh that the Lord would speak to you, and open his lips to you! ⁶ Then shall he declare to you the power of wisdom; for it shall be double of that which is with you: and then shall you know, that a just recompence of your sins has come to you from the Lord. ⁷ Will you find out the traces of the Lord? or have you come to the end [of that] which the Almighty has made? ⁸ Heaven [is] high; and what will you do? and there are deeper things than those in hell; what do you know? ⁹ Or longer than the measure of the earth, or the breadth of the sea. ¹⁰ And if he should overthrow all things, who will say to him, What have you done? ¹¹ For he knows the works of transgressors; and when he sees wickedness, he will not overlook [it]. ¹² But man vainly buoys himself up with words; and a mortal born of woman [is] like an ass in the desert. ¹³ For if you have made your heart pure, and lift up [your] hands towards him; ¹⁴ if there is any iniquity in your hands, put if far from you, and let not unrighteousness lodge in your habitation. ¹⁵ For thus shall your countenance shine again, as pure water; and you shall dive yourself of uncleanness, and shall not fear. ¹⁶ And you shall forget trouble, as a wave that has passed by; and you shall not be scared. ¹⁷ And your prayer [shall be] as the morning star, and life shall arise to you [as] from the noonday. ¹⁸ And you shall be confident, because you have hope; and peace shall dawn to you from out of anxiety and care. ¹⁹ For you shall be at ease, and there shall be no one to fight against you; and many shall charge, and make supplication to you. ²⁰ But safety shall fail them; for their hope is destruction, and the eyes of the ungodly shall waste away.

¹¹ Now his three friends having heard of all the evil that was come upon him, came to him each from his own country: Eliphaz the king of the Thaemans, Baldad sovereign of the Saucheans, Sophar king of he Minaeans: and they came to him with one accord, to comfort and to visit him.

¹ Then Sophar the Minaean answered and said,

² How long will you speak these things, [how long shall] the breath of your mouth [be] abundant in words?

³ What! is there any reason in vain words? or what will hinder you from answering?

² How long will you continue? forbear, that we also may speak.

¹⁹ By a multitude of words you shall not escape sin; but if you refrain your lips you will be prudent.

⁴ For a righteous and blameless man has become a subject for mockery.

⁴ But you⌃ are all bad physicians, and healers of diseases.

⁹ For [it were] well if he would thoroughly search you: for though doing all things [in your power] you⌃ should attach yourselves to him,

² Will a wise man give for answer a [mere] breath of wisdom? and does he fill up the pain of his belly, ³ reasoning with improper sayings, and with words wherein is no profit?

² Weary I entreat; and what have I done? and strangers have stolen my goods.

³ Raise me, and I will speak; then you⌃ shall not laugh me to scorn.

²⁵ But if not, who is he that says I speak falsely, and will make my words of no account?

⁷ What man is as Job, drinking scorning like water?

¹⁷ I have not sat in the assembly of them as they mocked, but I feared because of your power: I sat alone, for I was filled with bitterness.

¹⁰ Let the grave be my city, upon the walls of which I have leaped: I will not shrink from it; for I have not denied the holy words of my God.

²⁹ Sit down now, and let there not be unrighteousness; and unite again with the just. ³⁰ For there is no injustice in my tongue; and does not my throat meditate understanding?

²⁰ If I have sinned, what shall I be able to do, O you that understand the mind of men? why have you made me as your accuser, and [why] am I a burden to you?

² I know of a truth that it is so: for how shall a mortal man be just before the Lord? ³ For if he would enter into judgment with him, [God] would not listen to him, so that he should answer to one of his charges of a thousand.

⁷ For you know that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of your hands?

⁴ For who shall be pure from uncleanness? not even one;

⁵ For Job has said, I am righteous: the Lord has removed my judgment. ⁶ And he has erred in my judgment: my wound is severe without unrighteousness [of mine].

² What is this that you think to be according to right? who are you that you have said, I am righteous before the Lord?

³ Who would then know that I might find him, and come to an end [of the matter]? ⁴ And I would plead my own cause, and he would fill my mouth with arguments. ⁵ And I would know the remedies which he would speak to me, and I would perceive what he would tell me. ⁶ Though he should come on me in [his] great strength, then he would not threaten me; ⁷ for truth and reproof are from him; and he would bring forth my judgment to an end.

³⁵ (Oh that I had a hearer,) and if I had not feared the hand of the Lord; and [as to] the written charge which I had against any one,

⁶ You are formed out of the clay as also I: we have been formed out of the same [substance]. ⁷ My fear shall not terrify you, neither shall my hand be heavy upon you. ⁸ But you have said in mine ears, (I have heard the voice of your words;) because you say, I am pure, not having sinned; ⁹ I am blameless, for I have not transgressed. ¹⁰ Yet he has discovered a charge against me, and he has reckoned me as an adversary. ¹¹ And he has put my foot in the stocks, and has watched all my ways. ¹² For how say you, I am righteous, yet he has not listened to me? for he that is above mortals is eternal. ¹³ But you say, Why has he not heard every word of my cause? ¹⁴ For when the Lord speaks once, or a second time, ¹⁵ [sending] a dream, or in the meditation of the night; (as when a dreadful alarm happens to fall upon men, in slumberings on the bed:) ¹⁶ then opens he the understanding of men: he scares them with such fearful visions: ¹⁷ to turn a man from unrighteousness, and he delivers his body from a fall. ¹⁸ He spares also his soul from death, and [suffers] him not to fall in war.

¹ And after Elius had ceased from speaking, the Lord spoke to Job through the whirlwind and clouds, [saying], ² Who is this that hides counsel from me, and confines words in [his] heart, and thinks to conceal [them] from me?

¹ And the Lord yet again answered and spoke to Job out of the cloud, [saying], ² Nay, gird up now your loins like a man; and I will ask you, and do you answer me. ³ Do not set aside my judgment: and do you think that I have dealt with you in any other way, than that you might appear to be righteous? ⁴ Hast you an arm like the Lord's? or do you thunder with a voice like his? ⁵ Assume now a lofty bearing and power; and clothe yourself with glory and honor.

⁸ And hide them together in the earth; and fill their faces with shame.

⁷ And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken all these words to Job, [that] the Lord said to Eliphaz the Thaemanite, You have sinned, and your two friends: for you⌃ have not said anything true before me, as my servant Job [has].

²⁹ The secret things [belong] to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed [belong] to us and to our children for ever, to do all the words of this law.

¹³ And after all that is come upon us because of our evil deeds, and our great trespass, [it is clear] that there is none such as our God, for you has lightly visited our iniquities, and given us deliverance;

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

⁵ You are guilty by the words of your mouth, neither have you discerned the words of the mighty.

⁸ Or have you heard the ordinance of the Lord? or has God used you as [his] counsellor? and has wisdom come [only] to you?

¹¹ You have been scourged for [but] few of your sins: you have spoken haughtily [and] extravagantly.

²⁸ And he said to man, Behold, godliness is wisdom: and to abstain from evil is understanding.

¹⁰ He sends forth his fountains among the valleys: the waters shall run between the mountains.

⁴³ Who is wise, and will observe these things, and understand the mercies of the Lord?

²² HETH. [It is] the mercies of the Lord, that he has not failed me, because his compassions are not exhausted. Pity [us], O Lord, early [every] month: for we are not brought to an end, because his compassions are not exhausted.

²⁸ But there is a God in heaven revealing mysteries, and he has made known to king Nabuchodonosor what things must come to pass in the last days. Your dream, and the visions of your head upon your bed, are as follows,

⁴⁷ And the king answered and said to Daniel, Of a truth your God is a God of gods, and Lord of kings, who reveals mysteries; for you has been able to reveal this mystery.

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

¹⁴ Behold, these are parts of his way; and we will listen to him at the least intimation of his word: but the strength of his thunder who knows, when he shall employ [it]?

²³ and we do not find another his equal in strength: [as for] him that judges justly, do you not think that he listens?

¹⁹ They spoke also against God, and said, Will God be able to prepare a table in the wilderness?

³ Trust not in princes, nor in the children of men, in whom there is no safety.

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

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

¹⁸ For will God indeed dwell with men upon the earth? if the heaven and the heaven of heavens will not suffice you, what then is this house which I have built?

¹² Does not he that dwells in the high places observe? and has he not brought down the proud?

⁶ Hell is naked before him, and destruction has no covering.

⁵ If you have sinned, what will you do?

¹¹ They shall give drink to all the wild beasts of the field: the wild asses shall take [of them] to [quench] their thirst.

⁶ I said to the Lord, You are my God; listen, O Lord, to the voice of my supplication. ⁷ O Lord God, the strength of my salvation; you have screened my head in the day of battle. ⁸ Deliver me not, O Lord, to the sinner, according to my desire: they have devised [mischief] against me; forsake me not, lest they should be exalted. Pause.

¹³ let them praise the name of the Lord: for his name only is exalted; his praise is above the earth and heaven,

² The glory of God conceals a matter: but the glory of a king honors business. ³ Heaven is high, and earth is deep, and a king's heart is unsearchable.

⁹ But as the heaven is distant from the earth, so is my way distant from your ways, and your thoughts from my mind.

² Though they hid themselves in hell, thence shall my hand drag them forth; and though they go up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.

²⁴ For he surveys the whole [earth] under heaven, knowing the things in the earth: ²⁵ all that he has made; the weight of the winds, the measures of the water.

⁵ Come and behold the works of God; [he is] terrible in [his] counsels beyond the children of men. ⁶ Who turns the sea into dry land; they shall go through the river on foot; there shall we rejoice in him, ⁷ who by his power is Lord over the age, his eyes look upon the nations; let not them that provoke [him] be exalted in themselves. Pause. ⁸ Bless our God, you⌃ Gentiles, and make the voice of his praise to be heard;

⁹ [As for] the head of them that compass me, the mischief of their lips shall cover them. ¹⁰ Coals of fire shall fall upon them on the earth; and you shall cast them down in afflictions: they shall not bear up [under them].

³⁰ How should one pursue a thousand, and two rout tens of thousands, if God had not sold them, and the Lord delivered them up?

¹⁸ for he causes [a man] to be in pain, and restores [him] again: he smites, and his hands heal.

¹² If he would take away, who shall turn him back? or who shall say to him, What have you done? ¹³ For [if] he has turned away [his] anger, the whales under heaven have stooped under him.

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

²⁹ And he will give quiet, and who will condemn? and he will hide his face, and who shall see him? whether [it be done] against a nation, or against a man also:

⁸ And I shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed out, coming forth out its mother's womb.

⁸ I will instruct you and guide you in this way wherein you shall go: I will fix mine eyes upon you.

²⁷ I will give dominion to Sion, and will comfort Jerusalem by the way.

¹³ And you has said, What does the Mighty One know? does he judge in the dark? ¹⁴ A cloud is his hiding-place, and he shall not be seen; and he passes through the circle of heaven.

²¹ For he surveys the works of men, and nothing of what they do has escaped him. ²² Neither shall there be a place for the workers of iniquity to hide themselves. ²³ For he will not lay upon a man more [than right].

¹¹ So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.

⁸ Also the abundance of the earth is for every one: the king [is dependent on] the tilled field.

⁹ The heart is deep beyond all things, and it is the man, and who can know him? ¹⁰ I the Lord try the hearts, and prove the reins, to give to every one according to his ways, and according to the fruits of his devices.

² that they may concert together as [men] singing in their heart: I remember all their wickedness: now have their own counsels compassed them about; they came before my face.

¹³ [His] eye is too pure to behold evil [doings], and to look upon grievous afflictions: therefore do you look upon despisers? will you be silent when the ungodly swallows up the just?

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

⁵ What then? will the wild ass bray for nothing, if he is not seeking food? or again, will the ox low at the manger, when he has a fodder?

² So then you⌃ [alone] are men, and wisdom shall die with you? ³ [But] I also have a heart as well as you.

¹⁴ For who, being a mortal, [is such] that he shall be blameless? or, [who that is] born of a woman, that he should be just?

⁵ And who is he that sent forth the wild ass free? and who loosed his bands? ⁶ whereas I made his habitation the wilderness, and the salt land his coverts. ⁷ He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, and hears not the chiding of the tax-gatherer. ⁸ He will survey the mountains [as] his pasture, and he seeks after every green thing.

⁵ Therefore may God destroy you for ever, may he pluck you up and utterly remove you from [your] dwelling, and your root from the land of the living. Pause.

⁹ But they vainly sought after my soul; they shall go into the lowest parts o the earth. ¹⁰ They shall be delivered up to the power of the sword; they shall be portions for foxes.

²² Arise, O God, plead your cause: remember your reproaches that come from the foolish one all the day.

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

¹⁸ I said in my heart, concerning the speech of the sons of man, God will judge them, and that to show that they are breasts.

²⁴ she has extended her ways over the waters of the desert; she was hurried along by the lusts of her soul; she is given up [to them], who will turn her back? none that seek her shall be weary; at [the time of] her humiliation they shall find her.

³ And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If you⌃ do with all your heart return to the Lord, take away the strange gods from the midst of you, and the groves, and prepare your hearts to [serve] the Lord, and serve him only; and he shall deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.

¹⁴ And he did evil, for he directed not his heart to seek the Lord.

³ Nevertheless [some] good things have been found in you, forasmuch as you did remove the groves from the land of Juda, and did direct your heart to seek after the Lord.

⁸ Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the sovereign of all;

⁵ But be you early in prayer to the Lord Almighty. ⁶ If you are pure and true, he will listen to your supplication, and will restore to you the habitation of righteousness.

²¹ Be firm, I pray you, if you can endure; then your fruit shall prosper. ²² And receive a declaration from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

³¹ and [this] shall please God more than a young calf having horns and hoofs.

⁸ Remember not our old transgressions; let your tender mercies speedily prevent us; for we are greatly impoverished.

⁹ You rule the power of the sea; and you calm the tumult of its waves.

⁶ Send lightning, and you shall scatter them: send forth your arrows, and you shall discomfit them.

⁷ Remember then who has perished, being pure? or when were the true-hearted utterly destroyed?

⁵ Is not your wickedness abundant, and your sins innumerable?

²³ And if you shall turn and humble yourself before the Lord, you have [thus] removed unrighteousness far from your habitation.

³² I will see apart from myself: do you show me if I have done unrighteousness; I will not do [so] any more.

² Turn not away your face from me: in the day [when] I am afflicted, incline your ear to me: in the day [when] I shall call upon you, speedily hear me.

¹⁵ When you⌃ stretch forth your hands, I will turn away mine eyes from you: and though you⌃ make many supplications, I will not listen to you; for your hands are full of blood.

³⁰ I will judge you, O house of Israel, says the Lord, each one according to his way: be converted, and turn from all your ungodliness, and it shall not become to you the punishment of iniquity. ³¹ Cast away from yourselves all your ungodliness wherein you⌃ have sinned against me; and make to yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: for why should you⌃ die, O house of Israel?

³ And he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth: for every thief shall be punished with death on this side, and every false swearer shall be punished on that side. ⁴ And I will bring it forth, says the Lord Almighty, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that swears falsely by my name: and it shall rest in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, and the timber of it, and the stones of it.

⁵ but Cain and his sacrifices he regarded not, and Cain was exceedingly sorrowful and his countenance fell. ⁶ And the Lord God said to Cain, Why are you become very sorrowful and why is your countenance fallen?

¹⁵ Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and if I should be righteous, I can’t lift myself up, for I am full of dishonor.

²⁶ Then shall you have boldness before the Lord, looking up cheerfully to heaven.

¹ (28) [A Psalm] of David. To you, O Lord, have I cried; my God, be not silent toward me: lest you be silent toward me, and so I should be likened to them that go down to the pit.

¹ (47) For the end, a Psalm for the sons of Core. Clap your hands, all you⌃ nations; shout to God with a voice of exultation.

⁶ and [yet] looks upon the low things in heaven, and on the earth: ⁷ who lifts up the poor from the earth, and raises up the needy from the dunghill; ⁸ to set him with princes, [even] with the princes of his people:

⁶ My soul has long been a sojourner; ⁷ I was peaceful among them that hated peace; when I spoke to them, they warred against me without a cause.

²⁶ In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence: and he leaves his children a support.

¹ The ungodly [man] flees when no one pursues: but the righteous is confident as a lion.

¹¹ And I will establish my covenant with you and all flesh shall not any more die by the water of the flood, and there shall no more be a flood of water to destroy all the earth.

⁵¹ And Joseph called the name of the firstborn, Manasse; for God, [said he], has made me forget all my toils, and all my father's house.

¹⁵ My nearest relations have not regarded me; they have passed me by like a failing brook, or like a wave.

¹¹ The light has proved darkness to you, and water has covered you on your lying down.

⁷ that they may forget their poverty, and may not remember their troubles any more.

¹ And in that day you shall say, I [will] bless you, O Lord; for you were angry with me, but you have turned aside your wrath, and have pitied me. ² Behold, my God is my Saviour; I will trust in him, and not be afraid: for the Lord is my glory and my praise, and is become my salvation.

⁴ Fear not, because you has been put to shame, neither be confounded, because you was reproached: for you shall forget your former shame, and shall no more at all remember the reproach of your widowhood.

⁹ From the time of the water of Noe this is my [purpose]: as I sware to him at that time, [saying] of the earth, I will no more be angry with you, neither when you are threatened,

¹⁶ which shall be blessed on the earth; for they shall bless the true God: and they that swear upon the earth shall swear by the true God; for they shall forget the former affliction, it shall not come into their mind.

¹⁰ And king David blessed the Lord before the congregation, saying, Blessed are you, O Lord God of Israel, our Father, from everlasting and to everlasting.

¹¹ And all his brethren and his sisters heard all that had happened to him, and they came to him, and [so did] all that had known him from the first: and they ate and drank with him, and comforted him, and wondered at all that the Lord had brought upon him: and each one gave him a lamb, and four drachmas' weight of gold, even of unstamped [gold]. ¹² And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job, [more] than the beginning: and his cattle were fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, a thousand she-asses of the pastures. ¹³ And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴ And he called the first Day, and the second Casia, and the third Amalthaea's horn. ¹⁵ And there were not found in comparison with the daughters of Job, fairer [women] than they in all the world: and their father gave them an inheritance among their brethren. ¹⁶ And Job lived after [his] affliction a hundred and seventy years: and all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: and Job saw his sons and his sons' sons, the fourth generation. ¹⁷ And Job died, an old man and full of days: and it is written that he will rise again with those whom the Lord raises up. This man is described in the Syriac book [as] living in the land of Ausis, on the borders of Idumea and Arabia: and his name before was Jobab; and having taken an Arabian wife, he begot a son whose name was Ennon. And he himself was the son of his father Zare, one of the sons of Esau, and of his mother Bosorrha, so that he was the fifth from Abraam. And these were the kings who reigned in Edom, which country he also ruled over: first, Balac, the son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dennaba: but after Balac, Jobab, who is called Job, and after him Asom, who was governor out of the country of Thaeman: and after him Adad, the son of Barad, who destroyed Madiam in the plain of Moab; and the name of his city was Gethaim. And [his] friends who came to him were Eliphaz, of the children of Esau, king of the Thaemanites, Baldad sovereign the Sauchaeans, Sophar king of the Minaeans.

⁶ I have been wretched and bowed down continually: I went with a mourning countenance all the day.

⁴ The Lord is high above all the nations; his glory is above the heavens.

¹⁸ But the ways of the righteous shine like light; they go on and shine, until the day be fully come.

⁸ Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your health shall speedily spring forth: and your righteousness shall go before you, and the glory of God shall compass you. ⁹ Then shall you cry, and God shall listen to you; while you are yet speaking he will say, Behold, I am here. If you remove from you the band, and the stretching forth of the hands, and murmuring speech; ¹⁰ and [if] you give bread to the hungry from your heart, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light spring up in darkness, and your darkness [shall be] as noon-day:

³ After two days he will heal us: in the third day we shall arise, and live before him, and shall know [him]:

⁸ Rejoice not against me, mine enemy; for I have fallen [yet] shall arise; for though I should sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light to me. ⁹ I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he make good my cause: he also shall maintain my right, and shall bring me out to the light, [and] I shall behold his righteousness.

⁶ And it shall come to pass in that day that there shall be no light, ⁷ and there shall be for one day cold and frost, and that day [shall be] known to the Lord, and [it shall] not [be] day nor night: but towards evening it shall be light.

² But to you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise, and healing [shall be] in his wings: and you⌃ shall go forth, and bound as young calves let loose from bonds.

⁵ And your threshing time shall overtake the vintage, and your vintage shall overtake your seed time; and you⌃ shall eat your bread to the full; and you⌃ shall dwell safely upon your land, and war shall not go through your land. ⁶ And I will give peace in your land, and you⌃ shall sleep, and none [shall] make you afraid; and I will destroy the evil beasts out of your land,

¹¹ For what is my strength, that I continue? what is my time, that my soul endures?

⁶ And my life is lighter than a word, and has perished in vain hope.

²⁷ And he shall hear you when you pray to him, and he shall grant you [power] to pay your vows. ²⁸ And he shall establish to you again a habitation of righteousness and there shall be light upon your paths. ²⁹ Because you have humbled yourself; and you shall say, [Man] has behaved proudly, but he shall save him that is of lowly eyes.

⁵ I lay down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord will help me.

⁸ I will both lie down in peace and sleep: for you, Lord, only have caused me to dwell securely.

⁵ In you will we push down our enemies, and in your name will we bring to nothing them that rise up against us.

²⁴ For if you rest, you shall be undismayed; and if you sleep, you shall slumber sweetly. ²⁵ And you shall not be afraid of alarm coming upon you, neither of approaching attacks of ungodly men. ²⁶ For the Lord shall be over all your ways, and shall establish your foot that you be not moved.

³² The ungodly shall be driven away in his wickedness: but he who is secure in his own holiness is just.

²⁶ And Abimelech came to him from Gerara, and so did Ochozath his friend, and Phichol the commander-in-chief of his army. ²⁷ And Isaac said to them, Therefore have you⌃ come to me? whereas you⌃ hated me, and sent me away from you. ²⁸ And they said, We have surely seen that the Lord was with you, and we said, Let there be an oath between us and you, and we will make a covenant with you, ²⁹ that you shall do no wrong by us, as we have not abhorred you, and according as we have treated you well, and have sent you forth peaceably; and now you are blessed of the Lord. ³⁰ And he made a feast for them, and they ate and drank. ³¹ And they arose in the morning, and swore each to his neighbor; and Isaac sent them forth, and they departed from him in safety.

⁶ And I will give peace in your land, and you⌃ shall sleep, and none [shall] make you afraid; and I will destroy the evil beasts out of your land,

⁸ Now then take seven bullocks, and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and he shall offer a burnt offering for you. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will only accept him: for but his sake, I would have destroyed you, for you⌃ have not spoken the truth against my servant Job. ⁹ So Eliphaz the Thaemanite, and Baldad the Sauchite, and Sophar the Minaean, went and did as the Lord commanded them: and he pardoned their sin for the sake of Job.

⁶ Many court the favor of kings; but every bad man becomes a reproach to [another] man.

¹⁴ Thus says the Lord of hosts, Egypt has laboured [for you]; and the merchandise of the Ethiopians, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall pass over to you, and shall be your servants; and they shall follow after you bound in fetters, and shall pass over to you, and shall do obeisance to you, and make supplication to you: because God is in you; and there is no God beside you, [O Lord].

¹⁴ And the sons of them that afflicted you, and of them that provoked you, shall come to you in fear; and you shall be called Sion, the city of the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁶ then will I do thus to you: I will even bring upon you perplexity and the itch, and the fever that causes your eyes to waste away, and [disease] that consumes your life; and you⌃ shall sow your seeds in vain, and your enemies shall eat them.

⁶⁵ Moreover among those nations he will not give you quiet, neither by any means shall the sole of your foot have rest; and the Lord shall give you there another and a misgiving heart, and failing eyes, and a wasting soul.

¹³ Thus then shall be the end of all that forget the Lord: for the hope of the ungodly shall perish. ¹⁴ For his house shall be without inhabitants, and his tent shall prove a spider's web.

⁵ He shall promise mischief to [his] companions: but [their] eyes have failed for [their] children.

¹⁴ And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king.

⁸ For what is the hope of the ungodly, that he holds to it? will he indeed trust in the Lord [and] be saved?

²² And [God] shall cast [trouble] upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

¹⁶ But the helpless missed not whatever need they had, and I did not cause the eye of the widow to fail.

²² Neither shall there be a place for the workers of iniquity to hide themselves.

³ Let them that say to me, Aha, aha, be turned back and put to shame immediately.

²⁴ The ungodly is engulfed in destruction; but the desire of the righteous is acceptable.

²⁰ The lamp of him that reviles father or mother shall be put out, and his eyeballs shall see darkness.

¹⁷ PHE. While we yet lived our eyes failed, while we looked in vain for our help. TSADE. We looked to a nation that could not save.

¹⁴ And flight shall perish from the runner, and the strong shall not hold fast his strength, and the warrior shall not save his life:

¹⁹ As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him; and he should spring into his house, and lean his hands upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him. ²⁰ Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light? and is not this [day] gloom without brightness?

¹ I saw the Lord standing on the altar: and he said, Strike the mercy-seat, and the porch shall be shaken: and cut through into the heads of all; and I will kill the remnant of them with the sword: no one of them fleeing shall escape, and no one of them, striving to save himself shall be delivered. ² Though they hid themselves in hell, thence shall my hand drag them forth; and though they go up to heaven, thence will I bring them down. ³ If they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, thence will I search [them] out and take them; and if they should go down from my presence into the depths of the sea, there will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them.