Job 13 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ Behold, mine eye has seen these things, and mine ear has heard [them]. ² And I know all that you⌃ too know; and I have not less understanding than you. ³ Nevertheless I will speak to the Lord, and I will reason before him, if he will. ⁴ But you⌃ are all bad physicians, and healers of diseases. ⁵ But would that you⌃ were silent, and it would be wisdom to you in the end. ⁶ But hear you⌃ the reasoning of my mouth, and attend to the judgment of my lips. ⁷ Do you⌃ not speak before the Lord, and utter deceit before him? ⁸ Or will you⌃ draw back? nay do, you⌃ yourselves be judges. 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, ¹⁰ he will not reprove you at all the less: but if moreover you⌃ should secretly respect persons, ¹¹ shall not his whirlpool sweep you round, and terror from him fall upon you? ¹² And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, and your body [like a body] of clay. ¹³ Be silent, that I may speak, and cease from [mine] anger, ¹⁴ while I may take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand. ¹⁵ Though the Mighty One should lay hand upon me, forasmuch as he has begun, verily I will speak, and plead before him. ¹⁶ And this shall turn to me for salvation; for fraud shall have no entrance before him. ¹⁷ Hear, hear you⌃ my words, for I will declare in your hearing. ¹⁸ Behold, I am near my judgment: I know that I shall appear evidently just. ¹⁹ For who is he that shall plead with me, that I should now be silent, and expire? ²⁰ But grant me two things: then I will not hide myself from your face. ²¹ Withhold [your] hand from me: and let not your fear terrify me. ²² Then shall you call, and I will listen to you: or you shall speak, and I will give you an answer. ²³ How many are my sins and my transgressions? teach me what they are. ²⁴ Therefore hide you yourself from me, and deem me your enemy? ²⁵ Will you be startled [at me], as [at] a leaf shaken by the wind? or will you set yourself against me as against grass borne upon the breeze? ²⁶ for you have written evil things against me, and you have compassed me with the sins of my youth. ²⁷ And you have placed my foot in the stocks; and you have watched all my works, and have penetrated my heels. ²⁸ [I am as] that which waxes old like a bottle, or like a moth-eaten garment.

¹² But if there had been any truth in your words, none of these evils would have befallen you. Shall not mine ear receive excellent [revelations] from him?

⁹ who does great things and untraceable, glorious things also, and marvelous, of which there is no number: ¹⁰ who gives rain upon the earth, sending water on the earth: ¹¹ who exalts the lowly, and raises up them that are lost: ¹² frustrating the counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not perform the truth: ¹³ who takes the wise in their wisdom, and subverts the counsel of the crafty ¹⁴ In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the noon-day even as in the night: ¹⁵ and let them perish in war, and let the weak escape from the hand of the mighty. ¹⁶ And let the weak have hope, but the mouth of the unjust be stopped.

²⁷ Behold, we have thus sought out these matters; these are what we have heard: but do you reflect with yourself, if you have done anything [wrong].

⁸ For ask of the former generation, and search diligently among the race of [our] fathers: ⁹ (for we are of yesterday, and know nothing; for our life upon the earth is a shadow:) ¹⁰ shall not these teach you, and report [to you], and bring out words from [their] heart?

⁹ Who then has not known in all these things, that the hand of the Lord has made them? ¹⁰ Whereas the life of all living things is in his hand, and the breath of every man. ¹¹ For the ear tries words, and the palate tastes meats. ¹² In length of time is wisdom, and in long life knowledge. ¹³ With him are wisdom and power, with him counsel and understanding. ¹⁴ If he should cast down, who will build up? if he should shut up against man, who shall open? ¹⁵ If he should withhold the water, he will dry the earth: and if he should let it loose, he overthrows and destroys it. ¹⁶ With him are strength and power: he has knowledge and understanding. ¹⁷ He leads counselors away captive, and maddens the judges of the earth. ¹⁸ He seats kings upon thrones, and girds their loins with a girdle. ¹⁹ He sends away priests into captivity, and overthrows the mighty ones of the earth. ²⁰ He changes the lips of the trusty, and he knows the understanding of the elders. ²¹ He pours dishonor upon princes, and heals the lowly. ²² Revealing deep things out of darkness: and he has brought into light the shadow of death. ²³ Causing the nations to wander, and destroying them: overthrowing the nations, and leading them [away]. ²⁴ Perplexing the minds of the princes of the earth: and he causes them to wander in a way, they have not known, [saying], ²⁵ Let them grope [in] darkness, and [let there be] no light, and let them wander as a drunken man.

¹⁷ But I will tell you, listen to me; I will tell you now what I have seen; ¹⁸ things wise men say, and their fathers have not hidden.

³ For who is he that hides counsel from you? or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from you? and who will tell me what I knew not, great and wonderful things which I understood not? ⁴ But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask you, and do you teach me. ⁵ I have heard the report of you by the ear before; but now mine eye has seen you. ⁶ Therefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes.

³ They have shed their blood as water, round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury [them]. ⁴ We are become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to them [that are] round about us.

³ [But] I also have a heart as well as you.

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? ⁹ For what know you, that, we know not? or what understand you, which we do not also?

³⁵ But Job has not spoken with understanding, his words are not [uttered] with knowledge.

¹⁶ Yet Job vainly opens his mouth, in ignorance he multiplies words.

² Hear you a report by the anger of the Lord's wrath, and a discourse shall come out of his mouth.

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.

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].

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.

¹⁴ Oh then that he would listen to me, or judge my cause. ¹⁵ For though I be righteous, he will not listen to me: I will entreat his judgment.

³⁴ Let him remove [his] rod from me, and let not his fear terrify me: ³⁵ so shall I not be afraid, but I will speak: for I am not thus conscious [of guilt].

⁵ But oh that the Lord would speak to you, and open his lips to you!

¹⁵ Though the Mighty One should lay hand upon me, forasmuch as he has begun, verily I will speak, and plead before him.

²² Then shall you call, and I will listen to you: or you shall speak, and I will give you an answer.

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,

¹⁸ And come, let us reason together, says the Lord: and though your sins be as purple, I will make them white as snow; and though they be as scarlet, I will make [them] white as wool. ¹⁹ And if you⌃ be willing, and listen to me, you⌃ shall eat the good of the land: ²⁰ but if you⌃ be not willing, nor listen to me, a sword shall devour you: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.

²¹ Your judgment draws near, says the Lord God; your counsels have drawn near, says the King of Jacob.

¹ Righteous are you, O Lord, that I may make my defence to you, yes, I will speak to you [of] judgments. Why [is it] that the way of ungodly [men] prospers? [that] all that deal very treacherously are flourishing? ² You have planted them, and they have taken root; they have begotten children, and become fruitful; you are near to their mouth, and far from their reins.

² Hear you⌃, O mountains, the controversy of the Lord, and [you⌃] valleys [even] the foundations of the earth: for the Lord [has] a controversy with his people, and will plead with Israel.

¹⁶ You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

⁷ Remember then who has perished, being pure? or when were the true-hearted utterly destroyed? ⁸ Accordingly as I have seen men plowing barren places, and they that sow them will reap sorrows for themselves. ⁹ They shall perish by the command of the Lord, and shall be utterly consumed by the breath of his wrath. ¹⁰ The strength of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the exulting cry of serpents are quenched. ¹¹ The old lion has perished for lack of food, and the lions' whelps have forsaken one another.

¹ But call, if any one will listen to you, or if you shall see any of the holy angels. ² For wrath destroys the foolish one, and envy slays him that has gone astray. ³ And I have seen foolish ones taking root: but suddenly their habitation was devoured. ⁴ Let their children be far from safety, and let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer. ⁵ For what they have collected, the just shall eat; but they shall not be delivered out of calamities: let their strength be utterly exhausted.

²¹ But you⌃ also have come to me without pity; so that beholding my wound you⌃ are afraid.

³ Will the Lord be unjust when he judges; or will he that has made all things pervert justice? ⁴ If your sons have sinned before him, he has cast them away because of their transgression.

² I have heard many such things: poor comforters are you⌃ all.

⁵ But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up. ⁶ His light [shall be] darkness in [his] habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him. ⁷ Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive [him]. ⁸ His foot also has been caught in a snare, [and] let it be entangled in a net. ⁹ And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction. ¹⁰ His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path. ¹¹ Let pains destroy him round about, and let many [enemies] come about him, ¹² [vex him] with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him. ¹³ Let the soles of his feet be devoured: and death shall consume his beauty. ¹⁴ And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king. ¹⁵ It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone. ¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above. ¹⁷ Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out. ¹⁸ Let [one] drive him from light into darkness. ¹⁹ He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth. ²⁰ But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first. ²¹ These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.

²⁷ So I know you, that you⌃ presumptuously attack me: ²⁸ so that you⌃ will say, Where is the house of the prince? and where is the covering of the tabernacles of the ungodly? ²⁹ Ask those that go by the way, and do not disown their tokens. ³⁰ For the wicked hastens to the day of destruction: they shall be led away for the day of his vengeance. ³¹ Who will tell him his way to his face, whereas he has done [it]? who shall recompense him? ³² And he has been led away to the tombs, and he has watched over the heaps. ³³ The stones of the valley have been sweet to him, and every man shall depart after him, and [there are] innumerable [ones] before him. ³⁴ How then do you⌃ comfort me in vain? whereas I have no rest from your molestation.

⁶ And you have taken security of your brethren for nothing, and have taken away the clothing of the naked. ⁷ Neither have you given water to the thirsty to drink, but have taken away the morsel of the hungry. ⁸ And you have accepted the persons of some; and you have established those [that were already settled] on the earth. ⁹ But you have sent widows away empty, and has afflicted orphans. ¹⁰ Therefore snares have compassed you, and disastrous war has troubled you. ¹¹ The light has proved darkness to you, and water has covered you on your lying down. ¹² Does not he that dwells in the high places observe? and has he not brought down the proud? 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. ¹⁵ Will you [not] mark the old way, which righteous men have trodden? ¹⁶ who were seized before their time: their foundations [are as] an overflowing stream. ¹⁷ Who say, What will the Lord do to us? or what will the Almighty bring upon us? ¹⁸ Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel for the wicked is far from him. ¹⁹ The righteous have seen [it], and laughed, and the blameless one has derided [them]. ²⁰ Verily their substance has been utterly destroyed, and the fire shall devour what is left of their [property]. 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. ²³ And if you shall turn and humble yourself before the Lord, you have [thus] removed unrighteousness far from your habitation. ²⁴ You shall lay up for yourself [treasure] in a heap on the rock; and Sophir [shall be] as the rock of the torrent. ²⁵ So the Almighty shall be your helper from enemies, and he shall bring you forth pure as silver that has been tried by fire. ²⁶ Then shall you have boldness before the Lord, looking up cheerfully to heaven. 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. ³⁰ He shall deliver the innocent, and do you save yourself by your pure hands.

¹⁴ And they healed the breach of my people [imperfectly], making light [of it], and saying, Peace, peace, and where is peace?

²² And is there no balm in Galaad, or is there no physician there? why has not the healing of the daughter of my people taken place?

³² Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets that prophesy false dreams, and have not told them [truly], and have caused my people to err by their lies, and by their errors; yet I sent them not, and commanded them not; therefore, they shall not profit this people at all.

⁴ The weak one you⌃ have not strengthened, and the sick you⌃ have not cherished, and the bruised you⌃ have not bound up, and the stray one you⌃ have not turned back, and the lost you⌃ have not sought; and the strong you⌃ have wearied with labor.

¹³ And Ephraim saw his disease, and Judas his pain; then Ephraim went to the Assyrians, and sent ambassadors to king Jarim: but he could not heal you, and your pain shall in nowise cease from you.

³ Be not a speaker of many words; for is there none to answer you?

¹³ Be silent, that I may speak, and cease from [mine] anger,

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.

² How long will you⌃ vex my soul, and destroy me with words? only know that the Lord has dealt with me thus.

² Hear you⌃, hear you⌃ my words, that I may not have this consolation from you. ³ Raise me, and I will speak; then you⌃ shall not laugh me to scorn.

¹ And his three friends also ceased any longer to answer Job: for Job was righteous before them.

²⁸ Wisdom shall be imputed to a fool who asks after wisdom: and he who holds his peace shall seem to be sensible.

³ Whenever you shall vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for [he has] no pleasure in fools: pay you therefore whatever you shall have vowed.

¹³ Therefore the prudent shall be silent at that time; for it is a time of evils.

⁷ And it was reported to Joatham, and he went and stood on the top of mount Garizin, and lifted up his voice, and wept, and said to them, Hear me, you⌃ men of Sicima, and God shall hear you.

¹ Howbeit hear, Job, my words, and listen to my speech. ² For behold, I have opened my mouth, and my tongue has spoken. ³ My heart [shall be found] pure by [my] words; and the understanding of my lips shall meditate purity.

² Hear me, you⌃ wise men; listen, you⌃ that have knowledge.

⁶ Listen to me; for I will speak solemn [truths]; and will produce right [sayings] from my lips. ⁷ For my throat shall meditate truth; and false lips are an abomination before me.

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

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

⁴ my lips shall not speak evil words, neither shall my soul meditate unrighteous thoughts.

²¹ For truly I will not be awed because of man, nor indeed will I be confounded before a mortal. ²² For I know not how to respect persons: and if otherwise, even the moths would eat me.

⁴ I will speak just things truly, and you shall not unjustly receive unjust words.

² You shall not associate with the multitude for evil; you shall not join yourself with a multitude to turn aside with the majority so as to shut out judgment. ³ And you shall not spare a poor man in judgment.

¹⁵ You shall not act unjustly in judgment: you shall not accept the person of the poor, nor admire the person of the mighty; with justice shall you judge your neighbor.

²¹ For truly I will not be awed because of man, nor indeed will I be confounded before a mortal.

¹⁹ [Such a one] as would not reverence the face of an honorable man, neither knows how to give honor to the great, so as that their persons should be respected.

²³ And this thing I say to you that are wise [for you] to learn: It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

⁹ And I have made you despised and cast out among all the people, because you⌃ have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.

¹⁶ With him are strength and power: he has knowledge and understanding.

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

³⁶ Howbeit do you learn, Job: no longer make answer as the foolish:

²² Therefore do not you⌃ rejoice, neither let your bands be made strong; for I have heard of works finished and cut short by the Lord of hosts, which he will execute upon all the earth.

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.

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]. 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.

² For behold, your enemies have made a noise; and they that hate you have lifted up the head.

¹⁶ Let trembling and fear fall upon them; by the greatness of your arm, let them become as stone; till your people pass over, O Lord, till this your people pass over, whom you have purchased.

²¹ Withhold [your] hand from me: and let not your fear terrify me.

²³ For the fear of the Lord constrained me, and I can’t bear up by reason of his burden.

¹³ Sanctify you⌃ the Lord himself; and he shall be your fear.

²² will you⌃ not be afraid of me? says the Lord; and will you⌃ not fear before me, who have set the sand for a bound to the sea, [as] a perpetual ordinance, and it shall not pass it: yes, it shall rage, but not prevail; and its waves shall roar, but not pass over it.

⁷ And God formed the man [of] dust of the earth, and breathed upon his face the breath of life, and the man became a living soul.

²⁷ And Abraam answered and said, Now I have begun to speak to my Lord, and I am earth and ashes.

¹⁴ And the Lord said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and speak [this] in the ears of Joshua; for I will utterly blot out the memorial of Amalec from under heaven.

¹⁹ But [as for] them that dwell in houses of clay, of whom we also are formed of the same clay, he smites them like a moth.

¹⁷ Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out.

¹⁶ They tempted me, they sneered at me most contemptuously, they gnashed their teeth upon me.

¹² As far as the east is from the west, [so far] has he removed our transgressions from us.

⁷ The memory of the just is praised; but the name of the ungodly [man] is extinguished.

¹⁴ But the dead shall not see life, neither shall physicians by any means raise [them] up: therefore you have brought [wrath] upon [them], and slain [them], and have taken away every male of them. Bring more evils upon them, O Lord;

⁹ Let the Lord begin and wound me, but let him not utterly destroy me. 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.

¹¹ Then neither will I refrain my mouth: I will speak being in distress; being in anguish I will disclose the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁵ You will separate life from my spirit; and yet [keep] my bones from death. ¹⁶ For I shall not live for ever, that I should patiently endure: depart from me, for my life [is] vain.

¹ Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul.

⁵ But would that you⌃ were silent, and it would be wisdom to you in the end.

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

³ And I saw that you were no helper, and I put my life in my hand, and passed on to the sons of Ammon; and the Lord delivered them into my hand: and therefore are you⌃ come up against me this day to fight with me?

⁵ And he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and the Lord wrought a great deliverance; and all Israel saw, and rejoined: why then do you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?

²¹ And the woman went in to Saul, and saw that he was greatly disquieted, and said to him, Behold now, your handmaid has listened to your voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have heard the words which you has spoken to me.

⁴ Anger has possessed you: for what if you should die; would [the earth] under heaven be desolate? or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations?

⁵ The fool folds his hands together, and eats his own flesh.

²⁰ But [one] shall turn aside to the right hand, for he shall be hungry; and shall eat on the left, and a man shall by no means be satisfied with eating the flesh of his own arm.

²⁶ And they that afflicted you shall eat their own flesh; and they shall drink their own blood as new wine, and shall be drunken: and all flesh shall perceive that I am the Lord that delivers you, and that upholds the strength of Jacob.

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

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

¹⁸ Behold, I am near my judgment: I know that I shall appear evidently just.

¹⁷ My belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on my eyelids.

²¹ Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let mine eye weep before him.

²⁵ For I know that he is eternal who is about to deliver me, ²⁶ [and] to raise up upon the earth my skin that endures these [sufferings]: for these things have been accomplished to me of the Lord; ²⁷ which I am conscious of in myself, which mine eye has seen, and not another, but all have been fulfilled to me in [my] bosom. ²⁸ But if you⌃ shall also say, What shall we say before him, and [so] find the root of the matter in him?

¹⁰ For he knows already my way; and he has tried me as gold.

⁵ Far be it from me that I should justify you till I die; for I will not let go my innocence,

³¹ And if too my handmaids have often said, Oh that we might be satisfied with his flesh; (whereas I was very kind: ³² for the stranger did not lodge without, and my door was opened to every one that came:) ³³ or if too having sinned unintentionally, I hid my sin; ³⁴ (for I did not stand in awe of a great multitude, so as not to declare boldly before them:) and if too I permitted a poor man to go out of my door with an empty bosom: 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, ³⁶ I would place [it] as a chaplet on my shoulders, and read it. ³⁷ And if I did not read it and return it, having taken nothing from the debtor:

² Nay, gird up now your loins like a man; and I will ask you, and do you answer me.

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

⁴ He that is innocent in his hands and pure in his heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbor.

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

² He was to me a helper and protector for salvation: this is my God and I will glorify him; my father's God, and I will exalt him.

¹³ Thus then shall be the end of all that forget the Lord: for the hope of the ungodly shall perish.

⁸ For what is the hope of the ungodly, that he holds to it? will he indeed trust in the Lord [and] be saved? ⁹ Will God hear his prayer? or, when distress has come upon him, ¹⁰ has he any confidence before him? or will [God] hear him as he calls upon him?

¹³ And the hypocrites in heart will array wrath [against themselves]; they will not cry, because he has bound them.

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.

⁶ Forasmuch as I have remembered you on my bed: in the early seasons I have meditated on you. ⁷ For you have been my helper, and in the shelter of your wings will I rejoice.

¹⁴ I have delighted in the way of your testimonies, [as much] as in all riches.

²¹ You have rebuked the proud: cursed are they that turn aside from your commandments.

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.

¹⁴ The sinners in Sion have departed; trembling shall seize the ungodly. Who will tell you that a fire is kindled? Who will tell you of the eternal place?

²³ Truly the hills and the strength of the mountains were a lying refuge: but by the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.

⁶ But hear you⌃ the reasoning of my mouth, and attend to the judgment of my lips.

² Hear you⌃, hear you⌃ my words, that I may not have this consolation from you.

¹ Howbeit hear, Job, my words, and listen to my speech.

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.

²⁰ For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane: and though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse.

⁴ And I would plead my own cause, and he would fill my mouth with arguments.

⁷ Bring down also the proud man; and consume at once the ungodly. ⁸ And hide them together in the earth; and fill their faces with shame.

²⁶ But do you remember, and let us plead [together]: do you first confess your transgressions, that you may be justified.

⁸ Your hands have formed me and made me; afterwards you did change [your mind], and strike me.

⁵ But alas! for you⌃ magnify yourselves against me, and insult me with reproach.

⁵ If you can, give me an answer: wait therefore; stand against me, and I [will stand] against you. 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.

³² If you have words, answer me: speak, for I desire you to be justified.

⁷ but the Lord God became my helper; therefore I was not ashamed, but I set my face as a solid rock; and I know that I shall never be ashamed, ⁸ for he that has justified me draws near; who is he that pleads with me? let him stand up against me at the same time: yes, who is he that pleads with me? let him draw near to me.

⁹ Then I said, I will by no means name the name of the Lord, and I will no more at all speak in his name. But it was a burning fire flaming in my bones, and I am utterly weakened on all sides, and can’t bear [up].

⁸ And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the afternoon; and both Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of the Lord God in the midst of the trees of the garden. ⁹ And the Lord God called Adam and said to him, Adam, where are you? ¹⁰ And he said to him, I heard your voice as you walked in the garden, and I feared because I was naked and I hid myself.

¹² I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the poor, and the right of the needy ones.

³⁴ Let him remove [his] rod from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

²⁰ Is not the time of my life short? suffer me to rest a little,

¹¹ shall not his whirlpool sweep you round, and terror from him fall upon you?

¹⁵ Will you [not] mark the old way, which righteous men have trodden? ¹⁶ who were seized before their time: their foundations [are as] an overflowing stream. ¹⁷ Who say, What will the Lord do to us? or what will the Almighty bring upon us?

⁷ My fear shall not terrify you, neither shall my hand be heavy upon you.

¹⁰ I have not hid your truth within my heart, and I have declared your salvation; I have not hid your mercy and your truth from the great congregation.

¹⁶ And if I should call and he should not listen, I can’t believe that he has listened to my voice.

³² For you are not man like me, with whom I could contend, that we might come together to judgment.

¹⁵ Then shall you call, and I will listen to you: but do not you reject the work of your hands.

³ Gird your loins like a man; and I will ask you, and do you answer me.

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

⁸ But they that are bound in fetters shall be holden in cords of poverty. ⁹ And he shall recount to them their works, and their transgressions, for such will act with violence.

²⁰ and said, I will turn away my face from them, and will show what shall happen to them in the last days; for it is a perverse generation, sons in whom is no faith.

¹⁶ And Samuel said, Why asked you me, whereas the Lord has departed from you, and taken part with your neighbor?

² And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and therefore have you thus judged me?

⁹ My falsehood has become a testimony, and has risen up against me: it has confronted me to my face.

¹¹ And he has dreadfully handled me in anger, and has counted me for an enemy.

² Oh that I were as in months past, wherein God preserved me! ³ As when his lamp shone over my head; when by his light I walked through darkness.

²¹ They attacked me also without mercy: you have scourged me with a strong hand.

¹⁰ Yet he has discovered a charge against me, and he has reckoned me as an adversary.

¹ (11 in KJV) For the end, a Psalm of David. In the Lord I have put my trust: how will you⌃ say to my soul,

¹ (14) For the end, Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted [themselves], and become abominable in their devices; there is none that does goodness, there is not even so much as one.

⁶ that another generation might know, even the sons which should be born; and they should arise and declare them to their children. ⁷ That they might set their hope on God, and not forget the works of God, but diligently seek his commandments. ⁸ That they should not be as their fathers, a perverse and provoking generation; a generation which set not its heart aright, and its spirit was not steadfast with God. ⁹ The children of Ephraim, bending and shooting [with] the bow, turned [back] in the day of battle.

¹⁴ Justice and judgment are the establishment of your throne: mercy and truth shall go before your face.

¹⁷ And [one] shall say, I will wait for God, who has turned away his face from the house of Jacob, and I will trust in him.

⁵ HE. The Lord is become as an enemy: he has overwhelmed Israel as in the sea, he has overwhelmed her palaces: he has destroyed her strongholds, and has multiplied the afflicted and humbled ones to the daughter of Juda.

³⁶ And to those who are left of you I will bring bondage into their heart in the land of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee as fleeing from war, and shall fall when none pursues them.

¹⁴ As the old proverb says, Transgression will proceed from the wicked ones: but my hand shall not be upon you.

³ Hast you not taken account even of him, and caused him to enter into judgment before you?

¹⁸ And they shall be as chaff before the wind, or as dust which the storm has taken up.

¹³ many nations like much water, as when much water rushes violently: and they shall drive him away, and pursue him afar, as the dust of chaff when men winnow before the wind, and as a storm whirling the dust of the wheel.

²⁰ And she said to them, Nay, do not call me Noemin; call me 'Bitter,' for the Mighty One has dealt very bitterly with me.

²⁰ For why is light given to those who are in bitterness, and life to those souls which are in griefs?

¹¹ His bones have been filled with [vigour of] his youth, and it shall lie down with him in the dust.

⁷ to hear the voice of praise, and to declare all your wonderful works.

³ I made a covenant with my chosen ones, I sware to David my servant. ⁴ I will establish your seed for ever, and build up your throne to all generations. Pause. ⁵ The heavens shall declare your wonders, O Lord; and your truth in the assembly of the saints. ⁶ For who in the heavens shall be compared to the Lord? and who shall be likened to the Lord among the sons of God? ⁷ God is glorified in the council of the saints; great and terrible toward all that are round about him. ⁸ O Lord God of hosts, who is like to you? you are mighty, O Lord, and your truth is round about you. ⁹ You rule the power of the sea; and you calm the tumult of its waves. ¹⁰ You has brought down the proud as one that is slain; and with the arm of your power you has scattered your enemies. ¹¹ The heavens are your, and the earth is your: you have founded the world, and the fullness of it. ¹² You have created the north and the west: Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in your name. ¹³ Your is the mighty arm: let your hand be strengthened, let your right hand be exalted. ¹⁴ Justice and judgment are the establishment of your throne: mercy and truth shall go before your face. ¹⁵ Blessed is the people that knows the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of your countenance. ¹⁶ And in your name shall they rejoice all the day: and in your righteousness shall they be exalted. ¹⁷ For you are the boast of their strength; and in your good pleasure shall our horn be exalted, ¹⁸ for [our] help is of the Lord; and of the Holy One of Israel, our king.

¹¹ And you repent at last, when the flesh of your body is consumed, ¹² and you shall say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart avoided reproofs! ¹³ I heard not the voice of him that instructed me, and taught me, neither did I apply mine ear.

¹⁹ Stand by the way, and look, you that dwell in Arer; and ask him that is fleeing, and him that escapes, and say, What has happened?

¹⁰ And Asa was angry with the prophet, and put him in prison, for he was angry at this: and Asa vexed some of the people at that time. ¹¹ And, behold, the acts of Asa, the first and the last, [are] written in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel. ¹² And Asa was diseased [in] his feet in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, until he was very ill: but in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians.

⁷ So the devil went out from the Lord, and struck Job with sore boils from [his] feet to [his] head.

⁶ that you have enquired into mine iniquity, and searched out my sins?

¹⁶ But you have numbered my devices: and not one of my sins shall escape you?

¹¹ And he has put my foot in the stocks, and has watched all my ways.

²² And he followed her, being gently led on, and [that] as an ox is led to the slaughter, and as a dog to bonds, or as a hart shot in the liver with an arrow:

¹² Let her not be as it were like death, as an abortion coming out of his mother's womb, when [the disease] devours the half of the flesh.

¹⁷ And by night my bones are confounded; and my sinews are relaxed. ¹⁸ With great force [my disease] has taken hold of my garment: it has compassed me as the collar of my coat. ¹⁹ And you have counted me as clay; my portion in dust and ashes.

²⁹ I am become a brother of monsters, and a companion of ostriches. ³⁰ And my skin has been greatly blackened, and my bones are burned with heat.

¹¹ But you, Lord, remove not your compassion far from me; your mercy and your truth have helped me continually.

¹² Therefore I [will be] as consternation to Ephraim, and as a goad to the house of Juda.