Job 16 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ But Job answered and said, ² I have heard many such things: poor comforters are you⌃ all. ³ What! is there any reason in vain words? or what will hinder you from answering? ⁴ I also will speak as you⌃ [do]: if indeed your soul were in my [soul's] stead, ⁵ then would I insult you with words, and I would shake my head at you. ⁶ And would there were strength in my mouth, and I would not spare the movement of my lips. ⁷ For if I should speak, I shall not feel the pain of my wound: and if I should be silent, how shall I be wounded the less? ⁸ But now he has made me weary, and a worn-out fool; and you have laid hold of me. ⁹ My falsehood has become a testimony, and has risen up against me: it has confronted me to my face. ¹⁰ In his anger he has cast me down; he has gnashed his teeth upon me: the weapons of his robbers have fallen upon me. ¹¹ He has attacked me with the keen glances of his eyes; with his sharp [spear] he has struck me [down] upon my knees; and they have run upon me with one accord. ¹² For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men, and thrown me upon the ungodly. ¹³ When I was at peace he distracted me: he took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: he set me up as a mark. ¹⁴ They surrounded me with spears, aiming at my reins: without sparing [me] they poured out my gall upon the ground. ¹⁵ They overthrew me with fall upon fall: they ran upon me in [their] might. ¹⁶ They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and my strength has been spent on the ground. ¹⁷ My belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on my eyelids. ¹⁸ Yet there was no injustice in my hands, and my prayer is pure. ¹⁹ Earth, cover not over the blood of my flesh, and let my cry have no place. ²⁰ And now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high. ²¹ Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let mine eye weep before him. ²² Oh that a man might plead before the Lord, even [as] the son of man with his neighbor! ²³ But my years are numbered and [their end] come, and I shall go by the way by which I shall not return.

⁶ Shall bread be eaten without salt? or again, is there taste in empty words?

²⁵ But as it seems, the words of a true man are vain, because I do not ask strength of you.

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 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.

² How long will you⌃ vex my soul, and destroy me with words? only know that the Lord has dealt with me thus. ³ You⌃ speak against me; you⌃ do not feel for me, but bear hard upon me.

² To whom do you attach yourself, or whom are you going to assist? is it not he that [has] much strength, and [he] who has a strong arm? ³ To whom have you given counsel? is it not to him who has all wisdom? whom will you follow? is it not one who has the greatest power?

²⁶ Neither will your reproof cause me to cease my words, for neither will I endure the sound of your speech.

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

² Will a wise man give for answer a [mere] breath of wisdom? and does he fill up the pain of his belly,

³ I will hear my shameful reproach; and the spirit of my understanding answers me.

³ And he was also very angry with [his] three friends, because they were not able to return answers to Job, yet set him down for an ungodly man. ⁴ But Elius had forborne to give an answer to Job, because they were older than he. ⁵ And Elius saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men; and he was angered in his wrath. ⁶ And Elius the Buzite the son of Barachiel answered and said, I am younger in age, and you⌃ are elder, therefore I kept silence, fearing to declare to you my own knowledge.

²¹ This [is] the word which the Lord has spoken against him; The virgin daughter of Sion has made light of you, and mocked you; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

² Oh that one would indeed weigh the wrath that is upon me, and take up my griefs in a balance together! ³ And verily they would be heavier than the sand by the seashore: but, as it seems, my words are vain. ⁴ For the arrows of the Lord are in my body, whose violence drinks up my blood: whenever I am going to speak, they pierce me. 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?

¹⁴ Mercy has rejected me; and the visitation of the Lord has disregarded me.

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.

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

¹⁴ in embroidered [clothing]: virgins shall be brought to the king after her: her fellows shall be brought to you.

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

¹⁴ A fool moreover multiplies words: man knows not what has been, nor what will be: who shall tell him what will come after him?

¹⁶ to make their land a desolation, and a perpetual hissing; all that go through it shall be amazed, and shall shake their heads.

¹⁵ SAMECH. All that go by the way have clapped their hands at you; they have hissed and shaken their head at the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this the city, they say, the crown of joy of all the earth?

³ For whereas you have instructed many, and have strengthened the hands of the weak one, ⁴ and have supported the failing with words, and have imparted courage to feeble knees.

²⁵ I chose out their way, and sat chief, and lived as a king in the midst of warriors, as one comforting mourners.

⁹ The heart delights in ointments and wines and perfumes: but the soul is broken by calamities.

¹⁷ Iron sharpens iron; and a man sharpens his friend's countenance.

³ Be strong, you⌃ relaxed hands and palsied knees. ⁴ Comfort one another, you⌃ faint-hearted; be strong, fear not; behold, our God renders judgment, and he will render [it]; he will come and save us.

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.

¹ (78) [A Psalm] of instruction for Asaph. Give heed, O my people, to my law: incline your ear to the words of my mouth. ² I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter dark sayings [which have been] from the beginning. ³ All which we have heard and known, and our fathers have declared to us. ⁴ They were not hid from their children to a second generations; [the fathers] declaring the praises of the Lord, and his mighty acts, and his wonders which he wrought. ⁵ And he raised up a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, to make it known to their children: 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.

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.

¹⁵ and the spoilers came and took them for a prey, and killed the servants with the sword; and I having escaped alone am come to tell you. ¹⁶ While he was yet speaking, there came another messenger, and said to Job, Fire has fallen from heaven, and burnt up the sheep, and devoured the shepherds like wise; and I having escaped alone am come to tell you. ¹⁷ While he was yet speaking, there came another messenger, and said to Job, The horsemen formed three companies against us, and surrounded the camels, and took them for a prey, and killed the servants with the sword; and I only escaped, and am come to tell you. ¹⁸ While he is yet speaking, another messenger comes, saying to Job, While your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking with their elder brother, ¹⁹ suddenly a great wind came on from the desert, and caught the four corners of the house, and the house fell upon your children, and they are dead; and I have escaped alone, and am come to tell you.

¹⁷ There the ungodly have burnt out the fury of rage; there the wearied in body rest.

³ So have I also endured months of vanity, and nights of pain have been appointed me.

¹⁶ For I shall not live for ever, that I should patiently endure: depart from me, for my life [is] vain.

⁵ When I was very fruitful, and my children were about me; ⁶ when my ways were moistened with butter, and the mountains flowed for me with milk. ⁷ When I went forth early in the city, and the seat was placed for me in the streets. ⁸ The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and all the old men stood up. ⁹ And the great men ceased speaking, and laid their finger on their mouth. ¹⁰ And they that heard [me] blessed me, and their tongue clave to their throat. ¹¹ For the ear heard, and blessed me; and the eye saw me, and turned aside. ¹² For I saved the poor out of the hand of the oppressor, and helped the fatherless who had no helper. ¹³ Let the blessing of the perishing one come upon me; yes, the mouth of the widow has blessed me. ¹⁴ Also I put on righteousness, and clothed myself with judgment like a mantle. ¹⁵ I was the eye of the blind, and the foot of the lame. ¹⁶ I was the father of the helpless; and I searched out the cause which I knew not. ¹⁷ And I broke the jaw teeth of the unrighteous; I plucked the spoil out of the midst of their teeth. ¹⁸ And I said, My age shall continue as the stem of a palm tree; I shall live a long while. ¹⁹ [My] root was spread out by the water, and the dew would lodge on my crop. ²⁰ My glory was fresh in me, and by bow prospered in his hand. ²¹ [Men] heard me, and gave heed, and they were silent at my counsel. ²² At my word they spoke not again, and they were very gland whenever I spoke to them. ²³ As the thirsty earth expecting the rain, so they [waited for] my speech. ²⁴ Were I to laugh on them, they would not believe [it]; and the light of my face has not failed. ²⁵ I chose out their way, and sat chief, and lived as a king in the midst of warriors, as one comforting mourners.

⁶ I am wearied with my groaning; I shall wash my bed every night; I shall water my couch with tears. ⁷ Mine eye is troubled because of my wrath; I am worn out because of all my enemies.

¹¹ [My] son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; nor faint when you are rebuked of him: ¹² for whom the Lord loves, he rebukes, and scourges every son whom he receives.

⁴ The Lord [even] God gives me the tongue of instruction, to know when it is fit to speak a word: he has appointed for me early, he has given me an ear to hear:

¹³ Therefore will I begin to strike you; I will destroy you in your sins.

²¹ I went out full, and the Lord has brought me back empty: and why call you⌃ me Noemin, whereas the Lord has humbled me and the Mighty One has afflicted me?

¹⁷ renewing against me my torture: and you have dealt with me in great anger, and you have brought trials upon me.

²⁰ My flesh is corrupt under my skin, and my bones are held in [my] teeth.

¹⁵ Let them acknowledge to the Lord his mercies, and his wonders to the children of men.

¹⁶ but the Lord of hosts shall send dishonor upon your honor, and burning fire shall be kindled upon your glory.

¹⁶ O Lord God of Israel, from the ends of the earth we have heard wonderful things, [and there is] hope to the godly: but they shall say, Woe to the despisers, that despise the law.

¹⁶ For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again you have changed and are terribly destroying me; ¹⁷ renewing against me my torture: and you have dealt with me in great anger, and you have brought trials upon me.

²⁴ Therefore hide you yourself from me, and deem me your enemy?

²⁷ And you have placed my foot in the stocks; and you have watched all my works, and have penetrated my heels.

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?

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

¹² While they pressed hard upon me that sought my soul: and they that sought my hurt spoke vanities, and devised deceits all the day.

¹⁶ AIN. All your enemies have opened their mouth against you: they have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and said, We have swallowed her up: moreover this is the day which we looked for; we have found it, we have seen it.

¹⁰ he has troubled me, [as] a she-bear lying in wait: he is to me [as] a lion in secret places.

¹⁴ Therefore I am as a panther to Ephraim, and as a lion to the house of Juda: and I will tear, and go away; and I will take, and there shall be none to deliver.

¹ In their affliction they will seek me early, saying, Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for he has torn, and will heal us;

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.

²⁴ And Sedekias the son of Chanaan came near and struck Michaias on the cheek, and said, What sort of a spirit of the Lord [has] spoken in you?

²³ Then Sedekias the son of Chanaan drew near, and struck Michaias on the cheek, and said to him, By what way passed the Spirit of the Lord from me to speak to you?

⁶ I gave my back to scourges, and my cheeks to blows; and I turned not away my face from the shame of spitting:

³⁰ JOD. He will give [his] cheek to him that smites him: he will be filled full with reproaches.

¹ Now shall the daughter [of Sion] be completely hedged in: he has laid siege against us: they shall strike the tribes of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

¹⁸ And Saul said to David, You [are] more righteous that I, for you have recompensed me good, but I have recompensed you evil.

¹³ And it came to pass on a certain day, that Job's sons and his daughters were drinking wine in the house of their elder brother. ¹⁴ And, behold, there came a messenger to Job, and said to him, The yokes of oxen were plowing, and the she-asses were feeding near them;

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

¹⁴ Behold, he has travailed with unrighteousness, he has conceived trouble, and brought forth iniquity.

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

² And he had seven sons and three daughters. ³ And his cattle consisted of seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-asses in the pastures, and a very great household, and he had a great husbandry on the earth; and that man was [most] noble of the [men] of the east.

²⁶ I was not at peace, nor quiet, nor had I rest; yet wrath came upon me.

¹⁰ The strength of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the exulting cry of serpents are quenched.

¹² Am I a sea, or a serpent, that you have set a watch over me?

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?

¹⁷ Let him not crush me with a dark storm: but he has made by bruises many without cause.

²⁶ And he has run against him with insolence, on the thickness of the back of his shield.

³ As when his lamp shone over my head; when by his light I walked through darkness.

¹⁸ And I said, My age shall continue as the stem of a palm tree; I shall live a long while. ¹⁹ [My] root was spread out by the water, and the dew would lodge on my crop.

⁴ He has made old my flesh and my skin; he has broken my bones.

¹¹ He pursued [me] after I departed, and brought me to a stand: he has utterly ruined me. ¹² HE. He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

⁷ When they took hold of you with their hand, you did break: and when every hand was clapped against them, and when they leaned on you, you were utterly broken, and did crush the loins of them all.

²³ Against whom men taking evil counsel reproached [him], and the archers pressed hard upon him.

²⁰ God shall by no means be willing to pardon him, but then the wrath of the Lord and his jealousy shall flame out against that man; and all the curses of this covenant shall attach themselves to him, which are written in this book, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.

⁴ For the arrows of the Lord are in my body, whose violence drinks up my blood: whenever I am going to speak, they pierce 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.

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.

²⁵ And let the arrow pierce through his body; and let the stars be against his dwelling-place: let terrors come upon him.

¹² If you⌃ will not repent, he will furbish his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready. ¹³ And on it he has fitted the instruments of death; he has completed his arrows for the raging ones.

¹¹ CHAPH. Mine eyes have failed with tears, my heart is troubled, my glory is cast down to the ground, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; while the infant and suckling swoon in the streets of the city.

¹³ He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

¹¹ Therefore, [as] I live, says the Lord; surely, because you have defiled my holy things with all your abominations, I also will reject you; mine eye shall not spare, and I will have no mercy.

⁸ And he struck them leg on thigh [with] a great overthrow; and went down and lived in a cave of the rock Etam.

³ Nay, against me has he turned his hand all the day. ⁴ He has made old my flesh and my skin; he has broken my bones. ⁵ BETH. He has built against me, and compassed my head, and brought travail [upon me].

⁷ As warriors shall they run, and as men of war shall they mount on the walls; and each shall move in his [right] path, and they shall not turn aside from their tracks:

³⁴ And all his sons and his daughters gathered themselves together, and came to comfort him; but he would not be comforted, saying, I will go down to my son mourning to Hades; and his father wept for him.

¹⁰ The Lord will weaken his adversary; the Lord [is] holy. Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor let the mighty man boast in his strength, and let not the rich man boast in his wealth; but let him that boasts boast in this, to understand and know the Lord, and to execute judgment and justice in the midst of the earth. The Lord has gone up to the heavens, and has thundered: he will judge the extremities of the earth, and he gives strength to our kings, and will exalt the horn of his Christ. And she left him there before the Lord,

²⁷ And the children of Israel were numbered, and came to meet them: and Israel encamped before them as two little flocks of goats, but Syria filled the land.

¹⁹ And you have counted me as clay; my portion in dust and ashes.

⁵ Let the enemy persecute my soul, an take it; and let him trample my life on the ground, and lay my glory in the dust. Pause.

⁵ All the simple ones in heart were troubled; all the men of wealth have slept their sleep, and have found nothing in their hands.

¹⁰ For the inward thought of man shall give thanks to you: and the memorial of his inward thought shall keep a feast to you.

¹² And the Lord, the Lord of hosts, called in that day for weeping, and lamentation, and baldness, and for girding with sackcloth:

⁷ For my eyes are dimmed through pain; I have been grievously beset by all.

⁹ Be you⌃ not as horse and mule, which have no understanding; [but you must] constrain their jaws with bit and curb, lest they should come near to you.

³ Sing to him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise.

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

³ who forgives all your transgressions, who heals all your diseases; ⁴ who redeems your life from corruption; who crowns you with mercy and compassion; ⁵ who satisfies your desire with good things: [so that] your youth shall be renewed like [that] of the eagle.

⁹ He will not be always angry; neither will he be wrathful for ever.

¹⁴ As many shall be amazed at you, so shall your face be without glory from men, and your glory [shall not be honored] by the sons of men.

¹⁶ AIN. Mine eye has poured out water, because he that should comfort me, that should restore my soul, has been removed far from me: my sons have been destroyed, because the enemy has prevailed.

¹ Now the Lord had commanded a great whale to swallow up Jonas: and Jonas was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights. ² And Jonas prayed to the Lord his God out of the belly of the whale, ³ and said, I cried in my affliction to the Lord my God, and he listened to me, [even] to my cry out of the belly of hell: you heard my voice. ⁴ You did cast me into the depths of the heart of the sea, and the floods compassed me: all your billows and your waves have passed upon me. ⁵ And I said, I am cast out of your presence: shall I indeed look again toward your holy temple? ⁶ Water was poured around me to the soul: the lowest deep compassed me, my head went down ⁷ to the clefts of the mountains; I went down into the earth, whose bars are the everlasting barriers: yet, O Lord my God, let my ruined life be restored. ⁸ When my soul was failing me, I remembered the Lord; and may my prayer come to you into your holy temple. ⁹ They that observe vanities and lies have forsaken their own mercy. ¹⁰ But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of praise and thanksgiving: all that I have vowed I will pay to you, the Lord of [my] salvation.

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.

¹⁴ if there is any iniquity in your hands, put if far from you, and let not unrighteousness lodge in your habitation.

²⁰ All the life of the ungodly [is spent] in care, and the years granted to the oppressor are numbered.

³⁴ For death is the witness of an ungodly man, and fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts.

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?

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

⁶ but keeping fast to [my] righteousness I will by no means let it go: for I am not conscious to myself of having done any thing amiss. ⁷ Nay rather, but let mine enemies be as the overthrow of the ungodly, and they that rise up against me, as the destruction of transgressors.

¹² For I saved the poor out of the hand of the oppressor, and helped the fatherless who had no helper. ¹³ Let the blessing of the perishing one come upon me; yes, the mouth of the widow has blessed me. ¹⁴ Also I put on righteousness, and clothed myself with judgment like a mantle. ¹⁵ I was the eye of the blind, and the foot of the lame. ¹⁶ I was the father of the helpless; and I searched out the cause which I knew not. ¹⁷ And I broke the jaw teeth of the unrighteous; I plucked the spoil out of the midst of their teeth.

¹ I made a covenant with mine eyes, and I will not think upon a virgin. ² Now what portion has God given from above? and is there an inheritance [given] of the Mighty One from the highest? ³ Alas! destruction to the unrighteous, and rejection to them that do iniquity. ⁴ Will he not see my way, and number all my steps? ⁵ But if I had gone with scorners, and if too my foot has hasted to deceit: ⁶ (for I am weighed in a just balance, and the Lord knows my innocence:) ⁷ if my foot has turned aside out of the way, or if mine heart has followed mine eye, and if too I have touched gifts with my hands; ⁸ then let me sow, and let others eat; and let me be uprooted on the earth. ⁹ If my heart has gone forth after another man's wife, and if I laid wait at her doors; ¹⁰ then let my wife also please another, and let my children be brought low. ¹¹ For the rage of anger is not to be controlled, [in the case] of defiling [another] man's wife. ¹² For it is a fire burning on every side, and whoever it attacks, it utterly destroys. ¹³ And if too I despised the judgment of my servant or [my] handmaid, when they pleaded with me; ¹⁴ what then shall I do if the Lord should try me? and if also he should at all visit me, can I make an answer? ¹⁵ Were not they too formed as I also was formed in the womb? yes, we were formed in the same womb. ¹⁶ But the helpless missed not whatever need they had, and I did not cause the eye of the widow to fail. ¹⁷ And if too I ate my morsel alone, and did not impart [of it] to the orphan; ¹⁸ (for I nourished [them] as a father from my youth and guided [them] from my mother's womb.) ¹⁹ And if too I overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him; ²⁰ and if the poor did not bless me, and their shoulders were [not] warmed with the fleece of my lambs; ²¹ if I lifted my hand against an orphan, trusting that my strength was far superior [to his]: ²² let them my shoulder start from the blade-bone, and my arm be crushed off from the elbow. ²³ For the fear of the Lord constrained me, and I can’t bear up by reason of his burden. ²⁴ If I made gold my treasure, and if too I trusted the precious stone; ²⁵ and if too I rejoiced when my wealth was abundant, and if too I laid my hand on innumerable [treasures]: ²⁶ (do we not see the shining sun eclipsed, and the moon waning? for they have not [power to continue]:) ²⁷ and if my heart was secretly deceived, and if I have laid my hand upon my mouth and kissed it: ²⁸ let this also then be reckoned to me as the greatest iniquity: for I [should] have lied against the Lord Most High. ²⁹ And if too I was glad at the fall of mine enemies, and mine heart said, Aha! ³⁰ let then mine ear hear my curse, and let me be a byword among my people in my affliction. 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: ³⁸ If at any time the land groaned against me, and if its furrows mourned together; ³⁹ and if I ate its strength alone without price, and if I too grieved the heart of the owner of the soil, by taking [anything] from [him]: ⁴⁰ then let the nettle come up to me instead of wheat, and a bramble instead of barley. And Job ceased speaking.

³ O Lord my God, if I have done this; (if there is unrighteousness in my hands;) ⁴ if I have requited with evil those who requited me [with good]; may I then perish empty by means of my enemies. ⁵ Let the enemy persecute my soul, an take it; and let him trample my life on the ground, and lay my glory in the dust. Pause.

¹⁷ They shall make mention of your name from generation to generation: therefore shall the nations give thanks to you for ever, even for ever and ever.

⁸ The sacrifices of the ungodly are an abomination to the Lord; but the prayers of them that walk honestly are acceptable with him.

⁶ Their web shall not become a garment, nor shall they at all clothe themselves with their works; for their works are works of iniquity.

⁸ So men and cattle were clothed with sackcloths, and cried earnestly to God; and they turned every one from their evil way, and from the iniquity that was in their hands, saying,

¹¹ And now you [are] cursed from the earth which has opened her mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

⁵ and do not cover [their] iniquity.

⁹ Will God hear his prayer? or, when distress has come upon him,

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.

²¹ For, behold, the Lord is bringing wrath from [his] holy place upon the dwellers on the earth: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall not cover her slain.

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:

²⁹ Land, land, hear the word of the Lord.

⁷ For her blood is in the midst of her; I have set it upon a smooth rock: I have not poured it out upon the earth, so that the earth should cover it;

⁵⁰ If you shall humble my daughters, if you should take wives in addition to my daughters, see, there is no one with us looking on. God [is] witness between me and you.

⁵ And Samuel said to the people, The Lord [is] witness among you, and his anointed [is] witness this day, that you⌃ have not found anything in my hand: and they said, [He is] witness.

² What beginning or fear is his—even he that makes all things in the highest?

⁵ What [ailed] you, O sea, that you fled? and you Jordan, that you were turned back?

⁴ For a righteous and blameless man has become a subject for mockery. ⁵ For it had been ordained that he should fall under others at the appointed time, and that his houses should be spoiled by transgressors: let not however any one trust that, being evil, he shall be [held] guiltless,

⁴ I also will speak as you⌃ [do]: if indeed your soul were in my [soul's] stead,

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

⁴ The Lord sware, and will not repent, You are a priest for ever, after the order of Melchisedec.

² And enter not into judgment with your servant, for in your sight shall no [man] living be justified.

⁴ And he prevailed with the angel and was strong: they wept, and entreated me: they found me in the house of On, and there [a word] was spoken to them. ⁵ But the Lord God Almighty shall be his memorial.

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].

³ Nevertheless I will speak to the Lord, and I will reason before him, if he will.

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,

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.

¹⁰ If anything has been, its name has already been called: and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is stronger than he.

⁹ What excellent thing have I prepared as clay of the potter? Will the plowman plow the earth all day? shall the clay say to the potter, What are you doing that you do not work, nor have hands? shall the thing formed answer him that formed it?

⁹ [I am] as a cloud that is cleared away from the sky: for if a man go down to the grave, he shall not come up again: ¹⁰ and he shall surely not return to his own house, neither shall his place know him any more.

⁵ if even his life should be [but] one day upon the earth: and his months are numbered by him: you have appointed [him] for a time, and he shall by no means exceed [it].

¹⁰ But a man that has died is utterly gone; and when a mortal has fallen, he is no more.

¹⁴ For if a man should die, shall he live [again], having accomplished the days of his life? I will wait till I exist again?

⁵ and they shall look up, and fears [shall be] in the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the locust shall increase, and the caper shall be scattered: because man has gone to his eternal home, and the mourners have gone about the market: