Job 25 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said, ² What beginning or fear is his—even he that makes all things in the highest? ³ For let none think that there is a respite for robbers: and upon whom will there not come a snare from him? ⁴ For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself? ⁵ If he gives an order to the moon, then it shines not; and the stars are not pure before him. ⁶ But alas! man is corruption, and the son of man a worm.

¹¹ Your, O Lord, [is] the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the might: for you are Lord of all things that are in heaven and upon the earth: before your face every king and nation is troubled. ¹² From you [come] wealth and glory: you, O Lord, rule over all, the Lord of all dominion, and in your hand [is] strength and rule; and [you are] almighty with your hand to increase and establish all things.

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. ⁴ For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: who has hardened himself against him and endured? ⁵ Who wears out the mountains, and [men] know it not: who overturns them in anger. ⁶ Who shakes the [earth] under heaven from its foundations, and its pillars totter. ⁷ Who commands the sun, and it rises not; and he seals up the stars. ⁸ Who alone has stretched out the heavens, and walks on the sea as on firm ground. ⁹ Who makes Pleias, and Hesperus, and Arcturus, and the chambers of the south. ¹⁰ Who does great and unsearchable things; glorious also and excellent things, innumerable.

⁵ Shall giants be born from under the water and the inhabitants thereof? ⁶ Hell is naked before him, and destruction has no covering. ⁷ He stretches out the north wind upon nothing, and he upon nothing hangs the earth; ⁸ binding water in his clouds, and the cloud is not tore under it. ⁹ He keeps back the face of his throne, stretching out his cloud upon it. ¹⁰ He has encompassed the face of the water by an appointed ordinance, until the end of light and darkness. ¹¹ The pillars of heaven are prostrate and astonished at his rebuke. ¹² He has calmed the sea with [his] might, and by [his] wisdom the whale has been overthrown. ¹³ And the barriers of heaven fear him, and by a command he has slain the apostate dragon. 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]?

⁹ [Then] will I confess that your right hand can save [you]. ¹⁰ But now look at the wild beasts with you; they eat grass like oxen. ¹¹ Behold now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. ¹² He sets up his tail like a cypress; and his nerves are wrapped together. ¹³ His sides are sides of brass; and his backbone is [as] cast iron. ¹⁴ This is the chief of the creation of the Lord; made to be played with by his angels.

¹ (100) A Psalm for Thanksgiving. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth. ² Serve the Lord with gladness; come before his presence with exultation. ³ Know that the Lord he is God; he made us, and not we ourselves; [we are] his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

¹⁵ Thus says the Most High, who dwells on high for ever, Holy in the holies, is his name, the Most High resting in the holies, and giving patience to the faint-hearted, and giving life to the broken-hearted:

¹⁹ peace upon peace to them that are far off, and to them that are near: and the Lord has said, I will heal them.

³⁴ Now therefore I Nabuchodonosor praise and greatly exalt and glorify the King of heaven; for all his works are true, and his paths are judgment: and all that walk in pride he is able to abase.

³ And God said, Let there be light, and there was light. ⁴ And God saw the light that it was good, and God divided between the light and the darkness. ⁵ And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night, and there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

¹⁴ And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, to divide between day and night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years. ¹⁵ And let them be for light in the firmament of the heaven, so as to shine upon the earth, and it was so. ¹⁶ And God made the two great lights, the greater light for regulating the day and the lesser light for regulating the night, the stars also.

¹² Or did I order the morning light in your time; and [did] the morning star [then first] see his appointed place; ¹³ to lay hold of the extremities of the earth, to cast out the ungodly out of it?

⁴ Grant you according to your heart, and fulfill all your desire. ⁵ We will exult in your salvation, and in the name of our God shall we be magnified: the Lord fulfil all your petitions. ⁶ Now I know that the Lord has saved his Christ: he shall hear him from his holy heaven: the salvation of his right hand is mighty.

²⁰ You did make darkness, and it was night; in it all the wild beasts of the forest will be abroad: ²¹ [even] young lions roaring for prey, and to seek meat for themselves from God.

² Praise you⌃ him, all his angels: praise you⌃ him, all his hosts. ³ Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all you⌃ stars and light. ⁴ Praise him, you⌃ heavens of heavens, and the water that is above the heavens.

²⁶ Lift up your eyes on high, and see, who has displayed all these things? [even] he that brings forth his host by number: he shall call them all by name by [means of his] great glory, and by the power of his might: nothing has escaped you.

¹⁰ A stream of fire rushed forth before him: thousand thousands ministered to him, and ten thousands of myriads, attended upon him: the judgment sat, and the books were opened.

¹⁷ What, shall a mortal be pure before the Lord? or a man be blameless in regard to his works? ¹⁸ Whereas he trust not in his servants, and perceives perverseness in his angels. 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.

² I know of a truth that it is so: for how shall a mortal man be just before the Lord?

³ Hast you not taken account even of him, and caused him to enter into judgment before you? ⁴ For who shall be pure from uncleanness? not even one;

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? ¹⁵ Forasmuch as he trusts not his saints; and the heaven is not pure before him. ¹⁶ Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught.

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.

³ Let Israel hope in the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.

² My mercy, and my refuge; my helper, and my deliverer; my protector, in whom I have trusted; who subdues my people under me.

¹ In that day every place shall be opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for removal and for separation.

¹⁵ Forasmuch as he trusts not his saints; and the heaven is not pure before him.

²⁶ (do we not see the shining sun eclipsed, and the moon waning? for they have not [power to continue]:)

²³ And the brick shall decay, and the wall shall fall; for the Lord shall reign from out of Sion, and out of Jerusalem, and shall be glorified before [his] elders.

¹⁹ And you shall no more have the sun for a light by day, nor shall the rising of the moon lighten your night; but the Lord shall be your everlasting light, and God your glory. ²⁰ For the sun shall no more set, nor shall the moon be eclipsed; for the Lord shall be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be completed.

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

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 For what is man, that you have magnified him? or that you give heed to him?

⁶ Your mercy also shall follow me all the days of my life: and my dwelling [shall be] in the house of the Lord for a very long time.

¹⁴ Fear not, Jacob, [and you] Israel few in number; I have helped you, says your God, he that redeems you, O Israel.