Job 26 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ But Job answered and said, 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? ⁴ To whom have you uttered words? and whose breath is it that has come forth from you? 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]?

²⁷ And it was noon, and Eliu the Thesbite mocked them, and said, Call with a loud voice, for he is a god; for he is meditating, or else perhaps he is engaged in business, or perhaps he is asleep, and is to be awaked.

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.

¹² Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?

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

² So then you⌃ [alone] are men, and wisdom shall die with you?

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.

⁹ The Ethiopians shall fall down before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

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.

¹⁴ Or with whom has he taken counsel, and he has instructed him? or who has taught him judgment, or who has taught him the way of understanding;

⁵ The nations saw, and feared; the ends of the earth drew near, and came together, ⁶ every one judging for his neighbor and [that] to assist his brother: and one will say, ⁷ The artificer has become strong, and the coppersmith that smites with the hammer, [and] forges also: sometimes he will say, It is a piece well joined: they have fastened them with nails; they will fix them, and they shall not be moved.

¹³ Or have I not trusted in him? but help is [far] from me.

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

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

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? ¹⁰ Truly among us [are] both the old and very aged man, more advanced in days than your father.

¹⁰ Howbeit, do you⌃ all strengthen [yourselves] and come now, for I do not find truth in you.

¹¹ Listen to my words; for I will speak in your hearing, until you⌃ shall have tried [the matter] with words: ¹² and I shall understand as far as you; and, behold, there was no one of you that answered Job his words in argument, ¹³ lest you⌃ should say, We have found that we have added wisdom to the Lord.

³ My heart [shall be found] pure by [my] words; and the understanding of my lips shall meditate purity.

³³ If not, do you hear me: be silent, and I will teach you.

² Who is this that hides counsel from me, and confines words in [his] heart, and thinks to conceal [them] from me?

¹ (50) A Psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down [thereof]. ² Out of Sion [comes] the excellence of his beauty. ³ God, our God, shall come manifestly, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall be kindled before him, and round about him there shall be a very great tempest. ⁴ He shall summon the heaven above, and the earth, that he may judge his people.

¹⁵ And he shall live, and there shall be given him of the gold of Arabia: and [men] shall pray for him continually; [and] all the day shall they praise him. ¹⁶ There shall be an establishment on the earth on the tops of the mountains: the fruit thereof shall be exalted above Libanus, and they of the city shall flourish as grass of the earth. ¹⁷ Let his name be blessed for ever: his name shall endure longer than the sun: and all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed. ¹⁸ Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, who alone does wonders.

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. ⁸ All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing in them wrong or perverse. ⁹ They are all evident to those that understand, and right to those that find knowledge.

²³ And now, behold, the Lord has put a false spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets, and the Lord has spoken evil against you. 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?

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

¹⁸ for I am full of words, for the spirit of my belly destroys me.

⁷ [before] the dust also return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return to God who gave it.

⁴ Now the giants were upon the earth in those days; and after that when the sons of God were wont to go in to the daughters of men, they bore [children] to them, those were the giants of old, the men of renown.

¹ Hast you not seen him? and have you not wondered at the things said [of him]? Do you not fear because preparation has been made by me? for who is there that resists me? ² Or who will resist me, and abide, since the whole [world] under heaven is mine? ³ I will not be silent because of him: though because of his power [one] shall pity his antagonist. ⁴ Who will open the face of his garment? and who can enter within the fold of his breastplate? ⁵ Who will open the doors of his face? terror is round about his teeth. ⁶ His inwards are as brazen plates, and the texture of his [skin] as a smyrite stone. ⁷ One [part] cleaves fast to another, and the air can’t come between them. ⁸ They will remain united each to the other: they are closely joined, and can’t be separated. ⁹ At his sneezing a light shines, and his eyes are [as] the appearance of the morning star. ¹⁰ Out of his mouth proceed as it were burning lamps, and as it were hearths of fire are cast abroad. ¹¹ Out of his nostrils proceeds smoke of a furnace burning with fire of coals. ¹² His breath is [as] live coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth. ¹³ And power is lodged in his neck, before him destruction runs. ¹⁴ The flesh also of his body is joined together: [if one] pours [violence] upon him, he shall not be moved. ¹⁵ His heart is firm as a stone, and it stands like an unyielding anvil. ¹⁶ And when he turns, [he is] a terror to the four-footed wild beasts which leap upon the earth. ¹⁷ If spears should come against him, [men] will effect nothing, [either with] the spear or the breast-plate. ¹⁸ For he considers iron as chaff, and brass as rotten wood. ¹⁹ The bow of brass shall not would him, he deems a slinger as grass. ²⁰ Mauls are counted as stubble; and he laughs to scorn the waving of the firebrand. ²¹ His lair is [formed of] sharp points; and all the gold of the sea under him is an immense [quantity of] clay. ²² He makes the deep boil like a brazen caldron; and he regards the sea as a pot of ointment, ²³ and the lowest part of the deep as a captive: he reckons the deep as [his] range. ²⁴ There is nothing upon the earth like to him, formed to be sported with by my angels. ²⁵ He beholds every high thing: and he is king of all that are in the waters.

¹⁰ You has brought down the proud as one that is slain; and with the arm of your power you has scattered your enemies.

²⁵ And he turned their heart to hate his people, to deal craftily with his servants. ²⁶ He sent fort Moses his servant, [and] Aaron whom he had chosen.

³ and say, Thus says the Lord; Behold, I am against Pharao, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his rivers, that says, The rivers are mine, and I made them. ⁴ And I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will cause the fish of your river to stick to your sides, and I will bring you up out of the midst of your river: ⁵ and I will quickly cast down you and all the fish of your river: you shall fall on the face of the plain, and shall by no means be gathered, and shall not be brought together: I have given you for food to the wild beasts of the earth and to the fowls of the sky.

⁸ Heaven [is] high; and what will you do? and there are deeper things than those in hell; what do you know?

²² Destruction and Death said, We have heard the report of it.

¹¹ Out of his nostrils proceeds smoke of a furnace burning with fire of coals.

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.

¹¹ A talkative man shall not prosper on the earth: evils shall hunt the unrighteous man to destruction.

¹¹ Hell and destruction are manifest to the Lord; how shall not also be the hearts of men?

⁹ Hell from beneath is provoked to meet you: all the great ones that have ruled over the earth have risen up together against you, they that have raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

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.

¹ In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth. ² But the earth was unsightly and unfurnished, and darkness was over the deep, and the Spirit of God moved over the water.

⁸ Who alone has stretched out the heavens, and walks on the sea as on firm ground.

² O my God, I have trusted in you: let me not be confounded, neither let mine enemies laugh me to scorn.

² Sing to him, yes, sing praises to him: tell forth all his wonderful works. ³ Glory in his holy name: let the heart of them that seek the Lord rejoice. ⁴ Seek you⌃ the Lord, and be strengthened; seek his face continually. ⁵ Remember his wonderful works that he has done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;

²³ He established me before time [was] in the beginning, before he made the earth: ²⁴ even before he made the depths; before the fountains of water came forth: ²⁵ before the mountains were settled, and before all hills, he begets me. ²⁶ The Lord made countries and uninhabited [tracks], and the highest inhabited parts of the world. ²⁷ When he prepared the heaven, I was present with him; and when he prepared his throne upon the winds:

²² [It is] he that comprehends the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants in it are as grasshoppers; he that set up the heaven as a chamber, and stretched [it] out as a tent to dwell in:

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.

⁵ Thus says the Lord God, who made the heaven, and established it; who settled the earth, and the things in it, and gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to them that tread on it:

⁶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water, and let it be a division between water and water, and it was so. ⁷ And God made the firmament, and God divided between the water which was under the firmament and the water which was above the firmament.

²⁹ And though one should understand the outspreadings of the clouds, [or] the measure of his tabernacle;

¹¹ And [if] a cloud obscures [what is] precious [to him], his light will disperse the cloud. ¹² And he will carry round the encircling [clouds] by his governance, to [perform] their works: whatever he shall command them, ¹³ this has been appointed by him on the earth, whether for correction, [or] for his land, or if he shall find him [an object] for mercy. ¹⁴ Listen to this, O Job: stand still, and be admonished of the power of the Lord. ¹⁵ We know that god has disposed his works, having made light out of darkness. ¹⁶ And he knows the divisions of the clouds, and the signal overthrows of the ungodly.

⁹ And I made a cloud its clothing, and swathed it in mist.

³⁷ And who is he that numbers the clouds in wisdom, and has bowed the heaven [down] to the earth?

¹⁰ To be desired more than gold, and much precious stone: sweeter also than honey and the honey-comb. ¹¹ For your servant keeps to them: in the keeping of them [there is] great reward.

⁷ To him who alone made great lights; for his mercy [endures] for ever.

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?

⁶ And I will forsake my vineyard; and it shall not be pruned, nor dug, and thorns shall come up upon it as on barren land; and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.

¹³ and set abundance of waters in the sky, and brought up clouds from the ends of the earth; he made lightnings for the rain, and brought forth light out of his treasures.

²¹ And the people stood afar off, and Moses went into the darkness where God was.

²⁰ And [God] said, You shall not be able to see my face; for no man shall see my face, and live. ²¹ And the Lord said, Behold, [there is] a place by me: you shall stand upon the rock; ²² and when my glory shall pass by, then I will put you into a hole of the rock; and I will cover you over with my hand, until I shall have passed by. ²³ And I will remove my hand, and then shall you see my back parts; but my face shall not appear to you.

³ And let no one go up with you, nor be seen in all the mountain; and let not the sheep and oxen feed near that mountain.

¹⁴ A cloud is his hiding-place, and he shall not be seen; and he passes through the circle of heaven.

² The Lord has made known his salvation, he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations.

³ God shall come from Thaeman, and the Holy One from the dark shady mount Pharan. Pause. ⁴ His excellence covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. And his brightness shall be as light; [there were] horns in his hands, and he caused a mighty love of his strength. ⁵ Before his face shall go a report, and it shall go forth into the plains,

²² All the days of the earth, seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and spring, shall not cease by day or night.

⁸ And I shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed out, coming forth out its mother's womb. ⁹ And I made a cloud its clothing, and swathed it in mist. ¹⁰ And I set bounds to it, surrounding it with bars and gates. ¹¹ And I said to it, Hitherto shall you come, but you shall not go beyond, but your waves shall be confined within you.

⁷ The angel of the Lord will encamp round about them that fear him, and will deliver them.

⁶ [you⌃] seed of Abraam, his servants, [you⌃] children of Jacob, his chosen ones. ⁷ He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth. ⁸ He has remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded for a thousand generation: ⁹ which he established as a covenant to Abraam, and [he remembered] his oath to Isaac.

²⁹ decree. and when he strengthened the foundations of the earth:

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, ¹⁰ shall the mountains depart, nor shall your hills be removed: so neither shall my mercy fail you, nor shall the covenant of your peace be at all removed: for the Lord [who is] gracious to you has spoken [it].

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.

⁸ He lifts up the poor from the earth, and raises the needy from the dunghill; to seat him with the princes of the people, and causing them to inherit the throne of glory:

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

⁷ The law of the Lord is perfect, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, instructing babes.

²¹ And the word of the Lord came the second time to Aggaeus the prophet, on the four and twentieth [day] of the month, saying,

²¹ And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the Lord carried back the sea with a strong south wind all the night, and made the sea dry, and the water was divided. ²² And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry land, and the water of it was a wall on the right hand and a wall on the left. ²³ And the Egyptians pursued them and went in after them, and every horse of Pharao, and his chariots, and his horsemen, into the midst of the sea. ²⁴ And it came to pass in the morning watch that the Lord looked forth on the camp of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud, and troubled the camp of the Egyptians, ²⁵ and bound the axle-trees of their chariots, and caused them to go with difficulty; and the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel, for the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians. ²⁶ And the Lord said to Moses, Stretch forth tine hand over the sea, and let the water be turned back to its place, and let it cover the Egyptians [coming] both upon the chariots and the riders. ²⁷ And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the water returned to its place toward day; and the Egyptians fled from the water, and the Lord shook off the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. ²⁸ and the water returned and covered the chariots and the riders, and all the forces of Pharao, who entered after them into the sea: and there was not left of them even one. ²⁹ But the children of Israel went along dry land in the midst of the sea, and the water was to them a wall on the right hand, and a wall on the left. ³⁰ So the Lord delivered Israel in that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead by the shore of the sea. ³¹ And Israel saw the mighty hand, the [things] which the Lord did to the Egyptians; and the people feared the Lord, and they believed God and Moses his servant.

¹³ For [if] he has turned away [his] anger, the whales under heaven have stooped under him.

¹³ With him are wisdom and power, with him counsel and understanding.

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.

¹⁰ The Lord heard, and had compassion upon me; the Lord is become my helper.

⁹ For all our days are gone, and we have passed away in your wrath: our years have spun out their tale as a spider. ¹⁰ [As for] the days of our years, in them are seventy years; and if [men should be] in strength, eighty years: and the greater part of them would be labor and trouble; for weakness overtakes us, and we shall be chastened.

³ How long shall sinners, O Lord, how long shall sinners boast? ⁴ They will utter and speak unrighteousness; all the workers of iniquity will speak [so].

² lest at any time the nations should say, Where is their God? ³ But our God has done in heaven and on earth, whatever he has pleased. ⁴ The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the works of men's hands. ⁵ They have a mouth, but they can’t speak; they have eyes, but they can’t see: ⁶ they have ears, but they can’t hear; they have noses, but they can’t smell; ⁷ they have hands, but they can’t handle; they have feet, but they can’t walk: they can’t speak through their throat.

¹² For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and haughty, and upon every one that is high and towering, and they shall be brought down;

⁹ Awake, awake, O Jerusalem, and put on the strength of your arm; awake as in the early time, as the ancient generation.

¹⁵ for I am your God, that troubles the sea, and causes the waves thereof to roar: the Lord of hosts is my name.

³⁵ And I will destroy Moab, says the Lord, as he comes up to the altar, and burns incense to his gods.

² But the earth was unsightly and unfurnished, and darkness was over the deep, and the Spirit of God moved over the water.

⁶ This poor man cried, and the Lord listened to him, and delivered him out of all his afflictions. ⁷ The angel of the Lord will encamp round about them that fear him, and will deliver them.

³⁰ Their land produced frogs abundantly, in the chambers of their kings.

¹ In that day God shall bring [his] holy and great and strong sword upon the dragon, even the serpent that flees, upon the dragon, the crooked serpent: he shall destroy the dragon.

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,

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?

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.

⁹ [Then] will I confess that your right hand can save [you].

³ O Lord, you have brought up my soul from Hades, you have delivered me from [among] them that go down to the pit.

⁶ I said to the Lord, You are my God; listen, O Lord, to the voice of my supplication.

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

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. ²⁷ For say not you, O Jacob, and why have you spoken, Israel, [saying], My way is hid from God, and my God has taken away [my] judgement, and has departed? 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. ²⁹ He gives strength to the hungry, and sorrow to them that are not suffering.