Job 29 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ And Job continued and said in his parable, 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. ⁴ [As] when I steadfastly pursued my ways, when God took care of my house. 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.

⁷ And he took up his parable, and said, Balac king of Moab sent for me out of Mesopotamia, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and Come, call for a curse for me upon Israel.

¹² And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, and your body [like a body] of clay.

¹ And Job further continued and said in his parable,

¹ There was a certain man in the land of Ausis, whose name [was] Job; and than man was true, blameless, righteous, [and] godly, abstaining from everything evil. 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. ⁴ And his sons visiting one another prepared a banquet every day, taking with them also their three sisters to eat and drink with them. ⁵ And when the days of the banquet were completed, Job sent and purified them, having risen up in the morning, and offered sacrifices for them, according to their number, and one calf for a sin-offering for their souls: for Job said, Lest perhaps my sons have thought evil in their minds against God. Thus, then Job did continually.

¹⁰ Hast you not made a hedge about him, and about his household, and all his possessions round about? and have you not blessed the works of his hands, and multiplied his cattle upon the land?

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

²⁸ The inhabitants of Moab have left the cities, and lived in rocks; they have become as doves nestling in rocks, at the mouth of a cave.

¹⁷ And your prayer [shall be] as the morning star, and life shall arise to you [as] from the noonday.

⁶ His light [shall be] darkness in [his] habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

¹⁷ Nevertheless, the lamp of the ungodly also shall be put out, and destruction shall come upon them, and pangs of vengeance shall seize them.

²⁸ And he shall establish to you again a habitation of righteousness and there shall be light upon your paths.

⁶ Many say, Who will show us good things? the light of your countenance, O Lord, has been manifested towards us.

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.

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.

¹¹ Truth has sprung out of the earth; and righteousness has looked down from heaven.

⁹ The righteous always have light: but the light of the ungodly is quenched. Crafty souls go astray in sins: but just men pity, and are merciful.

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

²⁰ For the evil man shall have no posterity: and the light of the wicked shall be put out.

⁴ And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into sickles: and nation shall not take up sword against nation, neither shall they learn to war any more.

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?

⁵ Because they have not attended to the works of the Lord, even to the works of his hands, you shall pull them down, and shall not build them up.

¹ (92) A Psalm of a Song for the Sabbath-day. It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord, and to sing praises to your name, O you Most High;

³² For every transgressor is unclean before the Lord; neither does he sit among the righteous.

²⁷ And the rule of God shall protect you, and [that] under the strength of the everlasting arms; and he shall cast forth the enemy from before your face, saying, Perish. ²⁸ And Israel shall dwell in confidence alone on the land of Jacob, with corn and wine; and the sky [shall be] misty with dew upon you. ²⁹ Blessed [are] you, O Israel; who [is] like to you, O people saved by the Lord? your helper shall hold his shield over you, and [his] sword [is] your boast; and your enemies shall speak falsely to you, and you shall tread upon their neck.

⁹ Behold! I have commanded you; be strong and courageous, be not cowardly nor fearful, for the Lord your God is with you in all places whither you go.

¹² And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, The Lord [is] with you, you mighty in strength. ¹³ And Gedeon said to him, [Be gracious] with me, my Lord: but if the Lord is with us, why have these evils found us? and where are all his miracles, which our fathers have related to us, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt? and now he has cast us out, and given us into the hand of Madiam.

³ Who would then know that I might find him, and come to an end [of the matter]?

⁸ For if I shall go first, and exist no longer, still what do I know [concerning] the latter end? ⁹ When he wrought on the left hand, then I observed [it] not: his right hand shall encompass me but I shall not see [it]. ¹⁰ For he knows already my way; and he has tried me as gold.

¹³ And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴ And he called the first Day, and the second Casia, and the third Amalthaea's horn. ¹⁵ And there were not found in comparison with the daughters of Job, fairer [women] than they in all the world: and their father gave them an inheritance among their brethren. ¹⁶ And Job lived after [his] affliction a hundred and seventy years: and all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: and Job saw his sons and his sons' sons, the fourth generation.

⁷ I will exult and be glad in your mercy: for you have looked upon mine affliction; you have saved my soul from distresses.

² Your hand utterly destroyed the heathen, and you did plant them: you did afflict the nations, and cast them out.

⁸ Myrrh, and stacte, and cassia [are exhaled] from your garments, [and] out of the ivory palaces, ⁹ with which kings' daughters have gladdened you for your honor: the queen stood by on your right hand, clothed in vesture wrought with gold, [and] arrayed in various colors.

³ Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine on the sides of your house: your children as young olive-plants round about your table. ⁴ Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that fears the Lord. ⁵ May the Lord bless you out of Sion; and may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

³ The sinners wrought upon my back: they prolonged their iniquity.

⁶ Children's children are the crown of old men; and their fathers are the glory of children. The faithful has the whole world full of wealth; but the faithless not even a farthing.

⁴ Bring me into the wine house; set love before me.

¹ By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he listened not to me. ² I will rise now, and go about in the city, in the marketplaces, and in the streets, and I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not.

⁸ O Lord, [you are] the hope of Israel, and deliver [us] in time of troubles; why are you become as a sojourner upon the land, or as one born in the land, yet turning aside for a resting-place?

¹¹ Binding his foal to the vine, and the foal of his ass to the branch [of it], he shall wash his robe in wine, and his garment in the blood of the grape.

¹³ He brought them up on the strength of the land; he fed them with the fruits of the fields; they sucked honey out of the rock, and oil out of the solid rock. ¹⁴ Butter of cows, and milk of sheep, with the fat of lambs and rams, of calves and kids, with fat of kidneys of wheat; and he drank wine, the blood of the grape.

²⁴ And to Aser he said, Aser [is] blessed with children; and he shall be acceptable to his brethren: he shall dip his foot in oil.

¹⁷ Let him not see the milk of the pastures, nor the supplies of honey and butter.

¹⁸ You shall make for yourself judges and officers in your cities, which the Lord your God gives you in [your] tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment:

¹⁹ then shall his father and his mother take hold of him, and bring him forth to the elders of his city, and to the gate of the place:

¹ And Booz went up to the gate, and sat there; and behold, the relative passed by, of whom Booz spoke: and Booz said to him, Turn aside, sit down here, such a one: and he turned aside and sat down. ² And Booz took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit you⌃ here; and they sat down.

¹¹ And all the people who were in the gate said, [We are] witnesses: and the elders said, The Lord make your wife who goes into your house, as Rachel and as Lia, who both [together] built the house of Israel, and wrought mightily in Ephratha, and there shall be a name [to you] in Bethleem.

²¹ if I lifted my hand against an orphan, trusting that my strength was far superior [to his]:

¹⁶ These [are] the things which you⌃ shall do; speak truth every one with his neighbor; judge truth and peaceful judgment in your gates:

³² You shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and shall fear your God: I am the Lord your God.

³¹ Old age is a crown of honor, but it is found in the ways of righteousness.

⁸ Whenever a righteous king sits on the throne, no evil thing can stand before his presence.

¹⁹ And they said to him, Be silent, lay your hand upon your mouth, and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest: [is it] better for you to be the priest of the house of one man, or to be the priest of a tribe and house for a family of Israel?

² Hast you been often spoken to in distress? but who shall endure the force of your words?

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.

⁵ Look upon me, and wonder, laying your hand upon your cheek.

⁴ Hast you an arm like the Lord's? or do you thunder with a voice like his?

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

³² If you abandon yourself to mirth, and stretch forth your hand in a quarrel, you shall be disgraced.

⁶ For the Lord is high, and [yet] regards the lowly; and he knows high things from afar off.

²⁶ Also I will bind your tongue, and you shall be dumb, and shall not be to them a reprover: because it is a provoking house.

²⁰ and if the poor did not bless me, and their shoulders were [not] warmed with the fleece of my lambs;

² When the righteous are praised, the people will rejoice: but when the ungodly rule, men mourn.

²² You⌃ shall hurt no widow or orphan. ²³ And if you⌃ should afflict them by ill-treatment, and they should cry aloud to me, I will surely hear their voice. ²⁴ And I will be very angry, and will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children orphans.

¹⁸ executing judgment for the stranger and orphan and widow, and he loves the stranger to give him food and raiment.

² And some said, We [are] numerous with our sons and our daughters; so we will take corn, and eat, and live. ³ And some said, [As to] our fields and vineyards and houses, let us pledge [them], and we will take corn, and eat. ⁴ And some said, We have borrowed money for the king's tributes:—our fields, and our vineyards, and houses [are pledged]. ⁵ And now our flesh [is] as the flesh of our brethren, our children [are] as their children: yet, behold, we are reducing our sons and our daughters to slavery, and some of our daughters are enslaved: and there is no power of our hands, for our fields and our vineyards [belong] to the nobles. ⁶ And I was much grieved as I heard their cry and these words. ⁷ And my heart took counsel within me, and I contended against the nobles, and the princes, and I said to them, Should every man demand of his brother what you⌃ demand? And I appointed against them a great assembly, ⁸ and I said to them, We of our free-will have redeemed our brethren the Jews that were sold to the Gentiles; and do you⌃ sell your brethren? and shall they be delivered to us? And they were silent, and found no answer. ⁹ And I said, The thing which you⌃ do [is] not good; you⌃ will not so walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the Gentiles our enemies. ¹⁰ Both my brethren, and my acquaintances, and I, have lent them money and corn: let us now leave off this exaction. ¹¹ Restore to them, I pray, as at this day, their fields, and their vineyards, and their olive yards, and their houses, and bring forth to them corn and wine and oil of the money. ¹² And they said, We will restore, and we will not exact of them; we will do thus as you say. Then I called the priests, and bound them by oath to do according to this word. ¹³ And I shook out my garment, and said, So may God shake out every man who shall not keep to this word, from his house, and from his labors, he shall be even thus shaken out, as an outcast and empty. And all the congregation said, Amen, and they praised the Lord: and the people did this thing.

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.

⁴ They have turned aside the weak from the right way: and the meek of the earth have hidden themselves together.

¹⁷ And if too I ate my morsel alone, and did not impart [of it] to the orphan;

⁵ O God, you know my foolishness; and my transgressions are not hidden from you.

¹² Behold, these [are] the sinners, and they that prosper always: they have possessed wealth.

² For behold, your enemies have made a noise; and they that hate you have lifted up the head. ³ Against your people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against your saints. ⁴ They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation; and let the name of Israel be remembered no more at all.

¹³ He that stops his ears from hearing the poor, himself also shall cry, and there shall be none to hear [him].

¹¹ Deliver them that are led away to death, and redeem them that are appointed to be slain; spare not [your help]. ¹² But if you should say, I know not this man; know that the Lord knows the hearts of all; and he that formed breath for all, he knows all things, who renders to every man according to his works.

¹⁶ They understood not, they judged not the cause of the afflicted, nor the cause of the poor: is not this your not knowing me? says the Lord.

¹¹ And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son, and your daughter, your man-servant and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which dwells among you, in whatever place the Lord your God shall choose, that his name should be called there.

¹³ you shall stand without, and the man who is in your debt shall bring the pledge out to you.

⁵ and he shall answer and say before the Lord your God, My father abandoned Syria, and went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a small number, and became there a mighty nation and a great multitude.

¹⁰ And [the governor] said to them, Go, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions to them that have nothing; for the day is holy to our Lord: and faint not, for the Lord is our strength. ¹¹ And the Levites caused all the people to be silent, saying, Be silent, for [it is] a holy day, and despond not. ¹² So all the people departed to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, for they understood the words which he made known to them.

⁹ But you have sent widows away empty, and has afflicted orphans.

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;

⁴ Sing to God, sing praises to his name: make a way for him that rides upon the west (the Lord is his name) and exult before him. They shall be troubled before the face of him,

⁶ Give strong drink to those that are in sorrow, and the wine to drink to those in pain: ⁷ that they may forget their poverty, and may not remember their troubles any more. ⁸ Open your mouth with the word of God, and judge all fairly. ⁹ Open your mouth and judge justly, and plead the cause of the poor and weak.

¹³ And it shall come to pass in that day [that] they shall blow the great trumpet, and the lost ones in the land of the Assyrians shall come, and the lost ones in Egypt, and shall worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.

¹⁴ behold, my servants shall exult with joy, but you⌃ shall cry for the sorrow of your heart, and shall howl for the vexation of your spirit.

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.

⁵ In that day the Lord of hosts shall be the crown of hope, the woven [crown] of glory, to the remnant of the people.

¹⁷ And he put on righteousness as a breast-plate, and placed the helmet of salvation on his head; and he clothed himself with the garment of vengeance, and with his cloak,

¹⁰ and they shall greatly rejoice in the Lord. Let my soul rejoice in the Lord; for he has clothed me with the robe of salvation, and the garment of joy: he has put a mitre on me as on a bridegroom, and adorned me with ornaments as a bride.

³ And you shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

³¹ And he said, Leave us not, because you have been with us in the wilderness, and you shall be an elder among us.

²⁶ And they judged the people at all times; and every too burdensome matter they brought to Moses, but every light matter they judged themselves.

¹⁴ then you shall enquire and ask, and search diligently, and behold, [if] the thing is clearly true, and this abomination has taken place among you,

⁸ And if a matter shall be too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, and between cause and cause, and between stroke and stroke, and between contradiction and contradiction, matters of judgment in your cities; ⁹ then you shall arise and go up to the place which the Lord your God shall choose, and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days, and they shall search out [the matter] and report the judgment to you. ¹⁰ And you shall act according to the thing which they shall report to you out of the place which the Lord your God shall choose, and you shall observe to do all whatever shall have been by law appointed to you.

¹⁶ Then there appeared two harlots before the king, and they stood before him. ¹⁷ And the one woman said, Hear me, [my] lord; I and this woman lived in one house, and we were delivered in the house. ¹⁸ And it came to pass on the third day after I was delivered, this woman also was delivered: and we [were] together; and there was no one with us besides our two selves in the house. ¹⁹ And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it. ²⁰ and she arose in the middle of the night, and took my son from my arms, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom. ²¹ and I arose in the morning to suckle my son, and he was dead: and, behold, I considered him in the morning, and, behold, it was not my son whom I bore. ²² And the other woman said, No, but the living [is] my son, and the dead [is] your son. So they spoke before the king. ²³ and the king said to them, You say, This [is] my son, [even] the living [one], and this woman's son [is] the dead one: and you say, No, but the living [is] my son, and the dead [is] your son. ²⁴ And the king said, Fetch a sword. And they brought a sword before the king. ²⁵ And the king said, Divide the live child, the suckling, in two; and give half of it to one, and half of it to the other. ²⁶ And the woman whose the living child was, answered and said to the king, (for her bowels yearned over her son) and she said, I pray you, [my] lord, give her the child, and in nowise kill it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor hers; divide [it]. ²⁷ Then the king answered and said, Give the child to her that said, 'Give it to her, and by no means kill it:' she [is] its mother. ²⁸ and all Israel heard this judgment which the king judged, and they feared before the king; because they saw that the wisdom of God [was] in him, to execute judgment.

⁷ And he had a foster child, daughter of Aminadab his father's brother, and her name [was] Esther; and when her parents were dead, he brought her up for a wife for himself: and the damsel was beautiful.

¹⁸ (for I nourished [them] as a father from my youth and guided [them] from my mother's womb.)

² The glory of God conceals a matter: but the glory of a king honors business.

⁷ A righteous man knows how to judge for the poor: but the ungodly understands not knowledge; and the poor man has not an understanding mind.

³⁵ then I went forth after him, and struck him, and drew [the spoil] out of his mouth: and as he rose up against me, then I caught hold of his throat, and struck him, and killed him.

⁷ Arise, Lord; deliver me, my God: for you have struck all who were without cause mine enemies; you have broken the teeth of sinners.

⁸ But you, Lord, will laugh them to scorn; you will utterly set at nothing all the heathen.

³ For the Lord will not allow the rod of sinners to be upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous should stretch forth their hands to iniquity.

¹⁴ A wicked generation have swords [for] teeth and jaw teeth [as] knives, so as to destroy and devour the lowly from the earth, and the poor of them from among men.

¹² But you said, I will do you good, and will make your seed as the sand of the sea, which shall not be numbered for multitude.

⁴⁹ And Joseph gathered very much corn as the sand of the sea, until it could not be numbered, for there was no number [of it].

²⁶ And you shall come to the grave like ripe corn reaped in its season, or as a heap of the corn-flour collected in proper time.

¹⁶ And Job lived after [his] affliction a hundred and seventy years: and all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: and Job saw his sons and his sons' sons, the fourth generation. ¹⁷ And Job died, an old man and full of days: and it is written that he will rise again with those whom the Lord raises up. This man is described in the Syriac book [as] living in the land of Ausis, on the borders of Idumea and Arabia: and his name before was Jobab; and having taken an Arabian wife, he begot a son whose name was Ennon. And he himself was the son of his father Zare, one of the sons of Esau, and of his mother Bosorrha, so that he was the fifth from Abraam. And these were the kings who reigned in Edom, which country he also ruled over: first, Balac, the son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dennaba: but after Balac, Jobab, who is called Job, and after him Asom, who was governor out of the country of Thaeman: and after him Adad, the son of Barad, who destroyed Madiam in the plain of Moab; and the name of his city was Gethaim. And [his] friends who came to him were Eliphaz, of the children of Esau, king of the Thaemanites, Baldad sovereign the Sauchaeans, Sophar king of the Minaeans.

⁶ You has hated them that idly persist in vanities: but I have hoped in the Lord. ⁷ I will exult and be glad in your mercy: for you have looked upon mine affliction; you have saved my soul from distresses.

²³ O you that dwell in Libanus, making your nest in the cedars, you shall groan heavily, when pangs as of a travailing woman are come upon you.

¹⁶ If you⌃ set your face toward Egypt, and go in there to dwell; then it shall be, [that] the sword which you⌃ fear shall find you in the land of Egypt, and the famine to which you⌃ have regard, shall overtake you, [coming] after you in Egypt; and there you⌃ shall die.

⁴ If you should mount up as the eagle, and if you should make your nest among the stars, thence will I bring you down, says the Lord.

⁹ Woe to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evils.

¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above.

³ And he shall be as a tree planted by the brooks of waters, which shall yield its fruit in its season, and its leaf shall not fall off; and whatever he shall do shall be prospered.

⁸ And he shall be as a thriving tree by the waters, and he shall cast forth his root toward a moist place: he shall not fear when heat comes, and there shall be upon him shady branches: he shall not fear in a year of drought, and he shall not fail to bear fruit.

⁵ I will restore their dwellings, I will love them truly: for he has turned away my wrath from him. ⁶ I will be as dew to Israel: he shall bloom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Libanus. ⁷ His branches shall spread, and he shall be as a fruitful olive, and his smell shall be as [the smell] of Libanus.

¹³ Report, therefore, to my father all my glory in Egypt, and all things that you⌃ have seen, and make haste and bring down my father hither.

²⁴ But their bow and arrows were mightily consumed, and the sinews of their arms were slackened by the hand of the mighty one of Jacob; thence is he that strengthened Israel from the God of your father;

⁹ And he has stripped me of my glory, and has taken the crown from my head.

¹⁴ Also I put on righteousness, and clothed myself with judgment like a mantle.

³ But you, O Lord, are my helper: my glory, and the one that lifts up my head.

⁵ Who establishes the earth on her sure foundation: it shall not be moved for ever.

³¹ but they that wait on God shall renew [their] strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not hunger.

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 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,

² Let my speech be looked for as the rain, and my words come down as dew, as the shower upon the herbage, and as snow upon the grass.

¹⁵ They were afraid, they answered no longer; they gave up their speaking. ¹⁶ I waited, (for I had not spoken,) because they stood still, they answered not.

³¹ Listen, Job, and hear me: be silent, and I will speak. ³² If you have words, answer me: speak, for I desire you to be justified. ³³ If not, do you hear me: be silent, and I will teach you.

¹¹ Your lips drop honeycomb, my spouse: honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your garments is as the smell of Libanus.

¹⁵ Thus shall many nations wonder at him; and kings shall keep their mouths shut: for they to whom no report was brought concerning him, shall see; and they who have not heard, shall consider.

⁴⁶ Son of man, set your face against Thaeman, and look toward Darom, and prophesy against the chief forest of Nageb,

¹⁶ And now hear the word of the Lord: You say, Prophesy not to Israel, and raise not a tumult against the house of Jacob.

⁶ Weep not with tears in the assembly of the Lord, neither let [any] weep for these things; for he shall not remove the reproaches,

⁶ Therefore pride has possessed them; they have clothed themselves with their injustice and ungodliness.

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

¹ Ask you⌃ of the Lord rain in season, the early and the latter: the Lord has given bright signs, and will give them abundant rain, to every one grass in the field.

²⁶ And they reported to him, saying, Your son Joseph is living, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt; and Jacob was amazed, for he did not believe them.

¹⁵ let us rejoice in all our days, in return for the days wherein you did afflict us, the years wherein we saw evil.

¹ (127) A Song of Degrees. Except the Lord build the house, they that build labor in vain: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman watches in vain.

¹⁴ And Abram having heard that Lot his nephew had been taken captive, numbered his own home-born [servants] three hundred and eighteen, and pursued after them to Dan. ¹⁵ And he came upon them by night, he and his servants, and he struck them and pursued them as far as Choba, which is on the left of Damascus. ¹⁶ And he recovered all the cavalry of Sodom, and he recovered Lot his nephew, and all his possessions, and the women and the people. ¹⁷ And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after he returned from the slaughter of Chodollogomor, and the kings with him, to the valley of Saby; this was the plain of the kings.

⁴⁰ You shall be over my house, and all my people shall be obedient to your word; only in the throne will I excel you.

⁵ And he shall be prince with the beloved one, when the princes of the people are gathered together with the tribes of Israel.

⁸ And the elders of Galaad said to Jephthae, Therefore have we now turned to you, that you should go with us, and fight against the sons of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Galaad.

² And heretofore Saul being king over us, you was he that did lead out and bring in Israel: and the Lord said to you, You shall feed my people Israel, and you shall be for a leader to my people Israel.

¹ And David took counsel with the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, [even with] every commander. ² And David said to the whole congregation of Israel, If it [seem] good to you, and it should be prospered by the Lord our God, let us send to our brethren that are left in all the land of Israel, and let the priests the Levites who are with them in the cities of their possession [come], and let them be gathered to us. ³ And let us bring over to us the ark of our God; for men have not enquired [at] it since the days of Saul. ⁴ And all the congregation said that they would do thus; for the saying was right in the eyes of all the people.

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.

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.

³⁷ And if I did not read it and return it, having taken nothing from the debtor:

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 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me; he has sent me to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken in heart, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind; ² to declare the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of recompence; to comfort all that mourn; ³ that there should be given to them that mourn in Sion glory instead of ashes, the oil of joy to the mourners, the garment of glory for the spirit of heaviness: and they shall be called generations of righteousness, the planting of the Lord for glory.