Job 3 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day, ² saying, ³ Let the day perish in which I was born, and that night in which they said, Behold a boy! ⁴ Let that night be darkness, and let not the Lord regard it from above, neither let light come upon it. ⁵ But let darkness and the shadow of death seize it; let blackness come upon it; ⁶ let that day and night be cursed, let darkness carry them away; let it not come into the days of the year, neither let it be numbered with the days of the months. ⁷ But let that night be pain, and let not mirth come upon it, nor joy. ⁸ But let him that curses that day curse it, [even] he that is ready to attack the great whale. ⁹ Let the stars of that night be darkened; let it remain [dark], and not come into light; and let it not see the morning star arise: ¹⁰ because it shut not up the gates of my mother's womb, for [so] it would have removed sorrow from my eyes. ¹¹ For why died I not in the belly? and [why] did I not come forth from the womb and die immediately? ¹² and why did the knees support me? and why did I suck the breasts? ¹³ Now I should have lain down and been quiet, I should have slept and been at rest, ¹⁴ with kings [and] councillors of the earth, who gloried in [their] swords; ¹⁵ or with rulers, whose gold was abundant, who filled their houses with silver: ¹⁶ or [I should have been] as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother's womb, or as infants who never saw light. ¹⁷ There the ungodly have burnt out the fury of rage; there the wearied in body rest. ¹⁸ And the men of old time have together ceased to hear the exactor's voice. ¹⁹ The small and great are there, and the servant that feared his lord. ²⁰ For why is light given to those who are in bitterness, and life to those souls which are in griefs? ²¹ who desire death, and obtain it not, digging [for it] as [for] treasures; ²² and would be very joyful if they should gain it? ²³ Death [is] rest to [such] a man, for God has hedged him in. ²⁴ For my groaning comes before my food, and I weep being beset with terror. ²⁵ For the terror of which I meditated has come upon me, and that which I had feared has befallen me. ²⁶ I was not at peace, nor quiet, nor had I rest; yet wrath came upon me.

¹¹ But put forth your hand, and touch all that he has: verily he will bless you to [your] face.

²² In all these events that befell him Job sinned not at all before the Lord, and did not impute folly to God.

⁵ Nay, but put forth your hand, and touch his bones and his flesh: verily he will bless you to [your] face.

⁹ And when much time had passed, his wife said to him, How long will you hold out, saying, Behold, I wait yet a little while, expecting the hope of my deliverance? for, behold, your memorial is abolished from the earth, [even your] sons and daughters, the pangs and pains of my womb which I bore in vain with sorrows; and you yourself sit down to spend the nights in the open air among the corruption of worms, and I am a wanderer and a servant from place to place and house to house, waiting for the setting of the sun, that I may rest from my labors and my pangs which now beset me: but say some word against the Lord, and die. ¹⁰ But he looked on her, and said to her, You have spoken like one of the foolish women. If we have received good things of the hand of the Lord, shall we not endure evil things? In all these things that happened to him, Job sinned not at all with his lips before God.

³ Let the day perish in which I was born, and that night in which they said, Behold a boy!

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

² And he brought me up out of a pit of misery, and from miry clay: and he set my feet on a rock, and ordered my goings aright. ³ And he put a new song into my mouth, [even] a hymn to our God: many shall see [it], and fear, and shall hope in the Lord.

³³ He turns rivers into a desert, and streams of water into a dry land;

¹⁴ Cursed be the day wherein I was born: the day wherein my mother brought me forth, let it not be blessed. ¹⁵ Cursed be the man who brought the glad tidings to my father, saying, A male child is born to you.

¹⁴ And the five men who went to spy out the land of Laisa answered, and said to their brethren, You⌃ know that there is in this place an ephod, and theraphin, and a graven and a molten image; and now consider what you⌃ shall do.

¹⁸ Why then did you bring me out of the womb? and why did I not die, and no eye see me, ¹⁹ and I become as if I had not been? for why was I not carried from the womb to the grave?

¹⁰ Woe is me, [my] mother! you have born me as some man of strife, and at variance with the whole earth; I have not helped [others], nor has any one helped me; my strength has failed among them that curse me.

¹⁴ Cursed be the day wherein I was born: the day wherein my mother brought me forth, let it not be blessed. ¹⁵ Cursed be the man who brought the glad tidings to my father, saying, A male child is born to you. ¹⁶ Let that man rejoice as the cities which the Lord overthrew in wrath, and repented not: let him hear crying in the morning, and loud lamentation at noon; ¹⁷ because he killed me not in the womb, and my mother became not my tomb, and her womb always great with me. ¹⁸ Why is it that I came forth of the womb to see troubles and distresses, and my days are spent in shame?

²² And Moses stretched out his hand to heaven, and there was darkness very black, even a storm over all the land of Egypt three days. ²³ And for three days no man saw his brother, and no man rose up from his bed for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in all the places where they were.

¹² A land which the Lord your God surveys continually, the eyes of the Lord your God are upon it from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

² for a day of darkness and gloominess is near, a day of cloud and mist: a numerous and strong people shall be spread upon the mountains as the morning; there has not been from the beginning one like it, and after it there shall not be again even to the years of many generations.

¹⁸ Woe to you that desire the day of the Lord! what is this day of the Lord to you? whereas it is darkness, and not light.

¹¹ And you⌃ drew near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire up to heaven: [there was] darkness, blackness, [and] tempest.

²¹ before I go whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess; ²² to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither [can any one] see the life of mortals.

¹⁶ They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and my strength has been spent on the ground.

¹⁷ For the morning is to them all [as] the shadow of death, for [each] will be conscious of the terror of the shadow of death.

³ He has set a bound to darkness, and he searches out every limit: a stone [is] darkness, and the shadow of death.

¹⁷ And do the gates of death open to you for fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw you?

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.

¹⁰ Who will bring me into the fortified city? or who will guide me to Idumea?

² O people walking in darkness, behold a great light: you⌃ that dwell in the region [and] shadow of death, a light shall shine upon you.

⁶ And they said not, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who guided us in the wilderness, in an untried and trackless land, in a land which no man at all went through, and no man lived there?

²⁸ For these things let the earth mourn, and let the sky be dark above: for I have spoken, and I will not repent; I have purposed, and I will not turn back from it.

¹⁶ Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and you⌃ shall wait for light, and behold the shadow of death, and they shall be brought into darkness.

³ For the day of the Lord is near, a day of cloud; it shall be the end of the nations.

¹² As the shepherd seeks his flock, in the day when there is darkness and cloud, in the midst of the sheep that are separated: so will I seek out my sheep, and will bring them back from every place where they were scattered in the day of cloud and darkness.

⁸ who makes all things, and changes [them], and turns darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night: who calls for the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth: the Lord is his name:

¹⁰ and I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head; and I will make them as the mourning of a beloved [friend], and those with them as a day of grief.

²⁰ It shall never be inhabited, neither shall any enter into it for many generations: neither shall the Arabians pass through it; nor shall shepherds at all rest in it. ²¹ But wild beasts shall rest there; and the houses shall be filled with howling; and monsters shall rest there, and devils shall dance there, and satyrs shall dwell there; and hedgehogs shall make their nests in their houses. It will come soon, and will not wait.

⁸ The mirth of timbrels has ceased, the sound of the harp has ceased.

³⁴ And I will destroy out of the cities of Juda, and the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of them that make merry, and the voice of them that rejoice, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride; for the whole land shall become a desolation.

²⁵ And Jeremias mourned over Josias, and all the chief men and chief women uttered a lamentation over Josias until this day: and they made it an ordinance for Israel, and, behold, it is written in the lamentations.

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?

¹⁰ Out of his mouth proceed as it were burning lamps, and as it were hearths of fire are cast abroad.

²⁵ He beholds every high thing: and he is king of all that are in the waters.

¹⁷ Thus says the Lord, Call you⌃ the mourning women, and let them come; and send to the wise women, and let them utter their voice; ¹⁸ and let them take up a lamentation for you, and let your eyes pour down tears, and your eyelids drop water.

¹⁶ Therefore thus says the Lord God Almighty; In all the streets [shall be] lamentations; and in all the ways shall it be said, Woe, woe! the husbandman shall be called to mourning and lamentation, and to them that are skilled in complaining.

²⁶ But I, when I waited for good things, behold, days of evils came the more upon me.

¹⁸ For he considers iron as chaff, and brass as rotten wood.

¹⁵ We assembled for peace, but there was no prosperity; for a time of healing, but behold anxiety.

¹⁸ Because the Lord had fast closed from without every womb in the house of Abimelech, because of Sarrha Abraam's wife.

³¹ And when the Lord God saw that Lea was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

⁵ And to Anna he gave a prime portion, because she had no child, only Helkana loved Anna more than the other; but the Lord [had] closed her womb.

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.

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.

² Yes, I know that pleading is out of my reach; and his hand has been made heavy upon my groaning.

³ If a man beget a hundred [children], and live many years, yes, however abundant the days of his years shall be, yet [if] his soul shall not be satisfied with good, and also he have no burial; I said, An untimely birth is better than he. ⁴ For he came in vanity, and departs in darkness, and his name shall be covered in darkness. ⁵ Moreover he has not seen the sun, nor known rest: there is [no more rest] to this one than another.

¹⁰ Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh: for youth and folly are vanity.

¹⁷ because he killed me not in the womb, and my mother became not my tomb, and her womb always great with me.

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

⁶ He shall come down as rain upon a fleece; and as drops falling upon the earth.

¹³ Surely the righteous shall give thanks to your name: the upright shall dwell in your presence.

³ Hear me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of Israel, who are borne [by me] from the womb, and taught [by me] from infancy, [even] to old age:

¹⁴ Give them, O Lord: what will you give them? a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.

³ And Rachel said to Jacob, Behold my handmaid Balla, go in to her, and she shall bear upon my knees, and I also shall have children by her.

²³ And Joseph saw the children of Ephraim to the third generation; and the sons of Machir the son of Manasse were borne on the sides of Joseph.

¹² For thus says the Lord, Behold, I turn toward them as a river of peace, and as a torrent bringing upon them in a flood the glory of the Gentiles: their children shall be borne upon the shoulders, and comforted on the knees.

⁴ And [as for] your birth in the day wherein you were born, you did not bind your breasts, and you were not washed in water, neither was you salted with salt, neither was you swathed in swaddling-bands. ⁵ Nor did mine eye pity you, to do for you one of all these things, to feel at all for you; but you were cast out on the face of the field, because of the deformity of your person, in the day wherein you were born.

⁸ The eye of him that sees me shall not see me [again]: your eyes are upon me, and I am no more. 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.

²¹ Why have you not forgotten my iniquity, and purged my sin? but now I shall depart to the earth; and in the morning I am no more.

²² to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither [can any one] see the life of mortals.

¹⁰ But a man that has died is utterly gone; and when a mortal has fallen, he is no more. ¹¹ For the sea wastes in [length of] time, and a river fails and is dried up. ¹² And man that has lain down [in death] shall certainly not rise again till the heaven be dissolved, and they shall not awake from their sleep.

¹³ For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness.

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.

¹³ And they spend their days in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of the grave.

²³ One shall die in his perfect strength, and wholly at ease and prosperous;

¹⁰ Whatsoever your hand shall find to do, do with all your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Hades wither you go.

¹⁰ And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

⁴³ And Solomon slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David his father. And it came to pass when Jeroboam son of Nabat heard [of it], even while he was yet in Egypt as he fled from the face of Solomon and lived in Egypt, he straightway comes into his own city, into the land of Sarira in the mount of Ephraim. And king Solomon slept with his fathers, and Roboam his son reigned in his stead.

¹⁷ He leads counselors away captive, and maddens the judges of the earth.

²⁸ And let him lodge in desolate cities, and enter into houses without inhabitant: and what they have prepared, others shall carry away.

²³ For I know that death will destroy me: for the earth is the house [appointed] for every mortal.

⁶ And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge. Pause. ⁷ Hear, my people, and I will speak to you, O Israel: and I will testify to you: I am God, your God. ⁸ I will not reprove you on account of your sacrifices; for your whole burnt offerings are before me continually. ⁹ I will take no bullocks out of your house, nor he-goats out of your flocks. ¹⁰ For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen.

¹⁴ Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay your vows to the Most High.

⁸ There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; and there is no power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in the day of the battle; neither shall ungodliness save her votary.

⁸ Woe [to them] that join house to house, and add field to field, that they may take away something of their neighbor's: will you⌃ dwell alone upon the land?

¹⁰ All shall answer and say to you, You also have been taken, even as we; and you are numbered among us. ¹¹ Your glory has come down to Hades, and your great mirth: under you they shall spread corruption, and the worm shall be your covering. ¹² How has Lucifer, that rose in the morning, fallen from heaven! He that sent [orders] to all the nations is crushed to the earth. ¹³ But you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will set my throne above the stars of heaven: I will sit on a lofty mount, on the lofty mountains toward the north: ¹⁴ I will go up above the clouds: I will be like the Most High. ¹⁵ But now you shall go down to hell, even to the foundations of the earth. ¹⁶ They that see you shall wonder at you, and say, This is the man that troubled the earth, that made kings to shake;

¹² And your old waste desert [places] shall be built up, and your foundations shall last through all generations; and you shall be called a repairer of breaches, and you shall cause your paths between to be in peace.

²⁰ and great waters shall cover you; and I shall bring you down to them that go down to the pit, to the people of old time, and shall cause you to dwell in the depths of the earth, as in everlasting desolation, with them that go down to the pit, that you may not be inhabited, nor stand upon the land of life;

¹⁸ [The people of] Damascus were your merchants by reason of the abundance of all your power; wine out of Chelbon, and wool from Miletus; and they brought wine into your market. ¹⁹ Out of Asel [came] wrought iron, and there is the sound of wheels among your trading [population]. ²⁰ [The people of] Daedan were your merchants, with choice cattle for chariots. ²¹ Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, these were your traders with you, [bringing] camels, and lambs, and rams, in which they trade with you. ²² The merchants of Sabba and Ramma, these were your merchants, with choice spices, and precious stones: and they brought gold to your market. ²³ Charra, and Chanaa, these were your merchants: Assur, and Charman, were your merchants: ²⁴ bringing [for] merchandise blue, and choice stores bound with cords, and cypress wood. ²⁵ Ships were your merchants, in abundance, with your trading [population]: and you were filled and very heavily loaded in the heart of the sea. ²⁶ Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the south wind has broken you in the heart of the sea. ²⁷ Your forces, and your gain, and that of your traders, and your rowers, and your pilots, and your counselors, and they that traffic with you, and all your warriors that are in you: and all your company in the midst of you shall perish in the heart of the sea, in the day of your fall. ²⁸ At the cry of your voice your pilots shall be greatly terrified. ²⁹ And all the rowers and the mariners shall come down from the ships, and the pilots of the sea shall stand on the land. ³⁰ And they shall wail over you with their voice, and cry bitterly, and put earth on their heads, and spread ashes under them.

³² And their sons shall take up a [lament] for you, even a lamentation for Sor, [saying],

¹⁸ And Balaam answered and said to the princes of Balac, If Balac would give me his house full of silver and gold, I shall not be able to go beyond the word of the Lord God, to make it little or great in my mind.

²⁷ And the king made gold and silver in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars as the sycamores in the plain for multitude.

²¹ He pours dishonor upon princes, and heals the lowly.

²⁵ So the Almighty shall be your helper from enemies, and he shall bring you forth pure as silver that has been tried by fire.

¹⁶ Even if he should gather silver as earth, and prepare gold as clay; ¹⁷ All these things shall the righteous gain, and the true-hearted shall possess his wealth.

⁷ For their land is filled with silver and gold, and there was no number of their treasures; their land also is filled with horses, and there was no number of chariots.

¹⁸ And their silver and their gold shall in nowise be able to rescue them in the day of the Lord's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealously; for he will bring a speedy destruction on all them that inhabit the land.

³ And Tyrus built strongholds for herself, and heaped up silver as dust, and gathered gold as the mire of the ways.

³ If a man beget a hundred [children], and live many years, yes, however abundant the days of his years shall be, yet [if] his soul shall not be satisfied with good, and also he have no burial; I said, An untimely birth is better than he.

¹³ For oh that you had kept me in the grave, and had hidden me until your wrath should cease, and you should set me a time in which you would remember me!

¹⁶ Will they go down with me to Hades, or shall we go down together to the tomb?

⁵ All the day long they have abominated my words; all their devices [are] against me for evil. ⁶ They will dwell near and hide [themselves]; they will watch my steps, accordingly as I have waited patiently in my soul. ⁷ You will on no account save them; you will bring down the people in wrath. ⁸ O God, I have declared my life to you; you has set my tears before you, even according to your promise.

¹ See how the just man has perished, and no one lays [it] to heart: and righteous men are taken away, and no one considers: for the righteous has been removed out of the way of injustice. ² His burial shall be in peace: he has been removed out of the way.

⁶ And Pharao gave orders to the taskmasters of the people and the accountants, saying, ⁷ You⌃ shall no longer give straw to the people for brick-making as yesterday and the third day; but let them go themselves, and collect straw for themselves. ⁸ And you shall impose on them daily the rate of brick-making which they perform: you shall not abate anything, for they are idle; therefore have they cried, saying, Let us arise and do sacrifice to our God.

¹⁵ And the accountants of the children of Israel went in and cried to Pharao, saying, Why do you act thus to your servants? ¹⁶ Straw is not given to your servants, and they tell us to make brick; and behold your servants have been scourged: you will therefore injure your people. ¹⁷ And he said to them, You⌃ are idle, you⌃ are idlers: therefore you⌃ say, Let us go [and] do sacrifice to our God. ¹⁸ Now then go and work, for straw shall not be given to you, yet you⌃ shall return the rate of bricks. ¹⁹ And the accountants of the children of Israel saw themselves in an evil plight, [men] saying, You⌃ shall not fail to deliver the daily rate of the brick-making.

³ And the children of Israel cried to the Lord, because he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed Israel twenty years.

⁷ He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, and hears not the chiding of the tax-gatherer.

³ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the Lord shall give you rest from your sorrow and vexation, [and from] your hard servitude wherein you did serve them. ⁴ And you shall take up this lamentation against the king of Babylon, How has the extortioner ceased, and the taskmaster ceased!

² Out of Sion [comes] the excellence of his beauty.

¹⁴ Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay your vows to the Most High. ¹⁵ And call upon me in the day of affliction; and I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me. Pause. ¹⁶ But to the sinner God has said, Why do you declare my ordinances, and take up my covenant in your mouth? ¹⁷ Whereas you have hated instruction, and have cast my words behind [you]. ¹⁸ If you saw a thief, you ran along with him, and have cast in your lot with adulterers. ¹⁹ Your mouth has multiplied wickedness, and your tongue has framed deceit. ²⁰ You did sit and speak against your brother, and did scandalize your mother's son.

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:

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

¹⁰ And she [was] very much grieved in spirit, and prayed to the Lord, and wept abundantly.

²⁷ And she came to Elisaie to the mountain, and laid hold of his feet; and Giezi drew near to thrust her away. And Elisaie said, Let her alone, for her soul [is] much grieved in her, and the Lord has hidden [it] from me, and has not told [it] me.

¹⁶ or [I should have been] as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother's womb, or as infants who never saw light.

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

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

²⁸ Deliver my soul, that it may not go to destruction, and my life shall see the light.

³⁰ And he has delivered my soul from death, that my life may praise him in the light.

⁶ Give strong drink to those that are in sorrow, and the wine to drink to those in pain:

¹⁸ Why is it that I came forth of the womb to see troubles and distresses, and my days are spent in shame?

¹⁵ And if you do thus to me, kill me utterly, if I have found favor with you, that I may not see my affliction.

⁴ And he himself went a day's journey in the wilderness, and came and sat under a juniper tree; and asked concerning his life that he might die, and said, Let it be enough now, O Lord, take, I pray you, my life from me; for I am no better than my fathers.

⁴ and if you shall seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures;

³ And now, Lord God, take my life from me; for [it is] better for me to die than to live.

⁸ And it came to pass at the rising of the sun, that God commanded a burning east wind; and the sun struck on the head of Jonas, and he fainted, and despaired of his life, and said, [It is] better for me to die than to live.

¹⁴ If he should cast down, who will build up? if he should shut up against man, who shall open?

⁶ Know then that it is the Lord that has troubled [me], and has raised his bulwark against me.

⁸ I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape: he has set darkness before my face.

¹² His troops also came upon me with one accord, liars in wait compassed my ways.

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

⁸ O Lord God of hosts, who is like to you? you are mighty, O Lord, and your truth is round about 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?

⁷ He has builded against me, and I can’t come forth: he has made my brazen [chain] heavy.

⁹ DALETH. He has built up my ways, he has hedged my paths;

⁶ Therefore, behold, I hedge up her way with thorns, and I will stop the ways, and she shall not find her path.

⁷ For my wrath can’t cease; for I perceive my food as the smell of a lion [to be] loathsome.

¹⁹ How long do you not let me alone, nor let me go, until I shall swallow down my spittle?

²⁰ And he shall not be able to take any food, though his soul shall desire meat;

¹ (23) A Psalm of David. The Lord tends me as a shepherd, and I shall lack nothing. ² In a place of green grass, there he has made me dwell: he has nourished me by the water of rest.

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

⁸ Deliver me from all my transgressions: you have made me a reproach to the foolish.

³ Send forth your light and your truth: they have led me, and brought me to your holy mountain, and to your tabernacles. ⁴ And I will go in to the altar of God, to God who gladdens my youth: I will give thanks to you on the harp, O God, my God.

⁵ He made it [to be] a testimony in Joseph, when he came forth out of the land of Egypt: he heard a language which he understood not.

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

¹¹ They shall proceed together as a bear and as a dove: we have waited for judgment, and there is no salvation, it is gone far from us.

⁸ GIMEL. Yes, [though] I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.

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.

¹⁵ My pains return upon [me]; my hope is gone like the wind, and my safety as a cloud.

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

¹⁴ You scare me with dreams, and do terrify me with visions.

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

¹¹ Deliver me, and rescue me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity;