Job 32 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ And his three friends also ceased any longer to answer Job: for Job was righteous before them. ² Then Elius the son of Barachiel, the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram, of the country of Ausis, was angered: and he was very angry with Job, because he justified himself before the Lord. ³ And he was also very angry with [his] three friends, because they were not able to return answers to Job, yet set him down for an ungodly man. ⁴ But Elius had forborne to give an answer to Job, because they were older than he. ⁵ And Elius saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men; and he was angered in his wrath. ⁶ And Elius the Buzite the son of Barachiel answered and said, I am younger in age, and you⌃ are elder, therefore I kept silence, fearing to declare to you my own knowledge. ⁷ And I said, It is not time that speaks, though in many years [men] know wisdom: ⁸ but there is a spirit in mortals; and the inspiration of the Almighty is that which teaches. ⁹ The long-lived are not wise [as such]; neither do the aged know judgment. ¹⁰ Therefore I said, Hear me, and I will tell you what I know. 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. ¹⁴ And you⌃ have commissioned a man to speak such words. 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. ¹⁷ And Elius continued, and said, I will again speak, ¹⁸ for I am full of words, for the spirit of my belly destroys me. ¹⁹ And my belly is as a skin of sweet wine, bound up [and] ready to burst; or as a brazier's laboring bellows. ²⁰ I will speak, that I may open my lips and relieve myself. ²¹ For truly I will not be awed because of man, nor indeed will I be confounded before a mortal. ²² For I know not how to respect persons: and if otherwise, even the moths would eat me.

²⁹ Sit down now, and let there not be unrighteousness; and unite again with the just.

² And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and therefore have you thus judged me?

⁷ For you know that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of your hands?

¹⁵ Though the Mighty One should lay hand upon me, forasmuch as he has begun, verily I will speak, and plead before him.

⁷ for truth and reproof are from him; and he would bring forth my judgment to an end.

⁴ my lips shall not speak evil words, neither shall my soul meditate unrighteous thoughts. ⁵ Far be it from me that I should justify you till I die; for I will not let go my innocence, 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.

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.

¹ I made a covenant with mine eyes, and I will not think upon a virgin. ² Now what portion has God given from above? and is there an inheritance [given] of the Mighty One from the highest? ³ Alas! destruction to the unrighteous, and rejection to them that do iniquity. ⁴ Will he not see my way, and number all my steps? ⁵ But if I had gone with scorners, and if too my foot has hasted to deceit: ⁶ (for I am weighed in a just balance, and the Lord knows my innocence:) ⁷ if my foot has turned aside out of the way, or if mine heart has followed mine eye, and if too I have touched gifts with my hands; ⁸ then let me sow, and let others eat; and let me be uprooted on the earth. ⁹ If my heart has gone forth after another man's wife, and if I laid wait at her doors; ¹⁰ then let my wife also please another, and let my children be brought low. ¹¹ For the rage of anger is not to be controlled, [in the case] of defiling [another] man's wife. ¹² For it is a fire burning on every side, and whoever it attacks, it utterly destroys. ¹³ And if too I despised the judgment of my servant or [my] handmaid, when they pleaded with me; ¹⁴ what then shall I do if the Lord should try me? and if also he should at all visit me, can I make an answer? ¹⁵ Were not they too formed as I also was formed in the womb? yes, we were formed in the same womb. ¹⁶ But the helpless missed not whatever need they had, and I did not cause the eye of the widow to fail. ¹⁷ And if too I ate my morsel alone, and did not impart [of it] to the orphan; ¹⁸ (for I nourished [them] as a father from my youth and guided [them] from my mother's womb.) ¹⁹ And if too I overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him; ²⁰ and if the poor did not bless me, and their shoulders were [not] warmed with the fleece of my lambs; ²¹ if I lifted my hand against an orphan, trusting that my strength was far superior [to his]: ²² let them my shoulder start from the blade-bone, and my arm be crushed off from the elbow. ²³ For the fear of the Lord constrained me, and I can’t bear up by reason of his burden. ²⁴ If I made gold my treasure, and if too I trusted the precious stone; ²⁵ and if too I rejoiced when my wealth was abundant, and if too I laid my hand on innumerable [treasures]: ²⁶ (do we not see the shining sun eclipsed, and the moon waning? for they have not [power to continue]:) ²⁷ and if my heart was secretly deceived, and if I have laid my hand upon my mouth and kissed it: ²⁸ let this also then be reckoned to me as the greatest iniquity: for I [should] have lied against the Lord Most High. ²⁹ And if too I was glad at the fall of mine enemies, and mine heart said, Aha! ³⁰ let then mine ear hear my curse, and let me be a byword among my people in my affliction. ³¹ And if too my handmaids have often said, Oh that we might be satisfied with his flesh; (whereas I was very kind: ³² for the stranger did not lodge without, and my door was opened to every one that came:) ³³ or if too having sinned unintentionally, I hid my sin; ³⁴ (for I did not stand in awe of a great multitude, so as not to declare boldly before them:) and if too I permitted a poor man to go out of my door with an empty bosom: ³⁵ (Oh that I had a hearer,) and if I had not feared the hand of the Lord; and [as to] the written charge which I had against any one, ³⁶ I would place [it] as a chaplet on my shoulders, and read it. ³⁷ And if I did not read it and return it, having taken nothing from the debtor: ³⁸ If at any time the land groaned against me, and if its furrows mourned together; ³⁹ and if I ate its strength alone without price, and if I too grieved the heart of the owner of the soil, by taking [anything] from [him]: ⁴⁰ then let the nettle come up to me instead of wheat, and a bramble instead of barley. And Job ceased speaking.

⁹ I am blameless, for I have not transgressed.

²¹ Azav and Phaldes, and Jeldaph, and Bathuel, and Bathuel begot Rebecca;

³ Is it good before you if I be unrighteous? for you have disowned the work of your hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly.

² [As] God lives, who has thus judge me; and the Almighty, who has embittered my soul;

⁵ Far be it from me that I should justify you till I die; for I will not let go my innocence,

²¹ They attacked me also without mercy: you have scourged me with a strong hand.

⁵ For Job has said, I am righteous: the Lord has removed my judgment. ⁶ And he has erred in my judgment: my wound is severe without unrighteousness [of mine].

¹⁷ Behold then the one that hates iniquities, and that destroys the wicked, who is for ever just. ¹⁸ [He is] ungodly that says to a king, You are a transgressor, [that says] to princes, O most ungodly one.

² What is this that you think to be according to right? who are you that you have said, I am righteous before the Lord?

⁸ And hide them together in the earth; and fill their faces with shame.

⁶ If you are pure and true, he will listen to your supplication, and will restore to you the habitation of righteousness.

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

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. ¹⁰ Therefore snares have compassed you, and disastrous war has troubled you. ¹¹ The light has proved darkness to you, and water has covered you on your lying down. ¹² Does not he that dwells in the high places observe? and has he not brought down the proud? ¹³ And you has said, What does the Mighty One know? does he judge in the dark? ¹⁴ A cloud is his hiding-place, and he shall not be seen; and he passes through the circle of heaven. ¹⁵ Will you [not] mark the old way, which righteous men have trodden? ¹⁶ who were seized before their time: their foundations [are as] an overflowing stream. ¹⁷ Who say, What will the Lord do to us? or what will the Almighty bring upon us? ¹⁸ Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel for the wicked is far from him. ¹⁹ The righteous have seen [it], and laughed, and the blameless one has derided [them]. ²⁰ Verily their substance has been utterly destroyed, and the fire shall devour what is left of their [property]. ²¹ Be firm, I pray you, if you can endure; then your fruit shall prosper. ²² And receive a declaration from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart. ²³ And if you shall turn and humble yourself before the Lord, you have [thus] removed unrighteousness far from your habitation. ²⁴ You shall lay up for yourself [treasure] in a heap on the rock; and Sophir [shall be] as the rock of the torrent. 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. ²⁶ Then shall you have boldness before the Lord, looking up cheerfully to heaven. ²⁷ And he shall hear you when you pray to him, and he shall grant you [power] to pay your vows. ²⁸ And he shall establish to you again a habitation of righteousness and there shall be light upon your paths. ²⁹ Because you have humbled yourself; and you shall say, [Man] has behaved proudly, but he shall save him that is of lowly eyes. ³⁰ He shall deliver the innocent, and do you save yourself by your pure hands.

²⁵ But if not, who is he that says I speak falsely, and will make my words of no account?

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.

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?

¹ And his three friends also ceased any longer to answer Job: for Job was righteous before them.

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 Whoso answers a word before he hears [a cause], it is folly and reproach to him.

¹⁹ And when he drew near to the camp, he sees the calf and the dances; and Moses being very angry cast the two tables out of his hands, and broke them to pieces under the mountain.

² Then Elius the son of Barachiel, the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram, of the country of Ausis, was angered: and he was very angry with Job, because he justified himself before the Lord.

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.

²⁸ [And Eliab his elder brother heard as he spoke to the men, and Eliab was very angry with David and said, Why have you thus come down, and with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the naughtiness of your heart, for you are come down to see the battle. ] ²⁹ [And David said what have I done now? ] [Have I no business here? ] ³⁰ [And he turned from him towards another, and he spoke after the same manner; and the people answered him ] [after the former manner. ]

⁷ What! are you the first man that was born? or were you established before the hills?

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

⁶ And the king referred [the matter] to the elders, who stood before Solomon his father while he was yet living, saying, How do you⌃ advise that I should answer this people? ⁷ And they spoke to him, saying, If you will this day be a servant to this people, and will serve them, and will speak to them good words, then will they be your servants continually. ⁸ But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they gave him, and consulted with the young men who were brought up with him, who stood in his presence.

⁸ For ask of the former generation, and search diligently among the race of [our] fathers: ⁹ (for we are of yesterday, and know nothing; for our life upon the earth is a shadow:) ¹⁰ shall not these teach you, and report [to you], and bring out words from [their] heart?

¹² In length of time is wisdom, and in long life knowledge.

¹¹ Unjust witnesses arose, and asked me of things I new not. ¹² They rewarded me evil for good, and bereavement to my soul.

¹ The Proverbs of Solomon son of David, who reigned in Israel; ² to know wisdom and instruction, and to perceive words of understanding; ³ to receive also hard saying, and to understand true justice, and [how] to direct judgment; ⁴ that he might give subtlety to the simple, and to the young man discernment and understanding.

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

³⁹ And Pharao said to Joseph, Since God has showed you all these things, there is not a wiser or more prudent man than you.

¹² behold, I have done according to your word: behold, I have given you an understanding and wise heart: there has not been [any one] like you before you, and after you there shall not arise one like you.

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.

²⁹ And the Lord gave understanding to Solomon, and very much wisdom, and enlargement of heart, as the sand on the seashore.

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? ¹³ But [as when] terror falls upon men, with dread and a sound in the night, ¹⁴ horror and trembling seized me, and caused all my bones greatly to shake. ¹⁵ And a spirit came before my face; and my hair and flesh quivered. ¹⁶ I arose and perceived it not: I looked, and there, was no form before my eyes: but I only heard a breath and a voice, [saying], 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. ²⁰ And from the morning to evening they no longer exist: they have perished, because they can’t help themselves. ²¹ For he blows upon them, and they are withered: they have perished for lack of wisdom.

⁴ The Divine Spirit is that which formed me, and the breath of the Almighty that which teaches me.

¹⁶ then opens he the understanding of men: he scares them with such fearful visions:

¹¹ who makes me to differ from the four-footed beasts of the earth, and from the birds of the sky?

³⁶ And who has given to women skill in weaving, or knowledge of embroidery?

⁶ For the Lord gives wisdom; and from his presence [come] knowledge and understanding,

²⁶ For [God] has given to the man who is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but he has given to the sinner trouble, to add and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God; for this is also vanity and waywardness of spirit.

¹⁷ And [as for] these four children, God gave them understanding and prudence in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

²¹ And he changes times and seasons: he appoints kings, and removes [them], giving wisdom to the wise, and prudence to them that have understanding:

²⁰ He changes the lips of the trusty, and he knows the understanding of the elders.

¹³ Better is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish king, who knows not how to take heed any longer.

⁵ I will go to the rich men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of God: but, behold, with one consent they have broken the yoke, they have burst the bonds.

²⁷ Behold, we have thus sought out these matters; these are what we have heard: but do you reflect with yourself, if you have done anything [wrong].

²¹ [Men] heard me, and gave heed, and they were silent at my counsel.

²³ As the thirsty earth expecting the rain, so they [waited for] my speech.

⁴ But Elius had forborne to give an answer to Job, because they were older than he.

¹⁷ A righteous man accuses himself at the beginning of his speech, but when he has entered upon the attack, the adversary is reproved.

¹¹ A rich man is wise in his own conceit; but an intelligent poor man will condemn him.

⁹ And because the Preacher was wise above [others, so it was] that he taught man excellent knowledge, and the ear will trace out the parables. ¹⁰ The Preacher sought diligently to find out acceptable words, and a correct writing, [even] words of truth.

³ And he was also very angry with [his] three friends, because they were not able to return answers to Job, yet set him down for an ungodly man.

²³ [that] I will not take from all your goods from a string to a shoe-latchet, lest you should say, I have made Abram rich.

² And the Lord said to Gedeon, The people with you [are] many, so that I may not deliver Madiam into their hand, lest at any time Israel boast against me, saying, My hand has saved me.

²¹ and said, I myself came forth naked from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there; the Lord gave, the Lord has taken away: as it seemed good to the Lord, so has it come to pass; blessed be the name of the Lord.

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.

⁹ They shall perish by the command of the Lord, and shall be utterly consumed by the breath of his wrath.

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

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

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.

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

²¹ Pity me, pity me, O friends; for it is the hand of the Lord that has touched me.

²¹ Woe [to them] that are wise in their own conceit, and knowing in their own sight.

⁵ And I told you of old what [should be] before it came upon you; I made it known to you, lest you should say, [My] idols have done [it] for me; and should say, [My] graven and molten images have commanded me.

⁷ Now they come to pass, and not formerly: and you heard not of them in former days: say not you, Yes, I know them.

²³ Thus says the Lord, Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, and let not the strong man boast in his strength, and let not the rich man boast in his wealth;

³ are you wiser than Daniel? or have not the wise instructed you with their knowledge?

⁷ And the Lord shall save the tabernacles of Juda as at the beginning, that the boast of the house of David, and the pride of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, may not magnify themselves against Juda.

²⁴ Teach you⌃ me, and I will be silent: if in anything I have erred, tell me. ²⁵ But as it seems, the words of a true man are vain, because I do not ask strength of you.

²² At my word they spoke not again, and they were very gland whenever I spoke to them.

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

²⁸ Wisdom shall be imputed to a fool who asks after wisdom: and he who holds his peace shall seem to be sensible.

¹³ Therefore the prudent shall be silent at that time; for it is a time of evils.

¹⁰ Therefore I said, Hear me, and I will tell you what I know.

¹² For how say you, I am righteous, yet he has not listened to me? for he that is above mortals is eternal.

³ I will answer you, and your three friends. ⁴ Look up to the sky and see; and consider the clouds, how high [they are] above you.

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.

⁹ Then I said, I will by no means name the name of the Lord, and I will no more at all speak in his name. But it was a burning fire flaming in my bones, and I am utterly weakened on all sides, and can’t bear [up].

¹⁴ And the Spirit lifted me, and took me up, and I went in the impulse of my spirit; and the hand of the Lord was mighty upon me. ¹⁵ Then I passed through the air and came into the captivity, and went round [to] them that lived by the river of Chobar who were there; and I sat there seven days, conversant in the midst of them. ¹⁶ And after the seven days the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, ¹⁷ I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel; and you shall hear a word of my mouth, and shall threaten them from me. ¹⁸ When I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; and you have not warned him, to give warning to the wicked, to turn from his ways, that he should live; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand. ¹⁹ But if you warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, and from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, and you shall deliver your soul. ²⁰ And when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits a trespass, and I shall bring punishment before him, he shall die, because you did not warn him: he shall even die in his sins, because his righteousness shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand. ²¹ But if you warn the righteous not to sin, and he sin not, the righteous shall surely live, because you have warned him; and you shall deliver your own soul. ²² And the hand of the Lord came upon me; and he said to me, Arise, and go forth into the plain, and there shall you be spoken to. ²³ And I arose, and went forth to the plain: and, behold, the glory of the Lord stood there, according to the vision, and according to the glory of the Lord, which I saw by the river of Chobar: and I fell on my face. ²⁴ Then the Spirit came upon me, and set me on my feet, and spoke to me, and said to me, Go in, and shut yourself up in the midst of your house. ²⁵ And you, son of man, behold, bonds are prepared for you, and they shall bind you with them, and you shall not come forth of the midst of them. 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. ²⁷ But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord, He that hears, let him hear; and he that is disobedient, let him be disobedient: because it is a provoking house.

¹³ Be silent, that I may speak, and cease from [mine] anger,

¹⁹ For who is he that shall plead with me, that I should now be silent, and expire?

² I did not suppose that you would answer thus: neither do you⌃ understand more than I.

³ Raise me, and I will speak; then you⌃ shall not laugh me to scorn.

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.

¹⁵ You shall not act unjustly in judgment: you shall not accept the person of the poor, nor admire the person of the mighty; with justice shall you judge your neighbor.

¹⁷ You shall not have respect to persons in judgment, you shall judge small and great equally; you shall not shrink from before the person of a man, for the judgment is God's; and whatever matter shall be too hard for you, you⌃ shall bring it to me, and I will hear it.

¹⁹ they shall not wrest judgment, nor favor persons, nor receive a gift; for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

¹⁷ And the woman said, If now the word of my lord the king be gracious, —[well]: for as an angel of God, so [is] my lord the king, to hear good and evil: and the Lord your God shall be with you.

²⁰ In order that this form of speech might come about [it was] that your servant Joab has framed this matter: and my lord is wise as [is] the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.

⁸ Or will you⌃ draw back? nay do, you⌃ yourselves be judges.

¹⁰ he will not reprove you at all the less: but if moreover you⌃ should secretly respect persons,

¹⁹ [Such a one] as would not reverence the face of an honorable man, neither knows how to give honor to the great, so as that their persons should be respected.

²³ And this thing I say to you that are wise [for you] to learn: It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

⁵ He shall promise mischief to [his] companions: but [their] eyes have failed for [their] children.

² How long shall I take counsel in my soul, [having] sorrows in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me? ³ Look on me, listen to me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep in death;

⁵ He that prepares a net in the way of his own friend, entangles his own feet in it.