Job 33 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ Howbeit hear, Job, my words, and listen to my speech. ² For behold, I have opened my mouth, and my tongue has spoken. ³ My heart [shall be found] pure by [my] words; and the understanding of my lips shall meditate purity. ⁴ The Divine Spirit is that which formed me, and the breath of the Almighty that which teaches me. ⁵ If you can, give me an answer: wait therefore; stand against me, and I [will stand] against you. ⁶ You are formed out of the clay as also I: we have been formed out of the same [substance]. ⁷ My fear shall not terrify you, neither shall my hand be heavy upon you. ⁸ But you have said in mine ears, (I have heard the voice of your words;) because you say, I am pure, not having sinned; ⁹ I am blameless, for I have not transgressed. ¹⁰ Yet he has discovered a charge against me, and he has reckoned me as an adversary. ¹¹ And he has put my foot in the stocks, and has watched all my ways. ¹² For how say you, I am righteous, yet he has not listened to me? for he that is above mortals is eternal. ¹³ But you say, Why has he not heard every word of my cause? ¹⁴ For when the Lord speaks once, or a second time, ¹⁵ [sending] a dream, or in the meditation of the night; (as when a dreadful alarm happens to fall upon men, in slumberings on the bed:) ¹⁶ then opens he the understanding of men: he scares them with such fearful visions: ¹⁷ to turn a man from unrighteousness, and he delivers his body from a fall. ¹⁸ He spares also his soul from death, and [suffers] him not to fall in war. ¹⁹ And again, he chastens him with sickness on his bed, and the multitude of his bones is benumbed. ²⁰ And he shall not be able to take any food, though his soul shall desire meat; ²¹ until his flesh shall be consumed, and he shall show his bones bare. ²² His soul also draws near to death, and his life is in Hades. ²³ Though there should be a thousand messengers of death, not one of them shall wound him: if he should purpose in his heart to turn to the Lord, and declare to man his fault, and show his folly; ²⁴ he will support him, that he should not perish, and will restore his body as [fresh] plaster upon a wall; and he will fill his bones with morrow. ²⁵ And he will make his flesh tender as that of a babe, and he will restore him among men in [his] full strength. ²⁶ And he shall pray to the Lord, and his prayer shall be accepted of him; he shall enter with a cheerful countenance, with a full expression [of praise]: for he will render to men [their] due. ²⁷ Even then a man shall blame himself, saying, What kind of things have I done? and he has not punished me according to the full amount of my sins. ²⁸ Deliver my soul, that it may not go to destruction, and my life shall see the light. ²⁹ Behold, all these things, the Mighty One works in a threefold manner with a man. ³⁰ And he has delivered my soul from death, that my life may praise him in the light. 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.

⁶ But hear you⌃ the reasoning of my mouth, and attend to the judgment of my lips.

² Hear me, you⌃ wise men; listen, you⌃ that have knowledge.

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.

¹ After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day,

³⁰ let then mine ear hear my curse, and let me be a byword among my people in my affliction.

² They have given the dead bodies of your servants [to be] food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your holy ones for the wild beasts of the earth.

²⁸ But now, having looked upon your countenances, I will not lie.

² Will a wise man give for answer a [mere] breath of wisdom? and does he fill up the pain of his belly,

⁴ my lips shall not speak evil words, neither shall my soul meditate unrighteous thoughts.

³ Having fetched my knowledge from afar, and according to my works, ⁴ I will speak just things truly, and you shall not unjustly receive unjust words.

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

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.

² The tongue of the wise knows what is good: but the mouth of the foolish tells out evil things.

⁷ The lips of the wise are bound by discretion: but the hearts of the foolish are not safe.

⁷ And God formed the man [of] dust of the earth, and breathed upon his face the breath of life, and the man became a living soul.

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.

¹² And you did bestow upon me life and mercy, and your oversight has preserved my spirit.

³ verily, while my breath is yet in [me], and the breath of God which remains to me is in my nostrils,

⁸ but there is a spirit in mortals; and the inspiration of the Almighty is that which teaches.

⁶ This poor man cried, and the Lord listened to him, and delivered him out of all his afflictions.

¹⁸ Behold, I am near my judgment: I know that I shall appear evidently just.

⁴ And I would plead my own cause, and he would fill my mouth with arguments. ⁵ And I would know the remedies which he would speak to me, and I would perceive what he would tell me.

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

¹² and I shall understand as far as you; and, behold, there was no one of you that answered Job his words in argument,

¹⁴ And you⌃ have commissioned a man to speak such words.

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.

¹⁹ In the sweat of your face shall you eat your bread until you return to the earth out of which you were taken, for earth you are and to earth you shall return.

² And Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said to her, Am I in the place of God, who has deprived you of the fruit of the womb?

¹⁶ And he shall speak for you to the people, and he shall be your mouth, and you shall be for him in things pertaining to God.

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.

³² For you are not man like me, with whom I could contend, that we might come together to judgment. ³³ Would that [he] our mediator were [present], and a reprover, and one who should hear [the cause] between both. ³⁴ Let him remove [his] rod from me, and let not his fear terrify me: ³⁵ so shall I not be afraid, but I will speak: for I am not thus conscious [of guilt].

⁹ Remember that you have made me [as] clay, and you do turn me again to earth.

³ Nevertheless I will speak to the Lord, and I will reason before him, if he will.

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

²² But when he shall seem to be just satisfied, he shall be straitened; and all distress shall come upon him.

³ Who would then know that I might find him, and come to an end [of the matter]? ⁴ And I would plead my own cause, and he would fill my mouth with arguments.

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,

³⁴ Let him remove [his] rod from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

²¹ Withhold [your] hand from me: and let not your fear terrify me.

⁴ For the word of the Lord is right; and all his works are faithful.

¹⁶ And in your name shall they rejoice all the day: and in your righteousness shall they be exalted.

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,

¹⁷ Let him not crush me with a dark storm: but he has made by bruises many without cause.

²¹ For even if I have sinned, I know it not [in] my soul: but my life is taken away.

²³ For the worthless die, but the righteous are laughed to scorn.

²⁸ I quake in all my limbs, for I know that you will not leave me alone [as] innocent.

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

⁴ For say not, I am pure in my works, and blameless before him.

²³ How many are my sins and my transgressions? teach me what they are.

¹⁷ My belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on my eyelids.

⁸ Wonder has seized true men upon this; and let the just rise up against the transgressor.

¹¹ And I will go forth according to his commandments, for I have kept his ways; and I shall not turn aside from his commandments, ¹² neither shall I transgress; but I have hid his words in my bosom.

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.

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

³⁵ Yet you said, I am innocent: only let his wrath be turned away from me. Behold, I [will] plead with you, whereas you say, I have not sinned.

³⁰ For if I should wash myself with snow, and purge myself with pure hands, ³¹ you had thoroughly plunged me in filth, and my garment had abhorred me.

¹⁵ Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and if I should be righteous, I can’t lift myself up, for I am full of dishonor. ¹⁶ For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again you have changed and are terribly destroying me; ¹⁷ renewing against me my torture: and you have dealt with me in great anger, and you have brought trials upon me.

²⁴ Therefore hide you yourself from me, and deem me your enemy? ²⁵ Will you be startled [at me], as [at] a leaf shaken by the wind? or will you set yourself against me as against grass borne upon the breeze?

¹⁶ But you have numbered my devices: and not one of my sins shall escape you?

⁹ My falsehood has become a testimony, and has risen up against me: it has confronted me to my face.

¹¹ And he has dreadfully handled me in anger, and has counted me for an enemy.

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.

²⁷ And you have placed my foot in the stocks; and you have watched all my works, and have penetrated my heels.

⁴ Will he not see my way, and number all my steps?

¹⁸ And a fire was kindled in their congregation, and a flame burnt up the sinners.

² And he struck him, and cast him into the dungeon which was by the gate of the upper house that was set apart, which was by the house of the Lord.

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

⁴ For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: who has hardened himself against him and endured?

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]?

¹⁷ And Elius continued, and said, I will again speak,

¹⁰ Therefore hear me, you⌃ that are wise in heart: far be it from me to sin before the Lord, and to pervert righteousness before the almighty. ¹¹ Yes, he renders to a man accordingly as each of them does, and in a man's path he will find him. ¹² And think you that the Lord will do wrong, or will the Almighty who made the earth wrest judgment?

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. 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 For he will not lay upon a man more [than right].

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?

⁴ Look up to the sky and see; and consider the clouds, how high [they are] above you.

⁵ But know that the Lord will not cast off an innocent man: being mighty in strength of wisdom,

²² Behold, the Mighty One shall prevail by his strength: for who is powerful as he is? ²³ And who is he that examines his works? or who can say, he has wrought injustice?

² Nay, gird up now your loins like a man; and I will ask you, and do you answer me.

⁸ And hide them together in the earth; and fill their faces with shame. ⁹ [Then] will I confess that your right hand can save [you].

²⁰ Wisdom will help the wise man more than ten mighty men which are in the city.

⁶ Shall I not be able, O house of Israel, to do to you as this potter? behold, as the clay of the potter are you⌃ in my hands.

²⁵ Yet you⌃ have said, The way of the Lord is not straight. Hear now, all the house of Israel; will not my way be straight? Is your way straight?

²⁹ The secret things [belong] to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed [belong] to us and to our children for ever, to do all the words of this law.

¹⁴ Oh then that he would listen to me, or judge my cause.

²⁵ For he has lifted his hands against the Lord, and he has hardened his neck against the Almighty Lord. ²⁶ And he has run against him with insolence, on the thickness of the back of his shield.

¹¹ But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that swears by him shall be praised; for the mouth of them that speak unjust things has been stopped.

⁹ What excellent thing have I prepared as clay of the potter? Will the plowman plow the earth all day? shall the clay say to the potter, What are you doing that you do not work, nor have hands? shall the thing formed answer him that formed it?

¹⁰ telling beforehand the latter events before they come to pass, and they are accomplished together: and I said, all my counsel shall stand, and I will do all things that I have planned:

¹⁴ shall your heart endure? shall your hands be strong in the days which I bring upon you? I the Lord have spoken, and will do [it].

¹⁰ And the Lord spoke to Manasses, and to his people: but they listened not.

²⁹ Behold, all these things, the Mighty One works in a threefold manner with a man.

⁵ Assume now a lofty bearing and power; and clothe yourself with glory and honor.

²⁴ Since I called, and you⌃ did not listen; and I spoke at length, and you⌃ gave no heed;

²⁹ For they hated wisdom, and did not choose the word of the Lord:

⁹ You⌃ shall hear indeed, but you⌃ shall not understand; and you⌃ shall see indeed, but you⌃ shall not perceive.

¹² And about sunset a trance fell upon Abram, and behold! a great gloomy terror falls upon him.

³ And God came to Abimelech by night in sleep, and said, Behold, you die for the woman, whom you have taken, whereas she has lived with a husband.

²⁴ And God came to Laban the Syrian in sleep by night, and said to him, Take heed to yourself that you speak not at any time to Jacob evil things.

⁶ And he said to them, Hear my words: If there should be of you a prophet to the Lord, I will be made known to him in a vision, and in sleep will I speak to him.

¹³ But [as when] terror falls upon men, with dread and a sound in the night,

²⁸ The prophet who has a dream, let him tell his dream; and [he] in whom is my word [spoken] to him, let him tell my word truly: what is the chaff to the corn? so are my words, says the Lord.

⁵ until Daniel came, whose name is Baltasar, according to the name of my God, who has within him the Holy Spirit of God; to whom I said,

¹⁸ And while he spoke with me, I fell upon my face to the earth: and he touched me, and set me on my feet.

²⁷ Almighty Lord God of Israel, you have uncovered the ear of your servant, saying, I will build you a house: therefore your servant has found [in] his heart to pray this prayer to you.

³⁸ And in regard to all these circumstances we make a covenant, and write [it], and our princes, our Levites, [and] our priests, set their seal to [it].

¹⁰ But he will listen to the righteous: and he has said that they shall turn from unrighteousness.

¹⁵ Because they afflicted the weak and helpless: and he will vindicate the judgment of the meek.

⁶ And if he came to see [me], his heart spoke vainly; he gathered iniquity to himself; he went forth and spoke in like manner.

¹⁰ For the heart of this people has become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

⁸ You have neither known, nor understood, neither from the beginning have I opened your ears: for I knew that you would surely deal treacherously, and would be called a transgressor even from the womb.

⁵ and the instruction of the Lord, even the Lord, opens mine ears, and I do not disobey, nor dispute.

⁶ And God said to him in sleep, Yes, I knew that you did this with a pure heart, and I spared you, so that you should not sin against me, therefore I suffered you not to touch her.

¹⁶ who fed you with manna in the wilderness, which you knew not, and your fathers knew not; that he might afflict you, and thoroughly try you, and do you good in your latter days.

²⁵ But Ezekias did not recompense the Lord according to the return which he made him, but his heart was lifted up: and wrath came upon him, and upon Juda and Jerusalem.

¹¹ My days have passed in groaning, and my heart-strings are broken.

¹¹ For the eyes of the Lord are high, but man is low; and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

⁹ The Lord of hosts has purposed to bring down all the pride of the glorious ones, and to disgrace every glorious thing on the earth.

³⁰ In the same hour the word was fulfilled upon Nabuchodonosor: and he was driven forth from men, and he ate grass as an ox, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, until his hairs were grown like lions' [hairs], and his nails as birds' [claws]. ³¹ And at the end of the time I Nabuchodonosor lifted up mine eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised him that lives for ever, and gave [him] glory; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom [lasts] to all generations: ³² and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and there is none who shall withstand his power, and say to him, What has you done? ³³ At the same time my reason returned to me, and I came to the honor of my kingdom; and my [natural] form returned to me, and my princes, and my nobles, sought me, and I was established in my kingdom, and more abundant majesty was added to me. ³⁴ Now therefore I Nabuchodonosor praise and greatly exalt and glorify the King of heaven; for all his works are true, and his paths are judgment: and all that walk in pride he is able to abase.

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

²² Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, for he has been already made over to the power of the sword.

²² His soul also draws near to death, and his life is in Hades.

²⁴ he will support him, that he should not perish, and will restore his body as [fresh] plaster upon a wall; and he will fill his bones with morrow.

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.

⁵ And you shall know in your heart, that as if any man should chasten his son, so the Lord your God will chasten you.

¹⁰ And Asa was angry with the prophet, and put him in prison, for he was angry at this: and Asa vexed some of the people at that time.

¹² And Asa was diseased [in] his feet in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, until he was very ill: but in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians.

¹⁷ But blessed [is] the man whom the Lord has reproved; and reject not you the chastening of the Almighty. ¹⁸ for he causes [a man] to be in pain, and restores [him] again: he smites, and his hands heal.

⁴ Whenever I lie down, I say, When [will it be] day? and whenever I rise up, again [I say] when [will it be] evening? and I am full of pains from evening to morning.

¹¹ His bones have been filled with [vigour of] his youth, and it shall lie down with him in the dust.

¹⁷ And by night my bones are confounded; and my sinews are relaxed.

¹ (39) For the end, a Song of David, to Idithun. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I set a guard on my mouth, while the sinner stood in my presence. ² I was dumb, and humbled myself, and kept silence from good [words]; and my grief was renewed. ³ My heart grew hot within me, and a fire would kindle in my meditation: I spoke with my tongue, ⁴ O Lord, make me to know mine end, and the number of my days, what it is; that I may know what I lack. ⁵ Behold, you have made my days old; and my existence [is] as nothing before you: nay, every man living [is] altogether vanity. Pause. ⁶ Surely man walks in a shadow; nay, he is disquieted in vain: he lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them. ⁷ And now what [is] my expectation? [is it] not the Lord? and my ground [of hope] is with you. Pause. ⁸ Deliver me from all my transgressions: you have made me a reproach to the foolish.

⁹ Therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be taken away; and this is his blessing, when I shall have taken away his sin; when they shall have broken to pieces all the stones of the altars as fine dust, and their trees shall not remain, and their idols shall be cut off, as a thicket afar off.

¹² Have the gods of the nations which my fathers destroyed delivered them, both Gozan, and Charrhan, and Rapheth, which are in the land of Theemath? ¹³ Where are the kings of Emath? and where [is the king of] Arphath? and where [is the king] of the city of Eppharuaim, [and of] Anagugana?

⁶ And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes to look upon and beautiful to contemplate, and having taken of its fruit she ate, and she gave to her husband also with her, and they ate.

²⁴ For my groaning comes before my food, and I weep being beset with terror.

¹⁹ And I said, So be it, Lord, for [you said] I will set you among children, and will give you a choice land, the inheritance of the Almighty God of the Gentiles: and I said, You⌃ shall call me Father; and you⌃ shall not turn away from me.

¹¹ Therefore because they have struck the poor with their fists, and you⌃ have received of them choice gifts; you⌃ have built polished houses, but you⌃ shall not dwell in them; you⌃ have planted desirable vineyards, but you⌃ shall not drink the wine of them.

⁵ And my body is covered with loathsome worms; and I waste away, scraping off clods of dust from my eruption.

²⁸ [I am as] that which waxes old like a bottle, or like a moth-eaten garment.

²⁰ You drive him to an end, and he is gone: you set your face against him, and send him away;

²² But his flesh is in pain, and his soul mourns.

⁸ But now he has made me weary, and a worn-out fool; and you have laid hold of me.

²⁰ My flesh is corrupt under my skin, and my bones are held in [my] teeth.

³ Sing to him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise. ⁴ For the word of the Lord is right; and all his works are faithful.

¹¹ But you, Lord, remove not your compassion far from me; your mercy and your truth have helped me continually.

³ who forgives all your transgressions, who heals all your diseases; ⁴ who redeems your life from corruption; who crowns you with mercy and compassion; ⁵ who satisfies your desire with good things: [so that] your youth shall be renewed like [that] of the eagle.

¹¹ And you repent at last, when the flesh of your body is consumed,

²³ And the Lord shall pass by to strike the Egyptians, and shall see the blood upon the lintel, and upon both the door-posts; and the Lord shall pass by the door, and shall not suffer the destroyer to enter into your houses to strike [you].

⁶ The Lord kills and makes alive; he brings down to the grave, and brings up.

¹⁶ And the angel of the Lord stretched out his hand against Jerusalem to destroy it, and the Lord repented of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, [It is] enough now, withhold your hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Orna the Jebusite.

⁷ Remember then that my life is breath, and mine eye shall not yet again see good.

²¹ And his terror is in his ears: just when he seems to be at peace, his overthrow will come.

¹ I perish, carried away by the wind, and I seek for burial, and obtain [it] not.

¹³ For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness. ¹⁴ I have called upon death to be my father, and corruption [to be] my mother and sister. ¹⁵ Where then is yet my hope? or [where] shall I see my good? ¹⁶ Will they go down with me to Hades, or shall we go down together to the tomb?

⁴ The pangs of death compassed me, and the torrents of ungodliness troubled me exceedingly.

³ For you are my strength and my refuge; and you shall guide me for your name's sake, and maintain me.

³ I made a covenant with my chosen ones, I sware to David my servant. ⁴ I will establish your seed for ever, and build up your throne to all generations. Pause. ⁵ The heavens shall declare your wonders, O Lord; and your truth in the assembly of the saints.

¹⁰ I said in the end of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I shall part with the remainder of my years.

¹ And an angel of the Lord went up from Galgal to the [place of] weeping, and to Baethel, and to the house of Israel, and said to them, Thus says the Lord, I brought you up out of Egypt, and I brought you into the land which I sware to your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant that I have made with you.

¹⁵ And the Lord God of their fathers sent by the hand of his prophets; rising early and sending his messengers, for he spared his people, and his sanctuary. ¹⁶ Nevertheless they sneered at his messengers, and set at nothing his words, and mocked his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose up against his people, till there was no remedy.

³³ But you [are] righteous in all the things that come upon us; for you have wrought faithfully, but we have greatly sinned.

³ For if he would enter into judgment with him, [God] would not listen to him, so that he should answer to one of his charges of a thousand.

⁶ Then shall he declare to you the power of wisdom; for it shall be double of that which is with you: and then shall you know, that a just recompence of your sins has come to you from the Lord.

¹⁰ Therefore hear me, you⌃ that are wise in heart: far be it from me to sin before the Lord, and to pervert righteousness before the almighty.

¹² And think you that the Lord will do wrong, or will the Almighty who made the earth wrest judgment?

³² I will see apart from myself: do you show me if I have done unrighteousness; I will not do [so] any more.

¹⁴ He beholds them that perform lawless deeds, and he will save me: and do you plead before him, if you can praise him, as it is [possible] even now.

³ Having fetched my knowledge from afar, and according to my works,

⁸ But they that are bound in fetters shall be holden in cords of poverty. ⁹ And he shall recount to them their works, and their transgressions, for such will act with violence. ¹⁰ But he will listen to the righteous: and he has said that they shall turn from unrighteousness. ¹¹ If they should hear and serve [him], they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in honor. ¹² But he preserves not the ungodly; because they are not willing to know the Lord, and because when reproved they were disobedient. ¹³ And the hypocrites in heart will array wrath [against themselves]; they will not cry, because he has bound them.

²³ and we do not find another his equal in strength: [as for] him that judges justly, do you not think that he listens?

²⁸ Behold, this have I found, said the Preacher, [seeking] by one at a time to find out the account,

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.

²² HETH. [It is] the mercies of the Lord, that he has not failed me, because his compassions are not exhausted. Pity [us], O Lord, early [every] month: for we are not brought to an end, because his compassions are not exhausted. ²³ [They are] new every morning: great is your faithfulness.

³² CHAPH. For he that has brought down will pity, and [that] according to the abundance of his mercy.

³⁹ MEM. Why should a living man complain, a man concerning his sin? ⁴⁰ NUN. Our way has been searched out and examined, and we will turn to the Lord. ⁴¹ Let us lift up our hearts with [our] hand to the lofty One in heaven.

²⁵ Yet you⌃ have said, The way of the Lord is not straight. Hear now, all the house of Israel; will not my way be straight? Is your way straight? ²⁶ When the righteous turns away from his righteousness and commits a trespass, and dies in the trespass he has committed, he shall [even] die in it. ²⁷ And when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and shall do judgment and justice, he has kept his soul, ²⁸ and has turned away from all his ungodliness which he has committed: he shall surely live, he shall not die.

¹⁴ The Lord also has watched, and brought the evils upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his work which he has executed, but we have not listened to his voice.

¹³ And Aggaeus the Lord's messenger spoke among the messengers of the Lord to the people, [saying], I am with you, says the Lord.

⁷ For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord Almighty.

¹ Behold, I send forth my messenger, and he shall survey the way before me: and the Lord, whom you⌃ seek, shall suddenly come into his temple, even the angel of the covenant, whom you⌃ take pleasure in: behold, he is coming, says the Lord Almighty.

¹⁹ And [God] said, I will pass by before you with my glory, and I will call by my name, the Lord, before you; and I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and will have pity on whom I will have pity.

⁶ And the Lord passed by before his face, and proclaimed, The Lord God, pitiful and merciful, longsuffering and very compassionate, and true, ⁷ and keeping justice and mercy for thousands, taking away iniquity, and unrighteousness, and sins; and he will not clear the guilty; bringing the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and to the children's children, to the third and fourth generation.

²¹ Be firm, I pray you, if you can endure; then your fruit shall prosper.

¹⁸ He spares also his soul from death, and [suffers] him not to fall in war.

¹⁰ But he will listen to the righteous: and he has said that they shall turn from unrighteousness. ¹¹ If they should hear and serve [him], they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in honor.

¹⁸ but there shall be wrath upon the ungodly, by reason of the ungodliness of the bribes which they received for iniquities.

⁴ Yes, even if I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will not be afraid of evils: for you are with me; your rod and your staff, these have comforted me.

⁹ Pity me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with indignation, my soul and by belly. ¹⁰ For my life is spent with grief, and my years with groanings: my strength has been weakened through poverty, and my bones are troubled. ¹¹ I became a reproach among all mine enemies, but exceedingly so to my neighbors, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that saw me without fled from me. ¹² I have been forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am become as a broken vessel.

² May the Lord preserve him and keep him alive, and bless him on the earth, and not deliver him into the hands of his enemy.

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.

³ Let the mountains and the hills raise peace to your people:

⁵ A man shall say, Sion [is my] mother; and [such] a man was born in her; and the Highest himself has founded her.

¹⁷ For you have chosen my soul, that it should not perish: and you have cast all [my] sins behind me. ¹⁸ For they that are in the grave shall not praise you, neither shall the dead bless you, neither shall they that are in Hades hope for your mercy. ¹⁹ The living shall bless you, as I also [do]: for from this day shall I beget children, who shall declare your righteousness,

²⁰ Moab is put to shame, because he is broken: howl and cry; proclaim in Arnon, that Moab has perished.

² Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God; for the people have fallen through your iniquities.

⁴ Assur shall never save us; we will not mount on horseback; we will no longer say to the works of our hands, Our gods. He who is in you shall pity the orphan.

¹⁸ Who is a God like you, cancelling iniquities, and passing over the sins of the remnant of his inheritance? and he has not kept his anger for a testimony, for he delights in mercy. ¹⁹ He will return and have mercy upon us; he will sink our iniquities, and they shall be cast into the depth of the sea, [even] all our sins. ²⁰ He shall give blessings truly to Jacob, and mercy to Abraam, as you sware to our fathers, according to the former days.

¹¹ And you by the blood of your covenant has sent forth your prisoners out of the pit that has no water.

⁷ And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old at his death; his eyes were not dimmed, nor were his natural powers destroyed.

¹⁰ And now the Lord has kept me alive as he said: this [is] the forty-fifth year since the Lord spoke that word to Moses; and Israel journeyed in the wilderness; and now, behold, I [am] this day eighty-five years old. ¹¹ I am still strong this day, as when the Lord sent me: just so strong am I now to go out and to come in for war.

¹⁴ So Naiman went down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the word of Elisaie: and his flesh returned to him as the flesh of a little child, and he was cleansed.

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.

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

¹⁵ And I will giver her possessions from thence, and the valley of Achor to open her understanding: and she shall be afflicted there according to the days of her infancy, and according to the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.

²⁵ the Lord make his face to shine upon you, and have mercy upon you; ²⁶ the Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.

²³ And the Lord shall recompense each according to his righteousness and his truth, since the Lord delivered you this day into my hands, and I would not lift my hand against the Lord's anointed.

² And Ezekias turned to the wall, and prayed to the Lord, saying, ³ Lord, remember, I pray you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your eyes. And Ezekias wept with a great weeping. ⁴ And Esaias was in the middle court, and the word of the Lord came to him, saying, ⁵ Turn back, and you shall say to Ezekias the ruler of my people, Thus says the Lord God of your father David, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will heal you: on the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord.

¹² And when he was afflicted, he sought the face of the Lord his God, and was greatly humbled before the face of the God of his fathers; ¹³ and he prayed to him: and he listened to him, and listened to his cry, and brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom: and Manasses knew that the Lord he is God.

¹⁹ behold, [they are] in the account of his prayer; and [God] listened to him. And all his sins, and his backslidings, and the spots on which he built the high places, and set there groves and graven images, before he repented, behold, they are written in the books of the seers.

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.

¹¹ Yes, he renders to a man accordingly as each of them does, and in a man's path he will find him.

²⁸ so as to bring before him the cry of the needy; for he will hear the cry of the poor.

⁸ Now then take seven bullocks, and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and he shall offer a burnt offering for you. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will only accept him: for but his sake, I would have destroyed you, for you⌃ have not spoken the truth against my servant Job. ⁹ So Eliphaz the Thaemanite, and Baldad the Sauchite, and Sophar the Minaean, went and did as the Lord commanded them: and he pardoned their sin for the sake of Job.

⁶ Many say, Who will show us good things? the light of your countenance, O Lord, has been manifested towards us. ⁷ You have put gladness into my heart: they have been satisfied with the fruit of their corn and wine and oil.

¹ For the End, a Psalm of David among the Hymns for the eighth. O Lord, rebuke me not in your wrath, neither chasten me in your anger. ² Pity me, O Lord; for I am weak: heal me, O Lord; for my bones are vexed. ³ My soul also is grievously vexed: but you, O Lord, how long? ⁴ Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: save me for your mercy's sake. ⁵ For in death no man remembers you: and who will give you thanks in Hades? ⁶ I am wearied with my groaning; I shall wash my bed every night; I shall water my couch with tears. ⁷ Mine eye is troubled because of my wrath; I am worn out because of all my enemies. ⁸ Depart from me, all you⌃ that work iniquity; for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping. ⁹ The Lord has listened to my petition; the Lord has accepted my prayer.

¹¹ They have now cast me out and compassed me round about: they have set their eyes [so as] to bow them down to the ground.

¹ (29) A Psalm of David [on the occasion] of the solemn assembly of the Tabernacle. Bring to the Lord, you⌃ sons of God, bring to the Lord young rams; bring to the Lord glory and honor. ² Bring to the Lord glory, [due] to his name; worship the lord in his holy court.

⁶ And he will beat them small, [even] Libanus itself, like a calf; and the beloved one is as a young unicorn.

⁵ Into your hands I will commit my spirit: you have redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.

⁷ I will exult and be glad in your mercy: for you have looked upon mine affliction; you have saved my soul from distresses. ⁸ And you have not shut me up into the hands of the enemy: you have set my feet in a wide place. ⁹ Pity me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with indignation, my soul and by belly. ¹⁰ For my life is spent with grief, and my years with groanings: my strength has been weakened through poverty, and my bones are troubled. ¹¹ I became a reproach among all mine enemies, but exceedingly so to my neighbors, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that saw me without fled from me.

⁸ By day the Lord will command his mercy, and manifest [it] by night: with me [is] prayer to the God of my life. ⁹ I will say to God, You are my helper; why have you forgotten me? therefore do I go sad of countenance, while the enemy oppresses [me]? ¹⁰ While my bones were breaking, they that afflicted me reproached me; while they said to me daily, Where is your God? ¹¹ Therefore are you very sad, O my soul? and therefore do you trouble me? hope in God; for I will give thanks to him; [he is] the health of my countenance, and my God.

¹⁵ O Lord, you shall open my lips; and my mouth shall declare your praise.

¹ (68) For the end, a Psalm of a Song by David. Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered; and let them that hate him flee from before him.

¹⁵ that the Lord my God is righteous, and there is no iniquity in him.

¹ (117) Alleluia. Praise the Lord, all you⌃ nations: praise him, all you⌃ peoples. ² For his mercy has been abundant toward us: and the truth of the Lord endures for ever.

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.

¹⁹ For the holy people shall dwell in Sion: and [whereas] Jerusalem has wept bitterly, [saying], Pity me; he shall pity you: when he perceived the voice of your cry, he listened to you.

³ Peradventure they will hear, and turn every one from his evil way: then I will cease from the evils which I purpose to do to them, because of their evil practices.

² And Jonas prayed to the Lord his God out of the belly of the whale, ³ and said, I cried in my affliction to the Lord my God, and he listened to me, [even] to my cry out of the belly of hell: you heard my voice. ⁴ You did cast me into the depths of the heart of the sea, and the floods compassed me: all your billows and your waves have passed upon me. ⁵ And I said, I am cast out of your presence: shall I indeed look again toward your holy temple? ⁶ Water was poured around me to the soul: the lowest deep compassed me, my head went down ⁷ to the clefts of the mountains; I went down into the earth, whose bars are the everlasting barriers: yet, O Lord my God, let my ruined life be restored.

¹³ And she called the name of the Lord God who spoke to her, You are God who see me; for she said, For I have openly seen him that appeared to me.

¹¹ And Aaron said to Moses, I beseech you, my lord, do not lay sin upon us, for we were ignorant wherein we sinned.

¹³ And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, And the Lord has put away your sin; you shall not die.

⁹ For the eyes of the Lord look upon all the earth, to strengthen every heart that is perfect toward him. In this you have done foolishly; henceforth there shall be war with you.

²⁰ If I have sinned, what shall I be able to do, O you that understand the mind of men? why have you made me as your accuser, and [why] am I a burden to you?

⁹ For you should not say, There shall be no visitation of a man, whereas [there is] a visitation on him from the Lord.

⁴ who have said, We will magnify our tongue; our lips are our own: who is Lord of us?

² He that walks blameless, and works righteousness, who speaks truth in his heart.

⁷ Some [glory] in chariots, and some in horses: but we will glory in the name of the Lord our God. ⁸ They are overthrown and fallen: but we are risen, and have been set upright.

¹ (140) For the end, a Psalm of David. Rescue me, O Lord, from the evil man; deliver me from the unjust man. ² Who have devised injustice in their hearts; all the day they prepared war. ³ They have sharpened their tongue as [the tongue] of a serpent; the poison of asps is under their lips. Pause. ⁴ Keep me, O Lord, from the hand of the sinner; rescue me from unjust men; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.

²¹ For the ways of a man are before the eyes of God, and he looks on all his paths.

³ The eyes of the Lord behold both the evil and the good in every place.

¹³ He that covers his own ungodliness shall not prosper: but he that blames [himself] shall be loved.

⁸ Also the abundance of the earth is for every one: the king [is dependent on] the tilled field.

⁸ The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that held by the law knew me not: the shepherds also sinned against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after that which profited not.

¹³ Nevertheless, know your iniquity, that you have sinned against the Lord your God, and have scattered your ways to strangers under every shady tree, but you did not listen to my voice, says the Lord.

²⁴ Shall any one hide himself in secret places, and I not see him? Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the Lord.

¹⁸ Come down from [your] glory, and sit down in a damp place: Daebon shall be broken, because Moab is destroyed: there has gone up against you one to ravage your strong-hold. ¹⁹ Stand by the way, and look, you that dwell in Arer; and ask him that is fleeing, and him that escapes, and say, What has happened?

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:

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

²⁰ For why is light given to those who are in bitterness, and life to those souls which are in griefs?

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

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

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

¹⁹ Your mouth has multiplied wickedness, and your tongue has framed deceit.

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.

¹⁷ For you have chosen my soul, that it should not perish: and you have cast all [my] sins behind me. ¹⁸ For they that are in the grave shall not praise you, neither shall the dead bless you, neither shall they that are in Hades hope for your mercy.

¹⁰ And the king of Israel sent to the place which Elisaie mentioned to him, and saved himself thence not once or twice.

¹⁴ For when the Lord speaks once, or a second time, ¹⁵ [sending] a dream, or in the meditation of the night; (as when a dreadful alarm happens to fall upon men, in slumberings on the bed:) ¹⁶ then opens he the understanding of men: he scares them with such fearful visions: ¹⁷ to turn a man from unrighteousness, and he delivers his body from a fall.

¹ (41) For the end, a Psalm of David. Blessed [is the man] who thinks, on the poor and needy: the Lord shall deliver him in an evil day. ² May the Lord preserve him and keep him alive, and bless him on the earth, and not deliver him into the hands of his enemy.

¹⁷ Render a recompense to your servant: [so] shall I live, and keep your words. ¹⁸ Unveil you mine eyes, and I shall perceive wondrous things of your law.

⁵ And now, O house of Jacob, come, [and] let us walk in the light of the Lord.

¹⁷ For you have chosen my soul, that it should not perish: and you have cast all [my] sins behind me.

² How long will you continue? forbear, that we also may speak.

² Hear you⌃, hear you⌃ my words, that I may not have this consolation from you.

¹¹ Listen to my words; for I will speak in your hearing, until you⌃ shall have tried [the matter] with words:

⁴ Hast not you moreover cast off fear, and accomplished such words before the Lord? ⁵ You are guilty by the words of your mouth, neither have you discerned the words of the mighty.

²⁷ So I know you, that you⌃ presumptuously attack me:

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.

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

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

¹¹ Unjust witnesses arose, and asked me of things I new not.

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.

¹ Hear, you⌃ children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. ² For I give you a good gift; forsake you⌃ not my law.

¹ [My] son, attend to my wisdom, and apply your ear to my words; ² that you may keep good understanding, and the discretion of my lips gives you a charge. Give no heed to a worthless woman;

⁵ O you⌃ simple, understand subtlety, and you⌃ that are untaught, imbibe knowledge.