Job 38 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ And after Elius had ceased from speaking, the Lord spoke to Job through the whirlwind and clouds, [saying], ² Who is this that hides counsel from me, and confines words in [his] heart, and thinks to conceal [them] from me? ³ Gird your loins like a man; and I will ask you, and do you answer me. ⁴ Where was you when I founded the earth? tell me now, if you have knowledge, ⁵ who set the measures of it, if you know? or who stretched a line upon it? ⁶ On what are its rings fastened? and who is he that laid the corner-stone upon it? ⁷ When the stars were made, all my angels praised me with a loud voice. ⁸ And I shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed out, coming forth out its mother's womb. ⁹ And I made a cloud its clothing, and swathed it in mist. ¹⁰ And I set bounds to it, surrounding it with bars and gates. ¹¹ And I said to it, Hitherto shall you come, but you shall not go beyond, but your waves shall be confined within you. ¹² Or did I order the morning light in your time; and [did] the morning star [then first] see his appointed place; ¹³ to lay hold of the extremities of the earth, to cast out the ungodly out of it? ¹⁴ Or did you take clay of the ground, and form a living creature, and set it with the power of speech upon the earth? ¹⁵ And have you removed light from the ungodly, and crushed the arm of the proud? ¹⁶ Or have you gone to the source of the sea, and walked in the tracks of the deep? ¹⁷ And do the gates of death open to you for fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw you? ¹⁸ And have you been instructed in the breadth of the [whole earth] under heaven? tell me now, what is the extent of it? ¹⁹ And in what kind of a land does the light dwell? and of what kind is the place of darkness? ²⁰ If you could bring me to their [utmost] boundaries, and if also you know their paths; ²¹ I know then that you were born at that time, and the number of your years is great. ²² But have you gone to the treasures of snow? and have you seen the treasures of hail? ²³ And is there a store [of them], for you against the time of [your] enemies, for the day of wars and battle? ²⁴ And whence proceeds the frost? or [whence] is the south wind dispersed over the [whole world] under heaven? ²⁵ And who prepared a course for the violent rain, and a way for the thunders; ²⁶ to rain upon the land where [there is] no man, the wilderness, where there is not a man in it; so as to feed the untrodden and uninhabited [land], ²⁷ and cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs? ²⁸ Who is the rain's father? and who has generated the drops of dew? ²⁹ And out of whose womb comes the ice? and who has produced the frost in the sky, ³⁰ which descends like flowing water? who has terrified the face of the ungodly? ³¹ And do you understand the band of Pleias, and have you opened the barrier of Orion? ³² Or will you reveal Mazuroth in his season, and the evening star with his rays? Will you guide them? ³³ And know you the changes of heaven, or the events which take place together under heaven? ³⁴ And will you call a cloud with your voice, and will it obey you with a violent shower of much rain? ³⁵ And will you send lightnings, and they shall go? and shall they say to you, What is [your pleasure]? ³⁶ And who has given to women skill in weaving, or knowledge of embroidery? ³⁷ And who is he that numbers the clouds in wisdom, and has bowed the heaven [down] to the earth? ³⁸ For it is spread out as dusty earth, and I have cemented it as one hewn stone to another. ³⁹ And will you hunt a prey for the lions? and satisfy the desires of the serpents? ⁴⁰ For they fear in their lairs, and lying in wait couch in the woods. ⁴¹ And who has prepared food for the raven? for its young ones wander and cry to the Lord, in search of food.

¹⁶ And it came to pass on the third day, as the morning drew near, there were voices and lightnings and a dark cloud on mount Sina: the voice of the trumpet sounded loud, and all the people in the camp trembled. ¹⁷ And Moses led the people forth out of the camp to meet God, and they stood by under the camp. ¹⁸ The mount of Sina was altogether on a smoke, because God had descended upon it in fire; and the smoke went up as the smoke of a furnace, and the people were exceedingly amazed. ¹⁹ And the sounds of the trumpet were waxing very much louder. Moses spoke, and God answered him with a voice.

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. ¹² And the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire a voice of words, which you⌃ heard: and you⌃ saw no likeness, only [you⌃ heard] a voice.

²² These words the Lord spoke to all the assembly of you in the mountain out of the midst of the fire—[there was] darkness, blackness, storm, a loud voice—and he added no more, and he wrote them on two tables of stone, and he gave them to me. ²³ And it came to pass when you⌃ heard the voice out of the midst of the fire, for the mountain burned with fire, that you⌃ came to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders: ²⁴ and you⌃ said, Behold, the Lord our God has shown us his glory, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: this day we have seen that God shall speak to man, and he shall live.

¹¹ And he said, You shall go forth to-morrow, and shall stand before the Lord in the mount; behold, the Lord will pass by. And, behold, a great [and] strong wind rending the mountains, and crushing the rocks before the Lord; [but] the Lord [was] not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake; [but] the Lord [was] not in the earthquake:

¹ And it came to pass, when the Lord was going to take Eliu with a whirlwind as it were into heaven, that Eliu and Elisaie went out of Galgala.

¹¹ And it came to pass as they were going, they went on talking; and, behold, a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and it separated between them both; and Eliu was taken up in a whirlwind as it were into heaven.

¹ At this also my heart is troubled, and moved out of its place. ² Hear you a report by the anger of the Lord's wrath, and a discourse shall come out of his mouth.

⁹ Troubles come on out of the secret chambers, and cold from the mountain-tops.

¹⁴ Listen to this, O Job: stand still, and be admonished of the power of the Lord.

⁶ And send forth messengers with wrath; and lay low every haughty one.

⁴ And I looked, and, behold, a sweeping wind came from the north, and a great cloud on it, and [there was] brightness round about it, and gleaming fire, and in the midst of it as it were the appearance of amber in the midst of the fire, and brightness in it.

³ The Lord is longsuffering, and his power is great, and the Lord will not hold any guiltless: his way is in destruction and in the whirlwind, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

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

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.

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

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?

¹¹ Yet now I will tell you what is in the hand of the Lord: I will not lie concerning the things which are with the Almighty.

³⁵ But Job has not spoken with understanding, his words are not [uttered] with knowledge.

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

³ For who is he that hides counsel from you? or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from you? and who will tell me what I knew not, great and wonderful things which I understood not?

¹¹ And thus shall you⌃ eat it: your loins girded, and your sandals on your feet, and your staves in your hands, and you⌃ shall eat it in haste. It is a passover to the Lord.

⁴⁶ And the hand of the Lord [was] upon Eliu, and he girded up his loins, and ran before Achaab to Jezrael.

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

²² Then shall you call, and I will listen to you: or you shall speak, and I will give you an answer.

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. ⁵ And I would know the remedies which he would speak to me, and I would perceive what he would tell me. ⁶ Though he should come on me in [his] great strength, then he would not threaten me; ⁷ for truth and reproof are from him; and he would bring forth my judgment to an end.

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:

⁷ Bring down also the proud man; and consume at once the ungodly.

¹⁷ And do you gird up your loins, and stand up, and speak all [the words] that I shall command you: be not afraid of their face, neither be you alarmed before them; for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord.

¹ In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth.

⁵ Remember his wonderful works that he has done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;

²² The Lord made me the beginning of his ways for his works.

²⁹ decree. and when he strengthened the foundations of the earth: ³⁰ I was by him, suiting [myself to him], I was that wherein he took delight; and daily I rejoiced in his presence continually.

⁴ Who has gone up to heaven, and come down? who has gathered the winds in his bosom? who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? who has dominion of all the ends of the earth? what is his name? or what is the name of his children?

⁹ Or longer than the measure of the earth, or the breadth of the sea.

²⁵ all that he has made; the weight of the winds, the measures of the water.

⁴ Grant you according to your heart, and fulfill all your desire.

²⁷ When he prepared the heaven, I was present with him; and when he prepared his throne upon the winds:

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

¹¹ and for a long time birds and hedgehogs, and ibises and ravens shall dwell in it: and the measuring line of desolation shall be cast over it, and satyrs shall dwell in it.

¹² Who has measured the water in his hand, and the heaven with a span, and all the earth in a handful? Who has weighed the mountains in scales, and the forests in a balance?

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

¹ And I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a man, and in his hand a measuring line. ² And I said to him, Whither go you? And he said to me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth of it, and what is the length of it.

¹⁸ And you shall make posts to the tabernacle, twenty posts on the north side. ¹⁹ And you shall make to the twenty posts forty silver sockets; two sockets to one post on both its sides, and two sockets to the other post on both its sides. ²⁰ And for the next side, toward the south, twenty posts, ²¹ and their forty silver sockets: two sockets to one post on both its sides, and two sockets to the other post on both its sides. ²² And on the back of the tabernacle at the part which is toward the [west] you shall make six posts. ²³ And you shall make two posts on the corners of the tabernacle behind. ²⁴ And it shall be equal below, they shall be equal toward the same part from the heads to one joining; so shall you make to both the two corners, let them be equal. ²⁵ And there shall be eight posts, and their sixteen silver sockets; two sockets to one post on both its sides, and two sockets to the other post.

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

⁷ He stretches out the north wind upon nothing, and he upon nothing hangs the earth;

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

¹ (94) A Psalm of David for the fourth [day] of the week. The Lord is a God of vengeance; the God of vengeance has declared himself.

²² Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have sought out your testimonies.

¹² to make known to the sons of men your power, and the glorious majesty of your kingdom.

¹⁶ Therefore thus says the Lord, [even] the Lord, Behold, I lay for the foundations of Sion a costly stone, a choice, a corner-stone, a precious [stone], for its foundations; and he that believes [on him] shall by no means be ashamed.

¹ The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel; says the Lord, that stretches out the sky, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.

¹¹ And they answered [each other] with praise and thanksgiving to the Lord, [saying], For [it is] good, for his mercy to Israel [endures] for ever. And all the people shouted with a loud voice to praise the Lord at the laying the foundation of the house of the Lord. ¹² But many of the priests and the Levites, and the elder men, heads of families, who had seen the former house on its foundation, and [who saw] this house with their eyes, wept with a loud voice: but the multitude shouted with joy to raise a song.

⁶ And it came to pass on a day, that behold, the angels of God came to stand before the Lord, and the devil came with them.

¹ And it came to pass on a certain day, that the angels of God came to stand before the Lord, and the devil came among them to stand before the Lord.

⁴ Seek you⌃ the Lord, and be strengthened; seek his face continually.

⁷ Who are you, the great mountain before Zorobabel, that you should prosper? whereas I will bring out the stone of the inheritance, the grace of it the equal of [my ] grace.

⁹ And God said, Let the water which is under the heaven be collected into one place, and let the dry land appear, and it was so. And the water which was under the heaven was collected into its places, and the dry land appeared.

¹⁰ And I set bounds to it, surrounding it with bars and gates.

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

⁸ He has remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded for a thousand generation: ⁹ which he established as a covenant to Abraam, and [he remembered] his oath to Isaac.

²² will you⌃ not be afraid of me? says the Lord; and will you⌃ not fear before me, who have set the sand for a bound to the sea, [as] a perpetual ordinance, and it shall not pass it: yes, it shall rage, but not prevail; and its waves shall roar, but not pass over it.

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

⁹ And God said, Let the water which is under the heaven be collected into one place, and let the dry land appear, and it was so. And the water which was under the heaven was collected into its places, and the dry land appeared. ¹⁰ And God called the dry land Earth, and the gatherings of the waters he called Seas, and God saw that it was good.

¹⁵ And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you, and between every living soul in all flesh, and there shall no longer be water for a deluge, so as to blot out all flesh.

¹⁰ He has encompassed the face of the water by an appointed ordinance, until the end of light and darkness.

⁹ which he established as a covenant to Abraam, and [he remembered] his oath to Isaac.

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

⁶ And the Lord said to the devil, Behold, I deliver him up to you; only save his life.

⁶ Who turns the sea into dry land; they shall go through the river on foot; there shall we rejoice in him, ⁷ who by his power is Lord over the age, his eyes look upon the nations; let not them that provoke [him] be exalted in themselves. Pause.

¹⁰ And I said, Now I have begun; this is the change of the right hand of the Most High.

⁹ For all our days are gone, and we have passed away in your wrath: our years have spun out their tale as a spider.

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

⁸ Fighting and reproaching he will dismiss them; did you not meditate with a harsh spirit, to kill them with a wrathful spirit?

⁵ And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night, and there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

⁹ (for we are of yesterday, and know nothing; for our life upon the earth is a shadow:)

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

⁴ Where was you when I founded the earth? tell me now, if you have knowledge,

²¹ I know then that you were born at that time, and the number of your years is great.

⁷ Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase [it], rase [it], even to its foundations. ⁸ Wretched daughter of Babylon! blessed [shall he be] who shall reward you as you have rewarded us.

³ Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all you⌃ stars and light. ⁴ Praise him, you⌃ heavens of heavens, and the water that is above the heavens. ⁵ Let them praise the name of the Lord: for he spoke, and they were made; he commanded, and they were created.

²⁷ And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the water returned to its place toward day; and the Egyptians fled from the water, and the Lord shook off the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

¹³ Why then has he not visited these? forasmuch as they were upon the earth, and took no notice, and they knew not the way of righteousness, neither have they walked in their [appointed] paths? ¹⁴ But having known their works, he delivered them into darkness: and in the night one will be as a thief: ¹⁵ and the eye of the adulterer has watched [for] the darkness, saying, Eye shall not perceive me, and he puts a covering on his face. ¹⁶ In darkness he digs through houses: by day they conceal themselves securely: they know not the light. 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 His dominion is under the whole heaven, and his light is at the extremities of the earth.

⁴ Grant you according to your heart, and fulfill all your desire. ⁵ We will exult in your salvation, and in the name of our God shall we be magnified: the Lord fulfil all your petitions. ⁶ Now I know that the Lord has saved his Christ: he shall hear him from his holy heaven: the salvation of his right hand is mighty.

²¹ He made him Lord over his house, and ruler of all his substance; ²² to chastise his rulers at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.

³⁵ and devoured all the grass in their land, and devoured the fruit of the ground.

⁹ [As for] the head of them that compass me, the mischief of their lips shall cover them. ¹⁰ Coals of fire shall fall upon them on the earth; and you shall cast them down in afflictions: they shall not bear up [under them]. ¹¹ A talkative man shall not prosper on the earth: evils shall hunt the unrighteous man to destruction. ¹² I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the poor, and the right of the needy ones.

² Sing to him, yes, sing praises to him: tell forth all his wonderful works.

⁶ [you⌃] seed of Abraam, his servants, [you⌃] children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

²¹ And the Lord said to Moses, Stretch out your hand to heaven, and let there be darkness over the land of Egypt—darkness that may be felt. 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.

¹⁸ And they came down to him; and he prayed to the Lord, and said, Strike, I pray you, this people with blindness. And he struck them with blindness, according to the word of Elisaie.

¹⁴ In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the noon-day even as in the night:

⁵ But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up.

¹⁸ Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.

¹⁷ For I am ready for plagues, and my grief is continually before me.

¹⁹ But the ways of the ungodly are dark; they know not how they stumble.

²¹ And famine shall come sorely upon you, and it shall come to pass, [that] when you⌃ shall be hungry, you⌃ shall be grieved, and you⌃ shall speak ill of the prince and your fathers' ordinances: and they shall look up to heaven above, ²² and they shall look on the earth below, and behold severe distress, and darkness, affliction, and anguish, and darkness so that [one can’t] see; and he that is in anguish shall not be distressed only for a time.

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.

²² Therefore thus says the Lord God; Behold, I am against Pharao king of Egypt, and I will break his strong and outstretched arms, and will strike down his sword out of his hand.

⁵ Shall giants be born from under the water and the inhabitants thereof? ⁶ Hell is naked before him, and destruction has no covering.

¹⁹ They spoke also against God, and said, Will God be able to prepare a table in the wilderness?

²⁴ even before he made the depths; before the fountains of water came forth:

⁵ But let darkness and the shadow of death seize it; let blackness come upon it;

²² Revealing deep things out of darkness: and he has brought into light the shadow of death.

¹³ Have mercy upon me, O Lord; look upon my affliction [which I suffer] of mine enemies, you that lift me up from the gates of death:

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?

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:

²⁴ For he surveys the whole [earth] under heaven, knowing the things in the earth:

¹¹ Who knows the power of your wrath? ¹² and [who knows how] to number [his days] because of the fear of your wrath? So manifest your right hand, and those that are instructed in wisdom in the heart.

²⁸ And now, have you not known? have you not heard? the eternal God, the God that formed the ends of the earth, shall not hunger, nor be weary, and there is no searching of his understanding.

³⁷ They shall all have their heads shaved in every place, and every beard shall be shaved; and all hands shall beat [the breasts], and on all loins shall be sackcloth.

³ And God said, Let there be light, and there was light. ⁴ And God saw the light that it was good, and God divided between the light and the darkness.

¹⁴ And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, to divide between day and night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years. ¹⁵ And let them be for light in the firmament of the heaven, so as to shine upon the earth, and it was so. ¹⁶ And God made the two great lights, the greater light for regulating the day and the lesser light for regulating the night, the stars also. ¹⁷ And God placed them in the firmament of the heaven, so as to shine upon the earth, ¹⁸ and to regulate day and night, and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

¹⁹ and lest having looked up to the sky, and having seen the sun and the moon and the stars, and all the heavenly bodies, you should go astray and worship them, and serve them, which the Lord your God has distributed to all the nations under heaven.

¹² Or did I order the morning light in your time; and [did] the morning star [then first] see his appointed place; ¹³ to lay hold of the extremities of the earth, to cast out the ungodly out of it?

¹¹ For your servant keeps to them: in the keeping of them [there is] great reward.

²⁰ The king sent and loosed him; [even] the prince of the people, and let him go free.

²⁸ They were joined also to Beelphegor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. And they provoked him with their devices;

⁷ I am he that prepared light, and formed darkness; who make peace, and create evil; I am the Lord God, that does all these things.

⁸ All the [bodies] that give light in the sky, shall be darkened over you, and I will bring darkness upon the earth, says the Lord God.

¹³ For, behold, I am he that strengthens the thunder, and creates the wind, and proclaims to men his Christ, forming the morning and the darkness, and mounting on the high places of the earth, The Lord God Almighty is his name.

¹⁹ And the boundaries of the Chananites were from Sidon till one comes to Gerara and Gaza, till one comes to Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama and Seboim, as far as Dasa.

¹⁷ And the field of Ephron, which was in Double Cave, which is opposite Mambre, the field and the cave, which was in it, and every tree which was in the field, and whatever is in its borders round about, were made sure in its borders round about, were made sure

¹² Or did I order the morning light in your time; and [did] the morning star [then first] see his appointed place;

¹⁶ They who used to reverence me, now have come against me like snow or congealed ice.

⁶ commanding the snow, Be you upon the earth, and the stormy rain, and the storm of the showers of his might.

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

¹⁸ Behold, to-morrow at this hour I will rain a very great hail, such as has not been in Egypt, from the time it was created until this day.

²⁴ So there was hail and flaming fire mingled with hail; and the hail was very great, such as was not in Egypt, from the time there was a nation upon it.

¹¹ And when they fled from the face of the children of Israel at the descent of Oronin, then the Lord cast upon them hailstones from heaven to Azeca; and they were more that died by the hailstones, than those whom the children of Israel killed with the sword in the battle.

¹³ And the hypocrites in heart will array wrath [against themselves]; they will not cry, because he has bound them.

³¹ For by them he will judge the nations: he will give food to him that has strength.

³⁰ And the Lord shall make his glorious voice to be heard, and the wrath of his arm, to make a display with wrath and anger and devouring flame: he shall lighten terribly, and [his wrath shall be] as water and violent hail.

¹¹ Say to them that plaster [it], It shall fall; and there shall be a flooding rain; and I will send great stones upon their joinings, and they shall fall; and there shall be a sweeping wind, and it shall be broken. ¹² And behold! the wall has fallen; and will they not say to you, Where is your plaster wherewith you⌃ plastered [it]? ¹³ Therefore thus says the Lord; I will even cause to burst forth a sweeping blast with fury, and there shall be a flooding rain in my wrath; and in [my] fury I will bring on great stones for complete destruction.

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.

²⁶ When he made [them], thus he saw and numbered them, and made a way for the pealing of the thunder.

²⁷ And the drops of rain are numbered by him, and shall be poured out in rain to form a cloud. ²⁸ The ancient [heavens] shall flow, and the clouds overshadow innumerable mortals: he has fixed a time to cattle, and they know the order of rest. [Yet] by all these things your understanding is not astonished, neither is your mind disturbed in [your] body.

³ His dominion is under the whole heaven, and his light is at the extremities of the earth. ⁴ After him shall be a cry with a [loud] voice; he shall thunder with the voice of his excellency, yet he shall not cause men to pass away, for one shall hear his voice. ⁵ The Mighty One shall thunder wonderfully with his voice: for he has done great things which we knew not; ⁶ commanding the snow, Be you upon the earth, and the stormy rain, and the storm of the showers of his might.

³ O Lord, you have brought up my soul from Hades, you have delivered me from [among] them that go down to the pit. ⁴ Sing to the Lord, you⌃ his saints, and give thanks for the remembrance of his holiness. ⁵ For anger is in his wrath, but life in his favor: weeping shall wait for the evening, but joy shall be in the morning. ⁶ And I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved. ⁷ O Lord, in your good pleasure you did add strength to my beauty: but you did turn away your face, and I was troubled. ⁸ To you, O Lord, will I cry; and to my God will I make supplication. ⁹ What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to destruction? Shall the dust give praise to you? or shall it declare your truth? ¹⁰ The Lord heard, and had compassion upon me; the Lord is become my helper.

²⁷ And the drops of rain are numbered by him, and shall be poured out in rain to form a cloud.

¹⁰ And he established it to Jacob for an ordinance, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant; ¹¹ saying To you will I give the land of Chanaan, the line of your inheritance: ¹² when they were few in number, very few, and sojourners in it. ¹³ And they went from nation to nation, and from [one] kingdom to another people. ¹⁴ He suffered no man to wrong them; and he rebuked kings for their sakes:

⁸ He sends his word to Jacob, his ordinances and judgments to Israel. ⁹ He has not done so to any [other] nation; and he has not shown them his judgments.

¹ Be glad, you thirsty desert: let the wilderness exult, and flower as the lily. ² And the desert places of Jordan shall blossom and rejoice; the glory of Libanus has been given to it, and the honor of Carmel; and my people shall see the glory of the Lord, and the majesty of God.

¹⁸ but I will open rivers on the mountains, and fountains in the midst of plains: I will make the desert pools of water, and a thirsty land watercourses. ¹⁹ I will plant in the dry land the cedar and box, the myrtle and cypress, and white poplar:

¹⁹ Behold, I [will] do new things, which shall presently spring forth, and you⌃ shall know them: and I will make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the dry land. ²⁰ the beasts of the field shall bless me, the owls and young ostriches; for I have given water in the wilderness, and rivers in the dry land, to give drink to my chosen race,

²² Is there any one among the idols of the Gentiles that can give rain? and will the sky yield his fulness [at their bidding]? Are not you he? we will even wait on you, O Lord: for you have made all these things.

¹⁴ He suffered no man to wrong them; and he rebuked kings for their sakes:

²⁸ And may God give you of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and abundance of corn and wine.

³⁹ And Isaac his father answered and said to him, Behold, your dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above.

¹³ And to Joseph he said, His land [is] of the blessing of the Lord, of the seasons of sky and dew, and of the deeps of wells below,

²⁸ And Israel shall dwell in confidence alone on the land of Jacob, with corn and wine; and the sky [shall be] misty with dew upon you.

¹⁷ [Is it] not wheat harvest today? I will call upon the Lord, and he shall send thunder and rain; and know you⌃ and see, that your wickedness [is] great which you⌃ have wrought before the Lord, having asked for yourselves a king. ¹⁸ And Samuel called upon the Lord, and the Lord sent thunders and rain in that day; and all the people feared greatly the Lord and Samuel.

²¹ You⌃ mountains of Gelbue, let not dew no rain descend upon you, nor fields of first fruits [be upon you], for there the shield of the mighty ones has been grievously assailed; the shield of Saul was not anointed with oil.

¹ And Eliu the prophet, the Thesbite of Thesbae of Galaad, said to Achaab, As the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be these years dew nor rain, except by the word of my mouth.

⁹ who does great things and untraceable, glorious things also, and marvelous, of which there is no number: ¹⁰ who gives rain upon the earth, sending water on the earth:

¹⁹ [My] root was spread out by the water, and the dew would lodge on my crop.

⁸ And I shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed out, coming forth out its mother's womb.

⁹ who quickens my soul in life, and does not suffer my feet to be moved. ¹⁰ For you, O God, has proved us; you have tried us with fire as silver is tried.

⁸ He sends his word to Jacob, his ordinances and judgments to Israel.

²⁰ By understanding were the depths broken up, and the clouds dropped water.

²⁴ and they have not said in their heart, Let us fear now the Lord our God, who gives us the early and latter rain, according to the season of the fulfillment of the ordinance of harvest, and has preserved [it] for us.

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

⁵ I will restore their dwellings, I will love them truly: for he has turned away my wrath from him.

²³ Rejoice then and be glad, you⌃ children of Sion, in the Lord your God: for he has given you food fully, and he will rain on you the early and the latter rain, as before.

⁷ Also I withheld from you the rain three months before the harvest: and I will rain upon one city, and on another city I will not rain: one part shall be rained upon, and the part on which I shall not rain shall be dried up.

¹⁰ And from the breath of the Mighty One he will send frost; and he guides the water in whatever way he pleases.

⁹ Who makes Pleias, and Hesperus, and Arcturus, and the chambers of the south.

⁵ And he burned the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Juda [had] appointed, (and they burned incense in the high places and in the cities of Juda, and the places around about Jerusalem); and them that burned incense to Baal, and to the sun, and to the moon, and to Mazuroth, and to all the host of heaven.

³¹ And do you understand the band of Pleias, and have you opened the barrier of Orion?

¹⁶ And God made the two great lights, the greater light for regulating the day and the lesser light for regulating the night, the stars also.

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

⁶ He has established them for ever, even for ever and ever: he has made an ordinance, and it shall not pass away.

³⁵ And I will destroy Moab, says the Lord, as he comes up to the altar, and burns incense to his gods. ³⁶ Therefore the heart of Moab shall sound as pipes, my heart shall sound as a pipe for the shorn men; forasmuch as what [every] man has gained has perished from him.

¹⁸ And Samuel called upon the Lord, and the Lord sent thunders and rain in that day; and all the people feared greatly the Lord and Samuel.

¹¹ The light has proved darkness to you, and water has covered you on your lying down.

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

²³ And Moses stretched forth his hand to heaven, and the Lord sent thunderings and hail; and the fire ran along upon the ground, and the Lord rained hail on all the land of Egypt. ²⁴ So there was hail and flaming fire mingled with hail; and the hail was very great, such as was not in Egypt, from the time there was a nation upon it. ²⁵ And the hail struck in all the land of Egypt both man and beast, and the hail struck all the grass in the field, and the hail broke in pieces all the trees in the field.

²⁹ And Moses said to him, When I shall have departed from the city, I will stretch out my hands to the Lord, and the thunderings shall cease, and the hail and the rain shall be no longer, that you may know that the earth [is] the Lord's.

² and fire came forth from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.

¹ And the people murmured sinfully before the Lord; and the Lord heard [them] and was very angry; and fire was kindled among them from the Lord, and devoured a part of the camp.

³⁵ And fire went forth from the Lord, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

¹² And Saul said, Hear now, you son of Achitob. And he said, Behold! I [am here], speak, [my] lord.

¹⁰ And Eliu answered and said to the captain of fifty, And if I [am] a man of God, fire shall come down out of heaven, and devour you and your fifty. And fire came down out of heaven, and devoured him and his fifty.

¹⁴ Behold, fire came down from heaven, and devoured the two first captains of fifty: and now, I pray, let my life be precious in your eyes.

³² He has hidden the light in [his] hands, and given charge concerning it to the interposing [cloud].

⁸ And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go to this people? And I said, behold, I am [here], send me. And he said, Go, and say to this people,

¹ I became manifest to them that asked not for me; I was found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold, I am [here], to a nation, who called not on my name.

³ And I have filled him [with] a divine spirit of wisdom, and understanding, and knowledge, to invent in every work,

¹ And Beseleel wrought, and Eliab and every one wise in understanding, to whom was given wisdom and knowledge, to understand to do all the works according to the holy offices, according to all things which the Lord appointed. ² And Moses called Beseleel and Eliab, and all that had wisdom, to whom God gave knowledge in [their] heart, and all who were freely willing to come forward to the works, to perform them.

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

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

⁶ And the righteous shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, and say,

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.

²⁶ So you shall be chastened by the judgment of your God, and shall rejoice.

¹ And God remembered Noe, and all the wild beasts, and all the cattle, and all the birds, and all the reptiles that creep, as many as were with him in the ark, and God brought a wind upon the earth, and the water stayed.

⁵ And he brought him out and said to him, Look up now to heaven, and count the stars, if you shall be able to number them fully, and he said, Thus shall your seed be.

⁴ He sends his oracle to the earth: his word will run swiftly.

¹⁰ The strength of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the exulting cry of serpents are quenched. ¹¹ The old lion has perished for lack of food, and the lions' whelps have forsaken one another.

¹⁰ All my bones shall say, O Lord, who is like to you? delivering the poor out of the hand of them that are stronger than he, yes, the poor and needy one from them that spoil him.

²¹ He made him Lord over his house, and ruler of all his substance;

⁹ Juda is a lion's whelp: from the tender plant, my son, you are gone up, having couched you lie as a lion, and as a whelp; who shall stir him up?

²⁴ Behold, the people shall rise up as a lion's whelp, and shall exalt himself as a lion; he shall not lie down till he have eaten the prey, and he shall drink the blood of the slain.

⁹ He lay down, he rested as a lion, and as a young lion; who shall stir him up? they that bless you are blessed, and they that curse you are cursed.

⁸ And the wild beasts come in under the covert, and rest in [their] lair.

²⁷ He established among them his signs, and [his] wonders in the land of Cham. ²⁸ He sent forth darkness, and made it dark; yet they rebelled against his words.

⁹ He has not done so to any [other] nation; and he has not shown them his judgments.