Job 39 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ [Say] if you know the time of the bringing forth of the wild goats of the rock, and [if] you have marked the calving of the hinds: ² and [if] you has have numbered the full months of their being with young, and [if] you have relieved their pangs: ³ and have reared their young without fear; and will you loosen their pangs? ⁴ Their young will break forth; they will be multiplied with offspring: [their young] will go forth, and will not return to them. ⁵ And who is he that sent forth the wild ass free? and who loosed his bands? ⁶ whereas I made his habitation the wilderness, and the salt land his coverts. ⁷ He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, and hears not the chiding of the tax-gatherer. ⁸ He will survey the mountains [as] his pasture, and he seeks after every green thing. ⁹ And will the unicorn be willing to serve you, or to lie down at your manger? ¹⁰ And will you bind his yoke with thongs, or will he plow furrows for you in the plain? ¹¹ And do you trust him, because his strength is great? and will you commit your works to him? ¹² And will you believe that he will return to you your seed, and bring [it] in [to] your threshing floor? ¹³ The peacock has a beautiful wing: if the stork and the ostrich conceive, [it is worthy of notice], ¹⁴ for [the ostrich] will leave her eggs in the ground, and warm them on the dust, ¹⁵ and has forgotten that the foot will scatter them, and the wild beasts of the field trample them. ¹⁶ She has hardened [herself] against her young ones, as though [she bereaved] not herself: she labors in vain without fear. ¹⁷ For God has withholden wisdom from her, and not given her a portion in understanding. ¹⁸ In her season she will lift herself on high; she will scorn the horse and his rider. ¹⁹ Hast you invested the horse with strength, and clothed his neck with terror? ²⁰ And have you clad him in perfect armor, and made his breast glorious with courage? ²¹ He paws exulting in the plain, and goes forth in strength into the plain. ²² He laughs to scorn a king as he meets him, and will by no means turn back from the sword. ²³ The bow and sword resound against him; and [his] rage will swallow up the ground: ²⁴ and he will not believe until the trumpet sounds. ²⁵ And when the trumpet sounds, he says, Aha! and afar off he smells the war with prancing and neighing. ²⁶ And does the hawk remain steady by your wisdom, having spread out her wings unmoved, looking toward the region of the south? ²⁷ And does the eagle rise at your command, and the vulture remain sitting over his nest, ²⁸ on a crag of a rock, and in a secret [place]? ²⁹ Thence he seeks food, his eyes observe from far. ³⁰ And his young ones roll themselves in blood, and wherever the carcasses may be, immediately they are found. ³¹ And the Lord God answered Job, and said, ³² Will [any one] pervert judgment with the Mighty One? and he that reproves God, let him return it for answer. ³³ And Job answered and said to the Lord, ³⁴ Why do I yet plead? being rebuked even while reproving the Lord: hearing such things, whereas I am nothing: and what shall I answer to these [arguments]? I will lay my hand upon my mouth. ³⁵ I have spoken once; but I will not do so a second time.

⁵ the stag, and doe, and pygarg, and wild goat, and camelopard.

² And it came to pass when Saul returned from pursuing after the Philistines, that it was reported to him, saying, David [is] in the wilderness of Engaddi.

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?

¹⁸ They hurt his feet with fetters; his soul passed into iron,

⁵ And hinds calved in the field, and forsook [it], because there was no grass.

²⁴ she has extended her ways over the waters of the desert; she was hurried along by the lusts of her soul; she is given up [to them], who will turn her back? none that seek her shall be weary; at [the time of] her humiliation they shall find her.

¹² He shall be a wild man, his hands against all, and the hands of all against him, and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

¹⁴ Issachar has desired that which is good; resting between the inheritances.

⁵ What then? will the wild ass bray for nothing, if he is not seeking food? or again, will the ox low at the manger, when he has a fodder?

¹² But man vainly buoys himself up with words; and a mortal born of woman [is] like an ass in the desert.

⁵ And they have departed like asses in the field, having gone forth on my account according to their own order: his bread is sweet to [his] little ones.

¹¹ saying To you will I give the land of Chanaan, the line of your inheritance:

¹⁴ [As for] the rich city, the houses are deserted; they shall abandon the wealth of the city, [and] the pleasant houses: and the villages shall be caves for ever, the joy of wild asses, shepherds' pastures;

⁶ The wild asses stood by the forests, and snuffed up the wind; their eyes failed, because there was no grass.

²¹ And he was driven forth from men; and his heart was given him after the nature of wild beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses; and they fed him with grass as an ox, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven; until he knew that the most high God is Lord of the kingdom of men, and will give it to whoever he shall please.

⁹ For they have gone up to the Assyrians: Ephraim has been strengthened against himself; they loved gifts.

²³ brimstone and burning salt, (the whole land shall not be sown, neither shall any green thing spring, nor rise upon it, as Sodom and Gomorrha were overthrown, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord overthrew in his wrath and anger:)—

⁶ And he shall be as the wild tamarisk in the desert: he shall not see when good comes; but he shall dwell in barren [places], and in the wilderness, in a salt land which is not inhabited.

¹¹ But at the outlet of the water, and the turn of it, and where it overflows [its banks], they shall not heal at all; they are given to salt.

¹³ and the taskmasters hastened them, saying, Fulfil your regular daily tasks, even as when straw was given you. ¹⁴ And the accountants of the race of the children of Israel, who were set over them by the masters of Pharao, were scourged, [[and questioned,] men] saying, Why have you⌃ not fulfilled your rates of brick work as yesterday and the third day, today also? ¹⁵ And the accountants of the children of Israel went in and cried to Pharao, saying, Why do you act thus to your servants? ¹⁶ Straw is not given to your servants, and they tell us to make brick; and behold your servants have been scourged: you will therefore injure your people.

¹⁸ Now then go and work, for straw shall not be given to you, yet you⌃ shall return the rate of bricks.

¹⁸ And the men of old time have together ceased to hear the exactor's voice.

¹⁸ In her season she will lift herself on high; she will scorn the horse and his rider.

⁴ For thus said the Lord to me, As a lion would roar, or a lion's whelp over prey which he has taken, and cry over it, until the mountains are filled with his voice, and [the animals] are awe-struck and tremble at the fierceness of his wrath: so the Lord of hosts shall descend to fight upon the mount Sion, [even] upon her mountains.

³ saying, Why have we fasted, and you regard not? [why] have we afflicted our souls, and you did not know it? Nay, in the days of your fasts you⌃ find your pleasures, and all them that are under your power you⌃ wound.

²⁹ And God said, Behold I have given to you every seed-bearing herb sowing seed which is upon all the earth, and every tree which has in itself the fruit of seed that is sown, to you it shall be for food. ³⁰ And to all the wild beasts of the earth, and to all the flying creatures of heaven, and to every reptile creeping on the earth, which has in itself the breath of life, even every green plant for food; and it was so.

¹⁵ And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep.

²⁰ But will you catch the serpent with a hook, and put a halter about his nose? ²¹ Or will you fasten a ring in his nostril, and bore his lip with a clasp? ²² Will he address you with a petition? softly, with the voice of a suppliant?

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.

²² It was God who brought him out of Egypt; he has as it were the glory of a unicorn.

¹⁷ His beauty [is as] the firstling of his bull, his horns [are] the horns of a unicorn; with them he shall thrust the nations at once, even from the end of the earth: these [are] the ten thousands of Ephraim, and these [are] the thousands of Manasse.

³ The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel does not know me, and the people has not regarded me.

¹⁴ And, behold, there came a messenger to Job, and said to him, The yokes of oxen were plowing, and the she-asses were feeding near them;

⁵ And who is he that sent forth the wild ass free? and who loosed his bands?

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

⁵ Who will open the doors of his face? terror is round about his teeth.

³ If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

¹⁰ to chastise them shall not overtake them on the hill, the nations shall be gathered against them, when they are chastened for their two sins, ¹¹ Ephraim is a heifer taught to love victory, but I will come upon the fair part of her neck: I will mount Ephraim; I will pass over Juda in silence; Jacob shall prevail against him.

¹³ [even] a sound of chariots and horsemen: the inhabitants of Lachis, she is the leader of sin to the daughter of Sion: for in you were found the transgressions of Israel.

²⁶ And God said, Let us make man according to our image and likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the flying creatures of heaven, and over the cattle and all the earth, and over all the reptiles that creep on the earth.

²⁸ And God blessed them, saying, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the seas and flying creatures of heaven, and all the cattle and all the earth, and all the reptiles that creep on the earth.

² And the dread and the fear of you shall be upon all the wild beasts of the earth, on all the birds of the sky, and on all things moving upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea, I have placed them under your power.

²⁶ And having put the corn on the asses, they departed thence.

⁷ For the king trusts in the Lord, and through the mercy of the Highest he shall not be moved.

¹⁶ but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to destroy their memorial from the earth. The righteous cried, and the Lord listened to them, ¹⁷ and delivered them out of all their afflictions.

¹⁴ The Lord supports all that are falling, and sets up all that are broken down.

⁴ Where no oxen are, the cribs are clean; but where there is abundant produce, the strength of the ox is apparent.

⁶ THE VISION OF THE QUADRUPEDS IN THE DESERT. In affliction and distress, [where are] the lion and lion's whelp, thence [come] also asps, and the young of flying asps, [there shall they be] who bore their wealth on asses and camels to a nation which shall not profit them.

¹⁶ but you⌃ said, We will flee upon horses; therefore shall you⌃ flee: and, We will be aided by swift riders; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

¹ Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, who trust in horses and chariots, for they are many; and in horses, [which are] a great multitude; and have not trusted in the Holy One of Israel, and have not sought the Lord. ² Therefore he has wisely brought evils upon them, and his word shall not be frustrated; and he shall rise up against the houses of wicked men, and against their vain hope, ³ [even] an Egyptian, a man, and not God; the flesh of horses, and there is no help [in them]: but the Lord shall bring his hand upon them, and the helpers shall fail, and all shall perish together.

¹ Bel has fallen, Nabo is broken to pieces, their graven images are gone to the wild beasts and the cattle: you⌃ take them packed up as a burden to the weary, exhausted, hungry, and [at the same time] helpless man;

¹⁵ In those days I saw in Juda [men] treading wine presses on the sabbath, and carrying sheaves, and loading asses with both wine, and grapes, and figs, and every [kind of] burden, and bringing them into Jerusalem on the sabbath-day:

¹⁶ For length of existence and years of life are in her right hand; and in her left hand are wealth and glory: out of her mouth proceeds righteousness, and she carries law and mercy upon her tongue.

¹³ Therefore, behold, I roll under you, as a waggon full of straw is rolled.

¹⁹ Set your hearts now [to think] from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth [day] of the ninth month, even from the day when the foundation of the temple of the Lord was laid;

¹⁹ and the heron, and the lapwing, and the like to it, and the hoopoe and the bat.

²² For Solomon had a ship of Tharsis in the sea with the ships of Chiram: one ship came to the king every three years out of Tharsis, [laden with] gold and silver, and wrought stones, and hewn stones. This was the arrangement of the provision which king Solomon fetched to build the house of the Lord, and the house of the king, and the wall of Jerusalem, and the citadel; to fortify the city of David, and Assur, and Magdal, and Gazer, and Baethoron the upper, and Jethermath, and all the cities of the chariots, and all the cities of the horsemen, and the fortification of Solomon which he purposed to build in Jerusalem and in all the land, so that none of the people should rule over him that was left of the Chettite and the Amorite, and the Pherezite, and the Chananite, and the Evite, and the Jebusite, and the Gergesite, who were not of the children of Israel, their descendants who had been left with him in the land, whom the children of Israel could not utterly destroy; and Solomon made them tributaries until this day. But of the children of Israel Solomon made nothing; for they were the warriors, and his servants and rulers, and captains of the third order, and the captains of his chariots, and his horsemen.

²¹ For a ship went for the king to Tharsis with the servants of Chiram: once every three years came vessels from Tharsis to the king, laden with gold, and silver, and ivory, and apes.

²⁹ I am become a brother of monsters, and a companion of ostriches.

¹⁷ He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a slave.

⁷ Yes, the stork in the heaven knows her time, [also] the turtle-dove and wild swallow; the sparrows observe the times of their coming in; but this my people knows not the judgments of the Lord.

⁹ And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, two women coming forth, and the wind was in their wings; and they had stork's wings: and they lifted up the measure between the earth and the sky.

⁵⁶ And she that is tender and delicate among you, whose foot has not assayed to go upon the earth for delicacy and tenderness, shall look with an evil eye on her husband in her bosom, and her son and her daughter, ⁵⁷ and her offspring that comes out between her feet, and the child which she shall bear; for she shall eat them because of the lack of all things, secretly in your straitness, and in your affliction, with which your enemy shall afflict you in your cities.

²⁶ And the woman whose the living child was, answered and said to the king, (for her bowels yearned over her son) and she said, I pray you, [my] lord, give her the child, and in nowise kill it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor hers; divide [it]. ²⁷ Then the king answered and said, Give the child to her that said, 'Give it to her, and by no means kill it:' she [is] its mother.

²⁸ And the king said to her, What is [the matter] with you? And the woman said to him, This [woman] said to me, Give your son, and we will eat him today, and we will eat my son to-morrow. ²⁹ So we boiled my son, and ate him; and I said to her on the second day, Give your son, and let us eat him: and she has hidden her son.

¹⁵ The labor of fools will afflict them, [as that of one] who knows not to go to the city.

²⁰ RHECHS. Behold, O Lord, and see for whom you has gathered thus. Shall the women eat the fruit of their womb? the cook has made a gathering: shall the infants sucking at the breasts be slain? will you kill the priest and prophet in the sanctuary of the Lord?

³ GIMEL. Nay, serpents have drawn out the breasts, they give suck to their young, the daughters of my people are incurably cruel, as an ostrich in a desert.

¹³ Are not these things of the Lord Almighty? surely many people have been exhausted in the fire, and many nations have fainted.

³⁰ And Seon king of Esebon would not that we should pass by him, because the Lord our God hardened his spirit, and made his heart stubborn, that he might be delivered into your hands, as on this day.

³¹ Notwithstanding, in regard to the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who were sent to him to enquire of him [concerning] the prodigy which came upon the land, the Lord left him, to try him, to know what was in his heart.

⁴ For you have hid their heart from wisdom; therefore you shall not exalt them.

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

¹¹ And the princes of Tanis shall be fools: [as for] the king's wise counselors, their counsel shall be turned into folly: how will you⌃ say to the king, we are sons of wise men, sons of ancient kings? ¹² Where are now your wise men? and let them declare to you, and say, What has the Lord of hosts purposed upon Egypt? ¹³ The princes of Tanis have failed, and the princes of Memphis are lifted up [with pride], and they shall cause Egypt to wander by tribes. ¹⁴ For the Lord has prepared for them a spirit of error, and they have caused Egypt to err in all their works, as one staggers who is drunken and vomits also.

¹⁷ On account of sin for a little while I grieved him, and struck him, and turned away my face from him; and he was grieved, and he went on sorrowful in his ways.

²¹ This [is] the word which the Lord has spoken against him; The virgin daughter of Sion has made light of you, and mocked you; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

²² You shall laugh at the unrighteous and the lawless: and you shall not be afraid of wild beasts.

²² He laughs to scorn a king as he meets him, and will by no means turn back from the sword.

¹ Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song to God, and spoke, saying, Let us sing to the Lord, for he is very greatly glorified: horse and rider he has thrown into the sea.

²⁵ And when the trumpet sounds, he says, Aha! and afar off he smells the war with prancing and neighing.

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.

¹ (105) Alleluia. Give thanks to the Lord, and call upon his name; declare his works among the heathen.

²⁰ Mauls are counted as stubble; and he laughs to scorn the waving of the firebrand. ²¹ His lair is [formed of] sharp points; and all the gold of the sea under him is an immense [quantity of] clay.

¹⁶ We shall hear the neighing of his swift horses out of Dan: the whole land quaked at the sound of the neighing of his horses; and he shall come, and devour the land and the fullness of it; the city, and them that dwell in it.

⁵ As the sound of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, and as the sound of a flame of fire devouring stubble, and as a numerous and strong people setting themselves in array for battle.

²² When the hoofs of the horse were entangled, his mighty ones earnestly hasted

⁴ And there went forth a mighty man out of the army of the Philistines, Goliath, by name, out of Geth, his height [was] four cubits and a span. ⁵ And [he had] a helmet upon his head, and he wore a breastplate of chain armor; and the weight of his breastplate [was] five thousand shekels of brass and iron. ⁶ And greaves of grass [were] upon his legs, and a brazen target [was] between his shoulders. ⁷ And the staff of his spear [was] like a weaver's beam, and the spear's head [was formed] of six hundred shekels of iron; and his armor-bearer went before him. ⁸ And he stood and cried to the army of Israel, and said to them, Why are you⌃ come forth to set yourselves in battle array against us? Am not I a Philistine, and you⌃ Hebrews of Saul? Choose for yourselves a man, and let him come down to me. ⁹ And if he shall be able to fight against me, and shall strike me, then will we be your servants: but if I should prevail and strike him, you⌃ shall be our servants, and serve us. ¹⁰ And the Philistine said, Behold, I have defied the armies of Israel this very day: give me a man, and we will both of us fight in single combat.

⁴² And Goliath saw David, and despised him; for he was a lad, and ruddy, with a fair countenance.

⁵ We will exult in your salvation, and in the name of our God shall we be magnified: the Lord fulfil all your petitions.

³¹ A horse is prepared for the day of battle; but help is of the Lord.

⁶ Listen, I pray you, and hear: will they not speak thus, There is no man that repents of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? the runner has failed from his course, as a tired horse in his neighing.

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;

¹⁶ She has hardened [herself] against her young ones, as though [she bereaved] not herself: she labors in vain without fear.

¹⁶ And if I should call and he should not listen, I can’t believe that he has listened to my voice.

²⁴ Were I to laugh on them, they would not believe [it]; and the light of my face has not failed.

²⁰ Have I a book or a scribe my me, that I may stand and put man to silence?

¹⁹ I am pained in my bowels, my bowels, and the sensitive powers of my heart; my soul is in great commotion, my heart is torn: I will not be silent, for my soul has heard the sound of a trumpet, the cry of war, and of distress: it calls on destruction;

⁶ Shall the trumpet sound in the city, and the people not be alarmed? shall there be evil in a city which the Lord has not wrought?

⁸ And his horses shall bound [more swiftly] than leopards, and [they are] fiercer than the wolves of Arabia: and his horsemen shall ride forth, and shall rush from far; and they shall fly as an eagle hasting to eat. ⁹ Destruction shall come upon ungodly men, resisting with their adverse front, and he shall gather the captivity as the sand.

³ Be to me a protecting God, and a strong hold to save me: for you are my fortress and my refuge.

² Son of man, because Sor has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is crushed: the nations are destroyed: she is turned to me: she that was full is made desolate:

² Thus says the Lord God; Because the enemy has said against you, Aha, the old waste places are become a possession for us:

¹¹ And Aaron shall bring the calf for his sin, and he shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and he shall kill the calf for his sin-offering.

¹⁵ and the sparrow, and the owl, and the cormorant,

¹² The flowers are seen in the land; the time of pruning has arrived; the voice of the turtle-dove has been heard in our land.

⁴ You⌃ have seen all that I have done to the Egyptians, and I took you up as upon eagles' wings, and I brought you near to myself.

¹³ And these are the things which you⌃ shall abhor of birds, and they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle and the ossifrage, and the sea-eagle.

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

⁵ If you should fix your eye upon him, he will disappear; for wings like an eagle's are prepared for him, and he returns to the house of his master.

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

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

¹ [He shall come] into their midst as the land, as an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant, and have sinned against my law.

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

⁴ And in the midst of the passage whereby Jonathan sought to pass over to the encampment of the Philistines, there was both a sharp rock on this side, and a sharp rock on the other side: the name of the one [was] Bases, and the name of the other Senna.

²⁶ Or again, is there a trace of [their] path [left] by ships? or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks [its] prey?

¹⁷ And you, son of man, say, Thus says the Lord; Say to every winged bird, and to all the wild beasts of the field, Gather yourselves, and come; gather yourselves from all [places] round about to my sacrifice, which I have made for you, [even] a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, and you⌃ shall eat flesh, and drink blood. ¹⁸ You⌃ shall eat the flesh of mighty men, and you⌃ shall drink the blood of princes of the earth, rams, and calves and goats, and they are all fatted calves. ¹⁹ And you⌃ shall eat fat till you⌃ are full, and shall drink wine till you⌃ are drunken, of my sacrifice which I have prepared for you.