Job 5 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ But call, if any one will listen to you, or if you shall see any of the holy angels. ² For wrath destroys the foolish one, and envy slays him that has gone astray. ³ And I have seen foolish ones taking root: but suddenly their habitation was devoured. ⁴ Let their children be far from safety, and let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer. ⁵ For what they have collected, the just shall eat; but they shall not be delivered out of calamities: let their strength be utterly exhausted. ⁶ For labor can’t by any means come out of the earth, nor shall trouble spring out of the mountains: ⁷ yet man is born to labor, and [even so] the vulture's young seek the high places. ⁸ Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the sovereign of all; 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: ¹¹ who exalts the lowly, and raises up them that are lost: ¹² frustrating the counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not perform the truth: ¹³ who takes the wise in their wisdom, and subverts the counsel of the crafty ¹⁴ In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the noon-day even as in the night: ¹⁵ and let them perish in war, and let the weak escape from the hand of the mighty. ¹⁶ And let the weak have hope, but the mouth of the unjust be stopped. 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. ¹⁹ Six time he shall deliver you out of distresses: and in the seventh harm shall not touch you. ²⁰ In famine he shall deliver you from death: and in war he shall free you from the power of the sword. ²¹ He shall hide you from the scourge of the tongue: and you shall not be afraid of coming evils. ²² You shall laugh at the unrighteous and the lawless: and you shall not be afraid of wild beasts. ²³ For the wild beasts of the field shall be at peace with you. ²⁴ Then shall you know that your house shall be at peace, and the provision for your tabernacle shall not fail. ²⁵ And you shall know that your seed [shall be] abundant; and your children shall be like the herbage of the field. ²⁶ And you shall come to the grave like ripe corn reaped in its season, or as a heap of the corn-flour collected in proper time. ²⁷ Behold, we have thus sought out these matters; these are what we have heard: but do you reflect with yourself, if you have done anything [wrong].

² And he said, The Lord is come from Sina, and has appeared from Seir to us, and has hasted out of the mount of Pharan, with the ten thousands of Cades; on his right hand [were] his angels with him. ³ And he spared his people, and all his sanctified ones [are] under your hands; and they are under you; and he received of his words

¹⁸ Whereas he trust not in his servants, and perceives perverseness in his angels.

⁸ Or have you heard the ordinance of the Lord? or has God used you as [his] counsellor? and has wisdom come [only] to you? ⁹ For what know you, that, we know not? or what understand you, which we do not also? ¹⁰ Truly among us [are] both the old and very aged man, more advanced in days than your father.

¹⁵ Forasmuch as he trusts not his saints; and the heaven is not pure before him.

³ You has proved mine heart; you have visited [me] by night; you have tried me as with fire, and unrighteousness has not been found in me: [I am purposed] that my mouth shall not speak [amiss].

¹⁶ For he broke to pieces the brazen gates, and crushed the iron bars.

¹ Hold a feast to me, you⌃ islands: for the princes shall renew [their] strength: let them draw near and speak together: then let them declare judgment.

²¹ Your judgment draws near, says the Lord God; your counsels have drawn near, says the King of Jacob. ²² Let them draw near, and declare to you what things shall come to pass; or tell [us] what things were of old, and we will apply [our] understanding, and we shall know what are the last and the future things: ²³ tell us, declare you⌃ to us the things that are coming on at the last [time], and we shall know that you⌃ are gods: do good, and do evil, and we shall wonder, and see at the same time

¹ And Rachel having perceived that she bore Jacob no children, was jealous of her sister; and said to Jacob, Give me children; and if not, I shall die.

⁸ And it seemed evil in the eyes of Saul concerning this matter, and he said, To David they have given ten thousands, and to me they have given thousands. [And what more can he have but the kingdom? ] ⁹ [And Saul eyed David from that day and onward. ]

⁴ Anger has possessed you: for what if you should die; would [the earth] under heaven be desolate? or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations?

¹ (15) A Psalm of David. O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tabernacle? and who shall dwell in your holy mountain?

⁴ You do wonderfully shine forth from the everlasting mountains.

²² So long as the simple cleave to justice, they shall not be ashamed: but the foolish being lovers of haughtiness, having become ungodly have hated knowledge, and are become subject to reproofs. ²³ Behold, I will bring forth to you the utterance of my breath, and I will instruct you in my speech.

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

¹⁶ A fool declares his wrath the same day; but a prudent man hides his own disgrace.

⁹ The end of a matter is better than the beginning thereof: the patient is better than the high-minded.

¹¹ And Ephraim was as a silly dove, not having a heart: he called to Egypt, and they went to the Assyrians.

⁹ And God said to Jonas, Are you very much grieved for the gourd? And he said, I am very much grieved, even to death.

¹⁵ Cursed [is] the man whoever shall make a graven or molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of craftsmen, and shall put it in a secret place: and all the people shall answer and say, So be it. ¹⁶ Cursed is the man that dishonors his father or his mother: and all the people shall say, So be it. ¹⁷ Cursed is he that removes his neighbor's landmarks: and all the people shall say, So be it. ¹⁸ Cursed is he that makes the blind to wander in the way: and all the people shall say, So be it. ¹⁹ Cursed is every one that shall pervert the judgment of the stranger, and orphan, and widow: and all the people shall say, So be it. ²⁰ Cursed is he that lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt: and all the people shall say, So be it. ²¹ Cursed is he that lies with any beast: and all the people shall say, So be it. ²² Cursed is he that lies with his sister by his father or his mother: and all the people shall say, So be it. ²³ Cursed is he that lies with his daughter-in-law: and all the people shall say, So be it. Cursed is he that lies with his wife's sister: and all the people shall say, So be it. ²⁴ Cursed is he that smites his neighbor secretly: and all the people shall say, So be it. ²⁵ Cursed is he whoever shall have taken a bribe to kill an innocent man: and all the people shall say, So be it. ²⁶ Cursed is every man that continues not in all the words of this law to do them: and all the people shall say, So be it.

¹⁸ He is swift on the face of the water: let his portion be cursed on the earth; and let their plants be laid bare.

⁸ For what is the hope of the ungodly, that he holds to it? will he indeed trust in the Lord [and] be saved?

³ Lift up your hands against their pride continually; [because of] all that the enemy has done wickedly in your holy places. ⁴ And they that hate you have boasted in the midst of your feast; they have set up their standards for signs, ⁵ ignorantly as it were in the entrance above; ⁶ they cut down its doors at once with axes as in a wood of trees; they have broken it down with hatchet and stone cutter. ⁷ They have burnt your sanctuary with fire to the ground; they have profaned the habitation of your name. ⁸ They have said in their heart, [even] all their kindred together, Come, let us abolish the feasts of the Lord from the earth. ⁹ We have not seen our signs; there is no longer a prophet; and [God] will not know us any more.

¹⁸ Remember this your creation: an enemy has reproached the Lord, and a foolish people has provoked your name. ¹⁹ Deliver not to the wild beasts a soul that gives praise to you: forget not for ever the souls of your poor. ²⁰ Look upon your covenant: for the dark [places] of the earth are filled with the habitations of iniquity.

¹ Righteous are you, O Lord, that I may make my defence to you, yes, I will speak to you [of] judgments. Why [is it] that the way of ungodly [men] prospers? [that] all that deal very treacherously are flourishing? ² You have planted them, and they have taken root; they have begotten children, and become fruitful; you are near to their mouth, and far from their reins. ³ But you, Lord, know me; you have proved my heart before you; purify them for the day of their slaughter.

⁵ You shall not bow down to them, nor serve them; for I am the Lord your God, a jealous God, recompensing the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation to them that hate me,

¹⁹ suddenly a great wind came on from the desert, and caught the four corners of the house, and the house fell upon your children, and they are dead; and I have escaped alone, and am come to tell you.

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.

⁴ If your sons have sinned before him, he has cast them away because of their transgression.

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

¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above. ¹⁷ Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out. ¹⁸ Let [one] drive him from light into darkness. ¹⁹ He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.

¹⁴ And if their children be many, they shall be for slaughter: and if they grow up, they shall beg.

² Lest at any time [the enemy] seize my soul as a lion, while there is none to ransom, nor to save.

⁵ May the Lord bless you out of Sion; and may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

¹² For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the just, taking bribes, and turning aside [the judgment of] the poor in the gates.

³³ A nation which you know not shall eat the produce of your land, and all your labors; and you shall be injured and crushed always.

⁵¹ And it shall eat up the young of your cattle, and the fruits of your land, so as not to leave to you corn, wine, oil, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep, until it shall have destroyed you;

³ And it came to pass when the children of Israel sowed, that Madiam and Amalec went up, and the children of the east went up together with them. ⁴ And they encamped against them, and destroyed their fruits until they came to Gaza; and they left not the support of life in the land of Israel, not even ox or ass among the herds. ⁵ For they and their stock came up, and their tents were with them, as the locust in multitude, and there was no number to them and their camels; and they came to the land of Israel, and laid it waste. ⁶ And Israel was greatly impoverished because of Madiam.

¹¹ And an angel of the Lord came, and sat down under the fir tree, which was in Ephratha in the land of Joas father of Esdri; and Gedeon his son [was] threshing wheat in a wine-press in order to escape from the face of Madiam.

¹¹ And the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, and they took Manasses in bonds, and bound him in fetters, and brought him to Babylon.

¹⁵ and the spoilers came and took them for a prey, and killed the servants with the sword; and I having escaped alone am come to tell you.

¹⁷ While he was yet speaking, there came another messenger, and said to Job, The horsemen formed three companies against us, and surrounded the camels, and took them for a prey, and killed the servants with the sword; and I only escaped, and am come to tell you.

³ And the Lord said to the devil, Hast you then observed my servant Job, that there is none of [men] upon the earth like him, a harmless, true, blameless, godly man, abstaining from all evil? and he yet cleaves to innocence, whereas you has told [me] to destroy his substance without cause?

⁶ even as many as provoke the Lord, as if there were indeed to be no inquisition [made] of them.

⁸ His foot also has been caught in a snare, [and] let it be entangled in a net. ⁹ And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction. ¹⁰ His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path.

¹⁵ [His] wealth unjustly collected shall be vomited up; a messenger [of wrath] shall drag him out of his house.

⁸ For the Lord has sworn by his glory, and by the might of his arm, I will no more give your corn and your provisions to your enemies; nor shall strangers any more drink your wine, for which you has laboured.

³⁴ say you to him, Thus says the Lord; Behold, I pull down those whom I have built up, and I pluck up those whom I have planted.

⁵ HE. The Lord is become as an enemy: he has overwhelmed Israel as in the sea, he has overwhelmed her palaces: he has destroyed her strongholds, and has multiplied the afflicted and humbled ones to the daughter of Juda.

¹⁶ AIN. All your enemies have opened their mouth against you: they have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and said, We have swallowed her up: moreover this is the day which we looked for; we have found it, we have seen it.

⁷ for they sowed blighted [seed], and their destruction shall await them, a sheaf of corn that avails not to make meal; and even if it should produce it, strangers shall devour it.

²⁷ Were it not for the wrath of the enemy, lest they should live long, lest their enemies should combine against them; lest they should say, Our own high arm, and not the Lord, has done all these things.

⁹ And you⌃ shall see, if it shall go the way of its coasts along by Baethsamys, he has brought upon us this great affliction; and if not, then shall we know that his hand has not touched us, but this [is a] chance [which] has happened to us.

²⁹ And he will give quiet, and who will condemn? and he will hide his face, and who shall see him? whether [it be done] against a nation, or against a man also:

⁷ A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you.

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.

³⁸ Out of the mouth of the Most High there shall not come forth evil and good.

⁴ and what should a king do for us, speaking false professions [as his] words? he will make a covenant: judgment shall spring up as a weed on the soil of the field.

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?

¹⁷ And to Adam he said, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and eaten of the tree concerning which I charged you of it only not to eat—of that you have eaten, cursed [is] the ground in your labors, in pain shall you eat of it all the days of your life. ¹⁸ Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to you, and you shall eat the herb of the field. 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.

¹ For a mortal born of a woman [is] short lived, and full of wrath.

⁸ Only with your eyes shall you observe and see the reward of sinners. ⁹ For you, O Lord, are my hope: you, my soul, have made the Most High your refuge.

⁸ All things are full of labor; a man will not be able to speak [of them]: neither shall the eye be satisfied with seeing, neither shall the ear be filled with hearing.

²² For it happens to a man in all his labor, and in the purpose of his heart wherein he labors under the sun.

¹⁵ And this is also an evil infirmity: for as he came, so also shall he return: and what is his gain, for which he vainly labors? ¹⁶ Yes, all his days are in darkness, and in mourning, and much sorrow, and infirmity, and wrath. ¹⁷ Behold, I have seen good, that it is a fine thing [for a man] to eat and to drink, and to see good in all his labor in which he may labor under the sun, [all] the number of the days of his life which God has given to him: for it is his portion.

⁷ And Jacob was greatly terrified, and was perplexed; and he divided the people that was with him, and the cows, and the camels, and the sheep, into two camps. ⁸ And Jacob said, If Esau should come to one camp, and strike it, the other camp shall be in safety. ⁹ And Jacob said, God of my father Abraam, and God of my father Isaac, O Lord, you [are] he that said to me, Depart quickly to the land of your birth, and I will do you good. ¹⁰ Let there be to me a sufficiency of all the justice and all the truth which you have wrought with your servant; for with this my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two camps. ¹¹ Deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him, lest haply he should come and strike me, and the mother upon the children. ¹² But you said, I will do you good, and will make your seed as the sand of the sea, which shall not be numbered for multitude.

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.

⁵ But be you early in prayer to the Lord Almighty.

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

²⁷ And he shall hear you when you pray to him, and he shall grant you [power] to pay your vows.

⁵ My bruises have become noisome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.

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

¹ (78) [A Psalm] of instruction for Asaph. Give heed, O my people, to my law: incline your ear to the words of my mouth. ² I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter dark sayings [which have been] from the beginning.

¹ Now the Lord had commanded a great whale to swallow up Jonas: and Jonas was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights. 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.

¹⁰ Who does great and unsearchable things; glorious also and excellent things, innumerable.

⁷ Will you find out the traces of the Lord? or have you come to the end [of that] which the Almighty has made? ⁸ Heaven [is] high; and what will you do? and there are deeper things than those in hell; what do you know? ⁹ Or longer than the measure of the earth, or the breadth of the sea.

⁵ Shall giants be born from under the water and the inhabitants thereof? ⁶ Hell is naked before him, and destruction has no covering. ⁷ He stretches out the north wind upon nothing, and he upon nothing hangs the earth; ⁸ binding water in his clouds, and the cloud is not tore under it. ⁹ He keeps back the face of his throne, stretching out his cloud upon it. ¹⁰ He has encompassed the face of the water by an appointed ordinance, until the end of light and darkness. ¹¹ The pillars of heaven are prostrate and astonished at his rebuke. ¹² He has calmed the sea with [his] might, and by [his] wisdom the whale has been overthrown. ¹³ And the barriers of heaven fear him, and by a command he has slain the apostate dragon. 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]?

⁵ The Mighty One shall thunder wonderfully with his voice: for he has done great things which we knew not;

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?

⁵ Mine enemies have spoken evil against me, [saying], When shall he die, and his name perish?

¹⁸ Surely you have appointed [judgments] to them because of their crafty dealings: you have cast them down when they were lifted up.

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.

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

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.

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?

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. ¹¹ You brought us into the snare; you laid afflictions on our back.

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

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.

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.

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.

²⁷ And the rule of God shall protect you, and [that] under the strength of the everlasting arms; and he shall cast forth the enemy from before your face, saying, Perish.

⁷ The Lord makes poor, and makes rich; he brings low, and lifts up. 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:

¹⁴ Then shall they be increased in a fine old age; and they shall be prosperous; that they may declare

⁷ The earth trembled at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;

²⁴ And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord that bring low the high tree, and exalt the low tree, and wither the green tree, and cause the dry tree to flourish: I the Lord have spoken, and will do [it].

¹⁵ And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was made known to us, and God had frustrated their counsel, that we all returned to the wall, [every] man to his work.

¹⁶ With him are strength and power: he has knowledge and understanding. ¹⁷ He leads counselors away captive, and maddens the judges of the earth.

¹¹ Stand not aloof from me; for affliction is near; for there is no helper.

¹⁰ The rich have become poor and hungry: but they that seek the Lord diligently shall not lack any good thing. Pause. ¹¹ Come, you⌃ children, hear me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

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

³⁰ There is no wisdom, there is no courage, there is no counsel against the ungodly.

¹⁰ And whatever counsel you⌃ shall take, the Lord shall bring it to nothing; and whatever word you⌃ shall speak, it shall not stand among you: for God is with us.

³ And the spirit of the Egyptians shall be troubled within them; and I will frustrate their counsel: and they shall enquire of their gods and their images, and them that speak out of the earth, and them that have in them a divining spirit.

³⁶ And the angel of the Lord went forth, and killed out of the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand: and they arose in the morning and found all [these] bodies dead.

³¹ And it was reported to David, saying, Achitophel also [is] among the conspirators with Abessalom. And David said, O Lord my God, disconcert, I pray you, the counsel of Achitophel.

³⁴ but if you shall return to the city, and shall say to Abessalom, Your brethren are passed over, and the king your father is passed over after me: and now I am your servant, O king, suffer me to live: at one time even of late I was the servant of your father, and now I [am] your humble servant—so shall you disconcert for me, the counsel of Achitophel.

²³ And Achitophel saw that his counsel was not followed, and he saddled his ass, and rose and departed to his house into his city; and he gave orders to his household, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

⁴ And while the king was enquiring about the kindness of Mardochaeus, behold, Aman [was] in the court. And the king said, Who [is] in the court? Now Aman was come in to speak to the king, that he should hang Mardochaeus on the gallows, which he had prepared. ⁵ And the king's servants said, Behold, Aman stands in the court. And the king said, Call him. ⁶ And the king said to Aman, What shall I do to the man whom I wish to honor? And Aman said within himself, Whom would the king honor but myself? ⁷ and he said to the king, As for the man whom the king wishes to honor, ⁸ let the king's servants bring the robe of fine linen which the king puts on, and the horse on which the king rides, ⁹ and let him give [it] to one of the king's noble friends, and let him array the man whom the king loves; and let him mount him on the horse, and proclaim through the street of the city, saying, Thus shall it be [done] to every man whom the king honors. ¹⁰ Then the king said to Aman, You have well said: so do to Mardochaeus the Jew, who waits in the palace, and let not a word of what you have spoken be neglected. ¹¹ So Aman took the robe and the horse, and arrayed Mardochaeus, and mounted him on the horse, and went through the street of the city, and proclaimed, saying, Thus shall it be to every man whom the king wishes to honor.

¹⁰ So Aman was hanged on the gallows that had been prepared for Mardochaeus: and then the king's wrath was appeased.

²⁵ also how he went in to the king, telling [him] to hang Mardochaeus: but all the calamities he tried to bring upon the Jews came upon himself, and he was hanged, and his children.

¹⁵ He has opened a pit, and dug it up, and he shall fall into the ditch which he has made. ¹⁶ His trouble shall return on his own head, and his unrighteousness shall come down on his own crown.

¹⁵ The heathen are caught in the destruction which they planned: in the very snare which they hid is their foot taken. ¹⁶ The Lord is known as executing judgments: the sinner is taken in the works of his hands. A song of Pause.

⁷ How have you multiplied your mercy, O God! so the children of men shall trust in the shelter of your wings. ⁸ They shall be fully satisfied with the fatness of your house; and you shall cause them to drink of the full stream of your delights.

³² For every transgressor is unclean before the Lord; neither does he sit among the righteous.

²⁹ And you shall grope at mid-day, as a blind man would grope in the darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways; and then you shall be unjustly treated, and plundered continually, and there shall be no helper.

²⁵ Let them grope [in] darkness, and [let there be] no light, and let them wander as a drunken man.

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

¹⁰ They shall feel for the wall as blind [men], and shall feel [for it] as if they had no eyes: and they shall feel at noon-day as at midnight; they shall groan as dying men.

⁹ And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord God, [that] the sun shall go down at noon, and the light shall be darkened on the earth by day:

¹⁰ The strength of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the exulting cry of serpents are quenched.

¹⁰ Extend your mercy to them that know you; and your righteousness to the upright in heart.

⁴ For there is no sign of reluctance in their death: and [they have] firmness under their affliction.

¹² Behold, these [are] the sinners, and they that prosper always: they have possessed wealth. ¹³ And I said, Verily in vain have I justified my heart, and washed my hands in innocency.

⁷ But among all the children of Israel shall not a dog snarl with his tongue, either at man or beast; that you may know how wide a distinction the Lord will make between the Egyptians and Israel.

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: ⁹ granting his petition to him that prays; and he blesses the years of the righteous, for by strength can’t man prevail.

¹⁸ For the poor shall not be forgotten for ever: the patience of the needy ones shall not perish for ever.

³² And what shall the kings of the nations answer? That the Lord has founded Sion, and by him the poor of the people shall be saved.

¹² You⌃ shall dwell in strongholds, you⌃ prisoners of the congregation: and for one day of your captivity I will recompense you double.

¹¹ [My] son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; nor faint when you are rebuked of him: ¹² for whom the Lord loves, he rebukes, and scourges every son whom he receives.

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.

³⁹ Behold, behold that I am [he], and there is no god beside me: I kill, and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal; and there is none who shall deliver out of my hands.

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

³ He makes your borders peaceful, and fills you with the flour of wheat.

²⁶ And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold in the day when the Lord shall heal the breach of his people, and shall heal the pain of your wound.

¹ In their affliction they will seek me early, saying, Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for he has torn, and will heal us;

¹⁹ Let not them that are mine enemies without a cause rejoice against me; who hate me for nothing, and wink with their eyes.

³ on a lute of ten strings, with a song on the harp. ⁴ For you, O Lord, have made me glad with your work: and in the operations of your hands will I exult. ⁵ How have your works been magnified, O Lord! your thoughts are very deep. ⁶ A foolish man will not know, and a senseless man will not understand this. ⁷ When the sinners spring up as the grass, and all the workers of iniquity have watched; [it is] that they may be utterly destroyed for ever. ⁸ But you, O Lord, are most high for ever. ⁹ For, behold, your enemies shall perish; and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. ¹⁰ But my horn shall be exalted [as the horn] of a unicorn; and mine old age with rich mercy.

¹⁶ For a righteous man will fall seven times, and rise [again]: but the ungodly shall be without strength in troubles.

⁷ For God sent me before you, that there might be left to you a remnant upon the earth, even to nourish a great remnant of you.

⁶ And the ravens brought him loaves in the morning, and flesh in the evening and he drank water of the brook.

³ Draw not away my soul with sinners, and destroy me not with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace with their neighbors, but evils are in their hearts.

¹⁹ Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but out of them all Lord will deliver them.

¹⁹ But mine enemies live, and are mightier than I: and they that hate me unjustly are multiplied.

⁷ Hear, my people, and I will speak to you, O Israel: and I will testify to you: I am God, your God.

¹⁰ Let all your works, O Lord, give thanks to you; and let your saints bless you.

³ The Lord will not famish a righteous soul: but he will overthrow the life of the ungodly.

¹⁶ he shall dwell in a high cave of a strong rock: bread shall be given him, and his water shall be sure.

¹⁴ I will deliver [them] out of the power of Hades, and will redeem them from death: where is your penalty, O death? O Hades, where is your sting? comfort is hidden from mine eyes.

¹⁷ For [though] the fig tree shall bear no fruit, and there shall be no produce on the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall produce no food: the sheep have failed from the pasture, and there are no oxen at the cribs;

⁴ Their venom is like [that] of a serpent; as [that] of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;

⁵ How have your works been magnified, O Lord! your thoughts are very deep. ⁶ A foolish man will not know, and a senseless man will not understand this. ⁷ When the sinners spring up as the grass, and all the workers of iniquity have watched; [it is] that they may be utterly destroyed for ever.

¹⁸ Some wound as they speak, [like] swords; but the tongues of the wise heal.

¹⁷ I will not suffer any weapon formed against you to prosper; and every voice that shall rise up against you for judgment, you shall vanquish them all; and your adversaries shall be [condemned] thereby. There is an inheritance to them that serve the Lord, and you⌃ shall be righteous before me, says the Lord.

¹⁸ Then they said, Come, and let us devise a device against Jeremias; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and we will hear all his words.

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.

¹³ They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God.

⁹ And there shall be no lion there, neither shall any evil beast go up upon it, nor at all be found there; but the redeemed and gathered on the Lord's behalf, shall walk in it,

²⁵ Then wolves and lambs shall feed together, and the lion shall eat chaff like the ox, and the serpent earth as bread. They shall not injure nor destroy in my holy mountain, says the Lord.

²⁵ And I will make with David a covenant of peace and I will utterly destroy evil beasts from off the land; and they shall dwell in the wilderness, and sleep in the forests.

¹⁸ And I will make for them in that day a covenant with the wild beasts of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the reptiles of the earth: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle from off the earth, and will cause you to dwell safely.

⁶ And I will give peace in your land, and you⌃ shall sleep, and none [shall] make you afraid; and I will destroy the evil beasts out of your land,

¹² The righteous shall flourish as a palm tree: he shall be increased as the cedar in Libanus. ¹³ They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God.

⁶ And the wolf shall feed with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the young calf and bull and lion shall feed together; and a little child shall lead them. ⁷ And the ox and bear shall feed together; and their young shall be together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. ⁸ And an infant shall put his hand on the holes of asps, and on the nest of young asps. ⁹ And they shall not hurt, nor shall they at all be able to destroy any one on my holy mountain: for the whole [world] is filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as much water covers the seas.

¹⁵ If again I bring evil beasts upon the land, and take vengeance upon it, and it be ruined, and there be no one to pass through for fear of the wild beasts: ¹⁶ and [if] these three men should be in the midst of it, [as] I live, says the Lord, neither sons nor daughters shall be saved, but these only shall be saved, and the land shall be destroyed.

²² My God has sent his angel, and stopped the lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me: for uprightness was found in me before him; and moreover before you, O king, I have committed no trespass.

⁶ Blessed shall you be in your coming in, and blessed shall you be in your going out.

³ And David and his men came into the city, and, behold, it was burnt with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters were carried captive.

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

⁶ His light [shall be] darkness in [his] habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

¹⁵ It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.

²¹ These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.

⁷ Therefore do the ungodly live, and grow old even in wealth? ⁸ Their seed is according to [their] desire, and their children are in [their] sight. ⁹ Their houses are prosperous, neither [have they] any where [cause for] fear, neither is there a scourge from the Lord upon them.

¹⁰ But my horn shall be exalted [as the horn] of a unicorn; and mine old age with rich mercy.

⁴ For your mercy is great above the heavens, and your truth [reaches] to the clouds.

⁷ Let peace, I pray, be within your host, and prosperity in your palaces. ⁸ For the sake of my brethren and my neighbors, I have indeed spoken peace concerning you.

⁵ And he shall come, and it shall be with regard to every place of mount Sion, yes, all the region round about it shall a cloud overshadow by day, and [there shall be] as it were the smoke and light of fire burning by night: and upon all the glory shall be a defence. ⁶ And it shall be for a shadow from the heat, and as a shelter and a hiding place from inclemency [of weather] and from rain.

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.

⁹ And I will look upon you, and increase you, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

⁴ Blessed shall be the offspring of your body, and the fruits of your land, and the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep.

¹³ And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴ And he called the first Day, and the second Casia, and the third Amalthaea's horn. ¹⁵ And there were not found in comparison with the daughters of Job, fairer [women] than they in all the world: and their father gave them an inheritance among their brethren. 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.

¹⁶ And I undertook to understand this, [but] it is too hard for me,

² Let the name of the Lord be blessed, from this present time and for ever.

³ Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine on the sides of your house: your children as young olive-plants round about your table. ⁴ Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that fears the Lord. ⁵ May the Lord bless you out of Sion; and may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

³ The sinners wrought upon my back: they prolonged their iniquity. ⁴ The righteous Lord has cut asunder the necks of sinners. ⁵ Let all that hate Sion be put to shame and turned back. ⁶ Let them be as the grass of the housetops, which withers before it is plucked up.

³ For I will give water to the thirsty that walk in a dry land: I will put my Spirit upon your seed, and my blessings upon your children: ⁴ and they shall spring up as grass between brooks, and as willows on [the banks of] running water.

¹⁵ But you shall depart to your fathers in peace, nourished in a good old age.

⁸ And Abraam failing died in a good old age, an old man and full of days, and was added to his people.

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. ¹⁷ And Job died, an old man and full of days: and it is written that he will rise again with those whom the Lord raises up. This man is described in the Syriac book [as] living in the land of Ausis, on the borders of Idumea and Arabia: and his name before was Jobab; and having taken an Arabian wife, he begot a son whose name was Ennon. And he himself was the son of his father Zare, one of the sons of Esau, and of his mother Bosorrha, so that he was the fifth from Abraam. And these were the kings who reigned in Edom, which country he also ruled over: first, Balac, the son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dennaba: but after Balac, Jobab, who is called Job, and after him Asom, who was governor out of the country of Thaeman: and after him Adad, the son of Barad, who destroyed Madiam in the plain of Moab; and the name of his city was Gethaim. And [his] friends who came to him were Eliphaz, of the children of Esau, king of the Thaemanites, Baldad sovereign the Sauchaeans, Sophar king of the Minaeans.

¹¹ For in this way you shall live long, and years of your life shall be added to you.

²⁷ The fear of the Lord adds [length] of days: but the years of the ungodly shall be shortened.

¹³ to keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his ordinances, all that I charge you today, that it may be well with you?

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

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

¹⁷ But I will tell you, listen to me; I will tell you now what I have seen;

² Is it not the Lord that teaches understanding and knowledge?

¹¹ Listen to my words; for I will speak in your hearing, until you⌃ shall have tried [the matter] with words: ¹² and I shall understand as far as you; and, behold, there was no one of you that answered Job his words in argument,

² His seed shall be mighty in the earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

³ For it you shall call to wisdom, and utter your voice for understanding; ⁴ and if you shall seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures; ⁵ then shall you understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.

¹² Son, if you be wise for yourself, you shall also be wise for your neighbors; and if you should prove wicked, you alone will bear the evil. He that stays himself upon falsehoods, attempts to rule the winds, and the same will pursue birds in their fight: for he has forsaken the ways of his own vineyard, and he has caused the axles of his own husbandry to go astray; and he goes through a dry desert, and a [land] appointed to drought, and he gathers barrenness with his hands.