Job 12 Cross References - Leeser

¹ Then answered Job, and said, ² Truly ye are indeed the right kind of people, and with you wisdom must die out. ³ I also have sense like you; I do not fall short compared with you: and who possesseth not such things as these? ⁴ I am as one laughed at by his friend, who calleth upon God, while he answered him: yea, a laughing-stock though righteous and innocent. ⁵ To the unfortunate there is given contempt—according to the thoughts of him that is at ease—prepared also for those whose foot slippeth. ⁶ Prosperous are the tents of robbers, and security is given to those that provoke God, to him who carrieth his god in his hand. ⁷ Yet, do only ask of the beasts, and they will instruct thee; and the fowls of the heavens, and they will tell it thee; ⁸ Or speak to the earth, and she will instruct thee; and the fishes of the sea will inform thee ⁹ Who knoweth not through all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? ¹⁰ He in whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all the bodies of men? ¹¹ Doth not the ear try words, as the palate tasteth food for itself? ¹² So is with the ancients wisdom, and with those of length of days understanding, ¹³ That with him are wisdom and strength, his are counsel and understanding. ¹⁴ Behold, he pulleth down, and there can be no rebuilding: he locketh the prison upon a man, and there can be no opening, ¹⁵ Behold, he restraineth the waters, and they dry up; or he suffereth them to flow, and they overturn the earth. ¹⁶ With him are strength and counsel: his are the deceived and the deceiver. ¹⁷ He leadeth counsellors away bereft of sense, and maketh the judges fools. ¹⁸ He looseth the bond of kings, and bindeth a girdle around their loins. ¹⁹ He leadeth priests away bereft of sense, and the powerful he causeth to walk on crooked paths. ²⁰ He removeth the speech from trusty speakers, and taketh away the intelligence of the aged. ²¹ He poureth contempt upon princes, and the belt of the mighty be looseneth. ²² He layeth open deep things from the midst of darkness, and bringeth out unto light the shadow of death. ²³ He permitteth the nations to become great, and destroyeth them: he spreadeth out the nations, and leadeth them away. ²⁴ He taketh away the sense of the chiefs of the people of the land, and causeth them to wander astray in a wilderness when there is no way. ²⁵ They grope in the dark without light, and he causeth them to wander astray like a drunken man.

²⁴ Teach me, and I will indeed remain silent; and wherein I erred give me to understand. ²⁵ How pleasant are straightforward words! but what doth arguing prove?

⁸ For ask, I pray thee, of an earlier generation, and prepare thyself to stand by the research of their fathers;— ⁹ For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because a mere shadow are our days upon earth;— ¹⁰ Behold, these will truly teach thee, they will speak unto thee, and out of their very heart will they bring forth words:

² Shall a multitude of words not be answered? and is it so that a man full of talk shall be deemed in the right?

⁶ And that he would declare unto thee the secrets of wisdom; for it is double to that which is really in our possession: and thou wouldst experience that God overlooketh unto thee much of thy iniquity.

¹² And the heartless who acquireth intelligence, and him who is like the colt of the wild ass who is transformed into a man.

² Should a wise man utter windy knowledge, and fill his inward parts with the east wind?

⁴ For thou hast concealed their heart against intelligence: therefore art thou not exalted through them.

¹⁰ But all of you, do only return, and come but to me: and yet I shall not find among you one wise man.

³ Reproof which casteth shame on me must I hear; yet out of my understanding will the spirit give me an answer.

⁷ I had said, Days shall speak, and multitude of years shall make wisdom known. ⁸ But it is the spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty which giveth them understanding. ⁹ Not those rich in years must be always wise: neither do the aged constantly understand what is just. ¹⁰ Therefore do I say, Hearken to me: I also will show forth what I know myself. ¹¹ Behold, I waited for your words: I gave an attentive ear to your reasonings, till you might have searched out the proper words. ¹² And now I understand you fully, and, behold, there is none that convinceth Job, or, that answereth his speeches among you. ¹³ Say then not, We have found wisdom: God will thrust him down, not man.

¹¹ The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the indigent that hath understanding can search him through.

²¹ Woe unto those that are wise in their own eyes, and intelligent in their own esteem!

⁶ Is ever tasteless food eaten without salt? or is there any flavor in the white of an egg? ⁷ My soul refuseth to touch them: they are unto me like disgusting food.

² As much as ye know, do I also know: I do not fall short compared with you. ³ However, I would gladly speak to the Almighty; and to argue with God do I desire. ⁴ But ye are inventors of falsehood, physicians of no value are all of you. ⁵ Oh, who would grant that ye might keep a profound silences! and it would he accounted unto you as wisdom.

² What assistance hast thou given to the powerless? how hast thou helped the arm without strength? ³ How hast thou counselled the unwise? and what sound wisdom hast thou made known so plentifully? ⁴ Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest thou also become equal unto him.

²⁹ Reflect again, I pray you, there will be no wrong: yea, reflect once more, my righteousness will be found therein.

³ Thy inventions are to bring men to silence; and when thou utterest thy mocking no one is to cause thee to feel abashed!

¹⁰ They now open wide against me their mouth; reproachfully they smite my cheek: altogether do they assemble against me.

²⁰ Are my friends my defenders? unto God my eye poureth out its tears.

² Yet truly those that mock are with me, and on their offendings must my eye rest.

⁶ And he hath placed me here as a by-word unto nations; and I become openly as a place of abomination.

³ Bear with me that I may indeed speak: and after my speaking, then canst thou mock.

¹ But now they who are younger than I in years laugh at me, whose fathers I scorned to put as equals with the dogs of my flocks.

^{7 (22:8)} All those who see me laugh me to scorn: they draw open their lips, they shake their head, saying, ^{8 (22:9)} “Let him throw himself on the Lord, that he may deliver him: he will save him, for he delighteth in him.”

¹⁶ With hypocritical babbling mockers, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

¹⁵ He will call on me, and I will answer him: with him will I be in distress; I will deliver him, and grant him honor.

² In his uprightness walketh he that feareth the Lord; but perverse in his ways is he that despiseth him.

³ Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and I will tell thee great and unheard of things, which thou knowest not.

⁷ But I—I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

³⁵ Mine are vengeance and recompense, at the time that their foot shall slip; for nigh draweth the day of their calamity, and the future speedeth along for them.

⁵ Doth the wild ass bray over the grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

⁴ I also could well speak as ye do: if your soul were but in my soul’s stead, I could overwhelm you with words, and could shake my head at you.

⁵ Ah, truly the light of the wicked will be quenched, and the spark of his fire shall not give light.

⁵ My steps held firmly to thy tracks, and my footsteps did not slip.

¹⁸ When I said, My foot hath slipped: thy kindness, O Lord, sustained me.

³ Be gracious unto us, O Lord! be gracious unto us; for we are overburdened with contempt. ⁴ Our soul is overburdened with the scorn of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud oppressors.

⁹ The light of the righteous burneth joyfully; but the lamp of the wicked will be quenched.

²⁰ Whoso curseth his father or his mother—his lamp shall be quenched in obscure darkness.

¹⁶ Give unto the Lord your God glory, before he cause darkness, and before your feet strike upon the mountains of twilight, and where, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and change it into gross darkness.

¹ Woe to those that are free from care in Zion, and that are in safety on the mount of Samaria, who are named the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come! ² Pass ye over unto Calneh, and see; and go from there to Chamath-rabbah; then go down to Gath of the Philistines: whether they be better than these kingdoms? or whether their territory be greater than your territory? ³ Ye that deem far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; ⁴ That lie upon beds of ivory, and are stretched out upon their couches, and eat lambs out of the flock, and calves out of the midst of the stall; ⁵ That chant to the sound of the psaltery, and like David’s do they imagine their instrument of music to be; ⁶ That drink out of wine-bowls, and anoint themselves with the costliest of ointments; but who feel no pain for the wound of Joseph.

²⁴ Is a land given up into the hand of the wicked? he covereth the faces of its judges: if this be not the truth, who is it then?

⁷ Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, grow strong in power? ⁸ Their seed is firmly established in their presence with them, their offspring are before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses are at peace without any dread, and no rod of God cometh over them. ¹⁰ The bull of each one gendereth, and disappointeth not: the cow of each one calveth, and casteth not her young. ¹¹ They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children skip about with joy. ¹² They sing to the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe. ¹³ They wear out their days in happiness, and in a moment they go down to the nether world. ¹⁴ And yet they say unto God, “Depart from us; and the knowledge of thy ways we desire not. ¹⁵ What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit shall we have, if we entreat him urgently?”

¹⁸ And yet it was he that filled their houses with good things; but the counsel of the wicked be still far from me.

¹⁴ From these men—thy hand—O Lord, from the men of this world, whose portion is in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hidden treasure: they have children in plenty, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

¹ Of David. Do not fret thyself because of the evil-doers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

³⁵ I have seen the wicked terrible in power, and striking root like a green tree in its native soil.

¹¹ And they say, How should God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High? ¹² Behold, these are the wicked; and yet prospering continually they increase in wealth.

²⁷ As a coop is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore are they become great, and grown rich.

²⁹ Have ye not asked the wayfarers? surely their token ye cannot disregard, ³⁰ That the bad man is reserved for the day of calamity, that the wicked are carried forward to the day of wrath.

⁶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; look on her ways, and become wise.

³ The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

⁷ Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle, and the swallow, atad the crane observe the time of their coming home; but my people know not the ordinance of the Lord.

¹⁷ And thou say in thy heart, My power and the strength of my hand have gotten me this wealth. ¹⁸ But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God; for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth; in order that he might fulfill his covenant which he hath sworn unto thy fathers, as it is this day.

⁷ The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich: he bringeth low and also lifteth up.

³ I also have sense like you; I do not fall short compared with you: and who possesseth not such things as these?

²⁰ In order that they may see, and know and take it to heart, and comprehend together, that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.

⁵ It is I who have made the earth, the men, and the beasts that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and I have given it unto the one who seemeth proper in my eyes. ⁶ And now it is I who have given all these countries into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and also the beasts of the field have I given him to serve him.

¹⁸ O thou king! the most high God gave kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and honor unto Nebuchadnezzar thy father;

¹⁷ And now listen, O our God, to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary which is desolate, for the sake of the Lord.

⁷ And the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being.

¹⁷ And as regards myself, behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under the heavens; every thing that is on the earth shall perish.

²² And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, this one man doth sin, and with all the congregation wouldst thou be wroth!

³ All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

⁴ The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty giveth me life.

¹⁴ If he were to set his heart upon man, he would gather unto himself his spirit and his breath: ¹⁵ All flesh would perish together, and the son of earth would return again unto dust.

²⁹ Thou hidest thy face, they suddenly vanish: thou takest away their spirit, they perish, and to their dust they return.

³ Put not your trust in princes, in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation. ⁴ When his spirit goeth forth, he returneth to his native earth: on that very day perish his thoughts.

²³ But against the Lord of heaven hast thou lifted thyself up; and the vessels of his house have they brought before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine from them; and the gods of silver, and gold, of copper, iron, wood, and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor know, hast thou praised; and the God in whose hand thy soul is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:

³⁰ Is there any wrong on my tongue? or should my palate not understand if I spoke what is iniquitous?

³ For the ear proveth words, as the palate tasteth the food.

⁸ For ask, I pray thee, of an earlier generation, and prepare thyself to stand by the research of their fathers;—

¹⁰ Both the grayheaded and the very aged are among us,—richer than thy father in days.

⁷ I had said, Days shall speak, and multitude of years shall make wisdom known.

⁴ He is wise of heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and escaped unscathed?

¹⁶ With him are strength and counsel: his are the deceived and the deceiver.

²⁰ But wisdom—whence cometh she? and where is the place of understanding? ²¹ Yea, she is hidden from the eyes of all living, and from the fowls of the heavens is she concealed. ²² Perdition and death say, With our ears have we heard a report of her. ²³ God alone understandeth her way, and he knoweth her place; ²⁴ For he looketh to the ends of the earth, whatever is under the whole heaven doth he see. ²⁵ When he imparted weight unto the wind; and when the waters he established by measure; ²⁶ When he made a law for the rain, and a way for the lightning of his thunders; ²⁷ Then did he see her, and make her known; he established her, and also searched her out. ²⁸ And he said unto man, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to eschew evil is understanding.

⁶ And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite commenced, and said, Young am I in days, and ye are very old: therefore I hesitated and feared to show you what I know. ⁷ I had said, Days shall speak, and multitude of years shall make wisdom known. ⁸ But it is the spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty which giveth them understanding. ⁹ Not those rich in years must be always wise: neither do the aged constantly understand what is just.

⁵ Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength of intellect.

³⁶ Who hath put wisdom in the dark clouds? or who hath given understanding to the bright meteors?

⁵ Great is our Lord, and abundant in power: his understanding is immeasurable.

⁶ For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth come knowledge and understanding. ⁷ He treasureth up sound wisdom for the righteous, as a shield to those that walk in integrity:

¹⁴ Mine are counsel and sound wisdom: I am understanding; mine is might.

¹³ Who hath meted out the Spirit of the Lord? and who was his counsellor that he could have given him information? ¹⁴ With whom took he counsel, that he gave him understanding, and taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and caused him to know the way of understanding?

¹⁰ Declaring from the beginning the end, and from the earliest days the things that have not yet been done, saying, My counsel shall stand firm, and all my pleasure will I do:

¹² He made the earth by his power, he established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he stretched out the heavens.

²⁰ Daniel commenced and said, May the name of God be blessed from eternity and to all eternity; for wisdom and might are his;

⁴⁶ This day will the Lord deliver thee into my hand; and I will smite thee, and remove thy head from thee; and I will give the carcasses of the army of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; and all the earth shall know that there is a God for Israel.

¹⁸ And thou hast proved this day, that thou hast dealt well with me; forasmuch as when the Lord had surrendered me into thy hand, thou didst not kill me.

⁸ Then said Abishai to David, God hath surrendered this day thy enemy into thy hand: and now let me strike him through, I pray thee, with the spear, even to the earth with one blow, and I will not give him a second one.

¹² Behold, were he to snatch aught away, who could hold him back? who would say unto him, What dost thou? ¹³ God will not withdraw his anger: beneath him sink down the helpers of the proud.

¹⁰ If he pass by, and surrender one to suffering, and call together an assembly, who can hinder him?

¹¹ God hath surrendered me to the unjust, and cast me down into the hands of the wicked.

¹⁰ He hath pulled me down on every side, and I am going hence; and he hath rooted up like a tree my hope.

⁷ He sealeth it on the hand of every man, that all men whom he hath made may know it.

²³ I will also make it a possession for the hedgehog, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.

²² And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his shoulder; so that he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.

² For thou hast made of a city a stone-heap; of a fortified town a falling ruin; the palace of barbarians ceaseth out of the city, to eternity shall it not be rebuilt.

⁵⁸ Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, Every one of the broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burnt with fire; so that nations shall have labored in vain, and the people for the fire, and so shall they have wearied themselves.

⁶⁴ And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again from the evil that I will bring upon her: and her people shall be wearied. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

⁴ Should Edom even say, We are impoverished; but we will return and build the ruined places: thus hath said the Lord of hosts, They may indeed build, but I will surely throw down; and men shall call them, The territory of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord hath indignation to eternity.

¹³ And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them, and I will destroy them with the earth.

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this same day, were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

¹⁷ For then the Lord’s wrath will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the heavens that there be no rain, and the land will not yield her products; and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord giveth unto you.

³⁵ When the heavens be shut up, and there be no rain, because they have sinned against thee, and they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, because thou hast afflicted them: ³⁶ Then do thou hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel; for thou wilt teach them the good way wherein they should walk; and give then rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.

¹ Then said Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gil’ad, unto Achab, As the Lord the God of Israel liveth, before whom I have stood, there shall not be in these years dew or rain, except according to my word.

¹⁰ He in whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all the bodies of men?

⁷ At thy rebuke they fled, at the voice of thy thunder they hastened away. ⁸ They ascended mountains; they went down valleys, unto the place which thou hadst founded for them. ⁹ Bounds hast thou set which they cannot pass over, that they return not again to cover the earth.

²² Are there any among the vanities of the nations those that bestow rain? or can the heavens give forth showers? Behold, thou art this, O Lord our God, and we will hope in thee; for thou hast done all these things.

⁸ But he maketh the seven stars and Orion, and changeth into morning the shadow of death, and maketh the day dark into night; he it is that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out over the face of the earth: The Lord is his name;

⁴ He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and all the rivers he drieth up: Bashan then withereth, with Carmel, and the flowers of Lebanon wither.

²² And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou wilt persuade him, and also prevail: go forth, and do so. ²³ And now, behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets; but the Lord hath spoken evil concerning thee.

¹³ That with him are wisdom and strength, his are counsel and understanding.

⁷ Will ye speak wrong things for God? and will ye speak for him deceitfully?

⁹ Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one overreacheth another mortal, do ye expect to overreach him?

⁹ And when the prophet suffereth himself to be deceived, and he speaketh a word: I the Lord have suffered that prophet to be deceived: and I will stretch out my hand against him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.

³¹ And some one told David, saying, Achithophel is among the conspirators with Abshalom. And David said, I pray thee, turn into foolishness the counsel of Achithophel, O Lord!

¹⁴ And Abshalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Chushai the Arkite is better than the counsel of Achithophel. But the Lord had ordained to frustrate the good counsel of Achithophel, to the intent that the Lord might bring the evil upon Abshalom.

²³ And when Achithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled the ass, and arose, and went home to his house, to his city, and gave his charge to his household, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

¹⁴ With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build up ruined places for themselves;

¹² Where are they, these, thy wise men? that they may tell thee now, that they know what the Lord of hosts hath resolved on over Egypt. ¹³ The princes of Zo’an are become fools, deceived are the princes of Noph; and Egypt is led astray by the chiefs of its tribes. ¹⁴ The Lord hath poured out in the midst thereof a spirit of perverseness: and they have led Egypt astray in all its work, as a drunkard reeleth astray in his vomit.

¹⁴ Therefore, behold, I will do yet farther a marvelous work with this people, doing wonder on wonder; so that the wisdom of their wise men shall be lost, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.

¹¹ Wherefore the Lord brought over them the captains of the army belonging to the king of Assyria: and they took Menasseh prisoner with chains, and bound him with fetters, and led him off to Babylon. ¹² And when he was in distress, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. ¹³ And he prayed unto him, and he permitted himself to be entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem, unto his kingdom. Then did Menasseh feel conscious that the Lord is indeed the true God. ¹⁴ And after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gichon, in the valley, even to the entrance of the fish-gate, and about the hill-fort, and raised it up to a very great height; and he placed captains of the army in all the fortified cities of Judah.

¹⁶ O Lord, truly am I thy servant, I am thy servant,—the son of thy handmaid: thou hast loosened my fetters.

³¹ And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the exile of Jehoyachin the king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the five and twentieth day of the month that Evil-merodach the king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoyachin the king of Judah, and brought him forth out of the prison-house; ³² And he spoke kindly with him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon, ³³ And he changed his prison-garments: and he ate bread before him continually all the days of his life. ³⁴ And his allowance was a continual allowance given him by the king, the necessary ration for the day on its day, until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

²¹ And he changeth times and seasons; he removeth kings, and raiseth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to those that possess understanding.

²⁴ And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the chiefs of the men of war who had gone with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon their necks.

⁴² And all these kings and their land did Joshua capture at one time; because the Lord, the God of Israel fought for Israel.

⁴⁵ Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest unto me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the arrays of Israel, that thou hast defied. ⁴⁶ This day will the Lord deliver thee into my hand; and I will smite thee, and remove thy head from thee; and I will give the carcasses of the army of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; and all the earth shall know that there is a God for Israel.

²² But he also draweth down the mighty with his power: he riseth up, no one is sure of life.

²⁸ Bringing before them the cry of the indigent, and the cry of the afflicted which he had to hear.

⁹ By reason of the multitude of oppressions the wicked cause men to cry: these complain aloud because of the arm of the mighty.

³⁶ Then went out an angel of the Lord, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty and five thousand men; and when people arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. ³⁷ And Sennacherib the king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. ³⁸ And it came to pass, as he was prostrating himself in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Essar-chaddon his son became king in his stead.

¹ Thus hath said the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whom I have taken hold of by his right hand, to subdue nations before him, even the loins of kings will I ungird, to open before him city-doors, and gates that they shall not be shut;

²⁴ He taketh away the sense of the chiefs of the people of the land, and causeth them to wander astray in a wilderness when there is no way.

⁹ Not those rich in years must be always wise: neither do the aged constantly understand what is just.

¹⁷ Because God hath denied her wisdom, and he hath not imparted to her understanding.

²¹ The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die through lack of sense.

¹⁹ The lip of truth will stand firm for ever; but only for a moment the tongue of falsehood.

²² An abomination of the Lord are lips of falsehood; but they that deal in faithfulness obtain his favor.

¹ For, behold, the Lord, the Eternal of hosts, doth remove from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, every stay of bread, and every stay of water. ² The hero, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, ³ The captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counsellor, and the skilful artificer, and the eloquent orator.

^{2 (7:27)} And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:

²⁴ And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses had bidden; and it did not stink, nor was there any worm therein.

²³ And also concerning Izebel hath the Lord spoken, saying, The dogs shall eat Izebel in the valley of Yizre’el. ²⁴ Him that dieth of Achab in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the heavens eat.

²⁶ Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the Lord; and I will repay thee in this part of the field, saith the Lord. And now lift up, and cast him down into the field, according to the word of the Lord.

³⁴ And he came in, and ate and drank; and then said he, Look, I pray you, after this accursed one, and bury her; for she is a king’s daughter. ³⁵ And they went to bury her: but they found nothing of her but the skull, and the feet, and the palms of the hands. ³⁶ And they returned, and told him; and he said, It is the word of the Lord, which he spoke by means of his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the field of Yizre’el shall the dogs eat the flesh of Izebel: ³⁷ And the carcass of Izebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Yizre’el; so that they shall not say, This is Izebel.

⁴⁰ He then poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in a pathless wilderness.

²⁷ There is none weary, nor stumbling among its men; it slumbereth not, it sleepeth not; not loosened is the girdle of its loins, not broken is the latchet of its shoes;

⁵ And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his hips.

²¹ And I will clothe him with thy robe, and thy girdle will I fasten around him, and thy government will I place into his hand: and he shall be as a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

⁹ The Lord hath resolved it, to dishonor the pride of all ornament, to make of light esteem all the honorable of the earth.

²¹ And it shall come to pass on that day, that the Lord will visit punishment on the host of heaven in heaven, and on the kings of the earth upon the earth. ²² And they shall be gathered in heaps, as prisoners, in the prison, and shall be shut up in the dungeon, and thus after many days shall they be punished.

³⁸ And it came to pass, as he was prostrating himself in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Essar-chaddon his son became king in his stead.

²¹ And he changeth times and seasons; he removeth kings, and raiseth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to those that possess understanding. ²² He it is that revealeth what is deep and secret; he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.

^{32 (4:29)} And from men will they drive thee away, and with the beasts of the field shall thy dwelling be; herbs like oxen will they suffer thee to eat, and seven times shall elapse over thee: until thou wilt know that the Most High ruleth over the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he pleaseth. ^{33 (4:30)} At the same hour the word was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar; and from men was he driven away, and herbs like oxen had he to eat, and with the dew of heaven was his body made wet: till his hair was grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails were like birds’ claws.—

¹² And one of his servants said, Not so, my Lord, O king; but Elisha’, the prophet that is in Israel, can tell unto the king of Israel the words that thou mayest speak in thy sleeping-chamber.

⁵ Oh that darkness and the shadow of death might defile it; may a cloud rest upon it; may the blackness of the day terrify it.

¹⁷ For to all of these alike is the morning as the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

²⁰ But wisdom—whence cometh she? and where is the place of understanding? ²¹ Yea, she is hidden from the eyes of all living, and from the fowls of the heavens is she concealed. ²² Perdition and death say, With our ears have we heard a report of her. ²³ God alone understandeth her way, and he knoweth her place;

²² There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the evil-doers can hide themselves.

^{21 (44:22)} Would not God search out this? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

¹² Yet even darkness can obscure nothing from thee; but the night will shine like the day; both the darkness and the light are alike to thee.

²² He it is that revealeth what is deep and secret; he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.

⁷ And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

²⁰ And God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.

³⁸ He also blesseth them, and they multiply greatly, and he suffereth not their cattle to diminish.

^{3 (9:2)} Thou hast multiplied the nation, made great their joy: they rejoice before thee as with the joy in harvest, as men are glad when they divide the spoil.

¹⁵ Thou hast done more for the nation, O Lord, thou hast done more for the nation; thou hast glorified thyself: thou hast enlarged all the ends of the earth.

⁶ In the future shall Jacob yet take root; Israel shall bud and blossom, and shall fill the face of the world with fruit.

² Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bore you; for he was one when I called him, and I blessed him, and I increased him.

²² The little one shall become a thousand, and the small, a mighty nation: I the Lord will hasten it in its time.

¹⁹ And there shall proceed out of them thanksgiving, and the voice of those that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be diminished; I will also make them numerous, and they shall not be made few in number.

²² As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, and the sand of the sea not be measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.

⁸ I will call for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased formerly.

²⁰ He removeth the speech from trusty speakers, and taketh away the intelligence of the aged.

⁴ They wandered about in the wilderness, in the desert path; they could not find an inhabited city:

⁹ And he said, Go, and say unto this people, Hear indeed, but understand not; and see indeed, but know not. ¹⁰ Obdurate will remain the heart of this people, and their ears will be heavy, and their eyes will be shut: so that they will not see with their eyes, nor hear with their ears, nor their hearts be understanding, so that they be converted, and healing be granted them.

¹ The doom of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and is coming to Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved because of his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in its inward parts.

^{16 (4:13)} Let his heart be changed not to be human, and let a beast’s heart be given unto him; and let seven times elapse over him.

^{33 (4:30)} At the same hour the word was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar; and from men was he driven away, and herbs like oxen had he to eat, and with the dew of heaven was his body made wet: till his hair was grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails were like birds’ claws.—

¹¹ And Ephraim is become like a silly dove without understanding: Egypt did they call hither, to Assyria did they go.

¹¹ And the men that were at the entrance of the house they smote with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the entrance.

²⁹ And thou shalt grope about at noonday, as the blind gropeth about in the darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways; and thou shalt be only oppressed and robbed all the days, but with no one to help.

¹⁴ By day they meet with darkness, and as though it were night they grope about in the noon of day;

²⁷ They would reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and all their wisdom was exhausted.

¹⁴ The Lord hath poured out in the midst thereof a spirit of perverseness: and they have led Egypt astray in all its work, as a drunkard reeleth astray in his vomit.

²⁰ The earth reeleth to and fro like a drunkard, and vibrateth like a watch-hut; and heavily lieth upon it its transgression; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

¹⁰ We grope like the blind on the wall, and as if we had no eyes do we grope: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; we are in complete darkness like the dead.