Job 2 Cross References - Leeser

¹ And it happened again on a certain day, when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, that the Accuser also came in the midst of them to present himself before the Lord. ² Then said the Lord unto the Accuser, Whence comest thou now? And the Accuser answered the Lord, and said, From roaming over the earth, and from wandering through it. ³ Then said the Lord unto the Accuser, Hast thou directed thy attention toward my servant Job: for there is none like him on the earth, a man perfect and upright, who feareth God, and escheweth evil? and he is still holding fast to his integrity, and thou hast incited me against him, to destroy him without cause. ⁴ Then answered the Accuser the Lord, and said, Skin for skin: yea, all that a man hath will he give in behalf of his life. ⁵ But stretch only forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and see whether he will not renounce thee to thy face. ⁶ Then said the Lord unto the Accuser, Behold, he is in thy hand: only take care of his life. ⁷ Thereupon went the Accuser forth from the presence of the Lord, and he smote Job with a sore inflammation, from the sole of his foot unto the crown of his head. ⁸ And Job took himself a potsherd to scrape himself there with, while he was sitting down among the ashes. ⁹ Then said his wife unto him, Art thou still holding fast to thy integrity? renounce God, and die. ¹⁰ But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the worthless women would speak. What? should we accept the good alone, from God, and the evil we should not accept? With all this did Job not sin with his lips. ¹¹ When now the three friends of Job had heard of all this evil that was come over him, they came every one from his own place, Eliphaz the Themanite, and Bildad the Shuchite, and Zophar the Na’amthite; and they met together to come to condole with him and to comfort him. ¹² And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and they recognised him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his robe, and strewed dust upon their heads toward heaven. ¹³ They likewise sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights; but no one spoke a word unto him; for they saw that his pain was very great.

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

⁸ And God called the expansion Heaven. And it was evening and it was morning, the second day.

⁶ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.

¹² And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

¹⁷ And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it; cursed be the ground for thy sake; in pain shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.

⁹ These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just, perfect man in his generation; Noah walked with God.

⁸ And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, From the face of my mistress Sarai I am fleeing.

² And she bore him Zimran, and Yokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Yishbak, and Shuach.

³⁴ When Esau heard the words of his father, he uttered a great and exceedingly bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, also me, my father.

¹¹ And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Ga’tam, and Kenaz.

¹⁵ These are the dukes of the sons of Esau; the sons of Eliphaz the first-born of Esau: duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz,

³⁵ And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I must go down unto my son, mourning, into the grave; thus his father wept for him.

¹⁰ And they came to the thrashing-floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and they held there a great and very sore lamentation; and he made for his father a mourning of seven days.

⁹ And it shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall become upon man and beast an inflammation, producing boils, throughout all the land of Egypt. ¹⁰ And they took the soot of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses threw it up heavenward; and it became an inflammation, producing boils, upon man, and upon beast. ¹¹ And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the inflammation; for the inflammation was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians.

¹⁵ And unto the children of Israel shalt thou speak, saying, Whatsoever man that blasphemeth his God shall bear his sin.

²⁷ The Lord will smite thee with the inflammatory disease of Egypt, and with the hemorrhoids, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou shalt not be able to be healed.

³⁵ The Lord will smite thee with a sore inflammation upon the knees, and upon the legs, of which thou shalt not be able to be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.

⁶ And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell upon his face to the earth before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he with the elders of Israel, and they put dust upon their head.

⁴ And it came to pass, when the messenger of the Lord spoke these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

¹⁹ So these two went until they came to Beth-lechem. And it came to pass, when they entered Beth-lechem, that all the city was in commotion about them, and people said, Is this Na’omi? ²⁰ And she said unto them, Call me not Na’omi, call me Mara; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. ²¹ I went out full, but empty hath the Lord brought me home again; why then will ye call me Na’omi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath sent me affliction?

⁴ And the messengers came to Gib’ah of Saul, and spoke the words in the ears of the people; and all the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

⁴ And David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

²⁰ And David then returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and she said, How honored was today the king of Israel, who uncovered himself today before the eyes of the hand-maids of his servants, as only one of the low fellows can uncover himself! ²¹ And David said unto Michal, Before the Lord, who chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to ordain me ruler over the people of the Lord, over Israel:—yea, before the Lord will I yet farther play.

¹³ And I, whither should I carry my shame? and as for thee, thou wouldst be like one of the worthless in Israel; but now, O speak, I pray thee, unto the king, for he will not withhold me from thee.

¹⁹ And Thamar put ashes on her head, and the garment of divers colors which was on her she rent: and she placed her hand on her head, and went away and cried as she went along.

³⁶ And it happened, as he had just finished speaking, that, behold, the king’s sons came, and they lifted up their voice and wept; and also the king and all his servants wept very much.

^{22 (19:23)} And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruyah, that ye should become a hindrance this day unto me? shall this day any man be put to death in Israel? for do I not know that this day I am king over Israel?

^{28 (19:29)} For all of my father’s house were nothing but men deserving death with my Lord the king: and yet didst thou set thy servant among those that eat at thy own table. What other merit therefore have I, and what to complain of yet farther unto the king?

²⁰ And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should destroy or ruin.

¹⁰ And David’s heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the Lord, I have sinned greatly in what I have done; and now, I beseech thee, O Lord, cause the iniquity of thy servant to pass away; for I have acted very foolishly.

⁴ And it came to pass, at the time that Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not undivided with the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.

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.

³³ And while he was yet speaking with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the Lord; what shall I hope for in the Lord any longer?

³² And the sons of Keturah, the concubine of Abraham: she bore Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Yishbak, and Shuach. And the sons Jokshan: Sheba, and Dedan.

¹⁷ And David said unto God, Was it not I that ordered to count the people? and I am the one that have sinned and have done evil indeed; but these sheep, what have they done? O Lord my God, let thy hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father’s house, but not against thy people, that there should be a plague.

⁹ For as regardeth the Lord, his eyes roam throughout the whole earth, to hold strongly with those whose heart is entire toward him: thou hast done foolishly for this reason; because from this time forth there will be wars with thee.

³ And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and I plucked out some of the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astounded.

⁴ And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned some days, and I was fasting, and praying before the God of heaven.

¹ And on the twenty and fourth day of this month were the children of Israel assembled with fasting, and in sackclothes, and with earth upon them.

¹ When Mordecai ascertained all that had been done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth strewed with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and bitter cry;

³ Then answered Esther the queen and said, If I have found grace in thy eyes, O king! and if it be pleasing unto the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request; ⁴ For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain and to be exterminated; and if we had been only sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I would have remained silent; for the adversary regardeth not the damage of the king.

¹ There was a man in the land of ‘Uz, Job was his name; And this man was perfect and upright, and fearing God, and eschewing evil.

¹ There was a man in the land of ‘Uz, Job was his name; And this man was perfect and upright, and fearing God, and eschewing evil. ² And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. ³ And his cattle consisted of seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and he had a very great store of servants: so that this man was greater than all the sons of the east.

⁵ And it happened, when the days of the feast were gone round, that Job sent and sanctified them, and he then rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of all of them; for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and have renounced God in their heart. In this manner used Job to do all the time. ⁶ Now it happened on a certain day, when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, that the Accuser also came in the midst of them. ⁷ Then said the Lord unto the Accuser, Whence comest thou? And the Accuser answered the Lord, and said, From roaming over the earth, and from wandering through it. ⁸ Then said the Lord unto the Accuser, Hast thou directed thy attention toward my servant Job; for there is none like him on the earth, a man perfect and upright, who feareth God, and escheweth evil?

¹⁰ Behold, thou hast indeed placed a fence about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath, on every side: the work of his hands hast thou blessed, and his cattle are far spread out in the land. ¹¹ But stretch only forth thy hand and touch all that he hath, and see whether he will not renounce thee to thy face. ¹² Then said the Lord unto the Accuser, Behold, all that is his be in thy power; only against himself shalt thou not stretch forth thy hand. The Accuser went thereupon away from the presence of the Lord.

²⁰ Then arose Job, and rent his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and prostrated himself. ²¹ And he said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; may the name of the Lord be blessed. ²² With all this did Job not sin, and attributed no injustice to God.

³ Then said the Lord unto the Accuser, Hast thou directed thy attention toward my servant Job: for there is none like him on the earth, a man perfect and upright, who feareth God, and escheweth evil? and he is still holding fast to his integrity, and thou hast incited me against him, to destroy him without cause.

⁵ But stretch only forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and see whether he will not renounce thee to thy face.

⁹ Then said his wife unto him, Art thou still holding fast to thy integrity? renounce God, and die.

² If we essay to address a word to thee, wilt thou be wearied? yet who is able to refrain from speaking?

¹⁴ As though I were one who refuseth kindness to his friend, and forsaketh the fear of the Almighty:

¹⁹ The caravans of Thema look hither, the travelling companies Sheba hope for them;

⁵ My flesh is covered with worms and clods of dust: my skin is burst open, and become loathsome.

¹ Then answered Bildad the Shuchite, and said,

¹⁷ He that bruiseth me with his tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without a cause.

²⁰ If I were righteous even, my own mouth would condemn me: were I innocent, it would still prove me perverse.

⁴ But ye are inventors of falsehood, physicians of no value are all of you.

¹⁵ Lo, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: only I will argue my own ways before him.

¹ Then answered Eliphaz the Themanite, and said,

² I have heard many things such as these: troublesome comforters are ye all.

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

¹ Then answered Bildad the Shuchite, and said,

¹⁴ My near of kin have withdrawn, and those befriended by me have forgotten me.

¹⁴ My near of kin have withdrawn, and those befriended by me have forgotten me. ¹⁵ Ye that sojourn in my house, and my maid-servants, regard me as a stranger: an alien am I become in their eyes. ¹⁶ I call for my servant, but he will not answer, though I were to entreat him with my mouth. ¹⁷ My breath is become nauseous to my wife, and my caressing, to the children of my own body.

¹⁹ All that have had my confidence abominate me; and those whom I have loved are turned against me. ²⁰ To my skin and to my flesh my bones do cleave, and I must sustain myself with the gums of my teeth. ²¹ Spare me, spare me, O ye, my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

²¹ Spare me, spare me, O ye, my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

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?”

⁵ Far be it from me that I should justify you; till I depart hence will I not allow any one to take my integrity away from me. ⁶ I have laid fast hold on my righteousness, and I will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me for my conduct during all my life.

¹⁷ All night it holloweth out my bones out of my body; and my pursuers take no rest. ¹⁸ Through the Almlghty’s power is my garment made unknown: like the opening of my coat hath he enclosed me. ¹⁹ He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

³⁰ My skin hangeth down black from me, and my bones are burnt from heat.

¹⁰ And when I decreed for it my law, and set for it bars and doors, ¹¹ And said, Thus far mayest thou come, but no farther; and here shall be stayed thy strength in the pride of thy waves?

⁶ Therefore I reject what I have said, and repent; because I am dust and ashes. ⁷ And it came to pass, after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Themanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; because ye have not spoken of me properly, like my servant Job.

¹¹ And then came unto him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all that had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house; and they condoled with him, and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him; and they gave him, every one, a kessitah, and every one an earring of gold.

¹ Of David. Judge me, O Lord; for I have indeed walked in my integrity: and in the Lord have I trusted; I shall not slip.

³ When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my crying all the day. ⁴ For by day and night lay thy hand heavily upon me: my life’s moisture hath been changed through the droughts of summer. Selah.

³⁷ Observe the perfect man, and behold the upright; for there is a happy future for the man of peace.

^{2 (38:3)} For thy arrows have penetrated into me, and thy hand presseth down upon me. ^{3 (38:4)} There is no soundness in my flesh because of thy indignation: there is no peace in my bones because of my sin. ^{4 (38:5)} For my iniquities are passed over my head, as a heavy burden are they too heavy for me. ^{5 (38:6)} Foul, corrupt are my bruises because of my folly.

^{5 (38:6)} Foul, corrupt are my bruises because of my folly. ^{6 (38:7)} I am bent double; I am bowed down to the utmost; all the day long I go about full of grief. ^{7 (38:8)} For my loins are filled with a burning disease, and there is no soundness in my flesh.

^{7 (38:8)} For my loins are filled with a burning disease, and there is no soundness in my flesh.

¹ To the chief musician, to Jeduthun, a psalm of David. ^(39:2) I said, I will guard my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, while the wicked is before me.

^{10 (39:11)} Remove thou thy plague away from me: from the blows of thy hand am I consumed.

^{12 (41:13)} But as for me, thou upholdest me in my integrity, and placest me before thy presence for ever.

^{12 (59:13)} The sin of their mouth is the word of their lips: let them be caught through their pride, because of the cursing and lying which they relate.

^{7 (65:8)} Who assuageth the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the tumult of nations.

^{4 (77:5)} Thou holdest my eyes awake: I am troubled and I cannot speak.

⁶ Forsake simplicity, and live; and go onward on the way of understanding.

¹³ The woman of folly is noisy: she is simple, and knoweth not what to do.

⁸ The righteous is delivered out of distress, and the wicked cometh in his stead.

⁶ Righteousness keepeth him that is upright on his way; but wickedness perverteth the man of sin.

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

⁸ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination of the Lord: but, the prayer of the upright obtaineth his favor.

¹⁷ The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he preserveth his soul that watcheth his way.

¹⁷ A friend loveth at all times, and as a brother is he born for the time of distress.

²⁴ A man’s many companions are hurtful to him; but there is many a friend that cleaveth closer than a brother.

¹⁰ Thy own friend, and thy father’s friend, thou must not forsake; but into thy brother’s house enter not on the day of thy calamity: better is a near neighbor than a distant brother.

⁶ From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, nor bound up, nor mollified with oil.

²⁰ On that day shall a man cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which have been made for him to worship, to the moles and to the bats; ²¹ To enter into the clefts of the rocks, and into the hollows of the cliffs, because of the dread of the Lord, and because of the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to terrify the earth.

¹⁷ Therefore will the Lord smite with leprosy the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will lay open their nakedness.

²⁶ And then shall her gates lament and mourn; and stript of all shall she sit upon the ground.

¹ In the year of king ‘Uzziyahu’s death I saw the Lord sitting upon a high and exalted throne, and his train filled the temple. ² Seraphim were standing around him, each one had six wings; with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two did he fly.

²¹ And the people shall pass through the land, hard oppressed and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they will become enraged, and curse their king and their god, and turn toward on high for aid.

¹ Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground, there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for men shall nevermore call thee, Tender and delicate.

¹⁹ Two things are these which have befallen thee: who will have compassion for thee? desolation and destruction, and famine and sword—with whom shall I comfort thee?

³ To grant unto the mourners of Zion,—to give unto them ornament in the place of ashes, oil of gladness in the place of mourning, garments of praise in the place of a grieved spirit; that they may be called, Oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified.

²⁶ O daughter of my people, gird thyself with sackcloth, and roll thyself in the ashes: a mourning as for an only son prepare unto thee, a most bitter lamentation; for suddenly will the destroyer come over us.

⁸ But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not; for we have some things hidden in the field, such as wheat, and barley, and oil, and honey. So he forbore, and slew them not in the midst of their brethren.

⁷ Concerning Edom, thus hath said the Lord of hosts, Is there no more wisdom in Theman? is counsel vanished from the prudent? is their wisdom become corrupt?

¹⁰ The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence: they have thrown dust upon their head; they have girt themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem have brought down low their head to the ground.

³⁸ Do not out of the mouth of the Most High come both the evil things and the good? ³⁹ Wherefore should a living man complain? let every man complain because of his sins. ⁴⁰ Let us search through and investigate our ways, and let us return to the Lord. ⁴¹ Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

⁷ Her crowned princes were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more brilliant in body than pearls, more than the sapphire, their countenance: ⁸ Darker than black is now their visage; they are not to be recognized in the streets: their skin is shriveled fast upon their bones; it is dry, it is become like wood.

¹⁵ Then came I to the exiles at Tel-abib, who dwelt by the river Kebar, and I remained where they dwelt, and I remained there in a state of confusion among them seven days.

³⁰ And cause their voice to be heard concerning thee, and cry bitterly, and cast up dust upon their heads, they wallow in the ashes;

⁶ For when the matter was come unto the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, and put off his mantle from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat down on ashes.

¹⁴ Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked contritely before the Lord of hosts?