Job 20 Cross References - Leeser

¹ Then answered Zophar the Na’amathite, and said, ² Even therefore do my inmost thoughts give me an answer, and for this reason do I feel a strong excitement within me. ³ Reproof which casteth shame on me must I hear; yet out of my understanding will the spirit give me an answer. ⁴ Dost thou know this? from the very beginning of things, from the very time when man was placed upon earth it was, ⁵ That the triumphal shouting of the wicked is ever of but a recent date, and the joy of the hypocrite endureth only for a moment. ⁶ Though his exaltation should mount up to the heavens, and his head should reach unto the clouds; ⁷ Yet when he but turneth round will he vanish for ever; those who have seen him will say, Where is he? ⁸ Like a dream will he fly away, and men will find him no more; yea, he will be chased away like a vision of the night. ⁹ If an eye have surveyed him, it will not do so again, and it will not behold him any more in his place. ¹⁰ His children will suffer oppression from the indigent, and his hands will have to restore his ill-gotten wealth. ¹¹ Now his bones are full of his youthful vigor; but it will suddenly lie down with him in the dust. ¹² If the evil be sweet in his mouth, he will conceal it under his tongue; ¹³ He will cherish it, and not forsake it; and hold it back within his palate; ¹⁴ His food is thus changed within his bowels, and becometh the venom of asps within him. ¹⁵ The wealth which he hath swallowed, will he have to vomit up again; God will drive it out of his belly. ¹⁶ The poison of asps will he have to suck; the viper’s tongue will slay him. ¹⁷ He shall not look with pleasure on streams, on flowing brooks of honey and cream. ¹⁸ He restoreth what he hath labored for, and will not swallow it down; however much he may have obtained by toil, he will not have any joy of it. ¹⁹ Because he oppressed and forsook the indigent; because he took violently away a house, shall he not rebuild it; ²⁰ Because he knew not quietness in his bosom, shall he not escape through what is the most precious to him. ²¹ Nothing was spared from his craving to eat: therefore shall his wealth not prosper. ²² In the fulness of his abundance will distress assail him: every hand of those he troubled will come against him. ²³ In order to fill his belly, God will send out against him the fury of his wrath, and will rain it upon him for his eating. ²⁴ If he flee from the iron weapon, the brazen bow will strike him through. ²⁵ He draweth it, and it cometh out of the body; yea, out of his gall the glittering arrow cometh forth: over him come the terrors of death. ²⁶ Entire darkness is laid by for his treasures: a fire not urged by blowing will consume him; it will destroy any one that is left in his tent. ²⁷ The heavens will lay open his iniquity; and the earth will raise herself up against him. ²⁸ The product of his house will be banished, flowing away on the day of his wrath. ²⁹ This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and his decreed heritage from God.

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.

¹ Then answered Zophar the Na’amathite, and said.

⁹ Then went Eliphaz the Themanite and Bildad the Shuchite and Zophar the Na’amathite, and did in accordance with what the Lord had spoken to them: and the Lord received Job in favor.

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

¹⁹ Who is he that will contend with me? for now, if I keep silence, I must perish.

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

¹³ Say then not, We have found wisdom: God will thrust him down, not man. ¹⁴ But he hath not directed any words against me: and with your speeches will I not answer him. ¹⁵ They are dismayed, they answer no more: words have escaped away from them. ¹⁶ And should I wait longer, because they cannot speak, because they stand stilt and answer no more? ¹⁷ But I also will surely answer my part, I myself also will show forth what I know; ¹⁸ For I am full of words, the spirit in my bosom urgeth me hard. ¹⁹ Behold, my bosom is like fresh wine which hath not been opened: like new bottles it is ready to burst. ²⁰ I will speak, that I may breathe freer: I will open my lips and answer.

^{22 (31:23)} And yet had I said in my despondency, I am cut off from before thy eyes: nevertheless thou didst hear the voice of my supplications when I cried loudly unto thee.

^{2 (39:3)} I was dumb in deep silence, I was quite still, even from speaking good; but my pain was greatly excited; ^{3 (39:4)} My heart was hot within me, in my self-communing there burnt a fire: then spoke I with my tongue,

¹¹ I indeed said in my despondency, Every man is a liar.

²⁹ He that is slow to anger is of great understanding; but he that is hasty of spirit holdeth up to view his folly.

²⁰ Seest then a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope for a fool than for him.

⁹ Be not rash in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in bosom of fools.

⁹ And I thought, I will not make mention of him, and I will not speak any more in his name. But it became in my heart as a burning fire enclosed within my bones, and I was weary with enduring, and I could not overcome it.

³ These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed when ye show yourselves as strangers to me.

²⁹ Then have dread for yourselves of the sword; for the wrath which ye excite is an iniquity that bringeth the sword; in order that ye may know there is one that judgeth in the world.

² Even therefore do my inmost thoughts give me an answer, and for this reason do I feel a strong excitement within me.

¹¹ I will instruct you concerning what is in the hand of God: the way which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

³ Out of my straightforward heart come my sayings, and my lips utter knowledge clearly.

^{3 (49:4)} My mouth shall speak wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.

² I will open with a parable my mouth: I will utter riddles out of ancient times; ³ Which we have heard and know, and which our fathers have related unto us. ⁴ We will not conceal them from their children, relating to the latest generation the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful deeds which he hath done. ⁵ Yea, he established a testimony in Jacob, and instituted a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

²⁸ And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

¹ And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. ² And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the heaven; whatever is that moveth upon the earth, and all the fishes of the sea, are delivered into your hand. ³ Every moving thing that liveth shall be yours for food; even as the green herbs have I given you all things.

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 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.

¹⁶ The heavens are the heavens of the Lord; but the earth hath he given to the children of men.

⁹ The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my desire shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. ¹⁰ Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sunk as lead in mighty waters.

²¹ And the Philistines seized him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gazzah, and bound him with fetters of copper; and he had to grind in the prison-house. ²² But the hair of his head began to grow again after it was shaved off. ²³ And the lords of the Philistines gathered themselves together to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice; and they said, Our god hath delivered into our hand Samson our enemy. ²⁴ And when the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hand our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, and him who hath slain so many of us. ²⁵ And it came to pass, when their heart was merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make sport for us. And they called for Samson out of the prison-house; and he made sport before them; and they placed him between the pillars. ²⁶ And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me to go and let me feel the pillars whereupon the house is supported, that I may lean upon them. ²⁷ Now the house was full of men and women; and there were all the lords of the Philistines; and upon the roof were about three thousand men and women, that looked on while Samson made sport. ²⁸ And Samson called unto the Lord, and said, O Lord Eternal, remember me, I pray thee, and do thou strengthen me only this once, O God, that I may be avenged for one of my two eyes on the Philistines. ²⁹ And Samson threw his arms around the two middle pillars upon which the house was supported, and he leaned on them, on one with his right hand, and on the other with his left. ³⁰ And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bent them with might, and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead whom he slew at his death were more than those whom he had slain in his life.

¹¹ And Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had made him great, and how he had advanced him above the princes and the servants of the king. ¹² And Haman said farther, Yea, Esther the queen did not let any one come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself: and also for tomorrow am I invited unto her with the king.

¹⁰ So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king was appeased.

³ I have myself seen the foolish taking root; but I suddenly held his habitation as accursed.

¹² It is yet in its greenness, not yet cut down, when it withereth before any other grass. ¹³ So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hope of the hypocrite will perish:

¹⁹ Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the same dust others will grow up.

²⁹ Yet will he not remain rich, neither will his wealth endure, nor will he attain their perfection on earth. ³⁰ He will never depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his shoots, and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth. ³¹ Let him that goeth astray not trust in vanity; for vanity will be what he obtaineth thereby. ³² Even before his time will it be overfull, and his branches will not be green. ³³ He will shake off like the vine his unripe grapes, and cast off like the olive his blossoms. ³⁴ For the assembly of hypocrites will remain desolate, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

⁵ Ah, truly the light of the wicked will be quenched, and the spark of his fire shall not give light. ⁶ The light becometh dark in his tent, and his lamp will be quenched above him.

⁸ For what is the hope of the hypocrite, when he hath gained unjust wealth, when God casteth forth his soul?

¹³ This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the portion of tyrants, which they shall receive from the Almighty. ¹⁴ If his children be multiplied, it is only for the sword; and his offspring will not be satisfied with bread. ¹⁵ Those of his that are left to escape will be buried by death; and his widows will not be able to weep. ¹⁶ Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare garments as plentifully as the clay: ¹⁷ He may prepare, but the righteous will clothe himself therewith, and the silver the innocent will divide. ¹⁸ He buildeth his house like the moth, and like a hut that a keeper hath made. ¹⁹ Rich will he lie down, but will not be gathered into the grave: one openeth his eyes, and he is no more. ²⁰ Like a flood will terror overtake him, in the night a tempest will steal him away. ²¹ The east wind will lift him up, and he must be gone; and it hurleth him like a storm out of his place. ²² And God will cast evil upon him, and bare no pity: out of his hand his wealth will surely escape. ²³ Men will clap their hands over him, and will hiss after him out of his place.

³⁵ I have seen the wicked terrible in power, and striking root like a green tree in its native soil. ³⁶ Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was no more: and I sought him, but he could not be found.

¹⁸ Surely thou placest them on slippery spots: thou lettest them fall down into destruction. ¹⁹ How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they perish, they come to their end with terrific events. ²⁰ As a dream after awaking, O Lord, reject thou in wrath their image.

⁴ And they said, Go to, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower, the top of which may reach unto heaven; and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

¹³ And thou—thou hadst said in thy heart, “Into heaven will I ascend, above the stars of God will I exalt my throne; and I will sit also upon the mount of the assembly, in the farthest end of the north; ¹⁴ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be equal to the Most High.”

^{11 (4:8)} The tree grew, and was strong, and its height reached unto heaven, and it was visible to the end of all the earth.

^{22 (4:19)} It is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong; and thy greatness is grown apace, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion is to the end of the earth.

² Though they were to creep down into the nether world, thence would my hand fetch them; and though they were to climb up to the heavens, thence would I bring them down;

³ The presumption of thy heart hath beguiled thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? ⁴ Though thou wert to rise as high as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.

¹⁰ Therefore, behold, will I bring evil upon the house of Jerobo’am, and will cut off from Jerobo’am every male, also the guarded and fortified in Israel; and I will sweep out after the house of Jerobo’am as one sweepeth away the dung till there be nothing left of it.

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.

²⁰ From morning to evening are they broken to pieces: without laying it to heart they perish for ever.

¹⁰ He will return no more to his house, and his place will not recognize him any more.

¹⁸ But when men destroy him from his place, then will it deny him, saying, I have never seen thee.

¹⁰ But man dieth, and lieth powerless: yea, the son of earth departeth—and where is he?

^{10 (83:11)} Who were annihilated at ‘En-dor; they became as dung for the ground.

² And they shall spread them out before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and to which they have prostrated themselves: they shall not be gathered up, and they shall not be buried; dung upon the face of the ground shall they become.

¹⁸ Men will thrust him out from light into darkness, and out of the world will they drive him.

^{10 (18:11)} And he rode upon a cherub, and flew along, and he flitted by upon the wings of the wind.

²⁰ As a dream after awaking, O Lord, reject thou in wrath their image.

⁵ Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they grow like the grass which changeth.

⁷ And as a dream of a night-vision shall be the multitude of all the nations that go to war against Ariel, even all that fight against her and raise towers against her, and that distress her. ⁸ And it shall even be as when a hungry man dreameth, that, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty; or as when a thirsty man dreameth, that, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul yet longeth: so shall it be with the multitude of all the nations, that go to war against mount Zion.

⁸ The eye of him that seeth me now will not behold me again: thou fixest thy eyes upon me, and I am no more.

⁷ Yet when he but turneth round will he vanish for ever; those who have seen him will say, Where is he?

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

¹⁰ For yet but for a little while, and the wicked shall be no more: yea, thou wilt look carefully at his place, and he shall not be there.

³⁶ Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was no more: and I sought him, but he could not be found.

¹⁵ As for man, like the grass are his days: as the blossom of the field, so doth he bloom. ¹⁶ When a wind but passeth over it, it is gone, and its place will recognize it no more.

² For if thou refusest to let them go, and still holdest on to them,

³⁶ And the Lord had given the people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians, so that they gave unto them what they required; and they emptied out Egypt.

^{1 (21:37)} If a man steal an ox or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it: five oxen shall he restore for one ox, and four sheep for one sheep.

^{3 (22:2)} If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; he shall make full restitution; if he have nothing, then shall he be sold for his theft.

⁶ And the ewe he shall pay fourfold, for punishment that he hath done this thing, and because he had no compassion.

⁴ His children are far from help, and men crush them in the gate, with no one to deliver them.

¹⁸ He restoreth what he hath labored for, and will not swallow it down; however much he may have obtained by toil, he will not have any joy of it.

¹⁶ Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare garments as plentifully as the clay: ¹⁷ He may prepare, but the righteous will clothe himself therewith, and the silver the innocent will divide.

¹⁰ Let his children be continually moving about, and beg, and let them seek their bread out of their ruined places.

³¹ And if he be found, he must pay sevenfold; all the wealth his house must he give.

³ A poor man that oppresseth the indigent is like a sweeping rain which bringeth no bread.

²⁶ That thou writest bitter decrees against me, and assignest unto me the iniquities of my youth;

²⁰ To my skin and to my flesh my bones do cleave, and I must sustain myself with the gums of my teeth.

²⁶ And yet together they must lie down in the dust, and the worms will cover them?

⁷ The sins of my youth and my transgressions do not remember: according to thy kindness bear thou me in remembrance, for the sake of thy goodness, O Lord.

¹¹ While thou moanest at thy end, when thy flesh and thy body are coming to their end, ¹² And thou sayest, How have I hated correction, and how hath my heart rejected reproof; ¹³ While I hearkened not to the voice of my instructors, and to my teachers I inclined not my ear;

²² His own iniquities will truly catch the wicked, and with the cords of his sin will he be held firmly. ²³ He will indeed die for want of correction; and through the abundance of his folly will he sink into error.

³² Through his own evil is the wicked thrust down; but even in his death doth the righteous have confidence.

¹³ In thy uncleanness is thy incest; because I endeavored to cleanse thee, and thou wouldst not be clean, thou shalt not be cleansed from thy uncleanness any more, until I have assuaged my fury on thee.

²⁷ And those who are fallen of the uncircumcised shall not lie with the mighty, who are gone down to the nether world with their weapons of war, while men laid their swords under their heads, and the instruments of their iniquities were upon their bones; for the terror of the mighty was in the land of the living.

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.

¹⁶ How much more then the abominable and corrupt, the man who drinketh like water wrong-doing?

⁷ Of the false oaths is his mouth full, and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and wickedness.

¹⁷ As he loved cursing, so let it come over him: and as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him. ¹⁸ And he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, and it cometh like water within him, and like oil into his bones.

¹⁷ “Stolen waters are sweet, and bread of secrecy is pleasant.” ¹⁸ But he knoweth not that the departed are there; that in the depths of the nether world are her guests.

¹⁷ Bread of falsehood is pleasant to a man; but afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel-stones.

⁹ Rejoice, O young man, in thy childhood; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youthful vigor, and walk firmly in the ways of thy heart, and in the direction which thy eyes see: but know thou, that concerning all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

¹⁸ And unto the people shalt thou say, Hold yourselves ready against tomorrow, that ye may eat flesh; for ye have wept in the ears of the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was better with us in Egypt: thus will the Lord give you flesh, and ye shall eat. ¹⁹ Not one day shall ye eat, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days; ²⁰ But up to a full month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it become loathsome unto you; because that ye have despised the Lord who is in the midst of you, and ye have wept before him, saying, Why did we come forth out of Egypt?

²⁴ They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter deadly disease; also the tooth of beasts will I let loose against them, with the poison of serpents that crawl in the dust.

² And it happened at evening-tide, that David arose from off his couch, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and he saw from the roof a woman bathing herself; and the woman was of a very beautiful appearance. ³ And David sent and inquired after the woman; and some one said, Behold, this is Beth-sheba’, the daughter of Eli’am, the wife of Uriyah the Hittite. ⁴ And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her, and she had just purified herself from her uncleanness; and she returned unto her house. ⁵ And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, I am with child.

¹⁰ And now, the sword shall not depart from thy house for ever; for the reason that thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriyah the Hittite to be thy wife. ¹¹ Thus hath said the Lord, Behold, I will raise up against thee evil out of thy own house, and I will take away thy wives before thy eyes, and I will give them unto thy neighbor; and he shall lie with thy wives before the face of this sun.

¹⁶ The poison of asps will he have to suck; the viper’s tongue will slay him.

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.

¹ A psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. ^(38:2) O Lord, correct me not in thy wrath, nor chastise me in thy fury. ^{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. ^{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. ^{8 (38:9)} I am made faint and crushed to the utmost; I cry aloud because of the groaning of my heart.

^{8 (51:10)} Cause me to hear gladness and joy; that the bones which thou hast crushed may rejoice. ^{9 (51:11)} Hide thy face from my sins, and all my iniquities do thou blot out.

³¹ Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and from their own counsels shall they be satisfied.

²⁰ Be not among those that drink wine immoderately, among those that over-indulge in eating flesh: ²¹ For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty; and drowsiness clotheth a man in rags.

²⁹ Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath quarrels? who hath complaints? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? ³⁰ They that tarry late over the wine: they that come to seek for mixed drink. ³¹ Do not look on the wine when it looketh red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it glideth down so readily. ³² At the last it will bite like a serpent, and like a basilisk will it sting. ³³ Thy eyes will see strange forms, and thy heart will speak perverse things. ³⁴ And thou wilt be like one that lieth down in the heart of the sea, or as he that lieth on the top of a mast. ³⁵ “They smote me, but I suffered no pain; they struck me hard, but I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will continue to seek it again.”

¹⁹ Thy own wickedness shall chastise thee, and thy backslidings shall correct thee; and thou shalt know and see that evil and bitter was thy forsaking the Lord thy God, while the dread of me was not upon thee, saith the Lord Eternal of hosts.

² If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of hosts: I will even send out against you a curse, and I will curse your blessings; yea, I will curse the same, because ye do not lay it to heart.

⁸ Thy morsel which thou hast eaten must thou spit out, and thou hast wasted thy pleasant words.

⁶ The doom of the beasts of the south: Through the land of trouble and anguish, whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and flying dragons, they will carry upon the shoulders of young asses their riches, and upon the humps of camels their treasures, to a people that cannot profit.

²³ Shall surely not see the land which I have sworn unto their fathers, yea all those that have provoked me shall not see it.

¹³ He caused him to stride on the high places of the earth, and he ate the products of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty stone; ¹⁴ Cream of cows, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of wheat; and of the blood of the grape thou drunkest unmixed wine.

²⁹ And honey, and cream, and sheep, and cow’s cheese, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat; for they said, The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.

² Then answered the lord of the king, on whose hand he used to lean, the man of God, and said, Behold, will the Lord make windows in the heavens, that this thing shall be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thy eyes, but thereof shalt thou not eat.

⁶ When I bathed my steps in cream, and the rock poured out near me streamlets of oil!

^{8 (36:9)} These will be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and of the stream of thy delights wilt thou give them to drink. ^{9 (36:10)} For with thee is the source of life: in thy light shall we see light.

^{16 (81:17)} And he would feed him with the best of wheat: and out of the rock would I satisfy thee with honey.

¹⁵ Cream and honey shall he eat, so soon as he knoweth to refuse the evil, and to choose the good.

²² And it shall happen, that for the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat cream; for cream and honey shall eat every one that is left in the midst of the land.

¹⁷ The poor and the needy seek water, and there is none; their tongue is dried up with thirst: I the Lord will answer them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

⁶ And he shall be like a lonely tree in the desert, which feeleth not when the good cometh; but abideth in the parched places in the wilderness, in a salty land which cannot be inhabited. ⁷ Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and the Lord will be his trust. ⁸ And he shall be like a tree that is planted by the waters, and by a stream spreadeth out its roots, which feeleth not when heat cometh, but its leaf remaineth green; and in a year of drought it is undisturbed by care, and ceaseth not from yielding fruit.

⁵ That the triumphal shouting of the wicked is ever of but a recent date, and the joy of the hypocrite endureth only for a moment.

¹⁰ His children will suffer oppression from the indigent, and his hands will have to restore his ill-gotten wealth.

¹⁵ The wealth which he hath swallowed, will he have to vomit up again; God will drive it out of his belly.

²⁵ If ever I rejoiced because my wealth was abundant, and because my hand had gotten much;

²⁹ If ever I rejoiced at the downfall of him that hated me, or was elated when evil befell him;—

¹² We will swallow them up like the grave alive; and the men of integrity, as those that go down into the pit;

⁷ The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted sigh. ⁸ At rest is the mirth of the tambourines; ceased hath the tumult of the joyful; at rest is the mirth of the harp. ⁹ Amidst singing shall they no more drink wine; bitter shall be the strong drink to those that drink it. ¹⁰ Broken down is the city of desolation; shut up is every house that none can enter. ¹¹ A painful cry for wine is in the streets; darkened is all joy; banished is the mirth of the land.

¹⁵ What hath my beloved to do in my house, while she executeth the evil counsel of so many sinners? Yea, the holy flesh passeth away from thee; for even with thy wickedness, thou rejoicest still. ¹⁶ An ever-green olive-tree, beautiful in fruit and form, did the Lord call thy name: with the noise of a great tumult hath he kindled fire around it, and they break off its branches.

¹³ Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; that maketh his neighbor work without wages, and giveth him not the reward for his labor;

¹⁷ But thy eyes and thy heart are directed on nothing but upon thy own gain, and upon innocent blood to shed it, and upon oppression, and upon extortion, to practise them.

³⁴ “Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon devoured me, he crushed me, he set me down as an empty vessel, he swallowed me up like a huge serpent, he filled his belly with my delicacies: he drove me out.

⁴⁴ And I will inflict punishment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth what he hath swallowed up out of his mouth; and nations shall not assemble together like a stream unto him any more; yea, the wall of Babylon also is fallen.

¹⁶ All thy enemies open wide their mouth against thee; they hiss and gnash their teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up: ah, truly this is the day that we hoped for; we have found, we have seen it.

¹² The time is coming, the day occurreth; let the buyer not rejoice, and let the seller not mourn; for wrath is against all her multitude.

⁷ For the wind do they sow, and the whirlwind shall they reap: their seed bringeth no standing corn; the plant yieldeth no meal; but should it yield it, strangers would swallow it up. ⁸ Swallowed up is Israel: now are they among the nations as a vessel without any value.

¹ Rejoice not, O Israel, for gladness, as other people; for thou art gone astray, unfaithful to thy God: thou hast loved the wages of sin upon every corn-filled threshing-floor.

⁴ Hear this, O ye that are greedy to swallow the needy, and to ruin the poor of the land,

³³ The fruit of thy soil, and all thy exertion, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt only be oppressed and crushed all the days.

³ Behold, here am I; testify against me in the presence of the Lord, and in the presence of his anointed: Whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or from whose hand have I received any ransom so that I withdrew my eyes from him? and I will restore it you. ⁴ And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor hast thou oppressed us, and thou hast not taken from any man’s hand the least.

¹⁹ And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus hath said the Lord, Hast thou murdered, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus hath said the Lord, In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall the dogs lick thy blood, yes, thine also.

¹⁵ It will dwell in his tent, because it is no more his: there will be strewed sulphur on his habitation.

²⁷ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the opinions which ye wrongfully devise against me. ²⁸ For ye say, Where is the house of the noble-minded? and where is the tent of the dwelling-places of the wicked?

⁶ For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brothers for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

² The wicked remove landmarks: they rob flocks, and feed them. ³ They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take in pledge the widow’s ox. ⁴ They chase the needy out of the highway: altogether hide themselves the poor of the earth. ⁵ Behold, as wild asses in the wilderness go they forth to their work, rising betimes after their prey: the desert yieldeth food for them and for their young men. ⁶ In the field they reap their food; and in the vineyard of the wicked they gather the fruit. ⁷ They cause the poor to spend the night naked, without clothing and without any covering in the cold. ⁸ Through the sweeping rain of the mountains are they made wet, and for want of a shelter do they embrace the rock. ⁹ The others pluck from the breast the fatherless, and the garment of the poor they take in pledge. ¹⁰ They cause him to go naked without clothing, and from the hungry they take away the sheaf: ¹¹ Within their walls do they make oil, they tread their wine-presses, and suffer thirst. ¹² Out of a populous city is groaning heard, and the soul of the deadly wounded crieth out: yet God regardeth it not as an offence.

¹³ If ever I cast aside the justice due to my man-servant and my maid-servant, when they contended with me: ¹⁴ What then could I do when God should rise up? and when he should investigate, what could I answer him? ¹⁵ Did not he that made me make him born or a woman? and did not the same one fashion us in the womb? ¹⁶ If ever I denied the wish of the indigent, or ever allowed the eyes of the widow to fall in vain hopes; ¹⁷ Or if ever I ate my bread by myself alone, and the fatherless did not eat thereof; ¹⁸ (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as though we were of one father, and I have guided her as though she was sprung from my mother’s womb;) ¹⁹ If ever I saw any one perishing for want of clothing, or the needy without covering: ²⁰ If his loins have not blessed me, and if he have not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep; ²¹ If I have swung my hand against the fatherless, because I saw in the gate those that would help me: ²² Then may my shoulder fall from my shoulder-blade, and my arm be broken from the channel-bone;

³⁸ If my land ever cried out because of me, or if its furrows wept together; ³⁹ If I ever consumed its strength without payment, or caused the soul of its owners to grieve:

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

¹⁸ To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that not farther more shall be arrogant the mortal from the earth.

^{5 (12:6)} Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord: I will grant safety to him for whom the other layeth a snare.

³¹ He that oppresseth the poor blasphemeth his Maker; but he that is gracious to the needy honoreth him.

²² Rob not the poor, because he is poor, neither crush the afflicted in the gate; ²³ For the Lord will plead their cause, and despoil the life of those that despoil them.

¹ And I turned about, and beheld all the oppressed that are made so under the sun: and, behold, there are the tears of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and from the hand of their oppressors they suffer violence; and they have no comforter.

^{8 (5:7)} If thou see the oppression of the poor, and violence done to justice and righteousness in a province, do not feel astounded at the matter; for one that is high watcheth over the high; and over them, the highest Power.

⁷ For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he hoped for justice, but behold injustice; for equity, but behold iniquity. ⁸ Woe unto those that cause house to join on house, bring field near to field, till there is no more room, so that ye may be left alone as the inhabitants in the midst of the land!

³⁴ To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

²⁹ The people of the land are guilty of extortion, and practise robbery, and the poor and the needy they defraud: and they extort from the stranger with injustice.

¹ Hear this word, O ye cows of Bashan, that are on the mount of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their lords, Bring, and let us drink. ² Sworn hath the Lord Eternal by his holiness, that, lo, days are coming over you, when men will carry you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks. ³ And through breaches in the wall shall ye go out, every one through that before her: and ye shall cast off your proud greatness, saith the Lord.

² And they covet fields, and rob them; and houses, and take them away: so they defraud the master and his house, and the man and his heritage.

⁹ The wives of my people do you drive out of their delightful houses; from their children do ye take away my ornament for ever.

^{13 (5:12)} There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches reserved for their owner to his own hurt. ^{14 (5:13)} And these riches are lost through an unfortunate event; and he begetteth a son, and hath not the least in his hand:

²⁰ But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can never be at rest, but its waters cast up mire and dirt. ²¹ There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

²⁹ Yet will he not remain rich, neither will his wealth endure, nor will he attain their perfection on earth.

¹⁹ He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any that escapeth in the places of his sojourning.

¹¹ As a cuckoo that sitteth on eggs which he hath not laid, so is he that get the riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days shall he leave them, and at his end shall be called wicked.

² And the Lord sent against him predatory bands of the Chaldeans, and predatory bands of the Syrians, and predatory bands of the Moabites, and predatory bands of the children of ‘Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by means of his servants the prophets.

¹⁵ When the Sabeans made an incursion, and took them away, and the young men they slew with the edge of the sword; and I am escaped, none but myself alone, to tell it unto thee.

¹⁷ This one was yet speaking, when another came, and said, The Chaldeans posted themselves in three divisions, and made an inroad against the camels, and took them away, and the young men they slew with the edge of the sword; and I am escaped, none but myself alone, to tell it unto thee.

¹⁷ There where the wicked cease from troubling; and where the exhausted weary are at rest;

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

⁷ His powerful steps will be narrowed, and his own counsel will cast him down.

^{5 (39:6)} Behold, measured out with the span hast thou made my days; and my whole duration is nothing before thee: yea, as nothing but vanity doth every man stand here. Selah.

¹⁸ Yea, I hated also all my toil with which I had toiled under the sun; because I should have to leave it unto the man that will be after me. ¹⁹ And who knoweth, whether he will be a wise man or a fool? yet will he have full sway over all my toil wherein I have toiled, and wherein I have shown myself wise under the sun. Also this is vanity. ²⁰ Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to give up thinking of all the toil wherewith I had toiled under the sun.

⁶ Against a hypocritical nation will I send him, and against the people of my fury will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to carry off the prey, and to render them trodden down like the mire of the streets.

²⁴ And the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire, from the Lord, out of heaven;

²³ And Moses stretched forth his staff toward heaven; and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran down to the ground; and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt.

³³ The flesh was yet between their teeth, it was not yet chewed: when the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote among the people a very great plague.

⁶ He letteth rain upon the wicked burning coals, fire and brimstone; and a glowing wind is the portion of their cup.

³⁰ They were not estranged from their longing, yet was their food in their mouth: ³¹ When the wrath of God ascended against them, and he slew some of the fattest of them, and the young men of Israel did he strike down.

⁴ My heart wandereth astray, dread affrighteth me: the evening of my pleasure hath he turned unto me into terror.

³⁵ He teaches my hands for the war, so that a brazen bow is bent by my arms.

³⁰ But those that were left fled to Aphek, into the city; but the city-wall fell upon the twenty and seven thousand men that had been left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an innermost chamber.

²³ Till an arrow cleaveth through his liver; as a bird hasteneth into the snare, and knoweth not that it is done to take his life.

¹⁸ And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the call of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be caught in the snare; for the windows from on high are opened, and there quaked the foundations of the earth.

⁴³ Terror, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the Lord. ⁴⁴ He that fleeth from the terror shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be caught in the snare; for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the Lord.

¹⁹ As if a man were to flee from a lion, and a bear should meet him; and he enter into the house, and lean his hand against the wall, and a serpent should bite him.

¹ I saw the Lord standing upon the altar; and he said, Smite the capital, that the sills may quake; and break them in pieces over the head of all of them; and their posterity will I slay with the sword: there shall not flee away from them one that fleeth, and there shall not escape from them one that is saved. ² Though they were to creep down into the nether world, thence would my hand fetch them; and though they were to climb up to the heavens, thence would I bring them down; ³ And though they were to hide themselves on the top of Carmel, thence would I search and take them out; and though they were to conceal themselves from before my eyes in the bottom of the sea, thence would I command the serpent, that he should bite them;

⁴¹ When I whet my glittering sword, and my hand taketh hold on judgment: I will render vengeance unto my enemies, and those that hate me will I requite.

¹⁴ Then said Joab, I will not wait thus before thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them into the heart of Abshalom, who was yet alive in the midst of the oak.

⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof my spirit drinketh it: the terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

²¹ A sound of terrors is in his ears: during peace will the waster come over him.

¹³ His archers encompass me round about; he cleaveth my reins sunder, and doth not pity; he poureth out upon the ground my gall;

¹¹ All around do terrors scare him, and chase him as he walketh along.

²⁰ Like a flood will terror overtake him, in the night a tempest will steal him away.

^{12 (7:13)} If he turn not, He will whet his sword, he bendeth his bow, and maketh it ready.

¹⁹ How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they perish, they come to their end with terrific events.

^{15 (88:16)} I am afflicted and perishing from my youth up: I bear thy terrors, I am distracted.

³ And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashchur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. And Jeremiah said unto him, Not Pashchur Fulness of Freedom hath the Lord called thy name, but Magor-missabib [Terror all around]. ⁴ For thus hath said the Lord, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thy eyes shall see it; and all Judah will I give into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall lead them into exile to Babylon, and shall smite them with the sword.

¹⁸ Men will thrust him out from light into darkness, and out of the world will they drive him. ¹⁹ He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any that escapeth in the places of his sojourning.

^{9 (21:10)} Thou wilt render them as a fiery oven at the time of thy anger: the Lord in his wrath will destroy them, and a fire will devour them.

⁹ Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. ¹⁰ Let his children be continually moving about, and beg, and let them seek their bread out of their ruined places. ¹¹ Let the creditor lay snares after all that he hath, and let strangers plunder his labor. ¹² Let him have none that extendeth kindness, and let there be none that is gracious to his fatherless children. ¹³ Let his posterity be cut off: in another generation let their name be blotted out. ¹⁴ Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by the Lord, and let the sin of his mother not be blotted out. ¹⁵ Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off from the earth their memory.

⁴ Sharpened arrows of the mighty, with coals of the broom-bush.

²² And they will look unto the earth; and behold there are trouble and darkness, dimness of oppression, and they shall be scattered into obscurity.

²⁰ Thou shalt not be united with them in burial; because thy land hast thou destroyed, thy people hast thou slain: to eternity shall not be called the seed of evil-doers. ²¹ Prepare for his children the slaughter, for the iniquity of their fathers: that they may not rise, and possess the land, and fill the face of the world with enemies of mankind. ²² And I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts; and I will cut off from Babylon name, and remnant, and son, and grandson, saith the Lord.

³³ For already of old is Topheth made ready; also this is prepared for the king—deep and wide; its pile hath fire and wood in plenty, the breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulfur, will kindle it into a flame.

²⁸ Assemble unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers; and I will speak in their ears these words, and I will call as witnesses against them the heavens and the earth.

¹⁸ Earth! do thou not cover up my blood, and let no place restrain my cry.

^{20 (44:21)} If we had forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange God: ^{21 (44:22)} Would not God search out this? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

²¹ For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to visit the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth on them: and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no more be a cover over her slain.

²³ Because they have done scandalous deeds in Israel, and have committed adultery with the wives of their neighbors, and have spoken in my name falsehood, which I had not commanded them; whereas I am the one that know, and am the witness, saith the Lord.

⁵ And I will come near unto you to hold judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against those that swear falsely, and against those that withhold the wages of the hired laborer, oppress the widow, and the fatherless, and that do injustice to the stranger, and fear me not, saith the Lord of hosts.

³¹ Thy ox shall be slain before thy eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof; thy ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be brought back to thee; thy sheep shall be given unto thy enemies, without any one to help thee.

¹⁷ Behold, days are coming, when all that is in thy house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord.

⁵ He it is whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber snatcheth eagerly after their substance.

¹⁸ He restoreth what he hath labored for, and will not swallow it down; however much he may have obtained by toil, he will not have any joy of it. ¹⁹ Because he oppressed and forsook the indigent; because he took violently away a house, shall he not rebuild it; ²⁰ Because he knew not quietness in his bosom, shall he not escape through what is the most precious to him. ²¹ Nothing was spared from his craving to eat: therefore shall his wealth not prosper. ²² In the fulness of his abundance will distress assail him: every hand of those he troubled will come against him.

³⁰ That the bad man is reserved for the day of calamity, that the wicked are carried forward to the day of wrath.

¹⁴ If his children be multiplied, it is only for the sword; and his offspring will not be satisfied with bread. ¹⁵ Those of his that are left to escape will be buried by death; and his widows will not be able to weep. ¹⁶ Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare garments as plentifully as the clay: ¹⁷ He may prepare, but the righteous will clothe himself therewith, and the silver the innocent will divide. ¹⁸ He buildeth his house like the moth, and like a hut that a keeper hath made. ¹⁹ Rich will he lie down, but will not be gathered into the grave: one openeth his eyes, and he is no more.

⁴ Wealth cannot profit on the day of wrath; but righteousness deliver from death.

¹⁸ Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of the Lord’s wrath; through the fire of whose zeal the whole land shall be devoured; for destruction, yea, quite sudden, will he prepare for all the inhabitants of the land.

^{20 (29:19)} The Lord will not pardon him; but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and there shall rest upon him all the curse that is written in this book; and the Lord will blot out his name from under the heavens. ^{21 (29:20)} And the Lord will single him out unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the denunciations of the covenant which is written in this book of the law. ^{22 (29:21)} And the latest generation, your children that will rise up after you, and the stranger that will come from a far land, will say, when they see the plagues of that land, and its sufferings with which the Lord hath smitten it; ^{23 (29:22)} That the whole soil thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning waste, which is not sown, and beareth not, and in which no kind of grass springeth up, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboyim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:— ^{24 (29:23)} Even all the nations will say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? whence the heat of this great anger? ^{25 (29:24)} Then shall men say, Because they had forsaken the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt; ^{26 (29:25)} And they went and served other gods, and bowed down to them, gods which they knew not, and which he had not assigned unto them; ^{27 (29:26)} And the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it the entire curse that is written in this book; ^{28 (29:27)} And the Lord plucked them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and he cast them into another land, as it is this day.

²¹ Yea, such are the dwellings of the unjust, and this is the place of one that knew not God.

¹³ This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the portion of tyrants, which they shall receive from the Almighty.

² And what then would have been my portion of God from above? and what lot of the Almighty from on high? ³ Is not calamity ready for the unjust? and misfortune for the wrong-doers?

⁵ The Lord proveth the righteous; but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth. ⁶ He letteth rain upon the wicked burning coals, fire and brimstone; and a glowing wind is the portion of their cup.

³⁸ Do not out of the mouth of the Most High come both the evil things and the good?