Job 33 Cross References - Leeser

¹ Therefore do thou but hear, O Job, my speeches, and give ear to all my words. ² Behold now, I have opened my mouth, my tongue speaketh in my mouth. ³ Out of my straightforward heart come my sayings, and my lips utter knowledge clearly. ⁴ The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty giveth me life. ⁵ If thou canst, answer me, array thyself before me, stand forward. ⁶ Behold, I am in the same relation as thyself toward God: I myself also am cut out of the clay. ⁷ Behold, dread of me cannot terrify thee, and my pressure will not be too heavy upon thee. ⁸ But thou hast said before my ears, and the sound of the words I still hear, ⁹ “I am pure without transgression, I am quite clean; and there is no iniquity in me: ¹⁰ Yet, behold, he findeth hateful backsliding on me, he regardeth me as an enemy unto him; ¹¹ He putteth my feet in the stocks, he watcheth all my paths.” ¹² Behold, In this thou art not just: I will answer thee; for God is far greater than a mortal. ¹³ Why dost thou contend against him? for with all his words will he not give an answer. ¹⁴ For God speaketh once, yea twice: yet man regardeth it not. ¹⁵ In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumbers upon the couch: ¹⁶ Then doth he lay open the ear of men, and sealeth it with their warning; ¹⁷ To remove the son of earth from his intended deed and he covereth up pride from man; ¹⁸ He withholdeth his soul from the pit, and his life from passing away by the sword. ¹⁹ And so is he admonished by pain upon his couch, and all his bones with violent aches. ²⁰ So that his inclination abhorreth bread, and his soul, the most agreeable food. ²¹ His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen, and his bones that were not seen stick out. ²² Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit, and his life to those that slay. ²³ If there be now about him one single angel, as defender, one out of a thousand, to tell for man his uprightness: ²⁴ Then is he gracious unto him, and saith, Release him from going down to the pit, I have found an atonement. ²⁵ His flesh becometh full again as in youth: he returneth to the days of his boyhood. ²⁶ He will offer his entreaty unto God, and he will receive him in favor, that he may see his face with joy: so doth He recompense unto the mortal his righteousness. ²⁷ He then should assemble men around, and say, “I had sinned, and perverted what is right, yet have I not received a like return.” ²⁸ Thus he redeemeth his soul from passing into the pit, and his life will look joyously on the light. ²⁹ Lo, all these things doth God two or three times with man; ³⁰ To bring back his soul from the pit, that she may shine in the light of life. ³¹ Listen well, O Job, hearken unto me: keep silence, and I will truly speak. ³² If thou hast any words, answer me: speak, for I wish to justify thee. ³³ If not, hearken thou unto me: keep silence, and I will teach thee wisdom.

⁶ Do hearken but to my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.

² Hear, O ye wise men, my words; and ye that have knowledge, give ear unto me.

¹ To the chief musician, by the sons of Korach, a psalm. ^(49:2) Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the perishable world: ^{2 (49:3)} Both the sons of the low and the sons of the high, rich and needy, altogether. ^{3 (49:4)} My mouth shall speak wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.

¹ After this time Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day.

³⁰ But I suffered not my mouth to sin by denouncing with a curse his soul:—

² I will open with a parable my mouth: I will utter riddles out of ancient times;

²⁸ But now, if it please you, turn yourselves toward me, and say whether I would lie before your face.

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

⁴ Shall my lips not speak any wrong, nor shall my tongue utter deceit.

³ I will lift up my knowledge for him who is afar, and for my Maker will I obtain righteousness. ⁴ For truly no falsehood is in my words: one that is upright in his opinions dealeth now with thee.

² Who is this that casteth darkness on my counsel by words without knowledge?

³⁰ The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, and his tongue speaketh what is just. ³¹ The law of his God is in his heart: none of his steps shall slip.

⁷ For truth uttereth my palate ever, and the abomination of my lips is wickedness. ⁸ In righteousness are all the sayings of my mouth, there is in them nothing crooked or perverse.

² The tongue of the wise maketh knowledge acceptable; but the mouth of fools sputtereth out folly.

⁷ The lips of the wise scatter knowledge; but the heart of fools is not reliable.

¹⁵ There is gold, and a multitude of pearls; but a precious vessel are the lips of knowledge.

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.

³ Is it well for thee that thou shouldst oppress, that thou shouldst reject the labor of thy hands, and shed light upon the counsel of the wicked?

¹² Life and kindness didst thou grant me, and thy providence watched over my spirit.

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

⁸ But it is the spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty which giveth them understanding.

⁶ By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and by the breath of his mouth all their host.

¹⁸ Behold now, I have arrayed my cause: I know that I shall be indeed justified.

⁴ I would put in order before him my cause, and my mouth would I fill with arguments. ⁵ I should know the words which he might answer me, and understand what he might say unto me.

¹ So had these three men abstained from answering Job; because he was righteous in his own eyes.

¹² And now I understand you fully, and, behold, there is none that convinceth Job, or, that answereth his speeches among you.

¹⁴ But he hath not directed any words against me: and with your speeches will I not answer him.

³² If thou hast any words, answer me: speak, for I wish to justify thee. ³³ If not, hearken thou unto me: keep silence, and I will teach thee wisdom.

²¹ These things hast thou done, and I kept silence: thou didst ween that I am like thyself; but I will reprove thee, and set it in order before thy eyes.”

¹⁹ In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground, for out of it wast thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

² And Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God’s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?

¹⁶ And he shall speak for thee unto the people; and he shall be, yea he shall be to thee as a mouth, and thou shalt be to him as a God.

¹⁹ How much less in those that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed till they come to be eaten by the moth?

³² For he is not a man, like me, that I could answer him, that we should enter together into a contest. ³³ There is no one who can decide between us, who could lay his hand upon us both. ³⁴ Let him but remove from me his rod, and let not his dread terrify me: ³⁵ Then would I speak, and not fear him; for the like I feel not within me.

⁹ Remember, I beseech thee, that as though I were clay hast thou made me; and wilt thou cause me to return again unto the dust?

³ However, I would gladly speak to the Almighty; and to argue with God do I desire.

¹² The things you remember are mere proverbs of ashes, your high-places are high-places of clay.

²² In the fulness of his abundance will distress assail him: every hand of those he troubled will come against him.

³ Oh who would grant that I knew where I might find him! that I might attain to his Judgment throne! ⁴ I would put in order before him my cause, and my mouth would I fill with arguments.

³⁵ Oh who will bring me one that would hear me! behold, here is my plea; may the Almighty answer me; and any record which my opponent may have written,—

³⁴ Let him but remove from me his rod, and let not his dread terrify me:

²¹ Remove thy hand far from me; and let not thy dread terrify me.

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.

^{16 (88:17)} Over me have the fires of thy wrath passed; thy terrors have destroyed me;

^{14 (13:15)} Then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be true, the thing is certain, such abomination hath been wrought in the midst of thee:

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.

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

²¹ I am innocent; I will not have regard for myself: I will despise my life.

²³ If a scourge should slay suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the guiltless.

²⁸ O then would I be in dread of all my pains; I know that thou wilt not declare me innocent.

⁷ Still it is within thy knowledge that I am not wicked, and there is none that can deliver me out of thy hand.

⁴ For thou hast said to God, My doctrine is pure, and I am become clean in thy eyes.

²³ How many are my iniquities and sins? my transgression and my sin let me know.

¹⁷ Not because any violence is in my hands, and while my prayer is pure.

⁸ Upright men must be astonished at this, and the innocent must arouse himself against the hypocrite.

¹¹ On his steps my foot hath held fast: his way have I kept, and swerved not. ¹² From the commandment of his lips have I also not moved away: as a fixed statute for me have I treasured up the sayings of his mouth.

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.

¹⁴ I took righteousness as my garment, and it clothed me: as a robe and a mitre was justice unto me.

³⁵ Yet thou sayest, Yea, I am innocent, surely his anger is already turned away from me. Behold, I will hold judgment with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

³⁰ If I were to wash myself in snow-water, to cleanse myself in the purity of my hands: ³¹ Even then wouldst thou plunge me in the ditch, that my own clothes would render me abhorred.

¹⁵ If I be wicked, woe unto me: and if I be righteous, I can still not lift up my head; I am sated with disgrace, and ever seeing my affliction; ¹⁶ And it constantly increaseth; like a fierce lion dost thou hunt for me; and again thou showest thyself continually wonderful on me; ¹⁷ Thou ever renewest thy witnesses against me, and causest thy indignation to grow strong against me; changes and multitudes of sufferings are around me.

²⁴ Wherefore wilt thou hide thy face, and regard me as an enemy unto thee? ²⁵ Wilt thou terrify a leaf driven about by the wind? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble?

¹⁶ Yet now thou numberest my steps: and thou waitest not with the punishment of my sin.

⁹ In his wrath he teareth me to pieces, and assaileth me: he gnasheth over me with his teeth; my adversary sendeth threatening looks at me.

¹¹ He hath also kindled against me his wrath, and he counteth me with himself as one of his adversaries.

²¹ Thou art changed into a cruel master toward me: with the strength of thy hand thou assailest me.

⁵ For Job hath said, “I am righteous; and God hath taken away justice from me.

²⁷ And that thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and watchest narrowly all my paths; and settest for thyself a mark upon the soles of my feet?

⁴ Behold, he truly seeth my ways, and numbereth all my steps;

¹⁸ They forced into fetters his feet; in iron was his body put:

² Then smote Pashchur Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of the Lord.

^{35 (4:32)} And by whom all the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nought; and who according to his pleasure doth with the host of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth; while there is none that can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

²² With all this did Job not sin, and attributed no injustice to God.

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

¹⁴ Lo, these are ends of his ways; for how slight a whisper is heard by us of him! but the thunder of his mighty deeds who can understand?

¹⁷ But I also will surely answer my part, I myself also will show forth what I know;

¹⁰ Therefore ye men of sense hearken unto me: far is it from God to practise wickedness; and from the Almighty to do wrong! ¹¹ For the work of a son of earth doth he recompense unto him, and according to the path of man doth he permit things to occur to him. ¹² Yea, surely God will not condemn unjustly, nor will the Almighty pervert justice.

¹⁷ Is it possible that he who hateth justice should govern? or wilt thou condemn the righteous mighty One? ¹⁸ Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art worthless? and to princes, Ye are wicked? ¹⁹ Whereas he is one that showeth no favor to chieftains, and distinguisheth not the rich before the indigent; for all of them are the work of his hands.

²³ For he need not direct his attention a long time upon man, that he should enter into judgment before God.

² Dost thou deem this to be just, that thou hast said, “My righteousness is more than God’s?”

⁴ I will truly reply unto thee with words, and unto thy friends with thee.

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

²² Behold, God is exalted by his power: who is an instructer like him? ²³ Who hath given him a charge concerning his way? or who hath ever said, Thou hast acted unjustly?

² Will he that contendeth with the Almighty yet find fault? him that reproveth God answer this.

⁸ Wilt thou indeed annul my decree? wilt thou condemn me, in order that thou mayest appear righteous? ⁹ But if thou hast an arm like God, or if thou canst thunder loudly like him:

²⁰ For no man is so righteous upon earth, that he should do always good, and never sin.—

⁶ Shall I not be able to do unto you as this potter, O house of Israel? saith the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in my hand, O house of Israel.

²⁵ Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equitable: hear now, O house of Israel, Is not my way equitable? is it not your ways which are not equitable?

^{29 (29:28)} The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are publicly known belong unto us and to our children for ever, to do all the words of this law.

¹⁴ How much less then could I answer him, and select my words to contend with him?

²⁵ Because he had stretched out against God his hand, and strengthened himself against the Almighty; ²⁶ And he had run against him, with an extended neck, with the thick roundings of his bucklers;

^{11 (62:12)} Once hath God spoken; yea, twice what I have heard: that strength belongeth unto God.

⁹ Woe unto him that contendeth with the one who formed him—a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

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:

²⁴ I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also captured, O Babylon, while thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hadst entered into a contest against the Lord.

¹⁴ Will thy courage endure, or will thy hands remain strong, on the days that I will deal with thee? I the Lord have spoken, and will do it.

¹⁰ And the Lord spoke to Menasseh, and to his people; but they listened not.

²⁹ Lo, all these things doth God two or three times with man;

⁵ Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will not repeat it again.

²⁴ Whereas I called, and ye refused; I stretched out my hand, and no man was attentive;

²⁹ For the reason that they hated knowledge, and the fear of the Lord they did not choose;

⁹ And he said, Go, and say unto this people, Hear indeed, but understand not; and see indeed, but know not.

¹² And when the sun was about going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and lo, a horror, dark and great, fell upon him.

³ But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou shalt die for the sake of the woman whom thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.

²⁴ And God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said unto him, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

⁶ And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet of your kind, I, the Lord, do make myself known unto him in a vision, in a dream do I speak with him.

¹³ In intense thoughts out of visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men:

²⁸ The prophet that hath had a dream, let him relate his dream; and he that hath received my word, let him speak my word of truth. What hath the straw to do with the corn? saith the Lord.

^{5 (4:2)} I saw a dream which terrified me; and the thoughts upon my couch and the visions of my head troubled me.

¹⁸ Now as he was speaking with me, I fell down in amazement on my face to the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright where I had been standing.

²⁷ For thou, O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, hast revealed to the ear of thy servant, saying, A house will be built up for thee; therefore hath thy servant found the heart to pray unto thee this prayer.

^{38 (10:1)} And because of all this, we make a faithful covenant, and write it down; and on the sealed document are our princes, our Levites, and our priests.

¹⁰ And he openeth thus their ear to correction, and saith that they should return from wrong-doing.

¹⁵ He delivereth the afflicted through his affliction, and openeth through oppression his ear.

^{6 (40:7)} Sacrifice and meat-offering thou desirest not—ears hast thou hollowed out unto me—burnt-offering and sin-offering thou demandest 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.

⁸ But neither hadst thou heard it; nor didst thou know; nor had in ancient times thy ear been opened; for I knew that thou wouldst deal very treacherously, and a transgressor wast thou called from thy birth.

⁵ The Lord Eternal hath opened me my ear, and I resisted not: I turned not backward.

⁶ And God said unto him in the dream, Yea, I also well know that thou hast done this in the integrity of thy heart; therefore did I also withhold thee from sinning against me; for this cause I suffered thee not to touch her.

¹⁶ Who hath fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not; in order to afflict thee, and in order to prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;

²⁵ But not according to the mercy shown unto him did Hezekiah act in return; for his heart was lifted up: wherefore there came wrath over him, and over Judah and Jerusalem.

¹¹ My days are past, my resolves are broken off, even the thoughts—the possessions of my heart.

¹¹ The looks of human pride shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bent down: and exalted shall be the Lord alone on that day.

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

^{30 (4:27)} The king commenced, and said, Is not this Babylon the great, that I myself have built for a royal residence by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty? ^{31 (4:28)} The word was still in the king’s mouth, when there fell a voice from heaven, saying, To thee it is said, O king Nebuchadnezzar, The kingdom departeth from thee. ^{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.— ^{34 (4:31)} But at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up my eyes unto heaven, and my understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and glorified the Everliving, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and whose kingdom is over every generation; ^{35 (4:32)} And by whom all the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nought; and who according to his pleasure doth with the host of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth; while there is none that can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? ^{36 (4:33)} At the same time my understanding returned unto me; and with the glory of my kingdom, my honor and my splendor returned unto me; and my counsellors and my lords sought for me: and I was replaced in my kingdom, and additional greatness was added unto me. ^{37 (4:34)} Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and glorify the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and whose ways are justice; and who is able to bring low those that walk in pride.

^{6 (2:8)} Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will close it up with a fence, that she shall not find her paths.

²² He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is looked for by the sword.

²² Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit, and his life to those that slay.

²⁴ Then is he gracious unto him, and saith, Release him from going down to the pit, I have found an atonement.

²⁸ Thus he redeemeth his soul from passing into the pit, and his life will look joyously on the light.

³⁰ To bring back his soul from the pit, that she may shine in the light of life.

⁵ And thou shalt consider in thy heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so doth the Lord thy God chasten thee.

¹⁰ Then became Assa incensed toward the seer, and put him in a prison-house; for he was in a rage with him because of this. And Assa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

¹² And Assa became sick in the thirty-and-ninth year of his reign in his feet, his disease being exceedingly severe: yet even in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but applied to the physicians.

¹⁷ Behold, happy is the man whom God admonisheth: despise then not the correction of the Almighty. ¹⁸ For he it is that woundeth, and bindeth up: he smiteth, and his hands do heal.

⁴ When I He down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am wearied with tossings about till the dawn of day.

¹¹ Now his bones are full of his youthful vigor; but it will suddenly lie down with him in the dust.

¹⁷ All night it holloweth out my bones out of my body; and my pursuers take no rest.

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.

¹² Happy is the man whom thou admonisheth, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law:

⁶⁷ Before I was afflicted I was in error; but now I observe thy saying.

⁷¹ It is well for me that I have been afflicted, in order that I might learn thy statutes.

⁹ Therefore by this only shall the iniquity of Jacob be atoned; and this shall be all the fruit of the taking away of his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as limestones that are beaten in pieces, when there shall not arise again any groves and sun-images.

¹² Have the gods of the nations which my fathers destroyed delivered them, as Gozan, and Charan, and Rezeph, and the children of ‘Eden, who were in Thelassar? ¹³ Where is the king of Chamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvayim, of Hena’, and ‘Ivvah?

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.

²⁴ For before my food cometh my groaning, and like the water are poured forth my loud complaints.

¹⁷ Fools, because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. ¹⁸ All manner of food their soul abhorreth; and they draw near unto the gates of death;

¹⁹ But I had thought, How shall I establish thee among the other sons of man, and give thee a desirable land, a heritage of glory of the hosts of nations? and I thought, My father thou wouldst call me, and that from me thou wouldst not turn away.

¹¹ Therefore forasmuch as you tread down upon the poor, and ye take from him onerous contributions of corn: if ye have built houses of hewn stone, ye shall not dwell in them; if ye have planted pleasant vineyards, ye shall not drink their wine.

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

²⁸ And yet the body decayeth like a rotten thing, as a garment that the moth hath eaten.

²⁰ Thou assailest him with might without ceasing, till he passeth away: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him off.

²² But his body, on him, feeleth pain, and his soul will mourn for him.

⁸ And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, they are my witnesses; and my leanness riseth up for me, giveth its testimony to my face.

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

^{15 (22:16)} Like a potsherd is my strength dried up; and my tongue cleaveth to my palate; and into the dust of death hast thou laid me down. ^{16 (22:17)} For dogs have encompassed me; the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: like lions they threaten my hands and my feet. ^{17 (22:18)} I may number all my bones: while they stare and look upon me.

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.

^{11 (39:12)} When thou with corrections chastisest man for iniquity, thou causest his excellence to melt away as if eaten by the moth: yea, nothing but vanity is every man. Selah.

^{3 (102:4)} For my days vanish in smoke, and my bones are burning like a hearth. ^{4 (102:5)} Struck by heat like the herb and dried up is my heart; for I forget to eat my bread. ^{5 (102:6)} Because of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my flesh.

¹¹ While thou moanest at thy end, when thy flesh and thy body are coming to their end,

²³ And the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side-posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite.

⁶ The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

¹⁶ And when the angel stretched out his hand over Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord bethought himself of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed among the people, It is enough: now stay thy hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingfloor of Aravnah the Jebusite.

⁷ Oh remember that nothing but a breath is my life; that my eye will not again see happiness;

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

¹ My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave is ready for me.

¹³ When I hope for the nether world as my house; in the darkness have I spread my couch; ¹⁴ When I call to corruption, Thou art my father: Thou art my mother, and my sister, to the worms. ¹⁵ Ay, where is then my hope? as for my hope, who will see it fulfilled? ¹⁶ Let then my limbs sink down to the nether world: truly in the dust alone there is rest for all.

⁴ Among the deeds of men did I observe, by the word of thy lips, the paths of the dissolute.

^{3 (30:4)} O Lord, thou hast brought up from the nether world my soul: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

^{3 (88:4)} For my soul is sated with troubles; and my life draweth nigh unto the nether world. ^{4 (88:5)} I am counted with those that descend into the pit; I am become as a man without vigor: ^{5 (88:6)} Free among the dead, like the slain that dwell in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more; and those that are cut off by thy hand.

¹⁰ I had said, In the midst of my days, must I enter the gates of the nether world; I am deprived of the residue of my years.

¹ And a messenger of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim, And he said, I caused you to go up out of Egypt, and I brought you unto the land which I had sworn unto your fathers; and I said, I will not break my covenant with you for ever.

¹⁵ And the Lord the God of their fathers sent to them by means of his messengers, making them rise early, and sending them: because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling-place; ¹⁶ But they mocked at the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scorned his prophets, until the fury of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

³³ Nevertheless thou art righteous in all that is come over us; for thou hast acted according to truth, but we have done wickedly.

³ If he were desirous to enter into a contest with him, he could not give him one answer out of a thousand.

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.

¹⁰ Therefore ye men of sense hearken unto me: far is it from God to practise wickedness; and from the Almighty to do wrong!

¹² Yea, surely God will not condemn unjustly, nor will the Almighty pervert justice.

³² What I cannot see myself, do thou truly teach me; if I have done what is unjust, I will do so no more.”

¹⁴ Although thou sayest, thou canst not see him: yet the decision is before him; and do thou wait for him.

³ I will lift up my knowledge for him who is afar, and for my Maker will I obtain righteousness.

⁸ And if they be bound in fetters, and if they be entangled in the cords of affliction: ⁹ Then doth he tell them of their work, and of their transgressions, when they had become strong. ¹⁰ And he openeth thus their ear to correction, and saith that they should return from wrong-doing. ¹¹ If they hearken and serve him, they will spend their days in happiness, and their years in pleasures. ¹² But if they hearken not, they will pass away through the sword, and they will perish in want of knowledge. ¹³ But the hypocrites in heart persevere in wrath; they will not offer entreaty when he bindeth them:

²³ The Almighty, whom we cannot find out, excellent in power, and in justice, and abounding in righteousness, will not afflict:

⁷⁵ I know, O Lord, that thy decrees are righteous, and that in faithfulness thou hast afflicted me.

²⁸ What my soul constantly sought, but I found it not; one man among a thousand did I find; but a woman among all these did I not find.

¹ The Spirit of the Lord Eternal is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to announce good tidings unto the meek: he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim to captives Liberty, and to prisoners Release; ² To proclaim a year of favor of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all mourners; 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.

²² It is through the Lord’s kindness that we are not consumed, because his mercies have no end; ²³ They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

³² But though he have caused grief, yet will he have mercy according to the abundance of his kindnesses.

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.

²⁵ Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equitable: hear now, O house of Israel, Is not my way equitable? is it not your ways which are not equitable? ²⁶ When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and doth wrong, and dieth therefore: through his wrong which he hath done must he die. ²⁷ Again, when the wicked turneth away from his wickedness which he hath committed, and executeth justice and righteousness: he shall indeed preserve his soul alive. ²⁸ Because he hath considered, and turned away from all his transgressions which he had committed: he shall surely live, he shall not die.

¹⁴ Therefore did the Lord watch over the evil, and he brought it upon us; for the Lord our God is righteous because of all his deeds which he hath done; but we have not obeyed his voice.

¹³ Then said Haggai the messenger of the Lord by the Lord’s message unto the people saying, I am with you, saith the Lord.

⁷ For the priest’s lips are ever to keep knowledge, and the law are they to seek from his mouth; for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

¹ Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall clear out the way before me: and suddenly will come to his temple the Lord, whom ye seek; and the messenger of the covenant, whom ye desire for, behold, he is coming, saith the Lord of hosts.

¹⁹ And he said, I will cause all my goodness to pass before thy face, and I will proclaim, by name, the Lord before thee; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy.

⁶ And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord is the immutable, eternal Being, the omnipotent God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering and abundant in beneficence and truth; ⁷ Keeping mercy unto the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

²¹ Do but become acquainted with him, and be at peace: thereby will happiness come unto thee.

¹⁸ He withholdeth his soul from the pit, and his life from passing away by the sword.

¹⁰ And he openeth thus their ear to correction, and saith that they should return from wrong-doing. ¹¹ If they hearken and serve him, they will spend their days in happiness, and their years in pleasures.

¹⁸ For there would be fury, If aught were to incite thee to utter an abundance of rebellious words; and the greatness of the infliction must not mislead thee.

^{4 (22:5)} In thee did our fathers trust: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

^{9 (30:10)} What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the grave? Shall the dust thank thee? shall it announce thy truth? ^{10 (30:11)} Hear, O Lord, and be gracious unto me: Lord, be thou a helper unto me. ^{11 (30:12)} Thou hast changed my mourning into dancing for me; thou hast loosened my sack-cloth, and girded me with joy. ^{12 (30:13)} To the end that my glorious soul may sing praise to thee, and never be silent. O Lord my God, for ever will I give thanks unto thee.

^{2 (40:3)} And he brought me up out of the noiseful deep, out of the miry clay, and he set up my feet upon a rock, making firm my steps.

^{7 (49:8)} No one can in any wise redeem his brother, nor can he give to God redemption money for himself; ^{8 (49:9)} For the ransom of their soul is too costly, and it is omitted for ever.

³ Be thou unto me a rocky habitation, whereunto I may continually resort, which thou hast ordained to save me; for my rock and my strong-hold art thou.

⁵ For thou, O Lord, art good and forgiving, and abundant in kindness unto all that call on thee.

¹³ For thy kindness is great toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the grave of the lower world.

¹⁵ But thou, O Lord, art God, full of mercy, and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in kindness and truth.

¹⁷ Behold, for peace I had great bitterness; but thou hast, in loving my soul, delivered it from the pit of corruption; for thou hast cast behind thy back all my sins. ¹⁸ For the nether world will not thank thee, death will not praise thee: they that go down into the pit will not hope for thy truth. ¹⁹ The living, the living alone shall thank thee, like me this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

^{20 (31:19)} Is not Ephraim a dear son unto me? or a child that I dandle? for whenever I speak of him, I do earnestly remember him again: therefore are my inward parts moved for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.

^{2 (14:3)} Take with you swords, and return to the Lord: say unto him, “Pardon all our iniquity, and accept our return to good; and let us repay the steers of sacrifice with the prayer of our lips.

^{4 (14:5)} I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from them.

¹⁸ Who is a god like unto thee, pardoning iniquity, and forgiving transgression to the residue of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in kindness. ¹⁹ He will again have mercy on us, he will suppress our iniquities; yea, thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. ²⁰ Thou wilt show faithfulness unto Jacob, and kindness unto Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers in the days of old.

¹¹ As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant, do I send forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein there is no water.

⁷ And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eye was not dimmed, and his natural force had not abated.

¹⁰ And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he hath spoken: it is now forty and five years since the Lord spoke this word unto Moses, while Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now, behold, I am this day eighty and five years old. ¹¹ I am yet this day as strong as I was on the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, and to go out, and to come in.

¹⁴ Then went he down, and dived seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God: and his flesh was restored healthy like the flesh of a little boy, and he became clean.

¹⁶ And Job lived after this one hundred and forty years: and he saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.

⁵ Who satisfieth with happiness thy spirit, so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s plumage.

^{15 (2:17)} And I will give her again her vineyards from there, and the valley of ‘Achor [sorrow] as an entrance for hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as on the day of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.

²⁵ The Lord make his face shine unto thee, and be gracious to thee; ²⁶ The Lord lift up his countenance unto thee, and give thee peace.

²³ And may the Lord recompense to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; since the Lord delivered thee into my hand today, and I would not stretch forth my hand against the anointed of the Lord.

² Then did he turn his face to the wall, and prayed unto the Lord, saying, ³ I beseech thee, O Lord, remember now that I have walked before thee in truth, and with an undivided heart, and have done what is good in thy eyes. And Hezekiah wept aloud. ⁴ And it came to pass, before Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the Lord came to him, saying, ⁵ Return, and say to Hezekiah the ruler of my people, Thus hath said the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears; behold, I will heal thee: on the third day shalt thou go up unto the house of the Lord.

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.

¹⁹ His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sins and his faithlessness, and the places whereon he built high-places, and set up the Asherim and the graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written in the history of Chozai.

²⁶ For then wilt thou have in the Almighty thy delight, and thou canst lift up unto God thy face. ²⁷ Thou wilt make entreaty unto him, and he will hear thee, and thy vows wilt thou pay.

¹¹ For the work of a son of earth doth he recompense unto him, and according to the path of man doth he permit things to occur to him.

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

⁸ And now take unto yourselves seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up a burnt-offering in your behalf; and my servant Job shall pray for you; for him alone will I receive favorably, so as not to deal with you after your folly; because ye have not spoken of me properly, like my servant Job. 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.

^{6 (4:7)} Many say, “Who will show us happiness? Let shine brightly over us the light of thy countenance, O Lord.” ^{7 (4:8)} But thou hast placed more joy in my heart than at the time when their corn and their wine were increased.

¹ To the chief musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, a psalm of David. ^(6:2) O Lord, correct me not in thy anger, and chastise me not in thy wrath. ^{2 (6:3)} Be gracious unto me, O Lord; for I am withering away; heal me, O Lord; for my bones are terrified. ^{3 (6:4)} And my soul is greatly terrified; but thou, O Lord, how long yet—? ^{4 (6:5)} Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: help me for the sake of thy kindness. ^{5 (6:6)} For in death men do not remember thee: in the nether world, who shall give thee thanks? ^{6 (6:7)} I am weary with my sighing; I flood every night my bed; With my tears I moisten my couch. ^{7 (6:8)} My eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all my assailants. ^{8 (6:9)} Depart from me, all ye workers of wickedness; for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping. ^{9 (6:10)} The Lord hath heard my supplication; the Lord will accept my prayer.

¹¹ Thou wilt let me know the path of life: fulness of joy is in thy presence; pleasures are at thy right hand for evermore.

^{20 (18:21)} The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the purity of my hands did he recompense me.

¹ Of David. Unto thee, O Lord, will I call; O my rock, turn not unheeding from me: lest thou turn away silent from me, and I become like those that go down into the pit. ² Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward the most holy place of thy sanctuary.

⁶ Blessed be the Lord, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.

^{5 (30:6)} For his anger is momentary, but life is in his favor: in the evening cometh weeping to stay for a night, but in the morning, there is joyful song.

^{7 (30:8)} Lord, by thy favor hadst thou caused my mountain to stand in strength: thou didst hide thy face, and I was terrified. ^{8 (30:9)} Unto thee, O Lord, will I call; and unto the Lord will I make supplication. ^{9 (30:10)} What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the grave? Shall the dust thank thee? shall it announce thy truth? ^{10 (30:11)} Hear, O Lord, and be gracious unto me: Lord, be thou a helper unto me. ^{11 (30:12)} Thou hast changed my mourning into dancing for me; thou hast loosened my sack-cloth, and girded me with joy.

^{8 (41:9)} “His godless deed say they is poured out over him: as he lieth there he will never more rise up again.” ^{9 (41:10)} Yea, even the man that should have sought my welfare, in whom I trusted, who eateth my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me. ^{10 (41:11)} But thou, O Lord, be gracious unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite it unto them. ^{11 (41:12)} By this do I know that thou art pleased with me, that my enemy doth not triumph over me.

¹⁵ And call on me on the day of distress: I will deliver thee,—and so wilt thou glorify me.”

^{12 (62:13)} And unto thee, O Lord, belongeth kindness; for thou wilt recompense every man according to his works.

¹ To the chief musician on Neginoth, a psalm or song. ^(67:2) May God be gracious unto us, and bless us; may he cause his face to shine upon us. Selah.

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.

¹ It is lovely to me that the Lord heareth my voice, my supplications. ² For he hath inclined his ear unto me: therefore throughout all my days will I call on him. ³ The bands of death had compassed me, and the pangs of the nether world had overtaken me; I had met with distress and sorrow: ⁴ I then called on the name of the Lord, I beseech thee, O Lord, release my soul. ⁵ Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; and our God is merciful. ⁶ The Lord preserveth the simple: I was in misery, and he helped me.

¹² If thou shouldst say, Behold, we know not this man: lo, he that weigheth hearts will truly regard it, and he that keepeth thy soul will surely know it; and he will give a recompense to man according to his doing.

¹⁹ For O people of Zion that shall dwell at Jerusalem! thou shalt indeed not weep: he will be surely gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; so soon as he heareth it, he answereth thee.

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

^{2 (2:3)} And he said, I called from the midst of my distress unto the Lord, and he hath answered me: out of the depth of the grave have I cried, and thou hast heard my voice. ^{3 (2:4)} For thou hast cast me into the deep, in the heart of the seas; and the stream compasseth me about: all thy billows and thy waves have passed over me. ^{4 (2:5)} And I thought indeed, I am driven out from before thy eyes: yet I again shall look toward thy holy temple. ^{5 (2:6)} The waters surrounded me, to the peril of my life; the deep compassed me about: sea-weeds were bound about my head. ^{6 (2:7)} To the bottoms of the mountains did I go down; the earth closed her bars about me for ever: when thou broughtest up my life from the pit, O Lord my God! ^{7 (2:8)} When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came unto thee, unto thy holy temple.

¹³ And she called the name of the Lord that spoke unto her, Thou art an all-seeing God; for she said, Have I not also seen here a vision after he appeared to me?

¹¹ Then said Aaron unto Moses, Alas, my Lord, do not, I beseech thee, account to us as sin that wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.

¹³ Then said David unto Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, Also the Lord hath caused thy sin to pass away: thou shalt not die.

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.

²⁰ If I have sinned, what injury can I cause unto thee, O thou Guardian of men? why hast thou set me as an object for thee to strike at, so that I am become a burden to myself?

⁹ For he hath said, “It profiteth a man nothing when he acteth according to the pleasure of God.”

⁴ The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord hath his throne in the heavens, his eyes behold, his eyelids prove, the children of men.

² The Lord looketh down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there be one intelligent, one who seeketh for God.

^{7 (19:8)} The law of the Lord is perfect, quieting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. ^{8 (19:9)} The precepts of the Lord are upright, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is clear, enlightening the eyes.

¹²⁸ Therefore do I esteem all thy precepts in all things as right: every path of falsehood do I hate.

¹ To the chief musician, by David, a psalm. O Lord! thou hast searched me through, and thou knowest me. ² Thou indeed knowest my sitting down and my rising up, thou understandest my thinking while yet afar off. ³ My walking and my lying down hast thou limited, and with all my ways art thou acquainted. ⁴ For, while there is not a word on my tongue, lo, thou, O Lord, knowest it entirely.

²¹ For before the eyes of the Lord are the ways of man, and all his tracks doth he weigh in the balance.

³ In every place are the eyes of the Lord, looking on the bad and the good.

¹³ He that concealeth his transgressions will not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them will obtain mercy.

^{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.

⁸ The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that handle the law knew me not; and the shepherds transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied in the name of Ba’al, and after things that cannot profit did they walk.

¹³ Only acknowledge thy iniquity, that against the Lord thy God thou hast rebelled, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and that unto my voice ye have not hearkened, saith the Lord.

²⁴ If a man should hide himself in secret places should I not then see him? saith the Lord. Do I not fill the heavens and the earth? saith the Lord.

^{18 (31:17)} I have indeed heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, “Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untamed calf; cause me to return, and I will return; for thou art the Lord my God. ^{19 (31:18)} Surely after my returning, I repent; and after I am made conscious by punishment, I smite upon my thigh: I am ashamed, yea, I am confounded, because I bear the disgrace of my youth.”

⁹ Let the stars of its twilight be darkened; let it hope for light, and there be none; and let it not behold the eyelids of the morning-dawn;

¹⁶ Or as an untimely birth, hidden from view I should not exist; as infants that never have seen the light;

²⁰ Wherefore giveth He now light to the labor-laden, and life unto the bitter in soul?

¹⁶ Let then my limbs sink down to the nether world: truly in the dust alone there is rest for all.

²⁸ And if thou decree a thing, it will be fulfilled unto thee; and upon thy ways the light will shine.

²⁰ So that his inclination abhorreth bread, and his soul, the most agreeable food.

^{19 (49:20)} She shall go to the generation of his fathers, unto eternity will these never see light.

^{23 (55:24)} But thou, O God, thou wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: let not the men of blood and deceit live out half their days; but I will indeed trust in thee.

^{15 (69:16)} Let not the flood of waters overflow me, and let not the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit close its mouth upon me.

^{2 (9:1)} The people that walk in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death—a light shineth brightly over them.

¹⁷ Behold, for peace I had great bitterness; but thou hast, in loving my soul, delivered it from the pit of corruption; for thou hast cast behind thy back all my sins. ¹⁸ For the nether world will not thank thee, death will not praise thee: they that go down into the pit will not hope for thy truth.

¹⁰ And the king of Israel sent to the place, which the man of God had told him and warned him of, and he took care of himself there: not once nor twice.

¹⁴ For God speaketh once, yea twice: yet man regardeth it not. ¹⁵ In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumbers upon the couch: ¹⁶ Then doth he lay open the ear of men, and sealeth it with their warning; ¹⁷ To remove the son of earth from his intended deed and he covereth up pride from man;

¹ To the chief musician, a psalm of David. ^(40:2) I had waited patiently for the Lord, when he inclined himself unto me, and heard my cry. ^{2 (40:3)} And he brought me up out of the noiseful deep, out of the miry clay, and he set up my feet upon a rock, making firm my steps.

^{13 (56:14)} For thou hast delivered my soul from death—yea, behold, my feet from slipping, that I may walk before God in the light of the life.

¹⁷ I shall not die, but I shall live, and relate the works of the Lord. ¹⁸ Severely hath the Lord chastised me; but unto death hath he not given me up.

⁵ O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.

¹⁷ Behold, for peace I had great bitterness; but thou hast, in loving my soul, delivered it from the pit of corruption; for thou hast cast behind thy back all my sins.

² When will ye at length put an end to words? Come to an understanding, and afterward let us speak.

² Hear, O hear my speech, and let this be wherewith you give consolations.

¹¹ Behold, I waited for your words: I gave an attentive ear to your reasonings, till you might have searched out the proper words.

⁴ Yea, thou truly makest void the fear of God, and diminishest devotion before God. ⁵ For thy iniquity teacheth thy mouth, so that thou choosest the language of the crafty.

²⁷ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the opinions which ye wrongfully devise against me.

⁵ Is not thy evil great? and no end to thy iniquities? ⁶ For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brothers for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. ⁷ Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and from the hungry thou hast withholden bread. ⁸ But as for the man of a strong arm, he obtained the land, and the highly honored could dwell therein. ⁹ Widows hast thou sent away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

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.

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

^{11 (34:12)} Come, ye children, hearken unto me: the fear of the Lord will I teach you.

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

¹ Hear, ye children, the correction of a father, and attend to know understanding. ² For good information do I give you: my teaching must ye not forsake.

¹ My son, attend unto my wisdom; to my understanding incline thou thy ear: ² That thou mayest observe discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

⁵ Learn, O ye simple, to understand prudence: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.