Job 36 Cross References - Leeser

¹ Then continued Elihu, and said, ² Wait for me a little, and I will instruct thee; for I have still some words on God’s behalf. 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. ⁵ Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength of intellect. ⁶ He permitteth not the wicked to live; but he procureth justice for the afflicted. ⁷ He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous; but he placeth them with kings on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted. 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: ¹⁴ Their soul will die in youth, and their life, among the incestuous. ¹⁵ He delivereth the afflicted through his affliction, and openeth through oppression his ear. ¹⁶ And also thee hath he incited away from the jaws of distress into a wide space, on the site of which there is no straitness; and what is set on thy table is full of fatness. ¹⁷ But if thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: divine judgment and decree will support each other. 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. ¹⁹ Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold ore, nor all the highest forces of strength. ²⁰ Desire then not eagerly the night, when nations pass away in their place. ²¹ Take heed, turn not thyself to wrong-doing, so that thou wouldst choose this because of thy affliction. 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? ²⁴ Reflect, that thou shouldst magnify his work, which other men have beheld. ²⁵ All men have looked at it with astonishment; the mortal gazeth at it from afar. ²⁶ Behold, God is great, and we comprehend him not, the number of his years can truly not be searched out. ²⁷ For he taketh away drops of water, which are purified into rain in his mist: ²⁸ These drop down out of the skies; they distil upon the multitude of men. ²⁹ But what man can understand the outspreadings of the clouds? the tumult of his tabernacle? ³⁰ Behold, he spreadeth out over it his light, and covereth up the roots of the sea. ³¹ For by means of them he judgeth nations, he giveth food in superfluity. ³² His hands he covereth with light; and he commandeth it to strike the one who striveth against him. ³³ The noise of his storm telleth of it, yea, the cattle also, of the rising tempest.

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.

⁷ Will ye speak wrong things for God? and will ye speak for him deceitfully? ⁸ Will ye show him undue favor, when ye contend for God?

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

⁶ Behold, I am in the same relation as thyself toward God: I myself also am cut out of the clay.

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.

¹⁹ Therefore thus hath said the Lord, If thou return, and I bring thee back again, then shalt thou stand before me; and if thou bring forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: these shall return unto thee; but thou shalt not return unto them.

⁷ And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are rebellious.

⁴ He is the Rock, his work is perfect; for all his ways are just: the God of truth and without iniquity, just and upright is he.

³ Should God pervert justice? or should the Almighty pervert righteousness?

¹² But wisdom—where shall she he found? and where is the place of understanding? ¹³ Man knoweth not her value: and she is not to be found in the land of the living.

²⁰ But wisdom—whence cometh she? and where is the place of understanding? ²¹ Yea, she is hidden from the eyes of all living, and from the fowls of the heavens is she concealed. ²² Perdition and death say, With our ears have we heard a report of her. ²³ God alone understandeth her way, and he knoweth her place; ²⁴ For he looketh to the ends of the earth, whatever is under the whole heaven doth he see.

² Thereupon was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he had declared himself more righteous than God.

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

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

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.

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

⁷ For righteous is the Lord, he loveth righteousness: his countenance doth behold the upright.

¹⁷ Righteous is the Lord in all his ways, and beneficent in all his works.

⁴ If thou wilt seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures: ⁵ Then wilt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and the knowledge of God wilt thou find.

¹ Too righteous art thou, O Lord, that I could plead with thee; yet must I speak of the principles of justice with thee: Wherefore is the way of the wicked happy? do all those prosper that deal treacherously?

⁷ Thine, O Lord, is the righteousness, but unto us belongeth the shame of face, as it is this day,—to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, those that are near, and those that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass which they have trespassed against thee.

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.

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

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

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

³⁴ How then will ye comfort me with vanity? and of your answers there remaineth only deception.

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. ¹⁰ Therefore are snares round about thee, and sudden dread terrifieth thee. ¹¹ Or seest thou not the darkness? and the abundance of water which covereth thee? ¹² Is not God in the height of heaven? and beholding the highest elevation of the stars, however high they are? ¹³ But thou sayest, “What doth God know? can he judge behind the darkness? ¹⁴ Thick clouds are a covering for him, so that he will not see; and he walketh along on the circle of heaven.” ¹⁵ Wilt thou thus observe the path of ancient times which the men of injustice have trodden? ¹⁶ Who were shrivelled up before their time, whose foundation was flooded away like a river; ¹⁷ Who said unto God, “Depart from us:” and what wrought the Almighty for them? ¹⁸ And yet it was he that filled their houses with good things; but the counsel of the wicked be still far from me. ¹⁹ The righteous will see it, and be glad; and the innocent will laugh them to scorn. ²⁰ “Is not he destroyed that rose up against us, and hath not the fire consumed what they had left?” ²¹ Do but become acquainted with him, and be at peace: thereby will happiness come unto thee. ²² Do but accept instruction from his mouth, and lay up his saying in thy heart. ²³ If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, so thou wilt but remove wrong-doing far away from thy tents. ²⁴ And throw down in the dust precious metals, and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the brooks: ²⁵ Then will the Almighty be thy precious metal, and brightly-shining silver unto thee. 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. ²⁸ And if thou decree a thing, it will be fulfilled unto thee; and upon thy ways the light will shine. ²⁹ For when men are brought low, thou wilt say, Pride hath done it; but those of lowly eyes God will help. ³⁰ He will even deliver him who is not guiltless: and thou wilt be delivered by the purity of thy hands.

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

¹⁶ Dost thou know aught about the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

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

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.

²⁰ Have not I written for thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge, ²¹ That I might make thee know rectitude, the sayings of truth; that thou mightest bring back answers of truth to those that send thee?

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

¹⁹ If it regard strength, lo, he is the powerful; and if justice, who will cite him for me to appear?

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?

¹³ That with him are wisdom and strength, his are counsel and understanding. ¹⁴ Behold, he pulleth down, and there can be no rebuilding: he locketh the prison upon a man, and there can be no opening, ¹⁵ Behold, he restraineth the waters, and they dry up; or he suffereth them to flow, and they overturn the earth. ¹⁶ With him are strength and counsel: his are the deceived and the deceiver.

¹² By his power he split in pieces the sea, and by his understanding he crushed its pride: ¹³ By his breath the heavens acquired beauty; his hand hath created the flying serpent. 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?

¹³ If ever I cast aside the justice due to my man-servant and my maid-servant, when they contended with me:

^{24 (22:25)} For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the poor; neither hath he hidden his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

⁴ And to the power of the king who loveth justice and righteousness hast thou truly executed in Jacob.

⁶ For exalted is the Lord, yet doth he regard the lowly; but the proud he punisheth from afar.

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

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

¹⁹ Great in counsel, and mighty in execution: thou whose eyes are open over all the ways of the sons of man, to give unto every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

^{22 (22:21)} Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. ^{23 (22:22)} If thou afflict him in any wise; for if he cry at all unto me, I will surely hear his cry: ^{24 (22:23)} My wrath shall wax hot, and I will slay you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

¹⁵ But who saveth from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty, the needy one:

²² They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.

⁷ Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, grow strong in power? ⁸ Their seed is firmly established in their presence with them, their offspring are before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses are at peace without any dread, and no rod of God cometh over them.

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

¹² Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, yea, that had none to help him. ¹³ The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; and the heart of the widow I caused to sing for joy. ¹⁴ I took righteousness as my garment, and it clothed me: as a robe and a mitre was justice unto me. ¹⁵ Eyes was I to the blind; and feet to the lame was I. ¹⁶ A father was I to the needy; and the cause of him I knew not I used to investigate. ¹⁷ And I broke the cutting-teeth of the wrong-doer, and out of his teeth I cast down his prey.

^{12 (9:13)} For he, that inquireth after acts of blood, hath remembered them: he hath not forgotten the cry of the afflicted.

¹⁴ Thou hast seen it: for thou beholdest mischief and despiteful acts, to requite it with thy hand: unto thee the unfortunate committeth himself; unto the fatherless hast thou ever been a helper. ¹⁵ Break thou the arm of the wicked; and of the bad man—thou wilt inquire for his wickedness till thou find none.

^{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.

⁴ He shall judge the afflicted of the people, he shall give help to the children of the needy; but he shall crush the oppressor.

¹² For he will deliver the needy when he crieth; the afflicted also, who hath no helper. ¹³ He will spare the poor and needy; and the souls of the needy will he assist. ¹⁴ From wrong and violence will he deliver their soul; and precious shall their blood be in his eyes.

¹ A psalm of Assaph. God standeth in the congregation of God, in the midst of judges doth he judge. ² How long will ye judge unjustly, and treat with favor the face of the wicked? Selah. ³ Judge uprightly the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and indigent. ⁴ Release the poor and needy: deliver them out of the power of the wicked.

^{12 (140:13)} I know that the Lord will procure right for the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

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.

⁴ But he shall judge with righteousness the poor, and decide with equity for the suffering ones of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

¹ Too righteous art thou, O Lord, that I could plead with thee; yet must I speak of the principles of justice with thee: Wherefore is the way of the wicked happy? do all those prosper that deal treacherously? ² Thou hast planted them; they have also taken root; they grow; they also bring forth fruit: thou art near, in their mouth, and far from their mind.

⁶ Hear us, my lord; a prince of God thou art among us; in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, so that thou mayest bury thy dead.

⁴⁰ Thou shalt be over my house, and according to thy word shall all my people be ruled, only in regard to the throne will I be greater than thou.

⁸ He raiseth up out of the dust the poor, from the dunghill he lifteth up the needy, to set them among nobles, and he assigneth them the throne of glory; for the Lord’s are the pillars of the earth, on which he hath set the world.

¹³ He it is that shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever. ¹⁴ I too will be to him as a father, and he shall indeed be to me as a son: so that when he committeth iniquity, I will chastise him with the rod of men, and with the plagues of the children of man; ¹⁵ But my kindness shall not depart from him, as I caused it to depart from Saul, whom I removed from before thee. ¹⁶ And thy house and thy kingdom shall be steadfast for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.

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

³ For Mordecai the Jew was the second in rank after king Achashverosh, and great among the Jews, and acceptable to the multitude of his brethren, a promoter of good to his people, and speaking peace to all its seed.

³ And his cattle consisted of seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and he had a very great store of servants: so that this man was greater than all the sons of the east.

¹² And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: and he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

¹⁸ Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon those that fear him, upon those that hope for his kindness.

^{15 (34:16)} The eyes of the Lord are directed unto the righteous, and his ears unto their cry.

⁷⁰ And he made choice of David his servant, and took him from the sheep-folds: ⁷¹ From following the ewes with young he brought him, to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. ⁷² And he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and by the skilfulness of his hands did he lead them.

⁷ Of an evil report shall he not be afraid: his heart is firm, trusting in the Lord. ⁸ Well supported is his heart, he shall not be afraid, until he looketh on the punishment of his assailants. ⁹ He distributeth, he giveth to the needy: his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted in honor. ¹⁰ The wicked shall see it, and be vexed; he will gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the longing of the wicked shall perish.

⁷ He raiseth up out of the dust the poor, from the dunghill he lifteth up the needy: ⁸ That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.

¹⁷ The Lord thy God is in the midst of thee, the mighty one who will save; he will be glad over thee with rejoicing; he will be silent in his love, he will exult over thee with song.

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?

⁶ Then know for certain that God hath bent me down, and hath laid his net all around me.

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.

^{5 (18:6)} The bonds of hell encircled me: the snares of death seized on me.

¹⁰ Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, bound in misery and fetters of iron;—

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:

²² His own iniquities will truly catch the wicked, and with the cords of his sin will he be held firmly.

⁹ He hath fenced up my ways with hewn stone, my paths hath he made crooked.

²¹ Farthermore the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, and he swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the Lord thy God giveth unto thee for an inheritance; ²² For I must die in this land; I shall not go over the Jordan; but ye will go over and take possession of this good land.

¹¹ Wherefore the Lord brought over them the captains of the army belonging to the king of Assyria: and they took Menasseh prisoner with chains, and bound him with fetters, and led him off to Babylon. ¹² And when he was in distress, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. ¹³ And he prayed unto him, and he permitted himself to be entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem, unto his kingdom. Then did Menasseh feel conscious that the Lord is indeed the true God.

² I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; let me know for what cause thou contendest against me.

²⁵ Because he had stretched out against God his hand, and strengthened himself against the Almighty;

^{10 (5:11)} Condemn them, O God: let them fall through their own counsels; for the multitude of their transgressions cast them down; for they have rebelled against thee.

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.

¹² For our transgressions are numerous in thy presence, and our sins testify against us; for of our transgressions are we aware; and our iniquities—we know them;

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.

²⁸ Because he hath considered, and turned away from all his transgressions which he had committed: he shall surely live, he shall not die. ²⁹ Yet say the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equitable: are not my ways equitable, O house of Israel? is it not your ways which are not equitable? ³⁰ Therefore will I judge you, every one according to his ways, O house of Israel, saith the Lord Eternal: return ye, and cause others to return from all your transgressions, that iniquity may not become your stumbling-block. ³¹ Cast away from yourselves all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

¹³ The Lord had indeed warned Israel and Judah, by means of all the prophets, all the seers, saying, Turn ye back from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I have sent to you by means of my servants the prophets.

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:

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.

²² How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners take their delight in scorning, and fools hate knowledge? ²³ Turn back to my admonition: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

⁴ Unto you, O men, I call, and my voice goeth forth to the sons of men, ⁵ Learn, O ye simple, to understand prudence: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

⁴ Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that is void of sense, she saith to him, ⁵ “Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled. ⁶ Forsake simplicity, and live; and go onward on the way of understanding.

¹⁶ Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil; ¹⁷ Learn to do well; seek for justice, relieve the oppressed, do justice to the fatherless, plead for the widow. ¹⁸ Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins should be as scarlet, they shall become white as the snow; though they should be red like crimson, they shall become like wool. ¹⁹ If ye be willing and obey, the best of the land shall ye eat; ²⁰ But if ye refuse and rebel, by the sword shall ye be devoured; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

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.

¹⁷ Thus hath said the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, I am the Lord thy God who teach thee for thy profit, who lead thee by the way thou shouldst go.

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

⁶ Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found, call ye on him, while he is near. ⁷ Let the wicked forsake his way, and the man of unrighteousness his thoughts; and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and unto our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

³ For thus hath said the Lord to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Plough up your fallow ground, that ye may not sow among thorns. ⁴ Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and remove the obduracy of your heart, O ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

³ Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will permit you to dwell in this place. ⁴ But do not rely on the words of falsehood, saying, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, as they say. ⁵ For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your deeds; if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor; ⁶ If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and walk not after other gods to your own hurt: ⁷ Then will I permit you to dwell in this place, in the land that I have given to your fathers, from eternity to eternity.

^{1 (14:2)} Return, O Israel, even unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast stumbled through thy iniquity.

³⁰ When thou art in tribulation, and all these things have overtaken thee, in the latter end of days: then wilt thou return to the Lord thy God, and be obedient unto his voice.

¹³ If thou truly direct aright thy heart, and spread out thy hands toward him:— ¹⁴ If wrong be in thy hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tents. ¹⁵ For then canst thou lift up thy face free from blemish: yea, thou wilt stand steadfast, and needest not to fear; ¹⁶ Because thou wilt truly forget thy trouble, and as a waterflood that is passed away wilt thou remember it; ¹⁷ And brighter than the noon of day will thy earthly existence arise; and thy obscurity will be like thy morning. ¹⁸ And thou wilt feel trust, because there is hope: yea, thou wilt search about carefully, and thou wilt lie down in safety. ¹⁹ Also thou wilt stretch thyself out to rest, with none to make thee afraid; and many will entreat thy favor.

¹¹ They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children skip about with joy.

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

²³ If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, so thou wilt but remove wrong-doing far away from thy tents.

² Every thing as it is to happen to all; there is but one occurrence for the righteous, and for the wicked; for the good and for the clean, and for the unclean; and for him that sacrificeth, and for him that sacrificeth not; as is the good, so is the sinner; he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath. ³ This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one occurrence for all, and that also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and that madness is in their heart while they live, and after this they go to the dead.

¹⁹ If ye be willing and obey, the best of the land shall ye eat;

²³ But this thing did I command them, saying, Hearken to my voice, and I will be unto you for a God, and ye shall be unto me for a people; and walk ye altogether on the way which I may command you, in order that it may be well unto you.

¹³ But now amend your ways and your doings, and hearken to the voice of the Lord your God: and the Lord will bethink him of the evil that he hath spoken against you.

¹⁵ A prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me, will the Lord thy God raise up unto thee; unto him shall ye hearken: ¹⁶ According to all that thou didst desire of the Lord thy God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, I wish no more to hear the voice of the Lord my God, and this great fire I wish not to see again, that I die not. ¹⁷ And the Lord said unto me, They have done well in what they have spoken. ¹⁸ A prophet will I raise up unto them from among their brethren, like unto thee; and I will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I may command him. ¹⁹ And it shall come to pass, that if there be a man who will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him. ²⁰ But the prophet, who may presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who may speak in the name of other Gods even that prophet shall die. ²¹ And if thou shouldst say in thy heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken? ²² That which the prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, and the thing do not happen and come not to pass—this is the word which the Lord hath not spoken; in presumption hath the prophet spoken it; thou shalt not be afraid of him.

^{15 (29:14)} But with him that is standing here with us this day before the Lord our God, and with him that is not here with us this day. ^{16 (29:15)} (For ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we passed through the nations through which ye have passed; ^{17 (29:16)} And ye saw their abominations, and their idols, of wood and stone, silver and gold, which they had with them:) ^{18 (29:17)} So that there may not be among you a man, or a woman, or a family, or a tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go to serve the gods of these nations; that there may not be among you a root that beareth abundantly poison and wormwood. ^{19 (29:18)} And it might come to pass, when he heareth the words of this denunciation, that he would bless himself in his heart, saying, There will be peace unto me, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart; in order that the indulgence of the passions may appease the thirst for them: ^{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 Behold, their excellency which is in them is torn away: they die, and this without wisdom.

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

²⁰ But if ye refuse and rebel, by the sword shall ye be devoured; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

¹¹ Woe unto the wicked who doeth evil; for the recompense of his hands shall be bestowed on him.

¹⁴ And now, behold, ye are risen up in your father’s stead, a new race of sinful men, to augment yet more the fierce anger of the Lord toward Israel.

¹³ And they said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither; for in addition to the guiltiness against the Lord resting on us, ye think to add unto our sins and unto our guiltiness; for great is the guiltiness resting on us, and there is fierce wrath over Israel.

²² And in the time that he distressed him, became he yet more faithless against the Lord,—yea, he, king Achaz;

⁴ Yea, thou truly makest void the fear of God, and diminishest devotion before God.

⁸ For what is the hope of the hypocrite, when he hath gained unjust wealth, when God casteth forth his soul? ⁹ Will God hear his cry, when distress cometh upon him? ¹⁰ Or can he find delight in the Almighty? can he call on God at all times?

⁹ By reason of the multitude of oppressions the wicked cause men to cry: these complain aloud because of the arm of the mighty. ¹⁰ But man saith not, Where is God my maker, who bestoweth joyful songs even in the night;

⁸ And if they be bound in fetters, and if they be entangled in the cords of affliction:

⁵ And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men who came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

²⁴ And the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire, from the Lord, out of heaven; ²⁵ And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

⁷ And ‘Er, Judah’s first-born, was displeasing in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord slew him. ⁸ And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and take her, as her brother-in-law, and raise up seed to thy brother. ⁹ Onan thus knew that the seed should not be his, and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, so as not to give seed unto his brother. ¹⁰ And the thing which he did was displeasing in the eyes of the Lord: wherefore he slew him also.

¹ And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took each his censer, and they put therein fire, and put thereon incense: and they brought near before the Lord a strange fire, which he had not commanded them. ² And there went out a fire from before the Lord, and consumed them, and they died before the Lord.

^{17 (23:18)} There shall not be a prostitute of the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

³² Even before his time will it be overfull, and his branches will not be green.

²³ That this one dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet; ²⁴ His vessels being full of healthy fluid, and the marrow of his bones being well moistened: ²⁵ While this other dieth with an embittered soul, and hath never partaken of any happiness;

¹⁶ Who were shrivelled up before their time, whose foundation was flooded away like a river;

⁸ However they shall be servants unto him, and they shall know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the various countries.

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

⁸ My road hath he fenced up, so that I cannot pass out; and on my paths he placeth darkness.

¹⁰ And the Lord brought back the captivity of Job, when he prayed in behalf of his friends; and the Lord increased all that Job had had twofold. ¹¹ And then came unto him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all that had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house; and they condoled with him, and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him; and they gave him, every one, a kessitah, and every one an earring of gold. ¹² And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: and he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses. ¹³ He had also seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴ And he called the name of the first Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch. ¹⁵ And there were not found such handsome women as the daughters of Job in all the land; and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. ¹⁶ And Job lived after this one hundred and forty years: and he saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations. ¹⁷ Then died Job, being old and full of days.

^{19 (18:20)} And he brought me forth into a large space; he delivered me, because he had delight in me.

⁵ Thou preparest before me a table in the presence of my assailants; thou anointest with oil my head: my cup overfloweth.

^{8 (31:9)} And thou hast not surrendered me into the hand of the enemy: thou hast caused my feet to stand on an ample space.

^{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.

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. ^{3 (40:4)} And he placed in my mouth a new song, a praise unto our God: many will see it, and fear; and they will trust in the Lord.

^{5 (63:6)} As with fat and marrow will my soul be satisfied; and with tuneful lips shall my mouth praise thee.

⁵ From the midst of distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me with enlargement.

⁶ And the Lord of hosts will make unto all the nations on this mountain a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.

² Wherefore will ye spend money for what is not bread? and your labor for what satisfieth not? hearken then unto me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

^{14 (2:16)} Therefore, behold, will I allure her, and lead her forth into the wilderness, and I will speak comfortingly unto her heart.

⁵ But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the condolence of my lips should restrain your grief.

¹¹ Or seest thou not the darkness? and the abundance of water which covereth thee?

⁸ And is on the road to keep company with the wrong-doers, and to walk with men of wickedness?

³⁶ Oh that Job may therefore be probed continually, in order to give answers against sinful men.

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

⁵ Then will he speak unto them in his anger, and in his displeasure will he terrify them.

¹² Do homage to the son, lest he be angry, and ye be lost on the way; for his wrath is so speedily kindled. Happy are all they that put their trust in him.

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

^{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.

⁵ The Lord at thy right hand crusheth kings on the day of his wrath.

⁶ He who smote people in wrath, blows without intermission, he that ruled in anger nations, persecuting without restraint.

¹⁶ Son of man, behold, I will take away from thee the desire of thy eyes by a sudden death; but thou shalt neither mourn nor weep, nor shalt thou shed a tear.

¹³ God will not withdraw his anger: beneath him sink down the helpers of the proud.

²⁰ In a moment will they die, and in the midst of the night; people are moved, and pass away: and the mighty will be removed without a human hand.

¹⁶ The king is not saved by the multitude of an army: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength. ¹⁷ Vain is the horse for victory: nor shall he deliver any by the greatness of his strength.

² Treasures of wickedness will not profit aught; but righteousness will deliver from death.

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

²¹ The hand of God being against his hand, the bad man shall not go unpunished; but the seed of the righteous shall escape.

²⁰ On that day shall a man cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which have been made for him to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

³⁶ Then went out an angel of the Lord, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty and five thousand men; and when people arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

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.

²⁹ And it came to pass at midnight, that the Lord smote every first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that was to sit on his throne unto the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the first-born of cattle.

³⁵ And it came to pass, on the same night, that an angel of the Lord went out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred eighty and five thousand men: and when people arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

²⁰ Wherefore giveth He now light to the labor-laden, and life unto the bitter in soul? ²¹ Who wait for death, which cometh not; and who dig for it sooner than for hidden treasures;

⁹ Yea, that it would please God that he might crush me: that he would let loose his hand, and make an end of me!

¹⁵ So that my soul would choose strangling, death rather than these limbs of mine.

¹³ Oh who would grant that thou mightest hide me in the nether world, that thou mightest conceal me, until thy wrath be appeased, that thou mightest set for me a fixed time, and remember me then!

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.

²⁵ For the reason that he knoweth their deeds: therefore he overturneth them in the night, and they are crushed.

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

³ If the clouds be full of rain, they will empty it out upon the earth; and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, on the place where the tree falleth, there will it remain.

³⁰ In that very night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.

⁷ What man is there like Job, who drinketh scorning like water, ⁸ And is on the road to keep company with the wrong-doers, and to walk with men of wickedness? ⁹ For he hath said, “It profiteth a man nothing when he acteth according to the pleasure of God.”

³ For thou sayest, “What benefit will it be unto thee? what more profit shall I have, than if I had sinned?”

¹⁸ If I had looked on wickedness with my heart, the Lord would not have heard;

⁴ Therefore speak with them and say unto them, Thus hath said the Lord Eternal, Whatever man it be of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and layeth the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet: I the Lord will answer him, although he cometh with the multitude of his idols;

¹⁶ Then answered Shadrach, Meshach, and ‘Abed-nego, and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer thee a word in this matter. ¹⁷ Behold, there is our God whom we worship, he is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace: and out of thy hand, O king, will he deliver us. ¹⁸ But if not, then be it known unto thee, O king, that thy god will we not worship, and to the golden image which; thou hast set up will we not bow ourselves.

^{10 (6:11)} Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went up unto his house, where he had open windows in his upper chamber in the direction of Jerusalem; and three times every day he kneeled upon his knees, and prayed, and offered thanks before his God, as he had been doing before that time.

⁷ The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich: he bringeth low and also lifteth up. ⁸ He raiseth up out of the dust the poor, from the dunghill he lifteth up the needy, to set them among nobles, and he assigneth them the throne of glory; for the Lord’s are the pillars of the earth, on which he hath set the world.

¹¹ Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of the heavens?

^{7 (75:8)} But God is the judge: he lowereth one, and lifteth up another,

¹⁰ He that admonisheth nations, shall he not correct? is it not he that teacheth man knowledge!

⁵ Broken hath the Lord the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of rulers;

¹³ And all thy children shall be disciples of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children.

⁵ It is I who have made the earth, the men, and the beasts that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and I have given it unto the one who seemeth proper in my eyes. ⁶ And now it is I who have given all these countries into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and also the beasts of the field have I given him to serve him. ⁷ And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his land is also come in its turn: when many nations and great kings shall make it serve. ⁸ And it shall come to pass, that the nation and the kingdom which will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put its neck in the yoke of the king of Babylon,—even that nation will I punish with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, saith the Lord, until I have made an end of them by his hand.

^{38 (31:37)} Behold, days are coming, saith the Lord, when the city shall be built up to the Lord from the tower of Chananel unto the corner-gate.

^{25 (4:22)} They will drive thee away from men, and with the beasts of the field is thy dwelling to be, and they will suffer thee to eat herbs like oxen, and they will suffer thee to be made wet with the dew of heaven, and seven times will elapse over thee; until that thou wilt know that the Most High ruleth over the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he pleaseth.

^{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.

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

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

¹³ Who hath given him a charge concerning the earth? or who hath intrusted him the whole world? ¹⁴ If he were to set his heart upon man, he would gather unto himself his spirit and his breath: ¹⁵ All flesh would perish together, and the son of earth would return again unto dust. ¹⁶ If then thou wishest to understand, hear this: give ear to the sound of my words. 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. ²⁰ In a moment will they die, and in the midst of the night; people are moved, and pass away: and the mighty will be removed without a human hand. ²¹ For big eyes are upon the ways of man, and all his steps doth he see. ²² There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the evil-doers can hide themselves. ²³ For he need not direct his attention a long time upon man, that he should enter into judgment before God. ²⁴ He breaketh down mighty men without long searching, and placeth others in their stead. ²⁵ For the reason that he knoweth their deeds: therefore he overturneth them in the night, and they are crushed. ²⁶ Among wicked men doth he strike them, in the place where many see them: ²⁷ Because they have departed from following him, and have not considered all his ways. ²⁸ Bringing before them the cry of the indigent, and the cry of the afflicted which he had to hear. ²⁹ When he now granteth rest, who will condemn him! and when he hideth his face, who can behold him? whether it be against a nation, or against one man, it is the same: ³⁰ That no hypocritical man may reign, that such shall not be a mare to the people. ³¹ For truly it is only fitting to say unto God, “I bear cheerfully, I will not do any wrong; ³² What I cannot see myself, do thou truly teach me; if I have done what is unjust, I will do so no more.” ³³ Should he then according to thy view send a recompense, because thou hast rejected him? “Because thou must choose, and not I?” and what thou knowest, do speak.

⁸ Wilt thou indeed annul my decree? wilt thou condemn me, in order that thou mayest appear righteous?

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

¹⁹ And that thou lift not up thy eyes unto the heavens, and thou see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, and be misled to bow down to them, and to serve them, those which the Lord thy God hath assigned unto all nations under the whole heaven.

¹³ That with him are wisdom and strength, his are counsel and understanding. ¹⁴ Behold, he pulleth down, and there can be no rebuilding: he locketh the prison upon a man, and there can be no opening, ¹⁵ Behold, he restraineth the waters, and they dry up; or he suffereth them to flow, and they overturn the earth. ¹⁶ With him are strength and counsel: his are the deceived and the deceiver. ¹⁷ He leadeth counsellors away bereft of sense, and maketh the judges fools. ¹⁸ He looseth the bond of kings, and bindeth a girdle around their loins. ¹⁹ He leadeth priests away bereft of sense, and the powerful he causeth to walk on crooked paths. ²⁰ He removeth the speech from trusty speakers, and taketh away the intelligence of the aged. ²¹ He poureth contempt upon princes, and the belt of the mighty be looseneth. ²² He layeth open deep things from the midst of darkness, and bringeth out unto light the shadow of death. ²³ He permitteth the nations to become great, and destroyeth them: he spreadeth out the nations, and leadeth them away. ²⁴ He taketh away the sense of the chiefs of the people of the land, and causeth them to wander astray in a wilderness when there is no way. ²⁵ They grope in the dark without light, and he causeth them to wander astray like a drunken man.

⁵ The departed are called into being beneath the waters, and their inhabitants. ⁶ Naked is the nether world before him, and there is no covering for the place of corruption. ⁷ He stretched out the north over empty space; he suspended the earth on nothing; ⁸ He bound up the waters in his clouds; and the cloud bursteth not under their weight; ⁹ He closed up the surface of his throne, spreading over it his cloud; ¹⁰ A fixed limit he compassed off over the face of the waters, for the division of the light and darkness. ¹¹ The pillars of heaven tremble greatly, and are astounded at his rebuke.

¹ To the chief musician, a psalm of David. ^(19:2) The heavens relate the glory of God; and the expanse telleth of the works of his hands. ^{2 (19:3)} Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge. ^{3 (19:4)} There is no speech, there are no words, their voice is not heard. ^{4 (19:5)} But their melody extendeth through all the earth, and to the end of the world their words. For the sun hath he set a tabernacle among them;

⁵ Because they have no regard for the doings of the Lord, nor the works of his hands: may he pull them down, and not build them up.

^{3 (34:4)} Oh magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.

^{16 (59:17)} But I will truly sing of thy strength; yea, I will sing joyfully in the morning of thy kindness; for thou hast been a defence unto me and a refuge on the day when I was distressed.

¹⁸ Blessed be the Lord the God, the God of Israel, who alone doth wondrous things.

⁸ There is none like unto thee among the Gods, O Lord; and there is nothing like thy works. ⁹ All the nations whom thou hast made shall come and bow themselves down before thee, O Lord; and they shall ascribe honor unto thy name. ¹⁰ For great art thou, and doing wondrous things: thou art God by thyself alone.

^{4 (92:5)} For thou hast caused me to rejoice, O Lord, through thy doing: because of the works of thy hands will I triumph. ^{5 (92:6)} How great are thy works, O Lord! exceedingly profound are thy thoughts.

²⁴ How manifold are thy works, O Lord! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.

⁸ They therefore shall give thanks unto the Lord for his kindness, and proclaim his wonders to the children of men!

¹⁵ They therefore shall give thanks unto the Lord for his kindness, and proclaim his wonders to the children of men!

² Great are the works of the Lord, they are sought for by them in all their desires. ³ Glorious and majestic is his doing, and his righteousness endureth for ever. ⁴ He hath made a memorial for his wonderful works: gracious and merciful is the Lord.

⁸ They are well supported for ever and eternally: they are framed in truth and uprightness.

⁵ And they will sing on the ways of the Lord; for great is the glory of the Lord.

¹⁰ All thy works shall thank thee, O Lord; and thy pious servants shall bless thee. ¹¹ Of the glory of thy kingdom shall they converse, and of thy might shall they speak: ¹² To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.

^{3 (3:33)} His signs—how great are they! and his wonders—how mighty are they! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his rule is over every generation.

^{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.

²⁷ For in truth will God then dwell on the earth? behold, the heavens and the heavens of heavens cannot contain thee: how much less then this house that I have built!

⁵ Are thy days as the days of a mortal, or are thy years as the days of a man,

⁷ Canst thou find out the experience of God? or canst thou find the way unto the utmost limit of the Almighty? ⁸ It is as high as heaven; what canst thou effect? it is deeper than the nether world; what canst thou know? ⁹ Longer than the earth is its measure, and broader than the sea.

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?

⁵ God thundereth with his marvelous voice: he doth great things, which we cannot comprehend.

² Before yet the mountains were brought forth, or thou hadst ever produced the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

^{24 (102:25)} I will say, O my God! take me not away in the midst of my days: throughout all generations are thy years. ^{25 (102:26)} In olden times didst thou lay the foundations of the earth; and the heavens are the work of thy hands. ^{26 (102:27)} These will indeed perish, but thou wilt ever exist: yea, all of them will wear out like a garment; as a vesture wilt thou change them, and they will be changed; ^{27 (102:28)} But thou art ever the same, and thy years will have no end.

³ Great is the Lord, and greatly praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.

⁵ And every plant of the field was not yet on the earth, and every herb of the field had not yet grown; for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and man was not yet there to till the ground. ⁶ But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

⁹ Who doth great things which are unsearchable, marvelous things till they are without number;

³³ The noise of his storm telleth of it, yea, the cattle also, of the rising tempest.

²⁵ Who hath divided off watercourses for the overflowing rain, and a way for the lightning that is followed by thunders, ²⁶ To bring rain on a land, void of men; on a wilderness wherein no son of earth is found; ²⁷ To satisfy waste and desolate lands; and to promote the growth of the tender grass? ²⁸ Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of the dew?

³⁴ Canst thou lift up to the clouds thy voice, that the abundance of waters may cover thee?

^{9 (65:10)} Thou hast thought of the earth, and waterest her abundantly; thou greatly enrichest her; the brook of God is full of water: thou preparest their corn, when thou hast thus prepared her. ^{10 (65:11)} Watering her furrows abundantly, smoothing down her ridges, thou softenest her with showers; thou blessest her growth. ^{11 (65:12)} Thou hast crowned the year of thy goodness; and thy tracks drop fatness: ^{12 (65:13)} The pastures of the wilderness are dropping with plenty: and the hills are girt with gladness. ^{13 (65:14)} The meadows are clothed with flocks, and the valleys are enveloped with corn: men shout for joy, yea, they also sing.

⁸ Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who causeth grass to grow upon the mountains;

⁸ Fire, and hail, snow, and vapor; thou storm-wind that fulfillest his word;

⁶ And I will lay it quite waste; it shall not be pruned, nor hoed around; and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns; and the clouds will I command that they send down no rain upon it.

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

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this same day, were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. ¹² And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

¹¹ Also with moisture he loadeth the cloud; and he scattereth the cloud of his lightning; ¹² And it is turned round about by his guidance, to execute what he commandeth it upon the face of the world, the earth. ¹³ Whether it be as a chastising rod—if this be destined for his earth—or for kindness, doth he cause it to come.

²⁰ By his knowledge were the depths split open, and the skies drop down the dew.

⁴⁴ And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there is a little cloud like a man’s hand arising out of the sea. And he said, Go up, say unto Achab, Harness up thy chariot, and come down, that the rain may not detain thee. ⁴⁵ And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heavens were blackened with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Achab rode, and went to Yizre’el.

² Hear, O hear, the rattling of his thunder, and the storm’s roar that goeth out of his mouth. ³ Under the whole heavens he letteth it loose, and his lightning over the ends of the earth. ⁴ Behind it roareth the thunder; he thundereth with his majestic voice; and he holdeth them not back when his voice is heard. ⁵ God thundereth with his marvelous voice: he doth great things, which we cannot comprehend.

⁹ When I made the clouds its garment, and thick fog its swaddling-cloth,

³⁷ Who ordaineth the skies with wisdom? or who emptieth out the bottles of heaven.

^{13 (18:14)} And the Lord thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered forth his voice, with hail-stones and coals of fire.

³ The voice of the Lord is upon the waters; the God of glory thundereth, the Lord—upon mighty waters. ⁴ The voice of the Lord resoundeth with power; the voice of the Lord resoundeth with majesty. ⁵ The voice of the Lord breaketh in pieces the cedars; yea, the Lord shivereth the cedars of Lebanon; ⁶ And he maketh them skip like a calf; Lebanon and Siryon like young reems. ⁷ The voice of the Lord heweth out flames of fire. ⁸ The voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness; the Lord shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh. ⁹ The voice of the Lord causeth the hinds to start, and maketh bare forests: and in his temple every thing speaketh of his glory. ¹⁰ The Lord sat enthroned at the flood: and the Lord will sit as King for ever.

^{16 (77:17)} The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they shook: also the depths trembled. ^{17 (77:18)} The clouds poured out water; the skies sent forth thunder: also thy arrows sped along. ^{18 (77:19)} The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind; lightnings gave light to the world; the earth trembled and quaked, ^{19 (77:20)} Through the sea led thy way, and thy path was through mighty waters, and thy footsteps could not be known.

³ Who frameth of the waters the beams of his upper-chambers; who maketh the clouds his chariot; who walketh along upon the wings of the wind:

⁷ At thy rebuke they fled, at the voice of thy thunder they hastened away.

³ The Lord is long-suffering, and great in power, but he will by no means clear the guilty: the Lord—in the whirlwind and in the storm is his way, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

¹⁰ The mountains saw thee, they trembled; the flowing waters passed along: the deep issued forth its voice, the height lifted up its hands.

⁹ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land be visible: and it was so.

²² And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them, on their right hand, and on their left.

²⁸ And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen with all the host of Pharaoh that came after them into the sea: there remained of them not even one.

⁴ The chariots of Pharaoh and his host hath he hurled into the sea; and the chosen of his captains are sunk in the Red Sea. ⁵ The depths have covered them; they went down to the bottom as a stone.

⁸ And who closed up with doors the sea, when, issuing forth, it came out of the deep bosom of the earth? ⁹ When I made the clouds its garment, and thick fog its swaddling-cloth, ¹⁰ And when I decreed for it my law, and set for it bars and doors, ¹¹ And said, Thus far mayest thou come, but no farther; and here shall be stayed thy strength in the pride of thy waves?

²⁵ Who hath divided off watercourses for the overflowing rain, and a way for the lightning that is followed by thunders,

³⁴ Canst thou lift up to the clouds thy voice, that the abundance of waters may cover thee? ³⁵ Canst thou send out lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here are we?

^{11 (18:12)} He made darkness his hiding-place, round about him as his pavilion, dark waters, thick clouds of the skies. ^{12 (18:13)} From the brightness before him his thick clouds passed away, with hail-stones and coals of fire. ^{13 (18:14)} And the Lord thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered forth his voice, with hail-stones and coals of fire. ^{14 (18:15)} And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot forth lightnings, and discomfited them. ^{15 (18:16)} And then were seen the channels of the waters, and there were laid open the foundations of the world, through thy rebuke, O Lord, through the blast of the breath of thy nostrils. ^{16 (18:17)} He stretched out from above his hand, he took me; he drew me out from mighty waters.

⁵ Who hath founded the earth upon her bases, that she should not be moved to all eternity. ⁶ Thou hadst covered the deep as with a garment: above the mountains stood the waters. ⁷ At thy rebuke they fled, at the voice of thy thunder they hastened away. ⁸ They ascended mountains; they went down valleys, unto the place which thou hadst founded for them. ⁹ Bounds hast thou set which they cannot pass over, that they return not again to cover the earth.

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

¹⁷ And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth. ¹⁸ And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark floated along upon the face of the waters. ¹⁹ And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high mountains that are under the whole heavens were covered. ²⁰ Fifteen cubits above them did the waters prevail; and the mountains were thus covered. ²¹ And all flesh perished that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man. ²² All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that were on the dry land, died. ²³ And it swept off every living substance which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and fowls of the heaven; and they were swept from the earth; and Noah only was left, together with those that were with him in the ark. ²⁴ And the waters prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days.

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. ²⁴ And there was hail, and fire was flaming up amidst the hail, very grievous, the like of which had not been in all the land of Egypt, since it had become a nation. ²⁵ And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and every herb of the field did the hail smite, and every tree of the field did it break.

² And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, in order to afflict thee, to prove thee, to know what is in thy heart, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments, or not.

¹⁵ Who hath led thee through the great and terrible wilderness, wherein are snakes, poisonous serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there is no water; who hath brought forth for thee water out of the flinty rock;

¹¹ And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, while they were in the declivity of Beth-choron, that the Lord cast down upon them great stones from heaven, up to ‘Azekah, and they died: there were more who died by means of the hailstones than those whom the children of Israel had slain with the sword.

¹⁰ The Lord—his adversaries will be crushed; out of heaven will he thunder upon them: the Lord will judge the ends of the earth; and he will give strength unto his king, and lift up the horn of his anointed.

¹⁰ And as Samuel was offering up the burnt-offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel; but the Lord thundered with a loud noise on that day over the Philistines, and brought them into confusion, and they were smitten before Israel.

¹⁸ And Samuel called unto the Lord; and the Lord sent thunders and rain on that day: and all the people feared greatly the Lord and Samuel.

¹³ Whether it be as a chastising rod—if this be destined for his earth—or for kindness, doth he cause it to come.

²² Didst thou ever enter into the treasuries of the snow? or canst thou see the treasuries of the hail, ²³ Which I have reserved for the time of distress, for the day of fight and battle?

²⁶ To bring rain on a land, void of men; on a wilderness wherein no son of earth is found; ²⁷ To satisfy waste and desolate lands; and to promote the growth of the tender grass?

¹³ Who watereth the mountains from his upper-chambers: from the fruit of thy works is the earth satisfied. ¹⁴ Thou art he who causeth grass to grow for the cattle, and herbs by the service of man, that he may bring forth bread out of the earth; ¹⁵ And wine that maketh joyful the heart of man, and oil to brighten his face, and bread which strengtheneth the heart of man.

²⁷ All of these wait upon thee, to give them their food in its due season. ²⁸ What thou givest them they gather: thou openest thy hand, they are satisfied with good.

²⁵ Who giveth food unto all flesh; for to eternity endureth his kindness.

²¹ And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand toward heaven, and there shall be darkness over the land of Egypt, and it shall be a darkness of the night. ²² And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days: ²³ They saw not one another, neither did they rise, any one from his place, for three days; but for all the children of Israel there was light in their dwellings.

⁹ He closed up the surface of his throne, spreading over it his cloud;

¹² And it is turned round about by his guidance, to execute what he commandeth it upon the face of the world, the earth.

¹⁵ Dost thou know how God hath imposed a law on them, and how he hath caused the light of his cloud to shine?

^{11 (18:12)} He made darkness his hiding-place, round about him as his pavilion, dark waters, thick clouds of the skies.

⁷ He causeth clouds to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with the rain; he bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries.

⁸ Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who causeth grass to grow upon the mountains; ⁹ Who giveth to the beast its food, to the young ravens which cry.

¹⁴ The Lord thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered forth his voice.

⁴¹ And Elijah said unto Achab, Go up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain. ⁴² So Achab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down toward the earth, and put his face between his knees; ⁴³ And he said to his servant, Go up, I pray thee, look in the direction of the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, Not the least is visible. And he said, Go again, seven times.

²⁹ But what man can understand the outspreadings of the clouds? the tumult of his tabernacle?

² Hear, O hear, the rattling of his thunder, and the storm’s roar that goeth out of his mouth.

⁴ Because of the ground which is cracked open, since there hath been no rain in the land, are the ploughmen ashamed, they cover their head. ⁵ Yea, the hind also bringeth forth her young in the field, and forsaketh them, because there is no grass. ⁶ And the wild asses stand on the mountain-tops, they snuff up the wind like serpents: their eyes fail, because there are no herbs.

¹⁸ How do the beasts groan! how do the herds of cattle roam about; because there is no pasture for them: yea, the flocks of sheep are made to perish.

²² Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness have become green; for the tree beareth its fruit, the fig-tree and the vine yield their strength.