Job 4 Cross References - Leeser

¹ Then answered Eliphaz the Themanite, and said, ² If we essay to address a word to thee, wilt thou be wearied? yet who is able to refrain from speaking? ³ Behold, thou hast ere this corrected many, and weak hands thou wast wont to strengthen. ⁴ Him that stumbled thy words used to uphold, and to sinking knees thou gavest vigor. ⁵ Yet now, when it cometh to thee, thou art wearied: it toucheth even thee, and thou art terrified. ⁶ Is not then thy fear of God still thy confidence, thy hope equal to the integrity of thy ways? ⁷ Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous destroyed? ⁸ Even as I have seen, that those who plough wrong-doing, and sow trouble, have to reap the same. ⁹ Before the breathing of God they perish, and before the breath of his nostrils they come to their end. ¹⁰ The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. ¹¹ The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness have to scatter themselves abroad. ¹² But to me a word came by stealth, and my ear took in a scarcely perceptible whisper thereof. ¹³ In intense thoughts out of visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men: ¹⁴ Dread came over me, with trembling, and it caused all my bones to shudder. ¹⁵ Then flitted a spirit past before my face; the hair of my body stood up: ¹⁶ It stood still, but I could not recognize its form; a figure was before my eyes, a slight whisper, then a louder voice I heard, saying, ¹⁷ Can a mortal be more righteous than God? or can a man be more pure than his Maker? ¹⁸ Behold, in his servants he putteth no trust, and his angels he chargeth with folly: 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? ²⁰ From morning to evening are they broken to pieces: without laying it to heart they perish for ever. ²¹ Behold, their excellency which is in them is torn away: they die, and this without wisdom.

¹¹ When now the three friends of Job had heard of all this evil that was come over him, they came every one from his own place, Eliphaz the Themanite, and Bildad the Shuchite, and Zophar the Na’amthite; and they met together to come to condole with him and to comfort him.

¹ After this time Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day. ² And Job commenced, and said,

¹ Then answered Job, and said,

¹ Then answered Bildad the Shuchite, and said,

¹ Then answered Eliphaz the Themanite, and said,

¹ Then answered Eliphaz the Themanite, and said,

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

¹⁸ For I am full of words, the spirit in my bosom urgeth me hard. ¹⁹ Behold, my bosom is like fresh wine which hath not been opened: like new bottles it is ready to burst. ²⁰ I will speak, that I may breathe freer: I will open my lips and answer.

¹¹ And I am full of the fury of the Lord; I am weary with sustaining it: I must pour it out over the child in the street, and over the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be seized, the aged with him that is full of days.

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

¹⁹ For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, that they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice; in order that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken concerning him.

²⁸ And do thou charge Joshua, and strengthen him, and encourage him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall divide out to them the land which thou shalt see.

²² And they celebrated the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; for the Lord had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Asshur toward them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

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

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

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

²¹ The wise in heart is called a man of understanding; and the sweetness of the lips increaseth information.

³ Strengthen ye weak hands, and stumbling knees make ye firm.

⁴ The Lord Eternal hath given me a tongue for teaching, that I should know how to strengthen the weary with the word: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth my ear to listen like those who are well taught.

²² Because ye grieve the heart of the righteous with falsehood, when I have not given him pain; and strengthen the hands of the wicked, so that he should not return from his wicked way, through which he might live.

¹⁴ The Lord upholdeth all who are falling, and raiseth up all those who are bowed down.

¹⁸ There is some one that useth words which are like the thrusts of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is healing.

²³ The heart of the wise maketh his mouth intelligent, and upon his lips he increaseth information. ²⁴ Like the droppings of honey are pleasant sayings, sweet to the soul, and healing to the bones.

³ Strengthen ye weak hands, and stumbling knees make ye firm. ⁴ Say to the timid of heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God, with vengeance will he come, with God’s recompense; it is he who will come and save you.

⁶ Then was the king’s color changed, and his thoughts troubled him: so that the bands of his loins were loosed, and his knees knocked one against the other.

¹¹ But stretch only forth thy hand and touch all that he hath, and see whether he will not renounce thee to thy face.

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

²⁵ Because what I greatly dreaded is come upon me, and what I apprehended is come unto me. ²⁶ I have had no safety, and no quiet, and no rest; and now harrowing trouble is come.

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

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

¹⁰ If thou despond on the day of distress, thy strength is small.

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.

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

⁸ Then said the Lord unto the Accuser, Hast thou directed thy attention toward my servant Job; for there is none like him on the earth, a man perfect and upright, who feareth God, and escheweth evil? ⁹ Then answered the Accuser the Lord, and said, Is it for nought that Job feareth God? ¹⁰ Behold, thou hast indeed placed a fence about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath, on every side: the work of his hands hast thou blessed, and his cattle are far spread out in the land.

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

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

¹⁵ Ay, where is then my hope? as for my hope, who will see it fulfilled?

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.

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.

¹ A covenant had I made with my eyes: how then should I fix my look on a virgin? ² And what then would have been my portion of God from above? and what lot of the Almighty from on high? ³ Is not calamity ready for the unjust? and misfortune for the wrong-doers? ⁴ Behold, he truly seeth my ways, and numbereth all my steps; ⁵ And knoweth whether I have walked with vain desires, or if my foot hath hastened after deceit. ⁶ Let him weigh me then in a righteous balance, and let God acknowledge my integrity, ⁷ If my step have turned aside from the proper way, and my heart have walked after my eyes, and if any blemish have cleaved to my hands: ⁸ Then let me sow, and let another eat; and let what I have growing be rooted out. ⁹ If my heart have been beguiled toward a woman, or if I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door: ¹⁰ Then may my wife labor at the mill for another, and may strangers ill-use her; ¹¹ For this would be incest; yea, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; ¹² For it would be a fire that consumeth down to the place of corruption, and would root out all my products. ¹³ If ever I cast aside the justice due to my man-servant and my maid-servant, when they contended with me: ¹⁴ What then could I do when God should rise up? and when he should investigate, what could I answer him? ¹⁵ Did not he that made me make him born or a woman? and did not the same one fashion us in the womb? ¹⁶ If ever I denied the wish of the indigent, or ever allowed the eyes of the widow to fall in vain hopes; ¹⁷ Or if ever I ate my bread by myself alone, and the fatherless did not eat thereof; ¹⁸ (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as though we were of one father, and I have guided her as though she was sprung from my mother’s womb;) ¹⁹ If ever I saw any one perishing for want of clothing, or the needy without covering: ²⁰ If his loins have not blessed me, and if he have not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep; ²¹ If I have swung my hand against the fatherless, because I saw in the gate those that would help me: ²² Then may my shoulder fall from my shoulder-blade, and my arm be broken from the channel-bone; ²³ For dreaded by me was the calamitous punishment of God, and against his highness I can accomplish nothing. ²⁴ If I have made gold my confidence, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my trust: ²⁵ If ever I rejoiced because my wealth was abundant, and because my hand had gotten much; ²⁶ If ever I looked at the light of the sun when he shone brightly and on the moon walking in splendor: ²⁷ And my heart became misled in secret, and my hand kissed my mouth: ²⁸ This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge; for thus would I have denied the God that is above. ²⁹ If ever I rejoiced at the downfall of him that hated me, or was elated when evil befell him;— ³⁰ But I suffered not my mouth to sin by denouncing with a curse his soul:— ³¹ If the men of my tent said not, Oh is there one that is not satisfied of his flesh;— ³² In the street a stranger had not to lodge; my doors I held open to the roadside; ³³ If I covered up my transgressions like a common man, by hiding in my bosom my iniquity; ³⁴ Because I dreaded the great multitude, or because the contempt of families did terrify me, so that I kept silence, and dared not to go out of the door;— 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,— ³⁶ Surely upon my shoulder would I carry it: I would bind it as a crown unto me. ³⁷ The number of my steps would I tell him: as to a prince would I go near unto him.— ³⁸ If my land ever cried out because of me, or if its furrows wept together; ³⁹ If I ever consumed its strength without payment, or caused the soul of its owners to grieve: ⁴⁰ Then may instead of wheat, thorns come forth, and instead of barley, cockle. (Here end the words of Job.)

²⁶ For the Lord will be thy confidence, and he will guard thy foot from being caught.

²⁶ In the fear of the Lord is the strong confidence of man, and unto his children will it be a place of shelter.

²⁰ Behold, God will not reject a perfect man, and will not hold fast by their hand the evil-doers:

²² One thing is certain, therefore have I said it, The innocent and the wicked he bringeth to their end. ²³ If a scourge should slay suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the guiltless.

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.

²⁵ I have been young, and I am also grown old: yet have I never seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed seeking for bread.

¹⁵ All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is many a righteous man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is many a wicked man that liveth long in his wickedness.—

¹ For all this did I reflect over in my heart and to explain all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their services, are in the hand of God: that man knoweth neither love nor hatred; it is all ordained before them; 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.

³⁵ They conceive trouble, and bring forth wrong-doing, and their body prepareth deceit.

^{14 (7:15)} Behold, he travaileth with wrong doing; but he hath conceived mischief, and bringeth forth falsehood. ^{15 (7:16)} He hath hollowed out a pit, and dug it, and is fallen into the ditch which he hath wrought. ^{16 (7:17)} His mischief will return upon his own head, and upon his own skull will his violence come down.

⁸ He that soweth injustice will reap wrong-doing; and the rod of God’s wrath will not fail.

¹⁸ Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee: this is thy wickedness, which is so bitter, which so reacheth unto thy heart.

⁷ For the wind do they sow, and the whirlwind shall they reap: their seed bringeth no standing corn; the plant yieldeth no meal; but should it yield it, strangers would swallow it up.

¹² Sow then for yourselves after righteousness, that you may reap the fruit of kindness; cultivate your fallow field; for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness down for you. ¹³ But ye have ploughed wickedness, iniquity have ye reaped, ye have eaten the fruit of lies; because thou didst trust in thy own way, in the multitude of thy mighty men:

⁸ And with the breath of thy nostrils the waters were heaped up together, the floods stood upright as a wall; congealed were the depths in the heart of the sea.

¹⁰ Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sunk as lead in mighty waters.

⁷ Behold, I will put an other spirit in him, that when he will hear a rumor, he shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

¹⁹ When, behold, a violent wind came from the direction of the wilderness, and struck against the four corners of the house, so that it fell upon the young men, and they died; and I am escaped, none but myself alone, to tell it unto thee.

³⁰ He will never depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his shoots, and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth.

¹³ Hide them in the dust altogether: bind up their faces in concealment.

^{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.

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.

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

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

¹⁷ And I broke the cutting-teeth of the wrong-doer, and out of his teeth I cast down his prey.

^{7 (3:8)} Arise, O Lord, help me, O my God; for thou smitest all my enemies upon the cheek bone: the teeth of the wicked dost thou break.

^{4 (57:5)} My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down in the midst of those that send out flames, those sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharpened sword.

^{6 (58:7)} O God, break out their teeth in their mouth: the jaw-teeth of the young lions tear thou out, O Lord.

¹⁴ There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and whose string teeth are as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

⁹ Like a lion’s whelp, O Judah, from the prey, my son, thou risest: he stoopeth down, he croucheth as a lion, and as a lioness, who shall rouse him up?

²⁴ Behold, it is a people, that shall rise up as a lioness, and as a lion shall it raise itself: it will not lie down until it have eaten the prey, and have drunk the blood of the slain.

⁹ He coucheth, he lieth down as a lion, and as a lioness: who shall make him rise up? They that bless thee be blessed, and they that curse thee be cursed.

³ Should God pervert justice? or should the Almighty pervert righteousness? ⁴ If thy children have sinned against him, then did he send them off through the means of their transgression.

¹⁴ If his children be multiplied, it is only for the sword; and his offspring will not be satisfied with bread. ¹⁵ Those of his that are left to escape will be buried by death; and his widows will not be able to weep.

³⁹ Dost thou hunt for the lioness her prey? and suppliest thou the food for the young lions,

^{2 (7:3)} Lest he tear like a lion my soul, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.

^{10 (34:11)} The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; but those who seek the Lord shall not want any good.

⁷ The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of nations hath commenced his march, he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, left without an inhabitant.

¹⁰ They shall follow after the Lord, when he will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children shall hasten together from the west;

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?

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

²¹ And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof.

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.

¹² And he dreamed, and behold a ladder was set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold, angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

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.

² And God spoke unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.

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.

¹⁹ And now, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the Lord will farther speak with me. ²⁰ And God came unto Bil’am at night, and said unto him, If to call thee the men have come, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I shall speak unto thee, that shalt thou do.

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;

¹⁹ Thereupon was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a vision of the night. Then did Daniel bless the God of heaven.

²⁸ But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and he hath made known to king Nebuchadnezzar what is to be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy couch, were these. ²⁹ As for thee, O king, thy thoughts, when thou wast on thy couch, rose within thee concerning what is to come to pass hereafter; and the Revealer of secrets hath made known to thee what is to come to pass.

^{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.

⁹ Then heard I the sound of his words; and as I heard the sound of his words, I sank in amazement on my face, with my face toward the ground.

¹⁴ Then wouldst thou frighten me with dreams, and with visions wouldst thou terrify me;

¹⁹ And so is he admonished by pain upon his couch, and all his bones with violent aches.

¹²⁰ My flesh trembleth shudderingly from dread of thee, and of thy decrees am I afraid.

⁵ And I said, Woe is me! for I am lost; because a man of unclean lips am I, and in the midst of a people of unclean lips do I dwell; for the King, the Lord of hosts have my eyes seen.

¹¹ And he said unto me, O Daniel, the man greatly beloved, mark well the words that I speak unto thee, and stand on thy standing-place; for now have I been sent unto thee. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood up trembling.

¹⁶ I heard it, and my inmost parts trembled; at the report my lips quivered; rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in my place, that I should rest till the day of distress, till the withdrawing of the people that will invade us with its troops.

⁴ Who maketh the winds his messengers; the flaming fire his ministers;

⁸ And they shall be affrighted, pangs and pains shall seize on them; they shall have throes as a woman that travaileth; one at the other shall they look amazed; red like flames shall their faces glow.

³ Therefore are my loins filled with pain; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I am too much cramped to hear; I am too much dismayed to see. ⁴ My heart wandereth astray, dread affrighteth me: the evening of my pleasure hath he turned unto me into terror.

¹² And after the earthquake was a fire; but not in the fire was the Lord; and after the fire was the sound of a soft whisper.

²⁵ Far be it from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, and that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be this from thee; shall the Judge of all the earth not exercise justice?

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

² Truly I know that it is so: and how could a mortal be righteous before God?

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.

⁴ Who can make a clean thing out of an unclean? not one thing.

¹⁴ What is man, that he should be pure? and that he who is born of woman should be declared righteous?

⁴ How then can man be justified with God? or how can be one that is born of woman?

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

¹⁰ But man saith not, Where is God my maker, who bestoweth joyful songs even in the night;

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

² And enter not into judgment with thy servant; for no living man can be regarded righteous before thee.

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

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

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?

⁹ Deceitful is the heart above all things, and sick: who can know it?

¹⁵ Behold, in his holy ones he putteth no trust; and the heavens are not pure in his eyes: ¹⁶ How much more then the abominable and corrupt, the man who drinketh like water wrong-doing?

⁵ Behold, even as regardeth the moon, that is not bright; yea, the stars are not pure in his eyes. ⁶ How much less the mortal, the mere worm? and the son of earth, the mere maggot?

²⁰ Bless the Lord, ye his angels, mighty in strength, that execute his word, hearkening unto the voice of his word. ²¹ Bless ye the Lord, all his hosts, ye his ministers, that execute his will.

² Seraphim were standing around him, each one had six wings; with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two did he fly. ³ And one called unto the other, and said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory.

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.

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.

²⁷ And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, although I am but dust and ashes:

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?

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

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

² Like a flower he cometh forth, and is cut down: and he fleeth like a shadow, and remaineth not.

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

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

^{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.

⁵ Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they grow like the grass which changeth. ⁶ In the morning it blossometh, and is changed: in the evening it is mowed off, and withereth. ⁷ For thus are we consumed by thy anger, and by thy fury are we terrified.

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

⁴ When his spirit goeth forth, he returneth to his native earth: on that very day perish his thoughts.

⁷ When the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return unto God who gave it.—

⁶ And nation was dashed to pieces against nation, and city against city; for God did confound them with all kind of distress.

²⁰ Thirty and two years old was he when he became king, and eight years did he reign in Jerusalem, and departed without joy: and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.

¹⁴ Or, when a man dieth, will he live again? all the days of my time of service would I then wait, till the hour of my release were come.

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

²² For when the numbered years are passed, then must I travel a path whence I cannot return.

¹⁷ His resemblance vanisheth from the earth, and no name remaineth for him in the streets.

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

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

^{13 (39:14)} Leave off from me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and am no more.

⁵ Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they grow like the grass which changeth. ⁶ In the morning it blossometh, and is changed: in the evening it is mowed off, and withereth.

^{7 (92:8)} When the wicked spring up like herbs, and when all the workers of wickedness do flourish; it is that they may be destroyed evermore.

⁷ The memory of the just is destined to be blessed; but the name of the wicked shall rot.

¹² My dwelling is broken down, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off, like a weaver, my life; with pining sickness will he snatch me away: from day until night wilt thou make an end of me. ¹³ I waited with patience till morning, whether as a lion, so would he break all my bones: from day until night wilt thou make an end of me.

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

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

¹² But if they hearken not, they will pass away through the sword, and they will perish in want of knowledge.

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

^{14 (49:15)} Like flocks are they thrust into the nether world; death will feed them; but the upright shall have dominion over them in that morning, and their form wasteth away in the nether world, taken away from their own dwelling.

^{20 (49:21)} Man, though in splendor, who understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish. °

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

²² Withdraw yourselves then from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; because, for what is he to be esteemed?

¹⁶ They that see thee will gaze at thee, will regard thee well, saying, “Is this the man that caused the earth to tremble, that made kingdoms quake?