Job 20 Cross References - MKJV

¹ And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said, ² Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, even because of my haste in me. ³ I have heard the rebuke meant to shame me, and the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer. ⁴ Do you know this from days of old, from the setting of man on earth, ⁵ that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly is for a moment? ⁶ Though his honor mounts up to the heavens, and his head reaches to the clouds, ⁷ he shall perish forever like his dung; they who see him shall say, Where is he? ⁸ He flies away like a dream, and shall not be found, and shall be chased away like a vision of the night. ⁹ An eye glimpsed him, but will not again; yea, his place shall not see him again. ¹⁰ His sons shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore his wealth. ¹¹ His bones are full of his youthful vigor, but it lies down with him in the dust. ¹² Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue; ¹³ though he spares it and will not leave it; yea, keeps it still in his mouth; ¹⁴ yet his food in his belly shall be turned; the gall of asps is within him. ¹⁵ He swallows riches, but vomits it; God shall cast them out of his belly. ¹⁶ He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him. ¹⁷ He shall not see the rivers, the flowings of the brooks of honey and butter, ¹⁸ giving back his gain, and he will not eat. As to the wealth of his trading, even he shall not enjoy it. ¹⁹ For he pressed down and forsook the poor; he stole a house, but he had not built it. ²⁰ Surely he shall not know quietness in his belly; he will not escape with the things of desire. ²¹ None of his food shall be left; therefore his good will not last. ²² In the fullness of his plenty he shall be in trouble; every wretched one shall come on him. ²³ It shall happen at the filling of his belly, God shall cast the fury of His wrath on him, and He shall rain on him while he is eating. ²⁴ He shall flee from the iron weapon, a bow of bronze shall pierce him. ²⁵ One draws it, and treads it from behind, even lightning from his gall; terror is on him. ²⁶ All darkness shall be hidden in his secret places; a fire not blown shall consume him; those left in his tent shall be broken. ²⁷ The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth rise up against him. ²⁸ The increase of his house shall depart, and shall flow away in the day of his wrath. ²⁹ This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his word from God.

²⁸ And God blessed them. And God said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply and fill the earth, and subdue it. And have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the heavens, and all animals that move upon the earth.

⁶ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasing to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make wise, she took of its fruit, and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

¹ And God blessed Noah and his sons. And He said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. ² And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon the animals of the earth, and upon every bird of the air, upon all that moves on the earth, and upon all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. ³ Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herb.

⁴ And they said, Come, let us build us a city and a tower, and its top in the heavens. And let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered upon the face of the whole earth.

²⁴ Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire, from Jehovah out of the heavens.

² For if you refuse to let them go, and will hold them still,

²³ And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heavens. And Jehovah sent thunder and hail, and the fire came down to the ground. And Jehovah rained hail upon the land of Egypt.

³⁶ And Jehovah gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and they granted their request, and they plundered the Egyptians.

⁹ The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them, I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. ¹⁰ You blew with Your wind; the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

¹ If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it or sell it, he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

³ If the sun is risen upon him, blood is due for him. He should repay in full. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

¹⁸ And say to the people, Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat flesh. For you have wept in the ears of the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat, for it was well with us in Egypt? Therefore Jehovah will give you flesh, and you shall eat. ¹⁹ You shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days. ²⁰ Even a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is hateful to you, because you have despised Jehovah among you, and have wept before Him, saying, Why did we come out of Egypt?

³³ And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of Jehovah was kindled against the people, and Jehovah struck the people with a very great plague.

²³ surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked Me see it.

³¹ Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it. Your ass shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you, your sheep given to your enemies, and you shall have none to rescue them.

³³ The fruit of your land, and all your labors, shall be eaten up by a nation which you do not know. And you shall always be oppressed and crushed,

²⁰ Jehovah will not be willing to forgive him, but then the anger of Jehovah and His jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie on him, and Jehovah shall blot out his name from under heavens. ²¹ And Jehovah shall set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the Law; ²² so that the generation to come of your sons that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say (when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which Jehovah has laid on it) ²³ the whole land shall be burned with brimstone, and salt; it shall not be sown; nor shall it sprout; nor shall there be any grass in it. It shall be like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in His anger, and in His wrath, ²⁴ even all nations shall say, Why has Jehovah done this to this land? For what is the heat of this great anger? ²⁵ Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them forth out of the land of Egypt. ²⁶ For they went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods whom they did not know, and who had not given to them any portion. ²⁷ And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book. ²⁸ And Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger and wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is today.

²⁸ Gather to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, so that I may speak these words in their ears, and call Heaven and earth to record against them.

¹³ He made him ride on the high places of the earth, so that he might eat the increase of the fields. And He made him suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock, ¹⁴ butter from cows, and milk from sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the sons of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat. And you drank the blood of the grape.

²⁴ Exhaustion by famine, and consumption by burning heat, and bitter destruction, and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of crawling things of the dust.

⁴¹ If I sharpen My glittering sword, and if My hand takes hold in judgment, I will give vengeance to My enemies and will reward those that hate Me.

²¹ And the Philistines took him and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass. And he ground in the prison house. ²² However the hair of his head began to grow again after he had been shaven. ²³ Then the lords of the Philistines gathered in order to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice. For they said, Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand. ²⁴ And the people saw him and praised their god. For they said, Our god has delivered our enemy into our hand, and the destroyer of our country, who killed many of us. ²⁵ And when their hearts were merry, it happened that they said, Call for Samson and he will make sport for us. And they called for Samson out of the prison house. And he made sport for them, and they set him between the pillars. ²⁶ And Samson said to the lad who held him by the hand, Allow me to feel the pillars upon which the house stands, so that I may lean upon them. ²⁷ Now the house was full of men and women. And all the lords of the Philistines were there. And on the roof were about three thousand men and women who watched while Samson made sport. ²⁸ And Samson called to Jehovah and said, O, Lord Jehovah, remember me, I pray You, and strengthen me, I pray You, only this once, O God, so that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes. ²⁹ And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was held up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left. ³⁰ And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself mightily, and the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people in it. So the dead whom he killed at his death were more than those he killed in his life.

³ Behold, here I am. Witness against me before Jehovah and before His anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose ass have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I received a bribe, to blind my eyes with it? And I will restore it to you. ⁴ And they said, You have not defrauded us nor oppressed us, neither have you taken from any man's hand.

² And it happened one evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king's house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing. And the woman was very beautiful to look upon. ³ And David sent and asked about the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? ⁴ And David sent messengers and took her. And she came in to him, and he lay with her. And she had purified herself from her uncleanness. And she returned to her house. ⁵ And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.

⁶ And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.

¹⁰ And therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife. ¹¹ So says Jehovah, Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house, and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor. And he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

²⁹ and honey and butter and sheep and cheese from cows, for David and for the people with him to eat. For they said, The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.

¹⁴ And Joab said, I cannot stay here with you this way! And he took three darts in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the midst of the oak.

³⁵ He teaches my hands to war, so that my hands may bend a bow of bronze.

¹⁰ therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates against the wall, bound and free in Israel, and will sweep away the rest of the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away the dung, until it is all gone.

³⁰ But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city. And there a wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of those remaining. And Ben-hadad fled and came into the city, into an inner room.

¹⁹ And you shall speak to him, saying, So says Jehovah, Have you killed and also taken possession? And you shall speak to him saying, So says Jehovah, In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs shall lick your blood, even yours.

² And the third officer on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if Jehovah would make windows in heaven, then this thing might be. And he said, Behold, you shall see with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it.

³⁷ And the dead body of Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel, so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.

¹⁷ Behold, the days come when all that is in your house, and which your fathers have laid up in store until today, shall be carried into Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says Jehovah.

² And Jehovah sent against him troops of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and troops of the Moabites, and troops of the Ammonites. And He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the Word of Jehovah which He spoke by His servants the prophets.

¹¹ And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and his many sons, and all to which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king. ¹² And Haman said, Yes, Esther the queen let no man but me come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared. And also tomorrow I am invited to her banquet, with the king.

¹⁰ And they hanged Haman on the wooden gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. And the king's wrath lay down.

¹⁵ And the Sabeans fell on and took them away. Yea, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword. And I only have escaped alone to tell you.

¹⁷ While he was still speaking, there also came another and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands and swooped down upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and have killed the servants with the edge of the sword. And I only have escaped alone to tell you.

¹¹ And Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, and they each one came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had met together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

¹⁷ There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest;

² Shall one try a word with you, you who are weary? But who can hold back with words?

²⁰ They are destroyed from morning till evening; they perish forever without anyone caring.

³ I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling place. ⁴ His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, nor is there any to deliver them. ⁵ Their harvest the hungry eats, and takes it even out of the thorns; and the snare swallows up their wealth.

⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their fury is drinking my spirit; the terrors of God are set against me.

⁸ The eye of him who has seen me shall see me no more; Your eyes are on me, and I am gone.

¹⁰ He shall return no more to his house, nor shall his place know him any more.

⁸ For please ask of the former age, and prepare yourself to the search of their fathers, ⁹ for we are but of yesterday and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.

¹² While it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it dries out before any other herb. ¹³ So are the paths of all who forget God; and the hope of the ungodly shall perish.

¹⁸ If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen you. ¹⁹ Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.

¹ And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,

¹⁹ Who is he that will plead for me, for now, I would be quiet and expire.

²⁶ For You write bitter things against me, and make me to possess the sins of my youth.

¹⁰ But man dies and is cut off; and man expires, and where is he?

¹⁰ With us are both the gray-headed and aged, mightier than your father as to days.

¹⁶ How much more hateful and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?

²¹ A dreadful sound of things is in his ears; the destroyer shall come to him in peace.

²⁹ He shall not be rich, nor shall his wealth hold out, nor shall he stretch out his gain on the earth.

²⁹ He shall not be rich, nor shall his wealth hold out, nor shall he stretch out his gain on the earth. ³⁰ He shall not escape from darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and at the breath of his mouth he shall turn away. ³¹ Let not he being deceived trust in vanity; for vanity shall be his reward. ³² It shall be done before his time, and his branch shall not be green. ³³ He shall shake off its unripe grape, as the vine; and shall cast off his flower like the olive. ³⁴ For the company of the ungodly shall be barren, and fire shall devour the tents of bribery.

¹¹ God has delivered me to the perverse; and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

¹³ His archers hem me in; He splits my inward parts, and does not spare; He pours out my gall on the ground.

¹⁸ Oh earth, do not cover my blood, and let not my cry have a place.

⁵ Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. ⁶ The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp shall be put out with him. ⁷ The steps of his strength shall be hampered, and his own plans shall throw him down.

¹¹ Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall dash him at his feet.

¹⁵ What is not his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be scattered on his home.

¹⁸ They drive him from light to darkness, and they make him flee from the world.

¹⁸ They drive him from light to darkness, and they make him flee from the world. ¹⁹ He shall have neither son nor kinsman among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

¹⁹ He shall have neither son nor kinsman among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

²¹ Surely these are the dwellings of the perverse, and this the place that has not known God.

³ And this, ten times you have blamed me; you are not ashamed that you have wronged me.

²⁰ My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.

²⁹ Fear for yourselves because of the sword; for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.

² Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, even because of my haste in me. ³ I have heard the rebuke meant to shame me, and the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.

⁵ that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly is for a moment?

⁷ he shall perish forever like his dung; they who see him shall say, Where is he?

¹⁰ His sons shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore his wealth.

¹⁵ He swallows riches, but vomits it; God shall cast them out of his belly. ¹⁶ He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him.

¹⁸ giving back his gain, and he will not eat. As to the wealth of his trading, even he shall not enjoy it.

¹⁸ giving back his gain, and he will not eat. As to the wealth of his trading, even he shall not enjoy it. ¹⁹ For he pressed down and forsook the poor; he stole a house, but he had not built it. ²⁰ Surely he shall not know quietness in his belly; he will not escape with the things of desire. ²¹ None of his food shall be left; therefore his good will not last. ²² In the fullness of his plenty he shall be in trouble; every wretched one shall come on him.

²⁶ They lie down together in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. ²⁷ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the plots which you wrongfully hatch against me. ²⁸ For you say, Where is the house of the noble, and where the dwelling-places of the wicked?

³⁰ that the wicked is kept for the day of calamity? They shall be brought to the day of wrath.

⁶ For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

² They remove the landmarks; they seize flocks and feed them. ³ They drive away the ass of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge. ⁴ They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth hide themselves together. ⁵ Behold, like wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, rising early for a prey. The wilderness yields food for them and for their children. ⁶ They reap his fodder in the field; and they gather the grapes of the wicked. ⁷ They lodge the naked without clothing, and give no covering in the cold. ⁸ They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of shelter. ⁹ They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge from the poor. ¹⁰ They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaves from the hungry. ¹¹ They press out oil between their walls; they tread their winepresses, and still suffer thirst. ¹² Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God does not charge foolishness.

³ As long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,

⁸ For what is the hope of the ungodly when He cuts off, when God takes away his soul?

¹¹ I will teach you by the hand of God; that which is with the Almighty I will not hide.

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

¹³ This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of cruel men which they shall receive from the Almighty. ¹⁴ If his sons are multiplied, the sword is for them; and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

¹⁴ If his sons are multiplied, the sword is for them; and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. ¹⁵ Those who remain of him shall be buried in death; and his widows shall not weep.

¹⁵ Those who remain of him shall be buried in death; and his widows shall not weep. ¹⁶ Though he heaps up silver like the dust, and prepares clothing like the clay,

¹⁶ Though he heaps up silver like the dust, and prepares clothing like the clay,

¹⁶ Though he heaps up silver like the dust, and prepares clothing like the clay, ¹⁷ he may prepare, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

¹⁷ he may prepare, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

¹⁷ he may prepare, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver. ¹⁸ He builds his house like a moth, and like a booth that a watchman makes.

¹⁸ He builds his house like a moth, and like a booth that a watchman makes. ¹⁹ The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

¹⁹ The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered. He opens his eyes, and he is not. ²⁰ Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest steals him away in the night.

²⁰ Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest steals him away in the night. ²¹ The east wind lifts him up, and he is gone; for it whirls him out of his place. ²² For it will hurl at him, and will not spare; he will surely flee out of its hand. ²³ He shall clap His hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

⁶ when I washed my steps with curds, and the rock poured out rivers of oil for me;

² For what is the portion from God above? And what is the inheritance from the Almighty on high? ³ Is not disaster to the perverse, and calamity to the workers of iniquity?

¹³ If I despised the cause of my man servant or of my slave-girl, when they argued with me; ¹⁴ what then shall I do when God rises up? And when He calls me to account, what shall I answer Him? ¹⁵ Did not He who made me in the womb make him? And did not One shape us in the womb? ¹⁶ If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, ¹⁷ or have eaten my bit alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it, ¹⁸ for from my youth he grew up with me, as with a father, and from my mother's womb I guided her; ¹⁹ if I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or there was no covering for the needy; ²⁰ if his loins have not blessed me, and he warmed himself with the fleece of my flock; ²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless when I watched over my help in the gate; ²² then let my arm fall from the shoulder blade, and let my arm be broken from the elbow.

²⁵ if I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

²⁹ If I rejoiced at the ruin of my hater, and I was excited when evil found him;

³⁸ If my lands cry against me, or its furrows weep together; ³⁹ if I have eaten its strength without silver, or have caused its owner to expire,

⁷ I said, Days should speak, and the multitude of years should teach wisdom.

¹³ that you do not say, We have found out wisdom. God has pushed him down, not man. ¹⁴ And he has not directed his words against me; and I will not answer him with your words. ¹⁵ They are broken; they answer no more; words have left them. ¹⁶ Shall I wait because you do not speak, because they stand still, answering no more? ¹⁷ I also will answer my part; I also will declare my wisdom. ¹⁸ For I am full of words; the spirit within me presses on me. ¹⁹ Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; it bursts like new wineskins. ²⁰ I will speak so that I may be refreshed; I will open my lips and answer.

³ my words shall be from my upright heart, and my lips will clearly speak knowledge.

⁹ From the host of tyrannies they cry out; they cry out because of the arm of the multitude.

⁹ And Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as Jehovah commanded them. Jehovah also accepted the face of Job.

¹² If he does not turn, He will whet His sword; He has bent His bow and made it ready.

⁷ His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his tongue are mischief and vanity.

¹⁸ to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, so that the man of the earth may no more terrify.

⁵ Jehovah tries the righteous; but His soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence, ⁶ On the wicked He shall rain snares, fire and brimstone; and a horrible tempest shall be the portion of their cup.

⁶ On the wicked He shall rain snares, fire and brimstone; and a horrible tempest shall be the portion of their cup.

⁵ For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, I will now arise, says Jehovah. I will set in safety, he pants for it.

¹⁰ And He rode on a cherub, and flew; yea, He soared on the wings of the wind.

⁹ You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of Your presence; Jehovah will swallow them up in His wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

⁷ Do not remember the sins of my youth, or my rebellings; according to Your mercy remember me for Your goodness' sake, O Jehovah.

²² For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before Your eyes; surely You heard the voice of my cries, when I cried to You.

³ When I kept silence, my bones became old through my roaring all the day long. ⁴ For by day and by night Your hand was heavy on me; my sap is turned into the droughts of summer. Selah.

⁸ They shall be satisfied with the fatness of Your house; and You shall make them drink of the river of Your pleasures. ⁹ For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we shall see light.

¹⁰ It is but a little while, and the wicked shall not be; yea, you shall search his place, and he shall not be.

³⁵ I have seen the wicked ruthless, and spreading himself like a luxuriant native tree. ³⁶ Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not; and I looked for him, but he could not be found.

³⁶ Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not; and I looked for him, but he could not be found.

¹ A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O Jehovah, do not rebuke me in Your wrath; neither chasten me in Your fury. ² For Your arrows stick fast in me, and Your hand presses heavily on me. ³ There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your anger; nor rest in my bones because of my sin. ⁴ For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. ⁵ My wounds have putrefied and rotted, because of my foolishness. ⁶ I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. ⁷ For my loins are filled with a burning; and there is no soundness in my flesh. ⁸ I am feeble and painfully broken; I have roared because of the groanings of my heart.

² I became dumb, keeping still; I was silent, from good; and my pain was stirred. ³ My heart was hot within me; while I was musing, the fire burned; I spoke with my tongue:

⁵ Behold, You have made my days as a handbreadth, and my age is as nothing before You. Surely every man standing is altogether vanity. Selah.

²⁰ If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god, ²¹ shall not God search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.

³ my mouth shall speak of wise things; and the thoughts of my heart shall be of understanding.

⁸ Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which You have broken may rejoice. ⁹ Hide Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

¹⁸ Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down into ruin. ¹⁹ How have they been brought into grief, as in a moment! They are fully eaten up with terrors,

¹⁹ How have they been brought into grief, as in a moment! They are fully eaten up with terrors, ²⁰ like a dream when one awakens; so, O Jehovah, when You awake, You shall despise their image.

²⁰ like a dream when one awakens; so, O Jehovah, when You awake, You shall despise their image.

² I will open my mouth in a parable; I will speak dark sayings of old, ³ which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. ⁴ We will not hide them from their sons, showing to the generations to come the praises of Jehovah, and His strength, and His wonderful works that He has done. ⁵ For He set up a testimony in Jacob, and ordered a Law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should teach them to their sons;

³⁰ They were not turned away from their lust, but while their food was still in their mouths, ³¹ the wrath of God came on them and killed the fattest of them, and struck down the chosen of Israel.

¹⁶ And He would have fed them also with the finest of the wheat; and with honey out of the rock I would have satisfied you.

¹⁰ who perished at Endor; they became as dung for the earth.

¹⁵ I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up; while I suffer Your terrors, I pine away.

⁵ You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which grows up.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. ¹⁶ For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and its place shall know it no more.

⁹ Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow. ¹⁰ Let his sons always beg and be vagabonds, and seek food out of their ruins.

¹⁰ Let his sons always beg and be vagabonds, and seek food out of their ruins. ¹¹ Let the money-lender lay a snare for all that is his; and let strangers take the fruit of his labor. ¹² Let there be none to give mercy to him; nor any to favor his fatherless children. ¹³ Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out. ¹⁴ Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered to Jehovah; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. ¹⁵ Let them be always before Jehovah, that He may cut off their memory from the earth,

¹⁷ Yea, he loved cursing, so let it come to him; he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him. ¹⁸ As he clothed himself with cursing, as with his robe, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

¹⁶ The heavens, even the heavens, are Jehovah's; but the earth He has given to the sons of men.

¹¹ I said in my haste, All men are liars.

⁴ Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of broom.

¹² let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those who go down into the pit;

³¹ and they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own desires.

¹¹ and you moan when your end comes, when your flesh and muscle are eaten away, ¹² and say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised correction; ¹³ and I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor bowed down my ears to those who taught me!

²² His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin. ²³ He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

³¹ but if he is found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the goods of his house.

²³ until a dart strikes through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare and does not know that it is for his soul.

¹⁷ Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. ¹⁸ But he does not know that the dead are there; her guests are in the depths of hell.

⁴ Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

²⁹ He who is slow to wrath is of great understanding, but he who is hasty of spirit exalts folly.

³¹ He who presses the poor curses his Maker, but he who honors Him has mercy upon the poor. ³² The wicked is driven away in his wickedness, but the righteous has hope in his death.

¹⁷ Bread of deceit is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

²² Do not rob the poor, because he is poor; nor press down the afflicted in the gate; ²³ for Jehovah will plead their cause, and strip the soul of those who plunder them.

⁸ Your bit which you have eaten, you shall vomit up, and spoil your pleasant words.

²⁰ Do not be among those who drink much wine, among gluttons for flesh for themselves, ²¹ for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe a man with rags.

²⁹ Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has fighting? Who has babbling? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? ³⁰ Those who stay long at the wine, those who go to seek mixed wine. ³¹ Do not look upon the wine when it is red, when it gives its color in the cup, when it goes down smoothly ³² At the last it bites like an asp and stings like an adder. ³³ Your eyes shall look upon strange women and your heart shall speak perverse things. ³⁴ Yes, you shall be as one who lies down in the middle of the sea, or as one who lies upon the top of a mast, ³⁵ saying, They struck me; I was not sick; they beat me, but I did not know it. When I awaken, I will add more. I will seek it again.

³ A poor man who crushes the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaves no food.

²⁰ Do you see a man hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

¹⁸ Yes, I hated all my labor which I had done under the sun; that I must leave it to the man who shall be after me. ¹⁹ And who knows whether he shall be wise or a fool? Yet he shall have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and acted wisely under the sun. This is also vanity. ²⁰ And I turned to cause my heart to despair over all the labor which I did under the sun.

¹ So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold the tears of the oppressed ones, and they had no comforter! And on the side of those who oppressed them there was power, but they had no comforter.

⁸ If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, do not marvel at the matter. For He who is higher than the highest watches; and there are some higher than they.

¹³ There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for their owners to their hurt. ¹⁴ But those riches perish by evil use. And he brings forth a son, and nothing is in his hand.

⁹ Do not be hasty in your spirit to be angry; for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

⁹ Rejoice, in your youth, young man; and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

⁷ For the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant; and He looked for justice, but behold bloody iniquity; for righteousness, but behold a cry! ⁸ Woe to those who join house to house, laying field to field, until the end of space, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!

¹⁵ Butter and honey he shall eat until he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good.

²² and it will be, from the plentiful supply of milk they shall give, he shall eat butter; for butter and honey shall everyone eat who is left in the land.

²² And they shall look to the land; and behold, trouble and darkness and gloom of anguish! And they are driven away into darkness.

⁶ I will send him against an ungodly nation, and against the people of My wrath. I will command him to take the plunder, and to strip off the spoil, and to trample them like the mud of the streets.

¹³ For you have said in your heart, I will go up to the heavens, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north. ¹⁴ I will go up above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.

²⁰ You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you ruined your land and killed your people; the seed of evildoers shall never be famous. ²¹ Prepare slaughter for his sons, because of the iniquity of their fathers, so that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. ²² For I will rise up against them, says Jehovah of Hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name and remnant, and son, and grandson, says Jehovah.

⁴ My heart wanders, terror overwhelms me; He has turned the twilight of my pleasure into trembling.

⁷ The new wine mourns, the vine droops, all the merry-hearted sigh. ⁸ The gladness of tambourines ceases, the noise of those who rejoice ends; the joy of the harp ceases. ⁹ They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it. ¹⁰ The city of shame is broken down; every house is shut up so that no one may come in. ¹¹ A crying for wine is in the streets; all joy is darkened, the gladness in the land has gone.

¹⁸ And it shall be, he who flees from the sound of dread shall fall into the pit. And he who comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare. For the windows from on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth quake.

²¹ For behold, Jehovah comes out of His place to punish the people of the earth for their iniquity; the earth also shall reveal her blood, and shall no more cover her dead.

⁷ And the multitude of all the nations who fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, shall be like a dream of a night vision. ⁸ It shall even be as when a hungry one dreams, and behold, he eats, but he wakes and his soul is empty; or as when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint and his soul is longing. So shall it be with the multitude of all the nations who fight against mount Zion.

⁶ The burden concerning the beasts of the south. Into the land of trouble and woe. The lioness and the lion are from them; the viper, and the fiery flying serpent. They carry their riches on the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that cannot profit.

³³ For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared. He has made it deep and large. He makes great with fire and wood. The breath of Jehovah kindles it, like a torrent of brimstone.

¹⁷ The poor and needy seek water, and there is none; their tongue fails for thirst, I Jehovah will hear them, I the God of Israel will not leave them.

²⁰ But the wicked are like the troubled sea, which cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt. ²¹ There is no peace, says my God, to the wicked.

¹⁹ Your own evil shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you, therefore know and see that it is an evil and bitter thing that you have forsaken Jehovah your God, and that My fear is not in you, says the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.

² And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of the heavens, whom they have loved and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshiped. They shall not be gathered nor buried; they shall be as dung on the face of the earth.

¹⁵ What is to My beloved in My house, since she has committed her many evils? And has the holy flesh caused your evil to pass from you? How then do you exult? ¹⁶ Jehovah called your name, a green olive tree, fair, with fine fruit. With the sound of a great storm He has set fire to it, and its branches are worthless.

⁶ For he shall be like a juniper in the desert, and shall not see when good comes. But he shall live in the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land that is not inhabited. ⁷ Blessed is the man who trusts in Jehovah, and Jehovah is his trust. ⁸ For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters; it sends out its roots by the river, and it shall not fear when the heat comes, but its foliage shall be green; and he is not worried in the year of drought, nor will it cease from yielding fruit.

¹¹ The quail sits on eggs and does not hatch them; in the same way he who gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the middle of his days, and in his end he shall be a fool.

³ And it happened on the next day, Pashur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, Jehovah has not called your name Pashur, but Terror from All Around. ⁴ For so says Jehovah, Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. And they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall behold it. And I will give all Judah into the king of Babylon's hand, and he will exile them into Babylon, and kill them with the sword.

⁹ Then I said, I will not mention Him, nor speak in His name any more. But His Word was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with holding in, and I could not stop.

¹³ Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his upper rooms without justice; his neighbor serves without pay, and he does not give him for his work;

¹⁷ But your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your unjust gain, and to shed innocent blood, and for cruelty, and to do violence.

²³ because they have committed evil in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken lying words in My name, which I have not commanded them; for I am He who knows and a witness, says Jehovah.

⁴³ Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be on you, O Moabite, says Jehovah. ⁴⁴ He who flees from the terror shall fall into the pit; and he who goes up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare. For I will bring on it, even on Moab, the year of their judgment, says Jehovah.

³⁴ Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel. He has swallowed me up like a jackal; he has filled his belly with good things; he has thrown me out;

⁴⁴ And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. And the nations shall not flow together any more to him; yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

¹⁶ All your enemies have opened their mouth against you; they hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen.

³⁴ to crush all the prisoners of the earth under His feet;

³⁸ From the mouth of the Most High does not go out the evil and the good.

¹² The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all her multitude.

²⁹ The people of the land have used oppression and practiced robbery, and they have troubled the poor and needy. Yea, they have oppressed the stranger without right.

¹³ In your defilement is wickedness. Because I have purged you and you were not purged, you shall not be purged from your defilement any more, until I have caused My fury to cease on you.

²⁷ And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to hell with their weapons of war. And they have put their swords under their heads, but their sins shall be on their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

¹¹ The tree grew and was strong, and its height reached to the heavens; and the sight of it reached to the end of all the earth.

²² it is you, O king, for you have become great and strong, for your greatness has grown and reached to the heaven, and your rule to the end of the earth.

⁷ For they sow the wind, and they reap the whirlwind. It has no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal; if it does yield, strangers shall swallow it up. ⁸ Israel is swallowed up; now they shall be among the nations as a vessel in which there is no pleasure.

¹ O Israel, rejoice not for joy, like the peoples. For you have gone lusting away from your God; you have loved a reward on every grain floor.

¹ Hear this Word, cows of Bashan who are in the mountain of Samaria; who press down the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring in, that we may drink. ² The Lord Jehovah has sworn by His holiness that the days shall come on you that He will lift you up with meat hooks, and your sons with fishhooks. ³ And you shall go out at the breaches, each woman straight before her. And you shall cast down the high place, says Jehovah.

¹⁹ as if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.

⁴ Hear this, you who trample the poor, even to make the humble of the land to fail,

¹ I saw the Lord standing by the altar. And He said, Strike the capital of the door, so that the thresholds shall shake; and break them on the head of all of them. And I will kill the last of them with the sword. Not one of them fleeing will flee, and not a fugitive of them will escape. ² If they dig into hell, there My hand shall take them. And if they go up to the heavens, I will bring them down from there.

² If they dig into hell, there My hand shall take them. And if they go up to the heavens, I will bring them down from there. ³ And if they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there. And if they are hidden from My sight in the bottom of the sea, I will command the serpent there, and he shall bite them.

³ The pride of your heart has deceived you, dwelling in the clefts of the rock, his dwelling is lofty; saying in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? ⁴ Though you rise high like the eagle, and though you set your nest between the stars, I will bring you down from there, says Jehovah.

² And they covet and seize fields; and houses, and take them away. And they oppress a man and his household, even a man and his inheritance.

⁹ You have thrown the wives of My people out from the house of her delight; from their children you have taken away My majesty forever.

¹⁸ Their silver nor their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of Jehovah's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of His jealousy. For He shall make even a full, yea, a speedy end of all the dwellers in the land.

² If you will not hear, and if you will not set it on your heart to give glory to My name, says Jehovah of Hosts, then I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. And indeed I have cursed it, because you do not set it on your heart.

⁵ And I will come near you to judgment. And I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who extort from the hired laborer's wages, and turning away the widow, and the orphan, the alien, and not fearing Me, says Jehovah of Hosts.

⁷ But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said to them, O generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

¹² whose fan is in His hand, and He will cleanse His floor and gather His wheat into the storehouse; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

²⁹ And if your right eye offends you, pluck it out and throw it from you. For it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be thrown into hell. ³⁰ And if your right hand offends you, cut it off and throw it from you. For it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be thrown into hell.

²¹ Not everyone who says to Me, Lord! Lord! shall enter the kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven.

¹² But the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

²³ And you, Capernaum, who are exalted to the heaven, shall be brought down to hell. For if the mighty works which have been done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

²⁰ But that which was sown on the stony places is this: he who hears the Word and immediately receives it with joy. ²¹ But he has no root in himself, and is temporary. For when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the Word, he immediately stumbles.

²⁶ For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

¹³ But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men. For you neither go in, nor do you allow those entering to go in.

²⁴ Blind guides who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!

⁵¹ And He shall cut him apart and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

³ Then he who had betrayed Him, seeing that He was condemned, sorrowing, Judas returned the thirty pieces of silver again to the chief priests and elders, ⁴ saying, I have sinned, betraying innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? You see to that.

²⁵ And immediately going in with haste to the king, she asked, saying, I desire that you give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.

⁴³ And if your hand offends you, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed than to have two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched ⁴⁴ where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁵ And if your foot offends you, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame than to have two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched ⁴⁶ where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁷ And if your eye offends you, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes to be cast into hell fire ⁴⁸ where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁹ For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.

² For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, nor anything hidden that shall not be known. ³ Therefore whatever you have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light. And that which you have spoken in the ear in secret rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops.

¹⁷ And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room in which to store my fruits? ¹⁸ And he said, I will do this. I will pull down my barns and build bigger ones, and I will store all my fruits and my goods there. ¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat drink and be merry. ²⁰ But God said to him, Fool! This night your soul shall be required of you, then whose shall be those things which you have prepared?

²⁴ And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame.

²⁴ And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame. ²⁵ But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted and you are tormented.

⁸ And Zaccheus stood and said to the Lord, Behold, Lord, I give half of my goods to the poor. And in anything I accused anyone falsely, I restore it fourfold.

²¹ Then Jesus said again to them, I go away, and you shall seek Me and shall die in your sins. Where I go, you cannot come.

²⁴ Therefore I said to you that you shall die in your sins, for if you do not believe that I AM, you shall die in your sins.

²⁵ to take the share of this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell, to go to his own place.

²² And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god and not of a man! ²³ And immediately the angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give God the glory. And he was eaten by worms and gave up the spirit.

³ And Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laying them on the fire, a viper came out of the heat and fastened on his hand. ⁴ And when the foreigners saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, being saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed to live. ⁵ Then indeed he shook off the creature into the fire, suffering no harm. ⁶ But they expected him to be about to become inflamed, or to fall down dead suddenly, But over much time expecting and seeing nothing amiss happening to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god.

¹⁶ in a day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

¹³ "Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they have used deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips;

¹³ For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die. But if you through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live.

² For I bear record to them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

⁵ Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts. And then shall each one have praise of God.

¹¹ Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men. But we are revealed to God, and I trust also that we are revealed in your consciences.

⁴ But let each one prove his own work, and then he alone will have a boast in himself, and not in another.

¹⁹ Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

⁶ But you dishonored the poor one. Do not rich men oppress you and draw you before the judgment seats?

¹³ For he who has shown no mercy shall have judgment without mercy, and mercy exults over judgment.

⁸ Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners; and purify your hearts, double-minded ones. ⁹ Be afflicted, and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness.

¹⁶ But now you boast in your presumptions. All such boasting is evil.

¹ Come now, rich ones, weep and howl for your hardships coming on. ² Your riches have rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten. ³ Your gold and silver have corroded, and their poison will be a witness against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You heaped treasure in the last days. ⁴ Behold, the hire of the laborers reaping your fields cry out, being kept back by you. And the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

¹³ wild waves of the sea foaming up their shames; wandering stars for whom blackness of darkness has been kept forever.

⁷ As much as she has glorified herself and has lived in luxury, so much torment and sorrow give her. For she says in her heart, I sit as a queen, and I am not a widow; and I do not see mourning at all.

¹⁷ For in one hour such great riches was desolated. And every ship-pilot, and all the company on the ships, and sailors, and as many as work the sea, stood afar off.

¹ And he showed me a pure river of Water of Life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.