Job 7 Cross References - MLV

¹ Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
² As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow and as a hireling who looks for his wages, ³ so I am made to possess months of misery and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
⁴ When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise and the night be gone? And I am full of tossing to and fro to the dawning of the day. ⁵ My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up and breaks out afresh.
⁶ My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and are spent without hope. ⁷ O remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good. ⁸ The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more. Your eyes will be upon me, but I will not be.
⁹ As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more. ¹⁰ He will return no more to his house, nor will his place know him any more.
¹¹ Therefore I will not refrain my mouth. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
¹² Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that you set a watch over me? ¹³ When I say, My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint. ¹⁴ Then you scare me with dreams and terrify me through visions, ¹⁵ so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than these my bones. ¹⁶ I loathe my life. I would not live everlasting. Let me alone, for my days are vanity. ¹⁷ What is man, that you should magnify him and that you should set your mind upon him, ¹⁸ and that you should visit him every morning and try him every moment? ¹⁹ How long will you not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? ²⁰ If I have sinned, what do I do to you, O you, watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself? ²¹ And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust and you will seek me diligently, but I will not be.

⁵⁰ And he will reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the year of jubilee. And the price of his sale will be according to the number of years. He will be with him according to the time of a hired servant.

¹⁸ It will not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, for he has been worth a double hired servant to you, in serving you six years. And Jehovah your God will bless you in all that you do.

⁷ but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

⁵ Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you and you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass, ⁶ look away from him, that he may rest, till he will accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

¹³ O that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath be past, that you would appoint for me a set time and remember me!
¹⁴ If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my warfare I would wait till my release should come.

⁴ Jehovah, make me to know my end and the measure of my days, what it is. Let me know how frail I am.

⁸ There is no man who has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, nor has he power over the day of death. And there is no discharge in war. Neither will wickedness deliver he who is given to it.

¹⁶ For thus the Lord has said to me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar will fail.

⁵ Go and say to Hezekiah, Jehovah says thus, the God of David your father. I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add to your days fifteen years.

² Speak comfortably to Jerusalem and cry to her, that her warfare has been completed, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Jehovah's hand double for all her sins.

¹ For the kingdom of the heavens is similar to a man who is a householder, who went out at the same time every morning to hire workers into his vineyard. ² And having agreed together with the workers for a denarius a day , he sent them into his vineyard. ³ And he went out around the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace; ⁴ and he said to those men, You also, go into the vineyard and I will be giving you whatever is just. And they went. ⁵ Again, they went out around the sixth and he did likewise. ⁶ Now around the eleventh hour, he went out and found others standing idle, and he says to them, Why are you standing here idle the whole day?
⁷ They say to him, Because no one has hired us.
So he says to them, You also, go into the vineyard and I will be giving you whatever is just. ⁸ Now when it became evening, the lord of the vineyard says to his commissioner, Call the workers and give to them their wages, begin from the last to the first. ⁹ And when those hired around the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius apiece. ¹⁰ Now when the first came, they supposed that they will be receiving more, but they themselves also received a denarius apiece.
¹¹ But having received it, they were murmuring against the householder, ¹² saying, These last ones have only done one hour of work, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the burning heat.
¹³ But he answered and said to one of them, Comrade, I am not wronging you. Did you not agree together with me for a denarius? ¹⁴ Take up the thing which is yours and go away. It is my will to give to this last one, as I also did to you. ¹⁵ Or is it not legal for me to do what I will in the things which are mine? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?

⁹ Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he is not stumbling, because he sees the light of this world. ¹⁰ But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

¹³ You will not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired servant will not abide with you all night until the morning.

¹⁵ You will give him his hire in his day, neither will the sun go down upon it, for he is poor and sets his heart upon it, lest he cry against you to Jehovah and it is sin to you.

¹³¹ I opened wide my mouth and panted, because I longed for your commandments.

⁶ I spread forth my hands to you. My soul is as a weary land for you. Selah.

⁴ Prepare you* war against her. Arise and let us go up at noon. Woe to us! For the day declines; for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

⁵ And I will come near to you* to judgment and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against the false swearers and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the fatherless and who turn aside the traveler and do not fear me, says Jehovah of hosts.

⁴ Behold, the wages of the workers who mowed your farmlands, the wages which have been defrauded by you, are crying out against you and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

⁷ But now he has made me weary. You have made desolate all my company.

² O that I were as in the months of long-ago, as in the days when God watched over me,

⁶ I am weary with my groaning. Every night I make my bed to swim. I water my couch with my tears.

⁵ Behold, you have made my days as the width of hands and my life-time is as nothing before you. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.

¹⁴ I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

⁶⁷ In the morning you will say, Would it were evening! and at evening you will say, Would it were morning! for the fear of your heart which you will fear and for the sight of your eyes which you will see.

¹³ When I say, My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint. ¹⁴ Then you scare me with dreams and terrify me through visions,

¹² They change the night into day. The light, they say, is near to the darkness.

¹⁷ In the night season my bones are pierced in me and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

⁴ You have held my eyelids watching. I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

²³ I have gone like the shadow when it declines. I am tossed up and down as the locust.

⁶ my soul for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning, watchmen for the morning.

¹¹ O you afflicted, tossed with tempest and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in fair colors and lay your foundations with sapphires.

⁷ So Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah and killed* Job with severe boils from the sole of his foot to his crown.
⁸ And he took an earthen vessel for him to scrape himself with it and he sat among the ashes.

³¹ yet you will plunge me in the ditch and my own clothes will abhor me.

¹⁴ if I have said to corruption, You are my father, to the worm, My mother and my sister,

²⁶ And after my skin, this body, is destroyed, then outside my flesh I will see God,

²⁰ The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. And unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.

¹⁸ By the great force my garment is disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat. ¹⁹ He has cast me into the mud and I have become like dust and ashes.

⁵ My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.
⁶ I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all the day long. ⁷ Because my loins are filled with burning and there is no soundness in my flesh.

⁶ From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it, but wounds and bruises and fresh stripes. They have not been closed nor bound up nor soothed with oil.

¹¹ Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the noise of your viols. The worm is spread under you and worms cover you.

²⁴ And they will go forth and look upon the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me. For their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched and they will be an abhorring to all flesh.

⁴³ And there you* will remember your* ways and all your* practices, by which you* have polluted yourselves. And you* will loathe yourselves in your* own sight for all your* evils that you* have committed.

²³ But instantly a messenger of the Lord struck him, because he did not give God the glory and he expired, having become maggot-eaten.

¹¹ What is my strength that I should wait? And what is my end that I should be patient?

²⁵ Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good,

¹⁵ Behold, he will kill me; I have no hope. Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.

²² For when a few years are come, I will go the way where I will not return.

¹¹ My days are past. My purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

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

⁵ You carry them away as with a flood. They are as a sleep. They are like grass which grows up in the morning. ⁶ In the morning it flourishes and grows up. In the evening it is cut down and withers.

¹¹ My days are like a shadow that declines and I am withered like grass.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. ¹⁶ Because the wind passes over it and it has gone and the place of it will know it no more.

⁴ Man is like vanity. His days are as a shadow that passes away.

³² An evil man is thrust down in his evil-doing, but a righteous man has hope in his death.

¹² My dwelling is removed and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me. ¹³ I quieted myself until morning. As a lion, so he breaks all my bones. From day even to night will you make an end of me.

⁶ The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass and all the goodness of it is as the flower of the field. ⁷ The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of Jehovah blows upon it. Surely the people is grass.

²⁵ Withhold your foot from being unshod and your throat from thirst. But you said, It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers and after them I will go.

¹² that you were separate from Christ at the time, having been alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and were godless in the world.

¹¹ For the sun has risen together with the burning heat, and dried up the grass, and its flower fell and the beauty of its face perished. So shall the rich man also fade away in his pursuits.

¹⁴ You do not know what the next-day will bring, for what is your life? For it will be a vapor, which appears for a few but thereafter also disappears.

¹³ Hence when you have girded up the loins of your mind, while being sober, hope completely upon the grace being brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

²⁴ Because, ‘All flesh is like grass and all the glory of man is like the flower of grass. The grass dried up and the its flower fell away.

³⁶ And Jacob their father said to them, You* have bereaved me of my sons. Joseph is not and Simeon is not and you* will take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.

⁸ Remember, I beseech you, the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, If you* trespass, I will scatter you* abroad among the peoples,

⁹ I beseech you, remember that you have fashioned me as clay. And will you bring me into dust again?

²¹ before I go where I will not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death, ²² the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order and where the light is as midnight.

¹⁸ Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O Jehovah and that a foolish people has blasphemed your name.

²² Arise, O God, plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man reproaches you all the day.

³⁹ And he remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away and does not come again.

⁴⁷ O remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the sons of men!

⁵⁰ Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my bosom all the mighty peoples,

¹⁵ O Jehovah, you know. Remember me and visit me and avenge me of my persecutors. Take me not away in your longsuffering. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.

¹⁸ If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, I have not seen you.

²⁷ You also put my feet in the stocks and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet.

³ And do you open your eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with you?

⁹ The eye which saw him will see him no more, neither will his place any more behold him.

³⁶ But I passed by, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.

¹¹ When you have disciplined a man with rebukes for iniquity, you make his desires to disintegrate like a moth. Surely every man is vanity. Selah.

⁸ You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance.
⁹ Because all our days are passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

²³ But now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.

¹⁴ For we must die and are as water split on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; God does not take away life, but devises means that he who is banished is not an outcast from him.

²¹ before I go where I will not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death,

⁸ It is high as heaven; what can you do? Deeper than Sheol; what can you know?

¹⁰ But man dies and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit and where is he? ¹¹ As the waters fail from the sea and the river wastes away and dries up, ¹² so man lies down and does not rise. Till the heavens be no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

¹⁵ Terrors are turned upon me. They chase my honor as the wind and my welfare is passed away as a cloud.

¹¹ Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning,

¹³ O spare me, that I may recover strength before I go from here and be no more.

¹¹ I said, I will not see Jehovah, even Jehovah in the land of the living. I will behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

²¹ The east wind carries him away and he departs and it whirlwinds him out of his place.

²³ Men will clap their hands at him and will hiss him out of his place.

¹⁶ Because the wind passes over it and it has gone and the place of it will know it no more.

²¹ And they said one to another, We are truly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul when he besought us and we would not hear. Therefore this distress has come upon us.

¹⁰ And she was in bitterness of soul and prayed to Jehovah and wept much.

²⁷ And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to thrust her away, but the man of God said, Let her alone, for her soul is distressed within her and Jehovah has hid it from me and has not told me. ²⁸ Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? Did I not say, do not deceive me?

²⁶ Do you* think to reprove words, seeing that the speeches of a man who is desperate are as wind?

¹ My soul is weary of my life. I will give free reign to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁵ If I am wicked, woe to me. And if I am righteous, yet I will not lift up my head, being filled with shame and looking upon my affliction.

¹³ Be quiet. Let me alone that I may speak and let come on me what will.

⁶ Though I speak, my grief is not kept back and though I forbear, what am I eased?

³ Allow me and I also will speak and after I have spoken, mock on. ⁴ As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?

²⁵ And another man dies in bitterness of soul and never tastes of good.

³ My heart was hot within me. While I was musing the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:

⁹ I have proclaimed good news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not refrain my lips. O Jehovah, you know.

¹⁵ What shall I say? He has both spoken to me and himself has done it. I will go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁷ Behold, for peace I had great bitterness. But you have by love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption. For you have cast all my sins behind your back.

³⁷ And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and disheartened. ³⁸ Then he says to them, My soul is very sorrowful until death. Remain here and watch with me.

⁴⁴ And having become in agony, he was praying more intensely, and his sweat became like thick drops of blood going down upon the soil.

⁴ For I wrote to you out of much affliction and dismay of heart through many tears; not in order that you should be made sorrowful, but that you may know the love that I have even-more toward you.

¹⁷ What is man, that you should magnify him and that you should set your mind upon him,

⁶ Upon what were the foundations of it fastened? Or who laid the cornerstone of it ⁷ when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
⁸ Or who shut up the sea with doors when it broke forth, like it had gone forth out of the womb, ⁹ when I made clouds the garment of it and thick darkness a swaddling-band for it, ¹⁰ and marked out for it my bound and set bars and doors, ¹¹ and said, This far you will come, but no farther and here your proud waves will be stayed?

¹ Can you draw out leviathan with a fishhook, or press down his tongue with a cord? ² Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook? ³ Will he make many supplications to you? Or will he speak soft words to you? ⁴ Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant everlasting?
⁵ Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your maidens? ⁶ Will the bands make traffic of him? Will they part him among the merchants? ⁷ Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish-spears? ⁸ Lay your hand upon him. Remember the battle and do so no more.
⁹ Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Will not a man be cast down even at the sight of him? ¹⁰ None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?
¹¹ Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Under the whole heaven is mine.
¹² I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his graceful frame. ¹³ Who can strip off his outer garment? Who will come within his jaws? ¹⁴ Who can open the doors of his face? All around his teeth is terror. ¹⁵ His strong scales are his pride, shut up together like a close seal. ¹⁶ One is so near to another that no air can come between them. ¹⁷ They are joined one to another. They stick together, so that they cannot be parted.
¹⁸ His sneezes flash forth light and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. ¹⁹ Out of his mouth go burning torches and sparks of fire leap forth. ²⁰ Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot and burning rushes. ²¹ His breath kindles coals and a flame goes forth from his mouth. ²² In his neck abides strength and terror dances before him. ²³ The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm upon him. They are hardly shaken.
²⁴ His heart is as firm as a stone, Yes, firm as the nether millstone.
²⁵ When he raises himself up the mighty are afraid. Because of consternation they are beside themselves. ²⁶ If a man lays at him with the sword it cannot avail, nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft. ²⁷ He counts iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood. ²⁸ The arrow cannot make him flee. Sling-stones are turned into stubble with him. ²⁹ Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.
³⁰ His underparts are like sharp earthen vessels. He spreads out as a threshing-wagon upon the mud. ³¹ He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment. ³² He makes a path to shine after him. A man would think the deep to be hoary.
³³ Upon earth there is not his like who is made without fear. ³⁴ He beholds everything that is high.
He is king over all the sons of pride.

⁷ He has walled me around, that I cannot go forth. He has made my chain heavy.

² Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh King of Egypt and say to him, You were compared to a young lion of the nations. Yet you are as a monster in the seas and you broke forth with your rivers and troubled the waters with your feet and fouled their rivers.
³ The lord Jehovah says thus: I will spread out my net upon you with a company of many peoples and they will bring you up in my net.

³ so I am made to possess months of misery and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
⁴ When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise and the night be gone? And I am full of tossing to and fro to the dawning of the day.

²⁷ If I say, I will forget my complaint. I will put off my sad countenance and be of good cheer, ²⁸ I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that you will not hold me innocent.

⁵ And they dreamed a dream both of them in one night, each man his dream, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and the baker of the King of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.
⁶ And Joseph came in to them in the morning and saw them, and behold, they were sad. ⁷ And he asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in confinement in his master's house, saying, Why do you* look so sad today?

⁸ And it happened in the morning, that his spirit was troubled and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all the wise men of it. And Pharaoh told them his dream, but there was no man who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

¹³ And when Gideon came, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow. And he said, Behold, I dreamed a dream. And behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and came to the tent and killed* it so that it fell and turned it upside down so that the tent lay flat. ¹⁴ And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else except the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. Into his hand God has delivered Midian and all the army.

¹ And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams. And his spirit was troubled and his sleep went from him.

¹⁹ Now while sitting upon the judicial-seat, his wife sent to him, saying, Have nothing between you and that righteous man; for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him.

²³ And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and arose and got home to his city and set his house in order and hanged himself. And he died and was buried in the sepulcher of his father.

⁵ And tossing the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed. And having gone away, he hanged himself.

⁴⁶ And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, those like these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?

⁴ But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree. And he requested for himself that he might die and said, It is enough, now, O Jehovah, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.

²⁰ Why is light given to him who is in misery and life to the bitter in soul, ²¹ who long for death, but it does not come and dig for it more than for hid treasures, ²² who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they can find the grave?

⁹ Even that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

²¹ Though I were perfect, I do not regard myself. I despise my life.

²⁰ Are not my days few? Cease then and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little

⁶ look away from him, that he may rest, till he will accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

¹⁰ Remove your stroke away from me. I am consumed by the blow of your hand.

⁹ Surely men of low degree are vanity and men of high degree are a lie. They will go up in the balances. They are together lighter than vanity.

³³ Therefore he consumed their days in vanity and their years in terror.

¹¹ Because there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better? ¹² Because who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

³ Therefore now, O Jehovah, I beseech you, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.

⁸ And it happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted and requested for himself that he might die and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

¹⁴ After whom is the King of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? After a dead dog, after a flea.

¹² Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that you set a watch over me?

¹⁴ If he sets his heart upon himself, if he gathers his spirit and his breath to himself, ¹⁵ all flesh will perish together and man will turn again to dust.

⁴ what is man that you remember him? And the son of man that you care for him?

³ Jehovah, what is man, that you take knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that you make account of him?

⁶ But a certain writer has thoroughly testified somewhere, saying, ‘What is man, that you remember him? Or the son of man, that you visit him?

¹ And it happened after these things, that God proved Abraham and said to him, Abraham. And he said, Behold, here I am.

⁵ You will not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them, because I, Jehovah your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of those who hate me,

³⁴ And now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my messenger will go before you. Nevertheless in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them.

¹⁶ who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end.

¹⁴ Being dead, they will not live. Being deceased, they will not rise. Therefore you have visited and destroyed them and made all remembrance of them to perish.

⁷ Therefore Jehovah of hosts says thus: Behold, I will melt them and try them, for how else should I do, because of the daughter of my people?

¹⁰ Many will purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked will do wickedly. And none of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.

⁹ And I will bring the third part into the fire and will refine them as silver is refined and will try them as gold is tried. They will call on my name and I will hear them. I will say, It is my people and they will say, Jehovah is my God.

⁷ in order that the trial of your faith, ( being much more precious than gold, which perishes), even now being tested through fire, may be found for praise and honor and to glory in the revelation of Jesus Christ.

¹⁸ He will not allow me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

³ My soul also is greatly troubled. And you, O Jehovah, how long?

¹ How long, O Jehovah? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? ² How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long will my enemy be exalted over me?
³ Consider and answer me, O Jehovah my God. Lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the death,

³ Jehovah, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?

¹⁰ And they cried with a loud voice, saying, Until when, O holy and true Master, do you not judge and avenge our blood from those who dwell upon the earth?

⁶ You are Jehovah, even you alone, you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them and you preserve them all. And the host of heaven worships you.

²⁴ For my sighing comes before I eat and my groanings are poured out like water.

⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which my spirit drinks up. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

¹¹ Therefore I will not refrain my mouth. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
¹² Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that you set a watch over me?

²⁹ I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain? ³⁰ If I wash myself with snow water and make my hands ever so clean, ³¹ yet you will plunge me in the ditch and my own clothes will abhor me.

²⁶ For you write bitter things against me and make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth.

¹⁶ But now you number my steps. Do you not watch over my sin?14:17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag and you fasten up my iniquity.

¹² I was at ease and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his mark. ¹³ His archers encompass me all around. He splits my reins apart and does not spare. He pours out my gall upon the ground. ¹⁴ He breaks me with breach upon breach. He runs upon me like a giant.

⁵ Is not your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

³³ if like Adam I have covered my transgressions by hiding my iniquity in my bosom

⁹ I am clean, without transgression. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

²⁷ He sings before men and says, I have sinned and perverted what was right and it did not profit me.

⁶ If you have sinned, what do you effect against him? And if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you to him?

¹² Because you will make them turn their back. You will make ready with your bowstrings against their face.

⁶ Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are a great deep. O Jehovah, you preserve man and beast.

⁴ O Jehovah God of hosts, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

¹² He has bent his bow and set me as a mark for the arrow.

¹⁰ And David's heart killed* him after he had numbered the people. And David said to Jehovah, I have sinned greatly in what I have done, but now, O Jehovah, I beseech you, put away the iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.

¹³ For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest

⁸ The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more. Your eyes will be upon me, but I will not be.

¹⁴ If I sin, then you mark me. And you will not acquit me from my iniquity.

²³ How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin. ²⁴ Why do you hide your face and reckon me for your enemy?

³² Yet he will be borne to the grave and men will keep watch over the tomb. ³³ The clods of the valley will be sweet to him. And all men will draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

⁷ and the dust returns to the earth as it was and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

¹⁹ Your dead will live. My dead bodies will arise. Awake and sing, you* who dwell in the dust, for your dew is as the dew of herbs and the earth will cast forth the dead.

⁹ Do not be angry very severely, O Jehovah, nor remember iniquity forever. Behold, look, we beseech you, we are all your people.

⁴² We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned. ⁴³ You have covered with anger and pursued us. You have slain; you have not pitied. ⁴⁴ You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

²⁰ Why do you forget us forever and forsake us so long time? ²¹ Turn us back to you, O Jehovah and we will be turned back. Renew our days as of long-ago. ²² But you have utterly rejected us. You are very angry against us.

² And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

² Take with you* words and return to Jehovah. Say to him, Take away all iniquity and accept what is good. So we will render as bullocks the offering of our lips.

¹⁸ Who is a God like to you, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
¹⁹ He will again have compassion upon us. He will tread our iniquities under foot and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

²⁹ On the next-day he sees Jesus coming toward him and says, Behold, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world!

¹⁴ who gave himself on our behalf, in order that he might redeem us away from all lawlessness and might cleanse a treasured people for himself, zealous of good works.

⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

⁵ And you know that, that man was manifested in order that he might take away our sins, and in him is no sin.