Job 10 Cross References - MSTC

¹ It grieveth my soul to live. Nevertheless, now will I put forth my words: I will speak out of the very heaviness of my soul, ² and will say unto God: O do not condemn me; but show me the cause, wherefore thou contendest so with me. ³ Thinkest thou it well done, to oppress me, to cast me off - being a work of thine hands - and to maintain the counsel of the ungodly? ⁴ Hast thou fleshly eyes then, or doest thou look as a man looketh? ⁵ Are thy days as the days of man, and thy years as man's years, ⁶ that thou makest such inquisition for my wickedness, and searchest out my sin? ⁷ Whereas, notwithstanding, thou knowest that I am no wicked person, and that there is no man able to deliver me out of thine hand. ⁸ "Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me altogether round about. Wilt thou then destroy me suddenly? ⁹ O remember, I beseech thee, how that thou madest me of the mould of the earth, and shalt bring me into dust again. ¹⁰ Hast thou not turned me, as it were milk: and turned me to cruddes like cheese? ¹¹ Thou hast covered me with skin and flesh, and joined me together with bones and sinews. ¹² Thou hast granted me life, and done me good: and the diligent heed that thou tookest upon me hath preserved my spirit. ¹³ Though thou hidest these things in thine heart, yet am I sure that thou rememberest them all. ¹⁴ "If I did sin, thou haddest an eye unto me, and shalt not declare me innocent because of mine offense. ¹⁵ If I have done wickedly, woe is me therefore. If I have done righteously, yet dare I not lift up my head; so full am I of confusion, and see mine own misery. ¹⁶ Thou huntest me out, being in heaviness, as it were a lion, and troublest me out of measure. ¹⁷ Thou bringest fresh witnesses against me, and thy wrath increasest thou upon me; very many are the plagues that I am in. ¹⁸ Wherefore hast thou brought me out of my mother's womb? O that I had perished, and that no eye had seen me. ¹⁹ If they had carried me to my grave as soon as I was born, then should I be now, as though I had never been. ²⁰ Shall not my short life come so soon to an end? O hold thee from me, let me alone, that I may ease myself a little ²¹ before I go thither, from whence I shall not turn again. Namely, to that land of darkness and shadow of death: ²² yea, into a land as dark as darkness itself, and into the shadow of death where is none order; but light there is as darkness."

¹⁵ Wherefore, if thou deal thus with me; kill me, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thy sight: and let me not see my wretchedness."

⁴ And he went a day's journey into the wilderness, and when he was come sat down under a Juniper tree, and desired for his soul, that he might die, and said, "It is now enough, O LORD, take my soul; for I am not better than my fathers."

²⁰ "Wherefore is the light given to him that is in misery? And life unto them that have heavy hearts? ²¹ Which long for death, if it come not; ²² and search for it more than for treasure. Which also would be exceedingly glad, and rejoice if they found their grave. ²³ That should be joy to the man whose way is hid, which God keepeth back from him.

¹⁵ And so he delivereth the poor from the sword, from the threatenings of the ungodly, and from the hand of the cruel; ¹⁶ that the poor may have hope, and that the mouth of the oppressor may be stopped.

²⁰ In the midst of hunger he saveth thee from death: and when it is war, from the power of the sword.

² "Oh that my misery were weighed, and my punishment laid in the balances: ³ For then should it be heavier than the sand of the sea. This is the cause, that my words are so sorrowful. ⁴ For the arrows of the almighty are in me, whose indignation hath drunk up my spirit, and the terrible fears of God fight against me.

⁸ "O that I might have my desire! O that God would grant me the thing, that I long for! ⁹ That he would begin and smite me: that he would let his hand go, and hew me down.

²⁶ Do ye take deliberacy to check men's sayings, and judge a poor word spoken in vain?

¹¹ Therefore I will not spare my mouth, but will speak in the trouble of my spirit; in that bitterness of my mind will I talk.

¹⁶ I can see no remedy. I shall live no more. O spare me then, for my days are but vain.

²¹ For though I be an innocent, and my conscience clear, yea am I weary of my life.

¹⁵ If I have done wickedly, woe is me therefore. If I have done righteously, yet dare I not lift up my head; so full am I of confusion, and see mine own misery. ¹⁶ Thou huntest me out, being in heaviness, as it were a lion, and troublest me out of measure.

¹³ O that thou wouldest keep me, and hide me in the hell, until thy wrath were stilled: and to appoint me a time, wherein thou mightest remember me.

⁶ "But what shall I do? For all my words, my sorrow will not cease: and though I hold my tongue, yet will it not depart from me. ⁷ But now that God hath sent me adversity, thou hast troubled all my congregation. ⁸ And that thou hast filled me with wrinkles, my flesh is witness; and my leanness riseth up against me and beareth witness thereof in my face. ⁹ He is angry at me, he hateth me, and gnasheth upon me with his teeth. Mine enemy scowleth upon me with his eyes. ¹⁰ They have opened their mouths wide upon me, and smitten me upon the cheek despitefully, they have eased themselves through mine adversity. ¹¹ God hath given me over to the ungodly, and delivered me into the hands of the wicked. ¹² I was some time in wealth, but suddenly hath he brought me to naught. He hath taken me by the neck, he hath rent me, and set me, as it were a mark for him to shoot at. ¹³ His archers compass me round about; he hath wounded my loins, and not spared. My bowels hath he poured upon the ground. ¹⁴ He hath given me one wound upon another, and is fallen upon me like a giant. ¹⁵ I have sewed a sackcloth upon my skin, and lie with my strength in the dust. ¹⁶ My face is swollen with weeping, and mine eyes are waxen dim.

⁴ If I go wrong, I go wrong to myself.

² "O hear my words, and amend yourselves. ³ Suffer me a little, that I may speak also, and then laugh my words to scorn, if ye will. ⁴ Is it with a man, that I make this disputation? Which if it were so, should not my spirit be then in sore trouble?

³ For while I held my tongue, my bones consumed away through my daily complaining. ⁴ For thy hand is heavy upon me both day and night, and my moisture is like the drought in Summer. Selah. ⁵ I will acknowledge my sin unto thee; and mine unrighteousness have I not hid. I said, "I will confess my sins unto the LORD." And so thou forgavest the wickedness of my sin. Selah.

¹⁵ What shall I say? The Lord hath made a promise to me. Yea, and he himself hath performed it. I shall therefore, as long as I live, remember bitterness of my life.

¹⁷ Behold, bitter as gall was my pensiveness: so sore longed I for health. And it was thy pleasure to deliver me from the filthy pit: for thou it is, O Lord, that hath cast all my sins behind thy back.

³ Now therefore take my life from me, for I had better die than live."

⁸ And as soon as the sun was up, God prepared a fervent east wind: so that the sun beat over the head of Jonah, that he fainted again and wished unto his soul that he might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."

⁵ If thou wouldest now resort unto God betimes, and make thy humble prayer to the Almighty; ⁶ If thou wouldest live a pure and godly life; should he not wake up unto thee immediately, and give thee the beauty of righteousness again?

²⁹ If I be then a wicked doer, why have I laboured in vain?

³¹ "For so much as I have begun to talk of God, I will not hinder thee; ³² If I have gone amiss, inform me: if I have done wrong, I will leave off.

¹ {To the Chanter in Neginoth upon Sheminith, a Psalm of David} O LORD, rebuke me not in thine indignation, neither chasten me in thy displeasure. ² Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am weak; O LORD, heal me, for my bones are vexed. ³ My soul also is sore troubled; but LORD, how long wilt thou punish me? ⁴ Turn thee, O LORD, and deliver my soul; O save me for thy mercies' sake.

⁷ O remember not the sins and offenses of my youth; but according to thy mercy think upon me, O LORD, for thy goodness.

¹ {To the Chanter, To Bring Remembrance} Put me not to rebuke, O LORD, in thy anger; O chasten me not in thy heavy displeasure. ² For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. ³ There is no health in my flesh, because of thy displeasure; neither is there any rest in my bones, by reason of my sin. ⁴ For my wickednesses are gone over my head, and are like a sore burden, too heavy for me to bear. ⁵ My wounds stink, and are corrupt, through my foolishness. ⁶ I am brought into so great trouble and misery, that I go mourning all the day long. ⁷ For my loins are filled with a sore disease, and there is no whole part in my body. ⁸ I am feeble and sore smitten, I roar for the very disquietness of my heart.

²¹ But deal thou with me, O LORD God, according unto thy name; for sweet is thy mercy.

²³ Try me, O God, and seek the ground of mine heart; prove me, and examine my thoughts. ²⁴ Look well if there be any way of wickedness in me; and lead me in the way everlasting.

² And enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

⁴⁰ {Nun} Let us look well upon our own ways, and remember ourselves, and turn again to the LORD. ⁴¹ Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto the God that is in heaven. ⁴² We have been dissemblers, and have offended; will thou therefore not be intreated?

¹⁶ The garland of our head is fallen: alas, that ever we sinned so sore! ¹⁷ Therefore our heart is full of heaviness, and our eyes dim:

¹ There is, then, no damnation to them which are in Christ Jesus: which walk not after the flesh but after the spirit:

³¹ If we had truly judged ourselves, we should not have been judged. ³² But when we are judged of the Lord we are chastened, because we should not be damned with the world.

²⁰ "Behold, God will not cast away a virtuous man, neither will he help the ungodly.

²² "This one thing will I say: He destroyeth both the righteous and ungodly.

²⁴ As for the world, he giveth it over into the power of the wicked; and he shall cover the faces of the judges thereof. Is it not so? Where is he - or who is he - that can show the contrary?

¹⁵ If thou wouldest but call me, I should obey thee: only despise not the work of thine own hands.

¹⁶ Lo, there is utterly no goodness in them, therefore will not I have to do with the counsel of the ungodly.

¹⁸ He filled their houses with good things. But the council of the ungodly is far from me.

⁵ And why? Job hath said, 'I am righteous, but God doth me wrong.' ⁶ I must needs be a liar, though my cause be right, and violently am I plagued whereas I made no fault.' ⁷ Where is there such one as Job, that drinketh up scornfulness like water?

¹⁸ For he is even the same, that knoweth the rebellious kings, and sayeth to princes, ¹⁹ 'Ungodly men are ye.' He hath none respect unto the persons of the lordly, and regardeth not the rich more than the poor. For they be all the work of his hands.

⁷ He turneth not his eyes away from the righteous; he setteth up kings in their throne, and confirmeth them, so that they alway sit therein. ⁸ But if they be laid in prison and chains, or bound with the bonds of poverty: ⁹ then sheweth he them their works and deeds and the sins wherewith they have used cruel violence.

¹⁷ Nevertheless, thou hast condemned the judgment of the ungodly; yea, even such a judgment and sentence shalt thou suffer. ¹⁸ For then shall not thy cause be stilled with cruelty, nor pacified with many gifts.

² "Can he that striveth with the Almighty be at rest? Should not he which disputeth with God, give him an answer?"

⁸ Wilt thou disannul my judgment? Or wilt thou condemn me, that thou thyself mayest be made righteous?

³³ For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

⁸ The LORD shall make good his loving-kindness toward me. Yea, thy mercy, O LORD, endureth forever; despise not then the works of thine own hands.

⁸ But now O LORD, thou father of ours: we are the clay, and thou art our potter, and we all are the work of thy hands.

¹ O LORD, thou art more righteous than that I should dispute with thee: Nevertheless, let me talk with thee in things reasonable. How happeneth it, that the way of the ungodly is so prosperous? And that it goeth so well with them, which without any shame offend and live in wickedness? ² Thou plantest them, they take root, they grow, and bring forth fruit. They boast much of thee, yet doest thou not punish them. ³ But thou LORD, to whom I am well known, thou that hast seen, and proved my heart; take them away, like as a flock is carried to the slaughter house, and appoint them for the day of slaughter.

² He drove me forth, and led me: Yea, into darkness, but not in to light. ³ Against me only he turneth his hand, and layeth it ever upon me. ⁴ {Beth} My flesh and my skin hath he made old, my bones hath he bruised. ⁵ He hath builded round about me, and closed me in with gall and travail. ⁶ He hath set me in darkness, as they that be dead forever. ⁷ {Gimel} He hath so hedged me in, that I cannot get out; and hath laid heavy links upon me. ⁸ Though I cry and call piteously, yet heareth he not my prayer. ⁹ He hath stopped up my ways with four square stones, and made my paths crooked. ¹⁰ {Daleth} He layeth wait for me like a Bear, and as a lion in a hole. ¹¹ He hath marred my ways, and broken me in pieces: he hath laid me waste altogether. ¹² He hath bent his bow, and made me as it were a mark to shoot at. ¹³ {He} The arrows of his quiver hath he shot, even into my reins. ¹⁴ I am laughed to scorn of all my people; they make songs upon me all the day long. ¹⁵ He hath filled me with bitterness, and given me wormwood to drink. ¹⁶ {Vav} He hath smitten my teeth in pieces, and rolled me in the dust. ¹⁷ He hath put my soul out of rest; I forget all good things. ¹⁸ I thought in myself, "I am undone; there is no hope for me in the LORD."

¹⁹ Wherefore, let them that suffer according to the will of God, commit their souls to him with well doing, as unto a faithful creator.

⁷ But the LORD said unto Samuel, "Look not on his fashion nor on the height of his stature, for I have refused him. Because it is not as man seeth. For man looketh on the outward appearance: but the LORD beholdeth the heart."

³² For he that I must give answer unto, and with whom I go to law, is not a man as I am.

¹⁵ and he said unto them, "Ye are they, which justify yourselves before men: but God knoweth your hearts. For that which is highly esteemed among men is abominable in the sight of God.

¹⁴ His head and his hairs were white, as white wool, and as snow: and his eyes were as a flame of fire:

²⁶ Behold, so great is God, that he passeth our knowledge; neither are we able to come to the experience of his years.

² Before the mountains were brought forth, before the earth and the world were made, thou art God from everlasting and world without end. ³ Thou turnest man to destruction; Again, thou sayest, "Come again, ye children of men." ⁴ For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday, seeing that is passed as a watch in the night.

¹² But thou, O LORD, endurest forever, and thy remembrance throughout all generations.

²⁴ Yet will I say, "O my God, take me not away in the midst of my age; as for thy years, they endure throughout all generations." ²⁵ Thou, LORD, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of thy hands. ²⁶ They shall perish, but thou shalt endure; they all shall wax old as doth a garment, and as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed. ²⁷ But thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

¹² and as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: but thou art always, and thy years shall not fail."

⁸ Dearly beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, how that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

¹⁴ "If I did sin, thou haddest an eye unto me, and shalt not declare me innocent because of mine offense. ¹⁵ If I have done wickedly, woe is me therefore. If I have done righteously, yet dare I not lift up my head; so full am I of confusion, and see mine own misery. ¹⁶ Thou huntest me out, being in heaviness, as it were a lion, and troublest me out of measure. ¹⁷ Thou bringest fresh witnesses against me, and thy wrath increasest thou upon me; very many are the plagues that I am in.

¹⁶ "For thou hast numbered all my goings, yet be not thou too extreme upon my sins.

¹⁵ Break thou the power of the ungodly and malicious; search out the wickedness which he hath done, that he may perish.

²¹ should not God find it out? For he knoweth the very secrets of the heart.

³⁴ Upon thy wings is found the blood of poor and innocent people; and that not in corners and holes only, but openly in all these places.

¹² At the same time will I seek through Jerusalem with lanterns, and visit them that continue in their dregs, and say in their hearts, "Tush, the LORD will do neither good nor evil."

²⁴ but Jesus put not himself in their hands, because he knew all men, ²⁵ and needed not that any man should testify of him. For he knew what was in man.

⁵ Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, which will lighten things that are hid in darkness: and open the counsels of the hearts. And then shall every man have praise of God.

³⁹ "'See, now, how that I — I am he: and that there is no God but I. I can kill, and make alive; and what I have smitten, that I can heal. Neither is there that can deliver any man out of my hand.

¹⁰ But as for my way, he knoweth it: and tryeth me as the gold in the fire.

¹³ "It is he, himself, alone. Who will turn him back? He doth as him listeth, and bringeth to pass what he will. ¹⁴ He rewardeth me into my bosom, and many other things more doth he, as he may by his power.

⁶ let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may see my innocence.

¹⁴ But seeing that God will sit in judgment, what shall I do? And for so much as he will needs visit me, what answer shall I give him?

³⁵ O that I had one which would hear me. Lo, this is my cause: Let the almighty give me answer, and let him that is my contrary party, sue me with libel.

⁷ Now when the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, he said unto Eliphaz the Temanite, "I am displeased with thee and thy two friends, for ye have not spoken the thing that is right before me, like as my servant Job hath done.

⁶ For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

³ O LORD my God, if I have done any such thing, or if there be any wickedness in my hands,

⁸ The LORD shall judge the people; give sentence with me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to the innocence that is in me. ⁹ O let the wickedness of the ungodly come to an end; but guide thou the just. For the righteous God trieth the very hearts and reins.

³ Thou hast proved and visited mine heart in the night season; thou hast tried me, and shalt find no wickedness in me, for I am utterly purposed that my mouth shall not offend.

¹ {A Psalm of David} Be thou my Judge, O LORD, for I walk innocently. My trust hath been also in the LORD; therefore shall I not fall. ² Examine me, O LORD, and prove me: try out my reins and my heart. ³ For thy loving-kindness is ever before mine eyes; and I will walk in thy truth. ⁴ I have not dwelt with vain persons; neither will I have fellowship with the deceitful. ⁵ I hate the congregation of the wicked, and will not sit among the ungodly.

²² O consider this, ye that forget God, lest I pluck you away, and there be none to deliver you.

¹ {To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} O LORD, thou searchest me out, and knowest me. ² Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising; thou understandest my thoughts afar off.

²¹ Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? ²² Yea, I hate them right sore, even as though they were mine enemies.

¹⁵ Well, be ready hereafter, when ye hear the noise of the trumpets blow with the harps, shawmes psalteries, symphonies and all the other melodies: that ye fall down, and worship the Image which I have made. But if ye worship it not, ye shall be cast immediately in to a hot burning oven. Let's see what God is there, that may deliver you out of my hands!"

¹⁰ And now will I discover her foolishness, even in the sight of her lovers, and no man shall deliver her out of my hands.

²⁸ And I give unto them eternal life: and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. ²⁹ My father which gave them me, is greater than all men; and no man is able to take them out of my father's hand. ³⁰ And I and my father are one."

¹⁷ He said unto him the third time, "Simon the son of Jonas, lovest thou me?" And Peter sorrowed because he said to him the third time, "Lovest thou me," and said unto him, "Lord, thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love thee." Jesus said unto him, "Feed my sheep.

¹² Our rejoicing is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in singleness of heart and with godly pureness — and not in fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God — we have had our conversation in the world, and most of all to you-wards.

¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and so is God, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

⁶ he repented that he had made man upon the earth and sorrowed in his heart. ⁷ And said, "I will destroy mankind which I have made, from off the face of the earth: both man, beast, worm and fowl of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them."

³ Thinkest thou it well done, to oppress me, to cast me off - being a work of thine hands - and to maintain the counsel of the ungodly?

⁷³ {Yod} Thy hands have made me and fashioned me, O give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.

⁷ Namely, all those that be called after my name. For them have I created, fashioned, and made for mine honour.'"

³ Now when I came to the Potter's house, I found him making his work upon a wheel. ⁴ The vessel that the Potter made of clay, brake among his hands: So he began anew, and made another vessel, according to his mind. ⁵ Then said the LORD thus unto me, ⁶ "May not I do with you, as this Potter doth, O ye house of Israel, sayeth the LORD? Behold, ye house of Israel: ye are in my hand, even as the clay in the Potter's hand. ⁷ When I take in hand to root out, to destroy, or to waste away any people or kingdom; ⁸ if that people against whom I have thus devised convert from their wickedness: Immediately, I repent of the plague, that I devised to bring upon them. ⁹ Again. When I take in hand, to build, or to plant a people or a kingdom: ¹⁰ if the same people do evil before me, and hear not my voice: Immediately, I repent of the good, that I devised to do for them.

⁷ Then the LORD God shope man, even of the mold of the earth, and breathed into his face the breath of life. So man was made a living soul.

¹⁹ In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return unto the earth whence thou wast taken: for earth thou art, and unto earth shalt thou return."

⁷ "O remember that my life is but a wind, and that mine eye shall no more see the pleasures thereof;

¹⁴ I call corruption my father, and the worms call I my mother and my sister.

¹⁵ My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my gums, and thou shalt bring me into the dust of death.

⁶ Call to remembrance, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy loving-kindnesses, which have been ever of old. ⁷ O remember not the sins and offenses of my youth; but according to thy mercy think upon me, O LORD, for thy goodness.

¹⁸ Look upon my adversity and misery, and forgive me all my sin.

⁴⁷ O remember how short my time is; hast thou made all men for nought?

³ Thou turnest man to destruction; Again, thou sayest, "Come again, ye children of men."

⁴ Remember me, O LORD, according to the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation,

⁷ Or dust be turned again unto earth from whence it came, and or the spirit return unto God, which gave it.

⁹ Woe be unto him that chideth with his maker, the potsherd with the potter. Sayeth the clay to the potter, "What makest thou?" or "Thy work serveth for nothing?"

⁶ "May not I do with you, as this Potter doth, O ye house of Israel, sayeth the LORD? Behold, ye house of Israel: ye are in my hand, even as the clay in the Potter's hand.

²¹ Hath not the potter power over the clay, even of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

¹⁴ I will give thanks unto thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well! ¹⁵ My bones are not hid from thee, though I be made secretly, and fashioned beneath in the earth. ¹⁶ Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being imperfect; and in thy book were all my members written, which day by day were fashioned, when as yet there was not one of them.

¹⁷ He spreadeth out his tail like a Cedar tree, all his sinews are stiff. ¹⁸ His shins are like pipes of brass, his ridge bones are like staves of iron.

⁴ And he said unto me, "Prophesy thou upon these bones, and speak unto them, 'Ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. ⁵ Thus sayeth the LORD God unto these bones: Behold, I will put breath into you, that ye may live. ⁶ I will give you sinews, and make flesh grow upon you, and cover you over with skin: and so give you breath, that ye may live and know that I am the LORD.'" ⁷ So I prophesied, as he had commanded me: and as I was prophesying, there came a noise and a great motion, so that the bones ran every one to another. ⁸ Now when I had looked, behold, they had sinews, and flesh grew upon them: and above they were covered with skin, but there was no breath in them.

² And herefore sigh we, desiring to be clothed with our mansion which is from heaven: ³ so yet if it happen that we be found clothed, and not naked.

¹⁶ in whom all the body is coupled and knit together, in every joint, wherewith one ministereth to another — according to the operation as every part hath his measure — and increaseth the body, unto the edifying of itself in love.

¹⁹ behold, inasmuch as thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, now make thy mercy great which thou showest unto me in saving my life. For I cannot save myself in the mountains, lest some misfortune fall upon me and I die.

⁴ The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the almighty hath given me my life.

²⁵ Therefore I say unto you, be not careful for your life what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, nor yet for your body, what raiment ye shall put on. Is not the life more worth than meat? and the body more of value than raiment?

²⁵ neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed of any thing. Seeing he himself giveth life and breath to all men everywhere,

²⁸ For in him we live, move, and have our being, as certain of your own poets said. For we are also his generation.

⁹ If I go on the left side to ponder his works, I can not attain unto them. Again, if I go on the rightside, he hideth himself, that I cannot see him.

¹³ "It is he, himself, alone. Who will turn him back? He doth as him listeth, and bringeth to pass what he will.

⁶ For everything will have opportunity and judgment, and this the thing that maketh men full of carefulness and sorrow. ⁷ And why? A man knoweth not what is for to come: for who will tell him?

⁷ It is I that created the light, and darkness. I make peace, and trouble: yea, even I the LORD do all these things.

¹⁵ O how profound art thou O God, thou God and Saviour of Israel?

⁹ Remember the things which are past, since the beginning of the world: that I am God, and that there is else no God, yea, and that there is nothing like unto me. ¹⁰ In the beginning of a thing, I show the end thereof: and I tell before, things that are not yet come to pass. With one word is my device accomplished, and fulfilleth all my pleasure. ¹¹ I call a bird out of the East, and all that I take in hand, out of far countries, as soon as I command, I bring it hither: as soon as I think to devise a thing, I do it.

³⁷ {Mem} What is he then that sayeth, "There should something be done without the LORD's commandment:

³³ O the deepness of the abundant wisdom and knowledge of God: how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out.

¹¹ according to that eternal purpose, which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord,

⁷ and keepest mercy in store for thousands, and forgivest wickedness, trespass and sin — for there is no man innocent before thee — and visitest the wickedness of the fathers upon the children and upon children's children, even unto the third and fourth generation."

¹⁸ 'The LORD is long yer he be angry, and full of mercy, and suffereth sin and trespass, and leaveth no man innocent, and visiteth the unrighteousness of the fathers upon the children, even upon the third and fourth generation.'

²¹ Why dost thou not forgive my sin? Wherefore takest thou not away my wickedness? Behold, now must I sleep in the dust: And if thou seekest me tomorrow in the morning, I shall be gone."

²⁸ Then am I afraid of all my works, for I know thou wilt not judge me innocent.

²⁶ For thou layest sharply to my charge, and punisheth me, for the sins of my youth. ²⁷ Thou hast put my foot in the stocks: thou lookest narrowly unto all my paths, and markest the steps of my feet.

³ If thou, LORD wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss, O LORD who may abide it?

¹ {To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} O LORD, thou searchest me out, and knowest me.

⁷ Then the LORD said, "I have surely seen the trouble of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry, which they have of their taskmasters. For I know their sorrow,

¹² If he be hasty to take anything away, who will make him restore it again? Who will say unto him, 'What doest thou?'

¹⁵ Yea though I be righteous, yet will I not give him one word again, but meekly submit myself to my judge.

²⁰ If I will justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me; if I will put forth my self for a perfect man, he shall prove me a wicked doer. ²¹ For though I be an innocent, and my conscience clear, yea am I weary of my life.

⁷ Whereas, notwithstanding, thou knowest that I am no wicked person, and that there is no man able to deliver me out of thine hand.

⁶ For when I ponder and consider this, I am afraid, and my flesh is smitten with fear.

¹⁵ This is the cause, that I shrink at his presence, so that when I consider him I am afraid of him.

⁷ "Therefore mine enemy shall be found as the ungodly; and he that taketh part against me, as the unrighteous.

¹⁷ The wicked must be turned unto hell, and all the people that forget God.

¹⁵³ {Res} O consider mine adversity, and deliver me, for I do not forget thy law.

¹¹ But woe be unto the ungodly and unrighteous, for they shall be rewarded after their works.

⁵ Then I said, "O woe is me! For I am lost: inasmuch as I am a man of unclean lips, and dwell among people that hath unclean lips also. For mine eyes have seen the King and LORD of Hosts."

⁵ Thou helpest him that doth right with cheerfulness, and them that think upon thy ways. But lo, thou art angry: for we offend, and have been ever in sin, and there is not one whole. ⁶ We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags, stained with the flux of a woman: we fall every and each one as the leaf, for our sins carry us away like the wind.

²⁰ {Res} Consider, O LORD, how I am troubled: my womb is disquieted, my heart turneth about in me, and I am full of heaviness. The sword hurteth me without, and within I am like unto death.

¹ {The Prayer of Jeremiah} Call to remembrance, O LORD, what we have suffered; consider and see our confusion. ² Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, and our houses to the aliens. ³ We are become careful and fatherless, and our mothers are as the widows. ⁴ We are fain to drink our own water for money, and our own wood must we buy with money. ⁵ Our necks are under persecution, we are weary, and have no rest. ⁶ Afore time we yielded ourselves to the Egyptians, and now to the Assyrians, only that we might have bread enough. ⁷ Our fathers, which now are gone, have sinned; and we must bear their wickedness. ⁸ Servants have the rule of us, and no man delivereth us out of their hands. ⁹ We must get our living with the peril of our lives because of the drought of the wilderness. ¹⁰ Our skin is as it had been burnt in an oven, for very sore hunger. ¹¹ The wives are ravished in Zion, and the maidens in the cities of Judah. ¹² The princes are hanged up with the hand of the enemies; they have not spared the old sage men; ¹³ they have taken young men's lives from them, and the boys are hanged up upon trees. ¹⁴ The elders sit no more under the gates, and the young men use no more the playing of Music. ¹⁵ The joy of our heart is gone, our merry query is turned into mourning. ¹⁶ The garland of our head is fallen: alas, that ever we sinned so sore! ¹⁷ Therefore our heart is full of heaviness, and our eyes dim: ¹⁸ because of the hill of Zion that is destroyed: Insomuch that the foxes run upon it. ¹⁹ But thou, O LORD, that remainest for evermore, and thy seat, world without end: ²⁰ Wherefore wilt thou still forget us, and forsake us so long? ²¹ O LORD, turn thou us unto thee: and so shall we be turned. Renew our days as in old time, ²² for thou hast now banished us long enough, and hast been sore displeased at us.

¹⁸ Turn you therefore, and consider what difference is betwixt the righteous and ungodly: betwixt him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.

¹⁰ So likewise ye, when ye have done all those things which are commanded unto you, say, 'We are unprofitable servants. We have done that which was our duty to do.'"

⁸ But unto them that are rebellious, and disobey the truth, and follow iniquity, shall come indignation and wrath, ⁹ tribulation and anguish, upon the soul of every man that doth evil. Of the Jew first: And also of the gentile.

²⁹ If these men die the common death of all men or if they be visited after the visitation of all men, then the LORD hath not sent me. ³⁰ But and if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth and swallow them and all that pertain unto them, so that they go down quick in to hell: then ye shall understand, that these men have railed upon the LORD."

⁵⁹ the LORD will smite both thee and thy seed with wonderful plagues and with great plagues and of long continuance,

⁹ which doeth things, that are unsearchable, and marvelous without number.

¹³ I thought I would have lived unto the morrow, but he bruised my bones like a lion, and made an end of me in one day.

¹⁰ {Daleth} He layeth wait for me like a Bear, and as a lion in a hole.

⁷ Therefore will I be unto them as a lion, and as a leopard in the way to the Assyrians. ⁸ I will come upon them as a she bear, that is robbed of her whelps, and I will break that stubborn heart of theirs. There will I devour them as a lion: yea the wild beast shall tear them.

⁸ When a lion roareth, who will not be afraid? Seeing then that the LORDE God himself speaketh, who will not prophesy?

²¹ I went out full: but the LORD hath brought me home empty. Why should ye then call me Naomi: seeing the LORD hath humbled me, and the Almighty hath brought me unto adversity?"

⁸ And that thou hast filled me with wrinkles, my flesh is witness; and my leanness riseth up against me and beareth witness thereof in my face.

⁶ know this then: that it is God which hath handled me so violently, and hath compassed me about with his net. ⁷ Behold: though I cry, yet violence is done unto me. I cannot be heard! Though I complain, there is none to give sentence with me. ⁸ "He hath hedged up my way, that I cannot pass; he hath set darkness in my gate. ⁹ He hath spoiled me of mine honour, and taken the crown away from my head. ¹⁰ He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am undone: My hope hath he taken away from me, as it were a tree plucked up by the root. ¹¹ His wrath is kindled against me; he taketh me, as though I were his enemy.

¹⁹ Yea, even God, that endureth forever, shall hear me, and bring them down; Selah. For they will not turn, nor fear God.

¹¹ Moab hath ever been rich and careless from her youth up, she hath sitten and taken her ease with her treasure. She was never yet put out of one vessel into another, that is, she never went away into captivity, therefore her taste remaineth, and her savour is not yet changed.

¹⁰ because it shut not up the womb that bare me. For then should these sorrows have been hid from mine eyes. ¹¹ "Alas, why died I not in the birth? Why did not I perish, as soon as I came out of my mother's womb?

²⁰ As for the eyes of the ungodly, they shall be consumed, and not escape: their hope shall be misery and sorrow of mind."

¹⁰ But as for man; when he is dead, perished and consumed away, what becometh of him?

¹⁰ O mother, alas that ever thou didst bear me, an enemy and hated of the whole land: Though I never lent nor received upon usury, yet all men speak evil upon me.

¹⁴ Cursed be the day wherein I was born! Unhappy be the day, wherein my mother brought me forth! ¹⁵ Cursed be the man, that brought my father the tidings, to make him glad, saying, "Thou hast gotten a son." ¹⁶ Let it happen unto that man, as to the cities which the LORD turned upside down, when he had long heard the wicked rumor of them; ¹⁷ because he slew me not, as soon as I came out of my mother's womb, and because my mother was not my grave herself, that the birth might not have come out, but remained still in her. ¹⁸ Wherefore came I forth of my mother's womb? To have experience of labour and sorrow? And to lead my life with shame?

²⁴ The son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe be to that man, by whom the son of man shall be betrayed. It had been good for that man, if he had never been born."

⁸ Let them consume away like a snail, and like the untimely fruit of a woman; and let them not see the sun.

⁶ my days pass over more speedily than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. ⁷ "O remember that my life is but a wind, and that mine eye shall no more see the pleasures thereof;

¹⁶ I can see no remedy. I shall live no more. O spare me then, for my days are but vain. ¹⁷ "What is man, that thou dost magnify him? And that thou settest thy heart upon him? ¹⁸ Thou visitest him early, and every day: and suddenly doest thou try him. ¹⁹ Why goest thou not from me, nor lettest me alone, so long till I swallow down my spittle? ²⁰ I have offended; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? Why hast thou made me to stand in thy way, and am so heavy a burden unto myself? ²¹ Why dost thou not forgive my sin? Wherefore takest thou not away my wickedness? Behold, now must I sleep in the dust: And if thou seekest me tomorrow in the morning, I shall be gone."

⁹ For we are but of yesterday, and consider not that our days upon earth are but a very shadow.

²⁵ "My days are more swift than a runner: they are gone, and have seen no good thing. ²⁶ They are passed away, as the ships that be good under sail, and as the Eagle that hasteth to the prey.

²¹ Withdraw thine hand from me, and let not the fearful dread of thee make me afraid.

¹ Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of divers miseries.

⁵ Behold, thou hast made my days a span long, and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. Selah

¹³ O spare me a little that I may recover my strength, before I go hence, and be no more seen."

¹⁵ that a man in his time is but as grass, and flourisheth as a flower of the field. ¹⁶ For as soon as the wind goeth over it, it is gone, and the place thereof knoweth it no more.

²³ But now, seeing it is dead, wherefore should I fast? Can I bring him again any more? I shall go to him: but he shall not come again to me."

¹⁴ For we must needs die, and perish as water spilt on the ground which cannot be gathered up again: and God will not take away the life, but find the means that the banished be not utterly expelled from him.

⁵ but let it be stained with darkness, and the shadow of death. Let the dim cloud fall upon it, and let it be lapped in with sorrow.

¹³ Then should I now have lain still; I should have slept, and been at rest,

⁸ yea, and that none other man's eye shall see me anymore. ⁹ For if thou fasten thine eyes upon me, I come to naught like as a cloud is consumed and vanisheth away. Even so, he that goeth down to hell, cometh no more up, ¹⁰ nor turneth again into his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

¹⁰ But as for man; when he is dead, perished and consumed away, what becometh of him? ¹¹ The floods when they be dried up, and the rivers when they be empty, are filled again through the flowing waters of the sea: ¹² but when man sleepeth, he riseth not again, until the heaven perish: he shall not wake up nor rise out of his sleep. ¹³ O that thou wouldest keep me, and hide me in the hell, until thy wrath were stilled: and to appoint me a time, wherein thou mightest remember me. ¹⁴ May a dead man live again? All the days of this my pilgrimage am I looking, till my changing shall come.

²² yet the number of my years are come - and I must go the way from whence I shall not turn again.

⁴ Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me: thy rod and thy staff comfort me.

⁶ Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in a place of darkness and in the deep.

¹¹ May thy loving-kindness be showed in the grave? Or thy faithfulness in destruction? ¹² Shall thy wondrous works be known in the dark? Or thy righteousness in the land where all things are forgotten?

¹¹ I spake within myself, 'I shall never visit the LORD God in this life: I shall never see man among the dwellers of the world.

⁶ They thought not in their hearts, 'Where have we left the LORD, that brought us out of the land of Egypt? That led us through the wilderness; through a desert and rough land; through a dry and deadly land; yea a land that no man had gone through, and wherein no man had dwelt?'

²² There is no darkness, nor thick shadow, that can hide the wicked doers from him.

¹⁷ Have the gates of death been open unto thee, or hast thou seen the door of everlasting treasure?

¹⁹ no, not when thou hast smitten us into the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death

¹² Shall thy wondrous works be known in the dark? Or thy righteousness in the land where all things are forgotten?

¹⁶ Honour the LORD your God herein, or he take his light from you, and before your feet stumble in darkness at the hill: lest when ye look for the light, he turn it into the shadow and darkness of death.

²⁶ Beyond all this, between you and us there is a great space set, so that they which would go from hence to you, cannot: neither may come from thence to us.'