Job 3 Cross References - MSTC

¹ After this, opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day, ² and said, "Let the day perish, wherein I was born, ³ and the night in the which it was said, 'There is a man child conceived.' ⁴ The same day be turned to darkness, and not regarded of God from above, neither let the light shine upon it: 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. ⁶ Let the dark storm overcome that night; let it not be reckoned among the days of the year, nor counted in the months. ⁷ Despised be that night, and discommended: let them that curse the day, ⁸ give it their curse also, even those that be ready to raise vp Leviathan. ⁹ Let the stars of that night be dim through darkness of it. Let it look for light, but let it see none, neither the raising up of the fair morning: 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? ¹² Why set they me upon their knees? Why gave they me suck with their breasts? ¹³ Then should I now have lain still; I should have slept, and been at rest, ¹⁴ like as the kings and lords of the earth, which build themselves special places: ¹⁵ As the princes that have great substance of gold, and their houses full of silver. ¹⁶ O that I utterly had no being, or were as a thing born out of time that is put aside, either as young children, which never saw the light. ¹⁷ There, must the wicked cease from their tyranny, there such as are overlaboured be at rest. ¹⁸ There, are those let out free which have been in prison, so that they hear no more the voice of the oppressor. ¹⁹ There, are small and great; the bondman, and he that is free from his master. 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. ²⁴ For my sighs come before I eat, and my roarings fall out like flowing water. ²⁵ For the thing that I feared is come upon me: and the thing that I was afraid of, is happened unto me. ²⁶ Was I not happy? Had I not quietness? Was I not in rest? And now cometh such misery upon me!"

¹¹ But lay thine hand upon him a little, touch once all that he hath, and, I hold, he shall curse thee to thy face."

²² In all these things did Job not offend, nor murmured foolishly against God.

⁵ But lay thine hand upon him, touch him once upon the bone and flesh, and, I hold, he shall curse thee to thy face."

⁹ Then said his wife unto him, "Dost thou yet continue in thy perfectness? Curse God, and die." ¹⁰ But Job said unto her, "Thou speakest like a foolish woman. Seeing we have received prosperity at the hand of God, wherefore should we not be content with adversity also?" In all these things, did not Job sin with his lips.

³ and the night in the which it was said, 'There is a man child conceived.'

¹⁶ Therefore hath Job opened his mouth but in vain, and foolishly hath he made so many words."

² I held my tongue; I was dumb. I kept silence, yea even from good words, but it was pain and grief to me. ³ My heart was hot within me, and while I was thus musing, the fire kindled, and at the last I spoke with my tongue,

³³ because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.

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."

¹⁴ Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, "Know ye not that there is in these houses an ephod and images; and a graven image and an image of metal? Now therefore consider what ye have to do."

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.

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?

²² And Moses stretched forth his hand unto heaven, and there was a dark mist upon all the land of Egypt three days long, ²³ so that no man saw another, neither rose up from the place where he was by the space of three days, but all the children of Israel had light where they dwelled.

¹² and a land which the LORD thy God careth for. The eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year unto the latter end of the year.

² a dark and gloomy day, a cloudy and black day. As the morning is spread over the mountains, so it this populous and strong people: such as have not been since the beginning, neither shall be after them for evermore.

¹⁸ 'Woe be unto them that desire the day of the LORD: Wherefore would ye have it? As for that day of the LORD, it shall be dark and not clear.

⁴⁵ From the sixth hour, was there darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.

²⁰ When at the last neither sun nor star in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay upon us, all hope that we should be saved, was then taken away.

¹⁰ And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast, and his kingdom waxed dark, and they gnawed their tongues for sorrow,

¹¹ ye came and stood also under the hill, and the hill burnt with fire: even unto the midst of heaven, and there was darkness, clouds and mist.

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."

¹⁶ My face is swollen with weeping, and mine eyes are waxen dim.

¹⁷ For as soon as the day breaketh, the shadow of death cometh upon them, and they go in horrible darkness.

³ The darkness shall once come to an end: he can seek out the ground of all things; the stones, the dark, and the shadow of death.

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

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.

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

¹⁰ Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being fast bound in misery and iron,

¹⁴ He brought them out of darkness, and out of the shadow of death, and broke their bonds in sunder.

² The people that have dwelt in darkness, shall see a great light. As for them that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them shall the light shine.

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?'

²⁸ And therefore let the earth mourn, and let the heaven be sorry above: for the things that I have purposed and taken upon me to do, shall not repent me, and I will not go from it."

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.

³ for the day is here, the day of the LORD is come: the dark day of the Heathen, the hour is at hand,

¹² Like as a shepherd among the flock seeketh after the sheep that are scattered abroad, even so will I seek after my sheep, and gather them together out of all places, where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

⁸ Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into morning and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: the LORD is his name.

¹⁰ Your high feasts will I turn to sorrow, and your songs to mourning: I will bring sackcloth upon all backs, and baldness on every head. Yea, such a mourning will I send them, as is made upon an only begotten son, and they shall have a miserable end.

¹⁶ the people which sat in darkness saw great light and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light has begun to shine."

⁷⁹ To give light to them that sat in darkness, and in shadow of death, and to guide our feet into the way of peace."

¹⁸ For ye are not come unto the mount that can be touched, and unto burning fire, nor yet to mist and darkness and tempest of weather,

²⁰ It shall never be more inhabited; neither shall there be any more dwelling there, from generation to generation. The Arabians shall make no more tents there; neither shall the shepherds make their folds there any more; ²¹ but wild beasts shall lie there, and the houses shall be full of great owls. Ostriches shall dwell there, and apes shall dance there: ²² the little owls shall cry in the palaces, one after another, and Dragons shall be in their pleasant parlors. And as for Babylon's time, it is at hand, and her days shall not be prolonged.

⁸ The mirth of tabrets shall be laid down, the cheer of the joyful shall cease, and the pleasure of lutes shall have an end:

³⁴ And as for the voice of mirth and gladness of the cities of Judah and Jerusalem; the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride: I will make them cease, for the land shall be desolate."

²² And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more in thee: and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee, and the sound of a mill shall be heard no more in thee, ²³ and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride, shall be heard no more in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth. And with thine enchantment were deceived all nations:

²⁵ And Jeremiah lamented Josiah, and all singing men and singing women speak of Josiah to this day, and made it an ordinance in Israel: and they be written in lamentations.

¹ Darest thou draw out Leviathan with an angle, or bind his tongue with a snare?

¹⁰ And why? There dare none be so bold as to raise him up. Who is able to stand before me?

²⁵ When he goeth, the mightiest of all are afraid, and the waves heave.

¹⁷ Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, "Look that ye call for mourning wives, and send for wise women: that they come shortly, ¹⁸ and sing a mourning song of you: that the tears may fall out of our eyes, and that our eyelids may gush out of water.

¹⁶ "'If no,' sayeth the LORD God, the God of hosts, 'there shall be mourning in all streets. Yea, they shall say in every street: alas, alas. They shall call the husbandman to lamentation; and such as can mourn, to mourning.

¹⁷ and say, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; We have mourned unto you, and ye have not sorrowed.

³⁸ And he came unto the house of the ruler of the Synagogue, and saw the wondering and them that wept and wailed greatly;

²⁶ Yet nevertheless, whereas I looked for good, evil happened unto me; and whereas I waited for light, there came darkness.

¹⁸ His sneezing is like a glistering fire, and his eyes like the morning shine.

¹⁵ We looked for peace, and we fair not the better; we waited for the time of health, and lo, here is nothing but trouble.

¹⁸ For the LORD had closed to all the matrices of the house of Abimelech, because of Sara, Abraham's wife.

³¹ When the LORD saw that Lea was despised, he made her fruitful: but Rachel was barren.

⁵ But unto Hannah he gave a portion with a heavy cheer, for he loved her; nevertheless the LORD had made her barren.

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.

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 "My saying is yet this day in bitterness, and my hand heavy among my groanings.

³ If a man beget a hundredth children, and live many years, so that his days are many in number, and yet cannot enjoy his good, neither be buried: as for him I say, that an untimely birth is better than he. ⁴ For he cometh to naught, and goeth his way into darkness, and his name is forgotten. ⁵ Moreover, he seeth not the Sun, and knoweth of no rest neither here nor there:

¹⁰ Put away displeasure out of thine heart, and remove evil from thy body: for childhood and youth is but vanity.

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.

⁹ But thou art he that took me out of my mother's womb; thou wast my hope, when I hanged yet upon my mother's breasts. ¹⁰ I have been left unto thee ever since I was born; thou art my God, even from my mother's womb.

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

⁶ I have leaned upon thee ever since I was born; thou art he that took me out of my mother's womb, therefore is my praise always of thee.

¹³ For my reins are thine, thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. 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.

³ Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all ye that remain yet of the household of Israel, whom I have borne from your mother's womb, and brought you up from your birth, till ye were grown:

¹⁴ O LORD thou shalt give them: what shalt thou give them? Give them an unfruitful womb and dry breasts!

³ Then she said, "Here is my maid, Bilhah: go in unto her, that she may bear upon my lap, that I may be increased by her."

²³ And Joseph saw Ephraim's children, even unto the third generation. And unto Machir the son of Manasseh were children born, and sat on Joseph's knees.

¹² For thus sayeth the LORD: behold, I will let peace into her, like a water flood, and the might of the Heathen like a flowing stream. Then shall ye suck, ye shall be born upon her sides, and be joyful upon her knees.

⁴ In the day of thy birth when thou wast born, the string of thy navel was not cut off; thou wast not bathed in water to make thee clean; thou wast neither rubbed with salt, nor swaddled in clouts; ⁵ No man regarded that so much, as to do any of these things for thee, or to show thee such favour, but thou wast utterly cast out upon the field: yea, despised wast thou in the day of thy birth.

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.

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."

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."

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 Though I tarry never so much, yet the grave is my house, and I must make my bed in the dark.

²⁷ Yea, I myself shall behold him - not with other, but with these same eyes, though my reins are consumed within me.

¹³ They spend their days in wealthiness: but suddenly, they go down to hell.

²³ One dieth now when he is mighty and at his best, rich and in prosperity;

¹⁰ Whatsoever thou takest in hand to do, that do with all thy power: for among the dead, where thou goest unto, there is neither work, counsel, knowledge nor wisdom.

¹⁰ And so David rested with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

⁴³ And then he laid him to rest with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father, and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

¹⁷ He carrieth away the wise men, as it were a spoil, and bringeth the judges out of their wits.

²⁸ Therefore shall his dwelling be in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, but are become heaps of stones.

²³ Sure I am, that thou wilt deliver me unto death: whereas a lodging is prepared for all men living.

⁶ There be some that put their trust in their goods, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches. ⁷ But no man may deliver his brother, nor make agreement unto God for him, ⁸ for it costeth more to redeem their souls, so that he must let that alone forever. ⁹ Yea, though he live long, and see not the grave. ¹⁰ For he seeth that wise men also die and perish together, as well as the ignorant and foolish, and leave their riches for others.

¹⁴ They lie in the hell like sheep, death gnaweth upon them, and the righteous shall have domination of them in the morning. Their beauty shall consume in the sepulchre, and hell shall be their dwelling.

⁴⁸ What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? May a man deliver his own soul from the hand of hell? Selah.

⁸ Neither is there any man that hath power over the spirit, to keep still the spirit, nor to have any power in the time of death: it is not he also that can make an end of the battle, neither may ungodliness deliver him that meddleth withall.

⁸ Woe be unto you that join one house to another, and bring one land so nigh unto another, that the poor can get no more ground. Will ye dwell upon the earth alone?

¹⁰ that they may all - one after another - sing and speak unto thee. Art thou wounded also as we? Art thou become like unto us? ¹¹ Thy pomp and thy pride is gone down to hell: Moths shall be laid under thee, and worms shall be thy covering. ¹² How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, thou fair morning child! How hast thou gotten a fall, even to the ground; thou that didst subdue the people? ¹³ For thou thoughtest in thine heart, "I will climb up into heaven, and make my seat above the stars of God; I will sit also upon the holy mount toward the North; ¹⁴ I will climb up above the clouds; and will be like the highest of all." ¹⁵ Yet dare I say, that thou shalt be brought down to the deep of hell. ¹⁶ They that seek thee, shall narrowly look upon thee, and think in themselves, saying, "Is this the man, that brought all lands in fear, and made the kingdoms afraid?

¹² Then the places that have ever been waste, shall be builded of thee: there shalt thou lay a foundation for many kindreds. Thou shalt be called the maker-up of hedges, and the builder-again of the way of the Sabbath.

²⁰ Then will I cast thee down unto them, that descend into the pit, unto a people that hath been long dead, and set thee in a land that is beneath, like the old wilderness, with them which go down to their graves, so that no man shall dwell more in thee. And I will make thee to be no more in honor, in the land of the living.

¹⁸ Damascus also used merchandises with thee, in the best wine and white wool: because thy occupying was so great, and thy wares so many. ¹⁹ Dan, Javan, and Mevsall have brought unto thy markets, iron ready made, with Cassia, and Calamus, according to thine occupying. ²⁰ Dedan occupied with thee, in fair tapestry work and cushions. ²¹ Arabia and all the princes of Cedar have occupied with thee, in sheep, wethers, and goats. ²² The merchants of Sheba and Raamah have occupied also with thee, in all costly spices, in all precious stones and gold, which they brought unto thy markets. ²³ Haran, Cannah, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Assyria, and Chilmad, were all doers with thee ²⁴ and occupied with thee: In costly raiment of yellow silk and needle work - very precious, and therefore packed and bound together with ropes - Yea and in Cedar wood, at the time of thy markets. ²⁵ The ships of Tarshish were the chief of thy occupying. Thus thou art full, and in great worship, even in the midst of the sea. ²⁶ "'Thy mariners were ever bringing unto thee out of many waters. But the east wind shall overbear thee into the midst of the sea: ²⁷ so that thy wares, thy merchandise, thy riches, thy mariners, thy shipmasters, thy helpers, thy occupiers that brought the things necessary, the men of war that are in thee: Yea, and all thy commons shall perish in the midst of the sea, in the day of thy fall. ²⁸ The suburbs shall shake at the loud cry of thy shipmen. ²⁹ All whirry men, and all mariners upon the sea, shall leap out of their boats and set themselves upon the land. ³⁰ They shall lift up their voice because of thee, and make a lamentable cry. They shall cast dust upon their heads, and lie down in the ashes. ³¹ They shall shave themselves, and put sackcloth upon them for thy sake. They shall mourn for thee with heartful sorrow ³² and heavy lamentation; yea, their children also shall weep for thee. Alas, what city hath so been destroyed in the sea, as Tyre is?

¹⁸ And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, "If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can go no further than the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.

²⁷ And the king made silver in Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, and Cedar as plenteous as mulberry trees that grow in the valleys.

²¹ He poureth out confusion upon princes, and comforteth them that have been oppressed.

²⁵ Yea, the Almighty his own self shall be thine harvest, and the heap of thy money.

¹⁶ Though he have as much money as the dust of the earth, and raiment as ready as the clay, ¹⁷ he may well prepare it: but the godly shall put it upon him, and the innocent shall deal out the money.

⁷ As soon as your land was full of silver and gold, and no end of your treasure; so soon as your land was full of strong horses and no end of your chariots:

¹⁸ Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in that wrathful day of the LORD, but the whole land shall be consumed through the fire of his jealousy: for he shall soon make clean riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

³ Tyre shall make herself strong, and heap up silver as the sand, and gold as the clay of the streets.

³ If a man beget a hundredth children, and live many years, so that his days are many in number, and yet cannot enjoy his good, neither be buried: as for him I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

⁸ And last of all he was seen of me, as of one that was born out of due time.

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.

¹⁶ All that I have, shall go down into the pit, and lie with me in the dust."

⁵ Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and a horrible dread hath overwhelmed me. ⁶ And I said, "O that I had wings like a dove! For then would I flee away, and be at rest. ⁷ Lo, then would I get me away far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah. ⁸ I would make haste to escape from the stormy wind and tempest."

¹ But in the mean season the righteous perisheth, and no man regardeth it in his heart. Good godly people are taken away, and no man considereth it. Namely, that the righteous is conveyed away through the wicked, ² that he himself might be in rest, lie quietly upon his bed, and live after his own pleasure.

²⁸ And fear ye not them which kill the body, and be not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body into hell.

⁴ I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

⁶ It is verily a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you, ⁷ and to you which are troubled, rest with us; when the Lord Jesus shall show himself from heaven, with his mighty angels,

⁹ There remaineth therefore yet a rest to the people of God.

¹¹ Let us study therefore to enter into that rest; lest any man fall, after the same example, into unbelief:

⁸ For he being righteous and dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds -

¹³ And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead, which hereafter die in the Lord: Even so, saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labors; but their works shall follow them.'"

⁶ And Pharaoh commanded the same day unto the taskmasters over the people and unto the officers, saying, ⁷ "See that ye give the people no more straw to make brick withal, as ye did in time past: let them go and gather them straw themselves. ⁸ And the number of bricks which they were wont to make in time past, lay unto their charge also, and minish nothing thereof. For they be idle and therefore cry, saying, 'Let us go and do sacrifice unto our God.'

¹⁵ Then went the officers of the children of Israel and complained unto Pharaoh saying, "Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants? ¹⁶ There is no straw given unto thy servants, and yet they say unto us, 'make brick.' And lo, thy servants are beaten, and thy people is foul intreated." ¹⁷ And he answered, "Idle are ye idle, and therefore ye say, 'Let us go and do sacrifice unto the LORD.' ¹⁸ Go therefore and work, for there shall no straw be given you, and yet see that ye deliver the whole tale of brick." ¹⁹ When the officers of the children of Israel saw themself in shrewd case — in that he said, 'ye shall minish nothing of your daily making of brick' -

³ And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; He oppressed the children of Israel with power twenty years.

⁷ That they may give no force for the multitude of people in the cities, neither regard the crying of the driver,

³ When the LORD now shall bring thee to rest; from the travail, fear, and hard bondage that thou wast laden withal. ⁴ Then shalt thou use this mockage upon the king of Babylon, and say: How happeneth that the oppressor leaveth off? Is the gold tribute come to an end?

² high and low, rich and poor, one with another.

¹⁴ They lie in the hell like sheep, death gnaweth upon them, and the righteous shall have domination of them in the morning. Their beauty shall consume in the sepulchre, and hell shall be their dwelling. ¹⁵ But God shall deliver my soul from the power of hell, when he receiveth me. Selah. ¹⁶ Be not thou afraid, though one be made rich, or if the glory of his house be increased; ¹⁷ for he shall carry nothing away with him when he dieth, neither shall his pomp follow him. ¹⁸ For while he lived, he counted himself a happy man; and so long as thou doest well unto thyself, men will speak good of thee. ¹⁹ But when he followeth his fathers' generation, he shall never see light any more. ²⁰ When a man is in honour and hath no understanding, he is compared unto the brute beasts — and becometh like unto them.

⁵ When men shall fear in high places, and be afraid in the streets; when the Almond tree shall be despised, the grasshopper born out, and when great poverty shall break in; when man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.

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

²² And it fortuned that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: The rich man also died, and was buried in hell. ²³ And being in hell, in torments, he lift up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom;

²⁷ And as it is appointed unto men that they shall once die, and then cometh the judgment,

¹⁰ And she was troubled in her spirits, and prayed unto the LORD and wept sore,

²⁷ Then she went to the man of God up to the hill and caught him by the feet. And Gehazi went to her, to thrust her away. But the man of God said, "Let her alone, for her soul is vexed, and the LORD hath hid it from me and hath not told it me."

¹⁶ O that I utterly had no being, or were as a thing born out of time that is put aside, either as young children, which never saw the light.

⁹ That he would begin and smite me: that he would let his hand go, and hew me down.

¹⁵ that my soul wisheth rather to be strangled, and my bones to be dead. ¹⁶ I can see no remedy. I shall live no more. O spare me then, for my days are but vain.

²⁸ Yea, he hath delivered my soul from destruction, and my life, that it seeth the light.'

³⁰ that he keepeth his soul from perishing, and letteth him enjoy the light of the living.

⁶ Give strong drink unto such as are condemned to death, and wine unto those that mourn:

¹⁸ Wherefore came I forth of my mother's womb? To have experience of labour and sorrow? And to lead my life with shame?

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."

⁴ If thou seekest after her as after money, and diggest for her as for treasures;

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."

⁶ And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it, and shall desire to die, and death shall fly from them.

¹⁴ If he break down a thing, who can set it up again? If he shut a thing, who will open it?

⁶ know this then: that it is God which hath handled me so violently, and hath compassed me about with his net.

⁸ "He hath hedged up my way, that I cannot pass; he hath set darkness in my gate.

¹² His men of war came together, which made their way over me, and besieged my dwelling round about.

⁸ and hast shut me up into the hand of the enemy; but hast set my feet in a large room.

⁸ Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me, and made me to be abhorred of them. I am so fast in prison that I cannot get forth.

²⁷ "How may then Jacob think, or how may Israel say, 'My ways are hid from the LORD, and my God knoweth not of my judgments.'

⁷ {Gimel} He hath so hedged me in, that I cannot get out; and hath laid heavy links upon me.

⁹ He hath stopped up my ways with four square stones, and made my paths crooked.

⁶ "But I will hedge her way with thorns, and stop it, that she shall not find her footsteps:

⁷ The things that sometime I might not away withal, are now my meat for very sorrow.

¹⁹ Why goest thou not from me, nor lettest me alone, so long till I swallow down my spittle?

²⁰ so that his life may away with no bread, and his soul abhorreth to eat any dainty meat:

¹ {To the Chanter, upon Aijeleth of the dawning, a Psalm of David} My God, my God: why hast thou forsaken me, and art so far from my health and from the words of my complaint? ² O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not: and in the night season also I take no rest.

³ For while I held my tongue, my bones consumed away through my daily complaining.

⁸ I am feeble and sore smitten, I roar for the very disquietness of my heart.

³ My tears have been my meat day and night, while they daily say unto me, "Where is now thy God?" ⁴ Now when I think thereupon, I pour out my heart by myself; for I went with the multitude, and brought them forth into the house of God, in the voice of praise and thanksgiving, among such as keep holy-day.

⁵ Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, yea thou hast given them plenteousness of tears to drink.

⁹ I eat ashes with my bread, and mingle my drink with weeping,

¹¹ We roar all like Bears, and mourn still like doves. We look for equity, but there is none; for health, but it is far from us.

⁸ Though I cry and call piteously, yet heareth he not my prayer.

⁵ And it fortuned that when they had passed over the time of their banqueting round about; Job sent for them, and sanctified them, and gat up early, and offered for every one a burnt offering. For Job thought thus: "Peradventure my sons have done some offense, and have been unthankful to God in their hearts." And thus did Job everyday.

¹⁵ "Fearfulness is turned against me. Mine honour vanisheth away more swiftly than wind, and my prosperity departeth hence like as it were a cloud.

²³ For I have ever feared the vengeance and punishment of God, and knew very well that I was not able to bear his burden.

¹⁴ then troublest thou me with dreams - and makest me so afraid through visions

⁹ Doth God hear him the sooner, when he crieth unto him in his necessity?

¹¹ Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake; and for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.