Job 4 Cross References - MSTC

¹ Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite and said unto him, ² "If we begin to commune with thee, peradventure thou wilt be discontent; but who can withhold himself from speaking? ³ Behold, thou hast been a teacher of many, and hast comforted the weary hands. ⁴ Thy words have set up those that were fallen, thou hast refreshed the weak knees. ⁵ But now that the plague is come upon thee, thou shrinkest away: now that it hath touched thyself, thou art faint hearted. ⁶ Where is now thy fear of God, thy steadfastness, thy patience, and the perfectness of thy ways? ⁷ "Consider, I pray thee: who ever perished being an innocent? Or, when were the godly destroyed? ⁸ For, as I have proved by experience, they that plow iniquity and sow wretchedness, reap the same. ⁹ With the blast of God they perish, and with the breath of his anger are they consumed away. ¹⁰ The roaring of the lion, the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the lion's whelps are broken. ¹¹ The lion perisheth, for lack of prey, and the lion's whelps are scattered abroad. ¹² "And unto me came the word secretly, and mine ear hath received a little thereof. ¹³ In the fantasies and thoughts of the visions of the night, when sleep cometh on men: ¹⁴ Fear came upon me, and dread, and made all my bones to shake. ¹⁵ And when the wind passed by before my presence it made the hairs of my flesh stand up. ¹⁶ He stood there, and I knew not his face. An image there was, before mine eyes, and in the stillness heard I a voice. ¹⁷ 'Shall man be more just than God? Or shall man be purer than his maker? ¹⁸ Behold, he hath found unfaithfulness among his own servants, and proud disobedience among his angels. ¹⁹ How much more then shall they that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is but earth: which shall be consumed by the moth? ²⁰ They shall be destroyed from morning unto the evening: yea, they shall perish everlastingly, and no man think thereon. ²¹ Is not their dignity taken away with them? They shall die - and not in wisdom.'

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.

²¹ Then the LORD God cast a slumber on Adam, and he slept. And then he took out one of his ribs, and in stead thereof he filled up the place with flesh.

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."

¹² And when the sun was down, there fell a slumber upon Abram. And lo, fear and great darkness came upon him.

¹⁹ For I know him that he will command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do after right and conscience, that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that he hath promised him."

²⁵ That be far from thee, that thou shouldest do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, and that the righteous should be as the wicked: that be far from thee. Should not the Judge of all the world do according to right?"

²⁷ And Abraham answered and said, "Behold, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, and yet am but dust and ashes.

³ And God came to Abimelech by night in a dream and said to him, "See, thou art but a dead man for the woman's sake which thou hast taken away, for she is a man's wife."

¹² And he dreamed: and behold there stood a ladder upon the earth, and the top of it reached up to heaven. And see, the angels of God went up and down upon it.

²⁴ And God came to Laban the Sirian in a dream by night, and said unto him, "Take heed to thyself, that thou speak not to Jacob ought save good."

² And God said unto Israel in a vision by night, and called unto him, "Jacob, Jacob." And he answered, "Here am I."

⁹ Judah is a lion's whelp. From spoil, my son, thou art come on high: he laid him down and couched himself as a lion, and as a lioness. Who dare stir him up?

⁸ With the breath of thine anger the water gathered together and the floods stood still as a rock, and the deep water congealed together in the midst of the sea.

¹⁰ Thou blewest with thy breath and the sea covered them, and they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

⁶ And he said, "Hear my words. If there be a prophet of the LORD's among you, I will show myself unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.

¹⁹ Nevertheless tarry ye here all night: that I may know what the LORD will say unto me once more." ²⁰ And God came to Balaam by night and said unto him, "If the men come to fetch thee, rise up and go with them: but what I say unto thee, that only thou shalt do."

²⁴ Behold, the people shall rise up as a lioness and heave up himself as a lion; and shall not lie down again, until he have eaten of the prey and drunk of the blood of them that are slain!"

⁹ He couched himself and lay down as a lion and as a lioness; who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee."

²⁸ Moreover, charge Joshua and courage him and bold him. For he shall go over before his people, and he shall divide the land which thou shalt see, unto them.'

¹² And after the earthquake, came fire. But the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire, came a small still voice.

⁷ For I will send him a blast that he shall hear tidings, and so return to his own land: And I will overthrow him with the sword even in his own land.'"

³ "Oh LORD, remember yet how I have walked before thee truly and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight," and wept a great pace.

⁶ For one nation shall destroy another, and one city another: for God will trounce them with all adversity.

²⁰ When he began to reign, he was twenty seven years old, and reigned in Jerusalem eight years. And he walked not pleasantly and they buried him in the city of David: but not in the sepulchre of the kings.

²² and held the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them glad, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, so that their hands were strengthened in the work of the house of God, which is the God of Israel.

¹ In the land of Uz, there was a man called Job: an innocent and virtuous man, such a one as feared God, and eschewed evil.

⁸ Then said the LORD unto Satan, "Hast thou not considered my servant Job, and how that he is an innocent and virtuous man: such one as feareth God, and escheweth evil, and that there is none like him in the land?" ⁹ Satan answered, and said unto the LORD, "Doth Job fear God for naught? ¹⁰ Hast thou not preserved him, his house, and all his substance on every side? Hast thou not blessed the work of his hands? Is not his possession increased in the land? 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."

¹⁹ and suddenly there came a mighty great wind out of the South, and smote the four corners of the house: which fell upon thy children, so that they are dead, and I alone am gotten away, to tell thee."

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."

¹¹ Now when Job's friends heard of all the trouble that happened to him, there came three of them, every one from his own place: namely, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they were agreed together to come, to shew their compassion on him, and to comfort him.

¹ After this, opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day, ² and said, "Let the day perish, wherein I was born,

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!"

¹⁵ And so he delivereth the poor from the sword, from the threatenings of the ungodly, and from the hand of the cruel;

¹ Job answered, and said,

¹⁴ like as if one withdrew a good deed from his friend, and forsook the fear of the Almighty God?

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

¹ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

³ Doth God pervert the thing that is lawful? Or, doth the Almighty destroy the thing that is right?

³ Doth God pervert the thing that is lawful? Or, doth the Almighty destroy the thing that is right? ⁴ When thy sons sinned against him, did not he punish them for their wickedness?

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

²² They that hate thee, shall be confounded, and the dwellings of the ungodly shall come to naught."

² "I know it is so of a truth: for how may a man, compared unto God, be justified?

²² "This one thing will I say: He destroyeth both the righteous and ungodly. ²³ And though he slay suddenly with the scourge, yet will he laugh at the punishment of the innocent.

³⁰ Though I washed my self with snowy water, and made mine hands never so clean, ³¹ yet shouldest thou dip me in the mire, and mine own clothes should defile me.

⁹ O remember, I beseech thee, how that thou madest me of the mould of the earth, and shalt bring me into dust again.

¹² Your remembrance shall be like unto the dust, and your pride shall be turned to clay.

¹⁵ Lo, though he slay me, yet will I put my trust in him. But if I shew and reprove mine own ways in his sight,

²⁸ Whereas I, notwithstanding, must consume like as a foul carrion, and as a cloth that is moth eaten.

² He cometh up and is cut down like a flower. He flyeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one state.

⁴ Who can make it clean, that cometh from an unclean thing? Nobody.

¹⁴ May a dead man live again? All the days of this my pilgrimage am I looking, till my changing shall come.

²⁰ Thou prevailest against him, so that he passeth away; thou changes his estate, and puttest him from thee.

¹ Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

¹⁴ What is man, that he should be clean? What hath he, which is born of a woman, whereby he might be known to be righteous? ¹⁵ Behold, he doth not trust his saints; yea, the very heavens are not clean in his sight. ¹⁶ How much more then an abominable and vile man, which drinketh wickedness like water?

³⁰ He shall never come out of darkness, the flame shall dry up his branches, with the blast of the mouth of God shall he be taken away.

³⁵ He conceiveth travail, he beareth mischief, and his body bringeth forth deceit."

⁵ I should comfort you with my mouth, and release your pain with the talking of my lips.

¹⁷ "Howbeit there is no wickedness in my hands, and my prayer is clean.

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

¹⁵ What helpeth then my long tarrying? Or, who will fulfill the thing that I look for?

¹⁷ His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and his name shall not be praised in the streets:

²¹ Such are now the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God."

²¹ Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends! For the hand of God hath touched me.

⁷ yet he perisheth at the last, like dung. Insomuch that they which have seen him, say, 'Where is he?'

¹ So Eliphaz the Temanite gave answer, and said,

¹⁶ which were cut down out of time, and whose foundation was as a running water,

¹¹ My foot doth keep his path; his highway have I holden, and will not go out of it. ¹² I have not forsaken the commandment of his lips; but look, what he charged me with his mouth, that have I shut up in my heart.

⁴ But how may a man compared unto God be justified? Or, how can he be clean, that is born of a woman? ⁵ Behold, the Moon shineth nothing in comparison to him, and the stars are unclean in his sight. ⁶ How much more then man, that is but corruption, and the son of man, which is but a worm?"

¹⁴ This is now a short sum of his doings. But who is able sufficiently to rehearse his works? Who can perceive and understand the thunder of his power?"

⁵ God forbid, that I should grant your cause to be right! As for me, until mine end come will I never go from my innocence. ⁶ My righteous dealing will I keep fast, and not forsake it; for my conscience reproveth me not in all my conversation.

¹⁴ If he get many children, they shall perish with the sword, and his posterity shall have scarceness of bread. ¹⁵ Look, whom he leaveth behind him, they shall die and be buried, and no man shall have pity of his widows.

¹² "For I delivered the poor when he cried, and the fatherless that wanted help. ¹³ He that should have been lost, gave me a good word, and the widow's heart praised me. ¹⁴ And why? I put upon me righteousness, which covered me as a garment, and equity was my crown. ¹⁵ I was an eye unto the blind, and a foot to the lame; ¹⁶ I was a father unto the poor, and when I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligently. ¹⁷ I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of their teeth.

¹⁷ I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of their teeth.

¹ I made a covenant with mine eyes, that I would not look upon a damsel. ² For how great a portion shall I have of God from above? And what inheritance from the Almighty on high? ³ As for the ungodly and he that joineth himself to the company of wicked doers: shall not destruction and misery come upon him? ⁴ Doth not he see my ways, and tell all my goings? ⁵ If I have cleaved unto vanity, or if my feet have run to deceive, ⁶ let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may see my innocence. ⁷ If so be that I have withdrawn my foot out of the right way, if my heart hath followed mine eyesight, if I have stained or defiled my hands, ⁸ then shall I sow, and another eat; yea, my generation and posterity shall be clean rooted out. ⁹ "If my heart hath lusted after my neighbour's wife, or if I have laid wait at his door: ¹⁰ O then let my wife be another man's harlot and let others lie with her. ¹¹ For this is a wickedness and sin, that is worthy to be punished; ¹² yea, a fire that utterly should consume, and root out all my substance. ¹³ Did I ever think scorn to do right unto my servants and maidens, when they had any matter against me? 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? ¹⁵ He that fashioned me in my mother's womb, made he not him also? Were we not both shapen alike in our mother's bodies? ¹⁶ "When the poor desireth anything of me, have I denied it them? Have I caused the widow stand waiting for me in vain? ¹⁷ Have I eaten my portion alone, that the fatherless hath had no part with me? ¹⁸ For mercy grew up with me from my youth, and compassion from my mother's womb. ¹⁹ Have I seen any man perish through nakedness and want of clothing? Or any poor man for lack of raiment, ²⁰ whose sides thanked me not, because he was warmed with the wool of my sheep? ²¹ Did I ever lift up my hand to hurt the fatherless; yea, in the gates where I saw myself to be in authority? ²² Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder, and mine arm holes be broken from the joints. 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. ²⁴ "Have I put my trust in gold? Or, have I said to the finest gold of all, 'Thou art my confidence?' ²⁵ Have I rejoiced because my substance was great, and because my hand gat so much? ²⁶ Did I ever greatly regard the rising of the sun? Or, had I the going down of the moon in great reputation? ²⁷ Hath my heart meddled privily with any deceit? Or, did I ever kiss mine own hand? ²⁸ That were a wickedness worth to be punished, for then should I have denied the God that is above. ²⁹ Have I ever rejoiced at the hurt of mine enemy? Or was I ever glad, that any harm happened to him? Oh no. ³⁰ I never suffered my mouth to do such a sin, as to wish him evil. ³¹ Yet they of mine own household say, 'Who shall let us to have our belly full of his flesh?' ³² I have not suffered a stranger to lie without, but opened my doors unto him. ³³ "Have I kept secret my sin, and hid mine iniquity as Adam did? ³⁴ For if I had feared any great multitude of people, or if I had been despised of the simple; Oh then should I have been afraid. Thus have I quietly spent my life, and not gone out at the door. 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. ³⁶ Then shall I take it upon my shoulder, and as a garland about my head. ³⁷ I have told the number of my goings, and delivered them unto him as to a prince. ³⁸ But if cause be that my land cry against me, or that the furrows thereof make any complaint; ³⁹ if I have eaten the fruits thereof unpaid for, yea if I have grieved any of the plowmen; ⁴⁰ then let thistles grow instead of my wheat, and thorns for my barley."

¹⁸ For I am full of words, and the spirit that is within me, compelleth me. ¹⁹ Behold, I am as the new wine, which hath no vent, and bursteth the new vessels in sunder. ²⁰ Therefore will I speak, that I may have vent: I will open my lips, and make answer.

⁶ Behold, before God am I, even as thou, for I am fashioned and made even of the same mould.

¹⁴ For when God doth once command a thing, there should no man be curious to search whether it be right. ¹⁵ In dreams and visions of the night season - When slumbering cometh upon men, that they fall a sleep in their beds - ¹⁶ he roundeth them in the ears, he informeth them, and showeth them plainly,

¹⁹ "He chasteneth him with sickness, and bringeth him to his bed: he layeth sore punishment upon his bones,

² "Thinkest thou it right, that thou saidst, 'I am righteous before God?'

¹⁰ For such one never sayeth, 'Where is God that made me? And that shineth upon us, that we might praise him in the night?

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.

¹² But if they will not obey, they shall go through the sword, and perish before they be aware.

³⁹ Huntest thou the prey from the lion, or feedest thou his whelps

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

¹³ cast them down into the mire, and cover their faces with darkness;

⁹ So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went their way, and did according as the LORD commanded them. The LORD also accepted the person of Job,

⁷ Arise, LORD, and help me, O my God: for thou smitest all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.

² lest he devour my soul like a lion, and tear it in pieces, while there is none to help.

¹⁴ Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, he hath conceived sorrow, and brought forth ungodliness. ¹⁵ He hath graven and dug up a pit, and is fallen himself into the destruction that he made for others. ¹⁶ For his travail shall come upon his own head, and his wickedness shall fall upon his own head, and his wickedness shall fall on his own pate.

¹⁵ The springs of waters were seen, and the foundations of the round world were discovered at thy chiding, O LORD, at the blasting of the breath of thy displeasures. {TYNDALE: And the bottom of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were seen, by the reason of the rebuking of the LORD, and through the blasting of the breath of his nostrils.}

¹⁰ The lions do lack, and suffer hunger; but they who seek the LORD shall want no manner of thing that is good.

²⁵ I have been young, and now am old; and yet saw I never the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging their bread.

³⁶ But when I went by, lo, he was gone; I sought him, but his place could nowhere be found.

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

¹¹ When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin, thou makest his beauty to consume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment; every man therefore is but vanity. Selah.

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

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.

²⁰ When a man is in honour and hath no understanding, he is compared unto the brute beasts — and becometh like unto them.

⁴ I lie with my soul among the cruel lions; even among the children of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

⁶ Break their teeth, O God, in their mouths; smite the jawbones of the lions, O LORD.

¹¹ God spoke once, and twice I have also heard the same, that power belongeth unto God,

⁵ As soon as thou scatterest them, they are even as asleep, and fade away suddenly like the grass.

⁵ As soon as thou scatterest them, they are even as asleep, and fade away suddenly like the grass. ⁶ In the morning it is green and groweth up; but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered.

⁶ In the morning it is green and groweth up; but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered. ⁷ For we consume away in thy displeasure, and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation.

⁷ that the ungodly are green as grass, and that all the works of wickedness do flourish, to be destroyed forever.

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.

²⁰ O praise the LORD ye angels of his, ye that excel in strength, ye that fulfill his commandment, and hearken unto the voice of his word. ²¹ O praise the LORD all ye his hosts, ye servants of his that do his pleasure.

⁴ Thou makest thine angels spirits, and thy ministers a flaming fire.

¹²⁰ My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.

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

¹⁴ The LORD upholdeth all such as should fall, and lifteth up all those that be down.

¹⁷ The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

³ O put not your trust in princes, nor in any child of man, for there is no help in them. ⁴ For when the breath of man goeth forth, he shall turn again to his earth, and so all his thoughts perish.

⁴ For when the breath of man goeth forth, he shall turn again to his earth, and so all his thoughts perish.

²⁶ For the LORD shall be beside thee, and keep thy foot that thou be not taken.

⁷ The memorial of the just shall have a good report; but the name of the ungodly shall stink.

²¹ The lips of the righteous feed a whole multitude; but fools shall die in their own folly.

¹⁸ A slanderous person pricketh like a sword; but a wise man's tongue is wholesome.

²⁶ The fear of the LORD is a stronghold; and his children are under a sure defense.

⁷ A wise mouth poureth out knowledge; but the heart of the foolish doth not so.

²¹ Whoso hath a wise understanding is called to counsel; but he that can speak fair, getteth more riches.

²³ A wise heart ordereth his mouth wisely; and amendeth the doctrine in his lips. ²⁴ Fair words are a honeycomb, a refreshing of the mind, and health of the bones.

⁸ He that soweth wickedness shall reap sorrow; and the rod of his plague shall destroy him.

¹⁰ If thou be overseen and negligent in time of need, then is thy strength but small.

¹⁴ This peoples' teeth are swords, and with their jawbones they consume and devour the simple of the earth, and the poor from among men.

¹⁵ These two things also have I considered in the time of vanity: that the just man perisheth for his righteousness' sake, and the ungodly liveth in his wickedness.

²⁰ For there is not one just upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not.

¹ For all these things purposed I in my mind to seek out. The righteous and wise, yea and their servants also are in the hand of God: and there is no man that knoweth either love or hate, but all things are before them. ² It happeneth unto one as unto another; It goeth with the righteous as with the ungodly; with the good and clean as with the unclean; with him that offereth as with him that offereth not; like as it goeth with the virtuous, so goeth it also with the sinner; As it happeneth unto the perjured, so happeneth it also unto him that is afraid to be foresworn.

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

²² Fear not, then, any man whose breath is in his nostrils - for what is he?

² From above flickered the Seraphims, whereof every one had six wings: With twain each covered his face, with twain his feet, and with twain did he fly. ³ They cried also each one to other on this manner: "Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of Hosts! The whole world is full of his glory!"

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."

⁴ But he shall judge the causes of the poor with righteousness, and shall rebuke with equity for the humble of the earth. And he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall slay the wicked.

⁸ they shall stand in fear, carefulness and sorrow shall come upon them, and they shall have pain, as a woman that travaileth with child. One shall ever be abashed of another, and their faces shall burn like the flame.

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?

³ With this, the reins of my back were full of pain: Pangs came upon me, as upon a woman in her travail. It made me stoop when I heard it, and it vexed me when I saw it. ⁴ My heart panted, I trembled for fear. The night of my voluptuousness hath he turned against me into fear.

³³ For the fire of pain is ordained from the beginning: yea, even for kings it is prepared. This hath the LORD set in the deep, and made it wide: the burning whereof is fire and much wood. The breath of the LORD, which is a river of brimstone, doth kindle it.

³ And therefore strengthen the weak hands, and comfort the feeble knees.

³ And therefore strengthen the weak hands, and comfort the feeble knees. ⁴ Say unto them that are of a fearful heart, "Be of good cheer, and fear not. Behold, your God cometh, to take vengeance, and to reward, God cometh his own self, and will deliver you."

¹² Mine age is folden up together, and taken away from me, like a shepherd's cottage: my life is hewn off, like as a weaver cutteth off his web. While I was yet taking my rest, he hewed me off, and made an end of me in one day.' 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.

⁴ The LORD God hath given me a well learned tongue, so that I can comfort them which are troubled; yea, and that in due season. He waked mine ear up betimes in the morning, as schoolmasters do; that I might hark.

⁷ For the spoiler of the Gentiles is broken up from his place, as a lion out of his den, that he may make the land waste, and destroy the cities, so that no man may dwell therein.

¹⁸ Thy ways and thy thoughts have brought thee unto this. This is thy own wickedness and disobedience, that hath possessed thine heart.

¹¹ And therefore I am so full of thine indignation, O LORD, that I may suffer no longer. "Shed out thy wrath upon the children that are without, and upon all young men. Yea the man must be taken prisoner with the wife, and the aged with the cripple.

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?

⁹ Among all things living, man hath the most deceitful and unsearchable heart. Who shall then know it?

⁹ Wherefore, I thought from henceforth not to speak of him, nor to preach anymore in his name. But the word of the LORD was a very burning fire in my heart and in my bones, which when I would have stopped, I might not.

²² Seeing that with your lies ye discomfort the heart of the righteous, whom I have not discomforted: Again, forsomuch as ye courage the hand of the wicked, so that he may not turn from his wicked way, and live:

¹⁹ Then was the mystery showed unto Daniel in a vision by night. And Daniel praised the God of heaven.

²⁸ Only God in heaven can open secrets; and he it is, that showeth the king Nebuchadnezzar what is for to come in the latter days. Thy dream, and that which thou hast seen in thine head upon thy bed, is this: ²⁹ O king, thou didst cast in thy mind, what should come hereafter: So he that is the opener of mysteries, telleth thee what is for to come.

⁵ saw a dream, which made me afraid: and the thoughts that I had upon my bed, with the visions of mine head, troubled me.

⁶ Then changed the king his countenance, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his body shook, and his knees smote one against another.

¹⁸ Now as he was speaking unto me, I waxed faint, so that I sunk down to the ground. But he took hold upon me, and set me up again,

⁹ Yet heard I the voice of his words: and as soon as I heard it, faintness came upon me, and I fell down flat to the ground upon my face.

¹¹ saying unto me, "O Daniel, thou well beloved man: take good heed of the words, that I shall say unto thee, and stand right up, for unto thee am I now sent." And when he had said these words, I stood up trembling.

⁷ They have sown wind, therefore shall they reap a whirlwind. Their seed shall bear no corn, there shall no meal be made of their increase: though they reap, yet shall strangers devour it up.

¹² that they might sow unto righteousness, and reap the fruits of well doing: that they might plow up their fresh land and seek the LORD, till he came, and learned them righteousness. ¹³ But now they have plowed them wickedness, therefore shall they reap sin, and eat the fruit of lies. Seeing thou puttest thy confidence in thine own ways, and leanest to the multitude of thy worthies:

¹⁰ The LORD roareth like a lion, that they may follow him. Yea, as a lion roareth he, that they may be afraid like the children of the sea:

¹⁶ When I hear this, my body is vexed, my lips tremble at the voice thereof, my bones corrupt, I am afraid where I stand. O that I might rest in the day of trouble, that I might go up unto our people, which are already prepared.

²⁶ and when his disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, "It is some spirit," and cried out for fear.

²⁰ And he said, "That defileth a man which cometh out of a man. ²¹ For from within even out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts: adultery, fornication, murder, ²² theft, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, uncleanness, and a wicked eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: ²³ All these evil things come from within, and defile a man."

¹² And when Zacharias saw him, he was abashed, and fear came on him.

²⁹ When she saw him, she was abashed at his saying: and cast in her mind what manner of salutation that should be.

²⁰ But God said unto him, 'Thou fool, this night will they fetch away thy soul again from thee. Then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?'

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;

³² But I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not. And when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren."

⁴³ And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, comforting him.

³⁷ And they were abashed, and afraid, supposing that they had seen a spirit. ³⁸ And he said unto them, "Why are ye troubled? And why do thoughts arise in your hearts? ³⁹ Behold my hands and my feet: that it is even I myself. Handle me and see. For spirits have not flesh and bones, as ye see me have."

²⁰ For we cannot but speak that which we have seen and heard."

⁴ When the men of the country saw the worm hang on his hand, they said among themselves, "This man must needs be a murderer: Whom, though he have escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live."

⁵ But thou, after thine hard heart that cannot repent, heapest thee together the treasure of wrath against the day of vengeance: when shall be opened the righteous judgment of God,

⁴ God forbid. Let God be true, and all men liars, as it is written, "That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings and shouldest overcome when thou art judged." ⁵ If our unrighteousness make the righteousness of God more excellent: what shall we say? Is God unrighteous which taketh vengeance? I speak after the manner of men. ⁶ God forbid. For how then shall God judge the world? ⁷ If the verity of God appear more excellent through my lie, unto his praise, why am I henceforth judged as a sinner?

²⁰ But O man what art thou, which disputest with God? Shall the work say to the workman, "Why hast thou made me on this fashion?"

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

¹² Now we see in a glass, even in a dark speaking: but then shall we see face to face. Now I know unperfectly: but then shall I know even as I am known.

⁴ For in great affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears: not to make you sorry, but that ye might perceive the love which I have most specially unto you. ⁵ If any man hath caused sorrow, the same hath not made me sorry: but partly — lest I should grieve — you all. ⁶ It is sufficient unto the same man that he was rebuked of many. ⁷ So that now contrariwise ye ought to forgive him and comfort him: lest that same person should be swallowed up with overmuch heaviness.

¹ Therefore seeing that we have such an office, even as mercy is come on us, we faint not:

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellent power of it might appear to be of God, and not of us.

¹⁶ Wherefore, we are not wearied: but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

¹ We know surely if our earthy mansion wherein we now dwell were destroyed, that we have a building ordained of God, a habitation not made with hands, but eternal in heaven:

⁶ Nevertheless God, that comforteth the abject, comforted us at the coming of Titus.

⁸ Wherefore though I made you sorry with a letter I repent not: though I did repent. For I perceive that that same Epistle made you sorry though it were but for a season. ⁹ But I now rejoice, not that ye were sorry, but that ye so sorrowed, that ye repented. ¹⁰ For ye sorrowed godly: so that in nothing were ye hurt by us. For godly sorrow causeth repentance, unto salvation not to be repented of: when worldly sorrow causeth death.

⁶ This yet remember, how that he which soweth little, shall reap little: and he that soweth plenteously shall reap plenteously.

⁷ Be not deceived, God is not mocked. For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he reap. ⁸ He that soweth in his flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption: but he that soweth in the spirit shall, of the spirit, reap life everlasting.

²⁹ Let no filthy communication proceed out of your mouths: but that which is good to edify withal, when need is, that it may have favour with the hearers.

⁶ Let your speech be always well favoured and be powdered with salt, that ye may know how to answer every man.

¹⁴ We desire you brethren warn them that are unruly, comfort the feeble minded, forbear the weak, have continual patience toward all men.

⁸ and then shall that wicked be uttered, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the appearance of his coming,

¹⁷ notwithstanding the Lord assisted me, and strengthed me, that by me the preaching should be fulfilled to the utmost and that all the gentiles should hear. And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

⁷ And of the angels he saith, "He maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers flames of fire."

¹⁴ Are they not all spirits to do service, sent for to minister for their sakes, which shall be heirs of salvation?

³ Consider therefore how that he endured such speaking against him of sinners, lest ye should be wearied and faint in your minds.

⁵ And ye have forgotten the consolation which speaketh unto you, as unto children, "My son despise not the chastening of the Lord, neither faint when thou art rebuked of him:

¹² Stretch forth therefore again the hands which were let down, and the weak knees,

¹¹ The sun riseth with heat, and the grass withereth and his flower falleth away, and the beauty of the fashion of it perisheth: even so shall the rich man perish with his abundance.

¹³ Wherefore, gird up the loins of your minds, be sober, and trust perfectly on the grace that is brought unto you by the declaring of Jesus Christ;

¹⁷ And if so be that ye call on the father, which without respect of person judgeth according to every man's works, see that ye pass the time of your pilgrimage in fear:

²⁴ For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man is as the flower of grass; the grass is withered, and the flower falleth away,

⁴ For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down into hell, and delivered them in chains of darkness, to be kept unto judgement;

⁹ The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and how to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment for to be punished:

⁶ The angels also, which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day:

¹⁷ And when I saw him, I fell at his feet, even as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, "Fear not. I am the first and the last,

¹⁶ But be converted, or else I will come unto thee shortly and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

⁸ And the four beasts had, each one of them, six wings about him, and they were full of eyes within. And they had no rest day neither night saying, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God almighty, which was, and is, and is to come."