Job 5 Cross References - MSTC

¹ Name me one else, if thou can find any: yea, look about thee upon any of the holy men. ² As for the foolish man, displeasure killeth him; and anger slayeth the ignorant. ³ I have seen myself, when the foolish was deep rooted, that his beauty was suddenly destroyed, ⁴ that his children were without prosperity or health; that they were slain in the door, and no man to deliver them; ⁵ that his harvest was eaten up of the hungry; that the weaponed man had spoiled it, and that the thirsty had drunk up his riches. ⁶ "It is not the earth that bringeth forth travail, neither cometh sorrow out of the ground; ⁷ but it is man, that is born unto misery, like as the sparks fly up out of the hot coals. ⁸ But now will I speak of the LORD, and talk of God: ⁹ which doeth things, that are unsearchable, and marvelous without number. ¹⁰ Which giveth rain upon the earth, and poureth water upon all things; ¹¹ which setteth up them of low degree, and sendeth prosperity to those that are in heaviness; ¹² Which destroyeth the devices of the subtle, so that they are not able to perform the things that they take in hand; ¹³ which compasseth the wise in their own craftiness, and overthroweth the counsel of the wicked. ¹⁴ Insomuch that they run into darkness by fair day, and grope about them at the noonday, like as in the night. 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. ¹⁷ "Behold, happy is the man whom God punisheth: therefore, despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty. ¹⁸ For though he make a wound, he giveth a medicine again: though he smite, his hand maketh whole again. ¹⁹ He delivereth thee out of six troubles, so that in the seventh there can no harm touch thee. ²⁰ In the midst of hunger he saveth thee from death: and when it is war, from the power of the sword. ²¹ He shall keep thee from the perilous tongue so that when trouble cometh, thou shalt not need to fear. ²² In destruction and dearth thou shalt be merry, and shalt not be afraid for the beasts of the earth: ²³ But the castles in the land shall be confederate with thee, and the beasts of the field shall give thee peace. ²⁴ Yea, thou shalt know that thy dwelling place shall be in rest: thou shalt behold thy substance, and be no more punished for sin. ²⁵ Thou shalt see also, that thy seed shall increase, and that thy posterity shall be as the grass upon the earth. ²⁶ Thou shalt come to thy grave in a fair age, like as the corn sheaves are brought in to the barn in due season. ²⁷ Lo, this we ourselves have proved by experience, and even this it is. Hearken thou to it also, that thou mayest take heed to thyself."

² saying, "The LORD came from Sinai, and showed his beams from Seir unto them; and appeared gloriously from mount Paran, and he came with thousands of saints, and in his righthand a law of fire for them. ³ How loved he the people? All his saints are in his hand. They shall set themselves down at thy feet, and receive of thy words.

¹⁸ Behold, he hath found unfaithfulness among his own servants, and proud disobedience among his angels.

⁸ Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God, that all wisdom is too little for thee? ⁹ What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, but we can the same? ¹⁰ With us are old and aged men; yea, such as have lived longer than thy forefathers.

¹⁵ Behold, he doth not trust his saints; yea, the very heavens are not clean in his sight.

³ All my delight is upon the saints that are in the earth, and upon such as excel in virtue.

¹⁶ They angered Moses in the tents, and Aaron the saint of the LORD.

¹ Be still, ye Islands, and hearken unto me. Be strong ye people; Come hither, and show your cause: we will go to the law together.

²¹ Stand at your cause, sayeth the LORD, and bring forth your strongest ground, counseleth the King of Jacob. ²² Let the gods come forth themselves, and show us the things that are past, what they be: let them declare them unto us, that we may take them to heart, and know them hereafter. ²³ Either, let them show us things for to come, and tell us what shall be done hereafter: so shall we know, that they be gods. Show something, either good or bad: so will we both knowledge the same, and tell it out.

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God. To the saints which are at Ephesus, and to them which believe on Jesus Christ.

¹ Wherefore let us also — seeing that we are compassed with so great a multitude of witnesses — lay away all that presseth down, and the sin that hangeth on us, and let us run with patience, unto the battle that is set before us,

¹ When Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, she envied her sister and said unto Jacob, "Give me children, or else I am but dead."

⁸ Then was Saul exceeding wroth and that saying displeased him, and he said, "They have ascribed unto David ten thousand, and to me but a thousand. And what more can he have, save the kingdom?" ⁹ Wherefore Saul looked sourly upon David from that day forward.

⁴ Why destroyest thou thyself with anger? Shall the earth be forsaken, or the stones removed out of their place because of thee?

¹ {To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} The fool hath said in his heart, "Tush, there is no God." They are corrupt, and become abominable in their doings; there is none that doeth good, no not one.

⁴ I said unto the fools, "Deal not so madly," and to the ungodly, "Set not up your horn.

⁶ An unwise man will not know this, and a fool will not understand it —

¹⁷ Foolish men were plagued for their offense, and because of their wickedness.

²² "O ye children, how long will ye love childishness? How long will the scorners delight in scorning, and the unwise be enemies unto knowledge? ²³ O turn you unto my correction: lo, I will express my mind unto you, and make you understand my words.

⁵ Take heed unto knowledge, O ye ignorant; be wise in heart, O ye fools.

¹⁶ A fool uttereth his wrath in all the haste, but a discreet man forgiveth wrong.

⁹ Be not hastily angry in thy mind, for wrath resteth in the bosom of a fool.

¹¹ Ephraim is like a dove, that is beguiled, and hath no heart. Now call they upon the Egyptians, now go they to the Assyrians:

⁹ And God said unto Jonah, "Art thou so angry for thy wild vine?" And he said, "I am angry a good, even unto the death."

⁸ But unto them that are rebellious, and disobey the truth, and follow iniquity, shall come indignation and wrath,

⁶ For of this sort are they which enter into houses, and bring into bondage women laden with sin, which women are led of divers lusts,

¹⁵ 'Cursed be he that maketh any carved image or image of metal — an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman — and putteth it in a secret place.' And all the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.' ¹⁶ "'Cursed be he that curseth his father or his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ¹⁷ "'Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's mark.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ¹⁸ 'Cursed be he that maketh the blind go out of his way.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ¹⁹ "'Cursed be he that hindereth the right of the stranger, fatherless and widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ²⁰ "'Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife, because he hath opened his father's covering.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ²¹ "'Cursed be he that lieth with any manner beast.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ²² "'Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, whether she be the daughter of his father or of his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ²³ "'Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ²⁴ "'Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ²⁵ "'Cursed be he that taketh a reward to slay innocent blood.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ²⁶ "'Cursed be he that maintaineth not all the words of this law to do them.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

¹⁸ "The ungodly is very swift: O that his portion also upon earth were swifter than the running water, which suffereth not the shipman to behold the fair and pleasant vineyards.

⁸ What hope hath the hypocrite, though he have great good, and though God give him riches after his heart's desire?

³⁵ I myself have seen the ungodly in great power, and flourishing like a green bay-tree. ³⁶ But when I went by, lo, he was gone; I sought him, but his place could nowhere be found.

²⁵ Let their habitation be void, and no man to dwell in their tents.

³ And why? I was grieved at the wicked, to see the ungodly in such prosperity. ⁴ For they are in no peril of death, but stand fast like a palace. ⁵ They come in no misfortune like other folk; neither are they plagued like other men. ⁶ And this is the cause that they be so puffed up in pride, and overwhelmed with cruelty and unrighteousness. ⁷ Their eyes swell with fatness, and they do even what they lust. ⁸ They corrupt others, and speak blasphemies maliciously; proud and presumptuous are their words. ⁹ They stretch forth their mouth unto the heaven, and their tongue goeth through the world.

¹⁸ Namely, how thou hast set them in a slippery places, that thou mayest cast them down headlong and destroy them. ¹⁹ O how suddenly do they consume, perish and come to a fearful end! ²⁰ Yea, even like as a dream when one awaketh, so makest thou their image to vanish out of the city.

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

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.

²⁰ It is written in the book of psalms, 'His habitation be void, and no man be dwelling therein,' and, 'His bishoprick let another take.'

⁵ See that thou neither bow thyself unto them neither serve them: for I, the LORD thy God, am a jealous God, and visit the sin of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:

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."

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.

⁴ When thy sons sinned against him, did not he punish them for their wickedness?

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.

¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his harvest be cut down. ¹⁷ His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and his name shall not be praised in the streets: ¹⁸ he shall be driven from the light into darkness, and cast clean out of the world. ¹⁹ He shall neither have children nor kinfolks among his people, no nor any posterity in his country:

¹⁴ If he get many children, they shall perish with the sword, and his posterity shall have scarceness of bread.

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

⁹ Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. ¹⁰ Let his children be vagabonds, and beg their bread; let them seek it also out of desolate places. ¹¹ Let the extortioner consume all that he hath; and let stranger spoil his labour. ¹² Let there be no man to pity him, nor to have compassion on his fatherless children. ¹³ Let his posterity be destroyed; and in the next generation let his name be clean put out. ¹⁴ Let the wickedness of his fathers be had in remembrance in the sight of LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be done away. ¹⁵ Let them be always before the LORD, that he may root out the memorial of them from off the earth;

¹⁵⁵ Health is far from the ungodly, for they regard not thy statutes.

⁵ Happy is the man, that hath his quiver full of them; they shall not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

¹² As for the multitude of your wickednesses and your stout sins, I know them right well. Enemies are ye of the righteous; ye take rewards; ye oppress the poor in judgment.

⁴ Or those eighteen upon which the tower in Siloam fell and slew them: think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwell in Jerusalem? ⁵ I tell you, Nay: But except ye repent, ye all shall likewise perish."

³³ The fruit of thy land and all thy labours shall a nation eat, which thou knowest not; and thou shalt but suffer violence only and be oppressed always,

⁵¹ And he shall eat the fruit of thy land and the fruit of thy cattle until he have destroyed thee: so that he shall leave thee neither corn, wine, nor oil, neither the increase of thine oxen nor the flocks of thy sheep: until he have brought thee to nought.

³ For when Israel had sown then came the Midianites, the Amalekites, and they of the east country upon them and pitched their tents against them, ⁴ and destroyed the increase of the earth even unto Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel; neither sheep, ox or ass, ⁵ for they came with their cattle and households even as grasshoppers in multitude: so that both they and also their camels were without number. And they entered the land to destroy it. ⁶ And so was Israel exceedingly impoverished by the Midianites and cried unto the LORD.

¹¹ And the Angel of the LORD came and sat under an oak in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the father of the Abiezrites. And his son Gideon pressed out wheat out of the ears in a press, for to flee from the Midianites.

¹¹ Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the Captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh in a hold and bound him with chains and carried him to Babylon.

¹⁵ the Sabeans came in violently, and took them all away: yea, they have slain thy servants with the sword, and I only ran my way, to tell thee."

¹⁷ In the mean season while he was yet speaking, there came another, and said, "The Chaldeans made three armies, and fell upon thy camels, which they have carried away: yea, and slain thy servants with the sword, and I only am gotten away, to tell thee."

³ Then said the LORD unto Satan, "Hast thou not considered my servant Job, 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? But thou movedst me against him, to punish him: yet is it in vain, for he continueth still in his godliness."

⁶ "The houses of robbers are in wealth and prosperity; and they that maliciously meddle against God, dwell without care: yea, God giveth all things richly with his hand.

⁸ For his feet shall be taken in the net, and he is at his wits end. ⁹ His foot shall be holden in the gilder, and the thirsty shall catch him. ¹⁰ The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a pitfall in the way.

¹⁵ The riches that he devoured, shall he vomit out again; for God shall draw them out of his belly.

⁸ The LORD hath sworn by his righthand and by his strong arm, that he will not give thy corn any more to be eaten of thine enemies: and that aliens shall not drink thy new wine wherefore thou hast laboured.

³⁴ 'Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured and destroyed me, he hath made me an empty vessel. He swallowed me up like a dragon, and filled his belly with my delicates: he hath cast me out.

⁴⁴ Moreover, I will visit Bel at Babylon: and the thing that he hath swallowed up, that same shall I pluck out of his mouth. The Gentiles also shall run no more unto him; yea, and the walls of Babylon shall fall.

⁵ {He} The LORD is become like as it were an enemy: he hath cast down Israel and all his places. Yea, all his strongholds hath he destroyed, and filled the daughter of Judah with much sorrow and heaviness.

¹⁶ {Ayin} All thine enemies gape upon thee, whispering and biting their teeth, saying, "Let us devour, for the time that we looked for is come: we have found and seen it."

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.

²⁷ were it not that I feared the railing of their enemies — lest their adversaries would be proud and say: Our high hand hath done all these works, and not the LORD.

⁹ And mark if he go up by the way that leadeth unto his own coast, to Bethshemesh, then it is he that did us this great evil. But and if he do not, then it is not his hand that smote us, but it was a chance that happened us."

²⁹ If he deliver and grant pardon, who will judge or condemn? But if he hide away his countenance, who will turn it about again, whether it be to the people or to any man?

⁷ For we consume away in thy displeasure, and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation.

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

³⁸ out of the mouth of the most Highest goeth not evil and good"?

⁴ They commune together, and swear vain oaths: they be confederate together, therefore groweth their punishment, as the weeds in the furrows of the land.

⁶ Cry they out Alarum with the trumpet in the city, and the people not afraid? Cometh there any plague in a city without it be the LORD's doing?

¹⁵ And look to, that no man be destitute of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness spring up and trouble; and thereby many be defiled:

¹⁷ And unto Adam he said, "Forasmuch as thou hast obeyed the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying 'See thou eat not thereof' cursed be the earth for thy sake. In sorrow shalt thou eat thereof all days of thy life: ¹⁸ and it shall bear thorns and thistles unto thee. And thou shalt eat the herbs of the field: 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."

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

⁸ Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee, and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. ⁹ For when thou art angry, all our days are gone; we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.

⁸ All things are so hard, that no man can express them. The eye is not satisfied with sight; the ear is not filled with hearing.

²² For what getteth a man of all the labor and travail of his mind, that he taketh under the Sun,

¹⁵ Like as he came naked out of his mother's womb, so goeth he thither again, and carryeth nothing away with him of all his labour. ¹⁶ This is a miserable plague, that he shall go away even as he came. What helpeth him then, that he hath labored in the wind? ¹⁷ All the days of his life also must he eat in the dark, with great carefulness, sickness and sorrow.

¹³ There hath none other temptation taken you, such as followeth the nature of man. God is faithful, which shall not suffer you to be tempted above your strength: but shall in the midst of the temptation make a way to escape out.

⁷ Then was Jacob greatly afraid, and wist not which way to turn himself, and divided the people that was with him and the sheep, oxen and camels, into two companies, ⁸ and said, "If Esau come to the one part and smite it, the other may save itself." ⁹ And Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac: LORD, which saidest unto me, 'return unto thy country and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee.' ¹⁰ I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and truth which thou hast showed unto thy servant. For with my staff came I over this Jordan, and now have I gotten two droves. ¹¹ Deliver me from the hands of my brother Esau, for I fear him: lest he will come and smite the mother with the children. ¹² Thou saidest that thou wouldest surely do me good, and wouldest make my seed as the sand of the sea which can not be numbered for multitude."

¹² And when he was in tribulation he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself exceedingly before the God of his fathers, ¹³ and made intercession to him: and he was entreated of him and heard his prayer and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. And then Manasseh knew how that the LORD was very God.

⁵ If thou wouldest now resort unto God betimes, and make thy humble prayer to the Almighty;

²¹ "Therefore reconcile thee unto God, and be content, so shall all things prosper with thee right well.

²⁷ Then shalt thou make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt keep thy promises.

⁵ Commit thy way unto the LORD, set thy hope in him, and he shall bring it to pass.

¹⁵ And call upon me in the time of trouble; so will I hear thee, and thou shalt praise me."

¹ {To the Chanter, for Jeduthun, a Psalm of Asaph} I cried unto God with my voice; yea, even unto God cried I with my voice, and he heard me. ² In the time of my trouble I sought the LORD, I held up mine hands to him in the night season, for my soul refused all other comfort.

¹ And Jonah prayed unto the LORD his god out of the bowels of the fish. ² And he said, "In my tribulation I called unto the LORD, and he answered me: out of the belly of hell I cried, and thou heardest my voice. ³ For thou hadst cast me down deep in the midst of the sea; and the flood compassed me about: and all thy waves and rolls of water went over me. ⁴ And I thought that I had been cast away out of thy sight. But I will yet again look toward thy holy temple. ⁵ The water compassed me even unto the very soul of me; the deep lay about me, and the weeds were wrapped about mine head. ⁶ And I went down unto the bottom of the hills, and was barred in with earth on every side forever. And yet thou, LORD my God, broughtest up my life again out of corruption. ⁷ When my soul fainted in me, I thought on the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, even into thy holy temple.

¹² for the which cause I also suffer these things. Nevertheless, I am not ashamed. For I know whom I have believed, and am sure that he is able keep that which I have committed to his keeping against that day.

²³ which when he was reviled, reviled not again: when he suffered, he threatened not: but committed the cause to him that judgeth righteously,

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.

¹⁰ He doth great things, such as are unsearchable, yea and wonders without number.

⁷ "Wilt thou find out God with thy seeking? Wilt thou attain to the perfectness of the Almighty? ⁸ He is higher than heaven; what wilt thou do? Deeper than hell; how wilt thou then know him? ⁹ His length exceedeth the length of the earth, and his breadth the breadth of the sea.

⁵ "The giants and worthies that are slain, and lie under the world with their companions; ⁶ yea, and all they which dwell beneath in the hell are not hid from him, and the very destruction itself cannot be kept out of his sight. ⁷ He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. ⁸ He bindeth the water in his clouds, and the cloud is not broken under them. ⁹ He holdeth back his stool, that it can not be seen, and spreadeth his clouds before it. ¹⁰ He hath compassed the waters with certain bounds, until the day and night come to an end. ¹¹ The very pillars of heaven tremble and quake at his reproof. ¹² He filleth the sea with his power, and through his wisdom smiteth he the strength thereof. ¹³ With his spirit hath he garnished the heavens, and with his hand hath he wounded the rebellious serpent. 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 when God sendeth out his voice: great things doth he, which we can not comprehend.

³ For who can keep his own counsel so secret, but it shall be known? Therefore have I spoken unwisely, seeing these things are so high, and pass mine understanding.

⁵ O LORD my God, great are the wondrous works which thou hast done, like as be also thy thoughts, which are to us-ward; and yet there is no man that ordereth them unto thee. If I should declare them, and speak of them, they should be more than I am able to express.

¹⁸ Blessed be the LORD God, even the God of Israel, which only doeth wondrous things.

¹⁰ For thou art great, and doest wondrous things; thou art God alone.

¹⁸ If I tell them, they are more in number than the sand; when I wake up, I am present with thee.

²⁸ Knowest thou not, or hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD which made all the corners of the earth, is neither weary nor faint: and that his wisdom cannot be comprehended?

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

²⁶ When he set the rain in order, and gave the mighty floods a law;

²⁸ together for to rain, so that they pour down and drop upon men.

²⁶ that it watereth and moistureth the dry and barren ground: ²⁷ to make the grass grow in places where no body dwelleth, and in the wilderness where no man remaineth? ²⁸ Who is the father of rain? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

⁹ Thou visitest the earth, thou waterest it, and makest it very plenteous. The river of God is full of waters; thou preparest man his corn, and thus thou providest for the earth. ¹⁰ Thou waterest her furrows, thou breakest the hard clots thereof, thou makest it soft with the drops of rain, and blessest the increase of it. ¹¹ Thou crownest the year with thy good, and thy footsteps drop fatness.

⁸ which covereth the heaven with clouds, and prepareth rain for the earth, and maketh the grass to grow upon the mountains;

²⁴ They think not in their hearts, 'O let us fear the LORD our God, that giveth us rain, early and late, when need is: which keepeth ever still the harvest for us yearly.'

¹³ At his voice the waters gather together in the air; he draweth up the clouds from the utmost parts of the earth: he turneth lightning to rain, and bringeth forth the winds out of their treasures.

²² Are there any among the gods of the Gentiles, that send rain or give the showers of heaven? Dost not thou it, O LORD our God, in whom we trust? Yea LORD, thou dost all these things."

⁷ When there were but three months unto the harvest, I withheld the rain from you. Yea, I rained upon one city, and not upon another; one piece of ground was moistured with rain, and the ground that I rained not upon, was dry.

¹⁷ Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he showed his benefits, in giving us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."

²⁷ that is the dwelling place of God from the beginning, and from under the arms of the world. He hath cast out thine enemies before thee and said, 'Destroy.'

⁷ The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich; bringeth low, and heaveth up on high. ⁸ He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill: to set them among princes, and to inherit them with the seat of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he hath set the round world upon them.

¹⁴ Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him up out of all danger, for he hath known my name.

⁴¹ yet helpeth he the poor out of misery, and maketh him a household like a flock of sheep.

⁷ Which taketh up the simple out of the dust, and lifteth the poor out of the mire,

²⁴ And all the trees of the field shall know, that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, and set the low tree up: that I have dried up the green tree, and made the dry tree to flourish: Even I the LORD that spake it, have also brought it to pass.'"

⁵² He putteth Down the mighty from their seats, and hath exalted them of low degree. ⁵³ He hath filled the hungry with good things: And sendeth away the rich empty.

²¹ Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be satisfied. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.

⁹ Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted,

⁶ but giveth more grace? ⁷ Submit yourselves to God, and resist the devil, and he will flee from you. ⁸ Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands ye sinners, and purge your hearts ye wavering minded. ⁹ Suffer afflictions: sorrow ye and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. ¹⁰ Cast down yourselves before the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

³ Blessed be God, the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which through his abundant mercy begat us again unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from death,

¹⁰ The God of all grace — which called you unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus — shall his own self, after ye have suffered a little affliction, make you perfect: shall settle, strengthen, and establish you.

¹⁵ Nevertheless, when our enemies heard that we had gotten word of it, God brought their counsel to nought, and we turned all again to the wall, every one unto his labour.

¹⁶ With him is strength and wisdom: he knoweth both the deceiver and him that is deceived. ¹⁷ He carrieth away the wise men, as it were a spoil, and bringeth the judges out of their wits.

¹¹ For they intended mischief against thee, and imagined such a device as they are not able to perform.

¹⁰ The LORD bringeth the counsel of the Heathen to naught, and maketh the devices of the people to be of none effect, and casteth out the counsels of princes. ¹¹ But the counsel of the LORD endureth, and the thoughts of his heart from generation to generation.

¹⁷ For the arms of the ungodly shall be broken, and the LORD upholdeth the righteous.

³⁰ There is no wisdom, there is no understanding, there is no counsel against the LORD.

¹⁰ Take your counsel together, yet must your counsel come to nought; go in hand withal, yet shall it not prosper. For God is with us.

³ And Egypt shall be choked in herself. When they ask counsel at their idols, at their sorcerors, at their soothsayers and witches: then will I bring their counsel to naught.

³⁶ Thus the angel went forth, and slew of the Assyrians host, a hundred and eighty five thousand. And when men arose up early, at Jerusalem: Behold, all lay full of dead bodies.

¹¹ And when Peter was come to himself, he said, "Now I know of a surety, that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the waiting for of the people of the Jews."

¹² When day was come, certain of the Jews gathered themselves together, and made a vow saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. ¹³ They were about forty which had made this conspiration. ¹⁴ And they came to the chief priest and elders, and said, "We have bound ourselves with a vow, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul. ¹⁵ Now therefore give ye knowledge to the upper captain, and to the council that he bring him forth unto us tomorrow, as though we would know some thing more perfectly of him. But we, or ever he come near, are ready in the mean season to kill him." ¹⁶ When Paul's sister's son heard of their laying await, he went and entered into the castle, and told Paul. ¹⁷ And Paul called one of the under captains unto him, and said, "Bring this young man unto the high captain: for he hath a certain thing to show him." ¹⁸ And he took him, and led him to the high captain, and said, "Paul the prisoner called me unto him and prayed me to bring this young man unto thee, which hath a certain matter to show thee." ¹⁹ The high captain took him by the hand, and went apart with him out of the way, and asked him, "What hast thou to say unto me?" ²⁰ And he said, "The Jews are determined to desire thee that thou wouldest bring forth Paul tomorrow into the council, as though they would enquire somewhat of him more perfectly. ²¹ But follow not their minds: for there lie in wait for him of them, more than forty men, which have bound themselves with a vow, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him. And now are they ready, and look for thy promise." ²² The upper captain let the young man depart and charged him, "See thou tell it out to no man that thou hast showed these things to me."

³¹ And one told David, saying, "Ahithophel is one of them that have conspired with Absalom." Then said David, "O LORD, turn the counsel of Ahithophel unto foolishness."

³⁴ And if thou return to the city: then shalt thou say unto Absalom, 'I will be thy servant O king: thus long have I been thy father's servant, and now I am thine,' and destroy me the counsel of Ahithophel.

²³ And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass and arose and gat him home to his own house and to his own city, and put his household in order and hanged himself and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

⁴ And the king said, "Who is in the court?" For Haman was gone into the court without before the king's house, that he might speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the tree, that he had prepared for him. ⁵ And the king's servants said unto him, "Behold, Haman standeth in the court." The king said, "Let him come in." ⁶ And when Haman came in, the king said unto him, "What shall be done unto the man, whom the king would fain bring unto worship?" But Haman thought in his heart, "Whom desireth the king to bring unto worship, more than me?" ⁷ And Haman said unto the king, "Let the man unto whom the king would be glad to do worship, be brought hither, ⁸ that he may be arrayed with the royal garments which the king useth to wear: and the horse that the king rideth upon, and that the crown royal may be set upon his head. ⁹ And let this raiment and horse be delivered under the hand of one of the king's princes, that he may array the man withal, whom the king would fain honour: and carry him upon the horse through the streets of the city, and cause it to be proclaimed before him, 'Thus shall it be done to every man, whom the king would fain honour.'" ¹⁰ The king said, "Make haste, and take, as thou hath said, the raiment and the horse: and do even so with Mordecai the Jew that sitteth before the king's gate; and let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken." ¹¹ Then took Haman the raiment and the horse, and arrayed him, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, "Even thus shall it be done unto every man whom the king is disposed to honour!"

¹⁰ So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had made for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

²⁵ and how Esther went and spake to the king, that through letters his wicked device - which he imagined against the Jews - might be turned upon his own head, and how he and his sons were hanged on the tree.

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 Heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the same net which they hid privily, is their own foot taken. ¹⁶ The LORD is known to execute judgment; the ungodly is trapped in the work of his own hands. Selah.

²⁶ With the clean thou shalt be clean, and with the froward thou shalt be froward. {TYNDALE: With the pure thou shalt be pure, and with the froward thou shalt be froward also.}

⁷ For they have privily laid their net to destroy me without a cause; yea, and made a pit for my soul, which I never deserved. ⁸ Let a sudden destruction come upon him unawares, and his net that he hath laid privily catch himself, that he may fall into his own mischief.

³² for the LORD abhorreth the froward, but his secret is among the righteous.

⁵¹ He showeth strength with his arm, he scattereth them that are proud in the imagination of their hearts.

¹⁹ For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and will cast away the understanding of the prudent." ²⁰ Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the searcher of this world? Hath not God made the wisdom of this world foolishness?

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He compasseth the wise in their craftiness."

²⁹ And thou shalt grope at noonday as the blind gropeth in darkness, and shalt not come to the right way. And thou shalt suffer violence and wrong all thy life long, and no man shall help thee.

²⁵ and grope in the dark without light, staggering to and fro like drunken men.

¹⁹ But the way of the ungodly is as the darkness, wherein men fall, or they be aware.

¹⁰ We grope like the blind upon the wall, we grope even as one that hath none eyes. We stumble at the noonday, as though it were toward night; in the falling places, like men that are half dead.

⁹ At the same time," sayeth the LORD God, "I shall cause the sun to go down at noon, and the land to be dark in the clear day.

¹⁰ The roaring of the lion, the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the lion's whelps are broken.

¹⁴ Surely thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest ungodliness and wrong, that thou mayest take the matter into thy hand. The poor committeth himself unto thee, for thou art the helper of the friendless.

¹⁷ LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the poor; thou preparest their heart, and thine ear hearkeneth thereto,

¹⁰ All my bones shall say, "LORD, who is like unto thee, who deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him? Yea, the poor, and him that is in misery, from him that spoileth him?"

⁴ He shall keep the simple folk by their right, defend the children of the poor, and punish the wrongdoer.

¹² For he shall deliver the poor when he crieth, and the needy that hath no help. ¹³ He shall be favorable to the simple and poor; he shall preserve the souls of such as be in adversity.

³¹ for he standeth at the righthand of the poor, to save him from such as condemn his soul.

¹² Sure I am, that the LORD will avenge the poor, and maintain the cause of the helpless.

⁷ And among all the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, nor yet man or beast: that ye may know, how the LORD putteth a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.'

⁸ He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill: to set them among princes, and to inherit them with the seat of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he hath set the round world upon them. ⁹ He will keep the feet of his saints but the wicked shall keep silence in darkness. For in his own might shall no man be strong.

¹⁸ For the poor shall not always be forgotten; the patient abiding of the meek shall not perish forever.

¹¹ But the king shall rejoice in God; all they that swear by him shall be commended, for the mouth of liars shall be stopped.

⁴² The righteous will consider this and rejoice; the mouth of all wickedness shall be stopped.

³² Who shall then maintain the messages of the Gentiles? But the LORD establisheth Zion, and the poor of my people shall put their trust in him.

¹² Turn you now to the stronghold, ye that be in prison, and long sore to be delivered: And this day I bring the word, that I will reward thee double again.

¹⁹ Yea and we know that whatsoever the law saith, he saith it to them which are under the law: That all mouths may be stopped, and all the world be subdued to God,

¹² Blessed is the man, whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him in thy law,

¹¹ My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD, neither faint when thou are rebuked of him. ¹² For whom the LORD loveth, him he chasteneth: and yet delighteth in him even as a father in his own son.

¹⁸ Moreover, I heard Ephraim, that was led away captive, complain on this manner, 'O LORD, thou hast corrected me, and thy chastening have I received, as an untamed calf. Convert thou me, and I shall be converted, for thou art my LORD God.

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: ⁶ For whom the Lord loveth, him he chasteneth: yea, and he scourgeth every son that he receiveth." ⁷ If ye shall endure chastening, God offereth himself unto you, as unto sons. What son is that whom the father chasteneth not? ⁸ If ye be not under correction — whereof all are partakers — then are ye bastards and not sons. ⁹ Moreover, seeing we had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: should we not much rather be in subjection unto the father of spiritual gifts that we might live? ¹⁰ And they verily for a few days nurtured us after their own pleasure; but he learneth us unto that which is profitable, that we might receive of his holiness. ¹¹ No manner chastising for the present time seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it bringeth the quiet fruit of righteousness unto them which are therein exercised.

¹² Happy is the man that endureth in temptation, for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

¹¹ Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have known what end the Lord made. For the Lord is very pitiful, and merciful.

¹⁹ As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be fervent therefore and repent.

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.

⁶ The LORD killeth and maketh alive; bringeth down to hell and fetcheth up again.

³ He healeth the contrite in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

²⁶ the moon shall shine as the sun, and the sunshine shall be seven fold, and have as much shine, as in seven days beside. In that day shall the LORD bind up the bruised sores of his people, and heal their wounds.

¹ In their adversity they shall seek me, and say, "Come, let us turn again to the LORD: for he hath smitten us, and he shall heal us;

¹⁹ Great are the troubles of the righteous, but the LORD delivereth him out of all.

³ For he shall deliver thee from the snare of the hunter, and from the noisome pestilence. ⁴ He shall defend thee under his wings, that thou mayest be safe under his feathers: his faithfulness and truth shall be thy shield and buckler. ⁵ Thou shalt not be afraid for any terror by night, nor for the arrow that flieth by day; ⁶ for the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for the sickness that destroyeth in the noonday. ⁷ A thousand shall fall beside thee, and ten thousand at thy righthand; but it shall not come nigh thee. ⁸ Yea, with thine eyes shalt thou behold, and see the reward of the ungodly. ⁹ For thou, LORD, art my hope; thou hast set thine house of defense very high. ¹⁰ There shall no evil happen unto thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

¹⁶ For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again; but the ungodly fall into wickedness.

⁸ Brethren, I would not have you ignorant of our trouble, which happened unto us in Asia. For we were grieved out of measure passing strength, so greatly that we despaired even of life.

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:

⁷ Wherefore God sent me before you to make provision, that ye might continue in the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

⁶ And the ravens brought him bread and flesh every morning and every evening, and he drank of the brook.

³ Though a host of men were laid against me, yet shall not my heart be afraid; and though there rose up war against me, yet will I put my trust in him.

¹⁹ that he may deliver their soul from death, and to feed them in the time of dearth.

¹⁹ They shall not be confounded in the perilous time; and in the days of dearth they shall have enough.

⁷ But no man may deliver his brother, nor make agreement unto God for him,

¹⁰ Thou that givest victory unto kings, and hast delivered David thy servant from the peril of the sword.

³ The LORD will not let the soul of the righteous suffer hunger; but he putteth the ungodly from his desire.

¹⁶ He it is, that shall dwell on high; whose safeguard shall be in the true rock, to him shall be given the right true meat and drink.

¹⁴ had not I defended him from the grave, and delivered him from death. O death, I will be thy death: O hell, I will be thy sting.

¹⁷ For the fig trees shall not be green, and the vines shall bear no fruit. The labour of the olive shall be but lost, and the land shall bring no corn: the sheep shall be taken out of the fold, and there shall be no cattle in the stalls.

⁶ Ye shall hear of wars, and of the fame of wars, but see that ye be not troubled, for all must come to pass; but the end is not yet.

²⁰ Thou shalt hide them privily by thine own presence from the provoking of all men; thou shalt keep them secretly in thy tabernacle from the strife of tongues.

²¹ Their mouths are softer than butter, and yet have they battle in their mind: their words are smoother than oil, and yet be they very swords.

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.

⁵ Thou shalt not be afraid for any terror by night, nor for the arrow that flieth by day; ⁶ for the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for the sickness that destroyeth in the noonday. ⁷ A thousand shall fall beside thee, and ten thousand at thy righthand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

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

¹⁷ but all the weapons that are made against thee, shall not prosper. And as for all tongues that shall resist thee in judgment, thou shalt overcome them, and condemn them. This is the heritage of the LORD's servants, and the righteousness that they shall have of me, sayeth the LORD.

¹⁸ Then said they, "Come, let us imagine something against this Jeremiah." Yea, this did even the priests, to whom the law was committed: the Senators, that were the wisest: and the prophets, which wanted not the word of God. "Come," said they, "let us cut out his tongue, and let us not regard his words."

⁵ even so the tongue is little member and boasteth great things. Behold how great a thing a little fire kindleth, ⁶ and the tongue is fire, and a world of wickedness. So is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth afire all that we have of nature, and is itself set afire, even of hell. ⁷ All the natures of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and things of the sea, are meeked and tamed of the nature of man. ⁸ But the tongue can no man tame. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

²¹ This is the thing that the LORD sayeth of him: He hath despised thee, O virgin daughter of Zion; he hath shaken his head at thee, thou daughter of Jerusalem.

¹³ Thou shalt go upon the Lion and Adder, the young Lion and the Dragon shalt thou tread under thy feet.

⁹ There shall be no lion, and no ravishing beast shall come therein, nor be there, but men shall go there free and safe.

²⁵ The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat hay like the bullock. But earth shall be the serpent's meat. There shall no man hurt nor slay another, in all my holy hill, sayeth the LORD.

²⁵ Moreover, I will make a covenant of peace with them, and drive all evil beasts out of the land: so that they may dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

¹⁸ Then will I make a covenant with them, with the wild beasts, with the fowls of the air, and with everything that creepeth upon the earth. As for bow, sword and battle, I will destroy such out of the land, and will make them to sleep safely.

⁶ And I will send peace in your land, that ye shall sleep, and no man shall make you afraid. And I will rid evil beasts out of your land, and there shall no sword go throughout your land.

¹² They shall bear thee in their hands, that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone. ¹³ Thou shalt go upon the Lion and Adder, the young Lion and the Dragon shalt thou tread under thy feet.

⁶ Then shall the wolf dwell with the lamb, and the Leopard shall lie down by the goat. Bullocks, Lions and cattle shall keep company together, so that a little child shall rule them. ⁷ The cow and the Bear shall feed together, and their young ones shall lie together. The Lion shall eat straw like the ox, or the cow. ⁸ The child while he sucketh, shall have a desire to the serpents nest, and when he is weaned, he shall put his hand in to the Cockatrice den. ⁹ No man shall do evil to another, no man shall destroy another, in all the hill of my Sanctuary. For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, even as though the water of the sea flowed over the earth.

¹⁵ If I bring noisome beasts into the land to waste it up, and it be so desolate that no man may go therein for beasts; ¹⁶ if these three men also were in the land, as truly as I live, sayeth the LORD God, they shall save neither sons nor daughters, but be only delivered themselves: and as for the land, it shall be waste.

²² My God hath sent his angel, which hath shut the lions' mouths, so that they might not hurt me. For why? Mine unguiltiness is found out before him. And as for thee, O king, I never offended thee."

³⁸ Yea and I am sure that neither death, neither life, neither angels; nor rule, neither power, neither things present, neither things to come, ³⁹ neither height, neither lowth, neither any other creature shall be able to depart us from the love of God, showed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁶ Blessed shalt thou be, both when thou goest out, and blessed when thou comest in.

³ When David and his men came to the city: behold, it was burnt with fire, and their wives, their sons and their daughters were taken prisoners.

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?

⁶ The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his candle shall be put out with him.

¹⁵ Other men shall dwell in his house - which now is none of his - and brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

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

⁷ "Wherefore do wicked men live in health and prosperity, come to their old age, and increase in riches? ⁸ Their children's children live in their sight, and their generation before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses are safe from all fear, for the rod of God doth not smite them.

¹³ His soul shall dwell at ease, and his seed shall inherit the land.

¹⁰ There shall no evil happen unto thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

⁴ They went astray in the wilderness in an untrodden way, and found no city to dwell in.

⁴⁰ though he suffer them to be evil-entreated through tyrants, or let them wander out of the way in the wilderness,

⁷ The LORD preserveth thee from all evil; yea, it is the LORD that keepeth thy soul. ⁸ The LORD preserveth thy going out and thy coming in, from this time forth for evermore.

⁵ Moreover upon all the dwellings of the hill of Zion and upon their whole congregation, shall the LORD provide a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for all their glory shall be preserved. ⁶ And Jerusalem shall be a tabernacle for a shadow because of heat in the daytime, and place and refuge where a man may keep him from weather and rain.

⁵ And he brought him out at the doors and said, "Look up unto heaven and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them." And said unto him, "Even so shall thy seed be."

⁹ And I will turn unto you and increase you and multiply you, and set up my covenant with you.

⁴ blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, the fruit of thy ground and the fruit of thy cattle, the fruit of thine oxen, and thy flocks of sheep;

¹³ He had children also, seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴ The first he called Day; the second Poverty; the third All-plenteousness. ¹⁵ In all the land were none found so fair, as the daughters of Job, and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. ¹⁶ After this lived Job forty years, so that he saw his children, and his children's children to the fourth generation.

¹⁶ There shall be a heap of corn in the earth, high upon the hills; his fruit shall shake like Lebanon, and shall be green in the city like grass upon the earth.

² His seed shall be mighty upon earth; the generation of the faithful shall be blessed.

³ Lo, children, and the fruit of the womb are a heritage and gift, that cometh of the LORD. ⁴ Like as the arrows in the hand of the giant, even so are the young children. ⁵ Happy is the man, that hath his quiver full of them; they shall not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

³ Thy wife shall be as the fruitful vine upon the walls of thy house, thy children like the olive branches round about thy table. ⁴ Lo, thus shall the man be blessed, that feareth the LORD. ⁵ The LORD shall so bless thee out of Zion, that thou shalt see Jerusalem in prosperity all thy life long. ⁶ Yea, that thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel.

³ For I shall pour water upon the dry ground, and rivers upon the thirsty. I shall pour my spirit upon thy seed, and mine increase upon thy stock. ⁴ They shall grow together, like as the grass, and as the Willows by the waterside.

¹⁵ Nevertheless, thou shalt go unto thy fathers in peace, and shalt be buried when thou art of a good age:

⁸ and then fell sick and died, in a lusty age — when he had lived enough — and was put unto his people.

¹⁶ After this lived Job forty years, so that he saw his children, and his children's children to the fourth generation. ¹⁷ And so he died, being old and of a perfect age.

¹⁶ With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation.

¹¹ For through me thy days shall be prolonged, and the years of thy life shall be many.

²⁷ The fear of the LORD maketh a long life; but the years of the ungodly shall be shortened.

¹³ that thou keep the commandments of the LORD and his ordinances which I command thee this day, for thy wealth?

⁸ "Enquire, I pray thee, of them that have been before thee; and search diligently among thy forefathers. ⁹ For we are but of yesterday, and consider not that our days upon earth are but a very shadow. ¹⁰ They shall show thee, they shall tell thee, yea they will gladly confess the same.

² "Then, no doubt, ye are the men alone; and wisdom shall perish with you.

¹⁷ "I will tell thee; hear me. I will show thee a thing, that I know;

² "May a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?

¹¹ For when I had waited till ye made an end of your talking, and heard your wisdom, what arguments you made in your communication; ¹² Yea, when I had diligently pondered what ye said, I found not one of you that made any good argument against Job, or that directly could make answer unto his words,

² The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.

³ For if thou criest after wisdom, and callest for knowledge; ⁴ If thou seekest after her as after money, and diggest for her as for treasures; ⁵ then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

¹² If thou be wise, thy wisdom shall do thyself good: but if thou thinkest scorn thereof, it shall be thine own harm.