Job 6 Cross References - MSTC

¹ Job answered, and said, ² "Oh that my misery were weighed, and my punishment laid in the balances: ³ For then should it be heavier than the sand of the sea. This is the cause, that my words are so sorrowful. ⁴ For the arrows of the almighty are in me, whose indignation hath drunk up my spirit, and the terrible fears of God fight against me. ⁵ Doth the wild ass roar when he hath grass? Or crieth the ox, when he hath fodder enough? ⁶ That which is unsavory, shalt it be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the white of an egg? ⁷ The things that sometime I might not away withal, are now my meat for very sorrow. ⁸ "O that I might have my desire! O that God would grant me the thing, that I long for! ⁹ That he would begin and smite me: that he would let his hand go, and hew me down. ¹⁰ Then should I have some comfort: yea, I would desire him in my pain, that he should not spare, for I will not be against the words of the holy one. ¹¹ What power have I to endure? Or, what is mine end, that my soul might be patient? ¹² Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh made of brass? ¹³ Am I able to help my self? Is not my strength gone from me, ¹⁴ like as if one withdrew a good deed from his friend, and forsook the fear of the Almighty God? ¹⁵ Mine own brethren pass over by me, as the water brook that hastily runneth through the valleys. ¹⁶ But they that fear the hoarfrost, the snow shall fall upon them. ¹⁷ When their time cometh, they shall be destroyed and perish: and when they be set on fire, they shall be removed out of their place, ¹⁸ for the paths that they go in are crooked: they haste after vain things, and shall perish. ¹⁹ Consider the paths of Tema, and the ways of Sheba, wherein they have put their trust. ²⁰ Confounded are they that put any confidence in them: For when they came to obtain the things that they looked for, they were brought to confusion. ²¹ Even so are ye also come unto me: but now that ye see my misery, ye are afraid. ²² "Did I desire you to come hither? Or to give me any of your substance? ²³ To deliver me from the enemy's hand, or to save me from the power of the mighty? ²⁴ Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and wherein I have erred, cause me to understand. ²⁵ How steadfast are the words of truth! And which of you can rebuke or reprove them? ²⁶ Do ye take deliberacy to check men's sayings, and judge a poor word spoken in vain? ²⁷ Ye fall upon the fatherless, and go about to overthrow your own friend. ²⁸ Wherefore look not only upon me, but upon yourselves: whether I lie, or no. ²⁹ Turn into your own selves, I pray you: be indifferent judges, and consider my guiltlessness: ³⁰ whether there be any unrighteousness in my tongue, or vain words in my mouth.

¹ Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite and said unto him,

⁵ But now that the plague is come upon thee, thou shrinkest away: now that it hath touched thyself, thou art faint hearted.

² "My saying is yet this day in bitterness, and my hand heavy among my groanings.

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

¹⁹ Teach us what we shall say unto him, for we are unmete because of darkness. ²⁰ Shall it be told him what I say? Should a man speak, or should he keep it back?

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.

⁴ Thou heldest mine eyes waking, I was so feeble, that I could not speak.

³ The stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

²⁸ Come unto me all ye that labor, and are laden, and I will ease you.

²³ I will heap mischiefs upon them and will spend all mine arrows at them. ²⁴ Burnt with hunger and consumed with heat and with bitter pestilence. I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, and poison serpents.

⁴² I will make mine arrows drunken with blood, and my sword shall eat flesh of the blood of the slain and of the captive and of the bare head of the enemy.'

¹⁷ He troubleth me so with the tempest, and woundeth me out of measure without a cause.

¹² I was some time in wealth, but suddenly hath he brought me to naught. He hath taken me by the neck, he hath rent me, and set me, as it were a mark for him to shoot at. ¹³ His archers compass me round about; he hath wounded my loins, and not spared. My bowels hath he poured upon the ground. ¹⁴ He hath given me one wound upon another, and is fallen upon me like a giant.

²⁰ Their own destruction and misery shall they see with their eyes, and drink of the fearful wrath of the Almighty.

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

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

¹³ He hath prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

¹⁴ He sent out his arrows and scattered them, he cast forth lightnings, and destroyed them. {TYNDALE: And he shot arrows and scattered them, and hurled lightning and turmoiled them.}

¹² Therefore shalt thou put them to flight, and the strings of thy bow shalt thou make ready against the face of them.

² For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

⁵ Thy arrows are sharp, and the people shall be subdued unto thee, even in the midst among the king's enemies.

¹⁵ I am in misery, and like unto him that is at the point to die; even from my youth up, thy terrors have I suffered with a troubled mind. ¹⁶ Thy wrathful displeasure goeth over me; and the fear of thee hath undone me.

⁷ Hear me, O LORD, and that soon, for my spirit waxeth faint; hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the grave.

¹⁴ A good stomach driveth away a man's disease; but when the spirit is vexed, who may abide it?

¹² He hath bent his bow, and made me as it were a mark to shoot at. ¹³ {He} The arrows of his quiver hath he shot, even into my reins.

³³ And he took with him Peter, James, and John, and he began to wax abashed and to be in an agony. ³⁴ And said unto them, "My soul is very heavy even unto the death, tarry here and watch."

³⁴ And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lama sabacthani," which is, if it be interpreted, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"

¹¹ Seeing, then, that we know how the Lord is to be feared, we fare fair with men. For we are known well enough unto God. I trust also that we are known in your consciences.

¹ {To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} Like as the hart desireth the water brooks, so longeth my soul after thee, O God.

¹⁴ Thou bringest forth grass for the cattle, and green herbs for the service of men.

⁶ The wild Asses shall stand in the Moss, and draw in their wind like the Dragons, their eyes shall fail for want of grass."

¹⁸ O what a fighting make the cattle? The bullocks are very evil liking, because they have no pasture: and the sheep are famished away. ¹⁹ O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath consumed the goodly pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burnt up all the trees of the field. ²⁰ Yea, the wild beasts cry also unto thee: for the water rivers are dried up, and the fire hath consumed the pastures of the wilderness.

¹³ All thy meat offerings thou shalt salt with salt: neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: but upon all thine offerings thou shalt bring salt.

²⁵ How steadfast are the words of truth! And which of you can rebuke or reprove them?

³⁰ whether there be any unrighteousness in my tongue, or vain words in my mouth.

¹¹ Have not the ears pleasure in hearing, and the mouth in tasting the thing that it eateth?

² "I have oft times heard such things. Miserable givers of comfort are ye, all the sort of you.

³ For like as the mouth tasteth the meats, so the ear proveth and discerneth the words.

¹⁰³ O how sweet are thy words unto my throat! Yea, sweeter than honey unto my mouth!

³⁴ Salt is good, but if salt have lost her saltiness, what shall be seasoned therewith?

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

⁴ For it is not possible that they which were once lighted, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were become partakers of the holy ghost, ⁵ and have tasted of the good word of God, and of the power of the world to come;

¹² And she answered, "As surely as the LORD thy God liveth, I have no bread, but even a handful of meal in a pitcher, and a little oil in a cruse. And see, I have gathered a few sticks for to go and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it and then die."

²⁷ and say, 'Thus sayeth the king. Put ye this fellow in the prison house and feed him with bread and water straightly, until I return in peace.'"

²⁴ For my sighs come before I eat, and my roarings fall out like flowing water.

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

¹⁴ Then said I, "O LORD God: Behold, my soul was yet never stained, for from my youth up to this hour. I did never eat of a dead carcass, or that which was slain of wild beasts, neither came there ever any unclean flesh in my mouth."

¹⁶ And he said unto me, "Behold thou son of man, I will minish all the provision of bread in Jerusalem, so that they shall weigh their bread, and eat it with scarceness. But as for water, they shall have a very little measure thereof, to drink.

¹⁸ "Thou son of man: with a fearful trembling shalt thou eat thy bread, with carefulness and sorrow shalt thou drink thy water. ¹⁹ And unto the people of the land, speak thou on this manner: 'Thus sayeth the LORD God to them that dwell in Jerusalem, and to the land of Israel: Ye shall eat your bread with sorrow, and drink your water with heaviness. Yea, the land with the fullness thereof shall be laid waste, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

³ so that I had no lust to eat bread: as for flesh and wine, there came none within my mouth: No, I did not once anoint myself, till the whole three weeks were out.

¹¹ What power have I to endure? Or, what is mine end, that my soul might be patient? ¹² Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh made of brass? ¹³ Am I able to help my self? Is not my strength gone from me,

¹⁴ I call corruption my father, and the worms call I my mother and my sister. ¹⁵ What helpeth then my long tarrying? Or, who will fulfill the thing that I look for? ¹⁶ All that I have, shall go down into the pit, and lie with me in the dust."

⁸¹ {Khaf} My soul longeth for thy salvation, for my good hope is in thy word.

¹⁴ I am not able to bear all this people alone, for it is too heavy for me. ¹⁵ Wherefore, if thou deal thus with me; kill me, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thy sight: and let me not see my wretchedness."

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

²⁰ "Wherefore is the light given to him that is in misery? And life unto them that have heavy hearts? ²¹ Which long for death, if it come not; ²² and search for it more than for treasure. Which also would be exceedingly glad, and rejoice if they found their grave.

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

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

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

⁴ For thy hand is heavy upon me both day and night, and my moisture is like the drought in Summer. Selah.

¹⁰ Behold, I have purged thee, and not for money. I have chosen thee in the fire of poverty; ¹¹ And that only for mine own sake, for I give mine honour to none other, that thou shouldest not despise me. ¹² Hearken unto me O Jacob, and Israel whom I have called. I am even he that is, I am the first and the last. ¹³ My hand is the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spanneth over the heavens. As soon as I called them they were there.

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

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

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

² "Speak unto all the multitude of the children of Israel, and say unto them, 'Be holy for I, the LORD your God, am holy.

²⁰ "And so the LORD will not be merciful unto him, but then the wrath of the LORD and his jealousy, smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book light upon him, and the LORD do out his name from under heaven,

² There is none so holy as the LORD: no, there is none save thou. Neither is there any strength like unto our God.

²² and search for it more than for treasure. Which also would be exceedingly glad, and rejoice if they found their grave.

⁴ He is wise of heart, and mighty in strength. Who ever prospered that took part against him?

³³ Then shall he be fain to be buried among the stones by the brookside. All men must follow him, and there are innumerable gone before him.

²² Receive the law at his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

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.

³⁰ The mouth of the righteous is exercised in wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.

⁹ I will preach of thy righteousness in the great congregation: Lo, I will not refrain my lips, O LORD, and that thou knowest. ¹⁰ I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; my talk hath been of thy truth, and of thy salvation.

¹⁷ Thou, O God, hast taught me from my youth up until now; therefore will I tell of thy wondrous works. ¹⁸ Forsake me not, O God, in mine old age, when I am grey-headed, until I have showed thy strength unto children's children, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come.

¹³ With my lips will I be telling out all the judgments of thy mouth.

¹¹ Tread out of the way, go out of the path, turn the holy one of Israel from us." ¹² Therefore, thus sayeth the holy one of Israel, "Insomuch as ye have cast off your beauty, and comforted yourselves with power and nimbleness, and put your confidence therein:

¹⁵ For thus sayeth the high and excellent, even he that dwelleth in everlastingness, whose name is the holy one: I dwell high above and in the sanctuary, and with him also, that is of a contrite and humble spirit: that I may heal a troubled mind, and a contrite heart.

⁹ therefore have I not turned me to destroy Ephraim in my wrathful displeasure. For I am God, and no man: I am even that holy one in the midst of thee, though I came not within the city.

¹² But thou, O LORD my God, my holy one: thou art from the beginning, therefore shall we not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for punishment, and set them to reprove the mighty.

³ God cometh from Teman, and the holy one from the mount of Paran. Selah.

²⁰ and how I kept back nothing that was profitable: but that I have showed you, and taught you openly and at home in your houses,

²⁷ For I have kept nothing back: but have showed you all the counsel of God.

³² Which spared not his own son, but gave him for us all: How shall he not with him give us all things also?

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; ⁵ neither spared the old world, but saved Noah, the eighth preacher of righteousness, and brought in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

⁷ "And write unto the tidings-bringer of the congregation of Philadelphia, 'This saith he that is holy and true, which hath the key of David; which openeth and no man shutteth, and shutteth and no man openeth.

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."

⁵ My flesh is clothed with worms, filthiness and dust; my skin is withered, and crumpled together; ⁶ my days pass over more speedily than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. ⁷ "O remember that my life is but a wind, and that mine eye shall no more see the pleasures thereof;

²⁰ Shall not my short life come so soon to an end? O hold thee from me, let me alone, that I may ease myself a little

²⁵ Wilt thou be so cruel and extreme unto a flying leaf, and follow upon dry stubble?

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

¹ My breath faileth, my days are shortened. I am hard at death's door.

⁴ Is it with a man, that I make this disputation? Which if it were so, should not my spirit be then in sore trouble?

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

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. ⁷ For we consume away in thy displeasure, and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation. 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. ¹⁰ The days of our age are threescore years and ten: and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.

²³ He hath brought down my strength in my journey, and shortened my days.

¹⁴ For he knoweth whereof we be made, he remembereth that we are but dust; 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.

¹⁸ His shins are like pipes of brass, his ridge bones are like staves of iron.

²⁴ His heart is as hard as stone, and as fast as the stythie that the hammer man smiteth upon.

² "Then, no doubt, ye are the men alone; and wisdom shall perish with you. ³ But I have understanding as well as ye, and am no less than ye. Yea who knoweth not these things?

² Look what ye know, that same do I know also, neither am I inferior unto you.

²⁸ Did not ye say, "Why doth he suffer persecution?" Is there found an occasion against me?

² "O how helpest thou the weak? What comfort givest thou unto him that hath no strength?

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

⁴ Let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in his own self, and not in another.

¹¹ And Abraham answered, "I thought that peradventure the fear of God was not in this place, and that they should slay me for my wife's sake:

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.

⁴ As for shame, thou hast set it aside - else wouldest thou not make so many words before God.

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

¹ {To the Chanter, of David the servant of the Lord} My heart showeth me the wickedness of the ungodly, that there is no fear of God before his eyes. ² For he flattereth himself in his own sight, until his abominable sin be found out. ³ The words of his mouth are unrighteous and full of deceit; he hath left off to behave himself wisely, and to do good.

¹⁷ He is a friend that always loveth, and in adversity a man shall know who is his brother.

⁴⁰ The others answered and rebuked him, saying, "Neither fearest thou God because thou art in the same damnation?

¹⁵ Be merry with them that are merry. Weep with them that weep.

²⁶ And if one member suffer, all suffer with him: if one member be had in honour, all members be glad also.

²⁹ Who is sick: and I am not sick? Who is hurt in the faith: and my heart burneth not?

² Bear ye one another's burden; and so fulfill the law of Christ.

³ Remember them that are in bonds, even as though ye were bound with them. Be mindful of them which are in adversity, as ye which are yet in your bodies.

¹⁹ All such as were my most familiars, abhor me: And they whom I loved best, are turned against me.

¹¹ My lovers and friends stand looking upon my trouble, and my kinsmen are gone afar off.

⁹ Yea, even mine own familiar friend, whom I trusted, who did also eat my bread, hath lift up his heel against me.

¹² If it were mine enemy that reviled me, I could bear it: or if one that ought me evil will did threaten me, I would hide myself from him. ¹³ But it was even thou, my companion, my guide, and mine own familiar friend. ¹⁴ We took sweet counsel together, and walked in the house of God as friends.

¹⁸ My lovers and friends hast thou put away from me, and hid mine acquaintance out of my sight.

⁴ Yea, one must keep himself from another; no man may safely trust his own brother. For one brother undermineth another, and one neighbour begileth another. ⁵ Yea, one dissesembleth with another, and they deal with no truth. They have practiced their tongues to lie, and taken great pains to do mischief.

¹⁸ Shall my heaviness endure forever? Are my plagues then so great, that they may never be healed? Wilt thou be as a water that faileth, and cannot continue?"

¹⁴ All thy lovers have forgotten thee, and care nothing for thee. For I have given thee a cruel stroke, and chastened thee roughly: and that for the multitude of thy misdeeds, for thy sins have had the overhand.

⁵ Let no man believe his friend, nor put his confidence in a prince. Keep the door of thy mouth, from her that lieth in thy bosom: ⁶ for the son shall put his father to dishonour, the daughter shall rise against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: and a man's foes shall be even they of his own household.

¹⁸ "I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: But that the scripture be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.

³² Behold, the hour draweth nigh, and is already come, that ye shall be scattered every man his ways, and shall leave me alone. And yet am I not alone. For the father is with me.

¹² These are spots which of your kindness feast together, without fear, feeding themselves. Clouds they are without water, carried about of winds: and trees without fruit at gathering time, twice dead, and plucked up by the roots.

¹ And Elijah the Tishbite, which was of the inhabiters of Gilead, said unto Ahab, "As truly as the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, save as I appoint it."

¹⁹ O that they, for the wickedness which they have done, were drawn to the hell, sooner than snow melteth at the heat.

⁷ The sons of Cush: were Seva, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah were: Sheba, and Dedan.

³ And Jockshan begat Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim and Leummim.

¹⁵ Hadar, Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah.

¹ And the queen of Sheba heard of the wisdom of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, and came to prove him with riddles.

¹⁰ The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall give presents; the kings of Sheba and Seba shall bring gifts.

¹⁴ Meet the thirsty with water, O ye citizens of Tema; meet those with bread that are fled.

²³ Dedan, Tema, Buz and the shaven Ishmaelites;

²² The merchants of Sheba and Raamah have occupied also with thee, in all costly spices, in all precious stones and gold, which they brought unto thy markets. ²³ Haran, Cannah, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Assyria, and Chilmad, were all doers with thee

³ The lords shall send their servants to fetch water, and when they come to the wells, they shall find no water, but shall carry their vessels home empty. They shall be ashamed and confounded, and shall cover their heads. ⁴ For the ground shall be dried up, because there cometh no rain upon it. The plowmen also shall be ashamed, and shall cover their heads.

¹³ Thou art the comfort of Israel. All that forsake thee, shall be ashamed. And they that depart from thee shall be written in the earth. For they have lost the LORD that is the fountain of the water of life.

⁵ and hope maketh not ashamed: for the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts, by the holy ghost, which is given unto us.

³³ As it is written, "Behold I put in Zion a stumbling stone, and a rock which shall make men fall. And none that believe on him, shall be ashamed."

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. ¹² So when they lift up their eyes afar off, they knew him not. Then they cried, and wept: then every one of them rent his clothes, and sprinkled dust upon their heads in the air. ¹³ They sat them down by him also upon the ground seven days and seven nights. Neither was there any of them that spake one word unto him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

¹⁵ Mine own brethren pass over by me, as the water brook that hastily runneth through the valleys.

⁴ As for you, ye are workmasters of lies, and unprofitable physicians altogether.

⁹ As for men they are but vanity; the children of men are deceitful. Upon the weights they are altogether lighter than vanity itself.

⁷ As for the poor, he is hated among all his brethren; yea, his own friends forsake him, and he that giveth credence unto words, getteth nothing.

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

⁵ Thus sayeth the LORD, "Cursed be the man that putteth his trust in man, and that taketh flesh for his arm: and he, whose heart departeth from the LORD. ⁶ He shall be like the heath that groweth in the wilderness. As for the good thing that is for to come, he shall not see it: but dwell in a dry place of the wilderness, in a salt and unoccupied land."

⁹ 'We would have made Babylon whole,' say they, 'but she is not recovered. Therefore will we let her alone, and go every man into his own country. For her judgment is come in to heaven, and is gone up to the clouds.'

³¹ Then said Jesus unto them, "All ye shall be offended by me this night. For it is written, 'I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.'

⁵⁶ All this was done that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples forsook him and fled.

¹⁶ At my first answering for myself, no man assisted me, but all forsook me. I pray God, that it may not be laid to their charges:

⁹ And the kings of the earth shall beweep her and wail over her, which have committed fornication with her, and have lived wantonly with her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, ¹⁰ and shall stand afar off, for fear of her punishment, saying, 'Alas, Alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city: For at one hour is her judgment come.'

¹⁷ for at one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every ship governor, and all they that occupied ships, and shipmen which work in the sea, stood afar off; ¹⁸ and cried, when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, "What city is like unto this great city?'

³ Behold, here I am. Answer me before the LORD and before his anointed, whose ox have I taken? Or whose ass have I taken? Whom have I done wrong to? Or whom have I oppressed? And of whose hand have I received any bribe, to blind mine eyes therewith? And I will restore it you again."

¹¹ And then came there unto him all his brethren, all his sisters, with all them that had been of his acquaintance afore, and ate bread with him in his house: wondering at him, and comforting him over all the trouble that the LORD had brought upon him. Every man gave him a sheep and a Jewel of gold.

³³ I have desired no man's silver, gold, or vesture.

⁴⁸ after that he is sold he may be redeemed again: one of his brethren may buy him out;

⁸ and said unto them, "We, after our ability, have bought our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the Heathen. And will ye sell your brethren, whom we have bought unto us?" Then held they their peace, and could find nothing to answer.

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

⁷ But no man may deliver his brother, nor make agreement unto God for him, ⁸ for it costeth more to redeem their souls, so that he must let that alone forever.

¹⁵ But God shall deliver my soul from the power of hell, when he receiveth me. Selah.

² Let them give thanks whom the LORD hath redeemed, and delivered from the hand of the enemy,

²¹ And I will rid thee out of the hands of the wicked, and deliver thee out of the hand of Tyrants."

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 and will say unto God: O do not condemn me; but show me the cause, wherefore thou contendest so with me.

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;

¹⁵ For they where so abashed that they could not make answer, nor speak one word. ¹⁶ "But insomuch as ye will not speak, standing still like dumb men, and making no answer:

¹ Therefore hear my words, O Job, and hearken unto all that I will say:

³¹ Mark well, O Job, and hear me: hold thee still until I have spoken. ³² But if thou hast anything to say, then answer me, and speak, for thy answer pleaseth me. ³³ If thou hast nothing, then hear me, and hold thy tongue, so shall I teach thee wisdom."

³² If I have gone amiss, inform me: if I have done wrong, I will leave off.

¹² Who can tell how oft he offendeth? O cleanse thou me from my secret faults.

⁸ I will inform thee, and teach thee in the way wherein thou shalt go; and I will guide thee with mine eye.

¹ {To the Chanter, for praising, a Psalm of David} I said, "I will take heed to my ways, that I offend not in my tongue. I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle, while the ungodly is in my sight." ² I held my tongue; I was dumb. I kept silence, yea even from good words, but it was pain and grief to me.

⁹ Give a discrete man but an occasion, and he will be the wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase.

¹² The correction of the wise is, to an obedient ear, a golden chain and a Jewel of gold.

¹⁹ Wherefore, dear brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.

² For in many things we sin all. If a man sin not in word, the same is a perfect man and able to tame all the body.

⁴ Thy words have set up those that were fallen, thou hast refreshed the weak knees.

⁵ Would God ye kept your tongue, that ye might be taken for wise men!

³ Shall not thy vain words come yet to an end? Or, hast thou yet any more to say? ⁴ I could speak as ye do also. But would God, that your soul were in my soul's stead: then should I heap up words against you, and shake my head at you. ⁵ I should comfort you with my mouth, and release your pain with the talking of my lips.

³⁴ How vain, then, is the comfort that ye give me? Are not your answers clean contrary to right and truth?"

²⁵ Is it not so? Who will then reprove me as a liar, and say that my words are nothing worth?"

³ And with Job's three friends he was angry also, because they had found no reasonable answer to overcome him.

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

²¹ Whoso hath a wise understanding is called to counsel; but he that can speak fair, getteth more riches. ²² Understanding is a well of life unto him that hath it; as for the chastening of fools, it is but foolishness. 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.

²¹ Death and life stand in the power of the tongue; he that loveth it, shall enjoy the fruit thereof.

¹¹ A word spoken in due season, is like apples of gold in a silver dish.

¹⁰ His diligence was to find out acceptable words, right scripture, and the words of truth. ¹¹ For the words of the wise are like pricks and nails that go through, wherewith men are kept together: for they are given of one shepherd only.

¹⁰ But Job said unto her, "Thou speakest like a foolish woman. Seeing we have received prosperity at the hand of God, wherefore should we not be content with adversity also?" In all these things, did not Job sin with his lips.

³ and the night in the which it was said, 'There is a man child conceived.' ⁴ The same day be turned to darkness, and not regarded of God from above, neither let the light shine upon it: ⁵ but let it be stained with darkness, and the shadow of death. Let the dim cloud fall upon it, and let it be lapped in with sorrow. ⁶ Let the dark storm overcome that night; let it not be reckoned among the days of the year, nor counted in the months. ⁷ Despised be that night, and discommended: let them that curse the day, ⁸ give it their curse also, even those that be ready to raise vp Leviathan. ⁹ Let the stars of that night be dim through darkness of it. Let it look for light, but let it see none, neither the raising up of the fair morning: ¹⁰ because it shut not up the womb that bare me. For then should these sorrows have been hid from mine eyes. ¹¹ "Alas, why died I not in the birth? Why did not I perish, as soon as I came out of my mother's womb? ¹² Why set they me upon their knees? Why gave they me suck with their breasts? ¹³ Then should I now have lain still; I should have slept, and been at rest, ¹⁴ like as the kings and lords of the earth, which build themselves special places: ¹⁵ As the princes that have great substance of gold, and their houses full of silver. ¹⁶ O that I utterly had no being, or were as a thing born out of time that is put aside, either as young children, which never saw the light. ¹⁷ There, must the wicked cease from their tyranny, there such as are overlaboured be at rest. ¹⁸ There, are those let out free which have been in prison, so that they hear no more the voice of the oppressor. ¹⁹ There, are small and great; the bondman, and he that is free from his master. ²⁰ "Wherefore is the light given to him that is in misery? And life unto them that have heavy hearts? ²¹ Which long for death, if it come not; ²² and search for it more than for treasure. Which also would be exceedingly glad, and rejoice if they found their grave. ²³ That should be joy to the man whose way is hid, which God keepeth back from him. ²⁴ For my sighs come before I eat, and my roarings fall out like flowing water. ²⁵ For the thing that I feared is come upon me: and the thing that I was afraid of, is happened unto me. ²⁶ Was I not happy? Had I not quietness? Was I not in rest? And now cometh such misery upon me!"

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.

⁴ For the arrows of the almighty are in me, whose indignation hath drunk up my spirit, and the terrible fears of God fight against me.

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

² "How long wilt thou talk of such things? How long shall thy mouth speak so proud words?

¹ It grieveth my soul to live. Nevertheless, now will I put forth my words: I will speak out of the very heaviness of my soul,

³ For like as the mouth tasteth the meats, so the ear proveth and discerneth the words. ⁴ As for the judgment, let us seek it out among ourselves, that we may know what is right. ⁵ And why? Job hath said, 'I am righteous, but God doth me wrong.' ⁶ I must needs be a liar, though my cause be right, and violently am I plagued whereas I made no fault.' ⁷ Where is there such one as Job, that drinketh up scornfulness like water? ⁸ Which goeth in company of wicked doers, and walketh with ungodly men? ⁹ For he sayeth, 'Though a man be good, yet is he naught before God.'

² "What is he that hideth his mind with foolish words?

⁵ Once or twice have I spoken, but I will say no more."

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

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.

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

¹ Ephraim keepeth the air, and followeth after the east wind: he is ever increasing lies and destruction. They be confederate with the Assyrians, their oil is carried into Egypt.

³⁷ For by thy words thou shalt be justified: and by thy words thou shalt be condemned."

¹⁴ That we henceforth be no more children, wavering and carried with every wind of doctrine, by the wiliness of men and craftiness, whereby they lay a wait for us to deceive us.

²² Ye shall trouble no widow nor fatherless child: ²³ If ye shall trouble them, they shall cry unto me, and I will surely hear their cry; ²⁴ and then will my wrath wax hot and I will kill you with sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.

⁹ Thou hast sent widows away empty and oppressed the poor fatherless.

³ that drive away the ass of the fatherless; that take the widow's ox for a pledge;

⁹ They spoil the sucking fatherless children, and put the poor in prison,

¹² "For I delivered the poor when he cried, and the fatherless that wanted help.

¹⁷ Have I eaten my portion alone, that the fatherless hath had no part with me?

²¹ Did I ever lift up my hand to hurt the fatherless; yea, in the gates where I saw myself to be in authority?

¹⁵ He hath graven and dug up a pit, and is fallen himself into the destruction that he made for others.

⁶ They have laid a net for my feet, and pressed down my soul: they have digged a pit before me, and are fallen into it themselves. Selah.

³ Defend the poor and fatherless, see that such as be in need and necessity have right.

¹⁰ Remove not the old landmark, and come not within the field of the fatherless. ¹¹ For he that delivereth them is mighty, even he shall defend their cause against thee.

²⁰ Do they not recompense evil for good, when they dig a pit for my soul? Remember, how that I stood before thee, to speak for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.

²² Let the noise be heard out of their houses, when the murderer cometh suddenly upon them: For they have digged a pit to take me, and laid snares for my feet.

⁷ In thee have they despised father and mother, in thee have they oppressed the stranger, in thee have they vexed the widow and the fatherless.

³ Yea, they have cast lots for my people, the young men have they set in the brothel house, and sold the damsels for wine, that they might have to drink.

¹⁰ yet was she driven away, and brought into captivity: her young children were smitten down at the head of every street, the lots were cast for the most ancient men in her, and all her mighty men were bound in chains.

⁵ I will come and punish you, and I myself will be a swift witness against the witches, against the adulterers, against false swearers: yea, and against those that wrongfully keep back the hireling's duty, which vex the widows and the fatherless, and oppress the stranger, and fear not me, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

²⁷ Pure devotion, and undefiled before God the father, is this: To visit the friendless, and widows in their adversity, and to keep himself unspotted of the world.

³ and through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you, whose judgment is not far off, and their damnation sleepeth not.

³ Should men give ear unto thee only? Thou wilt laugh other men to scorn; and shall nobody mock thee again?

⁴ while my breath is in me, and as long as the wind that God hath given me is in my nostrils.

³ My heart shall order my words aright, and my lips shall talk of pure wisdom.

⁴ True are my words, and no lie: and the knowledge wherewithal I argue against thee, is perfect.

¹⁰ "As for you, turn you, and get you hence, I pray you - seeing I cannot see one wise man among you.

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

⁴ while my breath is in me, and as long as the wind that God hath given me is in my nostrils. 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.

⁵ And why? Job hath said, 'I am righteous, but God doth me wrong.'

⁶ Wherefore I give mine own self the blame, and take repentance in the dust and ashes."

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

⁶ That which is unsavory, shalt it be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

⁸ "Now hast thou spoken in mine ears, and I have heard the voice of thy words: ⁹ 'I am clean without any fault, I am innocent, and there is no wickedness in me. ¹⁰ But lo, he hath picked a quarrel against me, and taketh me for his enemy: ¹¹ He hath put my foot in the stocks, and looketh narrowly unto all my paths.' ¹² "Behold, unto these unreasonable words of thine will I make answer. Should God be reproved of man?

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. ⁴ O hearken thou unto me also, and let me speak: answer me unto the thing that I will ask thee. ⁵ I have given diligent ear unto thee, and now I see thee with mine eyes. ⁶ Wherefore I give mine own self the blame, and take repentance in the dust and ashes."

¹⁴ But strong meat belongeth to them that are perfect, which through custom have their wits exercised, to judge both good and evil also.