Job 25 Cross References - NSB

¹ BILDAD THE SHUHITE REPLIED: ² »Rulership and awe belong to God. He establishes order in the heights of heaven. ³ »Can his forces be numbered? Upon whom does his light not rise? ⁴ »How then can a man be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure? ⁵ »If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his eyes, ⁶ »How much less man, who is but a maggot and a worm!«

¹¹ »You are great and powerful, glorious, splendid, and majestic. Everything in heaven and earth is yours, and you, O Jehovah, are king, supreme ruler over all. ¹² »All riches and wealth come from you. You rule everything by your strength and power. You are able to make anyone great and strong.

² »Truly I know it is so, but how can a man be righteous before God? ³ »If one wished to argue with God, he could not answer or respond to him once in a thousand times. ⁴ »God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered? ⁵ »He removes the mountains, and they do not know when he overturns them in his anger! ⁶ »He shakes the earth out of its place and its pillars tremble. ⁷ »He commands the sun and it does not rise! He seals off the stars. ⁸ »He alone spreads out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea. ⁹ »He made the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades and the chambers of the south. ¹⁰ »He does great things beyond our understanding, yes, marvelous wonders without number.

⁵ »The shades of the dead tremble underneath the waters and their inhabitants. ⁶ »The grave is naked before God, and destruction has no covering. ⁷ »He stretches out the northern sky over empty space, and hangs the earth upon nothing. ⁸ »He wraps up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not burst by them. ⁹ »He covers the face of the full moon, and spreads his cloud over it. ¹⁰ »He has described a circle on the face of the waters, at the boundary between light and darkness. ¹¹ »The pillars of heaven tremble, and are astounded at his rebuke. ¹² »He stills the sea with his power. He struck down Rahab with his understanding. ¹³ »By his wind the heavens were made fair. His hand pierced the fleeing serpent. ¹⁴ »These are indeed but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear from him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?

⁹ »Do you have an arm (power) like God’s? Can your voice thunder like his? ¹⁰ »Then adorn yourself with glory and splendor. Clothe yourself in honor and majesty. ¹¹ »Unleash the fury of your wrath, look at every proud man and bring him low! ¹² »Look at every proud man and humble him, crush the wicked where they stand. ¹³ »Bury them all in the dust together and shroud their faces in the grave. ¹⁴ »I will admit to you then that your own right hand can save you.

¹ Jehovah reigns! Let the peoples tremble. He is enthroned above the cherubim. Let the earth shake! ² Jehovah is great in Zion! He is exalted above all the peoples. ³ Let them praise your great and awesome name! He is holy.

¹⁵ The High and Lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is holy, says: ‘I dwell in the high and holy and also with him who has a contrite and humble spirit. I revive the spirit of the humble, and the heart of the contrite ones.’

¹⁹ I create the fruit (praise) of the lips: Peace, peace to the near and the far off, says Jehovah, and I will heal him.

⁶ There is none like you, O Jehovah. You are great and your name is powerful. ⁷ Who would not respect you, O King of the nations? It is your right! There is none like you among all the wise men of the nations.

³⁴ »At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven and my understanding returned to me. I blessed the Most High and I praised and honored the one who lives forever. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation. ³⁵ All the inhabitants of the earth are considered as nothing. He does according to his will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of earth. None can stop him, or say to him: ‘What do you do?’ ³⁶ »My understanding returned to me at that time. The glory of my kingdom, my majesty and brightness returned to me. My counselors and my lords came to me. I was established in my kingdom with excellent greatness. ³⁷ »Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, extol and honor the King of heaven. All his works are truth, and his ways justice. He is able to abase (humble) (subdue) those who walk in pride.«

⁹ »Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the children of God.

¹³ »‘And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil (the wicked one).’ (Psalm 82:4) (Psalm 97:10) (Matthew 13:19) (John 17:15) (1 John 5:19)

¹⁸ Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying: »All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

¹⁸ All things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Christ. He gave the ministry of reconciliation to us. ¹⁹ God was reconciling the world to himself through Christ. He was not imputing their trespasses against them, for he had committed the word of reconciliation to us. ²⁰ We are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making entreaty through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ that you be reconciled to God. ²¹ He made the one who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf. That way we might become the righteousness of God in him.

²⁰ He operated in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places. ²¹ It is far above all governments and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.

¹⁶ So he reconciled them both in one body to God through the stake. He put to death the enmity (antagonism) (hostility). ¹⁷ He came and preached peace to you who were far off, and peace to those who were near.

²⁰ And all things are reconciled through him. He made peace through the blood of his atonement (of the stake). He reconciles all things, whether things upon the earth, or things in heaven.

²⁵ To the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord. There is glory, majesty, dominion, and power, before all time, now, and for evermore, amen.

¹⁶ They said to the mountains and rocks: »Fall on us, and hide us from the presence of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

³ Then God said: »Let there be light!« And there was light. ⁴ God saw that the light was good. God separated the light from the darkness. ⁵ God called the light day. He called the darkness night. There was evening and there was morning, one day.

¹⁴ Then God said: »Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. Let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years. ¹⁵ »Let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth.« It was so. ¹⁶ God made the two great lights. The sun was to govern the day. The moon was to govern the night. He made the stars also.

¹² »Have you ever commanded the morning, or shown the dawn its place? ¹³ »It might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it?

⁴ Yet, their measuring line (rule) has gone out into the entire world, their message to the ends of the earth. He has set up a tent in the heavens for the sun. ⁵ It comes out of its chamber like a bridegroom. Like a champion, it is eager to run its course. ⁶ It rises from one end of the heavens. It circles around to the other. Nothing is hidden from its heat.

²⁰ Bless Jehovah you angels of his, you who excel in strength, who obey his command, and listen to the voice of his Word. ²¹ Bless Jehovah all his hosts. Bless Jehovah you ministers of his who do his will.

² Praise him, all his angels. Praise him, his entire heavenly army. ³ Praise him, sun and moon. Praise him, all shining stars. ⁴ Praise him, you highest heaven and the water above the sky.

²⁶ »Lift your eyes and look to the heavens. Who created all these? The being that brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them each by name created all these! Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

¹⁰ »A fiery stream issued from before him. Thousands of thousands ministered to him. Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The judgment was set and the books were opened.

⁴⁵ »You will then act as true children of your Father in heaven. He gives sunlight to both evil and good people. He sends rain for the just and the unjust.

⁵³ »Do you think I cannot ask my Father for help? He would send me more than twelve legions of angels.

⁴ He lived and his life gives light to all people.

⁹ The true light, which gives light to every man, came into the world. (Isaiah 49:6)

¹⁷ Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above. It comes down from the Father of lights (truth and spiritual purity), with whom there is no variation. He does not change like shifting shadows.

¹¹ I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders. The number of them was ten thousand (myriads) times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands.

¹⁷ »Can any mortal be righteous to God? Can any human being be pure to his maker? ¹⁸ »You see God does not trust his own servants. He accuses his angels of making mistakes. ¹⁹ »How much more will he accuse those who live in clay houses that have their foundation in the dust? Those houses can be crushed quicker than a moth!

² »Truly I know it is so, but how can a man be righteous before God?

³ »Do you look on such a person? Will you bring him before you for judgment? ⁴ »Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!

¹⁴ »What is man, that he could be pure? Or he who is born of woman, that he could be righteous? ¹⁵ »If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes, ¹⁶ how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks up evil like water!

⁵ Indeed, I was born in perversity (mischief) (evil). I was a sinner when my mother conceived me.

³ If You, Jehovah, should record our sins, O Jehovah, who could stand?

² Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

¹ »A fountain for sin and for uncleanness will be opened for the house of David.«

¹⁹ We know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those under the law. Every mouth may be stopped and the entire world may become liable to God for punishment. ²⁰ No flesh will be justified before God by works of the law. Knowledge of sin comes from the law.

¹ We are justified (acquitted) (made righteous) by faith. And we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹¹ That is what some of you were. You have been washed clean and now you are sanctified. The Spirit of our God declares you righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus.

³ We all once lived in the lust of our flesh, indulging the desires (lusts) of the flesh and of the mind. We were by nature children of anger and violent passion, like everyone else.

⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

⁵ And from Jesus Christ, who is the Faithful Witness, and the firstborn from the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and released us from our sins by his blood.

¹⁵ »If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,

²⁶ if I have looked at the sun when it shone, or the moon moving in splendor,

²³ Then the moon will be abashed and the sun ashamed, For Jehovah of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, And his glory will be before his elders.

¹⁹ »The sun will no longer be your light during the day. The brightness of the moon will not give you light, for Jehovah will be your everlasting light. Your God will be your glory. ²⁰ »Your sun will no longer go down, nor will your moon disappear. Jehovah will be your everlasting light, and your days of sadness will be over.

¹⁰ Even what was glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the greater glory.

²⁷ Then Abraham answered and said: »Indeed now, I who am only dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to Jehovah:

¹⁹ »How much more will he accuse those who live in clay houses that have their foundation in the dust? Those houses can be crushed quicker than a moth!

¹⁷ »What is man that you should magnify him and set your mind on him?

⁶ Yet, I am a worm and not a man. I am scorned by humanity and despised by people.

¹⁴ »Do not be afraid, O worm Jacob, O little Israel, for I will help you. This is the declaration of Jehovah, your Redeemer, and the Holy One of Israel.