Job 18 Cross References - Rotherham

¹ Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said:–– ² How long will ye make a perversion of words? Ye should understand, and, afterwards, we could speak. ³ Wherefore are we accounted like beasts? or appear stupid, in thine eyes? ⁴ One tearing in pieces his own soul in his anger,––For thy sake, shall the earth be forsaken? or the rock be moved out of its place?
⁵ Even the light of the lawless, shall go out,––Neither shall shine the flame of his fire; ⁶ The light, hath darkened in his tent, Yea, his lamp above him, goeth out; ⁷ The steppings of his strength are hemmed in, and his own counsel casteth him down; ⁸ For he is thrust into a net by his own feet, and, upon a trap, he marcheth; ⁹ There catcheth him––by the heel––a gin, there holdeth him fast––a noose: ¹⁰ Concealed in the ground is a cord for him,––and a snare for him, on the path.
¹¹ Round about, terrors have startled him, and have driven him to his feet. ¹² Let his strength be famished, and, calamity, be ready at his side; ¹³ Let it devour the members of his body, Let the firstborn of death devour his members; ¹⁴ Uprooted, out of his tent, be his confidence, and let it drive him down to the king of terrors; ¹⁵ There shall dwell in his tent, what is naught–of–his, Let brimstone be strewed over his dwelling; ¹⁶ Beneath, let his roots be dried up, and, above, be cut off his branch; ¹⁷ His memorial, have perished out of the land, and let him have no name over the face of the open field; ¹⁸ Let them thrust him out of light into darkness, Yea, out of the world, let them chase him; ¹⁹ Let him have neither scion nor seed among his people, neither any survivor in his place of sojourn: ²⁰ Over his day, have they been astounded who come behind, and, them who are in advance, a shudder hath seized. ²¹ Surely, these, are the dwellings of him that is perverse, and, this, is the place of him that knoweth not GOD.

¹¹ Now when the three friends of Job heard of all this misfortune which had befallen him,––they came, every man from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite,––for they had by appointment met together to come to shew sympathy with him, and to comfort him.

¹ Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said:––

¹ Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said:––

⁷ And it came to pass, after Yahweh had spoken these words unto Job, that Yahweh, said unto Eliphaz the Temanite, Kindled is mine anger against thee and against thy two friends, for ye have not spoken concerning me the thing that is right, like my servant Job. ⁸ Now, therefore, take unto you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go unto my servant Job, and ye shall offer up an ascending–sacrifice in your own behalf, and, Job my servant, shall pray over you,––for, him, will I accept, that I may not deal out to you disgrace, because ye have not spoken concerning me the thing that is right, like my servant Job. ⁹ So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite [and] Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according to that which Yahweh had spoken unto them,––and Yahweh accepted Job.

⁵ Let darkness and death–shade buy it back, May there settle down upon it a cloud, Let a day’s dark eclipse cause it terror: ⁶ That night, darkness take it,––May it not rejoice among the days of the year, Into the number of months, let it not enter.

¹⁷ There, the lawless, cease from raging, and there the toil–worn are at rest:

² How long wilt thou speak these things? Or, as a mighty wind, shall be the sayings of thy mouth?

² Should, the multitude of words, not be answered? Or should, a man full of talk, be justified?

⁵ Oh that ye would, altogether hold your peace, and it should serve you for wisdom! ⁶ Hear, I pray you, the argument of my mouth, and, to the pleadings of my lips, give heed:––

² I have heard many such things, Wearisome comforters, are ye all! ³ Is there to be an end to windy words? Or what so strongly exciteth thee, that thou must respond?

² Hear ye patiently my words, and let this be your consolation:

¹ But, in very deed, hear, I pray thee, Job, my discourse, and, to all my words, give thou ear.

¹³ He that answereth before he heareth, a folly, it is to him, and, a reproach.

¹⁹ Ye know, my brethren beloved,––but let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

⁷ But, in very deed, ask, I pray thee, the beasts, and they will teach thee, and the bird of the heavens, and it will tell thee; ⁸ Or address the earth, and it will teach thee, and the fishes of the sea, will recount it to thee:

⁴ For, their heart, hast thou kept back from understanding, On this account, thou wilt not exalt them.

¹⁰ But indeed, as for them all, will ye bethink yourselves and enter into it, I pray you? Or shall I not find, among you, one who is wise?

²² But, I, was brutish, and could not perceive, Like the beasts, had I become before thee.

¹⁸ Said, I, in my heart, as concerning the sons of men, That God was minded to prove them,––and that they might see, that they were beasts, of themselves.

¹⁰ In your brotherly love, unto one another, being tenderly affectioned, in honour, unto one another, giving preference;

² For, to the foolish man, death is caused by vexation, and, the simple one, is slain by jealousy.

¹⁴ In any case, I will take up my flesh in my teeth, and, my life, will I put in my hand:

¹⁸ But, in very deed, a mountain falling, will lie prostrate, or, a rock moved out of its place:

⁹ His anger, hath torn and persecuted me, He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth, Mine adversary, hath sharpened his eyes for me.

⁸ Wilt thou even frustrate my justice? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest appear right?

¹⁰ For, the mountains, may move away, And, the hills, may be shaken,––But, my lovingkindness, from thee, shall not move away, And, my covenant of peace, shall not be shaken, Saith he who hath compassion upon thee––Yahweh.

⁹ And he said unto me, the iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah, is, exceeding, great, and the land is filled, with shed blood, and, the city, is full of over–reaching,––for they have said, Yahweh hath forsaken, the land,––and, Yahweh doth not, see.

⁹ Then said God unto Jonah, Art thou rightly angry over the gourd? And he said, I am rightly angry, unto death.

³⁵ The heaven and the earth, shall pass away, but, my words, shall, in nowise, pass away.

¹⁸ and, wheresoever it seizeth him, it teareth him, and he foameth, and grindeth his teeth, and weareth himself out; ––and I spake to thy disciples, that they should cast it out, and they could not.

³⁹ And lo! a spirit, taketh him, and, suddenly, he crieth out,––and it convulseth him––with foaming, and with difficulty departeth from him, sorely bruising him.

⁵ That, the joy–shout of the lawless, is short, and, the rejoicing of the impious, for a moment?

¹⁷ How oft, the lamp of the lawless, goeth out, and their calamity, cometh upon them, Sorrows, apportioneth he in his anger;

¹⁹ The way of the lawless, is like darkness, they know not, at what they stumble.

⁹ The light of the righteous, rejoiceth, but, the lamp of the lawless, goeth out.

²⁰ Whoso revileth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.

²⁰ For there shall be no future for the wicked, The lamp of the lawless, shall go out.

¹¹ Lo! all ye that kindle a fire, That gird yourselves with fiery darts,––Walk ye in the blaze of your own fire, And in the fiery darts ye have kindled, At my hand, hath this befallen you, In sorrow, shall ye lie down.

²⁸ For, thou, didst light up my lamp, Yahweh my God, enlightened my darkness;

²³ And light of lamp,––in nowise shine in thee any more; and voice of bridegroom and bride,––in nowise be heard in thee any more; because, thy merchants, were the great ones of the earth, because, with thy sorcery, were all the nations deceived:

³¹ And, unto David, it was told, saying, Ahithophel, is among the conspirators with Absolom. And David said, Turn to foolishness, I pray thee, the counsel of Ahithophel, O Yahweh.

¹⁴ Then said Absolom and all the men of Israel, Better, is the counsel of Hushai the Archite, than the counsel of Ahithophel. Yahweh, indeed, had given charge to frustrate the wise counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring upon Absolom, ruin.

¹² Who doth frustrate the schemes of the crafty, that their hands cannot achieve abiding success; ¹³ Who captureth the wise in their own craftiness, yea the headlong counsel of the crooked:

⁶ Thine own mouth shall condemn thee, and, not I, And, thine own lips, shall testify against thee.

²² When his abundance is gone, he shall be in straits, All the power of distress, shall come upon him.

¹⁶ Yea he might even have allured thee––out of the mouth of straitness, [into] a wide space––no narrowness there,––and, the food set down on thy table, should have been full of fatness.

³⁶ Thou didst widen my stepping–places under me, so that, mine ankles, faltered not.

¹⁰ Yahweh, hath frustrated the counsel of nations, hath brought to nothing the devices of peoples.

³⁰ Consented not to my counsel, disdained all my rebuke, ³¹ Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and, with their own counsels, be filled. ³² For, the turning away of the simple, will slay them,––and, the carelessness of dullards, will destroy them.

¹² When thou walkest, thy step shall not be hemmed in, and, if thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

⁶ Itself also, to Assyria, shall be borne along, as a present to a hostile king,––shame, shall Ephraim receive, that Israel, may be ashamed, of his own counsel.

¹⁹ For, the wisdom of this world, is, foolishness with God; for it is written––He that taketh the wise in their knavery,––

⁹ If, unto the king, it seem good, let it be written, to destroy them,––and, ten thousand talents of silver, will I weigh out upon the hands of them who are doing the business, to bring [it] into the treasuries of the king.

¹³ And Haman recounted unto Zeresh his wife, and unto all his friends, everything that had befallen him. Then said his wise men, and Zeresh his wife, unto him, If, of the seed of the Jews, is Mordecai before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt, utterly fall, before him.

⁵ Then spake King Ahasuerus, and said unto Esther the queen,––Who is he now, and where is he, whose heart is set to act thus?

¹⁰ So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai,––and, the wrath of the king, was appeased.

¹⁰ For this cause, round about thee, are snares, and a dread startleth thee suddenly;

¹⁵ The nations, have sunk, in the pit they had made, In the net which they had hidden, is caught their own foot.

⁸ There shall reach him a ruin he could not know,––Yea, his own net which he hath hidden, shall capture him, Into that ruin, shall he fall!

²² His own iniquities, shall entrap him with the lawless, and, by the cords of his own sin, shall he be seized.

⁶ In the transgression of a wicked man, is a snare, but, the righteous, doth shout in triumph and rejoice.

³ Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Therefore will I spread over thee my net, With a gathered host of many peoples,––And they shall bring thee up in my net;

⁷ It is needful, moreover, to have, an honourable testimony also, from them who are without, lest, into reproach, he fall, and the snare of the adversary.

⁹ But, they who are determined to be rich, fall into temptation, and a snare, and many foolish and hurtful covetings, the which, sink men into ruin and destruction,––

²⁶ And they should wake up to sobriety out of, the adversary’s, snare,––though they have been taken alive by him for, that one’s, will.

¹⁵ when the Sabeans swooped down, and took them, and, the young men, smote they with the edge of the sword,––and escaped am, only I alone, too tell thee.

¹⁷ Yet was this one speaking, when, another, came in and said, The Chaldeans, appointed three chiefs, and spread out against the camels, and took them, and, the young men, smote they with the edge of the sword; and escaped am, only I alone, to tell thee.

⁵ Whose harvest, the hungry, eateth up, and, even out of thorn hedges, he taketh it, and the snare gapeth for their substance.

¹⁴ So shall he become a hallowed asylum,––But a stone to strike against, and a rock to stumble over, unto both houses of Israel, A trap and a snare to the dweller in Jerusalem; ¹⁵ And many, shall stumble among them,––and fall and be torn, and snared, and captured.

⁶ He will rain upon the lawless live–coals, Fire and brimstone and a burning wind, are the portion of their cup.

¹³ Then will I spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare; And I will take him to Babylon, in the land of the Chaldeans, The which, indeed, he shall not see. And yet, there, shall he die!

⁹ And, David, saith––Let their table be turned into a snare, and into gin, and into a trap, and into a recompense unto them,

³⁶ And, as for such as are left of you, Then will I bring faintness into their heart, in the lands of their foes,––So that the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them, And they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword, And they shall fall, when no one is pursuing;

⁶ Now, the Lord, had caused the camp of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, noise of horses, a noise of a great host,––and they said one to another––Lo! the king of Israel hath hired against us––the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come against us. ⁷ So they arose, and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses,––the camp, just as it was,––and fled for their lives.

⁴ For, the arrows of the Almighty, are in me, The heat whereof, my spirit is drinking up, The, terrors of GOD, array themselves against me.

²¹ A noise of dreadful things, is in his ears, In prosperity, the destroyer cometh upon him;

⁸ Like a dream, shall he fly away, and they shall not find him, yea he shall be chased away, as a vision of the night.

²⁵ He hath drawn it out, and it hath come forth out of his back,––yea the flashing arrow–head, out of his gall, There shall march on him––terrors:

⁵ There have they been in great dread where no dread was, Because, God, hath scattered the bones of thy besieger,––Thou hast put [him] to shame, Because, God, had, rejected, them.

¹⁹ How have they become desolate, as in a moment! They have ceased––come to an end, by reason of calamities.

¹ The lawless, fleeth when no man pursueth, but, the righteous, like a lion, are confident.

²⁵ Do not go out into the field, And, in the road, do not walk,––Because, a sword, hath the foe,––Terror round about!

³ And it came to pass, on the morrow, when Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah, out of the stocks,––that Jeremiah said unto him––Not Pashhur, hath Yahweh called thy name, But Magor–missaviv[=" Terror–round–about"]. ⁴ For, Thus, saith Yahweh––Behold me! making thee a [magor, i. e. a] terror to thyself and to all who love thee, and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, thine own eyes also, beholding. And, all Judah, will I deliver into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will carry them captive to Babylon, and smite them with the sword.

⁵ Why, have I seen it? They, panic–struck, are drawing back, Yea, their heroes, are crushed, Yea they have, fled, and not turned,––Terror round about! Declareth Yahweh.

²⁹ Their tents and their flocks, shall they take, And, their curtains, and all their baggage, and their camels, shall they carry off for themselves,––And shall cry out unto them, Terror round about!

¹¹ Knowing, then, the fear of the Lord, we persuade, men, but, unto God, are manifest,––I hope, moreover, even in your consciences, that we are manifest:

¹⁵ And, the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rulers of thousands, and the rich, and the mighty, and every bondman and freeman, hid themselves within the caves and within the rocks of the mountains; ¹⁶ and they say, unto the mountains and unto the rocks––Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne, and from the anger of the Lamb;

⁵ The sated, have, for bread, taken hire, But, the famished, have left off their toil,––So that, the barren, hath given birth unto seven, While, she that hath many sons, languisheth:

³⁶ And it shall be, that, any that is left in thy house, shall come bowing down to him for a small coin of silver, and for a cake of bread, and shall say: Appoint me, I pray thee, to one of the priestly offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.

²³ A wanderer, he, for bread, [saying] Where [is it]? He knoweth that, prepared by his own hand, is the day of darkness; ²⁴ Distress and anguish shall startle him, It shall overpower him, like a king ready for the onset:

¹² If he turn not, his sword, will he whet,––his bow, hath he bent, and made ready: ¹³ But, for himself, hath he made ready the weapons so deadly, His arrows, he, so fiery, would make: ¹⁴ Lo! he gendereth trouble, and conceiveth mischief, but giveth birth to a disappointment:

¹⁰ Young lions, have come short, and suffered hunger, but, they who seek Yahweh, shall not lack any good thing.

¹⁰ Let his children, wander about, and beg, Let them be driven out of their ruins;

²¹ Therefore shall they pass through it, hard pressed and hungry,––And it shall be, when they hunger, then will they rage and revile their king and their god, and turn their faces upwards;

³ As soon as they begin to say––Peace! and safety! then, suddenly, upon them, cometh destruction,––just as the birth–throe unto her that is with child,––and in nowise shall they escape.

³ And, in greed, with forged words, will they, of you, make merchandise: for whom, the sentence from of old, is not idle, and, their destruction, doth not slumber.

³ Reuben, my first–born, thou, My vigour, and the firstfruit of my strength,––Preeminence of elevation, and preeminence of power:

¹⁶ With me to hades, would they go down, If, wholly––into the dust, is the descent!

³⁰ Then shall feed, the firstborn of the poor, And, the needy, in confidence, lie down,––And I will kill with famine thy root, And, thy residue, shall be slain.

⁶ To the roots of the mountains, went I down, As for the earth, her bars, were about me, age–abidingly,––Then didst thou bring up––out of the pit––my life, O Yahweh my God.

¹² And, this, shall be the plague wherewith Yahweh will plague all the peoples who have made war against Jerusalem,––his flesh, shall be made to rot, while he is standing upon his feet, and, his eyes, shall rot in their sockets, and, his tongue, shall rot in their mouth;

⁸ And I saw, and lo! a livid horse,––and he that was sitting thereupon had for a name, Death, and, Hades, was following with him; and there was given unto them authority over the fourth of the earth, to slay with sword, and with famine, and with death, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

¹⁴ Whose trust shall be contemptible,––and, a spider’s web, his confidence:

²² They who hate thee, shall be clothed with shame, but, the tent of the lawless, shall not be!

²⁰ But, the eyes of the lawless, shall fail,––and, place of refuge, shall have vanished from them, and, their hope, be a breathing out of life.

¹⁷ For, in the case of all such, morning to them is the death–shade, For, to be recognised, is a death–shade terror.

³⁴ Every thing lofty, he beholdeth, he, is king over all ravenous beasts.

⁴ My heart, would writhe within me, And, the terrors of Death, have fallen upon me:

¹⁰ The lawless one, shall see, and be indignant, his teeth, will he gnash and melt away, The craving of the lawless, shall vanish.

²⁸ The hope of the righteous, shall be gladness, but, the expectation of the lawless, shall vanish.

³² By his own wickedness, shall the lawless man, be thrust down, but the righteous, seeketh refuge in his integrity.

²⁶ And every one who heareth these my words, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand; ²⁷ And the rain descended, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and dashed against that house, and it fell; and, the fall thereof, was, great.

⁵⁵ Where, O death, is thy victory? Where, O death, is thy sting? ⁵⁶ Now, the sting of death, is, sin, and, the power of sin, is, the law; ––

¹⁵ And might release these––as many as, by fear of death, were all their lifetime liable, to bondage.

²⁴ And, Yahweh, rained, upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah, brimstone and fire,––from Yahweh, out of the heavens:

²³ brimstone and salt, burning up all the land thereof, it shall not be sown, neither shall it shoot forth, neither shall there come up thereon any herbage,––like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrow in his anger and in his wrath:

¹² Let his strength be famished, and, calamity, be ready at his side; ¹³ Let it devour the members of his body, Let the firstborn of death devour his members;

¹⁸ In vain, he toiled, he shall not swallow, like wealth to be restored, in which he cannot exult! ¹⁹ For he hath oppressed––hath forsaken the poor, A house, hath he seized, which he cannot rebuild. ²⁰ Surely he hath known no peace in his inmost mind,––With his dearest thing, shall he not get away: ²¹ Nothing escaped his devouring greed,––For this cause, shall his prosperity not continue:

³⁸ If, against me, my ground used to cry out, and, together, my ridges did weep; ³⁹ If, the strength thereof, I used to eat, without payment, and, the soul of the holders thereof, I made groan;

⁹ Then shall, the torrents thereof, be turned, into pitch, And, the dust thereof, into brimstone,––So shall her land become burning pitch: ¹⁰ Neither, night nor day, shall it be quenched, To times age–abiding, shall ascend the smoke thereof,––From generation to generation, shall it be waste, Never, never, shall any pass through it:

¹³ Alas! for him who buildeth, His house without righteousness, And his roof–chambers without justice,––Of his neighbour, taketh service for nought, And, recompense for his work, giveth him not.

⁶ Shall not, these, all of them, against him, take up––a taunt, a mocking poem, enigmatical sentences––concerning him? And say––Alas! for him who maketh abundance in what is not his own, How long? that he should be burdening himself with heavy debts? ⁷ Will not thy creditors, suddenly rise up? and they who shall violently shake thee, all at once become active? Then shalt thou serve for booties, unto them! ⁸ Because, thou, hast plundered many nations, all the residue of the peoples, shall plunder thee,––for shedding Human blood, and doing violence to the earth, to the city, and to all who dwell therein. ⁹ Alas! for him who extorteth an extortion of wrong for his own house,––that he may set on high his nest, that he may be delivered from the grasp of calamity. ¹⁰ Thou hast counseled shame to thy house––making an end of many peoples, and endangering thine own life. ¹¹ Surely, the stone out of the wall, will make outcry,––and, the tie out of the timber, will answer it.

⁴ [therefore] have I brought it forth, Declareth Yahweh of hosts, And it shall enter––into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth by my name, falsely,––and it shall roost in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, both the timbers thereof, and the stones thereof.

²⁰ And the wild–beast, was taken, and, with him, the false prophet who wrought the signs before him, whereby he deceived them who received the mark of the wild–beast and them who were doing homage unto his image,––alive, were they two cast into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone.

⁸ But, as for the timid, and disbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the false, their part, is in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone,––which is the second death.

³ I, have seen the foolish taking root, and then hath his home decayed, in a moment: ⁴ His children are far removed from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver:

³⁰ He shall not depart out of darkness, his young branch, shall the flame dry up, and he shall depart, by the breath of his own mouth!

¹⁹ My root, is laid open to the waters, and, the dew, shall lodge for the night in my boughs;

²⁴ Therefore, As a tongue of fire, eateth up straw, And a flame reduceth, dry grass, to powder, Their root, like rottenness, shall become, And, their blossom, like dust, shall ascend,––Because they refused the law of Yahweh of hosts, And, the utterance of the Holy One of Israel, they despised.

¹⁶ Smitten is Ephraim, their root, hath dried up, fruit, shall they not bear,––yea, though they do bring forth, yet will I slay the darlings of their womb.

⁹ Yet it was, I, who destroyed the Amorite, from before them, whose height was, like the height of cedars, and, strong, was he, like the oaks,––but I destroyed his fruit above, and his roots beneath.

¹ For lo! the day, cometh, that burneth as a furnace,––and, all the proud and everyone who worketh lawlessness, shall be, stubble, and the day that cometh, shall consume them utterly, saith Yahweh of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

¹² Are not your memorable sayings, proverbs of ashes? Breastworks of clay, your breastworks?

¹⁶ The face of Yahweh, is against such as do wickedness, To cut off, from the earth, their memory.

⁴ They have said––Come, and let us wipe them out from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.

¹³ Let his posterity be for cutting off, In another generation, let their name be wiped out;

²² But, the lawless, out of the earth, shall be cut off, and, traitors, shall they tear away therefrom.

⁷ The memory of the righteous, yieldeth blessing, but, the name of the lawless, dieth out.

²⁰ Wherefore give, to the wretched, light? Or, life, to the embittered in soul?––

¹⁴ By day, they encounter darkness, and, as though it were night, they grope at high noon.

²² A land of obscurity, like thick darkness, of death–shade and disorder, and which shineth like thick darkness.

¹⁴ If, iniquity, be in thy hand, Put it far away, and let there not dwell in thy tents perversity,

²¹ Therefore shall they pass through it, hard pressed and hungry,––And it shall be, when they hunger, then will they rage and revile their king and their god, and turn their faces upwards; ²² And, unto the land, shall they look hard, And lo! distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, driven away!

¹³ Though nations, like the rushing of many waters, shall rush, Yet shall one rebuke him, And he shall flee far away,––And be chased, As the chaff of the mountains before a wind, And as whirling stubble, before a storm! ¹⁴ At eventide, lo! terror, Before morning, he is, not! This, is the portion of them who plunder us, And the lot of them who make of us a prey.

³³ Immediately, the word, was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar, and, from among men, was he driven forth, and, grass––like oxen, did he eat, and, with the dew of the heavens, his body was drenched,––until that, his hair, like to eagles’ feathers, was grown, and his nails, like birds’ claws.

²¹ And, from among the sons of men, was he driven, and, his heart, to a wild beast’s, became equal, and, with the wild asses, was his dwelling, and, grass––like oxen, they suffered him to eat, and, with the dew of the heavens, his body, was drenched––until that he came to know that the Most High God, hath dominion, over the kingdom of men, and, whomsoever he pleaseth, he setteth up over it.

¹³ Wild waves of sea, foaming out their own infamies, wandering stars, for whom the gloom of darkness age–abiding hath been reserved.

¹⁹ when lo! a great wind, came from over the desert, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they died,––and escaped am, only I alone, to tell thee.

⁴ Though, thy children, sinned against him, and he delivered them into the hand of their transgression,

²⁶ Every misfortune, is laid up for his treasures,––There shall consume, a fire, not blown up,––it shall destroy what remaineth in his tent: ²⁷ The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and, the earth, be rising up against him: ²⁸ The increase of his house shall vanish, melting away in the day of his anger.

¹⁴ If his children be multiplied, for them, [there is] the sword, and, his offspring, shall not be filled with bread; ¹⁵ His survivors, by pestilence, shall come to the grave, and, his widows, shall not weep;

¹³ And he came to have seven sons, and three daughters; ¹⁴ and he called the name of the first Jemima, and the name of the second Kezia,––and the name of the third, Keren–happuch. ¹⁵ And there were found no women so fair as the daughters of Job, in all the land,––and their father gave them an inheritance, in the midst of their brethren. ¹⁶ And Job lived, after this, a hundred and forty years,––and saw his sons and his sons’ sons, four generations.

⁸ Alas! for them who join house to house, Field to field, bring they near,––Until there is no room, But ye are left to dwell alone, in the midst of the land. ⁹ In mine ears, [said] Yahweh of hosts,––Verily, houses in abundance, shall become, a desolation, Large and fair, without inhabitant;

²¹ Prepare––for his sons––shambles, For the iniquity of their fathers,––They shall not rise, nor possess the earth, Nor fill the face of the world with cities. ²² I will rise, Then, against them, Declareth Yahweh of hosts,––And will cut off from Babylon, Record and remnant, And scion and seed, Declareth Yahweh.

³⁰ Thus, saith Yahweh,––Register ye this man, childless, A man who shall not prosper in his days,––For there shall prosper of his seed, No man sitting upon the throne of David, Or ruling any more over Judah.

²³ brimstone and salt, burning up all the land thereof, it shall not be sown, neither shall it shoot forth, neither shall there come up thereon any herbage,––like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrow in his anger and in his wrath: ²⁴ yea all the nations will say, For what cause, hath Yahweh done, thus, unto this land? what meaneth this great heat of anger?

⁸ and, this house which had been renowned, shall be desolate, every one that passeth by it, shall be astonished and shall whistle,––and men shall say––For what cause, hath Yahweh done, thus, unto this land, and unto this house?

¹² And, when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept––and rent, every one his robe, and sprinkled dust upon their heads, toward the heavens. ¹³ And they sat with him upon the ground, seven days and seven nights,––and none was speaking unto him a word, for they saw that, exceeding great, was the stinging pain.

¹³ My Brethren––from beside me, hath he moved far away, and, mine acquaintance, are wholly estranged from me; ¹⁴ Failed me, have my near of kin, and, mine intimate acquaintances, have forgotten me; ¹⁵ Ye guests of my house and my maidens, A stranger, have ye accounted me, An alien, have I become in their eyes; ¹⁶ To mine own servant, I called, and he would not answer, With mine own mouth, I kept entreating him; ¹⁷ My breath, is strange to my wife, and I am loathsome to the sons of my own mother; ¹⁸ Even young children, despise me, I rise up, and they speak against me; ¹⁹ All the men of mine intimate circle abhor me, and, these whom I loved, have turned against me;

¹³ My Lord, shall laugh at him, for he seeth, that his day, will come.

⁷ Remember, O Yahweh, against the sons of Edom, the day of Jerusalem,––how they continued to say––Overthrow! Overthrow! unto the foundation within it.

¹⁶ To make their land a desolation, The hissings of age–abiding times,––Every one that passeth by her, shall be astonished and wag his head.

²⁷ Cut up all her bullocks, Let them go down to the slaughter,––Alas for them! For their day, hath come, Their time for punishment.

²⁵ Thou, therefore, O profane, lawless one, prince of Israel,––Whose day, hath come, in a time of final iniquity:

¹¹ In the day when thou didst take thy stand over against him, in the day when foreigners took captive his forces,––and, aliens, entered his gates, and, over Jerusalem, cast lots, even thou, wast like one of them! ¹² Do not, then, look with satisfaction upon the day of thy brother, upon the day of his calamity, Neither rejoice over the sons of Judah––in the day of their ruin,––nor enlarge thy mouth––in the day of distress: ¹³ Do not enter into the gate of my people––in the day of their misfortune, Do not, thou also, look with satisfaction on his misery––in the day of his misfortune; neither do thou thrust [thy hands] on his substance––in the day of his misfortune; ¹⁴ Neither do thou stand at the parting of the way, to cut off his fugitives,––neither do thou deliver up his survivors––in the day of distress. ¹⁵ For, near, is the day of Yahweh, upon all the nations,––Just as thou hast done, shall it be done to thee, Thy dealing, shall come back upon thine own head.

⁴² If thou hadst got to know, in this day, even thou, the conditions of peace. . . But, now, are they hid from thine eyes:

⁴⁴ And will level thee with the ground, and thy children within thee, and will not leave, stone on stone, within thee: because thou didst not get to know the season of thy visitation.

² Then said Pharaoh, Who is Yahweh, that I should hearken to his voice, to let Israel go? I know not Yahweh, and certainly, Israel, will I not let go!

¹⁰ All that generation also, were gathered unto their fathers,––and there arose another generation, after them, who had not known Yahweh, nor even the work which he had wrought for Israel.

¹² Now, the sons of Eli, were abandoned men,––they knew not Yahweh.

⁹ Thou, therefore, Solomon my son, Know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing soul, for, all hearts, doth Yahweh search, and, every devised purpose, doth he understand,––If thou seek him, He will be found of thee, but, if thou forsake him, He will cast thee off for ever.

¹⁴ Yet they said unto GOD, Depart from us, and, In the knowledge of thy ways, find we no pleasure.

²⁸ For ye say, Where is the house of the noble–minded? And where the dwelling–tent of the lawless?

⁶ Pour out thy wrath, Upon the nations that have not known thee––and, Upon the kingdoms that, on thy Name, have not called.

³ Who have prepared their tongue as their bow of falsehood, And, not by faithfulness, have they become mighty in the land,––For, from wickedness unto wickedness, have they gone forth, But, me, have they not known, Declareth Yahweh.

²⁵ Pour out thy wrath––Upon the nations, that know thee not, and, Upon the families, that, upon thy Name, have not called,––For they have devoured Jacob, Yea they have devoured him, and consumed him, And, his habitation, have they made desolate.

²⁸ And, even as they did not approve to be holding, God, in acknowledgment, God gave them up unto a disapproved mind to be doing the things that are not becoming,

⁵ Not with a passion of coveting,––just as even the nations who know not God,––

⁸ In a fiery flame; holding forth vengeance––against them that refuse to know God, and them who decline to hearken unto the glad–message of our Lord Jesus,

¹⁶ God, they confess that they know, but, by their works, they deny him, being, abominable, and obdurate, and, as to any good work, found, worthless.