Job 3 Cross References - Rotherham

¹ After this, opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. ² So then Job began, and said: ³ Perish, the day wherein I was born, and the night it was said, Lo! a manchild! ⁴ That day, be it darkness,––Let not God enquire after it from above, May there shine upon it no clear beam: 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. ⁷ Lo! that night, be it barren, Let no joyous shouting enter therein: ⁸ Let day–cursers denounce it, Those skilled in rousing the dragon of the sky: ⁹ Darkened be the stars of its twilight,––Let it wait for light, and there be none, neither let it see the eyelashes of the dawn: ¹⁰ Because it closed not the doors of the womb wherein I was, and so hid trouble from mine eyes.
¹¹ Wherefore, in the womb, did I not die? From the womb, come forth and cease to breathe? ¹² For what reason, were there prepared for me––knees? and why––breasts, that I might suck? ¹³ Surely, at once, had I lain down, and been quiet, I had fallen asleep, then, had I been at rest: ¹⁴ With kings, and counselors of the earth, who had built them pyramids: ¹⁵ Or with rulers possessing, gold,––Who had filled their houses with silver: ¹⁶ Or that, like an untimely birth hidden away, I had not come into being, like infants that never saw light: ¹⁷ There, the lawless, cease from raging, and there the toil–worn are at rest: ¹⁸ At once are prisoners at peace, they hear not the voice of a driver: ¹⁹ Small and great, there, they are, and, the slave, is free from his master.
²⁰ Wherefore give, to the wretched, light? Or, life, to the embittered in soul?–– ²¹ Who long for death, and it is not, And have digged for it, beyond hid treasures: ²² Who rejoice unto exultation, Are glad, when they can find the grave: ²³ To a man, whose way is concealed, And GOD hath straitly enclosed him? ²⁴ For, in the face of my food, my sighing, cometh in, and, poured out like the water, are my groans: ²⁵ For, a dread, I dreaded, and it hath come upon me, and, that from which I shrank, hath overtaken me. ²⁶ I was not careless, nor was I secure, nor had I settled down,––when there came––consternation!

¹¹ But, in very deed, put forth, I pray thee, thy hand, and smite all that he hath,––verily, unto thy face, will he curse thee.

²² In all this, Job sinned not, nor imputed folly unto God.

⁵ In very deed, put forth, I pray thee thy hand, and smite unto his bone, and unto his flesh,––verily, unto thy face, will he curse thee.

⁹ Then said his wife unto him, Art thou still holding fast thine integrity? Curse God, and die! ¹⁰ And he said unto her, As one of the base women speaketh, speakest thou? Blessing, shall we accept from God, and, misfortune, shall we not accept? In all this, Job sinned not with his lips.

³ Perish, the day wherein I was born, and the night it was said, Lo! a manchild!

¹⁶ Thus, Job, vainly openeth his mouth, Without knowledge, he multiplieth words.

² I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, afar from happiness, But, my pain had been stirred: ³ Hot was my heart within me, While I was musing, there was kindled a fire, I spake with my tongue!

³³ For they embittered his spirit, and he spake rashly with his lips.

¹⁴ Accursed, be the day on which I was born,––The day when, my mother, bare me, let it not be blessed! ¹⁵ Accursed, be the man who carried tidings to my father, saying, There is born to thee a man–child!

¹⁴ Then responded the five men who had been to spy out the land of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Know ye that there are in these houses, an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image,––now, therefore, know what ye will do!

¹⁸ Wherefore then, from the womb, didst thou bring me forth? I might have breathed my last, and, no eye, have seen me. ¹⁹ As though I had not been, should I have become,––from the womb to the grave, might I have been borne.

¹⁰ Woe to me! my mother, That thou didst bear me, A man of litigation and a man of contention to all the land,––I have not lent on interest, Nor have they lent on interest to me, Every one, hath treated me with contempt.

¹⁴ Accursed, be the day on which I was born,––The day when, my mother, bare me, let it not be blessed! ¹⁵ Accursed, be the man who carried tidings to my father, saying, There is born to thee a man–child! ¹⁶ Making him very glad: Yea let that, man be––as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and repented not,––And let him hear, An outcry in the morning, and, A war–shout at broad noon! ¹⁷ Because I was not slain from the womb,––Nor did, my mother, become, my grave, Nor was her womb great for ever! ¹⁸ Wherefore, was, it––That, from the womb, I came forth, to see labour and pain; and, That, in shame, should, my days, be consumed!

²² So Moses stretched forth his hand, over the heavens,––and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt, for three days; ²³ they saw not one another, neither rose any man from his couch, for three days,––but, all the sons of Israel, had light in their dwellings.

¹² a land which Yahweh thy God careth for,––continually are the eyes of Yahweh thy God upon it, from the beginning of the year, even unto the end of the year.

² A day of obscurity and deep gloom, a day of cloud, and thick darkness, as dusk, spread over the mountains,––a people, many and bold, like whom, hath not been from age–past times, and, after whom, shall not be again unto the years of generation after generation.

¹⁸ Alas for them who are longing for the day of Yahweh,––What good to you, is the day of Yahweh? it, being darkness and not light:

⁴⁵ Now, from the sixth hour, darkness, came upon all the land––until the ninth hour.

²⁰ And, neither, sun nor stars, appearing for many days, and, no small tempest, lying upon us, in the end, all hope that we should be saved, began to be taken from us.

¹⁰ And, the fifth, poured out his bowl upon the throne of the beast; and his kingdom became darkened, and they began to gnaw their tongues by reason of the pain,––

¹¹ So ye drew near and stood, under the mountain. Now, the mountain, was burning with fire, up to the midst of the heavens,––darkness, cloud, and thick gloom.

²¹ Before I go, and not return, unto a land of darkness and death–shade: ²² A land of obscurity, like thick darkness, of death–shade and disorder, and which shineth like thick darkness.

¹⁶ My face, is reddened from weeping, and, upon mine eyelashes, is the death–shade:––

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

³ An end, hath one set to the darkness, and, into every extremity, is, he, making search, for the stone of darkness and death–shade;

¹⁷ Have the gates of death been disclosed to thee? And, the gates of the death–shade, couldst thou descry?

⁴ Yea, though I walk through a valley death–shadowed, I will fear no harm, for, thou, art with me, Thy rod and thy staff, they, comfort me.

¹⁹ That thou shouldst have crushed us down in the place of wild dogs, And covered us over with a deadly shadow.

¹⁰ The dwellers in darkness and death–shade, bound with oppression and iron;

¹⁴ He brought them forth out of darkness and death–shade, and, their fetters, he tare off.

² The people who were walking in darkness, Have seen a great light,––The dwellers in a land death–shadowed, A light, hath shined upon them.

⁶ Neither said they, Where is Yahweh, Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt,––Who led us: Through the desert, Through a land of wastes and clefts, Through a land of parched places and of death–shade, Through a land, Along which no man had passed, And in which no son of earth dwelt?

²⁸ For this cause, shall the land mourn, and the heavens above be overcast: Because I have spoken, have purposed, and have not repented, nor will I turn back therefrom.

¹⁶ Give ye, to Yahweh your God––glory, Before he cause darkness, and, Before your feet stumble upon the twilight mountains; Lest, when ye wait for light, He turn it into the shadow of death, And change it for thick darkness.

³ For, near, is a day, Yea, near, is a day pertaining to Yahweh, A day of cloud, A time of nations, shall it be!

¹² As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day he is in the midst of his sheep that are scattered, So, will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all the places where they were scattered in the day of cloud and thick darkness;

⁸ [Seek him] who made the Cluster and the Giant, and turneth, into morning, the shadow of death, and who, day into night, doth darken, Him who calleth to the waters of the sea, and poureth them out on the face of the land, Yahweh, is his name:

¹⁰ So will I turn your festivals into mourning, and all your songs into a dirge, and I will bring up––on all loins––sackcloth, and upon every head––baldness,––and I will make it like the mourning for an only one, even the afterpart thereof, as a day of bitterness.

¹⁶ The people that was sitting in darkness, a great light, beheld,––and, on them who were sitting in land and shade of death, Light rose on them.

⁷⁹ To shine on them who, in the darkness and shade of death, are sitting, to guide our feet into a way of peace.

¹⁸ For ye have not approached––unto, a searching and scorching fire, and gloom, and mist, and tempest,

²⁰ It shall not be dwelt, in for ever, Neither shall it be inhabited, from generation to generation,––Neither shall encamp there, an Arab, Nor, shepherds, fold their flocks there. ²¹ Then shall lie down, there, wild beasts, And filled, shall be their houses, with, owls,––Then shall inhabit there, the ostrich, And, shaggy creatures, shall dance there. ²² And jackals, shall answer, in their citadels, And, wild dogs, in their voluptuous palaces,––And near to come, is, her time, And, her days, shall not be delayed.

⁸ Ceased, hath the mirth of timbrels, Ended, is the noise of the uproarious,––Ceased, hath the mirth of the lyre:

³⁴ So will I cause to cease, From the cities of Judah, and, From the streets of Jerusalem, The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, The voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride,––For, a desolation, shall the land become.

²² And sound of harp–singers, and musicians, and flute–players, and trumpeters,––in nowise be heard in thee any more; and any artisan [of any art], ––in nowise be found in thee any more; and sound of millstone,––in nowise be found in thee any more; 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:

²⁵ And Jeremiah chanted a dirge over Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women in their dirges have spoken concerning Josiah, until this day, and they appointed them by statute for Israel,––and, there they are, written among the dirges.

¹ Canst thou draw out the Crocodile with a fish–hook? Or, with a cord, canst thou fasten down his tongue?

¹⁰ None so bold, that he will rouse him! Who then is he that, before me, can stand?

²⁵ At his rising up, mighty men are afraid, by reason of terror, they are beside themselves:

¹⁷ Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Consider ye diligently and call for the wailing women, that they may come,––And, unto the wise women, send ye, that they may come; ¹⁸ Yea let them make haste, and lift up over us a wailing,––That our eyes, may run down, with tears, And, our eyelashes, stream down with water; ––

¹⁶ Therefore, thus, saith Yahweh, God of hosts, My Lord, In all broadways, shall be lamentation, and, in all streets, shall they say, Alas! Alas! And they shall call the husbandman unto the mourning, and, unto the lamentation, them who know a wailing song;

¹⁷ say, We played the flute to you, and ye danced not,––we sang a lament, and ye beat not the breast.

³⁸ And they come into the house of the synagogue–ruler, and he observeth a tumult, and persons weeping and wailing greatly;

²⁶ Surely, for good, I looked, but there came in evil, And I waited for light, but there came in darkness;

¹⁸ His sneezings, flash forth light, and, his eyes, are like the eyelashes of the dawn;

¹⁵ A waiting, For prosperity, but no, welfare,––For a time of healing, but lo! terror.

¹⁸ For Yahweh, had restrained from bearing, every female of the house of Abimelech,––because of Sarah, wife of Abraham.

³¹ And, when Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, he granted her to bear children,––whereas, Rachel, was barren.

⁵ and, unto Hannah, used he to give one portion,––howbeit, Hannah, he loved, although, Yahweh, had restrained her from having children.

² Oh that, weighed, were my vexation, and, my engulfing ruin––into the balances, they would lift up all at once! ³ For, now, beyond the sand of the seas, would it be heavy, On this account, my words, have wandered.

¹ My soul doth loathe my life,––I let loose my complaint, I speak, in the bitterness of my soul.

² Even today, is my complaint rebellion? His hand, is heavier than my groaning.

³ Though a man should beget a hundred children, and live, many years, so that many should be the days of his years but, his own soul, should not be satisfied with the good, and he should not even have, a burial, I said, Better than he, is an untimely birth! ⁴ For, in vain, it came in, and, in darkness, it departeth,––and, with darkness, its name, is covered: ⁵ even the sun, it never saw, nor aught did it know,––more quietness, hath this than the other.

¹⁰ Therefore remove thou vexation from thy heart, and put away discomfort from thy flesh,––for, youth and dawn, are vanity!

¹⁷ Because I was not slain from the womb,––Nor did, my mother, become, my grave, Nor was her womb great for ever!

⁹ For, thou, art he that severed me from the womb, he that caused me to trust, upon the breasts of my mother; ¹⁰ Upon thee, was I cast from the time I was born, From the womb of my mother, my GOD, hast thou been.

⁸ Like a snail, which melteth away as it goeth, An untimely birth of a woman, which hath not seen the sun:

⁶ Upon thee, have I stayed myself from birth, Thou art he that severed me, from the body of my mother, Of thee, shall be my praise––continually.

¹³ For, thou, didst possess thyself of my reins, thou didst weave me together in the womb of my mother. ¹⁴ I thank thee, in that fearfully was my being distinguished, Wonderful are thy works, and, mine own soul, is observing [them] intently! ¹⁵ My substance was not hid from thee,––when I was made in secret, when I was skilfully figured in the lower parts of the earth. ¹⁶ Mine unfinished substance, thine eyes beheld, and, in thy book, all the parts thereof were written,––the days they should be fashioned! while yet there was not one among them.

³ Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, Even all the remnant of the house of Israel,––Who have been borne from birth, Who have been carried from nativity:

¹⁴ Give them, O Yahweh––what wilt thou give? Give them, a miscarrying womb, and breasts dried up.

³ And she said, Lo! my handmaid, Bilhah, Go in unto her,––that she may bear upon my knees, so that, I also, may be builded up by her!

²³ And Joseph saw, Ephraim’s, sons of three generations,––moreover, the sons of Machir, son of Manasseh, were born upon Joseph’s knees.

¹² For, thus, saith Yahweh,––Behold me! extending unto her, like a river, prosperity, And, as a torrent overflowing, the glory of the nations, That ye may draw it forth––Upon the side, shall ye be carried, and, Upon the knees, shall ye be caressed:

⁴ And, as for thy birth, in the day thou wast born, Thy navel–cord was not cut, And, in water, wast thou not bathed, to cleanse thee,––And, as for being salted, thou was not salted, And, as for being bandaged, thou wast not bandaged. ⁵ No eye, threw a shield over thee, by doing for thee one of these things, taking pity on thee,––But thou wast cast out, on the face of the field, Because thy person, was abhorred, in the day thou wast born.

⁸ Nor shall see me––the eye that used to behold me, Thine eyes, are upon me, and I am not. ⁹ A cloud faileth, and is gone, So, he that descendeth to hades, shall not come up: ¹⁰ He shall not return again to his house, and his own place shall be acquainted with him no more.

²¹ And why wilt thou not remove my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For, now, in the dust, should I lie down, and thou shouldst seek me diligently, and I should not be.

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

¹⁰ Yet, man, dieth, and is prostrate, Yea the son of earth doth cease to breathe, and where is he? ¹¹ Waters, have failed from, the sea, and, a river, may waste and dry up; ¹² So, a man, hath lain down, and shall not arise, until there are no heavens, they shall not awake, nor be roused up out of their sleep.

¹³ If I wait for hades as my house, in darkness, have spread out my couch;

²⁷ Whom, I myself, shall see, on my side, and, mine own eyes, [shall] have looked upon, and not those of a stranger. Exhausted are my deepest desires in my bosom!

¹³ They complete, in prosperity, their days, and, in a moment to hades, they sink down.

²³ This, man dieth, in the very perfection of his prosperity, wholly tranquil and secure;

¹⁰ Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, with thy might, do,––for there is no work nor calculation nor knowledge nor wisdom, in hades, whither, thou, art going.

¹⁰ So then David slept with his fathers,––and was buried in the city of David.

⁴³ So then Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father,––and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

¹⁷ Who leadeth away counselors [as] a spoil, and, judges, He befooleth:

²⁸ And had inhabited demolished cities, houses, wherein men would not dwell, that were destined to become heaps.

²³ For I know that, unto death, thou wilt bring me back, even unto the house of meeting for every one living.

⁶ As for them who are trusting in their wealth,––And, in the abundance of their riches, do boast themselves, ⁷ A brother, can none of them, redeem, he cannot give unto God a ransom for himself: ⁸ So costly, is the redemption of their soul, That it faileth unto times age–abiding; ⁹ That he should, yet, live on, continually, Should not see corruption. ¹⁰ For it is seen that, the wise, die, Together with the dullard, and the brutish, do they perish, And leave, to others, their wealth:

¹⁴ Like sheep––into hades, are they driven, Death shall shepherd them,––And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning, Even their form, is to decay, Hades, is all that remaineth of a habitation for him.

⁴⁸ Who is the man that shall live, and not see death? That can deliver his soul from the hand of hades. [Selah.]

⁸ No man, hath power over the spirit, to retain the spirit, and, none, hath power over the day of death, and there is no furlough in war,––neither shall lawlessness deliver them who are given thereto.

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.

¹⁰ All of them, answer, and say to thee,––Thou too, made strengthless, as we! Unto us, art thou like! ¹¹ Brought down to Hades, thy pride, The hum of thy harps, Beneath thee, is spread out corruption, And, thy coverlet––worms! ¹² How, hast thou fallen from heaven, O Shining One––Son of the Dawn! Hewn down to the earth, O crusher of nations! ¹³ Yet, thou, didst say in thy heart––The heavens, will I ascend, Above the stars of GOD, will I lift up my throne,––That I may sit in the Mount of Assembly, In the Recesses of the North: ¹⁴ I will mount on the hills of the clouds, I will match the Most High! ¹⁵ Howbeit, to Hades, shalt thou be brought down,––To the Recesses of the Pit! ¹⁶ They who see thee, upon thee, will gaze, Upon thee, will thoughtfully muse,––Is this, the man who startled the earth? Who terrified kingdoms?

¹² And they who come of thee, shall build the wastes of age–past times, And, as for the foundations of generation after generation, thou shalt rear them up,––So shalt thou be called––A Repairer of broken walls, A Restorer of paths leading home.

²⁰ Then will I bring thee down with them that go down into the pit, Unto the people of age–past times, And cause thee to dwell in the earth below, Among the desolations from age–past times, With them that go down into the pit, That thou mayest not be dwelt in,––Nor yet present thyself in the land of the living.

¹⁸ Damascus, was a trader of thine, For the multitude of thy manufactures, For the multitude of all wealth,––With the wine of Helbon and white wool: ¹⁹ Wedan and Javan, from Uzal, Brought into thy traffic,––Steel, cassia and calamus, Were, in thy merchandise: ²⁰ Dedan, was a merchant of thine,––With spreading wraps, for riding: ²¹ Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, They, were traders at thy service,––With lambs and rams and he–goats, With these, were they traders of thine: ²² The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, They, were merchants of thine,––With the chief of all spices, and with every kind of precious stone, and gold, Took they part in thy traffic: ²³ Haran and Canneh and Eden, the merchants of Sheba,––Asshur, Chilmad, Were merchants of thine: ²⁴ Those, were thy merchants, for gorgeous garments, for wrappings of blue and embroidery, and for treasure–chests of variegated cloth,––for cords, twisted and strong, in thy market: ²⁵ the ships of Tarshish, were thy masts, Carrying on thy barter, So wast thou filled, and becamest very glorious, In the heart of the seas.
²⁶ Into mighty waters, have they brought thee, the rowers––even thee,––The east wind, hath broken thee, In the heart of the seas: ²⁷ Thy wealth and thy wares, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy sailors,––thy calkers and the barterers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war who are in thee, and in all thy gathered host which is in thy midst, Shall fall into the heart of the seas, In the day of thy fall. ²⁸ At the sound of the outcry of thy pilots, the coasts, shall quake: ²⁹ Then shall come down from their ships, all that handle the oar, mariners, all the sailors of the sea,––Upon the land, shall they take up their station; ³⁰ And make loud [lament] over thee, with their voice, And make biter outcry,––And shall lift up dust on their heads, In ashes, shall roll themselves; ³¹ And shall make bald for thee a baldness, And gird them with sackcloth,––And shall weep for thee in bitterness of soul, A biter lamentation; ³² And shall take up for thee, in their wailing, a dirge, And shall chant over thee,––Who is like Tyre? Like the Sent One in the midst of the sea?

¹⁸ And Balaam responded, and said unto the servants of Balak, Though Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the bidding of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.

²⁷ And the king caused silver in Jerusalem to be as stones,––cedars also, caused he to be as the sycamores that are in the lowlands, for abundance.

²¹ Pouring contempt upon nobles, and, the girdle of the mighty, hath He loosed:

²⁵ So shall, the Almighty, become, thy precious ores, yea glittering silver unto thee!

¹⁶ Though he heap up silver like, dust, and, like a pile, he prepare clothing, ¹⁷ He may prepare, but, the righteous, shall put on, and, the silver, shall the innocent apportion.

⁷ So that filled, is their land with silver and gold, And there is no end to their treasures,––And filled, is their land with horses, And there is no end to their chariots;

¹⁸ Neither their silver nor yet their gold, shall be able to deliver them, in the day of the indignation of Yahweh, but, in the fire of his jealousy, shall the whole earth be consumed; For, a destruction, surely a terrible one, will he make, with all them who dwell in the earth.

³ Therefore did Tyre build a stronghold for herself,––and did heap up silver like dust, yea gold, like the mire of the lanes.

³ Though a man should beget a hundred children, and live, many years, so that many should be the days of his years but, his own soul, should not be satisfied with the good, and he should not even have, a burial, I said, Better than he, is an untimely birth!

⁸ And, last of all, just as if unto the unseasonable birth, he appeared, even unto me;

¹³ Oh that, in hades, thou wouldst hide me! that thou wouldst keep me secret, until the turn of thine anger, that thou wouldst set for me a fixed time, and remember me:

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

⁵ Fear and trembling, would enter me, And there would have overwhelmed me––a horror! ⁶ Then I said––Oh that there were given me a pinion, like a dove, I would fly away and be at rest: ⁷ Lo! I would take a distant flight, I would tarry in the wilderness. [Selah.] ⁸ I would hasten mine escape, From rushing wind, from storm.

¹ The righteous one, hath perished, And, not a man, hath taken it to heart––Yea, the men of lovingkindness, have been withdrawn, No one considering, That, from the presence of calamity, hath the righteous been withdrawn. ² He entereth into peace, Let them rest upon their couches,––Each one who went on a straight path.

²⁸ And be not in fear, by reason of them that are killing the body,––and, the soul, are not able to kill. But fear, rather, him who is able, both soul and body, to destroy in gehenna!

⁴ And I say unto you, my friends––Do not be put in fear of them who kill the body, and, after these things, have nothing more uncommon which they can do.

⁶ If, at least, it is a, righteous thing with God, to recompense, affliction, unto them that afflict you, ⁷ And, unto you that are afflicted, release, with us,––by the revealing of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with his messengers of power,

⁹ Hence there is, left over, a Sabbath–keeping, for the people of God.

¹¹ Let us, therefore, give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall into the same example, of obstinacy.

⁸ For, in seeing and hearing, since he dwelt right among them, as a righteous man, he used to torment his soul, day by day, with their lawless deeds––

¹³ And I heard a voice out of heaven, saying––Write! Happy, the dead who, in the Lord, do die, from henceforth. Yea! (saith the Spirit) that they may rest from their toils, for, their works, do follow with them.

⁶ So then Pharaoh gave command, on that day, unto the taskmasters over the people, and unto their overseers––saying: ⁷ Ye shall no more give straw unto the people, for making the bricks, as heretofore: Let, them, go, themselves, so shall they gather for themselves straw: ⁸ Nevertheless, the fixed number of bricks, which they have been making heretofore, shall ye lay upon them, ye shall not diminish therefrom,––for, idle, they are, on this account, it is that they are making an outcry, saying, We must go our way, we must sacrifice to our God.

¹⁵ Then came in the overseers of the sons of Israel, and made outcry unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore shouldst thou do thus, to thy servants? ¹⁶ No straw, is given to thy servants, yet, bricks,––they keep saying to us––make ye! And lo, thy servants, are beaten––thou dost, therefore, wrong thy people. ¹⁷ But he said: Idle, ye are––idle, on this account, are, ye, saying, We must take our journey, we must sacrifice to Yahweh. ¹⁸ Now, therefore, go labour, but, straw, shall not be given you,––yet, the tale of bricks, shall ye render. ¹⁹ Then did the overseers of the sons of Israel see themselves to be in an evil case, when it was said,––Ye shall not diminish from your bricks––the task of a day, in its day!

³ And the sons of Israel made outcry unto Yahweh,––for he had, nine hundred chariots of iron, and, he, oppressed the sons of Israel heavily, twenty years.

⁷ He laugheth at the throng of the city, The shoutings of the driver, he heareth not;

³ And it shall come to pass, in the day when Yahweh, shall give thee rest, from thy toil, and from thy disquiet,––and from the hard service which had been laid upon thee,
⁴ that thou shalt take up this taunt over the king of Babylon, and shalt say:––How, hath ceased, the oppressor! Ceased, the exactress!

² Both sons of the low, And sons of the high,––Together both rich and needy:––

¹⁴ Like sheep––into hades, are they driven, Death shall shepherd them,––And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning, Even their form, is to decay, Hades, is all that remaineth of a habitation for him.
¹⁵ But, God, will redeem my soul, out of the hand of hades, For he will take me. [Selah.] ¹⁶ Do not fear, When a man becometh rich, When the glory of his house increaseth; ¹⁷ For, when he dieth, he shall take, nothing, his glory shall not descend after him; ¹⁸ For, though, his own self––while he lived, he used to bless, And they will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself, ¹⁹ He shall enter as far as the circle of his fathers, Nevermore, shall they see the light. ²⁰ A son of earth though wealthy, who discerneth not, Hath made himself a by–word, Beasts, they resemble.

⁵ Yea, at what is high, they be in fear, and there be, terrors, in the way, and the almond be rejected, and the grasshopper drag itself along, and desire perish,––for man is going to his age–abiding home, when the wailers shall go round in the streets;

⁷ And the dust return to the earth, as it was,––and, the spirit, return unto God, who gave it.

²² And it came to pass that the beggar died, and was carried away by the messengers, into the bosom of Abraham. And, the rich man also, died, and was buried. ²³ And, in hades, lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

²⁷ And, inasmuch as it is in store for men––once for all to die, but after this, judgment,

¹⁰ and, she being in bitterness of soul, prayed unto Yahweh, and, wept sore.

²⁷ But, when she came unto the man of God, on the mount, she caught hold of his feet,––and Gehazi drew near to thrust her away, when the man of God said––Let her alone! for, her life, is embittered to her, howbeit, Yahweh, hath hidden it from me, and hath not told me.

¹⁶ Or that, like an untimely birth hidden away, I had not come into being, like infants that never saw light:

⁹ That it would please GOD to crush me, That he would set free his hand, and cut me off!

¹⁵ So that my soul chooseth strangling, Death, rather than [these] my bones! ¹⁶ I am wasted away, Not, to times age–abiding, can I live, Let me alone, for, a breath, are my days.

²⁸ He hath ransomed my soul from passing away into the pit,––and, my life, in the light, shall have vision.

³⁰ To bring back his soul from the pit, to enlighten with the light of the living.

⁶ Give strong drink, to him that is perishing, and wine, to such as are embittered in soul:

¹⁸ Wherefore, was, it––That, from the womb, I came forth, to see labour and pain; and, That, in shame, should, my days, be consumed!

¹⁵ But, if, in this way, thou art going to deal with me, slay me, I beseech thee, slay, if I have found favour in thine eyes,––and let me not see my grief.

⁴ But, he himself, went into the wilderness a day’s journey, and came and sat down under a certain shrub,––and asked for his life, that he might die, and said––Enough, now, O Yahweh! take away my life, for, no better, am, I, than, my fathers.

⁴ If thou seek her as silver, and, like hid treasure, thou search for her,

³ Now, therefore, O Yahweh, take, I pray thee, my life from me,––for it were better for me, to die, than, to live.

⁸ And it came to pass, at the breaking forth of the sun, that God appointed a sultry east wind, and the sun smote upon the head of Jonah, that he became faint,––and asked his life, that he might die, and said, It were better for me, to die, than, to live.

⁶ And, in those days, shall men seek death, and in nowise shall find it, and shall covet to die, and death fleeth from them.

¹⁴ Lo! He pulleth down, and it cannot be built, He closeth up over a man, and it cannot be opened:

⁶ Know, then, that, God, hath overthrown me, and, within his net, enclosed me.

⁸ My way, hath he walled up, that I cannot pass, and, upon my paths, hath he made darkness rest;

¹² Together, enter his troops and have cast up, against me, their mound, and have encamped all around my tent;

⁸ And hast not shut me up in the hand of the foe, Thou hast given standing, in a roomy place, unto my feet.

⁸ Thou hast far removed mine acquaintances from me,––Thou hast made me an abomination unto them, Shut up, and I cannot go forth!

²⁷ Wherefore, shouldest thou, say, O Jacob, or, speak, O Israel,––Hidden, is my path from Yahweh, And, from my God, my vindication, will pass?

⁷ He hath walled up around me, that I cannot get out, hath weighted my fetter;

⁹ He hath walled in my ways with hewn stone, my paths, hath he caused to wind back.

⁶ Therefore, behold me! hedging up her way, with thorns,––and I will wall her in, and, her footpaths, shall she not find.

⁷ My soul hath refused to touch, Those things, are like disease in my food.

¹⁹ How long wilt thou not look away from me? Wilt thou not let me alone, till I can swallow my spittle?

²⁰ So that his life maketh loathsome [his] food, and his soul, dainty meat;

¹ [To the Chief Musician. On "the Hind of the Dawn." A Melody of David.]
My GOD, my GOD, why hast thou forsaken me? Far from saving me, The words of my loud lamentation? ² My God! I keep crying––By day, and thou dost not answer, and, By night, and there is no rest for me.

³ When I kept silence, my bones became worn out, Through my groaning all the day;

⁸ I am benumbed and crushed exceedingly,––I have cried aloud because of the groaning of my heart.

³ My tears have been my food day and night, While it hath been said unto me all the day, Where is thy God? ⁴ These things, I keep calling to mind, and pouring out, over me, my own soul, For I used to cross over with a crowd, Lead them in procession up to the house of God, With the voice of shouting and praise,––a throng keeping festival.

⁵ Thou hast fed them with the food of tears, And hast caused them to drink the water of weeping in threefold abundance.

⁹ For, ashes––like bread, have I eaten, And, my drink––with my tears, have I mingled;

¹¹ We growl like bears, all of us, And, like doves, do we, mournfully coo,––We wait, For justice, and there is, none, For salvation, it is far from us!

⁸ Yea, when I make outcry and implore, he hath shut out my prayer;

⁵ And so it was, when the days of the banquet came round, that Job sent and hallowed them, and rising early in the morning offered ascending–sacrifices according to the number of them all; for Job said, Peradventure my sons have sinned, and have cursed God in their hearts. Thus and thus, was Job wont to do all the days.

¹⁵ There are turned upon me terrors,––Chased away as with a wind, is mine abundance, and, as a cloud, hath passed away my prosperity.

²³ For, a dread unto me, was calamity from GOD, and, from his majesty, I could not escape.

¹⁴ Then thou scarest me with dreams, and, by visions, dost thou terrify me:

⁹ His outcry, will GOD hear, when there cometh upon him distress?

¹¹ For the sake of thy Name, O Yahweh, wilt thou give unto me life, In thy righteousness, wilt thou bring forth, out of distress, my soul;