Job 37 Cross References - Rotherham

¹ Yea, at this, my heart quaketh, and starteth up out of its place. ² Hear! oh hear! the raging of his voice, A growling sound also, out of his mouth, goeth forth; ³ Under the whole heavens, he letteth it loose, His lightning also, unto the wings of the earth; ⁴ After it, roareth a voice, He thundereth with his voice of majesty, Nor will he hold them back, when his voice is heard. ⁵ GOD thundereth with his voice, wonderfully, Doing great things, which we cannot know;
⁶ For, to the snow, he saith, Fall earthwards,––Also to the downpour of rain, yea the downpour of his mighty rains. ⁷ On the hand of every man, he setteth a seal, that all men may take note of his doing. ⁸ So then the wild–beast hath gone into covert, and, in its lairs, doth it remain. ⁹ Out of a chamber cometh a storm–wind, and, out of the north, cold. ¹⁰ By the breath of GOD, is given––frost, and, the breadth of waters, is congealed; ¹¹ Also, with moisture, burdeneth he the thick cloud, He disperseth his lightning–cloud; ¹² Yea, the same, in circles, turneth itself to and fro, by his steering them to their work, whithersoever he commandeth them, over the face of the world, towards the earth. ¹³ Whether, as a rod, or for his earth, or in lovingkindness, he causeth it to come.
¹⁴ Give thou ear unto this, O Job, Stay, and consider well the wonders of GOD:–– ¹⁵ Canst thou got to know of GOD’S giving charge over them, or of the causing of the lightning of his cloud to shine forth? ¹⁶ Canst thou get to know concerning the poisings of the thick cloud, the wonders of one who is perfect in knowledge? ¹⁷ That thy garments should be hot when he quieteth the earth from the south? ¹⁸ Didst thou spread out, with him, the skies, strong as a molten mirror? ¹⁹ Let us know what we shall say to him, We cannot set in order, by reason of darkness. ²⁰ Shall it be declared to him––that I would speak? Were any man to say aught, he might he destroyed?
²¹ Yet, now, men see not the light, bright though it is in the skies, when, a wind, hath passed over, and cleansed them. ²² Out of the north, a golden light cometh, Upon GOD, is fearful splendour: ²³ The Almighty, whom we have not fully found out, is great in vigour,––Neither, justice nor abounding righteousness, will he weaken. ²⁴ Therefore, do men revere him, He will not regard any who are wise in heart.

¹⁶ And it came to pass, on the third day, when the morning had come, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a heavy cloud upon the mount, and the sound of a horn, loud exceedingly,––and all the people who were in the camp trembled.

¹⁴ Dread, came upon me, and trembling, The multitude of my bones, it put in dread:

⁶ When I call to mind, then am I dismayed, and there seizeth my flesh a shuddering:––

¹ Then Yahweh responded to Job, out of a storm, and said:––

⁷ A GOD inspiring awe in the circle of the holy ones, exceedingly, And to be reverenced above all who are round about him.

¹²⁰ My flesh, bristled up from dread of thee, and, of thy regulations, stand I in fear.

²² Even for me, will ye have no reverence? Enquireth Yahweh, And, because of me, will ye not be pained? In that, though I placed the sand as a bound to the sea, A decree age–abiding, and it should not pass beyond it,––When they would toss themselves, Then should they not prevail, When the waves thereof would roar, Then should they not pass beyond it,

⁷ And, I, Daniel, alone, beheld the revelation, and, the men who were with me, beheld not the revelation,––in truth, a great terror, had fallen upon them, and they had fled while hiding themselves. ⁸ I, therefore, was left alone, and beheld this great revelation, and there remained in me no strength,––but, my freshness, was turned upon me into disfigurement, and I retained no strength.

¹⁶ I heard, and I trembled within me, at the voice, my lips, quivered, decay, entered, my bones, and, in my limbs, I trembled,––though I am to find rest, in the day of distress, when their invader, cometh up against the people.

² And lo! a great commotion occurred,––for, a messenger of the Lord, descending out of heaven, and coming near, had rolled away the stone, and was sitting upon it. ³ Now his appearance, was, as lightning, and, his clothing, white as snow; ⁴ and, for fear of him, they who were keeping watch were thrown into a commotion, and became as dead men.

²⁶ And, suddenly, a great earthquake took place,––so that the foundations of the prison were shaken, and all the doors were [instantly] set open, and the bonds of all were unfastened.

²⁹ And, asking for a light, he sprang in, and becoming, agitated, fell down unto Paul and Silas,

¹⁶ And it came to pass, on the third day, when the morning had come, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a heavy cloud upon the mount, and the sound of a horn, loud exceedingly,––and all the people who were in the camp trembled. ¹⁷ And Moses brought forth the people, to meet God, out of the camp,––and they stationed themselves in the lower part of the mount. ¹⁸ And, Mount Sinai, smoked, all over, because Yahweh had come down thereon, in fire,––and the smoke thereof went up as the smoke of a furnace, and all the mountain trembled exceedingly. ¹⁹ And, as oft as the sound of the horn went on and became exceeding loud, Moses, spake and, God, responded to him with a voice.

²⁹ But surely none can understand the burstings of the cloud, the crashing of his pavilion!

³³ His rolling thunder telleth concerning him,––The cattle, even, concerning him that is coming up.

⁵ GOD thundereth with his voice, wonderfully, Doing great things, which we cannot know;

³ The voice of Yahweh, is upon the waters,––The GOD of glory, hath thundered, Yahweh, is upon mighty waters; ⁴ The voice of Yahweh, is with power, The voice of Yahweh, is with majesty; ⁵ The voice of Yahweh, is breaking cedars, Now hath Yahweh, broken down, the cedars of Lebanon! ⁶ And hath made them leap like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion, like the bull–calf of wild–oxen; ⁷ The voice of Yahweh, is cleaving out flames of fire; ⁸ The voice of Yahweh, bringeth birth–pains upon the wilderness; Yahweh bringeth birth–pains upon the wilderness of Kadesh! ⁹ The voice of Yahweh, causeth the gazelles to bring forth, and hath stript forests; and, in his own temple, every one there, is saying, Glory!

⁷ At thy rebuke, they flee, At the voice of thy thunder, they hurry away;

¹³ That it might lay hold of the wings of the earth, and the lawless be shaken out of it?

¹³ O God, in the sanctuary, is thy way,––Who is a great GOD like Elohim?

⁴ His lightnings, have illumined, the world, The earth, hath seen, and hath trembled;

¹² And he will lift up a standard to the nations, And will gather the outcasts of Israel,––And, the dispersed of Judah, will he collect, From the four corners of the earth.

²⁷ For, just as the lightning goeth forth from the east, and shineth unto the west, so, shall be the presence of the Son of Man.

¹⁹ And the sanctuary of God which is in heaven, was opened, and the ark of his covenant in his sanctuary, appeared, and there came to be lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.

⁷ And, in the greatness of thine exaltation, dost thou tear down thine opposers,––Thou dost send forth thy wrath, it consumeth them, as straw; ⁸ And, with the blast of thy nostrils, heaped up are the waters, Upreared like a mound, are the flowing waves,––Roaring deeps are congealed, in the heart of the sea.

²⁶ There is none like GOD, O Jeshurun,––Riding upon the heavens to thy help,––And, for his own majesty, on the skies;

²⁷ For he draweth up drops of water, They trickle as rain through his mist; ²⁸ With which the clouds flow down, They drop on man in abundance. ²⁹ But surely none can understand the burstings of the cloud, the crashing of his pavilion! ³⁰ Lo! he hath spread out over it, his lightning, The bed of the sea, hath he covered. ³¹ For, by those things, he executeth judgment on peoples, He giveth food in abundance: ³² Upon both hands, he putteth a covering of lightning, and layeth command upon it against an assailant: ³³ His rolling thunder telleth concerning him,––The cattle, even, concerning him that is coming up.

³³ Unto him that rideth upon the most ancient heavens, Lo! he uttereth his voice, a voice of strength.

¹⁴ Thunder from the heavens, did Yahweh give forth,––yea, the Highest, uttered his voice; ¹⁵ And he sent forth arrows, and scattered them,––lightning, and confused them;

⁹ Who doeth great things, beyond all search,––Wondrous things, till they cannot be recounted;

¹⁰ Who doeth great things, past finding out, and marvels, beyond number.

⁷ The hidden depth of GOD canst thou discover? Or, unto the furthest limit of the Almighty, canst thou attain?

¹⁴ Lo! these, are the fringes of his way, and what a whisper of a word hath been heard of him! But, the thunder of his might, who could understand?

²⁶ Lo, GOD, is greater than we can know, The number of his years, even past finding out!

¹¹ Everything, hath he made beautiful in its own time,––also, intelligence, hath he put in their heart, without which men could not find out the work which God hath wrought, from the beginning even unto the end.

²¹ Have ye never taken note? Have ye never heard? Hath it not, from the beginning, been told you? Have ye not been led to discern, from the foundations of the earth? ²² It is he who sitteth upon the circle of the earth, While, the inhabitants thereof, are, as grasshoppers,––Who stretcheth forth, as a curtain, the heavens, And spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;

²⁸ Hast thou not known, Hast thou not heard, That, The God of age–past time––Yahweh, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Fainteth not, neither groweth weary––There is no, searching of his understanding:

³³ Oh! the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments! and untraceable his ways!

³ and they sing the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb, saying––Great and marvelous, are thy works, Lord, God, the Almighty! Righteous and true, are thy ways, O King of the ages!

¹⁰ And it came to pass, in the seven days,––that, the waters of the flood, came on the earth.
¹¹ In the six hundredth year, the year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month––on this day, were burst open, all the fountains of the great roaring deep, and, the windows of the heavens, were set open. ¹² (And it came to pass, that the heavy rain was on the earth,––forty days and forty nights.)

⁹ Then were gathered together all the men of Judah and Benjamin unto Jerusalem, within three days, the same, was the ninth month, on the twentieth of the month,––and all the people remained in the broadway of the house of God, trembling concerning the thing, and because of the heavy rains.

¹³ Nevertheless, the people, are many, and, the season, is that of the heavy rains, and we are not able to stand outside,––and, the business, is not one for a single day, nor yet for two, for we have abundantly transgressed, in this thing.

²⁷ For he draweth up drops of water, They trickle as rain through his mist;

²² Hast thou entered into the treasuries of the snow? And, the treasuries of the hail, couldst thou see?

¹⁶ Who giveth snow like wool, Hoar–frost––like ashes, he scattereth: ¹⁷ Casting forth his ice like crumbs, Before his cold, who can stand? ¹⁸ He sendeth forth his word and melteth them, He causeth his wind to blow, the waters, stream along:

⁸ Fire and hail, snow and vapour, stormy wind, fulfilling his word;

³ A poor man, who oppresseth the helpless, [is like] a rain beating down, leaving no food.

¹¹ Say thou, unto them who are coating with whitewash, It shall fall,––There hath come an overflowing rain, And I will make hail–stones fall, And, a tempestuous wind, shall break it down.

¹³ Therefore, Thus, saith my Lord, Yahweh, So will I break down with a tempestuous wind, in mine indignation,––And, an overflowing rain in mine anger, shall there be, With hailstones, in wrath, to make an end;

⁶ Who buildeth, in the heavens, his upper rooms, and, as for his vault, upon the earth, hath he founded it,––who calleth to the waters of the sea, and poureth them out over the face of the land, Yahweh, is his name.

²⁵ And the rain descended, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and rushed against that house, and it fell not; for it had been founded upon the rock. 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.

¹² Who doth frustrate the schemes of the crafty, that their hands cannot achieve abiding success;

⁷ Who commandeth the sun, and it breaketh not forth, and, about the stars, he putteth a seal;

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

²⁴ Remember, that thou extol his work, of which men have sung;

⁸ Come! view the doings of Yahweh,––Who hath set desolations in the earth;

⁹ Therefore have all men feared,––And have told the doing of God, And, his work, have considered.

⁴ For thou hast made me glad, O Yahweh, in thy doing, In the works of thy hands, will I shout for joy.

²⁷ That they may know that, Thine own hand, this is, Thou, Yahweh, hast done it.

² Great are the works of Yahweh, sought out, by all who find pleasure therein.

¹⁷ Then I considered all the work of God, that man could not find out the work that was done under the sun, inasmuch as man toileth in seeking and yet cannot find,––yea, even though the wise man should say he knoweth, yet can he not find it out.

¹² And it cometh to pass––that lyre and harp, timbrel and flute, and wine, are in their banquets,––But, the doing of Yahweh, they do not discern, And, the work of his hands, have they not seen.

¹¹ O Yahweh, though thy hand be lifted up,––yet do they not see, Would they might see––and turn pale at a people’s zeal,––Surely, the fire of thine enemies, must consume them!

⁴⁰ When they settle down in dens, abide in covert, for lying in wait?

²² The sun ariseth, they withdraw themselves, And, in their lairs, lay them down.

⁹ Who made the Bear, the Giant and the Cluster, and the chambers of the south;

³ Building, in the waters, his upper chambers,––Who maketh clouds his chariot, Who passeth along on the wings of the wind;

¹ The oracle on the desert of the sea: As storm–winds in the South which, with a rush from the desert, do come from a terrible land,

¹⁴ But, Yahweh, over them, will appear, and forth shall go, as lightning, his arrow,––Yea, My Lord Yahweh, with a horn, will blow, and will move along in the whirlwinds of the south.

²⁹ Out of whose womb, came forth the ice? And, the hoar–frost of the heavens, who hath given it birth? ³⁰ Like a stone, are the waters congealed, and, the face of the roaring deep, becometh firm!

⁴⁷ He killed, with hail, their vine, And their sycomores, with frost:

²⁷ For he draweth up drops of water, They trickle as rain through his mist; ²⁸ With which the clouds flow down, They drop on man in abundance. ²⁹ But surely none can understand the burstings of the cloud, the crashing of his pavilion! ³⁰ Lo! he hath spread out over it, his lightning, The bed of the sea, hath he covered.

³² Upon both hands, he putteth a covering of lightning, and layeth command upon it against an assailant:

⁴ For, thus, said Yahweh unto me,––I must be quiet, I must look on in my fixed place of abode,––Like a bright heat, on the light, Like a cloud of dew, in the heat of harvest.

⁵ While yet he was speaking, lo! a brightly shining cloud, overshadowed them, and lo! a voice, out of the cloud, saying––This, is, my Son, the Beloved, in whom I delight,––Be hearkening to him.

⁹ Thou hast visited the earth, and made it abound, Abundantly, dost thou enrich it––The channel of God, is full of waters, Thou preparest their corn, Yea, thus, dost thou prepare it: ¹⁰ The ridges thereof, drenching, Settling the furrows thereof, With myriad drops, dost thou soften it, The sprouting thereof, doth thou bless.

²⁴ How thy works abound, O Yahweh! All of them––in wisdom, hast thou made, The earth is full of thy possession:––

²² Are, there, among the vanities of the nations, senders of rain? Or can, the heavens themselves, give myriad drops? Art not, thou, he, O Yahweh our God? Therefore will we wait for thee, For, thou, hast made all these.

²³ Ye sons of Zion, then, exult and be glad in Yahweh your God, for he hath given you the seed–rain, in right manner,––Yea he hath caused to descend for you a down–pour, of seed–rain and of the harvest–rain in the first month;

⁷ Moreover also, I, have withholden from you the abundant rain, when yet there were only three mouths to the harvest, Or I might rain upon one city, and, on another city, might not rain,––One portion, would be rained upon, and, the portion whereupon it should not rain, would be dried up;

¹⁷ Elijah, was, a man, affected like us; and he earnestly prayed that there might be no moisture, and there was no moisture on the land, for three years and six months,–– ¹⁸ And, again, he prayed, and, the heaven, gave, rain, and, the land, shot up her fruit.

⁶ These, have authority to shut heaven, in order that, no rain, be moistening in the days of their prophesying; and, authority, have they, over the waters, to be turning them into blood, and to smite the land, with any manner of plague, as often as they will.

¹⁸ Behold me! raining down, about this time tomorrow, an exceeding heavy hail,––such as hath not been in Egypt, from the day it was founded, even unto the present time. ¹⁹ Now, therefore, send––bring into safety thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field,––as touching all men and beasts which shall be found in the field, and shall not be withdrawn into shelter, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die. ²⁰ He that feared the word of Yahweh, among the servants of Pharaoh, made his servants and his cattle flee, under shelter; ²¹ but, whoso applied not his heart unto the word of Yahweh, left his servants and his cattle, in the field.
²² Then said Yahweh unto Moses––Stretch forth thy hand over the heavens, that there may be hail, in all the land of Egypt,––on man and on beast, and on every herb of the field, in the land of Egypt. ²³ So Moses stretched forth his staff over the heavens, and, Yahweh, gave forth thunderings and hail, and there came fire, towards the earth,––and Yahweh rained down hail, on the land of Egypt. ²⁴ So there came to be hail, and fire catching hold of itself, in the midst of the hail,––exceeding heavy, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt, from the very time it became a nation. ²⁵ And the hail smote, in all the land of Egypt, all that was in the field, both man and beast,––and, every herb of the field, did the hail smite, and, every tree of the field, did it shiver.

¹⁸ So Samuel cried unto Yahweh, and Yahweh gave forth thunderings and rain, on that day,––and all the people greatly feared Yahweh, and Samuel. ¹⁹ And all the people said unto Samuel––Pray for thy servants, unto Yahweh thy God, and let it not be that we die,––For we have added, to all our sins, a wrong, in asking for ourselves a king.

¹⁰ Then Rizpah daughter of Aiah, took sackcloth, and spread it out for herself, on the rock, from the beginning of harvest, until water poured out upon them from the heavens,––and suffered neither the birds of the heavens to rest on them by day, nor the wild beasts of the field, [to devour them] by night.

¹⁴ so they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the land of Benjamin, in Zelah, in the grave of Kish his father, thus did they all that the king commanded,––and God suffered himself to be entreated for the land, after this.

⁴⁵ And it came to pass, meanwhile, that, the heavens, had enshrouded themselves with clouds and wind, and there came a great rain, and Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel;

³¹ For, by those things, he executeth judgment on peoples, He giveth food in abundance:

⁶ For, to the snow, he saith, Fall earthwards,––Also to the downpour of rain, yea the downpour of his mighty rains.

²⁶ To give rain over the no–man’s land, the desert, where no son of earth is; ²⁷ To satisfy the wild and the wilderness, to cause to spring forth the meadow of young grass?

³⁷ Who can count the thin clouds, in wisdom? And, the bottles of the heavens, who can empty out; ³⁸ When the dust is cast into a clod, and the lumps are bound together?

¹³ And Moses said unto the people––Do not fear, stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today,––for, as for the Egyptians whom ye have seen today, ye shall not again see them any more, to times age–abiding.

⁶ Naked is hades before him, and there is no covering to destruction; ⁷ Who stretcheth out the north over emptiness, hangeth the earth upon nothingness; ⁸ Who bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent beneath them; ⁹ Who shutteth–in the face of the throne, he spreadeth over it his cloud; ¹⁰ A, boundary, hath he encircled on the face of the waters, as far as where light ends in darkness; ¹¹ The pillars of the heavens, are shaken, and are terrified at his rebuke: ¹² By his strength, hath he excited the sea, and, by his skill, hath he shattered the Crocodile: ¹³ By his spirit, hath he arched the heavens, His hand hath pierced the fleeing serpent. ¹⁴ Lo! these, are the fringes of his way, and what a whisper of a word hath been heard of him! But, the thunder of his might, who could understand?

¹⁰ Let be! and know that, I, am God, I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.

⁵ The splendour of the glory of thy majesty, shall they speak, and, thy wonders, will I utter. ⁶ And, the might of thy terrible acts, shall men speak, and, as for thy greatness, I will recount it.

¹⁰ All thy works, O Yahweh, will give thanks unto thee,––and, thy men of lovingkindness, will bless thee: ¹¹ The glory of thy kingdom, will they tell,––and, thy power, will they speak. ¹² To make known to the sons of men, his mighty deeds, and the splendid glory of his kingdom.

²⁰ Howbeit, Yahweh, is in his holy temple,––Hush before him, all the earth.

²⁴ For, he, unto the ends of the earth, directeth his look, under all the heavens, he seeth; ²⁵ Making, for the wind, a weight, and, the waters, he proved by measure, ²⁶ When he made, for the rain, a decree, and a way for the lightning of thunders, ²⁷ Then, saw he it, and declared it, He settled it, yea also he searched it out;

¹³ Who set him in charge of the earth? Or who appointed [him] the whole world?

³⁰ Lo! he hath spread out over it, his lightning, The bed of the sea, hath he covered. ³¹ For, by those things, he executeth judgment on peoples, He giveth food in abundance: ³² Upon both hands, he putteth a covering of lightning, and layeth command upon it against an assailant:

¹¹ Also, with moisture, burdeneth he the thick cloud, He disperseth his lightning–cloud;

⁴ Where wast thou, when I founded the earth? Tell, if thou knowest understanding! ⁵ Who set the measurements thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched out over it a line? ⁶ Whereon were the pedestals thereof sunk? Or who laid the corner stone thereof; –– ⁷ When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? ⁸ Or [who] shut in, with double doors, the sea, when, bursting out of the womb, it came forth; ⁹ When I put a cloud as the garment thereof, and a thick cloud as the swaddling–band thereof; ¹⁰ And brake off for it my boundary, and fixed a bar and double doors; ¹¹ And said––Hitherto, shalt thou come, and no further,––and, here, shalt thou set a limit to the majesty of thy waves?
¹² Since thy days [began] hast thou commanded the morning? or caused the dawn to know its place; ¹³ That it might lay hold of the wings of the earth, and the lawless be shaken out of it? ¹⁴ It transformeth itself like the clay of a seal, so that things stand forth like one arrayed; ¹⁵ That their light may be withdrawn from the lawless, and, the lofty arm, be shivered. ¹⁶ Hast thou entered as far as the springs of the sea? Or, through the secret recesses of the resounding deep, hast thou wandered? ¹⁷ Have the gates of death been disclosed to thee? And, the gates of the death–shade, couldst thou descry? ¹⁸ Hast thou well considered, even the breadths of the earth? Tell––if thou knowest it all! ¹⁹ Where then is the way, the light shall abide? And, the darkness, where then is its place? ²⁰ That thou mayest conduct it unto the bound thereof, and that thou mayest perceive the paths to its house. ²¹ Thou knowest, for, then, hadst thou been born! And, in number, thy days are many! ²² Hast thou entered into the treasuries of the snow? And, the treasuries of the hail, couldst thou see? ²³ Which I have reserved for a time of distress, for the day of conflict and of war? ²⁴ Where then is the way the lightning is parted? The east wind spreadeth itself abroad over the earth.
²⁵ Who hath cloven––for the torrent––a channel? Or a way for the lightning of thunders; ²⁶ To give rain over the no–man’s land, the desert, where no son of earth is; ²⁷ To satisfy the wild and the wilderness, to cause to spring forth the meadow of young grass? ²⁸ Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew? ²⁹ Out of whose womb, came forth the ice? And, the hoar–frost of the heavens, who hath given it birth? ³⁰ Like a stone, are the waters congealed, and, the face of the roaring deep, becometh firm! ³¹ Canst thou bind the fetters of the Pleiades? Or, the bands of Orion, canst thou unloose? ³² Canst thou bring forth the signs of the Zodiac each in its season? Or, the Bear and her Young, canst thou lead? ³³ Knowest thou, the statutes of the heavens? Or didst thou appoint his dominion over the earth? ³⁴ Canst thou lift up, to the thick cloud, thy voice, and the overflow of waters cover thee? ³⁵ Canst thou send forth the lightnings, so that they go, and say to thee, Behold us? ³⁶ Who hath put––into cloud–forms––wisdom? Or who hath given––to the meteor––understanding? ³⁷ Who can count the thin clouds, in wisdom? And, the bottles of the heavens, who can empty out; ³⁸ When the dust is cast into a clod, and the lumps are bound together? ³⁹ Wilt thou hunt––for the Lioness––prey? Or, the craving of the Strong Lion, wilt thou satisfy; ⁴⁰ When they settle down in dens, abide in covert, for lying in wait? ⁴¹ Who prepareth for the Raven his nourishment,––when his young ones––unto GOD––cry out, [when] they wander for lack of food?

⁹⁰ To generation after generation, is thy faithfulness, Thou hast established the earth, and it standeth. ⁹¹ By thy regulations, do they stand today, for, all, are thy servants.

²⁶ Lift on high, your eyes––and see, who, hath created these, That bringeth forth, by number, their host,––To all of them, by name, doth call, Because of the abundance of vigour and alertness of strength, not one, is missing!

⁸ Who bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent beneath them;

⁴ For, of a truth––not false, are my words, One of competent knowledge, is with thee.

² Putting on light, as a robe, Stretching out the heavens, as a curtain; ³ Building, in the waters, his upper chambers,––Who maketh clouds his chariot, Who passeth along on the wings of the wind;

⁵ Great is our Lord, and of abounding strength, And, his knowledge, cannot be expressed.

¹⁹ Yahweh, in wisdom, founded the earth, establishing the heavens with understanding; ²⁰ By his knowledge, the resounding deeps were burst open, and, the skies, drop down dew.

²² It is he who sitteth upon the circle of the earth, While, the inhabitants thereof, are, as grasshoppers,––Who stretcheth forth, as a curtain, the heavens, And spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;

¹² He that made the earth by his power, That established the world by his wisdom,––And, by his understanding, stretched out the heavens, ¹³ At the voice that he uttered, there was a tumult of waters in the heavens, And he caused vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth,––The lightnings for rain, he made, And brought forth wind out of his treasuries.

¹⁷ By the time they begin to thaw, they are dried up, as soon as it is warm, they have vanished out of their place.

³¹ Canst thou bind the fetters of the Pleiades? Or, the bands of Orion, canst thou unloose?

¹⁸ He sendeth forth his word and melteth them, He causeth his wind to blow, the waters, stream along:

⁵⁵ And, whensoever a south wind, blowing, ye say––A scorching heat, will there be! and it cometh to pass.

⁶ And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters,––and let it be a means of dividing, between waters and waters. ⁷ And God made the expanse, and it divided between the waters that were under the expanse and the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. ⁸ And God called, the expanse, heavens. So it was evening––and it was morning, a, second day.

⁸ And he made the laver of bronze, and the stand thereof of bronze,––with the mirrors of the female hosts who did service at the opening of the tent of meeting.

⁸ Who spreadeth out fire heavens, by himself alone! and marcheth along, on the heights of the sea; ⁹ Who made the Bear, the Giant and the Cluster, and the chambers of the south;

² Putting on light, as a robe, Stretching out the heavens, as a curtain;

⁴ Praise him, O ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that are above the heavens; ⁵ Let them praise the Name of Yahweh, for, he, commanded, and they were created; ⁶ So caused he them to stand perpetually––age–abidingly, A decree, hath he given, and it passeth not beyond.

¹ Praise ye Yah, Praise ye GOD in his sanctuary, Praise him, in his strong expanse:

²⁷ When he prepared the heavens, there, was I! When he decreed a vault upon the face of the resounding deep;

¹² Who, hath measured, with the hollow of his hand, the waters, Or, the heavens with a span, hath meted out, Or hath comprehended, in a measure, the dust of the earth, Or weighed, in scales, the mountains, Or, the hills, in a balance?

²⁴ Thus, saith Yahweh, Who hath redeemed thee, Who hath fashioned thee from birth,––I––Yahweh, am the maker of all things, Stretching out the heavens, alone, Spreading forth the earth, of myself;

³ I also, have a mind like you, I, fall not short, of you, But who hath not such things as these?

³ But indeed, I, unto the Almighty, would speak, and, to direct my argument unto GOD, would I be well pleased.

⁶ Hear, I pray you, the argument of my mouth, and, to the pleadings of my lips, give heed:––

²⁰ Whence then cometh, wisdom? And where is the place of understanding? ²¹ Seeing it hath been hid from the eyes of every living thing, and, from the bird of the heavens, hath it been concealed?

² Who is it that darkeneth counsel, by words, without knowledge?

³ Who is it that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore, have I declared, but not understood, things too wonderful for me, which I could not know.

¹⁶ When I reasoned, that I might understand this, A vexation, it was in mine eyes: ¹⁷ Until I could enter the holy places of God,––Could give heed to their hereafter:––

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

⁶ Knowledge, too wonderful, for me! high, I cannot attain to it!

² Surely, more brutish, am, I, than any man, nor doth, the understanding of a son of earth, pertain to me; ³ Neither have I learned wisdom, nor, the knowledge of the Holy Ones, can I acquire. ⁴ Who hath ascended the heavens and then descended? Who hath gathered the wind into his two hands? Who hath wrapped up the waters in a mantle? Who hath set up all the ends of the earth? What is his name and what the name of his son, when thou knowest?

¹² For we see, as yet, through a dim window, obscurely, but, then, face to face: as yet, I gain knowledge, in part, but, then, shall I fully know, even as I was also fully known.

² Beloved! now, are we, children of God; and, not yet, hath it been made manifest, what we shall be,––We know that, if it should be made manifest, like unto him, shall we be, because we shall see him, just as he is.

³ For, now, beyond the sand of the seas, would it be heavy, On this account, my words, have wandered.

⁷ The hidden depth of GOD canst thou discover? Or, unto the furthest limit of the Almighty, canst thou attain? ⁸ The heights of the heavens, what canst thou do? Depths deeper than hades, what canst thou know?

⁴ Surely there hath not been a word on my tongue, [but] behold! O Yahweh, thou hast observed it on every side.

³⁶ But I say unto you, That, every useless expression that men shall utter, they shall render, concerning it, an account, in a day of judgment; ³⁷ For, by thy words, shalt thou be, justified, and, by thy words, shalt thou be condemned.

⁹ Who shutteth–in the face of the throne, he spreadeth over it his cloud;

²⁵ Who hath cloven––for the torrent––a channel? Or a way for the lightning of thunders;

¹¹ Thine, O Yahweh, are Greatness, and Might, and Beauty, and Victory, and Majesty, nay! all in the heavens and in the earth,––thine, O Yahweh, is the kingdom, who art exalted above all,––as chief;

¹⁰ Deck thyself, I pray thee, with majesty and grandeur, Yea, with dignity and splendour, thou shalt clothe thyself;

⁴ The voice of Yahweh, is with power, The voice of Yahweh, is with majesty;

⁵ Come and see the doings of God,––Fearful in deed toward the sons of men:

⁷ O God! When thou camest forth before thy people, When thou didst stride through the wilderness, [Selah.] ⁸ Earth, trembled, Yea, the heavens, dripped at the presence of God,––This Sinai––at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

¹² He cutteth off the spirit of nobles, he is of reverend majesty to the kings of the earth.

¹ Yahweh, hath become king, With majesty, is he clothed,––Clothed is Yahweh, With strength, hath he girded himself, Surely he hath fixed the world, It shall not be shaken.

¹ Bless, O my soul, Yahweh,––Yahweh, my God, thou art exceedingly great, With honour and majesty, hast thou clothed thyself,

⁵ The splendour of the glory of thy majesty, shall they speak, and, thy wonders, will I utter.

²³ A north wind, bringeth forth rain, and, a face stirred with indignation, a secretive tongue.

¹⁰ Enter into the rock, Or hide thee in the dust,––Because of the terribleness of Yahweh, And for his majestic, splendour.

¹⁹ And they shall enter, into the holes of the rocks, and, into the caves of clay,––Because of the terribleness of Yahweh, And for his majestic, splendour, When he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

⁴ Then shall he stand, and tend his flock in the strength of Yahweh, In the excellency of the name of Yahweh his God, have they endured,––For, now, shall he be great unto the ends of the earth;

³ Yahweh, is slow to anger, but great in vigour, He will not leave, unpunished, as for Yahweh, in storm–wind and in tempest, is his way, and, clouds, are the dust of his feet.

³ GOD, from Teman, cometh in, and, the Holy One, from Mount Paran. Selah. His splendour, hath covered the heavens, and, his praise, hath filled the earth: ⁴ And, a brightness, as light, appeareth, Rays, out of his hand, hath he,––and, there, is the hiding of his power. ⁵ Before him, marcheth pestilence,––and fever, goeth forth, at his feet: ⁶ He hath stood and measured the earth, he hath looked, and caused nations to tremble, and, scattered as dust, are the perpetual mountains, and, sunk, are the age–abiding hills,––Forthgoings age–abiding, are his. ⁷ Under distress, saw I the tents of Ethiopia,––tremble, do the curtains of the land of Midian. ⁸ Against the rivers, is Yahweh wroth? Against the rivers, is thine anger? Against the sea, is thine indignation? For thou wilt ride on Thy horses, Thy chariots, [shall be] salvation! ⁹ To nakedness, is bared thy bow, oaths of chastisement––song! Selah. With rivers, thou dost cleave open the land. ¹⁰ The mountains, have seen thee––they tremble, a downpour of waters, hath passed along,––the roaring deep, hath given forth, his voice, on high––his hand, hath he uplifted. ¹¹ Sun, moon, have stood still, on high,––like light, thine arrows, speed along, like brightness, is the flash of thy spear. ¹² In wrath, dost thou stride through the land,––in anger, dost thou thresh the nations. ¹³ Thou hast come forth to the salvation of thy people, to salvation, with thine Anointed One,––Thou hast crushed the Head out of the house of the lawless one, baring the foundation up to the neck, Selah. ¹⁴ Thou hast pierced, with his own staves, the head of his chiefs, they storm along, to scatter me,––their exultant thought, is, in very deed, to devour the oppressed one, in a secret place! ¹⁵ Thou hast driven, into the sea, thy chariot–horses. Foaming are the mighty waters!
¹⁶ I heard, and I trembled within me, at the voice, my lips, quivered, decay, entered, my bones, and, in my limbs, I trembled,––though I am to find rest, in the day of distress, when their invader, cometh up against the people. ¹⁷ Though, the fig–tree, should not blossom, and there be no sprouting in the vines, the yield of the olive, should have deceived, and, the fields, not have brought forth food,––the flock, have been consumed out of the fold, and there be no herd in the stalls, ¹⁸ Yet, I, in Yahweh, will rejoice,––I will exult in the God of my salvation. ¹⁹ Yahweh, My Lord, is my strength, therefore hath he made my feet like hinds, and, upon my high places, will he cause me to march along. To the chief musician, on my double harp.

³ Who, being an eradiated brightness of his glory, and an exact representation of his very being, also bearing up all things by the utterance of his power, purification of sins, having achieved, sat down on the right hand of the majesty in high places:

²⁹ For, even our God, is a consuming fire.

²⁵ Unto God alone our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, greatness, dominion, and authority, before all the [by–gone] age, and now, and unto all the [coming] ages. Amen!

³ Should, GOD, pervert justice? Or, the Almighty, pervert righteousness?

⁴ Wise in heart, and alert in vigour, What man hath hardened himself against him, and prospered!

¹⁹ If it regardeth vigour, bold is he! If justice, who could summon him?

¹³ With Him, are wisdom and strength, to Him, pertain counsel and understanding.

⁷ But, now, hath he wearied me, thou hast destroyed all my family; ⁸ And, having captured me, it hath served, as a witness; and so my wasting away hath risen up against me, in my face, it answereth. ⁹ His anger, hath torn and persecuted me, He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth, Mine adversary, hath sharpened his eyes for me. ¹⁰ They have gaped upon me with their mouth, With reproach, have they smitten my cheek, Together, against me, have they closed their ranks. ¹¹ GOD doth abandon me to him that is perverse, and, into the hands of the lawless, he throweth me headlong. ¹² At ease, was I when he shattered me, Yea he seized me by my neck, and dashed me in pieces, then set me up for himself as a mark: ¹³ His archers came round against me, He clave asunder my reins, and spared not, He poured out, on the earth, my gall: ¹⁴ He made a breach in me, breach upon breach, He ran upon me, like a mighty man. ¹⁵ Sackcloth, sewed I on my skin, and rolled––in the dust––my horn: ¹⁶ My face, is reddened from weeping, and, upon mine eyelashes, is the death–shade:––
¹⁷ Though no violence was in my hands, and, my prayer, was pure.

⁵ Lo! GOD, is mighty, yet will he not despise, Mighty in vigour of mind;

¹⁹ Let us know what we shall say to him, We cannot set in order, by reason of darkness.

⁵ For there is, a Moment, in his anger, a Life–time, in his good–pleasure, In the evening, cometh Weeping to lodge, But, by the morning, ‘tis a Shout of Triumph!

⁵ O Yahweh! in the heavens, is thy lovingkindness, Thy faithfulness, as far as the fleecy clouds: ⁶ Thy righteousness, is like mighty mountains, and, thy just decrees, are a great resounding deep,––Man and beast, thou savest, O Yahweh! ⁷ How precious thy lovingkindness, O God,––Therefore, the sons of men, under the shadow of thy wings, seek refuge:

¹¹ One thing, hath God spoken, Two things, [there are] which I have heard, That, power, belongeth unto God;

⁶ Who setteth fast the mountains by his strength, Being girded with might;

³ Say unto God––How fearful in thy doings, Through the abounding of thy power, shall thy foes come cringing unto thee;

⁴ Yea, with the strength of a king––justice, he loveth,––Thou, hast established equity, Justice and righteousness in Jacob, thou, hast wrought.

⁶ Who made The heavens and the earth, The sea and all that is therein, Who keepeth faithfulness to times age–abiding: ⁷ Who executeth justice for the oppressed, who giveth food to the famishing, Yahweh, who liberateth prisoners;

²¹ Tell ye––and bring near, Yea let them take counsel, together,––Who, let this be known aforetime, In time past, declared it? Was it not, I––Yahweh? And there is none else that is God, besides me, A GOD, righteous and ready to save, There is none, besides, me!

⁹ In all their affliction, he, was afflicted, And, the messenger of his presence, saved them, In his love and in his pity, he, redeemed them,––And then lifted them up and carried them, all the days of the age–past time.

³² Surely, though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion, according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses; ³³ Surely he hath not afflicted from his heart, nor caused sorrow to the sons of men.

²³ Could I take, delight, in the death of the lawless? Demandeth My Lord, Yahweh. Must it not be in his turning from his ways [in which case] he shall live?

³² For I cannot take delight in the death of him that dieth, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, Make good your return then, and, live!

¹³ And bring us not into temptation, but rescue us from the evil one.

²² All things, unto me, have been delivered up by my Father; and, no one, knoweth, who the Son is, save the Father,––and who the Father is, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son may be minded to reveal him.

¹⁶ Who alone hath immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable,––Whom no man hath seen––nor can see: unto whom, be honour and might age–abiding. Amen.

¹⁰ For, they, indeed, for a few days, according to that which seemed good to them, were administering discipline; but, he, unto that which is profitable, with view to our partaking of his holiness:

¹³ Who captureth the wise in their own craftiness, yea the headlong counsel of the crooked:

⁴ But, with thee, is forgiveness, that thou mayest be revered.

¹¹ I again saw under the sun, that not, to the swift, was the race, nor, to the strong, the battle, nay! nor, to the wise, food, nor yet, to the intelligent, riches, nor, even to the well–informed, comeliness,––for, time and accident, happened to them all.

²¹ Alas! for them, Who are wise in their own eyes,––And, in their own sight, are prudent.

³⁹ And I will give them one heart, and one way, That they may revere, me, all the days,––For the good of them, and of their children after, them;

⁹ So shall she become to me––A name of joy, A praise, and, An adorning, To all the nations of the earth,––Who will hear all the good which I, am doing them, And will dread and be deeply moved, over all the good, and over all the prosperity, which I am causing her.

⁵ Afterwards, shall the sons of Israel return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king,––and shall turn with throbbing hearts unto Yahweh and unto his goodness, in the afterpart of the days.

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!

²⁵ In that season, answered Jesus, and said––I openly give praise unto thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,––in that thou hast hid these things from the wise and discerning, and hast revealed them unto babes; ²⁶ Yea, O Father! That, so, it hath become, a delight, before thee.

²¹ In the self–same hour, exulted he in the Holy Spirit, and said––I openly give praise unto thee, Father! Lord of heaven and earth! in that thou hast hid these things from the wise and discerning, and hast revealed them unto babes,––Yea, O Father! that, so, hath it become, a delight, before thee.

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. ⁵ But I will suggest to you, whom ye should fear––Fear him who, after killing, hath authority to cast into gehenna,––Yea, I say unto you––Him, fear ye.

⁴ Or, the riches of his kindness, and forbearance, and long–suffering, dost thou despise,––not knowing that, the kindness of God, unto repentance, is leading thee?

²⁰ Well: by their want of faith, they have been broken out,––and, thou, by thy faith, dost stand!––Regard not lofty things, but be afraid; ²¹ For, if, God, hath not spared, the natural branches, neither, thee, will he spare! ²² See, then, the kindness and the severity of God: upon them who have fallen, severity,––but, upon thee, the kindness of God, if thou abide still in the kindness,––otherwise, thou also, shalt he cut out;

²⁶ For be looking at the calling of you, brethren,––that [there were] not many wise, according to flesh. Not many powerful, not many high–born:

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