Job 38 Cross References - Rotherham

¹ Then Yahweh responded to Job, out of a storm, and said:–– ² Who is it that darkeneth counsel, by words, without knowledge? ³ Gird, I pray thee––like a strong man––thy loins, that I may ask thee, and inform thou me:
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It transformeth itself like the clay of a seal, so that things stand forth like one arrayed; ¹⁵ That their light may be withdrawn from the lawless, and, the lofty arm, be shivered.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?

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.

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. ¹² Then spake Yahweh unto you, out of the midst of the fire,––a voice of words, ye, were hearing, no form, were ye seeing, [there was], only a voice.

²² These words, spake Yahweh, unto all the convocation of you, in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick gloom, a loud voice, and added not,––and he wrote them upon two tables of stone, and gave them unto me.
²³ And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice, out of the midst of the darkness, the mountain also burning with fire, then drew ye near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders, ²⁴ and ye said––Lo! Yahweh our God hath let us see, his glory and his greatness, his voice also, have we heard out of the midst of the fire,––this day, have we seen, that God may speak with man, who yet may live.

¹¹ And he said––Go forth tomorrow, and stand in the mountain, before Yahweh. And lo! Yahweh, passing by, and a great and strong wind––rending the mountains, and breaking in pieces the crags, before Yahweh, Not, in the wind, was, Yahweh,––And, after the wind, an, earthquake, Not, in the earthquake, was, Yahweh;

¹ And it came to pass, when Yahweh was about to take up Elijah in a storm into the heavens, that Elijah departed, with Elisha, from Gilgal.

¹¹ And it came to pass, as they were going on and on and talking, that lo! there was a chariot of fire, with horses of fire, which parted, those two, asunder,––and Elijah went up in a storm, into the heavens.

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;

⁹ Out of a chamber cometh a storm–wind, and, out of the north, cold.

¹⁴ Give thou ear unto this, O Job, Stay, and consider well the wonders of GOD:––

⁶ So then Yahweh responded to Job, out of a storm, and said:––

⁴ So then I beheld, and lo! a tempestuous wind coming out of the North, a great cloud, and a fire catching hold of itself, and it had a brightness round about,––and, out of the midst thereof, as burnished copper to look upon, out of the midst of the fire;

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

⁴ I would set out, before him, a plea, and, my mouth, would I fill with arguments; ⁵ I would note the words wherewith he would respond to me, and would mark what he would say to me.

²⁵ But, if not, who then can convict me of falsehood? or make of no account my words?

³ How hast thou given counsel to one of no–wisdom? or, effective wisdom, abundantly made known?

¹¹ I would teach you, by the hand of GOD, That which is with the Almighty, will I not conceal.

³⁵ Job, without knowledge, doth speak, and, his words, are not with discretion.

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

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.

⁷ Desiring to be law–teachers,––not understanding, either what they say or whereof they confidently affirm.

¹¹ And, thus, shall ye eat it,––your loins, girded, your sandals, on your feet, and, your staff, in your hand,––so shall ye eat it, in haste, it is Yahweh’s, passing over.

⁴⁶ but, the hand of Yahweh, came upon Elijah, so he girded his loins,––and ran before Ahab, until thou enterest Jezreel.

¹⁵ Lo! he may slay me, [yet], for him, will I wait,––Nevertheless, my ways––unto his face, will I show to be right:

²² Then call thou, and, I, will answer, Or I will speak, and reply thou unto me.

³ Oh that I knew where I might find him! I would come even unto his dwelling–place; ⁴ I would set out, before him, a plea, and, my mouth, would I fill with arguments; ⁵ I would note the words wherewith he would respond to me, and would mark what he would say to me. ⁶ Would he, with fulness of might, contend with me? Nay, surely, he, would give heed to me! ⁷ There an upright man, might reason with him, so should I deliver myself completely from my judge.

³⁵ Oh that I had one to hear me, Lo! my crossmark, May, the Almighty, answer me! And would that, a book, mine opponent had written! ³⁶ Oh! would I not, upon my shoulder, lift it, or bind it as a crown upon me; ³⁷ The number of my footsteps, I would declare to him, Like a noble, would I draw near to him.

⁷ Gird, I pray thee––as a strong man––thy loins, I will ask thee, and inform thou me.

¹⁷ Thou, therefore, shalt gird thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them, all that, I, command thee,––be not dismayed because of them, lest I dismay thee before their face.

¹³ Wherefore, girding up the loins of your mind, keeping sober, perseveringly direct your hope unto the favour, being borne along to you, in the revealing of Jesus Christ:

¹ In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

²⁵ Of old––the earth, thou didst found, And, the work of thy hands, are the heavens;

⁵ He hath fixed the earth on its foundations, It is not to be shaken, to times age–abiding and beyond.

²² Yahweh, had constituted me the beginning of his way, before his works, at the commencement of that time;

²⁹ When he fixed for the sea its bound, that, the waters, should not go beyond his bidding, when he decreed the foundations of the earth:–– ³⁰ Then became I beside him, a firm and sure worker, then became I filled with delight, day by day, exulting before him on every occasion;

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?

² At the end of these days, He hath spoken unto us in his Son,––whom he hath appointed heir of all things, through whom also he hath made the ages;

¹⁰ and––Thou, by way of beginning, Lord, the earth, didst found, and, the works of thy hands, are the heavens,––

⁹ Longer than the earth, is the measure thereof, and broader than the sea.

²⁵ Making, for the wind, a weight, and, the waters, he proved by measure,

⁴ [Yet] through all the earth, hath gone forth their voice,––and, to the end of the world, their sayings,––For the sun, hath he set up a tent therein;

⁵⁵ So he drave out, before them, [whole] nations, And allotted them, by line, an inheritance, And caused to dwell, in their own homes, the tribes of Israel.

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

²⁹ When he fixed for the sea its bound, that, the waters, should not go beyond his bidding, when he decreed the foundations of the earth:––

¹¹ That the vomiting pelican and the bittern, may possess it: And, the great owl and the raven, dwell therein; Then will he stretch out over it, The line of desolation, and, The plummet of emptiness.

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?

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;

¹ Then lifted I up mine eyes and looked, and lo! a Man,––and, in his hand, a Measuring Line. ² And I said, Whither art thou going? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what [should be] the breadth thereof, and what the length thereof.

¹⁶ Unto the regions beyond you, to carry the glad–message: not, within another man’s limit, as to the things made ready, to boast ourselves.

¹⁸ So then thou shalt make the boards for the habitation,––twenty boards, on the south side, southwards. ¹⁹ And, forty sockets of silver, shalt thou make, under the twenty boards,––two sockets, under the one board, for its two tenons, and two sockets, under the next board, for its two tenons. ²⁰ And, on the second side of the habitation, towards the north, twenty boards; ²¹ and their forty sockets of silver,––two sockets, under the one board, and, two sockets, under the next board. ²² And, for the hinderpart of the habitation, westward, shalt thou make six boards. ²³ And, two boards, shalt thou make, for the corners of the habitation,––in the hinderpart: ²⁴ that they may be double beneath, and, at the same time, they shall be entire on the top thereof, into each ring,––thus, shall it be for them both, for the two corners, shall they be. ²⁵ So shall they be eight boards, and, their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets,––two sockets, under the one board, and, two sockets, under the next board.

⁸ Raiseth, from the dust, the poor, From the dunghill, uplifteth the needy, To give them a dwelling with nobles, And, a throne of glory, to make them inherit. For, to Yahweh, belong the pillars of the earth, And he setteth thereon the habitable world.

⁷ Who stretcheth out the north over emptiness, hangeth the earth upon nothingness;

² For, he, upon the seas, hath founded it, and upon the currents, doth make it firm.

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.

²² A stone the builders refused, hath become the head of the corner:

¹² That, our sons, may be like plants well grown while yet young,––Our daughters, like corner pillars,––carved, in the construction of a palace:

¹⁶ Therefore, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Behold me! founding in Zion, a stone, A stone of testing, The costly corner of a well–laid foundation, He that trusteth, shall not make haste!

¹ The oracle of the word of Yahweh, on Israel,––Declareth Yahweh––Stretching out the heavens, and founding the earth, and fashioning the spirit of man within him:

²⁰ Having been built up on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, there being, for chief corner stone, Jesus Christ himself,–– ²¹ In whom, an entire building, in process of being fitly joined together, is growing into a holy shrine in [the] Lord;

⁵ For this they, willfully, forget––that there were, heavens, from of old, and, an earth, on account of water and by means of water, compacted, by God’s word,––

¹¹ And, when they made responses in offering praise and in giving thanks unto Yahweh––For he is good, for, age–abiding, is his lovingkindness, upon Israel, then, all the people, shouted with a great shout, in offering praise unto Yahweh, over the laying of the foundation of the house of Yahweh. ¹² But, many of the priests and the Levites and the ancestral chiefs, who were old men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, were weeping with a loud voice,––many, however, shouting and rejoicing, with voice raised on high;

⁶ Now there came a certain day, when the sons of God entered in to present themselves unto Yahweh,––so the accuser also entered, in their midst.

¹ And there came a certain day when the sons of God entered in, to present themselves unto Yahweh––so the accuser also entered in their midst, to present himself unto Yahweh.

⁴ Making His messengers, winds, His attendants, a flaming fire;

⁷ Who, art, thou, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel, [brought down] to a plain! So shall he bring forth the headstone, with thundering shouts Beautiful! Beautiful! thereunto.

²⁸ And I will give unto him the morning star.

¹¹ And I saw, and heard a voice of many messengers, round about the throne and the living creatures and the elders,––and the number of them was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands––

¹⁶ I, Jesus, have sent my messenger, to bear witness unto you of these things, for the assemblies. I, am the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright and the morning Star.

⁹ And God said––Let the waters under the heavens, be gathered together, into one place, and let the dry–ground appear. And it was so.

¹⁰ And brake off for it my boundary, and fixed a bar and double doors;

⁷ Who gathered as into a skin–bottle the waters of the sea, Delivering, into treasuries, the roaring deeps.

⁸ Mountains rise, Valleys sink, Unto the place which thou hast fixed for them; ⁹ Bounds, hast thou set, which they are not to pass over, They are not to return to cover the earth.

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,

² Now, the earth, had become waste and wild, and, darkness, was on the face of the roaring deep,––but, the Spirit of God, was brooding on the face of the waters.

⁹ And God said––Let the waters under the heavens, be gathered together, into one place, and let the dry–ground appear. And it was so. ¹⁰ And God called, the dry–ground, land, but, the gathering together of the waters, called he, seas. And God saw that it was, good.

¹⁵ then will I remember my covenant, which is betwixt me and you, and every living soul, among all flesh,––that the waters may no more become a flood, to destroy all flesh:

¹⁰ A, boundary, hath he encircled on the face of the waters, as far as where light ends in darkness;

⁹ Bounds, hast thou set, which they are not to pass over, They are not to return to cover the earth.

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

⁶ And Yahweh said unto the accuser, Behold him! in thy hand,––only, his life, preserve thou!

⁶ Who setteth fast the mountains by his strength, Being girded with might; ⁷ Who stilleth, The noise of the seas, The noise of their rolling waves, and The tumult of races of men?

¹⁰ For the multitude of mankind shall give thanks unto thee, The remainder of the multitude, shall keep holy festival unto thee.

⁹ Thou, rulest over the swelling of the sea, When the rolling waves thereof lift themselves, Thou, dost bid them be still:

³ The floods have lifted up, O Yahweh, The floods have lifted up––their voice, The floods have lifted up––their dashing waves. ⁴ With the sounds of many waters, Majestic are the breakers of the sea, Majestic on high, is Yahweh.

⁸ By driving her away––by dismissing her, wouldest thou contend with her? He removed her by his rough wind, in a day of east wind.

³⁹ And, roused up, he rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea––Hush! be still! and the wind lulled, and it became a great calm. ⁴⁰ And he said unto them––Why, are ye, fearful? Not yet, have ye faith? ⁴¹ And they were caused to fear a great fear, and were saying one to another––Who then is, this, that, both the wind and the sea, give ear unto him?

³² Now there was there, a herd of a good many swine, feeding in the mountain; and they besought him, that he would suffer them, into those, to enter; and he suffered them. ³³ And the demons, going forth from the man entered into the swine; and the herd rushed down the cliff, into the lake, and were choked.

² and he laid hold of the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is Adversary and the Accuser, and bound him for a thousand years,–– ³ and cast him into the abyss, and fastened and sealed [it] over him,––that he might not deceive the nations any more, until the thousand years, should be ended: after these, must he be loosed for a short time.

⁷ And, as soon as the thousand years, shall be ended, the Accuser shall be loosed out of his prison, ⁸ and will go forth to deceive the nations that are in the four corners of the earth, the Gog and Magog, to gather them together unto the battle––the number of whom, is as the sand of the sea.

⁵ and God called, the light, day, but, the darkness, called he, night. So it was evening––and it was morning, one day.

⁹ For, of yesterday, are, we, and cannot know, for, a shadow, are our days upon earth:

⁷ The first of mankind, wast thou born? Or, before the hills, wast thou brought forth?

⁴ Where wast thou, when I founded the earth? Tell, if thou knowest understanding!

²¹ Thou knowest, for, then, hadst thou been born! And, in number, thy days are many!

¹⁶ Thine, is the day, Yea, thine, the night, Thou, didst establish moon and sun;

⁷ To him that made great lights, For, age–abiding, is his lovingkindness. ⁸ The sun to rule the day, For, age–abiding, is his lovingkindness.

³ Praise him, sun and moon, Praise him, all ye stars of light; 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;

⁷⁸ Because of the yearning compassion of the mercy of our God, wherein shall visit us a day–dawn from on high,––

¹⁹ And we have, more firm, the prophetic word; ––whereunto ye are doing, well, to take heed,––as unto a lamp shining in a dusky place,––until, day, shall dawn, and, a day–star, shall arise in your hearts:––

²⁷ So Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned, towards morning, to its steady flow, when, the Egyptians, were fleeing to meet it,––thus Yahweh shook off the Egyptians, into the midst of the sea;

¹³ They, have become rebels against the light,––they are not acquainted with the ways thereof, neither abide they in the paths thereof. ¹⁴ With the light, riseth the murderer, He slayeth the poor and needy, And, in the night, he becometh like a thief. ¹⁵ And, the eye of the adulterer, watcheth for the evening twilight, saying, Not an eye will see me! A covering for the face, he putteth on; ¹⁶ He breaketh, in the dark, into houses,––By day, they lock themselves in, They know not the light; 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 Under the whole heavens, he letteth it loose, His lightning also, unto the wings of the earth;

⁴ [Yet] through all the earth, hath gone forth their voice,––and, to the end of the world, their sayings,––For the sun, hath he set up a tent therein; ⁵ And, he, is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, he rejoiceth as a hero to run a race: ⁶ From one end of the heavens, is his going forth, and, his circuit, to the other end thereof––and, nothing, is hid from his glowing heat.

²¹ The young lions, roaring for prey, And seeking, from GOD, their food. ²² The sun ariseth, they withdraw themselves, And, in their lairs, lay them down.

³⁵ Sinners shall be consumed out of the earth And, the lawless, no more, shall exist,––Bless, O my soul, Yahweh, Praise ye Yah!

⁹ If I mount the wings of the dawn, settle down in the region beyond the sea, ¹⁰ Even there, thy hand shall lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. ¹¹ If I say, Surely, darkness, shall cover me! then, night, is light about me. ¹² Even darkness, will not conceal from thee,––but, night, like day, will shine, So is the darkness, as the light!

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

⁶ With the resounding deep––as a garment, hast thou covered it, Above the mountains, stand the waters;

²¹ Then said Yahweh unto Moses: Stretch forth thy hand over the heavens, that there may be darkness, over the land of Egypt,––and that one may feel the darkness. 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.

¹⁸ And, when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto Yahweh, and said––Smite, I beseech thee, this people, with sudden blindness. And he smote them with sudden blindness, according to the word of Elisha.

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

⁵ Even the light of the lawless, shall go out,––Neither shall shine the flame of his fire;

¹⁸ Let them thrust him out of light into darkness, Yea, out of the world, let them chase him;

¹⁵ Shatter thou the arm of the lawless one, And, as for the wrongful, wilt thou not enquire for his lawlessness––wilt thou not find [it]?

¹⁷ For, the arms of the lawless, shall be broken, But Yahweh is upholding the righteous.

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

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!

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.

²² Therefore, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh––Behold me! against Pharaoh king of Egypt, Therefore will I break his arms, That which is strong, and, That which is broken,––So will I cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

¹⁰ Said––O full of all guile, and all recklessness! Son of an adversary! Enemy of all righteousness!––Wilt thou not cease to pervert the straight ways of the Lord? ¹¹ Now, therefore, lo! the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun, until a fitting time. And, instantly, there fell upon him a mist and darkness; and, going about, he was seeking such as might lead him by the hand.

⁵ The shades, tremble, beneath the waters and their inhabitants; ⁶ Naked is hades before him, and there is no covering to destruction;

¹⁹ In the sea, was thy way, And, thy path, in the mighty waters, And, thy footprints, could not be known:

²⁴ When there was no resounding deep, I had been brought forth, when there were no fountains, abounding with water;

³⁶ Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, Behold me! pleading thy cause, So then I will execute the avenging of thee; And will dry up her sea, And make dry her spring:

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:

²² Laying open deep things, out of darkness, and bringing out to light, the death–shade:

¹³ Show me favour, O Yahweh! Behold my humiliation due to them who hate me, Lift me on high out of the gates of death;

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.

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.

¹⁸ All manner of food, their soul abhorreth, and so they draw near unto the gates of death,

³ The meshes of death encompassed me, and the distresses of hades, came upon me, Peril and sorrow, I found;

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:

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.

²⁴ For, he, unto the ends of the earth, directeth his look, under all the heavens, he seeth;

¹⁷ Thou, didst set up all the bounds of the earth, As for summer and winter, thou, didst form them!

¹¹ Thine, are the heavens, Yea, thine, the earth, The world and the fulness thereof, Thou, didst found them; ¹² The north and the south, Thou, didst create them,––Tabor and Hermon, with thy Name, shall shout for joy:

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:

³⁷ Thus, saith Yahweh––If the heavens above, can be measured, Or the foundations of the earth beneath, be searched out, I also, may reject all the seed of Israel, for all that they have done, Declareth Yahweh.

⁹ And they came up over the breadth of the land, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. And there came down fire out of heaven, and devoured them;

³ And God said––Light, be. And light was. ⁴ And God saw the light, that it was, good,––and God divided, the light, from the, darkness;

¹⁴ And God said––Let there be luminaries in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night,––and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years; ¹⁵ yea let them be for luminaries, in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth. And it was so. ¹⁶ And God made the two great luminaries,––the greater luminary to rule the day, and the lesser luminary to rule the night, also the stars. ¹⁷ And God set them in the expanse of the heavens,––to give light on the earth; ¹⁸ and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was, good.

¹⁹ or lest thou shouldest lift up thine eyes towards the heavens, and see the sun, and the moon, and the stars––all the host of the heavens, and shouldest be seduced, and shouldest bow thyself down to them, and he led to serve them,––the which Yahweh thy God hath assigned unto all the peoples under all the heavens;

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?

¹¹ Made darkness his hiding–place, Round about him––his pavilion, Darkness of waters, clouds of vapours.

²⁰ Thou causest darkness, and it becometh night, Therein, creepeth forth, Every wild beast of the forest;

²⁸ He sent darkness, and made it dark, But they rebelled against his words;

⁷ Forming light, and creating darkness, Making prosperity, and creating misfortune,––I––Yahweh, who doeth all these.

⁸ As for all the light–bearers in the heavens, I will obscure them over thee,––And will stretch out darkness over thy land, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.

¹³ For lo! He that fashioned the mountains, and created the wind, and who telleth the son of earth what is his thought, who turneth dawn into darkness, and marcheth upon the high places of the earth, Yahweh, God of hosts, is his name!

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

⁹ It, was––The real light that enlighteneth every man––Coming into the world.

¹² Again, therefore, unto them, spake Jesus, saying––I, am the light of the world: He that followeth me, shall in nowise walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

¹⁹ And it came to pass, that the boundary of the Canaanite was from Zidon, as thou enterest in towards Gerar, unto Gaza,––as thou enterest in towards Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboim, as far as Lasha.

¹⁷ So was confirmed the field of Ephron, which is in Machpelah, which is before Mamre,––the field, and the cave which is therein, and all the timber which was in the field, which was in all the boundary thereof round about,

¹² Since thy days [began] hast thou commanded the morning? or caused the dawn to know its place;

¹⁶ Which darken by reason of the cold, over them, is a covering made by the snow:

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

⁷ Causing vapours to ascend from the end of the earth,––Lightnings for the rain, hath he made, bringing forth wind out of his treasuries.

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.

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.

¹¹ And it came to pass, when they fled from before Israel, they, being on the slope of Beth–horon, that, Yahweh, cast down upon them great stones out of the heavens, as far as Azekah, and they died,––more, were they who died by the hailstones, than they whom the sons of Israel slew with the sword.

¹³ Yea, the impious in heart, should store up anger, They should not cry for help, when he bound them.

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

³⁰ Then will Yahweh, cause to be heard––the resounding of his voice, And, the bringing down of his arm, shall be seen, In a rage of anger, And with the flame of a devouring fire,––A burst and a downpour, and a hailstone!

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. ¹² Lo! when the wall hath fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where, is the coating, wherewith ye coated it? 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;

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.

²¹ And, great hail, as talents, cometh down out of heaven upon mankind; and men blasphemed God, by reason of the plague of hail,––because the plague thereof was, exceeding great.

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.

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.

²⁶ When he made, for the rain, a decree, and a way for the lightning of thunders,

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.

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.

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! ¹⁰ Yahweh, at the Flood, was seated, And Yahweh hath taken his seat, as king, unto times age–abiding.

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

¹⁰ Who hast sent forth springs, through the torrent–beds, Between the mountains, they flow along; ¹¹ They give drink, to every wild beast of the field, The wild asses do break their thirst. ¹² Over them, the bird of the heavens settleth down, From amidst the foliage, they utter a voice. ¹³ Who watereth the mountains out of his upper chambers, Out of the fruit of thy works, thou satisfiest the earth. ¹⁴ Who causeth the grass to shoot forth for the cattle, And the herb, for the service of man, That he may bring forth food out of the earth;

³⁵ He turneth A Desert, into a pool of water, and, A Parched Land into springs of water;

⁸ Who covereth the heavens with clouds, preparing rain for the earth, who causeth the mountains to sprout grass: ⁹ Giving, to the beast, its food, to the young ravens, when they cry.

¹ Wilderness and parched land, shall be glad for them,––And the waste plain, shall exult, and blossom as the lily: ² It shall, blossom abundantly, and exult, Yea, with exultation and shouts of triumph, The glory of Lebanon, hath been given to it, The splendour of Carmel, and Sharon,––They, shall see, the glory of Yahweh, the splendour of our God.

¹⁸ I will open, On bare hills, rivers, and, In the midst of plains, fountains,––I will make, The desert, a lake of water, and, Parched land, springs of water; ¹⁹ I will set, in the desert! Cedar, acacia, and myrtle, and oil–tree,––I will place, in the waste plain, Cypress, holm–oak, and sherbin–cedar, together,

¹⁹ Behold me! doing, a new thing, Now, shall it spring forth, Will ye not take note thereof? Surely I will set, In the desert, a way, In a desolate land, rivers: ²⁰ The wild beast of the field shall honour, me, Jackals, and ostriches, Because I have given––In the desert, waters, Rivers in, desolate land, To give drink unto my people, my chosen:

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.

⁷ For, land, which hath drunk in, the rain, thereupon ofttimes coming, and which bringeth forth vegetation fit for them for whom it is even cultivated, partaketh of a blessing from God; ⁸ But, should it be bringing forth thorns and briars, it is disapproved, and, unto cursing, nigh,––whose end is for burning.

¹⁴ Who causeth the grass to shoot forth for the cattle, And the herb, for the service of man, That he may bring forth food out of the earth;

²⁸ Then, may God give thee of the dew of the heavens, And of the fatness of the earth,––And abundance of corn, and new wine:

³⁹ Then answered Isaac his father, and said unto him,––Lo! of the fat parts of the earth, shall be thy dwelling, And of the dew of the heavens, above;

¹³ And, of Joseph, he said, Blessed of Yahweh, be his land,––With the precious things of the heavens, with the dew, And with the abyss, couching beneath;

²⁸ Thus hath Israel settled down securely, Alone, the fountain of Jacob, Within a land both of corn and new wine,––His heaven also droppeth down dew.

¹⁷ Is it not wheat harvest, today? I will cry unto Yahweh, that he may give forth thunderings and rain,––know ye then and see, that, your wrong, is great which ye have done in the sight of Yahweh, in asking for yourselves, a king. 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.

²¹ Ye mountains in Gilboa! Be there neither dew nor rain upon you, nor fields of offerings,––for, there, were cast away, the shields of the mighty, The shield of Saul, unanointed with oil.

¹ Then said Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, unto Ahab, By the life of Yahweh, God of Israel, before whom I stand, there shall not, these two years, be either dew or rain,––save at the bidding of my word.

⁹ Who doeth great things, beyond all search,––Wondrous things, till they cannot be recounted; ¹⁰ Who giveth rain, upon the face of the earth, and sendeth forth waters, over the face of the open fields;

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

⁸ Or [who] shut in, with double doors, the sea, when, bursting out of the womb, it came forth;

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.

⁸ Who covereth the heavens with clouds, preparing rain for the earth, who causeth the mountains to sprout grass:

²⁰ By his knowledge, the resounding deeps were burst open, and, the skies, drop down dew.

²⁴ Neither have they said in their heart,––Let us, we pray you, revere Yahweh our God, Who giveth rain, even the early and the latter, in its season,––The appointed weeks of harvest, he reserveth for us.

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.

⁵ I will become as the dew unto Israel, he shall break forth as the lily,––and he shall strike his roots as Lebanon:

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;

⁴⁵ That ye may become sons of your Father who is in the heavens: because, his sun, he maketh arise on evil and good, and sendeth rain, on just and unjust.

¹⁰ By the breath of GOD, is given––frost, and, the breadth of waters, is congealed;

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?

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

⁵ and he put down the idol–priests, whom the kings of Judah had appointed, so that incense might be burned in the high places, in the cities of Judah, and round about Jerusalem,––them also that burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the constellations, and to all the army of the heavens;

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

¹⁶ And God made the two great luminaries,––the greater luminary to rule the day, and the lesser luminary to rule the night, also the stars.

²² During all the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.

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.

⁶ So caused he them to stand perpetually––age–abidingly, A decree, hath he given, and it passeth not beyond.

³⁵ Thus, saith Yahweh––Who hath given the sun, for a light by day, The ordinances of the moon and the stars, for a light by night,––Who excited the sea, and the waves thereof roared, Yahweh of hosts, is his name:–– ³⁶ If these ordinances depart from before me, Declareth Yahweh,––the seed of Israel also, may cease from being a nation before me, all the days.

²⁵ Thus, saith Yahweh, If, my covenant of day and night, the ordinances of the heavens and the earth, I did not appoint,

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.

¹¹ Or darkness––thou canst not see, and, a flood of waters, covereth thee.

¹ Ask ye from Yahweh rain, in the time of the latter rain, Yahweh, who causeth flashes of lightning,––and, rain in abundant showers, giveth he unto them, to every man, herbage in the field;

¹⁸ And, again, he prayed, and, the heaven, gave, rain, and, the land, shot up her fruit.

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.

²⁹ And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, will I spread out my hands unto Yahweh,––the thunderings, shall cease, and, the hail, shall come no more,––that thou mayest know, that, to Yahweh, belongeth the earth.

² Then came there forth fire from before Yahweh, and consumed them,––and they died before Yahweh.

¹ And it came to pass, that, when the people were giving themselves up to murmuring, it was grievous in the ears of Yahweh,––so Yahweh hearkened, and kindled was his anger, and the fire of Yahweh burned among them, and consumed the uttermost part of the camp.

³⁵ Fire also, came forth, from Yahweh,––and consumed the two hundred and fifty men, who offered the incense.

¹² And Saul said, Hear, I pray thee, thou son of Ahitub! And he said––Behold me! my lord.

¹⁰ And Elijah responded and said unto the captain of fifty, If, then, a man of God, I am, let fire come down out of the heavens, and devour thee and thy fifty. So there came down fire out of the heavens, and devoured him and his fifty.

¹⁴ Lo! there hath come down fire out of the heavens, and devoured the captains of the former fifties, with their fifties,––now, therefore, let my life be precious in thine eyes.

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

⁸ Then heard I the voice of My Lord, saying, Whom, shall I send? And who, will go for us? And I said––Here am I,––send me.

¹ I have let myself be consulted, by them who had not asked, I have suffered myself to be found, by them who had not sought me,––I have said, Here I am! Here I am! Unto a nation that had not been called by my name.

⁵ And, if any one, upon them, chooseth to inflict injury, fire, cometh forth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies; and, if anyone shall choose, upon them, to inflict injury, thus, must he be slain. 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.

³ and have filled him with the Spirit of God,––in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;

¹ Thus shall Bezaleel and Oholiab work, and every man that is wise–hearted, in whom Yahweh hath put wisdom and understanding, to know how to work any manner of workmanship for the holy service,––according to all that Yahweh hath commanded. ² So then Moses called upon Bezaleel, and upon Oholiab, and upon every man that was wise–hearted, in whose heart Yahweh had put wisdom,––every one whose heart lifted him up, to draw near unto the work, to do it.

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

⁸ Yet surely, there is a spirit in men, and, the inspiration of the Almighty, giveth them understanding;

⁶ Lo! faithfulness, hast thou desired in the inward parts, Yea, in the hidden part, wilt thou cause me to know, wisdom.

⁶ For, Yahweh, giveth wisdom, out of his mouth, knowledge and understanding;

²⁶ For, to a man who is good before him, hath he given wisdom and knowledge and gladness,––whereas, to the sinner, he hath given employment, to gather and heap up, to give to one who is good before God, even this, was vanity, and a feeding on wind.

²⁶ Yea, One hath trained him to good judgment, His God, directeth him.

⁵ But, if any of you is sinning short of wisdom, let him be asking of God, Who giveth unto all freely and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him;

¹⁷ Every good giving, and every perfect gift, is, from above, coming down from the Father of lights––with whom is no alternation, nor shadow cast, by turning:

¹ And God remembered Noah, and all the wild–beasts, and all the tame–beasts that were with him in the ark,––and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided;

⁵ And he brought him forth abroad, and said––Look steadfastly, I pray thee, towards the heavens, and number the stars, if thou be able to number, them, And he said to him, Thus, shall be thy seed.

⁴ Counting the number of the stars, To all of them––names, he giveth.

¹⁰ [Notwithstanding] the roaring of the lion, and the noise of the howling lion, yet, the teeth of the fierce lions, are broken: ¹¹ The strong lion perishing for lack of prey, Even the whelps of the lioness, are scattered.

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

²¹ The young lions, roaring for prey, And seeking, from GOD, their food.

¹⁵ The eyes of all, for thee, do wait, and, thou, givest them their food in its season. ¹⁶ Thou, openest thy hand, and fillest every living thing with gladness.

⁹ A lion’s whelp, is Judah, From the prey, my son, hast thou come up! He hath stooped––hath crouched, As a lion––or as a lioness, Who shall rouse him?

²⁴ Lo, a people, like a lioness, shall rise, And, like a strong lion, shall rouse himself up; He will not lie down, till he eat the torn, And, the blood of the slain, he drink.

⁹ He hath knelt––hath lain down, Like a strong lion, yea like a lioness, Who shall rouse him up? Such as bless thee, are each one blessed, But, such as curse thee, are each one cursed.

⁸ So then the wild–beast hath gone into covert, and, in its lairs, doth it remain.

²⁷ All of them, for thee, do wait, That thou mayest give them their food in its season; ²⁸ Thou givest unto them, they gather, Thou openest thy hand, they are satisfied with good.

⁹ Giving, to the beast, its food, to the young ravens, when they cry.

²⁶ Observe intently, the birds of the heaven,––that they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns, and yet, your heavenly Father, feedeth, them: Are no, ye, much better than, they?

²⁴ Consider well the ravens––That they sow nor, neither do they reap, which have neither chamber nor barn,––and, God, feedeth, them! By how much do, ye, excel, the birds?