Job 4 Cross References - Rotherham

¹ Then responded Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:–– ² If one attempt a word unto thee, wilt thou be impatient? But, to restrain speech, who, can endure? ³ Lo! thou hast admonished many, and, slack hands, hast thou been wont to uphold: ⁴ Him that was stumbling, have thy words raised up, and, sinking knees, hast thou strengthened. ⁵ But, now, it cometh upon thee, and thou despairest, It smiteth even thee, and thou art dismayed. ⁶ Is not, thy reverence, thy confidence? And is not, thy hope, the very integrity of thy ways?
⁷ Remember, I pray thee, who, being innocent, hath perished, or when, the upright, have been cut off. ⁸ So far as I have seen, They who plow for iniquity and sow misery, reap the same: ⁹ By the blast of GOD, they perish, And, by the breath of his nostrils, are they consumed: 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.
¹² But, unto me, something was brought by stealth,––and mine ear caught a whispering of the same: ¹³ When there were thoughts, from visions of the night,––When deep sleep falleth upon men, ¹⁴ Dread, came upon me, and trembling, The multitude of my bones, it put in dread: ¹⁵ Then, a spirit, over my face, floated along, The hair of my flesh bristled–up: ¹⁶ It stood still, but I could not distinguish its appearance, I looked, but there was no form before mine eyes,––A whispering voice, I heard:–– ¹⁷ Shall, mortal man, be more just than GOD? Or a man be more pure than, his Maker? ¹⁸ Lo! in his own servants, he trusteth not, and, his own messengers, he chargeth with error: ¹⁹ How much more the dwellers in houses of clay, which, in the dust, have their foundation, which are crushed sooner than a moth: ²⁰ Betwixt morning and evening, are they broken in pieces, With none to save, they utterly perish: ²¹ Is not their tent–rope within them, torn away? They die, disrobed of wisdom!

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

¹ After this, opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. ² So then Job began, and said:

¹ Then responded Job, and said:––

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

¹ Then responded Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:

¹ Then responded Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:––

⁹ So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite [and] Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according to that which Yahweh had spoken unto them,––and Yahweh accepted Job.

¹⁸ For I am full of discourse, The spirit in my bosom, presseth me on. ¹⁹ Lo! my bosom, is like wine not opened, Like new wineskins, it will burst. ²⁰ I will speak, that I may freely breathe, I will open my lips and respond.

¹¹ So then, with the indignation of Yahweh, am I full, I am too weary to hold it in, [I am constrained] to pour it out, upon the boy in the street, and, upon the circle of young men, together,––For, even husband with wife, will be captured, The elder with him who is full of days;

⁹ Therefore I say––I will not mention him, Neither will I speak any more in his name, But then it becometh in my heart, as a fire that burneth, Shut up in my bones,––And I am weary of restraint, and cannot refrain.

²⁰ For, we, cannot but be speaking the things which we have seen and heard.

⁴ For, out of much tribulation and anguish of heart, wrote I unto you, through many tears,––not that ye might be grieved, but that, the love, ye might know, which I have very abundantly unto you.
⁵ Now, if anyone hath caused grief, not unto me hath he caused grief, but––that I may not bear too heavily––unto you all. ⁶ Sufficient, unto such a one, the punishment itself which [was inflicted] by the many;

⁸ Because, if I even grieved you by the letter, I do not regret,––though I could even have regretted,––I see that that letter, if even for an hour, did cause you grief. ⁹ Now, am I rejoicing,––not that ye were grieved, but that ye were grieved unto repentance; for ye were grieved according to God, in order that, in nothing, should ye receive damage from us. ¹⁰ For, grief according to God, worketh, repentance unto salvation, not to be regretted; although, the grieving of the world, worketh, death.

¹⁹ For I have become his intimate friend, To the end that he may command his sons and his house after him, so shall they keep the way of Yahweh, by doing righteousness and justice,––To the end that Yahweh may bring in for Abraham, what he hath spoken concerning him.

²⁸ But command thou Joshua, and confirm him and embolden him,––for, he, shall pass over before this people, and, he, shall cause them to inherit the land, which thou shalt see.

²² and kept the festival of unleavened cakes seven days, with joy,––for Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria towards them, to strengthen their hands, in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

⁵ I could make you determined, by my mouth, and then my lip–solace should restrain you.

²¹ The lips of the righteous, feed multitudes, but, the foolish, for lack of sense, shall die.

⁷ The lips of the wise, scatter abroad knowledge, but, the heart of dullards, is not right.

²¹ The wise in heart, shall be called intelligent, and, sweetness of lips, increaseth persuasiveness.

³ Strengthen ye the weak hands,––The trembling knees, make ye firm:

⁴ My Lord Yahweh, hath given unto me the tongue of the instructed, That I should know how to succour the fainting, with discourse,––He kept wakening––morning by morning, He kept wakening mine ear, to hearken, as do the instructed;

²² Because of the paining of the heart of the righteous man with falsehood, whom, I, have not pained,––And strengthening the hands of the lawless man, that he should not turn from his wicked way, by letting him live.

³² But, I, have entreated for thee, that thy faith may not fail. And, thou, once thou hast turned, strengthen thy brethren.

⁴³ [And there appeared unto him a messenger from heaven, strengthening him,––

²⁹ Let, no putrid discourse, out of your mouth, be going forth, but if anything is good––suited to the needful upbuilding,––that it may give benefit unto them that hear;

⁶ Your discourse being always with benefit, with salt, seasoned,––that ye may know how it behoveth you, unto each one, to be making answer.

¹² Wherefore, the slackened hands and paralysed knees, restore ye,

¹⁴ Yahweh is ready to uphold all who are falling, and to raise all who are laid prostrate.

¹⁸ There is who babbleth, as with thrusts of a sword, but, the tongue of the wise, hath healing.

²³ The heart of the wise, giveth discretion to his mouth, and, upon his lips, increaseth persuasiveness.
²⁴ A comb of honey, are pleasant words, sweet to the taste and healing to the bone.

³ Strengthen ye the weak hands,––The trembling knees, make ye firm: ⁴ Say to the hurried in heart, Be strong, Do not fear,––Lo! your God, with avenging, doth come, With the recompence of God, He, doth come to save you.

⁶ Then, as for the king, his bright looks, changed in him, and, his thoughts, terrified him,––and, the joints of his loins, were loosed, and, his knees, smote, one against another.

⁷ So that, on the contrary, ye should forgive and encourage, lest, by any means, by his excessive grief, such a one should be swallowed up.

⁶ But, he who encourageth them that are brought low, encouraged us,––even God,––by the presence of Titus.

¹⁴ But we exhort you, brethren––admonish the disorderly, soothe them of little soul, help the weak, be longsuffering towards all:

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

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

²⁵ For, a dread, I dreaded, and it hath come upon me, and, that from which I shrank, hath overtaken me. ²⁶ I was not careless, nor was I secure, nor had I settled down,––when there came––consternation!

¹⁴ The despairing, from his friend, should have lovingkindness, or, the reverence of the Almighty, he may forsake.

²¹ Pity me! pity me! ye, my friends, for, the hand of GOD, hath stricken me!

¹⁰ Thou hast been slothful in the day of straitness, Strait, is thy strength.

¹ Wherefore, having this ministry, even as we received mercy, we faint not;

¹⁶ Wherefore we faint not, but, even if, our outer man, is decaying, nevertheless, our inner [man], is renewing day by day.

³ For take ye into consideration––him who hath endured, such contradiction, by sinners against themselves, lest ye be wearied, in your souls becoming exhausted.

⁵ And ye have quite forgotten the exhortation which, indeed, with you as with sons, doth reason:––My son! be not slighting the discipline of the Lord, neither be fainting, when by him, thou art reproved;

³ I beseech thee, O Yahweh, remember, I pray thee, how I have walked before thee, in truth, and with a whole heart, and, that which is good in thine eyes, have I done! And Hezekiah wept aloud.

¹ A man, there was––in the land of Uz, Job, his name,––and that man was blameless and upright, and one who revered God, and avoided evil.

⁸ And Yahweh said unto the accuser, Hast thou applied thy heart unto my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a man blameless and upright, one revering God and avoiding evil? ⁹ And the accuser answered Yahweh, and said, Is it, for nought, that Job revereth God? ¹⁰ Hast not, thou thyself, made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath, on every side? The work of his hands, thou hast blessed, and, his substance, hath broken forth in the land.

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

¹⁷ Though no violence was in my hands, and, my prayer, was pure.

¹⁵ Where then would be my hope? And, as for my blessedness, who should see it!

¹¹ Of his steps, my foot taketh hold, His way, have I kept, and not swerved; ¹² The command of his lips, and would not go back, and, in my bosom, have I treasured the words of his lips.

⁵ Far be it from me! that I should justify, you,––Even until I breathe my last, will I not let go mine integrity from me: ⁶ On my righteousness, have I taken fast hold, and will not give it up, My heart shall not reproach any of my days.

¹² Because I used to deliver the oppressed who was crying out for aid, the fatherless also, and him that had no helper; ¹³ The blessing of him that was ready to perish, upon me was wont to descend, and, the heart of the widow, caused I to sing for joy; ¹⁴ Righteousness, I put on, and it clothed me, Like a robe and turban, was my, justice; ¹⁵ Eyes, became I to the, blind, and, feet to the lame, was, I! ¹⁶ A father, was, I, to the needy, and, as for the cause which I knew not, I used to search it out; ¹⁷ And I shivered the fangs of the perverse,––and, out of his teeth, I tare the prey.

¹ A covenant, I solemnised for mine eyes,––How then could I gaze upon a virgin? ² Or what would have been my portion of GOD from above? Or what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? ³ Is there not calamity, for the perverse? and misfortune, for the workers of iniquity? ⁴ Would, he, not see my ways? and of all my steps, take account? ⁵ Verily I walked not in falsity, nor did my foot haste unto deceit:–– ⁶ Let him weigh me in balances of righteousness,––and let GOD take note of mine integrity! ⁷ If my goings have swerved from the way,––and, after mine eyes, hath gone my heart, and, to my hands, hath adhered any stain, ⁸ Let me sow but, another, eat. And let, what I have springing up, be uprooted!
⁹ If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, or, by the door of my neighbour, I have lien in wait, ¹⁰ Let my wife, grind to another, and, over her, let others bend! ¹¹ Surely that had been a shameful thing! and that an iniquity for the judges! ¹² Surely, a fire, had that been, which, unto destruction, would have consumed, and, of all mine increase, had it torn up the root. ¹³ If I refused the right of my servant, or my handmaid, when they contended with me, ¹⁴ What then could I have done when GOD rose up? And, when he visited, what could I have answered him? ¹⁵ Did not he who, in the womb, made me, make him? And is not he who formed us in the body one?
¹⁶ If I withheld––from pleasure––the poor, or, the eyes of the widow, I dimmed; ¹⁷ Or, used to eat my morsel alone, so that the fatherless did not eat thereof; ¹⁸ Surely, from my youth, he grew up to me, as to a father, and, from my birth, I acted as guide to her: ¹⁹ If I saw one perishing for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering; ²⁰ If his loins did not bless me, or if, with the fleece of my lambs, he did not warm himself; ²¹ If I shook––against the fatherless––my hand, when I saw, in the gate, his need of my help, ²² Let, my shoulder, from the shoulder–blade, fall, and, my arm, from the upper bone, be broken; ²³ For, a dread unto me, was calamity from GOD, and, from his majesty, I could not escape.
²⁴ If I made gold my stay, and, to precious metal, said, My confidence! ²⁵ If I rejoiced because great was my substance, and, an abundance, my hand had discovered; ²⁶ If I looked at the sun, when it flashed forth light, or at the moon, majestically marching along; ²⁷ And befooled secretly was my heart, so that my hand kissed my mouth, ²⁸ That too, had been a judicial iniquity, For I should have been false to GOD, above. ²⁹ If rejoiced in the misfortune of him that hated me, or exulted when calamity found him; –– ³⁰ Neither did I suffer my palate to sin, by asking, with a curse, for his life: ³¹ If the men of my household have not said, Oh for some of his flesh––we cannot get filled, ³² Outside, the sojourner lodged not for the night, My doors––to the wayfarer, I threw open.
³³ If I covered, like Adam, my transgressions, by hiding in my bosom mine iniquity, ³⁴ Then let me be made to tremble at a great throng, yea let, the contempt of families, terrify me, so that, keeping silence, I shall not go out of the door! 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. ³⁸ If, against me, my ground used to cry out, and, together, my ridges did weep; ³⁹ If, the strength thereof, I used to eat, without payment, and, the soul of the holders thereof, I made groan; ⁴⁰ Instead of wheat, let there come forth bramble, and, instead of barley, a bad–smelling weed! Ended are the words of Job.

²⁶ For, Yahweh, will be in all thy ways, and will keep thy foot from the snare.

²⁶ In the reverence of Yahweh, is strong security, and, his children, shall have a place of refuge.

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:

¹⁷ And, if, as Father, ye are invoking him who, without respect of persons, judgeth according to each man’s work, with reverence, for the time of your sojourning, behave ye;

²⁰ Lo! GOD, will not reject a blameless man, neither will he grasp the hand of evil–doers:

²² One thing, there is, for which cause, I have said it, The blameless and the lawless, he bringeth to an end. ²³ If, a scourge, slay suddenly, at the despair of innocent ones, he mocketh.

⁷ He will not withdraw––from a righteous one––his eyes,––but, with kings on the throne, He hath seated men triumphantly, and they have been exalted.

²⁵ Young, have I been, moreover am old,––Yet have I not seen, A righteous man forsaken, Nor his seed begging bread:

¹⁵ Everything, had I seen, in my days of vanity,––Here was a righteous man, perishing in his righteousness, and there was a lawless man, continuing long in his wickedness.

¹ For, unto all this, I applied my heart, and, my heart, considered all this, that, the righteous and the wise and their servants, were in the hand of God,––neither love nor hatred, could any man know, every one, was before Him. ² Every one, was like every one else, one destiny, had the righteous and the lawless, the good and the pure and the impure, and he that sacrificed, and he that did not sacrifice,––as the good man, so, the sinner, he that took an oath, as he who, of an oath, stood in fear.

⁴ And, when the natives saw the brute hanging out from his hand, they began to say, one to another––Doubtless, this man is, a murderer, whom, though brought safely through out of the sea, Justice, hath not suffered, to live.

⁹ [Then] the Lord knoweth how to rescue, the godly out of trial; but to keep, the unrighteous unto a day of judgment to be punished; ––

³⁵ Conceiving mischief, and bringing forth iniquity, yea, their inmost soul, prepareth deceit.

¹⁴ Lo! he gendereth trouble, and conceiveth mischief, but giveth birth to a disappointment: ¹⁵ A pit, he cut out, and digged it, and then fell into the ditch he had made: ¹⁶ His mischief, turneth back, on his own head,––and, on his own crown, his violence, descendeth.

⁸ He that soweth perversity, shall reap trouble, and, the rod of his wrath, shall be ready.

¹⁸ Thine own way, And thine own doings, Have done these things unto thee,––This thy wickedness, Surely it is bitter, Surely it hath reached unto thy heart.

⁷ For, to the wind, they sow, and, to the whirlwind, they reap: stalk, hath it none, That which shooteth forth, shall yield no meal, If so be it yield, foreigners, swallow it lip,

¹² Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap ye at thc bidding of lovingkindness, furrow to yourselves the newly–ploughed soil,––then will be the time to seek Yahweh, until he come, that he may rain down righteousness for you. ¹³ Ye have plowed lawlessness, perversity, have ye reaped, ye have eaten the fruit of deception,––because thou didst trust in thy chariots, in the multitude of thy mighty men.

⁶ As to this, however, he that soweth sparingly, sparingly, also shall reap, and, he that soweth with blessings, with blessings, also shall reap:

⁷ Be not deceiving yourselves! God, is not to be mocked; for, whatsoever a man soweth, the same, shall he also reap,–– ⁸ Because, he that soweth into his own flesh, out of the flesh, shall reap corruption, whereas, he that soweth into the Spirit, out of the Spirit, shall reap age–abiding life.

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.

¹⁰ Thou didst blow with thy wind, they were covered by the sea,––They rolled like lead, into the waters so wide.

⁷ Behold me! about to let go against him, a blast, and, when he heareth the report, then will he return to his own country,––and I will cause him to fall by the sword, in his own land.

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

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

¹³ Hide them in the dust all together, Their faces, bind thou in darkness;

¹⁵ Then appeared the channels of waters, were uncovered the foundations of the world,––At thy rebuke O Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

⁴ But he will judge, with righteousness, them who are poor, And decide, with equity! for the oppressed of the land,––And he will smite the land with the sceptre of his mouth, And, with the breath of his lips, will he slay the lawless one;

³³ For there hath been set in order, beforehand, a Topheth, Yea, the same, for the king, hath been prepared, He hath made it deep––made it large,––The circumference thereof is for fire and wood in abundance, The breath of Yahweh, like a torrent of brimstone, is ready to kindle it.

⁸ And, then, shall be revealed the lawless one,––whom, the Lord [Jesus], will slay with the Spirit of his mouth, and paralyse with the forthshining of his Presence:––

¹⁶ Repent, therefore, otherwise, I come unto thee speedily,––and will fight against them, with the sword of my mouth.

¹⁵ But he saveth from the sword, out of their mouth, and, out of the hand of the strong, the needy.

¹⁷ And I shivered the fangs of the perverse,––and, out of his teeth, I tare the prey.

⁷ Rise! Yahweh, Save me, my God. Surely thou hast smitten all my foes on the cheekbone, The teeth of the lawless, hast thou broken.

⁴ My soul, is in the midst of lions, I lie down amidst flames, As for the sons of men, Their teeth, are spear and arrows, And, their tongue, is a sharp sword.

⁶ O God! break away their teeth in their mouth, The biters of the young lions, knock thou out, O Yahweh!

¹⁴ A generation! Swords, are its teeth, and, knives, its incisors,––to devour the humbled out of the earth, and the needy, from among men.

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.

³ Should, GOD, pervert justice? Or, the Almighty, pervert righteousness? ⁴ Though, thy children, sinned against him, and he delivered them into the hand of their transgression,

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

³⁹ Wilt thou hunt––for the Lioness––prey? Or, the craving of the Strong Lion, wilt thou satisfy;

² Lest one tear, as a lion, my soul,––and there be no deliverer to rescue.

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

⁷ There hath come up a lion, out of his thicket, Yea, a destroyer of nations––hath set forward, hath come forth out of his place,––To make thy land, a desolation, Thy cities, shall fall in ruins, so as to have no, inhabitant.

¹⁰ After Yahweh, let them go, Like a lion, will he roar,––When, he, shall roar, then let sons, come trembling, out of the West.

¹⁷ But, the Lord, stood by me, and empowered me, in order that, through me, the proclamation, might be fully made, and, all the nations, might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of a lion:––

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?

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

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.

²¹ So Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept,––and he took one of his ribs, and closed up flesh instead thereof.

¹² And it came to pass, when, the sun, was about to go in, and, a deep sleep, had fallen upon Abram, lo! a terror––a great darkness, was falling upon him.

³ Then God went in unto Abimelech, in a dream of the night,––and said to him, Behold thee––dead! because of the woman whom thou hast taken, seeing that, she, is a married woman.

¹² And he dreamed, and lo! a stairway, planted earthwards, with, its top, reaching towards the heavens,––and lo! messengers of God, ascending and descending thereon;

²⁴ And God went in unto Laban the Syrian, in a dream of the night,––and said to him, Take heed to thyself, that thou speak not with Jacob, either good or bad.

² And God said to Israel, in the visions of the night, and he said––Jacob! Jacob! And he said––Behold me!

⁶ Then said he, Hear, I beseech you, my words. When ye have your prophet, As Yahweh, in a vision, will I make myself known, unto him; In a dream, will I speak with him.

¹⁹ Now, therefore, abide here, I pray you, even, ye,––for the night,––that I may get to know what further Yahweh may be speaking with me. ²⁰ And God came in unto Balaam, by night, and said unto him––If, to call thee, the men have come in, arise, go with them,––But only, the thing that I shall speak unto thee, that, shalt thou do.

¹⁴ For, in one way, GOD may speak,––and, in a second way, one may not heed it:–– ¹⁵ In a dream, a vision of the night, when a deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed, ¹⁶ Then, uncovereth he the ear of men, and, on their correction, affixeth a seal;

¹⁹ Then, unto Daniel––in a vision of the night, the secret was revealed,––whereupon, Daniel, blessed the God of the heavens:

²⁸ but there is a God in the heavens, who revealeth secrets, and hath made known to King Nebuchadnezzar, what shall come to pass, in the afterpart of the days: Thy dream and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are, these:–– ²⁹ As for thee, O king, thy thoughts upon thy bed, arose regarding what should come to pass hereafter; and, he that revealeth secrets, made known to thee what shall come to pass.

⁵ A dream, I saw, and it made me afraid,––and, fancies upon my bed, and visions of my head, terrified me.

¹⁸ And, when he spake with me, I fell stunned upon my face, to the earth,––but he touched me, and caused me to stand up where I was.

⁹ So then I heard the sound of his words,––and, when I heard the sound of his words, then, I myself, came to be in a deep sleep upon my face, with, my face, to the earth.

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

¹⁹ Or he is chastised with pain, upon his bed, and, the strife of his bones, is unceasing!

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

⁵ Then said I––Woe to me!––for I am undone, Because, a man of unclean lips, am, I, And, in the midst of a people of unclean lips, do, I, dwell,––For, the King, Yahweh of hosts, have mine eyes seen!

¹¹ Then said he unto me, O Daniel! man greatly delighted in! have understanding in the words which, I, am about to speak unto thee, and stand up where thou art, for, now, have I been sent unto thee. And, when he had spoken with me this word, I stood up trembling.

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.

¹² and Zachariah was troubled when he beheld, and, fear, fell upon him.

²⁹ And, she, at the word, was greatly troubled, and began to deliberate, of what kind, this salutation, might be.

¹⁷ And, when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead, and he laid his right hand upon me, saying––Do not fear! I, am the First, and the Last,

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

⁸ And they shall be in distress––Writhings and pains, shall lay hold, As a woman in childbirth, shall they be in pangs,––Every one, at his neighbour, shall look in amazement, Faces of flames, their faces!

³ For this cause, are my loins filled, with anguish, Pangs, have seized me, as the pangs of her that is giving birth,––I writhe, so that I cannot hear, I tremble, so that I cannot see: ⁴ My heart fluttereth, A horror, terrifieth me,––My twilight of pleasure, hath he turned for me into a time of trembling.

²⁶ And, the disciples, seeing him, upon the lake walking, were troubled,––saying––It is, a ghost; and, by reason of their fear, they cried out.

³⁷ But, being agitated and becoming, afraid, they began to imagine, that, upon a spirit, they were looking. ³⁸ And he said unto them––Why are ye troubled? and for what cause do reasonings arise in your hearts? ³⁹ See my hands, and my feet,––that it is, I, myself: Handle me, and see! because, a spirit, hath not, flesh and bones, as ye perceive, I, have.

⁷ Even as to the messengers, indeed, he saith––Who maketh his messengers, winds, and his ministers of state, a fiery flame;

¹⁴ Are they not, all, spirits, doing public service,––for ministry, sent forth, for the sake of them who are about to inherit salvation?

¹² And, after the earthquake, a, fire, Not, in the fire, was, Yahweh,––And, after the fire, the voice of a gentle whisper.

²⁵ Far be it from thee! to do after this manner, to put to death the righteous with the lawless! Then should righteous and lawless be alike,––Far be it from thee! Shall, the Judge of all the earth, not do, justice?

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

² Of a truth, I know that so it is, But how can a mortal be just with GOD?

³⁰ Though I bathe myself in snow water, and cleanse, in cleanness itself, my hands, ³¹ Then, in a ditch, wouldst thou plunge me, and mine own clothes should abhor me:

⁴ Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one!

¹⁴ What is a mortal, that he should be pure? or that righteous should be one born of a woman?

⁴ How then shall, a mortal, be just with GOD? Or how shall he be pure who is born of a woman?

² This, dost thou think to be right? Thou hast said––My righteousness is more than GOD’S.

¹⁰ But none saith––Where is GOD my maker, Who giveth songs in the night;

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

² Do not then enter into judgment with thy servant, for no one living, can appear just before thee.

¹⁷ Righteous is Yahweh in all his ways, and kind in all his works.

²⁰ For, as for men, there is none righteous in the earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

¹ Righteous, art thou, O Yahweh, when I present my pleading unto thee,––Yet, concerning the things that are right, let me speak with thee,––Wherefore, hath, the way of the lawless, prospered? [Wherefore] have all, utter traitors, been at ease?

⁹ Deceitful, is the heart above all things And, dangerously wayward,––Who can know it?

²⁰ And he was saying––That which, out of the man, cometh forth, that, defileth the man; ²¹ For, from within, out of the heart of men, the base designs, come forth,––fornications, thefts, ²² murders, adulteries, covetousnesses, knaveries, deceit, wantonness, an evil eye, profane speaking, foolishness,–– ²³ all these wicked things, from within, come forth, and defile, the man.

⁵ But, according to thy hardness, and [thine] impenitent heart, art treasuring up for thyself anger, in a day of anger and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,––

⁴ Far be it! But let, God, prove to be, true, albeit, every man, be false! Even as it is written––That thou mightest be declared righteous in thy words, and overcome when thou art in judgment. ⁵ But, if, our unrighteousness, commendeth, God’s righteousness, what shall we say? Surely, not unrighteous, is God who visiteth with his anger? After the manner of men, I am speaking,–– ⁶ Far be it! Else how shall God judge the world? ⁷ But, if, the truth of God, by my falsehood, hath the more abounded unto his glory, why, any longer, am, even I, as a sinner, to be judged?

²⁰ O man! Who, nevertheless, art, thou, that art answering again unto God? Shall the thing formed say unto him that formed it––Why didst thou make me thus?

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

⁸ and, the four living creatures, each one of them, have severally six wings, round about and within, full of eyes; and they, cease, not, day and night, saying––Holy! holy! holy! Lord, God, the Almighty,––Who was, and Who is, and Who is coming.

¹⁵ Lo! in his holy ones, he putteth not confidence, and, the heavens, are not pure in his eyes: ¹⁶ How much less when one is detested and corrupt, a man who drinketh in––like water––perversity.

⁵ Look as far as the moon, and it is not clear, and, the stars, are not bright in his eyes! ⁶ How much less a mortal who is a creeping thing? Or a son of the earth–born who is a worm?

²⁰ Bless Yahweh, ye messengers of his,––Heroes of vigour, doing his word, To hearken [again] to the voice of his word; ²¹ Bless Yahweh, all ye his hosts, Attendants of his, doing his pleasure;

² Seraphim, were standing above him; six wings severally, had each one,––With twain, he covered his face, And, with twain, he covered his feet, And, with twain, he did fly. ³ And they continued crying out one to another, and said, Holy––holy––holy, is Yahweh of hosts,––the fulness of the whole earth, is his glory.

⁴ For––if, God, spared not, messengers, when they sinned, but, to pits of gloom, consigning them, in the lowest hades, delivered them up to be kept, unto judgment,––

⁶ Messengers also, even them who had not kept their own principality, but had forsaken their proper dwelling, unto the judgment of the great day in perpetual bonds under thick gloom, hath he reserved.

⁷ So then Yahweh God formed man, [of the] dust of the ground, and breathed in his nostrils the breath of life––and man became a living soul.

¹⁹ In the sweat of thy face, shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground, because, therefrom, wast thou taken,––For, dust, thou art, And, unto dust, shalt thou return.

²⁷ And Abraham responded, and said,––Behold, I pray thee, I have ventured to speak unto My Lord, though, I, am dust and ashes:

⁹ Remember, I pray thee, that, as clay, thou didst make me, and, unto dust, thou wilt cause me to return.

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

²⁸ And, a man himself, as a rotten thing, weareth out, as a garment which the moth hath eaten.

² As a flower, he cometh forth––and fadeth, He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

¹⁶ Who were snatched away before the time, and, a stream, washed away their foundation?

⁶ Lo! I am like thyself toward GOD, From clay, have I been nipped off, even I!

¹¹ When, by rebukes for iniquity, thou hast corrected a man, Then hast thou consumed, as a moth, all that was delightful within him, Surely, a breath, are all men. [Selah.]

⁵ Thou hast snatched them away, A sleep, do they become, In the morning, [they are] like grass that shooteth up, ⁶ In the morning, it sprouteth and shooteth up, By the evening, it is cut down and withered.
⁷ For we are consumed in thine anger, And, in thy wrath, are we dismayed;

¹⁵ As for man, like grass, are his days, Like the blossom of the field, so, doth he blossom; ¹⁶ For, a wind, hath passed over it, and it is gone, And its own place is acquainted with it no more.

⁴ His spirit, goeth forth, he returneth to his ground, In that very day, his thoughts perish.

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

⁷ Howbeit we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that, the surpassing greatness of the power, may be of God, and not from ourselves:––

¹ For we know that––if, our earthly tent–dwelling, should be taken down, we have, a building of God, a dwelling not made by hand, age–abiding in the heavens.

²⁴ Inasmuch as––All flesh, is as grass, and, all the glory thereof, as the flower of grass,––The grass hath withered, and the flower hath fallen out,

⁶ and they were beaten in pieces–nation against nation, and city against city,––for, God, discomfited them with all manner of distress.

²⁰ Thirty–two years old, was he when he began to reign, and, eight years, reigned he in Jerusalem,––and went his way––unregretted, and, though they buried him in the city of David, yet, not in the sepulchres of the kings.

¹⁴ If a man die, can he live again? All the days of my warfare, would I wait, until my relief should come:––

²⁰ Thou dost overpower him utterly, and he departeth, Disfiguring his face, so, hast thou sent him away.

²² When, a few years, come, then, by a path by which I shall not return, shall I depart.

¹⁷ His memorial, have perished out of the land, and let him have no name over the face of the open field;

⁷ Like his own stubble, shall he utterly perish, They who had seen him, shall say, Where is he?

³⁶ Then I passed by, and lo! he had vanished! Yea I sought him, but he could not be found.

¹³ Look away from me that I may brighten up, Ere yet I depart and am no more.

⁵ Thou hast snatched them away, A sleep, do they become, In the morning, [they are] like grass that shooteth up, ⁶ In the morning, it sprouteth and shooteth up, By the evening, it is cut down and withered.

⁷ When the lawless do thrive like grass, And all the workers of iniquity have blossomed, It is that they may be destroyed for ever.

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

¹² My dwelling, hath been broken up, And is stripped from me, like a shepherd’s tent,––I have rolled up––as a weaver––my life, From the loom, doth he cut me off, From day until night, [I said]––Thou wilt finish me. ¹³ I cried out, until morning, like a lion, Thus, will he break all my bones! From day until night, Thou wilt finish me!

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

²¹ Surely, these, are the dwellings of him that is perverse, and, this, is the place of him that knoweth not GOD.

¹² But, if they would not hearken, by a weapon, should they pass away, and breathe their last, no one knowing.

⁵ Lo! as hand–breadths, hast thou granted my days, and my life–time, is as nothing before thee,––Surely, a mere breath, are all men, [even] such as stand firm. [Selah.]

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

²⁰ A son of earth though wealthy, who discerneth not, Hath made himself a by–word, Beasts, they resemble.

³ Do not ye trust in nobles, in a son of man who hath no deliverance: ⁴ His spirit, goeth forth, he returneth to his ground, In that very day, his thoughts perish.

²² Cease ye from the son of earth, In whose nostrils is but a breath,––For, wherein, to be reckoned, upon, is he?

¹⁶ They who see thee, upon thee, will gaze, Upon thee, will thoughtfully muse,––Is this, the man who startled the earth? Who terrified kingdoms?

²⁰ But God said unto him––Simple one! on this very night, they are asking, thy soul, from thee; The things, then, which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?

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

¹¹ For the sun hath sprung up, with it scorching heat, and hath withered the grass, and, the flower thereof, hath fallen out, and, the beauty of the face thereof, hath perished,––so, also the rich, in his goings, shall languish.