Job 4:6 Cross References - Rotherham

⁶ Is not, thy reverence, thy confidence? And is not, thy hope, the very integrity of thy ways?

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;