Job 6 Cross References - Rotherham

¹ Then responded Job, and said:–– ² Oh that, weighed, were my vexation, and, my engulfing ruin––into the balances, they would lift up all at once! ³ For, now, beyond the sand of the seas, would it be heavy, On this account, my words, have wandered. ⁴ For, the arrows of the Almighty, are in me, The heat whereof, my spirit is drinking up, The, terrors of GOD, array themselves against me. ⁵ Doth the wild ass bray over grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder? ⁶ Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? ⁷ My soul hath refused to touch, Those things, are like disease in my food.
⁸ Oh that my request would come! and, my hope, oh that GOD would grant! ⁹ That it would please GOD to crush me, That he would set free his hand, and cut me off! ¹⁰ So might it still be my comfort, And I might exult in the anguish he would not spare,––That I had not concealed the sayings of the Holy One. ¹¹ What is my strength, that I should hope? Or what mine end, that I should prolong my desire? ¹² Is my strength, the strength of stones? Or is, my flesh, of bronze? ¹³ Is there any help at all in me? Is not, abiding success, driven from me?
¹⁴ The despairing, from his friend, should have lovingkindness, or, the reverence of the Almighty, he may forsake. ¹⁵ Mine own brethren, have proved treacherous like a torrent, like a channel of torrents which disappear: ¹⁶ Which darken by reason of the cold, over them, is a covering made by the snow: ¹⁷ By the time they begin to thaw, they are dried up, as soon as it is warm, they have vanished out of their place. ¹⁸ Caravans turn aside by their course, they go up into a waste, and are lost: ¹⁹ The caravans of Tema looked about, the travelling companies of Sheba, hoped for them: ²⁰ They are ashamed that they had trusted, They have come up to one of them, and are confounded. ²¹ For, now, ye have come to him, ye see something fearful, and fear.
²² Is it that I said, Make me a gift, or, out of your abundance, offer a bribe on my behalf; ²³ And deliver me from the hand of the adversary? And, out of the hand of tyrants, ransom me? ²⁴ Show me, and, I, will hold my peace, And, wherein I have erred, cause me to understand. ²⁵ How pleasant are the sayings that are right! But what can a decision from you, decide? ²⁶ To decide words, do ye intend, When, to the wind, are spoken the sayings of one in despair? ²⁷ Surely, the fatherless, ye would assail, and make merchandise of your friend! ²⁸ But, now, be pleased to turn to me, that it may be, to your faces, if I speak falsehood, ²⁹ Reply, I pray you, let there be no perversity, Yea reply even yet, my vindication is in it! ³⁰ Is there, in my tongue, perversity? Or can, my sense, not discern, engulfing ruin?

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

⁵ But, now, it cometh upon thee, and thou despairest, It smiteth even thee, and thou art dismayed.

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

⁶ Let him weigh me in balances of righteousness,––and let GOD take note of mine integrity!

¹⁹ Let us know what we shall say to him, We cannot set in order, by reason of darkness. ²⁰ Shall it be declared to him––that I would speak? Were any man to say aught, he might he destroyed?

⁵ Mighty things, hast thou done––Thou, Yahweh my God, Thy wonderful doings and thy purposes to–wards us, There is no setting them in order unto thee––I would tell, and would speak!––They are too great to rehearse.

⁴ Thou hast held, watching, mine eyes, I was driven to and fro, and could not speak;

³ Heavy is a stone, and weighty is sand,––but, the vexation of a fool, is heavier than both.

²⁸ Come unto me! all ye that toil and are burdened, and, I, will give you rest:

²³ I will heap on them, calamities,––Mine arrows, will I spend upon them: ²⁴ The meltings of hunger, The devourings of fever, And the dangerous pestilence,––And, the tooth of beasts, will I send among them, With the poison of crawlers of the dust:

⁴² I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, And, my sword, shall devour flesh,––With, the blood of the slain, and the captive, With [the flesh of] the chief leader of the foe.

¹⁷ For, with a tempest, would he fall upon me, and would multiply my wounds without need;

¹² At ease, was I when he shattered me, Yea he seized me by my neck, and dashed me in pieces, then set me up for himself as a mark: ¹³ His archers came round against me, He clave asunder my reins, and spared not, He poured out, on the earth, my gall: ¹⁴ He made a breach in me, breach upon breach, He ran upon me, like a mighty man.

²⁰ His own eyes, shall see his misfortune, and, the wrath of the Almighty, shall he drink.

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

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

¹³ But, for himself, hath he made ready the weapons so deadly, His arrows, he, so fiery, would make:

¹⁴ And he sent forth his arrows and scattered them, yea, lightnings, he shot out, and confused them.

¹² For thou wilt cause them to turn their back, Upon thy bow–strings, wilt thou make ready against their face.

² For, thine arrows, have sunk down into me, and thy hand, presseth heavily upon me.

⁵ Thine arrows, are sharp––Peoples, under thee, fall! In the heart of the foes of the king.

¹⁵ Afflicted have I been, and dying, from youth, I have borne the terror of thee––I shall be distracted! ¹⁶ Over me, have passed thy bursts of burning anger, The alarms of thee have put an end to me;

⁷ Speedily answer me, O Yahweh, My spirit faileth,––Do not hide thy face from me, or I shall be made like unto them who go down into the pit.

¹⁴ The spirit of a man, sustaineth his sickness, but, a dejected spirit, who can bear it?

¹² He hath trodden his bow, and set me up, as a mark for the arrow. ¹³ He hath caused to enter my reins, the sons of his quiver;

³³ And he taketh Peter and James and John with him, and began to be exceedingly amazed, and in great distress; ³⁴ and he saith unto them––Encompassed with grief is my soul, unto death: Abide ye here, and be watching.

³⁴ and, at the ninth hour, Jesus, uttered a cry, with a loud voice––Eloi! Eloi! lama sabachthanei? which is, being translated––My God! [My God!] to what end, didst thou forsake me?

¹¹ Knowing, then, the fear of the Lord, we persuade, men, but, unto God, are manifest,––I hope, moreover, even in your consciences, that we are manifest:

¹ [BOOK THE SECOND]
¶ [To the Chief Musician. An Instructive Psalm for the Sons of Korah.]
As, the hart, cometh panting up to the channels of water, So my soul, panteth for thee, O God.

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;

⁶ Yea, wild asses, stand still on the bare heights, They pant for air like jackals,––Dimmed, are their eyes, Because there is, no grass.

¹⁸ How do the beasts groan! Perplexed are the herds of oxen, because there is no pasture for them,––even, the flocks of sheep, are destroyed! ¹⁹ Unto thee, O Yahweh, will I cry,––for, a fire, hath consumed the pastures of the wilderness, and, a flame, hath set ablaze all the trees of the field. ²⁰ Even the beasts of the field, moan unto thee,––because dried up are the channels of water, and, a fire, hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

¹³ And, every meal–offering oblation of thine, with salt, shalt thou season, and thou shalt not suffer to be lacking the salt of the covenant of thy God, from upon thy meal–offering,––upon every oblation of thine, shalt thou offer salt.

²⁵ How pleasant are the sayings that are right! But what can a decision from you, decide?

³⁰ Is there, in my tongue, perversity? Or can, my sense, not discern, engulfing ruin?

¹¹ Doth not, the ear, try, words? even as, the palate, tasteth for itself, food?

² I have heard many such things, Wearisome comforters, are ye all!

³ For, the ear, trieth words, as, the palate, tasteth in eating.

¹⁰³ How smooth to my palate is thy speech, More than honey, to my mouth.

³⁴ Good, therefore is the salt; but, if, even the salt, become tasteless, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

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.

⁴ For it is impossible––as to these who have been, once for all, illuminated, who have tasted also of the heavenly free–gift, and have been made, partners, in a Holy Spirit, ⁵ And have tasted God’s utterance to be, sweet, mighty works also of a coming age,

¹² And she said––By the life of Yahweh, thy God, verily I have not a cake, only a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the cruse,––and lo! I have been gathering a couple of sticks, so I shall go in and make it ready for me and for my son, that we may eat it––and die!

²⁷ and thou shalt say––Thus, saith the king, Put this man into the prison,––and let him eat the bread of oppression, with the water of oppression, until I enter in peace.

²⁴ For, in the face of my food, my sighing, cometh in, and, poured out like the water, are my groans:

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

¹⁴ Then said, I, Ah! My Lord, Yahweh, lo! my person, hath not been defiled: neither of what hath died of itself, nor of what hath been torn in pieces: have I eaten, from my youthful days even unto now, neither hath come into my mouth, the flesh of a foul thing.

¹⁶ And he said unto me, Son of man, Behold me! breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem, So shall they eat bread by weight, and with anxious care, And, water, by measure, and in astonishment, shall they drink:

¹⁸ Son of man, Thy bread, with trembling, shalt thou eat,––And, thy water, in agitation and in fear, shalt thou drink. ¹⁹ Then shalt thou say unto the people of the land, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, upon the soil of Israel, Their bread, with anxious care, shall they eat, And, their water, in astonishment, shall they drink,––That there land, may be deserted, of her fulness, because of the violence of all them who dwell therein:

³ food to delight in, did I not eat, neither flesh nor wine, came into my mouth, nor did I so much as, anoint, myself,––until were fulfilled three sevens of days.

¹¹ What is my strength, that I should hope? Or what mine end, that I should prolong my desire? ¹² Is my strength, the strength of stones? Or is, my flesh, of bronze? ¹³ Is there any help at all in me? Is not, abiding success, driven from me?

¹⁴ To corruption, have exclaimed, My father, thou! My mother! and My sister! to the worm. ¹⁵ Where then would be my hope? And, as for my blessedness, who should see it! ¹⁶ With me to hades, would they go down, If, wholly––into the dust, is the descent!

⁸¹ [KAPH.] My soul, hath languished for thy salvation, For thy word, have I hoped.

¹⁴ Unable, am, I, by myself, to carry all this people,––for they are too heavy for me. ¹⁵ But, if, in this way, thou art going to deal with me, slay me, I beseech thee, slay, if I have found favour in thine eyes,––and let me not see my grief.

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

²⁰ Wherefore give, to the wretched, light? Or, life, to the embittered in soul?–– ²¹ Who long for death, and it is not, And have digged for it, beyond hid treasures: ²² Who rejoice unto exultation, Are glad, when they can find the grave:

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

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

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

⁴ For, day and night, heavy upon me, was thy hand,––Changed was my life–sap into the drought of summer. [Selah.]

¹⁰ Lo! I have refined thee, but not as silver,––I have tested thee, in a smelting–pot of affliction. ¹¹ For mine own sake––for mine own sake, will I effectually work, For how should it be profaned? And, my glory––to another, will I not give. ¹² Hearken unto me, O Jacob, And Israel, my called one,––I, am, the Same, I, the first, yea, I, the last: ¹³ Surely, mine own hand, founded the earth, And, my right hand, stretched out the heavens,––While I, was calling, unto them, they stood forth, at once.

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

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

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

² Speak unto all the assembly of the sons of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them––Holy, shall ye be,––For, holy, am, I––Yahweh––your God.

²⁰ Yahweh will not be willing to forgive him, but, then, will the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy smoke against that man, and all the oath that is written in this scroll, shall settle down upon him,––and Yahweh wipe out his name from under the heavens;

² There is none holy like Yahweh, Nay! there, is none, except Thee, Nor, is, there a rock, like our God.

²² Who rejoice unto exultation, Are glad, when they can find the grave:

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

³³ Pleasant to him are the mounds of the torrent–bed,––and, after him, doth every man march, as, before him, there were without number.

²² Accept, I beseech thee, from his mouth––instruction,––and lay up his sayings in thy heart.

¹² The command of his lips, and would not go back, and, in my bosom, have I treasured the words of his lips.

³⁰ The mouth of a righteous man, softly uttereth wisdom, and, his tongue, speaketh justice:

⁹ I have told the good–tidings of righteousness in a great convocation, Lo! my lips, do I not restrain, O Yahweh, thou, knowest: ¹⁰ Thy righteousness, have I not hid in the midst of my heart, Thy faithfulness and thy salvation, have I spoken, I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truthfulness from the great convocation.

¹⁷ O God, thou hast taught me from my youthful days, And, hitherto, have I been wont to tell of thy wonders; ¹⁸ Even now, therefore, that I am old and grayheaded, O God, do not forsake me,––Until I tell of thine arm unto a [new] generation, Unto every one that is to come, thy might;

¹³ With my lips, have I recounted All the regulations of thy mouth.

¹¹ Depart ye from the way, Turn aside from the path,––Desist, from setting before us, the, Holy One of Israel. ¹² Therefore––Thus, saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye have rejected this word,––And have trusted in oppression and perverseness, And have relied thereon,

¹⁵ For, thus, saith he that is high, and lifted up––Inhabiting futurity, And, holy, is his name: A high and holy place, will I inhabit, Also with the crushed and lowly in spirit, To revive the spirit of the lowly, and, To revive the heart of them who are crushed; ––

⁹ I cannot execute the glow of mine anger, I cannot turn to destroy Ephraim,––for, GOD, am, I, and not man, When thou drawest near, [I am] a Holy One, though I do not enter a city.

¹² Art not, thou, from of old, O Yahweh, my God, my Holy One? Thou diest not! O Yahweh, to judgment, hast thou appointed him, and, O Rock, to correction, hast thou devoted him:

³ GOD, from Teman, cometh in, and, the Holy One, from Mount Paran. Selah. His splendour, hath covered the heavens, and, his praise, hath filled the earth:

²⁰ in what manner I in nowise shrank from announcing unto you anything that was profitable and teaching you publicly and in your homes;

²⁷ for I have not shrunk from announcing all the counsel of God unto you.

³² He, at least, who his own Son did not spare, but in behalf of us all delivered him up, how shall he not also, with him, all things upon us in favour bestow?

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,–– ⁵ And, an ancient world, spared not, but, with seven others, preserved, Noah, a proclaimer, of righteousness, a flood, upon a world of ungodly persons, letting loose,––

⁷ And, unto the messenger of the assembly, in Philadelphia, write:––These things, saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and no one shall shut, and shutteth and no one openeth:

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.

⁵ My flesh is clothed with worms and a coating of dust, My skin, hath hardened, and then run afresh: ⁶ My days, are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and they are spent, without hope.
⁷ Remember thou, that, a wind, is my life, not again shall mine eye see blessing:

²⁰ Are not my days, few?––then forbear, and set me aside, that I may brighten up for a little;

²⁵ A driven leaf, wilt thou cause to tremble? Or, dry stubble, wilt thou pursue?

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

¹ My spirit, is broken, My days, are extinguished, Graves, are left me.

⁴ Did, I, unto man, make my complaint? Wherefore, then, should my spirit not be impatient?

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.]

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; ⁸ Thou hast set, Our iniquities before thee, Our secret near the luminary of thy face. ⁹ For, all our days, decline in thy wrath,––We end our years like a sigh. ¹⁰ The days of our years, have, in them, three score years and ten, And, if, by reason of strength, they have fourscore years, Yet, their boast, is labour and sorrow, For it hath passed quickly, and we have flown away.

²³ He hath prostrated, in the way, my strength,––He hath shortened my days.

¹⁴ For, he, knoweth how we are formed, He is mindful that, dust, we are. 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.

¹⁸ His bones, are barrels of bronze, his frame, is like hammered bars of iron:

²⁴ His heart, is hardened like a stone, yea hardened, like the nether millstone;

² Of a truth, ye, are the people, and, with you, wisdom, will die. ³ I also, have a mind like you, I, fall not short, of you, But who hath not such things as these?

² Just as ye know, I too, know, I, fall not short, of you.

²⁸ Surely ye should say––Why should we persecute him? seeing, the root of the matter, is found in me.

² How hast thou given help to one of no–strength? given victory to an arm of no–power?

¹² For, our boasting, is, this,––the witness of our conscience, that, in sanctity and sincerity of God, [and] not in fleshly wisdom, but in God’s favour, have we behaved ourselves in the world,––and more abundantly towards you.

⁴ But, his own work, let each one be putting to the proof, and, then, for himself alone, the matter of boasting, shall he have, and not for some other,

¹¹ And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely there is no fear of God, in this place,––therefore will they slay me for the sake of my wife.

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.

⁴ But, thou, wouldst take away reverence, and wouldst attain unto meditation before GOD.

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

¹ [To the Chief Musician. Of the Servant of Yahweh––of David.]
Declareth the transgression of the lawless one, within my heart, There is, no dread of God, before his eyes; ² For he flattereth himself [too much] in his own eyes, to find his iniquity––to hate [it]. ³ The words of his mouth, are iniquity and deceit, he hath left off to show discretion by doing well:

¹⁷ At all times, doth a friend love, and, a brother for distress, must be born.

⁴⁰ But the other, answering, rebuked him, and said––Neither fearest, thou, God, in that thou art, in the same judgment?

¹⁵ Rejoice with them that rejoice, weep with them that weep:

²⁶ And, whether one member, suffereth, all the members, suffer with it, or, a member is glorified, all the members, rejoice together.

²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and, I, am not burning?

² One another’s burdens, be ye bearing, and, so, fill up the law of the Christ.

³ Bear in mind them who are in bonds, as having become jointly bound,––them who are suffering ill–treatment, as being yourselves also in the body.

¹⁹ All the men of mine intimate circle abhor me, and, these whom I loved, have turned against me;

¹¹ My lovers, and my friends, from before my stroke, stand aloof,––and, my near ones, far away, do stand:

⁹ Even the man whom I used to salute, in whom I put confidence, who used to eat my bread,––hath magnified his heel against me!

¹² For it is, not an enemy, that reproacheth me, Or I could bear it,––Not one that hath hated me, who, against me, hath magnified himself, Or I might hide myself from him; ¹³ But it is, thou, a man esteemed as mine equal, mine associate, and mine acquaintance; ¹⁴ So that together have we been wont to find sweetness in counsel, In the house of God, used we to walk in the throng.

¹⁸ Thou hast far removed from me, lover and friend, Mine acquaintances, are in darkness.

⁴ Every one, of his neighbour, beware ye, And, in no brother, may ye trust,––For, every brother, supplanteth! And, every neighbour, as a tale–bearer, goeth about; ⁵ Yea, every one, of his neighbour, maketh a dupe, And, truth, they do not speak,––They have taught their tongue to speak falsehood, In acting perversely, they have wearied themselves.

¹⁸ Wherefore, hath my pain become, perpetual? And my wound, incurable? Refuseth to be healed? Wilt thou, indeed be, to me [As a brook] that disappointeth, Waters that cannot be trusted?

¹⁴ All thy lovers, have forgotten thee, Thyself, do they not seek,––For, With the wounding of an enemy, have I wounded thee, With the correction of one who is cruel, Because of the abounding of, thine iniquity, [Because] numerous, have been thy sins.

⁵ Do not trust in a friend, do not put confidence in an associate,––from her that lieth in thy bosom, keep thou the doors of thy mouth; ⁶ For, the son, treateth as foolish, the father, and, the daughter, riseth up against, her mother, the daughter–in–law against her mother–in–law,––The foes of a man, are the men of his own house.

¹⁸ Not, concerning you all, am I speaking,––for, I, know of whom I made choice; but. . . that, the Scripture, might be fulfilled: He that feedeth on my bread, hath lifted up against me, his heel.

³² Lo! there cometh an hour, and hath come, that ye should be scattered, each, unto his own home; and, me, alone, should leave; ––And yet I am not, alone, but, the Father, is, with me!

¹² These are they––who, in your love–feasts, are hidden rocks, as they fare sumptuously together, fearlessly, themselves, shepherding,––clouds without water, by winds swept along, trees autumnal, fruitless, twice dead, uprooted,

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.

¹⁹ Drought and heat, steal away snow water, Hades, them who have sinned.

⁷ And, the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah and Raamah, and Sabtechah,––And, the sons of Raamah, Sheba and Dedan.

³ And, Yokshan, begat Sheba and Dedan,––and, the sons of Dedan, were Asshurim and Letushim, and Leummim.

¹⁵ Hadad, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:

¹ And, when, the queen of Sheba, heard the report of Solomon, as pertaining to the Name of Yahweh, she came to prove him, with abstruse questions.

¹⁰ The kings of Tarshish and of the Coastlands, A gift, let them render, The kings of Sheba and Seba, A present, let them bring;

¹⁴ To meet the thirsty, bring ye water,––Ye dwellers in the land of Tema; With bread for him, get in advance of him that is in flight!

²³ Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all the clipt–beards;

²² The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, They, were merchants of thine,––With the chief of all spices, and with every kind of precious stone, and gold, Took they part in thy traffic: ²³ Haran and Canneh and Eden, the merchants of Sheba,––Asshur, Chilmad, Were merchants of thine:

³ And, their nobles, have sent their menials to the waters,––They have been to the pits, They have found no water, They have returned, their vessels, empty, They are pale and ashamed, and have covered their heads. ⁴ Because, the ground, is cracked, For there hath been no rain in the land, The plowmen are pale, They have covered their heads.

¹³ Thou hope of Israel, Yahweh, All who forsake thee, shall turn pale,––Yea, all who depart from me, in the ground, shall be written, For they have forsaken a fountain of living water, even Yahweh.

⁵ And, our hope, putteth not to shame. Because, the love of God, hath been poured out in our hearts, through the Holy Spirit that hath been given unto us:

³³ Even as it is written––Lo! I lay in Zion, a stone to strike against and a rock to stumble over, and, he that resteth faith thereupon, shall not be put to shame.

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. ¹² And, when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept––and rent, every one his robe, and sprinkled dust upon their heads, toward the heavens. ¹³ And they sat with him upon the ground, seven days and seven nights,––and none was speaking unto him a word, for they saw that, exceeding great, was the stinging pain.

¹⁵ Mine own brethren, have proved treacherous like a torrent, like a channel of torrents which disappear:

⁴ For, in truth, ye, do besmear with falsehood, Worthless physicians, all of you!

⁹ Surely, vanity, are men of low degree, Deception, men of high degree,––In the balances, they go up, They, are [made] of vanity, altogether.

⁷ All the brethren of a poor man, hate him, how much more have, his friends, gone far from him, he may hunt up promises––there are none.

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

⁵ Thus, saith Yahweh, Accursed, is the man––Who trusteth in a son of earth, And hath made flesh, his arm,––And whose heart, from Yahweh, turneth aside: ⁶ Therefore shall he become as a shrub in the waste plain, Neither shall he perceive, when good cometh,––But shall inhabit, Parched places in a wilderness, A land of salt that cannot be dwelt in.

⁹ We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed, Leave her, and let us go every one to his own land,––For her judgment, reacheth unto the heavens, And mounteth as far as the skies.

³¹ Then, Jesus saith unto them––All ye, will find cause of stumbling in me, during this night; for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and, the sheep of the flock, will be scattered abroad;

⁵⁶ But, this, hath, wholly, come to pass, that, the Scriptures of the prophets, may be fulfilled. Then, the disciples, all forsaking him, fled.

¹⁶ In my first defence, no man, came in to help me, but, all, forsook me,––unto them, may it not be reckoned!––

⁹ And they shall weep and wail over her––shall the kings of the earth who, with her, committed lewdness and waxed wanton,––as soon as they see the smoke of her burning,–– ¹⁰ afar off, standing, because of their fear of her torment, saying––Alas! alas! the great city! Babylon, the mighty city! That, in one hour, hath come thy judgment.

¹⁷ That, in one hour, hath been laid waste, such great wealth as this! And, every pilot, and every passenger, and mariners, and as many as, by the sea, carry on traffic, afar off did stand, ¹⁸ and they cried out, seeing the smoke of her burning, saying––What city is like unto the great city?

³ Behold me! testify against me, before Yahweh, and before his Anointed––Whose, ox, have I taken? or whose, ass, have I taken? or whom have I oppressed? Whom have I crushed? or at whose, hands, have I taken a bribe, to cover up mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it unto you.

¹¹ Then came unto him all his brethren and all his sisters, and all his former acquaintances, and they did eat bread with him in his house,––and shewed sympathy with him and comforted him, over all the calamity which Yahweh had brought upon him,––and they gave him, every one a weight of money, and every one, a ring of gold.

³³ The silver or gold or apparel of no one, did I covet:

⁴⁸ after that he hath sold himself, a right of redemption, pertaineth to him,––one of his brethren, may redeem him;

⁸ and I said unto them, We, have bought our brethren the Jews, who had sold themselves unto the nations, according to our ability, and will, ye, even sell your brethren, or shall they sell themselves unto us? And they were silent, and found no answer.

²⁰ In famine, he will ransom thee from death, and in battle from the power of the sword;

⁷ A brother, can none of them, redeem, he cannot give unto God a ransom for himself: ⁸ So costly, is the redemption of their soul, That it faileth unto times age–abiding;

¹⁵ But, God, will redeem my soul, out of the hand of hades, For he will take me. [Selah.]

² Let the redeemed of Yahweh say, Whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the adversary;

²¹ Thus will I deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked,––And redeem thee out of the grasp of the tyrants.

²⁷ Lo! as for this, we have searched it out––so, it is, Hear it, and know, thou, for thyself.

² I say unto GOD, Do not hold me guilty, Let me know, on what account thou contendest with me!

¹¹ Lo! I waited for your words, I kept giving ear for your reasons, until ye should search out what to say;

¹⁵ They were dismayed, they responded no more, they suffered speech to forsake them; ¹⁶ Though I waited, yet could they not speak, Surely they came to a stand, they responded no more.

¹ But, in very deed, hear, I pray thee, Job, my discourse, and, to all my words, give thou ear.

³¹ Mark well, O Job, and hearken to me, Be silent, and, I, will speak: ³² If there is anything to say, reply to me, Speak, for I desire to justify thee; ³³ If not, do, thou, hearken unto me, Be silent, that I may teach thee wisdom.

³² What I see not, do, thou, shew me, If, perverseness, I have wrought, I will do it no more?

¹² Mistakes, who perceiveth? From things that are hidden, acquit me:

⁸ I will make thee discreet, I will point out to thee the way which thou must go, I will fix upon thee mine eye.

¹ [To the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Melody of David.]
I said, [to myself,] I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue,––I will put on my mouth a muzzle, So long as the lawless is before me. ² I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, afar from happiness, But, my pain had been stirred:

⁹ Give to a wise man, and he will be wiser still, Inform a righteous man, and he will increase learning.

¹² A ring of gold, and a vessel of precious metal, is a wise reprover, on a hearing ear.

¹⁹ Ye know, my brethren beloved,––but let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

² For, oft, are we stumbling, one and all: If anyone, in word, doth not stumble, the same, is a mature man, able to curb even the whole body.

⁴ Him that was stumbling, have thy words raised up, and, sinking knees, hast thou strengthened.

⁵ Oh that ye would, altogether hold your peace, and it should serve you for wisdom!

³ Is there to be an end to windy words? Or what so strongly exciteth thee, that thou must respond? ⁴ I also, like you, could speak,––If your soul were in the place of my soul, I could string together words against you, and could therewith shake over you my head. ⁵ I could make you determined, by my mouth, and then my lip–solace should restrain you.

³⁴ How then should ye comfort me with vanity, since, as for your replies, there lurketh, [in them] treachery?

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

³ and, against his three friends, was kindled his anger,––because that they found not a response, and condemned God.

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

²¹ The wise in heart, shall be called intelligent, and, sweetness of lips, increaseth persuasiveness.
²² A well–spring of life, is discretion to its owner, but, the correction of the foolish, is folly.
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.

²¹ Death and life, are in the power of the tongue, and, its friends, shall eat its fruits.

¹¹ Golden fruit in figured silver baskets, is a word spoken on fitting occasion.

¹⁰ The Proclaimer sought to find out words giving delight, and to note down rightly, the words of truth. ¹¹ The words of the wise, are as goads, yea, as driven nails, their well–ordered sayings,––given from one shepherd.

¹⁰ And he said unto her, As one of the base women speaketh, speakest thou? Blessing, shall we accept from God, and, misfortune, shall we not accept? In all this, Job sinned not with his lips.

³ Perish, the day wherein I was born, and the night it was said, Lo! a manchild! ⁴ That day, be it darkness,––Let not God enquire after it from above, May there shine upon it no clear beam: ⁵ Let darkness and death–shade buy it back, May there settle down upon it a cloud, Let a day’s dark eclipse cause it terror: ⁶ That night, darkness take it,––May it not rejoice among the days of the year, Into the number of months, let it not enter. ⁷ Lo! that night, be it barren, Let no joyous shouting enter therein: ⁸ Let day–cursers denounce it, Those skilled in rousing the dragon of the sky: ⁹ Darkened be the stars of its twilight,––Let it wait for light, and there be none, neither let it see the eyelashes of the dawn: ¹⁰ Because it closed not the doors of the womb wherein I was, and so hid trouble from mine eyes.
¹¹ Wherefore, in the womb, did I not die? From the womb, come forth and cease to breathe? ¹² For what reason, were there prepared for me––knees? and why––breasts, that I might suck? ¹³ Surely, at once, had I lain down, and been quiet, I had fallen asleep, then, had I been at rest: ¹⁴ With kings, and counselors of the earth, who had built them pyramids: ¹⁵ Or with rulers possessing, gold,––Who had filled their houses with silver: ¹⁶ Or that, like an untimely birth hidden away, I had not come into being, like infants that never saw light: ¹⁷ There, the lawless, cease from raging, and there the toil–worn are at rest: ¹⁸ At once are prisoners at peace, they hear not the voice of a driver: ¹⁹ Small and great, there, they are, and, the slave, is free from his master.
²⁰ Wherefore give, to the wretched, light? Or, life, to the embittered in soul?–– ²¹ Who long for death, and it is not, And have digged for it, beyond hid treasures: ²² Who rejoice unto exultation, Are glad, when they can find the grave: ²³ To a man, whose way is concealed, And GOD hath straitly enclosed him? ²⁴ For, in the face of my food, my sighing, cometh in, and, poured out like the water, are my groans: ²⁵ For, a dread, I dreaded, and it hath come upon me, and, that from which I shrank, hath overtaken me. ²⁶ I was not careless, nor was I secure, nor had I settled down,––when there came––consternation!

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.

⁴ For, the arrows of the Almighty, are in me, The heat whereof, my spirit is drinking up, The, terrors of GOD, array themselves against me.

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

² How long wilt thou speak these things? Or, as a mighty wind, shall be the sayings of thy mouth?

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

³ For, the ear, trieth words, as, the palate, tasteth in eating. ⁴ What is right, let us choose for ourselves, Let us know, among ourselves, what is good; ⁵ For Job hath said––I am righteous, But, GOD, hath turned away my right; ⁶ Concerning mine own right, shall I tell a falsehood? Incurable is my disease––not for any transgression. ⁷ What man is like Job? He drinketh in scoffing like water; ⁸ And is on the way to keep company, with the workers of iniquity, and to walk with lawless men. ⁹ For he hath said, It profiteth not a man, when, his good pleasure, is with God.

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

⁵ Once, have I spoken, but I will not proceed, yea twice, but I will not add.

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

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 And it came to pass, after Yahweh had spoken these words unto Job, that Yahweh, said unto Eliphaz the Temanite, Kindled is mine anger against thee and against thy two friends, for ye have not spoken concerning me the thing that is right, like my servant Job.

¹ Ephraim, feedeth on wind, and pursueth the east wind, all the day, falsehood and force, doth he magnify,––and, a covenant with Assyria, would they solemnize, and, oil into Egypt, must be borne along.

³⁷ For, by thy words, shalt thou be, justified, and, by thy words, shalt thou be condemned.

¹⁴ That we may, no longer, be infants––billow–tossed and shifted round with every wind of teaching,––in the craft of men, in knavery suited to the artifice of error;

²² Neither widow nor fatherless, shalt thou humiliate: ²³ if thou, do humiliate, him, when he in anywise crieth out unto me, I will, surely hear, his outcry: ²⁴ so shall kindle mine anger, and I will slay you with the sword,––and your, wives, shall become, widows, and your, sons, fatherless.

⁹ Widows, thou hast sent away empty, and, the arms of the fatherless, thou dost crush.

³ The ass of the fatherless, they drive off, they take in pledge the ox of the widow;

⁹ Men tear, from the breast, the fatherless, and, over the poor, they take a pledge;

¹² Because I used to deliver the oppressed who was crying out for aid, the fatherless also, and him that had no helper;

¹⁷ Or, used to eat my morsel alone, so that the fatherless did not eat thereof;

²¹ If I shook––against the fatherless––my hand, when I saw, in the gate, his need of my help,

¹⁵ A pit, he cut out, and digged it, and then fell into the ditch he had made:

⁶ A net, did they fix for my steps, My soul was bowed down,––They digged before me a pit, They fell into the midst thereof! [Selah.]

³ Vindicate the weak and the fatherless, The oppressed and the poor, see righted;

¹⁰ Do not move back the ancient boundary, and, into the fields of the fatherless, do not enter; ¹¹ For, their near of kin, is strong, he, will plead their cause with thee.

²⁰ Shall, evil, be recompensed, for, good? For they have digged a pit for my life,––Remember how I stood before thee, To speak, in their behalf, what was good! To turn back thine indignation from them.

²² Let there be heard a cry out of their houses, When thou shalt bring in upon them a troop, suddenly,––Because they digged a pit to capture me, And, snares, did they hide for my feet.

⁷ Father and mother, have they despised in thee, To the sojourner, have they dealt with oppression, in the midst of thee,––The fatherless and the widow, have they maltreated in thee:

³ And, for my people, they cast lots,––and gave a boy for a harlot, and a girl sold they for wine––and drank.

¹⁰ Yet, she, was given up to exile, she went into captivity, even her babes, were dashed to the ground, at the head of all the streets,––and, for her honourable men, cast they lots, and, all her great men, were bound together in chains.

⁵ Therefore will I draw near unto you for judgment, and will become a swift witness against the mutterers of incantations, and against the adulterers, and against them that swear to a falsehood,––and against them who rob the hire of the hireling, the widow and the fatherless, and that drive away the sojourner, and do not revere me, saith Yahweh of hosts.

²⁷ Religious observance, pure and undefiled with our God and Father, is, this––to be visiting orphans and widows in their affliction, unspotted, to keep, himself, from the world.

³ And, in greed, with forged words, will they, of you, make merchandise: for whom, the sentence from of old, is not idle, and, their destruction, doth not slumber.

³ Shall, thy pratings, cause men to hold their peace? When thou hast mocked, shall there be none to put thee to shame?

⁴ Verily my lips shall not speak perversity, nor shall, my tongue, utter deceit.

³ Mine utterances come straight from mine own heart, and, what I know, my lips have truly spoken;

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

¹⁰ But indeed, as for them all, will ye bethink yourselves and enter into it, I pray you? Or shall I not find, among you, one who is wise?

¹⁰ But, he, knoweth the way that I choose, Having tried me, as gold, I shall come forth.

⁴ Verily my lips shall not speak perversity, nor shall, my tongue, utter deceit. 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.

⁵ For Job hath said––I am righteous, But, GOD, hath turned away my right;

⁶ For this cause, I tremble and repent, on dust and ashes.

¹⁸ So shall ye return, and see the difference, between the righteous and the lawless,––between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.

⁶ Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

⁸ But thou hast spoken in mine ears, and, the sound of words, I heard:–– ⁹ Pure am, I, without transgression,––Clean am, I, and have no iniquity; ¹⁰ Lo! occasions of hostility, would he find against me, He counteth me an enemy to him; ¹¹ He putteth––in the stocks––my feet, He watcheth all my paths. ¹² Lo! in this, thou hast not been right––let me answer thee, For, GOD, is greater than, man.

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. ⁴ Hear thou, I pray thee, and, I, will speak, I will ask thee, and inform thou me. ⁵ By the hearing of the ear, had I heard thee, but, now, mine own eye, hath seen thee. ⁶ For this cause, I tremble and repent, on dust and ashes.

¹⁴ But, to such as are mature, pertaineth, the strong food, to them who, by reason of habit, have their organs of perception well trained for discriminating both good and evil.