Job Cross References - Thomson

¹ There was a man in the country of Ausitis whose name was Job. He was a man of truth and integrity, just, pious, and who abstained from every thing that was evil. ² He had seven sons and three daughters; and his cattle were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred breeding asses. ³ His attendants were numerous, and his works great in the country. He was also a man of illustrious birth, among the people of the east. ⁴ Now his sons had a custom of meeting at each others houses, and making an entertainment, each on his day, taking along with them their three sisters to eat and drink with them. ⁵ And soon as the days of the entertainment were over, Job sent for, and purified them early the next morning, and offered sacrifices for them according to their numbers; a young bull for a sin offering for each of them; for Job said, Perhaps my children have in their mind conceived evil before God. In this manner therefore Job acted after every of those days. ⁶ And it came to pass that on the same day, when lo! the angels of God came to present themselves before the Lord, Satan also came with them; ⁷ and the Lord said to Satan, Whence comest thou? And Satan in reply said to the Lord, Having gone round the earth, and roved the whole of it under heaven, I am come here. ⁸ And the Lord said to him, Hast thou harboured in thy mind any thing against my servant Job? For there is not like him on the earth, a man unblameable, true, pious, abstaining from every thing evil. ⁹ And Satan in reply said before the Lord, Doth Job worship the Lord for nothing? ¹⁰ Hast thou not made a hedge about all that he hath, abroad and at home, and about all that belong to him round about, and blessed the works of his hands, and multiplied his cattle on the earth? ¹¹ But put forth thine hand and touch all that he hath, he will indeed openly renounce thee. ¹² Then the Lord said to Satan, Behold all that he hath I deliver into thine hand; but himself thou must not touch. So Satan went out from the Lord, ¹³ and after that, on the same day, when the sons and daughters of Job were drinking wine at their elder brother's house, ¹⁴ lo! a messenger came to Job, and said to him, The oxen were ploughing and the asses feeding near them, ¹⁵ and the plunderers came and carried them off. Thy servants also they slew with the sword, and I alone having escaped, am come to tell thee. ¹⁶ While he was yet speaking, another messenger came, and said to Job; Fire hath fallen from heaven and burned up the sheep, and devoured the shepherds likewise; and I, alone having escaped, am come to tell thee. ¹⁷ While this one was still speaking, another messenger came and said to Job, The horsemen, having formed three bands against us, surrounded the camels and have carried them off, and slain thy servants with the sword; and I, alone having escaped, am come to tell thee. ¹⁸ While he was still speaking, another messenger came, and said to Job, While thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking at their eldest brother's, ¹⁹ a great blast of wind came up suddenly from the wilderness, and took the four corners of the house, so that the house fell upon thy children, and they are dead, and I, alone having escaped, am come to tell thee. ²⁰ Upon this Job rising up rent his clothes, and shaved his head, and falling on the ground he worshipped ²¹ and said, Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall depart hence. The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away. As it pleased the Lord so hath it come to pass. Blessed be the name of the Lord. ²² In all these things which befel him, Job transgressed not against the Lord, nor imputed indiscretion to his God.

⁹ Now these are the generations of Noe. Noe was a just man; and being perfect in the tenor of his life, Noe pleased God.

²³ And the children of Aram were Ouz and Oul and Gater and Mosoch.

¹ And when Abram was ninety nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am thy God. Be well pleasing in my sight, and be blameless

¹² And he said, Lay not thy hand on the lad, nor do any thing to him; for now I know that thou fearest God and on my account hast not spared thy darling son.

²⁰ And after these things it was told Abraham saying, With regard to Melcha, behold she also hath born sons to thy brother Nachor, Ouz the first born, and Baux his brother,

²⁸ And these were the sons Rison, Os and Aran.

²¹ but look out for thyself from among all the people, for able, pious men, men of integrity who hate pride; and set these over them as rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, and rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens;

³ Lord, remember I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what is good in thy sight. And Ezekias wept sore.

¹⁷ The sons of Sent, Ailam and Assur

⁴² And the sons of Osar, were Balaam and Zukam and Akan. The sons of Disan were Os and Aran.

²⁰ Thus did Ezekias through all Juda, and he did what was right in the sight of the Lord his God. ²¹ And in every work which he undertook in the service of the house of the Lord, and in the law and in the statutes, he sought his God with his whole heart, and did it and prospered.

⁸ And the Lord said to him, Hast thou harboured in thy mind any thing against my servant Job? For there is not like him on the earth, a man unblameable, true, pious, abstaining from every thing evil.

³ And the Lord said to Satan, Thou hast therefore attended to my servant Job; that there is not of those on the earth a man like him, guiltless, true, unblameable, abstaining from all evil. Still he retaineth his innocence; so that thou hast ordered the destruction of his property, without accomplishing thy purpose.

¹¹ And I will come out at his commands; for I have kept his ways, and will not turn aside from his commands, ¹² nor transgress in my bosom: indeed I have hid his words.

²⁸ he said to man, "Behold the worshipping of God is wisdom: and to abstain from evil is understanding."

¹ I made a covenant with mine eyes, that I would not gaze on a virgin: ² yet what portion hath God dealt out from above? ³ And what, alas! the lasting portion on high? "Destruction is for the wicked and banishment for transgressors." ⁴ Why will he not behold my way and number all my steps? ⁵ Have I walked with scoffers or hath my foot hasted to deceit? ⁶ For I have been weighed in a just balance; and the Lord knoweth mine integrity. ⁷ If my foot hath deviated from the way or my heart gone astray after mine eyes; or if with my hands I have touched bribes: ⁸ may I sow and others eat; and let me have no root in the land. ⁹ If my heart hath gone after another man's wife, or if I have lain in wait at her gates; ¹⁰ let my wife gratify another, and mine infant children be dishonoured. ¹¹ For the defiling of another man's wife exciteth a fury of wrath not to be restrained. ¹² For it is a fire burning in all the limbs; which will not go out, till it hath utterly consumed. ¹³ If I have slighted the cause of my man servant or maid servant when they had a controversy with me, ¹⁴ what shall I do when the Lord maketh inquest? And when he visiteth, what answer shall I make? ¹⁵ Was not I formed in the womb as they were? And were we not alike fashioned in the belly? ¹⁶ Far from depriving the poor of what they had, or causing the heart of a widow to fail; ¹⁷ if I have eaten my morsel alone, and have not shared it with the orphan; ¹⁸ [for from my youth I as a father nourished them, and was their guide from my mother's womb] ¹⁹ If I have seen the naked perishing and have not clothed them; ²⁰ and if the poor have not blessed me, and their shoulders been warmed with the fleece of my lambs; ²¹ If I have raised a hand against the fatherless, because I had around me greater support: ²² may my shoulder bone be dislocated, and my arm broken at the elbow. ²³ For the fear of the Lord restrained me, and the burden of that I could not endure. ²⁴ If I have made gold my measure, or placed my confidence in precious stones: ²⁵ or if I have exulted because my wealth was great, or laid my hand on what was not counted out to me: ²⁶ or, [do we not see the refulgent sun sometimes eclipsed, and the moon continually changing? for it is not in them:] ²⁷ if then my heart hath been secretly enticed, and I have laid my hand on my mouth and kissed it ²⁸ let this be reckoned to me as the greatest transgression, that I have lied in the presence of the Lord, the Most High. ²⁹ If I have rejoiced at the downfall of mine enemies, and my heart hath said, Aha! ³⁰ Let mine ear hear myself cursed, and let me be a by-word among the people, when I am afflicted. ³¹ If my maid servants have often said, that we had some of his flesh meat to eat! while I was living luxuriously: ³² [indeed the stranger lodged not in the street, and my door was open to every comer:] ³³ If when I sinned inadvertently, I concealed my sin; ³⁴ for I was not so awed by the multitude as not to mention it before them; [Now if I had suffered a poor man to go from my door with an empty lap, ³⁵ who could have heard me with patience?] And if I had not feared the hand of the Lord ³⁶ I would have put on my shoulders the writing which I had against any one, and have acknowledged it as a crown: ³⁷ But if I did not tear it in pieces and give it up, without taking any thing from the debtor: ³⁸ if ever my ground hath cried out against me, and the furrows thereof joined in the complaint: ³⁹ if I have eaten alone the strength thereof without money, and by rapine caused the heart of the owner of the soil to grieve: ⁴⁰ let nettles spring up for me instead of wheat, and bramble bushes instead of barley.

¹³ The fear of the Lord hateth injustice and insolence and haughtiness and the ways of the wicked: and I have hated the crooked ways of bad men.

⁶ [Omitted]

²⁰ and all the mixed people; and all the kings of the Philistines, [namely Ascalon and Gaza and Akkaron and the remnant of Azotus;

²¹ Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Idumea who dwellest in the land. To thee however the cup of the Lord will come and thou shalt drink and vomit.

¹⁴ should there be in it three such men as these Noe, Daniel and Job: They for their righteousness shall be saved, saith the Lord.

²⁰ and Noe, Daniel and Job be therein; As I live, saith the Lord, neither sons nor daughters shall be left: they for their righteousness shall deliver only their own souls.

⁶ They were both righteous in the sight of God, walking in all the commandments and precepts of the Lord, without blame.

¹¹ Behold we call those sufferers happy. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord's termination" that the Lord is full of compassion and tender mercy.

¹¹ Let him depart from evil and do good; Let him seek peace and pursue it.

¹¹ and having displayed to them his riches and the honour which the king had conferred on him; how he had promoted him to the highest rank and made him ruler of the kingdom,

¹³ Keep silence that I may speak, and have some respite from wrath.

¹³ And he had seven sons born to him, and three daughters, the eldest of whom he called Hemera, and the second Kasia,

³⁸ And he hath blessed them and they have multiplied greatly, and their cattle have not decreased.

³ Behold sons are an heritage of the Lord; a reward of the fruit of the womb. ⁴ Like shafts in the hands of a mighty man, so are the sons of them who were shaken off. ⁵ Happy he who shall satisfy his desire with these. They shall not be put to shame, when they speak to their enemies in the gates.

³ Thy wife shall be in the sides of thy house, like a fruitful vine; thy children round thy table, like olive plants.

⁵ And Abram took Sara his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance which they possessed, and every living creature which they had, and set out from Charran to go to the land of Chanaan.

¹⁶ And they treated Abram well for her sake, though he had sheep and oxen and asses and men servants and maid servants and mules and camels.

⁶ so that the land would not admit of their living together. Because their substance was great and the land did not admit of their living together,

⁶ and to the children of his concubines Abraham gave gifts and sent them, while he was yet living, towards the east, into the eastern country from his son Isaak.

¹ Then Jacob proceeded on, and went to the land of the east to Laban the son of Bathuel, the Syrian, the brother of Rebekka who was Jacob and Esau's mother.

²³ Will not their cattle and four footed beasts and all their substance become ours? Let us only be like them in this, and they will dwell with us.

⁷ And a spirit of God came upon Balaam, and he took up his parable, and said, I am called from Mesopotamia by Balak; By the king of Moab from the mountains of the east, Come, saith he, Curse Jacob for me, And, come, for me devote Israel.

³² And the whole amount of the booty which the warriors had taken, was, of sheep six hundred and seventy five thousand; ³³ of cattle seventy two thousand, ³⁴ and sixty one thousand asses;

³ And when the Israelites had sown, Madiam and Amelek came up, and the children of the east came up with them,

⁵ For they came up with cattle. And their tents were pitched like locusts for multitude: and they and their camels were innumerable. And they came into the land of Israel, and wasted it;

¹² Now Madiam, and Amalek, and all the children of the east lay along in the valley, like grasshoppers, for multitude, and their camels were innumerable. They were like the sand on the sea shore for multitude.

¹⁰ Now Zebee and Salmana were at Karkar, and their army with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of the whole host of the foreign tribes, they who had fallen being a hundred and twenty thousand men who drew the sword.

² Now there was a man at Maon whose flocks were at Carmel. He was a very wealthy man. He had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats, and he was sheering his sheep at Carmel.

³⁰ so that Solomon far excelled the wisdom of all the ancients and all the wise men of Egypt.

⁴ Now Mosa king of Moab, was a Noked [one who paid tribute in sheep] and rebelliously withheld from the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs, and a hundred thousand rams with the wool.

¹⁰ he built towers in the wilderness, and dug many wells, for he bad much cattle at Sephale, and in the plains, and vine dressers in the hilly country, and on Karmel, for he was fond of husbandry.

²⁹ and cities which he built for himself; and a vast multitude of flocks and herds; for the Lord gave him substance in great abundance.

⁹ The nobles forbore talking and put their finger on their mouth. ¹⁰ And while they who heard me were blessing me, their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

²⁵ I chose their way and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king among warriors; as one who comforteth the afflicted.

¹² And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than the former; so that his stock was fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, a thousand breeding asses.

²² The blessing of the Lord is on the head of the righteous; it maketh rich, and to it no sorrow of heart shall be joined.

¹ A Song of the steps. Behold! what I pray you, so beautiful, or is there anything so pleasant, as brethren dwelling in unity?

¹ Let brotherly love continue.

⁵ So when the Lord God saw that the wickedness of the men on the earth was multiplied, and that every one was in his heart studiously and continually bent upon evils,

²⁰ And Noe built an altar to the Lord, and took of all the cattle which are clean and of all the fowls which are clean, and offered them up upon the altar for a whole homage offering.

³ So Abraham arose in the morning and saddled his ass and took with him two servants and his son Isaak: and having split wood for the whole homage offering he set out on the journey and came to the place which God told him

² Thereupon Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, Put away the strange gods which are with you and purify yourselves and change your garments; ³ and let us arise and go to Bethel and build there an altar to the God who hearkened to me in a day of distress; who was with me and preserved me in the way in which I went.

¹² Then Jothor the father in law of Moses took whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for God; and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat bread before God with Moses' father in law.

¹⁰ When Moses told the Lord the words of the people the Lord said to Moses, Go down and testify to the people and purify them to-day and to-morrow and let them wash their garments

⁵ and he sent out the young men of the children of Israel and they brought up whole burnt offerings and slew young bulls for a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord.

³ If his gift be a whole burnt offering from the herd, he shall bring a male without blemish to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony. He shall bring it before the Lord for acceptance; ⁴ and he shall lay his hand on the head of the homage offering to be accepted for him; to make atonement for him. ⁵ And they shall kill the young bull before the Lord; and the sons of Aaron the priests shall carry the blood and pour it out round about on the altar which is at the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony; ⁶ and having flayed the whole burnt offering they shall cut it in quarters;

¹⁰ Now there had come out among the Israelites a son of an Israelitish woman, but his father was an Egyptian. And this son of the Israelitish woman, and a man who was an Israelite, quarrelled in the camp. ¹¹ And the son of the Israelitish woman having named the name, cursed it. Upon which they brought him before Moses. Now his mother's name was Salomith, she was a daughter of Dabri, of the tribe of Dan. ¹² And when they had committed him to custody, to pass sentence on him by the decree of the Lord, ¹³ the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁴ Lead out him who cursed, without the camp, and all who heard shall lay their hands on his head, and all the congregation shall stone him. ¹⁵ Then speak to the children of Israel, and thon shalt say to them, Be the man who he may who shall curse a god, he shall contract guilt; ¹⁶ but let him who nameth the name of Lord be put to death. Let the whole congregation of Israel stone him with stones; whether he be a proselyte, or born among them, when he nameth the name of the Lord, let him die.

⁵ And he said, It is peaceable. I come to sacrifice to the Lord. Sanctify yourselves, and rejoice with me to-day. And when he was hallowing Jessai and his sons and inviting them to the sacrifice,

³¹ Elias took twelve stones according to the number of the tribes of Israel, to whom the Lord had spoken, saying, Thy name shall be Israel;

¹⁰ and suborn two wicked men and let them testify against him saying, He renounced God and the king. Then let him be led out and stoned to death.

¹³ and there came in two wicked men and sat over against him and testified against him saying, Thou hast renounced God and the king. Upon which they led him out of the city, and stoned him with stones so that he died.

³⁰ And the priests and the Levites having purified themselves, purified also the people, and the keepers of the gates and the wall.

¹¹ But put forth thine hand and touch all that he hath, he will indeed openly renounce thee.

⁹ And much time having elapsed, his wife said to him, How long wilt thou persist saying, Behold I will wait yet a little longer, in hope and expectation of my deliverance? For behold the memorial of thee; those sons and daughters, whom I brought forth with pangs and sorrow, and for whom I toiled in vain, are vanished from the earth; and thou thyself sittest among the putrefaction of worms, all night long in the open air, while I am wandering about, or working for wages, from place to place and from house to house, wishing for the setting of the sun, that I may rest from the labours and sorrows I endure. Do but say something for the Lord and die.

⁴ If thy children have sinned in his sight, he hath dismissed them for their transgression:

¹⁰ hath he any assurance before him? Or upon his calling, will he hearken to him?

²⁵ When he turneth himself about, all the four footed beasts on the earth shrink with fear. Though spears oppose him,

⁸ Now therefore take seven young bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and he will make an offering for you; and my servant Job will pray for you. For him only I will accept; for were it not for his sake, I would destroy you, because you have not spoken what is true against my servant Job.

³ In the morning thou shalt hear my voice: in the morning I will wait on thee and look up.

¹⁰ Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might; since there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge nor wisdom in the mansion of the dead to which thou must go.

¹⁴ Jerusalem! wash thy heart from wickedness that thou mayst be saved. How long do ill grounded reasonings for thy troubles remain in thee?

⁹ [p] The heart is deep beyond all things; so also is a man, who then can know Him? ¹⁰ [J] I the Lord search hearts and try reins, to give to everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his devices.

²¹ For from within, out of the heart of man, proceed those evil surmises, adulteries, fornications, murders, ²² thefts, inordinate desires, malice, fraud, sensuality, envy, detraction, pride, foolishness. ²³ All these are the evil things which come from within, and defile the man.

⁷⁵ in holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.

⁷ And will not God vindicate the cause of his chosen, who are crying to him day and night"? Will he linger in their cause?

⁵⁵ Now the passover of the Jews was near, and many came up to Jerusalem from the country, before the passover, to purify themselves.

²² Repent therefore of this wickedness of thine; and beseech God, if indeed this thought of thy heart can be forgiven thee.

²⁶ So Paul took the men, and the next day being purified with them he went into the temple, announcing the full term of the days of the purification, even to the time when the offering for each of them was to be made;

⁵ So pass no judgment prematurely, until the Lord come, who will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and expose to view the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise for every one will be from God.

² for I am jealous of you with a godly jealousy. For I fitted you for one husband only, that I might present you as a chaste virgin to the Christ;

¹⁸ in every prayer and supplication, always praying with the spirit [being for this purpose in a continual state of watchfulness and prayer] for all the saints

² that the sons of God seeing the daughters of men that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all whom they chose:

⁴ Now there were giants on the earth in those days, and after that when the sons of God went in unto the daughters of men and they bore to them. These were the giants of old, the men of renown.

¹⁹ Whereupon Michaias said, It is not so. It is not I. Hear a word of the Lord. Is not this the case? I saw the God of Israel seated on his throne, and all the hosts of heaven stood around him, some on the right and some on the left.

¹ Now when an adversary stood up in Israel and persuaded David to number Israel,

¹ Again on the day when the angels of God came to present themselves before the Lord, Satan also came among them to present himself before the Lord.

⁷ When the stars were made, all my angels praised me with a loud voice.

²⁰ Bless the Lord, all ye his angels; ye mighty powers, who execute his word, on hearing the voice of his commands.

²⁵ the king said, Here I see four men loose and walking about in the midst of the fire unhurt: And the appearance of the fourth is like a son of a god.

¹ Then the Lord shewed me Jesus the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan stood at his right hand to oppose him.

¹⁰ Take heed that you despise not one of these little ones; for I say to you, Their angels in heaven do continually behold the face of my father who is in heaven.

³⁸ son of Enos, son of Seth, son of Adam, son of God.

⁷⁰ Jesus answered them, Have I not chosen you twelve? Yet one of you is a spy.

⁹ And the great dragon was cast out that old serpent who is called The Devil and Satan who leadeth the whole world astray. He was thrown on the earth and his angels were thrown with him. ¹⁰ And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven. "Now is come salvation and the power and reign of our God and the authority of Christ himself; for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, he who accused them before our God day and night;

²⁵ he went in and stood before his master. And Elisha said to him, Whence comest thou, Giezi? To which he replied, Thy servant hath not gone any where.

² And the Lord said to Satan, Whence comest thou? And Satan said before the Lord, Having traversed that under heaven, and roved through the whole of it, I am come here

¹⁰ Then the man who stood between the mountains, addressing me said, These are they whom the Lord sent to go round this land. ¹¹ Then they addressed the angel of the Lord who stood between the mountains, and said. We have gone round all this land, and lo all the land is inhabited, and quiet.

⁷ and the bay went out and looked with an intent to go round this land: and he said, Go and scour round this land. And when they had scoured round this land

⁴³ When the unclean spirit hath gone out of the man, it walketh through dry places seeking rest, but doth not find it.

⁸ be sober, be watchful: because your adversary the devil is walking about, like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour,

⁹ And the great dragon was cast out that old serpent who is called The Devil and Satan who leadeth the whole world astray. He was thrown on the earth and his angels were thrown with him.

¹² Therefore rejoice ye heavens and ye who dwell in them. Alas! for the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! for the devil is gone down to you in great wrath knowing that he hath but a little time. ¹³ And when the dragon saw that he was cast on the earth he persecuted the woman who had brought forth the masculine child; ¹⁴ and to the woman were given two wings of the great eagle that she might fly to the wilderness to her place where she is nourished for a time and times and the half of a time from the face of the serpent. ¹⁵ And the serpent spouted out of his mouth after the woman water like a river that she might be swept away by the stream; ¹⁶ and the earth helped the woman; and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the torrent which the dragon spouted out of his mouth: ¹⁷ and the dragon was enraged at the woman and went to make war against the rest of her seed them who were keeping the commandments of God and maintaining the testimony of Jesus Christ.

⁸ and will go forth to seduce the nations which are in the four corners of the earth Gog and Magog to assemble them for battle; the number of whom will be as the sand of the sea.

³ [Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men on the earth,]

⁷ Not so with respect to my servant Moses. In all my house he is faithful. ⁸ Mouth to mouth, I will speak to him personally, and not in dark sentences. He hath actually seen the glory of God. Why then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses.

⁷ Therefore be strong, and courageous, to watch, and to do as my servant Moses commanded. Thou must not deviate from them, to the right or to the left. That thou mayst clearly understand all that thou art to do:

³⁰ so that Solomon far excelled the wisdom of all the ancients and all the wise men of Egypt. ³¹ He gave specimens of wisdom beyond all men; far beyond Gaithan the Zarite, and Ainan, and Chelkad and Darala, the sons of Mal.

²⁵ Like him there was no king before him who turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, according to all the law of Moses; nor did there arise after him any one like him.

¹⁵ those daily allowances with which they who were before me had loaded them, and which they had exacted from them in bread and wine, to the amount at least of forty didrachms of silver. They indeed who had been displaced, tyrannised over the people; but as for me I did not do so; because I feared God.

¹ There was a man in the country of Ausitis whose name was Job. He was a man of truth and integrity, just, pious, and who abstained from every thing that was evil.

²⁰ for the Lord will not cast off the innocent, nor from the ungodly accept a gift:

²² Say then, wrath destroyeth the great and powerful: ²³ that the wicked fall by an untimely death. But the righteous are laughed to scorn:

⁴ For a just man and one irreprehensible hath been made a mocking stock.

⁸ At this the upright are astonished. ⁹ Now the righteous should prevail over the wicked: and he who is faithful should hold on his way: and he who hath clean hands should take courage.

¹⁴ For were it his pleasure to confine, and keep to himself, the wind,

⁷ Now after the Lord had spoken all these things to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz, the Thaimanite, Thou hast sinned and thy two friends. For you have not spoken any thing true before me, as my servant Job hath. ⁸ Now therefore take seven young bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and he will make an offering for you; and my servant Job will pray for you. For him only I will accept; for were it not for his sake, I would destroy you, because you have not spoken what is true against my servant Job.

²³ therefore with him I shall be unblemished, and I will guard myself from mine iniquity;

¹⁴ depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

¹ For the conclusion. By David the servant of the Lord. The transgressor, in order that he may sin, saith within himself, "He hath, before his eyes, no fear of God's finding out and hating his iniquity:"

²⁷ Depart from evil and do good and dwell for evermore.

¹¹ Because the Lord loveth mercy and truth; God will give grace and glory: the Lord will not withhold good things from them who walk in innocence.

²⁰ I have found David my servant; I have anointed him with holy oil.

¹⁶ Wash and become clean: remove iniquities from your souls; in my presence, cease from your evil deeds;

¹ [J] JACOB is my servant, I will uphold him, Israel is my chosen one, my soul hath embraced him; I have put my spirit upon him; he will publish judgment to the nations. [[J] Jehovah, [p] the prophet]

⁴ And the man whom I saw said to me, Son of man, Behold with thine eyes and hear with thine ears, and lay up in thy heart all that I shew thee; for thou art come hither that I may shew thee and that thou mayst point out to the house of Israel all that thou seest.

³⁹ Even one of the malefactors who were on crosses, reviled him, saying, If thou art the Christ, save thyself and us. ⁴⁰ Upon which the other, in reply, rebuked him, saying, Hast thou no fear of God even when thou art suffering the same punishment?

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathaniel coming to him and saith respecting him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile!

²¹ and said, Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall depart hence. The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away. As it pleased the Lord so hath it come to pass. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

¹⁰ Whereupon he looking stedfastly at her said, Like one of the women without understanding hast thou spoken? If we have received good things at the hand of the Lord, shall we not bear up under afflictions? In all these things which befel him, Job transgressed not with his lips against God.

¹⁴ Yet he saith to the Lord, Depart from me, I desire not to know thy ways. ¹⁵ What is the Almighty, that we should serve him: and what the advantage, that we should wait on him?

¹⁰ Since by you the doors will be shut, and a fire will not be kindled on mine altar for nothing, I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord Almighty; nor will I accept a sacrifice at your hands.

²⁶ For what will a man be profited, if he should gain the whole world, and be punished with the forfeit of his life? Or, what will not a man give as a ransom for his life?

⁸ For bodily exercise is of little service, but this godliness is profitable for all things, having a promise of the present life and of that to come.

⁶ Now this religion, with contentment, is a great gain.

¹ After these things a word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram, I protect thee. Thy reward shall be exceedingly great.

¹² And Isaak sowed in that land and got that year an hundred fold of barley. And the Lord blessed him

³⁰ Thy stock was small before I came; but it is increased to a multitude, and the Lord hath blessed thee by my attendance. Now then, when shall I provide a house for myself.

⁴³ And the man became very rich and had much cattle and herds and men servants and maid servants and camels and asses.

⁵ And after he had made him overseer of his household, and over all that he had, the Lord blessed the house of the Egyptian for Joseph's sake; and there was a blessing of the Lord on all his substance, in his house and in his field.

²⁵ And My God hath helped thee; and blessed thee With the blessing of heaven from above, And with the blessing of a land having all things, By reason of the blessing of breasts and womb,

¹³ And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; and he will bless the offspring of thy womb, and the product of thy land; thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, thy herds of cattle, and thy flocks of sheep, in the land which he, with an oath, promised thy fathers to give thee.

² and all these blessings shall come upon thee, and find thee. If thou wilt hearken diligently to the voice of the Lord thy God, ³ Blessed shalt thou be in the city; and blessed shalt thou be in the field; ⁴ blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the products of thy land, and thy herds, and thy flocks. ⁵ Blessed shall be thy granaries, and thy stores. ⁶ Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed when thou goest out.

¹¹ Bless, Lord, his endeavours, And accept the works of his hands. Pierce the loins of enemies, Who have risen up against him: And let them who hate him never rise up.

²⁷ The governance of God will protect thee When under the power of everlasting arms. He will drive out the enemy before thee, Saying, Be devoted to destruction!

¹⁶ they were like a wall around us night and day, all the time we were near them, tending the flock.

³ His attendants were numerous, and his works great in the country. He was also a man of illustrious birth, among the people of the east.

⁶ when my ways abounded in butter, and my mountains flowed with milk;

²⁵ or if I have exulted because my wealth was great, or laid my hand on what was not counted out to me:

¹² because thou wilt bless the righteous. Thou, Lord, hast covered us as with armour of favour.

⁷ The angel of the Lord will encamp round them that fear him, and deliver them.

²¹ Thou hast multiplied thy saving mercy: thou hast returned and comforted me; and hast brought me up again from the depths of the earth.

¹² Why hast thou broken down its hedge; that all who pass by the way, may pluck it?

¹⁷ And let the splendor of the Lord our God be over us: and do thou direct for us the works of our hands.

¹ A Song of the steps. Happy are all they who fear the Lord, who walk continually in his ways. ² Thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands; thou art happy and it shall be well with thee. ³ Thy wife shall be in the sides of thy house, like a fruitful vine; thy children round thy table, like olive plants. ⁴ Behold thus shall the man be blessed, who habitually feareth the Lord.

² and I hedged it around and trenched it; and planted it with the vine of Sorek; and in the midst of it built a tower, and hewed out therein a wine lake; and waited for its producing grapes, and it produced poisonous berries.

⁵ now therefore I will tell you, what I purpose to do with my vineyard; I take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be exposed to plunder; and I will demolish its wall, and it shall be for a common walk;

⁵ And I will be to her, saith the Lord, a wall of fire around; and I will be a glory in the midst of her.

⁸ for thus saith the Lord Almighty. He behind glory hath sent me against the nations which plundered you: for he who toucheth you, is like one touching the apple of his eye.

⁵ who are, during belief, kept safely by the power of God, for a deliverance prepared to be revealed in the last time;

¹¹ Then Abimelech gave a strict charge to all his people saying, Whoever toucheth this man or his wife shall be liable to death.

⁵ And soon as the days of the entertainment were over, Job sent for, and purified them early the next morning, and offered sacrifices for them according to their numbers; a young bull for a sin offering for each of them; for Job said, Perhaps my children have in their mind conceived evil before God. In this manner therefore Job acted after every of those days.

¹² Then the Lord said to Satan, Behold all that he hath I deliver into thine hand; but himself thou must not touch. So Satan went out from the Lord,

⁵ Only put forth thy hand, and touch his bones and his flesh, he will indeed openly renounce thee.

⁵ but now, when trouble hath come upon thee and touched thee, thou art impatient:

²¹ Pity me, pity me, O my friends, for the hand of the Lord hath touched me.

¹⁵ "touch not mine anointed ones, and to my prophets do no harm."

²⁵ Wherefore the Lord of Hosts was incensed against his people, and he stretched out his hand against them and smote them: and the mountains were convulsed, and their carcasses were as dung in the high way: and for all this his anger was not turned away; but still his hand is high.

²¹ Upon you indeed there shall come a grievous famine; and it shall come to pass that when you are hungry, you will fret and curse the ruler and the customs of your country. And they will look up to the heaven above,

¹³ You have brought heavy accusations against me, saith the Lord. Do you say, in what instance have we spoken against thee? ¹⁴ You say, "Vain is he who serveth God: and what advantage is it, that we have kept his charges. For though we have walked as supplicants before the Lord Almighty,

⁹ And the men were scorched with great heat; and they blasphemed the name of God who hath power over these plagues and did not reform to give glory to him.

¹¹ and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pain, and because of their ulcers, and did not reform from their works.

²¹ and great hail like talent weights pour down from heaven on the men; and the men blasphemed God, because of the plague of the hail; for the plague of the hail was very great.

⁶ And Abram said to Sara, Behold thy maid is in thy hands, treat her as it seemeth good to thee. Thereupon Sara treated her harshly, and she fled from her presence.

²³ Now therefore behold the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these prophets of thine; but the Lord hath spoken evils against thee.

⁴ In reply to which Satan said to the Lord, Skin for skin. All that a man hath he will give for his life. ⁵ Only put forth thy hand, and touch his bones and his flesh, he will indeed openly renounce thee. ⁶ Then the Lord said to Satan, Behold I deliver him up to thee, only preserve his life. ⁷ Thereupon Satan withdrew from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with foul ulcers from head to foot,

¹⁰ Since the secret purpose of man can contribute to thy praise, let the remainder of it cause a festival to be celebrated for thee.

⁸ Having fought and disgraced them he will let them go. Thou hast not been visiting with this severe wind, to destroy them utterly with a blast of anger.

⁵ And the king said, Behold he is in your hands. For the king could not withstand them.

³² Now there was a herd of many swine there, feeding on the mountain, so they besought him to permit them to enter into the swine. And when he permitted them, ³³ the demons quitting the man, entered into the swine, and the herd rushed down a precipice into the lake, and were drowned.

³¹ Then the Lord said to Simon, Simon! behold Satan hath earnestly requested to have you in his power, that he may sift you as wheat: ³² and I have prayed for thee that thy faith may not quite fail. When thou therefore hast recovered thyself, strengthen thou thy brethren.

³⁵ The father loveth the son, and hath given all things into his hand. ³⁶ He who believeth in the son, hath an everlasting life; but he who disbelieveth the son, shall not see life; but the wrath of God will abide on him.

¹¹ Jesus answered, Thou couldst have no power at all against me, if it were not given thee from above; therefore he who delivered me up to thee hath the greater sin.

¹³ No trial hath come upon you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, and will not suffer you to be tried above your strength, but will with the trial make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.

⁷ Indeed that I might not be too much elated by the astonishing greatness of these revelations, there was given me a thorn for the flesh, a messenger of satan to buffet me, that I might not be too much elated.

⁴ Now his sons had a custom of meeting at each others houses, and making an entertainment, each on his day, taking along with them their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

¹ Boast not of things of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what the coming day will bring forth.

¹² That man indeed no more knoweth his time than the fishes which are enclosed in an evil dredge, or than birds which are caught in a net. Like them the sons of men are drawn into an evil time when it cometh upon them suddenly.

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul; Soul, thou hast many good things laid up in store for many years: take thine ease; eat; drink; and be joyful. ²⁰ Whereupon God said to him; Fool, this very night this soul of thine will be demanded of thee. Whose then will those things be which thou hast provided?

²⁷ They ate; they drank; they married, and were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered the ark; and the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸ Just so it was also in the days of Lot. They ate; they drank; they bought; they sold; they planted; they built: ²⁹ but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

³⁴ Take heed therefore to yourselves that your hearts be not overloaded with excess of meat, or drink, or worldly cares, and that day come upon you unawares.

¹⁷ And the young man in reply, said, Israel fled before the face of the Philistines, and there was a great slaughter among the people, and both thy sons are dead, and the ark of God is taken.

¹³ And there came a messenger to David, saying, The heart of the men of Israel is gone after Abessalom.

³¹ They are become like women. Her habitations are burned with fire. Her bars are broken. Courier will run to meet courier and messenger to meet messenger to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken; For thus said the Lord, the houses of the king of Babylon shall be threshed like a floor full of ripe grain. Yet a little while and her harvest will come. [c] She devoured me; she chewed me to pieces: thick darkness overwhelmed me.

⁷ And the children of Chous; Saba and Evila and Sabatha and Regma and Sabathaka. And the sons of Regma; Saba and Dadan.

²⁸ and Eval and Abimael and Saba

³ And Jesan begat Saba and Dedan. And the children of Dedan were Assurieim and Latusieim and Laomeim.

²⁰ But one son of Abimelech, son of Achitob, escaped. His name was Abiathar, and he fled to David. ²¹ And when Abiathar told David that Saul had slain all the priests of the Lord,

¹⁶ While he was yet speaking, another messenger came, and said to Job; Fire hath fallen from heaven and burned up the sheep, and devoured the shepherds likewise; and I, alone having escaped, am come to tell thee. ¹⁷ While this one was still speaking, another messenger came and said to Job, The horsemen, having formed three bands against us, surrounded the camels and have carried them off, and slain thy servants with the sword; and I, alone having escaped, am come to tell thee.

¹⁹ a great blast of wind came up suddenly from the wilderness, and took the four corners of the house, so that the house fell upon thy children, and they are dead, and I, alone having escaped, am come to tell thee.

¹⁹ Take a view of the ways of the Thaimanites, ye who mark out the Sabean tracks!

¹⁰ Let the kings of Tharsis and the isles bring gifts; the kings of the Arabs and Saba offer presents.

¹⁴ Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, That for which Egypt laboured and the traffick of the Ethiopians, and the Sabeans men of tall stature shall come over to thee; and they shall be thy vassals and shall follow thee bound with chains. They will come over to thee and pay thee homage and pray to thee because God is in thee. [c] There is indeed no God besides thee.

⁴² incense and mine oil, and joined in the harmonious song, even with men of the common herd who had come from the wilderness; [though they had put bracelets on their hands and a

⁸ And I will deliver your sons and your daughters into the hands of the sons of Juda; that they may sell them as captives to a far distant nation. Because the Lord hath spoken,

²⁴ and the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorra brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

²⁸ Pray therefore for me to the Lord; and let the voices of God and the hail and fire cease and I will send you away and you shall stay no longer.

²⁴ and there came forth a fire from the Lord which consumed what were on the altar, both the whole burnt offerings and the parcels of suet. And when all the people saw this, they were struck with consternation and fell on their faces;

² upon which a fire darted forth from the Lord, and destroyed them, and they died before the Lord.

¹ the people were wickedly murmuring before the Lord, and the Lord heard, and was provoked to wrath, and a fire from the Lord was kindled among them, and was consuming part of the camp, ² whereupon the people cried to Moses, and he prayed to the Lord, and the fire ceased. ³ So the name of that place was called Burning, because a fire from the Lord had been kindled among them.

¹⁵ And there was a consternation in the camp, and in the field; and all the people who were in Messab, and they who were spoiling, were struck with horror, and would not do any thing; for the earth trembled, and the consternation was from the Lord.

³⁸ Thereupon fire from the Lord fell down out of heaven and consumed the whole burnt offering, with the split wood and the water in the trench and the stones, and licked up even the dust.

¹⁰ Elias, in reply, said to the captain, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume thee and thy fifty. So there came down fire from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.

¹² Whereupon Elias in reply, said to him, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume thee and thy fifty. Accordingly there came down fire from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.

¹⁴ Behold, fire hath come down from heaven and consumed the two former captains of fifty; but now let my life, I beseech thee, be precious in thy sight.

⁴ So the Lord pointed out to me, and lo! the Lord had called for the punishment by fire and it was devouring the great abyss and consuming the portion of the Lord,

¹³ And it performeth great signs so as to cause fire to come down out of heaven on the earth, in the sight of men;

²⁸ And Arran died in the presence of his father Tharra in the land in which he was born in the country of the Chaldees.

³¹ And Tharra took Abram his son and Lot the son of Arran, his grand son, and Sara his daughter in law, the wife of his son Abram, and led them out of the country of the Chaldees to go to the land of Chanaan. But when they came to Charran he took up his abode there.

³ And David said to him, Whence comest thou? And he replied, I have escaped from the camp of Israel.

¹⁵ and the plunderers came and carried them off. Thy servants also they slew with the sword, and I alone having escaped, am come to tell thee.

¹³ Away to the land of the Chaldeans, though it hath been wasted by the Assyrians; because its walls had fallen.

⁶ For lo! I am raising up the Chaldeans that bitter and hasty nation, which marcheth over the breadth of the earth, to possess dwellings which belong not to them.

²⁸ And Abessalom made a banquet like that of the king. And Abessalom gave a charge to his servants saying, Observe when the heart of Amnon is elated with wine, and I say to you, Smite Amnon; then put him to death. Be not afraid, for it is I who command you. Acquit yourselves like men, and be sons of valour.

¹³ and after that, on the same day, when the sons and daughters of Job were drinking wine at their elder brother's house,

² that some person would weigh my passion: and poise in a balance against it, my calamities. ³ But these would outweigh the sand of the sea, though you seem to think my words too vehement:

¹⁴ They shot me, one deadly wound on another; they ran against me with all their might.

⁹ He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my head. ¹⁰ He broke me on every side and I fled: and he hath cut down my hope like a tree.

² I know very well, this trial is not in my disposal. And that his hand is made heavy by my groaning.

¹⁴ If their children be many they shall be for slaughter; and if they grow up to men, they shall be beggars.

¹⁹ Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but out of them all the Lord will deliver them.

² The same event happeneth to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, and to the bad; to the clean and to the unclean; to him who sacrificeth and to him who sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; as is he who sweareth, so is he who feareth the oath.

¹⁹ When it cometh it will overtake you. Early, very early in the morning it will come, and at night your hope will be wretched. Learn to hear, "

¹² [s] Ho! all ye who travel the way turn and see! is there any sorrow like this of mine, which he hath denounced against me. The Lord hath humbled me in the day of his fierce indignation.

⁶ But as for me, I will give you gnashing of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places. When you returned not to me, saith the Lord, ⁷ I withheld from you the rain three months before harvest; with an intent to rain on one city and on another city not to rain. One part was to be watered, and the part on which I did not rain, to be dried up; ⁸ so that two or three cities should crowd to one city for drink and not be satisfied. And when you turned not to me, saith the Lord, ⁹ I smote you with blasting and mildew: you multiplied your gardens; the caterpillar devoured your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive orchards. When even for this you turned not to me, saith the Lord, ¹⁰ I sent death among you by the way of Egypt, and slew your young men with the sword and gave up your horses to capture: and by your rage I involved your camps in fire. And when even for this you turned not to me, saith the Lord, ¹¹ I overthrew you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorra; and you became like a brand plucked out of fire. Now as even for this you have not turned to me, saith the Lord,

³² and sent away the variegated robe and had it carried to his father and said, This we found. Examine whether it be thy son's robe or not. ³³ And he knew it and said, It is my son's robe. An evil beast hath devoured him. A wild beast hath torn Joseph.

³⁶ And Jacob their father said to them, Me you have bereaved of children. Joseph is gone. Symeon is gone. And will you take away Benjamin? All these things are against me.

³⁰ be said, Let me die with the Philistines, and strained with all his might, and the house fell upon the chiefs and on all the people in it. So that those whom Sampson slew at his death were more than those whom he had slain during his life.

³³ At this the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber, over the gate, and wept. And as he was going up he thus expressed himself, Oh, my son, Abessalom! Oh! my son! my son Abessalom! that they had slain me instead of thee; that I had died in thy stead! Oh Abessalom! my son! my son!

³⁰ and the residue fled to Aphek into the city, and the wall fell upon twenty seven thousand of the men who were left. And Son Ader fled, and when he got to the house of his abode into the inner chamber,

¹¹ [J] At that time let it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, there is a spirit of wandering in the wilderness. The way of the daughter of my people is not to purity nor to holiness. ¹² A spirit of execution shall come for me and I am now denouncing my judgments on them.

²⁷ When the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; it fell, and great was the ruin thereof.

¹ Now there were some present who, on that occasion told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices: ² whereupon Jesus, in reply, said to them, Do you imagine that those Galileans were the greatest sinners in all Galilee, because they suffered these things? ³ I tell you, No. But, unless you reform, you shall all perish in like manner. ⁴ Or those eighteen men, upon whom the tower of Silo- am fell, and killed them, do you think that they were the greatest offenders of all the men who dwelt in Jerusalem? ⁵ I tell you, No; but unless you reform, you shall all perish in like manner.

⁴ When the barbarians saw the venomous creature hanging to his hand they said to one another, This man is certainly a murderer whom vengeance suffereth not to live, though he hath escaped from the sea.

² in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world; according to the prince of the power of the air, that spirit which is now working powerfully in the children of disobedience;

²⁹ Now when Reuben came back to the pit and did not see Joseph in it, he rent his cloaths

³⁴ Then Jacob rent his cloaths and put on sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.

¹⁸ Then I made supplication before the Lord, a second time, as I had done before, forty days and forty nights; [I neither ate bread nor drank water]; for your sins which you had committed by doing evil in the sight of the Lord God, to provoke him to wrath.

¹⁶ And while it was sick David besought God for the child, and fasted and went in and lay on the ground. ¹⁷ And when the elders of his house came to raise him from the ground, he would not consent, nor would he eat bread with them. ¹⁸ And on the seventh day the child died. And David's servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, Behold while the child was still living we spoke to him, but he would not hearken to our voice, how then must it affect him when we tell him, The child is dead! ¹⁹ But when David perceived that his servants were whispering, he conjectured that the child was dead, therefore David said to his servants, Is the child dead? And when they said, He is dead, ²⁰ David arose, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothes, and went into the house of God, and worshipped him. Then he went to his own house, and called for bread to eat. And when they had set bread before him, and he had eaten,

³ And when all the Israelites saw the fire descending and the glory of the Lord on the house, they fell with their face to the ground on the pavement. And when they had worshipped, they sung to the Lord the hymn of praise, For it is good: for It is mercy endureth forever,

³ And when I heard this I rent my garments, and started up and tore the hair of my head and my beard. Then I sat down mourning.

³⁹ Then, advancing a little further, he fell prostrate on his face, and prayed, saying, O my father, if it be possible, let this cup be removed from me. Nevertheless not as I would, but as thou wiliest.

⁶ therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that he may in due time exalt you.

¹⁹ By the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat thy bread until thou return into the earth out of which thou wast taken; for earth thou art and to earth thou shalt return."

² And Jacob was angry with Rachel and said to her, Am I in God's stead, who hath deprived thee of the fruit of the womb?

⁵ Now therefore be not grieved, nor let it afflict you that you sold me hither; for God sent me before you for life.

⁷ The Lord impoverished, and maketh rich; He humbleth, and he exalteth on high.

¹⁸ Then Samuel told him all the words. He did not hide any thing from him. Whereupon Eli said, He is the Lord. He will do what is good in his sight.

¹² Perhaps the Lord may look on my affliction, and return me good for his cursing this day.

¹⁵ So the king hearkened not to the people. Because the revolution was from the Lord, that he might perform the word which he spoke, by the ministry of Achia the Selonite, concerning Jeroboam, son of Nabat,

¹⁹ And Ezekias said to Esaias, Good is that word which the Lord spoke; There shall be peace in my days.

¹ By David; when he had changed his behaviour before Abimelech, and, being dismissed by him, had gone away. I Will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall be continually in my mouth.

⁹ I was dumb and opened not my mouth: because thou art he who didst make me.

¹⁷ For when he dieth he can carry nothing away: nor will this glory of his descend with him.

³⁸ Hast thou then cast off and set at naught; hast thou given up this thine anointed? ³⁹ Hast thou made void the covenant with thy servant: and profaned his sanctuary to the ground? ⁴⁰ Thou hast broken down all his hedges, and made his strong holds a ruin. ⁴¹ All that pass by have plundered him: he is become a subject of reproach to his neighbours. ⁴² Thou hast raised up the right hand of his foes, thou hast made all his enemies glad. ⁴³ Thou hast turned back the edge of his sword; and hast not assisted him in battle. ⁴⁴ Thou hast caused his purification to cease: thou hast dashed down his throne to the ground. ⁴⁵ Thou hast shortened the days of his throne, and poured contempt upon him. ⁴⁶ How long, Lord, wilt thou turn away? Shall thy wrath burn like fire forever? ⁴⁷ Remember what my being is. Hast thou created all the sons of men in vain? ⁴⁸ Is there any man who can live and not see death? Can he deliver his soul from the mansion of the dead? ⁴⁹ Lord, where are thy mercies of old; which thou didst solemnly promise David by thy truth? ⁵⁰ Remember, O Lord, the reproach of thy servants; that of many nations, which I retain in my bosom; ⁵¹ that with which thine enemies, O Lord, have reproached; with which they have reproached the redemption of thine anointed one. ⁵² Blessed be the Lord forever. Amen Amen.

¹⁵ As he came naked out of his mother's womb, he shall turn about and go as he came. He shall take nothing by his labour to go with him in his hand.

¹⁹ And every man indeed to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and granted him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, hath by means of his being made glad in his labour, this further gift of God,

⁷ and dust return to dust as it was, and the spirit return to God who gave it;

¹⁵ for this cause the glory of the Lord will be in the isles of the sea. In the isles of the sea the name of the Lord will be glorious.

²⁴ for which he hath given Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to them who plundered him. Hath not God, against whom they sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, and whose law they would not obey;

⁷ It was I who provided light and made darkness; who make peace and create evils: I the Lord God am he who doth all these things.

³⁸ [b] From the mouth of the Most High shall not evils proceed as well as good?

⁶ Shall a trumpet sound in a city and the people not be alarmed? Can there be in a city a calamity which the Lord hath not inflicted?

¹⁵ Is it not lawful for me to do what I please with mine own? Is thine eye evil because I am good?

²⁸ to do what thy hand and thy council had determinately marked out beforehand to be brought to pass.

²⁰ and give thanks on all occasions for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to the God and Father.

¹⁸ Render thanks for every thing; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

⁷ For we brought nothing into this world; and it is evident that we can carry nothing out of it.

¹⁷ Every good donation, and every perfect gift, is from above, and cometh down from the father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of turning. 18 Of his own will he hath impregnated us with a word of truth, that we may be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

¹⁰ Therefore hearken to me, ye who are wise in heart. Far be it from me to be profane before the Lord; or before the Almighty to disturb the course of justice.

¹⁸ He is irreverent, who saith to a king, Thou transgressest: to princes, you are acting impiously. ¹⁹ Who hath no respect for the person of an honourable man; nor knoweth how to honour nobles by respecting their persons."

⁴ Why should I continue the debate any further? I stand corrected for commencing a suit against the Lord. On hearing such things, what answer can I, who am nothing, make to Thee? I will lay my hand on my mouth. ⁵ Once I have spoken, but I will not proceed a second time. I heard of Thee before, with the hearing of the ear; but now mine eye hath seen Thee, therefore I abhor myself, and am ready to drop into dissolution, and account myself as dust and ashes. ⁶ Whereupon the Lord further said to Job from the cloud: ⁷ No, but gird now up thy loins like a man, and let Me question thee; and do thou answer Me. ⁸ Decline not the trial with Me. Dost thou think that I have spoken to thee for any other purpose, but that thou mayst appear justified?

²⁰ But who art thou, O man, who enterest into a dispute with God? Shall the thing formed say to him who formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

⁴ Let patience then have a full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, deficient in nothing.

¹² Happy the man, who endureth a trial! because having stood the test, he will Jas 1:receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them who love him.

⁷ in order that your faith, which hath stood the test and is much more precious than gold which is of a perishable nature though tried by fire, may be found praise worthy, and honourable, and glorious, at the manifestation of Jesus Christ,