Job 17 Cross References - Thomson

¹ I am dying with a tortured spirit, and wishing for a burial, but do not obtain it. ² I am supplicating in distress, yet what have I done? Strangers have stolen my substance; who is the man? ³ Let him be brought to trial with me. ⁴ Because thou hast hid their heart from understanding, thou shouldst not for this cause exalt them. ⁵ Shall he reckon misfortunes for his portion; and were his eyes melted for his children? ⁶ But thou hast made me a by-word among nations, and I am become a subject of laughter for them. ⁷ For mine eyes are dim with sorrow, and I am closely besieged by all. 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. ¹⁰ On these maxims you all rely. But come now; for I do not find truth among you: ¹¹ my days have passed in groans, and my very heart strings are broken. ¹² I have put night for day. Is light near on account of darkness? ¹³ For though I have waited patiently, the mansion of the dead is to be my house, and my bed is made in darkness. ¹⁴ I have called on death to be my father; and on corruption to be my sister and mother. ¹⁵ Where then have I any ground of hope? Or shall I see those good things of mine? ¹⁶ Shall they go down with me to the mansion of the dead? Or shall we go together beneath the mound?

¹¹ For what is my strength that I should bear up! what my time2 that my life is prolonged?

¹³ For though I have waited patiently, the mansion of the dead is to be my house, and my bed is made in darkness. ¹⁴ I have called on death to be my father; and on corruption to be my sister and mother.

¹⁷ When with my mouth I entreated and supplicated my wife, and called affectionately the children of my concubines:

¹⁶ And Job lived after this affliction a hundred and seventy years. So that all the years which he lived were two hundred and forty. And Job saw his children and his children's children, to the fourth generation,

³ for my soul is full of trouble, and my life draweth near to the mansion of the dead. ⁴ I was counted with them who are going down to the pit; I became like a man who is past recovery; ⁵ like one set free among the dead; like the prostrate slain, asleep in the grave, whom thou hast no more remembered. Though they were cast off out of thy hand,

¹⁰ I said in the height of my days I shall go down to the gates of Hades, I shall leave the years which remain. ¹¹ I said, I shall no more see the salvation of God in the land of the living; I shall no more see the salvation of Israel on the earth; I shall behold man no more. ¹² I am cut off from my generation, I have left the remainder of my life. He is gone and departed from me, like one striking a tent, having just pitched it. My soul within me was like a web which the weaver was in act to sever from the loom. ¹³ In that day I was delivered up until morning as to a lion. So did he break to pieces all my bones. For from day to night I was delivered up. ¹⁴ Like a swallow so let me twitter; and like a turtle dove so let me moan; for mine eyes were too weak to look up to the vault of heaven; to the Lord who hath rescued me

¹⁶ I will not contend with you forever, nor will I be continually angry with you, for from me spirit is to proceed and I have made every breathing soul.

⁶ But because the Lord had not given her a child, such was her affliction and anxiety on the account of this, that she became disconsolate, because the Lord had shut up her womb, so as not to give her a child. ⁷ Thus he acted, year after year, when he went up to the house of the Lord. And when she was become disconsolate, and was weeping, and did not eat,

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

⁹ For will it be well for you, if he mark your steps? For though feigning all these things you apply them for him:

²⁰ O that my suit could come before the Lord, and that before him mine eye could drop a tear!

³ Bear with me, and when I speak do not deride me.

¹³ his life shall be spent in the enjoyment of good things and his offspring shall inherit the land.

¹⁴ as I would a friend, as I would an own brother, so did I endeavour to conciliate. I humbled myself as one in mourning and deep sorrow. ¹⁵ But against me they rejoiced and gathered together; for me, scourges were collected and I did not know: they were split; and they had no compunction. ¹⁶ They tortured me; with scoffs they derided me; they gnashed their teeth at me.

¹ The praise of an Ode. By David. He who dwelleth under the protection of the Most High shall lodge in the shelter of the God of heaven.

³⁹ And they who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads, ⁴⁰ and saying, Thou the demolisher of the temple and the rebuilder of it in three days, save thyself. If thou art the Son of God, come down from the cross. ⁴¹ In like manner also the chief priests, and the Scribes, and the elders, deriding him, said, ⁴² He saved others; cannot he save himself? If he be the king of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and We will believe him. ⁴³ He trusted in God; let him now deliver him, if he delighteth in him: for, he said, I am the Son of God. ⁴⁴ Nay, even the robbers, who were crucified with him, upbraided him in the same manner.

⁹ I undertake the charge of him. At my hand require him. If I bring him not back to thee and set him before thee let me be a sinner against thee for ever.

³² Besides as thy servant received this son from his father and said, If I bring him not back to thee and set him before thee, let me be as a sinner against my father for ever;

³³ O that there were a mediator betwixt us; one to determine between and hear us both.

¹²² Be surety for thy servant for good; let not the proud oppress me.

¹¹ But is not poverty coming upon thee like an unwelcome traveller? And want like a speedy courier? Whereas if thou be diligent; thy harvest will come like a fountain, and want like a bad courier will run away.

¹⁵ A wicked man doth hurt, when he associateth with the just: but he hateth the sound of safety.

¹⁸ A man void of understanding clappeth his hands and applaudeth himself on becoming surety for his friends,

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²⁶ Do not out of respect for a person become surety.

¹⁴ Like a swallow so let me twitter; and like a turtle dove so let me moan; for mine eyes were too weak to look up to the vault of heaven; to the Lord who hath rescued me

²² by so much Jesus is made the surety of a better covenant.

³¹ And when it was told David that Achitophel was among the conspirators with Abessalom, David said, Confound, I beseech thee, Lord my God, the counsel of Achitophel.

¹⁴ And Abessalom, and all Israel, said, The counsel of Chousi the Arachite is better than the counsel of Achitophel. For the Lord had determined to defeat the counsel of Achitophel, which was good, that the Lord might bring upon Abessalom all the consequent evils.

¹⁶ But while the prophet was speaking to him lie said to him, Have I made thee a counsellor of the king? Forbear, lest thou be scourged. Thereupon the prophet held his peace, for I know, said he, that he hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened to my counsel.

¹⁴ For the Lord hath mingled for them a spirit of error, and they with all their works have made Egypt reel, as a drunkard doth, when he is vomiting.

²⁵ At that time Jesus took occasion to say, I thank thee, O father, Lord of heaven and earth; that thou having hid these things from the wise and prudent, hast revealed them to babes.

¹¹ And he in reply said to them, To you it hath been granted to know the secrets of the reign of the heavens; but to them it hath not been granted.

⁸ As it is written, "God hath given them a spirit of stupefaction, eyes not to see and ears not to hear even to this day."

²⁰ Where is the wise? Where the scribe? Where the disputer of this age? Hath not God shewn the wisdom of this world to be folly?

⁵ thou shalt not worship them; nor serve them; for I, the Lord thy God, am a zealous God, retributing to them who hate me the sins of fathers upon children to the third and fourth generation;

⁶⁵ But even among these nations he will not give thee rest, nor shall there be any rest for the sole of thy foot. Indeed the Lord will give thee there a strange trembling heart, and failing eyes, and a desponding soul,

¹² But I will not do these things in thy days for the sake of thy father David. Out of the hand of thy son will I take it;

²⁰ But safety shall forsake them: for their hope shall be their destruction; and the eyes of the wicked shall melt away.

²¹ For I should not be awed by man: nor put to the blush because of a mortal. ²² For I am not apt to admire persons. Will not Worms devour them as well as me.

² They spoke vanities one to another: their lips are deceitful, they spoke with a double heart: ³ May the Lord destroy all deceitful lips; and the tongue which speaketh swelling words;

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⁵ He who shall provide a net to catch his friend; spreadeth it for his own feet.

¹⁷ While we yet existed our eyes failed looking in vain for our help. when we looked out, we looked to a nation that could not save.

⁵ For never did we at any time use flattering words, as you know; nor a pretext for covetousness, God is witness;

²⁷ Hadst thou told me I might have sent thee away with joy and musick, with timbrels and the kithara.

⁷ I will assuredly remove Israel from the land which I gave them, and cast out of my sight this house which I have hallowed for my name; and Israel shall be a desolation and a bye word among all peoples;

⁹ But now I am become their song: and they have me for their by-word:

¹⁴ Thou hast made us a by word among the nations; a shaking of the head among the tribes.

¹² For with kithara and psaltery, tabors and pipes, they drink wine; but they regard not the works of the Lord, nor consider the operations of his hands.

⁸ thou indeed hast fallen upon me. My lie is become a witness, and hath risen up against me; it hath answered me to my face.

¹⁶ My belly was burned up with wailing; and on mine eyelids were the shades of death:

⁷ Mine eye is troubled with indignation: I am grown old among all mine enemies.

⁹ Pity me, Lord, for I am afflicted: with indignation mine eye was troubled; my soul and all within me. ¹⁰ Because my life was spent with grief, and my years with sighing; with affliction my strength was exhausted and my bones were troubled;

²³ Like a declining shadow I have glided away; I have been shaken off like locusts.

¹² Doth any one know what is good for man in this life? All the days of his life of vanity he hath indeed done these things under a shade; is there any who can tell him what will be after him under the sun?

¹⁷ Because of this, grief is come upon us; our heart is full of sorrow: because of this, our eyes are dim.

¹⁹ When the righteous saw them, they smiled, and he who was blameless laughed them to scorn.

³⁰ he maketh a hypocritick man king; because of the perverseness of a people.

¹² Behold these who are sinful men; are always prosperous and have gotten wealth. ¹³ Nay, I myself said, Have I then in vain kept my heart just; and washed my hands in innocence. ¹⁴ All the day long I have been scourged; and the accusation against me is renewed every morning. ¹⁵ Had I said, I will make such a declaration openly: I should have been treacherous to the generation of thy children.

⁸ If thou seest a frivolous accusation of a poor man, and a rigorous exaction of judgment and justice in a country, marvel not at the matter. Because there is a high one over a high one to watch, and high ones are for these things,

¹³ Thine eye is too pure to behold wicked deeds, or to look on the labours of sorrow. Why lookest thou upon despisers? Wilt thou be silent when the wicked swallow up the righteous?

⁴⁶ Whereupon Paul and Barnabas with great freedom of speech said, It was necessary that the word of God should be first spoken to you. But since you reject it, and judge yourselves unworthy of this everlasting life, behold we turn to the Gentiles

³³ O the depth of the riches, and of the wisdom, and of the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways not to be traced out!

⁵ Did he not tell me, She is my sister? And did not she say to me, He is my brother? With a pure heart and innocent hands I have done this.

³⁰ He indeed will save the innocent. Save thyself therefore, with clean hands.

⁴ He whose hands are clean and whose heart is pure. Who hath not devoted his soul to vanity; nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.

⁶ I will wash my hands in innocence and go round thine altar, O Lord:

¹³ Nay, I myself said, Have I then in vain kept my heart just; and washed my hands in innocence.

⁷ They shall go on from strength to strength: the God of Gods will be seen in Sion.

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.

¹⁸ But the paths of the just shine like light; shining more and more until it is perfect day.

¹⁶ A wise man, when terrified, declineth from evil: but the fool, confident in himself, mixeth with transgressors.

¹⁵ When you stretch forth your hands, I will turn mine eyes from you: and though you multiply prayer, I will not hearken to you: for your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Wash and become clean: remove iniquities from your souls; in my presence, cease from your evil deeds;

⁸ There will be there a pure highway, which shall be called The Holy way. And the unclean shall not come there; nor shall there be there an unclean way. But as for the dispersed, they shall travel it, and shall not be led astray. ⁹ No lion shall be there; nor shall any ravenous beast come up thither, nor ever be found there; but in it the redeemed will walk, and they who have been collected for the Lord. ¹⁰ They indeed shall return and come to Sion with joy, and everlasting joy shall crown their head: for on their heads will be praise and rapture; and gladness shall have full possession of them. Pain and sorrow and sighing are fled.

²⁹ He it is who giveth strength to the hungry and grief to them who have not had sorrow. ³⁰ For youths will hunger and young men be weary, and chosen warriors will become strengthless; ³¹ but they who wait upon God shall have new strength; they shall put forth fresh feathers like eagles; they shall run and not be wearied; they shall march on and shall not faint.

² resort to him in a body, and seeing some of his disciples eating bread with unclean, that is with unwashen hands, they found fault.

⁹ Whereupon he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is perfected in weakness. Therefore I will with the greatest pleasure, rather boast of my weaknesses, that the power of the Christ may shelter me. ¹⁰ I feel therefore a complacency in weaknesses, in reproaches, in difficulties, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ; for when I am weak, then am I strong.

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

¹⁹ They went out from us; but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would have continued with us.

²⁹ Sit down I pray you, and let there be no more reproaches. Indeed you again meet a righteous man.

² You, forsooth, are men, and wisdom will die with you.

⁹ For what knowest thou, which we do not know? Or what dost thou understand which we do not?

⁴ Because thou hast hid their heart from understanding, thou shouldst not for this cause exalt them.

⁹ They who live longest are not the wisest, nor is the knowledge of judgment confined to the aged.

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.

¹⁸ And when you shall be converted, you shall see the difference between a righteous man and one who is unrighteous; and between him who serveth God and him who serveth not.

⁵ To your shame I say, is it so that there is not among you a wise man; not so much as one who can determine a cause between brethren;

⁶ Though my life is swifter than a word; yet it is destroyed with vain hope.

²⁵ Now my days are swifter than a courier. They are gone without being perceived. ²⁶ Is there any track left by ships in their passage? Or of an eagle flying in pursuit of its prey?

⁹ All the works of the Lord are with righteousness: but the wicked is kept for an evil day.

²¹ There are many thoughts in a man's heart; but the counsel of the Lord shall endure forever.

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.

¹⁰ and what counsel soever you may take, the Lord will defeat it; and what word soever you may speak shall not take effect among you; because God is with us:

¹⁰ I said in the height of my days I shall go down to the gates of Hades, I shall leave the years which remain.

³⁷ [a] Who ever enjoined thus; when it hath happened, hath not the Lord ordered it?

¹³ Now, brethren, I would not have you ignorant that I have hitherto been hindered, though I have often heretofore purposed to come to you, that I might have some fruit among you even as among the other nations.

¹⁵ And in this confidence I purposed to come to you first, that you might have a second benefit; ¹⁶ and through you to proceed on to Macedonia, and from Macedonia to come to you again, and be by you forwarded on to Judea. ¹⁷ Did I then, in purposing this, use fickleness? Or what I purpose do I purpose according to the flesh, so that with me there may be the yes, yes; and the no, no?

¹³ Come, now, ye who say, Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, and spend a year there, and traffic, and get gain, ¹⁴ when you do not know what will be the result of tomorrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapour which appeareth for a little while and then vanisheth. ¹⁵ Instead of your saying, If it be the Lord's will, and we shall live, we will do this or that,

⁶⁷ In the morning thou wilt say; How will it be with me in the evening! And in the evening thou wilt say, How may it be with me in the morning! on account of the terror of thy heart with which thou shalt be affrighted, and on account of the sights of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

³ Just so have I waited months in vain, and wearisome nights have been doled out to me. ⁴ When I lay me down to rest, I say, When will it be day? And soon as I rise; I again say, When will it be evening? I am full of pains from evening till morning;

¹³ Did I say my bed will comfort me; I will converse with myself privately on my bed? ¹⁴ Thou terrifiest me with dreams and affrightest me with visions.

¹⁴ And hath he who knew their works delivered them up to darkness? And will he be as a thief in the night? ¹⁵ When the eye of the adulterer watched for darkness; saying, No eye shall discover me; when he having put a mask on his face ¹⁶ digged through houses in the dark: [during the day they had shut themselves up; they had no acquaintance with light]

¹³ I might now have lain still and been quiet; I might have gone to sleep and been at rest;

²¹ before I go, whence I shall not return; ²² to a land dark and gloomy; to a land of everlasting darkness; where there is no light; no seeing the life of mortals.

¹⁴ [for though a man die he may be revived, after finishing the days of this life of his,] I would wait patiently, until I come again into existence.

¹ I am dying with a tortured spirit, and wishing for a burial, but do not obtain it.

²³ For I know that death will destroy me: for earth is the house for every mortal.

¹⁴ Wait for the Lord and be of good courage; let thy heart be strengthened and wait for the Lord.

⁸ If I ascend up to heaven, thou art there. If I go down to the mansion of the dead, there thou art.

² His sepulture shall be in peace. He is taken from among you.

²⁵ The Lord is gracious to them who wait for him for the soul, that will seek him, ²⁶ there is good; let it therefore wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.

²⁶ who is about to dissolve me on earth, to raise again this skin of mine which draweth up these things.

²⁶ But they are both composed alike under ground, and putrefaction hath covered them.

³² Even when he should be carried to the burying place, he had caused a watch to be kept over his tomb. ³³ The flints of the torrent have been sweetened for him, and every man shall go after him, as innumerable have gone before him.

²⁰ Now was such a one's sin brought to remembrance? Though he was dark as the darkness of night; retribution should be made for what he hath done: and every wicked man should be broken; like a tree which cannot be healed.

³⁰ My skin is become very black; and my bones are burning with heat.

¹⁰ that thou wilt not leave my soul in the mansion of the dead nor suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

⁹ Though he laboured for the age that he may live to the end. Shall he therefore not see corruption?

¹¹ Is thy pomp come down to Hades; all thy great festivity?" Beneath thee they will strew corruption for a bed; and Worms shall be thy covering.

²⁷ that thou wilt not leave my soul in the mansion of the dead, nor suffer thy Holy One to see corruption. ²⁸ Thou hast made known to me the ways of life. Thou with thy presence wilt fill me with joy." ²⁹ Men, brethren, permit me to speak freely to you concerning the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried; and his sepulchre is among us to this day. ³⁰ Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn to him with an oath, that from the fruit of his loins he would, as far as regardeth the flesh, raise up the Christ to sit on his throne, ³¹ he spoke prophetically of the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul was not left in the mansion of the dead, nor did his flesh see corruption.

³⁴ and that he hath raised him from the dead never more to return to corruption, as he said, "I will give you the gracious promises to David which are faithful: ³⁵ and therefore, in another place, he saith, "Thou wilt not suffer thy holy one to see corruption!" ³⁶ For David indeed, having in his generation answered the purpose of God, went to rest and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption; ³⁷ but he whom God raised up did not see corruption.

⁴² Thus it is also with respect to the resurrection of the dead. That which is sown, is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption;

⁵³ For this corruptible must put on incorruptibility; and this mortal must put on immortality. ⁵⁴ Now when this corruptible shall have put on incorruptibility; and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then will be brought to pass the word which is written, "Death is completely swallowed up."

⁶ is not either thy fear grounded on folly; or thy hope? And this calamity the effect of thy conduct?

¹⁵ Though the Almighty, as he hath begun, may subdue me: yet I will speak and plead before him.

¹⁰ He broke me on every side and I fled: and he hath cut down my hope like a tree.

¹⁷ There the wicked have ceased to be a terror: there the weary have got rest for their body: ¹⁸ and they of old who are assembled there together; have never heard the exactor's voice. ¹⁹ Small and great are there on a level; the servant, with his dreaded lord.

¹³ May the toes of his feet be eaten up, and death devour his comeliness. ¹⁴ May health be expelled from his dwelling, and distress lay hold on him with the authority of a king.

¹⁸ and hath rescued his soul from death; and hath not suffered him to fall in battle. ¹⁹ Again he hath rebuked him with sickness on a bed, and benumbed all his bones; ²⁰ so that he cannot take any nourishment, [though his soul longeth for food] ²¹ until his flesh become rotten, and he can show his bones bare. ²² When his soul hath come near to death, and his life near to the mansion of the dead, ²³ though there may be a thousand messengers of death, not one of them can mortally wound him. ²⁴ If he determine in his heart to turn to the Lord, when he shall have shewn man his charge against him, and pointed out to him his folly, he will support him, that he may not fall to death, ²⁵ and renew his body like the plaistering on a wall, and will fill his bones with marrow; and make his flesh soft like that of an infant, and restore him to full strength among men. ²⁶ And when he hath prayed to the Lord, and shall enjoy acceptable things, he will come with a cheerful countenance and with thanks: and render justice to men. ²⁷ Then will such a man blame himself, and say, What I have done! He hath not chastened me, as my sins deserve! ²⁸ Save my soul, that it may not go to destruction, and let my life see light.

⁴ I was counted with them who are going down to the pit; I became like a man who is past recovery; ⁵ like one set free among the dead; like the prostrate slain, asleep in the grave, whom thou hast no more remembered. Though they were cast off out of thy hand, ⁶ they laid me in the lowest pit; in dark places and in the shade of death. ⁷ On me thy wrath was pressed hard, and all thy billows thou didst bring upon me. ⁸ Thou hast removed far from me my acquaintance, they accounted me an abomination to them. I was delivered up and did not go abroad;

⁷ Hear me speedily, Lord; my spirit hath failed. Turn not away thy face from me; nor let me be like them who go down to the pit.

¹⁸ For those in the mansion of the dead cannot praise thee; nor can the dead return thee thanks, nor they in Hades hope for thy kindness.

¹¹ Then the Lord spoke to me saying, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Now they say, "Our bones are become dry. Our hope is gone. We are wasted to a shadow."

⁶ I have gone down to a land, the bars of which are everlastingly fixed: let my soul now, corrupted as it is, ascend, Lord, my God.

⁹ but had in ourselves the sentence of death, that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead,