Job 37 Cross References - Thomson

¹ on the account of this my heart was troubled, and moved violently out of its place. ² Hear the report made by the fierce anger of the Lord! when a threat shall proceed from his mouth; ³ as his dominion extendeth over all under heaven, and his light over the wings of the earth; ⁴ after it he will thunder with a voice; he will thunder with the voice of his indignation. [And should it not make a change in those men when he shall cause his voice to be heard?] ⁵ With his voice the Almighty will thunder to our astonishment; for he hath done great things which we cannot comprehend; ⁶ issuing a command to snow, be thou on the earth; When the tempest and storms of rain, under his command ⁷ seal up against the hand of every man, that every man may know his own weakness; ⁸ when the beasts have entered their coverts, and have gone to rest on their beds; ⁹ sorrows issue forth from their chambers, and cold from its lofty summits; ¹⁰ which by the blast of the Almighty produce frost, and governeth the water as he pleaseth. ¹¹ But when a cloud covereth a man of his choice, his light can disperse the cloud: ¹² and he at his sovereign pleasure, can cause the revolving agents to return to their works. ¹³ What things soever he giveth them in charge: these are ordered by him on the earth; and whether they be for correction, or for the benefit of the earth; or for mercy, he is to be found in them. ¹⁴ Hearken, Job, to these things and stand instructed with regard to the power of the Lord. ¹⁵ We know that God hath disposed his works; that he hath made light out of darkness; ¹⁶ That he knoweth the different purposes of clouds, and the miraculous fall of wicked men. ¹⁷ Now thy cloathing is warm and there is peace in the land. ¹⁸ With him are powerful cordials for inveterate disorders: what an appearance of an infusion! ¹⁹ Therefore teach me what we shall say to him. And let us refrain from much speaking. ²⁰ Have I had a book or a scribe by me, that by stopping the man I could be silent? ²¹ Though the light is not visible to all, there is a brightening in the heavens, like that which cometh in clouds from him. ²² From the north the clouds brighten like fulgent gold. ²³ For these things great is the glory and honour of the Almighty. As we cannot find another equal to him in majesty; dost thou not think that he who judgeth righteously will hear? ²⁴ Men therefore ought to fear him. They indeed who are wise in heart, will fear him.

¹⁶ And it came to pass on the third day that about dawn there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on mount Sina, and the voice of the trumpet sounded loud, so that all the people in the camp were terrified.

¹⁴ I was seized with a horror and trembling, which gave a violent shog to my bones.

⁶ For at the bare recollection I shudder: and tortures rack my flesh.

¹ After Elius had finished his speech, the Lord from a whirlwind and clouds, said to Job,

⁷ God is glorified in the counsel of the holy; great and awful among all around him.

¹²⁰ Penetrate my flesh with the dread of thee; for I am terrified at thy judgments.

²² Will you not fear me, saith the Lord, nor be struck with awe at the presence of me who have by an everlasting decree, made sand a boundary to the ocean, so that it shall not pass it. Though it be tossed with a tempest, it shall not prevail; though the waves thereof roar, they shall not overpass it.

⁷ Now, I Daniel alone saw this vision. The men who were with me did not see it; but great consternation fell upon them and they fled for fear; ⁸ so I was left alone. And when I beheld this great vision, there was no strength left in me. Even my comeliness was changed into corruption and I retained no strength;

¹⁶ I watched myself; and at the sound of the prayer of my lips my bowels trembled and a tremor seized my bones; and under me my whole frame quivered. I shall be at rest in the day of affliction, at the time of his coining to the people of my neighbourhood.

² and behold there was a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord, having descended from heaven, came and rolled away the stone from the entrance, and sat upon it. ³ His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow. ⁴ And for fear of him the guards trembled, and became as dead men.

²⁶ And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken, and all the doors were instantly opened,

²⁹ Thereupon, calling for lights, he ran in, and being in a tremour, prostrated himself before Paul and Silas,

¹⁶ And it came to pass on the third day that about dawn there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on mount Sina, and the voice of the trumpet sounded loud, so that all the people in the camp were terrified. ¹⁷ Then Moses led forth the people out of the camp to meet God, and they halted at the foot of the mount. ¹⁸ The whole mountain Sina was enveloped with smoke, because God had descended upon it in fire. And the smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, so that all the people were exceedingly amazed. ¹⁹ Still the sounds of the trumpet waxed louder and louder. Moses had spoken and God had answered him by a voice.

²⁹ At all these things is not thine understanding confounded? And is not thy heart starting from the body? Now though the outspread cloud be rushing together, to the whole extent of his pavilion,

³³ the Lord will warn his friend that there is a portion also for injustice. Therefore

⁵ With his voice the Almighty will thunder to our astonishment; for he hath done great things which we cannot comprehend;

³ The voice of the Lord on the waters! The God of the glory thundered! The Lord is over many waters. ⁴ The voice of the Lord is with power: the voice of the Lord is with majesty. ⁵ The voice of the Lord rending the cedars! The Lord will rend the cedars of Lebanon, and shatter them to pieces: ⁶ as a young unicorn would a calf; so will the beloved [shatter] Lebanon itself. ⁷ The voice of the Lord bursting through a flame of fire! The voice of the Lord shaking the wilderness. ⁸ The Lord will shake the wilderness of Kades. ⁹ The voice of the Lord collecting the hinds; when he shall lay the forests bare. When in his temple every one uttereth praise;

⁷ At thy rebuke they shall flee; at the peal of thy thunder they will tremble.

¹³ to tinge the wings of the earth; to scare the wicked from it?

¹³ God, thy way is in that which is holy; what God is great as our God?

⁴ His lightnings shot a glare through the World: the earth saw and trembled.

¹² And he will erect a standard for the nations, and gather together the outcasts of Israel, and assemble the dispersed of Juda from the four quarters of the earth.

²⁷ For as the lightning, which breaketh forth from the east, shineth even to the west, so will the coming of the son of man be.

¹⁹ And the temple of God in heaven was opened; and the ark of his covenant in his temple was seen. And there were lightnings and noises and thunders and an earthquake and great hail.

⁷ With thy great glory thou didst crush thine adversaries. Thou sentest forth thy wrath; it consumed them like stubble. ⁸ At the blast of thy wrath the water parted; The waters were compacted like a wall; The waves were condensed in the midst of the sea.

²⁶ There is none like the God of the Beloved. He who rideth on the heaven is thy helper, And be is mighty to give support.

²⁷ and by him the particles of rain can be counted. ²⁸ When they are collected into a cloud for rain, the heavens will pour down. But when the clouds cast a shade over the dumb creation he impressed a care on beasts, and they know the order for going to bed. ²⁹ At all these things is not thine understanding confounded? And is not thy heart starting from the body? Now though the outspread cloud be rushing together, to the whole extent of his pavilion, ³⁰ behold! with a clap of thunder he will expand it over him. He hath indeed covered the out branchings of the sea! ³¹ For with what he judgeth nations he can give food in abundance. ³² When with his hands he hath covered the light, and hath given provisional orders concerning food; ³³ the Lord will warn his friend that there is a portion also for injustice. Therefore

³³ who rode on the eastern heaven of heaven. Behold with his voice he will utter a voice of power.

¹⁴ The Lord thundered from heaven, The Most High uttered his voice. ¹⁵ He sent forth his bolts and scattered them: He darted his lightning, and confounded them.

⁹ who doth great and unsearchable things; things glorious and wonderful, not to be numbered.

¹⁰ and of Arcturus and the chambers of Notus; who doth things great and unsearchable; things glorious and wonderful not to be numbered?

⁷ Canst thou trace the footsteps of the Lord? Or hast thou reached the extent of what the Almighty hath done?

¹⁴ Behold these are parts of his ways. But let us hear the least breath of reason for him. As for the strength of his thunder; who knoweth when he shall employ it?

²⁶ Behold the Almighty is multifarious in operations beyond our comprehension. The number of his years are indeed infinite

¹¹ All the things which he made, considered as a whole, are good in his time. But with regard to all things considered as one whole, to them he hath assigned the whole age; so that no man can find out the work which God hath done from beginning to end.

²¹ Will you not know? will you not hear? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have you not known the foundations of the earth? ²² He it is, who occupieth the circuit of the earth; and the inhabitants thereon are as grasshoppers. He it is, who established the heaven as an arch, and spread it out as a tent to be dwelt in;

²⁸ Hast thou then not known? hast thou not heard? The everlasting God, the God who fitted up the ends of the earth, cannot hunger, nor can he be weary; nor can his under standing be searched out.

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!

³ and they sing the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord, God, Almighty; Just and true are thy ways O thou king of the saints;

¹⁰ And it came to pass after the seven days that the water of the flood came on the earth. ¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noe's life, the second month and twenty seventh day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the abyss were burst open and the cataracts of heaven were opened, ¹² and there came rain on the earth forty days and forty nights.

⁹ Accordingly all the men of Juda and Benjamin, assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. It was now the ninth month. On the twentieth of this month all the people sat in the street of the house of God, because of their consternation at the decree, and because of the weather.

¹³ but the people are numerous and the weather stormy, so that we cannot stand out of doors, and this is not a work of one or two days; for we have multiplied transgression in this respect.

²⁷ and by him the particles of rain can be counted.

²² Hast thou gone to the treasuries of snow, or hast thou seen the treasuries of hail?

¹⁶ When he giveth snow like wool; when he scattereth the hoar frost like ashes; ¹⁷ when he sendeth down like morsels his chrystal hail; who can stand before his cold? ¹⁸ Let him but send forth his word and he will melt them; let him but blow his breath and the waters will flow.

⁸ Fire, hail, snow, ice, tempestuous wind, which execute his commands!

³ A mighty man by wicked acts oppresseth the poor. As a sweeping rain is indeed unprofitable,

¹¹ Say to these anointers, It shall fall. For there shall be an overwhelming rain, and I will send hail stones against their buttresses; and they shall fall; and a tempestuous wind; and it shall be broken down.

¹³ Therefore thus saith the Lord, I will cause a furious tempest to break it down; and there shall be an overwhelming rain in mine anger; And I will bring the hail stones against it with fury for destruction;

⁶ who buildeth his stairs up to heaven, and his tribunal on the foundations of the earth; who calleth to him the water of the sea and poureth it out on the face of the earth, the Lord Almighty is his name.

²⁵ When the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, it did not fall, because it was founded on the rock. ²⁶ But whoever heareth these words of mine, and doth not put them in practice, may be compared to a foolish man, who built his house on the sand. 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.

¹² Who changeth the counsels of the crafty, so that their hands can perform no enterprise.

⁷ who commandeth the sun and it riseth not; and who sealeth up against the stars;

¹⁴ If he demolish who can rebuild? If he shut against men, who can open?

²⁴ Remember that his works are greater than what men have attempted.

⁸ Come and see the works of the Lord: The wonders which he hath done on the earth:

⁹ Then every man was afraid. Then they rehearsed the works of God; then they understood his doings.

⁴ Because thou, Lord, with thy work hast made me glad: therefore in the works of thy hands I will triumph.

²⁷ Let them know that this is thy hand; and that thou; Lord hast done this.

² The works of the Lord are great; exquisitely contrived for all his purposes.

¹⁷ therefore took a view of all the works of God in classes; for man is incapable of finding out the whole system of things under the sun. Let a man labour ever so much in the search he cannot find it out; and let a wise man say ever so much of knowing he cannot find it; for this cause I laid this whole system before my heart, and my heart took a view of it.

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.

¹¹ Thy hand, Lord, was lifted high; but they did not know it; but when they know they will be ashamed. Zeal will seize an uninstructed people; even now a fire devoureth the adversaries.

⁴⁰ For they are trembling for fear in their dens, and lying in ambush in their coverts.

²² When the sun is risen, they will assemble and lay themselves down in their dens;

⁹ who is the maker of the Pleiads and Hesperus,

³ Thou art he who covereth his chambers with waters who maketh clouds his chariot; who walketh on the wings of winds;

¹ The vision of the Desert. As, when a whirlwind having passed through a desert, is rushing out of a desert, the sight from the land is terrible;

¹⁴ Let but the Lord be against them and he will dart out like a thunderbolt. The Lord Almighty will sound a trumpet, and march in the billow of his threat.

²⁹ From whose womb doth ice proceed, and who in the sky hath brought forth hail ³⁰ which descendeth like a shower? Who hath struck with terror the face of the wicked?

⁴⁷ had smitten their vineyards with hail, and their sycamine trees with frost;

²⁷ and by him the particles of rain can be counted. ²⁸ When they are collected into a cloud for rain, the heavens will pour down. But when the clouds cast a shade over the dumb creation he impressed a care on beasts, and they know the order for going to bed. ²⁹ At all these things is not thine understanding confounded? And is not thy heart starting from the body? Now though the outspread cloud be rushing together, to the whole extent of his pavilion, ³⁰ behold! with a clap of thunder he will expand it over him. He hath indeed covered the out branchings of the sea!

³² When with his hands he hath covered the light, and hath given provisional orders concerning food;

⁴ let the news be spread. For thus hath the Lord said to me, "There shall be safety in this city of mine; like the light of noontide heat; and it shall be like a dewy cloud in a harvest day."

⁵ While he was yet speaking, behold! a bright cloud overshadowed them; and lo! from the cloud, a voice, saying, This is my Son, the Beloved, in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him.

⁹ Thou hast visited the earth and watered it: thou hast multiplied the means of enriching it. The river of God is full of water: thou hast provided the supply for it. Because such is thy provision, O! water its furrows plenteously: multiply its productions. ¹⁰ By these showers on it, it will be gladdened; and will give a spring to vegetation.

²⁴ How manifold are thy works, Lord, with wisdom thou hast done them all. The earth is filled with thy creatures;

²² Is there any among the idols of the nations who can give rain? and if the heaven shed its abundance, art Thou not He who causeth it. Therefore we will wait on Thee, O Lord, for Thou hast done all these things

²³ rejoice therefore, ye children of Sion and exult in the Lord your God: for he hath given you this food for righteousness, and he will distil upon you the former and the latter rain as heretofore.

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;

¹⁷ Elias was a man frail and mortal like ourselves. In one prayer he prayed that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the land during three years and six months. ¹⁸ And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the land bloomed with its productions.

⁶ These have power to shut the heaven that it may not rain in the days of their prophesying; and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth with every calamity as often as they please.

¹⁸ behold at this time to-morrow I will pour down a great storm of hail; such as hath never been in Egypt, from the day it was created even to this day. ¹⁹ Now therefore haste and gather in thy cattle and whatever thou hast in the field. For every man and beast, which shall be found in the fields and shall not have come home, on them the hail shall fall and they shall die. ²⁰ Such of the attendants of Pharao as feared the Lord gathered their cattle into houses. ²¹ But such as paid no regard to the word of the Lord left their cattle in the fields. ²² Then the Lord said to Moses, Stretch forth thy hand towards heaven, and there shall be hail on all the land of Egypt, both on man and beast and on every herb which is on the ground. ²³ And Moses stretched forth his hand towards heaven and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire streamed along the ground. And the Lord poured down a storm of hail on all the land of Egypt. ²⁴ And there was hail, with flaming fire among the hail. And the hail storm was excessively great such as had never been in Egypt from the day there was a nation in it. ²⁵ And throughout all the land of Egypt the hail smote both man and beast. The hail also smote every herb of the field and broke to pieces all the trees in the fields.

¹⁸ Then Samuel invoked the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that very day, and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel. ¹⁹ And all the people said to Samuel, Pray for thy servants to the Lord thy God, that we may not die, because we have added evil to all our sins, in asking for ourselves a king.

¹⁰ And Respha, the daughter of Aia, took sackcloth, and fixed it up for herself, before the rock, in the beginning of the barley harvest, until water from heaven dropped upon them; and she suffered not the birds of the air to rest upon them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

¹⁴ And they buried the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan, and the bones of them who were crucified, in the land of Benjamin, on the one side, in the tomb of his father Kis. And when they had done all that the king commanded, God, after that, hearkened to the land.

⁴⁵ In the mean while the heaven gradually darkened with clouds and wind, and there came on a great rain, and while Achab wept and was travelling on to Jezrael

³¹ For with what he judgeth nations he can give food in abundance.

⁶ issuing a command to snow, be thou on the earth; When the tempest and storms of rain, under his command

²⁶ and a way for impetuous storms to water the ground, where there is not a man; the desert where no man dwelleth; to saturate an untrodden, uninhabited land ²⁷ and cause the bud of the tender herb to spring?

³⁷ Who is it who numbereth the clouds with wisdom, and hath caused the heaven to incline to the earth, ³⁸ when the earth was poured out like dust, and when I have glued the very clod as for a stone?

¹³ Whereupon Moses said to the people, Take courage; stand still and see the salvation which cometh from the Lord; which he will work for you this day. For in the manner you have seen the Egyptians this day, you shall never see them again any more.

⁶ The mansion of the dead is naked before him: and destruction hath no covering. ⁷ He it is, who stretcheth out Boreas over empty space; who suspendeth the earth upon nothing; ⁸ who bindeth up water in his clouds; and the cloud under it is not rent; ⁹ who taketh possession of the front of his throne and over it spreadeth his cloud. ¹⁰ His decree had drawn a circle on the face of the water; at the confines of light and darkness. ¹¹ The pillars of heaven flutter and are struck with consternation at his rebuke. ¹² By his power he calmed the sea; and by his knowledge the monster was overthrown. ¹³ The bars of heaven were terrified at him; and by a decree he doomed to death the apostate dragon. ¹⁴ Behold these are parts of his ways. But let us hear the least breath of reason for him. As for the strength of his thunder; who knoweth when he shall employ it?

¹⁰ Be still and know that I am God: let me be exalted among the nations, let me be exalted in the earth.

⁵ Let them speak of the transcendant glory of thy majesty, and relate thy wonderous works. ⁶ Let them express the might of thine awful dealings, and rehearse thy greatness.

¹⁰ Let all thy works, O Lord, praise thee, and let thy saints bless thee; ¹¹ let them speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy government: ¹² to make known thy government to the sons of men, and the transcendant glory of thy kingdom.

²⁰ But the Lord is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be awed at his presence.

²⁴ For he surveyeth the whole world; and knoweth all on the earth; ²⁵ all that he hath made; the weight of winds and the measures of water. ²⁶ When he had made and seen and numbered them; and also a way for the pealing thunder: ²⁷ then did he see it and declare it: and having prepared and traced it,

¹³ Now who is this maker of the World and of all the things therein?

³⁰ behold! with a clap of thunder he will expand it over him. He hath indeed covered the out branchings of the sea! ³¹ For with what he judgeth nations he can give food in abundance. ³² When with his hands he hath covered the light, and hath given provisional orders concerning food;

¹¹ But when a cloud covereth a man of his choice, his light can disperse the cloud:

⁴ Where wast thou, when I laid the foundations of the earth? And tell me, if thou hast understanding, ⁵ who settled the measures of it? Dost thou know? Or who stretched the line upon it? ⁶ To what are the hooks of it fastened? And who laid the corner stone thereof? ⁷ When the stars were made, all my angels praised me with a loud voice. ⁸ It was I who shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed eagerly from its mother's womb. ⁹ It was I who made a cloud its cloathing; and thick darkness its swaddling bands. ¹⁰ It was I who set bounds to it; surrounded it with bars and gates; ¹¹ and said to it, Thus far thou shalt come and no farther: but in thyself thy waves shall be spent. ¹² Was it in concert with thee that I ordered the morning light; and that the day spring knew its appointed time ¹³ to tinge the wings of the earth; to scare the wicked from it? ¹⁴ Didst thou take clay of the earth and form an animal and place on the earth a creature endowed with speech? ¹⁵ Hast thou withdrawn the light from the wicked, and broken in pieces the arms of the haughty? ¹⁶ Hast thou gone to the head spring of the sea; and walked in the footsteps of the abyss? ¹⁷ Are the gates of Hades opened to thee through fear, and are the porters of Hades struck with awe at seeing thee? ¹⁸ Hast thou informed thyself of the breadth of that under heaven? Tell me then what is the extent of it. ¹⁹ In what country doth light make its abode, and of what sort is the place of darkness? ²⁰ If thou wouldst lead me to their borders, and if thou knewest their paths; ²¹ I would know that thou wast then born, and that the number of thy years is great. ²² Hast thou gone to the treasuries of snow, or hast thou seen the treasuries of hail? ²³ Are they stored up for thee, for a time of enemies; for a day of battles and combat? ²⁴ From what place doth hoar frost issue, or whence is the south wind scattered over the earth? ²⁵ Who hath prepared a course for the tempest, ²⁶ and a way for impetuous storms to water the ground, where there is not a man; the desert where no man dwelleth; to saturate an untrodden, uninhabited land ²⁷ and cause the bud of the tender herb to spring? ²⁸ Who is the father of rain, and who hath begotten the drops of dew? ²⁹ From whose womb doth ice proceed, and who in the sky hath brought forth hail ³⁰ which descendeth like a shower? Who hath struck with terror the face of the wicked? ³¹ Dost thou know the band of Pleias, or hast thou opened the hedge of Orion? ³² Canst thou cause Mazouroth to come forth in his season, or drag out Hesperus by his hair? ³³ Dost thou know the revolutions of heaven, or the things on earth corresponding to them? ³⁴ Canst thou summon a cloud with thy voice, and will it, with the trembling of a water spout, answer thee? ³⁵ Canst thou despatch thunders, that they may go, and will they say to thee, Here we are? ³⁶ Who hath given woman a skill in weaving, and a knowledge of the art of embroidering? ³⁷ Who is it who numbereth the clouds with wisdom, and hath caused the heaven to incline to the earth, ³⁸ when the earth was poured out like dust, and when I have glued the very clod as for a stone? ³⁹ Wilt thou hunt the prey for lions, or satisfy the appetites of dragons? ⁴⁰ For they are trembling for fear in their dens, and lying in ambush in their coverts. ⁴¹ Who hath provided food for the raven? For his young have cried to the Lord, wandering about in search of provisions.

⁹⁰ thy truth to all generations. Thou hast established the earth and it shall continue. ⁹¹ By thy arrangement day shall continue: for all things are in subjection to thee.

²⁶ Raise your eyes upwards and take a view: who hath displayed all those? He who bringeth out his host by number can call them all by name. On the account of abundant glory, by reason of the mightiness of his power he hath in no wise escaped thy notice;

⁸ who bindeth up water in his clouds; and the cloud under it is not rent;

⁴ I will speak righteous things with truth, without considering in an unjust manner things which are unjust.

² clothing thyself with light as with a mantle; stretching out the heaven as a tent. ³ Thou art he who covereth his chambers with waters who maketh clouds his chariot; who walketh on the wings of winds;

⁵ Great is our Lord and great his power; and infinite in his understanding.

¹⁹ By wisdom God founded the earth; and by understanding he furnished the heavens. ²⁰ By knowledge the deeps were broken up and the clouds distilled dew.

²² He it is, who occupieth the circuit of the earth; and the inhabitants thereon are as grasshoppers. He it is, who established the heaven as an arch, and spread it out as a tent to be dwelt in;

¹² It is the Lord who made the earth by his power, who established the World by his wisdom: and by his understanding spread out the heaven, ¹³ and the multitude of waters in heaven: when he brought up clouds from the extremity of the earth; he made the lightning for rain, and brought light forth from his treasuries.

¹⁷ which melting at the approach of heat, the place where it was is not known.

³¹ Dost thou know the band of Pleias, or hast thou opened the hedge of Orion?

¹⁸ Let him but send forth his word and he will melt them; let him but blow his breath and the waters will flow.

⁵⁵ And when the south wind bloweth, you say, It will be hot. And so it happeneth.

⁶ Then God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water; and let it make a separation between water and water." And it was so. God made the firmament; and God made a separation between the water which was below the firmament

⁸ and the water which was above the firmament. And God called the firmament, heaven. And God saw that it was good. And there was an evening and there was a morning. The second day.

⁸ overshadowing the propitiatory with their wings.

⁸ who alone hath outspread the heaven; and who walketh on the sea as on a pavement; ⁹ who is the maker of the Pleiads and Hesperus,

² clothing thyself with light as with a mantle; stretching out the heaven as a tent.

⁴ Praise him ye heavens of heavens: and thou water under the heavens! ⁵ let them praise the name of the Lord; for he spake and they were produced: he commanded and they were created. ⁶ He established them forever and ever: he made a decree and it shall not pass away.

¹ An Alleluia. Praise God in his holies; praise him in the firmament of his power.

²⁷ When he furnished the heaven, I was with him; and when he set apart his own throne on the winds:

¹² Who hath measured the water with his hand, and the heaven with a span and the whole earth with a hand breadth? Who hath weighed the mountains in scales and the dales with a balance?

²⁴ [J] Thus saith the Lord, who redeemed thee; even He who formed thee from the womb; I am the Lord the Maker of all things; I alone stretched out the heavens and firmly established the earth.

³ But I indeed have understanding as well as you.

³ Nevertheless I would speak to the Lord; and argue before him, were it his pleasure.

⁶ Hear now the argument of my mouth and the pleading of my lips.

²⁰ But where can wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? ²¹ It hath escaped the knowledge of every man; and is hid from the birds of the air.

² Who is this who is concealing counsel from me, and who hiding words in his heart thinketh to hide them from me?

³ Who indeed can conceal counsel from thee? Though he forbeareth to speak, can he think to hide it from thee? But who will tell me those things which I did not know; those great and wonderful things which I did not understand.

¹⁶ I therefore supposed, the trouble of knowing this is before me. ¹⁷ When I go to the sanctuary of God; I may understand the final issue.

²² I indeed was despicable for my want of knowledge; I was brutish as a beast before thee.

⁶ This knowledge of thine is too wonderful for me. It is great beyond my comprehension.

² For I am the most foolish of all men. And I have not the understanding of man in me. ³ God hath taught me wisdom: and I have gained a knowledge of holy things. ⁴ Who hath ascended up to heaven and come down? Who hath collected the winds in his bosom? Who hath infolded the water in a mantle? Who hath a dominion over all the ends of the earth? What is his name? or what the name of his sons?

¹² For we now by means of a mirrour see a representation of things; but we shall then see face to face. I now know in part; but I shall then know as I am known.

² Beloved, we are now children of God. Though it hath not yet been manifested what we shall be, yet we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him: that we shall see him as he is.

³ But these would outweigh the sand of the sea, though you seem to think my words too vehement:

⁷ Canst thou trace the footsteps of the Lord? Or hast thou reached the extent of what the Almighty hath done? ⁸ The heaven is high, what then canst thou do? And there are things deeper than the mansion of the dead; what dost thou know?

⁴ that there is not an evil word on my tongue. Behold thou, Lord, knowest all things;

³⁶ Now I assure you in respect to every idle word which men shall utter, they shall give an account thereof in a day of judgment. ³⁷ For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shall be condemned.

⁹ who taketh possession of the front of his throne and over it spreadeth his cloud.

²⁵ Who hath prepared a course for the tempest,

¹¹ To thee, Lord, be ascribed greatness, and power, and exultation, and victory, and majesty; for thou hast dominion over all things in heaven and on earth. At thy presence every king and nation is struck with awe.

¹⁰ Assume then majesty and power, and array thyself with glory and excellence;

⁴ The voice of the Lord is with power: the voice of the Lord is with majesty.

⁵ Come and see the works of God! He is awful in counsels touching the sons of men.

⁷ When thou, God, wentest forth before thy people; when thou wast marching through the wilderness; ⁸ the earth shook and the heavens dissolved in showers at the presence of the God of Sina: at the presence of the God of Israel.

¹² to him who taketh away the spirits of chiefs: to him who is terrible to the kings of the earth.

¹ For the day preceding the Sabbath, when the World was stocked with inhabitants. The praise of an Ode by David. The Lord hath commenced his reign; hath robed himself with majesty. The Lord hath robed himself with power and girded it on. For he hath established the World, which cannot be shaken.

¹ By David. Bless the Lord O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great. Thou hast robed thyself with honour and majesty;

⁵ Let them speak of the transcendant glory of thy majesty, and relate thy wonderous works.

²³ The north wind raiseth clouds: and an impudent countenance irritateth the tongue.

¹⁰ "Now therefore go into the rocks and hide yourselves in the earth, from the tremendous presence of the Lord; and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise, to crush the land."

¹⁹ carrying them into caverns and clefts of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, from the tremendous presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise to crush the lands.

⁴ And they will stand and look and the Lord will feed his flock with majesty; and in the glory of the name of the Lord their God they shall subsist; because they shall now be magnified to the ends of the earth;

³ [a] The Lord is slow to anger, though his power is great; will not the Lord then acquit the innocent? Is his way in destruction and whirlwind, when clouds are the dust of his feet? [[a] An objection, [b] The answer]

³ God will come from Thaiman, even the Holy One from the thick shady mountains of Pharan. ⁴ His glory obscured the heavens; and the earth was full of his praise. His splendor will be like light; beaming rays in his hands, which impressed a lasting love of his majesty. ⁵ Before him Logos [the word] will march, and advance into the plain. ⁶ He stood and the earth was shaken: he looked, and nations melted away: the mountains were violently convulsed, the everlasting hills melted. ⁷ Instead of labours I beheld his marches of old. The dwellings of the Ethiopians shall be terrified! And the tents of the land of Madian! ⁸ Wast thou, Lord, angry with the rivers? Or was thy wrath against the rivers? Or thine indignation against a sea, that thou shouldst mount thy horses? Thy riding is indeed salvation. ⁹ Thou hast bent thy bow effectually against sceptres. The Lord saith, "The land of rivers shall be broken; ¹⁰ peoples shall see and be in pangs." Thou art scattering the rolling waters. The deep roared. It swelled high. ¹¹ The sun was withdrawn: and the moon stood on its orbit. Thy bolts will glance for light, for a glare of the lightening of thine arms. ¹² With a threat thou canst diminish a land, and with wrath crush nations. ¹³ Thou hast marched forth for the salvation of thy people, to save thine anointed One. Thou wilt pour death on the head of transgressors, thou hast raised chains up to the neck. ¹⁴ Thou hast struck with consternation the heads of mighties, at this they will be appalled! They will slacken their reins and be like a poor man eating in secret, ¹⁵ whilst thou art pressing into the sea thy horses ruffling a mighty water. ¹⁶ I watched myself; and at the sound of the prayer of my lips my bowels trembled and a tremor seized my bones; and under me my whole frame quivered. I shall be at rest in the day of affliction, at the time of his coining to the people of my neighbourhood. ¹⁷ Since the fig tree will not flourish, nor will there be fruit on the vines; the product of the olive will fail and the fields will supply no food; For want of food the flocks have failed, and there are no kine in the stalls; ¹⁸ As for me, I will rejoice in the Lord; I shall have joy for God my saviour. ¹⁹ The Lord God is my strength, and will guide my feet to the end. He maketh me walk in high places; that I may triumph with his song.

³ who being an effulgence of the glory, and an impress of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having by himself made a purification of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high,

²⁹ for our God is a consuming fire.

²⁵ to the only wise God, our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.

³ Will the Lord in judging pass an unrighteous judgment? Or will he who made all things pervert justice?

⁴ For he is wise in heart and strong and great. Who is hardy enough to stand up against him

¹⁹ For because he is strong, he prevaileth. Who then can withstand his decrees?

¹³ With him is wisdom and power; with him counsel and understanding.

⁷ But now when he hath made me a poor rotten fool; 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. ⁹ When in his wrath he threw me down and gnashed his teeth at me; the darts of his executioners fell upon me. ¹⁰ When with the darts of his eyes he had transfixed me; with his spear had brought me on my knees: they with one consent rushed upon me. ¹¹ The Lord hath indeed delivered me up to the unrighteous; and turned me over to the ungodly. ¹² When I was at peace he broke me up; taking me by the hair he shook me; he set me up as a mark. ¹³ They surrounded me with javelins, darting them into my reins; without mercy they poured my gall on the ground. ¹⁴ They shot me, one deadly wound on another; they ran against me with all their might. ¹⁵ They sewed sackcloth on my skin: and my strength was extinguished in the dust. ¹⁶ My belly was burned up with wailing; and on mine eyelids were the shades of death: ¹⁷ yet there was no iniquity in my hands. And my prayer was pure.

⁵ Know then that the Lord, who is mighty in power and wisdom;

¹⁹ Therefore teach me what we shall say to him. And let us refrain from much speaking.

⁵ Because at his wrath there is vexation; but in his favour, life; in the evening weeping may pitch its tent; and in the morning, joy.

⁵ Lord, thy mercy is in the heavens, and thy truth reacheth to the clouds. ⁶ Thy saving goodness is like the mountains of God, and thy judgments like the vasty deep. Thou, O Lord, preservest men and beasts. ⁷ As thou, Lord, hast multiplied thy mercy: let the sons of men therefore trust in the shelter of thy wings.

¹¹ Once God hath spoken; these two things I have heard: That strength belongeth to God,

⁶ Thou establishest the mountains by thy power: thou art begirt with majesty.

³ Say to God, How awful are thy works! For the greatness of thy power, let thine enemies submit to thee.

⁴ As the honour of a king loveth judgment; thou hast provided rules of rectitude; and executed judgment and justice in Israel.

⁶ who made the heaven and the earth, the sea and all the things in them; ⁷ who keepeth truth forever, executing judgment for the aggrieved, giving food to the hungry.

²¹ If they will proclaim, let them draw near and know at once, who hath published these things from the beginning: then let them be announced to you. I am God and there is no other besides me; a just God and a saviour be sides me there is none.

⁹ It was not an ambassador nor a messenger; but he himself saved them. Through his love and his indulgence to them, he himself redeemed them and took them up, and exalted them all the days of old.

³² because he who hath humbled will have compassion, even according to the multitude of his mercies. ³³ He did not answer from his heart and humble the children of men

²³ Can I [saith the Lord] so much desire the death of the unrighteous, as I do that he should turn from his evil way and live?

³² since I desire not the death of him who dieth? saith the Lord.

¹³ and bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil [for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for the ages, amen.

²² All things are delivered up to me by my Father; and none knoweth who the Son is, except the Father; nor who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whom the Son will please to reveal him.

¹⁶ who alone hath immortality, who inhabiteth light inaccessible, whom no man hath seen, or can see, to whom be honour and everlasting dominion. Amen.

¹⁰ For they indeed for a few days corrected us as they thought fit; but he for our advantage, that we may partake of his holiness.

¹³ Who entangleth the wise in their wisdom, and defeateth the counsel of the artful.

⁴ Because there is forgiveness with thee, for thy name's sake,

¹¹ Having turned about, I saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the mighty; nay not even bread to the wise, nor riches to men of understanding; nor favour to men of knowledge; that time and chance will happen to them all as forming one whole.

²¹ Woe to them who are wise in their own conceit, and in their own eyes prudent.

³⁹ And I will give them another way and another heart that I may be always feared and may be for good to them and their children after them.

⁹ And it shall be for a joy and praise and for a subject of exultation to all the people of the earth who shall hear all the good things which I will do. And they will be struck with awe and remorse for all the good and for all the peace which I will procure for them.

⁵ and afterwards the children of Israel will return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and will be amazed at the Lord and at his goodness in the last days.

²⁸ And be not afraid of them who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him, who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

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. ²⁶ Yes, O father, because it thus seemed good in thy sight.

²¹ At that same time Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou, having hid these things from the wise and learned, hast revealed them to babes; Yes, O father, that it thus seemed good in thy sight.

⁴ therefore I say to you, my friends; Be not afraid of them who kill the body, and after that can do no more: ⁵ but I will point out to you whom you should fear; Fear him, who after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell. I repeat it to you, Fear him.

⁴ Or dost thou contemn the riches of his gentleness and forbearance and long suffering, not considering that the gentleness of God is leading thee to a reformation?

²⁰ Well! They were broken off for their disbelief, and thou standest for thy belief. Be not high minded; but fear; ²¹ For if God spared not the natural branches, perhaps he may not spare thee. ²² Behold then the kindness and the severity of God: severity against them indeed who have fallen, and kindness to thee if thou continue in that kindness, otherwise thou also wilt be cut off.

²⁶ For observe, brethren, this call of you, that there are not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many of illustrious birth;

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God: for it is written, He entangleth the wise in their craft."