Job 38 Cross References - Thomson

¹ After Elius had finished his speech, the Lord from a whirlwind and clouds, said to Job, ² Who is this who is concealing counsel from me, and who hiding words in his heart thinketh to hide them from me? ³ Gird up thy loins like a man and I will question thee and answer thou me. 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 ¹⁵ Hast thou withdrawn the light from the wicked, and broken in pieces the arms of the haughty?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.

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.

¹¹ So you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain. Though the mountain was blazing with fire up to heaven, there was darkness, thick darkness, a turbid tempest. ¹² And the Lord uttered to you, from the midst of the fire, the sound of words which you heard. You saw no similitude, but only heard a voice.

²² These are the injunctions which the Lord delivered verbally, to all your congregation, at the mount, out of the midst of the fire. There was darkness, thick darkness, a turbid tempest, and a loud voice. And he added no more. And having written them on two tables of stone, he gave them to me. ²³ Now when you heard the voice from the midst of the fire [the mountain indeed was burning with fire] you came to me, even all the leaders of your tribes, and your elders, ²⁴ and said, Behold the Lord our God hath shewn us his glory, and we have heard his voice from the midst of the fire. We have this day seen that God can speak to man, and he may live.

¹¹ And it said, Thou shalt go out to-morrow and stand before the Lord on the mount. Behold the Lord will pass by. Accordingly behold there was a mighty strong blast of wind rending mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind, there was an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake.

¹ Now when the Lord was about to take up Elias as it were with a whirlwind into heaven, Elias went with Elisha from Galgala.

¹¹ And as they proceeded on conversing as they went, behold a chariot of fire, with horses of fire, made a separation between them; and Elias was carried up with a whirlwind as it were into heaven.

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;

⁹ sorrows issue forth from their chambers, and cold from its lofty summits;

¹⁴ Hearken, Job, to these things and stand instructed with regard to the power of the Lord.

⁶ Whereupon the Lord further said to Job from the cloud:

⁴ and I looked, and lo! a whirlwind came from the north, and with it a great cloud surrounded with a splendor of flashing fire; and in the midst thereof, an appearance like that of amber in the middle of the fire,

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 But I indeed have understanding as well as you.

⁴ that I might order the trial of myself, and that he would stop my mouth with arguments ⁵ That I might know what remedies he will prescribe for me, and understand what he will announce to me!

²⁵ Now if this is not the case; who can say I have spoken falsehoods: and set my words at naught?

³ For whom hast thou been acting as counsellor? Is it not for him who hath all wisdom? Whom art thou about to follow? Is it not him, whose army is beyond compare?

¹¹ But now let me tell you what is by the hand of the Lord. What are from the Almighty I will not falsify.

³⁵ Job indeed hath not spoken with wisdom: his words are not with understanding.

¹⁶ therefore Job vainly openeth his mouth; he loadeth his speeches with folly.

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.

⁷ desiring to be teachers of the law. not understanding what they say, nor about what they are so positive.

¹¹ And in this manner you shall eat it. Your loins shall be girded. Your sandals shall be on your feet, and your staves in your hands. And you shall eat it in haste. It is a passover to the Lord.

⁴⁶ the hand of the Lord was upon Elias and having girded up his loins, he ran before Achab to Jezrael.

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

²² Then call and I will answer thee: or speak and I will make thee a reply.

³ But O that some person would let me know, that I might find him, and come to an issue; ⁴ that I might order the trial of myself, and that he would stop my mouth with arguments ⁵ That I might know what remedies he will prescribe for me, and understand what he will announce to me! ⁶ Though he may come against me with great majesty, he will not employ it in threatening me. ⁷ For truth and argument proceed from him; and he would bring my cause to an issue.

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:

⁷ No, but gird now up thy loins like a man, and let Me question thee; and do thou answer Me.

¹⁷ therefore gird thou up thy loins and stand up and speak all that I command thee. Be not afraid of them, nor terrified at their presence; for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

¹³ Wherefore having girded up the loins of your understanding, being perfectly sober, keep your hope fixed on the favour to be conferred on you at the manifestation of Jesus Christ;

¹ In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth.

²⁵ Thou Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundations of the earth; and the heavens are the work of thy hands.

⁵ Who founded the earth on its firm basis, that it may not be moved forever.

²² The Lord created me, the beginning of his ways for his works.

²⁹ and when he secured the fountains of the earth below; And when he made the foundations of the earth strong: ³⁰ I was harmonizing with him. I was the one in whom he delighted;

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?

² hath in these last days spoken to us by a son whom he hath constituted heir of all things, by whom also he made the ages;

¹⁰ Again, "Thou, Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the work of thy hand.

⁹ Of greater extent than the measure of the earth or the breadth of the sea.

²⁵ all that he hath made; the weight of winds and the measures of water.

⁴ To every land their sound is gone forth: and their doctrines to the limits of the World.

⁵⁵ and drove out nations from before them, and gave them by lot their several portions, and settled in their dwellings the tribes of Israel.

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

²⁹ and when he secured the fountains of the earth below; And when he made the foundations of the earth strong:

¹¹ And for a long period fowls and porcupines, ibises and crows shall dwell therein. And over it shall be stretched a line of devastation; and in it the onocentaurs shall dwell.

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?

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;

¹ Then I lifted up mine eyes and looked, and lo! a man with a measuring line in his hand! ² and I said to him, Whither art thou going? And he said to me, To measure Jerusalem to see how broad it is, and what is its length.

¹⁶ to publish the good tidings in the regions beyond you; not in another's allotment; in places ready prepared, for the sake of boasting.

¹⁸ And thou shalt make the pilasters for the tabernacle twenty pilasters for the north side; ¹⁹ and for these twenty pilasters thou shalt make forty bases of silver, two for each pilaster, for both the ends thereof: ²⁰ And for the other side towards the south, twenty pilasters ²¹ with their forty bases of silver, two for each pilaster for both the ends thereof: ²² and for the end of the tabernacle which is towards the west thou shalt make six pilasters; ²³ and at the corners of the tabernacle out of the hinder ends thou shalt make two pilasters and the side on the end shall be of the same piece and as wide as the other side; ²⁴ both sides shall be equal from the corner to the first joint. That thou mayst do this at both corners the corner pilasters must have equal sides. ²⁵ So there will be eight pilasters and their bases of silver sixteen, two for each pilaster for the two ends thereof.

⁸ He lifteth up the needy from the ground; And raiseth the beggar from a dunghill; To seat them among a people's princes; And he causeth them to possess a throne of glory.

⁷ He it is, who stretcheth out Boreas over empty space; who suspendeth the earth upon nothing;

² Upon the seas he laid its foundations; and established it upon the floods.

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.

²² The stone which the builders rejected, was the very one for the head of the corner.

¹² whose sons are like trees well planted when young; their daughters beauteous, adorned like shrines;

¹⁶ Therefore thus saith the Sovereign Lord; behold I lay for the foundation of Sion a stone of inestimable worth; a chosen, precious corner stone for the foundations of it, and he who believeth shall not be ashamed.

¹ The burden of the word of the Lord against Israel. The Lord who stretcheth out the heaven and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him,

²⁰ built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner stone, ²¹ by whom the whole building being united in symmetry is to grow up to a holy temple in the Lord;

⁵ For this they wilfully forget, that by the word of God there were heavens of old, and an earth consisting of water and in water,

¹¹ and they raised their responsive strains, in the song of praise and thanksgiving to the Lord For it is good; for to everlasting his mercy endureth for Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, to praise the Lord, at laying the foundation of the house of the Lord. ¹² But many of the priests and Levites, and the old chiefs of families, who with their eyes had seen the former house on its foundations, and now saw this, wept aloud, while the people were shouting for joy to swell the song;

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;

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.

⁴ Who maketh winds his messengers, and flaming fire his ministers;

⁷ Who art thou; to complete this mountain; this great one; this before Zorobabel! I will indeed bring out the stone of the inheritance, an equality of favour, a free gift of it.

²⁸ as I have received from my Father; and I will give him the morning star.

¹¹ And I looked and heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the animate beings and the elders and the number of them was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, 12 saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing."

¹⁶ I Jesus have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the congregations. I am the root and the offspring of David; the bright and the morning star.

⁹ Then God said, "Let the water which is below the heaven be gathered into one receptacle and let the dry land appear."

¹⁰ It was I who set bounds to it; surrounded it with bars and gates;

⁷ He gathered as in a vessel the waters of the sea; he laid up the deeps in store houses.

⁸ They ascend mountains, they go down vallies; to the place which thou hast founded for them. ⁹ Thou has set a bound which they shall not pass; nor shall they return to cover the earth.

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.

² And the earth was invisible and unfurnished and there was darkness over this abyss; and a breath of God was brought on above the water.

⁹ Then God said, "Let the water which is below the heaven be gathered into one receptacle and let the dry land appear." ¹⁰ And it was so. The waters which were below the heaven were gathered into their several collections, and the dry land appeared. And God called the dry land, earth; and the collections of the waters he called, seas. And God saw that it was good.

¹⁵ and I will remember this my covenant, which is between me and you and every life living in all flesh, and the water shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

¹⁰ His decree had drawn a circle on the face of the water; at the confines of light and darkness.

⁹ Thou has set a bound which they shall not pass; nor shall they return to cover the earth.

²² In all these things which befel him, Job transgressed not against the Lord, nor imputed indiscretion to his God.

⁶ Then the Lord said to Satan, Behold I deliver him up to thee, only preserve his life.

⁶ Thou establishest the mountains by thy power: thou art begirt with majesty. ⁷ Thou causest the cavity of the sea to rage; the billows thereof to roar.

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.

⁹ Thou rulest the raging of the sea, and stillest the rolling billows thereof.

³ The rivers, Lord, lifted up; the rivers lifted up their voices. ⁴ By reason of the roaring of many waters; the mountainous billows of the sea are wonderful. The Lord on high is wonderful;

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.

³⁹ Thereupon he arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. ⁴⁰ Then he said to them, Why are you so much afraid. How is it that you have not faith? ⁴¹ And they were exceedingly terrified, and said one to another, Who in reality is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?

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.

² and he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent which is the Devil and Satan and bound him a thousand years ³ and cast him into the bottomless gulf and shut him up, and sealed it on him that he might not lead the nations astray any more until the thousand years were ended. And after that he must be loosed for a short time.

⁷ And when the thousand years are ended Satan will be let loose from his prison 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.

⁵ And God called the light day; and the darkness he called night. And there was an evening and there was a morning. The first day.

⁹ [for we are but of yesterday and know nothing; for our life on the earth is but a shadow]

⁷ What! wast thou born before men? Or wast thou brought into being before the hills?

⁴ Where wast thou, when I laid the foundations of the earth? And tell me, if thou hast understanding,

²¹ I would know that thou wast then born, and that the number of thy years is great.

¹⁶ Thine is the day and the night is thine: it is thou who preparedst the sun and moon.

⁷ to him who alone made the great lights: for his mercy endureth forever; ⁸ the sun to rule the day: for his mercy endureth forever;

³ Sun and moon! Praise him: praise him all ye stars and light. 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.

⁷⁸ through the tender mercy of our God, by which the Anatole [the day spring] from on high hath visited us

¹⁹ Therefore we have a more complete confirmation of the prophetic word, to which you do well in giving attention, as to a lamp shining in a dark place until the day dawn, and the bringer of light rise in your hearts;

²⁷ So Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and about day break the water was brought back to its place. And when the Egyptians were fleeing below the water the Lord shook them off in the midst of the sea;

¹³ Now why hath he not called these to account while on earth? Though they did not acknowledge; though they did not know the way of justice; did they not still go on in their courses? 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] ¹⁷ because the morning is to all these as the shadow of death; because the terror of the shadow of death should acknowledge them;

³ as his dominion extendeth over all under heaven, and his light over the wings of the earth;

⁴ To every land their sound is gone forth: and their doctrines to the limits of the World. ⁵ In the sun he placed his tabernacle. And he is like a bridegroom coming forth from his chamber. He will rejoice as a giant to run his course. ⁶ His going forth is from the summit of heaven; and his course is to the summit thereof, and from his heat none can be hid.

²¹ Lions roaring for prey, seeking their food from God. ²² When the sun is risen, they will assemble and lay themselves down in their dens;

³⁵ Let sinners be consumed from the earth, and the wicked so as to be no more; my soul, bless thou the Lord.

⁹ If I wing my flight towards the morning; or dwell at the extremes of this sea; ¹⁰ even there thy hand will guide me; and thy right hand will restrain me. ¹¹ When I said, Darkness will surely trample me down: then to my great joy, night was luminous. ¹² For darkness cannot darken from thee; even night can be made light as day: the darkness of that, as the light of this.

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

⁶ Is the abyss like a garment to be its covering; are waters to stand above the mountains?

²¹ Then the Lord said to Moses, Stretch forth thy hand towards heaven and let there be darkness over the land of Egypt; a palpable darkness. ²² So Moses stretched forth his hand towards heaven, and there was a darkness; a thick, turbid darkness over the whole land of Egypt three days. ²³ And for three days one saw not another, nor did any one rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in all the places where they were.

¹⁸ And as the Syrians were coming down upon him Elisha prayed to the Lord and said, Smite I pray thee, this people with dimness of sight. And when he had smitten them with dimness of sight, according to the word of Elisha,

¹⁴ In the day time, darkness shall meet them, that they may grope at noon day as at night,

⁵ The light of the wicked shall indeed be extinguished; and from them a spark shall not ascend.

¹⁸ When his name shall be published abroad, may they drive him from light to darkness.

¹⁵ Break the arm of the sinful and malicious man. Let his sin be sought out till no more can be found.

¹⁷ For the arms of sinners shall be broken; but the Lord supporteth the righteous.

¹⁹ But the ways of the wicked being dark; they know not at what they stumble.

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, ²² then down on the earth beneath, and lo distress and darkness! tribulation and anguish and a gloom so as not to see!

¹⁶ Give glory to the Lord your God, before the darkness cometh, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains; when you will wait for light; and the shadow of death will be there; and they shall be placed in darkness.

²² Therefore thus saith the Lord, Lord, Behold I am against Pharao king of Egypt; and I will break his strong and extended arms, and cause the sword to drop from his hand.

¹⁰ said, O! full of all deceit and of all wickedness, son of the devil, enemy of all righteousness; wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord! ¹¹ Now therefore behold the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shall be blind and shall not see the sun for a season. And instantly there fell upon him a mist and darkness. And groping about he sought some to lead him by the hand.

⁵ Are giants going to rise up from beneath the water and the places in its neighbourhood? ⁶ The mansion of the dead is naked before him: and destruction hath no covering.

¹⁹ Thy way was through the sea, and thy paths through many waters; but thy footsteps could not be known.

²⁴ and before he made the deeps: before the fountains of water issued forth;

³⁶ [J] For this cause, thus saith the Lord, Behold I will judge thine adversary and avenge thy cause; and I will drain off her sea and make her fountain dry,

⁵ but let darkness and the shadow of death cover it: upon it let there come a thick darkness. May the day be execrated!

²² who revealeth deep things from darkness; and hath brought to light the shades of death;

¹³ Have mercy upon me, O Lord! Behold my affliction, because of mine enemies, O thou who raisest me up from the gates of death,

⁴ For though I walk amidst the shades of death: I will fear no ills, because thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff have been my comfort.

¹⁰ As for them who sat in darkness and the shadow of death; bound with affliction and irons;

¹⁴ and brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death; and burst their chains asunder.

¹⁸ Their soul abhorred all manner of food, and they drew near to the gates of death.

³ The pangs of death encompassed me; the perils of Hades found me: I met with distress and sorrow:

⁸ He is the maker and former of all things. He turned darkness into day, and darkeneth the day into night. He calleth to him the water of the sea, and poureth it out on the face of the earth. His name is the Lord.

¹⁶ the people who sat in darkness saw a great light; and to them who sat in the region and shadow of death, light is sprung up."

²⁴ For he surveyeth the whole world; and knoweth all on the earth;

¹⁷ Thou hast made all the borders of the earth: summer and spring were made by thee.

¹¹ Thine are the heavens, and the earth is thine, thou hast founded the World and its fulness. ¹² Thou hast created the north and the west; let Thabor and Hermon rejoice at thy name.

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.

³⁷ Though the heaven is exalted very high, saith the Lord, and the surface of the earth is depressed far below, yet I will not reject the race of Israel, saith the Lord, for all that they have done,

⁹ And they came up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, and fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them.

³ And God said, "Let there be Light;" and there was light. ⁴ And God saw the light that it was good. And God made a separation between the light and the darkness.

¹⁴ Then God said, "Let there be luminaries in the firmament of heaven, to give light on the earth; to make a separation between the day and the night: and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years; ¹⁵ and let them be for an illumination in the firmament of heaven so as to shine on the earth." And it was so. ¹⁶ God indeed made the two great luminaries, the greater luminary for the regulations of the day, and the lesser luminary, with the stars, for the regulations of the night. ¹⁷ And God placed them in the firmament of heaven so as to shine on the earth, ¹⁸ and to regulate the day and the night, and to make a division between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

¹⁹ and that upon looking up to heaven, and seeing the sun, and the moon, and the stars, and all the host of heaven, thou mayst not be led astray, and worship them, and perform religious service to those things which the Lord thy God hath arranged in due order, for all the nations which are under heaven.

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?

¹¹ But he made darkness his covering, His tent around him was dark water in clouds of air.

²⁰ Thou hast stationed darkness and there was night: in it all the beasts of the forest will come forth;

²⁸ He sent forth darkness and it was dark. When they made his words bitter,

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.

⁸ all that give light in the heaven shall be dark over thee; and I will overspread the earth with darkness, saith the Lord, Lord,

¹³ for behold here am I, who give strength to thunder; Who create wind, and proclaim for men his anointed one; who make the morning dawn and thick darkness, and who walk on the high places of the earth, whose name is the Lord God, Omnipotent.

⁴⁵ Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over the whole land till the ninth hour:

⁹ The light [the true light which enlighteneth every man] coming into the world

¹² Then Jesus spake to them again, saying, I am the light of the world. He who floweth me will not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

¹⁹ And the boundaries of the Chananites were from Sidon extending to Gerara and Gaza, thence extending to Sodom and Gomorra, Adama and Seboin even to Dasa.

¹⁷ So the field of Ephron including the double cave which is situate before Mambre, the field and the cave in it and all the wood in the field and all within the bounds thereof round about were conveyed

¹² Was it in concert with thee that I ordered the morning light; and that the day spring knew its appointed time

¹⁶ They who had assiduously paid me court, now made me a slight visit, like snow or hoar frost,

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

⁷ When he brought clouds from the end of the earth; he made lightnings for the purpose of rain. He it is who bringeth winds out of his treasuries:

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.

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.

¹¹ And as they were fleeing from before Israel, at the descent of Oronin, the Lord poured a storm of hail stones from heaven upon them, all the way to Azeka; so that there were more who died by the hail stones, than the children of Israel slew with the sword in battle.

¹³ the hypocrites in heart shall incur wrath: they will not cry because he bound them:

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

³⁰ When the Lord shall cause the glory of his voice to be heard; when, to display the fury of his arm with wrath and indignation and consuming fire, he shall utter tremendous thunder, accompanied with a furious tempest of rain and hail.

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. ¹² Now when the wall is fallen, will they not say to you, "Where is the anointing with which you anointed it?" 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;

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.

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.

⁸ And when the sun rose God ordered a burning wind to spring up and the sun beat upon Jonas' head so that he became fainty and abandoned himself to despair and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

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.

²⁶ When he had made and seen and numbered them; and also a way for the pealing thunder:

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.

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

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; ¹⁰ the Lord will cause that which was deluged to be inhabited: and the Lord will sit enthroned king forever.

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

¹⁰ Thou art he who sendeth forth springs in vallies. Waters shall flow down between the mountains; ¹¹ and give drink to all the beasts of the field. Wild asses will expect them to quench their thirst. ¹² By them the birds of the air will abide: from among the rocks they will utter a sound. ¹³ Thou art he who watereth mountains from his chambers. With the fruit of thy works the earth will be satisfied. ¹⁴ Thou art he who causeth grass to grow for cattle; even verdant grass for the service of man. That he may bring food out of the earth:

³⁵ He hath turned a desert into pools of water, and a thirsty soil into water springs:

⁸ to him who covereth the heaven with clouds; to him who provideth rain for the earth; to him who causeth grass to grow on mountains, and bladed corn for the use of man; ⁹ and who giveth suitable food to cattle, and to the young ravens which call on him.

¹ Rejoice, O desert; shout for joy, O thirsty desert and blossom like a lilly. ² Let the deserts of Jordan also bloom and rejoice; to it hath been given the glory of Lebanon an the honour of Channel. And my people shall see the glory of the Lord, and the majesty of our God.

¹⁸ but will open rivers on the mountains, and fountains in the midst of plains: I will turn the wilderness into watery fens, and with streams refresh the thirsty ground. ¹⁹ And I will plant in the dry wilderness the cedar and box, the myrtle and cypress and elm:

¹⁹ Behold I am in act to do new things, which shall now spring up and you shall know them; I will make a way in the wilderness, and streams of water in the desert. ²⁰ The wild beasts of the field will bless me; the Seirens and the daughters of the ostrich; because I have given water in the wilderness, and flowing streams in the desert, to give drink to this race of mine which I have chosen;

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

⁷ For ground which drinketh up the rain that frequently falleth on it, and produceth plants fit for the use of them for whom it is cultivated, receiveth a blessing from God; ⁸ but that which produceth briars and thorns is rejected, and near a curse, the end of which is for burning.

¹⁴ Thou art he who causeth grass to grow for cattle; even verdant grass for the service of man. That he may bring food out of the earth:

²⁸ Therefore God give thee from the dew of heaven and from the fatness of the land plenty of corn and wine.

³⁹ And Isaak his father answered and said to him, Behold thy dwelling shall border on the fatness of the earth and on the dew of heaven from above.

¹³ And of Joseph he said, His land is a special blessing of the Lord On account of heavenly seasons and dew, And on account of abysses of fountains from beneath,

²⁸ And Israel shall dwell securely alone, In the land of Jacob, fed with corn and wine: And the heaven shall drop with dew for thee.

¹⁷ Is it not now wheat harvest? I will invoke the Lord, and he will send thunder and rain, that you may know, and see that the evil is great which you have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking for yourselves a king. 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.

²¹ On you, mountains of Gelbua, let not dew descend; On you, let there be no rain, nor fields of first fruit offerings! For there the shield of the mighty was battered; The shield of Saul. Was he not anointed with oil?

¹ And the prophet Elias the Thesbite, who was of Thesbon in Galaad, said to Achab, As the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain for years but by the word of my mouth.

⁹ who doth great and unsearchable things; things glorious and wonderful, not to be numbered. ¹⁰ Who giveth rain on the earth and sendeth water on all under heaven.

¹⁹ My root is spread out by the water; and the dew will abide on my produce.

⁸ It was I who shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed eagerly from its mother's womb.

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.

⁸ to him who covereth the heaven with clouds; to him who provideth rain for the earth; to him who causeth grass to grow on mountains, and bladed corn for the use of man;

²⁰ By knowledge the deeps were broken up and the clouds distilled dew.

²⁴ and did not say in their heart, let us now fear the Lord our God, who giveth us the former and the latter rain, according to the time of completing the appointed harvest. [p] Though they have reserved these for us,

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.

⁵ I will be to Israel like dew. He shall bloom like a lily, and shoot out his roots like Lebanon.

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;

⁴⁵ that you may be the children of your Father in heaven: for he causeth the sun to rise on bad and good, and sendeth the rain on just and unjust.

¹⁰ which by the blast of the Almighty produce frost, and governeth the water as he pleaseth.

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?

⁹ who is the maker of the Pleiads and Hesperus,

⁵ He burned also the Chomarims, whom the kings of Juda had appointed. These were they who burned incense on the high places and in the cities of Juda and in the places around Jerusalem. He burned them also, who offered incense to Baal and to the sun and the moon and the signs in the zodiack and to all the host of heaven.

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

¹⁶ God indeed made the two great luminaries, the greater luminary for the regulations of the day, and the lesser luminary, with the stars, for the regulations of the night.

²² While the earth continueth, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and spring, with a succession of day and night shall not cease."

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.

⁶ He established them forever and ever: he made a decree and it shall not pass away.

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.

¹¹ The light hath become darkness to thee, and water hath overwhelmed thee when asleep.

¹ ask ye of the Lord, rain in its season, the former and latter rain. The Lord hath made appearances, and he will give rain in plenty; to every one herbage in his field.

¹⁸ And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the land bloomed with its productions.

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.

²⁹ And Moses said to him, As soon as I have gone out of the city I will spread out my hands to the Lord and the voices will cease and there will be no more hail and rain, that thou mayst know that the earth is the Lord's.

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,

³⁵ And there went forth a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men, who were offering incense!

¹² Saul said, Hear now thou son of Achitob! And he said, Here I am. Speak, my lord.

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.

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.

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

⁸ Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send? And who will go to this people? And I said, Behold, here am I: send me.

¹ [M] I became manifest to them who inquired not for me; I was found by them who sought me not. I said, "Behold here I am" to the nation which did not invoke my name.

⁵ And if any one attempt to injure them a fire issueth out of their mouth, and utterly devoureth their enemies. If any one indeed attempt to wrong them in this manner he ought to be slain. 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.

³ and filled him with a divine spirit of wisdom and understanding and knowledge in every kind of workmanship,

¹ Accordingly Beseleel and Eliab and every man skilled in arts, to whom had been given wisdom and understanding to know how to execute every kind of work suitable for the holy service, performed it according to all that the Lord had commanded. ² When Moses called Beseleel and Eliab and all who had skill: every one in whose heart God had put knowledge and all who were freely willing to come to the work so as to finish it compleatly,

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

⁸ But there is a spirit in mortals; and it is the inspiration of the Almighty which teacheth.

⁶ for behold thou lovedst truth; to me thou hadst manifested the obscure and hidden things of thy wisdom.

⁶ For the Lord giveth wisdom; and from his presence is knowledge and understanding:

²⁶ For to the man who is good in his sight he hath given wisdom and knowledge and joy; and to the sinner he hath given the trouble of gathering and heaping up to give to him who is good in the sight of God. So that this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

²⁶ So thou shalt be corrected by the judgment of God; and be made glad.

⁵ And if any of you wanteth wisdom, let him ask it of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it will be given him.

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.

¹ Now God had remembered Noe and all the beasts and all the cattle and all the fowls and all the reptiles which creep, even all that were with him in the ark; and God brought a wind over the earth and aswaged the water.

⁵ Then he led him out and said to him, Look up now to the heaven and count the stars if thou canst number them. Then he said, So shall thy seed be.

⁴ he numbereth the multitudes of stars, and calleth them all by their names.

¹⁰ The strength of a lion and the roaring of a lioness and the boastful pride of dragons have been extinguished. ¹¹ The myrmekoleon hath perished for want of food: and young lions have forsaken each other.

¹⁰ Rich men have become poor and hungry: But they who seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.

²¹ Lions roaring for prey, seeking their food from God.

¹⁵ The Lord upholdeth all that are falling, and raiseth up all who are broken down. ¹⁶ The eyes of all wait upon thee: and thou givest them their food in due season; thou openest thy hands, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.

⁹ Judas is a lion's whelp. From a vigorous stem, my son, thou art sprung. Couching down thou art gone to sleep like a young lion: Who dare rouse him!

²⁴ Behold the people will rouse like a young lion; And, like an old lion, exult with pride. They will not go to rest till they devour prey; Until they have drunk the blood of the slain.

⁹ Couching down, he is gone to rest, like a lion; Yes like a young lion; who dare rouse him? Blessed are they who bless thee, And they who curse thee are already cursed.

⁸ when the beasts have entered their coverts, and have gone to rest on their beds;

²⁷ All wait on thee to give them food in due season. ²⁸ When thou givest them, they gather; by opening thy hand all are bountifully supplied.

⁹ and who giveth suitable food to cattle, and to the young ravens which call on him.

²⁶ Observe those birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap, nor lay up in granaries; yet your heavenly father feedeth them. Are not you much more valuable than they?

²⁴ Observe those ravens! they neither sow nor reap; nor have they cellar or barn; yet God feedeth them. Of how much greater value are you than these birds?