Job 39 Cross References - Thomson

¹ Hast thou known the time of the rock-goat's delivery, and watched the pangs of hinds in travail? ² Hast thou numbered the months they go with young, and hast thou dismissed their pangs? ³ Hast thou brought up their young, devoid of fear, and wilt thou dismiss their pangs also? ⁴ Shall they cast off their young, and be encreased with a new progeny, and shall they go forth and no more return to them? ⁵ Who hath sent forth the wild ass free, and who hath loosed his bands? ⁶ As I made the desart his habitation, and the saltish soil his place of encampment; ⁷ he scorneth the crowds of a city, and regardeth not the clamours of a driver. ⁸ The range of mountains he will consider as his pasture, and he search eth after every thing green. ⁹ Will the unicorn condescend to serve thee, or to go to rest at thy stall? ¹⁰ Canst thou bind his yoke with thongs, or will he draw thy furrows in the field? ¹¹ Hast thou relied on him because his strength is great? ¹² Wilt thou leave thy labours to him, and trust that he will carry out thy seed, and bring home thy threshed grain? ¹³ Why is the wing of the ostrich that of the sportive? For though it comprehendeth that of the stork and falcon, ¹⁴ yet she will commit her eggs to the ground, and hatch them in the dust; ¹⁵ not remembering that the foot may crush, and wild beasts trample them. ¹⁶ She hardened herself against her young, as if not her's; she laboured in vain without fear; ¹⁷ because God had silenced wisdom in her. But did he not impart to her some understanding? ¹⁸ At a suitable occasion she will rear herself aloft; she will laugh to scorn the horse and his rider. ¹⁹ Hast thou invested the horse with strength, and clothed his neck with terror? ²⁰ When thou arrayedst him with armour didst thou inspire his dauntless breast with courage? ²¹ Pawing in the plain he swelleth with pride, and rusheth impetuous to the field. ²² Meeting a king he meeteth him with scorn, and turneth not back for fear of the sword. ²³ On him the bow and the sword swell with pride; and his rage will cause the ground to vanish, ²⁴ nor will he believe till the trumpet sounds: ²⁵ but at the sound of the trumpet he saith, Aha, and snuffeth the battle from afar, with a bound and neighing. ²⁶ Hath the hawk by thy wisdom poised herself aloft with wings expanded, unmoved, surveying the regions of the south? ²⁷ At thy command doth the eagle soar, and the vulture abide seated on its nest, ²⁸ on the high crag of a rock, and in secret, ²⁹ and continuing there seek its food? Its eyes take an extensive survey, ³⁰ and its young are besmeared with blood. Wherever carcasses are, there are they suddenly found.

⁵ deer and roebucks, and the pygarg, and oryx, and camelopardal;

² he took with him three thousand men, selected out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men in front of Saddaiem.

⁹ The voice of the Lord collecting the hinds; when he shall lay the forests bare. When in his temple every one uttereth praise;

¹⁸ The lofty mountains are for the hinds; a rock is the refuge of the choirogryllus.

⁵ The hinds calved in the field and left their young because there was not a green plant.

²⁴ She enlarged her ways to the waters of a desert: by the desires of her soul she was transported into raptures. She is delivered up: who will bring her back? None who seek her will weary themselves. In her humiliation they shall find her.

¹² He will be a wild man. His hands will be against all, and the hands of all, against him. And he shall dwell in front of all his brethren."

¹⁴ Issachar desired earnestly what was good, Halting between two choices.

⁵ What! will a wild ass bray without cause? Will it do so, except when in search of food? Or will an ox low having fodder in his stall?

¹² But man vainly floateth about in words; but a mortal born of woman is like a wild ass.

⁵ and are gone away like asses in a field. They are sprung up above me in their own order. To one, bread is sweetened for his children;

¹¹ and give drink to all the beasts of the field. Wild asses will expect them to quench their thirst.

¹⁴ O rich city! houses wholly forsaken! They shall abandon city, riches, lovely houses; and until the age the villages shall be dens; the joy of wild asses, the pastures of flocks,

⁶ The wild asses stood in the forests and snuffed up the wind: their eyes failed because there was no grass.

²¹ and he was driven from among men; and his heart was disposed to associate with the beasts; and his dwelling was with the wild asses; and he was fed with grass like an ox; and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, till he was made to know that the Most High God ruleth over the kingdom of men and can give it to whom he will.

⁹ because he went up to the Assyrians. While Ephraim continued at home he sprouted again. They loved gifts,

²³ brimstone and burnt salt; when through the whole land there shall be no sowing; no natural productions, no verdure on it, a destruction like that of Sodom and Gomorra, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord overthrew with wrath and indignation;

³⁴ a fruitful country into barrenness: for the wickedness of them who dwell therein.

⁶ He shall be like the wild myrtle in the desert. He shall not see when good cometh; but shall dwell in parched places and in a desert-in a salt land which is uninhabited.

¹¹ But when it is forced from its channel and when it is turned from its course, and when it is caused to swell immoderately, the waters will not heal. They are turned into salt.

¹³ And the task masters urged them saying, Compleat the customary daily task as when straw was furnished you. ¹⁴ And when they beat the clerks of the nation of the Israelites who were set over them by the officers of Pharao and said, Why have you not as heretofore compleated your tasks of brick making to day? ¹⁵ the clerks of the children of Israel went and cried to Pharao saying, Why dost thou deal thus with thy servants? ¹⁶ There is no straw given to thy servants, yet they say to us, Make bricks. And lo! thy servants are beaten. Wilt thou then deal unjustly with thy people?

¹⁸ Go therefore now and work; for there shall be no straw given you, yet you shall deliver the task of bricks.

¹⁸ and they of old who are assembled there together; have never heard the exactor's voice.

¹⁸ At a suitable occasion she will rear herself aloft; she will laugh to scorn the horse and his rider.

⁴ Because the Lord hath thus said to me, "As the lion or the young lion will roar over the prey which he hath taken; and will repeat his roaring over it, until the mountains are filled with his voice, and the multitude are subdued and terrified at his wrath: so will the Lord of Hosts descend to encamp on this mountain; on this Sion; on the summits thereof:

³ Saying, "Why have we fasted and thou hast not seen? We have humbled our souls and thou hast not known." In the very days of your fasts you enjoy your own pleasures and goad all them who are under your controul.

²⁹ Moreover God said, "Behold I have given you every seed bearing plant, the sowing seed which is on the whole earth, and every tree which hath in itself the fruit of seminal seed, you shall have for food: ³⁰ And to all the beasts of the earth, and to all the birds of the air, and to every reptile on the earth, which hath in it animal life, I have also given every green herb for food." And it was so.

¹⁵ But behold now the wild beasts around thee, which feed upon grass like cattle;

²⁰ When he went up to the craggy mountain, he gave joy to the four footed beasts in the vale. ²¹ They go to rest under trees of every sort, by the papyrus, the reed and the bulrush: ²² But by him large trees with branches, and the bushes of the field are overshadowed.

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.

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.

²² The God who hath brought them out of Egypt, Is to them like the glory of a unicorn.

¹⁷ His beauty is that of a firstling bull, His horns are the horns of an Unicorn, With these he will push the nations at once, Even from the limits of the land. These are the myriads of Ephraim; And these the thousands of Manasses.

²¹ Save me from the mouth of a lion, and this lowliness of mine from the unicorn's horns.

¹⁰ But my horn shall be exalted like that of the Oryx; and mine old age invigorated with fresh oil.

³ The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel did not know me. And this people have not regarded me."

¹⁴ lo! a messenger came to Job, and said to him, The oxen were ploughing and the asses feeding near them,

⁵ Who hath sent forth the wild ass free, and who hath loosed his bands?

⁷ he scorneth the crowds of a city, and regardeth not the clamours of a driver.

⁵ Wilt thou play with him as with a bird, or bind him as a sparrow for a child?

³ Upon my back the wicked hammered, they prolonged their iniquity:

¹⁰ to chastise them? Peoples shall indeed be gathered against them, when they are corrected for their two iniquities. ¹¹ Ephraim is a heifer taught to love victory; but I will come against her beautiful neck; I will bring Ephraim into subjection; I will cause Juda to keep silence; Jacob shall wrestle for himself.

¹³ Was it the inhabitant of Lachis? She is a leader to sin for the daughter of Sion. Because in thee have been found the impieties of Israel,

²⁶ Then God said, "Let us make man after our image and after a likeness; and let them have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the cattle, and the whole earth, and all the reptiles which creep on the earth."

²⁸ And God blessed them saying, "Increase and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all the cattle, and all the earth, and all the reptiles which creep on the earth."

² and let the fear and the dread of you be upon all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds of the air, and on all that move on the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea. To you I have subjected them

²⁶ they loaded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.

⁷ Some boast of chariots and some of horses; but by the name of the Lord our God we shall be magnified.

¹⁶ A king is not saved because of a numerous army: nor can a giant be saved by his abundant strength. ¹⁷ A horse is a false thing for safety; nor can he with all his power save himself.

¹⁴ their herds fat. There is no destruction of enclosures; no breaking out; no screaming in their folds.

¹⁰ In the courage of the horse he will not delight, nor is he pleased with the agility of the warrior.

⁴ Where there are no cattle the stalls are clean; but where there is much provender, the ox's strength is manifest.

⁶ This is the vision of the four footed beasts in the desert; A lion and a lion's whelp were in distress and difficulty; and from them went the asps and the brood of flying serpents, who carried their wealth on asses and camels to a nation which could not profit them.

¹⁶ but said, "We will flee on horses." Therefore flee you shall. And, "We will mount swift coursers, " therefore swift shall be your pursuers.

¹ ALAS! They went down to Egypt for help! They trusted in horses and chariots; for they have many and their cavalry is very numerous; and did not rely on the Holy One of Israel, nor did they ask counsel of the Lord. ² Therefore he in his wisdom brought evils on them: and that his word may not be slighted, he will rise up against the houses of wicked men and against this hope of theirs which is vain ³ against an Egyptian; a man, not a god; against the flesh of horses in which there is no help. When the Lord shall lay his hand upon them, then shall these helpers fail and be all destroyed together.

¹ Bel is fallen; Nabo is broken to pieces, Their graven images were a load for wild beasts and cattle, You are carrying them bound like a burden on the weary, fainty, and hungry, who are all without strength

¹⁵ In those days I saw in Juda some treading wine presses on the sabbath day, and some carrying sheaves, and loading their asses with wine and grapes and figs, and all kinds of burdens, and bringing them to Jerusalem on the sabbath day. Whereupon I testified against them, touching the day of their selling.

¹⁶ For length of days and years of life are in her right hand; and in her left, riches and glory. Out of her mouth proceedeth righteousness: and on her tongue she carrieth law and mercy.

¹³ Therefore behold I will roll under you, as a cart rolleth which is loaded with sheaves,

¹⁹ lay up in your minds whether that will be the case in the threshing floor? whether the vine or the fig tree or the pomegranate or the olive tree will any more be unproductive? From this very day I will bless.

² "Reform; for the reign of the heavens is at hand."

³⁰ Let them both grow together till the harvest. And at the season for reaping I will say to the reapers, Gather the darnel first and bind it in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.

¹⁹ and the heron, and the charadrius and all of its kind, and the puet, and the bat.

²² For the king had at sea a Tharsian fleet with the fleets of Chiram. One came every three years to the king from Tharsis, with gold and silver and stones wrought in a lathe or hewn with a chisel. This was an arrangement which king Solomon had made to provide for building the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and the wall of Jerusalem, and the citadel; and to fortify the city of David and Assur and Magdol and Gazer and upper Baithoron and Jethermath and all the chariot cities and all the cities for the cavalry, and for all the works which he purposed to construct in Jerusalem and in all the country, in order to keep in subjection all the remains of the Chettites and the Amorites and the Pherezites and the Chananites and the Evites and the Jebusites and the Gergasites, who were not of the children of Israel; The children of them who had been left with him in the land, whom the Israelites could not wholly extirpate, these Solomon subjected to a tribute which continueth to this day. But from the children of Israel he exacted nothing; because they were his warriors and his servants, his chiefs and his nobles, his charioteers and his horsemen.

²¹ For a fleet went for the king to Tharsis with the servants of Chiram. And once every three years, ships came from Tharsis for the king, laden with gold and silver and elephants teeth and apes.

²⁹ I have been made a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

¹⁷ There the birds will build their nests. The family of the stork account them their own.

⁷ The stork in the heaven knoweth her season; so doth the dove and the swallow of the field; the ostriches observed the time of their coming; but my people do not know the judgments of the Lord.

⁹ And I lifted up mine eyes and looked, and lo! two women came out, and there was a wind by their wings. Now they had the wings of a stork. And when they had lifted up the measure between heaven and earth,

⁵⁶ And the tender, and very delicate woman among you, whose foot never ventured to tread the ground because of her delicateness, and effeminacy will look with an evil eye on her husband in her bosom, and on her son, and her daughter, ⁵⁷ even the female infant she bore, or the male child which she may have brought forth; for on the account of the want of all things, she will eat these secretly in thy siege, and in that affliction of thine with which thine enemy will afflict thee in thy cities.

²⁶ Upon this the woman whose son the living child really was, answered and said to the king; because her bowels yearned for her son, therefore she said, I beseech thee my lord, Give her the child. Do not kill it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor hers. Divide it. ²⁷ Then the king answered and said, Give the child to her who said, Give the child to her and do not kill it; For she is the mother.

²⁸ Then the king said to her, What is the matter with thee? And the woman said, This woman said to me, Give thy son that we may eat him to-day; and we will eat my son to-morrow. ²⁹ So when we had boiled my son and eaten him, I said to her on the next day, Give thy son that we may eat him; but she hath hidden her son.

¹⁵ The labour of the foolish will tire them like that of one who knoweth not the way to a city.

²⁰ Look, O Lord, and see. For whom hast thou caused such a search to be made? Shall women eat the fruit of their womb! The cook hath made search! Shall infants at the breast be butchered? Wilt thou slay in the sanctuary of the Lord, priest and prophet?

³ Surely jackals drew out the breasts; their whelps suckled the daughters of my people, to make them unnatural as the ostrich in the desert.

¹³ Are not these things from the Lord Almighty? When many nations have fainted by fire, and many peoples have been dispirited,

³¹ without understanding, covenant breakers, void of natural affection, implacable, unmerciful.

³⁰ But Seon, king of Esebon, would not consent that we should pass by him, for the Lord our God had emboldened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might be delivered into thy hands, as at this day.

³¹ But in his transactions with the ambassadors from the chiefs of Babylon, who were sent to him to make inquiry touching the miracle which had been done in the land, the Lord left him to himself in order to try him, to know all that were in his heart.

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

¹¹ who regulateth the watches of the night; who distinguisheth me from the beasts of the earth and from the birds of the air?

¹¹ The princes of Tanis shall be fools, those wise counsellors of the king, their counsel shall be turned into folly. How can you say to the king, We are sons of wise men, sons of ancient kings? ¹² Where now are these wise men of thine? Let them tell thee publickly and declare what the Lord of hosts hath determined against Egypt. ¹³ The princes of Tanis have failed; and the princes of Memphis are exalted, and they will lead Egypt astray, tribe by tribe. ¹⁴ For the Lord hath mingled for them a spirit of error, and they with all their works have made Egypt reel, as a drunkard doth, when he is vomiting.

¹⁷ Because of sin I grieved him a little while and smote him and turned away my face from him; and he was grieved and went his ways sorrowing;

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.

²¹ This is the word which the Lord hath spoken against him, The virgin daughter of Zion hath despised thee and laughed thee to scorn. At thee the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head.

²² At the wicked and unrighteous thou shalt laugh;

²² Meeting a king he meeteth him with scorn, and turneth not back for fear of the sword.

²⁹ Battering rams are accounted as stubble; and he laugheth at the shock of eruptive fire.

¹ Then sung Moses and the Israelites this song to God, and spoke saying, Let us sing to the Lord, For he is gloriously exalted; Horse and rider he hath thrown in the sea.

²⁵ but at the sound of the trumpet he saith, Aha, and snuffeth the battle from afar, with a bound and neighing.

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;

¹⁷ and James, the son of Zebedee, and John, the brother of James, [these he surnamed Boanerges, that is, sons of thunder]

²⁰ From his nostrils issueth the smoke of a furnace, ²¹ flaming with a fire of burning coals. His animal life is glowing coals; and a flame proceedeth out of his mouth.

¹⁶ From Dan we can hear the sound of the snorting of his horses; with the neighing of his cavalry the whole earth is shaken. [J] And on he will come and devour the land and the fulness thereof, the cities and them who dwell therein.

⁵ With a noise like that of chariots they will bound over the tops of mountains and their noise is like that of a flaming fire consuming stubble. They are like a people numerous and powerful, arrayed for battle

²² When the feet of the horse were entangled, with precipitate speed, they who were able, fled.

⁴ there came forth a mighty man from the line of the Philistines. His name was Goliath, of Geth. His height was four cubits and a span. ⁵ And he had a helmet on his head, and was clad with a breast plate of chain work; and the weight of his breast plate was five thousand shekels. It was of brass and steel: ⁶ and the greaves on his legs were of brass; and he had a target of brass between his shoulders. ⁷ And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam: and his javelin was six hundred shekels of iron. And his armour bearer walked before him. ⁸ And he stood, and cried with a loud voice, to the line of Israel, and said to them, Why come ye out to array yourselves for battle against us? Am not I a Philistine; and you Hebrews the servants of Saul? Chuse out for yourselves a man, and let him come down to me. ⁹ And if he be able to fight with me, and kill me, we will be your slaves; but if I prevail, and kill him, you shall be our slaves, and serve us. ¹⁰ Then the Philistine said, Behold I have now this day defied the army of Israel. Give me a man that we may fight at single combat.

⁴² When Goliath saw David, He despised him exceedingly; for he was a mere youth, and was of a ruddy complexion with beautiful eyes.

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.

³¹ A horse is provided for the day of battle: but help cometh from the Lord.

⁶ Hearken now and hear! Will they not speak thus, "There is not a man who repenteth of his wickedness," saying, " What have I done?" He who was running stop'd in his course like a horse tired with whinnying."

²³ [J] Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom: nor the mighty man boast of his strength; neither let the rich man boast of his riches:

¹⁶ She hardened herself against her young, as if not her's; she laboured in vain without fear;

³³ Upon the earth there is not his fellow; made to be insulted only by my angels.

²⁶ they effect nothing; for with regard to the lance and the breast plate, ²⁷ he considereth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood. ²⁸ The bow of steel cannot wound him; and stones from a sling he considereth as grass. ²⁹ Battering rams are accounted as stubble; and he laugheth at the shock of eruptive fire.

¹⁶ And if I call and he will not answer, I do not believe that he hath hearkened to my voice?]

²⁴ If I smiled on them they could scarce believe it. And the light of my countenance was not lost.

²⁰ Have I had a book or a scribe by me, that by stopping the man I could be silent?

¹⁹ [p] My bowels! my bowels are pained! and every sensation of my heart. My soul throbbeth! my heart is torn. I cannot keep silence; for my soul hath heard the trumpet's sound; the din of war and of distress.

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

⁸ His horses can out leap leopards and are swifter than the lynxes of Arabia. When his horsemen have mounted, they will rush impetuously from afar, and will fly like an eagle, eager for prey. ⁹ Destruction will come on the wicked who set themselves against him; and he will gather captives like the sand.

⁴¹ And as they were still diffident on account of their joy, and in amaze, he said to them, Have you any food here?

³ Let them who say to me, Ha! Ha! be turned back suddenly, covered with shame.

² Son of man, Because Sor hath said against Jerusalem, Aha! She is trodden down; the nations have destroyed her; she is turned over to me; she that was full is laid waste,

² Thus saith the Lord, Lord; For as much as against you the enemy said, "Aha! these everlasting deserts are become our possession;"

¹¹ Then Aaron shall bring forward the young bull for his own sin offering, to make atonement for himself and his household, and shall slay the young bull for his sin offering;

¹⁵ the ostrich, and the owl, and the gull,

¹² The flowers appear on the earth; the pruning season is come. The voice of the turtle is heard in our land.

⁴ You have seen what I have done to the Egyptians; and how I have taken you up as on the wings of eagles and brought you to myself.

¹³ And among the birds, these are what you must abominate, and which shall not be eaten; they are an abomination; the eagle, and the ospray, and the cormorant,

⁵ who satisfieth thy desire with good things that thy youth may be renewed like an eagle's.

⁵ If thou fix thy view toward him, he is out of sight: for he is provided with wings as of an eagle; and directeth his course to the house of one who is before him.

³¹ but they who wait upon God shall have new strength; they shall put forth fresh feathers like eagles; they shall run and not be wearied; they shall march on and shall not faint.

¹⁶ Thine insolency hath entrapped thee; the wantonness of thy heart destroyed the holes of rocks. It took possession of a strong, lofty mountain. Because like an eagle thou hast built thy nest high; thence I will pull thee down:

¹ Because they have transgressed my covenant, and have sinned against my law,

⁴ Though thou shouldst soar aloft like an eagle, and make thy nest among the stars; thence I will pull thee down, saith the Lord.

⁴ Now in the middle of the passage where Jonathan sought to cross over to the army of the Philistines, there was a point of a rock on this side, and the point of a rock on that, the name of the one was Bases, and the name of the other Senna.

²⁶ Is there any track left by ships in their passage? Or of an eagle flying in pursuit of its prey?

¹⁷ Thou, therefore, son of man, say, Thus saith the Lord, Say to every winged bird, and to all the wild beasts of the field, Assemble and come: assemble from all around to my sacrifice, to the great sacrifice which I have made for you on the mountains of Israel; and you shall eat flesh and drink blood. ¹⁸ You shall eat the flesh of giants and drink the blood of the princes of the earth. Earns and young bulls and he goats; and all the bulls are well fatted. ¹⁹ And you shall eat fat till you are glutted, and drink blood to satiety, at my sacrifice which I have prepared for you.

²⁸ For wherever the carcass is, there will the eagles be assembled.

³⁷ Then some addressing him, said, Where, Master! And he said to them, Wherever the carcass is, there will the eagles assemble.