Job Cross References - YLT

¹ A man there hath been in the land of Uz—Job his name—and that man hath been perfect and upright—both fearing God, and turning aside from evil. ² And there are borne to him seven sons and three daughters, ³ and his substance is seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred pairs of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a service very abundant; and that man is greater than any of the sons of the east.
⁴ And his sons have gone and made a banquet—the house of each in his day—and have sent and called to their three sisters to eat and to drink with them; ⁵ and it cometh to pass, when they have gone round the days of the banquet, that Job doth send and sanctify them, and hath risen early in the morning, and caused to ascend burnt-offerings—the number of them all—for Job said, `Perhaps my sons have sinned, yet blessed God in their heart.' Thus doth Job all the days.
<sup>6</sup> And the day is, that sons of God come in to station themselves by Jehovah, and there doth come also the Adversary in their midst. <sup>7</sup> And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Whence comest thou?' And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, `From going to and fro in the land, and from walking up and down on it.' <sup>8</sup> And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Hast thou set thy heart against My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God, and turning aside from evil?' ⁹ And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, `For nought is Job fearing God? <sup>10</sup> Hast not Thou made a hedge for him, and for his house, and for all that he hath—round about? <sup>11</sup> The work of his hands Thou hast blessed, and his substance hath spread in the land, and yet, put forth, I pray Thee, Thy hand, and strike against anything that he hath—if not: to Thy face he doth bless Thee!' <sup>12</sup> And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Lo, all that he hath is in thy hand, only unto him put not forth thy hand.' And the Adversary goeth out from the presence of Jehovah.
¹³ And the day is, that his sons and his daughters are eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their brother, the first-born. ¹⁴ And a messenger hath come in unto Job and saith, `The oxen have been plowing, and the she-asses feeding by their sides, <sup>15</sup> and Sheba doth fall, and take them, and the young men they have smitten by the mouth of the sword, and I am escaped—only I alone—to declare it to thee.' <sup>16</sup> While this one is speaking another also hath come and saith, `Fire of God hath fallen from the heavens, and burneth among the flock, and among the young men, and consumeth them, and I am escaped—only I alone—to declare it to thee.' ¹⁷ While this one is speaking another also hath come and saith, `Chaldeans made three heads, and rush on the camels, and take them, and the young men they have smitten by the mouth of the sword, and I am escaped—only I alone—to declare it to thee.' <sup>18</sup> While this one is speaking another also hath come and saith, `Thy sons and thy daughters are eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their brother, the first-born. ¹⁹ And lo, a great wind hath come from over the wilderness, and striketh against the four corners of the house, and it falleth on the young men, and they are dead, and I am escaped—only I alone—to declare it to thee.'
²⁰ And Job riseth, and rendeth his robe, and shaveth his head, and falleth to the earth, and doth obeisance, ²¹ and he saith, `Naked came I forth from the womb of my mother, and naked I turn back thither: Jehovah hath given and Jehovah hath taken: let the name of Jehovah be blessed.' ²² In all this Job hath not sinned, nor given folly to God.

⁹ These are births of Noah: Noah is a righteous man; perfect he hath been among his generations; with God hath Noah walked habitually.

²³ And sons of Aram are Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

¹ And Abram is a son of ninety and nine years, and Jehovah appeareth unto Abram, and saith unto him, `I am God Almighty, walk habitually before Me, and be thou perfect;

¹² and He saith, `Put not forth thine hand unto the youth, nor do anything to him, for now I have known that thou art fearing God, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only one, from Me.'

²⁰ And it cometh to pass after these things that it is declared to Abraham, saying, `Lo, Milcah hath borne, even she, sons to Nahor thy brother: ²¹ Huz his first-born, and Buz his brother; and Kemuel father of Aram,

²⁸ These are sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

²¹ `And thou—thou dost provide out of all the people men of ability, fearing God, men of truth, hating dishonest gain, and hast placed these over them, heads of thousands, heads of hundreds, heads of fifties, and heads of tens,

³ `I pray Thee, O Jehovah, remember, I pray Thee, how I have walked habitually before Thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and that which is good in Thine eyes I have done;' and Hezekiah weepeth—a great weeping.

¹⁷ Sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.

⁴² Sons of Ezer: Bilhan, and Zavan, Jakan. Sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

²⁰ And Hezekiah doth thus in all Judah, and doth that which is good, and that which is right, and that which is true, before Jehovah his God; ²¹ and in every work that he hath begun for the service of the house of God, and for the law, and for the command, to seek to his God, with all his heart he hath wrought and prospered.

⁸ And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Hast thou set thy heart against My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God, and turning aside from evil?'

³ And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Hast thou set thy heart unto My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God and turning aside from evil? and still he is keeping hold on his integrity, and thou dost move Me against him to swallow him up for nought!'

¹¹ On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn not aside, ¹² The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth.

²⁸ And He saith to man: —`Lo, fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, And to turn from evil is understanding.'

¹ A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what—do I attend to a virgin? ² And what is the portion of God from above? And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heights? ³ Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity? ⁴ Doth not He see my ways, And all my steps number? ⁵ If I have walked with vanity, And my foot doth hasten to deceit, ⁶ He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity. ⁷ If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish, ⁸ Let me sow—and another eat, And my products let be rooted out.
⁹ If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait, ¹⁰ Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend. ¹¹ For it is a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity; ¹² For a fire it is, to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root, ¹³ If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me, ¹⁴ Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him? ¹⁵ Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.
¹⁶ If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume, ¹⁷ And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it, ¹⁸ (But from my youth He grew up with me as with a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.) ¹⁹ If I see any perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy, ²⁰ If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself, ²¹ If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in him the gate of my court, ²² My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken. ²³ For a dread unto me is calamity from God, And because of His excellency I am not able.
²⁴ If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, `My trust,' <sup>25</sup> If I rejoice because great is my wealth, And because abundance hath my hand found, <sup>26</sup> If I see the light when it shineth, And the precious moon walking, <sup>27</sup> And my heart is enticed in secret, And my hand doth kiss my mouth, <sup>28</sup> It also is a judicial iniquity, For I had lied to God above. <sup>29</sup> If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him, <sup>30</sup> Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an oath his life. <sup>31</sup> If not—say ye, O men of my tent, `O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.' ³² In the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the traveller I open.
³³ If I have covered as Adam my transgressions, To hide in my bosom mine iniquity, ³⁴ Because I fear a great multitude, And the contempt of families doth affright me, Then I am silent, I go not out of the opening. ³⁵ Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written. ³⁶ If not—on my shoulder I take it up, I bind it a crown on myself. ³⁷ The number of my steps I tell Him, As a leader I approach Him. ³⁸ If against me my land doth cry out, And together its furrows weep, ³⁹ If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out, ⁴⁰ Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished.

¹³ The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.

⁶ In kindness and truth pardoned is iniquity, And in the fear of Jehovah Turn thou aside from evil.

²⁰ And all the mixed people, And all the kings of the land of Uz, And all the kings of the land of the Philistines, And Ashkelon, and Gazzah, and Ekron, And the remnant of Ashdod,

²¹ Joy and rejoice, O daughter of Edom, Dwelling in the land of Uz, Even unto thee pass over doth a cup, Thou art drunk, and makest thyself naked.

¹⁴ and these three men have been in its midst, Noah, Daniel, and Job—they by their righteousness deliver their own soul—an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

²⁰ and Noah, Daniel, and Job, in its midst: I live—an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah—neither son nor daughter do they deliver; they, by their righteousness, deliver their own soul.

⁶ and they were both righteous before God, going on in all the commands and righteousnesses of the Lord blameless,

¹¹ lo, we call happy those who are enduring; the endurance of Job ye heard of, and the end of the Lord ye have seen, that very compassionate is the Lord, and pitying.

¹¹ let him turn aside from evil, and do good, let him seek peace and pursue it;

¹¹ and Haman recounteth to them the glory of his wealth, and the abundance of his sons, and all that with which the king made him great, and with which he lifted him up above the heads and servants of the king.

¹³ Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what?

¹³ And he hath seven sons and three daughters;

³⁸ And He blesseth them, and they multiply exceedingly, And their cattle He doth not diminish.

³ Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah are sons, A reward is the fruit of the womb. ⁴ As arrows in the hand of a mighty one, So are the sons of the young men. ⁵ O the happiness of the man Who hath filled his quiver with them, They are not ashamed, For they speak with enemies in the gate!

³ Thy wife is as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house, Thy sons as olive plants around thy table.

⁵ And Abram taketh Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they have gained, and the persons that they have obtained in Charan; and they go out to go towards the land of Canaan; and they come in to the land of Canaan.

¹⁶ and to Abram he hath done good because of her, and he hath sheep and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants, and handmaids, and she-asses, and camels.

⁶ and the land hath not suffered them to dwell together, for their substance hath been much, and they have not been able to dwell together;

⁶ and to the sons of the concubines whom Abraham hath, Abraham hath given gifts, and sendeth them away from Isaac his son (in his being yet alive) eastward, unto the east country.

¹ And Jacob lifteth up his feet, and goeth towards the land of the sons of the east;

²³ their cattle, and their substance, and all their beasts—are they not ours? only let us consent to them, and they dwell with us.'

⁷ And he taketh up his simile, and saith: `From Aram he doth lead me—Balak king of Moab; From mountains of the east: Come—curse for me Jacob, And come—be indignant with Israel.

³² And the prey, the residue of the spoil which the people of the host have spoiled, is of the flock six hundred thousand, and seventy thousand, and five thousand; ³³ and of the herd two and seventy thousand; ³⁴ and of asses one and sixty thousand;

³ And it hath been, if Israel hath sowed, that Midian hath come up, and Amalek, and the sons of the east, yea, they have come up against him,

⁵ for they and their cattle come up, with their tents; they come in as the fulness of the locust for multitude, and of them and of their cattle there is no number, and they come into the land to destroy it.

¹² and Midian and Amalek, and all the sons of the east are lying in the valley, as the locust for multitude, and of their camels there is no number, as sand which is on the sea-shore for multitude.

¹⁰ And Zebah and Zalmunna are in Karkor, and their camps with them, about fifteen thousand, all who are left of all the camp of the sons of the east; and those falling are a hundred and twenty thousand men, drawing sword.

² And there is a man in Maon, and his work is in Carmel; and the man is very great, and he hath three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats; and he is shearing his flock in Carmel.

³⁰ and the wisdom of Solomon is greater than the wisdom of any of the sons of the east, and than all the wisdom of Egypt;

⁴ And Mesha king of Moab was a sheep-master, and he rendered to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs, and a hundred thousand rams, with wool,

¹⁰ and he buildeth towers in the wilderness, and diggeth many wells, for he had much cattle, both in the low country and in the plain, husbandmen and vine-dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel; for he was a lover of the ground.

²⁹ and cities he hath made for himself, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance, for God hath given to him very much substance.

⁹ Princes have kept in words, And a hand they place on their mouth. ¹⁰ The voice of leaders hath been hidden, And their tongue to the palate hath cleaved.

²⁵ I choose their way, and sit head, And I dwell as a king in a troop, When mourners he doth comfort.

¹² And Jehovah hath blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning, and he hath fourteen thousand of a flock, and six thousand camels, and a thousand pairs of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

²² The blessing of Jehovah—it maketh rich, And He addeth no grief with it.

¹ A Song of the Ascents, by David. Lo, how good and how pleasant The dwelling of brethren—even together!

¹ Let brotherly love remain;

⁵ And Jehovah seeth that abundant is the wickedness of man in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day;

²⁰ And Noah buildeth an altar to Jehovah, and taketh of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and causeth burnt-offerings to ascend on the altar;

³ And Abraham riseth early in the morning, and saddleth his ass, and taketh two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and he cleaveth the wood of the burnt-offering, and riseth and goeth unto the place of which God hath spoken to him.

² And Jacob saith unto his household, and unto all who are with him, `Turn aside the gods of the stranger which are in your midst, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments; ³ and we rise, and go up to Bethel, and I make there an altar to God, who is answering me in the day of my distress, and is with me in the way that I have gone.'

¹² And Jethro, father-in-law of Moses, taketh a burnt-offering and sacrifices for God; and Aaron cometh in, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with the father-in-law of Moses, before God.

¹⁰ And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Go unto the people; and thou hast sanctified them to-day and to-morrow, and they have washed their garments,

⁵ and he sendeth the youths of the sons of Israel, and they cause burnt-offerings to ascend, and sacrifice sacrifices of peace-offerings to Jehovah—calves.

³ `If his offering is a burnt-offering out of the herd—a male, a perfect one, he doth bring near, unto the opening of the tent of meeting he doth bring it near, at his pleasure, before Jehovah; <sup>4</sup> and he hath laid his hand on the head of the burnt-offering, and it hath been accepted for him to make atonement for him; <sup>5</sup> and he hath slaughtered the son of the herd before Jehovah; and sons of Aaron, the priests, have brought the blood near, and sprinkled the blood on the altar round about, which is at the opening of the tent of meeting. <sup>6</sup> `And he hath stripped the burnt-offering, and hath cut it into its pieces;

¹⁰ And a son of an Israelitish woman goeth out (and he is son of an Egyptian man), in the midst of the sons of Israel, and strive in the camp do the son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel, ¹¹ and the son of the Israelitish woman execrateth the Name, and revileth; and they bring him in unto Moses; and his mother's name is Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan; ¹² and he causeth him to rest in charge—to explain to them by the mouth of Jehovah. ¹³ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ¹⁴ `Bring out the reviler unto the outside of the camp; and all those hearing have laid their hands on his head, and all the company have stoned him. <sup>15</sup> `And unto the sons of Israel thou dost speak, saying, When any man revileth his God—then he hath borne his sin; ¹⁶ and he who is execrating the name of Jehovah is certainly put to death; all the company do certainly cast stones at him; as a sojourner so a native, in his execrating the Name, is put to death.

⁵ and he saith, `Peace; to sacrifice to Jehovah I have come, sanctify yourselves, and ye have come in with me to the sacrifice;' and he sanctifieth Jesse and his sons, and calleth them to the sacrifice.

³¹ and Elijah taketh twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of Jehovah was, saying, `Israel is thy name;'

¹⁰ and cause two men—sons of worthlessness—to sit over-against him, and they testify of him, saying, Thou hast blessed God and Melech; and they have brought him out, and stoned him, and he dieth.'

¹³ and two men—sons of worthlessness—come in, and sit over-against him, and the men of worthlessness testify of him, even Naboth, before the people, saying, `Naboth blessed God and Melech;' and they take him out to the outside of the city, and stone him with stones, and he dieth;

³⁰ and the priests and the Levites are cleansed, and they cleanse the people, and the gates, and the wall.

¹¹ The work of his hands Thou hast blessed, and his substance hath spread in the land, and yet, put forth, I pray Thee, Thy hand, and strike against anything that he hath—if not: to Thy face he doth bless Thee!'

⁹ And his wife saith to him, `Still thou art keeping hold on thine integrity: bless God and die.'

⁴ If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,

¹⁰ On the Mighty doth he delight himself? Call God at all times?

²⁵ From his rising are the mighty afraid, From breakings they keep themselves free.

⁸ And now, take to you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go ye unto My servant Job, and ye have caused a burnt-offering to ascend for you; and Job My servant doth pray for you, for surely his face I accept, so as not to do with you folly, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.

³ Jehovah, at morning Thou hearest my voice, At morning I set in array for Thee, And I look out.

¹⁰ All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.

¹⁴ Wash from evil thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, Till when dost thou lodge in thy heart Thoughts of thy strength?

⁹ Crooked is the heart above all things, And it is incurable—who doth know it? ¹⁰ I Jehovah do search the heart, try the reins, Even to give to each according to his way, According to the fruit of his doings.

²¹ for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders, ²² thefts, covetous desires, wickedness, deceit, arrogance, an evil eye, evil speaking, pride, foolishness; ²³ all these evils do come forth from within, and they defile the man.'

⁷⁵ To serve Him, in holiness and righteousness Before Him, all the days of our life.

⁷ and shall not God execute the justice to His choice ones, who are crying unto Him day and night—bearing long in regard to them?

⁵⁵ And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves;

²² reform, therefore, from this thy wickedness, and beseech God, if then the purpose of thy heart may be forgiven thee,

²⁶ Then Paul, having taken the men, on the following day, with them having purified himself, was entering into the temple, announcing the fulfilment of the days of the purification, till the offering was offered for each one of them.

⁵ so, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.

² for I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I did betroth you to one husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ,

¹⁸ through all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and in regard to this same, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints—

² and sons of God see the daughters of men that they are fair, and they take to themselves women of all whom they have chosen.

⁴ The fallen ones were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when sons of God come in unto daughters of men, and they have borne to them—they are the heroes, who, from of old, are the men of name.

¹⁹ And he saith, `Therefore, hear a word of Jehovah; I have seen Jehovah sitting on His throne, and all the host of the heavens standing by Him, on His right and on His left;

¹ And there standeth up an adversary against Israel, and persuadeth David to number Israel,

¹ And the day is, that sons of God come in to station themselves by Jehovah, and there doth come also the Adversary in their midst to station himself by Jehovah.

⁷ In the singing together of stars of morning, And all sons of God shout for joy,

²⁰ Bless Jehovah, ye His messengers, Mighty in power—doing His word, To hearken to the voice of His Word.

²⁵ He answered and hath said, `Lo, I am seeing four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is like to a son of the gods.'

¹ And he sheweth me Joshua the high priest standing before the messenger of Jehovah, and the Adversary standing at his right hand, to be an adversary to him.

¹⁰ `Beware! —ye may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their messengers in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens,

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

⁷⁰ Jesus answered them, `Did not I choose you—the twelve? and of you—one is a devil.

⁹ and the great dragon was cast forth—the old serpent, who is called `Devil,' and `the Adversary,' who is leading astray the whole world—he was cast forth to the earth, and his messengers were cast forth with him. ¹⁰ And I heard a great voice saying in the heaven, `Now did come the salvation, and the power, and the reign, of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because cast down was the accuser of our brethren, who is accusing them before our God day and night;

²⁵ And he hath come in, and doth stand by his lord, and Elisha saith unto him, `Whence—Gehazi?' and he saith, `Thy servant went not hither or thither.'

² And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Whence camest thou?' And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, `From going to and fro in the land, and from walking up and down in it.'

¹⁰ And the one who is standing between the myrtles doth answer and say, `These are they whom Jehovah hath sent to walk up and down in the land.' <sup>11</sup> And they answer the messenger of Jehovah who is standing between the myrtles, and say, `We have walked up and down in the land, and lo, all the land is sitting still, and at rest.'

⁷ and the strong ones have come forth, and they seek to go to walk up and down in the earth;' and he saith, `Go, walk up and down in the earth;' and they walk up and down in the earth.

⁴³ `And, when the unclean spirit may go forth from the man, it doth walk through dry places seeking rest, and doth not find;

⁸ Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

⁹ and the great dragon was cast forth—the old serpent, who is called `Devil,' and `the Adversary,' who is leading astray the whole world—he was cast forth to the earth, and his messengers were cast forth with him.

¹² because of this be glad, ye heavens, and those in them who do tabernacle; woe to those inhabiting the land and the sea, because the Devil did go down unto you, having great wrath, having known that he hath little time.' ¹³ And when the dragon saw that he was cast forth to the earth, he pursued the woman who did bring forth the male, ¹⁴ and there were given to the woman two wings of the great eagle, that she may fly to the wilderness, to her place, where she is nourished a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent; ¹⁵ and the serpent did cast forth after the woman, out of his mouth, water as a river, that he may cause her to be carried away by the river, ¹⁶ and the land did help the woman, and the land did open its mouth and did swallow up the river, that the dragon did cast forth out of his mouth; ¹⁷ and the dragon was angry against the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, those keeping the commands of God, and having the testimony of Jesus Christ.

⁸ and he shall go forth to lead the nations astray, that are in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to gather them together to war, of whom the number is as the sand of the sea;

³ And the man Moses is very humble, more than any of the men who are on the face of the ground.

⁷ not so My servant Moses; in all My house he is stedfast; ⁸ mouth unto mouth I speak with him, and by an appearance, and not in riddles; and the form of Jehovah he beholdeth attentively; and wherefore have ye not been afraid to speak against My servant—against Moses?'

⁷ `Only, be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded thee; thou dost not turn aside from it right or left, so that thou dost act wisely in every place whither thou goest;

³⁰ and the wisdom of Solomon is greater than the wisdom of any of the sons of the east, and than all the wisdom of Egypt; ³¹ and he is wiser than all men, than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, sons of Mahol, and his name is in all the nations round about.

²⁵ And like him there hath not been before him a king who turned back unto Jehovah with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses, and after him there hath none risen like him.

¹⁵ the former governors who are before me have made themselves heavy on the people, and take of them in bread and wine, besides in silver forty shekels; also, their servants have ruled over the people—and I have not done so, because of the fear of God.

¹ A man there hath been in the land of Uz—Job his name—and that man hath been perfect and upright—both fearing God, and turning aside from evil.

²⁰ Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers.

²² It is the same thing, therefore I said, `The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.' ²³ If a scourge doth put to death suddenly, At the trial of the innocent He laugheth.

⁴ A laughter to his friend I am: `He calleth to God, and He answereth him,' A laughter is the perfect righteous one.

⁸ Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent against the profane Stirreth himself up. ⁹ And the righteous layeth hold on his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And—dumb are they all.

¹⁴ If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth.

⁷ And it cometh to pass after Jehovah's speaking these words unto Job, that Jehovah saith unto Eliphaz the Temanite, `Burned hath Mine anger against thee, and against thy two friends, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job. ⁸ And now, take to you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go ye unto My servant Job, and ye have caused a burnt-offering to ascend for you; and Job My servant doth pray for you, for surely his face I accept, so as not to do with you folly, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.

²³ And I am perfect with him, And I keep myself from mine iniquity.

¹⁴ Turn aside from evil and do good, Seek peace and pursue it.

¹ To the Overseer. —By a servant of Jehovah, by David. The transgression of the wicked Is affirming within my heart, `Fear of God is not before his eyes,

²⁷ Turn aside from evil, and do good, and dwell to the age.

¹¹ For a sun and a shield is Jehovah God, Grace and honour doth Jehovah give. He withholdeth not good To those walking in uprightness.

²⁰ I have found David My servant, With My holy oil I have anointed him.

¹⁶ Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good.

¹ Lo, My servant, I take hold on him, My chosen one—My soul hath accepted, I have put My Spirit upon him, Judgment to nations he bringeth forth.

⁴ and the man speaketh unto me: `Son of man, see with thine eyes, And with thine ears hear, And set thy heart to all that I am shewing thee, For, in order to shew it thee, Thou hast been brought in hither, Declare all that thou art seeing to the house of Israel.'

³⁹ And one of the evil-doers who were hanged, was speaking evil of him, saying, `If thou be the Christ, save thyself and us.' <sup>40</sup> And the other answering, was rebuking him, saying, `Dost thou not even fear God, that thou art in the same judgment?

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming unto him, and he saith concerning him, `Lo, truly an Israelite, in whom guile is not;'

²¹ and he saith, `Naked came I forth from the womb of my mother, and naked I turn back thither: Jehovah hath given and Jehovah hath taken: let the name of Jehovah be blessed.'

¹⁰ And he saith unto her, `As one of the foolish women speaketh, thou speakest; yea, the good we receive from God, and the evil we do not receive.' In all this Job hath not sinned with his lips.

¹⁴ And they say to God, `Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired. ¹⁵ What is the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'

¹⁰ Who is even among you, And he shutteth the two-leaved doors? Yea, ye do not kindle Mine altar for nought, I have no pleasure in you, said Jehovah of Hosts, And a present I do not accept of your hand.

²⁶ for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?

⁸ for the bodily exercise is unto little profit, and the piety is to all things profitable, a promise having of the life that now is, and of that which is coming;

⁶ but it is great gain—the piety with contentment;

¹ After these things hath the word of Jehovah been unto Abram in a vision, saying, `Fear not, Abram, I am a shield to thee, thy reward is exceeding great.'

¹² And Isaac soweth in that land, and findeth in that year a hundredfold, and Jehovah blesseth him;

³⁰ for it is little which thou hast had at my appearance, and it breaketh forth into a multitude, and Jehovah blesseth thee at my coming; and now, when do I make, I also, for mine own house?'

⁴³ And the man increaseth very exceedingly, and hath many flocks, and maid-servants, and men-servants, and camels, and asses.

⁵ And it cometh to pass from the time that he hath appointed him over his house, and over all that he hath, that Jehovah blesseth the house of the Egyptian for Joseph's sake, and the blessing of Jehovah is on all that he hath, in the house, and in the field;

²⁵ By the God of thy father who helpeth thee, And the Mighty One who blesseth thee, Blessings of the heavens from above, Blessings of the deep lying under, Blessings of breasts and womb; —

¹³ and hath loved thee, and blessed thee, and multiplied thee, and hath blessed the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, thy corn, and thy new wine, and thine oil, the increase of thine oxen, and the wealth of thy flock, on the ground which He hath sworn to thy fathers to give to thee.

² and all these blessings have come upon thee, and overtaken thee, because thou dost hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God: ³ `Blessed art thou in the city, and blessed art thou in the field. <sup>4</sup> `Blessed is the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock. ⁵ `Blessed is thy basket and thy kneading-trough. <sup>6</sup> `Blessed art thou in thy coming in, and blessed art thou in thy going out.

¹¹ Bless, O Jehovah, his strength, And the work of his hands Thou acceptest, Smite the loins of his withstanders, And of those hating him—that they rise not!

²⁷ A habitation is the eternal God, And beneath are arms age-during. And He casteth out from thy presence the enemy, and saith, `Destroy!'

¹⁶ a wall they have been unto us both by night and by day, all the days of our being with them, feeding the flock.

³ and his substance is seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred pairs of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a service very abundant; and that man is greater than any of the sons of the east.

⁶ When washing my goings with butter, And the firm rock is with me rivulets of oil.

²⁵ If I rejoice because great is my wealth, And because abundance hath my hand found,

¹² For Thou blessest the righteous, O Jehovah, As a buckler with favour dost compass him!

⁷ A messenger of Jehovah is encamping, Round about those who fear Him, And He armeth them.

²¹ Thou dost increase my greatness, And Thou surroundest—Thou comfortest me,

¹² Why hast Thou broken down its hedges, And all passing by the way have plucked it?

¹⁷ And let the pleasantness of Jehovah our God be upon us, And the work of our hands establish on us, Yea, the work of our hands establish it!

¹ A Song of the Ascents. O the happiness of every one fearing Jehovah, Who is walking in His ways. ² The labour of thy hands thou surely eatest, Happy art thou, and good is to thee. ³ Thy wife is as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house, Thy sons as olive plants around thy table. ⁴ Lo, surely thus is the man blessed who is fearing Jehovah.

² And he fenceth it, and casteth out its stones, And planteth it with a choice vine, And buildeth a tower in its midst, And also a wine press hath hewn out in it, And he waiteth for the yielding of grapes, And it yieldeth bad ones!

⁵ And now, pray, let me cause you to know, That which I am doing to my vineyard, To turn aside its hedge, And it hath been for consumption, To break down its wall, And it hath been for a treading-place.

⁵ And I—I am to her—an affirmation of Jehovah, A wall of fire round about, And for honour I am in her midst.

⁸ For thus said Jehovah of Hosts: After honour He hath sent me unto the nations who are spoiling you, For he who is coming against you, Is coming against the daughter of His eye.

⁵ who, in the power of God are being guarded, through faith, unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time,

¹¹ and Abimelech commandeth all the people, saying, `He who cometh against this man or against his wife, dying doth die.'

⁵ and it cometh to pass, when they have gone round the days of the banquet, that Job doth send and sanctify them, and hath risen early in the morning, and caused to ascend burnt-offerings—the number of them all—for Job said, `Perhaps my sons have sinned, yet blessed God in their heart.' Thus doth Job all the days.

¹² And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Lo, all that he hath is in thy hand, only unto him put not forth thy hand.' And the Adversary goeth out from the presence of Jehovah.

⁵ Yet, put forth, I pray Thee, Thy hand, and strike unto his bone and unto his flesh—if not: unto Thy face he doth bless Thee!'

⁵ But now, it cometh in unto thee, And thou art weary; It striketh unto thee, and thou art troubled.

²¹ Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me.

¹⁵ `Strike not against Mine anointed, And to My prophets do not evil.'

²⁵ Therefore hath the anger of Jehovah burned among His people, And He stretcheth out His hand against it, And smiteth it, and the mountains tremble, And their carcase is as filth in the midst of the out-places. With all this His anger did not turn back, And still His hand is stretched out!

²¹ —And it hath passed over into it, hardened and hungry, And it hath come to pass, That it is hungry, and hath been wroth, And made light of its king, and of its God, And hath looked upwards.

¹³ Hard against Me have been your words, Said Jehovah, and ye have said: `What have we spoken against Thee?' <sup>14</sup> Ye have said, `A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, Because of Jehovah of Hosts?

⁹ and men were scorched with great heat, and they did speak evil of the name of God, who hath authority over these plagues, and they did not reform—to give to Him glory.

¹¹ and they did speak evil of the God of the heaven, from their pains, and from their sores, and they did not reform from their works.

²¹ and great hail (as of talent weight) doth come down out of the heaven upon men, and men did speak evil of God because of the plague of the hail, because its plague is very great.

⁶ And Abram saith unto Sarai, `Lo, thine handmaid is in thine hand, do to her that which is good in thine eyes;' and Sarai afflicted her, and she fleeth from her presence.

²³ And now, lo, Jehovah hath put a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and Jehovah hath spoken concerning thee—evil.'

⁴ And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, `A skin for a skin, and all that a man hath he doth give for his life. <sup>5</sup> Yet, put forth, I pray Thee, Thy hand, and strike unto his bone and unto his flesh—if not: unto Thy face he doth bless Thee!' <sup>6</sup> And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Lo, he is in thy hand; only his life take care of.'
⁷ And the Adversary goeth forth from the presence of Jehovah, and smiteth Job with a sore ulcer from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

¹⁰ For the fierceness of man praiseth Thee, The remnant of fierceness Thou girdest on.

⁸ In measure, in sending it forth, thou strivest with it, He hath taken away by His sharp wind, In the day of an east wind,

⁵ And the king Zedekiah saith, `Lo, he is in your hand: for the king is not able for you in anything.'

³² and there was there a herd of many swine feeding in the mountain, and they were calling on him, that he might suffer them to enter into these, and he suffered them, ³³ and the demons having gone forth from the man, did enter into the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep to the lake, and were choked.

³¹ And the Lord said, `Simon, Simon, lo, the Adversary did ask you for himself to sift as the wheat, ³² and I besought for thee, that thy faith may not fail; and thou, when thou didst turn, strengthen thy brethren.'

³⁵ the Father doth love the Son, and all things hath given into his hand; ³⁶ he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.'

¹¹ Jesus answered, `Thou wouldest have no authority against me, if it were not having been given thee from above; because of this, he who is delivering me up to thee hath greater sin.'

¹³ No temptation hath taken you—except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear it .

⁷ and that by the exceeding greatness of the revelations I might not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of the Adversary, that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch.

⁴ And his sons have gone and made a banquet—the house of each in his day—and have sent and called to their three sisters to eat and to drink with them;

¹ Boast not thyself of to-morrow, For thou knowest not what a day bringeth forth.

¹² For even man knoweth not his time; as fish that are taken hold of by an evil net, and as birds that are taken hold of by a snare, like these are the sons of man snared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.

¹⁹ and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry. ²⁰ `And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare—to whom shall they be?

²⁷ they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came, and destroyed all; ²⁸ in like manner also, as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; ²⁹ and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all.

³⁴ `And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,

¹⁷ And he who is bearing tidings answereth and saith, `Israel hath fled before the Philistines, and also a great slaughter hath been among the people, and also thy two sons have died—Hophni and Phinehas—and the ark of God hath been captured.'

¹³ And he who is declaring tidings cometh in unto David, saying, `The heart of the men of Israel hath been after Absalom.'

³¹ Runner to meet runner doth run, And announcer to meet announcer, To announce to the king of Babylon, For, captured hath been his city—at the extremity.

⁷ And sons of Cush are Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah; and sons of Raamah are Sheba and Dedan.

²⁸ and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

³ And Jokshan hath begotten Sheba and Dedan; and the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim;

²⁰ And there escapeth one son of Ahimelech, son of Ahitub, and his name is Abiathar, and he fleeth after David, ²¹ and Abiathar declareth to David that Saul hath slain the priests of Jehovah.

¹⁶ While this one is speaking another also hath come and saith, `Fire of God hath fallen from the heavens, and burneth among the flock, and among the young men, and consumeth them, and I am escaped—only I alone—to declare it to thee.' <sup>17</sup> While this one is speaking another also hath come and saith, `Chaldeans made three heads, and rush on the camels, and take them, and the young men they have smitten by the mouth of the sword, and I am escaped—only I alone—to declare it to thee.'

¹⁹ And lo, a great wind hath come from over the wilderness, and striketh against the four corners of the house, and it falleth on the young men, and they are dead, and I am escaped—only I alone—to declare it to thee.'

¹⁹ Passengers of Tema looked expectingly, Travellers of Sheba hoped for them.

¹⁰ Kings of Tarshish and of the isles send back a present. Kings of Sheba and Seba a reward bring near.

¹⁴ Thus said Jehovah, `The labour of Egypt, And the merchandise of Cush, And of the Sebaim—men of measure, Unto thee pass over, and thine they are, After thee they go, in fetters they pass over, And unto thee they bow themselves, Unto thee they pray: Only in thee is God, And there is none else, no other God.

⁴² And the voice of a multitude at ease is with her, And unto men of the common people are brought in Sabeans from the wilderness, And they put bracelets on their hands, And a beauteous crown on their heads.

⁸ And have sold your sons and your daughters Into the hand of the sons of Judah, And they have sold them to Shabeans, Unto a nation far off, for Jehovah hath spoken.

²⁴ and Jehovah hath rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah, from the heavens;

²⁸ make ye supplication unto Jehovah, and plead that there be no voices of God and hail, and I send you away, and ye add not to remain.'

²⁴ and fire cometh out from before Jehovah, and consumeth on the altar the burnt-offering, and the fat; and all the people see, and cry aloud, and fall on their faces.

² and fire goeth out from before Jehovah, and consumeth them, and they die before Jehovah.

¹ And the people is evil, as those sighing habitually in the ears of Jehovah, and Jehovah heareth, and His anger burneth, and the fire of Jehovah burneth among them, and consumeth in the extremity of the camp. ² And the people cry unto Moses, and Moses prayeth unto Jehovah, and the fire is quenched; ³ and he calleth the name of that place Taberah, for the fire of Jehovah hath `burned' among them.

¹⁵ and there is a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people, the station and the destroyers have trembled—even they, and the earth shaketh, and it becometh a trembling of God.

³⁸ And there falleth a fire of Jehovah, and consumeth the burnt-offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and the water that is in the trench it hath licked up.

¹⁰ And Elijah answereth and speaketh unto the head of the fifty, `And if I am a man of God, fire doth come down from the heavens, and consume thee and thy fifty;' and fire cometh down from the heavens, and consumeth him and his fifty.

¹² And Elijah answereth and speaketh unto them, `If I am a man of God, fire doth come down from the heavens, and consume thee and thy fifty;' and fire of God cometh down from the heavens, and consumeth him and his fifty.

¹⁴ Lo, come down hath fire from the heavens, and consumeth the two heads of the former fifties and their fifties; and, now, let my soul be precious in thine eyes.'

⁴ Thus hath the Lord Jehovah shewed me, and lo, the Lord Jehovah is calling to contend by fire, and it consumeth the great deep, yea, it hath consumed the portion, and I say:

¹³ and it doth great signs, that fire also it may make to come down from the heaven to the earth before men,

²⁸ and Haran dieth in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.

³¹ And Terah taketh Abram his son, and Lot, son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, wife of Abram his son, and they go out with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go towards the land of Canaan; and they come unto Charan, and dwell there.

³ And David saith to him, `Whence comest thou?' and he saith unto him, `Out of the camp of Israel I have escaped.'

¹⁵ and Sheba doth fall, and take them, and the young men they have smitten by the mouth of the sword, and I am escaped—only I alone—to declare it to thee.'

¹³ Lo, the land of the Chaldeans—this people was not, Asshur founded it for the Ziim, They raised its watch-towers, They lifted up her palaces, —He hath appointed her for a ruin!

⁶ For, lo, I am raising up the Chaldeans, The bitter and hasty nation, That is going to the broad places of earth, To occupy tabernacles not its own.

²⁸ And Absalom commandeth his young men, saying, `See, I pray thee, when the heart of Amnon is glad with wine, and I have said unto you, Smite Amnon, that ye have put him to death; fear not; is it not because I have commanded you? be strong, yea, become sons of valour.'

¹³ And the day is, that his sons and his daughters are eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their brother, the first-born.

² O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together! ³ For now, than the sands of the sea it is heavier, Therefore my words have been rash.

¹⁴ He breaketh me—breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one.

⁹ Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head. ¹⁰ He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope.

² Also—to-day is my complaint bitter, My hand hath been heavy because of my sighing.

¹⁴ If his sons multiply—for them is a sword. And his offspring are not satisfied with bread.

¹⁹ Many are the evils of the righteous, Out of them all doth Jehovah deliver him.

² The whole is as to the whole; one event is to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, and to him who is sacrificing, and to him who is not sacrificing; as is the good, so is the sinner, he who is swearing as he who is fearing an oath.

¹⁹ From the fulness of its passing over it taketh you, For morning by morning it passeth over, By day and by night, And it hath been only a trembling to consider the report.

¹² Is it nothing to you, all ye passing by the way? Look attentively, and see, If there is any pain like my pain, That He is rolling to me? Whom Jehovah hath afflicted In the day of the fierceness of His anger.

⁶ And I also—I have given to you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, And lack of bread in all your places, And ye have not turned back unto Me, an affirmation of Jehovah. ⁷ And I also—I have withheld from you the rain. While yet three months to harvest, And I have sent rain on one city, And on another city I do not send rain, One portion is rained on, And the portion on which it raineth not withereth. ⁸ And wandered have two or three cities, Unto the same city to drink water, And they are not satisfied, And ye have not turned back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah. ⁹ I have smitten you with blasting and with mildew, The abundance of your gardens and of your vineyards, And of your figs, and of your olives, Eat doth the palmer-worm, And ye have not turned back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah. ¹⁰ I have sent among you pestilence by the way of Egypt, I have slain by sword your choice ones, With your captive horses, And I cause the stink of your camps to come up—even into your nostrils, And ye have not turned back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah. ¹¹ I have overturned among you, Like the overturn by God of Sodom and Gomorrah, And ye are as a brand delivered from a burning, And ye have not turned back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.

³² and send the long coat, and they bring it in unto their father, and say, `This have we found; discern, we pray thee, whether it is thy son's coat or not?' <sup>33</sup> And he discerneth it, and saith, `My son's coat! an evil beast hath devoured him; torn—torn is Joseph!'

³⁶ and Jacob their father saith unto them, `Me ye have bereaved; Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and Benjamin ye take—against me have been all these.'

³⁰ and Samson saith, `Let me die with the Philistines,' and he inclineth himself powerfully, and the house falleth on the princes, and on all the people who are in it, and the dead whom he hath put to death in his death are more than those whom he put to death in his life.

³³ And the king trembleth, and goeth up on the upper chamber of the gate, and weepeth, and thus he hath said in his going, `My son! Absalom my son; my son Absalom; oh that I had died for thee, Absalom, my son, my son.'

³⁰ And those left flee to Aphek, unto the city, and the wall falleth on twenty and seven chief men who are left, and Ben-Hadad hath fled, and cometh in unto the city, into the innermost part.

¹¹ At that time it is said of this people, And of Jerusalem: `A dry wind of high places in the wilderness,' The way of the daughter of My people, (Not for winnowing, nor for cleansing,) ¹² A full wind from these doth come for Me, Now, also, I speak judgments with them.

²⁷ and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.'

¹ And there were present certain at that time, telling him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate did mingle with their sacrifices; ² and Jesus answering said to them, `Think ye that these Galileans became sinners beyond all the Galileans, because they have suffered such things? <sup>3</sup> No—I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye even so shall perish. <sup>4</sup> `Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; think ye that these became debtors beyond all men who are dwelling in Jerusalem? ⁵ No—I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye in like manner shall perish.'

⁴ And when the foreigners saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said unto one another, `Certainly this man is a murderer, whom, having been saved out of the sea, the justice did not suffer to live;'

² in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,

²⁹ And Reuben returneth unto the pit, and lo, Joseph is not in the pit, and he rendeth his garments,

³⁴ And Jacob rendeth his raiment, and putteth sackcloth on his loins, and becometh a mourner for his son many days,

¹⁸ and I throw myself before Jehovah, as at first, forty days and forty nights; bread I have not eaten, and water I have not drunk, because of all your sins which ye have sinned, by doing the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, to make Him angry.

¹⁶ and David seeketh God for the youth, and David keepeth a fast, and hath gone in and lodged, and lain on the earth. ¹⁷ And the elders of his house rise against him, to raise him up from the earth, and he hath not been willing, nor hath he eaten with them bread; ¹⁸ and it cometh to pass on the seventh day, that the lad dieth, and the servants of David fear to declare to him that the lad is dead, for they said, `Lo, in the lad being alive we spake unto him, and he did not hearken to our voice; and how do we say unto him, The lad is dead? —then he hath done evil.' <sup>19</sup> And David seeth that his servants are whispering, and David understandeth that the lad is dead, and David saith unto his servants, `Is the lad dead?' and they say, `Dead.' ²⁰ And David riseth from the earth, and doth bathe and anoint himself, and changeth his raiment, and cometh in to the house of Jehovah, and boweth himself, and cometh unto his house, and asketh and they place for him bread, and he eateth.

³ And all the sons of Israel are looking on the descending of the fire, and the honour of Jehovah on the house, and they bow—faces to the earth—on the pavement, and do obeisance, and give thanks to Jehovah, for good, for to the age is His kindness.

³ And at my hearing this word, I have rent my garment and my upper robe, and pluck out of the hair of my head, and of my beard, and sit astonished,

³⁹ And having gone forward a little, he fell on his face, praying, and saying, `My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou.'

⁶ be humbled, then, under the powerful hand of God, that you He may exalt in good time,

¹⁹ by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust thou turnest back.'

² And Jacob's anger burneth against Rachel, and he saith, `Am I in stead of God who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?'

⁵ and now, be not grieved, nor let it be displeasing in your eyes that ye sold me hither, for to preserve life hath God sent me before you.

⁷ Jehovah dispossesseth, and He maketh rich, He maketh low, yea, He maketh high.

¹⁸ And Samuel declareth to him the whole of the words, and hath not hid from him; and he saith, `It is Jehovah; that which is good in His eyes He doth.'

¹² it may be Jehovah doth look on mine affliction, and Jehovah hath turned back to me good for his reviling this day.'

¹⁵ and the king hearkened not unto the people, for the revolution was from Jehovah, in order to establish His word that Jehovah spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam son of Nebat.

¹⁹ And Hezekiah saith unto Isaiah, `Good is the word of Jehovah that thou hast spoken;' and he saith, `Is it not—if peace and truth are in my days?'

¹ By David, in his changing his behaviour before Abimelech, and he driveth him away, and he goeth. I do bless Jehovah at all times, Continually His praise is in my mouth.

⁹ I have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou—Thou hast done it .

¹⁷ For at his death he receiveth nothing, His honour goeth not down after him.

³⁸ And Thou, Thou hast cast off, and dost reject, Thou hast shown Thyself wroth With Thine anointed, ³⁹ Hast rejected the covenant of Thy servant, Thou hast polluted to the earth his crown, ⁴⁰ Thou hast broken down all his hedges, Thou hast made his fenced places a ruin. ⁴¹ Spoiled him have all passing by the way, He hath been a reproach to his neighbours, ⁴² Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries, Thou hast caused all his enemies to rejoice. ⁴³ Also—Thou turnest back the sharpness of his sword, And hast not established him in battle, ⁴⁴ Hast caused him to cease from his brightness, And his throne to the earth hast cast down. ⁴⁵ Thou hast shortened the days of his youth, Hast covered him over with shame. Selah. ⁴⁶ Till when, O Jehovah, art Thou hidden? For ever doth Thy fury burn as fire? ⁴⁷ Remember, I pray Thee, what is life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men? ⁴⁸ Who is the man that liveth, and doth not see death? He delivereth his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah. ⁴⁹ Where are Thy former kindnesses, O Lord. Thou hast sworn to David in Thy faithfulness, ⁵⁰ Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Thy servants, I have borne in my bosom all the strivings of the peoples, ⁵¹ Wherewith Thine enemies reproached, O Jehovah, Wherewith they have reproached The steps of Thine anointed. ⁵² Blessed is Jehovah to the age. Amen, and amen!

¹⁵ As he came out from the belly of his mother, naked he turneth back to go as he came, and he taketh not away anything of his labour, that doth go in his hand.

¹⁹ Every man also to whom God hath given wealth and riches, and hath given him power to eat of it, and to accept his portion, and to rejoice in his labour, this is a gift of God.

⁷ And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.

¹⁵ Therefore in prosperity honour ye Jehovah, In isles of the sea, the name of Jehovah, God of Israel.

²⁴ Who hath given Jacob for a spoil, And Israel to the spoilers? Is it not Jehovah—He against whom we sinned? Yea, they have not been willing in His ways to walk, Nor have they hearkened to His law.

⁷ Forming light, and preparing darkness, Making peace, and preparing evil, I am Jehovah, doing all these things.'

³⁸ From the mouth of the Most High Go not forth the evils and the good.

⁶ Is a trumpet blown in a city, And do people not tremble? Is there affliction in a city, And Jehovah hath not done it ?

¹⁵ is it not lawful to me to do what I will in mine own? is thine eye evil because I am good?

²⁸ to do whatever Thy hand and Thy counsel did determine before to come to pass.

²⁰ giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the God and Father;

¹⁸ in every thing give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus in regard to you.

⁷ for nothing did we bring into the world—it is manifest that we are able to carry nothing out;

¹⁷ every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

¹⁰ Therefore, O men of heart, hearken to me; Far be it from God to do wickedness, And from the Mighty to do perverseness:

¹⁸ Who hath said to a king—`Worthless,' Unto princes—`Wicked?' ¹⁹ That hath not accepted the person of princes, Nor hath known the rich before the poor, For a work of His hands are all of them.

⁴ Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth. ⁵ Once I have spoken, and I answer not, And twice, and I add not.
⁶ And Jehovah answereth Job out of the whirlwind, and saith: — ⁷ Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know. ⁸ Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?

²⁰ nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form it, Why me didst thou make thus?

⁴ and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire—in nothing lacking;

¹² Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.

⁷ that the proof of your faith—much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved—may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,