Job 12 Cross References - YLT

¹ And Job answereth and saith: — ² Truly—ye are the people, And with you doth wisdom die. ³ I also have a heart like you, I am not fallen more than you, And with whom is there not like these? ⁴ A laughter to his friend I am: `He calleth to God, and He answereth him,' A laughter is the perfect righteous one. <sup>5</sup> A torch—despised in the thoughts of the secure Is prepared for those sliding with the feet.
<sup>6</sup> At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought. <sup>7</sup> And yet, ask, I pray thee, One of the beasts, and it doth shew thee, And a fowl of the heavens, And it doth declare to thee. <sup>8</sup> Or talk to the earth, and it sheweth thee, And fishes of the sea recount to thee: <sup>9</sup> `Who hath not known in all these, That the hand of Jehovah hath done this? ¹⁰ In whose hand is the breath of every living thing, And the spirit of all flesh of man.' ¹¹ Doth not the ear try words? And the palate taste food for itself?
¹² With the very aged is wisdom, And with length of days understanding. ¹³ With Him are wisdom and might, To him are counsel and understanding. ¹⁴ Lo, He breaketh down, and it is not built up, He shutteth against a man, And it is not opened. ¹⁵ Lo, He keepeth in the waters, and they are dried up, And he sendeth them forth, And they overturn the land. ¹⁶ With Him are strength and wisdom, His the deceived and deceiver. ¹⁷ Causing counsellors to go away a spoil, And judges He maketh foolish. ¹⁸ The bands of kings He hath opened, And He bindeth a girdle on their loins. ¹⁹ Causing ministers to go away a spoil And strong ones He overthroweth. ²⁰ Turning aside the lip of the stedfast, And the reason of the aged He taketh away. ²¹ Pouring contempt upon princes, And the girdle of the mighty He made feeble. ²² Removing deep things out of darkness, And He bringeth out to light death-shade. ²³ Magnifying the nations, and He destroyeth them, Spreading out the nations, and He quieteth them. ²⁴ Turning aside the heart Of the heads of the people of the land, And he causeth them to wander In vacancy—no way! ²⁵ They feel darkness, and not light, He causeth them to wander as a drunkard.

²⁴ Shew me, and I—I keep silent, And what I have erred, let me understand. ²⁵ How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?

⁸ For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers, ⁹ (For of yesterday we are, and we know not, For a shadow are our days on earth.) ¹⁰ Do they not shew thee—speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words?

² Is a multitude of words not answered? And is a man of lips justified?

⁶ And declare to thee secrets of wisdom, For counsel hath foldings. And know thou that God forgetteth for thee, Some of thine iniquity.

¹² And empty man is bold, And the colt of a wild ass man is born.

² Doth a wise man answer with vain knowledge? And fill with an east wind his belly?

⁴ For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.

¹⁰ Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man.

³ The chastisement of my shame I hear, And the spirit of mine understanding Doth cause me to answer:

⁷ I said: Days do speak, And multitude of years teach wisdom. ⁸ Surely a spirit is in man, And the breath of the Mighty One Doth cause them to understand. ⁹ The multitude are not wise, Nor do the aged understand judgment. ¹⁰ Therefore I have said: Hearken to me, I do shew my opinion—even I. ¹¹ Lo, I have waited for your words, I give ear unto your reasons, Till ye search out sayings. ¹² And unto you I attend, And lo, there is no reasoner for Job, Or answerer of his sayings among you. ¹³ Lest ye say, We have found wisdom, God doth thrust him away, not man.

¹¹ A rich man is wise in his own eyes, And the intelligent poor searcheth him.

²¹ Woe to the wise in their own eyes, And—before their own faces—intelligent!

¹⁰ we are fools because of Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we are ailing, and ye strong; ye glorious, and we dishonoured;

⁵ unto your shame I speak: so there is not among you one wise man, not even one, who shall be able to discern in the midst of his brethren! ⁶ Eaten is an insipid thing without salt? Is there sense in the drivel of dreams? ⁷ My soul is refusing to touch! They are as my sickening food.

² According to your knowledge I have known—also I. I am not fallen more than you. ³ Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight. ⁴ And yet, ye are forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought—all of you, ⁵ O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.

² What—thou hast helped the powerless, Saved an arm not strong! ³ What—thou hast given counsel to the unwise, And wise plans in abundance made known. ⁴ Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou be like to him—even thou.

⁵ for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,

²¹ in reference to dishonour I speak, how that we were weak, and in whatever any one is bold—in foolishness I say it —I also am bold.
²² Hebrews are they? I also! Israelites are they? I also! seed of Abraham are they? I also! ²³ ministrants of Christ are they? —as beside myself I speak—I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;

²⁹ Turn back, I pray you, let it not be perverseness, Yea, turn back again—my righteousness is in it.

³ Thy devices make men keep silent, Thou scornest, and none is causing blushing!

¹⁰ They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves.

²⁰ My interpreter is my friend, Unto God hath mine eye dropped:

² If not—mockeries are with me. And in their provocations mine eye lodgeth.

⁶ And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.

³ Bear with me, and I speak, And after my speaking—ye may deride.

¹ And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock.

⁷ All beholding me do mock at me, They make free with the lip—shake the head, ⁸ `Roll unto Jehovah, He doth deliver him, He doth deliver him, for he delighted in him.'

¹⁶ With profane ones, mockers in feasts, Gnashing against me their teeth.

¹⁵ He doth call Me, and I answer him, I am with him in distress, I deliver him, and honour him.

² Whoso is walking in his uprightness is fearing Jehovah, And the perverted in his ways is despising Him.

³ Call unto Me, and I do answer thee, yea, I declare to thee great and fenced things—thou hast not known them.

⁷ And I—in Jehovah I do watch, I do wait for the God of my salvation, Hear me doth my God.

²⁹ and having plaited him a crown out of thorns they put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand, and having kneeled before him, they were mocking him, saying, `Hail, the king of the Jews.'

⁴⁰ and they were laughing at him. And he, having put all forth, doth take the father of the child, and the mother, and those with him, and goeth in where the child is lying,

¹⁴ And also the Pharisees, being lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and were deriding him,

³² And having heard of a rising again of the dead, some, indeed, were mocking, but others said, `We will hear thee again concerning this;'

³⁶ and others of mockings and scourgings did receive trial, and yet of bonds and imprisonment;

³⁵ Mine are vengeance and recompense, At the due time—doth their foot slide; For near is a day of their calamity, And haste do things prepared for them.

⁵ Brayeth a wild ass over tender grass? Loweth an ox over his provender?

⁴ I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head.

⁵ Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.

⁵ To uphold my goings in Thy paths, My steps have not slidden.

¹⁸ If I have said, `My foot hath slipped,' Thy kindness, O Jehovah, supporteth me.

³ Favour us, O Jehovah, favour us, For greatly have we been filled with contempt, ⁴ Greatly hath our soul been filled With the scorning of the easy ones, With the contempt of the arrogant!

⁹ The light of the righteous rejoiceth, And the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

²⁰ Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.

¹⁶ Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed it for thick darkness.

¹ Woe to those secure in Zion, And those confident in the mount of Samaria, The marked of the chief of the nations, And come to them have the house of Israel. ² Pass ye over to Calneh and see, And go thence to Hamath the great, And go down to Gath of the Philistines, Are they better than these kingdoms? Greater is their border than your border? ³ Who are putting away the day of evil, And ye bring nigh the seat of violence, ⁴ Who are lying down on beds of ivory, And are spread out on their couches, And are eating lambs from the flock, And calves from the midst of the stall, ⁵ Who are taking part according to the psaltery, Like David they invented for themselves instruments of music; ⁶ Who are drinking with bowls of wine, And with chief perfumes anoint themselves, And have not been pained for the breach of Joseph.

⁸ and the foolish said to the prudent, Give us of your oil, because our lamps are going out;

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.

¹⁹ `And—a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day, ²⁰ and there was a certain poor man, by name Lazarus, who was laid at his porch, full of sores,

²⁴ Earth hath been given Into the hand of the wicked one. The face of its judges he covereth, If not—where, who is he?

⁷ Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth. ⁸ Their seed is established, Before their face with them, And their offspring before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses are peace without fear, Nor is a rod of God upon them. ¹⁰ His bullock hath eaten corn, and doth not loath. His cow bringeth forth safely, And doth not miscarry. ¹¹ They send forth as a flock their sucklings, And their children skip, ¹² They lift themselves up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of an organ. ¹³ They wear out in good their days, And in a moment to Sheol go down. 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?'

¹⁸ And he hath filled their houses with good: (And the counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)

¹⁴ From men, Thy hand, O Jehovah, From men of the world, their portion is in life, And with Thy hidden things Thou fillest their belly, They are satisfied with sons; And have left their abundance to their sucklings.

¹ By David. Do not fret because of evil doers, Be not envious against doers of iniquity,

³⁵ I have seen the wicked terrible, And spreading as a green native plant,

¹¹ And they have said, `How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?' ¹² Lo, these are the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength.

²⁷ As a cage full of fowls, So their houses are full of deceit, Therefore they have been great, and are rich.

²⁹ Have ye not asked those passing by the way? And their signs do ye not know? ³⁰ That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought.

⁶ Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise;

³ An ox hath known its owner, And an ass the crib of its master, Israel hath not known, My people hath not understood.

⁷ Even a stork in the heavens hath known her seasons, And turtle, and swallow, and crane, Have watched the time of their coming, And—My people have not known the judgment of Jehovah.

¹⁷ and thou hast said in thy heart, My power, and the might of my hand, hath made for me this wealth: ¹⁸ `And thou hast remembered Jehovah thy God, for He it is who is giving to thee power to make wealth, in order to establish His covenant which He hath sworn to thy fathers as at this day.

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

³ I also have a heart like you, I am not fallen more than you, And with whom is there not like these?

²⁰ So that they see, and know, And regard, and act wisely together, For the hand of Jehovah hath done this, And the Holy One of Israel hath prepared it.

⁵ Thus do ye say unto your lords, I—I have made the earth with man, and the cattle that are on the face of the earth, by My great power, and by My stretched-out arm, and I have given it to whom it hath been right in Mine eyes. ⁶ `And now, I—I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and also the beast of the field I have given to him to serve him;

¹⁸ thou, O king, God Most High, a kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and honour, gave to Nebuchadnezzar thy father:

¹⁷ and now, hearken, O our God, unto the prayer of Thy servant, and unto his supplication, and cause Thy face to shine on Thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.

³⁵ And the public clerk having quieted the multitude, saith, `Men, Ephesians, why, who is the man that doth not know that the city of the Ephesians is a devotee of the great goddess Artemis, and of that which fell down from Zeus?

³⁶ because of Him, and through Him, and to Him are the all things; to Him is the glory—to the ages. Amen.

⁵ Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him? ⁶ and ye did dishonour the poor one; do not the rich oppress you and themselves draw you to judgment-seats; ⁷ do they not themselves speak evil of the good name that was called upon you?

⁷ And Jehovah God formeth the man—dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.

¹⁷ `And I, lo, I am bringing in the deluge of waters on the earth to destroy all flesh, in which is a living spirit, from under the heavens; all that is in the earth doth expire.

²² and they fall on their faces, and say, `God, God of the spirits of all flesh—the one man sinneth, and against all the company Thou art wroth!'

³ For all the while my breath is in me, And the spirit of God in my nostrils.

⁴ The Spirit of God hath made me, And the breath of the Mighty doth quicken me.

¹⁴ If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth. ¹⁵ Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth.

²⁹ Thou hidest Thy face—they are troubled, Thou gatherest their spirit—they expire, And unto their dust they turn back.

³ Trust not in princes—in a son of man, For he hath no deliverance. ⁴ His spirit goeth forth, he returneth to his earth, In that day have his thoughts perished.

²³ and against the Lord of the heavens thou hast lifted up thyself; and the vessels of His house they have brought in before thee, and thou, and thy great men, thy wives, and thy concubines, are drinking wine with them, and gods of silver, and of gold, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone, that are not seeing, nor hearing, nor knowing, thou hast praised: and the God in whose hand is thy breath, and all thy ways, Him thou hast not honoured.

⁶ that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.

²⁵ neither by the hands of men is He served—needing anything, He giving to all life, and breath, and all things;

²⁸ for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

³⁰ Is there in my tongue perverseness? Discerneth not my palate desirable things?

³ For the ear doth try words, And the palate tasteth to eat.

¹⁵ as to wise men I speak—judge ye what I say:

¹⁰ for your proving the things that differ, that ye may be pure and offenceless—to a day of Christ,

¹⁴ and of perfect men is the strong food, who because of the use are having the senses exercised, unto the discernment both of good and of evil.

³ if so be ye did taste that the Lord is gracious,

⁸ For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,

¹⁰ Both the gray-headed And the very aged are among us—Greater than thy father in days.

⁷ I said: Days do speak, And multitude of years teach wisdom.

⁴ Wise in heart and strong in power—Who hath hardened toward Him and is at peace?

¹⁶ With Him are strength and wisdom, His the deceived and deceiver.

²⁰ And the wisdom—whence doth it come? And where is this, the place of understanding? ²¹ It hath been hid from the eyes of all living. And from the fowl of the heavens It hath been hidden. ²² Destruction and death have said: `With our ears we have heard its fame.' <sup>23</sup> God hath understood its way, And He hath known its place. <sup>24</sup> For He to the ends of the earth doth look, Under the whole heavens He doth see, <sup>25</sup> To make for the wind a weight, And the waters He meted out in measure. <sup>26</sup> In His making for the rain a limit, And a way for the brightness of the voices, <sup>27</sup> Then He hath seen and declareth it, He hath prepared it, and also searched it out, <sup>28</sup> And He saith to man: —`Lo, fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, And to turn from evil is understanding.'

⁶ And Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite answereth and saith: —Young I am in days, and ye are age Therefore I have feared, And am afraid of shewing you my opinion. ⁷ I said: Days do speak, And multitude of years teach wisdom. ⁸ Surely a spirit is in man, And the breath of the Mighty One Doth cause them to understand. ⁹ The multitude are not wise, Nor do the aged understand judgment.

⁵ Lo, God is mighty, and despiseth not, Mighty in power and heart.

³⁶ Who hath put in the inward parts wisdom? Or who hath given To the covered part understanding?

⁵ Great is our Lord, and abundant in power, Of His understanding there is no narration.

⁶ For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding. ⁷ Even to lay up for the upright substance, A shield for those walking uprightly.

¹⁴ Mine is counsel and substance, I am understanding, I have might.

¹³ Who hath meted out the Spirit of Jehovah, And, being His counsellor, doth teach Him! ¹⁴ With whom consulted He, That he causeth Him to understand? And teacheth Him in the path of judgment, And teacheth Him knowledge? And the way of understanding causeth Him to know?

¹⁰ Declaring from the beginning the latter end, And from of old that which hath not been done, Saying, `My counsel doth stand, And all My delight I do.'

¹² The maker of the earth by His power, The establisher of the world by His wisdom, Who, by His understanding, stretched forth the heavens,

²⁰ Daniel hath answered and said, `Let the name of God be blessed from age even unto age, for wisdom and might—for they are His.

¹⁵ for I will give to you a mouth and wisdom that all your opposers shall not be able to refute or resist.

³⁴ for who did know the mind of the Lord? or who did become His counsellor?

²⁴ and to those called—both Jews and Greeks—Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God,

⁸ in which He did abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

¹¹ in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,

³ in whom are all the treasures of the wisdom and the knowledge hid,

⁵ and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

⁴⁶ This day doth Jehovah shut thee up into my hand—and I have smitten thee, and turned aside thy head from off thee, and given the carcase of the camp of the Philistines this day to the fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth, and all the earth do know that God is for Israel.

¹⁸ and thou hast declared to-day how that thou hast done good with me, how that Jehovah shut me up into thy hand, and thou didst not slay me,

⁸ And Abishai saith unto David, `God hath shut up to-day thine enemy into thy hand; and, now, let me smite him, I pray thee, with a spear, even into the earth at once—and I do repeat it to him.'

¹² Lo, He snatches away, who bringeth it back? Who saith unto Him, `What dost Thou?' ¹³ God doth not turn back His anger, Under Him bowed have proud helpers.

¹⁰ If He pass on, and shut up, and assemble, Who then dost reverse it?

¹¹ God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over.

¹⁰ He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope.

⁷ Into the hand of every man he sealeth, For the knowledge by all men of His work.

²³ And have made it for a possession of a bittern, And ponds of waters, And daubed it with the mire of destruction, The affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts!

²² And I have placed the key Of the house of David on his shoulder, And he hath opened, and none is shutting, And hath shut, and none is opening.

² For Thou didst make of a city a heap, Of a fenced city a ruin, A high place of strangers from being a city, To the age it is not built.

⁵⁸ Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, the wall of Babylon—The broad one—is utterly made bare, And her high gates with fire are burnt, And peoples labour in vain, And nations in fire, and have been weary!

⁶⁴ and said, Thus sink doth Babylon, and it doth not arise, because of the evil that I am bringing in against it, and they have been weary.' Hitherto are words of Jeremiah.

⁴ Because Edom saith, `We have been made poor, And we turn back and we build the wastes,' Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: They do build, and I do destroy, And men have called to them, `O region of wickedness,' `O people whom Jehovah defied to the age.'

³² for God did shut up together the whole to unbelief, that to the whole He might do kindness.

⁷ `And to the messenger of the assembly in Philadelphia write: These things saith he who is holy, he who is true, he who is having the key of David, he who is opening and no one doth shut, and he shutteth and no one doth open!

¹³ And God said to Noah, `An end of all flesh hath come before Me, for the earth hath been full of violence from their presence; and lo, I am destroying them with the earth.

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens hath been opened,

¹⁷ and the anger of Jehovah hath burned against you, and He hath restrained the heavens, and there is no rain, and the ground doth not give her increase, and ye have perished hastily from off the good land which Jehovah is giving to you.

³⁵ `In the heavens being restrained, and there is no rain, because they sin against Thee, and they have prayed towards this place, and confessed Thy name, and from their sin turn back, for Thou dost afflict them, ³⁶ then Thou dost hear in the heavens, and hast forgiven the sin of Thy servants, and of Thy people Israel, for Thou directest them the good way in which they go, and hast given rain on Thy land which Thou hast given to Thy people for inheritance.

¹ And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, saith unto Ahab, `Jehovah, God of Israel, liveth, before whom I have stood, there is not these years dew and rain, except according to my word.'

¹⁰ In whose hand is the breath of every living thing, And the spirit of all flesh of man.'

⁷ From Thy rebuke they flee, From the voice of Thy thunder haste away. ⁸ They go up hills—they go down valleys, Unto a place Thou hast founded for them. ⁹ A border Thou hast set, they pass not over, They turn not back to cover the earth.

²² Are there among the vanities of the nations any causing rain? And do the heavens give showers? Art not Thou He, O Jehovah our God? And we wait for thee, for Thou—Thou hast done all these!

⁸ The maker of Kimah and Kesil, And the turner to morning of death-shade, And day as night He hath made dark, Who is calling to the waters of the sea, And poureth them on the face of the earth, Jehovah is His name;

⁴ He is pushing against a sea, and drieth it up, Yea, all the floods He hath made dry, Languishing are Bashan and Carmel, Yea, the flower of Lebanon is languishing.

²⁵ and of a truth I say to you, Many widows were in the days of Elijah, in Israel, when the heaven was shut for three years and six months, when great famine came on all the land,

¹⁷ Elijah was a man like affected as we, and with prayer he did pray—not to rain, and it did not rain upon the land three years and six months; ¹⁸ and again he did pray, and the heaven did give rain, and the land did bring forth her fruit.

⁶ These have authority to shut the heaven, that it may not rain rain in the days of their prophecy, and authority they have over the waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the land with every plague, as often as they may will.

²² and he saith, I go out, and have been a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of all his prophets; and He saith, Thou dost entice, and also thou art able; go out and do so. 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.'

¹³ With Him are wisdom and might, To him are counsel and understanding.

⁷ For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit?

⁹ Is it good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him?

⁹ `And the prophet, when he is enticed, and hath spoken a word—I, Jehovah, I have enticed that prophet, and have stretched out My hand against him, and have destroyed him from the midst of My people Israel.

¹³ `And mayest Thou not lead us to temptation, but deliver us from the evil, because Thine is the reign, and the power, and the glory—to the ages. Amen.

³¹ and David declared, saying, `Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom;' and David saith, `Make foolish, I pray Thee, the counsel of Ahithophel, O Jehovah.'

¹⁴ And Absalom saith—and all the men of Israel—`Better is the counsel of Hushai the Archite than the counsel of Ahithophel;' and Jehovah willed to make void the good counsel of Ahithophel for the sake of Jehovah's bringing unto Absalom the evil.

²³ And Ahithophel hath seen that his counsel was not done, and he saddleth the ass, and riseth and goeth unto his house, unto his city, and giveth charge unto his household, and strangleth himself, and dieth, and he is buried in the burying-place of his father.

¹⁴ With kings and counsellors of earth, These building wastes for themselves.

¹² Where are they now, thy wise ones? Yea, let them tell to thee, I pray thee, And they know what Jehovah of Hosts hath counselled against Egypt! ¹³ Foolish have been princes of Zoan, Lifted up have been princes of Noph, And they have caused Egypt to err, The chief of her tribes. ¹⁴ Jehovah hath mingled in her midst A spirit of perverseness, And they have caused Egypt to err in all its work, As a drunkard erreth in his vomit.

¹⁴ Therefore, lo, I am adding to do wonderfully with this people, A wonder, and a marvel, And perished hath the wisdom of its wise ones, And the understanding of its intelligent ones hideth itself.'

¹⁹ for it hath been written, `I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will bring to nought;' ²⁰ where is the wise? where the scribe? where a disputer of this age? did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?

¹¹ and Jehovah bringeth in against them the heads of the host that the king of Asshur hath, and they capture Manasseh among the thickets, and bind him with brazen fetters, and cause him to go to Babylon. ¹² And when he is in distress he hath appeased the face of Jehovah his God, and is humbled exceedingly before the God of his fathers, ¹³ and prayeth unto Him, and He is entreated of him, and heareth his supplication, and bringeth him back to Jerusalem, to his kingdom, and Manasseh knoweth that Jehovah—He is God. ¹⁴ And after this he hath built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west of Gihon, in the valley, and at the entering in at the fish-gate, and it hath gone round to the tower, and he maketh it exceeding high, and he putteth heads of the force in all the cities of the bulwarks in Judah.

¹⁶ Cause it to come, O Jehovah, for I am Thy servant. I am Thy servant, son of Thy handmaid, Thou hast opened my bonds.

³¹ And it cometh to pass, in the thirty and seventh year of the removal of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty and fifth of the month, hath Evil-Merodach king of Babylon lifted up, in the year of his reign, the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and bringeth him out from the house of restraint, ³² and speaketh with him good things, and setteth his throne above the throne of the kings who are with him in Babylon, ³³ and he hath changed his prison garments, and he hath eaten bread before him continually, all the days of his life. ³⁴ And his allowance—a continual allowance—hath been given to him by the king of Babylon, the matter of a day in its day, till the day of his death—all days of his life.

²¹ And He is changing times and seasons, He is causing kings to pass away, and He is raising up kings; He is giving wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those possessing understanding.

¹⁶ and he hath upon the garment and upon his thigh the name written, `King of kings, and Lord of lords.'

²⁴ And it cometh to pass, when they bring out these kings unto Joshua, that Joshua calleth unto every man of Israel, and saith unto the captains of the men of war, who have gone with him, `Draw near, set your feet on the necks of these kings;' and they draw near, and set their feet on their necks.

⁴² and all these kings and their land hath Joshua captured at one time, for Jehovah, God of Israel, is fighting for Israel.

⁴⁵ And David saith unto the Philistine, `Thou art coming unto me with sword, and with spear, and with buckler, and I am coming unto thee in the name of Jehovah of Hosts, God of the ranks of Israel, which thou hast reproached. ⁴⁶ This day doth Jehovah shut thee up into my hand—and I have smitten thee, and turned aside thy head from off thee, and given the carcase of the camp of the Philistines this day to the fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth, and all the earth do know that God is for Israel.

²² And hath drawn the mighty by his power, He riseth, and none believeth in life.

²⁸ To cause to come in unto Him The cry of the poor, And the cry of the afflicted He heareth.

⁹ Because of the multitude of oppressions They cause to cry out, They cry because of the arm of the mighty.

³⁶ And a messenger of Jehovah goeth out, and smiteth in the camp of Asshur a hundred and eighty and five thousand; and men rise early in the morning, and lo, all of them are dead corpses. ³⁷ And journey, and go, and turn back doth Sennacherib king of Asshur, and dwelleth in Nineveh. ³⁸ And it cometh to pass, he is bowing himself in the house of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons have smitten him with the sword, and they have escaped to the land of Ararat, and Esar-Haddon his son reigneth in his stead.

¹ Thus said Jehovah, To His anointed, to Cyrus, Whose right hand I have laid hold on, To subdue nations before him, Yea, loins of kings I loose, To open before him two-leaved doors, Yea, gates are not shut:

¹⁴ these with the Lamb shall make war, and the Lamb shall overcome them, because Lord of lords he is, and King of kings, and those with him are called, and choice, and stedfast.'

¹⁹ And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, having been gathered together to make war with him who is sitting upon the horse, and with his army; ²⁰ and the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, in which he led astray those who did receive the mark of the beast, and those who did bow before his image; living they were cast—the two—to the lake of the fire, that is burning with brimstone; ²¹ and the rest were killed with the sword of him who is sitting on the horse, which sword is proceeding out of his mouth, and all the birds were filled out of their flesh.

²⁴ Turning aside the heart Of the heads of the people of the land, And he causeth them to wander In vacancy—no way!

⁹ The multitude are not wise, Nor do the aged understand judgment.

¹⁷ For God hath caused her to forget wisdom, And He hath not given a portion To her in understanding:

²¹ The lips of the righteous delight many, And fools for lack of heart die.

¹⁹ The lip of truth is established for ever, And for a moment—a tongue of falsehood.

²² An abomination to Jehovah are lying lips, And stedfast doers are his delight.

¹ For, lo, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is turning aside from Jerusalem, And from Judah, stay and staff, Every stay of bread, and every stay of water. ² Hero and man of war, judge and prophet, And diviner and elder, ³ Head of fifty, and accepted of faces, And counsellor, and the wise of artificers, And the intelligent of charmers.

² and if thou art refusing to send away, lo, I am smiting all thy border with frogs;

²⁴ And they let it rest until the morning, as Moses hath commanded, and it hath not stank, and a worm hath not been in it.

²³ `And also of Jezebel hath Jehovah spoken, saying, The dogs do eat Jezebel in the bulwark of Jezreel; ²⁴ him who dieth of Ahab in a city do the dogs eat, and him who dieth in a field do fowl of the heavens eat;

²⁶ Have I not the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons seen yesternight—the affirmation of Jehovah—yea, I have recompensed to thee in this portion—the affirmation of Jehovah; —and now, lift up, cast him into the portion, according to the word of Jehovah.'

³⁴ And he cometh in, and eateth, and drinketh, and saith, `Look after, I pray you, this cursed one, and bury her, for she is a king's daughter.' <sup>35</sup> And they go to bury her, and have not found of her except the skull, and the feet, and the palms of the hands. <sup>36</sup> And they turn back, and declare to him, and he saith, `The word of Jehovah it is, that He spake by the hand of this servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel do the dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel, ³⁷ and the carcase of Jezebel hath been as dung on the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel, that they say not, This is Jezebel.'

⁴⁰ He is pouring contempt upon nobles, And causeth them to wander in vacancy—no way.

²⁷ There is none weary, nor stumbling in it, It doth not slumber, nor sleep, Nor opened hath been the girdle of its loins, Nor drawn away the latchet of its sandals.

⁵ And righteousness hath been the girdle of his loins, And faithfulness—the girdle of his reins.

²¹ And I have clothed him with thy coat, And with thy girdle I strengthen him, And thy garment I give into his hand, And he hath been for a father to the inhabitant of Jerusalem, And to the house of Judah.

⁹ Jehovah of Hosts hath counselled it, To pollute the excellency of all beauty, To make light all the honoured of earth.

²¹ And it hath come to pass, in that day, Jehovah layeth a charge on the host of the high place in the high place, And on the kings of the land on the land. ²² And they have been gathered—A gathering of bound ones in a pit, And shut up they have been in a prison, And after a multitude of days are inspected.

³⁸ And it cometh to pass, he is bowing himself in the house of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons have smitten him with the sword, and they have escaped to the land of Ararat, and Esar-Haddon his son reigneth in his stead.

²¹ And He is changing times and seasons, He is causing kings to pass away, and He is raising up kings; He is giving wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those possessing understanding. ²² He is revealing deep and hidden things; He hath known what is in darkness, and light with Him hath dwelt.

³² and from men they are driving thee away, and with the beast of the field is thy dwelling, the herb as oxen they do cause thee to eat, and seven times do pass over thee, till that thou knowest that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and to whom He willeth He giveth it. ³³ `In that hour the thing hath been fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar, and from men he is driven, and the herb as oxen he eateth, and by the dew of the heavens his body is wet, till that his hair as eagles' hath become great, and his nails as birds.'

¹² and having been divinely warned in a dream not to turn back unto Herod, through another way they withdrew to their own region.
¹³ And on their having withdrawn, lo, a messenger of the Lord doth appear in a dream to Joseph, saying, `Having risen, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and be thou there till I may speak to thee, for Herod is about to seek the child to destroy him.'

²³ and presently there smote him a messenger of the Lord, because he did not give the glory to God, and having been eaten of worms, he expired.

¹⁰ As to the rest, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might;

¹⁴ Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness,

¹² And one of his servants saith, `Nay, my lord, O king, for Elisha the prophet, who is in Israel, declareth to the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in the inner part of thy bed-chamber.'

⁵ Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.

¹⁷ When together, morning is to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade.

²⁰ And the wisdom—whence doth it come? And where is this, the place of understanding? ²¹ It hath been hid from the eyes of all living. And from the fowl of the heavens It hath been hidden. ²² Destruction and death have said: `With our ears we have heard its fame.' ²³ God hath understood its way, And He hath known its place.

²² There is no darkness nor death-shade, For workers of iniquity to be hidden there;

²¹ Doth not God search out this? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.

¹² Also darkness hideth not from Thee, And night as day shineth, as is darkness so is light.

²² He is revealing deep and hidden things; He hath known what is in darkness, and light with Him hath dwelt.

²⁶ `Ye may not, therefore, fear them, for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed, and hid, that shall not be known;

⁷⁹ To give light to those sitting in darkness and death-shade, To guide our feet to a way of peace.'

¹⁰ but to us did God reveal them through His Spirit, for the Spirit all things doth search, even the depths of God,

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.

⁷ and the sons of Israel have been fruitful, and they teem, and multiply, and are very very mighty, and the land is filled with them.

²⁰ And God doth good to the midwives, and the people multiply, and are very mighty;

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

³ Thou hast multiplied the nation, Thou hast made great its joy, They have joyed before Thee as the joy in harvest, As men rejoice in their apportioning spoil.

¹⁵ Thou hast added to the nation, O Jehovah, Thou hast added to the nation, Thou hast been honoured, Thou hast put far off all the ends of earth.

⁶ Those coming in He causeth to take root, Jacob doth blossom, and flourished hath Israel, And they have filled the face of the world with increase.

² Look attentively unto Abraham your father, And unto Sarah—she bringeth you forth, For—one—I have called him, And I bless him, and multiply him.

²² The little one doth become a chief, And the small one a mighty nation, I, Jehovah, in its own time do hasten it!

¹⁹ And gone forth from them hath thanksgiving, And the voice of playful ones, And I have multiplied them and they are not few, And made them honourable, and they are not small.

²² As the host of the heavens is not numbered, Nor the sand of the sea measured, So I multiply the seed of David My servant, And the Levites My ministers.'

⁸ I hist for them, and I gather them, For I have redeemed them, And they have multiplied as they did multiply.

²⁰ Turning aside the lip of the stedfast, And the reason of the aged He taketh away.

⁴ They wandered in a wilderness, in a desert by the way, A city of habitation they have not found.

⁹ And He saith, `Go, and thou hast said to this people, Hear ye—to hear, and ye do not understand, And see ye—to see, and ye do not know. ¹⁰ Declare fat the heart of this people, And its ears declare heavy, And its eyes declare dazzled, Lest it see with its eyes, And with its ears hear, and its heart consider, And it hath turned back, and hath health.'

¹ The burden of Egypt. Lo, Jehovah is riding on a swift thick cloud, And He hath entered Egypt, And moved have been the idols of Egypt at His presence, And the heart of Egypt melteth in its midst.

¹⁶ his heart from man's is changed, and the heart of a beast is given to him, and seven times pass over him;

³³ `In that hour the thing hath been fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar, and from men he is driven, and the herb as oxen he eateth, and by the dew of the heavens his body is wet, till that his hair as eagles' hath become great, and his nails as birds.'

¹¹ And Ephraim is as a simple dove without heart, Egypt they called on—to Asshur they have gone.

¹¹ and the men who are at the opening of the house they have smitten with blindness, from small even unto great, and they weary themselves to find the opening.

²⁹ and thou hast been gropling at noon, as the blind gropeth in darkness; and thou dost not cause thy ways to prosper; and thou hast been only oppressed and plundered all the days, and there is no saviour.

¹⁴ By day they meet darkness, And as night—they grope at noon.

²⁷ They reel to and fro, and move as a drunkard, And all their wisdom is swallowed up.

¹⁴ Jehovah hath mingled in her midst A spirit of perverseness, And they have caused Egypt to err in all its work, As a drunkard erreth in his vomit.

²⁰ Stagger greatly doth the land as a drunkard, And it hath been moved as a lodge, And heavy on it hath been its transgression, And it hath fallen, and addeth not to rise.

¹⁰ We feel like the blind for the wall, Yea, as without eyes we feel, We have stumbled at noon as at twilight, In desolate places as the dead.

¹¹ and now, lo, a hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season;' and presently there fell upon him a mist and darkness, and he, going about, was seeking some to lead him by the hand;

¹¹ and he who is hating his brother, in the darkness he is, and in the darkness he doth walk, and he hath not known whither he doth go, because the darkness did blind his eyes.