Job 16 Cross References - YLT

¹ And Job answereth and saith: — ² I have heard many such things, Miserable comforters are ye all. ³ Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest? 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 I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing.
⁶ If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease—what goeth from me? ⁷ Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company, ⁸ And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth. ⁹ His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me. ¹⁰ They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves. ¹¹ God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over. ¹² At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark. ¹³ Go round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins, and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall. ¹⁴ He breaketh me—breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one. ¹⁵ Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn. ¹⁶ My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids is death-shade.
¹⁷ Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure. ¹⁸ O earth, do not thou cover my blood! And let there not be a place for my cry. ¹⁹ Also, now, lo, in the heavens is my witness, And my testifier in the high places. ²⁰ My interpreter is my friend, Unto God hath mine eye dropped: ²¹ And he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for his friend. ²² When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go.

⁶ Eaten is an insipid thing without salt? Is there sense in the drivel of dreams?

²⁵ How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?

² Is a multitude of words not answered? And is a man of lips justified? ³ Thy devices make men keep silent, Thou scornest, and none is causing blushing!

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 Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words? ³ These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me—

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.

²⁶ For they have pursued him Thou hast smitten, And recount of the pain of Thy pierced ones.

¹⁶ the one, indeed, of rivalry the Christ do proclaim, not purely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds,

¹⁹ So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

²⁶ For reproof—do you reckon words? And for wind—sayings of the desperate.

² Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind—sayings of thy mouth?

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

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

³ and against his three friends hath his anger burned, because that they have not found an answer, and condemn Job. ⁴ And Elihu hath waited earnestly beside Job with words, for they are older than he in days. ⁵ And Elihu seeth that there is no answer in the mouth of the three men, and his anger burneth.
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.

⁴⁶ And no one was able to answer him a word, nor durst any from that day question him any more.

¹¹ whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.

⁸ discourse sound, irreprehensible, that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning you.

²¹ this is the word that Jehovah spake concerning him: `Trampled on thee—laughed at thee, Hath the virgin daughter of Zion Behind thee shaken the head—Hath the daughter of Jerusalem?

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. ⁴ For arrows of the Mighty are with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves for me! ⁵ Brayeth a wild ass over tender grass? Loweth an ox over his provender?

¹⁴ To a despiser of his friends is shame, And the fear of the Mighty he forsaketh.

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

¹⁶ And Job with vanity doth open his mouth, Without knowledge words he multiplieth.

⁷ All beholding me do mock at me, They make free with the lip—shake the head,

¹⁴ Thou makest us a simile among nations, A shaking of the head among peoples.

²⁵ And I—I have been a reproach to them, They see me, they shake their head.

¹⁹ In the abundance of words transgression ceaseth not, And whoso is restraining his lips is wise.

¹⁴ And the fool multiplieth words: `Man knoweth not that which is, And that which is after him, who doth declare to him?'

¹⁶ To make their land become a desolation, A hissing age-during, Every passer by it is astonished, And bemoaneth with his head.

¹⁵ Clapped hands at thee have all passing by the way, They have hissed—and they shake the head At the daughter of Jerusalem: `Is this the city of which they said: The perfection of beauty, a joy to all the land?'

¹⁵ This is the exulting city that is dwelling confidently, That is saying in her heart, `I am, and beside me there is none,' How hath she been for a desolation, A crouching-place for beasts, Every one passing by her doth hiss, He doth shake his hand!

¹² `All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

³⁹ and those passing by were speaking evil of him, wagging their heads, ⁴⁰ and saying, `Thou that art throwing down the sanctuary, and in three days building it, save thyself; if Son thou art of God, come down from the cross.'

¹⁵ to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping,

²⁶ and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with it do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with it do all the members;

³ Lo, thou hast instructed many, And feeble hands thou makest strong. ⁴ The stumbling one do thy words raise up, And bowing knees thou dost strengthen.

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

¹⁴ Look unto Jehovah—be strong, And He doth strengthen thy heart, Yea, look unto Jehovah!

⁹ Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, And the sweetness of one's friend—from counsel of the soul.

¹⁷ Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend.

³ Strengthen ye the feeble hands, Yea, the stumbling knees strengthen. ⁴ Say to the hastened of heart, `Be strong, Fear not, lo, your God; vengeance cometh, The recompence of God, He Himself doth come and save you.'

¹ Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself—lest thou also may be tempted;

¹ My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.

¹ To the Overseer, for Jeduthun. —A Psalm of Asaph. My voice is to God, and I cry, my voice is to God, And He hath given ear unto me. ² In a day of my distress the Lord I sought, My hand by night hath been spread out, And it doth not cease, My soul hath refused to be comforted. ³ I remember God, and make a noise, I meditate, and feeble is my spirit. Selah. ⁴ Thou hast taken hold of the watches of mine eyes, I have been moved, and I speak not. ⁵ I have reckoned the days of old, The years of the ages. ⁶ I remember my music in the night, With my heart I meditate, and my spirit doth search diligently: ⁷ To the ages doth the Lord cast off? Doth He add to be pleased no more? ⁸ Hath His kindness ceased for ever? The saying failed to all generations? ⁹ Hath God forgotten His favours? Hath He shut up in anger His mercies? Selah.

¹⁵ I am afflicted, and expiring from youth, I have borne Thy terrors—I pine away. ¹⁶ Over me hath Thy wrath passed, Thy terrors have cut me off, ¹⁷ They have surrounded me as waters all the day, They have gone round against me together, ¹⁸ Thou hast put far from me lover and friend, Mine acquaintance is the place of darkness!

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.' 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.' ¹⁸ 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.'

¹⁷ There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do the wearied in power.

³ So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.

¹⁶ I have wasted away—not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days are vanity.

⁵ When yet the Mighty One is with me. Round about me—my young ones, ⁶ When washing my goings with butter, And the firm rock is with me rivulets of oil.
⁷ When I go out to the gate by the city, In a broad place I prepare my seat. ⁸ Seen me have youths, and they, been hidden, And the aged have risen—they stood up. 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. ¹¹ For the ear heard, and declareth me happy, And the eye hath seen, and testifieth to me. ¹² For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper. ¹³ The blessing of the perishing cometh on me, And the heart of the widow I cause to sing. ¹⁴ Righteousness I have put on, and it clotheth me, As a robe and a diadem my justice. ¹⁵ Eyes I have been to the blind, And feet to the lame am I. ¹⁶ A father I am to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out. ¹⁷ And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.
¹⁸ And I say, `With my nest I expire, And as the sand I multiply days.' ¹⁹ My root is open unto the waters, And dew doth lodge on my branch. ²⁰ My honour is fresh with me, And my bow in my hand is renewed. ²¹ To me they have hearkened, Yea, they wait, and are silent for my counsel. ²² After my word they change not, And on them doth my speech drop, ²³ And they wait as for rain for me, And their mouth they have opened wide As for the latter rain. ²⁴ I laugh unto them—they give no credence, And the light of my face cause not to fall. ²⁵ I choose their way, and sit head, And I dwell as a king in a troop, When mourners he doth comfort.

⁶ I have been weary with my sighing, I meditate through all the night on my bed, With my tear my couch I waste. ⁷ Old from provocation is mine eye, It is old because of all mine adversaries,

¹¹ Chastisement of Jehovah, my son, despise not, And be not vexed with His reproof, ¹² For whom Jehovah loveth He reproveth, Even as a father the son He is pleased with.

⁴ The Lord Jehovah hath given to me The tongue of taught ones, To know to aid the weary by a word, He waketh morning by morning, He waketh for me an ear to hear as taught ones.

¹³ And I also, I have begun to smite thee, To make desolate, because of thy sins.

²¹ I went out full, and empty hath Jehovah brought me back, why do ye call me Naomi, and Jehovah hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath done evil to me?'

¹⁷ Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare are with me.

²⁰ To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.

¹⁵ And He giveth to them their request, And sendeth leanness into their soul.

²⁴ My knees have been feeble from fasting, And my flesh hath failed of fatness.

¹⁶ Therefore doth the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, Send among his fat ones leanness, And under his honour He kindleth a burning As the burning of a fire.

¹⁶ From the skirt of the earth we heard songs, The desire of the righteous. And I say, `Leanness is to me, Leanness is to me, woe is to me.' Treacherous dealers dealt treacherously, Yea, treachery, treacherous dealers dealt treacherously.

²⁷ that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;

¹⁶ And it riseth—as a lion Thou huntest me. And Thou turnest back—Thou shewest Thyself wonderful in me. ¹⁷ Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare are with me.

²⁴ Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee?

²⁷ And puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest a print,

⁴ (He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?

¹¹ And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries.

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

¹² The wicked is devising against the righteous, And gnashing against him his teeth.

²² Understand this, I pray you, Ye who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.

¹⁶ Opened against thee their mouth have all thine enemies, They have hissed, yea, they gnash the teeth, They have said: `We have swallowed her up, Surely this is the day that we looked for, We have found—we have seen.'

¹⁰ A bear lying in wait He is to me, A lion in secret hiding-places.

¹⁴ For I am as a lion to Ephraim, And as a young lion to the house of Judah, I—I tear and go, I bear away, and there is no deliverer.

¹ `Come, and we turn back unto Jehovah, For He hath torn, and He doth heal us, He doth smite, and He bindeth us up.

⁸ Thou dost not rejoice over me, O mine enemy, When I have fallen, I have risen, When I sit in darkness Jehovah is a light to me.

⁵⁴ And hearing these things, they were cut to the hearts, and did gnash the teeth at him;

²⁴ And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah draweth nigh, and smiteth Micaiah on the cheek, and saith, `Where is this—he hath passed over—the Spirit of Jehovah—from me to speak with thee?'

²³ And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah cometh nigh, and smiteth Micaiah on the cheek, and saith, `Where is this—the way the Spirit of Jehovah passed over from me to speak with thee?'

¹³ They have opened against me their mouth, A lion tearing and roaring.

¹⁶ And to the dust of death thou appointest me, For surrounded me have dogs, A company of evil doers have compassed me, Piercing my hands and my feet. ¹⁷ I count all my bones—they look expectingly, They look upon me,

¹⁵ And—in my halting they have rejoiced, And have been gathered together, Gathered against me were the smiters, And I have not known, They have rent, and they have not ceased;

²¹ And they enlarge against me their mouth, They said, `Aha, aha, our eye hath seen.'

²¹ They decree against the soul of the righteous, And innocent blood declare wicked.

⁶ My back I have given to those smiting, And my cheeks to those plucking out, My face I hid not from shame and spitting.

³⁰ He giveth to his smiter the cheek, He is filled with reproach.

¹ Now gather thyself together, O daughter of troops, A siege he hath laid against us, With a rod they smite on the cheek the judge of Israel.

⁶⁷ Then did they spit in his face and buffet him, and others did slap,

³⁵ And the people were standing, looking on, and the rulers also were sneering with them, saying, `Others he saved, let him save himself, if this be the Christ, the choice one of God.' ³⁶ And mocking him also were the soldiers, coming near and offering vinegar to him,

²² And he having said these things, one of the officers standing by did give Jesus a slap, saying, `Thus dost thou answer the chief priest?'

²⁷ for gathered together of a truth against Thy holy child Jesus, whom Thou didst anoint, were both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and peoples of Israel,

² and the chief priest Ananias commanded those standing by him to smite him on the mouth,

²⁰ for ye bear, if any one is bringing you under bondage, if any one doth devour, if any one doth take away, if any one doth exalt himself, if any one on the face doth smite you;

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,

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,

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.

¹⁴ Lo, he travaileth with iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.

¹² Give me not to the will of my adversaries, For risen against me have false witnesses, And they breathe out violence to me.

⁸ And Thou hast not shut me up, Into the hand of an enemy, Thou hast caused my feet to stand in a broad place.

¹⁶ Then, therefore, he delivered him up to them, that he may be crucified, and they took Jesus and led him away,

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

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.

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.

²⁶ I was not safe—nor was I quiet—Nor was I at rest—and trouble cometh!

¹⁰ The roaring of a lion, And the voice of a fierce lion, And teeth of young lions have been broken.

¹² A sea-monster am I, or a dragon, That thou settest over me a guard?

²⁰ I have sinned, what do I to Thee, O watcher of man? Why hast Thou set me for a mark to Thee, And I am for a burden to myself—and what?

¹⁷ Because with a tempest He bruiseth me, And hath multiplied my wounds for nought.

²⁶ He runneth unto Him with a neck, With thick bosses of his shields.

³ In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk through darkness.

¹⁸ And I say, `With my nest I expire, And as the sand I multiply days.' ¹⁹ My root is open unto the waters, And dew doth lodge on my branch.

¹⁹ But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade.

⁴ He hath worn out my flesh and my skin. He hath broken my bones.

¹¹ My ways He is turning aside, and He pulleth me in pieces, He hath made me a desolation. ¹² He hath trodden His bow, And setteth me up as a mark for an arrow.

⁷ In their taking hold of thee by thy hand, —thou art crushed, And hast rent to them all the shoulder, And in their leaning on thee thou art broken, And hast caused all their thighs to stand.

⁴⁴ and he who is falling on this stone shall be broken, and on whomsoever it may fall it will crush him to pieces.'

⁴ who for my life their own neck did lay down, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the nations—

²³ And embitter him—yea, they have striven, Yea, hate him do archers;

²⁰ Jehovah is not willing to be propitious to him, for then doth the anger of Jehovah smoke, also His zeal, against that man, and lain down on him hath all the oath which is written in this book, and Jehovah hath blotted out his name from under the heavens,

⁴ For arrows of the Mighty are with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves for me!

¹⁰ And yet it is my comfort, (And I exult in pain—He doth not spare,) That I have not hidden The sayings of the Holy One.

²⁷ Whom I—I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom.

²⁵ One hath drawn, And it cometh out from the body, And a glittering weapon from his gall proceedeth. On him are terrors.

¹² If one turn not, His sword he sharpeneth, His bow he hath trodden—He prepareth it, ¹³ Yea, for him He hath prepared Instruments of death, His arrows for burning pursuers He maketh.

¹¹ Consumed by tears have been my eyes, Troubled have been my bowels, Poured out to the earth hath been my liver, For the breach of the daughter of my people; In infant and suckling being feeble, In the broad places of the city,

¹³ He hath caused to enter into my reins The sons of His quiver.

¹¹ Therefore, I live—an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah: Because My sanctuary thou hast defiled, With all thy detestable things, And with all thine abominations, Mine eye pitieth not, and I also spare not. Do not even I also diminish?

³² He who indeed His own Son did not spare, but for us all did deliver him up, how shall He not also with him the all things grant to us?

⁵ and the old world did not spare, but the eighth person, Noah, of righteousness a preacher, did keep, a flood on the world of the impious having brought,

⁸ And he smiteth them hip and thigh—a great smiting, and goeth down and dwelleth in the cleft of the rock Etam.

⁷ Deep unto deep is calling At the noise of Thy water-spouts, All Thy breakers and Thy billows passed over me.

³ Surely against me He turneth back, He turneth His hand all the day. ⁴ He hath worn out my flesh and my skin. He hath broken my bones. ⁵ He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness.

⁷ As mighty ones they run, As men of war they go up a wall, And each in his own ways they do go, And they embarrass not their paths.

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

¹⁰ Jehovah—broken down are His adversaries, Against them in the heavens He thundereth: Jehovah judgeth the ends of earth, And giveth strength to His king, And exalteth the horn of His anointed.'

²⁷ And it cometh to pass, at Ahab's hearing these words, that he rendeth his garments, and putteth sackcloth on his flesh, and fasteth, and lieth in sackcloth, and goeth gently.

¹⁹ Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

⁵ An enemy pursueth my soul, and overtaketh, And treadeth down to the earth my life, And my honour placeth in the dust. Selah.

⁵ Raise not up on high your horn, (Ye speak with a stiff neck.)

¹⁰ And all horns of the wicked I cut off, Exalted are the horns of the righteous!

¹² And call doth the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In that day, to weeping and to lamentation, And to baldness and to girding on of sackcloth,

⁷ And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.

⁹ Favour me, O Jehovah, for distress is to me, Mine eye, my soul, and my body Have become old by provocation.

³ When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day.

³ I have been wearied with my calling, Burnt hath been my throat, Consumed have been mine eyes, waiting for my God.

³ For consumed in smoke have been my days, And my bones as a fire-brand have burned. ⁴ Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread. ⁵ From the voice of my sighing Hath my bone cleaved to my flesh.

⁹ Because ashes as bread I have eaten, And my drink with weeping have mingled,

³ Compassed me have cords of death, And straits of Sheol have found me, Distress and sorrow I find.

¹⁴ As astonished at thee have been many, (So marred by man his appearance, And his form by sons of men.)

¹⁶ For these I am weeping, My eye, my eye, is running down with waters, For, far from me hath been a comforter, Refreshing my soul, My sons have been desolate, For mighty hath been an enemy.

¹ And Jonah prayeth unto Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish. ² And he saith: I called, because of my distress, to Jehovah, And He doth answer me, From the belly of sheol I have cried, Thou hast heard my voice. ³ When Thou dost cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, Then the flood doth compass me, All Thy breakers and Thy billows have passed over me. ⁴ And I—I said: I have been cast out from before Thine eyes, (Yet I add to look unto Thy holy temple!) ⁵ Compassed me have waters unto the soul, The deep doth compass me, The weed is bound to my head. ⁶ To the cuttings of mountains I have come down, The earth, her bars are behind me to the age. And Thou bringest up from the pit my life, O Jehovah my God. ⁷ In the feebleness within me of my soul Jehovah I have remembered, And come in unto Thee doth my prayer, Unto Thy holy temple. ⁸ Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake. ⁹ And I—with a voice of thanksgiving—I sacrifice to Thee, That which I have vowed I complete, Salvation is of Jehovah.
¹⁰ And Jehovah saith to the fish, and it vomiteth out Jonah on the dry land.

³⁴ and he saith to them, `Exceeding sorrowful is my soul—to death; remain here, and watch.'

⁵ If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication, ⁶ If pure and upright thou art, Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.

¹⁴ If iniquity is in thy hand, put it far off, And let not perverseness dwell in thy tents.

²⁰ `All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.

³⁴ For the company of the profane is gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery.

²⁷ Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully. ²⁸ For ye say, `Where is the house of the noble? And where the tent—The tabernacles of the wicked?'

⁵ Is not thy wickedness abundant? And there is no end to thine iniquities. ⁶ For thou takest a pledge of thy brother for nought, And the garments of the naked Thou dost strip off. ⁷ Thou causest not the weary to drink water, And from the hungry thou withholdest bread. ⁸ As to the man of arm—he hath the earth, And the accepted of face—he dwelleth in it. ⁹ Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.

⁶ On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.
⁷ As the wicked is my enemy, And my withstander as the perverse.

¹² For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper. ¹³ The blessing of the perishing cometh on me, And the heart of the widow I cause to sing. ¹⁴ Righteousness I have put on, and it clotheth me, As a robe and a diadem my justice. ¹⁵ Eyes I have been to the blind, And feet to the lame am I. ¹⁶ A father I am to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out. ¹⁷ And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.

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.

³ O Jehovah, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands, ⁴ If I have done my well-wisher evil, And draw mine adversary without cause, ⁵ An enemy pursueth my soul, and overtaketh, And treadeth down to the earth my life, And my honour placeth in the dust. Selah.

¹⁷ All this met us, and we did not forget Thee, Nor have we dealt falsely in Thy covenant. ¹⁸ We turn not backward our heart, Nor turn aside doth our step from Thy path. ¹⁹ But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade. ²⁰ If we have forgotten the name of our God, And spread our hands to a strange God, ²¹ Doth not God search out this? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.

¹⁸ Iniquity, if I have seen in my heart, The Lord doth not hear. ¹⁹ But God hath heard, He hath attended to the voice of my prayer.

⁸ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah, And the prayer of the upright is His delight.

⁶ Their webs become not a garment, Nor do they cover themselves with their works, Their works are works of iniquity, And a deed of violence is in their hands.

⁸ and cover themselves with sackcloth let man and beast, and let them call unto God mightily, and let them turn back each from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

⁸ I wish, therefore, that men pray in every place, lifting up kind hands, apart from anger and reasoning;

¹¹ and now, cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive the blood of thy brother from thy hand;

⁵ and do not cover over their iniquity, and their sin from before Thee let not be blotted out, for they have provoked to anger—over-against those building.

⁹ His cry doth God hear, When distress cometh on him?

¹⁵ And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands of blood have been full.

²¹ For, lo, Jehovah is coming out of His place, To charge the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth upon him, And revealed hath the earth her blood, Nor doth she cover any more her slain!'

⁹ Then thou callest, and Jehovah answereth, Thou criest, and He saith, `Behold Me.' If thou turn aside from thy midst the yoke, The sending forth of the finger, And the speaking of vanity, ¹⁰ And dost bring out to the hungry thy soul, And the afflicted soul dost satisfy, Then risen in the darkness hath thy light, And thy thick darkness is as noon.

²⁹ Earth, earth, earth, hear a word of Jehovah,

⁷ For her blood in her midst hath been, On a clear place of a rock she hath set it, She hath not poured it on the earth, To cover it over with dust.

³ ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend it . ⁴ Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

⁵⁰ if thou afflict my daughters, or take wives beside my daughters—there is no man with us—see, God is witness between me and thee.'

⁵ And he saith unto them, `A witness is Jehovah against you: and a witness is His anointed this day, that ye have not found anything in my hand;' and they say, `A witness.'

² The rule and fear are with Him, Making peace in His high places.

⁵ Who is as Jehovah our God, He is exalting Himself to sit?

⁹ for God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of His Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you,

¹ Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit,

²³ And I for a witness on God do call upon my soul, that sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth;

³¹ the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ—who is blessed to the ages—hath known that I do not lie! —

⁵ for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God is witness!)

¹⁰ ye are witnesses—God also—how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became,

⁴ A laughter to his friend I am: `He calleth to God, and He answereth him,' A laughter is the perfect righteous one. ⁵ A torch—despised in the thoughts of the secure Is prepared for those sliding with the feet.

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.

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

⁴ For my love they oppose me, and I—prayer!

² I pour forth before Him my meditation, My distress before Him I declare.

⁴ Yea, he is a prince unto the Messenger, And he overcometh by weeping, And he maketh supplication to Him, At Bethel He doth find him, And there He doth speak with us, ⁵ Even Jehovah, God of the Hosts, Jehovah is His memorial.

¹¹ and they were filled with madness, and were speaking with one another what they might do to Jesus.
¹² And it came to pass in those days, he went forth to the mountain to pray, and was passing the night in the prayer of God,

⁷ who in the days of his flesh both prayers and supplications unto Him who was able to save him from death—with strong crying and tears—having offered up, and having been heard in respect to that which he feared,

³⁴ He doth turn aside from off me his rod, And His terror doth not make me afraid, ³⁵ I speak, and do not fear Him, But I am not right with myself.

³ Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight.

²² And call Thou, and I—I answer, Or—I speak, and answer Thou me.

³ O that I had known—and I find Him, I come in unto His seat, ⁴ I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill with arguments. ⁵ I know the words He doth answer me, And understand what He saith to me. ⁶ In the abundance of power doth He strive with me? No! surely He putteth it in me. ⁷ There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge.

³⁵ Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written.

¹ And Jehovah doth answer Job, and saith: — ² Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it. ³ And Job answereth Jehovah, and saith: — 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.

¹⁰ What is that which hath been? already is its name called, and it is known that it is man, and he is not able to contend with him who is stronger than he.

⁹ Woe to him who is striving with his Former, (A potsherd with potsherds of the ground!) Doth clay say to its Framer, `What dost thou?' And thy work, `He hath no hands?'

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?

⁹ Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up. ¹⁰ He turneth not again to his house, Nor doth his place discern him again.

⁵ If determined are his days, The number of his months are with Thee, His limit Thou hast made, And he passeth not over;

¹⁰ And a man dieth, and becometh weak, And man expireth, and where is he?

¹⁴ If a man dieth—doth he revive? All days of my warfare I wait, till my change come.

⁵ Also of that which is high they are afraid, And of the low places in the way, And the almond-tree is despised, And the grasshopper is become a burden, And want is increased, For man is going unto his home age-during, And the mourners have gone round through the street.