Job 16:7 Cross References - YLT

⁷ Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company,

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.

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

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.