Job 17 Cross References - YLT

¹ My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished—graves are for me. ² If not—mockeries are with me. And in their provocations mine eye lodgeth. ³ Place, I pray Thee, my pledge with Thee; Who is he that striketh hand with me? ⁴ For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them. ⁵ For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed. ⁶ And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am. ⁷ And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them. 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.
¹⁰ Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man. ¹¹ My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart! ¹² Night for day they appoint, Light is near because of darkness. ¹³ If I wait—Sheol is my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch. ¹⁴ To corruption I have called: —`Thou art my father.' `My mother' and `my sister' —to the worm. ¹⁵ And where is now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it? ¹⁶ To the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.

¹¹ What is my power that I should hope? And what mine end That I should prolong my life?

¹³ If I wait—Sheol is my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch. ¹⁴ To corruption I have called: —`Thou art my father.' `My mother' and `my sister' —to the worm.

¹⁷ My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favours to the sons of my mother's womb.

¹⁶ And Job liveth after this a hundred and forty years, and seeth his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations;

³ For my soul hath been full of evils, And my life hath come to Sheol. ⁴ I have been reckoned with those going down to the pit, I have been as a man without strength. ⁵ Among the dead—free, As pierced ones lying in the grave, Whom Thou hast not remembered any more, Yea, they by Thy hand have been cut off.

¹⁰ `I—I said in the cutting off of my days, I go in to the gates of Sheol, I have numbered the remnant of mine years. ¹¹ I said, I do not see Jah—Jah! In the land of the living, I do not behold man any more, With the inhabitants of the world. ¹² My sojourning hath departed, And been removed from me as a shepherd's tent, I have drawn together, as a weaver, my life, By weakness it cutteth me off, From day unto night Thou dost end me. ¹³ I have set Him till morning as a lion, So doth He break all my bones, From day unto night Thou dost end me. ¹⁴ As a crane—a swallow—so I chatter, I mourn as a dove, Drawn up have been mine eyes on high, O Jehovah, oppression is on me, be my surety.

¹⁶ For, not to the age do I strive, nor for ever am I wroth, For the spirit from before Me is feeble, And the souls I have made.

⁶ and her adversity hath also provoked her greatly, so as to make her tremble, for Jehovah hath shut up her womb. ⁷ And so he doth year by year, from the time of her going up into the house of Jehovah, so it provoketh her, and she weepeth, and doth not eat.

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

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

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

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

¹³ His soul in good doth remain, And his seed doth possess the land.

¹⁴ As if a friend, as if my brother, I walked habitually, As a mourner for a mother, Mourning I have bowed down. 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; ¹⁶ With profane ones, mockers in feasts, Gnashing against me their teeth.

¹ He who is dwelling In the secret place of the Most High, In the shade of the Mighty lodgeth habitually,

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.' <sup>41</sup> And in like manner also the chief priests mocking, with the scribes and elders, said, <sup>42</sup> `Others he saved; himself he is not able to save! If he be King of Israel, let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe him; ⁴³ he hath trusted on God, let Him now deliver him, if He wish him, because he said—Son of God I am;' ⁴⁴ with the same also the robbers, who were crucified with him, were reproaching him.

⁹ I—I am surety for him, from my hand thou dost require him; if I have not brought him in unto thee, and set him before thee—then I have sinned against thee all the days;

³² for thy servant obtained the youth by surety from my father, saying, If I bring him not in unto thee—then I have sinned against my father all the days.

³³ If there were between us an umpire, He doth place his hand on us both.

¹²² Make sure Thy servant for good, Let not the proud oppress me.

¹¹ And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.

¹⁵ Evil one suffereth when he hath been surety for a stranger, And whoso is hating suretyship is confident.

¹⁸ A man lacking heart is striking hands, A surety he becometh before his friend.

¹⁶ Take his garment when a stranger hath been surety, And for strangers pledge it.

²⁶ Be not thou among those striking hands, Among sureties for burdens.

¹⁴ As a crane—a swallow—so I chatter, I mourn as a dove, Drawn up have been mine eyes on high, O Jehovah, oppression is on me, be my surety.

²² by so much of a better covenant hath Jesus become surety,

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.

¹⁶ And it cometh to pass, in his speaking unto him, that he saith to him, `For a counsellor to the king have we appointed thee? cease for thee; why do they smite thee?' And the prophet ceaseth, and saith, `I have known that God hath counselled to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened to my counsel.'

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.

²⁵ At that time Jesus answering said, `I do confess to Thee, Father, Lord of the heavens and of the earth, that thou didst hide these things from wise and understanding ones, and didst reveal them to babes.

¹¹ And he answering said to them that—`To you it hath been given to know the secrets of the reign of the heavens, and to these it hath not been given,

⁸ according as it hath been written, `God gave to them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear,' —unto this very day,

²⁰ where is the wise? where the scribe? where a disputer of this age? did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?

⁵ Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, am a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third generation, and on the fourth, of those hating Me,

⁶⁵ `And among those nations thou dost not rest, yea, there is no resting-place for the sole of thy foot, and Jehovah hath given to thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and grief of soul;

¹² `Only, in thy days I do it not, for the sake of David thy father; out of the hand of thy son I rend it;

²⁰ And the eyes of the wicked are consumed, And refuge hath perished from them, And their hope is a breathing out of soul!

²¹ Let me not, I pray you, accept the face of any, Nor unto man give flattering titles, ²² For I have not known to give flattering titles, In a little doth my Maker take me away.

² Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak. ³ Jehovah doth cut off all lips of flattery, A tongue speaking great things,

¹⁹ A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver with his lips make not thyself surety.

⁵ A man taking a portion above his neighbour, Spreadeth a net for his own steps.

¹⁷ While we exist—consumed are our eyes for our vain help, In our watch-tower we have watched for a nation that saveth not.

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!)

²⁷ Why hast thou hidden thyself to flee, and deceivest me, and hast not declared to me, and I send thee away with joy and with songs, with tabret and with harp,

⁷ then I have cut off Israel from the face of the ground that I have given to them, and the house that I have hallowed for My name I send away from My presence, and Israel hath been for a simile and for a byword among all the peoples;

⁹ And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword.

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

¹² And harp, and psaltery, tabret, and pipe, And wine, have been their banquets, And the work of Jehovah they behold not, Yea, the work of His hands they have not seen.

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.

¹⁶ My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids is death-shade.

⁷ Old from provocation is mine eye, It is old because of all mine adversaries,

⁹ Favour me, O Jehovah, for distress is to me, Mine eye, my soul, and my body Have become old by provocation. ¹⁰ For my life hath been consumed in sorrow And my years in sighing. Feeble because of mine iniquity hath been my strength, And my bones have become old.

²³ As a shadow when it is stretched out I have gone, I have been driven away as a locust.

¹² For who knoweth what is good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?

¹⁷ For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.

¹⁹ See do the righteous and they rejoice, And the innocent mocketh at them,

³⁰ From the reigning of a profane man, From the snares of a people;

¹² Lo, these are the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength. ¹³ Only—a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands, ¹⁴ And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof is every morning.
¹⁵ If I have said, `I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.

⁸ If oppression of the poor, and violent taking away of judgment and righteousness thou seest in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for a higher than the high is observing, and high ones are over them.

¹³ Purer of eyes than to behold evil, To look on perverseness Thou art not able, Why dost Thou behold the treacherous? Thou keepest silent when the wicked Doth swallow the more righteous than he,

⁴⁶ And speaking boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, `To you it was necessary that first the word of God be spoken, and seeing ye do thrust it away, and do not judge yourselves worthy of the life age-during, lo, we do turn to the nations;

³³ O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

⁵ hath not he himself said to me, She is my sister! and she, even she herself, said, He is my brother; in the integrity of my heart, and in the innocency of my hands, I have done this.'

³⁰ He delivereth the not innocent, Yea, he hath been delivered By the cleanness of thy hands.

⁴ The clean of hands, and pure of heart, Who hath not lifted up to vanity his soul, Nor hath sworn to deceit.

⁶ I wash in innocency my hands, And I compass Thine altar, O Jehovah.

¹³ Only—a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,

⁷ They go from strength unto strength, He appeareth unto God in Zion.

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.

¹⁸ And the path of the righteous is as a shining light, Going and brightening till the day is established,

¹⁶ The wise is fearing and turning from evil, And a fool is transgressing and is confident.

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.
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.

⁸ And a highway hath been there, and a way, And the `way of holiness' is called to it, Not pass over it doth the unclean, And He Himself is by them, Whoso is going in the way—even fools err not. ⁹ No lion is there, yea, a destructive beast Ascendeth it not, it is not found there, And walked have the redeemed, ¹⁰ And the ransomed of Jehovah return, And have entered Zion with singing. And joy age-during on their head, Joy and gladness they attain, And fled away have sorrow and sighing!

²⁹ He is giving power to the weary, And to those not strong He increaseth might. ³⁰ Even youths are wearied and fatigued, And young men utterly stumble, ³¹ But those expecting Jehovah pass to power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!

² and having seen certain of his disciples with defiled hands—that is, unwashed—eating bread, they found fault;

⁹ and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me: ¹⁰ wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses—for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;

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

¹⁹ out of us they went forth, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but—that they might be manifested that they are not all of us.

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

² Truly—ye are the people, And with you doth wisdom die.

⁹ What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou—and it is not with us?

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

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

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.

¹⁸ And ye have turned back and considered, Between the righteous and the wicked, Between the servant of God and him who is not His servant.

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 My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.

²⁵ My days have been swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have not seen good, ²⁶ They have passed on with ships of reed, As an eagle darteth on food.

⁹ The heart of man deviseth his way, And Jehovah establisheth his step.

²¹ Many are the purposes in a man's heart, And the counsel of Jehovah it standeth.

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.

¹⁰ Take counsel, and it is broken, Speak a word, and it doth not stand, Because of Emmanu-El!'

¹⁰ `I—I said in the cutting off of my days, I go in to the gates of Sheol, I have numbered the remnant of mine years.

³⁷ Who is this—he hath said, and it is, And the Lord hath not commanded it ?

¹³ And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that many times I did purpose to come unto you—and was hindered till the present time—that some fruit I might have also among you, even as also among the other nations.

¹⁵ and in this confidence I was purposing to come unto you before, that a second favour ye might have, ¹⁶ and through you to pass to Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and by you to be sent forward to Judea. ¹⁷ This, therefore, counselling, did I then use the lightness; or the things that I counsel, according to the flesh do I counsel, that it may be with me Yes, yes, and No, no?

¹³ Go, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;' <sup>14</sup> who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing; <sup>15</sup> instead of your saying, `If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;'

⁶⁷ in the morning thou sayest, O that it were evening! and in the evening thou sayest, O that it were morning! from the fear of thy heart, with which thou art afraid, and from the sight of thine eyes which thou seest.

³ So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me. ⁴ If I lay down then I said, `When do I rise!' And evening hath been measured, And I have been full of tossings till dawn.

¹³ When I said, `My bed doth comfort me,' He taketh away in my talking my couch. ¹⁴ And thou hast affrighted me with dreams, And from visions thou terrifiest me,

¹⁴ At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief. ¹⁵ And the eye of an adulterer Hath observed the twilight, Saying, `No eye doth behold me.' And he putteth the face in secret. ¹⁶ He hath dug in the darkness—houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.

¹³ For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept—then there is rest to me,

²¹ Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade, ²² A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade—and no order, And the shining is as thick darkness.'

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

¹ My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished—graves are for me.

²³ For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And to the house appointed for all living.

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

⁸ If I ascend the heavens—there Thou art, And spread out a couch in Sheol, lo, Thee!

² He entereth into peace, they rest on their beds, Each is going straightforward.

²⁵ Good is Jehovah to those waiting for Him, To the soul that seeketh Him. ²⁶ Good! when one doth stay and stand still For the salvation of Jehovah.

²⁸ And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.

²⁶ And after my skin hath compassed this body, Then from my flesh I see God:

²⁶ Together—on the dust they lie down, And the worm doth cover them over.

³² And he—to the graves he is brought. And over the heap a watch is kept. ³³ Sweet to him have been the clods of the valley, And after him every man he draweth, And before him there is no numbering.

²⁰ Forget him doth the womb, Sweeten on him doth the worm, No more is he remembered, And broken as a tree is wickedness.

³⁰ My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat,

¹⁰ For Thou dost not leave my soul to Sheol, Nor givest thy saintly one to see corruption.

⁹ And still he liveth for ever, He seeth not the pit.

¹¹ Brought down to Sheol hath been thine excellency, The noise of thy psaltery, Under thee spread out hath been the worm, Yea, covering thee is the worm.

²⁷ because Thou wilt not leave my soul to hades, nor wilt Thou give Thy Kind One to see corruption; ²⁸ Thou didst make known to me ways of life, Thou shalt fill me with joy with Thy countenance. ²⁹ `Men, brethren! it is permitted to speak with freedom unto you concerning the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is among us unto this day; ³⁰ a prophet, therefore, being, and knowing that with an oath God did swear to him, out of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, to raise up the Christ, to sit upon his throne, ³¹ having foreseen, he did speak concerning the rising again of the Christ, that his soul was not left to hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.

³⁴ `And that He did raise him up out of the dead, no more to return to corruption, he hath said thus—I will give to you the faithful kindnesses of David; ³⁵ wherefore also in another place he saith, Thou shalt not give Thy kind One to see corruption, ³⁶ for David, indeed, his own generation having served by the will of God, did fall asleep, and was added unto his fathers, and saw corruption, ³⁷ but he whom God did raise up, did not see corruption.

⁴² So also is the rising again of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption;

⁵³ for it behoveth this corruptible to put on incorruption, and this mortal to put on immortality; ⁵⁴ and when this corruptible may have put on incorruption, and this mortal may have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written, `The Death was swallowed up—to victory;

⁶ Is not thy reverence thy confidence? Thy hope—the perfection of thy ways?

¹⁵ Lo, He doth slay me—I wait not! Only, my ways unto His face I argue.

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

¹⁷ There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do the wearied in power. ¹⁸ Together prisoners have been at ease, They have not heard the voice of an exactor, ¹⁹ Small and great are there the same. And a servant is free from his lord.

¹³ It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born. ¹⁴ Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors.

¹⁸ He keepeth back his soul from corruption, And his life from passing away by a dart.
¹⁹ And he hath been reproved With pain on his bed, And the strife of his bones is enduring. ²⁰ And his life hath nauseated bread, And his soul desirable food. ²¹ His flesh is consumed from being seen, And high are his bones, they were not seen! ²² And draw near to the pit doth his soul, And his life to those causing death. ²³ If there is by him a messenger, An interpreter—one of a thousand, To declare for man his uprightness: ²⁴ Then He doth favour him and saith, `Ransom him from going down to the pit, I have found an atonement.' <sup>25</sup> Fresher is his flesh than a child's, He returneth to the days of his youth. <sup>26</sup> He maketh supplication unto God, And He accepteth him. And he seeth His face with shouting, And He returneth to man His righteousness. <sup>27</sup> He looketh on men, and saith, `I sinned, And uprightness I have perverted, And it hath not been profitable to me. ²⁸ He hath ransomed my soul From going over into the pit, And my life on the light looketh.'

⁴ I have been reckoned with those going down to the pit, I have been as a man without strength. ⁵ Among the dead—free, As pierced ones lying in the grave, Whom Thou hast not remembered any more, Yea, they by Thy hand have been cut off. ⁶ Thou hast put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in depths. ⁷ Upon me hath Thy fury lain, And with all Thy breakers Thou hast afflicted. Selah. ⁸ Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me, Thou hast made me an abomination to them, Shut up—I go not forth.

⁷ Haste, answer me, O Jehovah, My spirit hath been consumed, Hide not Thou Thy face from me, Or I have been compared with those going down to the pit.

¹⁷ Lo, to peace He changed for me bitterness, And Thou hast delighted in my soul without corruption, For Thou hast cast behind Thy back all my sins. ¹⁸ For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.

¹¹ And He saith unto me, `Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; lo, they are saying: Dried up have our bones, And perished hath our hope, We have been cut off by ourselves.

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.

⁹ but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead,