Job 22 Cross References - YLT

¹ And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: — ² To God is a man profitable, Because a wise man to himself is profitable? ³ Is it a delight to the Mighty One That thou art righteous? is it gain, That thou makest perfect thy ways? ⁴ Because of thy reverence Doth He reason with thee? He entereth with thee into judgment:
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. ¹⁰ Therefore round about thee are snares, And trouble thee doth fear suddenly. ¹¹ Or darkness—thou dost not see, And abundance of waters doth cover thee. ¹² Is not God high in heaven? And see the summit of the stars, That they are high. ¹³ And thou hast said, `What—hath God known? Through thickness doth He judge? <sup>14</sup> Thick clouds are a secret place to Him, And He doth not see;' And the circle of the heavens He walketh habitually,
<sup>15</sup> The path of the age dost thou observe, That men of iniquity have trodden? <sup>16</sup> Who have been cut down unexpectedly, A flood is poured out on their foundation. <sup>17</sup> Those saying to God, `Turn aside from us,' And what doth the Mighty One to them? ¹⁸ And he hath filled their houses with good: (And the counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.) ¹⁹ See do the righteous and they rejoice, And the innocent mocketh at them, ²⁰ `Surely our substance hath not been cut off, And their excellency hath fire consumed.'
<sup>21</sup> Acquaint thyself, I pray thee, with Him, And be at peace, Thereby thine increase is good. <sup>22</sup> Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His sayings in thy heart. <sup>23</sup> If thou dost return unto the Mighty Thou art built up, Thou puttest iniquity far from thy tents. <sup>24</sup> So as to set on the dust a defence, And on a rock of the valleys a covering. <sup>25</sup> And the Mighty hath been thy defence, And silver is strength to thee. <sup>26</sup> For then on the Mighty thou delightest thyself, And dost lift up unto God thy face, <sup>27</sup> Thou dost make supplication unto Him, And He doth hear thee, And thy vows thou completest. <sup>28</sup> And thou decreest a saying, And it is established to thee, And on thy ways hath light shone. <sup>29</sup> For they have made low, And thou sayest, `Lift up.' And the bowed down of eyes he saveth. ³⁰ He delivereth the not innocent, Yea, he hath been delivered By the cleanness of thy hands.

¹³ to keep the commands of Jehovah, and His statutes which I am commanding thee to-day, for good to thee?

¹⁵ What is the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'

⁶ If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him? ⁷ If thou hast been righteous, What dost thou give to Him? Or what from thy hand doth He receive? ⁸ For a man like thyself is thy wickedness, And for a son of man thy righteousness.

² Thou hast said to Jehovah, `My Lord Thou art;' My good is not for thine own sake;

¹³ O the happiness of a man who hath found wisdom, And of a man who bringeth forth understanding. ¹⁴ For better is her merchandise Than the merchandise of silver, And than gold—her increase. ¹⁵ Precious she is above rubies, And all thy pleasures are not comparable to her. ¹⁶ Length of days is in her right hand, In her left are wealth and honour. ¹⁷ Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace. ¹⁸ A tree of life she is to those laying hold on her, And whoso is retaining her is happy.

⁷ The first thing is wisdom—get wisdom, And with all thy getting get understanding. ⁸ Exalt her, and she doth lift thee up, She honoureth thee, when thou dost embrace her. ⁹ She giveth to thy head a wreath of grace, A crown of beauty she doth give thee freely.

¹² If thou hast been wise, thou hast been wise for thyself, And thou hast scorned—thyself bearest it .

¹¹ Wisdom is good with an inheritance, And an advantage it is to those beholding the sun. ¹² For wisdom is a defense, money is a defence, And the advantage of the knowledge of wisdom is, She reviveth her possessors.

²⁹ `But, if thy right eye doth cause thee to stumble, pluck it out and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna.

¹⁰ `So also ye, when ye may have done all the things directed you, say—We are unprofitable servants, because that which we owed to do—we have done.'

⁷ Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow—that also he shall reap, ⁸ because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;

¹⁷ `And I have known, my God, that Thou art trying the heart, and uprightness dost desire; I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these: and now, Thy people who are found here I have seen with joy to offer willingly to Thee.

¹⁰ For He hath known the way with me, He hath tried me—as gold I go forth. ¹¹ On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn not aside, ¹² The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth.

¹ To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. —A Psalm of David. I have said, `I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked is before me.'

³ Yea, they have not done iniquity, In His ways they have walked.
⁴ Thou hast commanded us Thy precepts to keep diligently, ⁵ O that my ways were prepared to keep Thy statutes, ⁶ Then I am not ashamed In my looking unto all Thy commands.

⁵⁹ I have reckoned my ways, And turn back my feet unto Thy testimonies.

¹⁰ Not in the might of the horse doth He delight, Not in the legs of a man is He pleased. ¹¹ Jehovah is pleased with those fearing Him, With those waiting for His kindness.

¹ Balances of deceit are an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight is His delight.

²⁰ An abomination to Jehovah are the perverse of heart, And the perfect of the way are His delight.

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

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

¹⁷ Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words, And ye have said: `In what have we wearied Him?' In your saying: `Every evil-doer is good in the eyes of Jehovah, And in them He is delighting,' Or, `Where is the God of judgment?'

¹⁶ and in this I do exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.

¹ Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;

¹⁸ and I have all things, and abound; I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you—an odour of a sweet smell—a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God:

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

¹⁹ If of power, lo, the Strong One; And if of judgment—who doth convene me?

³² But if a man like myself—I answer him, We come together into judgment.

³ Also—on this Thou hast opened Thine eyes, And dost bring me into judgment with Thee.

²¹ And he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for his friend.

²⁹ Be ye afraid because of the sword, For furious are the punishments of the sword, That ye may know that there is a judgment.

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.

²³ For He doth not suffer man any more, To go unto God in judgment,

¹¹ With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity is every man. Selah.

⁶ From Thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, Both rider and horse have been fast asleep.

¹⁶ Burnt with fire—cut down, From the rebuke of Thy face they perish.

³ If iniquities Thou dost observe, O Lord, who doth stand? ⁴ But with Thee is forgiveness, that Thou mayest be feared.

² And enter not into judgment with Thy servant, For no one living is justified before Thee.

¹⁴ For every work doth God bring into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether good or bad.'

¹⁴ Jehovah into judgment doth enter With elders of His people, and its heads: `And ye, ye have consumed the vineyard, Plunder of the poor is in your houses. ¹⁵ What—to you? ye bruise My people, And the faces of the poor ye grind.' An affirmation of the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, And Jehovah saith:

¹⁹ `As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;

⁷ Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished? And where have the upright been cut off? ⁸ As I have seen—ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it! ⁹ From the breath of God they perish, And from the spirit of His anger consumed. ¹⁰ The roaring of a lion, And the voice of a fierce lion, And teeth of young lions have been broken. ¹¹ An old lion is perishing without prey, And the whelps of the lioness do separate.

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

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

⁵ For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile. ⁶ Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips testify against thee.

³¹ Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence. ³² Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green. ³³ He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom. 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.

³ and against his three friends hath his anger burned, because that they have not found an answer, and condemn Job.

¹² Errors! who doth understand? From hidden ones declare me innocent,

¹² For compassed me have evils innumerable, Overtaken me have mine iniquities, And I have not been able to see; They have been more than the hairs of my head, And my heart hath forsaken me.

²⁶ if thou dost at all take in pledge the garment of thy neighbour, during the going in of the sun thou dost return it to him:

⁶ `None doth take in pledge millstones, and rider, for life it is he is taking in pledge.

¹⁰ `When thou liftest up on thy brother a debt of anything, thou dost not go in unto his house to obtain his pledge; <sup>11</sup> at the outside thou dost stand, and the man on whom thou art lifting it up is bringing out unto thee the pledge at the outside. <sup>12</sup> `And if he is a poor man, thou dost not lie down with his pledge; ¹³ thou dost certainly give back to him the pledge at the going in of the sun, and he hath lain down in his own raiment, and hath blessed thee; and to thee it is righteousness before Jehovah thy God.
¹⁴ `Thou dost not oppress a hireling, poor and needy, of thy brethren or of thy sojourner who is in thy land within thy gates; <sup>15</sup> in his day thou dost give his hire, and the sun doth not go in upon it, for he is poor, and unto it he is lifting up his soul, and he doth not cry against thee unto Jehovah, and it hath been in thee—sin. <sup>16</sup> `Fathers are not put to death for sons, and sons are not put to death for fathers—each for his own sin, they are put to death. ¹⁷ `Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of a fatherless sojourner, nor take in pledge the garment of a widow; ¹⁸ and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in Egypt, and Jehovah thy God doth ransom thee from thence; therefore I am commanding thee to do this thing.

³ The ass of the fatherless they lead away, They take in pledge the ox of the widow,

⁹ They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge. ¹⁰ Naked, they have gone without clothing, And hungry—have taken away a sheaf.

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,

⁷ A man—he doth not oppress, His pledge to the debtor he doth return, Plunder he doth not take away, His bread to the hungry he doth give, And the naked doth cover with a garment,

¹² The afflicted and needy he hath oppressed, Plunder he hath taken violently away, A pledge he doth not return, And unto the idols he hath lifted up his eyes, Abomination he hath done!

¹⁶ A man—he hath not oppressed, A pledge he hath not bound, And plunder he hath not taken away, His bread to the hungry he hath given, And the naked he covered with a garment,

⁸ And on pledged garments they stretch themselves near every altar, And the wine of fined ones they drink in the house of their gods.

⁷ `When there is with thee any needy one of one of thy brethren, in one of thy cities, in thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, thou dost not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy needy brother; <sup>8</sup> for thou dost certainly open thy hand to him, and dost certainly lend him sufficient for his lack which he lacketh. <sup>9</sup> `Take heed to thee lest there be a word in thy heart—worthless, saying, Near is the seventh year, the year of release; and thine eye is evil against thy needy brother, and thou dost not give to him, and he hath called concerning thee unto Jehovah, and it hath been in thee sin; ¹⁰ thou dost certainly give to him, and thy heart is not sad in thy giving to him, for because of this thing doth Jehovah thy God bless thee in all thy works, and in every putting forth of thy hand; ¹¹ because the needy one doth not cease out of the land, therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Thou dost certainly open thy hand to thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy one, in thy land.

¹⁷ And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it,

³¹ If not—say ye, O men of my tent, `O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.'

⁹ He hath scattered—hath given to the needy, His righteousness is standing for ever, His horn is exalted with honour.

²⁴ There is who is scattering, and yet is increased, And who is keeping back from uprightness, only to want.
²⁵ A liberal soul is made fat, And whoso is watering, he also is watered.

¹⁷ Whoso is lending to Jehovah is favouring the poor, And his deed He repayeth to him.

⁷ Is it not to deal to the hungry thy bread, And the mourning poor bring home, That thou seest the naked and cover him, And from thine own flesh hide not thyself?

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.

⁴² for I did hunger, and ye gave me not to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me not to drink;

²⁰ I will recompense again, saith the Lord;' if, then, thine enemy doth hunger, feed him; if he doth thirst, give him drink; for this doing, coals of fire thou shalt heap upon his head;

¹¹ And the men of his city, the elders and the freemen who are dwelling in his city, do as Jezebel hath sent unto them, as written in the letters that she sent unto them, ¹² they have proclaimed a fast, and caused Naboth to sit at the head of the people, ¹³ and two men—sons of worthlessness—come in, and sit over-against him, and the men of worthlessness testify of him, even Naboth, before the people, saying, `Naboth blessed God and Melech;' and they take him out to the outside of the city, and stone him with stones, and he dieth; <sup>14</sup> and they send unto Jezebel, saying, `Naboth was stoned, and is dead.' ¹⁵ And it cometh to pass, at Jezebel's hearing that Naboth hath been stoned, and is dead, that Jezebel saith unto Ahab, `Rise, possess the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, that he refused to give to thee for money, for Naboth is not alive but dead.'

⁸ His face do ye accept, if for God ye strive?

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.

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.

⁸ Around the wicked walk continually, According as vileness is exalted by sons of men!

³ Head of fifty, and accepted of faces, And counsellor, and the wise of artificers, And the intelligent of charmers.

¹⁵ Elder, and accepted of face, he is the head, Prophet, teacher of falsehood, he is the tail.

³ On the evil are both hands to do it well, The prince is asking—also the judge—for recompence, And the great—he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up.

²¹ `And a sojourner thou dost not oppress, nor crush him, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt. <sup>22</sup> `Any widow or orphan ye do not afflict; ²³ if thou dost really afflict him, surely if he at all cry unto Me, I certainly hear his cry; ²⁴ and Mine anger hath burned, and I have slain you by the sword, and your wives have been widows, and your sons orphans.

¹⁹ `Cursed is he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner, and widow, —and all the people have said, Amen.

²¹ Treating evil the barren who beareth not, And to the widow he doth no good,

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.

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.)

²¹ If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in him the gate of my court,

¹⁵ Break the arm of the wicked and the evil, Seek out his wickedness, find none;

¹⁷ For the arms of the wicked are shivered, And Jehovah is sustaining the righteous.

⁶ Widow and sojourner they slay, And fatherless ones they murder.

¹⁷ Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive for the widow.

²³ Thy princes are apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.

² To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.

⁷ Father and mother made light of in thee, To a sojourner they dealt oppressively in thy midst, Fatherless and widow they oppressed in thee.

²² Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, And I have broken his arms, The strong one and the broken one, And have caused the sword to fall out of his hand,

⁵ And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.

³ and a widow was in that city, and she was coming unto him, saying, Do me justice on my opponent, ⁴ and he would not for a time, but after these things he said in himself, Even if God I do not fear, and man do not regard, ⁵ yet because this widow doth give me trouble, I will do her justice, lest, perpetually coming, she may plague me.'

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

²¹ Thy hand put far off from me, And Thy terror let not terrify me.

⁸ For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually. ⁹ Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing. ¹⁰ Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.

⁶ Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,

⁶ He poureth on the wicked snares, fire, and brimstone, And a horrible wind is the portion of their cup.

²⁷ When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.

²⁵ Be not afraid of sudden fear, And of the desolation of the wicked when it cometh. ²⁶ For Jehovah is at thy side, And He hath kept thy foot from capture.

³ for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail doth her who is with child, and they shall not escape;

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

⁶ The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.

¹⁸ They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

⁸ My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.

³⁴ Dost thou lift up to the cloud thy voice, And abundance of water doth cover thee?

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

¹ To the Overseer. —`On the Lilies,' by David. Save me, O God, for come have waters unto the soul. ² I have sunk in deep mire, And there is no standing, I have come into the depths of the waters, And a flood hath overflown me.

⁴ Then the waters had overflowed us, The stream passed over our soul, ⁵ Then passed over our soul had the proud waters.

¹⁹ The way of the wicked is as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.

²² And unto the land it looketh attentively, And lo, adversity and darkness! —Dimness, distress, and thick darkness is driven away, But not the dimness for which she is in distress!

² Me He hath led, and causeth to go in darkness, and without light.

⁵⁴ Flowed have waters over my head, I have said, I have been cut off.

² A day of darkness and thick darkness, A day of cloud and thick darkness, As darkness spread on the mountains, A people numerous and mighty, Like it there hath not been from of old, And after it there is not again—till the years of generation and generation. ³ Before it consumed hath fire, And after it burn doth a flame, As the garden of Eden is the land before it, And after it a wilderness—a desolation! And also an escape there hath not been to it,

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.

¹² but the sons of the reign shall be cast forth to the outer darkness—there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.'

⁸ Heights of the heavens! —what dost thou? Deeper than Sheol! —what knowest thou?

³ For I see Thy heavens, a work of Thy fingers, Moon and stars that Thou didst establish. ⁴ What is man that Thou rememberest him? The son of man that Thou inspectest him?

³ And our God is in the heavens, All that He hath pleased He hath done.

¹⁶ The heavens—the heavens are Jehovah's, And the earth He hath given to sons of men,

² Cause not thy mouth to hasten, and let not thy heart hasten to bring out a word before God, for God is in the heavens, and thou on the earth, therefore let thy words be few.

¹⁵ For thus said the high and exalted One, Inhabiting eternity, and holy is His name: `In the high and holy place I dwell, And with the bruised and humble of spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of bruised ones,'

¹ Thus said Jehovah: The heavens are My throne, And the earth My footstool, Where is this—the house that ye build for Me? And where is this—the place—My rest?

¹¹ He said in his heart, `God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'

⁷ Lo, they belch out with their mouths, Swords are in their lips, for `Who heareth?'

⁵ They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, `Who doth look at it?'

¹¹ And they have said, `How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'

⁷ And they say, `Jehovah doth not see, And the God of Jacob doth not consider.' ⁸ Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely? ⁹ He who planteth the ear doth He not hear? He who formeth the eye doth He not see?

¹⁵ Woe to those going deep from Jehovah to hide counsel, And whose works have been in darkness. And they say, `Who is seeing us? And who is knowing us?'

¹² And He saith unto me, `Hast thou seen, son of man, that which elders of the house of Israel are doing in darkness, each in the inner chambers of his imagery, for they are saying, Jehovah is not seeing us, Jehovah hath forsaken the land?'

⁹ And He saith unto me, `The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very very great, and the land is full of blood, and the city hath been full of perverseness, for they have said: Jehovah hath forsaken the land, and Jehovah is not seeing.

¹² And it hath come to pass, at that time, I search Jerusalem with lights, And I have laid a charge on the men Who are hardened on their preserved things, Who are saying in their heart: Jehovah doth no good, nor doth He evil.

⁹ Taking hold of the face of the throne, Spreading over it His cloud.

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

¹⁴ From the fixed place of His dwelling, He looked unto all inhabitants of the earth;

² Cloud and darkness are round about Him, Righteousness and judgment the basis of His throne.

¹ To the Overseer. —A Psalm by David. Jehovah, Thou hast searched me, and knowest. ² Thou—Thou hast known my sitting down, And my rising up, Thou hast attended to my thoughts from afar.

¹¹ And I say, `Surely darkness bruiseth me, Then night is light to me. ¹² Also darkness hideth not from Thee, And night as day shineth, as is darkness so is light.

²⁴ Is any one hidden in secret places, And I see him not? an affirmation of Jehovah, Do not I fill the heavens and the earth? An affirmation of Jehovah.

² and there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known; ³ because whatever in the darkness ye said, in the light shall be heard: and what to the ear ye spake in the inner-chambers, shall be proclaimed upon the house-tops.

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

¹¹ And the earth is corrupt before God, and the earth is filled with violence. ¹² And God seeth the earth, and lo, it hath been corrupted, for all flesh hath corrupted its way on the earth.
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.

²⁶ `And, as it came to pass in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man; ²⁷ they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came, and destroyed all;

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 deluge is forty days on the earth, and the waters multiply, and lift up the ark, and it is raised up from off the earth; ¹⁸ and the waters are mighty, and multiply exceedingly upon the earth; and the ark goeth on the face of the waters. ¹⁹ And the waters have been very very mighty on the earth, and covered are all the high mountains which are under the whole heavens; ²⁰ fifteen cubits upwards have the waters become mighty, and the mountains are covered;
²¹ and expire doth all flesh that is moving on the earth, among fowl, and among cattle, and among beasts, and among all the teeming things which are teeming on the earth, and all mankind; ²² all in whose nostrils is breath of a living spirit—of all that is in the dry land—have died. ²³ And wiped away is all the substance that is on the face of the ground, from man unto beast, unto creeping thing, and unto fowl of the heavens; yea, they are wiped away from the earth, and only Noah is left, and those who are with him in the ark; ²⁴ and the waters are mighty on the earth a hundred and fifty days.

¹⁹ Stones have waters worn away, Their outpourings wash away the dust of earth, And the hope of man Thou hast destroyed.

³² Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green.

²³ And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I—I do trust in Thee!

²⁴ I say, `My God, take me not up in the midst of my days,' Through all generations are Thine years.

¹⁷ Do not much wrong, neither be thou a fool, why dost thou die within thy time?

²⁶ `And every one who is hearing of me these words, and is not doing them, shall be likened to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand; ²⁷ and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.'

³⁷ and as the days of Noah—so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man; ³⁸ for as they were, in the days before the flood, eating, and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, till the day Noah entered into the ark, ³⁹ and they did not know till the flood came and took all away; so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man.

¹⁹ in which also to the spirits in prison having gone he did preach, ²⁰ who sometime disbelieved, when once the long-suffering of God did wait, in days of Noah—an ark being preparing—in which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water;

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,

¹⁰ His bullock hath eaten corn, and doth not loath. His cow bringeth forth safely, And doth not miscarry.

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?'

⁶ Many are saying, `Who doth show us good?' Lift on us the light of Thy face, O Jehovah,

¹¹ Turn aside from the way, decline from the path, Cause to cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.'

¹⁴ Ye have said, `A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, Because of Jehovah of Hosts?

²⁹ and lo, they cried out, saying, `What—to us and to thee, Jesus, Son of God? didst thou come hither, before the time, to afflict us?'

³⁴ And lo, all the city came forth to meet Jesus, and having seen him, they called on him that he might depart from their borders.

²⁸ And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;

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

⁶ At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought.

¹⁶ Lo, not in their hand is their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)

¹ O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat;

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.

² Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root, They go on, yea, they have made fruit, Near art Thou in their mouth, And far off from their reins.

¹⁷ though, indeed, without witness He did not leave himself, doing good—from heaven giving rains to us, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness;'

¹⁶ After these things I will turn back, and I will build again the tabernacle of David, that is fallen down, and its ruins I will build again, and will set it upright—

²³ If a scourge doth put to death suddenly, At the trial of the innocent He laugheth.

¹¹ Rejoice doth Mount Zion, The daughters of Judah are joyful, For the sake of Thy judgments.

⁶ And the righteous see, And fear, and laugh at him.

¹⁰ The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked.

⁸ Zion hath heard and rejoiceth, And daughters of Judah are joyful, Because of Thy judgments, O Jehovah.

⁴² The upright do see and rejoice, And all perversity hath shut her mouth.

¹⁰ In the good of the righteous a city exulteth, And in the destruction of the wicked is singing.

²⁰ `Be glad over her, O heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets, because God did judge your judgment of her!'

¹ And after these things I heard a great voice of a great multitude in the heaven, saying, `Alleluia! the salvation, and the glory, and the honour, and the power, is to the Lord our God; <sup>2</sup> because true and righteous are His judgments, because He did judge the great whore who did corrupt the earth in her whoredom, and He did avenge the blood of His servants at her hand;' <sup>3</sup> and a second time they said, `Alleluia;' and her smoke doth come up—to the ages of the ages!

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

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.'

⁷ Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished? And where have the upright been cut off?

³ Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice? ⁴ If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,

³⁰ He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His mouth!

¹⁸ He is giving back what he laboured for, And doth not consume it; As a bulwark is his exchange, and he exults not. ¹⁹ For he oppressed—he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it.

²⁶ All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent.

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?'

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

²⁹ and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all. ³⁰ `According to these things it shall be, in the day the Son of Man is revealed;

⁶ and the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah having turned to ashes, with an overthrow did condemn, an example to those about to be impious having set them;
⁷ and righteous Lot, worn down by the conduct in lasciviousness of the impious, He did rescue,

⁹ `And thou, Solomon, my son, know the God of thy father, and serve Him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind, for all hearts is Jehovah seeking, and every imagination of the thoughts He is understanding; if thou dost seek Him, He is found of thee, and if thou dost forsake Him, He casteth thee off for ever.

¹⁰ Young lions have lacked and been hungry, And those seeking Jehovah lack not any good,

⁵ Or—he doth take hold on My strength, He doth make peace with Me, Peace he doth make with Me.

¹⁹ Producing the fruit of the lips, `Peace, peace,' to the far off, and to the near, And I have healed him, said Jehovah. ²⁰ And the wicked are as the driven out sea, For to rest it is not able, And its waters cast out filth and mire. ²¹ There is no peace, said my God, to the wicked!

²⁵ `Be agreeing with thy opponent quickly, while thou art in the way with him, that the opponent may not deliver thee to the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and to prison thou mayest be cast,

³ and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send—Jesus Christ;

³⁶ the word that he sent to the sons of Israel, proclaiming good news—peace through Jesus Christ (this one is Lord of all,)

⁶ because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

²⁰ in behalf of Christ, then, we are ambassadors, as if God were calling through us, we beseech, in behalf of Christ, `Be ye reconciled to God;'

¹⁴ for he is our peace, who did make both one, and the middle wall of the enclosure did break down, ¹⁵ the enmity in his flesh, the law of the commands in ordinances having done away, that the two he might create in himself into one new man, making peace, ¹⁶ and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity in it, ¹⁷ and having come, he did proclaim good news—peace to you—the far-off and the nigh,

⁷ and the peace of God, that is surpassing all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

¹ `And now, Israel, hearken unto the statutes, and unto the judgments which I am teaching you to do, so that ye live, and have gone in, and possessed the land which Jehovah God of your fathers is giving to you. ² Ye do not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor diminish from it, to keep the commands of Jehovah your God which I am commanding you.

⁶ and these words which I am commanding thee to-day have been on thine heart, ⁷ and thou hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up, ⁸ and hast bound them for a sign upon thy hand, and they have been for frontlets between thine eyes, ⁹ and thou hast written them on door-posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

¹² The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth.

¹¹ In my heart I have hid Thy saying, That I sin not before Thee.

¹ My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee, ² To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding, ³ For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice, ⁴ If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her, ⁵ Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest. 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. ⁸ To keep the paths of judgment, And the way of His saints He preserveth. ⁹ Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness—every good path.

⁴ And he directeth me, and he saith to me: `Let thy heart retain my words, Keep my commands, and live.

²¹ Let them not turn aside from thine eyes, Preserve them in the midst of thy heart.

¹⁶ Thy words have been found, and I eat them, And Thy word is to me for a joy, And for the rejoicing of my heart, For Thy name is called on me, O Jehovah, God of Hosts.

³⁵ The good man out of the good treasure of the heart doth put forth the good things, and the evil man out of the evil treasure doth put forth evil things.

⁵² And he said to them, `Because of this every scribe having been discipled in regard to the reign of the heavens, is like to a man, a householder, who doth bring forth out of his treasure things new and old.'

¹⁹ and Mary was preserving all these things, pondering in her heart;

⁵¹ and he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and he was subject to them, and his mother was keeping all these sayings in her heart,

¹ As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more, ² for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus,

¹³ `Rise, sanctify the people, and thou hast said, Sanctify yourselves for to-morrow; for thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, A devoted thing is in thy midst, O Israel, thou art not able to stand before thine enemies till your turning aside of the devoted thing out of your midst; ¹⁴ and ye have been brought near in the morning by your tribes, and it hath been, the tribe which Jehovah doth capture doth draw near by families, and the family which Jehovah doth capture doth draw near by households, and the household which Jehovah doth capture doth draw near by men; ¹⁵ and it hath been, he who is captured with the devoted thing is burnt with fire, he and all that he hath, because he hath transgressed the covenant of Jehovah, and because he hath done folly in Israel.'
¹⁶ And Joshua riseth early in the morning, and bringeth Israel near by its tribes, and the tribe of Judah is captured;

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.

¹³ If thou—thou hast prepared thy heart, And hast spread out unto Him thy hands, ¹⁴ If iniquity is in thy hand, put it far off, And let not perverseness dwell in thy tents.

¹⁴ Lo, He breaketh down, and it is not built up, He shutteth against a man, And it is not opened.

¹⁵ It dwelleth in his tent—out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur.

²² And Jehovah hath smitten Egypt, smiting and healing, And they have turned back unto Jehovah, And He hath been entreated of them, And hath healed them.

⁶ Turn back to Him from whom sons of Israel Have deepened apostasy.

¹⁵ Whoso is walking righteously, And is speaking uprightly, Kicking against gain of oppressions, Shaking his hands from taking hold on a bribe, Stopping his ear from hearing of blood, And shutting his eyes from looking on evil,

⁶ Seek ye Jehovah, while He is found, Call ye Him, while He is near, ⁷ Forsake doth the wicked his way, And the man of iniquity his thoughts, And he returneth to Jehovah, and He pitieth him, And unto our God for He multiplieth to pardon.

⁴ Again do I build thee, And thou hast been built, O virgin of Israel, Again thou puttest on thy tabrets, And hast gone out in the chorus of the playful.

¹ Turn back, O Israel, unto Jehovah thy God, For thou hast stumbled by thine iniquity. ² Take with you words, and turn to Jehovah, Say ye unto Him: `Take away all iniquity, and give good, And we do render the fruit of our lips.

³ And thou hast said unto them, Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, turn back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, And I turn back unto you, said Jehovah of Hosts.

³ And he saith unto me, `This is the execration that is going forth over the face of all the land, for every one who is stealing, on the one side, according to it, hath been declared innocent, and every one who hath sworn, on the other side, according to it, hath been declared innocent. <sup>4</sup> `I have brought it out—an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts—and it hath come in unto the house of the thief, and unto the house of him who hath sworn in My name to a falsehood, and it hath remained in the midst of his house, and hath consumed it, both its wood and its stones.'

²⁰ but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation;

⁷ being rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye were taught—abounding in it in thanksgiving.

¹⁹ sure, nevertheless, hath the foundation of God stood, having this seal, `The Lord hath known those who are His,' and `Let him depart from unrighteousness—every one who is naming the name of Christ.'

²⁰ And ye, beloved, on your most holy faith building yourselves up, in the Holy Spirit praying,

²⁹ and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab; all these are sons of Joktan;

²⁸ and they come in to Ophir and take thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and bring it in unto king Solomon.

²¹ And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon are of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon are of refined gold—there are none of silver; it was not reckoned in the days of Solomon for anything,

⁴⁸ Jehoshaphat made ships at Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, and they went not, for the ships were broken in Ezion-Geber.

⁵ and the altar of brass that Bezaleel son of Uri, son of Hur made, he put before the tabernacle of Jehovah; and Solomon and the assembly seek to it.

¹⁰ And also, servants of Huram, and servants of Solomon, who brought in gold from Ophir, have brought in algum-trees and precious stone.

²⁷ And the king maketh the silver in Jerusalem as stones, and the cedars he hath made as sycamores, that are in the low country, for abundance,

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

⁹ Daughters of kings are among thy precious ones, A queen hath stood at thy right hand, In pure gold of Ophir.

¹² I make man more rare than fine gold, And a common man than pure gold of Ophir.

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

⁵ Jehovah is the portion of my share, and of my cup, Thou—Thou dost uphold my lot. ⁶ Lines have fallen to me in pleasant places, Yea, a beauteous inheritance is for me.

² Jehovah is my rock, and my bulwark, And my deliverer, My God is my rock, I trust in Him: My shield, and a horn of my salvation, My high tower.

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.

⁶ And hath been the stedfastness of thy times, The strength of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge, Fear of Jehovah—it is His treasure.

¹⁰ Be not afraid, for with thee I am, Look not around, for I am thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

³¹ What, then, shall we say unto these things? if God is for us, who is against us?

¹⁰ as sorrowful, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

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?

¹⁵ For then thou liftest up thy face from blemish, And thou hast been firm, and fearest not.

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

⁹ For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'

¹ By David. Unto Thee, O Jehovah, my soul I lift up.

⁴ And delight thyself on Jehovah, And He giveth to thee the petitions of thy heart.

⁴ Rejoice the soul of Thy servant, For unto Thee, O Lord, my soul I lift up.

⁸ Cause me to hear in the morning Thy kindness, For in Thee I have trusted, Cause me to know the way that I go, For unto Thee I have lifted up my soul.

³ As a citron among trees of the forest, So is my beloved among the sons, In his shade I delighted, and sat down, And his fruit is sweet to my palate.

¹⁴ Then dost thou delight thyself on Jehovah, And I have caused thee to ride on high places of earth, And have caused thee to eat the inheritance of Jacob thy father, For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken!

²² for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man,

²⁰ because if our heart may condemn—because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God,

²⁶ He maketh supplication unto God, And He accepteth him. And he seeth His face with shouting, And He returneth to man His righteousness.

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

¹⁴ Sacrifice to God confession, And complete to the Most High thy vows. ¹⁵ And call Me in a day of adversity, I deliver thee, and thou honourest Me.

¹² On me, O God, are Thy vows, I repay thank-offerings to Thee.

¹³ I enter Thy house with burnt-offerings, I complete to Thee my vows, ¹⁴ For opened were my lips, And my mouth spake in my distress:

¹⁷ Unto Him with my mouth I have called, And exaltation is under my tongue. 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. ²⁰ Blessed is God, Who hath not turned aside my prayer, And His loving-kindness, from me!

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

¹ I have loved, because Jehovah heareth My voice, my supplication,

¹⁴ My vows to Jehovah let me complete, I pray you, before all His people.

⁴ When thou vowest a vow to God, delay not to complete it, for there is no pleasure in fools; that which thou vowest—complete.

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,

⁹ And I—with a voice of thanksgiving—I sacrifice to Thee, That which I have vowed I complete, Salvation is of Jehovah.

¹⁴ And this is the boldness that we have toward Him, that if anything we may ask according to his will, He doth hear us, ¹⁵ and if we have known that He doth hear us, whatever we may ask, we have known that we have the requests that we have requested from Him.

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

⁴ He doth give to thee according to thy heart, And all thy counsel doth fulfil.

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

¹¹ Light is sown for the righteous, And for the upright of heart—joy.

⁴ Light hath risen in darkness to the upright, Gracious, and merciful, and righteous.

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

²¹ And thine ear heareth a word behind thee, Saying, `This is the way, go ye in it,' When ye turn to the right, And when ye turn to the left.

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

² And risen to you, ye who fear My name, Hath the sun of righteousness—and healing in its wings, And ye have gone forth, and have increased as calves of a stall.

²² and all—as much as ye may ask in the prayer, believing, ye shall receive.'

¹² Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'

¹⁵ instead of your saying, `If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;'

¹⁹ In six distresses He delivereth thee, And in seven evil striketh not on thee. ²⁰ In famine He hath redeemed thee from death, And in battle from the hands of the sword. ²¹ When the tongue scourgeth thou art hid, And thou art not afraid of destruction, When it cometh. ²² At destruction and at hunger thou mockest, And of the beast of the earth, Thou art not afraid. ²³ (For with sons of the field is thy covenant, And the beast of the field Hath been at peace with thee.) ²⁴ And thou hast known that thy tent is peace, And inspected thy habitation, and errest not, ²⁵ And hast known that numerous is Thy seed, And thine offspring as the herb of the earth; ²⁶ Thou comest in full age unto the grave, As the going up of a stalk in its season. ²⁷ Lo, this—we searched it out—it is right, hearken; And thou, know for thyself!

² I rejoice and exult in Thee, I praise Thy Name, O Most High. ³ In mine enemies turning backward, they stumble and perish from Thy face.

¹⁴ Because in Me he hath delighted, I also deliver him—I set him on high, Because he hath known My name. ¹⁵ He doth call Me, and I answer him, I am with him in distress, I deliver him, and honour him. ¹⁶ With length of days I satisfy him, And I cause him to look on My salvation!

⁹ For, lo, Thine enemies, O Jehovah, For, lo, Thine enemies, do perish, Separate themselves do all workers of iniquity. ¹⁰ And Thou exaltest as a reem my horn, I have been anointed with fresh oil. ¹¹ And mine eye looketh on mine enemies, Of those rising up against me, The evil doers, do mine ears hear.

⁶ For high is Jehovah, and the lowly He seeth, And the haughty from afar He knoweth.

²³ The pride of man humbleth him, And humility of spirit upholdeth honour.

² And all these My hand hath made, And all these things are, An affirmation of Jehovah! And unto this one I look attentively, Unto the humble and bruised in spirit, And who is trembling at My word.

²⁶ Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Turn aside the mitre, and bear away the crown, This—not this—the low make high, And the high make low. ²⁷ An overturn, overturn, overturn, I make it, Also this hath not been till the coming of Him, Whose is the judgment, and I have given it.

¹² and whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and whoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.

⁵² He brought down the mighty from thrones, And He exalted the lowly,

¹¹ because every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

⁹ And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile: ¹⁰ `Two men went up to the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-gatherer; <sup>11</sup> the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer; <sup>12</sup> I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all things—as many as I possess. <sup>13</sup> `And the tax-gatherer, having stood afar off, would not even the eyes lift up to the heaven, but was smiting on his breast, saying, God be propitious to me—the sinner! ¹⁴ I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

⁶ and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

⁵ In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

²⁶ And Jehovah saith, `If I find in Sodom fifty righteous in the midst of the city, then have I borne with all the place for their sake.' <sup>27</sup> And Abraham answereth and saith, `Lo, I pray thee, I have willed to speak unto the Lord, and I—dust and ashes; ²⁸ peradventure there are lacking five of the fifty righteous—dost Thou destroy for five the whole of the city?' and He saith, `I destroy it not, if I find there forty and five.' <sup>29</sup> And he addeth again to speak unto Him and saith, `Peradventure there are found there forty?' and He saith, `I do it not, because of the forty.' <sup>30</sup> And he saith, `Let it not be, I Pray thee, displeasing to the Lord, and I speak: peradventure there are found there thirty?' and He saith, `I do it not, if I find there thirty.' <sup>31</sup> And he saith, `Lo, I pray thee, I have willed to speak unto the Lord: peradventure there are found there twenty?' and He saith, `I do not destroy it, because of the twenty.' <sup>32</sup> And he saith, `Let it not be, I pray Thee, displeasing to the Lord, and I speak only this time: peradventure there are found there ten?' and He saith, `I do not destroy it, because of the ten.'

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

²⁰ Jehovah doth recompense me According to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands, He doth return to me.

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

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.

¹² And they have built out of thee the wastes of old, The foundations of many generations thou raisest up, And one calleth thee, `Repairer of the breach, Restorer of paths to rest in.'

¹ Go to and fro in streets of Jerusalem, And see, I pray you, and know, And seek in her broad places, if ye find a man, If there be one doing judgment, seeking stedfastness—Then am I propitious to her.

⁹ And now, appease, I pray thee, the face of God, And He doth favour us; From your own hand hath this been, Doth He accept of you appearances? Said Jehovah of Hosts.

¹⁹ Then the disciples having come to Jesus by himself, said, `Wherefore were we not able to cast him out?' <sup>20</sup> And Jesus said to them, `Through your want of faith; for verily I say to you, if ye may have faith as a grain of mustard, ye shall say to this mount, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible to you,

¹⁵ and the evil spirit, answering, said, `Jesus I know, and Paul I am acquainted with; and ye—who are ye?' ¹⁶ And the man, in whom was the evil spirit, leaping upon them, and having overcome them, prevailed against them, so that naked and wounded they did flee out of that house,

²⁴ saying, Be not afraid Paul; before Caesar it behoveth thee to stand; and, lo, God hath granted to thee all those sailing with thee;

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

¹⁵ and the prayer of the faith shall save the distressed one, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if sins he may have committed, they shall be forgiven to him. ¹⁶ Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;