Job 27 Cross References - YLT

¹ And Job addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: — ² God liveth! He turned aside my judgment, And the Mighty—He made my soul bitter. ³ For all the while my breath is in me, And the spirit of God in my nostrils. ⁴ My lips do not speak perverseness, And my tongue doth not utter deceit. ⁵ Pollution to me—if I justify you, Till I expire I turn not aside mine integrity from me. 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. ⁸ For what is the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul? ⁹ His cry doth God hear, When distress cometh on him? ¹⁰ On the Mighty doth he delight himself? Call God at all times?
¹¹ I shew you by the hand of God, That which is with the Mighty I hide not. ¹² Lo, ye—all of you—have seen, And why is this—ye are altogether vain? ¹³ This is the portion of wicked man with God, And the inheritance of terrible ones From the Mighty they receive. ¹⁴ If his sons multiply—for them is a sword. And his offspring are not satisfied with bread. ¹⁵ His remnant in death are buried, And his widows do not weep. ¹⁶ If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing, ¹⁷ He prepareth—and the righteous putteth it on, And the silver the innocent doth apportion. ¹⁸ He hath built as a moth his house, And as a booth a watchman hath made. ¹⁹ Rich he lieth down, and he is not gathered, His eyes he hath opened, and he is not. ²⁰ Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind. ²¹ Take him up doth an east wind, and he goeth, And it frighteneth him from his place, ²² And it casteth at him, and doth not spare, From its hand he diligently fleeth. ²³ It clappeth at him its hands, And it hisseth at him from his place.

⁷ And he taketh up his simile, and saith: `From Aram he doth lead me—Balak king of Moab; From mountains of the east: Come—curse for me Jacob, And come—be indignant with Israel.

³ and he taketh up his simile, and saith: `An affirmation of Balaam son of Beor—And an affirmation of the man whose eyes are shut—

¹⁵ And he taketh up his simile, and saith: `An affirmation of Balaam son of Beor—And an affirmation of the man whose eyes are shut—

¹ And Job addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: —

⁴ I incline to a simile mine ear, I open with a harp my riddle:

² I open with a simile my mouth, I bring forth hidden things of old,

⁷ Weak have been the two legs of the lame, And a parable in the mouth of fools.

²¹ and yet, I live—and it is filled—the whole earth—with the honour of Jehovah;

²⁰ And she saith unto them, `Call me not Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly to me, 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?'

¹³ Lodge to night, and it hath been in the morning, if he doth redeem thee, well: he redeemeth; and if he delight not to redeem thee, then I have redeemed thee—I; Jehovah liveth! lie down till the morning.'

³⁹ for, Jehovah liveth, who is saving Israel: surely if it be in Jonathan my son, surely he doth certainly die;' and none is answering him out of all the people.

⁴⁵ And the people say unto Saul, `Doth Jonathan die who wrought this great salvation in Israel? —a profanation! Jehovah liveth, if there falleth from the hair of his head to the earth, for with God he hath wrought this day;' and the people rescue Jonathan, and he hath not died.

²¹ and lo, I send the youth: Go, find the arrows. If I at all say to the youth, Lo, the arrows are on this side of thee—take them, —then come thou, for peace is for thee, and there is nothing; Jehovah liveth.

²⁶ and now, my lord, Jehovah liveth, and thy soul liveth, in that Jehovah hath withheld thee from coming in with blood, and to save thy hand to thee—now let thine enemies be as Nabal, even those seeking evil unto my lord.

³⁴ And yet, Jehovah liveth, God of Israel, who hath kept me back from doing evil with thee, for unless thou hadst hasted, and dost come to meet me, surely there had not been left to Nabal till the light of the morning, of those sitting on the wall.'

²⁷ And Joab saith, `God liveth! for unless thou hadst spoken, surely then from the morning had the people gone up each from after his brother.'

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

¹⁵ And Elijah saith, `Jehovah of Hosts liveth, before whom I have stood, surely to-day I appear unto him.'

²⁷ And she cometh in unto the man of God, unto the hill, and layeth hold on his feet, and Gehazi cometh nigh to thrust her away, and the man of God saith, `Let her alone, for her soul is bitter to her, and Jehovah hath hidden it from me, and hath not declared it to me.'

¹⁸ He permitteth me not to refresh my spirit, But filleth me with bitter things.

³ Is it good for Thee that Thou dost oppress? That Thou despisest the labour of Thy hands, And on the counsel of the wicked hast shone?

⁵ For Job hath said, `I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right,

²⁷ Why sayest thou, O Jacob? and speakest thou, O Israel? `My way hath been hid from Jehovah, And from my God my judgment passeth over.'

² And thou hast sworn—Jehovah liveth, In truth, in judgment, and in righteousness, And blessed themselves in Him have nations, And in Him they boast themselves.

² And if they say, `Jehovah liveth,' Surely to a falsehood they swear.

¹⁶ And it hath come to pass, If they learn well the ways of My people, To swear by My name, `Jehovah liveth,' As they taught My people to swear by Baal, Then they have been built up in the midst of My people.

¹¹ Say unto them, I live—an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, I delight not in the death of the wicked, But—in the turning of the wicked from his way, And he hath lived, Turn back, turn back, from your evil ways, Yea, why do ye die, O house of Israel?

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

⁸ Surely a spirit is in man, And the breath of the Mighty One Doth cause them to understand.

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

²² Cease for you from man, Whose breath is in his nostrils, For—in what is he esteemed?

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

²⁸ And, now, please, look upon me, Even to your face do I lie?

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

⁶ Against my right do I lie? Mortal is mine arrow—without transgression.'

⁵⁵ and ye have not known Him, and I have known Him, and if I say that I have not known Him, I shall be like you—speaking falsely; but I have known Him, and His word I keep;

¹⁰ The truth of Christ is in me, because this boasting shall not be stopped in regard to me in the regions of Achaia;

¹ `When there is a strife between men, and they have come nigh unto the judgment, and they have judged, and declared righteous the righteous, and declared wrong the wrong-doer,

⁹ And his wife saith to him, `Still thou art keeping hold on thine integrity: bless God and die.'

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

¹⁴ Righteousness I have put on, and it clotheth me, As a robe and a diadem my justice.

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

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.

¹⁵ Whoso is justifying the wicked, And condemning the righteous, Even both of these are an abomination to Jehovah.

¹² For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

¹¹ And when Peter came to Antioch, to the face I stood up against him, because he was blameworthy,

³ And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Hast thou set thy heart unto My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God and turning aside from evil? and still he is keeping hold on his integrity, and thou dost move Me against him to swallow him up for nought!'

²⁰ Jehovah doth recompense me According to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands, He doth return to me. ²¹ For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not done wickedly against my God. ²² For all His judgments are before me, And His statutes I turn not from me. ²³ And I am perfect with him, And I keep myself from mine iniquity.

¹³ Lay hold on instruction, do not desist, Keep her, for she is thy life.

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

¹¹ I have become a fool—boasting; ye—ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles—even if I am nothing.

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,

³² And the king saith unto the Cushite, `Peace to the youth—to Absalom?' And the Cushite saith, `Let them be—as the youth—the enemies of my lord the king, and all who have risen up against thee for evil.'

¹⁹ `Then Daniel, whose name is Belteshazzar, hath been astonished about one hour, and his thoughts do trouble him; the king hath answered and said, O Belteshazzar, let not the dream and its interpretation trouble thee. Belteshazzar hath answered and said, My lord, the dream—to those hating thee, and its interpretation—to thine enemies!

¹³ So are the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,

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

¹⁶ Also—He is to me for salvation, For the profane cometh not before Him.

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

⁵ That the singing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,

³ Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity?

¹⁴ Afraid in Zion have been sinners, Seized hath trembling the profane: Who doth dwell for us—consuming fire, Who doth dwell for us—burnings of the age? 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,

²⁶ for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?

¹³ `Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for ye do not go in, nor those going in do ye suffer to enter.

³⁶ for what shall it profit a man, if he may gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? ³⁷ Or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?

²⁵ for what is a man profited, having gained the whole world, and having lost or having forfeited himself?

²⁰ `And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare—to whom shall they be? ²¹ so is he who is treasuring up to himself, and is not rich toward God.'

⁹ and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction, ¹⁰ for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;

¹ Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you; ² your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten; ³ your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days!

¹² There they cry, and He doth not answer, Because of the pride of evil doers. ¹³ Surely vanity God doth not hear, And the Mighty doth not behold it.

⁴¹ They cry, and there is no saviour, On Jehovah, and He doth not answer them.

¹⁸ Iniquity, if I have seen in my heart, The Lord doth not hear.

⁷ In his being judged, he goeth forth wicked, And his prayer is for sin.

²⁸ Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not.

⁹ Whoso is turning his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer is an abomination.

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.

¹¹ Therefore thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am bringing in unto them evil, That they are not able to go out from, And they have cried unto Me, And I do not hearken unto them.

¹² When they fast, I hearken not unto their cry, And when they cause to ascend burnt-offering and present, I accept them not, For by sword, and by famine, And by pestilence, I am consuming them.

¹⁸ And I also deal in fury, Mine eye doth not pity, nor do I spare, and they have cried in Mine ears—a loud voice—and I do not hear them.'

¹⁴ And have not cried unto Me with their heart, but howl on their beds, For corn and new wine they assemble themselves, They turn aside against Me.

⁴ Then do they cry unto Jehovah, And He doth not answer them, And hideth His face from them at that time, As they have made evil their doings.

¹³ And it cometh to pass, as He called, And they have not hearkened, So do they call, and I do not hearken, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

²⁵ from the time the master of the house may have risen up, and may have shut the door, and ye may begin without to stand, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, lord, open to us, and he answering shall say to you, I have not known you whence ye are,

³¹ and we have known that God doth not hear sinners, but, if any one may be a worshipper of God, and may do His will, him He doth hear;

³ ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend it .

²⁶ For then on the Mighty thou delightest thyself, And dost lift up unto God thy face, ²⁷ Thou dost make supplication unto Him, And He doth hear thee, And thy vows thou completest.

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

⁴ And I go in unto the altar of God, Unto God, the joy of my rejoicing. And I thank Thee with a harp, O God, my God.

³⁴ If He slew them, then they sought Him, And turned back, and sought God earnestly, ³⁵ And they remember that God is their rock, And God Most High their redeemer. ³⁶ And—they deceive Him with their mouth, And with their tongue do lie to Him,

¹⁸ Yet I, in Jehovah I exult, I do joy in the God of my salvation.

²¹ and he hath not root in himself, but is temporary, and persecution or tribulation having happened because of the word, immediately he is stumbled.

¹ And he spake also a simile to them, that it behoveth us always to pray, and not to faint,

² pious, and fearing God with all his house, doing also many kind acts to the people, and beseeching God always,

¹⁸ through all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and in regard to this same, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints—

¹⁷ continually pray ye;

⁵ `See, I have taught you statutes and judgments, as Jehovah my God hath commanded me—to do so, in the midst of the land whither ye are going in to possess it;

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.

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.

⁸ Surely a spirit is in man, And the breath of the Mighty One Doth cause them to understand. ⁹ The multitude are not wise, Nor do the aged understand judgment. ¹⁰ Therefore I have said: Hearken to me, I do shew my opinion—even I.

¹⁷ God, Thou hast taught me from my youth, And hitherto I declare Thy wonders.

¹¹ For thus hath Jehovah spoken unto me with strength of hand, and instructeth me against walking in the way of this people, saying,

²⁰ how nothing I did keep back of what things are profitable, not to declare to you, and to teach you publicly, and in every house,

²⁵ How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove? ²⁶ For reproof—do you reckon words? And for wind—sayings of the desperate. ²⁷ Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend. ²⁸ And, now, please, look upon me, Even to your face do I lie? ²⁹ Turn back, I pray you, let it not be perverseness, Yea, turn back again—my righteousness is in it.

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. ⁶ Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend, ⁷ For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit? ⁸ His face do ye accept, if for God ye strive? ⁹ Is it good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him?

³ Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?

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

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—

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

²⁸ For ye say, `Where is the house of the noble? And where the tent—The tabernacles of the wicked?' ²⁹ Have ye not asked those passing by the way? And their signs do ye not know? ³⁰ That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought.

² What—thou hast helped the powerless, Saved an arm not strong! ³ What—thou hast given counsel to the unwise, And wise plans in abundance made known. ⁴ With whom hast thou declared words? And whose breath came forth from thee?

¹⁴ There is a vanity that hath been done upon the earth, that there are righteous ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the wicked, and there are wicked ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the righteous. I have said that this also is vanity.

¹ But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole is before them. ² The whole is as to the whole; one event is to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, and to him who is sacrificing, and to him who is not sacrificing; as is the good, so is the sinner, he who is swearing as he who is fearing an oath. ³ This is an evil among all that hath been done under the sun, that one event is to all, and also the heart of the sons of man is full of evil, and madness is in their heart during their life, and after it—unto the dead.

²⁰ `All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one. <sup>21</sup> A fearful voice is in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him. <sup>22</sup> He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched is he for the sword. <sup>23</sup> He is wandering for bread—`Where is it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness. ²⁴ Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster. ²⁵ For he stretched out against God his hand, And against the Mighty he maketh himself mighty. ²⁶ He runneth unto Him with a neck, With thick bosses of his shields. ²⁷ For he hath covered his face with his fat, And maketh vigour over his confidence. ²⁸ And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps. ²⁹ He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he stretch out on earth their continuance. 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! 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. ³⁵ To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.

¹⁹ For he oppressed—he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it. ²⁰ For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself. ²¹ There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay. ²² In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.
²³ It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating. ²⁴ He fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow of brass. ²⁵ One hath drawn, And it cometh out from the body, And a glittering weapon from his gall proceedeth. On him are terrors. ²⁶ All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent. ²⁷ Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him. ²⁸ Remove doth the increase of his house, Poured forth in a day of His anger. ²⁹ This is the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God.

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

⁵ Because of the spoiling of the poor, Because of the groaning of the needy, Now do I arise, saith Jehovah, I set in safety him who doth breathe for it.

²² Rob not the poor because he is poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate. ²³ For Jehovah pleadeth their cause, And hath spoiled the soul of their spoilers.

¹³ And good is not to the wicked, and he doth not prolong days as a shadow, because he is not fearing before God.

¹¹ Woe to the wicked—evil, Because the deed of his hand is done to him.

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.

⁴ lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you—doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered; ⁵ ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter; ⁶ ye did condemn—ye did murder the righteous one, he doth not resist you.

⁹ The Lord hath known to rescue pious ones out of temptation, and unrighteous ones to a day of judgment, being punished, to keep,

³² `Thy sons and thy daughters are given to another people, and thine eyes are looking and consuming for them all the day, and thy hand is not to God!

⁴¹ `Sons and daughters thou dost beget, and they are not with thee, for they go into captivity;

⁵ The satiated for bread hired themselves, And the hungry have ceased. While the barren hath borne seven, And she abounding with sons hath languished.

⁷ and thou hast smitten the house of Ahab thy lord, and I have required the blood of My servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of Jehovah, from the hand of Jezebel; ⁸ and perished hath all the house of Ahab, and I have cut off to Ahab those sitting on the wall, and restrained, and left, in Israel,

⁶ And he writeth unto them a letter a second time, saying, `If ye are for me, and to my voice are hearkening, take the heads of the men—the sons of your lord, and come unto me about this time to-morrow, to Jezreel;' and the sons of the king are seventy men, with the great ones of the city those bringing them up. <sup>7</sup> And it cometh to pass, at the coming in of the letter unto them, that they take the sons of the king, and slaughter seventy men, and put their heads in baskets, and send unto him to Jezreel, <sup>8</sup> and the messenger cometh in, and declareth to him, saying, `They have brought in the heads of the sons of the king,' and he saith, `Make them two heaps at the opening of the gate till the morning.' <sup>9</sup> And it cometh to pass in the morning, that he goeth out, and standeth, and saith unto all the people, `Righteous are ye; lo, I have conspired against my lord, and slay him—and who smote all these? ¹⁰ Know ye now, that nothing doth fall of the word of Jehovah to the earth that Jehovah spake against the house of Ahab, and Jehovah hath done that which He spake by the hand of His servant Elijah.'

¹¹ and Haman recounteth to them the glory of his wealth, and the abundance of his sons, and all that with which the king made him great, and with which he lifted him up above the heads and servants of the king.

⁵ And the Jews smite among all their enemies—a smiting of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction—and do with those hating them according to their pleasure, ⁶ and in Shushan the palace have the Jews slain and destroyed five hundred men; ⁷ and Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha, ⁸ and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha, ⁹ and Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha, ¹⁰ ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, adversary of the Jews, they have slain, and on the prey they have not put forth their hand.

²² He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched is he for the sword.

¹⁰ His sons do the poor oppress, And his hands give back his wealth.

¹¹ They send forth as a flock their sucklings, And their children skip, ¹² They lift themselves up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of an organ.

¹³ His posterity is for cutting off, In another generation is their name blotted out.

¹³ Ephraim! when I have looked to the rock, Is planted in comeliness, And Ephraim is to bring out unto a slayer his sons. ¹⁴ Give to them, Jehovah—what dost Thou give? Give to them miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.

²⁹ for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;

¹⁰ `Therefore, lo, I am bringing in evil unto the house of Jeroboam, and have cut off to Jeroboam those sitting on the wall—shut up and left—in Israel, and have put away the posterity of the house of Jeroboam, as one putteth away the dung till its consumption; ¹¹ him who dieth of Jeroboam in a city do the dogs eat, and him who dieth in a field do fowl of the heavens eat, for Jehovah hath spoken.

³ lo, I am putting away the posterity of Baasha, even the posterity of his house, and have given up thy house as the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat; ⁴ him who dieth of Baasha in a city do the dogs eat, and him who dieth of his in a field do fowl of the heavens eat.'

²¹ lo, I am bringing in unto thee evil, and have taken away thy posterity, and cut off to Ahab those sitting on the wall, and restrained, and left, in Israel, ²² and given up thy house like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah, for the provocation with which thou hast provoked Me, and dost cause Israel to sin. ²³ `And also of Jezebel hath Jehovah spoken, saying, The dogs do eat Jezebel in the bulwark of Jezreel; ²⁴ him who dieth of Ahab in a city do the dogs eat, and him who dieth in a field do fowl of the heavens eat;

⁶⁴ His priests by the sword have fallen, And their widows weep not.

¹⁸ Therefore, thus said Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: They do not lament for him, Ah, my brother, and Ah, sister, They do not lament for him, Ah, lord, and Ah, his honour.

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

²⁴ So as to set on the dust a defence, And on a rock of the valleys a covering.

⁶ Do not these—all of them—against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Woe to him who is multiplying what is not his? Till when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges?

³ And Tyre doth build a bulwark to herself, And doth heap silver as dust, And gold as mire of out-places.

¹⁹ `Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal,

² your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;

²² A good man causeth sons' sons to inherit, And laid up for the righteous is the sinner's wealth.

⁸ Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.

²⁶ For to a man who is good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this is vanity and vexation of spirit.

¹⁴ Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust. ¹⁵ He leaneth on his house—and it standeth not: He taketh hold on it—and it abideth not.

⁸ And left hath been the daughter of Zion, As a booth in a vineyard, As a lodge in a place of cucumbers—as a city besieged.

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.

⁸ For as a garment eat them doth a moth, And as wool eat them doth a worm, And My righteousness is to the age, And My salvation to all generations.

⁶ And He shaketh as a garden His tabernacle, He hath destroyed His appointed place, Jehovah hath forgotten in Zion the appointed time and sabbath, And despiseth, in the indignation of His anger, king and priest.

¹⁰ The sceptre turneth not aside from Judah, And a lawgiver from between his feet, Till his Seed come; And his is the obedience of peoples.

⁸ The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes are upon me—and I am not.

²² Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!

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

¹² And man hath lain down, and riseth not, Till the wearing out of the heavens they awake not, Nor are roused from their sleep. ¹³ O that in Sheol Thou wouldest conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me. ¹⁴ If a man dieth—doth he revive? All days of my warfare I wait, till my change come. ¹⁵ Thou dost call, and I—I answer Thee; To the work of Thy hands Thou hast desire.

⁷ As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: `Where is he?' ⁸ As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night, ⁹ The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him.

²³ This one dieth in his perfect strength, Wholly at ease and quiet. ²⁴ His breasts have been full of milk, And marrow his bones doth moisten. ²⁵ And this one dieth with a bitter soul, And have not eaten with gladness. ²⁶ Together—on the dust they lie down, And the worm doth cover them over.

³⁰ That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought.

²⁴ High they were for a little, and they are not, And they have been brought low. As all others they are shut up, And as the head of an ear of corn cut off.

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

⁹ Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.

¹⁹ How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended—consumed from terrors. ²⁰ As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.

² And have spread them to sun, and to moon, And to all the host of the heavens, that they have loved, And that they have served, And that they have walked after, And that they have sought, And to which they have bowed themselves, They are not gathered, nor buried, They are for dung on the face of the ground.

¹² whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather his wheat to the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.'

³⁷ `Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that art killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto thee, how often did I will to gather thy children together, as a hen doth gather her own chickens under the wings, and ye did not will.

²⁹ And it cometh to pass, at midnight, that Jehovah hath smitten every first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh who is sitting on his throne, unto the first-born of the captive who is in the prison-house, and every first-born of beasts.

³⁵ And it cometh to pass, in that night, that a messenger of Jehovah goeth out, and smiteth in the camp of Asshur a hundred eighty and five thousand, and they rise early in the morning, and lo, all of them are dead corpses.

²¹ A fearful voice is in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him.

¹¹ Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him—at his feet.

⁸ As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,

²³ It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating.

¹⁸ They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,

¹⁶ Who have been cut down unexpectedly, A flood is poured out on their foundation.

²⁰ In a moment they die, and at midnight Shake do people, and they pass away, And they remove the mighty without hand.

⁴ Compassed me have cords of death, And streams of the worthless make me afraid.

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

¹⁴ Deliver me from the mire, and let me not sink, Let me be delivered from those hating me, And from deep places of waters. ¹⁵ Let not a flood of waters overflow me, Nor let the deep swallow me up, Nor let the pit shut her mouth upon me.

³⁰ In that night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans is slain,

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.

²³ And Moses stretcheth out his rod towards the heavens, and Jehovah hath given voices and hail, and fire goeth towards the earth, and Jehovah raineth hail on the land of Egypt, ²⁴ and there is hail, and fire catching itself in the midst of the hail, very grievous, such as hath not been in all the land of Egypt since it hath become a nation. ²⁵ And the hail smiteth in all the land of Egypt all that is in the field, from man even unto beast, and every herb of the field hath the hail smitten, and every tree of the field it hath broken;

¹⁰ He turneth not again to his house, Nor doth his place discern him again.

¹⁵ So dost Thou pursue them with Thy whirlwind, And with Thy hurricane troublest them.

¹⁷ As an east wind I scatter them before an enemy, The neck, and not the face, I shew them, In the day of their calamity.'

¹⁵ Though he among brethren produceth fruit, Come in doth an east wind, a wind of Jehovah, From a wilderness it is coming up, And it drieth up his fountain, And become dry doth his spring, It—it spoileth a treasure—every desirable vessel.

³ Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, And Jehovah doth not entirely acquit, In a hurricane and in a tempest is His way, And a cloud is the dust of His feet. ⁴ He is pushing against a sea, and drieth it up, Yea, all the floods He hath made dry, Languishing are Bashan and Carmel, Yea, the flower of Lebanon is languishing. ⁵ Mountains have shaken because of Him, And the hills have been melted; And lifted up is the earth at His presence, And the world and all dwelling in it. ⁶ Before His indignation who doth stand? And who riseth up in the heat of His anger? His fury hath been poured out like fire, And the rocks have been broken by Him. ⁷ Good is Jehovah for a strong place in a day of distress. And He knoweth those trusting in Him. ⁸ And with a flood passing over, An end He maketh of its place, And His enemies doth darkness pursue.

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.'

¹⁴ for, at this time I am sending all My plagues unto thy heart, and on thy servants, and on thy people, so that thou knowest that there is none like Me in all the earth,

²⁵ and turneth aside the wheels of their chariots, and they lead them with difficulty, and the Egyptians say, `Let us flee from the face of Israel, for Jehovah is fighting for them against the Egyptians.' <sup>26</sup> And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Stretch out thy hand toward the sea, and the waters turn back on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen.' ²⁷ And Moses stretcheth out his hand towards the sea, and the sea turneth back, at the turning of the morning, to its perennial flow, and the Egyptians are fleeing at its coming, and Jehovah shaketh off the Egyptians in the midst of the sea, ²⁸ and the waters turn back, and cover the chariots and the horsemen, even all the force of Pharaoh, who are coming in after them into the sea—there hath not been left of them even one.

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,

²³ I gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon them.

¹¹ And it cometh to pass, in their fleeing from the face of Israel—they are in the descent of Beth-Horon—and Jehovah hath cast upon them great stones out of the heavens, unto Azekah, and they die; more are they who have died by the hailstones than they whom the sons of Israel have slain by the sword.

¹⁷ And Sisera hath fled on his feet unto the tent of Jael wife of Heber the Kenite, for peace is between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite; ¹⁸ and Jael goeth out to meet Sisera, and saith unto him, `Turn aside, my lord, turn aside unto me, fear not;' and he turneth aside unto her, into the tent, and she covereth him with a coverlet. <sup>19</sup> And he saith unto her, `Give me to drink, I pray thee, a little water, for I am thirsty;' and she openeth the bottle of milk, and giveth him to drink, and covereth him. ²⁰ And he saith unto her, `Stand at the opening of the tent, and it hath been, if any doth come in, and hath asked thee, and said, Is there a man here? that thou hast said, There is not.' ²¹ And Jael wife of Heber taketh the pin of the tent, and taketh the hammer in her hand, and goeth unto him gently, and striketh the pin into his temples, and it fasteneth in the earth—and he hath been fast asleep, and is weary—and he dieth.

²⁴ He fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow of brass.

³ And what do ye at a day of inspection? And at desolation? —from afar it cometh. Near whom do ye flee for help? And where do ye leave your honour?

¹⁴ And have dashed them one against another, And the fathers and the sons together, An affirmation of Jehovah, I do not pity, nor spare, nor have I mercy, So as not to destroy them.

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?

⁵ And to the others he said in mine ears, `Pass on into the city after him, and smite; your eye doth not pity, nor do ye spare; ⁶ aged, young man, and virgin, and infant, and women, ye do slay—to destruction; and against any man on whom is the mark ye do not go nigh, and from My sanctuary ye begin.'

¹⁴ I, Jehovah, hath spoken, It hath come, and I have done it, I do not free, nor do I spare, nor do I repent, According to thy ways, and according to thine acts, they have judged thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'

¹⁴ And perished hath refuge from the swift, And the strong strengtheneth not his power, And the mighty delivereth not his soul.

¹ I have seen the Lord standing by the altar, and He saith: `Smite the knob, and the thresholds shake, And cut them off by the head—all of them, And their posterity with a sword I do slay, Not flee to them doth the fleer, Nor escape to them doth a fugitive. ² If they dig through into sheol, From thence doth My hand take them, And if they go up the heavens, From thence I cause them to come down. ³ And if they be hid in the top of Carmel, From thence I search out, and have taken them, And if they be hid from Mine eyes in the bottom of the sea, From thence I command the serpent, And it hath bitten them.

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?

⁴ For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast them down to Tartarus, did deliver them to judgment, having been reserved, 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 as to this house, that is high, every one passing by it is astonished, and hath hissed, and they have said, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus to this land and to this house?

²² as days on which the Jews have rested from their enemies, and the month that hath been turned to them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning to a good day, to make them days of banquet and of joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the needy. ²³ And the Jews have received that which they had begun to do, and that which Mordecai hath written unto them, ²⁴ because Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, adversary of all the Jews, had devised concerning the Jews to destroy them, and had caused to fall Pur—that is the lot—to crush them and to destroy them; ²⁵ and in her coming in before the king, he said with the letter, `Let his evil device that he devised against the Jews turn back upon his own head,' and they have hanged him and his sons on the tree,

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

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

⁸ and I have made this city for a desolation, and for a hissing, every passer by it is astonished, and doth hiss for all its plagues.

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?'

¹⁶ And kept habitually are the statutes of Omri, And all the work of the house of Ahab, And ye do walk in their counsels, For My giving thee for a desolation, And its inhabitants for a hissing, And the reproach of My people ye do bear!

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!

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