Job 32 Cross References - YLT

¹ And these three men cease from answering Job, for he is righteous in his own eyes, ² and burn doth the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram; against Job hath his anger burned, because of his justifying himself more than God; ³ and against his three friends hath his anger burned, because that they have not found an answer, and condemn Job. ⁴ And Elihu hath waited earnestly beside Job with words, for they are older than he in days. ⁵ And Elihu seeth that there is no answer in the mouth of the three men, and his anger burneth.
⁶ And Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite answereth and saith: —Young I am in days, and ye are age Therefore I have feared, And am afraid of shewing you my opinion. ⁷ I said: Days do speak, And multitude of years teach wisdom. 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. ¹¹ Lo, I have waited for your words, I give ear unto your reasons, Till ye search out sayings. ¹² And unto you I attend, And lo, there is no reasoner for Job, Or answerer of his sayings among you. ¹³ Lest ye say, We have found wisdom, God doth thrust him away, not man. ¹⁴ And he hath not set in array words for me, And with your sayings I do not answer him.
¹⁵ (They have broken down, They have not answered again, They removed from themselves words. ¹⁶ And I have waited, but they do not speak, For they have stood still, They have not answered any more.) ¹⁷ I answer, even I—my share, I shew my opinion—even I. ¹⁸ For I have been full of words, Distressed me hath the spirit of my breast, ¹⁹ Lo, my breast is as wine not opened, Like new bottles it is broken up. ²⁰ I speak, and there is refreshment to me, I open my lips and answer. ²¹ Let me not, I pray you, accept the face of any, Nor unto man give flattering titles, ²² For I have not known to give flattering titles, In a little doth my Maker take me away.

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

² I say unto God, `Do not condemn me, Let me know why Thou dost strive with me.

⁷ For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand.

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

⁷ There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge.

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.

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.

¹ A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what—do I attend to a virgin? ² And what is the portion of God from above? And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heights? ³ Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity? ⁴ Doth not He see my ways, And all my steps number? ⁵ If I have walked with vanity, And my foot doth hasten to deceit, ⁶ He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity. ⁷ If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish, ⁸ Let me sow—and another eat, And my products let be rooted out.
⁹ If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait, ¹⁰ Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend. ¹¹ For it is a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity; ¹² For a fire it is, to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root, ¹³ If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me, ¹⁴ Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him? ¹⁵ Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.
¹⁶ If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume, ¹⁷ And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it, ¹⁸ (But from my youth He grew up with me as with a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.) ¹⁹ If I see any perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy, ²⁰ If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself, ²¹ If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in him the gate of my court, ²² My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken. ²³ For a dread unto me is calamity from God, And because of His excellency I am not able.
²⁴ If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, `My trust,' <sup>25</sup> If I rejoice because great is my wealth, And because abundance hath my hand found, <sup>26</sup> If I see the light when it shineth, And the precious moon walking, <sup>27</sup> And my heart is enticed in secret, And my hand doth kiss my mouth, <sup>28</sup> It also is a judicial iniquity, For I had lied to God above. <sup>29</sup> If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him, <sup>30</sup> Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an oath his life. <sup>31</sup> If not—say ye, O men of my tent, `O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.' ³² In the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the traveller I open.
³³ If I have covered as Adam my transgressions, To hide in my bosom mine iniquity, ³⁴ Because I fear a great multitude, And the contempt of families doth affright me, Then I am silent, I go not out of the opening. ³⁵ Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written. ³⁶ If not—on my shoulder I take it up, I bind it a crown on myself. ³⁷ The number of my steps I tell Him, As a leader I approach Him. ³⁸ If against me my land doth cry out, And together its furrows weep, ³⁹ If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out, ⁴⁰ Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished.

⁹ `Pure am I, without transgression, Innocent am I, and I have no iniquity.

²¹ Huz his first-born, and Buz his brother; and Kemuel father of Aram,

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?

² God liveth! He turned aside my judgment, And the Mighty—He made my soul bitter.

⁵ Pollution to me—if I justify you, Till I expire I turn not aside mine integrity from me.

²¹ Thou art turned to be fierce to me, With the strength of Thy hand, Thou oppressest me.

⁵ For Job hath said, `I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right, ⁶ Against my right do I lie? Mortal is mine arrow—without transgression.'

¹⁷ Yea, doth one hating justice govern? Or the Most Just dost thou condemn? ¹⁸ Who hath said to a king—`Worthless,' Unto princes—`Wicked?'

² This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said—`My righteousness is more than God's?'

⁸ Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?

⁹ For zeal for Thy house hath consumed me, And the reproaches of Thy reproachers Have fallen upon me.

⁵ And having looked round upon them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their heart, he saith to the man, `Stretch forth thy hand;' and he stretched forth, and his hand was restored whole as the other;

²⁹ And he, willing to declare himself righteous, said unto Jesus, `And who is my neighbour?'

²⁶ be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

⁶ If pure and upright thou art, Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.

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

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.

²⁵ And if not now, who doth prove me a liar, And doth make of nothing my word?

² The rule and fear are with Him, Making peace in His high places. ³ Is their any number to His troops? And on whom ariseth not His light? ⁴ And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure—born of a woman? ⁵ Lo—unto the moon, and it shineth not, And stars have not been pure in His eyes. ⁶ How much less man—a grub, And the son of man—a worm!

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?

¹ And these three men cease from answering Job, for he is righteous in his own eyes,

⁵ for having found this man a pestilence, and moving a dissension to all the Jews through the world—a ringleader also of the sect of the Nazarenes—

¹³ nor are they able to prove against me the things concerning which they now accuse me.

¹¹ Lo, I have waited for your words, I give ear unto your reasons, Till ye search out sayings. ¹² And unto you I attend, And lo, there is no reasoner for Job, Or answerer of his sayings among you.

¹³ Whoso is answering a matter before he heareth, Folly it is to him and shame.

¹⁹ And it cometh to pass, when he hath drawn near unto the camp, that he seeth the calf, and the dancing, and the anger of Moses burneth, and he casteth out of his hands the tables, and breaketh them under the mount;

² and burn doth the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram; against Job hath his anger burned, because of his justifying himself more than God;

³² `At the presence of grey hairs thou dost rise up, and thou hast honoured the presence of an old man, and hast been afraid of thy God; I am Jehovah.

²⁸ And Eliab, his eldest brother, heareth when he speaketh unto the men, and the anger of Eliab burneth against David, and he saith, `Why is this—thou hast come down! and to whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I have known thy pride, and the evil of thy heart—for, to see the battle thou hast come down.' <sup>29</sup> And David saith, `What have I done now? is it not a word?' ³⁰ And he turneth round from him unto another, and saith according to this word, and the people return him word as the first word.

⁷ The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed?

¹⁰ Both the gray-headed And the very aged are among us—Greater than thy father in days.

⁷ render, therefore, to all their dues; to whom tribute, the tribute; to whom custom, the custom; to whom fear, the fear; to whom honour, the honour.

¹ An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren;

⁶ The younger men, in like manner, be exhorting to be sober-minded;

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;

⁶ And king Rehoboam consulteth with the elders who have been standing in the presence of Solomon his father, in his being alive, saying, `How are ye counselling to answer this people?' <sup>7</sup> And they speak unto him, saying, `If, to-day, thou art servant to this people, and hast served them, and answered them, and spoken unto them good words, then they have been to thee servants all the days.' ⁸ And he forsaketh the counsel of the elders which they counselled him, and consulteth with the lads who have grown up with him, who are standing before him;

⁸ For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers, ⁹ (For of yesterday we are, and we know not, For a shadow are our days on earth.) ¹⁰ Do they not shew thee—speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words?

¹² With the very aged is wisdom, And with length of days understanding.

¹¹ Come ye, children, hearken to me, The fear of Jehovah I do teach you. ¹² Who is the man that is desiring life? Loving days to see good?

¹ Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: ² For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence, ³ For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness, ⁴ For giving to simple ones—prudence, To a youth—knowledge and discretion.

³¹ A crown of beauty are grey hairs, In the way of righteousness it is found.

¹² for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food,

³⁹ and Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `After God's causing thee to know all this, there is none intelligent and wise as thou;

¹² lo, I have done according to thy words; lo, I have given to thee a heart, wise and understanding, that like thee there hath not been before thee, and after thee there doth not arise like thee;

²⁸ And all Israel hear of the judgment that the king hath judged, and fear because of the king, for they have seen that the wisdom of God is in his heart, to do judgment.

²⁹ And God giveth wisdom to Solomon, and understanding, very much, and breadth of heart, as the sand that is on the edge of the sea;

¹² And unto me a thing is secretly brought, And receive doth mine ear a little of it. ¹³ In thoughts from visions of the night, In the falling of deep sleep on men, ¹⁴ Fear hath met me, and trembling, And the multitude of my bones caused to fear. ¹⁵ And a spirit before my face doth pass, Stand up doth the hair of my flesh; ¹⁶ It standeth, and I discern not its aspect, A similitude is over-against mine eyes, Silence! and a voice I hear: ¹⁷ `Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner? ¹⁸ Lo, in His servants He putteth no credence, Nor in His messengers setteth praise.' ¹⁹ Also—the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose foundation is in the dust, They bruise them before a moth.) ²⁰ From morning to evening are beaten down, Without any regarding, for ever they perish. ²¹ Hath not their excellency been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!

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

¹⁶ Then He uncovereth the ear of men, And for their instruction sealeth:

¹¹ Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Yea, than the fowl of the heavens He maketh us wiser.'

³⁶ Who hath put in the inward parts wisdom? Or who hath given To the covered part understanding?

⁶ For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding.

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.

¹⁷ As to these four lads, God hath given to them knowledge and understanding in every kind of literature, and wisdom; and Daniel hath given instruction about every kind of vision and dreams.

²¹ And He is changing times and seasons, He is causing kings to pass away, and He is raising up kings; He is giving wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those possessing understanding.

¹⁰ but to us did God reveal them through His Spirit, for the Spirit all things doth search, even the depths of God, ¹¹ for who of men hath known the things of the man, except the spirit of the man that is in him? so also the things of God no one hath known, except the Spirit of God. ¹² And we the spirit of the world did not receive, but the Spirit that is of God, that we may know the things conferred by God on us,

⁸ for to one through the Spirit hath been given a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;

¹⁶ every Writing is God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that is in righteousness,

⁵ and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

²⁰ Turning aside the lip of the stedfast, And the reason of the aged He taketh away.

¹³ Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who hath not known to be warned any more.

⁵ I get me to the great, and I speak with them, For they have known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.' Surely they together have broken the yoke, They have drawn away the bands.

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

⁴⁸ did any one out of the rulers believe in him? or out of the Pharisees?

²⁶ for see your calling, brethren, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; ²⁷ but the foolish things of the world did God choose, that the wise He may put to shame; and the weak things of the world did God choose that He may put to shame the strong;

⁷ but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a secret, that God foreordained before the ages to our glory, ⁸ which no one of the rulers of this age did know, for if they had known, the Lord of the glory they would not have crucified;

⁶ and ye did dishonour the poor one; do not the rich oppress you and themselves draw you to judgment-seats; ⁷ do they not themselves speak evil of the good name that was called upon you?

²⁵ And concerning the virgins, a command of the Lord I have not; and I give judgment as having obtained kindness from the Lord to be faithful:

⁴⁰ and she is happier if she may so remain—according to my judgment; and I think I also have the Spirit of God.

²⁷ Lo, this—we searched it out—it is right, hearken; And thou, know for thyself!

²¹ To me they have hearkened, Yea, they wait, and are silent for my counsel.

²³ And they wait as for rain for me, And their mouth they have opened wide As for the latter rain.

⁴ And Elihu hath waited earnestly beside Job with words, for they are older than he in days.

¹⁷ Righteous is the first in his own cause, His neighbour cometh and hath searched him.

¹¹ A rich man is wise in his own eyes, And the intelligent poor searcheth him.

⁹ And further, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge, and gave ear, and sought out—he made right many similes. ¹⁰ The preacher sought to find out pleasing words, and, written by the upright, words of truth.

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

⁷ willing to be teachers of law, not understanding either the things they say, nor concerning what they asseverate,

²³ from a thread even unto a shoe-latchet I take not of anything which thou hast, that thou say not, I—I have made Abram rich;

² And Jehovah saith unto Gideon, `Too many are the people who are with thee for My giving Midian into their hand, lest Israel beautify itself against Me, saying, My hand hath given salvation to me;

²¹ and he saith, `Naked came I forth from the womb of my mother, and naked I turn back thither: Jehovah hath given and Jehovah hath taken: let the name of Jehovah be blessed.'

¹⁰ And he saith unto her, `As one of the foolish women speaketh, thou speakest; yea, the good we receive from God, and the evil we do not receive.' In all this Job hath not sinned with his lips.

⁹ From the breath of God they perish, And from the spirit of His anger consumed.

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

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

⁸ Of the secret counsel of God dost thou hear? And withdrawest thou unto thee wisdom? ⁹ What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou—and it is not with us? ¹⁰ Both the gray-headed And the very aged are among us—Greater than thy father in days.

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

²¹ Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me.

²¹ Woe to the wise in their own eyes, And—before their own faces—intelligent!

⁵ And I declare to thee from that time, Before it cometh I have caused thee to hear, Lest thou say, `Mine idol hath done them, And my graven image, And my molten image did command them.

⁷ Now they have been produced and not from that time, Yea, before the day, and thou hast not heard them, Lest thou say, `Lo, I have known them.'

²³ Thus said Jehovah: Let not the wise boast himself in his wisdom, Nor let the mighty boast himself in his might, Let not the rich boast himself in his riches,

³ Lo, thou art wiser than Daniel, No hidden thing have they concealed from thee.

⁷ And saved hath Jehovah the tents of Judah first, So that become not great against Judah Doth the beauty of the house of David, And the beauty of the inhabitant of Jerusalem.

¹¹ Jesus answered, `Thou wouldest have no authority against me, if it were not having been given thee from above; because of this, he who is delivering me up to thee hath greater sin.'

¹⁹ for it hath been written, `I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will bring to nought;' ²⁰ where is the wise? where the scribe? where a disputer of this age? did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world? ²¹ for, seeing in the wisdom of God the world through the wisdom knew not God, it did please God through the foolishness of the preaching to save those believing.

²⁷ but the foolish things of the world did God choose, that the wise He may put to shame; and the weak things of the world did God choose that He may put to shame the strong; ²⁸ and the base things of the world, and the things despised did God choose, and the things that are not, that the things that are He may make useless— ²⁹ that no flesh may glory before Him;

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age—let him become a fool, that he may become wise,

²⁴ Shew me, and I—I keep silent, And what I have erred, let me understand. ²⁵ How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?

²² After my word they change not, And on them doth my speech drop,

²³ and then I will acknowledge to them, that—I never knew you, depart from me ye who are working lawlessness.

²² and having heard they wondered, and having left him they went away.

²⁶ in like manner also the second, and the third, unto the seventh,

³⁴ and the Pharisees, having heard that he did silence the Sadducees, were gathered together unto him;

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

⁵ O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.

²⁸ Even a fool keeping silence is reckoned wise, He who is shutting his lips intelligent!

¹³ Therefore is the wise at that time silent, For an evil time it is .

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

¹⁰ Therefore I have said: Hearken to me, I do shew my opinion—even I.

¹² Lo, in this thou hast not been righteous, I answer thee, that greater is God than man.

³ For thou sayest, `What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?' ⁴ I return thee words, and thy friends with thee,

³ Hot is my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken with my tongue.

⁹ And I said, `I do not mention Him, Nor do I speak any more in His name,' And it hath been in my heart As a burning fire shut up in my bones, And I have been weary of containing, And I am not able.

¹⁴ And a spirit hath lifted me up, and doth take me away, and I go bitterly, in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of Jehovah on me is strong. ¹⁵ And I come in unto the Removed, at Tel-Ahib, who are dwelling at the river Chebar, and where they are dwelling I also dwell seven days, causing astonishment in their midst.
¹⁶ And it cometh to pass, at the end of seven days, ¹⁷ that there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, `Son of man, a watchman I have given thee to the house of Israel, and thou hast heard from My mouth a word, and hast warned them from Me. <sup>18</sup> In My saying to the wicked: Thou dost surely die; and thou hast not warned him, nor hast spoken to warn the wicked from his wicked way, so that he doth live; he—the wicked—in his iniquity dieth, and his blood from thy hand I require. <sup>19</sup> And thou, because thou hast warned the wicked, and he hath not turned back from his wickedness, and from his wicked way, he in his iniquity dieth, and thou thy soul hast delivered. <sup>20</sup> `And in the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, and he hath done perversity, and I have put a stumbling-block before him, he dieth; because thou hast not warned him, in his sin he dieth, and not remembered is his righteousness that he hath done, and his blood from thy hand I require. ²¹ And thou, because thou hast warned him—the righteous—that the righteous sin not, and he hath not sinned, he surely liveth, because he hath been warned; and thou thy soul hast delivered.'
²² And there is on me there a hand of Jehovah, and He saith to me, `Rise, go forth to the valley, and there I do speak with thee.' <sup>23</sup> And I rise and go forth unto the valley, and lo, there the honour of Jehovah is standing as the honour that I had seen by the river Chebar, and I fall on my face. <sup>24</sup> And come into me doth a spirit, and causeth me to stand on my feet, and He speaketh with me, and saith unto me, `Go in, be shut up in the midst of thy house. ²⁵ `And thou, son of man, lo, they have put on thee thick bands, and have bound thee with them, and thou goest not forth in their midst; ²⁶ and thy tongue I cause to cleave unto thy palate, and thou hast been dumb, and art not to them for a reprover, for a rebellious house are they. ²⁷ And in My speaking with thee, I do open thy mouth, and thou hast said unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah; the hearer doth hear, and the forbearer doth forbear; for a rebellious house are they.

²⁰ for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'

¹³ for whether we were beside ourselves, it was to God; whether we be of sound mind—it is to you, ¹⁴ for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,

¹⁷ `Nor do they put new wine into old skins, and if not—the skins burst, and the wine doth run out, and the skins are destroyed, but they put new wine into new skins, and both are preserved together.'

¹³ Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what?

¹⁹ Who is he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.

² Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me.

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

⁶ Hearken, for noble things I speak, And the opening of my lips is uprightness. ⁷ For truth doth my mouth utter, And an abomination to my lips is wickedness.

¹⁵ `Ye do not do perversity in judgment; thou dost not lift up the face of the poor, nor honour the face of the great; in righteousness thou dost judge thy fellow.

¹⁷ ye do not discern faces in judgment; as the little so the great ye do hear; ye are not afraid of the face of any, for the judgment is God's, and the thing which is too hard for you, ye bring near unto me, and I have heard it;

¹⁹ Thou dost not turn aside judgment; thou dost not discern faces, nor take a bribe, for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

¹⁷ and thy maid-servant saith, Let, I pray thee, the word of my lord the king be for ease; for as a messenger of God so is my lord the king, to understand the good and the evil; and Jehovah thy God is with thee.'

²⁰ in order to bring round the appearance of the thing hath thy servant Joab done this thing, and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of a messenger of God, to know all that is in the land.'

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

¹⁰ He doth surely reprove you, if in secret ye accept faces.

¹⁹ That hath not accepted the person of princes, Nor hath known the rich before the poor, For a work of His hands are all of them.

²³ These also are for the wise: —To discern faces in judgment is not good.

¹⁶ and they send to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, `Teacher, we have known that thou art true, and the way of God in truth thou dost teach, and thou art not caring for any one, for thou dost not look to the face of men;

²² and the populace were shouting, `The voice of a god, and not of a man;' ²³ and presently there smote him a messenger of the Lord, because he did not give the glory to God, and having been eaten of worms, he expired.

² and he having been called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, `Much peace enjoying through thee, and worthy deeds being done to this nation through thy forethought, ³ always, also, and everywhere we receive it, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness;

⁵ For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed.

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

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

¹⁰ for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please—Christ's servant I should not be.

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