Job 33 Cross References - YLT

¹ And yet, I pray thee, O Job, Hear my speech and to all my words give ear. ² Lo, I pray thee, I have opened my mouth, My tongue hath spoken in the palate. ³ Of the uprightness of my heart are my sayings, And knowledge have my lips clearly spoken. ⁴ The Spirit of God hath made me, And the breath of the Mighty doth quicken me. ⁵ If thou art able—answer me, Set in array before me—station thyself. ⁶ Lo, I am, according to thy word, for God, From the clay I—I also, have been formed. ⁷ Lo, my terror doth not frighten thee, And my burden on thee is not heavy.
⁸ Surely—thou hast said in mine ears, And the sounds of words I hear: ⁹ `Pure am I, without transgression, Innocent am I, and I have no iniquity. <sup>10</sup> Lo, occasions against me He doth find, He doth reckon me for an enemy to Him, <sup>11</sup> He doth put in the stocks my feet, He doth watch all my paths.' <sup>12</sup> Lo, in this thou hast not been righteous, I answer thee, that greater is God than man. <sup>13</sup> Wherefore against Him hast thou striven, When for all His matters He answereth not?
<sup>14</sup> For once doth God speak, and twice, (He doth not behold it.) <sup>15</sup> In a dream—a vision of night, In the falling of deep sleep on men, In slumberings on a bed. <sup>16</sup> Then He uncovereth the ear of men, And for their instruction sealeth: <sup>17</sup> To turn aside man from doing, And pride from man He concealeth. <sup>18</sup> He keepeth back his soul from corruption, And his life from passing away by a dart.
<sup>19</sup> And he hath been reproved With pain on his bed, And the strife of his bones is enduring. <sup>20</sup> And his life hath nauseated bread, And his soul desirable food. <sup>21</sup> His flesh is consumed from being seen, And high are his bones, they were not seen! <sup>22</sup> And draw near to the pit doth his soul, And his life to those causing death. <sup>23</sup> If there is by him a messenger, An interpreter—one of a thousand, To declare for man his uprightness: <sup>24</sup> Then He doth favour him and saith, `Ransom him from going down to the pit, I have found an atonement.' ²⁵ Fresher is his flesh than a child's, He returneth to the days of his youth. ²⁶ He maketh supplication unto God, And He accepteth him. And he seeth His face with shouting, And He returneth to man His righteousness. ²⁷ He looketh on men, and saith, `I sinned, And uprightness I have perverted, And it hath not been profitable to me. ²⁸ He hath ransomed my soul From going over into the pit, And my life on the light looketh.'
²⁹ Lo, all these doth God work, Twice—thrice with man, ³⁰ To bring back his soul from the pit, To be enlightened with the light of the living. ³¹ Attend, O Job, hearken to me, Keep silent, and I—I do speak. ³² If there are words—answer me, Speak, for I have a desire to justify thee. ³³ If there are not—hearken thou to me, Keep silent, and I teach thee wisdom.

⁶ Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend,

² Hear, O wise men, my words, And, O knowing ones, give ear to me.

¹ To the Overseer. —By sons of Korah. A Psalm. Hear this, all ye peoples, Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world. ² Both low and high, together rich and needy. ³ My mouth speaketh wise things, And the meditations of my heart are things of understanding.

⁹ And he said to them, `He who is having ears to hear—let him hear.'

¹ After this hath Job opened his mouth, and revileth his day.

³⁰ Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an oath his life.

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

² and having opened his mouth, he was teaching them, saying:

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

² Doth a wise man answer with vain knowledge? And fill with an east wind his belly?

⁴ My lips do not speak perverseness, And my tongue doth not utter deceit.

³ I lift up my knowledge from afar, And to my Maker I ascribe righteousness. ⁴ For, truly, my words are not false, The perfect in knowledge is with thee.

² Who is this—darkening counsel, By words without knowledge?

³⁰ The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And his tongue speaketh judgment. ³¹ The law of his God is his heart, His steps do not slide.

⁷ For truth doth my mouth utter, And an abomination to my lips is wickedness. ⁸ In righteousness are all the sayings of my mouth, Nothing in them is froward and perverse.

² The tongue of the wise maketh knowledge good, And the mouth of fools uttereth folly.

⁷ The lips of the wise scatter knowledge, And the heart of fools is not right.

¹⁵ Substance, gold, and a multitude of rubies, Yea, a precious vessel, are lips of knowledge.

³ for our exhortation is not out of deceit, nor out of uncleanness, nor in guile, ⁴ but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,

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.

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?

¹² Life and kindness Thou hast done with me. And Thy inspection hath preserved my spirit.

³ For all the while my breath is in me, And the spirit of God in my nostrils.

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

⁶ By the word of Jehovah The heavens have been made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host.

² for the law of the Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus did set me free from the law of the sin and of the death;

⁴⁵ so also it hath been written, `The first man Adam became a living creature,' the last Adam is for a life-giving spirit,

¹⁸ Lo, I pray you, I have set in order the cause, I have known that I am righteous.

⁴ I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill with arguments. ⁵ I know the words He doth answer me, And understand what He saith to me.

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

¹² And unto you I attend, And lo, there is no reasoner for Job, Or answerer of his sayings among you.

¹⁴ And he hath not set in array words for me, And with your sayings I do not answer him.

³² If there are words—answer me, Speak, for I have a desire to justify thee. ³³ If there are not—hearken thou to me, Keep silent, and I teach thee wisdom.

²¹ These thou didst, and I kept silent, Thou hast thought that I am like thee, I reprove thee, and set in array before thine eyes.

²⁶ and Peter raised him, saying, `Stand up; I also myself am a man;'

¹⁹ by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust thou turnest back.'

² And Jacob's anger burneth against Rachel, and he saith, `Am I in stead of God who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?'

¹⁶ and he, he hath spoken for thee unto the people, and it hath come to pass, he—he is to thee for a mouth, and thou—thou art to him for God;

¹⁹ Also—the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose foundation is in the dust, They bruise them before a moth.)

³² But if a man like myself—I answer him, We come together into judgment. ³³ If there were between us an umpire, He doth place his hand on us both. ³⁴ He doth turn aside from off me his rod, And His terror doth not make me afraid, ³⁵ I speak, and do not fear Him, But I am not right with myself.

⁹ Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back.

³ Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight.

¹² Your remembrances are similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.

²² In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.

³ O that I had known—and I find Him, I come in unto His seat, ⁴ I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill with arguments.

³⁵ Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written.

¹ For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands—age-during—in the heavens,

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;'

³⁴ He doth turn aside from off me his rod, And His terror doth not make me afraid,

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

⁴ When by day and by night Thy hand is heavy upon me, My moisture hath been changed Into the droughts of summer. Selah.

¹⁶ Over me hath Thy wrath passed, Thy terrors have cut me off,

¹⁴ and thou hast enquired, and searched, and asked diligently, and lo, truth; the thing is established; this abomination hath been done in thy midst:

²³ Because that they have done folly in Israel, and commit adultery with the wives of their neighbours, and speak a word in My name falsely that I have not commanded them, and I am He who knoweth and a witness—an affirmation of Jehovah.

¹⁷ Because with a tempest He bruiseth me, And hath multiplied my wounds for nought.

²¹ Perfect I am! —I know not my soul, I despise my life.

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

²⁸ I have been afraid of all my griefs, I have known that Thou dost not acquit me.

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

⁴ And thou sayest, `Pure is my discourse, And clean I have been in Thine eyes.'

²³ How many iniquities and sins have I? My transgression and my sin let me know.

¹⁷ Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.

⁸ Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent against the profane Stirreth himself up.

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.

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.

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

³⁵ And thou sayest, `Because I have been innocent, Surely turned back hath His anger from me?' Lo, I have been judged with thee, Because of thy saying, `I have not sinned.'

³⁰ If I have washed myself with snow-water, And purified with soap my hands, ³¹ Then in corruption Thou dost dip me, And my garments have abominated me.

¹⁵ If I have done wickedly—woe to me, And righteously—I lift not up my head, Full of shame—then see my affliction, ¹⁶ And it riseth—as a lion Thou huntest me. And Thou turnest back—Thou shewest Thyself wonderful in me. ¹⁷ Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare are with me.

²⁴ Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee? ²⁵ A leaf driven away dost Thou terrify? And the dry stubble dost Thou pursue?

¹⁶ But now, my steps Thou numberest, Thou dost not watch over my sin.

⁹ His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me.

¹¹ And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries.

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,

²⁷ And puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest a print,

⁴ Doth not He see my ways, And all my steps number?

¹⁸ They have afflicted with fetters his feet, Iron hath entered his soul,

² and Pashhur smiteth Jeremiah the prophet, and putteth him unto the stocks, that are by the high gate of Benjamin, that is by the house of Jehovah.

³⁵ and all who are dwelling on the earth as nothing are reckoned, and according to his will He is doing among the forces of the heavens and those dwelling on the earth, and there is none that doth clap with his hand, and saith to Him, What hast Thou done?

²⁴ who such a charge having received, did put them to the inner prison, and their feet made fast in the stocks.

²² In all this Job hath not sinned, nor given folly to God.

⁴ Wise in heart and strong in power—Who hath hardened toward Him and is at peace?

¹⁴ Lo, these are the borders of His way, And how little a matter is heard of Him, And the thunder of His might Who doth understand?

¹⁷ I answer, even I—my share, I shew my opinion—even I.

¹⁰ Therefore, O men of heart, hearken to me; Far be it from God to do wickedness, And from the Mighty to do perverseness: ¹¹ For the work of man he repayeth to him, And according to the path of each He doth cause him to find. ¹² Yea, truly, God doth not do wickedly, And the Mighty doth not pervert judgment.

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

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

⁴ I return thee words, and thy friends with thee,

⁵ Lo, God is mighty, and despiseth not, Mighty in power and heart.

²² Lo, God doth sit on high by His power, Who is like Him—a teacher? ²³ Who hath appointed unto Him his way? And who said, `Thou hast done iniquity?'

² Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.

⁸ Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous? ⁹ And an arm like God hast thou? And with a voice like Him dost thou thunder?

²⁰ Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not.

⁶ As this potter am I not able to do to you? O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah. Lo, as clay in the hand of the potter, So are ye in My hand, O house of Israel.

²⁵ And ye have said, Not pondered is the way of the Lord. Hear, I pray you, O house of Israel, My way—is it not pondered? Are not your ways unpondered?

¹⁹ Thou wilt say, then, to me, `Why yet doth He find fault? for His counsel who hath resisted?' ²⁰ nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form it, Why me didst thou make thus? ²¹ hath not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make the one vessel to honour, and the one to dishonour?

²⁹ `The things hidden are to Jehovah our God, and the things revealed are to us and to our sons—to the age, to do all the words of this law.

¹⁴ How much less do I—I answer Him? Choose out my words with Him?

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.

¹¹ Once hath God spoken, twice I heard this, That `strength is with God.'

⁹ Woe to him who is striving with his Former, (A potsherd with potsherds of the ground!) Doth clay say to its Framer, `What dost thou?' And thy work, `He hath no hands?'

¹⁰ Declaring from the beginning the latter end, And from of old that which hath not been done, Saying, `My counsel doth stand, And all My delight I do.'

²⁴ I have laid a snare for thee, And also—thou art captured, O Babylon, And thou—thou hast known, Thou hast been found, and also art caught, For against Jehovah thou hast stirred thyself up.

¹⁴ Doth thy heart stand—are thy hands strong, For the days that I am dealing with thee? I, Jehovah, have spoken and have done it .

¹⁵ is it not lawful to me to do what I will in mine own? is thine eye evil because I am good?

⁷ and he said unto them, `It is not yours to know times or seasons that the Father did appoint in His own authority;

³⁹ and if it be of God, ye are not able to overthrow it, lest perhaps also ye be found fighting against God.'

⁴ and having fallen upon the earth, he heard a voice saying to him, `Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute?' <sup>5</sup> And he said, `Who art thou, Lord?' and the Lord said, `I am Jesus whom thou dost persecute; hard for thee at the pricks to kick;'

³⁴ for who did know the mind of the Lord? or who did become His counsellor?

²² do we arouse the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?

¹⁰ And Jehovah speaketh unto Manasseh and unto his people, and they have not attended,

²⁹ Lo, all these doth God work, Twice—thrice with man,

⁵ Once I have spoken, and I answer not, And twice, and I add not.

²⁴ Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,

²⁹ Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.

⁹ And He saith, `Go, and thou hast said to this people, Hear ye—to hear, and ye do not understand, And see ye—to see, and ye do not know.

¹⁴ and fulfilled on them is the prophecy of Isaiah, that saith, With hearing ye shall hear, and ye shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and ye shall not perceive,

¹⁷ And Jesus having known, saith to them, `Why do ye reason, because ye have no loaves? do ye not yet perceive, nor understand, yet have ye your heart hardened? ¹⁸ Having eyes, do ye not see? and having ears, do ye not hear? and do ye not remember?

²⁵ And he said unto them, `O inconsiderate and slow in heart, to believe on all that the prophets spake!

¹⁹ `And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;

¹² And the sun is about to go in, and deep sleep hath fallen upon Abram, and lo, a terror of great darkness is falling upon him;

³ And God cometh in unto Abimelech in a dream of the night, and saith to him, `Lo, thou art a dead man, because of the woman whom thou hast taken—and she married to a husband.'

²⁴ And God cometh in unto Laban the Aramaean in a dream of the night, and saith to him, `Take heed to thyself lest thou speak with Jacob from good unto evil.'

⁶ And He saith, `Hear, I pray you, My words: If your prophet is of Jehovah—in an appearance unto him I make Myself known; in a dream I speak with him;

¹³ In thoughts from visions of the night, In the falling of deep sleep on men,

²⁸ The prophet with whom is a dream, Let him recount the dream, And he with whom is My word, Let him truly speak My word. What—to the straw with the corn? An affirmation of Jehovah.

⁵ a dream I have seen, and it maketh me afraid, and the conceptions on my bed, and the visions of my head, do trouble me.

¹⁸ And in his speaking with me, I have been in a trance on my face, on the earth; and he cometh against me, and causeth me to stand on my station,

¹ In many parts, and many ways, God of old having spoken to the fathers in the prophets,

²⁷ For Thou, Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Thou hast uncovered the ear of Thy servant, saying, A house I build for thee, therefore hath Thy servant found his heart to pray unto Thee this prayer;

³⁸ And for all this we are making a stedfast covenant, and are writing, and over him who is sealed are our heads, our Levites, our priests.'

¹⁰ And He uncovereth their ear for instruction, And saith that they turn back from iniquity.

¹⁵ He draweth out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovereth in oppression their ear.

⁶ Sacrifice and present Thou hast not desired, Ears Thou hast prepared for me, Burnt and sin-offering Thou hast not asked.

¹⁰ Declare fat the heart of this people, And its ears declare heavy, And its eyes declare dazzled, Lest it see with its eyes, And with its ears hear, and its heart consider, And it hath turned back, and hath health.'

⁸ Yea, thou hast not heard, Yea, thou hast not known, Yea, from that time not opened hath thine ear, For I have known thou dealest treacherously, And `Transgressor from the belly,' One is crying to thee.

⁵ The Lord Jehovah opened for me the ear, And I rebelled not—backward I moved not.

⁴⁵ Then opened he up their understanding to understand the Writings,

¹⁴ and a certain woman, by name Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, worshipping God, was hearing, whose heart the Lord did open to attend to the things spoken by Paul;

²⁸ This, then, having finished, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will return through you, to Spain;

⁶ And God saith unto him in the dream, `Yea, I—I have known that in the integrity of thy heart thou hast done this, and I withhold thee, even I, from sinning against Me, therefore I have not suffered thee to come against her;

¹⁶ who is causing thee to eat manna in the wilderness, which thy fathers have not known, in order to humble thee, and in order to try thee, to do thee good in thy latter end),

²⁵ and Hezekiah hath not returned according to the deed done unto him, for his heart hath been lofty, and there is wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem;

¹¹ My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart!

¹¹ The haughty eyes of man have been humbled, And bowed down hath been the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been in that day.

⁹ Jehovah of Hosts hath counselled it, To pollute the excellency of all beauty, To make light all the honoured of earth.

³⁰ the king hath answered and said, Is not this that great Babylon that I have built, for the house of the kingdom, in the might of my strength, and for the glory of mine honour? ³¹ `While the word is in the king's mouth a voice from the heavens hath fallen: To thee they are saying: O Nebuchadnezzar the king, the kingdom hath passed from thee, <sup>32</sup> and from men they are driving thee away, and with the beast of the field is thy dwelling, the herb as oxen they do cause thee to eat, and seven times do pass over thee, till that thou knowest that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and to whom He willeth He giveth it. <sup>33</sup> `In that hour the thing hath been fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar, and from men he is driven, and the herb as oxen he eateth, and by the dew of the heavens his body is wet, till that his hair as eagles' hath become great, and his nails as birds.'
³⁴ `And at the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, mine eyes to the heavens have lifted up, and mine understanding unto me returneth, and the Most High I have blessed, and the Age-during Living One I have praised and honoured, whose dominion is a dominion age-during, and His kingdom with generation and generation; <sup>35</sup> and all who are dwelling on the earth as nothing are reckoned, and according to his will He is doing among the forces of the heavens and those dwelling on the earth, and there is none that doth clap with his hand, and saith to Him, What hast Thou done? <sup>36</sup> `At that time my understanding doth return unto me, and for the glory of my kingdom, my honour and my brightness doth return unto me, and to me my counsellors and my great men do seek, and over my kingdom I have been made right, and abundant greatness hath been added to me. ³⁷ `Now, I, Nebuchadnezzar, am praising and exalting and honouring the King of the heavens, for all His works are truth, and His paths judgment, and those walking in pride He is able to humble.'

⁶ Therefore, lo, I am hedging up thy way with thorns, And I have made for her a wall, And her paths she doth not find.

¹⁹ And as he is sitting on the tribunal, his wife sent unto him, saying, `Nothing—to thee and to that righteous one, for many things did I suffer to-day in a dream because of him.'

² did ask from him letters to Damascus, unto the synagogues, that if he may find any being of the way, both men and women, he may bring them bound to Jerusalem. ³ And in the going, he came nigh to Damascus, and suddenly there shone round about him a light from the heaven, ⁴ and having fallen upon the earth, he heard a voice saying to him, `Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute?' <sup>5</sup> And he said, `Who art thou, Lord?' and the Lord said, `I am Jesus whom thou dost persecute; hard for thee at the pricks to kick;' <sup>6</sup> trembling also, and astonished, he said, `Lord, what dost thou wish me to do?' and the Lord said unto him, `Arise, and enter into the city, and it shall be told thee what it behoveth thee to do.'

⁷ and that by the exceeding greatness of the revelations I might not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of the Adversary, that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch.

¹⁰ be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.

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

²² And draw near to the pit doth his soul, And his life to those causing death.

²⁴ Then He doth favour him and saith, `Ransom him from going down to the pit, I have found an atonement.'

²⁸ He hath ransomed my soul From going over into the pit, And my life on the light looketh.'

³⁰ To bring back his soul from the pit, To be enlightened with the light of the living.

²⁷ and the jailor having come out of sleep, and having seen the doors of the prison open, having drawn a sword, was about to kill himself, supposing the prisoners to be fled, ²⁸ and Paul cried out with a loud voice, saying, `Thou mayest not do thyself any harm, for we are all here.' <sup>29</sup> And, having asked for a light, he sprang in, and trembling he fell down before Paul and Silas, <sup>30</sup> and having brought them forth, said, `Sirs, what must I do—that I may be saved?' ³¹ and they said, `Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved—thou and thy house;' ³² and they spake to him the word of the Lord, and to all those in his household; ³³ and having taken them, in that hour of the night, he did bathe them from the blows, and was baptized, himself and all his presently,

⁴ or the riches of His goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, dost thou despise? —not knowing that the goodness of God doth lead thee to reformation!

⁹ the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

¹⁵ and the long-suffering of our Lord count ye salvation, according as also our beloved brother Paul—according to the wisdom given to him—did write to you,

⁵ and thou hast known, with thy heart, that as a man chastiseth his son Jehovah thy God is chastising thee,

¹⁰ And Asa is angry at the seer, and giveth him to the house of torture, for he is in a rage with him for this; and Asa oppresseth some of the people at that time.

¹² And Asa is diseased—in the thirty and ninth year of his reign—in his feet, till his disease is excessive, and also in his disease he hath not sought Jehovah, but among physicians.

¹⁷ Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not, ¹⁸ For He doth pain, and He bindeth up, He smiteth, and His hands heal.

⁴ If I lay down then I said, `When do I rise!' And evening hath been measured, And I have been full of tossings till dawn.

¹¹ His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down.

¹⁷ At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down.

¹ A Psalm of David, `To cause to remember.' Jehovah, in Thy wrath reprove me not, Nor in Thy fury chastise me. ² For Thine arrows have come down on me, And Thou lettest down upon me Thy hand. ³ Soundness is not in my flesh, Because of Thine indignation, Peace is not in my bones because of my sin. ⁴ For mine iniquities have passed over my head, As a heavy burden—too heavy for me. ⁵ Stunk—become corrupt have my wounds, Because of my folly. ⁶ I have been bent down, I have been bowed down—unto excess, All the day I have gone mourning. ⁷ For my flanks have been full of drought, And soundness is not in my flesh. ⁸ I have been feeble and smitten—unto excess, I have roared from disquietude of heart.

¹² O the happiness of the man Whom Thou instructest, O Jah, And out of Thy law teachest him,

⁶⁷ Before I am afflicted, I—I am erring, And now Thy saying I have kept.

⁷¹ Good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn Thy statutes.

⁹ Therefore by this is the iniquity of Jacob covered, And this is all the fruit—To take away his sin, in His setting all the stones of an altar, As chalkstones beaten in pieces, They rise not—shrines and images.

¹² Did the gods of the nations deliver them whom my fathers destroyed—Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who are in Telassar? ¹³ Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?'

³² and being judged by the Lord, we are chastened, that with the world we may not be condemned;

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

⁶ And the woman seeth that the tree is good for food, and that it is pleasant to the eyes, and the tree is desirable to make one wise, and she taketh of its fruit and eateth, and giveth also to her husband with her, and he doth eat;

²⁴ For before my food, my sighing cometh, And poured out as waters are my roarings.

¹⁷ Fools, by means of their transgression, And by their iniquities, afflict themselves. ¹⁸ All food doth their soul abominate, And they come nigh unto the gates of death,

¹⁹ And I have said, How do I put thee among the sons, And give to thee a desirable land, A beauteous inheritance of the hosts of nations, And I say, My father—ye do call to Me, And from after Me ye do not turn back.

¹¹ Therefore, because of your trampling on the poor, And the tribute of corn ye take from him, Houses of hewn work ye have built, And ye do not dwell in them, Desirable vineyards ye have planted, And ye do not drink their wine.

⁵ Clothed hath been my flesh with worms, And a clod of dust, My skin hath been shrivelled and is loathsome,

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

²⁰ Thou prevailest over him for ever, and he goeth, He is changing his countenance, And Thou sendest him away.

²² Only—his flesh for him is pained, And his soul for him doth mourn.'

⁸ And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth.

²⁰ To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.

¹⁵ Dried up as an earthen vessel is my power, And my tongue is cleaving to my jaws. ¹⁶ And to the dust of death thou appointest me, For surrounded me have dogs, A company of evil doers have compassed me, Piercing my hands and my feet. ¹⁷ I count all my bones—they look expectingly, They look upon me,

³ When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day. ⁴ When by day and by night Thy hand is heavy upon me, My moisture hath been changed Into the droughts of summer. Selah.

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

³ For consumed in smoke have been my days, And my bones as a fire-brand have burned. ⁴ Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread. ⁵ From the voice of my sighing Hath my bone cleaved to my flesh.

¹¹ And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,

²³ `And Jehovah hath passed on to smite the Egyptians, and hath seen the blood on the lintel, and on the two side-posts, and Jehovah hath passed over the opening, and doth not permit the destruction to come into your houses to smite.

⁶ Jehovah putteth to death, and keepeth alive, He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.

¹⁶ and the messenger putteth forth his hand to Jerusalem to destroy it, and Jehovah repenteth concerning the evil, and saith to the messenger who is destroying among the people, `Enough, now, cease thy hand;' and the messenger of Jehovah was near the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

⁷ Remember Thou that my life is a breath, Mine eye turneth not back to see good.

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

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

¹³ If I wait—Sheol is my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch. ¹⁴ To corruption I have called: —`Thou art my father.' `My mother' and `my sister' —to the worm. ¹⁵ And where is now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it? ¹⁶ To the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.

⁴ As to doings of man, Through a word of Thy lips I have observed The paths of a destroyer;

³ Jehovah, Thou hast brought up from Sheol my soul, Thou hast kept me alive, From going down to the pit.

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

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

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.

¹⁰ neither murmur ye, as also some of them did murmur, and did perish by the destroyer.

¹¹ and they have over them a king—the messenger of the abyss—a name is to him in Hebrew, Abaddon, and in the Greek he hath a name, Apollyon.

¹ And a messenger of Jehovah goeth up from Gilgal unto Bochim,

¹⁵ And Jehovah, God of their fathers, sendeth unto them by the hand of His messengers—rising early and sending—for He hath had pity on His people, and on His habitation, ¹⁶ and they are mocking at the messengers of God, and despising His words, and acting deceitfully with His prophets, till the going up of the fury of Jehovah against His people—till there is no healing.

³³ and Thou art righteous concerning all that hath come upon us, for truth Thou hast done, and we have done wickedly;

³ If he delight to strive with Him—He doth not answer him one of a thousand.

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

¹⁰ Therefore, O men of heart, hearken to me; Far be it from God to do wickedness, And from the Mighty to do perverseness:

¹² Yea, truly, God doth not do wickedly, And the Mighty doth not pervert judgment.

³² Besides that which I see, shew Thou me, If iniquity I have done—I do not add?'

¹⁴ Yea, though thou sayest thou dost not behold Him, Judgment is before Him, and stay for Him.

³ I lift up my knowledge from afar, And to my Maker I ascribe righteousness.

⁸ And if prisoners in fetters They are captured with cords of affliction, ⁹ Then He declareth to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty, ¹⁰ And He uncovereth their ear for instruction, And saith that they turn back from iniquity. ¹¹ If they do hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness. ¹² And if they do not hearken, By the dart they pass away, And expire without knowledge. ¹³ And the profane in heart set the face, They cry not when He hath bound them.

²³ The Mighty! we have not found Him out, High in power and judgment, He doth not answer! And abundant in righteousness,

⁷⁵ I have known, O Jehovah, That righteous are Thy judgments, And in faithfulness Thou hast afflicted me.

²⁸ (that still my soul had sought, and I had not found), One man, a teacher, I have found, and a woman among all these I have not found.

¹ The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is on me, Because Jehovah did anoint me To proclaim tidings to the humble, He sent me to bind the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives liberty, And to bound ones an opening of bands. ² To proclaim the year of the good pleasure of Jehovah, And the day of vengeance of our God, To comfort all mourners. ³ To appoint to mourners in Zion, To give to them beauty instead of ashes, The oil of joy instead of mourning, A covering of praise for a spirit of weakness, And He is calling to them, `Trees of righteousness, The planting of Jehovah—to be beautified.'

²² The kindnesses of Jehovah! For we have not been consumed, For not ended have His mercies. ²³ New every morning, abundant is thy faithfulness.

³² For though He afflicted, yet He hath pitied, According to the abundance of His kindness.

³⁹ What—sigh habitually doth a living man, A man for his sin? ⁴⁰ We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah. ⁴¹ We lift up our heart on the hands unto God in the heavens.

²⁵ And ye have said, Not pondered is the way of the Lord. Hear, I pray you, O house of Israel, My way—is it not pondered? Are not your ways unpondered? ²⁶ In the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, And he hath done perversity, And he is dying by them, for his perversity That he hath done he dieth. ²⁷ And in the turning back of the wicked From his wickedness that he hath done, And he doth judgment and righteousness, He his soul doth keep alive. ²⁸ And he seeth and turneth back, From all his transgressions that he hath done, He doth surely live, he doth not die,

¹⁴ And Jehovah doth watch for the evil, and bringeth it upon us, for righteous is Jehovah our God concerning all His works that He hath done, and we have not hearkened to His voice.

¹³ And Haggai, messenger of Jehovah, in messages of Jehovah, speaketh to the people, saying: `I am with you, an affirmation of Jehovah.'

⁷ For the lips of a priest preserve knowledge, And law they do seek from his mouth, For a messenger of Jehovah of Hosts he is .

¹ Lo, I am sending My messenger, And he hath prepared a way before Me, And suddenly come in unto his temple Doth the Lord whom ye are seeking, Even the messenger of the covenant, Whom ye are desiring, Lo, he is coming, said Jehovah of Hosts.

³⁰ and Philip having run near, heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, `Dost thou then know what thou dost read?'

¹³ For to you I speak—to the nations—inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of nations, my ministration I do glorify;

³⁰ Because of this, among you many are weak and sickly, and sleep do many; ³¹ for if ourselves we were discerning, we would not be being judged, ³² and being judged by the Lord, we are chastened, that with the world we may not be condemned;

⁵ and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him, ⁶ for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;' ⁷ if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten? ⁸ and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons. ⁹ Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising us, and we were reverencing them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live? ¹⁰ for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation; ¹¹ and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it—it doth yield. ¹² Wherefore, the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees set ye up;

¹⁹ and He saith, `I cause all My goodness to pass before thy face, and have called concerning the Name of Jehovah before thee, and favoured him whom I favour, and loved him whom I love.'

⁶ and Jehovah passeth over before his face, and calleth: `Jehovah, Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth, ⁷ keeping kindness for thousands, taking away iniquity, and transgression, and sin, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on children's children, on a third generation, and on a fourth.'

²¹ Acquaint thyself, I pray thee, with Him, And be at peace, Thereby thine increase is good.

¹⁸ He keepeth back his soul from corruption, And his life from passing away by a dart.

¹⁰ And He uncovereth their ear for instruction, And saith that they turn back from iniquity. ¹¹ If they do hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.

¹⁸ Lest He move thee with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement turn thee not aside.

⁴ In Thee did our fathers trust—they trusted, And Thou dost deliver them.

⁹ `What gain is in my blood? In my going down unto corruption? Doth dust thank Thee? doth it declare Thy truth? ¹⁰ Hear, O Jehovah, and favour me, O Jehovah, be a helper to me.' ¹¹ Thou hast turned my mourning to dancing for me, Thou hast loosed my sackcloth, And girdest me with joy. ¹² So that honour doth praise Thee, and is not silent, O Jehovah, my God, to the age I thank Thee!

² And He doth cause me to come up From a pit of desolation—from mire of mud, And He raiseth up on a rock my feet, He is establishing my steps.

⁷ A brother doth no one at all ransom, He doth not give to God his atonement. ⁸ And precious is the redemption of their soul, And it hath ceased—to the age.

³ Be to me for a rock—a habitation, To go in continually, Thou hast given command to save me, For my rock and my bulwark art Thou.

⁵ For Thou, Lord, art good and forgiving. And abundant in kindness to all calling Thee.

¹³ For Thy kindness is great toward me, And Thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

¹⁵ And Thou, O Lord, art God, merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth.

¹⁷ Lo, to peace He changed for me bitterness, And Thou hast delighted in my soul without corruption, For Thou hast cast behind Thy back all my sins. ¹⁸ For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth. ¹⁹ The living, the living, he doth confess Thee.

²⁰ A precious son is Ephraim to Me? A child of delights? For since My speaking against him, I do thoroughly remember him still, Therefore have My bowels been moved for him, I do greatly love him, An affirmation of Jehovah.

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.

⁴ I heal their backsliding, I love them freely, For turned back hath Mine anger from him.

¹⁸ Who is a God like Thee? taking away iniquity, And passing by the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance, He hath not retained for ever His anger, Because He—He delighteth in kindness. ¹⁹ He doth turn back, He pitieth us, He doth subdue our iniquities, And Thou castest into the depths of the sea all their sins. ²⁰ Thou givest truth to Jacob, kindness to Abraham, That thou hast sworn to our fathers, from the days of antiquity!

¹¹ Also thou—by the blood of thy covenant, I have sent thy prisoners out of the pit, There is no water in it.

²⁸ even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'

²⁴ being declared righteous freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, ²⁵ whom God did set forth a mercy seat, through the faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of His righteousness, because of the passing over of the bygone sins in the forbearance of God— ²⁶ for the shewing forth of His righteousness in the present time, for His being righteous, and declaring him righteous who is of the faith of Jesus.

²⁰ And law came in, that the offence might abound, and where the sin did abound, the grace did overabound, ²¹ that even as the sin did reign in the death, so also the grace may reign, through righteousness, to life age-during, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

⁶ who did give himself a ransom for all—the testimony in its own times—

¹⁸ having known that, not with corruptible things—silver or gold—were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers, ¹⁹ but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted—Christ's—

⁷ And Moses is a son of a hundred and twenty years when he dieth; his eye hath not become dim, nor hath his moisture fled.

¹⁰ `And, now, lo, Jehovah hath kept me alive, as He hath spoken, these forty and five years, since Jehovah spake this word unto Moses, when Israel went in the wilderness; and now, lo, I am to-day a son of five and eighty years; ¹¹ yet am I to-day strong as in the day of Moses' sending me; as my power then, so is my power now, for battle, and to go out, and to come in.

¹⁴ And he goeth down and dippeth in Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh doth turn back as the flesh of a little youth, and is clean.

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

⁵ Who is satisfying with good thy desire, Renew itself as an eagle doth thy youth.

¹⁵ And given to her her vineyards from thence, And the valley of Achor for an opening of hope, And she hath responded there as in the days of her youth, And as in the day of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.

²⁵ `Jehovah cause His face to shine upon thee, and favour thee; <sup>26</sup> `Jehovah lift up His countenance upon thee, and appoint for thee—peace.

²³ and Jehovah doth turn back to each his righteousness and his faithfulness, in that Jehovah hath given thee to-day into my hand, and I have not been willing to put forth my hand against the anointed of Jehovah,

² And he turneth round his face unto the wall, and prayeth unto Jehovah, saying, ³ `I pray Thee, O Jehovah, remember, I pray Thee, how I have walked habitually before Thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and that which is good in Thine eyes I have done;' and Hezekiah weepeth—a great weeping. <sup>4</sup> And it cometh to pass—Isaiah hath not gone out to the middle court—that the word of Jehovah hath been unto him, saying, <sup>5</sup> `Turn back, and thou hast said unto Hezekiah, leader of My people: Thus said Jehovah, God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tear, lo, I give healing to thee, on the third day thou dost go up to the house of Jehovah;

¹² And when he is in distress he hath appeased the face of Jehovah his God, and is humbled exceedingly before the God of his fathers, ¹³ and prayeth unto Him, and He is entreated of him, and heareth his supplication, and bringeth him back to Jerusalem, to his kingdom, and Manasseh knoweth that Jehovah—He is God.

¹⁹ and his prayer, and his entreaty, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places in which he had built high places, and established the shrines and the graven images before his being humbled, lo, they are written beside the matters of Hozai.

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.

¹¹ For the work of man he repayeth to him, And according to the path of each He doth cause him to find.

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

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. ⁹ And they go—Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, Zophar the Naamathite—and do as Jehovah hath spoken unto them; and Jehovah doth accept the face of Job.

⁶ Many are saying, `Who doth show us good?' Lift on us the light of Thy face, O Jehovah, ⁷ Thou hast given joy in my heart, From the time their corn and their wine Have been multiplied.

¹ To the Overseer with stringed instruments, on the octave. —A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, in Thine anger reprove me not, Nor in Thy fury chastise me. ² Favour me, O Jehovah, for I am weak, Heal me, O Jehovah, For troubled have been my bones, ³ And my soul hath been troubled greatly, And Thou, O Jehovah, till when? ⁴ Turn back, O Jehovah, draw out my soul, Save me for Thy kindness' sake. ⁵ For there is not in death Thy memorial, In Sheol, who doth give thanks to Thee? ⁶ I have been weary with my sighing, I meditate through all the night on my bed, With my tear my couch I waste. ⁷ Old from provocation is mine eye, It is old because of all mine adversaries,
⁸ Turn from me all ye workers of iniquity, For Jehovah heard the voice of my weeping, ⁹ Jehovah hath heard my supplication, Jehovah my prayer receiveth.

¹¹ Thou causest me to know the path of life; Fulness of joys is with Thy presence, Pleasant things by Thy right hand for ever!

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

¹ By David. Unto Thee, O Jehovah, I call, My rock, be not silent to me! Lest Thou be silent to me, And I have been compared With those going down to the pit. ² Hear the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee, In my lifting up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

⁶ Blessed is Jehovah, For He hath heard the voice of my supplications.

⁵ For—a moment is in His anger, Life is in His good-will, At even remaineth weeping, and at morn singing.

⁷ O Jehovah, in Thy good pleasure, Thou hast caused strength to remain for my mountain,' Thou hast hidden Thy face—I have been troubled. ⁸ Unto Thee, O Jehovah, I call, And unto Jehovah I make supplication. ⁹ `What gain is in my blood? In my going down unto corruption? Doth dust thank Thee? doth it declare Thy truth? ¹⁰ Hear, O Jehovah, and favour me, O Jehovah, be a helper to me.' ¹¹ Thou hast turned my mourning to dancing for me, Thou hast loosed my sackcloth, And girdest me with joy.

⁸ A thing of Belial is poured out on him, And because he lay down he riseth not again. ⁹ Even mine ally, in whom I trusted, One eating my bread, made great the heel against me, ¹⁰ And Thou, Jehovah, favour me, And cause me to rise, And I give recompence to them. ¹¹ By this I have known, That Thou hast delighted in me, Because my enemy shouteth not over me.

¹⁵ And call Me in a day of adversity, I deliver thee, and thou honourest Me.

¹² And with Thee, O Lord, is kindness, For Thou dost recompense to each, According to his work!

¹ To the Overseer, with stringed instruments. —A Psalm, a Song. God doth favour us and bless us, Doth cause His face to shine with us. Selah.

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, ² Because He hath inclined His ear to me, And during my days I call. ³ Compassed me have cords of death, And straits of Sheol have found me, Distress and sorrow I find. ⁴ And in the name of Jehovah I call: I pray Thee, O Jehovah, deliver my soul, ⁵ Gracious is Jehovah, and righteous, Yea, our God is merciful, ⁶ A preserver of the simple is Jehovah, I was low, and to me He giveth salvation.

¹² When thou sayest, `Lo, we knew not this.' Is not the Ponderer of hearts He who understandeth? And the Keeper of thy soul He who knoweth? And He hath rendered to man according to his work.

¹⁹ For the people in Zion dwell in Jerusalem, Weep thou not, weeping, Pitying, He pitieth thee at the voice of thy cry, When He heareth He answereth thee.

³ Call unto Me, and I do answer thee, yea, I declare to thee great and fenced things—thou hast not known them.

² And he saith: I called, because of my distress, to Jehovah, And He doth answer me, From the belly of sheol I have cried, Thou hast heard my voice. 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. ⁴ And I—I said: I have been cast out from before Thine eyes, (Yet I add to look unto Thy holy temple!) ⁵ Compassed me have waters unto the soul, The deep doth compass me, The weed is bound to my head. ⁶ To the cuttings of mountains I have come down, The earth, her bars are behind me to the age. And Thou bringest up from the pit my life, O Jehovah my God. ⁷ In the feebleness within me of my soul Jehovah I have remembered, And come in unto Thee doth my prayer, Unto Thy holy temple.

⁴¹ he who is receiving a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward, and he who is receiving a righteous man in the name of a righteous man, shall receive a righteous man's reward, ⁴² and whoever may give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say to you, he may not lose his reward.'

²⁸ Thou didst make known to me ways of life, Thou shalt fill me with joy with Thy countenance.

¹¹ and the Lord saith unto him, `Having risen, go on unto the street that is called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas, one by name Saul of Tarsus, for, lo, he doth pray,

²⁶ greater wealth having reckoned the reproach of the Christ than the treasures in Egypt, for he did look to the recompense of reward;

²⁴ And to Him who is able to guard you not stumbling, and to set you in the presence of His glory unblemished, in gladness,

¹³ And she calleth the name of Jehovah who is speaking unto her, `Thou art, O God, my beholder;' for she said, `Even here have I looked behind my beholder?'

¹¹ And Aaron saith unto Moses, `O, my lord, I pray thee, lay not upon us sin in which we have been foolish, and in which we have sinned;

¹³ And David saith unto Nathan, `I have sinned against Jehovah.' And Nathan saith unto David, `Also—Jehovah hath caused thy sin to pass away; thou dost not die;

⁹ for Jehovah—His eyes go to and fro in all the earth, to show Himself strong for a people whose heart is perfect towards Him; thou hast been foolish concerning this, because—henceforth there are with thee wars.'

²⁰ I have sinned, what do I to Thee, O watcher of man? Why hast Thou set me for a mark to Thee, And I am for a burden to myself—and what?

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

⁴ `Jehovah is in his holy temple: Jehovah—in the heavens is His throne. His eyes see—His eyelids try the sons of men.

² Jehovah from the heavens Hath looked on the sons of men, To see if there is a wise one—seeking God.

⁷ The law of Jehovah is perfect, refreshing the soul, The testimonies of Jehovah are stedfast, Making wise the simple, ⁸ The precepts of Jehovah are upright, Rejoicing the heart, The command of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes,

¹²⁸ Therefore all my appointments I have declared wholly right, Every path of falsehood I have hated!

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. ³ My path and my couch Thou hast fanned, And with all my ways hast been acquainted. ⁴ For there is not a word in my tongue, Lo, O Jehovah, Thou hast known it all!

²¹ For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering.

³ In every place are the eyes of Jehovah, Watching the evil and the good.

¹³ Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy.

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

⁸ The priests have not said, `Where is Jehovah?' And those handling the law have not known Me. And the shepherds transgressed against Me, And the prophets have prophesied by Baal, And after those who profit not have gone.

¹³ Only, know thine iniquity, For against Jehovah thy God thou hast transgressed, And thou dost scatter thy ways to strangers, Under every green tree, And to My voice thou hast not hearkened, An affirmation of Jehovah.

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.

¹⁸ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, `Thou hast chastised me, And I am chastised, as a heifer not taught, Turn me back, and I turn back, For thou art Jehovah my God. ¹⁹ For after my turning back I repented, And after my being instructed I struck on the thigh, I have been ashamed, I have also blushed, For I have borne the reproach of my youth.

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?

¹⁸ having risen, I will go on unto my father, and will say to him, Father, I did sin—to the heaven, and before thee, ¹⁹ and no more am I worthy to be called thy son; make me as one of thy hirelings. ²⁰ `And having risen, he went unto his own father, and he being yet far distant, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and having ran he fell upon his neck and kissed him; <sup>21</sup> and the son said to him, Father, I did sin—to the heaven, and before thee, and no more am I worthy to be called thy son. <sup>22</sup> `And the father said unto his servants, Bring forth the first robe, and clothe him, and give a ring for his hand, and sandals for the feet;

¹³ `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!

²¹ what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those is death.

¹² so that the law, indeed, is holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good. ¹³ That which is good then, to me hath it become death? let it not be! but the sin, that it might appear sin, through the good, working death to me, that the sin might become exceeding sinful through the command,
¹⁴ for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;

¹⁶ And if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the law that it is good,

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

⁸ if we may say—`we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us; <sup>9</sup> if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness; <sup>10</sup> if we may say—`we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.

⁹ Let the stars of its twilight be dark, Let it wait for light, and there is none, And let it not look on the eyelids of the dawn.

¹⁶ (Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants—they have not seen light.)

²⁰ Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?

¹⁶ To the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.

²⁸ And thou decreest a saying, And it is established to thee, And on thy ways hath light shone.

²⁰ And his life hath nauseated bread, And his soul desirable food.

¹⁹ It cometh to the generation of his fathers, For ever they see not the light.

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!

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.

² The people who are walking in darkness Have seen a great light, Dwellers in a land of death-shade, Light hath shone upon them.

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

⁹ Jesus answered, `Are there not twelve hours in the day? if any one may walk in the day, he doth not stumble, because the light of this world he doth see;

¹ And I saw a messenger coming down out of the heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain over his hand, ² and he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, who is Devil and Adversary, and did bind him a thousand years, ³ and he cast him to the abyss, and did shut him up, and put a seal upon him, that he may not lead astray the nations any more, till the thousand years may be finished; and after these it behoveth him to be loosed a little time.

¹⁰ and the king of Israel sendeth unto the place of which the man of God spake to him, and warned him, and he is preserved there not once nor twice.

¹⁴ For once doth God speak, and twice, (He doth not behold it.) ¹⁵ In a dream—a vision of night, In the falling of deep sleep on men, In slumberings on a bed. ¹⁶ Then He uncovereth the ear of men, And for their instruction sealeth: ¹⁷ To turn aside man from doing, And pride from man He concealeth.

⁶ and there are diversities of workings, and it is the same God—who is working the all in all.

⁵ And He who did work us to this self-same thing is God, who also did give to us the earnest of the Spirit;

⁸ Concerning this thing thrice the Lord did I call upon, that it might depart from me,

¹¹ in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,

¹³ for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

²⁹ for which also I labour, striving according to his working that is working in me in power.

²¹ make you perfect in every good work to do His will, doing in you that which is well-pleasing before Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory—to the ages of the ages! Amen.

¹ To the Overseer. —A Psalm of David. I have diligently expected Jehovah, And He inclineth to me, and heareth my cry, ² And He doth cause me to come up From a pit of desolation—from mire of mud, And He raiseth up on a rock my feet, He is establishing my steps.

¹³ For Thou hast delivered my soul from death, Dost Thou not my feet from falling? To walk habitually before God in the light of the living!

¹⁷ I do not die, but live, And recount the works of Jah, ¹⁸ Jah hath sorely chastened me, And to death hath not given me up.

⁵ O house of Jacob, come, And we walk in the light of Jehovah.'

¹⁷ Lo, to peace He changed for me bitterness, And Thou hast delighted in my soul without corruption, For Thou hast cast behind Thy back all my sins.

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.'

¹⁸ to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that is toward me.

² When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak.

² Hear ye diligently my word, And this is your consolation.

¹¹ Lo, I have waited for your words, I give ear unto your reasons, Till ye search out sayings.

⁴ Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God. ⁵ For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.

²⁷ Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully.

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.

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

³ Of the uprightness of my heart are my sayings, And knowledge have my lips clearly spoken.

¹¹ Come ye, children, hearken to me, The fear of Jehovah I do teach you.

³ My mouth speaketh wise things, And the meditations of my heart are things of understanding.

¹ Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding. ² For good learning I have given to you, My law forsake not.

¹ My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear, ² To observe thoughtfulness, And knowledge do thy lips keep.

⁵ Understand, ye simple ones, prudence, And ye fools, understand the heart,