Job 34 Cross References - YLT

¹ And Elihu answereth and saith: ² Hear, O wise men, my words, And, O knowing ones, give ear to me. ³ For the ear doth try words, And the palate tasteth to eat. ⁴ Judgment let us choose for ourselves, Let us know among ourselves what is good. ⁵ For Job hath said, `I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right, <sup>6</sup> Against my right do I lie? Mortal is mine arrow—without transgression.' <sup>7</sup> Who is a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water, <sup>8</sup> And he hath travelled for company With workers of iniquity, So as to go with men of wickedness. <sup>9</sup> For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'
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. ¹³ Who hath inspected for Himself the earth? And who hath placed all the habitable world? ¹⁴ If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth. ¹⁵ Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth.
¹⁶ And if there is understanding, hear this, Give ear to the voice of my words. 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. ²⁰ In a moment they die, and at midnight Shake do people, and they pass away, And they remove the mighty without hand. ²¹ For His eyes are on the ways of each, And all his steps He doth see. ²² There is no darkness nor death-shade, For workers of iniquity to be hidden there; ²³ For He doth not suffer man any more, To go unto God in judgment, ²⁴ He breaketh the mighty—no searching! And He appointeth others in their stead. ²⁵ Therefore He knoweth their works, And He hath overturned by night, And they are bruised. ²⁶ As wicked He hath stricken them, In the place of beholders. ²⁷ Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely, ²⁸ To cause to come in unto Him The cry of the poor, And the cry of the afflicted He heareth. ²⁹ And He giveth rest, and who maketh wrong? And hideth the face, and who beholdeth it? And in reference to a nation and to a man, It is the same. ³⁰ From the reigning of a profane man, From the snares of a people;
³¹ For unto God hath any said: `I have taken away, I do not corruptly, ³² Besides that which I see, shew Thou me, If iniquity I have done—I do not add?' ³³ By thee doth He recompense, That thou hast refused—That thou dost choose, and not I? And what thou hast known, speak. ³⁴ Let men of heart say to me, And a wise man is hearkening to me. ³⁵ Job—not with knowledge doth he speak, And his words are not with wisdom. ³⁶ My Father! let Job be tried—unto victory, Because of answers for men of iniquity, ³⁷ For he doth add to his sin, Transgression among us he vomiteth, And multiplieth his sayings to God.

⁵ (The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.)

¹⁵ as to wise men I speak—judge ye what I say:

²⁰ Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;

³⁰ Is there in my tongue perverseness? Discerneth not my palate desirable things?

¹¹ Doth not the ear try words? And the palate taste food for itself?

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

² Lo, I pray thee, I have opened my mouth, My tongue hath spoken in the palate.

¹⁵ and he who is spiritual, doth discern indeed all things, and he himself is by no one discerned;

¹⁴ and of perfect men is the strong food, who because of the use are having the senses exercised, unto the discernment both of good and of evil.

³⁰ And it hath come to pass, every one who seeth hath said, `There hath not been—yea, there hath not been seen like this, from the day of the coming up of the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt till this day; set your heart upon it, take counsel, and speak.'

⁷ lo, ye are all sons of Israel; give for you a word and counsel here.'

³⁶ My Father! let Job be tried—unto victory, Because of answers for men of iniquity,

² Rested on him hath the Spirit of Jehovah, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and might, The spirit of knowledge and fear of Jehovah. ³ To refresh him in the fear of Jehovah, And by the sight of his eyes he judgeth not, Nor by the hearing of his ears decideth. ⁴ And he hath judged in righteousness the poor, And decided in uprightness for the humble of earth, And hath smitten earth with the rod of his mouth, And with the breath of his lips he putteth the wicked to death. ⁵ And righteousness hath been the girdle of his loins, And faithfulness—the girdle of his reins.

²⁴ judge not according to appearance, but the righteous judgment judge.'

² and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what is the will of God—the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

² have ye not known that the saints shall judge the world? and if by you the world is judged, are ye unworthy of the smaller judgments? ³ have ye not known that we shall judge messengers? why not then the things of life? ⁴ of the things of life, indeed, then, if ye may have judgment, those despised in the assembly—these cause ye to sit; ⁵ unto your shame I speak: so there is not among you one wise man, not even one, who shall be able to discern in the midst of his brethren!

¹¹ And when Peter came to Antioch, to the face I stood up against him, because he was blameworthy, ¹² for before the coming of certain from James, with the nations he was eating, and when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision, ¹³ and dissemble with him also did the other Jews, so that also Barnabas was carried away by their dissimulation. ¹⁴ But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, `If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?

²¹ all things prove; that which is good hold fast;

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

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.'

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

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

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

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

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

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

¹³ Go round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins, and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall.

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.

¹⁹ `And it hath been, in his hearing the words of this oath, and he hath blessed himself in his heart, saying, I have peace, though in the stubbornness of my heart I go on, in order to end the fulness with the thirst.

¹⁶ Also—surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.

²² `Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?

¹⁷ For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.

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.

³ Thy devices make men keep silent, Thou scornest, and none is causing blushing!

⁵ For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.

¹⁵ The path of the age dost thou observe, That men of iniquity have trodden?

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

⁴ I have not sat with vain men, And with dissemblers I enter not.

¹⁸ If thou hast seen a thief, Then thou art pleased with him, And with adulterers is thy portion.

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

¹⁵ My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,

¹² To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things,

¹⁴ Into the path of the wicked enter not, And be not happy in a way of evil doers.

²⁰ Whoso is walking with wise men is wise, And a companion of fools suffereth evil.

³³ Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

²² It is the same thing, therefore I said, `The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.' ²³ If a scourge doth put to death suddenly, At the trial of the innocent He laugheth.

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.

¹⁴ And they say to God, `Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired. ¹⁵ What is the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?' ¹⁶ Lo, not in their hand is their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)

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

¹⁷ Those saying to God, `Turn aside from us,' And what doth the Mighty One to them?

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

³ For thou sayest, `What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'

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

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

²⁵ Far be it from Thee to do according to this thing, to put to death the righteous with the wicked; that it hath been—as the righteous so the wicked—far be it from Thee; doth the Judge of all the earth not do justice?'

⁴ The Rock! —perfect is His work, For all His ways are just; God of stedfastness, and without iniquity: Righteous and upright is He.

⁷ and now, let fear of Jehovah be upon you, observe and do, for there is not with Jehovah our God perverseness, and acceptance of faces, and taking of a bribe.'

³ Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?

² Hear, O wise men, my words, And, O knowing ones, give ear to me. ³ For the ear doth try words, And the palate tasteth to eat.

³⁴ Let men of heart say to me, And a wise man is hearkening to me.

²³ Who hath appointed unto Him his way? And who said, `Thou hast done iniquity?'

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

¹⁵ To declare that upright is Jehovah my rock, And there is no perverseness in Him!

³² He who committeth adultery with a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.

³² Whoso is refusing instruction is despising his soul, And whoso is hearing reproof Is getting understanding.

¹ Righteous art Thou, O Jehovah, When I plead towards thee, Only, judgments do I speak with Thee, Wherefore did the way of the wicked prosper? At rest have been all treacherous dealers.

⁴ let it not be! and let God become true, and every man false, according as it hath been written, `That Thou mayest be declared righteous in Thy words, and mayest overcome in Thy being judged.' ⁵ And, if our unrighteousness God's righteousness doth establish, what shall we say? is God unrighteous who is inflicting the wrath? (after the manner of a man I speak)

¹⁴ What, then, shall we say? unrighteousness is with God? let it not be!

¹³ Let no one say, being tempted—`From God I am tempted,' for God is not tempted of evil, and Himself doth tempt no one,

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

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

³¹ And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled.

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 Great in counsel, and mighty in act, in that Thine eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of Adam, to give to each according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

¹⁷ And the sons of thy people have said: The way of the Lord is not pondered, As to them—their way is not pondered. ¹⁸ In the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, And he hath done perversity—he dieth for it. ¹⁹ And in the turning back of the wicked from his wickedness, And he hath done judgment and righteousness, by them he liveth. ²⁰ And ye have said: The way of the Lord is not pondered, Each according to his ways do I judge you, O house of Israel.'

²⁷ `For, the Son of Man is about to come in the glory of his Father, with his messengers, and then he will reward each, according to his work.

⁶ who shall render to each according to his works;

¹⁰ for all of us it behoveth to be manifested before the tribunal of the Christ, that each one may receive the things done through the body, in reference to the things that he did, whether good or evil;

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

¹⁷ and if on the Father ye do call, who without acceptance of persons is judging according to the work of each, in fear the time of your sojourn pass ye,

¹² And lo, I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to render to each as his work shall be;

⁷ For righteous is Jehovah, Righteousness He hath loved, The upright doth His countenance see!'

¹⁷ Righteous is Jehovah in all His ways, And kind in all His works.

¹² Art not Thou of old, O Jehovah, my God, my Holy One? We do not die, O Jehovah, For judgment Thou hast appointed it, And, O Rock, for reproof Thou hast founded it. ¹³ Purer of eyes than to behold evil, To look on perverseness Thou art not able, Why dost Thou behold the treacherous? Thou keepest silent when the wicked Doth swallow the more righteous than he,

¹¹ To Thee, O Jehovah, is the greatness, and the might, and the beauty, and the victory, and the honour, because of all in the heavens and in the earth; to Thee, O Jehovah, is the kingdom, and he who is lifting up himself over all for head;

⁴ Where wast thou when I founded earth? Declare, if thou hast known understanding. ⁵ Who placed its measures—if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line? ⁶ On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who hath cast its corner-stone? ⁷ In the singing together of stars of morning, And all sons of God shout for joy, ⁸ And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out. ⁹ In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its swaddling band, ¹⁰ And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors, ¹¹ And say, `Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.'
<sup>12</sup> Hast thou commanded morning since thy days? Causest thou the dawn to know its place? <sup>13</sup> To take hold on the skirts of the earth, And the wicked are shaken out of it, <sup>14</sup> It turneth itself as clay of a seal And they station themselves as clothed. <sup>15</sup> And withheld from the wicked is their light, And the arm lifted up is broken. <sup>16</sup> Hast thou come in to springs of the sea? And in searching the deep Hast thou walked up and down? <sup>17</sup> Revealed to thee were the gates of death? And the gates of death-shade dost thou see? <sup>18</sup> Thou hast understanding, Even unto the broad places of earth! Declare—if thou hast known it all. <sup>19</sup> Where is this—the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where is this—its place? <sup>20</sup> That thou dost take it unto its boundary, And that thou dost understand The paths of its house. <sup>21</sup> Thou hast known—for then thou art born And the number of thy days are many! <sup>22</sup> Hast thou come in unto the treasure of snow? Yea, the treasures of hail dost thou see? <sup>23</sup> That I have kept back for a time of distress, For a day of conflict and battle. <sup>24</sup> Where is this, the way light is apportioned? It scattereth an east wind over the earth.
<sup>25</sup> Who hath divided for the flood a conduit? And a way for the lightning of the voices? <sup>26</sup> To cause it to rain on a land—no man, A wilderness—no man in it. <sup>27</sup> To satisfy a desolate and waste place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass? <sup>28</sup> Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew? <sup>29</sup> From whose belly came forth the ice? And the hoar-frost of the heavens, Who hath begotten it? <sup>30</sup> As a stone waters are hidden, And the face of the deep is captured. <sup>31</sup> Dost thou bind sweet influences of Kimah? Or the attractions of Kesil dost thou open? <sup>32</sup> Dost thou bring out Mazzaroth in its season? And Aysh for her sons dost thou comfort? <sup>33</sup> Hast thou known the statutes of heaven? Or dost thou appoint Its dominion in the earth? <sup>34</sup> Dost thou lift up to the cloud thy voice, And abundance of water doth cover thee? <sup>35</sup> Dost thou send out lightnings, and they go And say unto thee, `Behold us?' ³⁶ Who hath put in the inward parts wisdom? Or who hath given To the covered part understanding? ³⁷ Who doth number the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, Who doth cause to lie down, ³⁸ In the hardening of dust into hardness, And clods cleave together? ³⁹ Dost thou hunt for a lion prey? And the desire of young lions fulfil? ⁴⁰ When they bow down in dens—Abide in a thicket for a covert? ⁴¹ Who doth prepare for a raven his provision, When his young ones cry unto God? They wander without food.

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? ¹⁰ Put on, I pray thee, excellency and loftiness, Yea, honour and beauty put on. ¹¹ Scatter abroad the wrath of thine anger, And see every proud one, and make him low.

²³ From the age I was anointed, from the first, From former states of the earth. ²⁴ In there being no depths, I was brought forth, In there being no fountains heavy with waters, ²⁵ Before mountains were sunk, Before heights, I was brought forth. ²⁶ While He had not made the earth, and out-places, And the top of the dusts of the world. ²⁷ In His preparing the heavens I am there, In His decreeing a circle on the face of the deep, ²⁸ In His strengthening clouds above, In His making strong fountains of the deep, ²⁹ In His setting for the sea its limit, And the waters transgress not His command, In His decreeing the foundations of earth, ³⁰ Then I am near Him, a workman, And I am a delight—day by day. Rejoicing before Him at all times,

¹³ Who hath meted out the Spirit of Jehovah, And, being His counsellor, doth teach Him! ¹⁴ With whom consulted He, That he causeth Him to understand? And teacheth Him in the path of judgment, And teacheth Him knowledge? And the way of understanding causeth Him to know?

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?

³⁴ for who did know the mind of the Lord? or who did become His counsellor? ³⁵ or who did first give to Him, and it shall be given back to him again? ³⁶ because of Him, and through Him, and to Him are the all things; to Him is the glory—to the ages. Amen.

¹⁷ What is man that Thou dost magnify him? And that Thou settest unto him Thy heart?

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

²⁹ Thou hidest Thy face—they are troubled, Thou gatherest their spirit—they expire, And unto their dust they turn back.

²² And they have been gathered—A gathering of bound ones in a pit, And shut up they have been in a prison, And after a multitude of days are inspected.

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.'

²² It is the same thing, therefore I said, `The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.'

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

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

³ Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men. ⁴ For a thousand years in Thine eyes are as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night. ⁵ Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth. ⁶ In the morning it flourisheth, and hath changed, At evening it is cut down, and hath withered.
⁷ For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled. ⁸ Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face, ⁹ For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation. ¹⁰ Days of our years, in them are seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet is their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.

⁷ And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.

⁴ Fury is not in Me; Who giveth Me a brier—a thorn in battle? I step into it, I burn it at once.

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

³ I also have a heart like you, I am not fallen more than you, And with whom is there not like these?

² According to your knowledge I have known—also I. I am not fallen more than you. ³ Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight. ⁴ And yet, ye are forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought—all of you, ⁵ O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom. ⁶ Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend,

²¹ And Abishai son of Zeruiah answereth and saith, `For this is not Shimei put to death—because he reviled the anointed of Jehovah?'

³ He said—the God of Israel—to me, He spake—the Rock of Israel: He who is ruling over man is righteous, He is ruling in the fear of God.

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

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

⁵ And, if our unrighteousness God's righteousness doth establish, what shall we say? is God unrighteous who is inflicting the wrath? (after the manner of a man I speak) ⁶ let it not be! since how shall God judge the world? ⁷ for if the truth of God in my falsehood did more abound to His glory, why yet am I also as a sinner judged?

²⁸ `God thou dost not revile, and a prince among thy people thou dost not curse.

²⁶ Also, to fine the righteous is not good, To smite nobles for uprightness.

³ then Paul said unto him, `God is about to smite thee, thou whitewashed wall, and thou—thou dost sit judging me according to the law, and, violating law, dost order me to be smitten!'

⁵ and Paul said, `I did not know, brethren, that he is chief priest: for it hath been written, Of the ruler of thy people thou shalt not speak evil;'

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.

¹⁷ to all give ye honour; the brotherhood love ye; God fear ye; the king honour ye.

¹⁰ and chiefly those going behind the flesh in desire of uncleanness, and lordship despising; presumptuous, self-complacent, dignities they are not afraid to speak evil of,

⁸ In like manner, nevertheless, those dreaming also the flesh indeed do defile, and lordship they put away, and dignities they speak evil of,

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 for Jehovah your God—He is God of the gods, and Lord of the lords; God, the great, the mighty, and the fearful; who accepteth not persons, nor taketh a bribe;

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?

¹⁹ Causing ministers to go away a spoil And strong ones He overthroweth.

²¹ Pouring contempt upon princes, And the girdle of the mighty He made feeble.

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

¹⁵ Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.

¹⁹ Doth He value thy riches? He hath gold, and all the forces of power.

² Station themselves do kings of the earth, And princes have been united together, Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah: ³ `Let us draw off Their cords, And cast from us Their thick bands.' ⁴ He who is sitting in the heavens doth laugh, The Lord doth mock at them.

⁶ Those trusting on their wealth, And in the multitude of their riches, Do shew themselves foolish. ⁷ A brother doth no one at all ransom, He doth not give to God his atonement.

³¹ An oppressor of the poor reproacheth his Maker, And whoso is honouring Him Is favouring the needy.

² Rich and poor have met together, The Maker of them all is Jehovah.

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.

¹⁴ Jehovah into judgment doth enter With elders of His people, and its heads: `And ye, ye have consumed the vineyard, Plunder of the poor is in your houses.

³⁴ And Peter having opened his mouth, said, `Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons,

¹¹ For there is no acceptance of faces with God,

⁶ And from those who were esteemed to be something—whatever they were then, it maketh no difference to me—the face of man God accepteth not, for—to me those esteemed did add nothing,

⁹ And the masters! the same things do ye unto them, letting threatening alone, having known that also your Master is in the heavens, and acceptance of persons is not with him.

²⁵ and he who is doing unrighteously shall receive what he did unrighteously, and there is no acceptance of persons.

²⁸ wherefore, a kingdom that cannot be shaken receiving, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and religious fear;

⁵ Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him?

²⁹ And it cometh to pass, at midnight, that Jehovah hath smitten every first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh who is sitting on his throne, unto the first-born of the captive who is in the prison-house, and every first-born of beasts. ³⁰ And Pharaoh riseth by night, he and all his servants, and all the Egyptians, and there is a great cry in Egypt, for there is not a house where there is not one dead,

³⁷ And it cometh to pass in the morning, when the wine is gone out from Nabal, that his wife declareth to him these things, and his heart dieth within him, and he hath been as a stone. ³⁸ And it cometh to pass, in about ten days, that Jehovah smiteth Nabal, and he dieth, ³⁹ and David heareth that Nabal is dead, and saith, `Blessed is Jehovah who hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and His servant hath kept back from evil, and the wickedness of Nabal hath Jehovah turned back on his own head;' and David sendeth and speaketh with Abigail, to take her to him for a wife.

¹⁰ And David saith, `Jehovah liveth; except Jehovah doth smite him, or his day come that he hath died, or into battle he go down, and hath been consumed—

²⁰ Desire not the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.

¹⁹ How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended—consumed from terrors.

¹⁶ Therefore doth the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, Send among his fat ones leanness, And under his honour He kindleth a burning As the burning of a fire. ¹⁷ And the light of Israel hath been for a fire, And his Holy One for a flame, And it hath burned, and devoured his thorn And his brier in one day. ¹⁸ And the honour of his forest, and his fruitful field, From soul even unto flesh He doth consume, And it hath been as the fainting of a standard-bearer. ¹⁹ And the rest of the trees of his forest are few, And a youth doth write them.

¹³ Therefore is this iniquity to you as a breach falling, Swelled out in a wall set on high, Whose destruction suddenly, at an instant cometh.

³⁰ And caused to be heard hath Jehovah The honour of His voice, And the coming down of His arm He doth shew with the raging of anger, And the flame of a consuming fire, Scattering, and inundation, and hailstone. ³¹ For from the voice of Jehovah broken down is Asshur, With a rod He smiteth. ³² And every passage of the settled staff, That Jehovah causeth to rest on him, Hath been with tabrets, and with harps, And in battles of shaking he hath fought with it. ³³ For, arranged from former time is Tophet, Even it for the king is prepared, He hath made deep, He hath made large, Its pile is fire and much wood, The breath of Jehovah, As a stream of brim stone, is burning in it!

³⁶ And a messenger of Jehovah goeth out, and smiteth in the camp of Asshur a hundred and eighty and five thousand; and men rise early in the morning, and lo, all of them are dead corpses.

³⁸ And it cometh to pass, he is bowing himself in the house of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons have smitten him with the sword, and they have escaped to the land of Ararat, and Esar-Haddon his son reigneth in his stead.

³⁴ Thou wast looking till that a stone hath been cut out without hands, and it hath smitten the image on its feet, that are of iron and of clay, and it hath broken them small;

⁴⁴ `And in the days of these kings raise up doth the God of the heavens a kingdom that is not destroyed—to the age, and its kingdom to another people is not left: it beateth small and endeth all these kingdoms, and it standeth to the age. ⁴⁵ Because that thou hast seen that out of the mountain cut hath been a stone without hands, and it hath beaten small the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king that which is to be after this; and the dream is true, and its interpretation stedfast.

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

⁶ And he answereth and speaketh unto me, saying: `This is a word of Jehovah unto Zerubbabel, saying: Not by a force, nor by power, But—by My Spirit, said Jehovah of Hosts.

⁶ and in the middle of the night a cry was made, Lo, the bridegroom doth come; go ye forth to meet him.

²⁰ `And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare—to whom shall they be?

²⁶ `And, as it came to pass in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man; ²⁷ they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came, and destroyed all; ²⁸ in like manner also, as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; ²⁹ and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all.

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 for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come,

³ and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.

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?'

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.'

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

¹⁵ The eyes of Jehovah are unto the righteous, And His ears unto their cry.

²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart, Try me, and know my thoughts,

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.

¹⁷ For Mine eyes are upon all their ways, They have not been hidden from My face, Nor hath their iniquity been concealed from before Mine eyes.

¹⁰ I Jehovah do search the heart, try the reins, Even to give to each according to his way, According to the fruit of his doings.

⁸ Lo, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah are on the sinful kingdom, And I have destroyed it from off the face of the ground, Only, I destroy not utterly the house of Jacob, An affirmation of Jehovah.

⁵ Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.

¹⁷ When together, morning is to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade.

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

⁵ The boastful station not themselves before Thine eyes: Thou hast hated all working iniquity.

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

²⁹ The way of Jehovah is strength to the perfect, And ruin to workers of iniquity.

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.

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

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

² If they dig through into sheol, From thence doth My hand take them, And if they go up the heavens, From thence I cause them to come down. ³ And if they be hid in the top of Carmel, From thence I search out, and have taken them, And if they be hid from Mine eyes in the bottom of the sea, From thence I command the serpent, And it hath bitten them.

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

²⁷ and he shall say, I say to you, I have not known you whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of the unrighteousness.

⁵ so, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.

¹³ and there is not a created thing not manifest before Him, but all things are naked and open to His eyes—with whom is our reckoning.

¹⁵ and the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich, and the chiefs of thousands, and the mighty, and every servant, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens, and in the rocks of the mountains, ¹⁶ and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, `Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of Him who is sitting upon the throne, and from the anger of the Lamb,'

¹³ `And after all that hath come upon us for our evil works, and for our great guilt (for Thou, O our God, hast kept back of the rod from our iniquities, and hast given to us an escape like this),

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.

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

¹¹ For he hath known men of vanity, And He seeth iniquity, And one doth not consider it!

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

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

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.

¹³⁷ Tzade. Righteous art Thou, O Jehovah, And upright are Thy judgments.

³ A bruised reed he breaketh not, And dim flax he quencheth not, To truth he bringeth forth judgment.

⁵ Thus said Jehovah: What—have your fathers found in Me perversity, That they have gone far off from Me, And go after the vanity, and become vain,

⁷ `To Thee, O Lord, is the righteousness, and to us the shame of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, in all the lands whither Thou hast driven them, in their trespass that they have trespassed against Thee. <sup>8</sup> `O Lord, to us is the shame of face, to our kings, to our heads, and to our fathers, in that we have sinned against Thee. ⁹ `To the Lord our God are the mercies and the forgivenesses, for we have rebelled against Him,

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?

³⁰ `Therefore—the affirmation of Jehovah, God of Israel—I certainly said, Thy house and the house of thy father, do walk up and down before Me to the age; and now—the affirmation of Jehovah—Far be it from Me! for he who is honouring Me, I honour, and those despising Me, are lightly esteemed. <sup>31</sup> `Lo, days are coming, and I have cut off thine arm, and the arm of the house of thy father, that an old man is not in thy house; ³² and thou hast beheld an adversary in My habitation, in all that He doth good with Israel, and there is not an old man in thy house all the days. ³³ `And the man I cut not off of thine from Mine altar, is to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thy soul; and all the increase of thy house do die men; ³⁴ and this is to thee the sign that cometh unto thy two sons, unto Hophni and Phinehas—in one day they die both of them; ³⁵ and I have raised up for Me a stedfast priest; as in My heart and in My soul he doth do; and I have built for him a stedfast house, and he hath walked up and down before Mine anointed all the days; ³⁶ and it hath been, every one who is left in thy house doth come in to bow himself to him, for a wage of silver, and a cake of bread, and hath said, Admit me, I pray thee, unto one of the priest's offices, to eat a morsel of bread.'

²⁸ And Samuel saith unto him, `Jehovah hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee to-day, and given it to thy neighbour who is better than thou;

⁷ Go, say to Jeroboam, Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Because that I have made thee high out of the midst of the people, and appoint thee leader over my people Israel, ⁸ and rend the kingdom from the house of David, and give it to thee, —and thou hast not been as My servant David who kept My commands, and who walked after Me with all his heart, to do only that which is right in Mine eyes,

¹⁴ `And Jehovah hath raised up for Him a king over Israel who cutteth off the house of Jeroboam this day—and what? —even now!

² Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words?

⁹ Thou dost rule them with a sceptre of iron, As a vessel of a potter Thou dost crush them.'

⁴ He judgeth the poor of the people, Giveth deliverance to the sons of the needy, And bruiseth the oppressor.

⁵ Thy people, O Jehovah, they bruise, And Thine inheritance they afflict.

⁷ He is raising up from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He exalteth the needy. ⁸ To cause to sit with princes, With the princes of His people.

²⁰ An axe art thou to me—weapons of war, And I have broken in pieces by thee nations, And I have destroyed by thee kingdoms, ²¹ And I have broken in pieces by thee horse and its rider, And I have broken in pieces by thee chariot and its charioteer, ²² And I have broken in pieces by thee man and woman, And I have broken in pieces by thee old and young, And I have broken in pieces by thee young man and virgin, ²³ And I have broken in pieces by thee shepherd and his drove, And I have broken in pieces by thee husbandman and his team, And I have broken in pieces by thee governors and prefects.

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.

³⁴ Thou wast looking till that a stone hath been cut out without hands, and it hath smitten the image on its feet, that are of iron and of clay, and it hath broken them small; ³⁵ then broken small together have been the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, and they have been as chaff from the summer threshing-floor, and carried them away hath the wind, and no place hath been found for them: and the stone that smote the image hath become a great mountain, and hath filled all the land.

²⁸ Divided—Divided is thy kingdom, and it hath been given to the Medes and Persians.' ²⁹ Then hath Belshazzar said, and they have clothed Daniel with purple, and a bracelet of gold is on his neck, and they have proclaimed concerning him that he is the third ruler in the kingdom.
³⁰ In that night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans is slain, ³¹ and Darius the Mede hath received the kingdom, when a son of sixty and two years.

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

¹⁵ Who is forming their hearts together, Who is attending unto all their works.

⁸ All of them holding sword, taught of battle, Each his sword by his thigh, for fear at night.

¹ The burden of Moab. Because in a night destroyed was Ar of Moab—It hath been cut off, Because in a night destroyed was Kir of Moab—It hath been cut off.

¹⁸ And I—their works and their thoughts, I come to gather all the nations and tongues, And they have come and seen My honour.

² And they do not say to their heart, That all their evil I have remembered, Now compassed them have their doings, Over-against My face they have been.

⁷ Sworn hath Jehovah by the excellency of Jacob: `I forget not for ever any of their works.

¹² and I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and scrolls were opened, and another scroll was opened, which is that of the life, and the dead were judged out of the things written in the scrolls—according to their works;

³⁰ and Jehovah saveth Israel in that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel seeth the Egyptians dead on the sea-shore,

⁹ `But thou dost surely kill him; thy hand is on him, in the first place, to put him to death, and the hand of all the people last; ¹⁰ and thou hast stoned him with stones, and he hath died, for he hath sought to drive thee away from Jehovah thy God, who is bringing thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants; ¹¹ and all Israel do hear and fear, and add not to do like this evil thing in thy midst.

²¹ and all the men of his city have stoned him with stones, and he hath died, and thou hast put away the evil out of thy midst, and all Israel do hear and fear.

¹¹ thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am raising up against thee evil, out of thy house, and have taken thy wives before thine eyes, and given to thy neighbour, and he hath lain with thy wives before the eyes of this sun; ¹² for thou hast done it in secret, and I do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.'

¹⁰ The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked. ¹¹ And man saith: `Surely fruit is for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!'

²⁴ And they have gone forth, And looked on the carcases of the men Who are transgressing against me, For their worm dieth not, And their fire is not quenched, And they have been an abhorrence to all flesh!

²⁰ Those sinning, reprove before all, that the others also may have fear;

²⁴ of certain men the sins are manifest beforehand, leading before to judgment, and certain also they follow after;

⁹ and weep over her, and smite themselves for her, shall the kings of the earth, who with her did commit whoredom and did revel, when they may see the smoke of her burning, ¹⁰ from afar having stood because of the fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city! Babylon, the strong city! because in one hour did come thy judgment.

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

¹¹ `I have repented that I caused Saul to reign for king, for he hath turned back from after Me, and My words he hath not performed;' and it is displeasing to Samuel, and he crieth unto Jehovah all the night.

⁵ For they attend not to the doing of Jehovah, And unto the work of His hands. He throweth them down, And doth not build them up.

⁴³ Who is wise, and observeth these? They understand the kind acts of Jehovah!

⁵ As to those turning to their crooked ways, Jehovah causeth them to go with workers of iniquity. Peace on Israel!

²⁹ Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen. ³⁰ They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,

³ An ox hath known its owner, And an ass the crib of its master, Israel hath not known, My people hath not understood.

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

⁶ And those removing from after Jehovah, And who have not sought Jehovah, nor besought Him.

¹⁵ And now, lay it, I pray you, to your heart, From this day, and onwards, Before the laying of stone to stone in the temple of Jehovah. ¹⁶ From that time one hath come to a heap of twenty, And it hath been ten, He hath come unto the wine-fat to draw out fifty purahs, And it hath been twenty. ¹⁷ I have smitten you with blasting, And with mildew, and with hail—All the work of your hands, And there is none of you with Me, An affirmation of Jehovah. ¹⁸ Set it, I pray you, to your heart, from this day and onwards, from the twenty and fourth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the temple of Jehovah hath been founded, set it to your heart. ¹⁹ Is the seed yet in the barn? And hitherto the vine and the fig, And the pomegranate, and the olive-tree, Have not borne—from this day I bless.'

³¹ in that day, he who shall be on the house top, and his vessels in the house, let him not come down to take them away; and he in the field, in like manner, let him not turn backward; ³² remember the wife of Lot.

³⁸ and Paul was not thinking it good to take him with them who withdrew from them from Pamphylia, and did not go with them to the work;

¹⁰ for Demas forsook me, having loved the present age, and went on to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia,

³⁹ and we are not of those drawing back to destruction, but of those believing to a preserving of soul.

²³ And it cometh to pass during these many days, that the king of Egypt dieth, and the sons of Israel sigh because of the service, and cry, and their cry goeth up unto God, because of the service; ²⁴ and God heareth their groaning, and God remembereth His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob;

⁷ And Jehovah saith, `I have certainly seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and their cry I have heard, because of its exactors, for I have known its pains;

⁹ `And now, lo, the cry of the sons of Israel hath come in unto Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them,

²³ if thou dost really afflict him, surely if he at all cry unto Me, I certainly hear his cry; ²⁴ and Mine anger hath burned, and I have slain you by the sword, and your wives have been widows, and your sons orphans.
²⁵ `If thou dost lend My poor people with thee money, thou art not to him as a usurer; thou dost not lay on him usury; ²⁶ if thou dost at all take in pledge the garment of thy neighbour, during the going in of the sun thou dost return it to him: ²⁷ for it alone is his covering, it is his garment for his skin; wherein doth he lie down? and it hath come to pass, when he doth cry unto Me, that I have heard, for I am gracious.

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.

¹² Because of enmity men do groan, And the soul of pierced ones doth cry, And God doth not give praise.

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.

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,

⁹ Because of the multitude of oppressions They cause to cry out, They cry because of the arm of the mighty.

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

⁷ Because the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts Is the house of Israel, And the man of Judah His pleasant plant, And He waiteth for judgment, and lo, oppression, For righteousness, and lo, a cry.

⁴ lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you—doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;

¹ And it cometh to pass, when the king sat in his house, and Jehovah hath given rest to him round about, from all his enemies,

⁹ And it cometh to pass, in the fourth year of king Hezekiah—it is the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel—come up hath Shalmaneser king of Asshur against Samaria, and layeth siege to it, ¹⁰ and they capture it at the end of three years; in the sixth year of Hezekiah—it is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel—hath Samaria been captureth, ¹¹ and the king of Asshur removeth Israel to Asshur, and placed them in Halah, and in Habor by the river Gozan, and in cities of the Medes, ¹² because that they have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah their God, and transgress His covenant—all that He commanded Moses, servant of Jehovah—yea, they have not hearkened nor done it .

¹⁴ Also, all the heads of the priests, and the people, having multiplied to commit a trespass according to all the abominations of the nations, and they defile the house of Jehovah that He hath sanctified in Jerusalem. 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. ¹⁷ And He causeth to go up against them the king of the Chaldeans, and he slayeth their chosen ones by the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and hath had no pity on young man and virgin, old man and very aged—the whole He hath given into his hand.

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

⁸ Lo, forward I go—and He is not, And backward—and I perceive him not. ⁹ To the left in His working—and I see not, He is covered on the right, and I behold not.

¹³ And He is in one mind, And who doth turn Him back? And His soul hath desired—and He doth it .

¹ And Job addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: — ² Who doth make me as in months past, As in the days of God's preserving me? ³ In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk through darkness.

¹ To the Overseer. —A Psalm of David. Till when, O Jehovah, Dost Thou forget me? —for ever? Till when dost Thou hide Thy face from me?

⁹ Hide not Thy face from me, Turn not aside in anger Thy servant, My help Thou hast been. Leave me not, nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.

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.

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

³ And it hath come to pass, In the day of Jehovah's giving rest to thee, From thy grief, and from thy trouble, And from the sharp bondage, That hath been served upon thee,
⁴ That thou hast taken up this simile Concerning the king of Babylon, and said, How hath the exactor ceased, ⁵ Ceased hath the golden one. Broken hath Jehovah the staff of the wicked, The sceptre of rulers. ⁶ He who is smiting peoples in wrath, A smiting without intermission, He who is ruling in anger nations, Pursuing without restraint! ⁷ At rest—quiet hath been all the earth, They have broken forth into singing. ⁸ Even firs have rejoiced over thee, Cedars of Lebanon—saying : Since thou hast lain down, The hewer cometh not up against us.

³ An imagination supported Thou fortifiest peace—peace! For in Thee it is confident.

¹⁷ And a work of the righteousness hath been peace, And a service of the righteousness—Keeping quiet and confidence unto the age.

⁸ And it hath come to pass, the nation and the kingdom that do not serve him—Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon—and that which putteth not its neck into the yoke of the king of Babylon, with sword, and with famine, and with pestilence, I lay a charge on that nation—an affirmation of Jehovah—till I consume them by his hand.

²⁷ `Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

³¹ What, then, shall we say unto these things? if God is for us, who is against us? ³² He who indeed His own Son did not spare, but for us all did deliver him up, how shall He not also with him the all things grant to us? ³³ Who shall lay a charge against the choice ones of God? God is He that is declaring righteous, ³⁴ who is he that is condemning? Christ is He that died, yea, rather also, was raised up; who is also on the right hand of God—who also doth intercede for us.

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

²⁸ And the king taketh counsel, and maketh two calves of gold, and saith unto them, `Enough to you of going up to Jerusalem; lo, thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.' ²⁹ And he setteth the one in Beth-El, and the other he hath put in Dan, ³⁰ and this thing becometh a sin, and the people go before the one—unto Dan.

⁹ And they have not hearkened, and Manasseh causeth them to err, to do the evil thing above the nations that Jehovah destroyed from the presence of the sons of Israel.

²¹ For His eyes are on the ways of each, And all his steps He doth see.

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

² In the multiplying of the righteous the people rejoice, And in the ruling of the wicked the people sigh.
³ A man loving wisdom rejoiceth his father, And a friend of harlots destroyeth wealth.
⁴ A king by judgment establisheth a land, And one receiving gifts throweth it down.
⁵ A man taking a portion above his neighbour, Spreadeth a net for his own steps.
⁶ In the transgression of the evil is a snare, And the righteous doth sing and rejoice.
⁷ The righteous knoweth the plea of the poor, The wicked understandeth not knowledge.
⁸ Men of scorning ensnare a city, And the wise turn back anger.
⁹ A wise man is judged by the foolish man, And he hath been angry, And he hath laughed, and there is no rest.
¹⁰ Men of blood hate the perfect, And the upright seek his soul.
¹¹ A fool bringeth out all his mind, And the wise till afterwards restraineth it.
¹² A ruler who is attending to lying words, All his ministers are wicked.

¹⁸ Better is wisdom than weapons of conflict, And one sinner destroyeth much good!

¹¹ Oppressed is Ephraim, broken in judgment, When he pleased he went after the command.

¹¹ I give to thee a king in Mine anger, And I take away in My wrath.

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

⁴ who is opposing and is raising himself up above all called God or worshipped, so that he in the sanctuary of God as God hath sat down, shewing himself off that he is God—the day doth not come . ⁵ Do ye not remember that, being yet with you, these things I said to you? ⁶ and now, what is keeping down ye have known, for his being revealed in his own time, ⁷ for the secret of the lawlessness doth already work, only he who is keeping down now will hinder —till he may be out of the way, ⁸ and then shall be revealed the Lawless One, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the manifestation of his presence, ⁹ him, whose presence is according to the working of the Adversary, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders, ¹⁰ and in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved, ¹¹ and because of this shall God send to them a working of delusion, for their believing the lie,

³ And I saw one of its heads as slain to death, and its deadly stroke was healed, and all the earth did wonder after the beast, ⁴ and they did bow before the dragon who did give authority to the beast, and they did bow before the beast, saying, `Who is like to the beast? who is able to war with it?'

¹¹ And I saw another beast coming up out of the land, and it had two horns, like a lamb, and it was speaking as a dragon, ¹² and all the authority of the first beast doth it do before it, and it maketh the land and those dwelling in it that they shall bow before the first beast, whose deadly stroke was healed, ¹³ and it doth great signs, that fire also it may make to come down from the heaven to the earth before men, ¹⁴ and it leadeth astray those dwelling on the land, because of the signs that were given it to do before the beast, saying to those dwelling upon the land to make an image to the beast that hath the stroke of the sword and did live,

⁴¹ also I walk to them in opposition, and have brought them into the land of their enemies—or then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and then they accept the punishment of their iniquity, —

¹³ `And after all that hath come upon us for our evil works, and for our great guilt (for Thou, O our God, hast kept back of the rod from our iniquities, and hast given to us an escape like this), ¹⁴ do we turn back to break Thy commands, and to join ourselves in marriage with the people of these abominations? art not Thou angry against us—even to consumption—till there is no remnant and escaped part?

³³ and Thou art righteous concerning all that hath come upon us, for truth Thou hast done, and we have done wickedly; ³⁴ and our kings, our heads, our priests, and our fathers, have not done Thy law, nor attended unto Thy commands, and to Thy testimonies, that Thou hast testified against them; ³⁵ and they, in their kingdom, and in Thine abundant goodness, that Thou hast given to them, and in the land, the large and the fat, that Thou hast set before them, have not served Thee, nor turned back from their evil doings. ³⁶ `Lo, we—to-day—are servants, and the land that Thou hast given to our fathers, to eat its fruit and its good—lo, we are servants on it, ³⁷ and its increase it is multiplying to the kings whom Thou hast set over us in our sins; and over our bodies they are ruling, and over our cattle, according to their pleasure, and we are in great distress. 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.'

²⁷ He looketh on men, and saith, `I sinned, And uprightness I have perverted, And it hath not been profitable to me.

³ And Job answereth Jehovah, and saith: — ⁴ Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth. ⁵ Once I have spoken, and I answer not, And twice, and I add not.

⁶ Therefore do I loathe it, And I have repented on dust and ashes.

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.

⁷ `To Thee, O Lord, is the righteousness, and to us the shame of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, in all the lands whither Thou hast driven them, in their trespass that they have trespassed against Thee. <sup>8</sup> `O Lord, to us is the shame of face, to our kings, to our heads, and to our fathers, in that we have sinned against Thee. ⁹ `To the Lord our God are the mercies and the forgivenesses, for we have rebelled against Him, <sup>10</sup> and have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah our God, to walk in His laws, that He hath set before us by the hand of His servants the prophets; <sup>11</sup> and all Israel have transgressed Thy law, to turn aside so as not to hearken to Thy voice; and poured on us is the execration, and the oath, that is written in the law of Moses, servant of God, because we have sinned against Him. <sup>12</sup> `And He confirmeth His words that He hath spoken against us, and against our judges who have judged us, to bring in upon us great evil, in that it hath not been done under the whole heavens as it hath been done in Jerusalem, ¹³ as it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil hath come upon us, and we have not appeased the face of Jehovah our God to turn back from our iniquities, and to act wisely in Thy truth. 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.

⁹ The indignation of Jehovah I do bear, For I have sinned against Him, Till that He doth plead my cause, And hath executed my judgment, He doth bring me forth to the light, I look on His righteousness.

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

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

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

⁴ Thy ways, O Jehovah, cause me to know, Thy paths teach Thou me. ⁵ Cause me to tread in Thy truth, and teach me, For Thou art the God of my salvation, Near Thee I have waited all the day.

⁸ I cause thee to act wisely, And direct thee in the way that thou goest, I cause mine eye to take counsel concerning thee.

²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart, Try me, and know my thoughts, ²⁴ And see if a grievous way be in me, And lead me in a way age-during!

⁸ Cause me to hear in the morning Thy kindness, For in Thee I have trusted, Cause me to know the way that I go, For unto Thee I have lifted up my soul. ⁹ Deliver me from mine enemies, O Jehovah, Near Thee I am covered. ¹⁰ Teach me to do Thy good pleasure, For Thou art my God—Thy Spirit is good, Lead me into a land of uprightness.

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

⁸ make, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have a father—Abraham; for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham; ⁹ and already also the axe unto the root of the trees is laid, every tree, therefore, not making good fruit is cut down, and to fire it is cast.' ¹⁰ And the multitudes were questioning him, saying, `What, then, shall we do?' <sup>11</sup> and he answering saith to them, `He having two coats—let him impart to him having none, and he having victuals—in like manner let him do.' ¹² And there came also tax-gatherers to be baptised, and they said unto him, `Teacher, what shall we do?' <sup>13</sup> and he said unto them, `Exact no more than that directed you.' ¹⁴ And questioning him also were those warring, saying, `And we, what shall we do?' and he said unto them, `Do violence to no one, nor accuse falsely, and be content with your wages.'

²² ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,

²⁵ Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another; ²⁶ be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath, ²⁷ neither give place to the devil; ²⁸ whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.

¹² Lo, He snatches away, who bringeth it back? Who saith unto Him, `What dost Thou?'

³¹ Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.

⁴ (He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?

⁵ If thou art able—answer me, Set in array before me—station thyself.

³² If there are words—answer me, Speak, for I have a desire to justify thee.

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

¹¹ Who hath brought before Me and I repay? Under the whole heavens it is mine.

³⁰ If his sons forsake My law, And in My judgments do not walk; ³¹ If My statutes they pollute, And My commands do not keep, ³² I have looked after with a rod their transgression, And with strokes their iniquity,

⁶ All that Jehovah pleased He hath done, In the heavens and in earth, In the seas and all deep places,

³¹ Lo, the righteous in the earth is recompensed, Surely also the wicked and the sinner!

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?'

¹² that These, the last, wrought one hour, and thou didst make them equal to us, who were bearing the burden of the day—and the heat. ¹³ `And he answering said to one of them, Comrade, I do no unrighteousness to thee; for a denary didst not thou agree with me? ¹⁴ take that which is thine, and go; and I will to give to this, the last, also as to thee; ¹⁵ is it not lawful to me to do what I will in mine own? is thine eye evil because I am good?

³⁵ or who did first give to Him, and it shall be given back to him again?

⁶ since it is a righteous thing with God to give back to those troubling you—trouble, ⁷ and to you who are troubled—rest with us in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with messengers of his power,

² for if the word being spoken through messengers did become stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience did receive a just recompense,

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

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

⁴ Judgment let us choose for ourselves, Let us know among ourselves what is good.

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

¹⁶ And if there is understanding, hear this, Give ear to the voice of my words.

² According to your knowledge I have known—also I. I am not fallen more than you.

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

¹⁶ And Job with vanity doth open his mouth, Without knowledge words he multiplieth.

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

³ `Who is this, hiding counsel without knowledge?' Therefore, I have declared, and understand not, Too wonderful for me, and I know not.

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

⁷ Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth.

¹⁶ And God hath made my heart soft, And the Mighty hath troubled me.

¹ Wherefore from the Mighty One Times have not been hidden, And those knowing Him have not seen His days.

⁸ And he hath travelled for company With workers of iniquity, So as to go with men of wickedness. ⁹ For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'

³ Thou hast proved my heart, Thou hast inspected by night, Thou hast tried me, Thou findest nothing; My thoughts pass not over my mouth.

² Try me, O Jehovah, and prove me, Purified are my reins and my heart.

¹¹ lo, we call happy those who are enduring; the endurance of Job ye heard of, and the end of the Lord ye have seen, that very compassionate is the Lord, and pitying.

²³ for a sin of divination is rebellion, and iniquity and teraphim is stubbornness; because thou hast rejected the word of Jehovah, He also doth reject thee from being king.'

² Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind—sayings of thy mouth? ³ Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?

² Is a multitude of words not answered? And is a man of lips justified? ³ Thy devices make men keep silent, Thou scornest, and none is causing blushing!

² Also—to-day is my complaint bitter, My hand hath been heavy because of my sighing.

²³ It clappeth at him its hands, And it hisseth at him from his place.

² This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said—`My righteousness is more than God's?' <sup>3</sup> For thou sayest, `What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'

⁷ And it cometh to pass after Jehovah's speaking these words unto Job, that Jehovah saith unto Eliphaz the Temanite, `Burned hath Mine anger against thee, and against thy two friends, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.

¹⁹ If ye are willing, and have hearkened, The good of the land ye consume, ²⁰ And if ye refuse, and have rebelled, By the sword ye are consumed, For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.