Job 37 Cross References - YLT

¹ Also, at this my heart trembleth, And it moveth from its place. ² Hearken diligently to the trembling of His voice, Yea, the sound from His mouth goeth forth. ³ Under the whole heavens He directeth it, And its light is over the skirts of the earth. ⁴ After it roar doth a voice—He thundereth with the voice of His excellency, And He doth not hold them back, When His voice is heard. ⁵ God thundereth with His voice wonderfully, Doing great things and we know not.
⁶ For to snow He saith, `Be on the earth.' And the small rain and great rain of His power. ⁷ Into the hand of every man he sealeth, For the knowledge by all men of His work. ⁸ And enter doth the beast into covert, And in its habitations it doth continue. ⁹ From the inner chamber cometh a hurricane, And from scatterings winds—cold, ¹⁰ From the breath of God is frost given, And the breadth of waters is straitened, ¹¹ Yea, by filling He doth press out a cloud, Scatter a cloud doth His light. ¹² And it is turning itself round by His counsels, For their doing all He commandeth them, On the face of the habitable earth. ¹³ Whether for a rod, or for His land, Or for kindness—He doth cause it to come.
¹⁴ Hear this, O Job, Stand and consider the wonders of God. ¹⁵ Dost thou know when God doth place them, And caused to shine the light of His cloud? ¹⁶ Dost thou know the balancings of a cloud? The wonders of the Perfect in knowledge? ¹⁷ How thy garments are warm, In the quieting of the earth from the south? ¹⁸ Thou hast made an expanse with Him For the clouds—strong as a hard mirror! ¹⁹ Let us know what we say to Him, We set not in array because of darkness. ²⁰ Is it declared to Him that I speak? If a man hath spoken, surely he is swallowed up.
²¹ And now, they have not seen the light, Bright it is in the clouds, And the wind hath passed by and cleanseth them. ²² From the golden north it cometh, Beside God is fearful honour. ²³ The Mighty! we have not found Him out, High in power and judgment, He doth not answer! And abundant in righteousness, ²⁴ Therefore do men fear Him, He seeth not any of the wise of heart.

¹⁶ And it cometh to pass, on the third day, while it is morning, that there are voices, and lightnings, and a heavy cloud, on the mount, and the sound of a trumpet very strong; and all the people who are in the camp do tremble.

¹⁴ Fear hath met me, and trembling, And the multitude of my bones caused to fear.

⁶ Yea, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And my flesh hath taken fright.

¹ And Jehovah answereth Job out of the whirlwind, and saith: —

⁷ God is very terrible, In the secret counsel of His holy ones, And fearful over all surrounding Him.

¹²⁰ Trembled from Thy fear hath my flesh, And from Thy judgments I have been afraid!

²² Me do ye not fear, an affirmation of Jehovah? From My presence are ye not pained? Who hath made sand the border of the sea, A limit age-during, and it passeth not over it, They shake themselves, and they are not able, Yea, sounded have its billows, and they pass not over.

⁷ `And I have seen—I, Daniel, by myself—the appearance: and the men who have been with me have not seen the appearance, but a great trembling hath fallen on them, and they flee to be hidden; ⁸ and I have been left by myself, and I see this great appearance, and there hath been no power left in me, and my honour hath been turned in me to corruption, yea, I have not retained power.

¹⁶ I have heard, and my belly trembleth, At the noise have my lips quivered, Rottenness doth come into my bones, And in my place I do tremble, That I rest for a day of distress, At the coming up of the people, he overcometh it.

² and lo, there came a great earthquake, for a messenger of the Lord, having come down out of heaven, having come, did roll away the stone from the door, and was sitting upon it, ³ and his countenance was as lightning, and his clothing white as snow, ⁴ and from the fear of him did the keepers shake, and they became as dead men.

²⁶ and suddenly a great earthquake came, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken, opened also presently were all the doors, and of all—the bands were loosed;

²⁹ And, having asked for a light, he sprang in, and trembling he fell down before Paul and Silas,

¹⁶ And it cometh to pass, on the third day, while it is morning, that there are voices, and lightnings, and a heavy cloud, on the mount, and the sound of a trumpet very strong; and all the people who are in the camp do tremble. ¹⁷ And Moses bringeth out the people to meet God from the camp, and they station themselves at the lower part of the mount, ¹⁸ and mount Sinai is wholly a smoke from the presence of Jehovah, who hath come down on it in fire, and its smoke goeth up as smoke of the furnace, and the whole mount trembleth exceedingly; ¹⁹ and the sound of the trumpet is going on, and very strong; Moses speaketh, and God doth answer him with a voice.

²⁹ Yea, doth any understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His tabernacle?

³³ He sheweth by it to his friend substance, Anger against perversity.

⁵ God thundereth with His voice wonderfully, Doing great things and we know not.

³ The voice of Jehovah is on the waters, The God of glory hath thundered, Jehovah is on many waters. ⁴ The voice of Jehovah is with power, The voice of Jehovah is with majesty, ⁵ The voice of Jehovah is shivering cedars, Yea, Jehovah shivers the cedars of Lebanon. ⁶ And He causeth them to skip as a calf, Lebanon and Sirion as a son of Reems, ⁷ The voice of Jehovah is hewing fiery flames, ⁸ The voice of Jehovah paineth a wilderness, Jehovah paineth the wilderness of Kadesh. ⁹ The voice of Jehovah paineth the oaks, And maketh bare the forests, And in His temple every one saith, `Glory.'

⁷ From Thy rebuke they flee, From the voice of Thy thunder haste away.

¹³ To take hold on the skirts of the earth, And the wicked are shaken out of it,

¹³ O God, in holiness is Thy way, Who is a great god like God?

⁴ Lightened have His lightnings the world, The earth hath seen, and is pained.

¹² And He hath lifted up an ensign to nations, And gathereth the driven away of Israel, And the scattered of Judah He assembleth, From the four wings of the earth.

²⁷ for as the lightning doth come forth from the east, and doth appear unto the west, so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man;

¹⁹ And opened was the sanctuary of God in the heaven, and there was seen the ark of His covenant in His sanctuary, and there did come lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and an earthquake, and great hail.

⁷ And in the abundance of Thine excellency Thou throwest down Thy withstanders, Thou sendest forth Thy wrath—It consumeth them as stubble. ⁸ And by the spirit of Thine anger Have waters been heaped together; Stood as a heap have flowings; Congealed have been depths In the heart of a sea.

²⁶ There is none like the God of Jeshurun, Riding the heavens in thy help, And in His excellency the skies.

²⁷ When He doth diminish droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapour, ²⁸ Which clouds do drop, They distil on man abundantly. ²⁹ Yea, doth any understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His tabernacle? ³⁰ Lo, He hath spread over it His light, And the roots of the sea He hath covered, ³¹ For by them He doth judge peoples, He giveth food in abundance. ³² By two palms He hath covered the light, And layeth a charge over it in meeting, ³³ He sheweth by it to his friend substance, Anger against perversity.

³³ To him who is riding on the heavens of the heavens of old, Lo, He giveth with His voice a strong voice.

¹⁴ Thunder from the heavens doth Jehovah, And the Most High giveth forth His voice. ¹⁵ And He sendeth forth arrows, And scattereth them; Lightning, and troubleth them;

⁹ Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, till there is no numbering.

¹⁰ Doing great things till there is no searching, And wonderful, till there is no numbering.

⁷ By searching dost thou find out God? Unto perfection find out the Mighty One?

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?

²⁶ Lo, God is high, And we know not the number of His years, Yea, there is no searching.

¹¹ The whole He hath made beautiful in its season; also, that knowledge He hath put in their heart without which man findeth not out the work that God hath done from the beginning even unto the end.

²¹ Do ye not know—do ye not hear? Hath it not been declared from the first to you? Have ye not understood From the foundations of the earth? ²² He who is sitting on the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are as grasshoppers, He who is stretching out as a thin thing the heavens, And spreadeth them as a tent to dwell in.

²⁸ Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? The God of the age—Jehovah, Preparer of the ends of the earth, Is not wearied nor fatigued, There is no searching of His understanding.

³³ O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

³ and they sing the song of Moses, servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, `Great and wonderful are Thy works, O Lord God, the Almighty, righteous and true are Thy ways, O King of saints,

¹⁰ And it cometh to pass, after the seventh of the days, that waters of the deluge have been on the earth.
¹¹ In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens hath been opened, ¹² and the shower is on the earth forty days and forty nights.

⁹ And gathered are all the men of Judah and Benjamin to Jerusalem by the third day, it is the ninth month, on the twentieth of the month, and all the people sit in the broad place of the house of God, trembling on account of the matter and of the showers.

¹³ but the people are many, and it is the time of showers, and there is no power to stand without, and the work is not for one day, nor for two, for we have multiplied to transgress in this thing.

²⁷ When He doth diminish droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapour,

²² Hast thou come in unto the treasure of snow? Yea, the treasures of hail dost thou see?

¹⁶ Who is giving snow like wool, Hoar-frost as ashes He scattereth. ¹⁷ Casting forth His ice like morsels, Before His cold who doth stand? ¹⁸ He sendeth forth His word and melteth them, He causeth His wind to blow—the waters flow.

⁸ Fire and hail, snow and vapour, Whirlwind doing His word;

³ A man—poor and oppressing the weak, Is a sweeping rain, and there is no bread.

¹¹ Say to those daubing with chalk—It falleth, There hath been an overflowing shower, And ye, O hailstones, do fall, And a tempestuous wind doth rend,

¹³ Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: I have rent with a tempestuous wind in My fury, And an overflowing shower is in Mine anger, And hailstones in My fury—to consume.

⁶ Who is building in the heavens His upper chambers; As to His troop, Upon earth He hath founded it, Who is calling for the waters of the sea, And poureth them out on the face of the land, Jehovah is His name.

²⁵ and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell not, for it had been founded on the rock. ²⁶ `And every one who is hearing of me these words, and is not doing them, shall be likened to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand; ²⁷ and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.'

¹² Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.

⁷ Who is speaking to the sun, and it riseth not, And the stars He sealeth up.

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

²⁴ Remember that thou magnify His work That men have beheld.

⁸ Come ye, see the works of Jehovah, Who hath done astonishing things in the earth,

⁹ And all men fear, and declare the work of God, And His deed they have considered wisely.

⁴ For Thou hast caused me to rejoice, O Jehovah, in Thy work, Concerning the works of Thy hands I sing.

²⁷ And they know that this is Thy hand, Thou, O Jehovah, Thou hast done it.

² Great are the works of Jehovah, Sought out by all desiring them.

¹⁷ then I considered all the work of God, that man is not able to find out the work that hath been done under the sun, because though man labour to seek, yet he doth not find; and even though the wise man speak of knowing he is not able to find.

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.

¹¹ O Jehovah, high is Thy hand—they see not, They see the zeal of the people, and are ashamed, Also, the fire—Thine adversaries, consumeth them.

⁴⁰ When they bow down in dens—Abide in a thicket for a covert?

²² The sun riseth, they are gathered, And in their dens they crouch.

⁹ Making Osh, Kesil, and Kimah, And the inner chambers of the south.

³ Who is laying the beam of His upper chambers in the waters, Who is making thick clouds His chariot, Who is walking on wings of wind,

¹ The burden of the wilderness of the sea. `Like hurricanes in the south for passing through, From the wilderness it hath come, From a fearful land.

¹⁴ And Jehovah doth appear for them, And gone forth as lightning hath His arrow, And the Lord Jehovah with a trumpet bloweth, And He hath gone with whirlwinds of the south.

²⁹ From whose belly came forth the ice? And the hoar-frost of the heavens, Who hath begotten it? ³⁰ As a stone waters are hidden, And the face of the deep is captured.

⁴⁷ He destroyeth with hail their vine, And their sycamores with frost,

²⁷ When He doth diminish droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapour, ²⁸ Which clouds do drop, They distil on man abundantly. ²⁹ Yea, doth any understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His tabernacle? ³⁰ Lo, He hath spread over it His light, And the roots of the sea He hath covered,

³² By two palms He hath covered the light, And layeth a charge over it in meeting,

⁴ For thus said Jehovah unto me, `I rest, and I look on My settled place, As a clear heat on an herb. As a thick cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

⁵ While he is yet speaking, lo, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying, `This is My Son, —the Beloved, in whom I did delight; hear him.'

⁹ Thou hast inspected the earth, and waterest it, Thou makest it very rich, the rivulet of God is full of water, Thou preparest their corn, When thus Thou dost prepare it, ¹⁰ Its ridges have been filled, Deepened hath been its furrow, With showers Thou dost soften it, Its springing up Thou blessest.

²⁴ How many have been Thy works, O Jehovah, All of them in wisdom Thou hast made, Full is the earth of thy possessions.

²² Are there among the vanities of the nations any causing rain? And do the heavens give showers? Art not Thou He, O Jehovah our God? And we wait for thee, for Thou—Thou hast done all these!

²³ And ye sons of Zion, joy and rejoice, In Jehovah your God, For He hath given to you the Teacher for righteousness, And causeth to come down to you a shower, Sprinkling and gathered—in the beginning.

⁷ And I also—I have withheld from you the rain. While yet three months to harvest, And I have sent rain on one city, And on another city I do not send rain, One portion is rained on, And the portion on which it raineth not withereth.

¹⁷ Elijah was a man like affected as we, and with prayer he did pray—not to rain, and it did not rain upon the land three years and six months; ¹⁸ and again he did pray, and the heaven did give rain, and the land did bring forth her fruit.

⁶ These have authority to shut the heaven, that it may not rain rain in the days of their prophecy, and authority they have over the waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the land with every plague, as often as they may will.

¹⁸ lo, I am raining about this time to-morrow hail very grievous, such as hath not been in Egypt, even from the day of its being founded, even until now. ¹⁹ `And, now, send, strengthen thy cattle and all that thou hast in the field; every man and beast which is found in the field, and is not gathered into the house—come down on them hath the hail, and they have died.' <sup>20</sup> He who is fearing the word of Jehovah among the servants of Pharaoh hath caused his servants and his cattle to flee unto the houses; <sup>21</sup> and he who hath not set his heart unto the word of Jehovah leaveth his servants and his cattle in the field.
<sup>22</sup> And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Stretch forth thy hand towards the heavens, and there is hail in all the land of Egypt, on man, and on beast, and on every herb of the field in the land of Egypt.' ²³ And Moses stretcheth out his rod towards the heavens, and Jehovah hath given voices and hail, and fire goeth towards the earth, and Jehovah raineth hail on the land of Egypt, ²⁴ and there is hail, and fire catching itself in the midst of the hail, very grievous, such as hath not been in all the land of Egypt since it hath become a nation. ²⁵ And the hail smiteth in all the land of Egypt all that is in the field, from man even unto beast, and every herb of the field hath the hail smitten, and every tree of the field it hath broken;

¹⁸ And Samuel calleth unto Jehovah, and Jehovah giveth voices and rain, on that day, and all the people greatly fear Jehovah and Samuel; ¹⁹ and all the people say unto Samuel, `Pray for thy servants unto Jehovah thy God, and we do not die, for we have added to all our sins evil to ask for us a king.'

¹⁰ And Rizpah daughter of Aiah taketh the sackcloth, and stretcheth it out for herself on the rock, from the commencement of harvest till water hath been poured out upon them from the heavens, and hath not suffered a fowl of the heavens to rest upon them by day, or the beast of the field by night.

¹⁴ and bury the bones of Saul and of Jonathan his son in the land of Benjamin, in Zelah, in the burying-place of Kish his father, and do all that the king commanded, and God is entreated for the land afterwards.

⁴⁵ And it cometh to pass, in the meantime, that the heavens have become black—thick clouds and wind—and the shower is great; and Ahab rideth, and goeth to Jezreel,

³¹ For by them He doth judge peoples, He giveth food in abundance.

⁶ For to snow He saith, `Be on the earth.' And the small rain and great rain of His power.

²⁶ To cause it to rain on a land—no man, A wilderness—no man in it. ²⁷ To satisfy a desolate and waste place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass?

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?

¹³ And Moses saith unto the people, `Fear not, station yourselves, and see the salvation of Jehovah, which He doth for you to-day; for, as ye have seen the Egyptians to-day, ye add no more to see them—to the age;

⁶ Naked is Sheol over-against Him, And there is no covering to destruction. ⁷ Stretching out the north over desolation, Hanging the earth upon nothing, ⁸ Binding up the waters in His thick clouds, And the cloud is not rent under them. ⁹ Taking hold of the face of the throne, Spreading over it His cloud. ¹⁰ A limit He hath placed on the waters, Unto the boundary of light with darkness. ¹¹ Pillars of the heavens do tremble, And they wonder because of His rebuke. ¹² By His power He hath quieted the sea, And by His understanding smitten the proud. ¹³ By His Spirit the heavens He beautified, Formed hath His hand the fleeing serpent. 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?

¹⁰ Desist, and know that I am God, I am exalted among nations, I am exalted in the earth.

⁵ The honour—the glory of Thy majesty, And the matters of Thy wonders I declare. ⁶ And the strength of Thy fearful acts they tell, And Thy greatness I recount.

¹⁰ Confess Thee O Jehovah, do all Thy works, And Thy saints do bless Thee. ¹¹ The honour of Thy kingdom they tell, And of Thy might they speak, ¹² To make known to sons of men His mighty acts, The honour of the majesty of His kingdom.

²⁰ And Jehovah is in His holy temple, Be silent before Him, all the earth!

²⁴ For He to the ends of the earth doth look, Under the whole heavens He doth see, ²⁵ To make for the wind a weight, And the waters He meted out in measure. ²⁶ In His making for the rain a limit, And a way for the brightness of the voices, ²⁷ Then He hath seen and declareth it, He hath prepared it, and also searched it out,

¹³ Who hath inspected for Himself the earth? And who hath placed all the habitable world?

³⁰ Lo, He hath spread over it His light, And the roots of the sea He hath covered, ³¹ For by them He doth judge peoples, He giveth food in abundance. ³² By two palms He hath covered the light, And layeth a charge over it in meeting,

¹¹ Yea, by filling He doth press out a cloud, Scatter a cloud doth His light.

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.

⁹⁰ To all generations Thy faithfulness, Thou didst establish earth, and it standeth. ⁹¹ According to Thine ordinances They have stood this day, for the whole are Thy servants.

²⁶ Lift up on high your eyes, And see—who hath prepared these? He who is bringing out by number their host, To all of them by name He calleth, By abundance of strength (And he is strong in power) not one is lacking.

⁸ Binding up the waters in His thick clouds, And the cloud is not rent under them.

⁴ For, truly, my words are not false, The perfect in knowledge is with thee.

² Covering himself with light as a garment, Stretching out the heavens as a curtain, ³ Who is laying the beam of His upper chambers in the waters, Who is making thick clouds His chariot, Who is walking on wings of wind,

⁵ Great is our Lord, and abundant in power, Of His understanding there is no narration.

¹⁹ Jehovah by wisdom did found the earth, He prepared the heavens by understanding. ²⁰ By His knowledge depths have been rent, And clouds do drop dew.

²² He who is sitting on the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are as grasshoppers, He who is stretching out as a thin thing the heavens, And spreadeth them as a tent to dwell in.

¹² The maker of the earth by His power, The establisher of the world by His wisdom, Who, by His understanding, stretched forth the heavens, ¹³ At the voice He giveth forth, A multitude of waters is in the heavens, And He causeth vapours to come up from the end of the earth, Lightnings for rain He hath made, And bringeth out wind from His treasures.

¹⁷ By the time they are warm they have been cut off, By its being hot they have been Extinguished from their place.

³¹ Dost thou bind sweet influences of Kimah? Or the attractions of Kesil dost thou open?

¹⁸ He sendeth forth His word and melteth them, He causeth His wind to blow—the waters flow.

⁵⁵ and when—a south wind blowing, ye say, that there will be heat, and it is;

⁶ And God saith, `Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and let it be separating between waters and waters.' <sup>7</sup> And God maketh the expanse, and it separateth between the waters which are under the expanse, and the waters which are above the expanse: and it is so. <sup>8</sup> And God calleth to the expanse `Heavens;' and there is an evening, and there is a morning—day second.

⁸ And he maketh the laver of brass, and its base of brass, with the looking-glasses of the women assembling, who have assembled at the opening of the tent of meeting.

⁸ Stretching out the heavens by Himself, And treading on the heights of the sea, ⁹ Making Osh, Kesil, and Kimah, And the inner chambers of the south.

² Covering himself with light as a garment, Stretching out the heavens as a curtain,

⁴ Praise ye Him, heavens of heavens, And ye waters that are above the heavens. ⁵ They do praise the name of Jehovah, For He commanded, and they were created. ⁶ And He establisheth them for ever to the age, A statute He gave, and they pass not over.

¹ Praise ye Jah! Praise ye God in His holy place, Praise Him in the expanse of His strength.

²⁷ In His preparing the heavens I am there, In His decreeing a circle on the face of the deep,

¹² Who hath measured in the hollow of his hand the waters? And the heavens by a span hath meted out, And comprehended in a measure the dust of the earth, And hath weighed in scales the mountains, And the hills in a balance?

²⁴ Thus said Jehovah, thy redeemer, And thy framer from the womb: `I am Jehovah, doing all things, Stretching out the heavens by Myself, Spreading out the earth—who is with Me?

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

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

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

²⁰ And the wisdom—whence doth it come? And where is this, the place of understanding? ²¹ It hath been hid from the eyes of all living. And from the fowl of the heavens It hath been hidden.

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.

¹⁶ And I think to know this, Perverseness it is in mine eyes, ¹⁷ Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.

²² And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.

⁶ Knowledge too wonderful for me, It hath been set on high, I am not able for it.

² For I am more brutish than any one, And have not the understanding of a man. ³ Nor have I learned wisdom, Yet the knowledge of Holy Ones I know. ⁴ Who went up to heaven, and cometh down? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound waters in a garment? Who established all ends of the earth? What is His name? and what His son's name? Surely thou knowest!

¹² for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;

² beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;

³ For now, than the sands of the sea it is heavier, Therefore my words have been rash.

⁷ By searching dost thou find out God? Unto perfection find out the Mighty One? ⁸ Heights of the heavens! —what dost thou? Deeper than Sheol! —what knowest thou?

⁴ For there is not a word in my tongue, Lo, O Jehovah, Thou hast known it all!

³⁶ `And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment; ³⁷ for from thy words thou shalt be declared righteous, and from thy words thou shalt be declared unrighteous.'

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

²⁵ Who hath divided for the flood a conduit? And a way for the lightning of the voices?

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;

¹⁰ Put on, I pray thee, excellency and loftiness, Yea, honour and beauty put on.

⁴ The voice of Jehovah is with power, The voice of Jehovah is with majesty,

⁵ Come ye, and see the works of God, Fearful acts toward the sons of men.

⁷ O God, in Thy going forth before Thy people, In Thy stepping through the wilderness, Selah. ⁸ The earth hath shaken, Yea, the heavens have dropped before God, This Sinai—before God, the God of Israel.

¹² He doth gather the spirit of leaders, Fearful to the kings of earth!

¹ Jehovah hath reigned, Excellency He hath put on, Jehovah put on strength, He girded Himself, Also—established is the world, unmoved.

¹ Bless, O my soul, Jehovah! Jehovah, my God, Thou hast been very great, Honour and majesty Thou hast put on.

⁵ The honour—the glory of Thy majesty, And the matters of Thy wonders I declare.

²³ A north wind bringeth forth rain, And a secret tongue—indignant faces.

¹⁰ Enter into a rock, and be hidden in dust, Because of the fear of Jehovah, And because of the honour of His excellency.

¹⁹ And men have entered into caverns of rocks, And into caves of dust, Because of the fear of Jehovah, And because of the honour of His excellency, In His rising to terrify the earth.

⁴ And he hath stood and delighted in the strength of Jehovah, In the excellency of the name of Jehovah his God, And they have remained, For now he is great unto the ends of earth.

³ Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, And Jehovah doth not entirely acquit, In a hurricane and in a tempest is His way, And a cloud is the dust of His feet.

³ God from Teman doth come, The Holy One from mount Paran. Pause! Covered the heavens hath His majesty, And His praise hath filled the earth. ⁴ And the brightness is as the light, He hath rays out of His hand, And there—the hiding of His strength. ⁵ Before Him goeth pestilence, And a burning flame goeth forth at His feet. ⁶ He hath stood, and He measureth earth, He hath seen, and He shaketh off nations, And scatter themselves do mountains of antiquity, Bowed have the hills of old, The ways of old are His. ⁷ Under sorrow I have seen tents of Cushan, Tremble do curtains of the land of Midian. ⁸ Against rivers hath Jehovah been wroth? Against rivers is Thine anger? Against the sea is Thy wrath? For Thou dost ride on Thy horses—Thy chariots of salvation? ⁹ Utterly naked Thou dost make Thy bow, Sworn are the tribes—saying, `Pause!' With rivers Thou dost cleave the earth. ¹⁰ Seen thee—pained are mountains, An inundation of waters hath passed over, Given forth hath the deep its voice, High its hands it hath lifted up. ¹¹ Sun—moon—hath stood—a habitation, At the light thine arrows go on, At the brightness, the glittering of thy spear. ¹² In indignation Thou dost tread earth, In anger Thou dost thresh nations. ¹³ Thou hast gone forth for the salvation of Thy people, For salvation with Thine anointed, Thou hast smitten the head of the house of the wicked, Laying bare the foundation unto the neck. Pause! ¹⁴ Thou hast pierced with his staves the head of his leaders, They are tempestuous to scatter me, Their exultation is as to consume the poor in secret. ¹⁵ Thou hast proceeded through the sea with Thy horses—the clay of many waters.
¹⁶ I have heard, and my belly trembleth, At the noise have my lips quivered, Rottenness doth come into my bones, And in my place I do tremble, That I rest for a day of distress, At the coming up of the people, he overcometh it. ¹⁷ Though the fig-tree doth not flourish, And there is no produce among vines, Failed hath the work of the olive, And fields have not yielded food, Cut off from the fold hath been the flock, And there is no herd in the stalls. ¹⁸ Yet I, in Jehovah I exult, I do joy in the God of my salvation. ¹⁹ Jehovah the Lord is my strength, And He doth make my feet like hinds, And on my high-places causeth me to tread. To the overseer with my stringed instruments!

³ who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might—through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,

²⁹ for also our God is a consuming fire.

²⁵ to the only wise God our Saviour, is glory and greatness, power and authority, both now and to all the ages! Amen.

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

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

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

¹³ With Him are wisdom and might, To him are counsel and understanding.

⁷ Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company, 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. ⁹ His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me. ¹⁰ They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves. ¹¹ God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over. ¹² At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark. ¹³ Go round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins, and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall. ¹⁴ He breaketh me—breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one. ¹⁵ Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn. ¹⁶ My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids is death-shade.
¹⁷ Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.

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

¹⁹ Let us know what we say to Him, We set not in array because of darkness.

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

⁵ O Jehovah, in the heavens is Thy kindness, Thy faithfulness is unto the clouds. ⁶ Thy righteousness is as mountains of God, Thy judgments are a great deep. Man and beast Thou savest, O Jehovah. ⁷ How precious is Thy kindness, O God, And the sons of men In the shadow of Thy wings do trust.

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

⁶ Establishing mountains by His power, He hath been girded with might,

³ Say to God, `How fearful are Thy works, By the abundance of Thy strength, Thine enemies feign obedience to Thee.

⁴ And the strength of the king Hath loved judgment, Thou—Thou hast established uprightness; Judgment and righteousness in Jacob, Thou—Thou hast done.

⁶ Making the heavens and earth, The sea and all that is in them, Who is keeping truth to the age, ⁷ Doing judgment for the oppressed, Giving bread to the hungry.

²¹ Declare ye, and bring near, Yea, they take counsel together, Who hath proclaimed this from of old? From that time hath declared it? Is it not I—Jehovah? And there is no other god besides Me, A God righteous and saving, there is none save Me.

⁹ In all their distress He is no adversary, And the messenger of His presence saved them, In His love and in His pity He redeemed them, And He doth lift them up, And beareth them all the days of old.

³² For though He afflicted, yet He hath pitied, According to the abundance of His kindness. ³³ For He hath not afflicted with His heart, Nor doth He grieve the sons of men.

²³ Do I at all desire the death of the wicked? An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Is it not in his turning back from his way—And he hath lived?

³² For I have no pleasure in the death of the dying, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And turn ye back and live!

¹³ `And mayest Thou not lead us to temptation, but deliver us from the evil, because Thine is the reign, and the power, and the glory—to the ages. Amen.

²² `All things were delivered up to me by my Father, and no one doth know who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whom the Son may wish to reveal Him .'

¹⁶ who only is having immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable, whom no one of men did see, nor is able to see, to whom is honour and might age-during! Amen.

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;

¹³ Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,

⁴ But with Thee is forgiveness, that Thou mayest be feared.

¹¹ I have turned so as to see under the sun, that not to the swift is the race, nor to the mighty the battle, nor even to the wise bread, nor even to the intelligent wealth, nor even to the skilful grace, for time and chance happen with them all.

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

³⁹ and I have given to them one heart, and one way, to fear Me all the days, for good to them, and to their sons after them:

⁹ And it hath been to Me for a name of joy, For praise, and for beauty, to all nations of the earth, Who hear of all the good that I am doing them, And they have feared, And they have trembled for all the good, And for all the peace, that I am doing to it.

⁵ Afterwards turned back have the sons of Israel, and sought Jehovah their God, and David their king, and have hastened unto Jehovah, and unto His goodness, in the latter end of the days.

²⁸ `And be not afraid of those killing the body, and are not able to kill the soul, but fear rather Him who is able both soul and body to destroy in gehenna.

²⁵ At that time Jesus answering said, `I do confess to Thee, Father, Lord of the heavens and of the earth, that thou didst hide these things from wise and understanding ones, and didst reveal them to babes. ²⁶ Yes, Father, because so it was good pleasure before Thee.

²¹ In that hour was Jesus glad in the Spirit, and said, `I do confess to thee, Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, that Thou didst hide these things from wise men and understanding, and didst reveal them to babes; yes, Father, because so it became good pleasure before Thee.

⁴ `And I say to you, my friends, be not afraid of those killing the body, and after these things are not having anything over to do; ⁵ but I will show to you, whom ye may fear; Fear him who, after the killing, is having authority to cast to the gehenna; yes, I say to you, Fear ye Him.

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!

²⁰ by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing; ²¹ for if God the natural branches did not spare—lest perhaps He also shall not spare thee. ²² Lo, then, goodness and severity of God—upon those indeed who fell, severity; and upon thee, goodness, if thou mayest remain in the goodness, otherwise, thou also shalt be cut off.

²⁶ for see your calling, brethren, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;

¹⁹ for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it hath been written, `Who is taking the wise in their craftiness;'