Job 8 Cross References - YLT

¹ And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: — 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? ⁴ If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression, ⁵ If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication, ⁶ If pure and upright thou art, Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness. ⁷ And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.
⁸ For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers, ⁹ (For of yesterday we are, and we know not, For a shadow are our days on earth.) ¹⁰ Do they not shew thee—speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words? ¹¹ `Doth a rush wise without mire? A reed increase without water? ¹² While it is in its budding—uncropped, Even before any herb it withereth. ¹³ So are the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish, ¹⁴ Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust. ¹⁵ He leaneth on his house—and it standeth not: He taketh hold on it—and it abideth not. ¹⁶ Green he is before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out. ¹⁷ By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for. ¹⁸ If one doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee! ¹⁹ Lo, this is the joy of his way, And from the dust others spring up.'
²⁰ Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers. ²¹ While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with shouting, ²² Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!

¹¹ And three of the friends of Job hear of all this evil that hath come upon him, and they come in each from his place—Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—and they are met together to come in to bemoan him, and to comfort him;

³ And Moses cometh in—Aaron also—unto Pharaoh, and they say unto him, `Thus said Jehovah, God of the Hebrews, Until when hast thou refused to be humbled at My presence? send My people away, and they serve Me,

⁷ And the servants of Pharaoh say unto him, `Until when doth this one become a snare to us? send the men away, and they serve Jehovah their God; knowest thou not yet that Egypt hath perished?'

¹¹ And He saith, `Go out, and thou hast stood in the mount before Jehovah.' And lo, Jehovah is passing by, and a wind—great and strong—is rending mountains, and shivering rocks before Jehovah: —not in the wind is Jehovah; and after the wind a shaking: —not in the shaking is Jehovah;

⁹ That God would please—and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!

²⁶ For reproof—do you reckon words? And for wind—sayings of the desperate.

¹¹ Also I—I withhold not my mouth—I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul.

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

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

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

² Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words? ³ These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me—

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

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.'

¹⁷ `Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner?

² Truly I have known that it is so, And what—is man righteous with God?

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?

⁷ Lo, I cry out—violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.

¹⁵ What is the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'

²⁰ His own eyes see his destruction, And of the wrath of the Mighty he drinketh.

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

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

¹⁷ Yea, doth one hating justice govern? Or the Most Just dost thou condemn? ¹⁸ Who hath said to a king—`Worthless,' Unto princes—`Wicked?' ¹⁹ That hath not accepted the person of princes, Nor hath known the rich before the poor, For a work of His hands are all of them.

¹³ Surely vanity God doth not hear, And the Mighty doth not behold it.

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

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

¹⁴ Righteousness and judgment Are the fixed place of Thy throne, Kindness and truth go before Thy face.

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

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

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.

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.'

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.

⁵ but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath, in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

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) ⁶ let it not be! since how shall God judge the world?

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,

⁷ and I heard another out of the altar, saying, `Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are Thy judgments.'

¹³ and the men of Sodom are evil, and sinners before Jehovah exceedingly.

¹³ for we are destroying this place, for their cry hath been great before the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah doth send us to destroy it.' ¹⁴ And Lot goeth out, and speaketh unto his sons-in-law, those taking his daughters, and saith, `Rise, go out from this place, for Jehovah is destroying the city;' and he is as one mocking in the eyes of his sons-in-law.
<sup>15</sup> And when the dawn hath ascended, then the messengers press upon Lot, saying, `Rise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters who are found present, lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.' ¹⁶ And he lingereth, and the men lay hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, through the mercy of Jehovah unto him, and they bring him out, and cause him to rest without the city. ¹⁷ And it cometh to pass when he hath brought them out without, that he saith, `Escape for thy life; look not expectingly behind thee, nor stand thou in all the circuit; to the mountain escape, lest thou be consumed.' <sup>18</sup> And Lot saith unto them, `Not so, I pray thee, my lord; ¹⁹ lo, I pray thee, thy servant hath found grace in thine eyes, and thou dost make great thy kindness which thou hast done with me by saving my life, and I am unable to escape to the mountain, lest the evil cleave to me, and I have died; ²⁰ lo, I pray thee, this city is near to flee thither, and it is little; let me escape, I pray thee, thither, (is it not little?) and my soul doth live.' ²¹ And he saith unto him, `Lo, I have accepted thy face also for this thing, without overthrowing the city for which thou hast spoken; ²² haste, escape thither, for I am not able to do anything till thine entering thither;' therefore hath he calleth the name of the city Zoar. ²³ The sun hath gone out on the earth, and Lot hath entered into Zoar,
²⁴ and Jehovah hath rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah, from the heavens; ²⁵ and He overthroweth these cities, and all the circuit, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which is shooting up from the ground.

⁵ and it cometh to pass, when they have gone round the days of the banquet, that Job doth send and sanctify them, and hath risen early in the morning, and caused to ascend burnt-offerings—the number of them all—for Job said, `Perhaps my sons have sinned, yet blessed God in their heart.' Thus doth Job all the days.

¹⁸ While this one is speaking another also hath come and saith, `Thy sons and thy daughters are eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their brother, the first-born. ¹⁹ And lo, a great wind hath come from over the wilderness, and striketh against the four corners of the house, and it falleth on the young men, and they are dead, and I am escaped—only I alone—to declare it to thee.'

⁴ Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.

¹⁶ From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop. ¹⁷ His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street. ¹⁸ They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out. ¹⁹ He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.

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

⁸ Yet I—I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,

¹³ If thou—thou hast prepared thy heart, And hast spread out unto Him thy hands,

²¹ Acquaint thyself, I pray thee, with Him, And be at peace, Thereby thine increase is good. ²² Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His sayings in thy heart. ²³ If thou dost return unto the Mighty Thou art built up, Thou puttest iniquity far from thy tents. ²⁴ So as to set on the dust a defence, And on a rock of the valleys a covering. ²⁵ And the Mighty hath been thy defence, And silver is strength to thee. ²⁶ For then on the Mighty thou delightest thyself, And dost lift up unto God thy face, ²⁷ Thou dost make supplication unto Him, And He doth hear thee, And thy vows thou completest. ²⁸ And thou decreest a saying, And it is established to thee, And on thy ways hath light shone. ²⁹ For they have made low, And thou sayest, `Lift up.' And the bowed down of eyes he saveth. ³⁰ He delivereth the not innocent, Yea, he hath been delivered By the cleanness of thy hands.

⁶ Seek ye Jehovah, while He is found, Call ye Him, while He is near, ⁷ Forsake doth the wicked his way, And the man of iniquity his thoughts, And he returneth to Jehovah, and He pitieth him, And unto our God for He multiplieth to pardon.

⁷ `Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you; ⁸ for every one who is asking doth receive, and he who is seeking doth find, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.

⁷ Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear— ⁸ ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,

⁷ be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you; ⁸ draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled! ⁹ be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness; ¹⁰ be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.

⁸ And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Hast thou set thy heart against My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God, and turning aside from evil?'

⁶ Is not thy reverence thy confidence? Thy hope—the perfection of thy ways?
⁷ Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished? And where have the upright been cut off?

²⁴ And thou hast known that thy tent is peace, And inspected thy habitation, and errest not,

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

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?'

⁶ Rise, O Jehovah, in Thine anger, Be lifted up at the wrath of mine adversaries, And awake Thou for me: Judgment Thou hast commanded:

⁵ I have hated the assembly of evil doers, And with the wicked I sit not.
⁶ I wash in innocency my hands, And I compass Thine altar, O Jehovah.

²³ Stir up—why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, cast us not off for ever.

⁴ Without punishment they run and prepare themselves, Stir up to meet me, and see. ⁵ And Thou, Jehovah, God of Hosts, God of Israel, Awake to inspect all the nations. Favour not any treacherous dealers of iniquity. Selah.

⁸ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah, And the prayer of the upright is His delight.

¹⁵ And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands of blood have been full.

¹⁰ Say ye to the righteous, that it is good, Because the fruit of their doings they eat.

⁹ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah, Awake, as in days of old, generations of the ages, Art not Thou it that is hewing down Rahab, Piercing a dragon!

⁸ I wish, therefore, that men pray in every place, lifting up kind hands, apart from anger and reasoning;

¹⁹ and in this we know that of the truth we are, and before Him we shall assure our hearts,
²⁰ because if our heart may condemn—because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God, ²² and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,

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

¹² And Jehovah hath blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning, and he hath fourteen thousand of a flock, and six thousand camels, and a thousand pairs of oxen, and a thousand she-asses. ¹³ And he hath seven sons and three daughters;

¹⁸ And the path of the righteous is as a shining light, Going and brightening till the day is established,

²⁰ Hear counsel and receive instruction, So that thou art wise in thy latter end.

¹⁰ For who trampled on the day of small things, They have rejoiced, And seen the tin weight in the hand of Zerubbabel, These seven are the eyes of Jehovah, They are going to and fro in all the land.'

⁷ And there hath been one day, It is known to Jehovah, not day nor night, And it hath been at evening-time—there is light.

¹² for whoever hath, it shall be given to him, and he shall have overabundance, and whoever hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken from him.

³¹ Another simile he set before them, saying: `The reign of the heavens is like to a grain of mustard, which a man having taken, did sow in his field, ³² which less, indeed, is than all the seeds, but when it may be grown, is greatest of the herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the heaven do come and rest in its branches.'

²⁰ for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first,

³² `For, ask, I pray thee, at the former days which have been before thee, from the day that God prepared man on the earth, and from the one end of the heavens even unto the other end of the heavens, whether there hath been as this great thing—or hath been heard like it?

⁷ Remember days of old—Understand the years of many generations—Ask thy father, and he doth tell thee; Thine elders, and they say to thee:

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

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

¹⁸ Which the wise declare—And have not hid—from their fathers.

⁶ And Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite answereth and saith: —Young I am in days, and ye are age Therefore I have feared, And am afraid of shewing you my opinion. ⁷ I said: Days do speak, And multitude of years teach wisdom.

¹ To the Overseer. —By sons of Korah. An Instruction. O God, with our ears we have heard, Our fathers have recounted to us, The work Thou didst work in their days, In the days of old.

³ That we have heard and do know, And our fathers have recounted to us. ⁴ We do not hide from their sons, To a later generation recounting praises of Jehovah, And His strength, and His wonders that He hath done.

¹⁹ The living, the living, he doth confess Thee.

⁴ for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.

¹¹ And all these things as types did happen to those persons, and they were written for our admonition, to whom the end of the ages did come,

⁹ And Jacob saith unto Pharaoh, `The days of the years of my sojournings are an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.'

¹⁵ for sojourners we are before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow are our days on the land, and there is none abiding.

⁶ My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.

² As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.

⁵ Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age is as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity is every man set up. Selah.

⁴ For a thousand years in Thine eyes are as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night.

¹¹ My days as a shadow are stretched out, And I—as the herb I am withered.

⁴ Man to vanity hath been like, His days are as a shadow passing by.

⁷ and thou hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

¹⁹ and ye have taught them to your sons, by speaking of them in thy sitting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

⁷ And yet, ask, I pray thee, One of the beasts, and it doth shew thee, And a fowl of the heavens, And it doth declare to thee. ⁸ Or talk to the earth, and it sheweth thee, And fishes of the sea recount to thee:

⁷ I said: Days do speak, And multitude of years teach wisdom.

⁴ Generation to generation praiseth Thy works, And Thy mighty acts they declare.

²³ The heart of the wise causeth his mouth to act wisely, And by his lips he increaseth learning,

¹⁵ The heart of the intelligent getteth knowledge, And the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.

³⁵ The good man out of the good treasure of the heart doth put forth the good things, and the evil man out of the evil treasure doth put forth evil things.

⁴ by faith a better sacrifice did Abel offer to God than Cain, through which he was testified to be righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and through it, he being dead, doth yet speak.

¹ Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

³ and she hath not been able any more to hide him, and she taketh for him an ark of rushes, and daubeth it with bitumen and with pitch, and putteth the lad in it, and putteth it in the weeds by the edge of the River;

⁵ And failed have waters from the sea, And a river is wasted and dried up. ⁶ And they have turned away the flowings, Weak and dried up have been brooks of the bulwark, Reed and flag have withered. ⁷ Exposed things by the brook, by the edge of the brook, And every sown thing of the brook, hath withered, It hath been driven away, and is not.

⁶ They are as grass of the roofs, That before it was drawn out withereth, ⁷ That hath not filled the hand of a reaper, And the bosom of a binder of sheaves.

⁶ And he hath been as a naked thing in a desert, And doth not see when good cometh, And hath inhabited parched places in a wilderness, A salt land, and not inhabited.

²⁰ `And that sown on the rocky places, this is he who is hearing the word, and immediately with joy is receiving it,

¹⁰ and the rich in his becoming low, because as a flower of grass he shall pass away; ¹¹ for the sun did rise with the burning heat, and did wither the grass, and the flower of it fell, and the grace of its appearance did perish, so also the rich in his way shall fade away!

²⁴ because all flesh is as grass, and all glory of man as flower of grass; wither did the grass, and the flower of it fell away,

¹² `Take heed to thyself lest thou forget Jehovah who hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants;

¹¹ `Take heed to thyself, lest thou forget Jehovah thy God so as not to keep His commands, and His judgments, and His statutes which I am commanding thee to-day;

¹⁴ `And thy heart hath been high, and thou hast forgotten Jehovah thy God (who is bringing thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants;

¹⁹ `And it hath been—if thou really forget Jehovah thy God, and hast gone after other gods, and served them, and bowed thyself to them, I have testified against you to-day that ye do utterly perish;

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

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

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

¹⁴ Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors.

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

⁸ For what is the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul? ⁹ His cry doth God hear, When distress cometh on him? ¹⁰ On the Mighty doth he delight himself? Call God at all times?

¹³ And the profane in heart set the face, They cry not when He hath bound them.

¹⁷ The wicked do turn back to Sheol, All nations forgetting God.

⁴ The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. `God is not!' are all his devices.

²² Understand this, I pray you, Ye who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.

²⁸ The hope of the righteous is joyful, And the expectation of the wicked perisheth.

⁷ Overthrow the wicked, and they are not, And the house of the righteous standeth.

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

¹³ And thou dost forget Jehovah thy maker, Who is stretching out the heavens, and founding earth, And thou dost fear continually all the day, Because of the fury of the oppressor, As he hath prepared to destroy. And where is the fury of the oppressor?

¹⁸ And I say, Perished hath my strength and my hope from Jehovah.

⁵¹ and will cut him off, and his portion with the hypocrites will appoint; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.

¹ At which time the myriads of the multitude having been gathered together, so as to tread upon one another, he began to say unto his disciples, first, `Take heed to yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy; ² and there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known;

⁵ Eggs of a viper they have hatched, And webs of a spider they weave, Whoso is eating their eggs doth die, And the crushed hatcheth a viper. ⁶ Their webs become not a garment, Nor do they cover themselves with their works, Their works are works of iniquity, And a deed of violence is in their hands.

¹⁸ He hath built as a moth his house, And as a booth a watchman hath made.

¹¹ Their heart is : Their houses are to the age, Their tabernacles to all generations. They proclaimed their names over the lands.

⁵ Also—God doth break thee down for ever, Taketh thee, and pulleth thee out of the tent, And He hath uprooted thee Out of the land of the living. Selah.
⁶ And the righteous see, And fear, and laugh at him. ⁷ `Lo, the man who maketh not God his strong place, And trusteth in the abundance of his riches, He is strong in his mischiefs.'

¹⁰ The wicked seeth, and hath been angry, His teeth he gnasheth, and hath melted, The desire of the wicked doth perish!

²⁴ `Therefore, every one who doth hear of me these words, and doth do them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock; <sup>25</sup> 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. <sup>26</sup> `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.'

⁴⁷ Every one who is coming unto me, and is hearing my words, and is doing them, I will shew you to whom he is like; ⁴⁸ he is like to a man building a house, who did dig, and deepen, and laid a foundation upon the rock, and a flood having come, the stream broke forth on that house, and was not able to shake it, for it had been founded upon the rock. ⁴⁹ `And he who heard and did not, is like to a man having builded a house upon the earth, without a foundation, against which the stream brake forth, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house became great.'

³ I—I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,

⁷ Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth. ⁸ Their seed is established, Before their face with them, And their offspring before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses are peace without fear, Nor is a rod of God upon them. ¹⁰ His bullock hath eaten corn, and doth not loath. His cow bringeth forth safely, And doth not miscarry. ¹¹ They send forth as a flock their sucklings, And their children skip, ¹² They lift themselves up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of an organ. ¹³ They wear out in good their days, And in a moment to Sheol go down.

³⁵ I have seen the wicked terrible, And spreading as a green native plant, ³⁶ And he passeth away, and lo, he is not, And I seek him, and he is not found!

³ The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death, ⁴ And their might is firm. ⁵ In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued. ⁶ Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress. ⁷ Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed; ⁸ They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak. ⁹ They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth. ¹⁰ Therefore do His people return hither, And waters of fulness are wrung out to them. ¹¹ And they have said, `How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?' ¹² Lo, these are the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength.

¹¹ It sendeth forth its branches unto the sea, And unto the river its sucklings.

¹⁶ `An olive, green, fair, of goodly fruit,' Hath Jehovah called thy name, At the noise of a great tumult He hath kindled fire against it, And broken have been its thin branches.

¹⁶ From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.

¹⁹ My root is open unto the waters, And dew doth lodge on my branch.

²⁴ Therefore, as a tongue of fire devoureth stubble, And flaming hay falleth, Their root is as muck, And their flower as dust goeth up. Because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of Hosts, And the saying of the Holy One of Israel despised.

²⁴ Yea, they have not been planted, Yea, they have not been sown, Yea, not taking root in the earth is their stock, And also He hath blown upon them, and they wither, And a whirlwind as stubble taketh them away.

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. ² Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root, They go on, yea, they have made fruit, Near art Thou in their mouth, And far off from their reins.

²⁰ And in the morning, passing by, they saw the fig-tree having been dried up from the roots,

¹² These are in your love-feasts craggy rocks; feasting together with you, without fear shepherding themselves; clouds without water, by winds carried about; trees autumnal, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;

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

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

⁹ The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him.

¹⁰ And yet a little, and the wicked is not, And thou hast considered his place, and it is not.

³⁶ And he passeth away, and lo, he is not, And I seek him, and he is not found!

¹⁸ Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations. ¹⁹ How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended—consumed from terrors.

⁷ When the wicked flourish as a herb, And blossom do all workers of iniquity—For their being destroyed for ever and ever!

⁸ He raiseth from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He lifteth up the needy, To cause them to sit with nobles, Yea, a throne of honour He doth cause them to inherit, For to Jehovah are the fixtures of earth, And He setteth on them the habitable world.

⁷ But God is judge, This He maketh low—and this He lifteth up.

⁷ He is raising up from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He exalteth the needy.

²⁴ And known have all trees of the field That I, Jehovah, have made low the high tree, I have set on high the low tree, I have dried up the moist tree, And I have caused the dry tree to flourish, I, Jehovah, have spoken, and have done it!'

⁹ and do not think to say in yourselves, A father we have—Abraham, for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham,

²⁰ `And that sown on the rocky places, this is he who is hearing the word, and immediately with joy is receiving it, ²¹ and he hath not root in himself, but is temporary, and persecution or tribulation having happened because of the word, immediately he is stumbled.

⁷ Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished? And where have the upright been cut off?

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

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

²⁴ When he falleth, he is not cast down, For Jehovah is sustaining his hand.

³⁷ Observe the perfect, and see the upright, For the latter end of each is peace.

¹⁴ For Jehovah leaveth not His people, And His inheritance forsaketh not.

¹ Thus said Jehovah, To His anointed, to Cyrus, Whose right hand I have laid hold on, To subdue nations before him, Yea, loins of kings I loose, To open before him two-leaved doors, Yea, gates are not shut:

⁶ and Sarah saith, `God hath made laughter for me; every one who is hearing laugheth for me.'

¹¹ And they respond in praising and in giving thanks to Jehovah, for good, for to the age His kindness is over Israel, and all the people have shouted—a great shout—in giving praise to Jehovah, because the house of Jehovah hath been founded. ¹² And many of the priests, and the Levites, and the heads of the fathers, the aged men who had seen the first house—in this house being founded before their eyes—are weeping with a loud voice, and many with a shout, in joy, lifting up the voice; ¹³ and the people are not discerning the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people, for the people are shouting—a great shout—and the noise hath been heard unto a distance.

⁴³ and they sacrifice on that day great sacrifices and rejoice, for God hath made them rejoice with great joy, and also, the women and the children have rejoiced, and the joy of Jerusalem is heard—unto a distance.

²² At destruction and at hunger thou mockest, And of the beast of the earth, Thou art not afraid.

¹¹ Be glad in Jehovah, and rejoice, ye righteous, And sing, all ye upright of heart!

⁴ Shout to Jehovah, all the earth, Break forth, and cry aloud, and sing.

¹ A Psalm of Thanksgiving. Shout to Jehovah, all the earth.

² Then filled with laughter is our mouth, And our tongue with singing, Then do they say among nations, `Jehovah did great things with these.'

⁶ Whoso goeth on and weepeth, Bearing the basket of seed, Surely cometh in with singing, bearing his sheaves!

¹³ Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, My servants do eat, and ye do hunger, Lo, My servants do drink, and ye do thirst, Lo, My servants rejoice, and ye are ashamed, ¹⁴ Lo, My servants sing from joy of heart, And ye cry from pain of heart, And from breaking of spirit ye do howl.

²¹ `Happy those hungering now—because ye shall be filled. `Happy those weeping now—because ye shall laugh.

²¹ Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me—and I am not!

¹⁸ If one doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee!

²⁶ They are ashamed and confounded together, Who are rejoicing at my evil. They put on shame and confusion, Who are magnifying themselves against me.

²⁹ Mine accusers put on blushing, and are covered, As an upper robe is their shame.

¹⁸ His enemies I do clothe with shame, And upon him doth his crown flourish!

⁵ In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;