Job 10 Cross References - ACV

¹ My soul is weary of my life. I will give free reign to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. ² I will say to God, Do not condemn me. Show me why thou contend with me. ³ Is it good to thee that thou should oppress, that thou should despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? ⁴ Have thou eyes of flesh? Or do thou see as man sees? ⁵ Are thy days as the days of man, or thy years as man's days, ⁶ that thou inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin, ⁷ although thou know that I am not wicked. And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand? ⁸ Thy hands have made me and fashioned me together round about, yet thou destroy me. ⁹ Remember, I beseech thee, that thou have fashioned me as clay. And will thou bring me into dust again? ¹⁰ Have thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? ¹¹ Thou have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. ¹² Thou have granted me life and loving kindness, and thy visitation has preserved my spirit. ¹³ Yet these things thou hid in thy heart. I know that this is with thee. ¹⁴ If I sin, then thou mark me. And thou will not acquit me from my iniquity. ¹⁵ If I be wicked, woe to me. And if I be righteous, yet I shall not lift up my head, being filled with shame, and looking upon my affliction. ¹⁶ And if my head exalts itself, thou hunt me as a lion. And again thou show thyself marvelous upon me. ¹⁷ Thou renew thy witnesses against me, and increase thine indignation upon me. Changes and warfare are with me. ¹⁸ Why then have thou brought me forth out of the womb? I would have given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me. ¹⁹ I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. ²⁰ Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little ²¹ before I go where I shall not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death, ²² the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as midnight.

¹⁵ And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight, and let me not see my wretchedness.

⁴ But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. And he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough, now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.

²⁰ Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul, ²¹ who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures, ²² who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad when they can find the grave? ²³ Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in?

¹⁵ But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty. ¹⁶ So a poor man has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.

²⁰ In famine he will redeem thee from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

² O that my grief were but weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances! ³ For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas. Therefore my words have been rash. ⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which my spirit drinks up. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

⁸ O that I might have my request, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! ⁹ Even that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

²⁶ Do ye think to reprove words, seeing that the speeches of a man who is desperate are as wind?

¹¹ Therefore I will not refrain my mouth. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁶ I loathe my life. I would not live always. Let me alone, for my days are vanity.

²¹ Though I were perfect, I do not regard myself. I despise my life.

¹⁵ If I be wicked, woe to me. And if I be righteous, yet I shall not lift up my head, being filled with shame, and looking upon my affliction. ¹⁶ And if my head exalts itself, thou hunt me as a lion. And again thou show thyself marvelous upon me.

¹³ O that thou would hide me in Sheol, that thou would keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou would appoint for me a set time, and remember me!

⁶ Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged, and though I forbear, what am I eased? ⁷ But now he has made me weary. Thou have made desolate all my company. ⁸ And thou have laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me. And my leanness rises up against me; it testifies to my face. ⁹ He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed upon me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes upon me. ¹⁰ They have gaped upon me with their mouth. They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me. ¹¹ God delivers me to the perverse, and casts me into the hands of the wicked. ¹² I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yea, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his mark. ¹³ His archers encompass me round about. He splits my reins apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall upon the ground. ¹⁴ He breaks me with breach upon breach. He runs upon me like a giant. ¹⁵ I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my horn in the dust. ¹⁶ My face is red with weeping, and the shadow of death is on my eyelids,

⁴ And be it indeed that I have erred, my error remains with myself.

² Hear diligently my speech, And let this be your consolations. ³ Allow me, and I also will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on. ⁴ As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?

³ When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long. ⁴ For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me. My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. Selah. ⁵ I acknowledged my sin to thee, and I did not hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to LORD, and thou forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

¹⁵ What shall I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁷ Behold, for peace I had great bitterness. But thou have by love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption. For thou have cast all my sins behind thy back.

³ Therefore now, O LORD, I beseech thee, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.

⁸ And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

⁵ if thou would seek diligently to God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty, ⁶ if thou were pure and upright, surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

²⁹ I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

³¹ For has any said to God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more. ³² Teach thou me that which I do not see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more?

¹ O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, nor chasten me in thy hot displeasure. ² Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am withered away. O LORD, heal me, for my bones are troubled. ³ My soul also is greatly troubled. And thou, O LORD, how long? ⁴ Return, O LORD, deliver my soul. Save me for thy loving kindness' sake.

⁷ Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. According to thy loving kindness remember thou me, for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.

¹ O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath, nor chasten me in thy hot displeasure. ² For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presses me severely. ³ There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation, nor is there any health in my bones because of my sin. ⁴ For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. ⁵ My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness. ⁶ I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all the day long. ⁷ For my loins are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh. ⁸ I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned because of the disquietness of my heart.

²¹ But deal thou with me, O LORD the Lord, for thy name's sake. Because thy loving kindness is good, deliver thou me,

²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts, ²⁴ and see if there is any wicked way in me. And lead me in the way everlasting.

² And enter not into judgment with thy servant. For in thy sight no man living is righteous.

⁴⁰ Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to LORD. ⁴¹ Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens. ⁴² We have transgressed and have rebelled. Thou have not pardoned.

¹⁶ The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us! For we have sinned. ¹⁷ For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim,

¹ Consequently nothing is condemnation now to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to flesh but according to Spirit.

³¹ But if we were discerning ourselves we would not be judged. ³² But when we are judged by the Lord, we are chastened so that we may not be condemned with the world.

²⁰ Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, nor will he uphold the evildoers.

²² It is all one thing. Therefore I say, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.

²⁴ The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of the judges of it. If not he, who then is it?

¹⁵ Thou would call, and I would answer thee. Thou would have a desire to the work of thy hands.

¹⁶ Lo, is their prosperity not in their hand. (The counsel of the wicked is far from me.)

¹⁸ Yet he filled their houses with good things. But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

⁵ For Job has said, I am righteous, and God has taken away my right. ⁶ Notwithstanding my right I am accounted a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression. ⁷ What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water,

¹⁸ him who says to a king, Thou are vile, to ranking men, Ye are wicked, ¹⁹ who does not respect the persons of rulers, nor regards the rich more than the poor. For they all are the work of his hands.

⁷ He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but he sets them forever with kings upon the throne, and they are exalted. ⁸ And if they be bound in fetters, and be taken in the cords of afflictions, ⁹ then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

¹⁷ But thou have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold, ¹⁸ and there shall be wrath upon the impious because of the ungodliness of bribes which the unrighteous receive.

² Shall he who quibbles contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.

⁸ Will thou even annul my judgment? Will thou condemn me, that thou may be justified?

³³ For LORD hears the needy, and does not despise his prisoners.

⁸ LORD will perfect that which concerns me. Thy loving kindness, O LORD, is forever. Forsake not the works of thine own hands.

⁸ But now, O LORD, thou are our Father. We are the clay, and thou our potter, and we are all the work of thy hand.

¹ Thou are righteous, O LORD, when I contend with thee. Yet I would reason the case with thee. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those at ease who deal very treacherously? ² Thou have planted them. Yea, they have taken root, they grow. Yea, they bring forth fruit. Thou are near in their mouth, and far from their heart. ³ But thou, O LORD, know me. Thou see me, and try my heart toward thee. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

² He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light. ³ Surely he turns his hand against me, again and again all the day. ⁴ He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones. ⁵ He has built against me, and encompassed me with gall and travail. ⁶ He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those who have long been dead. ⁷ He has walled me around, that I cannot go forth. He has made my chain heavy. ⁸ Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer. ⁹ He has walled up my ways with hewn stone. He has made my paths crooked. ¹⁰ He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in concealed places. ¹¹ He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate. ¹² He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. ¹³ He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins. ¹⁴ I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day. ¹⁵ He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with wormwood. ¹⁶ He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones. He has covered me with ashes. ¹⁷ And thou have removed my soul far off from peace. I forgot prosperity. ¹⁸ And I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from LORD.

¹⁹ Therefore also let those who suffer according to the will of God entrust their souls as to a faithful Creator by well-doing.

⁷ But LORD said to Samuel, Do not look on his countenance, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For LORD sees not as man sees, for man looks on the outward appearance, but LORD looks on the heart.

³² For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

¹⁵ And he said to them, Ye are those who declare yourselves righteous in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. Because what is lofty among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

¹⁴ And his head and hair were white as wool, white as snow, and his eyes as a flame of fire,

²⁶ Behold, God is great, and we do not know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.

² Before the mountains were brought forth, or thou had ever formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou are God. ³ Thou turn man to destruction, and say, Return, ye sons of men. ⁴ For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

¹² But thou, O LORD, will abide forever, and thy memorial to all generations.

²⁴ I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days. Thy years are throughout all generations. ²⁵ Of old thou laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands. ²⁶ They shall perish, but thou shall endure. Yea, all of them shall grow old like a garment. As a vesture thou shall change them, and they shall be changed, ²⁷ but thou are the same, and thy years shall have no end.

¹² And thou will roll them up as a mantle, and they will be changed. But thou are the same, and thy years will not cease.

⁸ But beloved, let not this one thing be ignored by you, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

¹⁴ If I sin, then thou mark me. And thou will not acquit me from my iniquity. ¹⁵ If I be wicked, woe to me. And if I be righteous, yet I shall not lift up my head, being filled with shame, and looking upon my affliction. ¹⁶ And if my head exalts itself, thou hunt me as a lion. And again thou show thyself marvelous upon me. ¹⁷ Thou renew thy witnesses against me, and increase thine indignation upon me. Changes and warfare are with me.

¹⁶ But now thou number my steps. Do thou not watch over my sin?

¹⁵ Break thou the arm of the sinner and the evil man. His wickedness shall be sought, and shall not be found.

²¹ will not God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

³⁴ Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor. Thou did not find them breaking in. But it is because of all these things.

¹² And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their lees, who say in their heart, LORD will not do good, nor will he do evil.

²⁴ But Jesus did not trust himself to them, because he knew all men, ²⁵ and because he had no need that any man should testify about man, for he himself knew what was in man.

⁵ Therefore do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make public the deliberations of the hearts. And then praise will come to each man from God.

³⁹ See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me. I kill, and I make alive. I wound, and I heal. And there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

¹⁰ But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

¹³ But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? And what his soul desires, even that he does. ¹⁴ For he performs that which is appointed for me. And many such things are with him.

⁶ (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

¹⁴ what then shall I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what shall I answer him?

³⁵ O that I had someone to hear me (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me), and that I had the indictment which my adversary has written!

⁷ And it was so, that, after LORD had spoken these words to Job, LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends. For ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

⁶ For LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

³ O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there be iniquity in my hands,

⁸ LORD shall judge the peoples. Judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me. ⁹ O let the wickedness of the wicked man come to an end, but establish thou the righteous man. For the righteous God tries the minds and hearts.

³ Thou have proved my heart. Thou have visited me in the night. Thou have tried me, and find nothing. I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

¹ Judge me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity. I have also trusted in LORD without wavering. ² Examine me, O LORD, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind. ³ For thy loving kindness is before my eyes, and I have walked in thy truth. ⁴ I have not sat with men of falsehood, nor will I go in with dissemblers. ⁵ I hate the assembly of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked.

²² Now consider this, ye who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:

¹ O LORD, thou have searched me, and known. ² Thou know my sitting down and my rising up. Thou understand my thought afar off.

²¹ Do I not hate them, O LORD, who hate thee? And am I not grieved with those who rise up against thee? ²² I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.

¹⁵ Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made, well. But if ye do not worship, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. And who is that god who shall deliver you out of my hands?

¹⁰ And now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.

²⁸ And I give them eternal life, and they will, no, not perish into the age, and not any will snatch them out of my hand. ²⁹ My Father who has given to me, is greater than all, and not one is able to snatch out of my Father's hand. ³⁰ I and the Father are one.

¹⁷ He says to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonah, do thou love me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Do thou love me? And he said to him, Lord, thou know all things. Thou know that I love thee. Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep.

¹² For our pride is this (the testimony from our conscience), that we behave in the world in the simplicity and purity of God, not by fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.

¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and God, how piously and justly and blamelessly we became to you who believe,

⁶ And LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart. ⁷ And LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the ground, from man, to beast, to creeping things, and birds of the heavens, for I regret that I have made them.

³ Is it good to thee that thou should oppress, that thou should despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

⁷³ Thy hands have made me and fashioned me. Give me understanding that I may learn thy commandments.

⁷ everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yea, whom I have made.

³ Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he was making a work on the wheels. ⁴ And when the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it another vessel again, as seemed good to the potter to make it. ⁵ Then the word of LORD came to me, saying, ⁶ O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? says LORD. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand, O house of Israel. ⁷ At that instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it, ⁸ if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will relent of the evil that I thought to do to them. ⁹ And at that instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it, ¹⁰ if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they obey not my voice, then I will relent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.

⁷ And LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

¹⁹ In the sweat of thy face thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou were taken. For thou are dust, and to dust thou shall return.

⁷ O remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.

¹⁴ if I have said to corruption, Thou are my father, to the worm, My mother, and my sister,

¹⁵ My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws, and thou have brought me into the dust of death.

⁶ Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy loving kindness. For they have been ever of old. ⁷ Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. According to thy loving kindness remember thou me, for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.

¹⁸ Consider my affliction and my travail, and forgive all my sins.

⁴⁷ O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!

³ Thou turn man to destruction, and say, Return, ye sons of men.

⁴ Remember me, O LORD, with the favor that thou bear to thy people. O visit me with thy salvation,

⁷ and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

⁹ Woe to him who strives with his maker, a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What are thou making? or thy work, He has no hands?

⁶ O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? says LORD. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand, O house of Israel.

²¹ Or has the potter no right over the clay, from the same lump certainly to make this vessel for esteem, and that for disesteem?

¹⁴ I will give thanks to thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are thy works, and that my soul knows right well. ¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from thee, when I was made in secret, curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. ¹⁶ Thine eyes saw my unformed substance, and in thy book they were all written, even the days that were ordained, when as yet there was none of them.

¹⁷ He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together. ¹⁸ His bones are as tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.

⁴ Again he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of LORD. ⁵ Thus says the lord LORD to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live. ⁶ And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live. And ye shall know that I am LORD. ⁷ So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a noise, and, behold, an earthquake, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. ⁸ And I beheld, and, lo, there were sinews upon them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above, but there was no breath in them.

² For also in this we groan, longing to clothe ourselves with our habitation from heaven, ³ if indeed also having put it on we will not be found naked.

¹⁶ from whom the whole body, joined together and united together through every connection of the supply, according to the working of each one part within a standard, makes the growth of the body for the construction of itself by love.

¹⁹ Behold now, thy servant has found favor in thy sight, and thou have magnified thy loving kindness, which thou have shown to me in saving my life, and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.

⁴ The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

²⁵ Because of this I say to you, be not anxious about your life, what ye may eat, or what ye may drink, nor yet for your body, what ye may wear. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the clothing?

²⁵ nor is he served by the hands of men, as needing anything, since he himself gives to all life, and breath, with all things.

²⁸ For in him we live, and move, and exist, as also some of the performers from you have said, For of him we are also offspring.

⁹ on the left hand, when he works, but I cannot behold him. He hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him.

¹³ But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? And what his soul desires, even that he does.

⁶ For to every purpose there is a time and decision, although the distress of man is great upon him. ⁷ For he knows not that which shall be, for who can tell him how it shall be?

⁷ I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create evil. I am LORD who does all these things.

¹⁵ Verily thou are a God who hides thyself, O God of Israel, the Savior.

⁹ Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is none else. I am God, and there is none like me, ¹⁰ declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure, ¹¹ calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yea, I have spoken. I will also bring it to pass. I have purposed. I will also do it.

³⁷ Who is he that says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord does not command it?

³³ O the depth of wealth, both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond finding out!

¹¹ according to the purpose of the ages, which he made in Christ Jesus our Lord,

⁷ keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, and upon the sons's sons, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

¹⁸ LORD is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

²¹ And why do thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie down in the dust, and thou will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

²⁸ I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that thou will not hold me innocent.

²⁶ For thou write bitter things against me, and make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth. ²⁷ Thou also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. Thou set a bound to the soles of my feet.

³ If thou, LORD, should note iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

¹ O LORD, thou have searched me, and known.

⁷ And LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

¹² Behold, he seizes; who can hinder him? Who will say to him, What are thou doing?

¹⁵ Whom, though I were righteous, yet I would not answer. I would make supplication to my judge.

²⁰ Though I be righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse. ²¹ Though I were perfect, I do not regard myself. I despise my life.

⁷ although thou know that I am not wicked. And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?

⁶ Even when I remember, I am troubled, and horror takes hold on my flesh.

¹⁵ Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.

⁷ Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

¹⁷ Wicked men shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

¹⁵³ Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I do not forget thy law.

¹¹ Woe to the wicked! It is ill with him, for what his hands have done shall be done to him.

⁵ Then I said, Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. For my eyes have seen the King, LORD of hosts.

⁵ Thou meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember thee in thy ways. Behold, thou were angry, and we sinned. Therefore we have erred. ⁶ For we have all become as unclean, and all our righteous acts are as a polluted garment. And we all fade as a leaf. And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

²⁰ Behold, O LORD, for I am in distress. My heart is troubled. My heart is turned within me. For I have grievously rebelled. Abroad the sword bereaves; at home there is as death.

¹ Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us. Behold, and see our reproach. ² Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. ³ We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows. ⁴ We have drunken our water for money. Our wood is sold to us. ⁵ Our pursuers are upon our necks. We are weary, and have no rest. ⁶ We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. ⁷ Our fathers sinned, and are not, and we have borne their iniquities. ⁸ Servants rule over us. There is none to deliver us out of their hand. ⁹ We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. ¹⁰ Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine. ¹¹ They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah. ¹² Rulers were hanged up by their hand. The faces of elders were not honored. ¹³ The young men bore the mill, and the sons stumbled under the wood. ¹⁴ The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music. ¹⁵ The joy of our heart is ceased, our dance is turned into mourning. ¹⁶ The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us! For we have sinned. ¹⁷ For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim, ¹⁸ for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk upon it. ¹⁹ Thou, O LORD, abide forever. Thy throne is from generation to generation. ²⁰ Why do thou forget us forever, and forsake us so long time? ²¹ Turn thou us back to thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned back. Renew our days as of old. ²² But thou have utterly rejected us. Thou are very angry against us.

¹⁸ Then ye shall return and discern between the righteous man and the wicked man, between him who serves God and him who does not serve him.

¹⁰ Thus ye also, when ye did all the things that were commanded you, say, We are unprofitable bondmen, because we have done what we are obligated to do.

⁸ but to those of self-interest, and who indeed disobey the truth but have confidence in unrighteousness-anger and wrath, ⁹ pressure and restriction, upon every soul of man who produces evil, both of the Jew first, and of the Greek,

²⁹ If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men, then LORD has not sent me. ³⁰ But if LORD makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up, with all that pertains to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall understand that these men have despised LORD.

⁵⁹ then LORD will make thy calamities extraordinary, and the calamities of thy seed, even great calamities and of long continuance, and severe sicknesses and of long continuance.

⁹ who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number,

¹³ I quieted myself until morning. As a lion, so he breaks all my bones. From day even to night will thou make an end of me.

¹⁰ He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in concealed places.

⁷ Therefore I am to them as a lion. As a leopard I will watch by the way. ⁸ I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart. And there I will devour them like a lioness. The wild beast shall tear them.

⁸ The lion has roared, who will not fear? The lord LORD has spoken, who can but prophesy?

²¹ I went out full, and LORD has brought me home again empty. Why do ye call me Naomi, seeing LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?

⁸ And thou have laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me. And my leanness rises up against me; it testifies to my face.

⁶ know now that God has subverted me, and has encompassed me with his net. ⁷ Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice. ⁸ He has walled up my way that I cannot pass, and has set darkness in my paths. ⁹ He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. ¹⁰ He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. And he has plucked up my hope like a tree. ¹¹ He has also kindled his wrath against me. And he considers me to him as his adversaries.

¹⁹ God will hear, and respond to them, (even he who abides of old), Selah, men who have no changes, and who fear not God.

¹¹ Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into captivity. Therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.

¹⁰ Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes. ¹¹ Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

²⁰ But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no way to flee. And their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit.

¹⁰ But man dies, and is laid low. Yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

¹⁰ Woe is me, my mother, that thou have bore me, a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, nor have men lent to me, yet every one of them curses me.

¹⁴ Cursed be the day in which I was born. Let not the day in which my mother bore me be blessed. ¹⁵ Cursed be the man who brought news to my father, saying, A man-child is born to thee, making him very glad. ¹⁶ And let that man be as the cities which LORD overthrew, and did not relent. And let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime, ¹⁷ because he did not kill me from the womb, and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great. ¹⁸ Why did I come forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

²⁴ The Son of man indeed goes as it is written about him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! It were good for him if that man had not been born.

⁸ as a snail which melts and passes away, as the untimely birth of a woman, that has not seen the sun.

⁶ My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. ⁷ O remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.

¹⁶ I loathe my life. I would not live always. Let me alone, for my days are vanity. ¹⁷ What is man, that thou should magnify him, and that thou should set thy mind upon him, ¹⁸ and that thou should visit him every morning, and try him every moment? ¹⁹ How long will thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? ²⁰ If I have sinned, what do I do to thee, O thou watcher of men? Why have thou set me as a mark for thee, so that I am a burden to myself? ²¹ And why do thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie down in the dust, and thou will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

⁹ (for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow).

²⁵ Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good, ²⁶ They are passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

²¹ Withdraw thy hand far from me, and do not let thy dread make me afraid.

¹ Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

⁵ Behold, thou have made my days as handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.

¹³ O spare me, that I may recover strength before I go from here, and be no more.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. ¹⁶ For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more.

²³ But now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.

¹⁴ For we must die, and are as water split on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again, neither does God take away life, but devises means that he who is banished be not an outcast from him.

⁵ Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell upon it. Let blackness come upon it.

¹³ For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest

⁸ The eye of him who sees me shall behold me no more. Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be. ⁹ As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more. ¹⁰ He shall return no more to his house, nor shall his place know him any more.

¹⁰ But man dies, and is laid low. Yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he? ¹¹ As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes away and dries up, ¹² so man lies down and does not rise. Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep. ¹³ O that thou would hide me in Sheol, that thou would keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou would appoint for me a set time, and remember me! ¹⁴ If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare I would wait till my release should come.

²² For when a few years are come, I shall go the way where I shall not return.

⁴ Yea, tho I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou are with me, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

⁶ Thou have laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps.

¹¹ Shall thy loving kindness be declared in the grave, or thy faithfulness in destruction? ¹² Shall thy wonders be known in the dark, and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

¹¹ I said, I shall not see LORD, even LORD in the land of the living. I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

⁶ Nor did they say, Where is LORD who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man dwelt?

²² There is no darkness, nor thick gloom where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

¹⁷ Have the gates of death been revealed to thee? Or have thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?

¹⁹ that thou have greatly broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

¹² Shall thy wonders be known in the dark, and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

¹⁶ Give glory to LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains. And, while ye look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

²⁶ And besides all these things, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that those here who want to cross over to you are not able, nor may those go across from there to us.