Job 16 Cross References - BBE

¹ And Job made answer and said, ² Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble. ³ May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them? ⁴ It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you: ⁵ I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips. ⁶ If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me? ⁷ But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble. ⁸ It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face. ⁹ I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes; ¹⁰ Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me. ¹¹ God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers. ¹² I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows. ¹³ His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth. ¹⁴ I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war. ¹⁵ I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust. ¹⁶ My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark; ¹⁷ Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean. ¹⁸ O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place! ¹⁹ Even now my witness is in heaven, and the supporter of my cause is on high. ²⁰ My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping, ²¹ So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour. ²² For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.

¹¹ And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother's blood from your hand;

⁵⁰ If you are cruel to my daughters, or if you take other wives in addition to my daughters, then though no man is there to see, God will be the witness between us.

³⁴ Then Jacob, giving signs of grief, put on haircloth, and went on weeping for his son day after day.

²³ He was troubled by the archers; they sent out their arrows against him, cruelly wounding him:

²⁰ The Lord will have no mercy on him, but the wrath of the Lord will be burning against that man, and all the curses recorded in this book will be waiting for him, and the Lord will take away his name completely from the earth.

⁸ And he made an attack on them, driving them in uncontrolled flight, and causing great destruction; then he went away to his safe place in the crack of the rock at Etam.

²¹ I went out full, and the Lord has sent me back again with nothing; why do you give me the name Naomi, seeing that the Lord has given witness against me, and the Ruler of all has sent sorrow on me?

¹⁰ Those who make war against the Lord will be broken; against them he will send his thunder from heaven: the Lord will be judge of the ends of the earth, he will give strength to his king, lifting up the horn of him on whom the holy oil has been put.

⁵ Then he said, The Lord is witness against you, and the man on whom he has put the holy oil is witness this day that you have seen no wrong in me. And they said, He is witness.

¹⁸ And you have made clear to me how good you have been to me today: because, when the Lord gave me up into your hands, you did not put me to death.

²⁷ Hearing these words, Ahab, in great grief, put haircloth on his flesh and went without food, sleeping in haircloth, and going about quietly.

²⁴ Then Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, came near and gave Micaiah a blow on the side of the face, saying, Where is the spirit of the Lord whose word is in you?

²¹ This is the word which the Lord has said about him: In the eyes of the virgin daughter of Zion you are shamed and laughed at; the daughter of Jerusalem has made sport of you.

²³ Then Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, came near and gave Micaiah a blow on the side of his face, saying, Where is the spirit of the Lord whose word is in you?

⁵ Let not their wrongdoing be covered or their sin washed away from before you: for they have made you angry before the builders.

² And he had seven sons and three daughters. ³ And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.

¹³ And there was a day when his sons and daughters were feasting in the house of their oldest brother, ¹⁴ And a man came to Job, and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses were taking their food by their side: ¹⁵ And the men of Sheba came against them and took them away, putting the young men to the sword, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news. ¹⁶ And this one was still talking when another came, and said, The fire of God came down from heaven, burning up the sheep and the goats and the young men completely, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news. ¹⁷ And this one was still talking when another came, and said, The Chaldaeans made themselves into three bands, and came down on the camels and took them away, putting the young men to the sword, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news. ¹⁸ And this one was still talking when another came, and said, Your sons and your daughters were feasting together in their oldest brother's house, ¹⁹ When a great wind came rushing from the waste land against the four sides of the house, and it came down on the young men, and they are dead; and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.

⁷ And the Satan went out from before the Lord, and sent on Job an evil disease covering his skin from his feet to the top of his head.

¹⁷ There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.

²⁶ I have no peace, no quiet, and no rest; nothing but pain comes on me.

³ Truly, you have been a helper to others, and you have made feeble hands strong; ⁴ He who was near to falling has been lifted up by your words, and you have given strength to bent knees.

¹⁰ Though the noise of the lion and the sounding of his voice, may be loud, the teeth of the young lions are broken.

² If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble! ³ For then its weight would be more than the sand of the seas: because of this my words have been uncontrolled. ⁴ For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.

⁴ For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me. ⁵ Does the ass of the fields give out his voice when he has grass? or does the ox make sounds over his food? ⁶ Will a man take food which has no taste without salt? or is there any taste in the soft substance of purslain?

¹⁰ So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

¹⁴ He whose heart is shut against his friend has given up the fear of the Ruler of all.

²⁵ How pleasing are upright words! but what force is there in your arguments? ²⁶ My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind.

³ So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.

⁹ A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again. ¹⁰ He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.

¹² Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?

¹⁶ I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.

²⁰ If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?

² How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?

⁵ If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all; ⁶ If you are clean and upright; then he will certainly be moved to take up your cause, and will make clear your righteousness by building up your house again.

¹⁷ For I would be crushed by his storm, my wounds would be increased without cause.

³⁴ Let him take away his rod from me and not send his fear on me: ³⁵ Then I would say what is in my mind without fear of him; for there is no cause of fear in myself.

¹ My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.

¹⁶ And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me: ¹⁷ That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.

¹⁷ That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.

² Are all these words to go unanswered? and is a man seen to be right because he is full of talk?

² Are all these words to go unanswered? and is a man seen to be right because he is full of talk? ³ Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?

¹⁴ If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;

⁴ It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of! ⁵ In the thought of him who is in comfort there is no respect for one who is in trouble; such is the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

³ But I would have talk with the Ruler of all, and my desire is to have an argument with God. ⁴ But you put a false face on things; all your attempts to put things right are of no value. ⁵ If only you would keep quiet, it would be a sign of wisdom!

²² Then at the sound of your voice I will give answer; or let me put forward my cause for you to give me an answer.

²⁴ Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?

²⁷ And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;

⁵ If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;

¹⁰ But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

¹⁴ If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.

² Will a wise man make answer with knowledge of no value, or will he give birth to the east wind?

²⁰ The evil man is in pain all his days, and the number of the years stored up for the cruel is small.

²⁶ Running against him like a man of war, covered by his thick breastplate; even like a king ready for the fight,

³⁴ For the band of the evil-doers gives no fruit, and the tents of those who give wrong decisions for reward are burned with fire.

⁴ It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:

² Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.

⁷ My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.

⁴ But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?

² How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words? ³ Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.

¹¹ His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.

²⁰ My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth.

²⁷ Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.

³ I have to give ear to arguments which put me to shame, and your answers to me are wind without wisdom.

²⁵ He is pulling it out, and it comes out of his back; and its shining point comes out of his side; he is overcome by fears.

²⁷ See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me; ²⁸ For you say, Where is the house of the ruler, and where is the tent of the evil-doer?

⁵ Is not your evil-doing great? and there is no end to your sins. ⁶ For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it. ⁷ You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread. ⁸ For it was the man with power who had the land, and the man with an honoured name who was living in it. ⁹ You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.

³ If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat! ⁴ I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments. ⁵ I would see what his answers would be, and have knowledge of what he would say to me. ⁶ Would he make use of his great power to overcome me? No, but he would give attention to me. ⁷ There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.

² Rule and power are his; he makes peace in his high places.

² How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength! ³ How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!

⁶ I will keep it safe, and will not let it go: my heart has nothing to say against any part of my life. ⁷ Let my hater be like the evil man, and let him who comes against me be as the sinner.

⁹ Will his cry come to the ears of God when he is in trouble?

³ When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.

⁵ While the Ruler of all was still with me, and my children were round me; ⁶ When my steps were washed with milk, and rivers of oil were flowing out of the rock for me. ⁷ When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place, ⁸ The young men saw me, and went away, and the old men got up from their seats; ⁹ The rulers kept quiet, and put their hands on their mouths; ¹⁰ The chiefs kept back their words, and their tongues were joined to the roofs of their mouths. ¹¹ For when it came to their ears, men said that I was truly happy; and when their eyes saw, they gave witness to me; ¹² For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.

¹² For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter. ¹³ The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.

¹³ The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart. ¹⁴ I put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress.

¹⁴ I put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress. ¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking.

¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking. ¹⁶ I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.

¹⁶ I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me. ¹⁷ By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.

¹⁷ By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away. ¹⁸ Then I said, I will come to my end with my children round me, my days will be as the sand in number;

¹⁸ Then I said, I will come to my end with my children round me, my days will be as the sand in number; ¹⁹ My root will be open to the waters, and the night mist will be on my branches,

¹⁹ My root will be open to the waters, and the night mist will be on my branches, ²⁰ My glory will be ever new, and my bow will be readily bent in my hand. ²¹ Men gave ear to me, waiting and keeping quiet for my suggestions. ²² After I had said what was in my mind, they were quiet and let my words go deep into their hearts; ²³ They were waiting for me as for the rain, opening their mouths wide as for the spring rains. ²⁴ I was laughing at them when they had no hope, and the light of my face was never clouded by their fear. ²⁵ I took my place as a chief, guiding them on their way, and I was as a king among his army (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) .

²⁵ I took my place as a chief, guiding them on their way, and I was as a king among his army (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) .

¹⁹ Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

¹ I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin? ² For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven? ³ Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers? ⁴ Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered? ⁵ If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit; ⁶ Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness: ⁷ If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands; ⁸ Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted. ⁹ If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door; ¹⁰ Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body. ¹¹ For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges: ¹² It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce. ¹³ If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me; ¹⁴ What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions? ¹⁵ Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies? ¹⁶ If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose; ¹⁷ If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father; ¹⁸ For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother; ¹⁹ If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him; ²⁰ If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm; ²¹ If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges; ²² May my arm be pulled from my body, and be broken from its base. ²³ For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things. ²⁴ If I made gold my hope, or if I ever said to the best gold, I have put my faith in you; ²⁵ If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store; ²⁶ If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way, ²⁷ A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth; ²⁸ That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high. ²⁹ If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him; ³⁰ For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life; ³¹ If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat? ³² The traveller did not take his night's rest in the street, and my doors were open to anyone on a journey; ³³ If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast, ³⁴ For fear of the great body of people, or for fear that families might make sport of me, so that I kept quiet, and did not go out of my door; ³⁵ If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!

³⁵ If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing! ³⁶ Truly I would take up the book in my hands; it would be to me as a crown; ³⁷ I would make clear the number of my steps, I would put it before him like a prince! The words of Job are ended. ³⁸ If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow; ³⁹ If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners; ⁴⁰ Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.

³ And he was angry with his three friends, because they had been unable to give him an answer, and had not made Job's sin clear. ⁴ Now Elihu had kept quiet while Job was talking, because they were older than he; ⁵ And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men, he was very angry. ⁶ And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, made answer and said, I am young, and you are very old, so I was in fear, and kept myself from putting my knowledge before you.

¹⁶ And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.

¹ (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) ² Will he who is protesting give teaching to the Ruler of all? Let him who has arguments to put forward against God give an answer. ³ And Job said in answer to the Lord, ⁴ Truly, I am of no value; what answer may I give to you? I will put my hand on my mouth. ⁵ I have said once, and even twice, what was in my mind, but I will not do so again.

⁶ The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes. ⁷ My eyes are wasting away with trouble; they are becoming old because of all those who are against me.

³ O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong; ⁴ If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause; ⁵ Let my hater go after my soul and take it; let my life be crushed to the earth, and my honour into the dust. Selah.

⁵ Let my hater go after my soul and take it; let my life be crushed to the earth, and my honour into the dust. Selah.

¹² If a man is not turned from his evil, he will make his sword sharp; his bow is bent and ready. ¹³ He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire. ¹⁴ That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.

⁷ I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say,

¹³ I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

¹⁶ Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet. ¹⁷ I am able to see all my bones; their looks are fixed on me:

¹² Do not give me into their hands, because false witnesses have come out against me, and men breathing destruction.

¹⁴ Let your hope be in the Lord: take heart and be strong; yes, let your hope be in the Lord.

⁸ And you have not given me into the hand of my hater; you have put my feet in a wide place. ⁹ Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.

³ When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.

¹⁵ But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me. ¹⁶ Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.

²¹ Their mouths were open wide against me, and they said, Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it.

¹² The sinner has evil designs against the upright, lifting up the voice of wrath against him.

⁷ Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me.

¹⁴ Our name is a word of shame among the nations, a sign for the shaking of heads among the peoples.

¹⁷ All this has come on us, but still we have kept you in our memory; and we have not been false to your word. ¹⁸ Our hearts have not gone back, and our steps have not been turned out of your way; ¹⁹ Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.

¹⁹ Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade. ²⁰ If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god, ²¹ Will not God make search for it? for he sees the secrets of the heart.

²² Now keep this in mind, you who have no memory of God, for fear that you may be crushed under my hand, with no one to give you help:

¹⁸ I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me: ¹⁹ But truly God's ear has been open; he has give attention to the voice of my prayer.

³ I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.

²⁶ Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you.

⁵ Let not your horn be lifted up: let no more words of pride come from your outstretched necks.

¹⁰ By him will all the horns of the sinners be cut off; but the horns of the upright will be lifted up.

¹ To the chief music-maker. After Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A Psalm. I was crying to God with my voice; even to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me. ² In the day of my trouble, my heart was turned to the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night without resting; my soul would not be comforted. ³ I will keep God in memory, with sounds of grief; my thoughts are troubled, and my spirit is overcome. Selah. ⁴ You keep my eyes from sleep; I am so troubled that no words come. ⁵ My thoughts go back to the days of the past, to the years which are gone. ⁶ The memory of my song comes back to me in the night; my thoughts are moving in my heart; my spirit is searching with care. ⁷ Will the Lord put me away for ever? will he be kind no longer? ⁸ Is his mercy quite gone for ever? has his word come to nothing? ⁹ Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? Selah.

¹⁵ I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength. ¹⁶ The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments. ¹⁷ They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me. ¹⁸ You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.

²¹ They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

³ My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire. ⁴ My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food. ⁵ Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.

⁹ I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:

¹⁵ And he gave them their request, but sent a wasting disease into their souls.

⁴ For my love they give me back hate; but I have given myself to prayer.

²⁴ My knees are feeble for need of food; there is no fat on my bones. ²⁵ As for me, they make sport of me; shaking their heads when they see me.

⁵ Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high,

³ The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.

² I put all my sorrows before him; and made clear to him all my trouble.

¹¹ My son, do not make your heart hard against the Lord's teaching; do not be made angry by his training: ¹² For to those who are dear to him the Lord says sharp words, and makes the son in whom he has delight undergo pain.

¹⁹ Where there is much talk there will be no end to sin, but he who keeps his mouth shut does wisely.

⁸ The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.

⁹ Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.

¹⁷ Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend.

¹⁰ That which is, has been named before, and of what man is there is knowledge. He has no power against one stronger than he.

¹⁴ The foolish are full of words; man has no knowledge of what will be; and who is able to say what will be after him?

⁵ And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets;

¹⁵ And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.

¹⁶ For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, will make his fat become wasted; and in his inner parts a fire will be lighted like a burning flame.

¹² And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:

¹⁶ From the farthest part of the earth comes the sound of songs, glory to the upright. But I said, I am wasting away, wasting away, the curse is on me! The false ones go on in their false way, yes, they go on acting falsely.

²¹ For the Lord is coming out of his place to send punishment on the people of the earth for their evil-doing: the earth will let the blood drained out on her be seen, and will keep her dead covered no longer.

³ Make strong the feeble hands, give support to the shaking knees. ⁴ Say to those who are full of fear, Be strong and take heart: see, your God will give punishment; the reward of God will come; he himself will come to be your saviour.

⁹ Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?

⁴ The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are experienced, so that I may be able to give the word a special sense for the feeble: every morning my ear is open to his teaching, like those who are experienced:

⁶ I was offering my back to those who gave me blows, and my face to those who were pulling out my hair: I did not keep my face covered from marks of shame.

¹⁴ As peoples were surprised at him, And his face was not beautiful, so as to be desired: his face was so changed by disease as to be unlike that of a man, and his form was no longer that of the sons of men.

⁹ Then at the sound of your voice, the Lord will give an answer; at your cry he will say, Here am I. If you take away from among you the yoke, the putting out of the finger of shame, and the evil word; ¹⁰ And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the sun:

⁶ Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.

¹⁶ Making their land a thing of wonder, causing sounds of surprise for ever; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, shaking his head.

²⁹ O earth, earth, earth, give ear to the word of the Lord!

¹⁶ For these things I am weeping; my eye is streaming with water; because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me: my children are made waste, because the hater is strong.

¹¹ My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.

¹⁵ All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth? ¹⁶ All your haters are opening their mouths wide against you; making hisses and whistling through their teeth, they say, We have made a meal of her: certainly this is the day we have been looking for; it has come, we have seen it.

³ Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day. ⁴ My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

⁴ My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken. ⁵ He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.

¹⁰ He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places. ¹¹ By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste. ¹² With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows. ¹³ He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.

³⁰ Let his face be turned to him who gives him blows; let him be full of shame.

¹¹ For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have made my holy place unclean with all your hated things and all your disgusting ways, you will become disgusting to me; my eye will have no mercy and I will have no pity.

⁷ For her blood is in her; she has put it on the open rock not draining it on to the earth so that it might be covered with dust;

⁷ When they took a grip of you in their hands, you were crushed so that their arms were broken: and when they put their weight on you for support, you were broken and all their muscles gave way.

¹⁴ For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the children of Judah; I, even I, will give him wounds and go away; I will take him away, and there will be no helper.

¹ Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help.

⁴ He had a fight with the angel and overcame him; he made request for grace to him with weeping; he came face to face with him in Beth-el and there his words came to him; ⁵ Even the Lord, the God of armies; the Lord is his name.

⁷ They are running like strong men, they go over the wall like men of war; every man goes straight on his way, their lines are not broken.

¹ Then Jonah made prayer to the Lord his God from the inside of the fish, and said, ² In my trouble I was crying to the Lord, and he gave me an answer; out of the deepest underworld I sent up a cry, and you gave ear to my voice. ³ For you have put me down into the deep, into the heart of the sea; and the river was round about me; all your waves and your rolling waters went over me. ⁴ And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple? ⁵ The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head. ⁶ I went down to the bases of the mountains; as for the earth, her walls were about me for ever: but you have taken up my life from the underworld, O Lord my God. ⁷ When my soul in me was overcome, I kept the memory of the Lord: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy Temple. ⁸ The worshippers of false gods have given up their only hope. ⁹ But I will make an offering to you with the voice of praise; I will give effect to my oaths. Salvation is the Lord's. ¹⁰ And at the Lord's order, the fish sent Jonah out of its mouth on to the dry land.

⁸ And let man and beast be covered with haircloth, and let them make strong prayers to God: and let everyone be turned from his evil way and the violent acts of their hands.

¹ Now you will give yourselves deep wounds for grief; they will put up a wall round us: they will give the judge of Israel a blow on the face with a rod.

¹³ So I have made a start with your punishment; I have made you waste because of your sins.

⁸ Do not be glad because of my sorrow, O my hater: after my fall I will be lifted up; when I am seated in the dark, the Lord will be a light to me.

¹⁵ This is the town which was full of joy, living without fear of danger, saying in her heart, I am, and there is no other: how has she been made waste, a place for beasts to take their rest in! everyone who goes by her will make hisses, waving his hand.

¹² All those things, then, which you would have men do to you, even so do you to them: because this is the law and the prophets.

⁴⁴ Any man falling on this stone will be broken, but he on whom it comes down will be crushed to dust.

⁴⁶ And no one was able to give him an answer, and so great was their fear of him, that from that day no one put any more questions to him.

⁶⁷ Then they put shame on him, and were cruel to him: and some gave him blows, saying,

³⁹ And those who went by said bitter words to him, shaking their heads and saying, ⁴⁰ You who would give the Temple to destruction and put it up again in three days, get yourself free: if you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.

³⁴ And he said to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: be here a little time, and keep watch.

¹¹ But they were full of wrath, and were talking together about what they might do to Jesus. ¹² And it came about in those days that he went out to the mountain for prayer; and he was all night in prayer to God.

³⁵ And the people were looking on. And the rulers made sport of him, saying, He was a saviour of others; let him do something for himself, if he is the Christ, the man of God's selection. ³⁶ And the men of the army made sport of him, coming to him and giving him bitter wine,

²² When he said this, one of the police by his side gave him a blow with his open hand, saying, Do you give such an answer to the high priest?

¹⁶ So then he gave him up to them to be put to death on the cross. And they took Jesus away;

²⁷ For, truly, in this town, against your holy servant, Jesus, who was marked out by you as Christ, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, came together,

⁵⁴ Hearing these things, they were cut to the heart and moved with wrath against him.

² And the high priest, Ananias, gave orders to those who were near him to give him a blow on the mouth.

⁹ For God is my witness, whose servant I am in spirit in the good news of his Son, that you are at all times in my memory and in my prayers,

³² He who did not keep back his only Son, but gave him up for us all, will he not with him freely give us all things?

¹ I say what is true in Christ, and not what is false, my mind giving witness with me in the Holy Spirit,

²⁰ But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?

³² For God has let them all go against his orders, so that he might have mercy on them all.

¹⁵ Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and in the grief of those who are sorrowing.

⁴ Who for my life put their necks in danger; to whom not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are in debt:

²⁶ And if there is pain in one part of the body, all the parts will be feeling it; or if one part is honoured, all the parts will be glad.

²³ But God is my witness that it was in pity for you that I did not come to Corinth at that time.

²⁰ You put up with a man if he makes servants of you, if he makes profit out of you, if he makes you prisoners, if he puts himself in a high place, if he gives you blows on the face.

³¹ The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be praise for ever, is witness that the things which I say are true.

⁷ And because the revelations were so very great, in order that I might not be overmuch lifted up, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, one sent from Satan to give me pain.

¹ Brothers, if a man is taken in any wrongdoing, you who are of the Spirit will put such a one right in a spirit of love; keeping watch on yourself, for fear that you yourself may be tested.

²⁷ And might take it for himself, a church full of glory, not having one mark or fold or any such thing; but that it might be holy and complete.

¹⁶ These do it from love, conscious that I am responsible for the cause of the good news:

⁵ For it is common knowledge among you that we never made use of smooth-sounding false words, and God is witness that at no time were we secretly desiring profit for ourselves,

¹⁰ You are witnesses, with God, how holy and upright and free from all evil was our way of life among you who have faith;

⁸ It is my desire, then, that in every place men may give themselves to prayer, lifting up holy hands, without wrath or argument.

¹¹ By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.

⁸ Saying true and right words, against which no protest may be made, so that he who is not on our side may be put to shame, unable to say any evil of us.

⁷ Who in the days of his flesh, having sent up prayers and requests with strong crying and weeping to him who was able to give him salvation from death, had his prayer answered because of his fear of God.

¹⁹ You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;

³ You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure. ⁴ O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.

⁵ And did not have mercy on the world which then was, but only kept safe Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when he let loose the waters over the world of the evil-doers;