Job 25 Cross References - BBE

¹ Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said, ² Rule and power are his; he makes peace in his high places. ³ Is it possible for his armies to be numbered? and on whom is not his light shining? ⁴ How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman? ⁵ See, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not clean in his eyes: ⁶ How much less man who is an insect, and the son of man who is a worm!

³ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. ⁴ And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark, ⁵ Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

¹⁴ And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years: ¹⁵ And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so. ¹⁶ And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars.

²⁷ And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:

¹¹ Yours, O Lord, is the strength and the power and the glory, and the authority and the honour: for everything in heaven and on earth is yours; yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are lifted up as head over all. ¹² Wealth and honour come from you, and you are ruler over all, and in your hand is power and strength; it is in your power to make great, and to give strength to all.

¹⁷ May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker? ¹⁸ Truly, he puts no faith in his servants, and he sees error in his angels; ¹⁹ How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

¹⁹ How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

¹⁷ What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,

² Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?

² Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God? ³ If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions. ⁴ He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it? ⁵ It is he who takes away the mountains without their knowledge, overturning them in his wrath: ⁶ Who is moving the earth out of its place, so that its pillars are shaking: ⁷ Who gives orders to the sun, and it does not give its light; and who keeps the stars from shining. ⁸ By whose hand the heavens were stretched out, and who is walking on the waves of the sea: ⁹ Who made the Bear and Orion, and the Pleiades, and the store-houses of the south: ¹⁰ Who does great things not to be searched out; yes, wonders without number.

³ Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him? ⁴ If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

¹⁴ What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright? ¹⁵ Truly, he puts no faith in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes;

¹⁵ Truly, he puts no faith in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes; ¹⁶ How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!

⁵ The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them. ⁶ The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil. ⁷ By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing. ⁸ By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them. ⁹ By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it. ¹⁰ By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark. ¹¹ The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words. ¹² By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded. ¹³ By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through. ¹⁴ See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.

²⁶ If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way,

¹² Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place; ¹³ So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

⁹ Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his? ¹⁰ Put on the ornaments of your pride; be clothed with glory and power: ¹¹ Let your wrath be overflowing; let your eyes see all the sons of pride, and make them low. ¹² Send destruction on all who are lifted up, pulling down the sinners from their places. ¹³ Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld. ¹⁴ Then I will give praise to you, saying that your right hand is able to give you salvation.

⁴ Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he put a tent for the sun, ⁵ Who is like a newly married man coming from his bride-tent, and is glad like a strong runner starting on his way. ⁶ His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circle to the ends of it; there is nothing which is not open to his heat.

⁶ But I am a worm and not a man; cursed by men, and looked down on by the people.

⁵ Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

¹ The Lord is King; let the peoples be in fear: his seat is on the winged ones; let the earth be moved. ² The Lord is great in Zion; he is high over all the nations. ³ Let them give praise to your name, for it is great and to be feared; holy is he.

²⁰ Give praise to the Lord, you his angels, who are great in strength, doing his orders, and waiting for his voice. ²¹ Give praise to the Lord, all you his armies; and you his servants who do his pleasure.

³ O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free?

² Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.

² Give praise to him, all you his angels: give praise to him, all his armies. ³ Give praise to him, you sun and moon: give praise to him, all you stars of light. ⁴ Give praise to him, you highest heavens, and you waters which are over the heavens.

²³ Then the moon will be veiled, and the sun put to shame; for the Lord of armies will be ruling in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before his judges he will let his glory be seen.

²⁶ Let your eyes be lifted up on high, and see: who has made these? He who sends out their numbered army: who has knowledge of all their names: by whose great strength, because he is strong in power, all of them are in their places.

¹⁴ Have no fear, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will be your helper, says the Lord, even he who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁵ For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.

¹⁹ I will give the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is near and to him who is far off, says the Lord; and I will make him well.

¹⁹ The sun will not be your light by day, and the moon will no longer be bright for you by night: but the Lord will be to you an eternal light, and your God your glory. ²⁰ Your sun will never again go down, or your moon keep back her light: for the Lord will be your eternal light, and the days of your sorrow will be ended.

⁶ There is no one like you, O Lord; you are great and your name is great in power. ⁷ Who would not have fear of you, O King of the nations? for it is your right: for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like you.

³⁴ And at the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifting up my eyes to heaven, got back my reason, and, blessing the Most High, I gave praise and honour to him who is living for ever, whose rule is an eternal rule and whose kingdom goes on from generation to generation. ³⁵ And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing? ³⁶ At the same time my reason came back to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my honour and my great name came back to me; and my wise men and my lords were turned to me again; and I was made safe in my kingdom and had more power than before. ³⁷ Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give worship and praise and honour to the King of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are right: and those who go in pride he is able to make low.

¹⁰ A stream of fire was flowing and coming out from before him: a thousand thousands were his servants, and ten thousand times ten thousand were in their places before him: the judge was seated and the books were open.

¹ In that day there will be a fountain open to the family of David and to the people of Jerusalem, for sin and for that which is unclean.

⁹ Happy are the peacemakers: for they will be named sons of God.

⁴⁵ So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.

¹³ And let us not be put to the test, but keep us safe from the Evil One.

⁵³ Does it not seem possible to you that if I make request to my Father he will even now send me an army of angels?

¹⁸ And Jesus came to them and said, All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

⁴ What came into existence in him was life, and the life was the light of men.

⁹ The true light, which gives light to every man, was then coming into the world.

¹⁹ Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God: ²⁰ Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

¹ For which reason, because we have righteousness through faith, let us be at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

¹¹ And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

¹⁰ For the glory of the first no longer seems to be glory, because of the greater glory of that which comes after.

¹⁸ But all things are of God, who has made us at peace with himself through Christ, and has given to us the work of making peace; ¹⁹ That is, that God was in Christ making peace between the world and himself, not putting their sins to their account, and having given to us the preaching of this news of peace. ²⁰ So we are the representatives of Christ, as if God was making a request to you through us: we make our request to you, in the name of Christ, be at peace with God. ²¹ For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

²⁰ By which he made Christ come back from the dead, and gave him a place at his right hand in heaven, ²¹ Far over all rule and authority and power and every name which is named, not only in the present order, but in that which is to come:

³ Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

¹⁶ And that the two might come into agreement with God in one body through the cross, so putting an end to that division. ¹⁷ And he came preaching peace to you who were far off, and to those who were near;

²⁰ Through him uniting all things with himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, I say, uniting all things which are on earth or in heaven.

¹⁷ Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.

⁹ If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.

²⁵ To the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, let us give glory and honour and authority and power, before all time and now and for ever. So be it.

⁵ And from Jesus Christ, the true witness, the first to come back from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his blood;

¹¹ And I saw, and there came to my ears the sound of a great number of angels round about the high seat and the beasts and the rulers; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;

¹⁶ And they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Come down on us, covering us from the face of him who is seated on the high seat, and from the wrath of the Lamb: