Job 7 Cross References - BSB

¹ “Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand? ² Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages. ³ So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me. ⁴ When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn. ⁵ My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering. ⁶ My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope. ⁷ Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness. ⁸ The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more. ⁹ As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up. ¹⁰ He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more. ¹¹ Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. ¹² Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under guard? ¹³ When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint, ¹⁴ then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions, ¹⁵ so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body. ¹⁶ I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath. ¹⁷ What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him, ¹⁸ that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment? ¹⁹ Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle? ²⁰ If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You? ²¹ Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”

⁵⁰ He and his purchaser will then count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years, based on the daily wages of a hired hand.

¹⁸ Do not regard it as a hardship to set your servant free, because his six years of service were worth twice the wages of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in all you do.

⁷ Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

⁵ Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed, ⁶ look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.

¹³ If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me! ¹⁴ When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.

⁴ “Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.

⁸ As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

¹⁶ For this is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker would count it, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.

⁵ “Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

² “Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.”

¹ “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. ² He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard. ³ About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. ⁴ ‘You also go into my vineyard,’ he said, ‘and I will pay you whatever is right.’ ⁵ So they went. He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing. ⁶ About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’ he asked. ⁷ ‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered. So he told them, ‘You also go into my vineyard.’ ⁸ When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with the last ones hired and moving on to the first.’ ⁹ The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius. ¹⁰ So when the original workers came, they assumed they would receive more. But each of them also received a denarius. ¹¹ On receiving their pay, they began to grumble against the landowner. ¹² ‘These men who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the scorching heat of the day.’ ¹³ But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Did you not agree with me on one denarius? ¹⁴ Take your pay and go. I want to give this last man the same as I gave you. ¹⁵ Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

⁹ Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? If anyone walks in the daytime, he will not stumble, because he sees by the light of this world. ¹⁰ But if anyone walks at night, he will stumble, because he has no light.”

¹³ You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.

¹⁵ You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

¹³¹ I open my mouth and pant, longing for Your commandments.

⁶ I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah

⁴ ‘Prepare for battle against her; rise up, let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the daylight is fading; the evening shadows grow long.

⁵ “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.

⁴ Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

⁷ Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.

² “How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,

⁶ I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.

⁵ You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah

¹⁴ I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.

⁶⁷ In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread in your hearts of the terrifying sights you will see.

¹³ When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint, ¹⁴ then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

¹² They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.

¹⁷ Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.

⁴ You have kept my eyes from closing; I am too troubled to speak.

²³ I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

⁶ My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning—more than watchmen wait for the morning.

¹¹ “O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.

⁷ So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head. ⁸ And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.

³¹ then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.

¹⁴ and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

²⁶ Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.

²⁰ The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree.

¹⁸ With great force He grasps my garment; He seizes me by the collar of my tunic. ¹⁹ He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.

⁵ My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly. ⁶ I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning. ⁷ For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.

⁶ From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness—only wounds and welts and festering sores neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil.

¹¹ Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.

²⁴ “As they go forth, they will see the corpses of the men who have rebelled against Me; for their worm will never die, their fire will never be quenched, and they will be a horror to all mankind.”

⁴³ There you will remember your ways and all the deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves for all the evils you have done.

²³ Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

¹¹ What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What is my future, that I should be patient?

²⁵ My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.

¹⁵ Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.

²² For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.

¹¹ My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.

¹⁵ where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?

⁵ You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning— ⁶ in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.

¹¹ My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field; ¹⁶ when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.

⁴ Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

³² The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.

¹² My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me. ¹³ I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.

⁶ A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field. ⁷ The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.

²⁵ You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’

¹² remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

¹¹ For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

¹⁴ You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

¹³ Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

²⁴ For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

³⁶ Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”

⁸ Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses when You said, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations,

⁹ Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?

²¹ before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom, ²² to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

¹⁸ Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.

²² Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.

³⁹ He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

⁴⁷ Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

⁵⁰ Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people—

¹⁵ You understand, O LORD; remember me and attend to me. Avenge me against my persecutors. In Your patience, do not take me away. Know that I endure reproach for Your honor.

¹⁸ If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’

²⁷ You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.

³ Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?

⁹ The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.

³⁶ yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.

¹¹ You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah

⁸ You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence. ⁹ For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.

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

¹⁴ For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.

²¹ before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom,

⁸ They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

¹⁰ But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he? ¹¹ As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry, ¹² so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will not be awakened or roused from sleep.

¹⁵ Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.

¹¹ He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.

¹³ Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”

¹¹ I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.

²¹ The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

²³ It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.

¹⁶ when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.

²¹ Then they said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”

¹⁰ In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.

²⁷ When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is in deep distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me.” ²⁸ Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me?’”

²⁶ Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?

¹ “I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁵ If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.

¹³ Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may.

⁶ Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?

³ Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking. ⁴ Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?

²⁵ Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.

³ My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:

⁹ I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly; behold, I do not seal my lips, as You, O LORD, do know.

¹⁵ What can I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this. I will walk slowly all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

¹⁷ Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

³⁷ He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed. ³⁸ Then He said to them, “My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with Me.”

⁴⁴ And in His anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.

⁴ For through many tears I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart, not to grieve you but to let you know how much I love you.

¹⁷ What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,

⁶ On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone, ⁷ while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? ⁸ Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, ⁹ when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket, ¹⁰ when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors, ¹¹ and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?

¹ “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope? ² Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? ³ Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly? ⁴ Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life? ⁵ Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens? ⁶ Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants? ⁷ Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears? ⁸ If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it! ⁹ Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming? ¹⁰ No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me? ¹¹ Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine. ¹² I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form. ¹³ Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle? ¹⁴ Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth? ¹⁵ His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together. ¹⁶ One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them. ¹⁷ They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated. ¹⁸ His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn. ¹⁹ Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth! ²⁰ Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds. ²¹ His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth. ²² Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him. ²³ The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable. ²⁴ His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone! ²⁵ When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing. ²⁶ The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow. ²⁷ He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood. ²⁸ No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him. ²⁹ A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance. ³⁰ His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge. ³¹ He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment. ³² He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair! ³³ Nothing on earth is his equal—a creature devoid of fear! ³⁴ He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.”

⁷ He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.

² “Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash about in your rivers, churning up the waters with your feet and muddying the streams.’ ³ This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will spread My net over you with a company of many peoples, and they will draw you up in My net.

³ So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me. ⁴ When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.

²⁷ If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’ ²⁸ I would still dread all my sufferings; I know that You will not acquit me.

⁵ both of these men—the Egyptian king’s cupbearer and baker, who were being held in the prison—had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning. ⁶ When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were distraught. ⁷ So he asked the officials of Pharaoh who were in custody with him in his master’s house, “Why are your faces so downcast today?”

⁸ In the morning his spirit was troubled, so he summoned all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.

¹³ And as Gideon arrived, a man was telling his friend about a dream. “Behold, I had a dream,” he said, “and I saw a loaf of barley bread come tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent so hard that the tent overturned and collapsed.” ¹⁴ His friend replied: “This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has delivered Midian and the whole camp into his hand.”

¹ In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams that troubled his spirit, and sleep escaped him.

¹⁹ While Pilate was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him this message: “Have nothing to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered terribly in a dream today because of Him.”

²³ When Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He put his affairs in order and hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.

⁵ So Judas threw the silver into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.

⁴⁶ Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”

⁴ while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

²⁰ Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul, ²¹ who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure, ²² who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave?

⁹ that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!

²¹ Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.

²⁰ Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,

⁶ look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.

¹⁰ Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.

⁹ Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.

³³ So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.

¹¹ For the more words, the more futility—and how does that profit anyone? ¹² For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?

³ And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

⁸ As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

¹⁴ Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom are you pursuing? A dead dog? A flea?

¹² Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under guard?

¹⁴ If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath, ¹⁵ all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

⁴ what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

³ O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?

⁶ But somewhere it is testified in these words: “What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

¹ Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.

⁵ You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

³⁴ Now go, lead the people to the place I described. Behold, My angel shall go before you. But on the day I settle accounts, I will punish them for their sin.”

¹⁶ He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.

¹⁴ The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.

⁷ Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the daughter of My people?

¹⁰ Many will be purified, made spotless, and refined, but the wicked will continue to act wickedly. None of the wicked will understand, but the wise will understand.

⁹ This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”

⁷ so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

¹⁸ He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.

³ My soul is deeply distressed. How long, O LORD, how long?

¹ For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me? ² How long must I wrestle in my soul, with sorrow in my heart each day? How long will my enemy dominate me? ³ Consider me and respond, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death,

³ How long will the wicked, O LORD, how long will the wicked exult?

¹⁰ And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You avenge our blood and judge those who dwell upon the earth?”

⁶ You alone are the LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven worships You.

²⁴ I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.

⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

¹¹ Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. ¹² Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under guard?

²⁹ Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain? ³⁰ If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye, ³¹ then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.

²⁶ For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.

¹⁶ For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.

¹² I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target; ¹³ His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground. ¹⁴ He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.

⁵ Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?

³³ if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,

⁹ ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.

²⁷ Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.

⁶ If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?

¹² For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them.

⁶ Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.

⁴ O LORD God of Hosts, how long will Your anger smolder against the prayers of Your people?

¹² He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.

¹⁰ After David had numbered the troops, his conscience was stricken and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O LORD, I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”

¹³ For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest

⁸ The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.

¹⁴ If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.

²³ How many are my iniquities and sins? Reveal to me my transgression and sin. ²⁴ Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?

³² He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb. ³³ The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field;

⁷ before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

¹⁹ Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.

⁹ Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!

⁴² “We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.” ⁴³ You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity. ⁴⁴ You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.

²⁰ Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long? ²¹ Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old, ²² unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.

² And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.

² Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips.

¹⁸ Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion? ¹⁹ He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.

²⁹ The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

¹⁴ He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

⁹ If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

⁵ But you know that Christ appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.