Job 17 Cross References - Brenton

¹ I perish, carried away by the wind, and I seek for burial, and obtain it not. ² Weary I intreat; and what have I done? and strangers have stolen my goods. ³ Who is this? let him join hands with me. ⁴ For thou hast hid their heart from wisdom; therefore thou shalt not exalt them. ⁵ He shall promise mischief to his companions: but their eyes have failed for their children. ⁶ But thou has made me a byword amount the nations, and I am become a scorn to them. ⁷ For my eyes are dimmed through pain; I have been grievously beset by all. ⁸ Wonder has seized true men upon this; and let the just rise up against the transgressor. ⁹ But let the faithful hold on his own way, and let him that is pure of hands take courage. ¹⁰ Howbeit, do ye all strengthen yourselves and come now, for I do not find truth in you. ¹¹ My days have passed in groaning, and my heart-strings are broken. ¹² I have turned the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. ¹³ For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness. ¹⁴ I have called upon death to be my father, and corruption to be my mother and sister. ¹⁵ Where then is yet my hope? or where shall I see my good? ¹⁶ Will they go down with me to Hades, or shall we go down together to the tomb?

¹¹ For what is my strength, that I continue? what is my time, that my soul endures?

¹³ For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness. ¹⁴ I have called upon death to be my father, and corruption to be my mother and sister.

¹⁷ And I besought my wife, and earnestly intreated the sons of my concubines.

¹⁶ And Job lived after his affliction a hundred and seventy years: and all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: and Job saw his sons and his sons' sons, the fourth generation.

^{3 (87:3)} For my soul is filled with troubles, and my life has drawn nigh to Hades. ^{4 (87:4)} I have been reckoned with them that go down to the pit; I became as a man without help; ^{5 (87:5)} free among the dead, as the slain ones cast out, who sleep in the tomb; whom thou rememberest no more; and they are rejected from thy hand.

¹⁰ I said in the end of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I shall part with the remainder of my years. ¹¹ I said, I shall no more at all see the salvation of God in the land of the living: I shall no more at all see the salvation of Israel on the earth: I shall no more at all see man. ¹² My life has failed from among my kindred: I have parted with the remainder of my life: it has gone forth and departed from me, as one that having pitched a tent takes it down again: my breath was with me as a weaver's web, when she that weaves draws nigh to cut off the thread. ¹³ In that day I was given up as to a lion until the morning: so has he broken all my bones: for I was so given up from day even to night. ¹⁴ As a swallow, so will I cry, and as a dove, so do I mourn: for mine eyes have failed with looking to the height of heaven to the Lord, who has delivered me,

¹⁶ I will not take vengeance on you for ever, neither will I be always angry with you: for my Spirit shall go forth from me, and I have created all breath.

⁶ For the Lord gave her no child in her affliction, and according to the despondency of her affliction; and she was dispirited on this account, that the Lord shut up her womb so as not to give her a child. ⁷ So she did year by year, in going up to the house of the Lord; and she was dispirited, and wept, and did not eat.

⁴ For a righteous and blameless man has become a subject for mockery.

⁹ For it were well if he would thoroughly search you: for though doing all things in your power ye should attach yourselves to him,

^{20 (16:21)} Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let mine eye weep before him.

³ Raise me, and I will speak; then ye shall not laugh me to scorn.

^{13 (24:13)} His soul shall dwell in prosperity; and his seed shall inherit the earth.

^{14 (34:14)} I behaved agreeably towards them as if it had been our neighbour or brother: I humbled myself as one mourning and sad of countenance. ^{15 (34:15)} Yet they rejoiced against me, and plagues were plentifully brought against me, and I knew it not: they were scattered, but repented not. ^{16 (34:16)} They tempted me, they sneered at me most contemptuously, they gnashed their teeth upon me.

^{1 (90:1)} Praise of a Song, by David. He that dwells in the help of the Highest, shall sojourn under the shelter of the God of heaven.

⁹ And I engage for him; at my hand do thou require him; if I bring him not to thee, and place him before thee, I shall be guilty toward thee for ever.

³² For thy servant has received the boy in charge from his father, saying, If I bring him not to thee, and place him before thee, I shall be guilty towards my father for ever.

³³ Would that he our mediator were present, and a reprover, and one who should hear the cause between both.

^{122 (118:122)} Receive thy servant for good: let not the proud accuse me falsely.

¹¹ Then poverty comes upon thee as an evil traveller, and want as a swift courier: ^(6:11A) but if thou be diligent, thine harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.

¹⁵ A bad man does harm wherever he meets a just man: and he hates the sound of safety.

¹⁸ A foolish man applauds and rejoices over himself, as he also that becomes surety would make himself responsible for his own friends.

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²⁶ Become not surety from respect of a man's person.

¹⁴ As a swallow, so will I cry, and as a dove, so do I mourn: for mine eyes have failed with looking to the height of heaven to the Lord, who has delivered me,

³¹ And it was reported to David, saying, Achitophel also is among the conspirators with Abessalom. And David said, O Lord my God, disconcert, I pray thee, the counsel of Achitophel.

¹⁴ And Abessalom, and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Chusi the Arachite is better than the counsel of Achitophel. For the Lord ordained to disconcert the good counsel of Achitophel, that the Lord might bring all evil upon Abessalom.

¹⁶ And it came to pass when the prophet was speaking to him, that he said to him, have I made thee king's counsellor? take heed lest thou be scourged: and the prophet forebore, and said, I know that God is disposed against thee to destroy thee, because thou hast done this thing, and hast not hearkened to my counsel.

¹⁴ For the Lord has prepared for them a spirit of error, and they have caused Egypt to err in all their works, as one staggers who is drunken and vomits also.

⁵ Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor serve them; for I am the Lord thy God, a jealous God, recompensing the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation to them that hate me,

⁶⁵ Moreover among those nations he will not give thee quiet, neither by any means shall the sole of thy foot have rest; and the Lord shall give thee there another and a misgiving heart, and failing eyes, and a wasting soul.

¹² Only in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake: but I will take it out of the hand of thy son.

²⁰ But safety shall fail them; for their hope is destruction, and the eyes of the ungodly shall waste away.

²¹ For truly I will not be awed because of man, nor indeed will I be confounded before a mortal. ²² For I know not how to respect persons: and if otherwise, even the moths would eat me.

^{2 (11:2)} Every one has spoken vanity to his neighbour: their lips are deceitful, they have spoken with a double heart. ^{3 (11:3)} Let the Lord destroy all the deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaks great words:

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⁵ He that prepares a net in the way of his own friend, entangles his own feet in it.

¹⁷ PHE. While we yet lived our eyes failed, while we looked in vain for our help. TSADE. We looked to a nation that could not save.

²⁷ Whereas if thou hadst told me, I would have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, and timbrels, and harp.

⁷ then will I cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and this house which I have consecrated to my name I will cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a desolation and a by-word to all nations.

⁹ But now I am their music, and they have me for a by-word.

^{14 (43:14)} Thou hast made us a proverb among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the nations.

¹² For they drink wine with harp, and psaltery, and drums, and pipes: but they regard not the works of the Lord, and consider not the works of his hands.

^{8 (16:9)} My falsehood has become a testimony, and has risen up against me: it has confronted me to my face.

^{16 (16:17)} My belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on my eyelids.

⁷ Mine eye is troubled because of my wrath; I am worn out because of all my enemies.

^{9 (30:9)} Pity me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with indignation, my soul and by belly. ^{10 (30:10)} For my life is spent with grief, and my years with groanings: my strength has been weakened through poverty, and my bones are troubled.

^{23 (108:23)} I am removed as a shadow in its going down: I am tossed up and down like locusts.

^{12 (7:1A)} for who knows what is good for a man in his life, during the number of the life of the days of his vanity? and he has spent them as a shadow; for who shall tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

¹⁷ For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened.

¹⁹ The righteous have seen it, and laughed, and the blameless one has derided them.

³⁰ causing a hypocrite to be king, because of the waywardness of the people.

^{12 (72:12)} Behold, these are the sinners, and they that prosper always: they have possessed wealth. ^{13 (72:13)} And I said, Verily in vain have I justified my heart, and washed my hands in innocency. ^{14 (72:14)} For I was plagued all the day, and my reproof was every morning. ^{15 (72:15)} If I said, I will speak thus; behold, I should have broken covenant with the generation of thy children.

^{8 (5:7)} If thou shouldest see the oppression of the poor, and the wresting of judgment and of justice in the land, wonder not at the matter: for there is a high one to watch over him that is high, and high ones over them.

¹³ His eye is too pure to behold evil doings, and to look upon grievous afflictions: wherefore dost thou look upon despisers? wilt thou be silent when the ungodly swallows up the just?

⁵ Said he not to me, She is my sister, and said she not to me, He is my brother? with a pure heart and in the righteousness of my hands have I done this.

³⁰ He shall deliver the innocent, and do thou save thyself by thy pure hands.

^{4 (23:4)} He that is innocent in his hands and pure in his heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.

^{6 (25:6)} I will wash my hands in innocency, and compass thine altar, O Lord:

^{13 (72:13)} And I said, Verily in vain have I justified my heart, and washed my hands in innocency.

^{7 (83:7)} They shall go from strength to strength: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.

^{11 (83:11)} For the Lord loves mercy and truth: God will give grace and glory: the Lord will not withhold good things from them that walk in innocence.

¹⁸ But the ways of the righteous shine like light; they go on and shine, until the day be fully come.

¹⁶ A wise man fears, and departs from evil; but the fool trusts in himself, and joins himself with the transgressor.

¹⁵ When ye stretch forth your hands, I will turn away mine eyes from you: and though ye make many supplications, I will not hearken to you; for your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Wash you, be clean; remove your iniquities from your souls before mine eyes; cease from your iniquities;

⁸ There shall be there a pure way, and it shall be called a holy way; and there shall not pass by there any unclean person, neither shall there be there an unclean way; but the dispersed shall walk on it, and they shall not go astray. ⁹ And there shall be no lion there, neither shall any evil beast go up upon it, nor at all be found there; but the redeemed and gathered on the Lord's behalf, shall walk in it, ^{10 (35:9B)} and shall return, and come to Sion with joy, and everlasting joy shall be over their head; for on their head shall be praise and exultation, and joy shall take possession of them: sorrow and pain, and groaning have fled away.

²⁹ He gives strength to the hungry, and sorrow to them that are not suffering. ³⁰ For the young men shall hunger, and the youths shall be weary, and the choice men shall be powerless: ³¹ but they that wait on God shall renew their strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not hunger.

²⁹ Sit down now, and let there not be unrighteousness; and unite again with the just.

² So then ye alone are men, and wisdom shall die with you?

⁹ For what knowest thou, that, we know not? or what understandest thou, which we do not also?

⁴ For thou hast hid their heart from wisdom; therefore thou shalt not exalt them.

⁹ The long-lived are not wise as such; neither do the aged know judgment.

⁷ And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken all these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Thaemanite, Thou hast sinned, and thy two friends: for ye have not said anything true before me, as my servant Job has.

¹⁸ Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, and between him that serves God, and him that serves him not.

⁶ And my life is lighter than a word, and has perished in vain hope.

²⁵ But my life is swifter than a post: my days have fled away, and they knew it not. ²⁶ Or again, is there a trace of their path left by ships? or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks its prey?

^{9 (16:5C)} All of the works of the Lord are done with righteousness; and the ungodly man is kept for the evil day.

²¹ There are many thoughts in a man's heart; but the counsel of the Lord abides for ever.

¹⁰ Whatsoever thine hand shall find to do, do with all thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Hades wither thou goest.

¹⁰ And whatsoever counsel ye shall take, the Lord shall bring it to nought; and whatsoever word ye shall speak, it shall not stand among you: for God is with us.

¹⁰ I said in the end of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I shall part with the remainder of my years.

³⁷ Who has thus spoken, and it has come to pass? the Lord has not commanded it.

⁶⁷ In the morning thou shalt say, Would it were evening! and in the evening thou shalt say, Would it were morning! for the fear of thine heart with which thou shalt fear, and for the sights of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

³ So have I also endured months of vanity, and nights of pain have been appointed me. ⁴ Whenever I lie down, I say, When will it be day? and whenever I rise up, again I say when will it be evening? and I am full of pains from evening to morning.

¹³ I said that my bed should comfort me, and I would privately counsel with myself on my couch. ¹⁴ Thou scarest me with dreams, and dost terrify me with visions.

¹⁴ But having known their works, he delivered them into darkness: and in the night one will be as a thief: ¹⁵ and the eye of the adulterer has watched for the darkness, saying, Eye shall not perceive me, and he puts a covering on his face. ¹⁶ In darkness he digs through houses: by day they conceal themselves securely: they know not the light.

¹³ Now I should have lain down and been quiet, I should have slept and been at rest,

²¹ before I go whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess; ²² to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither can any one see the life of mortals.

¹⁴ For if a man should die, shall he live again, having accomplished the days of his life? I will wait till I exist again?

¹ I perish, carried away by the wind, and I seek for burial, and obtain it not.

²³ For I know that death will destroy me: for the earth is the house appointed for every mortal.

^{14 (26:14)} Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and let thy heart be strengthened: yea wait on the Lord.

^{8 (138:8)} If I should go up to heaven, thou art there: if I should go down to hell, thou art present.

² His burial shall be in peace: he has been removed out of the way.

²⁵ TETH. The Lord is good to them that wait for him: the soul which shall seek him ²⁶ is good, and shall wait for, and quietly expect salvation of the Lord.

²⁸ I am as that which waxes old like a bottle, or like a moth-eaten garment.

²⁶ and to raise up upon the earth my skin that endures these sufferings: for these things have been accomplished to me of the Lord;

²⁶ But they lie down in the earth together, and corruption covers them.

³² And he has been led away to the tombs, and he has watched over the heaps. ³³ The stones of the valley have been sweet to him, and every man shall depart after him, and there are innumerable ones before him.

²⁰ Then is his sin brought to remembrance, and he vanishes like a vapour of dew: but let what he has done be recompensed to him, and let every unrighteous one be crushed like rotten wood.

³⁰ And my skin has been greatly blackened, and my bones are burned with heat.

^{10 (15:10)} because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

^{9 (48:9)} and live to the end, so that he should not see corruption.

¹¹ Thy glory has come down to Hades, and thy great mirth: under thee they shall spread corruption, and the worm shall be thy covering.

⁶ Is not thy fear founded in folly, thy hope also, and the mischief of thy way?

¹⁵ Though the Mighty One should lay hand upon me, forasmuch as he has begun, verily I will speak, and plead before him.

¹⁰ He has torn me around about, and I am gone: and he has cut off my hope like a tree.

¹⁷ There the ungodly have burnt out the fury of rage; there the wearied in body rest. ¹⁸ And the men of old time have together ceased to hear the exactor's voice. ¹⁹ The small and great are there, and the servant that feared his lord.

¹³ Let the soles of his feet be devoured: and death shall consume his beauty. ¹⁴ And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king.

¹⁸ He spares also his soul from death, and suffers him not to fall in war. ¹⁹ And again, he chastens him with sickness on his bed, and the multitude of his bones is benumbed. ²⁰ And he shall not be able to take any food, though his soul shall desire meat; ²¹ until his flesh shall be consumed, and he shall shew his bones bare. ²² His soul also draws nigh to death, and his life is in Hades. ²³ Though there should be a thousand messengers of death, not one of them shall wound him: if he should purpose in his heart to turn to the Lord, and declare to man his fault, and shew his folly; ²⁴ he will support him, that he should not perish, and will restore his body as fresh plaster upon a wall; and he will fill his bones with morrow. ²⁵ And he will make his flesh tender as that of a babe, and he will restore him among men in his full strength. ²⁶ And he shall pray to the Lord, and his prayer shall be accepted of him; he shall enter with a cheerful countenance, with a full expression of praise: for he will render to men their due. ²⁷ Even then a man shall blame himself, saying, What kind of things have I done? and he has not punished me according to the full amount of my sins. ²⁸ Deliver my soul, that it may not go to destruction, and my life shall see the light.

^{4 (87:4)} I have been reckoned with them that go down to the pit; I became as a man without help; ^{5 (87:5)} free among the dead, as the slain ones cast out, who sleep in the tomb; whom thou rememberest no more; and they are rejected from thy hand. ^{6 (87:6)} They laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, and in the shadow of death. ^{7 (87:7)} Thy wrath has pressed heavily upon me, and thou hast brought upon me all thy billows. Pause. ^{8 (87:8)} Thou hast removed my acquaintance far from me; they have made me an abomination to themselves; I have been delivered up, and have not gone forth.

^{7 (142:7)} Hear me speedily, O Lord; my spirit has failed; turn not away thy face from me, else I shall be like to them that go down to the pit.

¹⁷ For thou hast chosen my soul, that it should not perish: and thou hast cast all my sins behind me. ¹⁸ For they that are in the grave shall not praise thee, neither shall the dead bless thee, neither shall they that are in Hades hope for thy mercy.

¹¹ And the Lord spoke to me, saying, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: and they say, Our bones are become dry, our hope has perished, we are quite spent.

^{6 (2:7)} to the clefts of the mountains; I went down into the earth, whose bars are the everlasting barriers: yet, O Lord my God, let my ruined life be restored.