Job 20 Cross References - Brenton

¹ Then Sophar the Minaean answered and said, ² I did not suppose that thou wouldest answer thus: neither do ye understand more than I. ³ I will hear my shameful reproach; and the spirit of my understanding answers me. ⁴ Hast thou not known these things of old, from the time that man was set upon the earth? ⁵ But the mirth of the ungodly is a signal downfall, and the joy of transgressors is destruction: ⁶ although his gifts should go up to heaven, and his sacrifice reach the clouds. ⁷ For when he shall seem to be now established, then he shall utterly perish: and they that knew him shall say, Where is he? ⁸ Like a dream that has fled away, he shall not be found; and he has fled like a vision of the night. ⁹ The eye has looked upon him, but shall not see him again; and his place shall no longer perceive him. ¹⁰ Let his inferiors destroy his children, and let his hands kindle the fire of sorrow. ¹¹ His bones have been filled with vigour of his youth, and it shall lie down with him in the dust. ¹² Though evil be sweet in his mouth, though he will hide it under his tongue; ¹³ though he will not spare it, and will not leave it, but will keep it in the midst of his throat: ¹⁴ yet he shall not at all be able to help himself; the gall of an asp is in his belly. ¹⁵ His wealth unjustly collected shall be vomited up; a messenger of wrath shall drag him out of his house. ¹⁶ And let him suck the poison of serpents, and let the serpent's tongue slay him. ¹⁷ Let him not see the milk of the pastures, nor the supplies of honey and butter. ¹⁸ He has laboured unprofitably and in vain, for wealth of which he shall not taste: it is as a lean thing, unfit for food, which he cannot swallow. ¹⁹ For he has broken down the houses of many mighty men: and he has plundered an habitation, though he built it not. ²⁰ There is no security to his possessions; he shall not be saved by his desire. ²¹ There is nothing remaining of his provisions; therefore his goods shall not flourish. ²² But when he shall seem to be just satisfied, he shall be straitened; and all distress shall come upon him. ²³ If by any means he would fill his belly, let God send upon him the fury of wrath; let him bring a torrent of pains upon him. ²⁴ And he shall by no means escape from the power of the sword; let the brazen bow wound him. ²⁵ And let the arrow pierce through his body; and let the stars be against his dwelling-place: let terrors come upon him. ²⁶ And let all darkness wait for him: a fire that burns not out shall consume him; and let a stranger plague his house. ²⁷ And let the heaven reveal his iniquities, and the earth rise up against him. ²⁸ Let destruction bring his house to an end; let a day of wrath come upon him. ²⁹ This is the portion of an ungodly man from the Lord, and the possession of his goods appointed him by the all-seeing God.

¹¹ Now his three friends having heard of all the evil that was come upon him, came to him each from his own country: Eliphaz the king of the Thaemans, Baldad sovereign of the Saucheans, Sophar king of he Minaeans: and they came to him with one accord, to comfort and to visit him.

¹ Then Sophar the Minaean answered and said,

⁹ So Eliphaz the Thaemanite, and Baldad the Sauchite, and Sophar the Minaean, went and did as the Lord commanded them: and he pardoned their sin for the sake of Job.

² Hast thou been often spoken to in distress? but who shall endure the force of thy words?

¹⁹ For who is he that shall plead with me, that I should now be silent, and expire?

³ I will hear my shameful reproach; and the spirit of my understanding answers me.

¹³ lest ye should say, We have found that we have added wisdom to the Lord. ¹⁴ And ye have commissioned a man to speak such words. ¹⁵ They were afraid, they answered no longer; they gave up their speaking. ¹⁶ I waited, (for I had not spoken,) because they stood still, they answered not. ¹⁷ And Elius continued, and said, I will again speak, ¹⁸ for I am full of words, for the spirit of my belly destroys me. ¹⁹ And my belly is as a skin of sweet wine, bound up and ready to burst; or as a brazier's labouring bellows. ²⁰ I will speak, that I may open my lips and relieve myself.

^{22 (30:22)} But I said in my extreme fear, I am cast out from the sight of thine eyes: therefore thou didst hearken, O Lord, to the voice of my supplication when I cried to thee.

^{2 (38:2)} I was dumb, and humbled myself, and kept silence from good words; and my grief was renewed. ^{3 (38:3)} My heart grew hot within me, and a fire would kindle in my meditation: I spoke with my tongue,

^{11 (115:11)} And I said in mine amazement, Every man is a liar.

²⁹ A man slow to wrath abounds in wisdom: but a man of impatient spirit is very foolish.

²⁰ If thou see a man hasty in his words, know that the fool has hope rather than he.

^{9 (7:10)} Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger will rest in the bosom of fools.

⁹ Then I said, I will by no means name the name of the Lord, and I will no more at all speak in his name. But it was a burning fire flaming in my bones, and I am utterly weakened on all sides, and cannot bear up.

³ Ye speak against me; ye do not feel for me, but bear hard upon me.

²⁹ Do ye also beware of deceit: for wrath will come upon transgressors; and then shall they know where their substance is.

² I did not suppose that thou wouldest answer thus: neither do ye understand more than I.

¹¹ Yet now I will tell you what is in the hand of the Lord: I will not lie concerning the things which are with the Almighty.

³ My heart shall be found pure by my words; and the understanding of my lips shall meditate purity.

^{3 (48:3)} My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall bring forth understanding.

^{2 (77:2)} I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter dark sayings which have been from the beginning. ^{3 (77:3)} All which we have heard and known, and our fathers have declared to us. ^{4 (77:4)} They were not hid from their children to a second generations; the fathers declaring the praises of the Lord, and his mighty acts, and his wonders which he wrought. ^{5 (77:5)} And he raised up a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, to make it known to their children:

²⁸ And God blessed them, saying, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the seas and flying creatures of heaven, and all the cattle and all the earth, and all the reptiles that creep on the earth.

¹ And God blessed Noe and his sons, and said to them, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and have dominion over it. ² And the dread and the fear of you shall be upon all the wild beasts of the earth, on all the birds of the sky, and on all things moving upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea, I have placed them under you power. ³ And every reptile which is living shall be to you for meat, I have given all things to you as the green herbs.

⁸ For ask of the former generation, and search diligently among the race of our fathers: ⁹ (for we are of yesterday, and know nothing; for our life upon the earth is a shadow:)

¹⁰ Truly among us are both the old and very aged man, more advanced in days than thy father.

⁷ And I said, It is not time that speaks, though in many years men know wisdom:

^{16 (114:16)} The heaven of heavens belongs to the Lord: but he has given the earth to the sons of men.

⁹ The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoils; I will satisfy my soul, I will destroy with my sword, my hand shall have dominion. ¹⁰ Thou sentest forth thy wind, the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty water.

²¹ And the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground in the prison-house. ²² And the hair of his head began to grow as before it was shaven. ²³ And the chiefs of the Philistines met to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon, and to make merry; and they said, God has given into our hand our enemy Sampson. ²⁴ And the people saw him, and sang praises to their god; for our god, said they, has delivered into our hand our enemy, who wasted our land, and who multiplied our slain. ²⁵ And when their heart was merry, then they said, Call Sampson out of the prison-house, and let him play before us: and they called Sampson out of the prison-house, and he played before them; and they smote him with the palms of their hands, and set him between the pillars. ²⁶ And Sampson said to the young man that held his hand, Suffer me to feel the pillars on which the house rests, and I will stay myself upon them. ²⁷ And the house was full of men and woman, and there were all the chiefs of the Philistines, and on the roof were about three thousand men and woman looking at the sports of Sampson. ²⁸ And Sampson wept before the Lord, and said, O Lord, my lord, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, O God, yet this once, and I will requite one recompense to the Philistines for my two eyes. ²⁹ And Sampson took hold of the two pillars of the house on which the house stood, and leaned on them, and laid hold of one with his right hand, and the other with his left. ³⁰ And Sampson said, Let my wife perish with the Philistines: and he bowed himself mightily; and the house fell upon the princes, and upon all the people that were in it: and the dead whom Sampson slew in his death were more than those whom he slew in his life.

¹¹ And he shewed them his wealth, and the glory with which the king had invested him, and how he had caused him to take precedence and bear chief rule in the kingdom. ¹² And Aman said, The queen has called no one to the feast with the king but me, and I am invited to-morrow.

¹⁰ So Aman was hanged on the gallows that had been prepared for Mardochaeus: and then the king's wrath was appeased.

³ And I have seen foolish ones taking root: but suddenly their habitation was devoured.

¹² When it is yet on the root, and though it has not been cut down, does not any herb wither before it has received moisture? ¹³ Thus then shall be the end of all that forget the Lord: for the hope of the ungodly shall perish.

¹⁹ that such is the overthrow of the ungodly? and out of the earth another shall grow.

²⁹ Neither shall he at all grow rich, nor shall his substance remain: he shall not cast a shadow upon the earth. ³⁰ Neither shall he in any wise escape the darkness: let the wind blast his blossom, and let his flower fall off. ³¹ Let him not think that he shall endure; for his end shall be vanity. ³² His harvest shall perish before the time, and his branch shall not flourish. ³³ And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time, and let him fall as the blossom of the olive. ³⁴ For death is the witness of an ungodly man, and fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts.

⁵ But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up. ⁶ His light shall be darkness in his habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

⁸ For what is the hope of the ungodly, that he holds to it? will he indeed trust in the Lord and be saved?

¹³ This is the portion of an ungodly man from the Lord, and the possession of oppressors shall come upon them from the Almighty. ¹⁴ And if their children be many, they shall be for slaughter: and if they grow up, they shall beg. ¹⁵ And they that survive of him shall utterly perish, and no one shall pity their widows. ¹⁶ Even if he should gather silver as earth, and prepare gold as clay; ¹⁷ All these things shall the righteous gain, and the truehearted shall possess his wealth. ¹⁸ And his house is gone like moths, and like a spider's web. ¹⁹ The rich man shall lie down, and shall not continue: he has opened his eyes, and he is not. ²⁰ Pains have come upon him as water, and darkness has carried him away by night. ²¹ And a burning wind shall catch him, and he shall depart, and it shall utterly drive him out of his place. ²² And God shall cast trouble upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand. ²³ He shall cause men to clap their hands against them, and shall hiss him out of his place.

^{35 (36:35)} I saw the ungodly very highly exalting himself, and lifting himself up like the cedars of Libanus. ^{36 (36:36)} Yet I passed by, and lo! he was not: and I sought him, but his place was not found.

^{18 (72:18)} Surely thou hast appointed judgments to them because of their crafty dealings: thou hast cast them down when they were lifted up. ^{19 (72:19)} How have they become desolate! suddenly they have failed: they have perished because of their iniquity. ^{20 (72:20)} As the dream of one awakening, O Lord, in thy city thou wilt despise their image.

⁴ And they said, Come, let us build to ourselves a city and tower, whose top shall be to heaven, and let us make to ourselves a name, before we are scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth.

¹³ But thou saidst in thine heart, I will go up to heaven, I will set my throne above the stars of heaven: I will sit on a lofty mount, on the lofty mountains toward the north: ¹⁴ I will go up above the clouds: I will be like the Most High.

^{11 (4:8)} The tree grew large and strong, and its height reached to the sky, and its extent to the extremity of the whole earth:

^{22 (4:19)} is thyself, O king; for thou art grown great and powerful, and thy greatness has increased and reached to heaven, and thy dominion to the ends of the earth.

² Though they hid themselves in hell, thence shall my hand drag them forth; and though they go up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.

³ Behold, I have made thee small among the Gentiles: thou art greatly dishonoured. The pride of thine heart has elated thee, dwelling as thou dost in the holes of the rocks, as one that exalts his habitation, saying in his heart, Who will bring me down to the ground? ⁴ If thou shouldest mount up as the eagle, and if thou shouldest make thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.

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³⁷ And the carcass of Jezabel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the portion of Jezrael, so that they shall not say, This is Jezabel.

²⁰ And from the morning to evening they no longer exist: they have perished, because they cannot help themselves.

¹⁰ and he shall surely not return to his own house, neither shall his place know him any more.

¹⁸ If God should destroy him, his place shall deny him. Hast thou not seen such things,

¹⁰ But a man that has died is utterly gone; and when a mortal has fallen, he is no more.

^{10 (82:10)} They were utterly destroyed at Aendor: they became as dung for the earth.

² and they shall spread them out to the sun, and the moon, and to all the stars, and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and to which they have held, and which they have worshipped; they shall not be mourned for, neither shall they be buried; but they shall be for an example on the face of the earth,

¹⁸ Let one drive him from light into darkness.

^{10 (17:10)} And he mounted on cherubs and flew: he flew on the wings of winds.

^{20 (72:20)} As the dream of one awakening, O Lord, in thy city thou wilt despise their image.

^{5 (89:5)} Years shall be vanity to them: let the morning pass away as grass.

⁷ And the wealth of all the nations together, as many as have fought against Ariel, and all they that war against Jerusalem, and all who are gathered against her, and they that distress her, shall be as one that dreams in sleep by night. ⁸ And as men drink and eat in sleep, and when they have arisen, the dream is vain: and as a thirsty man dreams as if he drank, and having arisen is still thirsty, and his soul has desired in vain: so shall be the wealth of all the nations, as many as have fought against the mount Sion.

⁸ The eye of him that sees me shall not see me again: thine eyes are upon me, and I am no more.

⁷ For when he shall seem to be now established, then he shall utterly perish: and they that knew him shall say, Where is he?

³ verily, while my breath is yet in me, and the breath of God which remains to me is in my nostrils,

^{10 (36:10)} And yet a little while, and the sinner shall not be, and thou shalt seek for his place, and shalt not find it.

^{36 (36:36)} Yet I passed by, and lo! he was not: and I sought him, but his place was not found.

^{15 (102:15)} As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so shall he flourish. ^{16 (102:16)} For the wind passes over it, and it shall not be; and it shall know its place no more.

² If however thou wilt not send my people away, but yet detainest them:

³⁶ And the Lord gave his people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, and they lent to them; and they spoiled the Egyptians.

¹ And if one steal an ox or a sheep, and kill it or sell it, he shall pay five calves for a calf, and four sheep for a sheep.

³ But if the sun be risen upon him, he is guilty, he shall die instead; and if a thief have nothing, let him be sold in compensation for what he has stolen.

⁶ And he shall restore the lamb seven-fold, because he has not spared.

⁴ Let their children be far from safety, and let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer.

¹⁸ He has laboured unprofitably and in vain, for wealth of which he shall not taste: it is as a lean thing, unfit for food, which he cannot swallow.

¹⁶ Even if he should gather silver as earth, and prepare gold as clay; ¹⁷ All these things shall the righteous gain, and the truehearted shall possess his wealth.

^{10 (108:10)} Let his children wander without a dwelling-place, and beg: let them be cast out of their habitations.

³¹ but if he should be taken, he shall repay sevenfold, and shall deliver himself by giving all his goods.

³ A bold man oppresses the poor by ungodly deeds. As an impetuous and profitable rain,

²⁶ for thou hast written evil things against me, and thou hast compassed me with the sins of my youth.

²⁰ My flesh is corrupt under my skin, and my bones are held in my teeth.

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

^{7 (24:7)} Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my sins of ignorance: remember me according to thy mercy, for thy goodness' sake, O Lord.

¹¹ And thou repent at last, when the flesh of thy body is consumed, ¹² and thou shalt say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart avoided reproofs! ¹³ I heard not the voice of him that instructed me, and taught me, neither did I apply mine ear.

²² Iniquities ensnare a man, and every one is bound in the chains of his own sins. ²³ Such a man dies with the uninstructed; and he is cast forth from the abundance of his own substance, and has perished through folly.

³² The ungodly shall be driven away in his wickedness: but he who is secure in his own holiness is just.

¹³ Her scum shall become shameful, because thou didst defile thyself: and what if thou shalt be purged no more until I have accomplished my wrath?

²⁷ And they are laid with the giants that fell of old, who went down to Hades with their weapons of war: and they laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities were upon their bones, because they terrified all men during their life.

^{6 (3:7)} And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes to look upon and beautiful to contemplate, and having taken of its fruit she ate, and she gave to her husband also with her, and they ate.

¹⁶ Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught.

⁷ Whose mouth is full of cursing, and bitterness, and fraud: under his tongue are trouble and pain.

^{17 (108:17)} He loved cursing also, and it shall come upon him; and he took not pleasure in blessing, so it shall be removed far from him. ^{18 (108:18)} Yea, he put on cursing as a garment, and it is come as water into his bowels, and as oil into his bones.

¹⁷ Take and enjoy secret bread, and the sweet water of theft. ¹⁸ But he knows that mighty men die by her, and he falls in with a snare of hell. ^(9:18A) But hasten away, delay not in the place, neither fix thine eye upon her: ^(9:18B) for thus shalt thou go through strange water; ^(9:18C) but do thou abstain from strange water, and drink not of a strange fountain, ^(9:18D) that thou mayest live long, and years of life may be added to thee.

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⁹ Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart blameless, but not in the sight of thine eyes: yet know that for all these things God will bring thee into judgement.

¹⁸ And to the people thou shalt say, Purify yourselves for the morrow, and ye shall eat flesh; for ye wept before the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: and the Lord shall allow you to eat flesh, and ye shall eat flesh. ¹⁹ Ye shall not eat one day, nor two, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days; ²⁰ ye shall eat for a full month, until the flesh come out at your nostrils; and it shall be nausea to you, because ye disobeyed the Lord, who is among you, and wept before him, saying, What had we to do to come out of Egypt?

²⁴ They shall be consumed with hunger and the devouring of birds, and there shall be irremediable destruction: I will send forth against them the teeth of wild beasts, with the rage of serpents creeping on the ground.

² And it came to pass toward evening, that David arose off his couch, and walked on the roof of the king's house, and saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. ³ And David sent and enquired about the woman: and one said, Is not this Bersabee the daughter of Eliab, the wife of Urias the Chettite? ⁴ And David sent messengers, and took her, and went in to her, and he lay with her: and she was purified from her uncleanness, and returned to her house. ⁵ And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, I am with child.

¹⁰ Now therefore the sword shall not depart from thy house for ever, because thou has set me at nought, and thou hast taken the wife of Urias the Chettite, to be thy wife. ¹¹ Thus says the Lord, Behold, I will raise up against thee evil out of thy house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and will give them to thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

¹⁶ And let him suck the poison of serpents, and let the serpent's tongue slay him.

^{3 (31:3)} Because I kept silence, my bones waxed old, from my crying all the day. ^{4 (31:4)} For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: I became thoroughly miserable while a thorn was fastened in me. Pause.

^{1 (37:1)} A Psalm of David for remembrance concerning the Sabbath-day. O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath, neither chasten me in thine anger. ^{2 (37:2)} For thy weapons are fixed in me, and thou hast pressed thy hand heavily upon me. ^{3 (37:3)} For there is no health in my flesh because of thine anger; there is no peace to my bones because of my sins. ^{4 (37:4)} For my transgressions have gone over mine head: they have pressed heavily upon me like a weighty burden. ^{5 (37:5)} My bruises have become noisome and corrupt, because of my foolishness. ^{6 (37:6)} I have been wretched and bowed down continually: I went with a mourning countenance all the day. ^{7 (37:7)} For my soul is filled with mockings; and there is no health in my flesh. ^{8 (37:8)} I have been afflicted and brought down exceedingly: I have roared for the groaning of my heart.

^{8 (50:8)} Thou shalt cause me to hear gladness and joy: the afflicted bones shall rejoice. ^{9 (50:9)} Turn away thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

³¹ Therefore shall they eat the fruits of their own way, and shall be filled with their own ungodliness.

²⁰ Be not a wine-bibber, neither continue long at feasts, and purchases of flesh: ²¹ for every drunkard and whoremonger shall be poor; and every sluggard shall clothe himself with tatters and ragged garments.

²⁹ Who has woe? who trouble? who has quarrels? and who vexations and disputes? who has bruises without a cause? whose eyes are livid? ³⁰ Are not those of them that stay long at wine? are not those of them that haunt the places where banquets are? Be not drunk with wine; but converse with just men, and converse with them openly. ³¹ For if thou shouldest set thine eyes on bowls and cups, thou shalt afterwards go more naked than a pestle. ³² But at last such a one stretches himself out as one smitten by a serpent, and venom is diffused through him as by a horned serpent. ³³ Whenever thine eyes shall behold a strange woman, then thy mouth shall speak perverse things. ³⁴ And thou shalt lie as in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot in a great storm. ³⁵ And thou shalt say, They smote me, and I was not pained; and they mocked me, and I knew it not: when will it be morning, that I may go and seek those with whom I may go in company?

¹⁹ Thine apostasy shall correct thee, and thy wickedness shall reprove thee: know then, and see, that thy forsaking me has been bitter to thee, saith the Lord thy God; and I have taken no pleasure in thee, saith the Lord thy God.

² If ye will not hearken, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the Lord Almighty, then I will send forth the curse upon you, and I will bring a curse upon your blessing: yea, I will curse it, and I will scatter your blessing, and it shall not exist among you, because ye lay not this to heart.

⁸ for he will vomit it up, and spoil thy fair words.

⁶ THE VISION OF THE QUADRUPEDS IN THE DESERT. In affliction and distress, where are the lion and lion's whelp, thence come also asps, and the young of flying asps, there shall they be who bore their wealth on asses and camels to a nation which shall not profit them.

²³ surely they shall not see the land, which I sware to their fathers; but their children which are with me here, as many as know not good or evil, every inexperienced youth, to them will I give the land; but none who have provoked me shall see it.

¹³ He brought them up on the strength of the land; he fed them with the fruits of the fields; they sucked honey out of the rock, and oil out of the solid rock. ¹⁴ Butter of cows, and milk of sheep, with the fat of lambs and rams, of calves and kids, with fat of kidneys of wheat; and he drank wine, the blood of the grape.

²⁹ and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheeses of kine: and they brought them to David and to his people with him to eat; for one said, The people is faint and hungry and thirsty in the wilderness.

² And the officer on whose hand the king rested, answered Elisaie, and said, Behold, if the Lord shall make flood-gates in heaven, might this thing be? and Elisaie said, Behold, thou shalt see with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

⁶ when my ways were moistened with butter, and the mountains flowed for me with milk.

^{8 (35:8)} They shall be fully satisfied with the fatness of thine house; and thou shalt cause them to drink of the full stream of thy delights. ^{9 (35:9)} For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light we shall see light.

^{16 (80:16)} And he fed them with the fat of wheat; and satisfied them with honey out of the rock.

¹⁵ Butter and honey shall he eat, before he knows either to prefer evil or choose the good.

²² And it shall come to pass from their drinking an abundance of milk, that every one that is left on the land shall eat butter and honey.

¹⁷ And the poor and the needy shall exult; for when they shall seek water, and there shall be none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord God, I the God of Israel will hear, and will not forsake them:

⁶ And he shall be as the wild tamarisk in the desert: he shall not see when good comes; but he shall dwell in barren places, and in the wilderness, in a salt land which is not inhabited. ⁷ But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord shall be. ⁸ And he shall be as a thriving tree by the waters, and he shall cast forth his root toward a moist place: he shall not fear when heat comes, and there shall be upon him shady branches: he shall not fear in a year of drought, and he shall not fail to bear fruit.

⁵ But the mirth of the ungodly is a signal downfall, and the joy of transgressors is destruction:

¹⁰ Let his inferiors destroy his children, and let his hands kindle the fire of sorrow.

¹⁵ His wealth unjustly collected shall be vomited up; a messenger of wrath shall drag him out of his house.

²⁵ and if too I rejoiced when my wealth was abundant, and if too I laid my hand on innumerable treasures:

²⁹ And if too I was glad at the fall of mine enemies, and mine heart said, Aha!

¹² and let us swallow him alive, as Hades would, and remove the memorial of him from the earth:

⁷ The wine shall mourn, the vine shall mourn, all the merry-hearted shall sigh. ⁸ The mirth of timbrels has ceased, the sound of the harp has ceased. ⁹ They are ashamed, they have not drunk wine; strong drink has become bitter to them that drink it. ¹⁰ All the city has become desolate: one shall shut his house so that none shall enter. ¹¹ There is a howling for the wine everywhere; all the mirth of the land has ceased, all the mirth of the land has departed.

¹⁵ Why has my beloved wrought abomination in my house? will prayers and holy offerings take away thy wickedness from thee, or shalt thou escape by these things? ¹⁶ The Lord called thy name a fair olive tree, of a goodly shade in appearance, at the noise of its being lopped, fire was kindled against it; great is the affliction coming upon thee: her branches are become good for nothing.

¹³ He that builds his house not with justice, and his upper chambers not with judgment, who works by means of his neighbour for nothing, and will by no means give him his reward.

¹⁷ Behold, thine eyes are not good, nor thine heart, but they go after thy covetousness, and after the innocent blood to shed it, and after acts of injustice and slaughter, to commit them.

^{34 (28:34)} He has devoured me, he has torn me asunder, airy darkness has come upon me; Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon has swallowed me up, as a dragon has he filled his belly with my delicacies.

^{44 (28:44)} And I will take vengeance on Babylon, and bring forth out of her mouth what she has swallowed down, and the nations shall no more be gathered to her:

¹⁶ AIN. All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and said, We have swallowed her up: moreover this is the day which we looked for; we have found it, we have seen it.

¹² The time is come, behold the day: let not the buyer rejoice, and let not the seller mourn.

⁷ for they sowed blighted seed, and their destruction shall await them, a sheaf of corn that avails not to make meal; and even if it should produce it, strangers shall devour it. ⁸ Israel is swallowed up: now is he become among the nations as a worthless vessel.

¹ Rejoice not, O Israel, neither make merry, as other nations: for thou hast gone a-whoring from thy God; thou hast loved gifts upon every threshing-floor.

⁴ Hear now this, ye that oppress the poor in the morning, and drive the needy ones by tyranny from the earth,

³³ A nation which thou knowest not shall eat the produce of thy land, and all thy labours; and thou shalt be injured and crushed always.

³ Behold, here am I, answer against me before the Lord and before his anointed: whose calf have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom of you have I oppressed? or from whose hand have I taken a bribe, even to a sandal? bear witness against me, and I will make restitution to you. ⁴ And they said to Samuel, Thou hast not injured us, and thou hast not oppressed us; and thou hast not afflicted us, and thou hast not taken anything from any one's hand.

^{19 (20:19)} And thou shalt speak to him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Forasmuch as thou hast slain and taken possession, therefore thus saith the Lord, In every place where the swine and the dogs have licked the blood of Nabuthai, there shall the dogs lick thy blood; and the harlots shall wash themselves in thy blood.

¹⁵ It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.

²⁷ So I know you, that ye presumptuously attack me: ²⁸ so that ye will say, Where is the house of the prince? and where is the covering of the tabernacles of the ungodly?

⁶ And thou hast taken security of thy brethren for nothing, and hast taken away the clothing of the naked.

² while the ungodly have passed over the bound, carrying off the flock with the shepherd? ³ They have led away, the ass of the fatherless, and taken the widow's ox for a pledge. ⁴ They have turned aside the weak from the right way: and the meek of the earth have hidden themselves together. ⁵ And they have departed like asses in the field, having gone forth on my account according to their own order: his bread is sweet to his little ones. ⁶ They have reaped a field that was not their own before the time: the poor have laboured in the vineyards of the ungodly without pay and without food. ⁷ They have caused many naked to sleep without clothes, and they have taken away the covering of their body. ⁸ They are wet with the drops of the mountains: they have embraced the rock, because they had no shelter. ⁹ They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, and have afflicted the outcast. ¹⁰ And they have wrongfully caused others to sleep without clothing, and taken away the morsel of the hungry. ¹¹ They have unrighteously laid wait in narrow places, and have not known the righteous way. ¹² Who have cast forth the poor from the city and their own houses, and the soul of the children has groaned aloud.

¹³ And if too I despised the judgment of my servant or my handmaid, when they pleaded with me; ¹⁴ what then shall I do if the Lord should try me? and if also he should at all visit me, can I make an answer? ¹⁵ Were not they too formed as I also was formed in the womb? yea, we were formed in the same womb. ¹⁶ But the helpless missed not whatever need they had, and I did not cause the eye of the widow to fail. ¹⁷ And if too I ate my morsel alone, and did not impart of it to the orphan; ¹⁸ (for I nourished them as a father from my youth and guided them from my mother's womb.) ¹⁹ And if too I overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him; ²⁰ and if the poor did not bless me, and their shoulders were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs; ²¹ if I lifted my hand against an orphan, trusting that my strength was far superior to his: ²² let them my shoulder start from the blade-bone, and my arm be crushed off from the elbow.

³⁸ If at any time the land groaned against me, and if its furrows mourned together; ³⁹ and if I ate its strength alone without price, and if I too grieved the heart of the owner of the soil, by taking aught from him:

⁹ They that are oppressed of a multitude will be ready to cry out; they will call for help because of the arm of many.

¹⁸ to plead for the orphan and afflicted, that man may no more boast upon the earth.

^{5 (11:5)} Because of the misery of the poor, and because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord, I will set them in safety; I will speak to them thereof openly.

³¹ He that oppresses the needy provokes his Maker: but he that honours him has pity upon the poor.

²² Do no violence to the poor, for he is needy: neither dishonour the helpless man in the gates. ²³ For the Lord will plead his cause, and thou shalt deliver thy soul in safety.

¹ So I returned, and saw all the oppressions that were done under the sun: and behold the tear of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of them that oppressed them was power; but they had no comforter:

^{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.

⁷ For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Juda his beloved plant: I expected it to bring forth judgement, and it brought forth iniquity; and not righteousness, but a cry. ⁸ Woe to them that join house to house, and add field to field, that they may take away something of their neighbor's: will ye dwell alone upon the land?

³⁴ LAMED. To bring down under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

²⁹ That sorely oppress the people of the land with injustice, and commit robbery; oppressing the poor and needy, and not dealing justly with the stranger.

¹ Hear ye this word, ye heifers of the land of Basan that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, and trample on the needy, which say to their masters, Give us that we may drink. ² The Lord swears by his holiness, that, behold, the days come upon you, when they shall take you with weapons, and fiery destroyers shall cast those with you into boiling caldrons. ³ And ye shall be brought forth naked in the presence of each other; and ye shall be cast forth on the mountain Romman, saith the Lord.

² And they desired fields, and plundered orphans, and oppressed families, and spoiled a man and his house, even a man and his inheritance.

⁹ The leaders of my people shall be cast forth from their luxurious houses; they are rejected because of their evil practices; draw ye near to the everlasting mountains.

^{13 (5:12)} There is an infirmity which I have seen under the sun, namely, wealth kept for its owner to his hurt. ^{14 (5:13)} And that wealth shall perish in an evil trouble: and the man begets a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

²⁰ But the unrighteous shall be tossed as troubled waves, and shall not be able to rest. ²¹ There is no joy to the ungodly, said God.

²⁹ Neither shall he at all grow rich, nor shall his substance remain: he shall not cast a shadow upon the earth.

¹⁹ He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.

¹¹ The partridge utters her voice, she gathers eggs which she did not lay; so is a man gaining his wealth unjustly; in the midst of his days his riches shall leave him, and at his latter end he will be a fool.

² And the lord sent against him the bands of the Chaldeans, and the bands of Syria, and the bans of Moab, and the bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them into the land of Juda to prevail against it, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.

¹⁵ and the spoilers came and took them for a prey, and slew the servants with the sword; and I having escaped alone am come to tell thee.

¹⁷ While he was yet speaking, there came another messenger, and said to Job, The horsemen formed three companies against us, and surrounded the camels, and took them for a prey, and slew the servants with the sword; and I only escaped, and am come to tell thee.

¹⁷ There the ungodly have burnt out the fury of rage; there the wearied in body rest.

^{11 (16:12)} For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men, and thrown me upon the ungodly.

⁷ Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive him.

^{5 (38:5)} Behold, thou hast made my days old; and my existence is as nothing before thee: nay, every man living is altogether vanity. Pause.

¹⁸ And I hated the whole of my labour which I took under the sun; because I must leave it to the man who will come after me. ¹⁹ And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? and whether he will have power over all my labour in which I laboured, and wherein I grew wise under the sun? this is also vanity. ²⁰ so I went about to dismiss from my heart all my labour wherein I had laboured under the sun.

⁶ I will send my wrath against a sinful nation, and I will charge my people to take plunder and spoil, and to trample the cities, and to make them dust.

²⁴ And the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

²³ And Moses stretched forth his hand to heaven, and the Lord sent thunderings and hail; and the fire ran along upon the ground, and the Lord rained hail on all the land of Egypt.

³³ The flesh was yet between their teeth, before it failed, when the Lord was wroth with the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague.

^{6 (10:7)} He shall rain upon sinners snares, fire, and brimstone, and a stormy blast shall be the portion of their cup.

^{30 (77:30)} They were not disappointed of their desire: but when their food was yet in their mouth, ^{31 (77:31)} then the indignation of God rose up against them, and slew the fattest of them, and overthrew the choice men of Israel.

⁴ My heart wanders, and transgression overwhelms me; my soul is occupied with fear.

³⁵ He teaches my hands to war, and has broken a brazen bow by my arm.

^{30 (21:30)} And the rest fled to Apheca, into the city; and the wall fell upon twenty-seven thousand men that were left: and the son of Ader fled, and entered into an inner chamber, into a closet.

²³ and he hastens as a bird into a snare, not knowing that he is running for his life.

¹⁸ And it shall come to pass, that he that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that comes up out of the pit shall be caught by the snare: for windows have been opened in heaven, and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken,

^{43 (31:43)} A snare, and fear, and the pit, are upon thee, O inhabitant off Moab. ^{44 (31:44)} he that flees from the terror shall fall into the pit, and he that comes up out of the pit shall even be taken in the snare: for I will bring these things upon Moab in the year of their visitation.

¹⁹ As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him; and he should spring into his house, and lean his hands upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him.

¹ I saw the Lord standing on the altar: and he said, Smite the mercy-seat, and the porch shall be shaken: and cut through into the heads of all; and I will slay the remnant of them with the sword: no one of them fleeing shall escape, and no one of them, striving to save himself shall be delivered. ² Though they hid themselves in hell, thence shall my hand drag them forth; and though they go up to heaven, thence will I bring them down. ³ If they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, thence will I search them out and take them; and if they should go down from my presence into the depths of the sea, there will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them.

⁴¹ For I will sharpen my sword like lightning, and my hand shall take hold of judgment; and I will render judgment to my enemies, and will recompense them that hate me.

¹⁴ And Joab said, I will begin this; I will not thus remain with thee. And Joab took three darts in his hand, and thrust them into the heart of Abessalom, while he was yet alive in the heart of the oak.

⁴ For the arrows of the Lord are in my body, whose violence drinks up my blood: whenever I am going to speak, they pierce me.

²¹ And his terror is in his ears: just when he seems to be at peace, his overthrow will come.

^{13 (16:14)} They surrounded me with spears, aiming at my reins: without sparing me they poured out my gall upon the ground.

¹¹ Let pains destroy him round about, and let many enemies come about him,

²⁰ Pains have come upon him as water, and darkness has carried him away by night.

¹² If ye will not repent, he will furbish his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready.

^{19 (72:19)} How have they become desolate! suddenly they have failed: they have perished because of their iniquity.

^{15 (87:15)} I am poor and in troubles from my youth; and having been exalted, I was brought low and into despair.

³ And Paschor brought Jeremias out of the dungeon: and Jeremias said to him, The Lord has not called thy name Paschor, but Exile. ⁴ For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will give thee up to captivity with all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall see it: and I will give thee and all Juda into the hands of the king of Babylon, and they shall carry them captives, and cut them in pieces with swords.

¹⁸ Let one drive him from light into darkness. ¹⁹ He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.

^{9 (20:9)} Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven at the time of thy presence: the Lord shall trouble them in his anger, and fire shall devour them.

^{9 (108:9)} Let his children be orphans, and his wife a widow. ^{10 (108:10)} Let his children wander without a dwelling-place, and beg: let them be cast out of their habitations. ^{11 (108:11)} Let his creditor exact all that belongs to him: and let strangers spoil his labours. ^{12 (108:12)} Let him have no helper; neither let there be any one to have compassion on his fatherless children. ^{13 (108:13)} Let his children be given up to utter destruction: in one generation let his name be blotted out. ^{14 (108:14)} Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. ^{15 (108:15)} Let them be before the Lord continually; and let their memorial be blotted out from the earth.

^{4 (119:4)} Sharpened weapons of the mighty, with coals of the desert.

²² and they shall look on the earth below, and behold severe distress, and darkness, affliction, and anguish, and darkness so that one cannot see;

²⁰ As a garment defiled with blood shall not be pure, so neither shalt thou be pure; because thou hast destroyed my land, and hast slain my people: thou shalt not endure for ever, — thou an evil seed. ²¹ Prepare thy children to be slain for the sins of their father; that they arise not, and inherit the earth, nor fill the earth with wars. ²² And I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will destroy their name, and remnant, and seed: thus saith the Lord.

³³ For thou shalt be required before thy time: has it been prepared for thee also to reign? nay, God has prepared for thee a deep trench, wood piled, fire and much wood: the wrath of the Lord shall be as a trench kindled with sulphur.

²⁸ Gather together to me the heads of your tribes, and your elders, and your judges, and your officers, that I may speak in their ears all these words; and I call both heaven and earth to witness against them.

^{18 (16:19)} Earth, cover not over the blood of my flesh, and let my cry have no place.

^{20 (43:20)} If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread out our hands to a strange god; shall not God search these things out? ^{21 (43:21)} for he knows the secrets of the heart.

²¹ For, behold, the Lord is bringing wrath from his holy place upon the dwellers on the earth: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall not cover her slain.

^{23 (36:23)} because of the iniquity which they wrought in Israel, and because they committed adultery with the wives of their fellow-citizens; and spoke a word in my name, which I did not command them to speak, and I am witness, saith the Lord.

⁵ And I will draw near to you in judgment; and I will be a sift witness against the witches, and against the adulteresses, and against them that swear falsely by my name, and against them that keep back the hireling's wages, and them that oppress the widow, and afflict orphans, and that wrest the judgment of the stranger, and fear not me, saith the Lord Almighty.

³¹ Thy calf shall be slain before thee, and thou shalt not eat of it; thine ass shall be violently taken away from thee, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given to thine enemies, and thou shalt have no helper.

¹⁷ Behold, the days come, that all things that are in thy house shall be taken, and all that thy fathers have treasured up until this day, to Babylon; and there shall not fail a word, which the Lord has spoken.

⁵ For what they have collected, the just shall eat; but they shall not be delivered out of calamities: let their strength be utterly exhausted.

¹⁸ He has laboured unprofitably and in vain, for wealth of which he shall not taste: it is as a lean thing, unfit for food, which he cannot swallow. ¹⁹ For he has broken down the houses of many mighty men: and he has plundered an habitation, though he built it not. ²⁰ There is no security to his possessions; he shall not be saved by his desire. ²¹ There is nothing remaining of his provisions; therefore his goods shall not flourish. ²² But when he shall seem to be just satisfied, he shall be straitened; and all distress shall come upon him.

³⁰ For the wicked hastens to the day of destruction: they shall be led away for the day of his vengeance.

¹⁴ And if their children be many, they shall be for slaughter: and if they grow up, they shall beg. ¹⁵ And they that survive of him shall utterly perish, and no one shall pity their widows. ¹⁶ Even if he should gather silver as earth, and prepare gold as clay; ¹⁷ All these things shall the righteous gain, and the truehearted shall possess his wealth. ¹⁸ And his house is gone like moths, and like a spider's web. ¹⁹ The rich man shall lie down, and shall not continue: he has opened his eyes, and he is not.

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¹⁸ And their silver and their gold shall in nowise be able to rescue them in the day of the Lord's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealously; for he will bring a speedy destruction on all them that inhabit the land.

²⁰ God shall by no means be willing to pardon him, but then the wrath of the Lord and his jealousy shall flame out against that man; and all the curses of this covenant shall attach themselves to him, which are written in this book, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven. ²¹ And the Lord shall separate that man for evil of all the children of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in the book of this law. ²² And another generation shall say — even your sons who shall rise up after you, and the stranger who shall come from a land afar off, and shall see the plagues of that land and their diseases, which the Lord has sent upon it, ²³ brimstone and burning salt, (the whole land shall not be sown, neither shall any green thing spring, nor rise upon it, as Sodom and Gomorrha were overthrown, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord overthrew in his wrath and anger:) — ²⁴ and all the nations shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land? what is this great fierceness of anger? ²⁵ And men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, the things which he appointed to their fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt: ²⁶ and they went and served other gods, which they knew not, neither did he assign them to them. ²⁷ And the Lord was exceedingly angry with that land to bring upon it according to all the curses which are written in the book of this law. ²⁸ And the Lord removed them from their land in anger, and wrath, and very great indignation, and cast them out into another land as at present.

²¹ These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.

¹³ This is the portion of an ungodly man from the Lord, and the possession of oppressors shall come upon them from the Almighty.

² Now what portion has God given from above? and is there an inheritance given of the Mighty One from the highest? ³ Alas! destruction to the unrighteous, and rejection to them that do iniquity.

^{5 (10:6)} The Lord tries the righteous and the ungodly: and he that loves unrighteousness hates his own soul. ^{6 (10:7)} He shall rain upon sinners snares, fire, and brimstone, and a stormy blast shall be the portion of their cup.

³⁸ Out of the mouth of the Most High there shall not come forth evil and good.