Job 23 Cross References - Brenton

¹ Then Job answered and said, ² Yea, I know that pleading is out of my reach; and his hand has been made heavy upon my groaning. ³ Who would then know that I might find him, and come to an end of the matter? ⁴ And I would plead my own cause, and he would fill my mouth with arguments. ⁵ And I would know the remedies which he would speak to me, and I would perceive what he would tell me. ⁶ Though he should come on me in his great strength, then he would not threaten me; ⁷ for truth and reproof are from him; and he would bring forth my judgment to an end. ⁸ For if I shall go first, and exist no longer, still what do I know concerning the latter end? ⁹ When he wrought on the left hand, then I observed it not: his right hand shall encompass me but I shall not see it. ¹⁰ For he knows already my way; and he has tried me as gold. ¹¹ And I will go forth according to his commandments, for I have kept his ways; and I shall not turn aside from his commandments, ¹² neither shall I transgress; but I have hid his words in my bosom. ¹³ And if too he has thus judged, who is he that has contradicted, for he has both willed a thing and done it. ¹⁴ (OMITTED TEXT) ^{15 (23:14)} Therefore am I troubled at him; and when I was reproved, I thought of him. ^(23:15) Therefore let me take good heed before him: I will consider, and be afraid of him. ¹⁶ But the Lord has softened my heart, and the Almighty has troubled me. ¹⁷ For I knew not that darkness would come upon me, and thick darkness has covered me before my face.

² Oh that one would indeed weigh the wrath that is upon me, and take up my griefs in a balance together! ³ And verily they would be heavier than the sand by the seashore: but, as it seems, my words are vain.

¹¹ Then neither will I refrain my mouth: I will speak being in distress; being in anguish I will disclose the bitterness of my soul.

¹ Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul.

⁶ Then shall he declare to thee the power of wisdom; for it shall be double of that which is with thee: and then shalt thou know, that a just recompence of thy sins has come to thee from the Lord.

^{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.

^{2 (76:2)} In the day of mine affliction I earnestly sought the Lord; even with my hands by night before him, and I was not deceived; my soul refused to be comforted. ^{3 (76:3)} I remembered God, and rejoiced; I poured out my complaint, and my soul fainted. Pause. ^{4 (76:4)} All mine enemies set a watch against me: I was troubled, and spoke not. ^{5 (76:5)} I considered the days of old, and remembered ancient years. ^{6 (76:6)} And I meditated; I communed with my heart by night, and diligently searched my spirit, saying, ^{7 (76:7)} Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be well pleased no more? ^{8 (76:8)} Will he cut off his mercy for ever, even for ever and ever? ^{9 (76:9)} Will God forget to pity? or will he shut up his compassions in his wrath? Pause.

¹⁹ ZAIN. I remembered by reason of my poverty, and because of persecution my bitterness and gall shall be remembered; ²⁰ and my soul shall meditate with me.

³ Nevertheless I will speak to the Lord, and I will reason before him, if he will.

^{21 (16:22)} Oh that a man might plead before the Lord, even as the son of man with his neighbor!

³⁵ (Oh that I had a hearer,) and if I had not feared the hand of the Lord; and as to the written charge which I had against any one, ³⁶ I would place it as a chaplet on my shoulders, and read it. ³⁷ And if I did not read it and return it, having taken nothing from the debtor:

^{1 (39:31)} And the Lord God answered Job, and said, ^{2 (39:32)} Will any one pervert judgment with the Mighty One? and he that reproves God, let him return it for answer. ^{3 (39:33)} And Job answered and said to the Lord, ^{4 (39:34)} Why do I yet plead? being rebuked even while reproving the Lord: hearing such things, whereas I am nothing: and what shall I answer to these arguments? I will lay my hand upon my mouth. ^{5 (39:35)} I have spoken once; but I will not do so a second time.

⁸ For the way of the Lord is judgement: we have hoped in thy name, and on the remembrance of thee,

⁶ Seek ye the Lord, and when ye find him, call upon him; and when he shall draw nigh to you, ⁷ let the ungodly leave his ways, and the transgressor his counsels: and let him return to the Lord, and he shall find mercy; for he shall abundantly pardon your sins.

⁷ Our sins have risen up against us: O Lord, do thou for us for thine own sake; for our sins are many before thee; for we have sinned against thee.

²⁵ By no means shalt thou do as this thing is so as to destroy the righteous with the wicked, so the righteous shall be as the wicked: by no means. Thou that judgest the whole earth, shalt thou not do right? ²⁶ And the Lord said, If there should be in Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole city, and the whole place for their sakes. ²⁷ And Abraam answered and said, Now I have begun to speak to my Lord, and I am earth and ashes. ²⁸ But if the fifty righteous should be diminished to forty-five, wilt thou destroy the whole city because of the five wanting? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I should find there forty-five. ²⁹ And he continued to speak to him still, and said, But if there should be found there forty? And he said, I will not destroy it for the forty's sake. ³⁰ And he said, Will there be anything against me, Lord, if I shall speak? but if there be found there thirty? And he said, I will not destroy it for the thirty's sake. ³¹ And he said, Since I am able to speak to the Lord, what if there should be found there twenty? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I should find there twenty. ³² And he said, Will there be anything against me, Lord, if I speak yet once? but if there should be found there ten? And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.

¹² But thou saidst, I will do thee good, and will make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which shall not be numbered for multitude.

¹² Take heed lest at any time the Egyptians speak, saying, With evil intent he brought them out to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from off the earth; cease from thy wrathful anger, and be merciful to the sin of thy people, ¹³ remembering Abraam and Isaac and Jacob thy servants, to whom thou hast sworn by thyself, and hast spoken to them, saying, I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of heaven for multitude, and all this land which thou spokest of to give to them, so that they shall possess it for ever.

¹³ And Moses said to the Lord, So Egypt shall hear, for thou hast brought up this people from them by thy might. ¹⁴ Moreover all the dwellers upon this land have heard that thou art Lord in the midst of this people, who, O Lord, art seen by them face to face, and thy cloud rests upon them, and thou goest before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire. ¹⁵ And if thou shalt destroy this nation as one man; then all the nations that have heard thy name shall speak, saying, ¹⁶ Because the Lord could not bring this people into the land which he sware to them, he has overthrown them in the wilderness. ¹⁷ And now, O Lord, let thy strength be exalted, as thou spakest, saying, ¹⁸ The Lord is long-suffering and merciful, and true, removing transgressions and iniquities and sins, and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. ¹⁹ Forgive this people their sin according to thy great mercy, as thou wast favourable to them from Egypt until now.

⁸ And what shall I say since Israel has turned his back before his enemy? ⁹ And when the Chananite and all the inhabitants of the land hear it, they shall compass us round and destroy us from off the land: and what wilt thou do for thy great name?

¹⁸ Behold, I am near my judgment: I know that I shall appear evidently just.

¹⁹ Wherefore teach me, what shall we say to him? and let us cease from saying much.

^{11 (24:11)} For thy name's sake, O Lord, do thou also be merciful to my sin; for it is great.

^{1 (42:1)} A Psalm of David. Judge me, o God, and plead my cause, against an ungodly nation: deliver me from the unjust and crafty man.

²⁶ But do thou remember, and let us plead together: do thou first confess thy transgressions, that thou mayest be justified.

¹⁸ Incline thine ear, O my God, and hear; open thine eyes and behold our desolation, and that of thy city on which thy name is called: for we do not bring our pitiful case before thee on the ground of our righteousness, but on the ground of thy manifold compassions, O Lord. ¹⁹ Hearken, O Lord; be propitious, O Lord; attend, O Lord; delay not, O my God, for thine own sake: for thy name is called upon thy city and upon thy people.

² And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and wherefore hast thou thus judged me?

²² Then shalt thou call, and I will hearken to thee: or thou shalt speak, and I will give thee an answer. ²³ How many are my sins and my transgressions? teach me what they are.

² I know that thou canst do all things, and nothing is impossible with thee. ³ For who is he that hides counsel from thee? or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from thee? and who will tell me what I knew not, great and wonderful things which I understood not? ⁴ But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask thee, and do thou teach me. ⁵ I have heard the report of thee by the ear before; but now mine eye has seen thee. ⁶ Wherefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes.

⁴ For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: who has hardened himself against him and endured?

¹⁹ For indeed he is strong in power: who then shall resist his judgment?

³³ Would that he our mediator were present, and a reprover, and one who should hear the cause between both. ³⁴ Let him remove his rod from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

²¹ Withhold thine hand from me: and let not thy fear terrify me.

^{3 (137:3)} In whatsoever day I shall call upon thee, hear me speedily; thou shalt abundantly provide me with thy power in my soul.

⁴ There is no woman that has not taken hold of it; who will set me to watch stubble in the field? because of this enemy I have set her aside; therefore on this account the Lord has done all that he appointed.

⁸ Fighting and reproaching he will dismiss them; didst thou not meditate with a harsh spirit, to slay them with a wrathful spirit?

³³ Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord, I will reign over you with a strong hand, and with a high arm, and with outpoured wrath:

³⁵ And I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, and will plead with you there face to face.

¹⁵ For though I be righteous, he will not hearken to me: I will intreat his judgment.

¹⁸ And come, let us reason together, saith the Lord: and though your sins be as purple, I will make them white as snow; and though they be as scarlet, I will make them white as wool.

⁵ Will God's anger continue for ever, or be preserved to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done these bad things, and hadst power to do them.

¹ Righteous art thou, O Lord, that I may make my defence to thee, yea, I will speak to thee of judgments. Why is it that the way of ungodly men prospers? that all hat deal very treacherously are flourishing?

¹¹ If ever he should go beyond me, I shall not see him: if he should pass by me, neither thus have I known it.

¹⁴ He beholds them that perform lawless deeds, and he will save me: and do thou plead before him, if thou canst praise him, as it is possible even now.

¹ Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why dost thou overlook us in times of need, in affliction?

^{1 (12:1)} For the end, a Psalm of David. How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me? for ever? how long wilt thou turn away thy face from me? ^{2 (12:2)} How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrows in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me? ^{3 (12:3)} Look on me, hearken to me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep in death;

¹⁵ For thou art God, yet we knew it not, the God of Israel, the Saviour.

^{46 (88:46)} How long, O Lord, wilt thou turn away, for ever? shall thine anger flame out as fire?

¹⁷ And one shall say, I will wait for God, who has turned away his face from the house of Jacob, and I will trust in him.

¹⁹ For I know that he will order his sons, and his house after him, and they will keep the ways of the Lord, to do justice and judgment, that the Lord may bring upon Abraam all things whatsoever he has spoken to him.

² And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee in the wilderness, that he might afflict thee, and try thee, and that the things in thine heart might be made manifest, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no.

³ Lord, remember, I pray thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thine eyes. And Ezekias wept with a great weeping.

¹¹ But put forth thine hand, and touch all that he has: verily he will bless thee to thy face. ¹² Then the Lord said to the devil, Behold, I give into thine hand all that he has, but touch not himself. So the devil went out from the presence of the Lord.

⁵ Nay, but put forth thine hand, and touch his bones and his flesh: verily he will bless thee to thy face. ⁶ And the Lord said to the devil, Behold, I deliver him up to thee; only save his life.

⁵ I have heard the report of thee by the ear before; but now mine eye has seen thee. ⁶ Wherefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes. 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. ⁸ Now then take seven bullocks, and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and he shall offer a burnt-offering for you. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will only accept him: for but his sake, I would have destroyed you, for ye have not spoken the truth against my servant Job.

⁶ For the Lord knows the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

^{3 (16:3)} Thou has proved mine heart; thou hast visited me by night; thou hast tried me as with fire, and unrighteousness has not been found in me: I am purposed that my mouth shall not speak amiss.

^{10 (65:10)} For thou, O God, has proved us; thou hast tried us with fire as silver is tried.

^{1 (138:1)} For the end, a Psalm of David.O Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me. ^{2 (138:2)} Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising: thou understandest my thoughts long before. ^{3 (138:3)} Thou hast traced my path and my bed, and hast foreseen all my ways.

³ As silver and gold are tried in a furnace, so are choice hearts with the Lord.

⁹ And I will bring the third part through the fire, and I will try them as silver is tried, and I will prove them as gold is proved: they shall call upon my name, and I will hear them, and say, This is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

² And who will abide the day of his coming? or who will withstand at his appearing? for he is coming in as the fire of a furnace and as the herb of fullers. ³ He shall sit to melt and purify as it were silver, and as it were gold: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver, and they shall offer to the Lord an offering in righteousness.

² And now, behold, the king goes before you; and I am grown old and shall rest; and, behold, my sons are among you; and, behold, I have gone about before you from my youth to this day. 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. ⁵ And Samuel said to the people, The Lord is witness among you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found anything in my hand: and they said, He is witness.

⁹ But let the faithful hold on his own way, and let him that is pure of hands take courage.

^{5 (16:5)} Direct my steps in thy paths, that my steps slip not.

^{20 (17:20)} And the Lord will recompense me according to my righteousness; even according to the purity of my hands will he recompense me. ^{21 (17:21)} For I have kept the way of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God. ^{22 (17:22)} For all his judgments were before me, and his ordinances departed not from me. ^{23 (17:23)} And I shall be blameless with hem, and shall keep myself from mine iniquity. ^{24 (17:24)} And the Lord shall recompense me according to my righteousness, and according to the purity of my hands before his eyes.

^{3 (35:3)} The words of his mouth are transgression and deceit: he is not inclined to understand how to do good.

^{18 (43:18)} And our heart has not gone back; but thou hast turned aside our paths from thy way.

^{5 (124:5)} But them that turn aside to crooked ways the Lord will lead away with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.

⁶ and them that turn aside from the Lord, and them that seek not the Lord, and them that cleave not to the Lord.

¹⁰ Let the grave be my city, upon the walls of which I have leaped: I will not shrink from it; for I have not denied the holy words of my God.

²² And receive a declaration from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

^{9 (18:9)} The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring for ever and ever: the judgments of the Lord are true, and justified altogether. ^{10 (18:10)} To be desired more than gold, and much precious stone: sweeter also than honey and the honey-comb.

^{11 (118:11)} I have hidden thine oracles in my heart, that I might not sin against thee.

^{103 (118:103)} How sweet are thine oracles to my throat! more so than honey to my mouth!

^{127 (118:127)} Therefore have I loved thy commandments more than gold, or the topaz.

¹⁶ consume them; and thy word shall be to me for the joy and gladness of my heart: for thy name has been called upon me, O Lord Almighty.

¹⁹ God is not as man to waver, nor as the son of man to be threatened; shall he say and not perform? shall he speak and not keep to his word? ²⁰ Behold, I have received commandment to bless: I will bless, and not turn back.

¹² If he would take away, who shall turn him back? or who shall say to him, What hast thou done? ¹³ For if he has turned away his anger, the whales under heaven have stooped under him.

¹⁰ And if he should overthrow all things, who will say to him, What hast thou done?

¹⁴ If he should cast down, who will build up? if he should shut up against man, who shall open?

²⁹ And he will give quiet, and who will condemn? and he will hide his face, and who shall see him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man also:

^{3 (114:3)} But our God has done in heaven and on earth, whatsoever he has pleased.

^{6 (134:6)} all that the Lord willed, he did in heaven, and on the earth, in the sea, and in all deeps.

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

¹⁵ That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and deficiency cannot be numbered.

¹⁴ I know that whatsoever things God has done, they shall be for ever: it is impossible to add to it, and it is impossible to take away from it: and God has done it, that men may fear before him.

²⁴ Thus saith the Lord of hosts, As I have said, so it shall be: and as I have purposed, so the matter shall remain: ²⁵ even to destroy the Assyrians upon my land, and upon my mountains: and they shall be for trampling; and their yoke shall be taken away from them, and their glory shall be taken away from their shoulders. ²⁶ This is the purpose which the Lord has purposed upon the whole earth: and this the hand that is uplifted against all the nations. ²⁷ For what the Holy God has purposed, who shall frustrate? and who shall turn back his uplifted hand?

¹⁰ telling beforehand the latter events before they come to pass, and they are accomplished together: and I said, all my counsel shall stand, and I will do all things that I have planned:

^{35 (4:32)} and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and there is none who shall withstand his power, and say to him, What has thou done?

³ So have I also endured months of vanity, and nights of pain have been appointed me.

^{19 (76:19)} Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in many waters, and thy footsteps cannot be known.

^{2 (96:2)} Cloud, and darkness are round about him; righteousness and judgment are the establishment of his throne.

²⁷ For say not thou, O Jacob, and why hast thou spoken, Israel, saying, My way is hid from God, and my God has taken away my judgement, and has departed? ²⁸ And now, hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? the eternal God, the God that formed the ends of the earth, shall not hunger, nor be weary, and there is no searching of his understanding.

⁹ The Lord's voice shall be proclaimed in the city, and he shall save those that fear his name: hear, O tribe; and who shall order the city?

¹⁵ Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and if I should be righteous, I cannot lift myself up, for I am full of dishonour.

³ Who would then know that I might find him, and come to an end of the matter?

²³ For the fear of the Lord constrained me, and I cannot bear up by reason of his burden.

^{3 (76:3)} I remembered God, and rejoiced; I poured out my complaint, and my soul fainted. Pause.

^{120 (118:120)} Penetrate my flesh with thy fear; for I am afraid of thy judgments.

¹⁶ I watched, and my belly trembled at the sound of the prayer of my lips, and trembling entered into my bones, and my frame was troubled within me; I will rest in the day of affliction, from going up to the people of my sojourning.

³ Hear, O Israel; ye are going this day to battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint, fear not, neither be confounded, neither turn aside from their face.

²⁰ And she said to them, Nay, do not call me Noemin; call me æBitter,' for the Mighty One has dealt very bitterly with me.

² As God lives, who has thus judge me; and the Almighty, who has embittered my soul;

^{14 (21:14)} I am poured out like water, and all my bones are loosened: my heart in the midst of my belly is become like melting wax.

^{16 (87:16)} Thy wrath has passed over me; and thy terrors have greatly disquieted me.

⁵ And I said, Woe is me, for I am pricked to the heart; for being a man, and having unclean lips, I dwell in the midst of a people having unclean lips; and I have seen with mine eyes the King, the Lord of hosts.

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.

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¹⁵ Alas, Alas, Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is nigh, and it will come as trouble upon trouble.

²⁰ It shall not be so therefore: behold, I will add thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy tomb in peace, and thine eyes shall not see any among all the evils which I bring upon this place.

⁹ Let the Lord begin and wound me, but let him not utterly destroy me.

²² Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, for he has been already made over to the power of the sword.

⁶ His light shall be darkness in his habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

¹⁸ Let one drive him from light into darkness.

⁸ I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape: he has set darkness before my face.

¹¹ The light has proved darkness to thee, and water has covered thee on thy lying down.

¹ See how the just man has perished, and no one lays it to heart: and righteous men are taken away, and no one considers: for the righteous has been removed out of the way of injustice.