Job 3 Cross References - Brenton

¹ After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day, ² saying, ³ Let the day perish in which I was born, and that night in which they said, Behold a man-child! ⁴ Let that night be darkness, and let not the Lord regard it from above, neither let light come upon it. ⁵ But let darkness and the shadow of death seize it; let blackness come upon it; ⁶ let that day and night be cursed, let darkness carry them away; let it not come into the days of the year, neither let it be numbered with the days of the months. ⁷ But let that night be pain, and let not mirth come upon it, nor joy. ⁸ But let him that curses that day curse it, even he that is ready to attack the great whale. ⁹ Let the stars of that night be darkened; let it remain dark, and not come into light; and let it not see the morning star arise: ¹⁰ because it shut not up the gates of my mother's womb, for so it would have removed sorrow from my eyes. ¹¹ For why died I not in the belly? and why did I not come forth from the womb and die immediately? ¹² and why did the knees support me? and why did I suck the breasts? ¹³ Now I should have lain down and been quiet, I should have slept and been at rest, ¹⁴ with kings and councillors of the earth, who gloried in their swords; ¹⁵ or with rulers, whose gold was abundant, who filled their houses with silver: ¹⁶ or I should have been as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother's womb, or as infants who never saw light. 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. ²⁰ For why is light given to those who are in bitterness, and life to those souls which are in griefs? ²¹ who desire death, and obtain it not, digging for it as for treasures; ²² and would be very joyful if they should gain it? ²³ Death is rest to such a man, for God has hedged him in. ²⁴ For my groaning comes before my food, and I weep being beset with terror. ²⁵ For the terror of which I meditated has come upon me, and that which I had feared has befallen me. ²⁶ I was not at peace, nor quiet, nor had I rest; yet wrath came upon me.

¹¹ But put forth thine hand, and touch all that he has: verily he will bless thee to thy face.

²² In all these events that befell him Job sinned not at all before the Lord, and did not impute folly to God.

⁵ Nay, but put forth thine hand, and touch his bones and his flesh: verily he will bless thee to thy face.

⁹ And when much time had passed, his wife said to him, How long wilt thou hold out, saying, ^(2:9A) Behold, I wait yet a little while, expecting the hope of my deliverance? ^(2:9B) for, behold, thy memorial is abolished from the earth, even thy sons and daughters, the pangs and pains of my womb which I bore in vain with sorrows; ^(2:9C) and thou thyself sittest down to spend the nights in the open air among the corruption of worms, ^(2:9C) and I am a wanderer and a servant from place to place and house to house, waiting for the setting of the sun, that I may rest from my labours and my pangs which now beset me: ^(2:9D) but say some word against the Lord, and die. ¹⁰ But he looked on her, and said to her, Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women. If we have received good things of the hand of the Lord, shall we not endure evil things? In all these things that happened to him, Job sinned not at all with his lips before God.

³ Let the day perish in which I was born, and that night in which they said, Behold a man-child!

¹⁶ Yet Job vainly opens his mouth, in ignorance he multiplies words.

^{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,

^{33 (105:33)} for they provoked his spirit, and he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.

¹⁴ Cursed be the day wherein I was born: the day wherein my mother brought me forth, let it not be blessed. ¹⁵ Cursed be the man who brought the glad tidings to my father, saying, A male child is born to thee.

¹⁴ And the five men who went to spy out the land of Laisa answered, and said to their brethren, Ye know that there is in this place an ephod, and theraphin, and a graven and a molten image; and now consider what ye shall do.

¹⁸ Why then didst thou bring me out of the womb? and why did I not die, and no eye see me, ¹⁹ and I become as if I had not been? for why was I not carried from the womb to the grave?

¹⁰ Woe is me, my mother! thou hast born me as some man of strife, and at variance with the whole earth; I have not helped others, nor has any one helped me; my strength has failed among them that curse me.

¹⁴ Cursed be the day wherein I was born: the day wherein my mother brought me forth, let it not be blessed. ¹⁵ Cursed be the man who brought the glad tidings to my father, saying, A male child is born to thee. ¹⁶ Let that man rejoice as the cities which the Lord overthrew in wrath, and repented not: let him hear crying in the morning, and loud lamentation at noon; ¹⁷ because he slew me not in the womb, and my mother became not my tomb, and her womb always great with me. ¹⁸ Why is it that I came forth of the womb to see troubles and distresses, and my days are spent in shame?

²² And Moses stretched out his hand to heaven, and there was darkness very black, even a storm over all the land of Egypt three days. ²³ And for three days no man saw his brother, and no man rose up from his bed for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in all the places where they were.

¹² A land which the Lord thy God surveys continually, the eyes of the Lord thy God are upon it from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

² for a day of darkness and gloominess is near, a day of cloud and mist: a numerous and strong people shall be spread upon the mountains as the morning; there has not been from the beginning one like it, and after it there shall not be again even to the years of many generations.

¹⁸ Woe to you that desire the day of the Lord! what is this day of the Lord to you? whereas it is darkness, and not light.

¹¹ And ye drew nigh and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire up to heaven: there was darkness, blackness, and tempest.

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.

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

¹⁷ For the morning is to them all as the shadow of death, for each will be conscious of the terror of the shadow of death.

³ He has set a bound to darkness, and he searches out every limit: a stone is darkness, and the shadow of death.

¹⁷ And do the gates of death open to thee for fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw thee?

^{4 (22:4)} Yea, even if I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will not be afraid of evils: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, these have comforted me.

^{19 (43:19)} For thou hast laid us low in a place of affliction, and the shadow of death has covered us.

^{10 (106:10)} even them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death, fettered in poverty and iron;

^{14 (106:14)} And he brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bonds asunder.

² O people walking in darkness, behold a great light: ye that dwell in the region and shadow of death, a light shall shine upon you.

⁶ And they said not, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who guided us in the wilderness, in an untried and trackless land, in a land which no man at all went through, and no man dwelt there?

²⁸ For these things let the earth mourn, and let the sky be dark above: for I have spoken, and I will not repent; I have purposed, and I will not turn back from it.

¹⁶ Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and ye shall wait for light, and behold the shadow of death, and they shall be brought into darkness.

³ For the day of the Lord is nigh, a day of cloud; it shall be the end of the nations.

¹² As the shepherd seeks his flock, in the day when there is darkness and cloud, in the midst of the sheep that are separated: so will I seek out my sheep, and will bring them back from every place where they were scattered in the day of cloud and darkness.

⁸ who makes all things, and changes them, and turns darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night: who calls for the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth: the Lord is his name:

¹⁰ and I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head; and I will make them as the mourning of a beloved friend, and those with them as a day of grief.

²⁰ It shall never be inhabited, neither shall any enter into it for many generations: neither shall the Arabians pass through it; nor shall shepherds at all rest in it. ²¹ But wild beasts shall rest there; and the houses shall be filled with howling; and monsters shall rest there, and devils shall dance there, ²² and satyrs shall dwell there; and hedgehogs shall make their nests in their houses. It will come soon, and will not tarry.

⁸ The mirth of timbrels has ceased, the sound of the harp has ceased.

³⁴ And I will destroy out of the cities of Juda, and the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of them that make merry, and the voice of them that rejoice, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride; for the whole land shall become a desolation.

²⁵ And Jeremias mourned over Josias, and all the chief men and chief women uttered a lamentation over Josias until this day: and they made it an ordinance for Israel, and, behold, it is written in the lamentations.

^{1 (40:20)} But wilt thou catch the serpent with a hook, and put a halter about his nose?

^{10 (41:1)} Dost thou not fear because preparation has been made by me? for who is there that resists me?

^{25 (41:16)} And when he turns, he is a terror to the four-footed wild beasts which leap upon the earth.

¹⁷ Thus saith the Lord, Call ye the mourning women, and let them come; and send to the wise women, and let them utter their voice; ¹⁸ and let them take up a lamentation for you, and let your eyes pour down tears, and your eyelids drop water.

¹⁶ Therefore thus saith the Lord God Almighty; In all the streets shall be lamentations; and in all the ways shall it be said, Woe, woe! the husbandman shall be called to mourning and lamentation, and to them that are skilled in complaining.

²⁶ But I, when I waited for good things, behold, days of evils came the more upon me.

^{18 (41:9)} At his sneezing a light shines, and his eyes are as the appearance of the morning star.

¹⁵ We assembled for peace, but there was no prosperity; for a time of healing, but behold anxiety.

¹⁸ Because the Lord had fast closed from without every womb in the house of Abimelech, because of Sarrha Abraam's wife.

³¹ And when the Lord God saw that Lea was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

⁵ And to Anna he gave a prime portion, because she had no child, only Helkana loved Anna more than the other; but the Lord had closed her womb.

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.

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.

² Yea, I know that pleading is out of my reach; and his hand has been made heavy upon my groaning.

³ If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, yea, however abundant the days of his years shall be, yet if his soul shall not be satisfied with good, and also he have no burial; I said, An untimely birth is better than he. ⁴ For he came in vanity, and departs in darkness, and his name shall be covered in darkness. ⁵ Moreover he has not seen the sun, nor known rest: there is no more rest to this one than another.

¹⁰ Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for youth and folly are vanity.

¹⁷ because he slew me not in the womb, and my mother became not my tomb, and her womb always great with me.

^{9 (21:9)} For thou art he that drew me out of the womb; my hope from my mother's breasts. ^{10 (21:10)} I was cast on thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.

^{8 (57:8)} They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.

^{6 (70:6)} On thee have I been stayed from the womb: from the belly of my mother thou art my protector: of thee is my praise continually.

^{13 (138:13)} For thou, O Lord, hast possessed my reins; thou hast helped me from my mother's womb. ^{14 (138:14)} I will give thee thanks; for thou art fearfully wondrous; wondrous are thy works; and my soul knows it well. ^{15 (138:15)} My bones, which thou madest in secret were not hidden from thee, nor my substance, in the lowest parts of the earth. ^{16 (138:16)} Thine eyes saw my unwrought substance, and all men shall be written in thy book; they shall be formed by day, though there should for a time be no one among them.

³ Hear me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of Israel, who are borne by me from the womb, and taught by me from infancy, even to old age:

¹⁴ Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give them? a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.

³ And Rachel said to Jacob, Behold my handmaid Balla, go in to her, and she shall bear upon my knees, and I also shall have children by her.

²³ And Joseph saw the children of Ephraim to the third generation; and the sons of Machir the son of Manasse were borne on the sides of Joseph.

¹² For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I turn toward them as a river of peace, and as a torrent bringing upon them in a flood the glory of the Gentiles: their children shall be borne upon the shoulders, and comforted on the knees.

⁴ And as for thy birth in the day wherein thou wast born, thou didst not bind thy breasts, and thou wast not washed in water, neither wast thou salted with salt, neither wast thou swathed in swaddling-bands. ⁵ Nor did mine eye pity thee, to do for thee one of all these things, to feel at all for thee; but thou wast cast out on the face of the field, because of the deformity of thy person, in the day wherein thou wast born.

⁸ The eye of him that sees me shall not see me again: thine eyes are upon me, and I am no more. ⁹ I am as a cloud that is cleared away from the sky: for if a man go down to the grave, he shall not come up again: ¹⁰ and he shall surely not return to his own house, neither shall his place know him any more.

²¹ Why hast thou not forgotten my iniquity, and purged my sin? but now I shall depart to the earth; and in the morning I am no more.

²² to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither can any one see the life of mortals.

¹⁰ But a man that has died is utterly gone; and when a mortal has fallen, he is no more. ¹¹ For the sea wastes in length of time, and a river fails and is dried up. ¹² And man that has lain down in death shall certainly not rise again till the heaven be dissolved, and they shall not awake from their sleep.

¹³ For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness.

²⁷ which I am conscious of in myself, which mine eye has seen, and not another, but all have been fulfilled to me in my bosom.

¹³ And they spend their days in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of the grave.

²³ One shall die in his perfect strength, and wholly at ease and prosperous;

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 David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

⁴³ And Solomon slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David his father. And it came to pass when Jeroboam son of Nabat heard of it, even while he was yet in Egypt as he fled from the face of Solomon and dwelt in Egypt, he straightway comes into his own city, into the land of Sarira in the mount of Ephraim. ^(11:44) And king Solomon slept with his fathers, and Roboam his son reigned in his stead.

¹⁷ He leads counsellors away captive, and maddens the judges of the earth.

²⁸ And let him lodge in desolate cities, and enter into houses without inhabitant: and what they have prepared, others shall carry away.

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

^{6 (48:6)} They that trust in their strength, and boast themselves in the multitude of their wealth — ^{7 (48:7)} A brother does not redeem, shall a man redeem? he shall not give to God a ransom for himself, ^{8 (48:8)} or the price of the redemption of his soul, though he labour for ever, ^{9 (48:9)} and live to the end, so that he should not see corruption. ^{10 (48:10)} When he shall see wise men dying, the fool and the senseless one shall perish together; and they shall leave their wealth to strangers.

^{14 (48:14)} They have laid them as sheep in Hades; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning, and their help shall fail in Hades from their glory.

^{48 (88:48)} What man is there who shall live, and not see death? shall any one deliver his soul from the hand of Hades? Pause.

⁸ There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; and there is no power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in the day of the battle; neither shall ungodliness save her votary.

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?

¹⁰ All shall answer and say to thee, Thou also hast been taken, even as we; and thou art numbered amongst us. 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. ¹² How has Lucifer, that rose in the morning, fallen from heaven! He that sent orders to all the nations is crushed to 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. ¹⁵ But now thou shalt go down to hell, even to the foundations of the earth. ¹⁶ They that see thee shall wonder at thee, and say, This is the man that troubled the earth, that made kings to shake;

¹² And thy old waste desert places shall be built up, and thy foundations shall last through all generations; and thou shalt be called a repairer of breaches, and thou shalt cause thy paths between to be in peace.

²⁰ and great waters shall cover thee; and I shall bring thee down to them that go down to the pit, to the people of old time, and shall cause thee to dwell in the depths of the earth, as in everlasting desolation, with them that go down to the pit, that thou mayest not be inhabited, nor stand upon the land of life;

¹⁸ The people of Damascus were thy merchants by reason of the abundance of all thy power; wine out of Chelbon, and wool from Miletus; and they brought wine into thy market. ¹⁹ Out of Asel came wrought iron, and there is the sound of wheels among thy trading population. ²⁰ The people of Daedan were thy merchants, with choice cattle for chariots. ²¹ Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, these were thy traders with thee, bringing camels, and lambs, and rams, in which they trade with thee. ²² The merchants of Sabba and Ramma, these were thy merchants, with choice spices, and precious stones: and they brought gold to thy market. ²³ Charra, and Chanaa, these were thy merchants: Assur, and Charman, were thy merchants: ²⁴ bringing for merchandise blue, and choice stores bound with cords, and cypress wood. ²⁵ Ships were thy merchants, in abundance, with thy trading population: and thou wast filled and very heavily loaded in the heart of the sea. ²⁶ Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the south wind has broken thee in the heart of the sea. ²⁷ Thy forces, and thy gain, and that of thy traders, and thy rowers, and thy pilots, and thy counselors, and they that traffic with thee, and all thy warriors that are in thee: and all thy company in the midst of thee shall perish in the heart of the sea, in the day of thy fall. ²⁸ At the cry of thy voice thy pilots shall be greatly terrified. ²⁹ And all the rowers and the mariners shall come down from the ships, and the pilots of the sea shall stand on the land. ³⁰ And they shall wail over thee with their voice, and cry bitterly, and put earth on their heads, and spread ashes under them. ³¹ (OMITTED TEXT) ³² And their sons shall take up a lament for thee, even a lamentation for Sor, saying,

¹⁸ And Balaam answered and said to the princes of Balac, If Balac would give me his house full of silver and gold, I shall not be able to go beyond the word of the Lord God, to make it little or great in my mind.

²⁷ And the king made gold and silver in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars as the sycamores in the plain for multitude.

²¹ He pours dishonour upon princes, and heals the lowly.

²⁵ So the Almighty shall be thy helper from enemies, and he shall bring thee forth pure as silver that has been tried by fire.

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.

⁷ For their land is filled with silver and gold, and there was no number of their treasures; their land also is filled with horses, and there was no number of chariots.

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.

³ And Tyrus built strong-holds for herself, and heaped up silver as dust, and gathered gold as the mire of the ways.

³ If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, yea, however abundant the days of his years shall be, yet if his soul shall not be satisfied with good, and also he have no burial; I said, An untimely birth is better than he.

¹³ For oh that thou hadst kept me in the grave, and hadst hidden me until thy wrath should cease, and thou shouldest set me a time in which thou wouldest remember me!

¹⁶ Will they go down with me to Hades, or shall we go down together to the tomb?

^{5 (54:5)} Fear and trembling came upon me, and darkness covered me. ^{6 (54:6)} And I said, O that I had wings as those of a dove! then would I flee away, and be at rest. ^{7 (54:7)} Lo! I have fled afar off, and lodged in the wilderness. Pause. ^{8 (54:8)} I waited for him that should deliver me from distress of spirit and tempest.

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

⁶ And Pharao gave orders to the task-masters of the people and the accountants, saying, ⁷ Ye shall no longer give straw to the people for brick-making as yesterday and the third day; but let them go themselves, and collect straw for themselves. ⁸ And thou shalt impose on them daily the rate of brick-making which they perform: thou shalt not abate anything, for they are idle; therefore have they cried, saying, Let us arise and do sacrifice to our God.

¹⁵ And the accountants of the children of Israel went in and cried to Pharao, saying, Why dost thou act thus to thy servants? ¹⁶ Straw is not given to thy servants, and they tell us to make brick; and behold thy servants have been scourged: thou wilt therefore injure thy people. ¹⁷ And he said to them, Ye are idle, ye are idlers: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to our God. ¹⁸ Now then go and work, for straw shall not be given to you, yet ye shall return the rate of bricks. ¹⁹ And the accountants of the children of Israel saw themselves in an evil plight, men saying, Ye shall not fail to deliver the daily rate of the brick-making.

³ And the children of Israel cried to the Lord, because he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed Israel twenty years.

⁷ He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, and hears not the chiding of the tax-gatherer.

³ And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow and vexation, and from thy hard servitude wherein thou didst serve them. ⁴ And thou shalt take up this lamentation against the king of Babylon, How has the extortioner ceased, and the taskmaster ceased!

^{2 (48:2)} both the sons of mean men, and sons of great men; the rich and poor man together.

^{14 (48:14)} They have laid them as sheep in Hades; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning, and their help shall fail in Hades from their glory. ^{15 (48:15)} But God shall deliver my soul from the power of Hades, when he shall receive me. Pause. ^{16 (48:16)} Fear not when a man is enriched, and when the glory of his house is increased. ^{17 (48:17)} For he shall take nothing when he dies; neither shall his glory descend with him. ^{18 (48:18)} For his soul shall be blessed in his life: he shall give thanks to thee when thou dost well to him. ^{19 (48:19)} Yet he shall go in to the generation of his fathers; he shall never see light. ^{20 (48:20)} Man that is in honour, understands not: he is compared to the senseless cattle, and is like them.

⁵ and they shall look up, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the locust shall increase, and the caper shall be scattered: because man has gone to his eternal home, and the mourners have gone about the market:

⁷ before the dust also return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return to God who gave it.

¹⁰ And she was very much grieved in spirit, and prayed to the Lord, and wept abundantly.

²⁷ And she came to Elisaie to the mountain, and laid hold of his feet; and Giezi drew near to thrust her away. And Elisaie said, Let her alone, for her soul is much grieved in her, and the Lord has hidden it from me, and has not told it me.

¹⁶ or I should have been as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother's womb, or as infants who never saw light.

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

¹⁵ Thou wilt separate life from my spirit; and yet keep my bones from death. ¹⁶ For I shall not live for ever, that I should patiently endure: depart from me, for my life is vain.

²⁸ Deliver my soul, that it may not go to destruction, and my life shall see the light.

³⁰ And he has delivered my soul from death, that my life may praise him in the light.

⁶ Give strong drink to those that are in sorrow, and the wine to drink to those in pain:

¹⁸ Why is it that I came forth of the womb to see troubles and distresses, and my days are spent in shame?

¹⁵ And if thou doest thus to me, slay me utterly, if I have found favour with thee, that I may not see my affliction.

⁴ And he himself went a day's journey in the wilderness, and came and sat under a juniper tree; and asked concerning his life that he might die, and said, Let it be enough now, O Lord, take, I pray thee, my life from me; for I am no better than my fathers.

⁴ and if thou shalt seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures;

³ And now, Lord God, take my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

⁸ And it came to pass at the rising of the sun, that God commanded a burning east wind; and the sun smote on the head of Jonas, and he fainted, and despaired of his life, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

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

⁶ Know then that it is the Lord that has troubled me, and has raised his bulwark against me.

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

¹² His troops also came upon me with one accord, liars in wait compassed my ways.

^{8 (30:8)} And thou hast not shut me up into the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a wide place.

^{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.

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?

⁷ He has builded against me, and I cannot come forth: he has made my brazen chain heavy.

⁹ DALETH. He has built up my ways, he has hedged my paths;

⁶ Therefore, behold, I hedge up her way with thorns, and I will stop the ways, and she shall not find her path.

⁷ For my wrath cannot cease; for I perceive my food as the smell of a lion to be loathsome.

¹⁹ How long dost thou not let me alone, nor let me go, until I shall swallow down my spittle?

²⁰ And he shall not be able to take any food, though his soul shall desire meat;

^{1 (21:1)} For the end, concerning the morning aid, a Psalm of David. O God, my God, attend to me: why hast thou forsaken me? the account of my transgressions is far from my salvation. ^{2 (21:2)} O my God, I will cry to thee by day, but thou wilt not hear: and by night, and it shall not be accounted for folly to me.

^{3 (31:3)} Because I kept silence, my bones waxed old, from my crying all the day.

^{8 (37:8)} I have been afflicted and brought down exceedingly: I have roared for the groaning of my heart.

^{3 (41:3)} My tears have been bread to me day and night, while they daily said to me, Where is thy God? ^{4 (41:4)} I remembered these things, and poured out my soul in me, for I will go to the place of thy wondrous tabernacle, even to the house of God, with a voice of exultation and thanksgiving and of the sound of those who keep festival.

^{5 (79:5)} Thou wilt feed us with bread of tears; and wilt cause us to drink tears by measure.

^{9 (101:9)} For I have eaten ashes as it were bread, and mingled my drink with weeping;

¹¹ They shall proceed together as a bear and as a dove: we have waited for judgment, and there is no salvation, it is gone far from us.

⁸ GIMEL. Yea, though I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.

⁵ And when the days of the banquet were completed, Job sent and purified them, having risen up in the morning, and offered sacrifices for them, according to their number, and one calf for a sin-offering for their souls: for Job said, Lest peradventure my sons have thought evil in their minds against God. Thus, then Job did continually.

¹⁵ My pains return upon me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my safety as a cloud.

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

¹⁴ Thou scarest me with dreams, and dost terrify me with visions.

⁹ Will God hear his prayer? or, when distress has come upon him,

^{11 (142:11)} Thou shalt quicken me, O Lord, for thy name's sake; in thy righteousness thou shalt bring my soul out of affliction.