Job 9 Cross References - Brenton

¹ Then Job answered and said, ² I know of a truth that it is so: for how shall a mortal man be just before the Lord? ³ For if he would enter into judgment with him, God would not hearken to him, so that he should answer to one of his charges of a thousand. ⁴ For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: who has hardened himself against him and endured? ⁵ Who wears out the mountains, and men know it not: who overturns them in anger. ⁶ Who shakes the earth under heaven from its foundations, and its pillars totter. ⁷ Who commands the sun, and it rises not; and he seals up the stars. ⁸ Who alone has stretched out the heavens, and walks on the sea as on firm ground. ⁹ Who makes Pleias, and Hesperus, and Arcturus, and the chambers of the south. ¹⁰ Who does great and unsearchable things; glorious also and excellent things, innumerable. 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. 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. ¹⁴ Oh then that he would hearken to me, or judge my cause. ¹⁵ For though I be righteous, he will not hearken to me: I will intreat his judgment. ¹⁶ And if I should call and he should not hearken, I cannot believe that he has listened to my voice. ¹⁷ Let him not crush me with a dark storm: but he has made by bruises many without cause. ¹⁸ For he suffers me not to take breath, but he has filled me with bitterness. ¹⁹ For indeed he is strong in power: who then shall resist his judgment? ²⁰ For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane: and though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse. ²¹ For even if I have sinned, I know it not in my soul: but my life is taken away. ²² Wherefore I said, Wrath slays the great and mighty man. ²³ For the worthless die, but the righteous are laughed to scorn. ²⁴ For they are delivered into the hands of the unrighteous man: he covers the faces of the judges of the earth: but if it be not he, who is it? ²⁵ But my life is swifter than a post: my days have fled away, and they knew it not. ²⁶ Or again, is there a trace of their path left by ships? or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks its prey? ²⁷ And if I should say, I will forget to speak, I will bow down my face and groan; ²⁸ I quake in all my limbs, for I know that thou wilt not leave me alone as innocent. ²⁹ But since I am ungodly, why have I not died? ³⁰ For if I should wash myself with snow, and purge myself with pure hands, ³¹ thou hadst thoroughly plunged me in filth, and my garment had abhorred me. ³² For thou art not man like me, with whom I could contend, that we might come together to 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: ³⁵ so shall I not be afraid, but I will speak: for I am not thus conscious of guilt.

⁴⁶ If it be that they shall sin against thee, (for there is not a man who will not sin,) and thou shalt bring them and deliver them up before their enemies, and they that take them captive shall carry them to a land far or near,

¹⁷ What, shall a mortal be pure before the Lord? or a man be blameless in regard to his works?

³ Hast thou not taken account even of him, and caused him to enter into judgment before thee? ⁴ For who shall be pure from uncleanness? not even one;

⁴ For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself?

² Then Elius the son of Barachiel, the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram, of the country of Ausis, was angered: and he was very angry with Job, because he justified himself before the Lord.

⁹ I am blameless, for I have not transgressed.

⁵ For Job has said, I am righteous: the Lord has removed my judgment.

^{3 (129:3)} If thou, O Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

^{2 (142:2)} And enter not into judgment with thy servant, for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

²⁰ For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane: and though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse.

³² For thou art not man like me, with whom I could contend, that we might come together to judgment. ³³ Would that he our mediator were present, and a reprover, and one who should hear the cause between both.

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

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.

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:

¹³ But thou sayest, Why has he not heard every word of my cause?

¹⁴ For if he would confine, and restrain his spirit with himself; ¹⁵ all flesh would die together, and every mortal would return to the earth, whence also he was formed.

^{2 (39:32)} Will any one pervert judgment with the Mighty One? and he that reproves God, let him return it for answer.

^{12 (18:12)} Who will understand his transgressions? purge thou me from my secret sins.

^{12 (39:12)} For innumerable evils have encompassed me; my transgressions have taken hold of me, and I could not see; they are multiplied more than the hairs of my head; and my heart has failed me.

¹⁵ Thus saith the Most High, who dwells on high for ever, Holy in the holies, is his name, the Most High resting in the holies, and giving patience to the faint-hearted, and giving life to the broken-hearted: 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.

¹⁴ For at this present time do I send forth all my plagues into thine heart, and the heart of thy servants and of thy people; that thou mayest know that there is not another such as I in all the earth. ¹⁵ For now I will stretch forth my hand and smite thee and kill thy people, and thou shalt be consumed from off the earth. ¹⁶ And for this purpose hast thou been preserved, that I might display in thee my strength, and that my name might be published in all the earth. ¹⁷ Dost thou then yet exert thyself to hinder my people, so as not to let them go?

¹⁷ And lo! I will harden the heart of Pharao and of all the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them; and I will be glorified upon Pharao, and on all his host, and on his chariots and his horses. ¹⁸ And all the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I am glorified upon Pharao and upon his chariots and his horses.

¹² And, behold, the Lord and his priests are with us at our head, and the signal trumpets to sound an alarm over us. Children of Israel, fight not against the Lord God of our fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

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.

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

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.

¹³ With him are wisdom and power, with him counsel and understanding.

²³ And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; and he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcass: and a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind. ²⁴ Distress also and anguish shall come upon him: he shall fall as a captain in the first rank. ²⁵ For he has lifted his hands against the Lord, and he has hardened his neck against the Almighty Lord. ²⁶ And he has run against him with insolence, on the thickness of the back of his shield. ²⁷ For he has covered his face with his fat, and made layers of fat upon his thighs.

⁵ But know that the Lord will not cast off an innocent man: being mighty in strength of wisdom,

^{9 (40:4)} Hast thou an arm like the Lord's? or dost thou thunder with a voice like his?

^{24 (103:24)} How great are thy works, O Lord! in wisdom hast thou wrought them all: the earth is filled with thy creation.

^{5 (135:5)} To him who made the heavens by understanding; for his mercy endures for ever.

¹⁴ Blessed is the man who religiously fears always: but the hard of heart shall fall into mischiefs.

¹ A reprover is better than a stiff-necked man: for when the latter is suddenly set on fire, there shall be no remedy.

²⁰ May the name of God be blessed from everlasting and to everlasting: for wisdom and understanding are his.

^{34 (4:31)} And at the end of the time I Nabuchodonosor lifted up mine eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised him that lives for ever, and gave him glory; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom lasts to all generations: ^{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? ^{36 (4:33)} At the same time my reason returned to me, and I came to the honour of my kingdom; and my natural form returned to me, and my princes, and my nobles, sought me, and I was established in my kingdom, and more abundant majesty was added to me. ^{37 (4:34)} Now therefore I Nabuchodonosor praise and greatly exalt and glorify the King of heaven; for all his works are true, and his paths are judgment: and all that walk in pride he is able to abase.

²⁰ But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was emboldened to act proudly, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his honour was taken from him. ²¹ And he was driven forth from men; and his heart was given him after the nature of wild beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses; and they fed him with grass as an ox, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven; until he knew that the most high God is Lord of the kingdom of men, and will give it to whomsoever he shall please. ²² And thou accordingly, his son, O Baltasar, has not humbled thine heart before God: knowest thou not all this? ²³ And thou has been exalted against the Lord God of heaven; and they have brought before thee the vessels of his house, and thou, and thy nobles, and thy mistresses, and thy concubines, have drunk wine out of them; and thou has praised the gods of gold, and silver, and brass, and iron, and wood, and stone, which see not, and which hear not, and know not: and the God in whose hand are thy breath, and all thy ways has thou not glorified. ²⁴ Therefore from his presence has been sent forth the knuckle of a hand; and he has ordered the writing. ²⁵ And this is the ordered writing, Mane, Thekel, Phares. ²⁶ This is the interpretation of the sentence: Mane; God has measured thy kingdom, and finished it. ²⁷ Thekel; it has been weighed in the balance, and found wanting. ²⁸ Phares; thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. ²⁹ Then Baltasar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put the golden chain about his neck, and proclaimed concerning him that he was the third ruler in the kingdom. ³⁰ In the same night was Baltasar the Chaldean king slain.

⁵ And these are the names of the men who shall be present with you; of the tribe of Ruben, Elisur the son of Sediur. ⁶ Of Symeon, Salamiel the son of Surisadai.

⁹ He has stretched forth his hand on the sharp rock, and turned up mountains by the roots:

^{2 (45:2)} Therefore will we not fear when the earth is troubled, and the mountains are removed into the depths of the seas.

^{8 (67:8)} the earth quaked, yea, the heavens dropped water at the presence of the God of Sina, at the presence of the God of Israel.

^{6 (113:6)} Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams, and ye hills, like lambs?

¹² Who has measured the water in his hand, and the heaven with a span, and all the earth in a handful? Who has weighed the mountains in scales, and the forests in a balance?

⁶ the earth stood at his feet and trembled: he beheld, and the nations melted away: the mountains were violently burst through, the everlasting hills melted at his everlasting going forth.

¹⁰ The nations shall see thee and be in pain, as thou dost divide the moving waters: the deep uttered her voice, and raised her form on high.

⁷ Who art thou, the great mountain before Zorobabel, that thou shouldest prosper? whereas I will bring out the stone of the inheritance, the grace of it the equal of my grace.

⁴ And his feet shall stand in that day on the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave asunder, half of it toward the east and the west, a very great division; and half the mountain shall lean to the north, and half of it to the south. ⁵ And the valley of my mountains shall be closed up, and the valley of the mountains shall be joined on to Jasod, and shall be blocked up as it was blocked up in the days of the earthquake, in the days of Ozias king of Juda; and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with him.

⁸ He lifts up the poor from the earth, and raises the needy from the dunghill; to seat him with the princes of the people, and causing them to inherit the throne of glory:

¹¹ The pillars of heaven are prostrate and astonished at his rebuke.

⁴ Where wast thou when I founded the earth? tell me now, if thou hast knowledge, ⁵ who set the measures of it, if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it? ⁶ On what are its rings fastened? and who is he that laid the corner-stone upon it? ⁷ When the stars were made, all my angels praised me with a loud voice.

^{3 (74:3)} The earth is dissolved, and all that dwell in it: I have strengthened its pillars. Pause.

^{7 (113:7)} The earth trembled at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;

¹⁹ having carried them into the caves, and into the clefts of the rocks, and into the caverns of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of his might, when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth.

²¹ to enter into the caverns of the solid rock, and into the clefts of the rocks, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of his might, when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth.

¹³ For the heaven shall be enraged, and the earth shall be shaken from her foundation, because of the fierce anger of the Lord of hosts, in the day in which his wrath shall come on. ¹⁴ And they that are left shall be as a fleeing fawn, and as a stray sheep, and there shall be none to gather them: so that a man shall turn back to his people, and a man shall flee to his own land.

¹ Behold, the Lord is about to lay waste the world, and will make it desolate, and will lay bare the surface of it, and scatter them that dwell therein.

¹⁹ the earth shall be utterly confounded, and the earth shall be completely perplexed. ²⁰ It reels as a drunkard and one oppressed with wine, and the earth shall be shaken as a storehouse of fruits; for iniquity has prevailed upon it, and it shall fall, and shall not be able to rise.

²⁴ I beheld the mountains, and they trembled, and I saw all the hills in commotion.

¹⁰ Before them the earth shall be confounded, and the sky shall be shaken: the sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their light.

^{6 (2:7)} For thus saith the Lord Almighty; Yet once I will shake the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;

^{21 (2:22)} Speak to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, of the tribe of Juda, saying, I shake the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;

²¹ And the Lord said to Moses, Stretch out thy hand to heaven, and let there be darkness over the land of Egypt — darkness that may be felt. 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.

¹² Then Joshua spoke to the Lord, in the day in which the Lord delivered the Amorite into the power of Israel, when he destroyed them in Gabaon, and they were destroyed from before the children of Israel: and Joshua said, Let the sun stand over against Gabaon, and the moon over against the valley of Aelon.

⁷ He seals up the hand of every man, that every man may know his own weakness.

¹² Or did I order the morning light in thy time; and did the morning star then first see his appointed place; ¹³ to lay hold of the extremities of the earth, to cast out the ungodly out of it? ¹⁴ Or didst thou take clay of the ground, and form a living creature, and set it with the power of speech upon the earth? ¹⁵ And hast thou removed light from the ungodly, and crushed the arm of the proud?

¹⁹ And in what kind of a land does the light dwell? and of what kind is the place of darkness? ²⁰ If thou couldest bring me to their utmost boundaries, and if also thou knowest their paths;

¹⁰ For the stars of heaven, and Orion, and all the host of heaven, shall not give their light; and it shall be dark at sunrise, and the moon shall not give her light.

⁷ And I will veil the heavens when thou art extinguished, and will darken the stars thereof; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. ⁸ All the bodies that give light in the sky, shall be darkened over thee, and I will bring darkness upon the earth, saith the Lord God.

^{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?

¹³ For, behold, I am he that strengthens the thunder, and creates the wind, and proclaims to men his Christ, forming the morning and the darkness, and mounting on the high places of the earth, The Lord God Almighty is his name.

⁹ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that the sun shall go down at noon, and the light shall be darkened on the earth by day:

⁶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water, and let it be a division between water and water, and it was so. ⁷ And God made the firmament, and God divided between the water which was under the firmament and the water which was above the firmament.

¹⁸ Wilt thou establish with him foundations for the ancient heavens? they are strong as a molten mirror.

¹¹ And I said to it, Hitherto shalt thou come, but thou shalt not go beyond, but thy waves shall be confined within thee.

¹⁶ Or hast thou gone to the source of the sea, and walked in the tracks of the deep?

^{6 (32:6)} By the word of the Lord the heavens were established; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

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

^{3 (92:3)} The rivers have lifted up, O Lord, the rivers have lifted up their voices, ^{4 (92:4)} at the voices of many waters: the billows of the sea are wonderful: the Lord is wonderful in high places.

^{2 (103:2)} who dost robe thyself with light as with a garment; spreading out the heaven as a curtain. ^{3 (103:3)} Who covers his chambers with waters; who makes the clouds his chariot; who walks on the wings of the wind.

²² It is he that comprehends the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants in it are as grasshoppers; he that set up the heaven as a chamber, and stretched it out as a tent to dwell in:

⁵ Thus saith the Lord God, who made the heaven, and established it; who settled the earth, and the things in it, and gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to them that tread on it:

²⁴ Thus saith the Lord that redeems thee, and who formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that performs all things: I stretched out the heaven alone, and established the earth.

¹¹ Thus shall ye say to them, Let the gods which have not made heaven and earth perish from off the earth, and from under this sky.

¹ The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel; saith the Lord, that stretches out the sky, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.

¹⁶ And God made the two great lights, the greater light for regulating the day and the lesser light for regulating the night, the stars also.

⁹ Troubles come on out of the secret chambers, and cold from the mountain-tops.

³¹ And dost thou understand the band of Pleias, and hast thou opened the barrier of Orion? ³² Or wilt thou reveal Mazuroth in his season, and the evening star with his rays? Wilt thou guide them? ³³ And knowest thou the changes of heaven, or the events which take place together under heaven? ³⁴ And wilt thou call a cloud with thy voice, and will it obey thee with a violent shower of much rain? ³⁵ And wilt thou send lightnings, and they shall go? and shall they say to thee, What is thy pleasure? ³⁶ And who has given to women skill in weaving, or knowledge of embroidery? ³⁷ And who is he that numbers the clouds in wisdom, and has bowed the heaven down to the earth? ³⁸ For it is spread out as dusty earth, and I have cemented it as one hewn stone to another. ³⁹ And wilt thou hunt a prey for the lions? and satisfy the desires of the serpents? ⁴⁰ For they fear in their lairs, and lying in wait couch in the woods. ⁴¹ And who has prepared food for the raven? for its young ones wander and cry to the Lord, in search of food.

^{3 (103:3)} Who covers his chambers with waters; who makes the clouds his chariot; who walks on the wings of the wind.

^{13 (103:13)} He waters the mountains from his chambers: the earth shall be satisfied with the fruit of thy works.

^{4 (146:4)} He numbers the multitudes of stars; and calls them all by names.

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:

¹¹ Who is like to thee among the gods, O Lord? who is like to thee? glorified in holiness, marvellous in glories, doing wonders.

⁹ who does great things and untraceable, glorious things also, and marvellous, of which there is no number:

¹² He has calmed the sea with his might, and by his wisdom the whale has been overthrown. ¹³ And the barriers of heaven fear him, and by a command he has slain the apostate dragon. ¹⁴ Behold, these are parts of his way; and we will hearken to him at the least intimation of his word: but the strength of his thunder who knows, when he shall employ it?

²³ and we do not find another his equal in strength: as for him that judges justly, dost thou not think that he listens?

^{15 (70:15)} My mouth shall declare thy righteousness openly, and thy salvation all the day; for I am not acquainted with the affairs of men.

^{18 (71:18)} Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, who alone does wonders.

^{4 (135:4)} To him who along has wrought great wonders: for his mercy endures for ever.

¹¹ All the things which he has made are beautiful in his time: he has also set the whole world in their heart, that man might not find out the work which God has wrought from the beginning even to the end.

²⁶ Lift up your eyes on high, and see, who has displayed all these things? even he that brings forth his host by number: he shall call them all by name by means of his great glory, and by the power of his might: nothing has escaped thee. 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.

^{2 (3:32)} It seemed good to me to declare to you the signs and wonders which the most high God has wrought with me, ^{3 (3:33)} how great and mighty they are: his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his power to all generations.

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.

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.

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

¹³ And if too he has thus judged, who is he that has contradicted, for he has both willed a thing and done it.

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:

⁹ What excellent thing have I prepared as clay of the potter? Will the ploughman plough the earth all say? shall the clay say to the potter, What art thou doing that thou dost not work, nor hast hands? shall the thing formed answer him that formed it?

⁶ Shall I not be able, O house of Israel, to do to you as this potter? behold, as the clay of the potter are ye in my hands.

¹² He has calmed the sea with his might, and by his wisdom the whale has been overthrown.

^{9 (40:4)} Hast thou an arm like the Lord's? or dost thou thunder with a voice like his? ^{10 (40:5)} Assume now a lofty bearing and power; and clothe thyself with glory and honour. ^{11 (40:6)} And send forth messengers with wrath; and lay low every haughty one.

^{10 (88:10)} Thou has brought down the proud as one that is slain; and with the arm of thy power thou has scattered thine enemies.

⁷ The Egyptians shall help you utterly in vain: tell them, This your consolation is vain.

² Therefore he has wisely brought evils upon them, and his word shall not be frustrated; and he shall rise up against the houses of wicked men, and against their vain hope, ³ even an Egyptian, a man, and not God; the flesh of horses, and there is no help in them: but the Lord shall bring his hand upon them, and the helpers shall fail, and all shall perish together.

⁹ Awake, awake, O Jerusalem, and put on the strength of thine arm; awake as in the early time, as the ancient generation.

²⁷ But will God indeed dwell with men upon the earth? if the heaven and heaven of heavens will not suffice thee, how much less even this house which I have built to thy name?

¹⁹ But as for them that dwell in houses of clay, of whom we also are formed of the same clay, he smites them like a moth.

³ For if he would enter into judgment with him, God would not hearken to him, so that he should answer to one of his charges of a thousand.

⁴ For say not, I am pure in my works, and blameless before him. ⁵ But oh that the Lord would speak to thee, and open his lips to thee!

⁴ And I would plead my own cause, and he would fill my mouth with arguments.

⁷ for truth and reproof are from him; and he would bring forth my judgment to an end.

⁶ But alas! man is corruption, and the son of man a worm.

⁵ If thou canst, give me an answer: wait therefore; stand against me, and I will stand against thee.

³⁸ every prayer, every supplication whatever shall be made by any man, as they shall know each the plague of his heart, and shall spread abroad his hands to this house, ³⁹ then shalt thou hearken from heaven, out of thine established dwelling-place, and shalt be merciful, and shalt do, and recompense to every man according to his ways, as thou shalt know his heart, for thou alone knowest the heart of all the children of men:

¹³ and he prayed to him: and he hearkened to him, and listened to his cry, and brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom: and Manasses knew that the Lord he is God.

⁸ Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the sovereign of all;

⁵ But be thou early in prayer to the Lord Almighty.

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.

²⁷ And he shall hear thee when thou prayest to him, and he shall grant thee power to pay thy vows.

³¹ For there is one that says to the Mighty One, I have received blessings; I will not take a pledge: ³² I will see apart from myself: do thou shew me if I have done unrighteousness; I will not do so any more.

^{9 (38:9)} They went forth with weeping, and I will bring them back with consolation, causing them to lodge by the channels of waters in a straight way, and they shall not err in it: for I am become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born.

³ And I set my face toward the Lord God, to seek him diligently by prayer and supplications, with fastings and sackcloth.

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.

⁹ And Moses spoke thus to the sons of Israel, and they hearkened not to Moses for faint-heartedness, and for their hard tasks.

¹³ And Gedeon said to him, Be gracious with me, my Lord: but if the Lord is with us, why have these evils found us? and where are all his miracles, which our fathers have related to us, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt? and now he has cast us out, and given us into the hand of Madiam.

²⁴ Were I to laugh on them, they would not believe it; and the light of my face has not failed.

^{6 (17:6)} And when I was afflicted I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of this holy temple, and my cry shall enter before him, even into his ears.

^{18 (65:18)} If I have regarded iniquity in my heart, let not the Lord hearken to me. ^{19 (65:19)} Therefore God has hearkened to me; he has attended to the voice of my prayer. ^{20 (65:20)} Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.

^{1 (115:1)} Alleluia. I am well pleased, because the Lord will hearken to the voice of my supplication. ^{2 (115:2)} Because he has inclined his ear to me, therefore will I call upon him while I live.

^{1 (125:1)} A Song of Degrees. When the Lord turned the captivity of Sion, we became as comforted ones.

¹⁴ And, behold, there came a messenger to job, and said to him, The yokes of oxen were ploughing, and the she-asses were feeding near them; 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. ¹⁶ While he was yet speaking, there came another messenger, and said to Job, Fire has fallen from heaven, and burnt up the sheep, and devoured the shepherds like wise; 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. ¹⁸ While he is yet speaking, another messenger comes, saying to Job, While thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking with their elder brother, ¹⁹ suddenly a great wind came on from the desert, and caught the four corners of the house, and the house fell upon thy children, and they are dead; and I have escaped alone, and am come to tell thee.

³ And the Lord said to the devil, Hast thou then observed my servant Job, that there is none of men upon the earth like him, a harmless, true, blameless, godly man, abstaining from all evil? and he yet cleaves to innocence, whereas thou has told me to destroy his substance without cause?

⁷ So the devil went out from the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from his feet to his head.

¹³ and they sat down beside him seven days and seven nights, and no one of them spoke; for they saw that his affliction was dreadful and very great.

^{12 (16:13)} When I was at peace he distracted me: he took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: he set me up as a mark.

^{14 (16:15)} They overthrew me with fall upon fall: they ran upon me in their might.

^{17 (16:18)} Yet there was no injustice in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

²² And thou hast put me to grief, and hast cast me away from safety.

⁶ And he has erred in my judgment: my wound is severe without unrighteousness of mine.

^{3 (24:3)} For none of them that wait on thee shall in any wise be ashamed: let them be ashamed that transgress without cause.

^{5 (28:5)} There is the voice of the Lord who breaks the cedars; the Lord will break the cedars of Libanus.

^{7 (41:7)} Deep calls to deep at the voice of thy cataracts: all thy billows and thy waves have gone over me.

^{15 (82:15)} so shalt thou persecute them with thy tempest, and trouble them in thine anger.

¹⁷ And I will cause judgement to be for hope, and my compassion shall be for just measures, and ye that trust vainly in falsehood shall fall: for the storm shall by no means pass by you,

¹⁹ Behold, there is an earthquake from the Lord, and anger proceeds to a convulsion, it shall come violently upon the ungodly.

¹³ Therefore thus saith the Lord; I will even cause to burst forth a sweeping blast with fury, and there shall be a flooding rain in my wrath; and in my fury I will bring on great stones for complete destruction.

²⁰ For why is light given to those who are in bitterness, and life to those souls which are in griefs?

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

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

^{13 (38:13)} Spare me, that I may be refreshed, before I depart, and be no more.

^{7 (87:7)} Thy wrath has pressed heavily upon me, and thou hast brought upon me all thy billows. Pause.

^{15 (87:15)} I am poor and in troubles from my youth; and having been exalted, I was brought low and into despair. ^{16 (87:16)} Thy wrath has passed over me; and thy terrors have greatly disquieted me. ^{17 (87:17)} They compassed me like water; all the day they beset me together. ^{18 (87:18)} Thou hast put far from me every friend, and mine acquaintances because of my wretchedness.

³ Nay, against me has he turned his hand all the day.

¹⁵ VAU. He has filled me with bitterness, he has drenched me with gall.

¹⁸ Therefore my success has perished, and my hope from the Lord. ¹⁹ ZAIN. I remembered by reason of my poverty, and because of persecution my bitterness and gall shall be remembered;

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

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,

⁵ If thou canst, give me an answer: wait therefore; stand against me, and I will stand against thee. ⁶ Thou art formed out of the clay as also I: we have been formed out of the same substance. ⁷ My fear shall not terrify thee, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee.

¹⁷ there is a deep gulf and a rushing stream beneath it, and thy table came down full of fatness. Judgment shall not fail from the righteous; ¹⁸ but there shall be wrath upon the ungodly, by reason of the ungodliness of the bribes which they received for iniquities. ¹⁹ Let not thy mind willingly turn thee aside from the petition of the feeble that are in distress.

^{9 (40:4)} Hast thou an arm like the Lord's? or dost thou thunder with a voice like his? ^{10 (40:5)} Assume now a lofty bearing and power; and clothe thyself with glory and honour.

^{11 (61:11)} God has spoken once, and I have heard these two things, that power is of God;

¹ There was a certain man in the land of Ausis, whose name was Job; and than man was true, blameless, righteous, and godly, abstaining from everything evil.

² I know of a truth that it is so: for how shall a mortal man be just before the Lord?

⁵ Thou art guilty by the words of thy mouth, neither hast thou discerned the words of the mighty. ⁶ Let thine own mouth, and not me, reprove thee: and thy lips shall testify against thee.

¹ And his three friends also ceased any longer to answer Job: for Job was righteous before them. ² Then Elius the son of Barachiel, the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram, of the country of Ausis, was angered: and he was very angry with Job, because he justified himself before the Lord.

⁸ But thou hast said in mine ears, (I have heard the voice of thy words;) because thou sayest, I am pure, not having sinned; ⁹ I am blameless, for I have not transgressed. ¹⁰ Yet he has discovered a charge against me, and he has reckoned me as an adversary. ¹¹ And he has put my foot in the stocks, and has watched all my ways. ¹² For how sayest thou, I am righteous, yet he has not hearkened to me? for he that is above mortals is eternal. ¹³ But thou sayest, Why has he not heard every word of my cause?

³⁵ But Job has not spoken with understanding, his words are not uttered with knowledge.

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

¹⁹ By a multitude of words thou shalt not escape sin; but if thou refrain thy lips thou wilt be prudent.

²⁰ and the hard-hearted man comes not in for good. A man of a changeful tongue will fall into mischiefs;

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.

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.

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.

^{23 (138:23)} Prove me, O God, and know my heart; examine me, and know my paths; ^{24 (138:24)} and see if there is any way of iniquity in me, and lead me in an everlasting way.

²⁶ He that trusts to a bold heart, such an one is a fool: but he that walks in wisdom shall be safe.

⁹ The heart is deep beyond all things, and it is the man, and who can know him? ¹⁰ I the Lord try the hearts, and prove the reins, to give to every one according to his ways, and according to the fruits of his devices.

⁸ Thy hands have formed me and made me; afterwards thou didst change thy mind, and smite me.

¹ I saw that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: yea, there is no man that knows either love or hatred, though all are before their face. ² Vanity is in all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good, and to the bad; both to the pure, and to the impure; both to him that sacrifices, and to him that sacrifice not: as is the good, so is the sinner: as is the swearer, even so is he that fears an oath. ³ There is this evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yea, the heart of the sons of men is filled with evil, and madness is in their heart during their life, and after that they go to the dead.

³ and thou shalt say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, and I will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and I will destroy out of thee the transgressor and unrighteous. ⁴ Because I will destroy out of thee the unrighteous and the transgressor, therefore so shall my sword come forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:

¹⁵ And now whereas I came to speak this word to my lord the king, the reason is that the people will see me, and thy handmaid will say, Let one now speak to my lord the king, if peradventure the king will perform the request of his handmaid;

¹⁷ And the woman said, If now the word of my lord the king be gracious, — well: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king, to hear good and evil: and the Lord thy God shall be with thee.

¹³ And it came to pass on a certain day, that Job's sons and his daughters were drinking wine in the house of their elder brother.

⁷ Remember then who has perished, being pure? or when were the true-hearted utterly destroyed?

²⁰ For the Lord will by no means reject the harmless man; but he will not receive any gift of the ungodly.

¹² Who have cast forth the poor from the city and their own houses, and the soul of the children has groaned aloud.

^{22 (43:22)} For, for thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for slaughter.

¹⁹ Or if again I send pestilence upon that land, and pour out my wrath upon it in blood, to destroy from off it man and beast: ²⁰ and should Noe, and Daniel, and Job, be in the midst of it, as I live, saith the Lord, there shall be left them neither sons nor daughters; only they by their righteousness shall deliver their souls. ²¹ Thus saith the Lord, And if I even send upon Jerusalem my four sore judgements, sword, and famine, and evil beasts, and pestilence, to destroy from out of it man and beast;

¹³ and what if even the tribe be rejected? it shall not be, saith the Lord God.

³⁰ And David went up by the ascent of the mount of Olives, ascending and weeping, and had his head covered, and went barefooted: and all the people that were with him covered every man his head; and they went up, ascending and weeping.

⁴ And the king hid his face: and the king cried with a loud voice, My son Abessalom! Abessalom my son!

¹² And Mardochaeus returned to the palace: but Aman went home mourning, and having his head covered.

⁸ And the king returned from the garden; and Aman had fallen upon the bed, intreating the queen. And the king said, Wilt thou even force my wife in my house? And when Aman heard it, he changed countenance.

³ Is it good before thee if I be unrighteous? for thou hast disowned the work of thy hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly.

⁶ even as many as provoke the Lord, as if there were indeed to be no inquisition made of them. ⁷ But ask now the beasts, if they may speak to thee; and the birds of the air, if they may declare to thee. ⁸ Tell the earth, if it may speak to thee: and the fishes of the sea shall explain to thee. ⁹ Who then has not known in all these things, that the hand of the Lord has made them? ¹⁰ Whereas the life of all living things is in his hand, and the breath of every man.

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

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

⁷ Wherefore do the ungodly live, and grow old even in wealth? ⁸ Their seed is according to their desire, and their children are in their sight. ⁹ Their houses are prosperous, neither have they any where cause for fear, neither is there a scourge from the Lord upon them. ¹⁰ Their cow does not cast her calf, and their beast with young is safe, and does not miscarry. ¹¹ And they remain as an unfailing flock, and their children play before them, taking up the psaltery and harp; ¹² and they rejoice at the voice of a song. ¹³ And they spend their days in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of the grave. ¹⁴ Yet such a man says to the Lord, Depart from me; I desire not to know thy ways. ¹⁵ What is the Mighty One, that we should serve him? and what profit is there that we should approach him?

²⁵ But if not, who is he that says I speak falsely, and will make my words of no account?

^{14 (16:14)} because of the enemies of thine hand: O Lord, destroy them from the earth; scatter them in their life, though their belly has been filled with thy hidden treasures: they have been satisfied with uncleanness, and have left the remnant of their possessions to their babes.

^{3 (72:3)} For I was jealous of the transgressors, beholding the tranquility of sinners. ^{4 (72:4)} For there is no sign of reluctance in their death: and they have firmness under their affliction. ^{5 (72:5)} They are not in the troubles of other men; and they shall not be scourged with other men. ^{6 (72:6)} Therefore pride has possessed them; they have clothed themselves with their injustice and ungodliness. ^{7 (72:7)} Their injustice shall go forth as out of fatness: they have fulfilled their intention.

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? ² Thou hast planted them, and they have taken root; they have begotten children, and become fruitful; thou art near to their mouth, and far from their reins.

⁴ And the labours of the land failed, because there was no rain: the husbandmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

^{17 (4:14)} The matter is by the decree of the watcher, and the demand is a word of the holy ones; that the living may known that the Lord is most high over the kingdom of men, and he will give it to whomsoever he shall please, and will set up over it that which is set at nought of men.

¹⁸ O king, the most high God gave to thy father Nabuchodonosor a kingdom, and majesty, and honour, and glory: ¹⁹ and by reason of the majesty which he gave to him, all nations, tribes, and languages trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he smote; and whom he would he exalted; and whom he would he abased. ²⁰ But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was emboldened to act proudly, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his honour was taken from him. ²¹ And he was driven forth from men; and his heart was given him after the nature of wild beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses; and they fed him with grass as an ox, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven; until he knew that the most high God is Lord of the kingdom of men, and will give it to whomsoever he shall please.

⁷ After this one I looked, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and exceedingly strong, and its teeth were of iron; devouring and crushing to atoms, and it trampled the remainder with its feet: and it was altogether different from the beasts that were before it; and it had ten hours. ⁸ I noticed his horns, and behold, another little horn came up in the midst of them, and before it three of the former horns were rooted out: and, behold, there were eyes as the eyes of a man in this horn, and a mouth speaking great things. ⁹ I beheld until the thrones were set, and the Ancient of days sat; and his raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his head, as pure wool: his throne was a flame of fire, and his wheels burning fire. ¹⁰ A stream of fire rushed forth before him: thousand thousands ministered to him, and ten thousands of myriads, attended upon him: the judgment sat, and the books were opened. ¹¹ I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which that horn spoke, until the wild beast was slain and destroyed, and his body given to be burnt with fire. ¹² And the dominion of the rest of the wild beasts was taken away; but a prolonging of life was given them for certain times. ¹³ I beheld in the night vision, and, lo, one coming with the clouds of heaven as the Son of man, and he came on to the Ancient of days, and was brought near to him. ¹⁴ And to him was given the dominion, and the honour, and the kingdom; and all nations, tribes, and languages, shall serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom shall not be destroyed. ¹⁵ As for me Daniel, my spirit in my body trembled, and the visions of my head troubled me. ¹⁶ And I drew near to one of them that stood by, and I sought to learn of him the truth of all these things: and he told me the truth, and made known to me the interpretation of the things. ¹⁷ These four beasts are four kingdoms that shall rise up on the earth: ¹⁸ which shall be taken away; and the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom, and possess it for ever and ever. ¹⁹ Then I enquired carefully concerning the fourth beast; for it differed from every other beast, exceeding dreadful: its teeth were of iron, and its claws of brass, devouring, and utterly breaking to pieces, and it trampled the remainder with its feet: ²⁰ and concerning it ten horns that were in its head, and the other that came up, and rooted up some of the former, which had eyes, and a mouth speaking great things, and his look was bolder than the rest. ²¹ I beheld, and that horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; ²² until the Ancient of days came, and he gave judgment to the saints of the Most High; and the time came on, and the saints possessed the kingdom. ²³ And he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom on the earth, which shall excel all other kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and trample and destroy it. ²⁴ And his ten horns are ten kings that shall arise: and after them shall arise another, who shall exceed all the former ones in wickedness and he shall subdue three kings. ²⁵ And he shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change times and law: and power shall be given into his hand for a time and times and half a time. ²⁶ And the judgment has sat, and they shall remove his dominion to abolish it, and to destroy it utterly. ²⁷ And the kingdom and the power and the greatness of the kings that are under the whole heaven were given to the saints of the Most High; and his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all powers shall serve and obey him. ²⁸ Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my thoughts greatly troubled me, and my countenance was changed: but I kept the matter in my heart.

¹⁴ And wilt thou make men as the fishes of the sea, and as the reptiles which have no guide? ¹⁵ He has brought up destruction with a hook, and drawn one with a casting net, and caught another in his drags: therefore shall his heart rejoice and be glad. ¹⁶ Therefore will he sacrifice to his drag, and burn incense to his casting-net, because by them he has made his portion fat, and his meats choice. ¹⁷ Therefore will he cast his net, and will not spare to slay the nations continually.

¹⁴ So the horsemen went forth with haste to perform the king's commands; and the ordinance was also published in Susa.

⁶ And my life is lighter than a word, and has perished in vain hope. ⁷ Remember then that my life is breath, and mine eye shalt not yet again see good.

^{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.

^{11 (38:11)} Thou chastenest man with rebukes for iniquity, and thou makest his life to consume away like a spider's web; nay, every man is disquieted in vain. Pause.

^{47 (88:47)} Remember what my being is: for hast thou created all the sons of men in vain?

^{9 (89:9)} For all our days are gone, and we have passed away in thy wrath: our years have spun out their tale as a spider. ^{10 (89:10)} As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years; and if men should be in strength, eighty years: and the greater part of them would be labour and trouble; for weakness overtakes us, and we shall be chastened.

²³ Saul and Jonathan, the beloved and the beautiful, were not divided: comely were they in their life, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, and they were stronger than lions.

²⁷ And does the eagle rise at thy command, and the vulture remain sitting over his nest, ²⁸ on a crag of a rock, and in a secret place? ²⁹ Thence he seeks food, his eyes observe from far. ³⁰ And his young ones roll themselves in blood, and wherever the carcasses may be, immediately they are found.

⁵ If thou shouldest fix thine eye upon him, he will disappear; for wings like an eagle's are prepared for him, and he returns to the house of his master.

² He sends messengers by the sea, and paper letters on the water: for swift messengers shall go to a lofty nation, and to a strange and harsh people. Who is beyond it? a nation not looked for, and trodden down.

¹³ Behold, he shall come up as a cloud, and his chariots as a tempest: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are in misery.

¹⁹ Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky, they flew on the mountains, in the wilderness they laid wait for us.

⁸ And his horses shall bound more swiftly than leopards, and they are fiercer than the wolves of Arabia: and his horsemen shall ride forth, and shall rush from far; and they shall fly as an eagle hasting to eat.

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.

¹³ I said that my bed should comfort me, and I would privately counsel with myself on my couch.

^{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.

¹⁸ mortally with the pain of your distressed heart.

⁷ Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord thy God will not acquit him that takes his name in vain.

²⁵ For the terror of which I meditated has come upon me, and that which I had feared has befallen me.

²⁰ For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane: and though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse. ²¹ For even if I have sinned, I know it not in my soul: but my life is taken away.

¹⁴ And if I should sin, thou watchest me; and thou hast not cleared me from iniquity.

¹⁶ But thou hast numbered my devices: and not one of my sins shall escape thee?

⁶ For even when I remember, I am alarmed, and pains seize my flesh.

^{15 (87:15)} I am poor and in troubles from my youth; and having been exalted, I was brought low and into despair. ^{16 (87:16)} Thy wrath has passed over me; and thy terrors have greatly disquieted me.

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

²² Wherefore I said, Wrath slays the great and mighty man.

⁷ For thou knowest that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of thy hands?

¹⁴ And if I should sin, thou watchest me; and thou hast not cleared me from iniquity. 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. ¹⁶ For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again thou hast changed and art terribly destroying me; ¹⁷ renewing against me my torture: and thou hast dealt with me in great anger, and thou hast brought trials upon me.

¹⁶ For their good things were in their hands, but he regards not the works of the ungodly. ¹⁷ Nevertheless, the lamp of the ungodly also shall be put out, and destruction shall come upon them, and pangs of vengeance shall seize them.

²⁷ So I know you, that ye presumptuously attack me:

⁵ Is not thy wickedness abundant, and thy sins innumerable? ⁶ And thou hast taken security of thy brethren for nothing, and hast taken away the clothing of the naked. ⁷ Neither hast thou given water to the thirsty to drink, but hast taken away the morsel of the hungry. ⁸ And thou hast accepted the persons of some; and thou hast established those that were already settled on the earth. ⁹ But thou hast sent widows away empty, and has afflicted orphans. ¹⁰ Therefore snares have compassed thee, and disastrous war has troubled thee. ¹¹ The light has proved darkness to thee, and water has covered thee on thy lying down. ¹² Does not he that dwells in the high places observe? and has he not brought down the proud? ¹³ And thou has said, What does the Mighty One know? does he judge in the dark? ¹⁴ A cloud is his hiding-place, and he shall not be seen; and he passes through the circle of heaven. ¹⁵ Wilt thou not mark the old way, which righteous men have trodden? ¹⁶ who were seized before their time: their foundations are as an overflowing stream. ¹⁷ Who say, What will the Lord do to us? or what will the Almighty bring upon us? ¹⁸ Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel for the wicked is far from him. ¹⁹ The righteous have seen it, and laughed, and the blameless one has derided them. ²⁰ Verily their substance has been utterly destroyed, and the fire shall devour what is left of their property. ²¹ Be firm, I pray thee, if thou canst endure; then thy fruit shall prosper. ²² And receive a declaration from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart. ²³ And if thou shalt turn and humble thyself before the Lord, thou hast thus removed unrighteousness far from thy habitation. ²⁴ Thou shalt lay up for thyself treasure in a heap on the rock; and Sophir shall be as the rock of the torrent. 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. ²⁶ Then shalt thou have boldness before the Lord, looking up cheerfully to heaven. ²⁷ And he shall hear thee when thou prayest to him, and he shall grant thee power to pay thy vows. ²⁸ And he shall establish to thee again a habitation of righteousness and there shall be light upon thy paths. ²⁹ Because thou hast humbled thyself; and thou shalt say, Man has behaved proudly, but he shall save him that is of lowly eyes. ³⁰ He shall deliver the innocent, and do thou save thyself by thy pure hands.

^{33 (36:33)} But the Lord will not leave him in his hands, nor by any means condemn him when he is judged.

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

³⁵ Yet thou saidst, I am innocent: only let his wrath be turned away from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, whereas thou sayest, I have not sinned.

⁷ if my foot has turned aside out of the way, or if mine heart has followed mine eye, and if too I have touched gifts with my hands;

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

¹³ He that covers his own ungodliness shall not prosper: but he that blames himself shall be loved.

¹⁶ Wash you, be clean; remove your iniquities from your souls before mine eyes; cease from your iniquities; ¹⁷ learn to do well; diligently seek judgement, deliver him that is suffering wrong, plead for the orphan, and obtain justice for the widow. 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.

²² Though thou shouldest wash thyself with nitre, and multiply to thyself soap, still thou art stained by thine iniquities before me, saith the Lord.

¹⁴ Cleanse thine heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that thou mayest be saved: how long will thy grievous thoughts be within thee?

⁶ Let thine own mouth, and not me, reprove thee: and thy lips shall testify against thee.

⁶ Their web shall not become a garment, nor shall they at all clothe themselves with their works; for their works are works of iniquity.

⁶ and we are all become as unclean, and all our righteousness as a filthy rag: and we have fallen as leaves because of our iniquities; thus the wind shall carry us away.

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?

⁷ But the Lord said to Samuel, Look not on his appearance, nor on his stature, for I have rejected him; for God sees not as man looks; for man looks at the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart.

¹⁸ Behold, I am near my judgment: I know that I shall appear evidently just. ¹⁹ For who is he that shall plead with me, that I should now be silent, and expire? ²⁰ But grant me two things: then I will not hide myself from thy face. ²¹ Withhold thine hand from me: and let not thy fear terrify 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.

¹² For how sayest thou, I am righteous, yet he has not hearkened to me? for he that is above mortals is eternal.

⁵ If thou hast sinned, what wilt thou do? ⁶ and if too thou hast transgressed much, what canst thou perform? ⁷ And suppose thou art righteous, what wilt thou give him? or what shall he receive of thy hand?

¹⁰ If anything has been, its name has already been called: and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is stronger than he.

^{19 (29:19)} Behold, he shall come up as a lion out of the midst of Jordan to the place of Aetham: for I will speedily drive them from it, and do ye set the young men against her: for who is like me? and who will withstand me? and who is this shepherd, who shall confront me?

²⁵ If a man should at all sin against another, then shall they pray for him to the Lord; but if a man sin against the Lord, who shall intreat for him? But they hearkened not to the voice of their father, because the Lord would by all means destroy them.

¹⁶ Then there appeared two harlots before the king, and they stood before him. ¹⁷ And the one woman said, Hear me, my lord; I and this woman dwelt in one house, and we were delivered in the house. ¹⁸ And it came to pass on the third day after I was delivered, this woman also was delivered: and we were together; and there was no one with us besides our two selves in the house. ¹⁹ And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it. ²⁰ and she arose in the middle of the night, and took my son from my arms, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom. ²¹ and I arose in the morning to suckle my son, and he was dead: and, behold, I considered him in the morning, and, behold, it was not my son whom I bore. ²² And the other woman said, No, but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. So they spoke before the king. ²³ and the king said to them, Thou sayest, This is my son, even the living one, and this woman's son is the dead one: and thou sayest, No, but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. ²⁴ And the king said, Fetch a sword. And they brought a sword before the king. ²⁵ And the king said, Divide the live child, the suckling, in two; and give half of it to one, and half of it to the other. ²⁶ And the woman whose the living child was, answered and said to the king, (for her bowels yearned over her son) and she said, I pray thee, my lord, give her the child, and in nowise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor hers; divide it. ²⁷ Then the king answered and said, Give the child to her that said, æGive it to her, and by no means slay it:' she is its mother. ²⁸ and all Israel heard this judgement which the king judged, and they feared before the king; because they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to execute judgement.

^{23 (105:23)} So he said that he would have destroyed them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn him away from the fierceness of his anger, so that he should not destroy them.

¹¹ shall not his whirlpool sweep you round, and terror from him fall upon you?

²⁰ But grant me two things: then I will not hide myself from thy face. ²¹ Withhold thine hand from me: and let not thy fear terrify me. ²² Then shalt thou call, and I will hearken to thee: or thou shalt speak, and I will give thee an answer.

^{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.

² Oh that I were as in months past, wherein God preserved me! ³ As when his lamp shone over my head; when by his light I walked through darkness. ⁴ As when I steadfastly pursued my ways, when God took care of my house. ⁵ When I was very fruitful, and my children were about me; ⁶ when my ways were moistened with butter, and the mountains flowed for me with milk. ⁷ When I went forth early in the city, and the seat was placed for me in the streets. ⁸ The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and all the old men stood up. ⁹ And the great men ceased speaking, and laid their finger on their mouth. ¹⁰ And they that heard me blessed me, and their tongue clave to their throat. ¹¹ For the ear heard, and blessed me; and the eye saw me, and turned aside. ¹² For I saved the poor out of the hand of the oppressor, and helped the fatherless who had no helper. ¹³ Let the blessing of the perishing one come upon me; yea, the mouth of the widow has blessed me. ¹⁴ Also I put on righteousness, and clothed myself with judgment like a mantle. ¹⁵ I was the eye of the blind, and the foot of the lame. ¹⁶ I was the father of the helpless; and I searched out the cause which I knew not. ¹⁷ And I broke the jaw-teeth of the unrighteous; I plucked the spoil out of the midst of their teeth. ¹⁸ And I said, My age shall continue as the stem of a palm-tree; I shall live a long while. ¹⁹ My root was spread out by the water, and the dew would lodge on my crop. ²⁰ My glory was fresh in me, and by bow prospered in his hand. ²¹ Men heard me, and gave heed, and they were silent at my counsel. ²² At my word they spoke not again, and they were very gland whenever I spoke to them. ²³ As the thirsty earth expecting the rain, so they waited for my speech. ²⁴ Were I to laugh on them, they would not believe it; and the light of my face has not failed. ²⁵ I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the midst of warriors, as one comforting mourners.

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

⁷ My fear shall not terrify thee, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee.

¹ At this also my heart is troubled, and moved out of its place.

^{10 (38:10)} Remove thy scourges from me: I have fainted by reason of the strength of thine hand.

^{11 (89:11)} Who knows the power of thy wrath?