Job 15:13 Cross References - CLV

¹³ That you should reverse your spirit against El And send forth these declarations from your mouth?

⁴ He is wise in heart and resolute in vigor; Who has stiffened himself against Him and fared well?

³ Is it good to You that You should work harm, That You should reject the labor of Your palms, And that You shine on the counsel of the wicked?

⁶ The tents of devastators are at ease, And for those disturbing El there is serenity, For him who brings along an eloah in his hand.

²⁵ For he has stretched his hand out against El, And he makes himself masterful against Him Who Suffices. ²⁶ He runs against Him with neck armor, With his thickly bossed shields. ²⁷ For he has covered his face with his fat, And he makes his hips big with fat blubber pads.

¹³ Preserve your tongue from evil And your lips from speaking deceit.

¹³ Your words are steadfast against Me, says Yahweh. Yet you say, What do we speak against You?

⁷ because the disposition of the flesh is enmity to God, for it is not subject to the law of God, for neither is it able." ⁸ Now those who are in flesh are not able to please God.

²⁶ If anyone is seeming to be a ritualist, not bridling his tongue, but seducing his heart, the ritual of this one is vain,

² For we all are tripping much. If anyone is not tripping in word, this one is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also." ³ Now if we are thrusting the horses' bits into their mouths, so that they are yielding to us, we are steering their whole body also with it." ⁴ Lo! the ships also, being of such proportions, and driven by hard winds, are being steered by the least rudder, wherever the impulse of the helmsman is intending." ⁵ Thus the tongue, also, is a little member and is grandiloquent. Lo! What amount of fire is kindling what amount of material!" ⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of injustice. The tongue is constituted among our members that which is spotting the whole body, and setting the wheel of our lineage aflame, and is set aflame by Gehenna."