Job 17 Cross References - CLV

¹ My spirit is devitalized; My days are extinct; The tombs are ready for me. ² Assuredly, captious men are all around me, And my eye lodges all night upon their bitterness. ³ Lay down, I pray, surety for me with Yourself; Who is he that would clasp my hand in pledge? ⁴ For You have secluded their heart from intelligence; Therefore, You shall not exalt them. ⁵ Such a one is telling his associates to share a portion with him, While the eyes of his own sons are failing. ⁶ And he has put me down as a proverb to the people, So that I become one spit at to the face. ⁷ My eye grows dim from vexation, And my members, all of them, are like a shadow. ⁸ Upright men are appalled at this, And the innocent man rouses himself against the polluted, ⁹ But the righteous one holds to his way, And the one of clean hands continues in resoluteness. ¹⁰ Howbeit, all of you, come forward again, I pray; Though I shall not find a wise man among you. ¹¹ My days have passed; My plans are pulled apart, Even the proposal of my heart. ¹² They convert night into day, Making light seem near in the face of darkness. ¹³ Since I expect the unseen as my house, I will strew out my berth in darkness;" ¹⁴ I will call out to the grave, My father are you, To the worm, My mother and my sister. ¹⁵ Where indeed is my expectation? And my good hope, who shall regard it? ¹⁶ Shall they descend by my side to the unseen, Or will our rest be together in the soil?

⁵ Said not he to me, `My sister is she'? And she, moreover, said, `My brother is he.' In the sincerity of my heart and in the innocency of my palms, I did this.

²⁷ Why hide to run away and steal from me, and not tell me, that I could send you with rejoicing and with songs and with tambourine and with harp?

⁹ I will be surety for him. From my hand shall you seek him. Should I not bring him to you and put him before you, then I sin against you all my days.

³² For your servant became surety for the youth with my father, saying, `Should I not bring him to you and set him before you, I sin against my father all my days..

⁵ You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor be made to serve them, for I, Yahweh your Elohim, am a jealous El, visiting the depravity of the fathers on the sons, on the third and on the fourth generation, to those hating Me,

⁶⁵ And among those nations you shall neither find respite, nor shall there be a resting place for the sole of your foot, and Yahweh will give to you there a disturbed heart, a failure of the eyes and pining of the soul.

⁶⁷ In the morning you shall say:O that it were evening! And in the evening you shall say:O that it were morning! because of the awe of your heart with which you shall be afraid and because of the sight of your eyes which you shall see.

⁶ and her adversity has also provoked her greatly, so as to make her tremble, for Yahweh has shut up her womb. ⁷ And so he does year by year, from the time of her going up into the house of Yahweh, so it provokes her, and she weeps, and does not eat.

³¹ and David declared, saying, `Ahithophel [is] among the conspirators with Absalom;' and David said, `Make foolish, I pray You, the counsel of Ahithophel, O Yahweh..

¹⁴ And Absalom said--and all the men of Israel--`Better [is] the counsel of Hushai the Archite than the counsel of Ahithophel;' and Yahweh willed to make void the good counsel of Ahithophel for the sake of Yahweh's bringing unto Absalom the evil.

⁷ then I have cut off Israel from the face of the ground that I have given to them, and the house that I have hallowed for My name I send away from My presence, and Israel has been for a simile and for a byword among all the peoples;"

¹² `Only, in your days I do it not, for the sake of David your father; out of the hand of your son I rend it;"

¹⁶ And it comes to pass, in his speaking unto him, that he said to him, `For a counsellor to the king have we appointed you? cease for you; why do they smite you?' And the prophet ceases, and said, `I have known that Elohim has counselled to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not hearkened to my counsel..

¹³ For now I would lie and be quiet; I would sleep; then there would be rest for me,

¹⁷ There the wicked leave off all disturbance, And there those wearied from vigor are resting. ¹⁸ Prisoners are tranquil together; They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster. ¹⁹ Small or great, he is there, And the servant is free from his lords.

⁶ Is not your pious fear your confidence, And your flawless ways your expectation?

¹¹ What is my vigor that I should wait? And what is my end that I should prolong my soul?

²⁹ Relent, I pray; let it not become iniquity, And relent further; my righteousness is at stake in it.

³ So am I allotted months of futility for me, And nights of misery have they assigned to me. ⁴ When I lie down, then I say, When shall I rise? Yet the evening measures on, And I am surfeited with restlessness until the morning gloaming.

⁶ My days are fleeter than a weaver's shuttle, And they shall conclude with the limit of the weaving thread.

¹³ For I said, My cot shall comfort me; My bed shall bear away my concern;" ¹⁴ Yet You have dismayed me with dreams, And You have frightened me with visions.

²⁵ My days are fleeter than a runner; They race away without having seen good. ²⁶ They pass on like ships of bulrush, Like the vulture that pounces down on its food.

³³ There is not any arbitrator between us, Who could set his hand on us both.

²¹ Ere I go away and not return, To a country of darkness and the blackest shadow, ²² A country of such faintness as deepest gloom, Of blackest shadow without order, And which shines like deepest gloom.

²⁰ Yet the eyes of the wicked shall be exhausted, And flight to safety will perish for them And their expectation become their expiring soul.

² Truly, you are the people, And with you wisdom shall die!"

⁴ As the sport of his associates am I becoming, Who was calling to Eloah, and He answered him, Made sport of, though righteous and flawless.

⁹ Would it be well if He were investigating you? Could you trifle with Him as one trifles with a mortal?

¹⁵ Behold, He may despatch me, yet I shall wait for Him; Yea, I shall plead my ways before His face.

²⁸ A man, he, like a rotten thing, he is disintegrating, Like a cloak when a moth has eaten it.

¹⁴ If a master dies shall he live again? All the days of my enlistment I shall wait Until my relief comes.

⁹ What do you know that we do not know, Or understand, and it is not with us?

⁸ And You arrest me. This has become the testimony against me, And it rises against me:That is, my emaciation answers against my face.

¹⁶ My face is swollen out from weeping, And on my eyelids is the blackest shadow.

²⁰ My associates are my mockers; My eye weeps forth to Eloah,

¹ My spirit is devitalized; My days are extinct; The tombs are ready for me.

⁴ For You have secluded their heart from intelligence; Therefore, You shall not exalt them.

¹³ Since I expect the unseen as my house, I will strew out my berth in darkness;" ¹⁴ I will call out to the grave, My father are you, To the worm, My mother and my sister.

¹³ His skin shall be eaten by sickness; The firstborn of death shall eat his organs. ¹⁴ He shall be pulled away from his tent where his trust had dwelt; And it makes him march to the king of decay.

¹⁰ He breaks me down round about, so that I go away, And He uproots my expectation like a tree.

¹⁷ My scent has become alien to my wife, And my supplicating foreign to the sons of my belly.

²⁶ And behind my skin I will stand erect, And from my flesh I shall perceive Eloah,

³ Bear with me while I am speaking, And after I have spoken, you may deride.

²⁶ They lie together in the soil, And worms cover them both.

³² When he is fetched to the place of tombs, Watch is set alert over the grave-mound. ³³ The clods of the watercourse are sweet to him; All humanity draws out after him, And there is no numbering of those before him.

¹⁹ The righteous see it and rejoice, And the innocent one derides them, saying.

³⁰ He shall give escape to the innocent man, And you shall escape by the purity of your palms.

¹⁴ When the light is gone the murderer arises; He dispatches the humble and needy one; And in the night he becomes stealthy as a thief. ¹⁵ The eye of the adulterer keeps watch for the gloaming, Saying, No eye can regard me; And he places a concealment over his face. ¹⁶ In the darkness he burrows into houses; By day they seal themselves up; They do not know the light.

²⁰ The city square forgets him; The worm finds him sweet; He shall not be remembered any more; Thus like a tree, iniquity shall be broken down.

⁹ And now I have become their musical accompaniment, And I have become a mocking declaration of theirs.

²³ I know that You are turning me back to death, To that house appointed for all the living.

³⁰ My skin, it blackens and falls from me, And my bones burn hot as in a drought.

⁹ Seniors may not be wise Or elders understand judgment.

²¹ Indeed I certainly shall not show partiality to any man, Nor shall I flatter a human. ²² For I do not know how I could flatter, Else my Maker would carry me off in little time.

¹⁸ He keeps back his soul from the pit And his life from passing into the unseen. ¹⁹ Also he is corrected by pain on his bed, And by perennial contention in his bones, ²⁰ So that bread is repugnant to him, to his life, And to his soul, the food of yearning. ²¹ His flesh is vanishing away from sight, And his bones are ridges that once could not be seen. ²² His soul draws near to the pit And his life to the place of the dead. ²³ If there is a messenger on his behalf, An intermediary, one out of a thousand, To tell the human what is upright for him, ²⁴ And he is gracious to him and says, Do ransom him from descending to the pit; I have found a propitiatory shelter, ²⁵ Then his flesh will become hale with youth And shall be restored to the days of his adolescence. ²⁶ He shall entreat to Eloah, and He shall accept him; He shall see His face with joyful shouting And shall recall to mortals his vindication. ²⁷ He shall sing before mortals and say, I have sinned and depraved what is upright, Yet He did not compensate it fully to me. ²⁸ He ransomed my soul from passing into the pit, And my life is seeing the light.

³⁰ Lest a polluted human reign, One from the entrappers of the people.

⁷ It came to pass after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job that Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite:My anger is hot against you and your two associates because you did not speak concerning Me what is rightly so as My servant Job has done.

¹⁶ Job lived after this a hundred and forty years. And he saw his sons and his sons sons to four generations.

⁷ My eye is exhausted from vexation; It shifts about because of all my foes.

² They speak hypocrisy, each one with his associate; With a lip of slick words, with a double-minded heart they speak. ³ May Yahweh cut off all lips of slick words, The tongue speaking great things.

¹⁰ For You shall not forsake my soul in the unseen; You shall not allow Your benign one to see corruption.

⁴ The innocent of palms and pure of heart, Who has not lifted up his soul to mere idols, And has not sworn by what is deceitful."

¹³ His soul shall lodge in good, And his seed shall tenant the land."

⁶ I shall wash my palms in innocency, And I will go around Your altar, O Yahweh,

¹⁴ Be expectant toward Yahweh; Be steadfast, and let your heart be resolute. Yea, be expectant toward Yahweh."

⁹ Be gracious to me, O Yahweh, for distress has been mine; My eye was exhausted by vexation, My soul and my inner being too." ¹⁰ For my life was consumed with affliction, And my years with sighing; My vigor stumbled with my humiliation, And my bones, they were exhausted."

¹⁴ As for an associate, as for my brother, I walked about grieving; Like one mourning for his mother, I bowed down in somberness." ¹⁵ Yet when I was limping, they rejoiced and gathered together; They gathered together against me, Smiters, and I did not know it; They tore at me and would not be still." ¹⁶ With the pollutions of derisive derisions, They gnashed their teeth against me."

¹⁴ You constitute us a proverbial byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the national groups."

⁹ That he should live further, permanently, And not see the grave."

¹² Behold, these are the wicked! Even these at ease eonian, who make their estate huge." ¹³ Surely for nought have I purged my heart And have been washing my palms in innocency.

¹³ Surely for nought have I purged my heart And have been washing my palms in innocency. ¹⁴ I am touched by ills the entire day, And my correction begins in the mornings." ¹⁵ If I had said, I will endorse things like this, Behold, I would be treacherous to a generation of Your sons."

⁷ They go from rampart to rampart Till each appears before Elohim in Zion.

¹¹ For Sun and Shield is Yahweh Elohim; Grace and glory does Yahweh bestow; He does not withhold good from those walking with integrity.

³ For my soul is surfeited with perils, And my life touches close to the unseen." ⁴ I am reckoned with descenders to the crypt; I become like a master who is without stamina,

⁴ I am reckoned with descenders to the crypt; I become like a master who is without stamina, ⁵ With the dead set free, Like the slain who lie in a burying ground, Whom You do not remember any more, For they are severed from Your hand."

⁵ With the dead set free, Like the slain who lie in a burying ground, Whom You do not remember any more, For they are severed from Your hand." ⁶ You have set me down in the nether crypt, In utter darkness, in shadowy depths;" ⁷ Your fury bears down upon me, And You humble me with all Your breakers. {Interlude{ " ⁸ You have taken my close acquaintances far from me; You have set me down as abhorrent to them; Being shut up, I cannot go forth."

¹ He who is dwelling in the concealment of the Supreme Shall lodge in the shadow of Him Who-Suffices.

²³ Like a shadow as it stretches out, I fade away; I am shaken off like a locust."

¹²² Be surety for Your servant's well-being; Let not the arrogant be extorting me.

⁸ If I should climb to the heavens, You are there, And should I make my berth in the unseen, behold, You are there."

⁷ Quickly answer me, O Yahweh; my spirit is exhausted; O do not conceal Your face from me, Or I would become comparable with descenders to the crypt."

¹⁸ While the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn's brightness, Advancing and becoming resplendent until the day is established,

¹¹ And your destitution shall come like a wayfarer, And your lack like a man with a shield."

¹⁵ He shall be imperiled with evil when one is surety for an alien, Yet he who hates clasping a pledger's hand dwells in trust."

¹⁶ A wise man is fearing and withdrawing from evil, Yet the stupid one is congenial and trusting to it."

⁹ A man's heart devises his way, Yet Yahweh establishes his steps."

¹⁸ A man who lacks heart understanding will clasp his palm in pledge, Becoming hostage as surety in the presence of his associate."

²¹ Many are the designs in a man's heart, Yet the counsel of Yahweh, it shall stand firm."

¹⁶ Take his cloak, for he has become surety for an alien, And since it is in behalf of a foreign woman, hold it in pledge."

¹⁹ He who goes about as a defamer reveals secret deliberation, And so you should not mix with one who entices with his lips."

²⁶ Do not be among those who clasp the palm in pledge, Among those who are surety for loans;"

⁵ A master who is slick of tongue toward his associate Is one who spreads a net for his footsteps.

⁸ If you should see extortion of the destitute And pillage of judgment and justice in a province, Do not be amazed over the event, For one lofty official above another lofty official is observing, And other lofty officials are over them."

¹² For who knows what is good for a man in life During the number of days in his life of vanity, Seeing that He makes them like a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall come after him under the sun?

¹⁰ All that your hand finds to do, do with your vigor, For there is no doing or devising or knowledge or wisdom In the unseen where you are going."

¹⁵ And when you spread your palms to Me, I will obscure My eyes from you. Moreover, in case you are increasing your prayers, there is no hearing by Me. Your hands are full of blood. Amidst your fingers extrudes lawlessness." ¹⁶ Wash yourselves! Purge yourselves! Take away the evil of your actions from in front of My eyes!

¹² And coming are harp and zither, tambourine and flute. And wine is in their feasts. Yet at the contrivance of Yahweh they are not looking. And the doing of His hands they do not see."

¹⁰ Counsel with counsel, yet it shall be annulled! Speak the word, yet it shall not be confirmed! For with us is El!"

¹¹ Down to the unseen is brought your pomp, the throngs of your exulters. The maggot is berthing under you, and the worm is covering you."

¹⁴ Yahweh blends within it a depraved spirit. They lead Egypt astray in its every deed, as a drunkard strays in his vomit."

⁸ And there comes to be a highway and a clean one. And the holy way shall it be called. The unclean shall not pass there. And it shall be for those going that way, yet the dispersed shall not go astray on it, and the foolish shall not stray." ⁹ Nor shall a lion come there, and a breacher of living things will fail to ascend it. It shall not be found there. Yet the redeemed shall go into it, ¹⁰ and the ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and they shall enter Zion with jubilation, and rejoicing eonian shall be on their head. Elation and rejoicing shall they overtake, and flee shall affliction and sighing."

¹⁰ I, yea, I say:In the height of my days am I going into the gates of the unseen, made to miss the rest of my years."

¹⁰ I, yea, I say:In the height of my days am I going into the gates of the unseen, made to miss the rest of my years." ¹¹ Said I:I shall not see the salvation of Yah. Yah is in the land of the living. And I shall not look for the salvation of Israel on the earth, I shall not look on humanity further. When I am with the dwellers of transience I leave off looking." ¹² My generation journeys and is deported from me as the tent of a shepherd. I snap as a weaver the thread of my life. From the thrum is He clipping me. From day unto night are You causing me to repay. ¹³ I compensate till the morning. As a lion, so is He breaking all my bones. From day unto night are You causing me to repay." ¹⁴ As a speeding swallow, so am I chirping. I am cooing as a dove. Impoverished are my eyes to see to the height of the heavens, to Yahweh. Extortion is for me. Be surety for me!"

¹⁴ As a speeding swallow, so am I chirping. I am cooing as a dove. Impoverished are my eyes to see to the height of the heavens, to Yahweh. Extortion is for me. Be surety for me!"

¹⁷ Behold! For welfare there is bitterness to me; very great bitterness. Yet You are attached to my soul, to keep it from the ruin of decay, for You do fling behind Your body all my sins." ¹⁸ For the unseen is not acclaiming You, nor is death praising You, and those descending into a crypt are not looking forward to Your truth."

²⁹ He is giving vigor to the faint, and to those with no virility, their staunchness He is increasing." ³⁰ And the youths will be faint and weary, and the choice men will stumble, yea stumble." ³¹ Yet those stretching toward Yahweh will vary their vigor, and they shall ascend on pinions as vultures. They shall run, and not be weary. They shall go, and not faint."

² and entering into peace, and resting on their beds, and going in correctness."

¹⁶ For not for the eon will I contend, nor will I be permanently wroth, in case the spirit from before Me shall droop, and all who have breath, that I made."

²⁵ Yahweh is good to those who are expectant, to the soul that seeks after Him;" ²⁶ It is good that one should wait in stillness for the salvation of Yahweh;

³⁷ Who is this who speaks and it comes about if Yahweh does not determine it?

¹⁷ Furthermore for us our eyes are exhausted looking for our help in vain; From our watchtower we watched for a nation which could not save us.

¹⁷ At this our heart is languishing; because of these things our eyes are darkened.

¹¹ And He said unto me, `Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; lo, they are saying:Dried up have our bones, And perished has our hope, We have been cut off by ourselves."

⁶ I go down to the fashioning points of the mountains; the earth, its bars are about me for the eon, yet You wilt bring up my life from ruin, Yahweh, my Elohim."

¹³ You are of cleaner eyes than to see evil, and to look at toil You are not able. Why are You looking at the treacherous, are silent when the wicked swallow one up more righteous than he?

¹⁸ And you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between a servant of Elohim and him who does not serve Him."

²⁵ At that season, answering, Jesus said, "I am acclaiming Thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for Thou hidest these things from the wise and intelligent and Thou dost reveal them to minors."

¹¹ Now, answering, He said to them that "To you has it been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of the heavens, yet to those it has not been given."

³⁹ Now those going by blasphemed Him, wagging their heads" ⁴⁰ and saying, "You who are demolishing the temple and building it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, descend from the cross!" ⁴¹ Likewise the chief priests also, with the scribes and elders, scoffing, said, ⁴² Others he saves! Himself he can not save! If he is king of Israel, let him descend now from the cross, and we will believe on him!" ⁴³ He has confidence in God. Let Him rescue him now, if He is wanting him, for he said that 'God's Son am I!'" ⁴⁴ Now with the same, the robbers also, who are crucified together with Him, reproached Him."

² And perceiving some of His disciples, that with contaminated (that is, unwashed) hands they eat bread"

²⁷ For Thou wilt not be forsaking my soul in the unseen, Nor wilt Thou be giving Thy Benign One to be acquainted with decay." ²⁸ Thou makest known to me the paths of life. Thou wilt be filling me with gladness with Thy face.' ²⁹ Men! Brethren! Allow me to say to you with boldness concerning the patriarch David, that he deceases also and was entombed, and his tomb is among us until this day." ³⁰ Being, then, inherently, a prophet, and having perceived that God swears to him with an oath, out of the fruit of his loin to seat One on his throne, ³¹ perceiving this before, he speaks concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that He was neither forsaken in the unseen, nor was His flesh acquainted with decay."

³⁴ Now, seeing that He raises Him from among the dead, by no means longer about to return to decay, He has thus declared that, I shall be giving you the faithful benignities of David.'" ³⁵ Wherefore, in a different place also, He is saying, 'Thou wilt not be giving Thy Benign One to be acquainted with decay.'" ³⁶ For David, indeed, subserving his own generation by God's counsel, was put to repose, and was added to his fathers, and was acquainted with decay;" ³⁷ yet He Whom God rouses was not acquainted with decay.

⁴⁶ Being bold, both Paul and Barnabas, say, "To you first was it necessary that the word of God be spoken. Yet, since, in fact, you are thrusting it away, and are judging yourselves not worthy of eonian life, lo! we are turning to the nations."

¹³ Now I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, that often I purposed to come to you (and was prevented hitherto) that I should be having some fruit among you also, according as among the rest of the nations."

⁸ even as it is written, God gives them a spirit of stupor, eyes not to be observing, and ears not to be hearing, till this very day."

³³ O, the depth of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How inscrutable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!"

²⁰ Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the discusser of this eon? Does not God make stupid the wisdom of this world?

⁵ To abash you am I saying this. Thus is there not among you one wise man who will be able to adjudicate amidst his brethren,

⁴² Thus also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is roused in incorruption.

⁵³ For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality." ⁵⁴ Now, whenever this corruptible should be putting on incorruption and this mortal should be putting on immortality, then shall come to pass the word which is written, Swallowed up was Death by Victory."

⁹ But we have the rescript of death in ourselves, that we may be having no confidence in ourselves, but in God, Who rouses the dead,

¹⁵ And in this confidence I intended formerly to come to you, that you should be having a second grace, ¹⁶ and through you to pass through into Macedonia, and to come again from Macedonia to you, and by you to be sent forward into Judea." ¹⁷ Intending this, then, consequently do I not use lightness? Or what I am planning, am I planning according to the flesh, that it may be with me "Yes, yes,and "No, no"?

⁹ And He has protested to me, "Sufficient for you is My grace, for My power in infirmity is being perfected.With the greatest relish, then, will I rather be glorying in my infirmities, that the power of Christ should be tabernacling over me. " ¹⁰ Wherefore I delight in infirmities, in outrages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake, for, whenever I may be weak, then I am powerful. "

⁵ For neither did we at any time become flattering in expression, according as you are aware; neither with a pretense for greed, God is witness;"

²² by so much also has Jesus become the sponsor of a better covenant.

¹³ Come now, you who are saying, "Today or tomorrow we will be going into this or that city and should be spending a year there, and we will be trafficking and getting gain-" ¹⁴ who are not versed in that which is the morrow's, for what is your life? For a vapor are you, which is appearing briefly and thereupon disappearing-" ¹⁵ instead of your saying, "If the Lord should ever be willing, and we shall be living, we also shall be doing this or that."

⁵ who are garrisoned by the power of God, through faith, for salvation ready to be revealed in the last era,

¹⁹ Out of us they come, but they were not of us, for if they were of us, they would have remained with us. But it was that they may be manifested that they are not all of us. "