Job 40:4 Cross References - Coverdale

⁴ Beholde, I am to vyle a personne, to answere the, therfore will I laye my hande vpon my mouth.

²⁷ Abraham answered, and sayde: O se, I haue taken vpon me to speake vnto the LORDE, howbeit I am but dust and asshes.

¹⁰ I am to litle for all the mercies and all the trueth that thou hast shewed vnto thy seruaunt (for I had no more but this staff whan I wente ouer this Iordan, and now am I become two droues)

¹⁹ They answered him: Holde thy peace, and laye thine hande vpon thy mouth, and go with vs, yt thou mayest be oure father & prest. Is it better for the to be prest in one mans house, then amonge a whole trybe & kynred in Israel?

¹⁰ And after that the people was nombred, Dauids hert smote him selfe. And Dauid sayde vnto ye LORDE: I haue synned sore, that I haue done this. And now LORDE take awaie the trespace of thy seruaunt. For I haue done very vnwysely.

⁴ But he him selfe wente a daies iourney in to ye wyldernes, & came in, & sat him downe vnder a Iuniper tre, & wy?shed vnto his soule yt he mighte dye, & sayde: It is now ynough LORDE, take my soule, for I am no better then my fathers.

⁶ and sayde: My God, I am ashamed, and darre not lifte vp mine eies vnto the my God: for oure wickednesses are growne ouer oure heade, & oure trespaces are waxen greate vnto ye heaue.

¹⁵ O LORDE God of Israel, thou art righteous, for we remaine yet escaped, as it is this daie. Beholde, in thy presence are we in oure trespace, for because of it is there no stondinge before the.

³³ Thou art righteous in all yt thou hast broughte vpo vs: for thou hast done righte.

³¹ yet shuldest thou dyppe me in ye myre, & myne owne clothes shulde defyle me. ³² For he yt I must geue answere vnto, and with whom I go to lawe, is not a man as I am. ³³ Nether is there eny dayes man to reproue both the partes, or to laye his hode betwixte vs. ³⁴ Let him take his rod awaye fro me, yee let him make me nomore afrayed of him, ³⁵ and then shal I answere him without eny feare. For as longe as I am in soch fearfulnesse, I can make no answere: And why?

²¹ Though a body might pleate wt God, as one man doth with another,

⁵ Marck me well, be aba?shed, and laye youre hade vpon youre mouth.

⁴ to pleate my cause before him, and to fyll my mouth with argumentes: ⁵ That I might knowe, what answere he wolde geue me: & that I might vnderstonde, what he wolde saye vnto me. ⁶ Wil he pleate agaynst me with his greate power & strength, or wyll he leane him self vtterly vpon me? ⁷ Oh no, let him not do so with me. But let hym geue me like power to go to lawe, then am I sure to wynne my matter.

⁹ whe the princes left of their talkinge, & laied their hade to their mouth:

³⁷ I haue tolde the nombre of my goinges, and delyuered them vnto him as to a prynce.

⁶ Wherfore I geue myne owne self ye blame, and take repentaunce in the dust and asshes.

⁹ Delyuer me from all myne offences, and make me not a scorne vnto the foolish.

⁴ Agaynst the only, agaynst the haue I synned, and done euell in thy sight: that thou mightest be iustified in thy saynges, and shuldest ouercome when thou art iudged. ⁵ Beholde, I was borne in wickednesse, and in synne hath my mother conceaued me.

³² Yf thou be so foolish to magnifie yi self, or medlest wt eny soch thinge, the laye thine hade vpon yi mouth.

⁵ Then I sayde: O wo is me. For I was astonished: that I (which am a man of vnclene lippes, and dwell amonge people yt hath vnclene lippes also:) Shulde se ye Kynge and LORDE of hoostes with myne eyes.

⁶ As for vs, we go all astraye (like shepe), euery one turneth his owne waye. But thorow him, the LORDE pardoneth all or synnes.

⁶ We are all as an vnclene thinge, & all oure rightuousnesses are as the clothes stayned with the floures of a woman: we fall euerychone as the leaf, for oure synnes carie vs awaye like the wynde.

⁵ We haue synned, we haue offended, we haue bene disobedient and gone backe: yee we haue departed from all thy preceptes and iudgmentes.

⁷ O LORDE, rightuousnesse belongeth vnto the, vnto vs pertayneth nothynge but open shame: as it is come to passe this daye vnto euery man of Iuda, and to them that dwell at Ierusalem: Yee vnto all Israel, whether they be farre or nye: thorow out all londes, wherin thou hast strowed them, because of the offences that they had done agaynst the.

¹⁶ This shal the Heithen se, and be a?shamed for all their power: so that they shal laye their honde vpon their mouth, and stoppe their eares.

²⁰ But the LORDE in his holy teple is he, whom all the worlde shulde feare.

¹³ Let all flesh be still before the LORDE, for he is rysen out of his holy place.

⁸ Whan Symon Peter sawe yt, he fell downe at Iesus knees, & sayde: LORDE, go

¹⁸ I wil get vp, and go to my father, and saye vnto him: Father, I haue synned agaynst heauen and before the, ¹⁹ and am nomore worthy to be called thy sonne, make me as one of thy hyred seruauntes.

¹³ And the publican stode afarre of, and wolde not lift vp his eyes to heauen, but smote vpon his brest, and sayde: God be thou mercyfull vnto me synner.

¹⁵ For this is a true sayenge, and by all meanes worthy to be receaued, that Christ Iesus came in to ye worlde to saue synners, of whom I am chefe.