Job 10 Cross References - Darby

¹ My soul is weary of my life: I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. ² I will say unto +God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou strivest with me. ³ Doth it please thee to oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? ⁴ Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth? ⁵ Are thy days as the days of a mortal? are thy years as a man`s days, ⁶ That thou searchest after mine iniquity, and inquirest into my sin; ⁷ Since thou knowest that I am not wicked, and that there is none that delivereth out of thy hand? ⁸ Thy hands have bound me together and made me as one, round about; yet dost thou swallow me up! ⁹ Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as clay, and wilt bring me into dust again. ¹⁰ Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? ¹¹ Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews; ¹² Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy care hath preserved my spirit; ¹³ And these things didst thou hide in thy heart; I know that this was with thee. ¹⁴ If I sinned, thou wouldest mark me, and thou wouldest not acquit me of mine iniquity. ¹⁵ If I were wicked, woe unto me! and righteous, I will not lift up my head, being [so] full of shame, and beholding mine affliction; -- ¹⁶ And it increaseth: thou huntest me as a fierce lion; and ever again thou shewest thy marvellous power upon me. ¹⁷ Thou renewest thy witnesses before me and increasest thy displeasure against me; successions [of evil] and a time of toil are with me. ¹⁸ And wherefore didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? I had expired, and no eye had seen me. ¹⁹ I should be as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. ²⁰ Are not my days few? cease then and let me alone, that I may revive a little, ²¹ Before I go, and never to return, -- to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; ²² A land of gloom, as darkness itself; of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as thick darkness.

⁷ And Jehovah Elohim formed Man, dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and Man became a living soul.

¹⁹ In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.

⁶ And Jehovah repented that he had made Man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart. ⁷ And Jehovah said, I will destroy Man, whom I have created, from the earth -- from man to cattle, to creeping things, and to fowl of the heavens; for I repent that I have made them.

¹⁹ behold now, thy servant has found favour in thine eyes, and thou hast magnified thy goodness, which thou hast shewn to me in preserving my soul alive; but I cannot escape to the mountain, lest calamity lay hold on me, that I die.

⁷ And Jehovah said, I have seen assuredly the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and their cry have I heard on account of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows.

⁷ keeping mercy unto thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but by no means clearing [the guilty]; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children`s children, upon the third and upon the fourth [generation].

¹⁵ And if thou deal thus with me, slay me, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, that I may not behold my wretchedness.

¹⁸ Jehovah is slow to anger, and abundant in goodness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and fourth [generation].

²⁹ if these men die as all men die, and are visited with the visitation of all men, Jehovah has not sent me; ³⁰ but if Jehovah make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, and all that they have, and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall know that these men have despised Jehovah.

⁵⁹ then Jehovah will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, great and persistent plagues and evil and persistent sicknesses;

³⁹ See now that I, I am HE, And there is no god with me; I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal, And there is none that delivereth out of my hand,

²¹ I went out full, and Jehovah has brought me home again empty. Why do ye call me Naomi, seeing Jehovah has brought me low, and the Almighty has afflicted me?

⁷ But Jehovah said to Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him; for it is not as man seeth; for man looketh upon the outward appearance, but Jehovah looketh upon the heart.

²³ But now he is dead, why should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.

¹⁴ For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; and God has not taken away his life, but devises means that the banished one be not expelled from him.

⁴ And he himself went a day`s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a certain broom-bush, and requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough: now, Jehovah, take my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

⁵ Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.

¹⁰ Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes. ¹¹ Wherefore did I not die from the womb, -- come forth from the belly and expire?

¹³ For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

²⁰ Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul, ²¹ Who long for death, and it [cometh] not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures; ²² Who rejoice even exultingly and are glad when they find the grave? -- ²³ To the man whose way is hidden, and whom +God hath hedged in?

⁹ Who doeth great things and unsearchable, marvellous things without number;

¹⁵ And he saveth the needy from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. ¹⁶ So the poor hath what he hopeth for, and unrighteousness stoppeth her mouth.

²⁰ In famine he will redeem thee from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

² Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances! ³ For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore my words are vehement. ⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their poison drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of +God are arrayed against me.

⁸ Oh that I might have my request, and that +God would grant my desire! ⁹ And that it would please +God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

²⁶ Do ye imagine to reprove words? The speeches of one that is desperate are indeed for the wind.

⁶ My days are swifter than a weaver`s shuttle, and are spent without hope. ⁷ Remember thou that my life is wind; mine eye shall no more see good.

⁷ Remember thou that my life is wind; mine eye shall no more see good. ⁸ The eye of him that hath seen me shall behold me no [more]: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. ⁹ The cloud consumeth and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to Sheol shall not come up. ¹⁰ He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him again. ¹¹ Therefore I will not restrain my mouth: I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁶ I loathe it; I shall not live always: let me alone, for my days are a breath.

¹⁶ I loathe it; I shall not live always: let me alone, for my days are a breath. ¹⁷ What is man, that thou makest much of him? and that thou settest thy heart upon him? ¹⁸ And that thou visitest him every morning, triest him every moment? ¹⁹ How long wilt thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? ²⁰ Have I sinned, what do I unto thee, thou Observer of men? Why hast thou set me as an object of assault for thee, so that I am become a burden to myself? ²¹ And why dost not thou forgive my transgression and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I lie down in the dust, and thou shalt seek me early, and I shall not be.

²¹ And why dost not thou forgive my transgression and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I lie down in the dust, and thou shalt seek me early, and I shall not be.

⁵ If thou seek earnestly unto ?God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty, ⁶ If thou be pure and upright, surely now he will awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous;

⁹ For we are [but] of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow.

²⁰ Behold, ?God will not cast off a perfect man, neither will he take evil-doers by the hand.

¹² Behold, he taketh away: who will hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?

¹⁵ Whom, though I were righteous, [yet] would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.

²⁰ If I justified myself, mine own mouth would condemn me; were I perfect, he would prove me perverse. ²¹ Were I perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

²¹ Were I perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I would despise my life. ²² It is all one; therefore I said, he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

²⁴ The earth is given over into the hand of the wicked [man]; he covereth the faces of its judges. If not, who then is it? ²⁵ And my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good. ²⁶ They pass by like skiffs of reed; as an eagle that swoops upon the prey.

²⁸ I am afraid of all my sorrows; I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. ²⁹ Be it that I am wicked, why then do I labour in vain?

³² For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him; that we should come together in judgment.

³ Doth it please thee to oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

⁷ Since thou knowest that I am not wicked, and that there is none that delivereth out of thy hand?

¹⁴ If I sinned, thou wouldest mark me, and thou wouldest not acquit me of mine iniquity. ¹⁵ If I were wicked, woe unto me! and righteous, I will not lift up my head, being [so] full of shame, and beholding mine affliction; --

¹⁵ If I were wicked, woe unto me! and righteous, I will not lift up my head, being [so] full of shame, and beholding mine affliction; -- ¹⁶ And it increaseth: thou huntest me as a fierce lion; and ever again thou shewest thy marvellous power upon me.

¹⁶ And it increaseth: thou huntest me as a fierce lion; and ever again thou shewest thy marvellous power upon me. ¹⁷ Thou renewest thy witnesses before me and increasest thy displeasure against me; successions [of evil] and a time of toil are with me.

²⁰ But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and [all] refuge shall vanish from them, and their hope [shall be] the breathing out of life.

²¹ Withdraw thy hand far from me; and let not thy terror make me afraid:

²⁶ For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth; ²⁷ And thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and markest all my paths; thou settest a bound about the soles of my feet; --

¹ Man, born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

¹⁰ But a man dieth, and is prostrate; yea, man expireth, and where is he?

¹⁰ But a man dieth, and is prostrate; yea, man expireth, and where is he? ¹¹ The waters recede from the lake, and the river wasteth and drieth up: ¹² So man lieth down, and riseth not again; till the heavens be no more, they do not awake, nor are raised out of their sleep. ¹³ Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest keep me secret until thine anger be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me, --

¹³ Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest keep me secret until thine anger be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me, -- ¹⁴ (If a man die, shall he live [again]?) all the days of my time of toil would I wait, till my change should come: ¹⁵ Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee; thou wouldest have a desire after the work of thy hands. ¹⁶ For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?

⁶ If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased? ⁷ But now he hath made me weary; ... thou hast made desolate all my family; ⁸ Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face.

⁸ Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face. ⁹ His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; [as] mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at me. ¹⁰ They gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me. ¹¹ ?God hath delivered me over to the iniquitous man, and hurled me into the hands of the wicked. ¹² I was at rest, but he hath shattered me; he hath taken me by the neck and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. ¹³ His arrows encompass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. ¹⁴ He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a mighty man. ¹⁵ I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and rolled my horn in the dust. ¹⁶ My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

²² For years [few] in number shall pass, -- and I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.

¹⁴ I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!

⁴ And be it [that] I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

⁶ Know now that +God hath overthrown me, and hath surrounded me with his net. ⁷ Behold, I cry out of wrong, and I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. ⁸ He hath hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. ⁹ He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. ¹⁰ He breaketh me down on every side, and I am gone; and my hope hath he torn up as a tree. ¹¹ And he hath kindled his anger against me, and hath counted me unto him as one of his enemies.

² Hear attentively my speech, and let this replace your consolations. ³ Suffer me and I will speak; and after I have spoken, mock on! ⁴ As for me, is my complaint to a man? or wherefore should not my spirit be impatient?

⁶ Even when I think [thereon], I am affrighted, and trembling taketh hold of my flesh.

¹⁶ Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be far from me!

¹⁸ Yet he filled their houses with good. But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

⁹ On the left hand, where he doth work, but I behold [him] not; he hideth himself on the right hand, and I see [him] not. ¹⁰ But he knoweth the way that I take; he trieth me, I shall come forth as gold.

¹³ But he is in one [mind], and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, that will he do.

¹³ But he is in one [mind], and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, that will he do. ¹⁴ For he will perform [what] is appointed for me; and many such things are with him. ¹⁵ Therefore am I troubled at his presence; I consider, and I am afraid of him.

⁷ Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

⁶ (Let me be weighed in an even balance, and +God will take knowledge of my blamelessness;)

¹⁴ What then should I do when ?God riseth up? and if he visited, what should I answer him?

³⁵ Oh that I had one to hear me! Behold my signature: let the Almighty answer me! And let mine opponent write an accusation!

⁴ The Spirit of ?God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.

⁵ For Job hath said, I am righteous, and ?God hath taken away my judgment: ⁶ Should I lie against my right? My wound is incurable without transgression. ⁷ What man is like Job? he drinketh up scorning like water,

¹⁸ Shall one say to a king, Belial? to nobles, Wicked? ¹⁹ [How then to him] that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich man more than the poor? for they are all the work of his hands.

²² There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

³¹ For hath he said unto ?God, I bear [chastisement], I will not offend; ³² What I see not, teach thou me; if I have done wrong, I will do so no more?

⁷ He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne doth he even set them for ever; and they are exalted. ⁸ And if, bound in fetters, they be held in cords of affliction, ⁹ Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions, because they have increased.

¹⁷ But thou art full of the judgments of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee]. ¹⁸ Because there is wrath, [beware] lest it take thee away through chastisement: then a great ransom could not avail thee.

²⁶ Lo, ?God is great, and we comprehend [him] not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

¹⁷ Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? and hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?

² Shall he that will contend with the Almighty instruct [him]? he that reproveth +God, let him answer it.

⁸ Wilt thou also annul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me that thou mayest be righteous?

¹⁷ He bendeth his tail like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are woven together. ¹⁸ His bones are tubes of bronze, his members are like bars of iron.

⁷ And it came to pass after Jehovah had spoken these words to Job, that Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, Mine anger is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken rightly of me, like my servant Job.

⁶ For Jehovah knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

¹ {To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments, upon Sheminith. A Psalm of David.} Jehovah, rebuke me not in thine anger, and chasten me not in thy hot displeasure. ² Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am withered; Jehovah, heal me, for my bones tremble. ³ And my soul trembleth exceedingly: and thou, Jehovah, till how long? ⁴ Return, Jehovah, free my soul; save me for thy loving-kindness` sake.

³ Jehovah my God, if I have done this, if there be iniquity in my hands;

⁸ Jehovah shall minister judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Jehovah, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity which is in me. ⁹ Oh let the wrong of the wicked come to an end, and establish thou the righteous [man]; even thou that triest the hearts and reins, the righteous God.

¹⁷ The wicked shall be turned into Sheol, all the nations that forget God.

¹⁵ Break thou the arm of the wicked, and as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness [till] thou find none.

³ Thou hast proved my heart, thou hast visited me by night; thou hast tried me, thou hast found nothing: my thought goeth not beyond my word.

¹⁵ My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my palate; and thou hast laid me in the dust of death.

⁴ Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

⁶ Remember, Jehovah, thy tender mercies and thy loving-kindnesses; for they are from everlasting. ⁷ Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions; according to thy loving-kindness remember thou me, for thy goodness` sake, Jehovah.

⁷ Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions; according to thy loving-kindness remember thou me, for thy goodness` sake, Jehovah.

¹⁸ Consider mine affliction and my travail, and forgive all my sins.

¹ {[A Psalm] of David.} Judge me, O Jehovah, for I have walked in mine integrity, and I have confided in Jehovah: I shall not slip. ² Prove me, Jehovah, and test me; try my reins and my heart: ³ For thy loving-kindness is before mine eyes, and I have walked in thy truth. ⁴ I have not sat with vain persons, neither have I gone in with dissemblers; ⁵ I have hated the congregation of evil-doers, and I have not sat with the wicked.

³ When I kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my groaning all the day long. ⁴ For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my moisture was turned into the drought of summer. Selah. ⁵ I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity I covered not; I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah, and *thou* forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

¹ {A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.} Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath; neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. ² For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand cometh down upon me. ³ There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; no peace in my bones, because of my sin. ⁴ For mine iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. ⁵ My wounds stink, they are corrupt, because of my foolishness. ⁶ I am depressed; I am bowed down beyond measure; I go mourning all the day. ⁷ For my loins are full of burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh. ⁸ I am faint and broken beyond measure; I roar by reason of the agitation of my heart.

⁵ Behold, thou hast made my days [as] hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, [even] the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.

¹³ Look away from me, and let me recover strength, before I go hence and be no more.

¹⁹ Though thou hast crushed us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

²¹ Would not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

²² Now consider this, ye that forget +God, lest I tear in pieces, and there be no deliverer.

¹⁹ ?God will hear, and afflict them: he that is seated of old, (Selah) ... because there is no change in them, and they fear not God.

⁸ Let them be as a snail that melteth as it passeth away; [like] the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see the sun.

³³ For Jehovah heareth the needy, and despiseth not his prisoners.

⁶ Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps.

¹¹ Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? thy faithfulness in Destruction? ¹² Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

¹² Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

⁴⁷ Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity?

² Before the mountains were brought forth, and thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from eternity to eternity thou art ?God. ³ Thou makest [mortal] man to return to dust, and sayest, Return, children of men.

³ Thou makest [mortal] man to return to dust, and sayest, Return, children of men. ⁴ For a thousand years, in thy sight, are as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night.

¹² But thou, Jehovah, abidest for ever, and thy memorial from generation to generation.

²⁴ I said, My ?God, take me not away in the midst of my days! ... Thy years are from generation to generation. ²⁵ Of old hast thou founded the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands: ²⁶ *They* shall perish, but *thou* continuest; and all of them shall grow old as a garment: as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed. ²⁷ But thou art the Same, and thy years shall have no end.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth: ¹⁶ For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof knoweth it no more.

⁴ Remember me, O Jehovah, with [thy] favour toward thy people; visit me with thy salvation:

²¹ But do *thou* for me, Jehovah, Lord, for thy name`s sake; because thy loving-kindness is good, deliver me:

⁷³ YOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, and I will learn thy commandments.

¹⁵³ RESH. See mine affliction, and deliver me; for I have not forgotten thy law.

³ If thou, Jah, shouldest mark iniquities, Lord, who shall stand?

⁸ Jehovah will perfect what concerneth me: thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, [endureth] for ever; forsake not the works of thine own hands.

¹ {To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known [me].

¹ {To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known [me]. ² *Thou* knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off;

¹⁴ I will praise thee, for I am fearfully, wonderfully made. Marvellous are thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well. ¹⁵ My bones were not hidden from thee when I was made in secret, curiously wrought in the lower parts of the earth. ¹⁶ Thine eyes did see my unformed substance, and in thy book all [my members] were written; [during many] days were they fashioned, when [as yet] there was none of them.

²¹ Do not I hate them, O Jehovah, that hate thee? and do not I loathe them that rise up against thee? ²² I hate them with perfect hatred; I account them mine enemies. ²³ Search me, O ?God, and know my heart; prove me, and know my thoughts; ²⁴ And see if there be any grievous way in me; and lead me in the way everlasting.

² And enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.

⁶ For to every purpose there is time and manner. For the misery of man is great upon him; ⁷ for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?

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

¹¹ Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill [with him], because the desert of his hands shall be rendered unto him.

⁵ And I said, Woe unto me! for I am undone; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.

¹¹ I said, I shall not see Jah, Jah in the land of the living. With those who dwell where all has ceased to be, I shall behold man no more.

¹³ I kept still until the morning; ... as a lion, so doth he break all my bones. From day to night thou wilt make an end of me.

¹⁵ What shall I say? He hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done [it]. I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁷ Behold, instead of peace I had bitterness upon bitterness; but thou hast in love delivered my soul from the pit of destruction; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

⁷ every one that is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory: I have formed him, yea, I have made him.

⁷ forming the light and creating darkness, making peace and creating evil: I, Jehovah, do all these things.

⁹ Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let a potsherd [strive] with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that formeth it, What makest thou? Or thy work, He hath no hands?

¹⁵ Verily thou art a ?God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour. ...

⁹ Remember the former things of old; for I [am] ?God, and there is none else; [I am] God, and there is none like me; ¹⁰ declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure; ¹¹ calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yea, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.

⁵ Thou meetest him that rejoiceth to do righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: (behold, thou wast wroth, and we have sinned:) in those is perpetuity, and we shall be saved. ⁶ And we are all become as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have carried us away;

⁸ And now, Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

⁶ And they said not, Where is Jehovah, that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and of pits, in a land of drought and of the shadow of death, in a land that no one passeth through, and where no man dwelleth?

³⁴ Yea, in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor, whom thou didst not encounter breaking in, but [it is found] upon all these.

¹ Righteous art thou, Jehovah, when I plead with thee; yet will I speak with thee of [thy] judgments. Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? [wherefore] are all they at ease that deal very treacherously? ² Thou hast planted them, they also have taken root: they advance, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, but far from their reins. ³ But thou, Jehovah, knowest me; thou hast seen me, and proved my heart toward thee. Drag them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.

¹⁶ Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the mountains of twilight; and ye shall look for light, but he will turn it into the shadow of death, and make [it] gross darkness.

¹⁰ Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole land! I have not lent on usury, nor have they lent to me on usury; [yet] every one of them doth curse me.

³ And I went down to the potter`s house; and behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. <sup>4</sup> And the vessel that he made was marred, as clay, in the hand of the potter; and he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make. <sup>5</sup> And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, <sup>6</sup> House of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith Jehovah. Behold, as the clay in the potter`s hand, so are ye in my hand, house of Israel.

⁶ House of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith Jehovah. Behold, as the clay in the potter`s hand, so are ye in my hand, house of Israel. ⁷ At the moment that I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to break down, and to destroy, ⁸ if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, then I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. ⁹ And at the moment that I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant, ¹⁰ if it do evil in my sight, that it hearken not unto my voice, then I will repent of the good wherewith I said I would benefit them.

¹⁴ Cursed be the day wherein I was born; let not the day wherein my mother bore me be blessed! ¹⁵ Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad! ¹⁶ And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and repented not; and let him hear a cry in the morning, and a shouting at noonday, ¹⁷ because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great [with me]! ¹⁸ Wherefore came I forth from the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?

¹¹ Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and hath settled on his lees; he hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste hath remained in him, and his scent is not changed.

²⁰ See, Jehovah, for I am in distress, my bowels are troubled; my heart is turned within me, for I have grievously rebelled: without, the sword hath bereaved [me], within, it is as death.

² Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light. ³ Surely against me hath he turned again and again his hand all the day. ⁴ My flesh and my skin hath he wasted away, he hath broken my bones. ⁵ He hath built against me, and encompassed [me] with gall and toil. ⁶ He hath made me to dwell in dark places as those that have been long dead. ⁷ He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. ⁸ Even when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. ⁹ He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. ¹⁰ He is unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, a lion in secret places.

¹⁰ He is unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, a lion in secret places. ¹¹ He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate. ¹² He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. ¹³ He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. ¹⁴ I am become a derision to all my people; their song all the day. ¹⁵ He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with wormwood. ¹⁶ He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. ¹⁷ And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I have forgotten prosperity. ¹⁸ And I said, My strength is perished, and my hope in Jehovah.

³⁷ Who is he that saith, and there cometh to pass, what the Lord hath not commanded?

⁴⁰ Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah. ⁴¹ Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands unto ?God in the heavens. ⁴² We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

¹ Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach. ² Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. ³ We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. ⁴ Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price. ⁵ Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest. ⁶ We have given the hand to Egypt, [and] to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread. ⁷ Our fathers have sinned, [and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities. ⁸ Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand. ⁹ We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. ¹⁰ Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine. ¹¹ They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah. ¹² Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured. ¹³ The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood. ¹⁴ The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music. ¹⁵ The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. ¹⁶ The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned!

¹⁶ The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned! ¹⁷ For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,

¹⁷ For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim, ¹⁸ Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it. ¹⁹ Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation. ²⁰ Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time? ²¹ Turn thou us unto thee, Jehovah, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. ²² Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us?

⁴ And he said unto me, Prophesy over these bones, and say unto them, Ye dry bones, hear the word of Jehovah. ⁵ Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live. ⁶ And I will put sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live: and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah. ⁷ And I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a rustling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. ⁸ And I looked, and behold, sinews and flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them over; but there was no breath in them.

¹⁵ Now if ye be ready at the time that ye hear the sound of the cornet, pipe, lute, sambuca, psaltery, and bagpipe, and all kinds of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, [well]: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast that same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace: and who is the God that shall deliver you out of my hands?

¹⁰ And now will I discover her impiety in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.

⁷ And I will be unto them as a lion; as a leopard I will lurk for them by the way; ⁸ I will meet them as a bear bereaved of her [whelps], and will rend the covering of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lioness: the beast of the field shall tear them.

⁸ The lion hath roared, -- who will not fear? The Lord Jehovah hath spoken, -- who can but prophesy?

³ And now, Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.

⁸ And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, so that he fainted; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

¹² And it shall come to pass at that time, [that] I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and punish the men that are settled on their lees, that say in their heart, Jehovah will not do good, neither will he do evil.

¹⁸ And ye shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

²⁵ For this cause I say unto you, Do not be careful about your life, what ye should eat and what ye should drink; nor for your body what ye should put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?

²⁴ The Son of man goes indeed, according as it is written concerning him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is delivered up; it were good for that man if he had not been born.

¹⁵ And he said to them, *Ye* are they who justify themselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for what amongst men is highly thought of is an abomination before God.

²⁶ And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that those who desire to pass hence to you cannot, nor do they who [desire to cross] from there pass over unto us.

¹⁰ Thus *ye* also, when ye shall have done all things that have been ordered you, say, We are unprofitable bondmen; we have done what it was our duty to do.

²⁴ But Jesus himself did not trust himself to them, because he knew all [men], ²⁵ and that he had not need that any should testify of man, for himself knew what was in man.

²⁸ and I give them life eternal; and they shall never perish, and no one shall seize them out of my hand. ²⁹ My Father who has given [them] to me is greater than all, and no one can seize out of the hand of my Father. ³⁰ I and the Father are one.

¹⁷ He says to him the third time, Simon, [son] of Jonas, art thou attached to me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Art thou attached to me? and said to him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I am attached to thee. Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep.

²⁵ nor is served by men`s hands as needing something, himself giving to all life and breath and all things;

²⁸ for in him we live and move and exist; as also some of the poets amongst you have said, For we are also his offspring.

⁸ But to those that are contentious, and are disobedient to the truth, but obey unrighteousness, [there shall be] wrath and indignation, ⁹ tribulation and distress, on every soul of man that works evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek;

¹ [There is] then now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus.

²¹ Or has not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make one vessel to honour, and another to dishonour?

³³ O depth of riches both of [the] wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable his judgments, and untraceable his ways!

⁵ So that do not judge anything before [the] time, until the Lord shall come, who shall also both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and shall make manifest the counsels of hearts; and then shall each have [his] praise from God.

³¹ But if we judged ourselves, so were we not judged. ³² But being judged, we are disciplined of [the] Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

¹² For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity before God, (not in fleshly wisdom but in God`s grace,) we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly towards you.

² For indeed in this we groan, ardently desiring to have put on our house which [is] from heaven; ³ if indeed being also clothed we shall not be found naked.

¹¹ according to [the] purpose of the ages, which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord,

¹⁶ from whom the whole body, fitted together, and connected by every joint of supply, according to [the] working in [its] measure of each one part, works for itself the increase of the body to its self-building up in love.

¹⁰ *Ye* [are] witnesses, and God, how piously and righteously and blamelessly we have conducted ourselves with you that believe:

¹² and as a covering shalt thou roll them up, and they shall be changed; but *thou* art the Same, and thy years shall not fail.

¹⁹ Wherefore also let them who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls in well-doing to a faithful Creator.

⁸ But let not this one thing be hidden from you, beloved, that one day with [the] Lord [is] as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

¹⁴ his head and hair white like white wool, as snow; and his eyes as a flame of fire;