Job 21 Cross References - Darby

¹ And Job answered and said, 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? ⁵ Mark me, and be astonished, and lay the hand upon the mouth. ⁶ Even when I think [thereon], I am affrighted, and trembling taketh hold of my flesh. ⁷ Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power? ⁸ Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of +God upon them. ¹⁰ Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. ¹¹ They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. ¹² They shout to the tambour and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe. ¹³ They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to Sheol. ¹⁴ And they say unto ?God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways! ¹⁵ What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him? ¹⁶ Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be far from me! ¹⁷ How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and cometh their calamity upon them? Doth he distribute sorrows [to them] in his anger? ¹⁸ Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away? ¹⁹ +God layeth up [the punishment of] his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it]: ²⁰ His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the fury of the Almighty. ²¹ For what pleasure should he have in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off? ²² Can any teach ?God knowledge? And he it is that judgeth those that are high. ²³ One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet; ²⁴ His sides are full of fat, and the marrow of his bones is moistened; ²⁵ And another dieth in bitterness of soul, and hath not tasted good: ²⁶ Together they lie down in the dust, and the worms cover them. ²⁷ Lo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me. ²⁸ For ye say, Where is the house of the noble? and where the tent of the dwellings of the wicked? ²⁹ Have ye not asked the wayfarers? and do ye not regard their tokens: ³⁰ That the wicked is reserved for the day of calamity? They are led forth to the day of wrath. ³¹ Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done? ³² Yet is he carried to the graves, and watch is kept over the tomb. ³³ The clods of the valley are sweet unto him; and every man followeth suit after him, as there were innumerable before him. ³⁴ How then comfort ye me in vain? Your answers remain perfidious.

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.

⁷ If thou doest well, will not [thy countenance] look up [with confidence]? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door; and unto thee [shall be] his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

²¹ And his brother`s name was Jubal: he was the father of those who handle the harp and pipe.

²⁷ Why didst thou flee away covertly, and steal away from me, and didst not tell me, that I might have conducted thee with mirth and with songs, with tambour and with harp;

⁶ My soul, come not into their council; Mine honour, be not united with their assembly; For in their anger they slew men, And in their wantonness houghed oxen.

² And Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah, to whose voice I am to hearken to let Israel go? I do not know Jehovah, neither will I let Israel go.

⁹ And Moses spoke thus to the children of Israel; but they did not listen to Moses from anguish of spirit, and from hard service.

⁷ And by the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown thine adversaries: Thou sentest forth thy burning wrath, it consumed them as stubble.

⁵ thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I, Jehovah thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and to the fourth [generation] of them that hate me,

²⁶ There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land; the number of thy days will I fulfil.

²⁶ And he spoke to the assembly, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye perish in all their sins. ²⁷ And they got up from the habitation of Koran, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side. And Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the entrance of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little ones. ²⁸ And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that Jehovah has sent me to do all these deeds, for they are not out of my own heart: 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. ³¹ And it came to pass when he had ended speaking all these words, that the ground clave apart that was under them. ³² And the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that belonged to Korah, and all their property. ³³ And they went down, they and all that they had, alive into Sheol, and the earth covered them; and they perished from among the congregation. ³⁴ And all Israel that were round about them fled at their cry; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up!

¹⁰ and repayeth them that hate him [each] to his face, to cause them to perish: he delayeth not with him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.

¹³ and he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee, and will bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, thy corn and thy new wine, and thine oil, the offspring of thy kine, and the increase of thy sheep, in the land which he swore unto thy fathers to give thee. ¹⁴ Thou shalt be blessed above all the peoples; there shall not be male or female barren with thee, or with thy cattle;

¹¹ And Jehovah will give thee abundance of good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land that Jehovah swore unto thy fathers to give thee.

³⁴ Is not this hidden with me, Sealed up among my treasures?

⁴¹ If I have sharpened my gleaming sword, And my hand take hold of judgment, I will render vengeance to mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate me.

⁷ And they told it to Jotham, and he went and stood on the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said to them, Hearken to me, ye citizens of Shechem, that God may hearken to you.

¹⁹ And they said to him, Hold thy peace, lay thy hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for thee to be a priest for the house of one man, or to be priest for a tribe and a family in Israel?

¹⁶ Take not thy handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my grief and provocation have I spoken hitherto.

³⁹ And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too hard for me: Jehovah reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness!

⁷ And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man! Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel: I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul; ⁸ and I gave thee thy master`s house, and thy master`s wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if [that] had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things. ⁹ Wherefore hast thou despised the word of Jehovah to do evil in his sight? thou hast smitten Urijah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. ¹⁰ Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Urijah the Hittite to be thy wife. ¹¹ Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. ¹² For thou didst [it] secretly; but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.

⁸ And Hushai said, Thou knowest thy father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are of exasperated spirit, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field; and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

¹² And she said, As Jehovah thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse; and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

¹⁹ And thou shalt speak unto him saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him saying, Thus saith Jehovah: In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall the dogs lick thy blood, even thine. ²⁰ And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, mine enemy? And he said, I have found [thee]; because thou hast sold thyself to do evil in the sight of Jehovah. ²¹ Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab every male, and him that is shut up and left in Israel; ²² and I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin. ²³ And of Jezebel also spoke Jehovah saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the moat of Jizreel. ²⁴ Him that dieth of Ahab in the city shall the dogs eat, and him that dieth in the field shall the fowl of the heavens eat.

²⁶ And it came to pass as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman to him saying, Help, my lord O king! ²⁷ And he said, If Jehovah do not help thee, whence should I help thee? Out of the threshing-floor, or out of the winepress?

³ And his substance was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and very many servants; and this man was greater than all the children of the east.

²¹ and he said, Naked came I out of my mother`s womb, and naked shall I return thither: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah hath taken away; blessed be the name of Jehovah!

¹² And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice and wept. And they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward the heavens.

¹⁷ There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearied are at rest. ¹⁸ The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster. ¹⁹ The small and great are there, and the bondman freed from his master. ²⁰ Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,

²² Who rejoice even exultingly and are glad when they find the grave? --

⁸ Even as I have seen, they that plough iniquity and sow mischief, reap the same. ⁹ By the breath of +God they perish, and by the blast of his nostrils are they consumed. ¹⁰ The roar of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken; ¹¹ The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.

¹⁸ Lo, he trusteth not his servants, and his angels he chargeth with folly:

³ I myself saw the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

³ I myself saw the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation. ⁴ His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer:

⁴ His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer: ⁵ Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh even out of the thorns; and the snare gapeth for his substance.

¹¹ What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should have patience?

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.

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. ¹² Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou settest a watch over me? ¹³ When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; ¹⁴ Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions; ¹⁵ So that my soul chooseth strangling, death, rather than my bones. 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.

³ Doth ?God pervert judgment, and the Almighty pervert justice? ⁴ If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression. 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;

²² They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked be no more.

¹⁸ He suffereth me not to take my breath, for he filleth me with bitternesses.

³⁴ Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his terror make me afraid,

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.

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.

⁴ I am to be one that is a derision to his friend, I who call upon +God, and whom he will answer: a derision is the just upright [man]. ⁵ He that is ready to stumble with the foot is a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease. ⁶ The tents of desolators are in peace, and they that provoke ?God are secure; into whose hand +God bringeth.

⁹ Who knoweth not in all these, that the hand of Jehovah hath wrought this? ¹⁰ In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all flesh of man.

³ But I will speak to the Almighty, and will find pleasure in reasoning with ?God; ⁴ For ye indeed are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

⁴ For ye indeed are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

⁹ Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one mocketh at a man, will ye mock at him?

¹³ Hold your peace from me, and I will speak, and let come on me what [will]!

²⁵ Wilt thou terrify a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble?

⁵ If his days are determined, if the number of his months is with thee, [and] thou hast appointed his bounds which he must not pass,

²¹ His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, and he perceiveth it not.

¹¹ Are the consolations of ?God too small for thee? and the word gently spoken to thee?

¹⁵ Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight:

²⁰ All his days the wicked man is tormented, and numbered years are allotted to the violent. ²¹ The sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer cometh upon him.

²¹ The sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer cometh upon him. ²² He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is singled out for the sword. ²³ He wandereth abroad for bread, -- where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. ²⁴ Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for the battle. ²⁵ For he hath stretched out his hand against ?God, and strengthened himself against the Almighty: ²⁶ He runneth against him, with [outstretched] neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers; ²⁷ For he hath covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon [his] flanks.

²⁷ For he hath covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon [his] flanks. ²⁸ And he dwelleth in desolate cities, in houses that no man inhabiteth, which are destined to become heaps. ²⁹ He shall not become rich, neither shall his substance continue, and their possessions shall not extend upon the earth. ³⁰ He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches; and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away. ³¹ Let him not trust in vanity: he is deceived, for vanity shall be his recompense; ³² It shall be complete before his day, and his branch shall not be green. ³³ He shall shake off his unripe grapes as a vine, and shall cast his flower as an olive. ³⁴ For the family of the ungodly shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery. ³⁵ They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

² I have heard many such things: grievous comforters are ye all.

¹⁰ They gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me.

²⁰ My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto +God.

² Are there not mockers around me? and doth [not] mine eye abide in their provocation?

⁸ Upright men [shall be] astonished at this, and the innocent shall be stirred up against the ungodly;

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

¹⁶ It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when [our] rest shall be together in the dust.

² How long will ye hunt for words? Be intelligent, and then we will speak.

⁵ Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine. ⁶ The light shall become dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out.

¹¹ Terrors make him afraid on every side, and chase him at his footsteps.

¹⁸ He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. ¹⁹ He hath neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining in the places of his sojourn.

²⁰ My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. ²¹ Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, ye my friends; for the hand of +God hath touched me.

²⁶ And [if] after my skin this shall be destroyed, yet from out of my flesh shall I see +God;

⁵ The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment?

⁷ Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

¹⁰ His children shall seek the favour of the poor, and his hands restore his wealth. ¹¹ His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust.

²² In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; every hand of the wretched shall come upon him. ²³ It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will cast his fierce anger upon him, and will rain it upon him into his flesh.

²³ It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will cast his fierce anger upon him, and will rain it upon him into his flesh.

²⁸ The increase of his house shall depart, flowing away in the day of his anger. ²⁹ This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by ?God.

¹⁹ +God layeth up [the punishment of] his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it]:

¹⁷ Who said unto ?God, Depart from us! and what could the Almighty do to them? ¹⁸ Yet he filled their houses with good. But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

²⁴ And put the precious ore with the dust, and [the gold of] Ophir among the stones of the torrents,

²⁰ The womb forgetteth him; the worm feedeth sweetly on him: he shall be no more remembered; and unrighteousness is broken as a tree, --

²⁴ They are exalted for a little, and are no more; they are laid low; like all [other] are they gathered, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

¹⁹ He lieth down rich, but will do so no more; he openeth his eyes, and he is not.

⁹ Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth;

²³ For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and into the house of assemblage for all living.

³⁷ I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I come near to him.

³ and against his three friends was his anger kindled, because they found no answer, and [yet] condemned Job.

¹ Howbeit, Job, I pray thee, hear mine utterances, and hearken to all my words.

³¹ Mark well, Job, hearken unto me; be silent, and I will speak. ³² If thou hast anything to say, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify thee. ³³ If not, hearken thou unto me; be silent, and I will teach thee wisdom.

² Hear my words, ye wise [men]; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.

⁹ For he hath said, It profiteth not a man if he delight himself in God.

¹⁷ Should he that hateth right indeed govern? and wilt thou condemn the All-just? 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.

³ For thou hast asked of what profit it is unto thee: what do I gain more than if I had sinned?

¹¹ Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowl of the heavens?

¹¹ If they hearken and serve [him], they shall accomplish their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

²² Lo, ?God is exalted in his power: who teacheth as he?

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

⁴ Behold, I am nought: what shall I answer thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.

¹¹ Who hath first given to me, that I should repay [him]? [Whatsoever is] under the whole heaven is mine.

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.

¹ Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, and standeth not in the way of sinners, and sitteth not in the seat of scorners;

⁴ The wicked are not so; but are as the chaff which the wind driveth away.

⁴ The wicked [saith], in the haughtiness of his countenance, He doth not search out: all his thoughts are, There is no God!

¹¹ He saith in his heart, ?God hath forgotten, he hideth his face, he will never see [it].

⁴ Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail, our lips are our own: who [is] lord over us?

¹⁰ They are enclosed in their own fat; with their mouth they speak proudly.

¹⁴ From men [who are] thy hand, O Jehovah, from men of this age: their portion is in [this] life, and their belly thou fillest with thy hid [treasure]; they have their fill of sons, and leave the rest of their [substance] to their children.

¹ {To the chief Musician. Upon Aijeleth-Shahar. A Psalm of David.} My ?God, my ?God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art thou] far from my salvation, from the words of my groaning? ² My God, I cry by day, and thou answerest not; and by night, and there is no rest for me: ³ And thou art holy, thou that dwellest amid the praises of Israel.

¹⁰ Many sorrows hath the wicked; but he that confideth in Jehovah, loving-kindness shall encompass him.

⁵ Let them be as chaff before the wind, and let the angel of Jehovah drive [them] away;

³⁵ I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading like a green tree in its native soil: ³⁶ but he passed away, and behold, he was not; and I sought him, but he was not found.

⁹ I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; for *thou* hast done [it].

¹¹ Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.

⁶ They depend upon their wealth, and boast themselves in the abundance of their riches. ... ⁷ None can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him,

¹⁴ Like sheep are they laid in Sheol: Death feedeth on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their comeliness shall be for Sheol to consume, that there be no habitation for them.

¹⁷ For when he dieth, he shall carry nothing away; his glory shall not descend after him.

²¹ These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether as thyself: [but] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.

⁵ ?God shall likewise destroy thee for ever; he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of [thy] tent, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

⁵ ?God shall likewise destroy thee for ever; he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of [thy] tent, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah. ⁶ The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, [saying,]

⁶ The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, [saying,] ⁷ Behold the man that made not God his strength, but put confidence in the abundance of his riches, [and] strengthened himself in his avarice.

⁵ He will requite evil to mine enemies: in thy truth cut them off.

²³ And thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. But as for me, I will confide in thee.

⁴ They run and prepare themselves without [my] fault: awake to meet me, and behold.

³ Thou hast shewn thy people hard things; thou hast made us to drink the wine of bewilderment.

³ For I was envious at the arrogant, seeing the prosperity of the wicked. ⁴ For they have no pangs in their death, and their body is well nourished;

⁴ For they have no pangs in their death, and their body is well nourished;

⁴ For they have no pangs in their death, and their body is well nourished; ⁵ They have not the hardships of mankind, neither are they plagued like [other] men:

⁵ They have not the hardships of mankind, neither are they plagued like [other] men:

⁵ They have not the hardships of mankind, neither are they plagued like [other] men: ⁶ Therefore pride encompasseth them as a neck-chain, violence covereth them [as] a garment; ⁷ Their eyes stand out from fatness, they exceed the imaginations of their heart: ⁸ They mock and speak wickedly of oppression, they speak loftily: ⁹ They set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. ¹⁰ Therefore his people turn hither, and waters in fulness are wrung out to them. ¹¹ And they say, How can ?God know, and is there knowledge in the Most High? ¹² Behold, these are the wicked, and they prosper in the world: they heap up riches.

¹⁹ How are they suddenly made desolate! they pass away, consumed with terrors.

⁸ For in the hand of Jehovah there is a cup, and it foameth with wine, it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same; yea, the dregs thereof shall all the wicked of the earth drain off, [and] drink.

³ I remembered God, and I moaned; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

³ I remembered God, and I moaned; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. ⁴ Thou holdest open mine eyelids; I am full of disquiet and cannot speak. ⁵ I consider the days of old, the years of ancient times. ⁶ I remember my song in the night; I muse in mine own heart, and my spirit maketh diligent search. ⁷ Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? ⁸ Hath his loving-kindness ceased for ever? hath [his] word come to an end from generation to generation? ⁹ Hath ?God forgotten to be gracious? or hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

¹ {A Psalm of Asaph.} God standeth in the assembly of ?God, he judgeth among the gods.

¹³ O my God, make them like a whirling thing, like stubble before the wind.

¹⁵ I am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy terrors, [and] I am distracted.

⁷ For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy fury are we troubled. ⁸ Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance. ⁹ For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a [passing] thought.

¹ {A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before Jehovah.} Jehovah, hear my prayer, and let my cry come unto thee.

²⁴ I said, My ?God, take me not away in the midst of my days! ... Thy years are from generation to generation.

⁴¹ But he secureth the needy one on high from affliction, and maketh [him] families like flocks.

⁹ Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow; ¹⁰ Let his sons be vagabonds and beg, and let them seek [their bread] far from their desolate places; ¹¹ Let the usurer cast the net over all that he hath, and let strangers despoil his labour; ¹² Let there be none to extend kindness unto him, neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children; ¹³ Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out: ¹⁴ Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out; ¹⁵ Let them be before Jehovah continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth: ¹⁶ Because he remembered not to shew kindness, but persecuted the afflicted and needy man, and the broken in heart, to slay him. ¹⁷ And he loved cursing; so let it come unto him. And he delighted not in blessing; and let it be far from him. ¹⁸ And he clothed himself with cursing like his vestment; so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones; ¹⁹ Let it be unto him as a garment with which he covereth himself, and for a girdle wherewith he is constantly girded. ²⁰ Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah, and of them that speak evil against my soul. ²¹ But do *thou* for me, Jehovah, Lord, for thy name`s sake; because thy loving-kindness is good, deliver me: ²² For I am afflicted and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. ²³ I am gone like a shadow when it lengtheneth; I am tossed about like the locust; ²⁴ My knees are failing through fasting, and my flesh hath lost its fatness; ²⁵ And I am become a reproach unto them; [when] they look upon me they shake their heads. ²⁶ Help me, Jehovah my God; save me according to thy loving-kindness: ²⁷ That they may know that this is thy hand; that *thou*, Jehovah, hast done it. ²⁸ Let *them* curse, but bless *thou*; when they rise up, let them be ashamed, and let thy servant rejoice. ²⁹ Let mine adversaries be clothed with confusion, and let them cover themselves with their shame as with a mantle. ³⁰ I will greatly celebrate Jehovah with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude. ³¹ For he standeth at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those that judge his soul.

⁵ The Lord at thy right hand will smite through kings in the day of his anger.

⁵ Who is like unto Jehovah our God, who hath placed his dwelling on high; ⁶ Who humbleth himself to look on the heavens and on the earth?

⁸⁶ All thy commandments are faithfulness. They persecute me wrongfully: help thou me.

¹²⁰ My flesh shuddereth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.

³ Lo, children are an inheritance from Jehovah, [and] the fruit of the womb a reward. ⁴ As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth. ⁵ Happy is the man that hath filled his quiver with them. They shall not be ashamed when they speak with enemies in the gate.

⁸ Neither do the passers-by say, The blessing of Jehovah be upon you; we bless you in the name of Jehovah!

² I pour out my plaint before him; I shew before him my trouble. ³ When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then *thou* knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they hidden a snare for me.

¹³ Our granaries full, affording all manner of store; our sheep bringing forth thousands, ten thousands in our pastures; ¹⁴ Our kine laden [with young]; no breaking in and no going forth, and no outcry in our streets.

⁷ The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: fools despise wisdom and instruction.

¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice thee, consent not.

²² How long, simple ones, will ye love simpleness, and scorners take pleasure in their scorning, and the foolish hate knowledge?

²⁹ Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of Jehovah;

⁸ it shall be health for thy navel, and moisture for thy bones.

⁸ Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

⁴ Wealth profiteth not in the day of wrath; but righteousness delivereth from death.

⁹ The light of the righteous rejoiceth; but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

¹⁰ The heart knoweth its own bitterness, and a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy.

⁴ Jehovah hath wrought everything on his own account, yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

⁶ Children`s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

²⁰ Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in the blackest darkness.

²⁰ for there shall be no future to the evil [man]; the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

⁹ lest I be full and deny [thee], and say, Who is Jehovah? or lest I be poor and steal, and outrage the name of my God.

³² If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, [lay] the hand upon thy mouth.

⁴ [One] generation passeth away, and [another] generation cometh, but the earth standeth for ever.

¹⁸ And I hated all my labour wherewith I had been toiling under the sun, because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me. ¹⁹ And who knoweth whether he will be a wise [man] or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour at which I have laboured, and wherein I have been wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

⁸ If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter; for a higher than the high is watching, and there are higher than they.

² one to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honour, and he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and a sore evil.

⁸ There is no man who hath control over the spirit to retain the spirit; and no one hath control over the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war, neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

¹ For all this I laid to my heart and [indeed] to investigate all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; man knoweth neither love nor hatred: all is before them. ² All things [come] alike to all: one event to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

² All things [come] alike to all: one event to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

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

¹² And harp and lyre, tambour and flute, and wine are in their banquets; but they regard not the work of Jehovah, nor do they see the operation of his hands.

²⁴ Therefore as a tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and dry grass sinketh down in the flame, their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; for they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

¹¹ -- Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, the noise of thy lyres: the maggot is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.

²¹ Prepare ye slaughter for his children, because of the iniquity of their fathers; that they may not rise up and possess the earth, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

¹³ The nations rush as the rushing of many waters; but he will rebuke them, and they shall flee far away, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a whirling [of dust] before the whirlwind:

¹³ and behold joy and rejoicing, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: -- Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

⁵ And the multitude of thine enemies shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away; and it shall be in an instant, suddenly.

¹¹ get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us!

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. ¹⁶ Lord, by these things [men] live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit; and thou hast recovered me, and made me to live. 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.

¹³ Who hath directed the Spirit of Jehovah, and, [as] his counsellor, hath taught him? ¹⁴ With whom took he counsel, and [who] gave him intelligence, and instructed him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed him the way of understanding?

²² [It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a gauze curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in; ²³ that bringeth the princes to nothing, that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. ²⁴ Scarcely are they planted, scarcely are they sown, scarcely hath their stock taken root in the earth, but he also bloweth upon them and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.

¹⁵ Behold, I have made of thee a new sharp threshing instrument having double teeth: thou shalt thresh and beat small the mountains, and shalt make the hills as chaff; ¹⁶ thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and thou shalt rejoice in Jehovah, thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.

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?

¹⁹ I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth; I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek me in vain: I [am] Jehovah, speaking righteousness, declaring things which are right.

¹⁷ Arouse thyself, arouse thyself, stand up, Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of Jehovah the cup of his fury. Thou hast drunk, hast drained out the goblet-cup of bewilderment:

⁴ Surely *he* hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; and we, we did regard him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. ⁵ But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed. ⁶ All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid upon him the iniquity of us all.

² Wherefore do ye spend money for [that which is] not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye [that which is] good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

¹⁹ I create the fruit of the lips: peace, peace to him [that is] afar off, and to him [that is] nigh, saith Jehovah; and I will heal him. ²⁰ But the wicked are like the troubled sea, which cannot rest, and whose waters cast up mire and dirt. ²¹ There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

¹³ in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

³³ How dost thou trim thy way to seek love! Therefore hast thou also accustomed thy ways to wickedness. 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. ³⁵ And thou sayest, Indeed I am innocent; his anger will turn from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

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.

²⁴ And I will scatter them as stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.

¹⁵ For thus hath Jehovah the God of Israel said unto me: Take the cup of the wine of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send thee to drink it. ¹⁶ And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

²⁹ In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children`s teeth are set on edge:

⁷ Babylon hath been a golden cup in Jehovah`s hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore have the nations become mad.

¹⁹ Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall. ²⁰ My soul hath [them] constantly in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

¹⁶ And he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I break the staff of bread in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread by weight, and with anxiety; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment: ¹⁷ because bread and water shall fail them, and they shall be astonied one with another, and waste away in their iniquity.

¹⁸ Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with anxiety;

² What mean ye, ye who use this proverb of the land of Israel, saying, [The] fathers eat sour grapes, and the children`s teeth are set on edge?

¹⁴ But lo, if he have begotten a son that seeth all his father`s sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like:

¹⁹ And ye say, Why doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? But the son hath done judgment and justice, hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them; he shall certainly live. ²⁰ The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

²¹ The strong among the mighty, with them that helped him, shall speak to him out of the midst of Sheol: they are gone down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword. ²² There is Asshur and all his assemblage, his graves round about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword; ²³ their graves are set in the sides of the pit, and his assemblage is round about his grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, -- who caused terror in the land of the living. ²⁴ There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down uncircumcised unto the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their confusion with them that go down to the pit. ²⁵ They have set him a bed in the midst of the slain, with all his multitude: their graves are round about him, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though their terror was caused in the land of the living; and they have borne their confusion with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that are slain. ²⁶ There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude, their graves round about them, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living. ²⁷ And they lie not with the mighty, [that are] fallen of the uncircumcised, who are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war; and whose swords are laid under their heads, and whose iniquities are upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living. ²⁸ Thou also shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword. ²⁹ There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, who in their might are laid with them that are slain by the sword: they lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit. ³⁰ There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, that are gone down with the slain -- ashamed of the terror which they caused through their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword, and bear their confusion with them that go down to the pit. ³¹ Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord Jehovah. ³² For I have caused my terror in the land of the living; and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword, Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord Jehovah.

¹⁷ This sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the decision by the word of the holy ones: that the living may know that the Most High ruleth over the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.

³ Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of the lattice.

⁶ According to their pasture, they became full; they became full, and their heart was exalted: therefore have they forgotten me.

¹³ Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in this time; for it is an evil time.

⁴ that lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves from the midst of the stall; ⁵ that chant to the sound of the lute, [and] invent them instruments of music, like David; ⁶ that drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments; but are not grieved for the breach of Joseph.

¹⁶ -- The nations shall see, and be ashamed for all their might: they shall lay [their] hand upon [their] mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

² A jealous and avenging ?God is Jehovah: an avenger is Jehovah, and full of fury: Jehovah taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth [wrath] for his enemies.

¹⁰ Though they be tangled together [as] thorns, and be as drenched from their drink, they shall be devoured as dry stubble, completely.

¹³ [Thou art] of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on mischief: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, [and] keepest silence when the wicked swalloweth up a [man] more righteous than he?

¹⁵ He taketh up all of them with the hook, he catcheth them in his net, and gathereth them into his drag; therefore he rejoiceth and is glad:

¹⁵ He taketh up all of them with the hook, he catcheth them in his net, and gathereth them into his drag; therefore he rejoiceth and is glad: ¹⁶ therefore he sacrificeth unto his net, and burneth incense unto his drag; for by them his portion is become fat, and his meat dainty.

⁹ Woe to him that getteth iniquitous gain to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the grasp of evil! ¹⁰ Thou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast sinned against thine own soul. ¹¹ For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

¹⁶ I heard, and my belly trembled; My lips quivered at the voice; Rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in my place, That I might rest in the day of distress, When their invader shall come up against the people.

¹⁵ That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of ruin and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and gross darkness,

⁴ I will cause it to go forth, saith Jehovah of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name; and it shall lodge in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

¹³ And ye say, Behold, what a weariness! And ye have puffed at it, saith Jehovah of hosts, and ye bring [that which was] torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye bring the oblation: should I accept this of your hand? saith Jehovah. ¹⁴ Yea, cursed be the deceiver, who hath in his flock a male, and voweth and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing; for I am a great King, saith Jehovah of hosts, and my name is terrible among the nations.

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

¹² whose winnowing fan [is] in his hand, and he shall thoroughly purge his threshing-floor, and shall gather his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.

¹⁹ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust spoils, and where thieves dig through and steal; ²⁰ but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust spoils, and where thieves do not dig through nor steal;

⁷ Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.

²⁷ For the Son of man is about to come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to each according to his doings.

³¹ So that ye bear witness of yourselves that ye are sons of those who slew the prophets: ³² and *ye*, fill ye up the measure of your fathers. ³³ Serpents, offspring of vipers, how should ye escape the judgment of hell? ³⁴ Therefore, behold, *I* send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and [some] of them ye will kill and crucify, and [some] of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will persecute from city to city; ³⁵ so that all righteous blood shed upon the earth should come upon *you*, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

³⁸ For as they were in the days which were before the flood, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day on which Noe entered into the ark, ³⁹ and they knew not till the flood came and took all away; thus also shall be the coming of the Son of man.

⁸ And the foolish said to the prudent, Give us of your oil, for our torches are going out.

³⁸ Then he says to them, My soul is very sorrowful even unto death; remain here and watch with me.

¹⁸ For John said to Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have the wife of thy brother.

²² But Jesus, knowing their reasonings, answering said to them, Why reason ye in your hearts?

²⁸ But seeing Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus Son of the Most High God? I beseech thee torment me not.

³⁷ And all the multitude of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were possessed with great fear; and *he*, entering into the ship, returned.

¹⁶ And he spoke a parable to them, saying, The land of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly. ¹⁷ And he reasoned within himself saying, What shall I do? for I have not [a place] where I shall lay up my fruits. ¹⁸ And he said, This will I do: I will take away my granaries and build greater, and there I will lay up all my produce and my good things; ¹⁹ and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much good things laid by for many years; repose thyself, eat, drink, be merry.

¹⁹ and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much good things laid by for many years; repose thyself, eat, drink, be merry. ²⁰ But God said to him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared?

²⁰ But God said to him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared? ²¹ Thus is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

⁴⁶ the lord of that bondman shall come in a day when he does not expect it, and in an hour he knows not of, and shall cut him in two and appoint his portion with the unbelievers.

² And having called him, he said to him, What [is] this that I hear of thee? give the reckoning of thy stewardship, for thou canst be no longer steward.

¹⁹ Now there was a rich man and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, making good cheer in splendour every day.

²² And it came to pass that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. And the rich man also died and was buried. ²³ And in hades lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

²⁵ But Abraham said, Child, recollect that *thou* hast fully received thy good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted here, and *thou* art in suffering.

²⁷ And he said, I beseech thee then, father, that thou wouldest send him to the house of my father, ²⁸ for I have five brothers, so that he may earnestly testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment.

²⁸ and in like manner as took place in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; ²⁹ but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from heaven, and destroyed all [of them]:

¹⁹ And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light; for their works were evil. ²⁰ For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light that his works may not be shewn as they are;

⁴⁵ and because I speak the truth, ye do not believe me. ⁴⁶ Which of you convinces me of sin? If I speak truth, why do ye not believe me? ⁴⁷ He that is of God hears the words of God: therefore ye hear [them] not, because ye are not of God.

²³ He that hates me hates also my Father. ²⁴ If I had not done among them the works which no other one has done, they had not had sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

²⁴ Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

²⁵ And as he reasoned concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment about to come, Felix, being filled with fear, answered, Go for the present, and when I get an opportunity I will send for thee;

²⁸ And according as they did not think good to have God in [their] knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind to practise unseemly things;

⁵ but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up to thyself wrath, in [the] day of wrath and revelation of [the] righteous judgment of God,

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;

⁷ Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God; for neither indeed can it be:

³³ O depth of riches both of [the] wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable his judgments, and untraceable his ways! ³⁴ For who has known [the] mind of [the] Lord, or who has been his counsellor?

¹⁹ not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it is written, Vengeance [belongs] to me, *I* will recompense, saith the Lord.

¹⁶ For who has known the mind of [the] Lord, who shall instruct him? But *we* have the mind of Christ.

³ Do ye not know that we shall judge angels? and not then matters of this life?

²¹ Him who knew not sin he has made sin for us, that *we* might become God`s righteousness in him.

¹¹ But when Peter came to Antioch, I withstood him to [the] face, because he was to be condemned:

¹⁰ and in all deceit of unrighteousness to them that perish, because they have not received the love of the truth that they might be saved. ¹¹ And for this reason God sends to them a working of error, that they should believe what is false, ¹² that all might be judged who have not believed the truth, but have found pleasure in unrighteousness.

³ For the time shall be when they will not bear sound teaching; but according to their own lusts will heap up to themselves teachers, having an itching ear; ⁴ and they will turn away their ear from the truth, and will have turned aside to fables.

¹⁴ Alexander the smith did many evil things against me. The Lord will render to him according to his works.

¹ For this reason we should give heed more abundantly to the things [we have] heard, lest in any way we should slip away.

²⁷ And forasmuch as it is the portion of men once to die, and after this judgment;

¹³ for judgment [will be] without mercy to him that has shewn no mercy. Mercy glories over judgment.

¹⁹ For this [is] acceptable, if one, for conscience sake towards God, endure griefs, suffering unjustly.

⁴ For if God spared not [the] angels who had sinned, but having cast them down to the deepest pit of gloom has delivered them to chains of darkness [to be] kept for judgment;

⁹ [the] Lord knows [how] to deliver the godly out of trial, and to keep [the] unjust to [the] day of judgment [to be] punished; ¹⁰ and specially those who walk after the flesh in [the] lust of uncleanness, and despise lordship. Bold [are they], self-willed; they do not fear speaking injuriously of dignities: ¹¹ when angels, who are greater in might and power, do not bring against them, before the Lord, an injurious charge. ¹² But these, as natural animals without reason, made to be caught and destroyed, speaking injuriously in things they are ignorant of, shall also perish in their own corruption, ¹³ receiving [the] reward of unrighteousness; accounting ephemeral indulgence pleasure; spots and blemishes, rioting in their own deceits, feasting with you; ¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery, and that cease not from sin, alluring unestablished souls; having a heart practised in covetousness, children of curse; ¹⁵ having left [the] straight way they have gone astray, having followed in the path of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who loved [the] reward of unrighteousness; ¹⁶ but had reproof of his own wickedness -- [the] dumb ass speaking with man`s voice forbad the folly of the prophet. ¹⁷ These are springs without water, and mists driven by storm, to whom the gloom of darkness is reserved [for ever].

⁷ But the present heavens and the earth by his word are laid up in store, kept for fire unto a day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

⁶ And angels who had not kept their own original state, but had abandoned their own dwelling, he keeps in eternal chains under gloomy darkness, to [the] judgment of [the] great day;

¹³ raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames; wandering stars, to whom has been reserved the gloom of darkness for eternity.

¹⁷ because the great day of his wrath is come, and who is able to stand?

² And the beast which I saw was like to a leopardess, and its feet as of a bear, and its mouth as a lion`s mouth; and the dragon gave to it his power, and his throne, and great authority; ³ and one of his heads [was] as slain to death, and his wound of death had been healed: and the whole earth wondered after the beast. ⁴ And they did homage to the dragon, because he gave the authority to the beast; and they did homage to the beast, saying, Who [is] like to the beast? and who can make war with it? ⁵ And there was given to it a mouth, speaking great things and blasphemies; and there was given to it authority to pursue its career forty-two months. ⁶ And it opened its mouth for blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle, and those who have their tabernacle in the heaven. ⁷ And there was given to it to make war with the saints, and to overcome them; and there was given to it authority over every tribe, and people, and tongue, and nation;

¹⁰ he also shall drink of the wine of the fury of God prepared unmixed in the cup of his wrath, and he shall be tormented in fire and brimstone before the holy angels and before the Lamb.

² with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication; and they that dwell on the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. ³ And he carried me away in spirit to a desert; and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and had ornaments of gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and the unclean things of her fornication;

⁶ Recompense her even as she has recompensed; and double [to her] double, according to her works. In the cup which she has mixed, mix to her double.

¹⁵ And out of his mouth goes a sharp [two-edged] sword, that with it he might smite the nations; and he shall shepherd them with an iron rod; and he treads the wine-press of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.

¹ And I saw an angel descending from the heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain in his hand. ² And he laid hold of the dragon, the ancient serpent who is [the] devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, ³ and cast him into the abyss, and shut [it] and sealed [it] over him, that he should not any more deceive the nations until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be loosed for a little time.

¹² And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is [that] of life. And the dead were judged out of the things written in the books according to their works. ¹³ And the sea gave up the dead which [were] in it, and death and hades gave up the dead which [were] in them; and they were judged each according to their works: ¹⁴ and death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, [even] the lake of fire. ¹⁵ And if any one was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.