Job 27:12 Cross References - Darby

¹² Behold, ye yourselves have all seen [it]; and why are ye thus altogether vain?

²⁵ How forcible are right words! but what doth your upbraiding reprove? ²⁶ Do ye imagine to reprove words? The speeches of one that is desperate are indeed for the wind. ²⁷ Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and dig [a pit] for your friend. ²⁸ Now therefore if ye will, look upon me; and it shall be to your face if I lie. ²⁹ Return, I pray you, let there be no wrong; yea, return again, my righteousness shall be in it.

⁴ For ye indeed are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. ⁵ Oh that ye would be altogether silent! and it would be your wisdom. ⁶ Hear now my defence, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. ⁷ Will ye speak unrighteously for ?God? and for him speak deceit? ⁸ Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for ?God? ⁹ Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one mocketh at a man, will ye mock at him?

³ Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

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

² How long will ye vex my soul, and crush me with words? ³ These ten times have ye reproached me; ye are not ashamed to stupefy me.

³ Suffer me and I will speak; and after I have spoken, mock on!

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.

² How hast thou helped the powerless; how saved the arm that is without strength! ³ How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, and abundantly declared the thing as it is! ⁴ For whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?

¹⁴ There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are righteous [men] unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; and there are wicked [men] to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

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. ³ This is an evil among all that is done under the sun, that one thing befalleth all: yea, also the heart of the children of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live; and after that, [they have to go] to the dead.