Job 8 Cross References - Darby

¹ And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said, ² How long wilt thou speak these things? and the words of thy mouth be a strong wind? 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; ⁷ And though thy beginning was small, yet thine end shall be very great. ⁸ For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers; ⁹ For we are [but] of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow. ¹⁰ Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? ¹¹ Doth the papyrus shoot up without mire? doth the reed-grass grow without water? ¹² Whilst it is yet in its greenness [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] grass. ¹³ So are the paths of all that forget ?God; and the profane man`s hope shall perish, <sup>14</sup> Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider`s web. ¹⁵ He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand; he shall lay hold on it, but it shall not endure. ¹⁶ He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden; ¹⁷ His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones. ¹⁸ If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen thee! ¹⁹ Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the dust shall others grow. ²⁰ Behold, ?God will not cast off a perfect man, neither will he take evil-doers by the hand. ²¹ Whilst he would fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with shouting, ²² They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked be no more.

¹³ And the people of Sodom were wicked, and great sinners before Jehovah.

²⁵ Far be it from thee to do so, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that the righteous should be as the wicked -- far be it from thee! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?

¹³ For we are going to destroy this place, because the cry of them is great before Jehovah, and Jehovah has sent us to destroy it. ¹⁴ And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, Up, go out of this place, for Jehovah will destroy the city. But he was as if he jested, in the sight of his sons-in-law. ¹⁵ And as the dawn arose, the angels urged Lot, saying, Up, take thy wife and thy two daughters who are present, lest thou perish in the iniquity of the city. ¹⁶ And as he lingered, the men laid hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, Jehovah being merciful to him; and they led him out, and set him without the city. ¹⁷ And it came to pass when they had brought them outside, that he said, Escape for thy life: look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain: escape to the mountain, lest thou perish. ¹⁸ And Lot said to them, Not [so], I pray thee, Lord; 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. ²⁰ Behold now, this city is near to flee to, and it is small: I pray thee, let me escape thither -- is it not small? -- and my soul shall live. ²¹ And he said to him, Behold, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which thou hast spoken. ²² Haste, escape thither; for I cannot do anything until thou art come there. Therefore the name of the city is called Zoar. ²³ The sun rose upon the earth when Lot came to Zoar. ²⁴ And Jehovah rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven, ²⁵ and overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew upon the ground.

⁶ And Sarah said, God has made me laugh: all that hear will laugh with me.

⁹ And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they do not attain to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojourning.

³ And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of reeds, and plastered it with resin and with pitch, and put the child in it, and laid [it] in the sedge on the bank of the river.

³ And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and said to him, Thus saith Jehovah the God of the Hebrews: How long dost thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.

⁷ And Pharaoh`s bondmen said to him, How long shall this man be a snare to us? let the men go, that they may serve Jehovah their God: dost thou not yet know that Egypt is ruined?

³² For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from one end of the heavens to the other end of the heavens, whether there hath been anything as this great thing is, or if anything hath been heard like it?

⁷ and thou shalt impress them on thy sons, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou goest on the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

¹² [then] beware lest thou forget Jehovah who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

¹¹ Beware that thou forget not Jehovah thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command thee this day;

¹⁴ then thy heart be lifted up, and thou forget Jehovah thy God, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

¹⁶ who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;

¹⁹ And it shall be, if thou do at all forget Jehovah thy God, and go after other gods, and serve them, and bow down to them, I testify against you this day that ye shall utterly perish.

¹⁹ And ye shall teach them unto your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou goest on the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up;

⁴ [He is] the Rock, his work is perfect, For all his ways are righteousness; A ?God of faithfulness without deceit, Just and right is he.

⁷ Remember the days of old, Consider the years of generation to generation; Ask thy father, and he will shew thee; Thine elders, and they will tell thee.

⁸ He raiseth up the poor out of the dust; from the dung-hill he lifteth up the needy, To set [him] among nobles; and he maketh them inherit a throne of glory; For the pillars of the earth are Jehovah`s, and he hath set the world upon them.

¹¹ And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before Jehovah. And behold, Jehovah passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before Jehovah: Jehovah was not in the wind. And after the wind, an earthquake: Jehovah was not in the earthquake.

¹⁵ For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no hope [of life].

⁷ And now, let the terror of Jehovah be upon you; be careful what ye do, for there is no iniquity with Jehovah, nor respect of persons, nor taking of presents.

¹² And when he was in affliction, he besought Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, ¹³ and prayed to him. And he was intreated of him and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Jehovah, he was God.

¹¹ And they sang alternately together in praising and giving thanks to Jehovah: For he is good, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout to the praise of Jehovah, because the foundation of the house of Jehovah was laid. ¹² But many of the priests and Levites and chief fathers, the ancient men that had seen the first house, wept with a loud voice, [when] the foundation of this house was laid in their sight; and many shouted aloud for joy. ¹³ And the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a great shout, and the noise was heard afar off.

⁴³ And that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and also the women and the children rejoiced. And the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.

⁵ And it was so, when the days of the feasting were gone about, that Job sent and hallowed them; and he rose up early in the morning, and offered up burnt-offerings [according to] the number of them all; for Job said, It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

⁸ And Jehovah said to Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and abstaineth from evil?

¹⁸ While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the firstborn; ¹⁹ and behold, there came a great wind from over the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they died; and I only am escaped, alone, to tell thee.

¹¹ And three friends of Job heard of all this evil that was come upon him. And they came each one from his place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to condole with him and to comfort him.

⁶ Hath not thy piety been thy confidence, and the perfection of thy ways thy hope? ⁷ Remember, I pray thee, who that was innocent has perished? and where were the upright cut off?

⁷ Remember, I pray thee, who that was innocent has perished? and where were the upright cut off?

¹⁷ Shall [mortal] man be more just than +God? Shall a man be purer than his Maker?

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:

⁸ But as for me I will seek unto ?God, and unto God commit my cause;

²² At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh, and of the beasts of the earth thou shalt not be afraid.

²⁴ And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; and thou wilt survey thy fold, and miss nothing.

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.

⁸ The eye of him that hath seen me shall behold me no [more]: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.

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.

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.

¹⁸ If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen thee!

² Of a truth I know it is so; but how can man be just with ?God?

²² It is all one; therefore I said, he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

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

² Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man of much talk be justified? ³ Should thy fictions make men hold their peace? and shouldest thou mock, and no one make [thee] ashamed?

¹³ If thou prepare thy heart and stretch out thy hands toward him,

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.

⁷ But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowl of the heavens, and they shall tell thee; ⁸ Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

¹² With the aged is wisdom, and in length of days understanding.

¹⁶ This also shall be my salvation, that a profane man shall not come before his face.

² He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; and he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not.

² Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind,

¹⁰ Both the greyheaded and the aged are with us, older than thy father.

¹⁸ Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hidden;

³⁴ For the family of the ungodly shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

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

¹⁷ Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

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

¹⁴ His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and it shall lead him away to the king of terrors:

¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off;

¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off; ¹⁷ His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name on the pasture-grounds. 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.

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.

⁷ Behold, I cry out of wrong, and I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

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

⁹ The eye which saw him shall [see him] not again; and his place beholdeth him no more.

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?

¹⁵ What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him?

²⁰ His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the fury of the Almighty.

³⁰ That the wicked is reserved for the day of calamity? They are led forth to the day of wrath.

²¹ Reconcile thyself now with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. ²² Receive, I pray thee, instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart. ²³ If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up. If thou remove unrighteousness far from thy tents, ²⁴ And put the precious ore with the dust, and [the gold of] Ophir among the stones of the torrents, ²⁵ Then the Almighty will be thy precious ore, and silver heaped up unto thee; ²⁶ Yea, then shalt thou delight thyself in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto +God: ²⁷ Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows; ²⁸ And thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; and light shall shine upon thy ways. ²⁹ When they are made low, then thou shalt say, Rise up! and he shall save him that is of downcast eyes. ³⁰ [Even] him that is not innocent shall he deliver; yea, he shall be delivered by the pureness of thy hands.

⁸ For what is the hope of the ungodly, when [God] cutteth him off, when +God taketh away his soul? ⁹ Will ?God hear his cry when distress cometh upon him? ¹⁰ Doth he delight himself in the Almighty? will he at all times call upon +God?

¹⁸ He buildeth his house as the moth, and as a booth that a keeper maketh.

¹⁹ My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch;

⁶ And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are aged; wherefore I was timid, and feared to shew you what I know. ⁷ I said, Let days speak, and multitude of years teach wisdom.

⁷ I said, Let days speak, and multitude of years teach wisdom.

⁵ For Job hath said, I am righteous, and ?God hath taken away my judgment:

¹⁰ Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: Far be wickedness from ?God, and wrong from the Almighty! ¹¹ For a man`s work will he render to him, and cause every one to find according to [his] way. ¹² Yea, surely, ?God acteth not wickedly, and the Almighty perverteth not judgment.

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.

¹³ Surely ?God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

¹³ But the godless in heart heap up anger; they cry not when he bindeth them:

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?

¹² And Jehovah blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses. ¹³ And he had seven sons and three daughters.

⁶ Arise, Jehovah, in thine anger; lift thyself up against the raging of mine oppressors, and awake for me: thou hast commanded judgment.

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

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

⁵ I have hated the congregation of evil-doers, and I have not sat with the wicked. ⁶ I will wash my hands in innocency, and will encompass thine altar, O Jehovah,

¹¹ Rejoice in Jehovah, and be glad, ye righteous; and shout for joy, all ye upright in heart.

²⁶ Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine adversity; let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.

¹⁰ For yet a little while, and the wicked is not; and thou considerest his place, but he is not.

²⁴ though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down, for Jehovah upholdeth his hand.

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.

³⁶ but he passed away, and behold, he was not; and I sought him, but he was not found. ³⁷ Mark the perfect, and behold the upright, for the end of [that] man is peace;

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.

¹ {To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction.} O God, with our ears have we heard, our fathers have told us, the work thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old:

²³ Awake, why sleepest thou, Lord? arise, cast [us] not off for ever.

¹¹ Their inward thought is, that their houses are for ever, their dwelling-places from generation to generation: they call the lands after their own names.

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

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,] 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.

⁴ They run and prepare themselves without [my] fault: awake to meet me, and behold. ⁵ Yea, do thou, Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, arise to visit all the nations: be not gracious to any plotters of iniquity. Selah.

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; 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.

¹⁸ Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins. ¹⁹ How are they suddenly made desolate! they pass away, consumed with terrors.

⁷ For God is the judge; he putteth down one and exalteth another.

³ Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us: ⁴ We will not hide [them] from their sons, shewing forth to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength, and his marvellous works which he hath done.

¹¹ It sent out its boughs unto the sea, and its shoots unto the river.

¹⁴ Righteousness and judgment are the foundation of thy throne; loving-kindness and truth go before thy face.

⁴ For a thousand years, in thy sight, are as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night.

⁷ When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they may be destroyed for ever.

¹⁴ For Jehovah will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance;

⁴ Shout aloud unto Jehovah, all the earth; break forth and shout for joy, and sing psalms.

⁴ And the strength of the king that loveth justice. *Thou* hast established equity: it is thou that executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

¹ {A Psalm of thanksgiving.} Shout aloud unto Jehovah, all the earth!

¹¹ My days are like a lengthened-out shadow, and I, I am withered like grass.

²⁹ Let mine adversaries be clothed with confusion, and let them cover themselves with their shame as with a mantle.

¹⁰ The wicked [man] shall see [it] and be vexed; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

⁷ He raiseth up the poor out of the dust; from the dung-hill he lifteth up the needy,

² Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with rejoicing: then said they among the nations, Jehovah hath done great things for them.

⁶ He goeth forth and weepeth, bearing seed for scattering; he cometh again with rejoicing, bearing his sheaves.

⁶ Let them be as the grass upon the house-tops, which withereth before it is plucked up, ⁷ Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand, nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom;

¹⁸ His enemies will I clothe with shame; but upon himself shall his crown flourish.

⁴ Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

⁴ One generation shall laud thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

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

¹⁸ But the path of the righteous is as the shining light, going on and brightening until the day be fully come.

²⁸ The hope of the righteous is joy; but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

⁷ Overthrow the wicked, and they are no [more]; but the house of the righteous shall stand.

⁸ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah; but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

²³ The heart of the wise maketh his mouth intelligent, and upon his lips increaseth learning.

¹⁵ The heart of an intelligent [man] getteth knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.

²⁰ Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

¹⁵ And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

¹⁰ Say ye of the righteous that it shall be well [with him], for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

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.

⁵ And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up; ⁶ and the rivers shall stink, and the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and drain away: the reeds and sedges shall wither. ⁷ The meadows by the Nile, on the banks of the Nile, and everything sown by the Nile, shall be dried up, be driven away, and be no [more].

¹⁴ The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling hath surprised the hypocrites: Who among us shall dwell with the consuming fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting flames?

¹⁹ The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

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.

¹ Thus saith Jehovah to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him -- and I will loose the loins of kings; to open before him the two-leaved doors, and the gates shall not be shut:

⁹ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah; awake, as in the days of old, [as in] the generations of passed ages. Is it not thou that hath hewn Rahab in pieces, [and] pierced the monster?

¹³ and forgettest Jehovah thy Maker, who hath stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and thou art afraid continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepareth to destroy? And where is the fury of the oppressor?

⁶ Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near. ⁷ Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto Jehovah, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

⁵ They hatch serpents` eggs, and weave the spider`s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. ⁶ Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works; their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

¹³ Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, my servants shall eat, and *ye* shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, and *ye* shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, and *ye* shall be ashamed; ¹⁴ behold, my servants shall sing aloud for gladness of heart, and *ye* shall cry out for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.

¹⁶ Jehovah had called thy name, A green olive-tree, fair, of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and its branches are broken.

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.

⁶ And he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but he shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

¹⁸ And I said, My strength is perished, and my hope in Jehovah.

²⁴ And all the trees of the field shall know that I Jehovah have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and made the dry tree to flourish: I Jehovah have spoken, and will do [it].

²⁵ And ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear then, house of Israel. Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?

¹⁷ Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.

²⁰ Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.

¹⁴ And Jehovah hath watched over the evil, and brought it upon us; for Jehovah our God is righteous in all his works which he hath done; and we have not hearkened unto his voice.

¹⁰ For who hath despised the day of small things? Yea, they shall rejoice [even] those seven -- and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel: these are the eyes of Jehovah, which run to and fro in the whole earth.

⁷ And it shall be one day which is known to Jehovah, not day, and not night; and it shall come to pass, at eventide it shall be light.

⁹ And do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for [our] father; for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

⁷ Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you. ⁸ For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened.

²⁴ Whoever therefore hears these my words and does them, I will liken him to a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock; ²⁵ and the rain came down, and the streams came, and the winds blew and fell upon that house, and it did not fall, for it had been founded upon the rock. ²⁶ And every one who hears these my words and does not do them, he shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand; ²⁷ and the rain came down, and the streams came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.

³⁵ The good man out of the good treasure brings forth good things; and the wicked man out of the wicked treasure brings forth wicked things.

¹² for whoever has, to him shall be given, and he shall be caused to be in abundance; but he who has not, even what he has shall be taken away from him.

²⁰ But he that is sown on the rocky places -- this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy,

²⁰ But he that is sown on the rocky places -- this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy, ²¹ but has no root in himself, but is for a time only; and when tribulation or persecution happens on account of the word, he is immediately offended.

³¹ Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of the heavens is like a grain of mustard [seed] which a man took and sowed in his field; ³² which is less indeed than all seeds, but when it is grown is greater than herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of heaven come and roost in its branches.

⁵¹ and shall cut him in two and appoint his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

²⁰ And passing by early in the morning they saw the fig-tree dried up from the roots.

²¹ Blessed ye that hunger now, for ye shall be filled. Blessed ye that weep now, for ye shall laugh.

⁴⁷ Every one that comes to me, and hears my words and does them, I will shew you to whom he is like. ⁴⁸ He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock; but a great rain coming, the stream broke upon that house, and could not shake it, for it had been founded on the rock. ⁴⁹ And he that has heard and not done, is like a man who has built a house on the ground without [a] foundation, on which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the breach of that house was great.

¹ In those [times], the myriads of the crowd being gathered together, so that they trod one on another, he began to say to his disciples first, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy; ² but there is nothing covered up which shall not be revealed, nor secret that shall not be known;

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,

⁴ Far be the thought: but let God be true, and every man false; according as it is written, So that thou shouldest be justified in thy words, and shouldest overcome when thou art in judgment. ⁵ But if our unrighteousness commend God`s righteousness, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak according to man. ⁶ Far be the thought: since how shall God judge the world?

⁴ For as many things as have been written before have been written for our instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

¹¹ Now all these things happened to them [as] types, and have been written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

⁸ I will therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up pious hands, without wrath or reasoning.

⁷ Wherefore, even as says the Holy Spirit, To-day if ye will hear his voice, ⁸ harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness;

⁴ By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained testimony of being righteous, God bearing testimony to his gifts, and by it, having died, he yet speaks.

¹ Let *us* also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us,

¹⁰ and the rich in his humiliation, because as [the] grass`s flower he will pass away. ¹¹ For the sun has risen with its burning heat, and has withered the grass, and its flower has fallen, and the comeliness of its look has perished: thus the rich also shall wither in his goings.

⁷ Subject yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. ⁸ Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, sinners, and purify [your] hearts, ye double-minded. ⁹ Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness. ¹⁰ Humble yourselves before [the] Lord, and he shall exalt you.

²⁴ Because all flesh [is] as grass, and all its glory as [the] flower of grass. The grass has withered and [its] flower has fallen;

⁵ Likewise [ye] younger, be subject to [the] elder, and all of you bind on humility towards one another; for God sets himself against [the] proud, but to [the] humble gives grace.

²⁰ For if after having escaped the pollutions of the world through [the] knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, again entangled, they are subdued by these, their last state is worse than the first.

¹⁹ And hereby we shall know that we are of the truth, and shall persuade our hearts before him -- ²⁰ that if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness towards God, ²² and whatsoever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and practise the things which are pleasing in his sight.

¹² These are spots in your love-feasts, feasting together [with you] without fear, pasturing themselves; clouds without water, carried along by [the] winds; autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;

³ And they sing the song of Moses bondman of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and wonderful [are] thy works, Lord God Almighty; righteous and true [are] thy ways, O King of nations.

⁷ And I heard the altar saying, Yea, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous [are] thy judgments.