Job 16:7 Cross References - ECB

⁷ But now I weary; you desolate all my witnesses;

¹⁵ and the Sabeans felled them and took them away; yes, they smote the lads with the mouth of the sword; and I - I only escaped alone to tell you. ¹⁶ While he is yet wording, another also comes and says, The fire of Elohim fell from the heavens and burned up the flocks and the lads and consumed them; and I - I only escaped alone to tell you. ¹⁷ While he is yet wording, another also comes and says, The Kesediym set out three heads and stripped the camels and took them away; yes, and smote the servants with the mouth of the sword; and I - I only escaped alone to tell you. ¹⁸ While he is yet wording, another also comes and says, Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their firstbirthed brother; ¹⁹ and behold, a great wind came from across the wilderness and touched the four corners of the house and it fell upon the lads and they are dead; and I - I only escaped alone to tell you.

¹⁷ There the wicked cease from commotion; and there the wearied of force rest;

³ thus I inherit moons of vanity and nights of toil are numbered to me.

¹⁶ I spurn; I live not eternally; let me decease; for my days are vanity.

¹ My soul loathes life; I forsake my self-meditation; I word in the bitterness of my soul.

⁵ when Shadday was yet with me; when my lads surrounded me; ⁶ when I bathed my steps with butter and the rock poured me rivulets of oil; ⁷ when I went out to the portal through the city; when I prepared my settlement in the broadway! ⁸ The lads saw me and hid themselves and the aged rose and stood; ⁹ governors refrained uttering and set their palm on their mouth; ¹⁰ the eminent hid their voice and their tongue adhered to their palate. ¹¹ When the ear heard, it called me blithesome; and when the eye saw, it gave me witness; ¹² because I rescued them who cried - the humble and the orphan and whoever had no helper. ¹³ The blessing of him who was ready to destruct came on me; and I caused the heart of the widow to shout. ¹⁴ I enrobed justness and it enrobed me; my judgment was as a mantle and a turban; ¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame; ¹⁶ - a father to the needy. I probed contentions that I knew not; ¹⁷ I broke the molars of the wicked and cast the prey from his teeth. ¹⁸ And I said, I expire in my nest and my days abound as the sand. ¹⁹ My root spreads to the waters and the dew stays overnight on my clippings. ²⁰ My honor is new within me and my bow changes in my hand. ²¹ To me they hearken and wait and hush at my counsel. ²² After my words they reiterated not; and my utterances dropped on them; ²³ they awaited me as for the rain; they gaped their mouth as for the after rain. ²⁴ I laughed on them, they trusted not; and the light of my face they felled not. ²⁵ I chose their way, and settled as head; and tabernacled as a sovereign in the troops, as one who sighs over the mourners.

⁶ I belabor with my sighing; all night my bed swims: I flow my bedstead with my tears; ⁷ my eye is motheaten in vexation - antiquates because of all my tribulators.

¹¹ My son, neither spurn the discipline of Yah Veh nor abhor his reproof: ¹² for whom Yah Veh loves, he reproves - even as a father the son who pleases him.

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THE TONGUE OF THE DISCIPLED
Adonay Yah Veh gives me the tongue of the discipled, to know how to reinforce a word to the weary: he wakens morning by morning; he wakens my ear to hear as the discipled:

¹³ And I also, in smiting you, I stroke you - desolate you because of your sins.