Job 9:29 Cross References - ECB

²⁹ I - I am wicked! Why this? Why labor I in vain?

²² This is one, so I say, He finishes off the integrious and the wicked.

² I say to Elohah, Judge me not wicked; let me know why you contend with me.

⁷ You know I am not wicked; and there is no escape from your hand.

¹⁴ If I sin, you guard me - you exonerate me not from my iniquity. ¹⁵ If I be wicked, woe to me; and if I be justified, yet I lift not my head. I satiate with abasement; you see my humiliation; ¹⁶ for it rises; you hunt me as a roaring lion; you turn back; you show yourself marvellous in me; ¹⁷ you renew your witnesses against me and abound your vexation with me; changes and hostility are against me.

¹⁶ Behold, their good is not in their hand; the counsel of the wicked is far from me. ¹⁷ How often the lamp of the wicked extinguishes! And their calamity comes on them! He apportions pangs in his wrath;

²⁷ Behold, I know the fabrications and intrigues you violate against me:

⁵ Is not your evil great? - your perversity endless? ⁶ Gratuitously you take a pledge from your brother and strip the naked of their clothing: ⁷ you give the languid no water to drink; you withhold bread from the famished. ⁸ The man of arm has the earth and the exalted face settles therein: ⁹ you send widows away empty and crush the arms of the orphan. ¹⁰ So snares surround you and sudden dread terrifies you: ¹¹ or darkness, you see not; and abundance of waters cover you. ¹² Is not Elohah in the height of the heavens? See the head of the stars - how high! ¹³ And you say, El knows what? Judges he through the dripping darkness? ¹⁴ Thick clouds are his covering that he not be seen; and he walks in the circle of the heavens. ¹⁵ Regard you the eternal way which mischievous men have trodden? ¹⁶ - who were plucked from time? - whose foundation was poured with a flood? ¹⁷ Who says to El, Turn from us? What does Shadday for them? ¹⁸ Yet he fills their houses with good; but the counsel of the wicked is far from me: ¹⁹ the just see and cheer; and the innocent deride. ²⁰ Surely our opponent is not cut off, and fire consumes them who remain. ²¹ I beseech, be accustomed with him and shalam; thereby good comes to you. ²² I beseech you, receive the torah from his mouth and set his sayings in your heart. ²³ If you return to Shadday, you are built up; remove wickedness far from your tents: ²⁴ so as to set your diggings as dust - as the rocks of the wadies of Ophir. ²⁵ Yes, Shadday becomes your diggings and silver your strengths. ²⁶ For then you have your delight in Shadday - lift your face to Elohah. ²⁷ Intreat to him and he hears you shalam your vows: ²⁸ and cut a saying and it rises to you; and the light illuminates your ways. ²⁹ When abased, say, This is arrogance! - and he saves the downcast eye; ³⁰ he rescues the island of the innocent; it escapes by the purity of your palms.

³³ Yah Veh neither forsakes him in his hand, nor judges him wicked when he is judged.

¹³ Surely I purify my heart in vain and wash my palms in innocency.

³⁵ Yet you say, Because I am exonerated, surely his wrath turns from me. Behold, I judge you, because you say, I sin not.