Job 16 Cross References - EJ2000

¹ ¶ Then Job answered and said, ² Many times I have heard such things; miserable comforters are ye all. ³ Shall vain words have an end? Or what is it that emboldens thee to answer? ⁴ I also could speak as ye do. I wish your soul were in my soul’s stead, that I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you. ⁵ But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would assuage the pain. ⁶ ¶ Though if I speak, my pain does not cease; and if I forbear to speak, it does not depart from me. ⁷ But now he has made me weary; thou hast made desolate all my company. ⁸ And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face. ⁹ His wrath has torn me and has been against me; he gnashed upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpened his eyes upon me. ¹⁰ They have opened their mouth against me; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. ¹¹ God has delivered me unto the liar, and in the hands of the wicked he has caused me to tremble. ¹² I was prosperous, but he has broken me asunder; he has taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for his mark. ¹³ His archers compassed me round about; he cleaved my kidneys asunder and did not spare; he poured out my gall upon the ground. ¹⁴ He broke me with breach upon breach; he ran upon me like a giant. ¹⁵ I have sewn sackcloth upon my skin and put dust over my head. ¹⁶ My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death, ¹⁷ ¶ even though there is no injustice in my hands, and my prayer has been pure. ¹⁸ O earth, do not cover my blood; and let there be no place where my cry is hidden. ¹⁹ Certainly my witness is even now in the heavens, and my record is on high. ²⁰ Those who dispute with me are my friends, but my eyes shall pour out tears unto God. ²¹ O that a man might dispute with God, as he can with his neighbour! ²² When the counted years are come, then I shall go the way from which I shall not return.

¹¹ And now thou art cursed from the earth, which has opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand;

⁵⁰ If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness between me and thee.

³⁴ Then Jacob rent his clothes and put sackcloth upon his loins and mourned for his son many days.

²³ The arches have sorely grieved him and shot at him and hated him;

²⁰ The LORD will not forgive him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

⁸ And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter, and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock Etam.

²¹ I went out full, and the LORD has brought me home again empty. Why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?

¹⁰ LORD, thine adversaries shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven he shall thunder upon them. The LORD shall judge the ends of the earth, and he shall give strength unto his king and exalt the horn of his anointed. {Heb. Messiah}

⁵ And he said unto them, The LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day that ye have not found anything in my hand. And they answered, He is witness.

¹⁸ And thou hast showed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me; forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me into thy hand, thou didst not kill me.

²⁷ And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh and fasted and slept in sackcloth and went softly.

²⁴ Then Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, went near and smote Micaiah on the cheek and said, Which way did the Spirit of the LORD go from me to speak unto thee?

²¹ This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him: Has he despised thee? Has he laughed thee to scorn, O virgin daughter of Zion? He has moved his head behind thy back, O daughter of Jerusalem.

²³ Then Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, came near and smote Micaiah upon the cheek and said, Which way did the Spirit of the LORD depart from me to speak unto thee?

⁵ And do not cover their iniquity, nor let their sin be blotted out from before thee, for they have become angry against the builders.

² And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. ³ His substance was seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she asses, and a very great store of servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

¹³ ¶ And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the firstborn; ¹⁴ and a messenger came unto Job and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them; ¹⁵ and the Sabeans {Heb. those of Sheba} fell upon them and took them away; they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell thee. ¹⁶ While he was yet speaking, another came who said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven and has burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them; and I alone have escaped to tell thee. ¹⁷ While he was yet speaking, another came and said, The Chaldeans made three bands and fell upon the camels and have carried them away and have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell thee. ¹⁸ While he was yet speaking, there another came 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 the wilderness and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I alone have escaped to tell thee.

⁷ ¶ So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto the crown of his head.

¹⁷ There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.

²⁶ I never had prosperity, nor did I secure myself, neither was I at rest; yet trouble came.

³ Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. ⁴ Thy words have upheld the one that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.

¹⁰ The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

² Oh that my grief and calamity were justly weighed and laid equally in the balances! ³ For it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore, my words are swallowed up. ⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks of the poison; and terrors of God combat me.

⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks of the poison; and terrors of God combat me. ⁵ Does the wild ass bray when he has grass? Does the ox low over his fodder? ⁶ Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

¹⁰ Then should my comfort grow; I would hold on to sorrow without mercy; for I have not contradicted the words of the Holy One.

¹⁴ ¶ He that is afflicted deserves mercy from his friend; but he has forsaken the fear of the Almighty.

²⁵ How forcible are the words of rectitude! But what does your argument reprove? ²⁶ Are ye not thinking up words of reproof and throw to the wind words that are lost?

³ so I am made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

⁹ As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he that goes down to Sheol, who shall not come up again; ¹⁰ he shall return no more to his house; neither shall his place know him any more.

¹² Am I a sea, or a dragon, that thou settest a watch over me?

¹⁶ I loathed life; I do not desire to live for ever; let me alone; for my days are vanity.

²⁰ If I have sinned, what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

² How long wilt thou speak such things and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

⁵ if thou would seek God early and make thy supplication to the Almighty, ⁶ if thou wert pure and upright, surely now he would awake upon thee and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

¹⁷ For he has broken me with a tempest and has multiplied my wounds without cause.

³⁴ Let him take his tormentor away from me, and his terror will not perturb me. ³⁵ Then I would speak and not fear him, because in this state I am not myself.

¹ ¶ My soul is cut off in my life; therefore, I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁶ And thou dost increase. Thou dost hunt me as a fierce lion; turning and doing marvels in me. ¹⁷ Thou dost renew thy plagues against me and increase thine indignation upon me, bringing up armies against me.

¹⁷ Thou dost renew thy plagues against me and increase thine indignation upon me, bringing up armies against me.

² Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be justified?

² Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be justified? ³ Should thy lies make men be silent? Shalt thou mock, and shall no man make thee ashamed?

¹⁴ if there is any iniquity in thy hand and thou dost put it far away and dost not consent that wickedness dwell in thy habitations,

⁴ He who invokes God and he answers him is mocked by his friend; the just and perfect man is laughed to scorn. ⁵ The torch is held in low esteem in the thought of him that is prosperous, which was prepared to guard against a slip of the feet.

³ But I would speak with the Almighty, and I desired to dispute with God. ⁴ That ye are certainly forgers of lies; ye are all physicians of no value. ⁵ O that ye would altogether be silent! And it would be unto you instead of wisdom.

²² Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and answer thou me.

²⁴ Why dost thou hide thy face, and hold me for thine enemy?

²⁷ Thou dost put my feet also in the stocks and look narrowly unto all my paths; thou dost set a print upon the heels of my feet.

⁵ Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass.

¹⁰ But when man shall die and be cut off, and the man shall perish, where shall he be?

¹⁴ If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time I will wait until my transformation comes.

² Should a wise man utter vain knowledge and fill his belly with the east wind?

²⁰ The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden from the violent.

²⁶ he shall run him through in the neck, upon the thick shoulder pieces of his shields;

³⁴ For the congregation of the hypocrites shall be made desolate, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

⁴ I also could speak as ye do. I wish your soul were in my soul’s stead, that I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

² Now there are only mockers with me, upon whose bitterness my eye continues to gaze.

⁷ My eyes are dim by reason of sorrow, and all my thoughts are as a shadow.

⁴ O thou that dost tear thy soul in thine anger; shall the earth be forsaken because of thee and shall the rocks be removed out of their place?

² How long will ye anguish my soul and break me in pieces with words? ³ These ten times ye have reproached me; are ye not ashamed to make yourselves strange to me?

¹¹ He has kindled his wrath against me, and he counted me unto him as one of his enemies.

²⁰ My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

²⁷ whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another, though my kidneys be consumed within me.

³ I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my intelligence causes me to answer.

²⁵ He shall draw forth an arrow from his quiver, and like lightning it shall strike through his gall; terrors shall come upon him.

²⁷ ¶ Behold, I know your thoughts and the imaginations which ye devise against me. ²⁸ For ye say, What is of the house of the prince, and what of the tent of the habitation of the wicked?

⁵ ¶ Certainly thy wickedness is great and thine iniquities have no end. ⁶ For thou didst take a pledge from thy brother without cause and stripped the naked of their clothing. ⁷ Thou didst not give water to drink to the weary, and thou hast withheld bread from the hungry. ⁸ But the man of means had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it. ⁹ Thou hast sent the widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

³ Oh, that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat! ⁴ I would order judgment before him and fill my mouth with arguments. ⁵ I would know the words which he would answer me and understand what he would say unto me. ⁶ Will he plead against me with his great power? No, but rather he would put it in me. ⁷ There the righteous might dispute with him; and should I escape for ever from the one who condemns me.

² Dominion and fear are with God; he makes peace in his high places.

² How hast thou helped the one who has no power? Hast thou saved with thy arm the one who has no strength? ³ How hast thou counselled the one that has no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

⁶ I hold fast to my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live. ⁷ ¶ Let my enemy be as the wicked and my adversary as the unrighteous.

⁹ Will God hear his cry when the tribulation comes upon him?

³ when his lamp shone upon my head, and by its light I walked in the darkness;

⁵ when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me; ⁶ when I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil! ⁷ ¶ When I went out to the gate to judgment, when I had my seat prepared in the plaza! ⁸ The young men would see me and hide themselves, and the aged would arise and stand. ⁹ The princes would refrain from talking and lay their hand on their mouth; ¹⁰ the voice of the principals would not be noticed, and their tongue would cleave to the roof of their mouth. ¹¹ When the ears that heard me, called me blessed; and when the eyes that saw me, gave witness to me: ¹² because I delivered the poor that cried and the fatherless who had no one to help him.

¹² because I delivered the poor that cried and the fatherless who had no one to help him. ¹³ The blessing of the one that was ready to perish came upon me; and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

¹³ The blessing of the one that was ready to perish came upon me; and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. ¹⁴ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me as a robe; and my diadem was judgment.

¹⁴ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me as a robe; and my diadem was judgment. ¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.

¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame. ¹⁶ I was a father to the needy; and the cause which I did not know I searched out.

¹⁶ I was a father to the needy; and the cause which I did not know I searched out. ¹⁷ And I broke the fangs of the wicked and caused their teeth to release the prey.

¹⁷ And I broke the fangs of the wicked and caused their teeth to release the prey. ¹⁸ ¶ Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

¹⁸ ¶ Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand. ¹⁹ My root is spread out by the waters, and the dew shall remain upon my branches.

¹⁹ My root is spread out by the waters, and the dew shall remain upon my branches. ²⁰ My glory is renewed with me, and my bow is renewed in my hand. ²¹ They would hear me and wait, and keep silent at my counsel. ²² After my words they would not reply, but my reason dropped upon them. ²³ And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain. ²⁴ If I laughed at them, they did not believe it; and they did not cast down the light of my countenance. ²⁵ I approved their way and sat at the head and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforts the mourners.

²⁵ I approved their way and sat at the head and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforts the mourners.

¹⁹ He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

¹ ¶ I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I look upon a maid? ² For what reward would God give me from above and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? ³ Is there no destruction for the wicked? And banishment for the workers of iniquity? ⁴ Does he not see my ways and count all my steps? ⁵ If I have walked with falsehood or if my foot has hastened to deceit, ⁶ let me be weighed in a just balance, that God may know my integrity. ⁷ If my step has turned out of the way and my heart walked after my eyes and if any blot has cleaved to my hands, ⁸ then let me sow, and let another eat, and let my offspring be rooted out. ⁹ ¶ If my heart has been deceived regarding a woman, or if I have laid in wait at my neighbour’s door, ¹⁰ then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her. ¹¹ For this is lewdness and iniquity that is proven. ¹² For it is a fire that consumes unto hell and would root out all my increase. ¹³ If I had despised the right of my manslave or of my maidslave, when they contended with me; ¹⁴ what then would I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what would I answer him? ¹⁵ Did not he that made me in the belly also make him? And did not the same one fashion us in the womb? ¹⁶ ¶ If I have disturbed the desire of the poor or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; ¹⁷ or have eaten my morsel alone and the fatherless has not eaten thereof; ¹⁸ (for from my youth the fatherless was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided the widow from my mother’s womb) ¹⁹ if I have seen any perish for want of clothing or any needy without a covering; ²⁰ if his loins have not blessed me and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; ²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw that they would all help me in the gate; ²² then let my back fall from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from its joint. ²³ For I feared destruction from God, against whose highness I could have no power. ²⁴ ¶ If I have made gold my hope or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; ²⁵ if I rejoiced because my wealth was being multiplied, and because my hand had gotten much; ²⁶ if I beheld the sun when it shone or the moon walking in beauty; ²⁷ and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth kissed my hand; ²⁸ this would also be a proven iniquity; for I should have denied the God that is sovereign. ²⁹ If I rejoiced at the destruction of the one that hated me or lifted up myself when evil found him; ³⁰ for I have never even suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse upon his soul; ³¹ when the servants of my tent said, Oh that we had of his flesh! We would never be satisfied. ³² The stranger did not lodge in the street, but I opened my doors to the traveller. ³³ ¶ If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom; ³⁴ if I feared a great multitude or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and did not go out of the door? ³⁵ Oh that someone would hear me! Behold, my mark is, that the Almighty will testify for me, even though my adversary had written down the charges.

³⁵ Oh that someone would hear me! Behold, my mark is, that the Almighty will testify for me, even though my adversary had written down the charges. ³⁶ Surely I would take it upon my shoulder and bind it as a crown to me. ³⁷ I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince I would go near unto him. ³⁸ If my land cries against me and all its furrows likewise complain; ³⁹ if I ate of its strength without money or have afflicted the soul of its owners; ⁴⁰ let thistles grow up unto me instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

³ Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job. ⁴ Now Elihu had waited until Job had spoken because they were all elder than he. ⁵ But when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled. ⁶ ¶ And Elihu, the son of Barachel, the Buzite, answered and said, I am younger, and ye are older; therefore, I was afraid, and I feared to declare unto you my opinion.

¹⁶ therefore, Job opened his mouth in vain and multiplied words without knowledge.

¹ ¶ Moreover, the LORD answered Job and said, ² Shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct him? Let him that disputes with God answer this. ³ Then Job answered the LORD and said, ⁴ Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay my hand over my mouth. ⁵ Once I have spoken; but I will not answer; even twice, but I will proceed no further.

⁶ I am weary with my groaning; all the night I flood my bed; I water my couch with my tears. ⁷ Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxes old because of all mine enemies.

³ O LORD my God, if I have done this: if there is iniquity in my hands, ⁴ if I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me, then let my persecutor escape without retribution. ⁵ Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; let him tread down my life upon the earth and lay my honour in the dust. Selah.

⁵ Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; let him tread down my life upon the earth and lay my honour in the dust. Selah.

¹² If he does not turn, he will whet his sword; he has bent his bow and made it ready. ¹³ He has also prepared for him the weapons of death; he ordains his arrows against the persecutors. ¹⁴ Behold, he travails with iniquity and has conceived of his own work and brought forth falsehood.

⁷ All those that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

¹³ They opened their mouth upon me as a ravening and a roaring lion.

¹⁶ For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. ¹⁷ I may count all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

¹² Deliver me not over unto the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me and such as breathe out cruelty.

¹⁴ Wait for the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart; wait, I say, for the LORD.

⁸ and hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; thou hast set my feet in a wide place. ⁹ ¶ Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

³ When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

¹⁵ But in my adversity they rejoiced and gathered themselves together; yea, the smiters gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they tore me apart and did not cease: ¹⁶ With immature hypocritical mockers, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

²¹ Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me and said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.

¹² Zain The wicked plots against the just and gnashes upon him with his teeth.

⁷ Deep calls unto deep at the voice of thy waterspouts; all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

¹⁴ Thou makest us a byword among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the people.

¹⁷ ¶ All this is come upon us; yet we have not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. ¹⁸ Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way ¹⁹ though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons and covered us with the shadow of death.

¹⁹ though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons and covered us with the shadow of death. ²⁰ If we have forgotten the name of our God or stretched out our hands to a strange god, ²¹ shall not God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

²² Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I take you away, and there be none to deliver.

¹⁸ If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me: ¹⁹ But verily God has heard me; he has attended to the voice of my prayer.

³ I am weary of my crying; my throat is dried; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.

²⁶ For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten, and they boast that thou hast slain their enemies.

⁵ Do not lift up your horn on high; speak not with a stiff neck.

¹⁰ And I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

¹ To the Overcomer, to Jeduthun,
A Psalm of Asaph. ¶ I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. ² In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord; my sore bled in the night and ceased not; my soul refused to be comforted. ³ I remembered God and cried out; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. ⁴ Thou didst hold my eyelids open; I am broken and did not speak. ⁵ I have considered the days from the beginning, the years of the ages. ⁶ I call to remembrance my songs of the night; I commune with my own heart, and my spirit made diligent search. ⁷ Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? ⁸ Is his mercy gone for ever? does his word fail from generation to generation? ⁹ Has God forgotten to have mercy? has he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

¹⁵ I am afflicted and destitute; from my youth up I have feared thee and been in awe of thee. ¹⁶ Thy fierce wrath goes over me; thy terrors have cut me off. ¹⁷ They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. ¹⁸ Thou hast put lover and friend far from me, and placed my acquaintances into darkness.

²¹ They gather themselves together as an army against the life of the righteous and condemn the innocent blood.

³ For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as in a hearth. ⁴ My heart is smitten and withered like grass so that I forget to eat my bread. ⁵ By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to my skin.

⁹ For I have eaten ashes like bread and mingled my drink with weeping,

¹⁵ And he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.

⁴ They have responded to my love by becoming my adversaries, but I give myself unto prayer.

²⁴ My knees are weak through fasting, and my flesh fails for lack of fatness. ²⁵ I have become a reproach unto them; when they looked upon me they shook their heads.

⁵ Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwells on high,

³ The sorrows of death compassed me and the pains of Sheol found me; I encountered trouble and sorrow.

² I shall pour out my complaint before him; before him I shall tell of my trouble.

¹¹ My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: ¹² For the LORD chastens whom he loves and delights in, even as a father to his son.

¹⁹ ¶ In the multitude of words there is no lack of rebellion, but he that refrains his lips is wise.

⁸ ¶ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

⁹ ¶ Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, so does the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.

¹⁷ ¶ Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.

¹⁰ He that is has been named already; and it is known that he is man and that he shall not be able to contend with him that is mightier than he.

¹⁴ The fool multiplies words and says, Man cannot tell what shall be, and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

⁵ when they shall also be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and appetite shall fail: because man goes to the home of his age, and the mourners shall go about the streets;

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

¹⁶ Therefore shall the Lord, the LORD of the hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.

¹² Therefore the Lord GOD of the hosts did call in this day unto weeping and to mourning and to baldness and to girding with sackcloth:

¹⁶ ¶ From the uttermost part of the earth we have heard psalms, Glory to the righteous one. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! The treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.

²¹ For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against himself: the earth also shall disclose her blood and shall no longer cover her slain.

³ Comfort ye the tired hands and strengthen the knees that tremble. ⁴ Say to those that are of a fearful heart, Be comforted, fear not; behold, your God comes with vengeance, with recompense; God himself will come and save you.

⁹ Woe unto him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What doth thou make; thy work has no form?

⁴ ¶ The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the wise that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary; he wakes up early, early shall he awaken my ear, that I might hear, as the wise.

⁶ I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to those that plucked off the hair: I did not hide my face from shame and spitting.

¹⁴ As many rejected thee, in such manner was his likeness and his beauty, disfigured from the sons of men:

⁹ Then shalt thou call, and thou shalt hear the LORD; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; ¹⁰ and if thou pour out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:

⁶ Their cloth is unfit to be a garment, neither shall they cover themselves with their works; their works are works of violence, and the work of iniquity is in their hands.

¹⁶ to make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passes thereby shall be astonished and wag his head.

²⁹ O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.

¹⁶ Ain For these things I weep; my eyes, my eyes stream with water because the comforter that gives rest unto my soul has left me; my sons are desolate because the enemy prevailed.

¹¹ Caph My eyes fail with tears; my bowels are troubled; my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people because the children and the sucklings faint in the streets of the city.

¹⁵ Samech All that passed by clapped their hands over thee and whistled and wagged their heads over the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? ¹⁶ Pe All thine enemies opened their mouths regarding thee; they whistled and gnashed their teeth; they said, Swallow her up; certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found it, we have seen it.

³ Aleph Surely he is turned against me; he turns his hand against me all the day. ⁴ Beth My flesh and my skin he has made old; he has broken my bones.

⁴ Beth My flesh and my skin he has made old; he has broken my bones. ⁵ Beth He has built against me and compassed me with gall and travail.

¹⁰ Daleth He was unto me as a bear lying in wait and as a lion in secret places. ¹¹ Daleth He has made my ways crooked and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate. ¹² Daleth He has bent his bow and set me as a mark for the arrow. ¹³ He He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.

³⁰ Jod He shall turn his cheek unto him that smites him; he shall be filled with reproach.

¹¹ Therefore, as I live, said the Lord GOD, surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy contaminations and with all thine abominations, therefore I will also destroy thee; neither shall my eye forgive, neither will I have mercy.

⁷ For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she did not poured it upon the ground, to cover it with dust;

⁷ When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou didst brake and make all their loins to come to nothing.

¹⁴ For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion and as a young lion to the house of Judah; I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and there shall be no one left to escape.

¹ ¶ Come, and let us return unto the LORD; for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has smitten, and he will bind us up.

⁴ yea, he dominated the angel and prevailed; he wept and made supplication unto him; he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us; ⁵ but the LORD is God of the hosts; the LORD is his memorial.

⁷ They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war, and they shall march each one in his ways, and they shall not break his ranks.

¹ ¶ Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly, ² and said, I cried by reason of my tribulation unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and thou didst hear my voice. ³ For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about; all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. ⁴ Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will see thy holy temple again. ⁵ The waters compassed me about, even to the soul, the depth closed me round about; the weeds were wrapped about my head. ⁶ I descended to the roots of the mountains; the earth put her bars about me for ever; yet thou hast brought up my life out of the grave, O LORD my God. ⁷ When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD, and my prayer entered in unto thee in thy holy temple. ⁸ Those that observe lying vanities forsake his mercy. ⁹ But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that which I have vowed; that saving comes of the LORD. ¹⁰ ¶ And the LORD spoke unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

⁸ but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth and cry mightily unto God; and let each one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.

¹ ¶ Now thou shalt be besieged by armies, O daughter of the army: he shall lay siege against us; they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

¹³ Therefore I have also made thee weak in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.

⁸ Do not rejoice against me, O my enemy; for if I have fallen, I shall arise; if I sit in darkness, the LORD is my light.

¹⁵ This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! anyone that passes by her shall hiss and wag his hand.

¹² ¶ Therefore, all things whatsoever ye desire that men should do unto you, so also shall ye do unto them, for this is the law and the prophets.

⁴⁴ And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

⁴⁶ And no one was able to answer him a word, neither dared anyone from that day forth ask him any more questions.

⁶⁷ Then they spit in his face and buffeted him, and others smote him with the staves,

³⁹ And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads ⁴⁰ and saying, Thou that wouldst destroy the temple and build it in three days, save thyself. If thou art the Son of God, come down from the cross {Gr. stauros – stake}.

³⁴ and said unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death; tarry ye here, and watch.

¹¹ And they were filled with madness and talked one with another about what they might do to Jesus. ¹² ¶ And it came to pass in those days that he went out into the mountain to pray and continued all night in prayer to God.

³⁵ And the people stood beholding. And the princes also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Christ, the chosen of God. ³⁶ And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar

²² And when he had thus spoken, one of the servants who stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so?

¹⁶ ¶ So that then, he delivered him unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus and led him away.

²⁷ For of a truth against thy holy servant Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together (in this city),

⁵⁴ ¶ When they heard these things, they were divided in their hearts and gnashed on him with their teeth.

² And the prince of the priests, Ananias, commanded those that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.

⁹ For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I always remember you in my prayers,

³² He that did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also give us all things with him?

¹ ¶ I say the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit,

²⁰ Rather, O man, who art thou to reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

³² For God enclosed everyone in disobedience, that he might have mercy upon everyone.

¹⁵ Rejoice with those that rejoice and weep with those that weep.

⁴ (who have for my life laid down their own necks; unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the congregations {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of the Gentiles);

²⁶ And if one member suffers, all the members suffer together; or if one member is honoured, all the members rejoice together.

²³ Moreover I call God for a witness upon my soul that I have not yet come unto Corinth to spare you.

²⁰ For ye suffer it if anyone brings you into bondage, if anyone devours you, if anyone takes of you, if anyone exalts himself, if anyone smites you on the face.

³¹ The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for evermore, knows that I do not lie.

⁷ And lest the greatness of the revelations should exalt me above measure, there is given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

¹ ¶ Brethren, if anyone is overtaken in a fault, ye who are spiritual restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself lest thou also be tempted.

²⁷ that he might present her glorious for himself, a congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.

¹⁶ Some preach the Christ out of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add tribulation to my bonds,

⁵ For we were never flatterers in the word, as ye know, nor tainted with covetousness, God is witness,

¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and God also, of how holy and just and irreprehensible our behaviour was among you that believe,

⁸ I desire, therefore, that the men in every place, pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and strife.

¹¹ whose mouths it is expedient to stop, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain.

⁸ sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that the adversary may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

⁷ Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, was heard because of his reverent fear;

¹⁹ ¶ Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;

³ Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your pleasures. ⁴ Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore that desires to be a friend of the world, makes himself the enemy of God.

⁵ and if he did not forgive the old world, but kept Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven other persons, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;