Job 16:7 Cross References - EJ2000

⁷ But now he has made me weary; thou hast made desolate all my company.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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