Job 3 Cross References - ISV

¹ Job Laments the Day He was BornAfter this, Job spoke up solemnly, cursing the day he was born. ² This is what Job said: ³ “Let the day when I was born be annihilated, along with the night when it was announced, ‘It’s a boy!’ ⁴ Let that day be dark; let God above not care about it; let no light shine over it. ⁵ Let darkness and deep gloom reclaim it; let clouds settle down on it; let blackness in mid-day terrify it. ⁶ Let darkness carry that night away; let it not take its place joyfully among the days of the year; let it not be entered into the calendar. ⁷ “Yes, let that night be barren; let it not appear with its joyful shout. ⁸ Let whoever curses days curse it— those who are ready to awaken monsters. ⁹ Let the stars of its evening twilight be dark; let it hope for light but let there be none; let it not see the breaking rays of the dawn. ¹⁰ “Because that night refused to shut the doors of my mother’s womb; it failed to keep me from seeing this trouble. ¹¹ Why didn’t I die while I was still in the womb, or die while I was being born? ¹² Why was there a lap to hold me, and why were there breasts to nurse me? ¹³ “If I had died, I would be lying down by now, undisturbed, asleep, and at rest, ¹⁴ along with kings and counselors of the earth, who used to build for themselves what are now only ruins, ¹⁵ or princes who amassed gold for themselves, and who kept filling their houses with silver. ¹⁶ “Or why was I not buried like a stillborn child, like babies who never saw the light? ¹⁷ In that place, the wicked stop causing trouble, and there, those whose strength is exhausted are at rest. ¹⁸ In that place, those who once were prisoners will be at ease together; they won’t hear the voice of oppressors. ¹⁹ The unimportant and the important are both there, and the servant is free from his master. ²⁰ “Why does God give light to the sufferer or life to the bitter person: ²¹ To those who are longing for death— even though it does not come? To those who search for it more than for hidden treasure? ²² To those who are happy beyond measure when they reach their graves? ²³ To the formerly successful man who lost his way in life, and God fenced him in? ²⁴ “As far as I’m concerned, my food comes to me in the form of sighs, and my cries of anguish pour out like water. ²⁵ For the dreaded thing that I feared has happened to me, what caused me to worry has engulfed me. ²⁶ I will not be at ease; I will not be quiet; I will not rest; because trouble has arrived.”

¹¹ However, stretch out your hand and strike everything he owns, and he will curse you to your face.”

²² Job neither sinned nor charged God with wrongdoing in all of this.

⁵ However, stretch out your hand and strike his bones and flesh, and he’ll curse you to your face, won’t he?”

⁹ Job Refuses to Curse GodThen his wife told him, “Do you remain firm in your integrity? Curse God and die!”
¹⁰ But he replied to her, “You’re talking like foolish women do. Are we to accept what is good from God but not tragedy?”
Throughout all of this, Job did not sin by what he said.

³ “Let the day when I was born be annihilated, along with the night when it was announced, ‘It’s a boy!’

¹⁶ When he began speaking, he communicated only worthlessness; he added words upon words without knowing anything.”

² I was as silent as a mute person; I said nothing, not even something good, and my distress deepened. ³ My heart within me became incensed; as I thought about it, the fire burned. Then I spoke out:

³³ For they rebelled against him, so that he spoke thoughtlessly with his lips.

¹⁴ Jeremiah Curses the Day of His BirthLet the day on which I was born be cursed. Don’t let the day on which my mother gave birth to me be blessed. ¹⁵ Cursed is the person who brought the good news to my father, “A baby boy has been born to you,” making him very happy.

¹⁴ The Descendants of Dan Commandeer Micah’s IdolsThen the five men who had gone to scout out the territory of Laish told their relatives, “Are you aware that in these houses there’s an ephod, some household idols, a carved image, and a cast image? You know what you need to do.”

¹⁸ So why did you bring me out from the womb? I wish I had died, before anyone had seen me, ¹⁹ as if I had never existed; carried from the womb to the grave.

¹⁰ Jeremiah’s ComplaintHow terrible for me, my mother, that you gave birth to me, a man of strife and contention for the whole land! I’ve neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.

¹⁴ Jeremiah Curses the Day of His BirthLet the day on which I was born be cursed. Don’t let the day on which my mother gave birth to me be blessed. ¹⁵ Cursed is the person who brought the good news to my father, “A baby boy has been born to you,” making him very happy. ¹⁶ May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. Let him hear a cry in the morning, and a battle cry at noon, ¹⁷ because he didn’t kill me in the womb, so that my mother would have been my grave and her womb forever pregnant. ¹⁸ Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow, and to finish my life living in shame?

²² So Moses stretched his hand toward the sky, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days. ²³ No one could see anyone else, nor could anyone get up from his place for three days. But there was light for all the Israelis in their dwellings.

¹² a land about which the LORD your God is always concerned, because the eyes of the LORD are continuously on it throughout the entire year.”

² A day of doom and gloom, a day of clouds and shadows like the dawn spreads out to cover the mountains— a people strong and robust. Never has there been anything like it, neither will anything follow to compare with it, even through the lifetime of generation upon generation.”

¹⁸ The Fearful Day of the LORD“Woe to those who are craving the Day of the LORD! How is it to your benefit, this Day of the LORD? It’s a day of darkness to you, and not light.

⁴⁵ Jesus Dies on the Cross
From noon on, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

²⁰ For a number of days neither the sun nor the stars were to be seen, and the storm continued to rage until at last all hope of our being saved vanished.

¹⁰ The fifth angel poured his bowl on the throne of the beast. Its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed on their tongues in anguish

¹¹ Moses Warns against Idolatry“When you approached and stood at the foot of the mountain—a mountain that was blazing with fire at its core while the sky was covered with thick, dark clouds—

²¹ before I go, never to return, leaving for the land of deep darkness and shadow. ²² It’s a gloomy land, like deepest darkness; where there’s no order, and where even the brightness is like darkness.’”

¹⁶ My face is red from my tears, and dark shadows encircle my eyelids,

¹⁷ As a group, deep darkness is their morning time; fear that lives in darkness is their friend.”

³ Mankind limits the darkness as they search the deepest depths for ore in unfathomable darkness.

¹⁷ Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?

⁴ Even when I walk through a valley of deep darkness, I will not be afraid because you are with me. Your rod and your staff—they comfort me.

¹⁹ Nevertheless, you crushed us in the lair of jackals, and covered us in deep darkness.

¹⁰ Some sat in deepest darkness, shackled with cruel iron,

¹⁴ And he brought them out from darkness and the shadow of death, shattering their chains.

² The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; for those living in a land of deep darkness, a light has shined upon them.

⁶ “They didn’t ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through the land of desert and pits, through the land of dryness and deep darkness, a land that people don’t pass through, and where no one lives?’

²⁸ Because of this, the land will mourn, and the heavens above will be dark. Because I have spoken and decided, I won’t turn back from doing it.”

¹⁶ Give glory to the LORD your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the mountains at twilight. You hope for light, but he turns it into deep darkness. He changes it into heavy gloom.

³ For comes now the day— comes now the Day of the LORD, the day of clouds! The time of the gentiles is fulfilled!

¹² Just as a shepherd looks after his flock during the day time while he is with them, so also I’m going to watch over my sheep, delivering them from every place where they’ve been scattered during the times of gloom and doom.

⁸ Seek the one who fashions the Pleiades and Orion, who turns the deep darkness into morning, who darkens day into night, who calls out to the waters of the sea, pouring them out onto the surface of the earth— the LORD is his name.

¹⁰ I will turn your festivals into mourning, and all of your songs to dirges. I will cause all of you to put on sackcloth and to shave all of your heads. I will make that time like mourning for an only son, and its conclusion will be like the end of a bitter day.”

¹⁶ The people living in darkness have seen a great light, and for those living in the land and shadow of death, a light has risen.”

⁷⁹ to shine on those who sit in darkness and in death’s shadow, and to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

¹⁸ You have not come to something that can be touched, to a blazing fire, to darkness, to gloom,

²⁰ It will never be inhabited or lived in through all generations; no Bedouin will pitch his tent there; no shepherds will make their flocks lie down there. ²¹ But desert beasts will lie down there, and their houses will be full of howling creatures; there owls will dwell, and goat-demons will dance there. ²² Hyenas will howl in its strongholds, and jackals will make their dens in its citadels. Its time is close at hand, and its days will not be extended any further.

⁸ “The celebrations of the tambourine have ended, the noise of the jubilant has stopped, and the mirth that the harp produces has ended.

³⁴ In the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem I’ll bring an end to the sound of gladness and rejoicing, to the sounds of the bridegroom and bride, for the land will become a wasteland.”

²² The sound of harpists, musicians, flutists, and trumpeters will never be heard within you again. No artisan of any trade will ever be found within you again. The sound of a millstone will never be heard within you again. ²³ The light from a lamp will never shine within you again. The voice of a bridegroom and bride will never be heard within you again. For your merchants were the important people of the world, and all the nations were deceived by your witchcraft.

²⁵ Jeremiah sang a lament for Josiah, and all the male and female singers recite that lamentation about Josiah to this day. In fact, they made singing it an ordinance in Israel, and they are recorded in the Lamentations.

¹ On Leviathan “Can you draw Leviathan out of the water with a hook, or tie down his tongue with a rope?

¹⁰ No one is fierce enough to dare to arouse him. “Who, then, can stand in my presence and face me?

²⁵ When he rears up, the mighty are terrified; they are bewildered as he thrashes about.

¹⁷ A Call to LamentThis is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: “Think about what I’m saying! Indeed, call out the professional mourners! Send for the best of them to come. ¹⁸ Let them hurry and lament for us. Let tears run down from our eyes, and let our eyelids flow with water.

¹⁶ Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of the Heavenly Armies, the Lord, says: ‘There will be dirges in all of the streets; and in all of the highways they will cry out in anguish. They will call the farmer to mourning and those who lament to grieve.

¹⁷ ‘A wedding song we played for you, the dance you all did scorn. A woeful dirge we chanted, too, but then you would not mourn.’

³⁸ When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw mass confusion. People were crying and sobbing loudly.

²⁶ I have hoped for good, but evil came instead; I have hoped for light, but darkness came.

¹⁸ “His snorting releases flashes of light; his eyes are like the rays of the dawn.

¹⁵ We waited for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but instead there was terror.

¹⁸ since the LORD had made all the women barren in Abimelech’s household on account of Abraham’s wife Sarah.

³¹ Leah’s ChildrenLater, the LORD noticed that Leah was being neglected, so he made her fertile, while Rachel remained childless.

⁵ but he would give twice as much to Hannah because he loved her.
Now the LORD had closed her womb.

² “If only my grief could be weighed; or my calamity piled together on a balance scale! ³ It would weigh more than the sand on the seashore! Here’s why I’ve talked so rashly:

¹ Job Asks God to Acquit Him “I am disgusted with living, so I’m going to talk about my complaint freely. I’ll speak out from the bitterness of my soul.

² “I’m still complaining bitterly today; my hand is heavy because of groaning.

³ A man might father a hundred children, and live for many years, so that the length of his life is long—but if his life does not overflow with goodness, and he doesn’t receive a proper burial, I maintain that stillborn children are better off than he is, ⁴ because stillborn children arrive in pointlessness, leave in darkness, and their names are covered in darkness. ⁵ Furthermore, though they never saw the sun nor learned anything, they are more content than the other.

¹⁰ Banish sorrow from your heart, and evil from your body, since both childhood and the prime of life are pointless.

¹⁷ because he didn’t kill me in the womb, so that my mother would have been my grave and her womb forever pregnant.

⁹ Yet, you are the one who took me from the womb, and kept me safe on my mother’s breasts. ¹⁰ I was dependent on you from birth; from my mother’s womb you have been my God.

⁸ May they be like a snail that dries up as it crawls; like a woman’s stillborn baby, who never saw the sun.

⁶ I depended on you since birth, when you brought me from my mother’s womb; I praise you continuously.

¹³ It was you who formed my internal organs, fashioning me within my mother’s womb. ¹⁴ I praise you, because you are fearful and wondrous! Your work is wonderful, and I am fully aware of it. ¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you while I was being crafted in a hidden place, knit together in the depths of the earth. ¹⁶ Your eyes looked upon my embryo, and everything was recorded in your book. The days scheduled for my formation were inscribed, even though not one of them had come yet.

³ “Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all you remnant of the house of Israel, who have been upheld from before your birth, and who have been carried from the womb.

¹⁴ Give them, LORD— What will you give? You will give them a womb that miscarries and dry breasts.

³ Rachel responded, “Here’s my handmaid Bilhah. Go have sex with her. She can bear children on my knees so I can have children through her.”

²³ Joseph saw the third generation of Ephraim’s children, as well as the children who had been born to Manasseh’s son Machir, whom he adopted as his own.

¹² The Rule of GodThis is what the LORD says: “See, I will extend prosperity to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream; and you will nurse, and you will be carried on her hip, and bounced upon her knees.

⁴ Now as to your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord wasn’t cut. You weren’t washed with water to clean you, and nobody rubbed you with salt. And it’s certain that you weren’t wrapped in strips of cloth. ⁵ Nobody pitied you to do any of these things for you, and nobody showed you any compassion. You were tossed outside on the ground, because you were detested from the day you were born.

⁸ The eyes of the one who sees me won’t see me anymore; your eyes will look for me but I won’t be around! ⁹ As a cloud fades away and vanishes, the one who descends to the afterlife doesn’t return. ¹⁰ He doesn’t return again to his house, and his place won’t recognize him anymore.”

²¹ Why haven’t you pardoned my transgression and taken away my iniquity? Now I’m about to lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I won’t be around!”

²² It’s a gloomy land, like deepest darkness; where there’s no order, and where even the brightness is like darkness.’”

¹⁰ “But when a person dies and wastes away, when a person breathes his last, where will he be? ¹¹ As water disappears from the sea, or water evaporates from a river, ¹² so also a person lies down and does not get up; they won’t awaken until the heavens are no more, nor will they arise from their sleep.”

¹³ “If my hope were that my house is the afterlife itself, if I were to make my bed in darkness,

²⁷ whom I will see for myself. My own eyes will look at him— there won’t be anyone else for me!— He is the culmination of my innermost desire.”

¹³ They grow old in prosperity, as they descend peacefully into the afterlife.

²³ Such persons will die in their full vigor, completely prosperous and secure.

¹⁰ Whatever the activity in which you engage, do it with all your ability, because there is no work, no planning, no learning, and no wisdom in the next world where you’re going.

¹⁰ David Dies and Solomon Consolidates His Reign
After this, David died, as had his ancestors, and he was buried in the City of David.

⁴³ Then Solomon died, as had his ancestors, and he was buried in the city of his father David. His son Rehoboam reigned in his place.

¹⁷ He leads counselors away naked; he turns judges into fools.

²⁸ He will live in devastated towns, in abandoned houses that are about to become heaps of rubble.

²³ I know that you’re about to kill me, so I’m about to go to the house that’s appointed for all the living.”

⁶ those who put confidence in their wealth and boast about their great riches? ⁷ No man can redeem the life of another, nor can he give to God a sufficient payment for him— ⁸ for it would cost too much to redeem his life, and the payments would go on forever— ⁹ that he should go on living and not see corruption. ¹⁰ Indeed, he will see wise people die; the stupid and the senseless will meet their doom and leave their wealth to others.

¹⁴ Like sheep, they are destined for the realm of the dead, with death as their shepherd. The upright will have dominion over them in the morning; their strength will be consumed in the afterlife, so that they have no home.

⁴⁸ What valiant man can live and not see death? Who can deliver himself from the power of Sheol. Interlude

⁸ Just as no human being has control over the wind to restrain it, so also no human being has control over the day of his death. Just as no one is discharged during war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

⁸ Judgment on Land Barons“How terrible it will be for you who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more room, and you have settled yourselves alone in the middle of the land!”

¹⁰ In answer, all of them will tell you, ‘You’ve also become as weak as we are! You have become just like us!’ ¹¹ Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the noise of your harps. Maggots are spread out beneath you, and worms are your covering.”
¹² The Fall of the Day Star“How you have fallen from heaven, Day Star, son of the Dawn! How you have been thrown down to earth, you who laid low the nation! ¹³ You said in your heart, ‘I’ll ascend to heaven, above the stars of God. I’ll erect my throne; I’ll sit on the Mount of Assembly in the far reaches of the north; ¹⁴ I’ll ascend above the tops of the clouds; I’ll make myself like the Most High.’ ¹⁵ But you are brought down to join the dead, to the far reaches of the Pit. ¹⁶ “Those who see you will stare at you. They will wonder about you: ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who made kingdoms quake,

¹² And your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; You’ll raise up the age-old foundations, and people will call you ‘Repairer of Broken Walls,’ ‘Restorer of Streets to Live In.’

²⁰ I’ll make sure that you go straight to the Pit, into the lowest part of the earth, where you’ll be with people who lived in ancient times. You’ll keep company there with the dead, who have gone into the Pit. As a result, your city won’t be inhabited. Meanwhile, I will display my glory in the land of the living.

¹⁸ “Because you have so much to sell and are so rich, Damascus has been your trading partner, exchanging wine from Helbon, unbleached wool, ¹⁹ and casks of wine from Izal for your wrought iron, cassia wood, and aromatic reeds.
²⁰ “Dedan traded with you, exchanging riding blankets. ²¹ Arabia, including all the princes of Kedar, came to you, shopping for lambs, rams, and goats. ²² Traders from Sheba and Raamah paid for the best of what you had to offer with all types of spices, precious stones, and gold. ²³ Haran, Canneh, Eden, merchants from Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad did business with you, ²⁴ trading garments made into the finest blue and embroidered mantels, and also multi-colored carpets, ropes, and other merchandise. ²⁵ Ocean-going fleets carried your merchandise.”
Tyre’s Coming Storm “How filled you were! How glorious you were, at home in the heart of the sea! ²⁶ But your rowers have brought you into dangerous waters. The east wind has broken you in the heart of the ocean! ²⁷ Your wealth, your products, your merchandise your sailors, your pilots, your tailors, your salesmen, all your mercenaries with you— your entire company with you— will fall into the midst of the sea on the day when you’re overthrown! ²⁸ When your ships’ captains cry out, the pasturelands along the coast will cry out! ²⁹ Everyone who handles an oar will abandon ship, they’ll head straight for dry land, ³⁰ and they will cry so loud you won’t be able to make yourself heard! How bitterly they’ll cry! They’ll throw dust on their heads and wallow in ashes. ³¹ They’ll shave their heads bald because of you. They’ll dress themselves in sackcloth and weep for you with deep bitterness of heart, with the most pitiful of mourning. ³² In the depth of their despair they’ll compose a lament for you. This is what they’ll say: ‘Who is like Tyre? Who is so silent in the midst of the sea?’

¹⁸ Balaam responded to Balak’s entourage by saying, “Even if Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I won’t double-cross the command of the LORD my God in even the slightest way.

²⁷ The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and made cedar trees as abundant as sycamore trees in the Shephelah.

²¹ He pours contempt on nobles and embarrasses the mighty.

²⁵ and then the Almighty will be your gold and your refined silver.

¹⁶ “Though he hoards silver like dust, and stores away garments like clay, ¹⁷ whatever he stores up, the righteous will wear, and the innocent will inherit that silver!

⁷ Their land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures; their land is filled with horses, and there is no end to their chariots.

¹⁸ Neither their silver nor their gold will deliver them in the Day of the LORD’s wrath; but the entire land will be consumed by the fire of his jealousy, for he will bring the inhabitants of the land to a sudden end.”

³ “Tyre built itself a fortification, hoarding silver like dust and pure gold like mud in a street.

³ A man might father a hundred children, and live for many years, so that the length of his life is long—but if his life does not overflow with goodness, and he doesn’t receive a proper burial, I maintain that stillborn children are better off than he is,

⁸ and finally he was seen by me, as though I were born abnormally late.

¹³ There is Life after Death“Won’t you keep me safe in the afterlife? Conceal me until your anger subsides. Set an appointment for me, then remember me.

¹⁶ Will it go down to the bars that lock the doors of the afterlife? Will we descend together into the dust?”

⁵ Fear and trembling have overwhelmed me, and horror has covered me. ⁶ I said, “O, who will give me the wings of a dove, so that I could fly away and live somewhere else? ⁷ Look, I want to flee far away; I want to settle down in the wilderness. Interlude ⁸ I want to deliver myself quickly from this windstorm and tempest.”

¹ Israel’s Idolatry “Also the righteous are perishing, but no one takes it to heart; devout people are taken away, while no one understands that the righteous person is taken away from calamity. ² Then he enters into peace, and they’ll rest on his couches, each one living righteously.

²⁸ Stop being afraid of those who kill the body but can’t kill the soul. Instead, be afraid of the one who can destroy both body and soul in hell.

⁴ Fear God
“But I tell you, my friends, never be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can’t do anything more.

⁶ Certainly it is right for God to pay back those who afflict you with affliction, ⁷ and to give us who are afflicted relief when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels

⁹ There remains, therefore, a Sabbath rest for the people of God to keep,

¹¹ Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fail by following their example of disobedience.

⁸ for as long as that righteous man lived among them, day after day he was being tortured in his righteous soul by what he saw and heard in their lawless actions—

¹³ I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write this: How blessed are the dead, that is, those who die in the Lord from now on!” “Yes,” says the Spirit. “Let them rest from their labors, for their actions follow them.”

⁶ Pharaoh Increases the Israelis’ WorkThat day Pharaoh ordered the taskmasters of the people and their officials, ⁷ “You’re no longer to give the people straw for making bricks, as in the past. They must gather straw for themselves. ⁸ But you’re to impose the previous quota of bricks that they’re making. You’re not to reduce it! It is because they’re lazy that they’re crying out, ‘Let’s go offer sacrifices to our God.’

¹⁵ The Israelis’ Appeal Rejected by PharaohThe Israeli supervisors came and cried out to Pharaoh, “Why are you doing this to us? ¹⁶ No straw is being given to us, yet they’re saying to us, ‘Make bricks!’ Look, we are being beaten. It’s wrong how you are treating your people!”
¹⁷ Then Pharaoh said, “You are lazy, lazy! That’s why you’re saying, ‘Let’s go offer sacrifices to the LORD.’ ¹⁸ Now, go! Get to work! And straw won’t be given to you, but you are to deliver the same number of bricks!” ¹⁹ The Israeli supervisors realized they were in trouble when he said, “You won’t reduce each day’s quota of bricks!”

³ The Israelis cried out to the LORD, because of his 900 iron chariots. Jabin oppressed the Israelis forcefully for twenty years.

⁷ He despises city noises; he ignores the shouts of the driver.

³ At the time, when the LORD gives you rest from your suffering, turmoil, and the cruel bondage which they forced you to serve, ⁴ you will lift up this song of mockery against the king of Babylon: “How the oppressor has come to an end! How the attacker has ceased!

² both average people and those of means, the rich and the poor together.

¹⁴ Like sheep, they are destined for the realm of the dead, with death as their shepherd. The upright will have dominion over them in the morning; their strength will be consumed in the afterlife, so that they have no home. ¹⁵ God will truly redeem me from the power of Sheol. He will surely receive me! Interlude ¹⁶ Don’t be afraid when someone gets rich, when the glory of his household increases. ¹⁷ When he dies, he will not be able to take it all with him— his possessions will not follow him to the grave, ¹⁸ although he considers himself blessed while he’s alive. Though people praise you for doing well, ¹⁹ you will end up like your ancestors’ generation, never again to see the light of day! ²⁰ Humanity, despite its conceit, does not understand that it will perish, just like the animals.

⁵ At that time they will fear climbing heights and dangers along the road while the almond tree will blossom, and the grasshopper is weighed down. Desire will cease, because the person goes to his eternal home, and mourners will gather in the marketplace.

⁷ then man’s dust will go back to the earth, returning to what it was, and the spirit will return to the God who gave it.

²² “One day, the beggar died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. ²³ In the afterlife, where he was in constant torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus by his side.

²⁷ Indeed, just as people are destined to die once and after that to be judged,

¹⁰ Deeply distressed, she prayed to the LORD and wept bitterly.

²⁷ As she came near the man of God on the mountain, she grabbed his feet. When Gehazi intervened to push her away, the man of God said, “Leave her alone! She is deeply troubled! The LORD has concealed the thing from me, and hasn’t informed me.”

¹⁶ “Or why was I not buried like a stillborn child, like babies who never saw the light?

⁹ that God would just be willing to crush me; that he would let loose and eliminate me!

¹⁵ I would rather die by strangulation than continue living. ¹⁶ I hate the thought of living forever! Leave me alone, because my days are pointless.”

²⁸ He has redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit; my life will see the light.’

³⁰ to bring back his soul from the Pit; to light him with the light of life.”

⁶ Give liquor to someone who is perishing, and wine to someone who is deeply depressed.

¹⁸ Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow, and to finish my life living in shame?

¹⁵ If this is how you treat me, please kill me right now, if I’ve found favor in your eyes, because I don’t want to keep staring at all of this misery!”

⁴ and ran for a day’s journey deep into the wilderness. He found a juniper tree, sat down under it, and prayed that he could die. He asked God, “Enough! LORD! Take my life, because I’m not better than my ancestors!”

⁴ if you seek it like silver and search for it like hidden treasure,

³ Therefore, LORD, please kill me, because it’s better for me to die than to live!”

⁸ When the sun rose, God prepared a harsh east wind. The sun beat down on Jonah’s head, he became faint, and he begged to die. “It is better for me to die than to live!” he said.

⁶ In those days people will seek death, but never find it. They will long to die, but death will escape them.

¹⁴ When he tears down, nobody rebuilds; when he incarcerates, nobody escapes.

⁶ then at least you must know that God has accused me of wrong, and trapped me with his net.”

⁸ He blocked my path, so I cannot pass; and he turned out the lights on my pathways.

¹² His troops march in a column against me, erecting their siege ramps against me; they surround my tent.”

⁸ You have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy, but you have set my feet in a sturdy place.

⁸ You caused my acquaintances to shun me; you make me extremely abhorrent to them. Restrained, I am unable to go out.

²⁷ The LORD Watches Israel“Jacob, why do you say— and Israel, why do you complain— ‘My predicament is hidden from the LORD, and my cause is ignored by my God.’?

⁷ He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he placed heavy chains on me.

⁹ He impeded my way with blocks of stone, making my paths uneven.

⁶ “Look how I’m blocking her path with thorns and building a wall to hinder her, so she can’t find her way.

⁷ I cannot bring myself to touch them; food like this makes me sick.”

¹⁹ Why won’t you look away from me? Why don’t you leave me alone so I can swallow my saliva?

²⁰ He cannot stand his food, and he has no desire for appetizing food.

¹ To the Director: To the tune of “Doe of the Dawn”.
A Davidic Psalm.
God Delivers His Suffering Servant My God! My God! Why have you abandoned me? Why are you so far from delivering me— from my groaning words? ² My God, I cry out to you throughout the day, but you do not answer; and throughout the night, but I have no rest.

³ When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away by my groaning all day long.

⁸ I am weak and utterly crushed; I cry out in distress because of my heart’s anguish.

³ My tears have been my food day and night, while people keep asking me all day long, “Where is your God?” ⁴ These things I will recall as I pour out my troubles within me: I used to go with the crowd in a procession to the house of God, accompanied with shouts of joy and thanksgiving.

⁵ You fed them tears as their food, and caused them to drink a full measure of tears.

⁹ I have eaten ashes as food and mixed my drink with tears

¹¹ We all growl like bears; we sigh mournfully like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, and for deliverance, but it’s far from us.

⁸ Indeed, when I cry out, calling for help, he shuts out my prayer.

⁵ When their time of feasting had concluded, Job would rise early in the morning to send for them and consecrate them to God. He would offer a burnt offering for each one, because Job thought, “Perhaps my children sinned by cursing God in their hearts.” Job did this time and again.

¹⁵ My greatest fears have overcome me; my honor is assaulted as though by a wind storm; my prosperity evaporates like a morning cloud.”

²³ For I’m terrified of what calamity God may have in store for me; and I cannot endure his grandeur.”

¹⁴ But then you scared me with dreams; you terrified me with visions.

⁹ Will God hear his cry when distress overtakes him?

¹¹ For the sake of your name, LORD, preserve my life. Because you are righteous, bring me out of trouble.