Job 32:1 Cross References - JPS_ASV_Byz

¹ So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

²⁹ Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; yea, return again, my cause is righteous.

² I will say unto God: Do not condemn me; make me know wherefore Thou contendest with me.

⁷ Although Thou knowest that I shall not be condemned; and there is none that can deliver out of Thy hand?

¹⁵ Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him; but I will argue my ways before Him.

⁷ There the upright might reason with Him; so should I be delivered for ever from my Judge.

⁴ Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit; ⁵ Far be it from me that I should justify you; till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me. ⁶ My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go; my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

¹¹ For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gave witness unto me; ¹² Because I delivered the poor that cried, the fatherless also, that had none to help him. ¹³ The blessing of him 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 itself with me; my justice was as a robe and a diadem. ¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. ¹⁶ I was a father to the needy; and the cause of him that I knew not I searched out. ¹⁷ And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

¹ I made a covenant with mine eyes; how then should I look upon a maid? ² For what would be the portion of God from above, and the heritage of the Almighty from on high? ³ Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity? ⁴ Doth not He see my ways, and count all my steps? ⁵ If I have walked with vanity, and my foot hath hasted to deceit - ⁶ Let me be weighed in a just balance, that God may know mine integrity - ⁷ If my step hath turned out of the way, and my heart walked after mine eyes, and if any spot hath cleaved to my hands; ⁸ Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out. ⁹ If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbour's door; ¹⁰ Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. ¹¹ For that were a heinous crime; yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges. ¹² For it is a fire that consumeth unto destruction, and would root out all mine increase. ¹³ If I did despise the cause of my man-servant, or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me - ¹⁴ What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when He remembereth, what shall I answer Him? ¹⁵ Did not He that made me in the womb make him? And did not One fashion us in the womb? ¹⁶ If I have withheld aught that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; ¹⁷ Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof - ¹⁸ Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have been her guide from my mother's womb. ¹⁹ If I have seen any wanderer in want of clothing, or that the needy had no 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, because I saw my help in the gate; ²² Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. ²³ For calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of His majesty I could do nothing. ²⁴ If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold: 'Thou art my confidence'; ²⁵ If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much; ²⁶ If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; ²⁷ And my heart hath been secretly enticed, and my mouth hath kissed my hand; ²⁸ This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have lied to God that is above. ²⁹ If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or exulted when evil found him - ³⁰ Yea, I suffered not my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse. ³¹ If the men of my tent said not: 'Who can find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat?' ³² The stranger did not lodge in the street; my doors I opened to the roadside. ³³ If after the manner of men I covered my transgressions, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom - ³⁴ Because I feared the great multitude, and the most contemptible among families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door. ³⁵ Oh that I had one to hear me! - Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me - and that I had the indictment which mine adversary hath written! ³⁶ Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown. ³⁷ I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him. ³⁸ If my land cry out against me, and the furrows thereof weep together; ³⁹ If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the tillers thereof to be disappointed - ⁴⁰ Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and noisome weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

⁹ 'I am clean, without transgression, I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me;