Job 21 Cross References - JuliaSmith

¹ And Job will answer and say, ² Hearing, hear ye my speech, and this shall be your consolations. ³ Suffer me and I will speak; and after my word ye will mock ⁴ I, is my complaint to man? and then wherefore shall not my spirit be shortened? ⁵ Look to me and be astonished, and put the hand upon the mouth. ⁶ And when I remembered and trembled, and horror took hold of my flesh. ⁷ Wherefore shall the unjust live? They grew old, also they were strong in power. ⁸ Their seed was established before their face with them, and their offspring before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses peace from fear, and the rod of God not upon them. ¹⁰ His ox passed over and will not be cast away: his heifer will escape and will not be barren. ¹¹ They will send forth their children as a flock, and their children will leap. ¹² They will lift up with the drum and harp, and they will rejoice at the voice of the pipe. ¹³ Their days glided on in good, and in a moment they will lay hold of hades. ¹⁴ And they will say to God, Depart from us; and we desired not the knowledge of thy ways. ¹⁵ What the Almighty that we shall serve him? and what shall we be profited if we shall supplicate to him? ¹⁶ Behold, their good not in the hand: the counsel of the unjust was far from me. ¹⁷ How often the light of the unjust shall be extinguished, and their destruction will come upon them. He will distribute pains in his anger. ¹⁸ They shall be as straw before the wind, and as chaff the storm stole it away. ¹⁹ God will lay up his iniquity for his sons: he will requite to him and be shall know. ²⁰ His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink from the wrath of the Almighty. ²¹ For what his delight in his house after him, and the number of? his months were divided out? ²² Shall he teach knowledge to God? and he will judge those lifted up. ²³ This shall die in the strength of his fulness, altogether tranquil and at rest ²⁴ His sides were filled with fat, and the marrow of his bones will, be moistened. ²⁵ And this will die in the soul of bitterness, and will not eat in good. ²⁶ They will lie down together upon the dust, and the worm shall cover over them. ²⁷ Behold, I knew your purposes, and the devices ye will shake off against me. ²⁸ For ye will say, Where the house of the noble one; and where the tent of the dwellings of the unjust? ²⁹ Did ye not ask them passing over the way? and shall ye not know their signs? ³⁰ For the evil one will be spared for the day of destruction; they shalt be led away to the day of wraths ³¹ Who shall announce his way upon his face? and who shall requite to him that he did? ³² And he shall be led away to the graves, and shall watch over the tomb. ³³ And the clods of the valley were sweet to him, and every man shall draw after him, and before him no number. ³⁴ And how will ye comfort me in vain, and your answers remained treachery?

¹⁹ In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat food until thy turning back to the earth; for out of it thou wert taken; for dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou turn back.

⁷ If thou shalt do well thou shalt be lifted up; and if thou shalt not do well, sin lies at the entrance; and to thee his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

²¹ And his brother's name Jubal; he was father of all laying hold of the harp and pipe.

²⁷ For what didst thou hide to break away, and didst steal me, and didst not announce to me? and I will send thee away with gladness and with songs, with the drum and with the harp?

⁶ My soul shall not come into their consultation; in their assembly, my honor shall not be united, for in their anger they killed a man and in their will, houghed a bullock.

² And Pharaoh will say, Who is Jehovah, whose voice I shall hear to send forth Israel? I knew not Jehovah, and also I shall not send Israel forth.

⁹ And Moses spake thus to the sons of Israel: and they heard not to Moses for shortness of spirit, and from hard work.

⁷ And in the multitude of thy majesty thou wilt destroy those rising up against thee: thou wilt send forth thine anger; it shall eat them as straw.

⁵ Thou shalt not worship to them, and thou shalt not serve them: for I am Jehovah thy God, a jealous God, striking the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and to the fourth, to them hating me;

²⁶ And there shall not be bereaving of children or barren upon thy land: the number of thy days I will fill up.

²⁶ And he will speak to the assembly, saying, Remove, now, from the tents of these guilty men, and ye shall not touch upon any thing which is to them lest ye shall he destroyed in all their sin. ²⁷ And they will go up from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, from round about; and Dathan and Abiram will come forth, standing at the door of their tents, and their wives and their sons and their little ones. ²⁸ And Moses will say, By this shall ye know that Jehovah sent me to do all these works; for not from my heart ²⁹ If according to the death of all men these shall die, if the providence of all men shall be reviewed upon them, Jehovah sent me not ³⁰ And if Jehovah shall create a creation, and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them and all which is to them, and they went down living to hades; and ye know that these men rejected Jehovah, ³¹ And it shall be as he finished to speak all these words, the earth shall cleave asunder which is under them: ³² And the earth shall open her mouth and shall swallow them and their houses, and all the men which to Korah, and all the possessions. ³³ And they went down, and all which is to them, living, to hades, and the earth shall cover over them; and they shall perish from the midst of the gathering. ³⁴ And all Israel which were round about them fled at their voice: for they said, Lest the earth shall swallow us.

¹⁰ And recompensing to those hating him to their face to destroy him: he will not delay to him hating him to his face; he will recompense to him.

¹³ And he loved thee and blessed thee, and multiplied thee: and he blest the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy grain and thy new wine and thy new oil, and the young of thy cows and thy flocks of sheep, upon the land which he sware to thy fathers to give to thee. ¹⁴ Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be in thee barren male and female, and in thy cattle.

¹¹ And Jehovah made thee to abound for good in the fruit of thy belly, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, upon the land which Jehovah sware to thy fathers to give to thee.

³⁴ Is not this laid up with me, Sealed up in my treasuries?

⁴¹ If I sharpened the lightning of my sword, And my hand shall lay hold upon judgment, I will turn back vengeance to mine adversaries, And to those hating me I will requite,

⁷ And they will announce to Jotham and he will go and stand upon the head of mount Gerizim, and he will lift up his voice and call, and say to them, Hear to me, ye lords of Shechem, and God will hear to you.

¹⁹ And they will say to him, Be silent; put thy hand upon thy mouth and go with us, and be to us for father and for priest: is it good for thee to be priest to the house of one man, or for thee to be priest to a tribe and to a family in Israel?

¹⁶ Thou wilt not give thy servant before a daughter of Belial, for from the abundance of my complaint and my grief I spoke even till now.

³⁹ And I this day tender, and being anointed king; and these men sons of Zeruiah, hard for me. Jehovah will recompense to him doing evil according to his evil.

⁷ And Nathan will say to David, Thou the man. Thus said Jehovah the God of Israel, I anointed thee for king over Israel, and I delivered thee from the hand of Saul; ⁸ And I will give thee the house of thy lord and thy lord's wives into thy bosom, and I will give to thee the house of Israel and Judah; and if little, I will add to thee according to these and according to these. ⁹ Wherefore didst thou despise the word of Jehovah to do evil in his eyes? Uriah the Hittite thou didst strike with the sword, and his wife thou tookest to thee for a wife, and thou didst kill him with the sword of the sons of Ammon. ¹⁰ And now the sword shall not depart from thy house even to forever; because that thou didst despise me, and thou wilt take the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be to thee for wife. ¹¹ Thus said Jehovah, Behold me raising up evil against thee from thy house, and I took thy wives before thine eyes and gave to thy neighbor, and he lay with thy wives before the eyes of this sun. ¹² For thou didst in secret: and I will do this word before all Israel, and before the sun.

⁸ And Hushai will say, Thou knewest thy father and his men that they are mighty, and they bitter of soul as a bear bereaved of offspring in the field: and thy father a man of war, and he will not lodge with the people.

¹² And she will say, Jehovah thy God lives, if there is to me a cake, but a handful of flour in a bucket, and a little oil in a cruse: and behold me gathering two woods, and I went to do it for me and for my son, and we shall eat and die.

¹⁹ And speak to him, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Didst thou kill and also possess? And speak to him, saying, said Jehovah, In the place which the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs shall lick thy blood, also thine. ²⁰ And Ahab will say to Elijah, Didst thou find me, O mine enemy? And he will say I found: because thou didst sell thyself to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah, ²¹ Behold me bringing evil to thee, and I took away after thee, and I cut off to Ahab him pissing against a wall and him shut up and left in Israel; ²² And I gave thy house as the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and as the house of Baasha, son of Ahijah, for the irritation which thou didst irritate, and thou wilt cause Israel to sin. ²³ And also to Jezebel spake Jehovah, saying, Dogs shall eat Jezebel in the fortification of Jezebel. ²⁴ Him dying to Ahab in the city shall dogs eat; and him dying in the field shall the birds of the heavens eat

²⁶ And the king of Israel will be passing by upon the wall, and a woman cried out to him, saying, Save, O lord the king. ²⁷ And he will say, Wilt not Jehovah save thee, from whence shall I save thee from the threshing-floor or from the wine-press?

³ And his possession will be seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred pair of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and service exceedingly much; and that man shall be great above all the sons of the east.

²¹ And he will say, Naked I came forth from my mother's womb, and naked shall I turn back there: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah took; the name of Jehovah shall be blessed.

¹² And they will lift up their eyes from far off, and they knew him not, and they will lift up their voice and weep; and they will rend each his covering, and they will sprinkle dust upon their heads to the heavens.

¹⁷ There the unjust ceased to be angry, and the weary in strength shall rest. ¹⁸ They being bound, rested together; they heard not the voice of the taskmaster. ¹⁹ The little and the great, he is there; and the servant being free from his lord. ²⁰ Wherefore shall light be given to him toiling, and life to the bitter of soul?

²² Rejoicing with joy when they find the grave;

⁸ According to what I saw, they ploughing iniquity and sowing labor shall reap it ⁹ By the breath of God they shall perish, and from the spirit of his anger they shall be finished. ¹⁰ The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lion, and the teeth of the young lions were broken. ¹¹ The lion perished from failure of prey, and the sons of the lioness shall be scattered.

¹⁸ Behold, in his servants he will not trust, and upon his messengers he will set folly:

³ I saw the foolish one taking root, and suddenly I shall curse his habitation.

³ I saw the foolish one taking root, and suddenly I shall curse his habitation. ⁴ His sons shall be far from salvation, and they shall be crushed in the gate, and none delivering.

⁴ His sons shall be far from salvation, and they shall be crushed in the gate, and none delivering. ⁵ Which his harvest the hungry one will devour, and not from thorns shall they take it, and destruction gaped after their substance.

¹¹ For what my strength that I shall wait and what my end, that I shall prolong my soul?

¹¹ Also I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the straitness of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

¹¹ Also I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the straitness of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. ¹² Am I the sea, or a dragon, that thou wilt set a watch over me? ¹³ For I said, My bed shall comfort me; my couch shall lift up in my complaint; ¹⁴ And thou didst terrify me with dreams, and thou wilt make me afraid with visions: ¹⁵ And my soul will choose strangling; death rather than my bones. ¹⁶ I melted away; I shall not live forever: desist from me, for my days are vanity. ¹⁷ What is man that thou wilt magnify him? and that thou wilt set thy heart to him? ¹⁸ And thou wilt review him for the mornings, and thou wilt try him for the moments. ¹⁹ How long wilt thou not look away from me? wilt thou not desist from me even to my swallowing down my spittle? ²⁰ I sinned; what shall I do to thee, guarding men? wherefore didst thou set me for an assault to thee, and I shall be upon myself for a burden? ²¹ And why wilt thou not lift up my transgression and pass over mine iniquity? for now I shall lie down to the dust; and thou soughtest me and I was not

³ Will God pervert judgment? and if the Almighty will pervert justice? ⁴ If thy sons sinned to him, and he will send them away by the hand of their transgression; ⁵ If thou shalt seek to God, if thou shalt make supplication to him; ⁶ If thou wert pure and upright, for now he will awake for thee and requite the habitation of thy justice.

²² They hating thee shall put on shame; and the tent of the unjust shall not be.

¹⁸ He will not give me to draw in my spirit, for he will fill me with bitterness.

³⁴ He will take away his rod from me, and his truth shall not make me afraid.

¹ My soul was weary in my life; I shall leave upon me my complaint; I shall speak in the bitterness of my soul

¹ My soul was weary in my life; I shall leave upon me my complaint; I shall speak in the bitterness of my soul ² Saying to God, Thou wilt not condemn me; make known to me for what thou wilt contend with me.

⁴ I shall be he laughing at his neighbor, calling to God, and he will answer him: the just blameless one being laughed at ⁵ To misfortune is contempt to the thoughts of him at ease, being prepared for the waverings of the foot ⁶ The tents to those oppressing will be secure, and confidence to those provoking God to anger: whom God will bring into his hand

⁹ Who knew not in all these that the hand of God did this? ¹⁰ Which in his hand the soul of all living, and the spirit of all the flesh of man.

³ But I will speak to the Almighty; I shall delight to plead before God. ⁴ And on the contrary, ye devise falsehood; physicians all of you for nothing.

⁴ And on the contrary, ye devise falsehood; physicians all of you for nothing.

⁹ Is it good that he shall search you out?, or as he mocking against a man; will ye mock against him?

¹³ Be silent from me and I will speak what shall pass upon me.

²⁵ Wilt thou terrify the scattered leaf? and wilt thou pursue the dry straw?

⁵ If his days are determined, the number of his months with thee; thou madest his limit; he shall not pass over.

²¹ His sons will be honored and he knew not: they will be brought low, and he will not understand for them.

¹¹ Is it small with thee the consolations of God? and a word covered with thee?

¹⁵ Behold, in his holy ones he will, not trust; and the heavens were not clean in his eyes.

²⁰ All the days the unjust one himself being pained, and numbering the years they were hidden to him terrifying. ²¹ The voice of fears in his ears: in peace he destroying shall come upon him.

²¹ The voice of fears in his ears: in peace he destroying shall come upon him. ²² He will not believe to turn back from darkness, and he was waited for by the sword. ²³ He wandered about for bread, where he knew that the day of darkness was ready at his hand. ²⁴ Straitness and distress shall terrify him; they shall overpower him as a king ready for war. ²⁵ For he stretched forth his hand against God, and he will strengthen himself against the Almighty. ²⁶ He will run against him upon the neck, upon the thicknesses of his shields: ²⁷ For he covered his face with his fat, and he will make fatness upon the flank

²⁷ For he covered his face with his fat, and he will make fatness upon the flank ²⁸ And he will dwell in cities out off, the houses shall not be inhabited by them, which were ready for heaps. ²⁹ He shall not be rich, and his wealth shall not rise up; their possession shall not extend upon the earth. ³⁰ He shall not depart from darkness; the flame shall dry up his suckers, and by the breath of his mouth shall he depart ³¹ He being deceived shall not trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his compensation. ³² Before his day it shall be completed, and his branch was not green. ³³ He will shake off as a vine his unripe grapes, and he will cast his flower as the olive. ³⁴ For the assembly of the profane is hard, and fire consumed the tents of the gift ³⁵ He conceiving trouble and he bringing forth vanity, and their belly shall prepare deceit

² I heard many like there: comforters of vexation ye all.

¹⁰ They gaped upon me with their mouth; with reproach they struck upon my cheek; they will fill out together against me.

²⁰ My friends mocking me: to God mine eye wept.

² If not mockings with me? and shall not mine eye lodge in their bitterness?

⁸ The upright shall be astonished upon this, and the innocent Shall arouse himself against the profane.

¹⁴ I called to the pit: Grave, thou my father: and to the worm, My mother, and my sister.

¹⁶ They shall go down to the bars of hades if together we shall go down to the dust.

² How long will ye set an end to words? Ye shall understand, and afterwards we will speak.

⁵ Also the light of the unjust shall be extinguished, and the flame of his fire shall not shine; ⁶ The light was darkened in his tent, and his lamp shall be extinguished for him.

¹¹ Terrors made him afraid round about, and scattered him to his feet.

¹⁸ They shall drive him out of light into darkness, and they shall exclude him from the habitable globe. ¹⁹ No offspring to him, and no progeny among his people, and not a survivor in his dwellings.

²⁰ My bone cleaved to my skin and to my flesh, and I shall escape with the skin of my teeth. ²¹ Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, for the hand of God touched upon me.

²⁶ And after they destroyed my skin, this, and from my flesh I shall see God:

⁵ For the rejoicing of the unjust drawing near, and the gladness of the profane even for a moment

⁷ As his dung he shall perish forever: they seeing him shall say, Where is he?

¹⁰ The weak shall break his sons, and his hands shall turn back his wealth. ¹¹ His bones were full of his youth, and shall lie down with him in the dust.

²² In the fulness of his abundance it shall be pressed to him: every laboring hand shall come to him. ²³ He will be for filling his belly, he will send upon him the burning of his anger, and will rain upon him in his eating.

²³ He will be for filling his belly, he will send upon him the burning of his anger, and will rain upon him in his eating.

²⁸ The increase of his house shall be rolled off; they were poured out in the day of his anger. ²⁹ This the portion of an unjust man and the lot of his command from God.

¹⁹ God will lay up his iniquity for his sons: he will requite to him and be shall know.

¹⁷ They saying to God, Depart fron us: and what shall the Almighty do for them? ¹⁸ And he filled their houses with good: and the counsel of the unjust was far from me.

²⁴ Place thou gold upon the dust, and the precious ore of the torrents of Ophir.

²⁰ The womb shall forget him; the worm sucked him; he shall be no more remembered: and iniquity shall be broken as a tree.

²⁴ They were lifted up a little while, and they are not, and they were brought low; as all they will be drawn together, and as the head of an ear of grain they shall be cut off.

¹⁹ The rich one shall lie down, and he shall not be gathered: he opened his eyes, and he is not

⁹ Chiefs held back in words, and they will put the hand to the mouth.

²³ For I knew thou wilt turn me back to death, and the house appointed to all living.

³⁷ The number of my steps I shall announce to him: as a leader I shall draw near to him.

³ And against his three friends was his anger kindled, because they, found not an answer, and they will condemn Job.

¹ And yet hear now, O Job, my speech, and give ear to all my words.

³¹ Attend, O Job, hear to me: be silent and I will speak ³² If there be words, turn back to me: speak, for I desired to justify thee. ³³ If not, hear thou to me: be silent, and I shall teach thee wisdom.

² Hear, ye wise, my words; and ye knowing, give ear to me.

⁹ For he said, It will not profit a man in delighting himself with God.

¹⁷ Also shall he hating judgment, rule? and if thou wilt condemn the just mighty one? ¹⁸ Saying to the king, Wickedness; (Belial) to nobles, Injustice. ¹⁹ Who accepted not the face of chiefs, and looked not upon the rich one before the poor: for his hand made all of them.

³ For thou wilt say, What shall it profit to thee? what shall I profit from my sin?

¹¹ And who teacheth us from the cattle of the earth, and he will make us wise above the birds of the heavens?

¹¹ If they will hear and will serve him, they shall finish their days in good, and their years in delights.

²² Behold, God will exalt by his power: who teaches like him?

² Shall he contending with the Almighty, instruct? he reproving God shall answer it

⁴ Behold, I was vile; what shall I turn back to thee? I put my hand to my mouth.

¹¹ Who anticipated me, and I will recompense? under all the heavens it is to me.

⁷ And it will be after Jehovah spake these words to Job, and Jehovah will say to Eliphaz the Temanite, Mine anger was kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye spake not the right before me as my servant Job.

¹ Happy the man who went not in the counsel of the unjust, and he stood not in the way of the sinful, and sat not in the seat of those scoffing.

⁴ Not so the unjust: but as the chaff which the wind shall drive away.

⁴ The unjust according to the height of his anger, will not seek: God is not in all his thoughts.

¹¹ Saying in his heart, God forgat: he hid his face; not seeing forever.

⁴ Who said, By our tongues we shall prevail; our lips are with us: who is Lord over us?

¹⁰ They shut up their fat: their mouth spake in pride.

¹⁴ From men of thy hand, O Jehovah, from men of this world their portion in life, and thou wilt fill their belly with thy hidden things: they will be filled with sons, they left the remaining things to their children.

¹ To the overseer upon the first place of the dawn; chanting of David. My God, my God, wherefore forsookest thou me? far off from my salvation the words of my groaning. ² My God, I will call in the day, and thou wilt not answer; and in the night no silence to me. ³ And thou inhabiting the holy place, the praises of Israel.

¹⁰ Many the sorrows to the unjust one: and he trusting in Jehovah, mercy shall surround him.

⁵ They shall be as chaff before the wind: and the messenger of Jehovah overthrowing.

³⁵ I saw the unjust one making afraid, and spreading abroad as a green native tree. ³⁶ And he shall pass away, and behold, he is not: and I shall seek him and he was not found.

⁹ I was dumb, I will not open my mouth; for thou didst

¹¹ Why wilt thou be bowed down, O my soul? and why wilt thou be disturbed upon me? Hope upon God, for yet shall I praise him, the salvation of my face and my God.

⁶ They trusting upon their wealth, and they will glory in the multitude of their riches. ⁷ A man redeeming shall not redeem the brother, he shall not give to God his ransom:

¹⁴ As sheep they were laid in hades; death shall rule over them, and the upright shall come down upon them in the morning; and their rock for falling away in hades from a dwelling to him.

¹⁷ For not in his dying shall he take anything: his honor shall not go down after him.

²¹ These things thou didst and I was silent; thou thoughtest, being, I shall be like to thee: I will reprove thee, and I will set it in order before thine eyes.

⁵ Also God will break thee down forever; he will take thee and sweep thee away from the tent, and root thee up from the land of the living. Silence.

⁵ Also God will break thee down forever; he will take thee and sweep thee away from the tent, and root thee up from the land of the living. Silence. ⁶ And the just shall see and fear, and laugh at him.

⁶ And the just shall see and fear, and laugh at him. ⁷ Behold, the man will not set God his strength, and he will trust in the multitude of his riches he will be strengthened in his mischief.

⁵ He will turn back the evil to those oppressing me; in thy truth cut them off.

²³ And thou, O God, wilt bring them down to the well of destruction: men of bloods and deceit shall not halve their days; and I will trust in thee.

⁴ Not iniquity, they will run and they will prepare: be aroused to meet me, and see.

³ Thou didst cause thy people to see a hard thing: thou didst give us to drink the wine of reeling.

³ For I was envious at the foolish; I shall see the peace of the unjust ⁴ For not the pains to their death, and their body fat

⁴ For not the pains to their death, and their body fat

⁴ For not the pains to their death, and their body fat ⁵ They are not in the trouble of men, and with man they shall not be struck.

⁵ They are not in the trouble of men, and with man they shall not be struck.

⁵ They are not in the trouble of men, and with man they shall not be struck. ⁶ For this, pride surrounded them as a neck-chain; the dress of violence will cover to them. ⁷ Their eye will come forth from fat: they passed over the imaginations of the heart ⁸ They will mock and speak in evil of oppression: they will speak from elevation. ⁹ They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue will go in the earth. ¹⁰ For this, his people will turn back here: and full water shall be sucked out to them. ¹¹ And they said, How did God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High? ¹² Behold, these the unjust, and they being secure of the world increased riches.

¹⁹ How they were for desolation as in a moment they perished; they were finished from sudden destruction.

⁸ For a cup in the hand of Jehovah, and the wine red, being full of mixed wine; and he will pour out from this: but its lees all the unjust of the earth shall suck out, they shall drink.

³ I will remember God and I shall be disquieted: I shall be depressed and my spirit will languish. Silence.

³ I will remember God and I shall be disquieted: I shall be depressed and my spirit will languish. Silence. ⁴ Thou didst hold mine eyes watching: I was moved, and I will not speak. ⁵ I reckoned the days of old, the everlasting years. ⁶ I will remember my stringed instruments in the night: I shall meditate with my heart, and my spirit will search out. ⁷ Will Jehovah reject forever? and will he no more add to be satisfied? ⁸ Did his mercy fail forever? his word come to an end to generation and generation? ⁹ Did God forget to compassionate? or in anger did he gather his compassion? Silence.

¹ Chanting to Asaph. God stood in the assembly of God; he will judge in the midst of gods.

¹³ O my God, set them as a wheel; as straw before the wind.

¹⁵ I am poor and expiring from youth: I bore thy terrors; I shall be perplexed.

⁷ For we were finished in thine Anger, and in thy wrath we were terrified. ⁸ Thou didst set our iniquities before thee, our hidden things before the light of thy face. ⁹ For all our days turned away in thy wrath: we finished our years as a meditation

¹ Prayer for the poor when he shall languish, and before Jehovah shall pour out his complaint O Jehovah, hear my prayer, and my cry shall come to thee.

²⁴ Saying, O my God, thou wilt not take me away in the half of my days: thy years in generations of generations.

⁴¹ He will set up the needy on high from affliction, and he will set families as a flock.

⁹ His sons shall be orphans, and his wife a widow. ¹⁰ And shaking his sons shall wander about, and they asked and sought from their desolations. ¹¹ The creditor shall lay snares for all which is to him, and strangers shall plunder his labor. ¹² There shall not be to him any drawing out mercy, and there shall not be any compassionating to his orphans ¹³ His descendants shall be for cutting off; in the later generation their name shall be wiped off. ¹⁴ The iniquity of his fathers will be in remembrance to Jehovah, and the sins of his mother shall not be wiped of ¹⁵ They shall be before Jehovah always, and their remembrance shall be cut off from the earth. ¹⁶ Because he remembered not to do mercy, and he will pursue the poor and needy man to slay the dejected of heart. ¹⁷ And he will love cursing, and it shall come to him: and he delighted not in praise, and it shall be far from him. ¹⁸ And he will put on cursing as his garment, and it shall come into his midst as water, and as oil into his bones. ¹⁹ It shall be to him as the garment shall cover him, and for a girdle it shall gird him always. ²⁰ This the doing of those lying in wait for me from Jehovah, and speaking evil against my soul. ²¹ And thou Jehovah my Lord do with me for sake of thy name: for good thy mercy, deliver thou me. ²² For poor and needy am I, and my heart wounded in my midst. ²³ As the shadow according to its declining I was gone: I was shaken off as the locust. ²⁴ My knees were weak from fasting, and my flesh failed from fatness. ²⁵ And I was a reproach to them: they will see me and they will shake the head. ²⁶ Help me, O Jehovah my God: save me according to thy mercy: ²⁷ And they shall know that this is thy hand; thou, O Jehovah, didst it. ²⁸ They will curse and thou wilt bless: they arose and they shall be ashamed; and thy servant shall be glad. ²⁹ They lying in wait for me shall put on shame, and they shall be covered with their shame as an upper garment ³⁰ I will praise Jehovah greatly with my mouth; and in the midst of many will I praise him. ³¹ For he will stand at the right hand of the needy to save his soul from the judges.

⁵ Jehovah upon thy right hand crushed kings in the day of his anger.

⁵ Who as Jehovah our God, lifting himself up to dwell? ⁶ To see those being humbled in the heavens and in the earth?

⁸⁶ All thy commands are faithfulness; they pursued me without cause; help thou me.

¹²⁰ My flesh stood erect from thy fear, and I was afraid of thy judgments.

³ Behold, sons are the inheritance of Jehovah: the reward of the fruit of the womb. ⁴ As arrows in the hand of the strong one, so are sons of youth. ⁵ Happy the man who filled his quiver from them: they shall not be ashamed when they shall speak with their enemies in the gate.

⁸ And they passing by, said not, The praise of Jehovah to you: we praised you in the name of Jehovah.

² I will pour out before him my complaint; I will announce my straits before him. ³ In my spirit languishing upon me, and thou knewest my beaten paths. In the way which I shall go they hid a snare for me.

¹³ Our garners being filled, bringing forth from sort to sort; our sheep bringing forth thousands, ten thousands in our streets: ¹⁴ Our oxen bearing no breaking, and no coming forth, and no complaining in our broad places.

⁷ The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: the foolish despised wisdom and instruction.

¹⁰ My son, if they sinning shall entice thee, thou shalt not go in.

²² How long, ye simple, will ye love simplicity? and mockers delight to mock for them, and the foolish hate knowledge?

²⁹ For that they hated knowledge, and chose not the fear of Jehovah:

⁸ It shall be healing to thy sinews, and moistening to thy bones.

⁸ Remove far off from her thy way, and thou shalt not draw near to the door of her house:

⁴ Wealth will not profit in the day of wrath, and justice will deliver from death.

⁹ The light of the just shall rejoice: and the lamp of the unjust shall be quenched.

¹⁰ The heart will know the bitterness of its soul, and in its joys the stranger shall not mingle.

⁴ Jehovah made all to his purpose, and also the unjust for the day of evil.

⁶ The crown of old men, sons' sons: and the glory of sons their fathers.

²⁰ He cursing his father and his mother, his lamp shall go out in the midst of darkness.

²⁰ For there shall be no latter state to the evil one: the light of the unjust shall be extinguished.

⁹ Lest I shall be filled and I spake lies, and said, Who is Jehovah? and lest I shall be dispossessed and I stole, and I laid hold upon the name of God.

³² If thou wert foolish in lifting up thyself, and if thou purposed, the hand to the mouth.

⁴ A generation went away, and a generation came: and the earth stood forever.

¹⁸ And I hated all my labor I laboring under the sun: leaving it to the man who shall come after me. ¹⁹ And who shall know whether he shall be wise or foolish? And he shall have dominion over all my labor which I labored, and was wise under the sun. Also this is vanity.

⁸ If thou shalt see the oppression of the poor one, and the spoiling of judgment and justice in a province, thou shalt not wonder at the inclination: for the high one above the high one is watching, and the high ones over them.

² A man which God will give to him wealth and riches and honor, and wanting not to his soul from all which he shall desire, and God will not permit him to eat from it, for a man, a stranger shall eat it. This is vanity and it is an evil disease.

⁸ No man having power in spirit to restrain the spirit: and no power in the day of death: and no sending forth in war; and injustice shall not deliver its possessors.

¹ For all this I gave to my heart, and to examine all this, that the just and the wise and their works are in the hand of God: also love, also hatred, no man shall know of all before them. ² All according to all: one event to the just one and to the unjust one; to the good one and to the clean one, and to the unclean one; to him sacrificing and to him not sacrificing: as the good one, so the sinning one; he swearing, as he who shall fear an oath.

² All according to all: one event to the just one and to the unjust one; to the good one and to the clean one, and to the unclean one; to him sacrificing and to him not sacrificing: as the good one, so the sinning one; he swearing, as he who shall fear an oath.

⁷ And the dust shall turn back to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall turn back to God who gave it.

¹² And there was the harp and the lyre, the drum and the pipe, and the wine of their drinking's: but the work of Jehovah they will not look at, and the work of his hands they saw not

²⁴ For this as the tongue of fire consumes the straw, and the dry grass of flame will collapse: their root shall be as rottenness, and their flower shall go up as dust: for they rejected the law of Jehovah of armies, and the saying of the Holy One of Israel they despised.

¹¹ Thy grandeur was brought down to hades, the sound of thy harps: the worm was spread under thee, and worms covering thee.

²¹ Prepare slaughter for his sons, for the iniquity of their fathers; they shall not rise and possess the land, and fill the face of the habitable globe with cities.

¹³ To the nations as the tumult of many waters they shall rage, and he rebuked him and he fled from far off and was pursued as the chief of the mountains before the wind and as stubble before the whirlwind.

¹³ And behold, gladness and joy, killing cattle and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.

⁵ And the multitude of thy strangers was as the thin dust, and Its the chaff passing away, the multitude of the terrible ones: and it was at a moment suddenly.

¹¹ Remove from the way, turn aside from the path, cause to cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁵ What shall I speak? and he said to me, and he did: I shall go slowly all my years upon the bitterness of my soul. ¹⁶ O Jehovah, upon these they shall live, and for all of these the life of my spirit: and thou wilt heal me and cause me to live. ¹⁷ Behold, for peace bitterness, to me bitterness: and thou didst cleave to my soul from the pit of destruction: and thou didst cast all my sin behind my back

¹³ Who measured the spirit of Jehovah? and will a man of his counsel make him to know? ¹⁴ With whom did he consult, and will he cause him to understand and teach him in the path of judgment, and teach him knowledge, and cause him to know the way of understanding?

²² He sitting upon the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants as locusts; he stretching out the heavens as fine cloth, and he will extend them as a tent to dwell in: ²³ He gave princes to nothing; he made the judges of the earth as vanity. ²⁴ Also they were not planted: also they were not sown: also their stock took not root in the earth: and he also blew upon them and they will be dried up, and the storm will lift them up as straw.

¹⁵ Behold, I set thee to a new cutting threshing sledge having mouths: thou thalt thresh the mountains, and beat small, and the hills thou shalt set as chaff. ¹⁶ Thou shalt winnow them, and the wind shall lift them up, and the storm shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in Jehovah, and glory in the Holy One of Israel.

⁹ Wo to him striving with him forming him! the potsherd with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him forming it, What wilt thou make? and thy work, No hands to it?

¹⁹ I spake not in secret in a dark place of the earth: I said not to the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I Jehovah speak justice, announcing straightnesses.

¹⁷ Arise, arise, stand up, O Jerusalem, who drank from the hand of Jehovah the cup of his wrath; thou didst drink the goblet cup of reeling, pressing out

⁴ Surely he lifted up our afflictions, and our griefs he carried them: and we reckoned him to be smitten, struck of God, and afflicted. ⁵ And he being wounded for our transgressions, and crushed from our iniquities; the correction of our peace upon him, and in the marks of his stripes it was healed to us. ⁶ All we as sheep went astray; we turned a man to his way; and Jehovah caused the iniquity of us all to fall upon him.

² Wherefore will ye weigh silver without bread? and your labour not for fulness? hearing, hear ye to me, and eat good, and your soul shall delight in fatness.

¹⁹ Creating the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him being far off, and to him being near, said Jehovah; and I healed him. ²⁰ And the unjust as the tossed sea when it shall not be able to rest, and its waters will toss up mud and mire; ²¹ no peace, said God, to the unjust.

¹³ Transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and departing from after our God, speaking violence and apostasy, they conceived and muttered from the heart words of falsehood.

³³ How wilt thou make good thy way to seek love? for this also thou didst teach the evil ones thy ways. ³⁴ Also in thy wings were found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: not by breaking in did I find them, but upon all these. ³⁵ And thou wilt say, Because I was innocent his anger turned back from me. Behold me judging thee for thy saying, I sinned not

¹ Just art thou, O Jehovah, for I will strive to thee: surely I will speak judgments with thee: Wherefore did the way of the evil prosper? all they acting faithlessly with treachery were secure? ² Thou didst plant them; they took root; they went on, also they made fruit: thou being near in their mouth, and far off from their reins. ³ And thou, Jehovah, knew me: thou wilt see me, and thou didst try my heart with thee: pluck them out as sheep for the slaughter, and consecrate them to the day of slaughter.

²⁴ And I will scatter them as the straw passing away by the wind of the desert.

¹⁵ For thus said Jehovah God of Israel to me: Take the cup of wine of this wrath from my hand, and cause all the nations which I sent thee to them to drink it ¹⁶ And they drank and they staggered, and they were mad from the face of the sword which I sent in the midst of them.

²⁹ In those days they shall no more say, The fathers ate sour grapes and the sons' teeth will be blunted.

⁷ Babel a cup of gold in the hand of Jehovah, making all the earth drunk: the nations drank from her wine; for this the nations will be foolish.

¹⁹ Remembering my affliction and my bitterness, the wormwood and the poison. ²⁰ Remembering, my soul will remember, and will be bowed down upon me.

¹⁶ And he will say to me, Son of man, behold me breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they ate bread by weight and with fear; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment ¹⁷ So that they shall want bread and water, and they were astonished, a man and his brother, and they were melted in their iniquity.

¹⁸ Son of man, thou shalt eat thy bread with trembling, and thou shalt drink thy water with disquiet and with dread;

² What to you making use of this parable upon the land of Israel, saying, The fathers will eat sour grapes and the sons' teeth will be blunted?

¹⁴ And behold, he begat a son, and he will see all his father's sins which he did, and he will see and will not do like them;

¹⁹ And ye said, Why bore not the son upon the iniquity of the father? and the son doing judgment and justice, watching all my laws, and he will do them; living, he shall live. ²⁰ The soul sinning, it shall die. The son shall not bear for the iniquity of the father, and the father shall not bear for the iniquity of the son: the justice of the just one shall be upon him, and the injustice of the unjust one shall be upon him.

²¹ The strong of the mighty shall say to him from the midst of hades with his helpers: they went down; they lay uncircumcised, wounded of the sword. ²² Assur there and all her convocation; his graves round about him: all of them wounded, fallen by the sword. ²³ Whose graves were given in the thighs of the pit, and her convocation will be round about her grave; all of them wounded, fallen by the sword, who gave terror in the land of the living. ²⁴ There Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them wounded, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised to the earth underneath, who gave their terror in the land of the living; and they will bear their shame with those going down to the pit ²⁵ In the midst of the wounded they gave a bed to her with all her multitude: her graves round about him; all of them uncircumcised, wounded of the sword: for their terror was given in the land of the living, and they shall bear their shame with those going down to the pit: he was given into the midst of the wounded. ²⁶ There Meshech and Tubal and all dyer multitude: round about him her graves: all of them uncircumcised, wounded of the sword, for they gave their terror in the land of the living. ²⁷ And they shall not lie with the strong fallen of the uncircumcised, who went down to hades with the weapons of their war: and they will give their swords under their heads, and their iniquities shall be upon their bones for the terror of the strong in the land of the living. ²⁸ And thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and thou shalt lie with the wounded of the sword. ²⁹ There Edom, her kings and all her princes who were given with their strength with the wounded of the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with those going down to the pit ³⁰ There the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians who went down with the wounded; with their terror being ashamed of their strength; and they shall lie uncircumcised with the wounded of the sword, and bear their shame with those going down to the pit. ³¹ Pharaoh shall see them, and he was comforted over all her multitude wounded of the sword, Pharaoh and all his army, says the Lord Jehovah. ³² For I gave his terror in the land of the living: and he lay down in the midst of the uncircumcised with the wounded of the sword, Pharaoh and all her multitude, says the Lord Jehovah.

¹⁷ The word by the decree of the watchers, and the saying of the holy ones is the question: for the reason that the living shall know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and to whom that he will, he will give it, and he will raise up over it the low of men.

³ For this they shall be as the cloud of the morning, and as the early dew going way; as the chaff will be driven from the threshing-floor on the wind, and as the smoke from the chimney.

⁶ According to their pasture, and they will be satiated; they were satiated, and their heart will be lifted up: for this they forgat me.

¹³ For this the prudent one shall be silent in that time, for it is an evil time.

⁴ Lying upon beds of ivory, and stretching out upon their couches, and eating the lambs from the flock, and the calves from the midst of the stall. ⁵ Prating upon the mouth of the lyre, as David they invented to them instruments of music; ⁶ Drinking wine in vases, and they will anoint with the chief of ointments: and they were not grieved for the breaking of Joseph.

¹⁶ The nations shall see and be ashamed from all their strength: they shall put the hand upon the mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

² God is jealous and Jehovah avenging; Jehovah avenging and possessing wrath; Jehovah avenging to his adversaries and he keeping for his enemies.

¹⁰ For even to thorns surrounding them, and drinking to excess as drunkards, they shall be devoured as straw fully dried up.

¹³ Being pure of eyes from beholding evil, and wilt not be able to look upon labor: wherefore wilt thou look upon the transgressors? wilt thou be silent in the unjust swallowing the just above him?

¹⁵ And he brought up a completion with the book, he will drag him in his net, and he will gather him in his fishnet: for this he will rejoice and be glad.

¹⁵ And he brought up a completion with the book, he will drag him in his net, and he will gather him in his fishnet: for this he will rejoice and be glad. ¹⁶ For this he will sacrifice to his net and burn incense to his fish-net; for by them his portion fat and his food. growing fat

⁹ Wo! to him plundering an evil plunder to his house, to set his nest on high, to deliver from the hand of evil. ¹⁰ Thou wilt counsel shame to thy house, cutting off many peoples, and causing thy soul to sin. ¹¹ For the stone from the wall shall cry out, and the cross-beam from the wood shall answer it.

¹⁶ I heard and my belly will tremble; at the voice my lips quivered: rottenness will come into my bones, and I shall tremble under me that I shall rest at the day of straits: to come up to the people he will invade him.

¹⁵ A day of wrath, that day a day of straits and distress, a day of storm and desolation, a day of darkness and thick darkness, a day of cloud and gloom,

⁴ I brought it forth, says Jehovah of armies, and it came into the house of the thief, and into the house of him swearing for falsehood in my name: and it lodged in the midst of his house, and it finished it and its wood and its stones.

¹³ And ye said, Behold, what a weariness! and ye puffed at it, said Jehovah of armies; and ye brought the spoiled and the lame, and the sick; and ye brought the gift: shall I accept it from your hand? said Jehovah. ¹⁴ And cursed he deceiving, and there is in his flock a male, and he vowed and sacrificed a corrupt thing to Jehovah: for I am a great king, said Jehovah of armies, and my name terrible among the nations.

¹⁸ And ye turned back and saw between the just to the unjust, and between him serving God and to him serving him not

¹² Whose winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and gather his wheat into the store; but he will burn down the chaff in inextinguishable fire.

¹⁹ Treasure not up to you treasures upon earth, where moth and gnawing destroy, and thieves dig through and steal: ²⁰ But treasure to you treasures in heaven, where neither moth, nor gnawing destroy; and where thieves dig not through, nor steal.

⁷ Ask, and it shall be given you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.

²⁷ For the Son of man is about to come in the glory of his Father with his messengers; and then he will give back to each according to his deed.

³¹ Wherefore ye bear testimony to yourselves, that ye are the sons of those having slain the prophets. ³² And fill ye up yourselves the measure of your fathers. ³³ Serpents, generations of vipers, how would ye flee from the judgment of hell? ³⁴ Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, and the wise, and scribes: and of them shall ye kill and crucify; and of them shall ye chastise in your assemblies, and drive out from city to city, ³⁵ So that all the just blood shed upon the earth might come upon you, from the blood of just Abel to the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye killed between the temple and altar.

³⁸ For as they were in the days of the inundation, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noe came into the ark, ³⁹ And knew not till the inundation came, and took them all away; so also shall be the arrival of the Son of man.

⁸ And the foolish said to the discerning, Give us of your oil; for our lights are quenched.

³⁸ Then says he to them, My soul is sorely grieved, even to death: remain here, and watch ye with me.

¹⁸ For John said to Herod, That it is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.

²² And Jesus having known their reflections, having answered, said to them, What do ye reason with yourselves in your hearts?

²⁸ And having seen Jesus and cried out, he fell before him, and with a great voice said, What to me and thee, Jesus, Son of God most high? I implore thee, thou wouldst not torment me.

³⁷ And all the multitude of the country round about, of the Gadarenes, asked him to depart from them; for they were held fast by great fear: and he having gone into the ship, returned.

¹⁶ And he spake a parable to them, saying, The farm of a certain rich man bore well: ¹⁷ And he calculated in himself, saying, What shall I do, for I have not where I shall collect together my fruits? ¹⁸ And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my stores, and build greater; and there will I collect all my produce and my good things. ¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years; rest, eat, drink, be gladdened.

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years; rest, eat, drink, be gladdened. ²⁰ And God said to him, O foolish one, this night they require thy soul from thee: and what thou hast prepared, to whom shall it be?

²⁰ And God said to him, O foolish one, this night they require thy soul from thee: and what thou hast prepared, to whom shall it be? ²¹ So he treasuring up for himself, and not rich toward God.

⁴⁶ The lord of that servant shall come in a day which he expects not, and in an hour which he knows not, and he will cut him in two equal parts, and set his portion with the unbelieving.

² And having called him, he said to him, What is this I hear of thee give back the word of thy stewardship; for thou canst no more be steward.

¹⁹ A certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, being daily splendidly gladdened:

²² And it was, the beggar died, and was carried by messengers into Abraham's bosom: and the rich one died also, and was buried; ²³ And in hades, having lifted up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham from far off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

²⁵ But Abraham said, Child, remember that thou didst receive thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus likewise evil things: and now here is he comforted, and thou art tormented.

²⁷ And he said, Then I ask thee, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: ²⁸ For I have five brethren; that he might testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

²⁸ And likewise as it was in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; ²⁹ And the day which Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from heaven, and destroyed all.

¹⁹ And this is the judgment, that light has come into the world, and men rather loved darkness than light, for their works were evil. ²⁰ For every one doing bad things hates the light, and he comes not to the light, lest his works should be rebuked.

⁴⁵ And because I say the truth, ye believe me not. ⁴⁶ Which of you convicts me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me. ⁴⁷ He being of God hears the words of God: therefore ye hear not, for ye are not of God.

²³ He hating me hates my Father also. ²⁴ If I did not the works in them which none other has done, they had not sin: and now have they also seen and hated also me and my Father.

²⁴ Until now ye have asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy might be completed.

²⁵ And he discoursing of justice, and temperance, and judgment about to be, Felix being terrified, answered, Having now, go; having taken time, I will recall thee.

²⁸ And as they chose not to have God in knowledge, God delivered them to an adulterated purpose, to do things not fitting;

⁵ And according to thy hardness and impenitent heart thou treasurest up to thyself anger in the day of anger and revelation of the just judgment of God;

⁸ But to them of intrigue, and are truly disobedient to the truth, and yielding to injustice, anger and wrath, ⁹ Affliction and distress, upon every soul of man working evil, both of the Jew first, and of the Greek;

⁷ Wherefore the thought of the flesh enmity to God: for it is not subject to the law of God, for it cannot be.

³³ O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! his judgments how unsearchable, and his ways not traced out! ³⁴ For who knew the mind of the Lord? or who was his counsel?

¹⁹ Avenging not yourselves, beloved, but give ye place to anger: for it has been written, Vengeance to me; I will repay, says the Lord.

¹⁶ For who knew the mind of the Lord, who shall instruct him And we have the mind of Christ.

³ Know ye not that we shall judge messengers? also not only things pertaining to the cares of life?

²¹ For him not knowing sin, he made sin for us; that we might be the justice of God in him.

¹¹ And when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to the face, for he was to be rebuked.

¹⁰ And in all deceit of iniquity in the lost; because they received not the love of the truth, for them to be saved. ¹¹ And for this, God shall send them the energy of error, for them to believe in falsehood: ¹² That all might be judged not believing the truth but contented in iniquity.

³ For the time will be when they will not hear sound doctrine; but according to their own eager desires they will heap up to themselves teachers, feeling itchings for a report; ⁴ And truly from the truth will they turn away the hearing, and be turned aside to fictions.

¹⁴ Alexander the coppersmith showed me much evil: (may the Lord give back to him according to his works:)

¹ For this ought we to hold above measure to the things heard, lest we slip away.

²⁷ And inasmuch as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this the judgment:

¹³ For unpropitiated judgment to him not doing mercy; and mercy boasteth against judgment.

¹⁹ For this is grace, if any by consciousness of God bear grief, suffering unjustly.

⁴ For if God spared not the angels having sinned, but delivered up, hurled into Tartarus, to cords of darkness, having been kept for judgment;

⁹ The Lord knows to deliver the religious out of temptation, and to keep the unjust restrained for the day of judgment; ¹⁰ And chiefly them going after the flesh in eager desire of defilement, and despising dominion. Self-sufficient, rash men, they tremble not, defaming glories. ¹¹ Where angels, being greater in strength and power, bring not defaming judgment against them to the Lord. ¹² But these, as natural irrational living creatures, having been for catching and destroying, defaming in what things they are ignorant of; and shall be destroyed in their corruption; ¹³ Receiving the reward of injustice, deeming luxurious indulgence pleasure in the day. Spots and blemishes, rioting in their deceits, feasting together with you ¹⁴ Having eyes full of an adulteress, not ceasing from sin; decoying unstable souls: having a heart exercised with covetousness; children of a curse: ¹⁵ Having forsaken the straight way, they were led astray, having followed in the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the reward of injustice; ¹⁶ And he had reprehension for his own iniquity: the dumb ass speaking in man's voice impeded the insanity of the prophet. ¹⁷ These are fountains wanting water, clouds impelled by a hurricane; for whom the obscurity of darkness has been kept forever.

⁷ And now the heavens and the earth, by the same word are stored up, being kept for fire to the day of judgment and of the perdition of irreligious men.

⁶ Also the angels not having kept their beginning, but having left their own habitation, he has kept in perpetual chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

¹³ Fierce waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames; wandering stars, to whom the obseurity of darkness has been kept forever.

¹⁷ For the great day of his wrath has come; and who can stand?

² And the wild beast which I saw was like a panther, and his feet as of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his throne, and great authority. ³ And I saw one of his heads as slaughtered to death; and his deathblow was healed: and the whole earth wondered after the beast. ⁴ And they worshipped the dragon which gave power to the wild beast: and they worshipped the wild beast, saying, Who like the beast? who shall be able to war with him ⁵ And a mouth was given him speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given him to make war forty-two months. ⁶ And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tent, and them dwelling in heaven. ⁷ And it was given him to make war with the holy, and to conquer them: and power was given him over every tribe, and tongue, and nation.

¹⁰ And the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, mingled pure in the cup of his anger; and he shall be tortured in fire and sulphur before the holy angels, and before the Lamb:

² With whom the kings of the earth were debauched, and they dwelling upon the earth were intoxicated from the wine of her harlotry. ³ And he brought me away in the spirit into the desert: and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet wild beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ And the woman surrounded with purple and scarlet, and covered with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and the impurity of her harlotry:

⁶ Give back to her as also she gave back to you, and double to her double things according to her works: in the cup in which she mixed, mix to her double.

¹⁵ And out of his mouth went forth a sharp sword, that with it he might strike the nations: and he shall rule them with an iron rod: and he treads the winepress of the wine of the wrath and anger of God, the Omnipotent Ruler.

¹ And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain in his hand. ² And he seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, ³ And he cast him into the abyss, and shut him up, and affixed a seal above him, that he should no more deceive the nations, until the thousand years be finished: and after these things he must be loosed a little time.

¹² And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is of life: and the dead were judged from the things written in the books, according to their works. ¹³ And the sea gave the dead in it; and death and hades gave the dead in them: and they were judged each one according to their works. ¹⁴ And death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. ¹⁵ And if any was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.