Job 35 Cross References - KJ2000

¹ Elihu spoke moreover, and said, ² Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God’s? ³ For you said, What advantage will it be unto you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? ⁴ I will answer you, and your companions with you. ⁵ Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you. ⁶ If you sin, what do you accomplish against him? or if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do unto him? ⁷ If you are righteous, what give you to him? or what receives he of your hand? ⁸ Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man. ⁹ Because of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out because of the arm of the mighty. ¹⁰ But none says, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night; ¹¹ Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven? ¹² There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men. ¹³ Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it. ¹⁴ Although you say you shall not see him, yet justice is before him; therefore you must trust in him. ¹⁵ But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he knows it not in a great extreme: ¹⁶ Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.

²⁶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

⁷ And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

² And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing:

⁵ And he brought him forth outside, and said, Look now toward heaven, and count the stars, if you be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall your descendants be.

²⁴ Suppose there be fifty righteous within the city: will you also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are there? ²⁵ That be far from you to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from you: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? ²⁶ And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes. ²⁷ And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes: ²⁸ Suppose there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: will you destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it. ²⁹ And he spoke unto him yet again, and said, Suppose there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake. ³⁰ And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Suppose there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. ³¹ And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Suppose there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake. ³² And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Suppose ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake. ³³ And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left speaking with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.

²⁹ And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.

²³ And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel groaned by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

⁷ And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

⁹ Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

¹² And the LORD spoke unto Moses and Aaron, Because you believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.

¹ But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel. ² And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai. ³ And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai; and make not all the people to toil up there; for they are but few. ⁴ So there went up there of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai. ⁵ And the men of Ai struck of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and struck them on the descent: therefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.

²⁰ Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.

²⁷ But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built?

¹³ So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that was a medium, to seek council; ¹⁴ And inquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.

¹⁴ But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? for all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.

²² And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz. ²³ For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which had defeated him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

¹ And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews. ² For there were those that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore let us get grain for them, that we may eat, and live. ³ Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy grain, because of the famine. ⁴ There were also those that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tax, and that upon our lands and vineyards. ⁵ Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.

¹ After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

⁵ But now it is come upon you, and you faint; it touches you, and you are troubled.

¹¹ Lo, he goes by me, and I see him not: he passes on also, but I perceive him not.

¹⁴ How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?

¹⁷ For he breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

¹⁹ If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of justice, who shall set me a time to plead?

²¹ Though I were blameless, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life. ²² This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroys the blameless and the wicked.

³⁰ If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean; ³¹ Yet shall you plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.

⁷ You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of your hand.

¹⁵ If I am wicked, woe unto me; and if I am righteous, yet can I not lift up my head. I am full of disgrace; therefore see my affliction;

¹⁹ He leads princes away plundered, and overthrows the mighty.

¹⁵ Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will defend my own ways before him.

¹⁷ Not for any violence in my hands: also my prayer is pure.

⁶ Know now that God has overthrown me, and has compassed me with his net. ⁷ Behold, I cry out concerning wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no justice.

⁷ Behold, I cry out concerning wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no justice.

¹⁵ What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

² Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself? ³ Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? or is it gain to him, that you make your ways blameless?

¹² Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

²² Receive, I pray you, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart. ²³ If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, you shall put away iniquity far from your tents. ²⁴ Then shall you lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. ²⁵ Yea, the Almighty shall be your defense, and you shall have plenty of silver. ²⁶ For then shall you have your delight in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face unto God. ²⁷ You shall make your prayer unto him, and he shall hear you, and you shall pay your vows.

³ Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

⁸ Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: ⁹ On the left hand, where he does work, but I cannot behold him: he hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: ¹⁰ But he knows the way that I take: when he has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.

¹² Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out: yet God charges not folly to them.

⁵ Behold even to the moon, and it shines not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. ⁶ How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, who is a worm?

² As God lives, who has taken away my right; and the Almighty, who has made bitter my soul; ³ All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils; ⁴ My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit. ⁵ God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove my 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.

⁸ For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God takes away his soul? ⁹ Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him? ¹⁰ Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

¹⁵ Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my honor as the wind: and my welfare passes away as a cloud. ¹⁶ And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. ¹⁷ My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. ¹⁸ By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it binds me about as the collar of my coat. ¹⁹ He has cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. ²⁰ I cry unto you, and you do not hear me: I stand up, and you regard me not.

²⁰ I cry unto you, and you do not hear me: I stand up, and you regard me not. ²¹ You have become cruel to me: with your strong hand you oppose yourself against me. ²² You lift me up to the wind; you cause me to ride upon it, and spoil my substance. ²³ For I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. ²⁴ Yet he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry out in his destruction. ²⁵ Did I not weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor? ²⁶ When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. ²⁷ My heart is in turmoil, and rests not: the days of affliction confront me. ²⁸ I went mourning but not in the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation. ²⁹ I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches. ³⁰ My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. ³¹ My harp also is turned to mourning, and my flute into the voice of them that weep.

² For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

⁸ But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty gives him understanding.

²² For I know not how to give flattery; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.

² Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue has spoken in my mouth.

⁸ Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of your words, saying, ⁹ I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me. ¹⁰ Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me for his enemy, ¹¹ He puts my feet in the stocks, he marks all my paths. ¹² Behold, in this you are not just: I will answer you, for God is greater than man.

⁵ For Job has said, I am righteous: and God has taken away my justice.

⁸ Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men. ⁹ For he has said, It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.

²⁸ So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he hears the cry of the afflicted.

³⁵ Job has spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom. ³⁶ My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because he answers like wicked men. ³⁷ For he adds rebellion unto his sin, he claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God.

³ I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

¹³ But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he binds them.

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

²⁶ Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

¹⁶ Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is blameless in knowledge?

²² Fair weather comes out of the north: with God is awesome majesty. ²³ As for the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in abundant justice: he will not afflict.

² Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

⁸ Will you also annul my judgment? will you condemn me, that you may be righteous? ⁹ Have you an arm like God? or can you thunder with a voice like him?

⁸ Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that you have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

³ When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained; ⁴ What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit him?

¹⁵ Break the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till you find none.

⁵ For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that sneers at him.

² O my soul, you have said unto the LORD, You are my Lord: my goodness reaches not to you;

⁴¹ They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

¹² Deliver me not over unto the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. ¹³ I would have fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. ¹⁴ Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

⁵ Commit your way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. ⁶ And he shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.

⁸ Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

² For you are the God of my strength: why do you cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

² Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise; ³ Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

¹ [To the Chief Musician upon jonathelemrechokim. A michtam of David, when the Philistines took him to Gath.] Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresses me. ² My enemies would daily swallow me up: for they are many that fight against me, O most High.

⁵ My soul, wait you only upon God; for my expectation is from him.

⁸ Trust in him at all times; you people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.

⁶ Therefore pride surrounds them as a chain; violence covers them as a garment. ⁷ Their eyes stand out with abundance: they have more than heart could wish. ⁸ They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.

¹³ Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.

⁵ I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. ⁶ I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with my own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

⁶ I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with my own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. ⁷ Will the Lord cast off forever? and will he be favorable no more? ⁸ Is his mercy ceased forever? does his promise fail forevermore? ⁹ Has God forgotten to be gracious? has he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. ¹⁰ And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

¹¹ Shall your lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or your faithfulness in destruction? ¹² Shall your wonders be known in the dark? and your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? ¹³ But unto you have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer come before you. ¹⁴ LORD, why cast you off my soul? why hide you your face from me? ¹⁵ I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer your terrors I am distracted. ¹⁶ Your fierce anger goes over me; your terrors have cut me off.

³² Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

¹² Blessed is the man whom you chasten, O LORD, and teach him out of your law;

² Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and justice are the habitation of his throne.

¹⁷ He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.

²³ Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

³⁰ Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.

⁶² At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto you because of your righteous judgments.

³ Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. ⁴ Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorn of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

⁵ Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.

²⁸ Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

³⁶ But he that sins against me wrongs his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

¹² If you are wise, you shall be wise for yourself: but if you scoff, you alone shall bear it.

²⁰ He that walks with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

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

²⁹ The LORD is far from the wicked: but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

⁹ He that turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.

¹ Guard your steps when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil. ² Be not rash with your mouth, and let not your heart be hasty to utter anything before God: for God is in heaven, and you upon earth: therefore let your words be few. ³ For a dream comes through much business; and a fool's voice is known by a multitude of words.

¹⁸ Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroys much good.

¹ Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw near, when you shall say, I have no pleasure in them;

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

²¹ And they shall pass through it, hardpressed and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall be enraged, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

¹⁴ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. ¹⁵ Yet you shall be brought down to sheol, to the sides of the pit. ¹⁶ They that see you shall gaze upon you, and consider you, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; ¹⁷ That made the world like a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

¹⁸ And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of justice: blessed are all they that wait for him.

²² It is he that sits upon the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are as grasshoppers; that stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in: ²³ That brings the princes to nothing; he makes the judges of the earth as nothing.

¹⁰ Who is among you that fears the LORD, that obeys the voice of his servant, that walks in darkness, and has no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and rely upon his God.

¹³ And forget the LORD your maker, that has stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; you have feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

⁵ For your Maker is your husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and your Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.

¹⁷ No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, says the LORD.

⁹ For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

¹⁹ Do they provoke me to anger? says the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the shame of their own faces?

¹¹ Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.

³⁰ And I sought for a man among them, that should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.

¹⁴ And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they wailed upon their beds: they assemble themselves for grain and wine, and they rebel against me.

² Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know you. ³ Israel has cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.

⁸ How shall I give you up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver you, Israel? how shall I make you as Admah? how shall I set you as Zeboiim? my heart is turned within me, my compassion is stirred. ⁹ I will not execute the fierceness of my anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of you: and I will not enter into the city.

²² Though you offer me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fatted beasts.

¹² And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm for you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.

⁷ Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me. ⁸ Rejoice not against me, O my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me. ⁹ I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause, and executes justice for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

³ The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

¹⁴ You have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked in mourning before the LORD of hosts?

⁷ But when you pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

³⁶ But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. ³⁷ For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned.

²¹ And he said unto her, What will you? She said unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on your right hand, and the other on the left, in your kingdom. ²² But Jesus answered and said, You know not what you ask. Are you able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They said unto him, We are able.

²⁰ And, behold, you shall be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because you believe not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their time.

¹⁰ So likewise you, when you shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

³ And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of my adversary. ⁴ And he would not for awhile: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; ⁵ Yet because this widow troubles me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she wearies me. ⁶ And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge said. ⁷ And shall not God avenge his own elect, who cry day and night unto him, though he bears long with them?

²² And he said unto him, Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was a severe man, taking up what I laid not down, and reaping what I did not sow:

³¹ Now we know that God hears not sinners: but if any man be a worshiper of God, and does his will, him he hears.

²⁵ And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.

²⁴ Saying, Fear not, Paul; you must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God has given you all them that sail with you.

³³ Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies. ³⁴ Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

³⁵ Or who has first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?

⁷ By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved by fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

¹¹ Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them who are trained by it. ¹² Therefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

³ You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it upon your lusts.

¹⁹ Therefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

¹⁹ As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.