Job 3 Cross References - LEB

¹ _⌊Afterward_⌋* Job opened his mouth and cursed* his day. ² Thus* Job _⌊spoke up_⌋* and said, ³ "Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, 'A man-child is conceived.' ⁴ Let that day become* darkness; may God not seek it from above, nor may daylight shine on it. ⁵ Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let clouds* settle on it; let them* terrify it with the blackness* of day. ⁶ Let darkness seize that night;* let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months. ⁷ Look, let that night become* barren; let a joyful song not enter it. ⁸ Let those who curse the day curse it, those who are skilled at rousing Leviathan. ⁹ Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light but* there be none, and let it not see the eyelids of dawn ¹⁰ because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor* did it hide trouble from my eyes. ¹¹ "Why did I not die at* birth? Why did I not come forth from the womb and expire? ¹² Why did the knees receive me and the breasts, that I could suck? ¹³ For now I would lie down, and I would be at peace; I would be asleep; then _⌊I would be at rest_⌋* ¹⁴ with kings and counselors of the earth, who _⌊rebuild_⌋ * ruins for themselves, ¹⁵ or with high officials _⌊who have gold_⌋,* who fill up their houses with silver. ¹⁶ Or why was I not hidden like a miscarriage, like infants who did not see the light? ¹⁷ There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the _⌊weary_⌋* are at rest; ¹⁸ the prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear the oppressor's voice. ¹⁹ The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his masters.* ²⁰ "Why does he* give light to one in misery and life to those bitter of soul, ²¹ who wait for death, but* _⌊it does not come_⌋,* and search* for it more than for treasures, ²² who rejoice _⌊exceedingly_⌋,* and they are glad when they find the grave? ²³ Why does he* give light to a man whose way is hidden, and God has fenced him in all around? ²⁴ For* my sighing comes _⌊before_⌋* my bread,* and my groanings gush forth like water ²⁵ because the dread that I _⌊feel_⌋* has come upon me, and what I feared befalls me. ²⁶ I am not at ease, and I am not at peace, and I do not have rest, thus* turmoil has come."

¹¹ But,* on the other hand, stretch out* your hand and touch _⌊all that belongs to him_⌋* and see _⌊whether_⌋* he will _⌊curse_⌋* you to your face."

²² In all this, Job did not sin and did not _⌊charge God with wrongdoing_⌋.*

⁵ But stretch out* your hand and touch his bones and his flesh, and see _⌊whether_⌋* he will _⌊curse_⌋* you to your face."*

⁹ Then* his wife said to him, "Are you still persisting in your blamelessness? _⌊Curse_⌋* God and die." ¹⁰ So* he said to her, "You speak like one of the foolish women speaks. Indeed, should we receive the good from God, but* not receive the evil?" In all this, Job did not sin with his lips.

³ "Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, 'A man-child is conceived.'

¹⁶ _⌊therefore_⌋* Job opens his mouth in empty talk— without knowledge he multiplies words."

² I was mute with silence. I was silent even from saying good things, and my pain was stirred up. ³ My heart grew hot inside me; in my sighing a fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue,

³³ because they rebelled against his Spirit,* and he spoke thoughtlessly with his lips.

¹⁴ Cursed be the day on which I was born, let not the day on which my mother gave birth to me be blessed. ¹⁵ Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, _⌊saying_⌋,* "A child is born to you, a son!" and he made him very glad.

¹⁴ And the five men that went out to spy out the land (that is, Laish) responded and said to their relatives,* "Do you know that there are in these houses an ephod, teraphim, and an idol of cast metal? So then, consider what you must do."

¹⁸ So* why did you bring me forth from the womb? I should have passed away, _⌊and no eye should have seen me_⌋.* ¹⁹ I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been brought from the womb to the grave.

¹⁰ Woe to me, O my mother, that you gave birth to me, a man of contention and quarreling _⌊to the whole land_⌋.* I have not lent out and _⌊I have not borrowed_⌋.* All of them are cursing me.

¹⁴ Cursed be the day on which I was born, let not the day on which my mother gave birth to me be blessed. ¹⁵ Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, _⌊saying_⌋,* "A child is born to you, a son!" and he made him very glad. ¹⁶ And let that man be like the cities that Yahweh demolished without regret, and let him hear a cry for help in the morning, and an alarm at the time of noon. ¹⁷ Because he did not kill me in the womb, so that my mother would have been for me my grave, and her womb would be pregnant forever. ¹⁸ _⌊Why_⌋* did I come out from the womb, to see toil, and sorrow, and to _⌊end my days in shame_⌋?*

²² And Moses stretched out his hand toward the heavens, and there was darkness of night in all the land of Egypt for three days. ²³ No one could see his brother, and _⌊because of it no one could move from where they were_⌋* for three days, but there was light for the _⌊Israelites_⌋* in their dwellings.

¹² a land that Yahweh your God is caring for it; continually the eyes of Yahweh your God are on it, from the beginning of the year up to the end of the year.

² A day of darkness and gloom, a day of cloud and thick darkness, like the dawn spreads on the mountains, a great and strong army! There has been nothing like it from old, and after it nothing will be again _⌊for generations to come_⌋.*

¹⁸ Alas, those who desire the day of Yahweh, why is this for you the day of Yahweh? It will be darkness and not light!

⁴⁵ Now from the sixth hour, darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour.

²⁰ But when* neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and with not a little bad weather confronting us,* finally all hope was abandoned that we would be saved.

¹⁰ And the fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became darkened, and they began chewing their tongues because of the pain.

¹¹ And so you came near, and you stood under the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire up to the heart of the heaven, _⌊dark with a very thick cloud_⌋.*

²¹ Before I go—and I will not return— to the land of darkness and deep shadow, ²² to the land of darkness, like the darkness of a deep shadow and _⌊chaos_⌋,* so that* it shines forth like darkness.'"

¹⁶ My face is red because of weeping, and deep shadows are on my eyelids,

¹⁷ because morning likewise is to them deep darkness; indeed, they know about the terrors of deep darkness.

³ He puts an end to darkness, and he searches out the farthest limits for the ore in gloom and deep shadow.

¹⁷ Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of deep shadow?

⁴ Even when I walk in a dark valley, I fear no evil because you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

¹⁹ But you have crushed us in a place of jackals, and have covered us with deep shadow.

¹⁰ Those who sat in darkness and gloom, prisoners of misery and iron—

¹⁴ He brought them out of darkness and gloom, and tore off their bonds.

² The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; light has shined on those who lived in a land of darkness.

⁶ And they did not say, 'Where is Yahweh, the one who brought us up from the land of Egypt, the one who led us in the desert,* in a land of desert plains and gorges,* in a land of dryness and deep darkness, in a land _⌊that no one passes through_⌋,* and no human lives there?'

²⁸ Because of this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above will become dark. Because I have spoken, I have planned, and I have not relented, and I will not turn back from it."

¹⁶ Give glory to Yahweh your God _⌊before_⌋* he brings darkness, and _⌊before_⌋* your feet stumble on the mountains at twilight. And you will hope for light, but he makes it as gloom, he makes it* as thick darkness.

³ For a day is near; indeed, a day is near for Yahweh. A day of cloud, a time of the nations it will be.

¹² just like the caring of a shepherd for his herd on* the day when he is in the midst of his scattered flock. Thus I will look after my flock, and I will deliver them from all the places _⌊to which they were scattered_⌋* on the day _⌊of storm and stress_⌋.*

⁸ The one who made the Pleiades and Orion and who turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens day into night, the one who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name!

¹⁰ And I will turn your feasts into mourning and all of your songs into lament, and I will put sackcloth on all loins and baldness on every head. And I will make it like the mourning for an only child, and its end like a bitter day.

¹⁶ the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, and the ones who sit in the land and shadow of death, a light has dawned on them."*

⁷⁹ to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to direct our feet into the way of peace."

¹⁸ For you have not come to something that can be touched, and to a burning fire, and to darkness, and to gloom, and to a whirlwind,

²⁰ It will not be inhabited forever, and it will not be dwelled in _⌊forever_⌋;* and no Arab will pitch a tent there, and shepherds will not allow their flocks to lie down there. ²¹ But wild animals will lie down there, and their houses will be full of howling creatures, and the daughters of ostriches* will live there, and goats will dance there. ²² And hyenas will answer in its palaces, and jackals in the pleasure palaces; and its time _⌊is coming soon_⌋,* and its days will not be prolonged.

⁸ the joy of the tambourine has stopped. The noise of the jubilant has ceased; the joy of the lyre has stopped.

³⁴ And I will cause to disappear from the towns of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the sound of jubilation, and the sound of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, for the land will become a site of ruins.

²² And the sound of harpists and musicians and flute players and trumpeters will never be heard in you again! And every craftsman of every trade will never be found in you again! And the sound of a mill will never be heard in you again! ²³ And the light of a lamp will never shine in you again! And the sound of a bridegroom and bride will never be heard in you again! For your merchants were the most important people of the earth, because with your sorcery they deceived all the nations.

²⁵ And Jeremiah uttered a lament for Josiah, and all the male and female singers have spoken in their laments about Josiah to this day. And they made them a requirement in Israel, and behold, they are written in the laments.

¹ * "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or* _⌊can you tie down its mouth with a cord_⌋?*

¹⁰ Is it not fierce when somebody stirs it? Who then is he who would stand _⌊before it_⌋?*

²⁵ _⌊When it raises itself_⌋,* the mighty ones are terrified; they retreat because of its thrashing.

¹⁷ Thus says Yahweh of hosts:
"Consider closely, and call for the wailing women, so that they come, and for the skillful women, so that they come. ¹⁸ And let them hasten, and let them lift up wailing over us, so that our eyes may melt with tears, and our eyelids may flow with water.

¹⁶ Therefore, thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, my Lord, "In all of the public squares there will be wailing, and in all of the streets they will say, 'Alas, alas, alas!' They shall call the farmers to mourning and to wailing, to those who are skilled in lamentation.

¹⁷ saying,
'We played the flute for you and you did not dance; we sang a lament and you did not mourn.'

³⁸ And they came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue and saw a commotion, and people weeping and wailing loudly.

²⁶ Indeed, I hoped for good, but evil came, and I waited for light, but darkness came.

¹⁸ "Its snorting flashes forth light, and its eyes are _⌊red like dawn_⌋.*

¹⁵ We hope for peace, but there is no good, for a time of healing, but there is terror.

¹⁸ For Yahweh had completely closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of the matter of Sarah, the wife of Abraham.

³¹ When Yahweh saw that Leah was unloved he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

⁵ But to Hannah he would give _⌊a double portion_⌋,* because he loved Hannah, though Yahweh had closed her womb.

² "If only my vexation could be well weighed, and my calamity could be lifted up together with it in the balances, ³ for then it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore my words have been rash,

¹ "My inner self* loathes my life; _⌊I want to give vent to my complaint_⌋;* I want to speak out of the bitterness of my inner self.*

² "Even today my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy in addition to my groaning.

³ Even if a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, if his heart* is not satisfied with _⌊his prosperity_⌋* and _⌊he does not receive a proper burial_⌋,* I deem the stillborn better than him. ⁴ For he comes into vanity and departs into darkness, and his name is shrouded in darkness. ⁵ He has neither seen nor known the sun, yet he has more rest than him.

¹⁰ Banish anxiety from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and vigor are vanity.

¹⁷ Because he did not kill me in the womb, so that my mother would have been for me my grave, and her womb would be pregnant forever.

⁹ Yet you took me from the belly; you made me trust while on my mother's breasts. ¹⁰ On you I was cast from the womb. From my mother's belly you have been my God.

⁸ Let them be like a snail that melts away as it goes; like the stillborn of woman that do not see the sun.

⁶ Upon you I have leaned _⌊from birth_⌋.* It was you who _⌊took_⌋* me from the womb of my mother. My praise is of you continually.

¹³ Indeed you created my _⌊inward parts_⌋;* you wove me in my mother's womb. ¹⁴ I praise you, because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.* Wonderful are your works, and my soul knows it well. ¹⁵ My _⌊frame_⌋* was not hidden from you, when I was created secretly,* and intricately woven in the depths of the earth. ¹⁶ Your eyes saw my embryo,* and in your book they all were written— days fashioned for me when there was not one of them.

³ "Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel who have been carried from the belly, who have been carried from the womb:

¹⁴ Give them, O Yahweh— what will you give them? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

³ Then she said, "Here is my servant girl Bilhah; go in to her that she may bear children _⌊as my surrogate_⌋.* Then I will even _⌊have children_⌋* by her."

²³ And Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation. Moreover, the children of Makir, son of Manasseh, were born on the knees of Joseph.

¹² For thus says Yahweh:
"Look! I am about to spread prosperity out to her like a river, and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream, and you shall suck and be carried on the hip; and you shall you shall be played with on the knees.

⁴ And as for your birth, _⌊on the day you were born_⌋* your umbilical cord was not cut, and _⌊you were not thoroughly washed clean with water_⌋,* and _⌊you were not thoroughly rubbed with salt_⌋,* and _⌊you were not carefully wrapped in strips of cloth_⌋.* ⁵ _⌊No eye took pity on you_⌋* to do to you one of these things to show compassion for you, and you were thrown _⌊into the open field_⌋* in their despising of you _⌊on the day you were born_⌋.*

⁸ The eye of the one seeing me will not see me; your eyes are upon me, but* _⌊I will be gone_⌋.* ⁹ A cloud vanishes, and it goes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will not come up. ¹⁰ He does not return again to his house, and his place does not recognize him again.

²¹ And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my guilt? For now I shall lie in the dust, and you will seek me, but* _⌊I will be no more_⌋."*

²² to the land of darkness, like the darkness of a deep shadow and _⌊chaos_⌋,* so that* it shines forth like darkness.'"

¹⁰ "But* a man dies, and he dwindles away; thus* a human being passes away, and where is he?* ¹¹ As water disappears from a lake, and a river withers away and dries up,* ¹² _⌊so_⌋* a man lies down, and he does not arise. _⌊Until the heavens are no more_⌋,* they will not awaken, and they will not be roused out of their sleep.

¹³ If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in the darkness,

²⁷ whom _⌊I will see for myself_⌋,* and whom my eyes will see and not a stranger.* _⌊My heart faints within me_⌋.*

¹³ They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.

²³ This one dies _⌊in full prosperity_⌋,* _⌊completely_⌋* at ease and secure.

¹⁰ Whatever your hand finds to do—do it with all your might; for in Sheol—where you are going—no one works, plans, knows, or thinks about anything.

¹⁰ Then David slept with his ancestors* and was buried in the city of David.

⁴³ Then Solomon slept with his ancestors,* and they buried him in the city of David his father, and Rehoboam his son became king in his place.

¹⁷ He leads counselors away stripped, and he makes fools of judges.

²⁸ _⌊he will dwell_⌋* in desolate cities, in houses that they should not inhabit, which are destined for rubble.

²³ Indeed, I know that you will bring me to death and to the house of assembly for all the living.

⁶ those who trust their wealth and boast about the abundance of their riches? ⁷ Surely a man cannot redeem a brother. He cannot give to God his ransom ⁸ (since* the redemption price for their life is costly and it always fails), ⁹ so that he may stay alive forever and not see the pit. ¹⁰ For he sees that the wise die, together with the fool and brute they perish, and leave their wealth to the next generation.

¹⁴ Like sheep they are destined to Sheol; death will shepherd them. But the upright will rule over them in the morning, and their forms will be for Sheol to consume, far from his lofty abode.

⁴⁸ What man can live on and not see death? Can he deliver his life from the _⌊power_⌋* of Sheol? Selah

⁸ Just as no one can control the wind to restrain the wind, so also no one can control the day of his death. Just as no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not deliver the wicked.

⁸ Ah! Those who _⌊join_⌋* house with house, they join field together with field until _⌊there is no place_⌋* and you are caused to dwell alone in the midst of the land.

¹⁰ All of them will respond and say to you, 'You yourself also were made weak like us! You have become the same as us!' ¹¹ Your pride is brought down to Sheol, and the sound of your harps; maggots* are spread out beneath you like a bed, and your covering is worms.* ¹² How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of dawn! You are cut down to the ground, conqueror of nations! ¹³ And you yourself said in your heart,
'I will ascend to heaven; I will raise up my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit on the mountain of assembly on the summit of Zaphon;* ¹⁴ I will ascend to the high places of the clouds,* I will make myself like the Most High.' ¹⁵ But you are brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit. ¹⁶ Those who see you will stare at you, they will look closely at you: 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who caused kingdoms to shake,

¹² And they shall rebuild ancient ruins from you; you shall erect the foundations of _⌊many generations,_⌋* and _⌊you shall be called_⌋* the bricklayer of the breach, the restorer of paths to live in.

²⁰ And I will bring you down with those who are going down to the grave,* _⌊an ancient people_⌋,* and I will cause you to dwell in the world* of the depths, in the ruins from of old with those who are going down to the grave,* so that you will not be inhabited and _⌊have a place_⌋* in the land of the living.

¹⁸ Damascus was trading with you _⌊because of_⌋* the abundance of your products, because of the abundance of all of your wealth, trading with the wine of Helbon and white wool. ¹⁹ Vedan and Javan from Uzal, they exchanged wrought iron, cinnamon,* and reed spice for your merchandise; all this was for your wares. ²⁰ Dedan was trading with you, with garments of woven material for riding. ²¹ Arabia and all of the leaders of Kedar were _⌊your customers_⌋;* with young rams and adult rams and goats they were trading with them with you. ²² The traders of Sheba and Raamah were trading with you, with the finest of every spice and with every precious stone and gold; they exchanged all these for your merchandise. ²³ Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traders of Sheba, Assyria, and Kilmad were trading with you. ²⁴ They were trading with you in finery, in mantles of blue cloth and colorful embroidered work and with rugs of variegated cloth in twisted cords and knotted tightly; _⌊these were among your merchandise_⌋.* ²⁵ The ships of Tarshish were carrying for you your wares, and you were filled, and you became very heavy in the heart of the seas. ²⁶ " 'Into many waters the rowers brought you; but _⌊the east wind_⌋* wrecked you in the heart of the seas. ²⁷ Your wealth and your merchandise, your wares, your mariners, and your seamen, your shipwrights* and the barterers of your wares and all of _⌊your soldiers_⌋* who are in you, along* with all of your crew who are in the midst of you, they will fall in the heart of the seas on the day of your downfall. ²⁸ At the sound of the shout* of your seamen, the pasturelands will shake. ²⁹ And they will go down from their ships, all of those holding an oar, mariners, all of the seamen of the sea will stand on the land, ³⁰ and they will lament* over you with their voice, and they will cry out* bitterly, and they will throw* dust on their heads, and they will roll* in the dust. ³¹ _⌊They will shave themselves bald for your sake_⌋,* and they will dress* themselves in sackcloth, and they will weep* over you with a bitterness of soul* and with bitter wailing. ³² And they will raise* over you with their wailing a lament, and they will chant* a lament over you: 'Who is like Tyre, like this destruction in the midst of the sea?'

¹⁸ Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, "Even though Balak gives to me his house full of silver and gold, I am not able to go beyond _⌊the command of Yahweh_⌋* my God to do a little or a lot.

²⁷ The king made the silver in Jerusalem as the stones, and the cedars he made as the sycamore fig trees which are in the Shephelah in abundance.

²¹ He pours contempt on noblemen, and he loosens the girdle of the mighty.

²⁵ then* Shaddai will be your gold ore and _⌊your precious silver_⌋.*

¹⁶ If he heaps up silver like the dust and fashions clothing like the clay, ¹⁷ he makes it ready, and the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver.

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

¹⁸ Moreover, their silver and their gold will not be able to save them on the day of the wrath of Yahweh. And in the fire of his zeal, the whole land shall be consumed, for a terrifying end he shall make for all the inhabitants of the land.

³ Tyre has built a fortification for itself,* and it heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the mud of the streets.

³ Even if a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, if his heart* is not satisfied with _⌊his prosperity_⌋* and _⌊he does not receive a proper burial_⌋,* I deem the stillborn better than him.

⁸ and last of all, as it were to one born at the wrong time, he appeared also to me.

¹³ "_⌊O that_⌋* you would conceal me in Sheol, that you would hide me _⌊until your wrath is past_⌋,* that you would appoint a set time for me and remember me.

¹⁶ Will they go down to the bars of Sheol? Or shall we descend together into the dust?"

⁵ Fear and trembling come on me, and horror overwhelms me. ⁶ So I say, "_⌊Oh, that_⌋* I had wings like a dove. I would fly away and be at rest. ⁷ Look, I would flee far away. I would dwell in the wilderness. Selah ⁸ I would hurry to my refuge from the raging wind and storm."

¹ The righteous one perishes, and there is no one who takes* it to heart. And men of faithfulness are gathered, while there is no one who understands, for the righteous is gathered from the presence of wickedness. ² he enters into peace; they will rest on their beds, walking straight ahead of him.

²⁸ And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul, but instead be afraid of the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

⁴ "And I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after these things do not have anything more to do.

⁶ since it is righteous in the sight of God to pay back those who are afflicting you with affliction, ⁷ and to you who are being afflicted, rest with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his powerful angels,

⁹ Consequently a sabbath rest remains for the people of God.

¹¹ Therefore, let us make every effort to enter into that rest, in order that no one may fall in the same pattern of disobedience.

⁸ (for that righteous man, as he* lived among them day after day, was tormenting his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he was seeing and hearing),

¹³ And I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write:
'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on!'"
"Yes," says the Spirit, "in order that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow after them."

⁶ And on that day Pharaoh commanded the slave drivers over the people and his foremen, saying, ⁷ "You must no longer give straw to the people to make the bricks like _⌊before_⌋.* Let them go and gather straw for themselves. ⁸ But the quota of the bricks that they were making _⌊before_⌋* _⌊you must require of them_⌋.* You must not reduce from it, because they are lazy. Therefore they are crying out, saying, 'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.'

¹⁵ And the foremen of the _⌊Israelites_⌋* came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you treat your servants like this? ¹⁶ Straw is not being given to your servants, but they are saying to us, 'Make bricks!' and, look, your servants are being beaten, but it is the fault of* your people." ¹⁷ And he said, "You are lazy, lazy! Therefore you are saying, 'Let us go; let us sacrifice to Yahweh.' ¹⁸ And now go, work, but straw will not be given to you, and you must give the full quota of bricks." ¹⁹ And the foremen of the _⌊Israelites_⌋* saw they were in trouble _⌊with the saying_⌋,* "You will not reduce from your bricks _⌊for each day_⌋* on its day."

³ And the _⌊Israelites_⌋* cried to Yahweh, as he had nine hundred iron chariots,* and he oppressed the _⌊Israelites_⌋* _⌊cruelly_⌋* for twenty years.*

⁷ It scorns the city's turmoil; it does not hear the driver's shouts.

³ And it shall happen on the day Yahweh gives you rest from your pain and turmoil and hard labor which _⌊you had to perform_⌋,* ⁴ that you will take this taunt against the king of Babylon, and you will say: "How the oppressor has ceased! his insolence* has ceased.

² both low and high, rich and poor together.

¹⁴ Like sheep they are destined to Sheol; death will shepherd them. But the upright will rule over them in the morning, and their forms will be for Sheol to consume, far from his lofty abode. ¹⁵ Surely God will ransom my life from the _⌊power_⌋* of Sheol, because he will receive me. Selah ¹⁶ Do not fear when a man becomes rich, when the wealth* of his house increases, ¹⁷ because when he dies he will not take away any of it. His wealth will not follow down after him. ¹⁸ Though he congratulated his soul while he was living —and people will praise you when you do well for yourself— ¹⁹ it* will go to the generation of his fathers. Never will they see light. ²⁰ Humankind in its pomp, but does not understand, is like the beasts that perish.

⁵ They are afraid of heights, and terrors are on the road. The almond tree blossoms, and the grasshopper draws itself along, and desire fails because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about in the streets.

⁷ And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.

²² Now it happened that the poor man died, and he was carried away by the angels to _⌊Abraham's side_⌋.* And the rich man also died and was buried. ²³ And in Hades he lifted up his eyes as he* was in torment and* saw Abraham from a distance, and Lazarus _⌊at his side_⌋.*

²⁷ And _⌊just as_⌋* it is destined for people to die once, and after this, judgment,

¹⁰ She was _⌊deeply troubled_⌋,* so she prayed to Yahweh and wept bitterly.

²⁷ So she came to the man of God at the mountain, and she caught hold of his feet. Then Gehazi came near to push her away, but the man of God said, "Let her alone, for her soul is bitter, and Yahweh has hidden it from me and has not told me."

¹⁶ Or why was I not hidden like a miscarriage, like infants who did not see the light?

⁹ that* God would decide that* he would crush me, that he would let loose his hand and _⌊kill me_⌋.*

¹⁵ So* my inner self* will choose* strangling— death more than my _⌊existence_⌋.* ¹⁶ I loathe my life; I would not live forever; depart from me, for my days are a breath.

²⁸ He redeemed my life from going down into the pit, so* _⌊I will enjoy the light_⌋.'*

³⁰ to bring his life back from the pit _⌊so that he may enjoy the light of life_⌋.*

⁶ Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to those _⌊in bitter distress_⌋.*

¹⁸ _⌊Why_⌋* did I come out from the womb, to see toil, and sorrow, and to _⌊end my days in shame_⌋?*

¹⁵ If this is how you are going to treat me, please kill me immediately if I find favor in your eyes, and do not let me see my misery."

⁴ Then he went into the wilderness one day's journey, and he went and sat under a certain broom tree. Then _⌊he asked Yahweh that he might die_⌋,* and he said, "It is enough now, Yahweh; take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors."*

⁴ if you seek her like silver and search her out _⌊like treasure_⌋,*

³ And so then, Yahweh, please take my life from me, because for me death is better than life!"

⁸ _⌊And when the sun rose_⌋,* God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah's head and he grew faint. _⌊And he asked that he could die_⌋* and said, "My death is better than my life!"

⁶ And in those days people will seek death and will never find it, and they will long to die, and death will flee from them.

¹⁴ If he tears down, then* it will not be rebuilt; if he shuts a man in, then* he cannot be freed.

⁶ know then that God has wronged me and has surrounded me with his net.

⁸ He has walled up my way so that* I cannot pass; and he has set darkness upon my paths.

¹² His troops have come together and have thrown up their rampart* against me and have encamped around my tent.

⁸ And you have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a broad place.

⁸ You have removed my acquaintances far from me. You have made me detestable* to them. I am confined and cannot go out.

²⁷ _⌊Why_⌋* do you say, Jacob, and you speak, Israel, "My way is hidden from Yahweh, and my judgment is passed over by my God?"

⁷ He has built a wall around me, I cannot go out; he has made my bronze fetters heavy.

⁹ He has blocked my ways with dressed stones; he has made my paths crooked.

⁶ Therefore, Look! I am going to hedge her path* _⌊with thorns_⌋,* and I will build a stone wall, a stone wall against her, and she will not find her paths.

⁷ _⌊I refused_⌋* to touch them; they are like _⌊food that will make me ill_⌋.*

¹⁹ _⌊How long_⌋* will you not turn away from me? Or not leave me alone until I swallow* my spit?

²⁰ _⌊so that_⌋* his life loathes bread, and his inner self* loathes _⌊appetizing food_⌋.*

¹ For the music director; according to The Doe of the Dawn. A psalm of David.*
My God, my God why have you forsaken me? Why are you far from helping me, far from the words of my groaning? ² O my God, I call by day and you do not answer, and by night but I have no rest.*

³ When I kept silent, my bones were worn out due to my groaning all the day.

⁸ I am faint and crushed greatly; I groan because of the roaring of my heart.

³ My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?" ⁴ These I remember and I pour out my soul within me: that I would go with the multitude; I led them in procession to the house* of God, with a voice of rejoicing and thanksgiving, a crowd celebrating a festival.

⁵ You have fed them the bread of tears; you have given them tears to drink in full measure.*

⁹ Indeed, I eat ashes like bread and mix my drink with tears*

¹¹ We all groan like bears, and we coo mutteringly like doves. We wait for justice, but* there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

⁸ Though I cry out for help, he shuts out my prayers.

⁵ _⌊Then when_⌋* the days of the feast had run their course, _⌊Job would send_⌋,* and he would sanctify them. Thus* he would arise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of all of them, because Job thought,* "Perhaps my children have sinned and _⌊cursed_⌋* God in their heart." This is what Job used to do _⌊all the time_⌋.*

¹⁵ Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my hope of deliverance passed by like a cloud.

²³ Indeed, the disaster from God was a dread for me, and _⌊I was powerless_⌋* because of his majesty.

¹⁴ then* you terrify me with dreams,* and with visions you terrify* me.

⁹ Will God hear his cry of distress when distress comes upon him?

¹¹ For your name's sake, O Yahweh, preserve my life; in your righteousness bring me* out of trouble.