Job 40 Cross References - LEB

¹ Then* Yahweh answered Job and said, ² "Shall a faultfinder contend with Shaddai? Anyone who argues with God must answer it." ³ So Job answered Yahweh and said, ⁴ "Look, I am insignificant. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. ⁵ Once I have spoken, and I will not answer; even* twice, but* I will not proceed." ⁶ Then* Yahweh answered Job from the storm, and he said, ⁷ "_⌊Prepare yourself for a difficult task like a man_⌋,* and I will question you, and you shall declare to me. ⁸ "Indeed, would you annul my justice? Would you condemn me, so that you might be righteous? ⁹ Or do you have an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his? ¹⁰ Adorn* yourself with pride and dignity, and clothe yourself with splendor. ¹¹ Pour out the overflowing of your anger, and look at all the proud, and humble them. ¹² Look at all the proud, humble them, and tread down the wicked _⌊where they stand_⌋.* ¹³ Hide them in the dust together; bind their faces in the grave. ¹⁴ And I will also praise you, that your own right hand can save you. ¹⁵ "Look, Behemoth,* which I have made just as I made you; it eats grass like the ox. ¹⁶ Look, its strength is in its loins and its power in the muscles of its stomach. ¹⁷ It keeps its tail straight like a cedar; the sinews of its thighs are tightly wound. ¹⁸ Its bones are tubes of copper, its limbs like rods of iron. ¹⁹ "It is the first of God's actions; the one who made him furnishes it with his sword.* ²⁰ Yes, the mountains yield produce for it, and all _⌊wild animals_⌋* play there. ²¹ Under the lotus tree it lies, in the hiding place of the reeds and in the marsh. ²² The lotus trees cover it with their shade; the wadi's* poplar trees surround it. ²³ Look, if the river is turbulent, it is not frightened; it is confident even though the Jordan rushes against its mouth. ²⁴ Can anyone take it by its eyes? Can he pierce its nose with a snare?

¹ Then* Yahweh answered Job from the storm, and he said,

⁶ Then* Yahweh answered Job from the storm, and he said,

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?

²⁰ "Why does he* give light to one in misery and life to those bitter of soul,

²³ Why does he* give light to a man whose way is hidden, and God has fenced him in all around?

¹² Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?

¹⁹ _⌊How long_⌋* will you not turn away from me? Or not leave me alone until I swallow* my spit? ²⁰ If I have sinned, what have I done to you, watcher of humanity? Why have you made me as a target for yourself, so that* I have become a burden to myself?* 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_⌋."*

³ If he wants to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.

¹⁷ who crushes me with a tempest and multiplies* my wounds without cause. ¹⁸ He will not allow me to _⌊catch_⌋* my breath; rather, he will fill me with bitterness.

³² "For* he is not a mortal like me that I can answer him, that _⌊we can come to trial together_⌋.* ³³ There is no arbiter between us that he might lay his hand on both of us. ³⁴ May he remove his rod from me, and let his dread not terrify me; ³⁵ then I would speak and not fear him,* for _⌊in myself I am not fearful_⌋.*

³ Is it good for you that you oppress, that you despise the labor of your hands, and you smile over the schemes of the wicked? ⁴ _⌊Do you have eyes of flesh_⌋?* Or _⌊do you see as human beings see_⌋?* ⁵ Are your days as the days of human beings, or your years as the days of man, ⁶ that you seek out my iniquity, and you search for my sin ⁷ because of your knowledge that I am not guilty, and there is no escaping from your hand?

¹⁴ If I had sinned, then* you would be watching me, and you would not acquit me of my guilt. ¹⁵ If I am guilty, woe to me! But* if I am righteous, I dare not lift my head; I am filled with shame, and just look at my misery! ¹⁶ And if my head grows bold, you would hunt me as the lion in its prime; _⌊and you repeat your exploits against me_⌋.* ¹⁷ You renew your witnesses against me, and you increase your vexation against me; _⌊relief forces_⌋* are against me.

²¹ withdraw your* hand from me, and let not your* dread terrify me. ²² Then* call, and I myself* will answer; or let me speak, then* reply to me. ²³ "_⌊How many_⌋* are my iniquities and sins? Make known to me my transgression and my sin. ²⁴ Why do you* hide your* face and count me as your* enemy? ²⁵ Will you* terrify a blown leaf? And will you* pursue dry stubble? ²⁶ "Indeed, you* write bitter things against me, and you* make me reap the iniquities of my childhood. ²⁷ And you* put my feet in the block, and you* watch all my paths; you carve a mark on the soles of my feet.*

¹⁶ For then* you would count my steps, but you would not keep watch over my sin. ¹⁷ My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and you would cover over my guilt.

¹¹ God delivers me to an evil one, and he casts me into the hands of the wicked. ¹² "I was at ease, then* he broke me in two, and he seized me by my neck; then* he shattered me and set me up as a target for him. ¹³ His archers surround me; he slashes open my kidneys, and he does not have compassion; he pours out my gall on the ground. ¹⁴ He breached me _⌊breach upon breach_⌋;* he rushes at me like a warrior. ¹⁵ "I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and I have inserted _⌊my pride_⌋* in the dust. ¹⁶ My face is red because of weeping, and deep shadows are on my eyelids, ¹⁷ _⌊although_⌋* violence is not on my hands, and my prayer is pure. ¹⁸ "O earth, you should not cover my blood, and let there be no place* for my cry for help. ¹⁹ So now look, my witness is in the heavens, and he who vouches for me is in the heights. ²⁰ My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God, ²¹ and it argues* for a mortal with God, and as _⌊a human_⌋* for his friend.

⁶ know then that God has wronged me and has surrounded me with his net. ⁷ "Look, I cry out, 'Violence!' but* I am not answered; I cry out, but* there is no justice. ⁸ He has walled up my way so that* I cannot pass; and he has set darkness upon my paths. ⁹ He has taken my glory from me, and he has removed the crown of* my head. ¹⁰ He has broken me down all around, and I am gone. And he has uprooted my hope like a tree, ¹¹ and he has kindled his wrath against me, and _⌊he has counted me as one of his foes_⌋.*

² "_⌊As God lives_⌋,* he has removed my justice, and Shaddai has made my inner self* bitter.

²¹ You have turned cruel to me; you persecute me with your hand's might.

¹³ Why do you contend against him, that he will not answer all a person's words?

¹⁰ Whatever is—it was already determined, _⌊what will be—it has already been decided_⌋.* As for man, he cannot argue against what is more powerful than him.

¹⁴ With whom has he consulted, that* he enlightened him* and taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and made the way of understanding known to him?

⁹ Woe to the one who strives with his _⌊maker_⌋,* a potsherd among* potsherds of earth! Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, 'What are you making?' and 'Your work has no hands'? ¹⁰ Woe to the one who says to a father, 'What you are begetting?' or* to a woman, 'With what are you in labor?'" ¹¹ Thus says Yahweh, the holy one of Israel, and its _⌊maker_⌋:* "Ask me of the things to come _⌊about_⌋* my children, and you command me about the work of my hands.

⁸ he who obtains rights for me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand together. Who is the master of my judgment? Let him approach me.

² "_⌊What do you mean by_⌋* quoting this proverb about the land of Israel, _⌊saying_⌋,* 'The fathers, they ate unripe fruit, and the teeth of the child became blunt.'*

¹¹ And when they* received it,* they began to complain* against the master of the house,

¹⁹ Therefore you will say to me, "Why then does he still find fault? For who has resisted* his will? ²⁰ On the contrary, O man, who are you who answers back to God? Will what is molded say to the one who molded it, "Why did you make me like this"?* ²¹ Or does the potter not have authority over the clay, to make from the same lump a vessel that is for _⌊honorable use_⌋* and one that is for _⌊ordinary use_⌋*? ²² And what if God, wanting to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? ²³ And he did so* in order that he could make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy that he prepared beforehand for glory,

³⁴ "For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?* ³⁵ Or who has given in advance to him, and it will be paid back to him?"* ³⁶ For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory for eternity! Amen.

¹⁶ "For who has known the mind of the Lord; who has advised him?"* But we have the mind of Christ.

²² Or are we attempting to provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than he is, are we?*

²⁷ Then Abraham answered and said, "Look, please, I was bold to speak to my Lord, but I am dust and ashes.

¹⁰ _⌊I am not worthy_⌋* of all the loyal love and all the faithfulness that you have shown* your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.

¹⁹ And they said to him, "Keep quiet! Put your hand on your mouth and come with us and be for us a father and a priest. Is it better being a priest for a house of one man or being a priest for a tribe and clan in Israel?"

¹⁰ The heart of David struck him after he had counted the people, and David said to Yahweh, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done! So then, O Yahweh, please forgive the guilt of your servant because I have acted very foolishly."

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."*

⁶ and said, "My God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God. For our sins have risen above our heads and our guilt has grown up to the heavens.

¹⁵ Yahweh, God of Israel, you are righteous, for we have been left this day as a remnant. Here we are before you in our guilt, for none can stand before you because of this."

³³ You are righteous in everything that has come on us, for you dealt faithfully, and we have acted wickedly.

³¹ then you plunge me into the slime pit, and my clothes abhor me.

²¹ and it argues* for a mortal with God, and as _⌊a human_⌋* for his friend.

⁵ Turn to me and be appalled, and place your hand on your mouth.

⁴ I would lay my case _⌊before him_⌋,* and I would fill my mouth with arguments. ⁵ I want to know the words with which he would answer me, and I want to understand what he would say to me. ⁶ Would he contend with me in the greatness of his strength? No, but he himself* would give heed to me. ⁷ There an upright person could reason with him, and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.

⁹ Officials refrained from talking, and they laid their hand on their mouth.

³⁷ I would give him an account of my steps; I would approach him like a noble.

⁶ Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes."

⁹ I am mute. I do not open my mouth, for you, yourself, have done it.

⁴ Against you, only you, I have sinned and have done this evil* in your eyes, so that you are correct when you speak, you are blameless when you judge. ⁵ Behold, in iniquity I was born, and in sin my mother conceived me.

³² If you have been foolish by exalting yourself, and if you have devised evil, put your hand to your mouth.

⁵ And I said, "Woe to me! For I am destroyed!* For I am a man _⌊of unclean lips_⌋,* and I am living among* a people _⌊of unclean lips_⌋,* for my eyes have seen the king, Yahweh of hosts!"

⁶ All of us have wandered about like sheep; we each have turned to his own way; and Yahweh let fall on him the iniquity of us all.

⁶ And we all have become like the unclean, and all our deeds of justice like a menstrual cloth, And we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities take us away like the wind.

⁵ we have sinned and we have done wrong and we acted wickedly and we rebelled and have been turning aside from your commandments and from your ordinances.

⁷ "_⌊Righteousness belongs to you, O Lord_⌋,* and on us is open shame, just as it is this day to the people of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to all Israel, _⌊those who are near and those who are far off_⌋* in all the lands to which you have driven them,* because of their infidelity which they displayed against you.

¹⁶ The nations will see and be ashamed because of all their might. They will lay the hand on the mouth; their ears will be deaf.

²⁰ But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him."

¹³ Be silent, _⌊all people_⌋,* before Yahweh, for he is roused from _⌊his holy dwelling_⌋."*

⁸ And when he* saw it,* Simon Peter fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, Lord, because I am _⌊a sinful man_⌋!"*

¹⁸ I will set out and* go to my father and will say to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and _⌊in your sight_⌋!* ¹⁹ I am no longer worthy to be called your son! Make me like one of your hired workers.'

¹³ But the tax collector, standing far away, did not want even to raise his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'

¹⁵ The saying is trustworthy and worthy of all acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.

¹⁰ So the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God said to him and warned him, so he was on guard there _⌊continually_⌋.*

¹⁵ whom I cannot answer, even though I am righteous? From* my judge I must implore grace.

¹⁴ Indeed, God speaks in one way, even* in two,* yet someone does not perceive it.

³¹ "Indeed, does anyone say to God, 'I have endured chastisement; I will not act corruptly again; ³² teach me yourself _⌊what I cannot see_⌋;* if I have done wrong, I will not repeat it'?

¹¹ Once God has spoken; twice I have heard this: that strength belongs to God.

¹⁸ Indeed I heard Ephraim pitying themselves, 'You disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like a calf that is not trained. Bring me back and let me return, for you are Yahweh my God. ¹⁹ For after my turning back I repented, and after coming to understand I struck my thigh. I was ashamed and also humiliated, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.'

¹⁹ Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those under the law, in order that every mouth may be closed and the whole world may become accountable to God.

³ Our God comes and he is not silent. Before him fire devours, and around him it is very tempestuous. ⁴ He summons the heavens above and the earth that he might judge his people:

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, ¹⁹ and to the noise of a trumpet, and to the sound of words which those who heard begged that not another word be spoken to them. ²⁰ For they could not endure what was commanded: "If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned."*

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will disappear with a rushing noise, and the celestial bodies will be destroyed by* being burned up, and the earth and the deeds done on it will be disclosed. ¹¹ Because* all these things are being destroyed in this way, what sort of people must you be in holy behavior and godliness, ¹² while* waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed by* being burned up and the celestial bodies will melt as they* are consumed by heat!

²² Then* call, and I myself* will answer; or let me speak, then* reply to me.

³ _⌊O that_⌋* I knew and that I might find him; O that I might come to his dwelling. ⁴ I would lay my case _⌊before him_⌋,* and I would fill my mouth with arguments.

³ _⌊Prepare yourself for a difficult task like a man_⌋,* and I will question you, and you shall declare to me.

⁴ 'Hear and I will speak; I will question you, then* inform me.'

³ Is it good for you that you oppress, that you despise the labor of your hands, and you smile over the schemes of the wicked?

² "_⌊As God lives_⌋,* he has removed my justice, and Shaddai has made my inner self* bitter. ³ For _⌊as long as_⌋* my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nose, ⁴ my lips surely will not speak falseness, and my tongue surely will not utter deceit. ⁵ Far be it from me that _⌊I would say that you* are right_⌋;* until I pass away, I will not put away from me my blamelessness. ⁶ I hold fast to my righteousness, and I will not let it go; my heart will not blame any of my days.

² So Elihu the son of Barakel the Buzite, from the clan of Ram, _⌊became angry_⌋.* _⌊He became angry_⌋* at Job because he justified himself rather than God,

⁵ for Job has said, 'I am righteous, but God has taken away my justice. ⁶ Should I lie concerning my justice? Though I am without transgression, my wound caused by an arrow is incurable.'

² "Do you think this is justice when you say, '_⌊I am right_⌋* before God'? ³ If you ask what it profits you: 'How do I benefit _⌊by refraining from my sin_⌋?'*

⁴ Against you, only you, I have sinned and have done this evil* in your eyes, so that you are correct when you speak, you are blameless when you judge.

²⁷ For Yahweh of hosts has planned, and who will frustrate it? And his hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?

¹⁸ And your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; you will become a trampling place for the overwhelming flood when it passes through.

⁴ May it never be! But let God be true but every human being a liar, just as it is written,
"In order that you may be justified in your words, and may prevail when you are* judged."*

¹⁵ Brothers, I am speaking according to a human perspective. Nevertheless, when* the covenant of a man has been ratified, no one declares it invalid or adds additional provisions to it.

¹⁷ Now I am saying this: the law, that came after four hundred and thirty years, does not revoke a covenant previously ratified by God, in order to nullify the promise.

¹⁸ For on the one hand a preceding commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness

⁶ Yahweh, your right hand is glorious in power; Yahweh, your right hand destroyed the enemy.

⁴ He is wise in* heart and mighty in* strength; who has resisted him and succeeded?*

⁶ Would he contend with me in the greatness of his strength? No, but he himself* would give heed to me.

¹² "Look, in this you are not right—I will answer you: Indeed, God is greater than a human being. ¹³ Why do you contend against him, that he will not answer all a person's words?

⁴ After it, his voice roars; it thunders _⌊with his majestic voice_⌋,* and he does not restrain it when his voice is heard. ⁵ "God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways; he does great things, and we cannot comprehend.

³ The voice of Yahweh is over the waters; the God of glory thunders. Yahweh is over many waters.

³ My heart grew hot inside me; in my sighing a fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue, ⁴ "Let me know, O Yahweh, my end, and what is the measure of my days. Let me know how transient I am." ⁵ Look, you have made my days mere handbreadths, and my lifespan as nothing next to you. Surely every person standing firm is complete vanity. Selah ⁶ Surely a man walks about as a mere _⌊shadow_⌋;* surely in vain they bustle about. He heaps up possessions but does not know who will gather them in. ⁷ And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is for you. ⁸ From all my transgressions deliver me; do not make me the taunt of the fool. ⁹ I am mute. I do not open my mouth, for you, yourself, have done it.

¹⁰ _⌊You yourself crushed_⌋* Rahab like one who is slain; you scattered your enemies with your strong arm.

¹³ You have a mighty arm; Your hand is strong; your right hand reaches high.

⁹ Woe to the one who strives with his _⌊maker_⌋,* a potsherd among* potsherds of earth! Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, 'What are you making?' and 'Your work has no hands'?

² And you will make holy garments* for Aaron, your brother, for glory and for splendor.*

¹¹ To you, O Yahweh, is the greatness and the power and the splendor and the glory and the strength, for everything in the heavens and in the earth. Yours, O Yahweh, is the kingdom and exaltation over all as head!

¹⁹ "Do you give power to the horse? Do you clothe its neck with a mane?

⁵ His honor is great because of your help.* Splendor and majesty you have bestowed upon him.

³ Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one, in your splendor and your majesty. ⁴ And in your majesty _⌊ride victoriously_⌋,* because of truth and humility and righteousness. And let your right hand teach you awesome deeds.

² From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.

¹⁶ Let your work be visible to your servants, and your majesty to their children. ¹⁷ And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish for us the work of our hands, yes, the work of our hands, establish it.

¹ Yahweh is king; he clothes himself with majesty. Yahweh clothes himself; he girds himself with might. Yes, the world is established so that it will not be moved.

¹ Bless Yahweh, O my soul. O Yahweh my God, you are very great. You clothe yourself with splendor and majesty, ² you who cover yourself with light as with a garment, who stretch out the heavens like a tent curtain,

⁴ For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people; he glorifies the afflicted with salvation.

² On that day the branch of Yahweh shall become beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall become the pride and glory of the survivors* of Israel.

¹⁷ And he put on righteousness like a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head, and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and he wrapped himself in zeal as in a robe.

¹³ And do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.*

⁵⁴ But whenever this perishable body puts on incorruptibility and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will take place:
"Death is swallowed up in victory.

¹⁶ For we did not make known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ by* following ingeniously concocted myths, but by* being eyewitnesses of that one's majesty. ¹⁷ For he received honor and glory from God the Father when* a voice such as this was brought to him by the Majestic Glory, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."

²⁴ Now to the one who is able to protect you from stumbling and make you to stand before his glory blameless* with exultation, ²⁵ to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority before all time and now and for all eternity. Amen.

¹⁶ But for the sake of this I have caused you to stand—for the sake of showing you my strength and in order to proclaim my name in all the earth. ¹⁷ Still you are behaving haughtily to my people by not releasing them.

¹¹ Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all the gods, _⌊even in the matter where they the Egyptians dealt arrogantly against the Israelites_⌋."*

²² For a fire was kindled* by my anger, and it burned _⌊up to the depths of Sheol_⌋,* and it devoured the earth and its produce, and it set afire the foundation of the mountains.

²³ _⌊When his stomach fills up_⌋,* God will send _⌊his burning anger_⌋* upon him, and he will let it rain down upon him* as his food.

²² And it hurls at him, and it has no compassion; he will quickly flee from its power.

⁴⁹ He sent against them his fierce anger, rage and indignation and trouble, a band of _⌊destroying_⌋* angels. ⁵⁰ He cleared a path for his anger. He did not spare them* from death but handed their life over to the plague.

⁶ Flash forth lightning and scatter them; dispatch your arrows and rout them.

¹¹ The _⌊haughty eyes_⌋* of humanity will* be brought low, and the pride of everyone will be humbled, and Yahweh alone will be exalted on that day. ¹² For there is a day for Yahweh of hosts against all of the proud and the lofty and against all that is lifted up and humble,*

¹⁷ And the haughtiness of the people shall be humbled, and the pride of everyone shall be brought low, and Yahweh alone will be exalted on that day.

¹² And this shall happen: when the Lord has finished all his work against _⌊Mount Zion_⌋* and Jerusalem, "I will punish the _⌊arrogance_⌋* of the king of Assyria and _⌊his haughtiness_⌋."* ¹³ For he says,
"I have done it by the strength of my hand and by my wisdom, for I have understanding, and I have removed the boundaries of peoples, and I have plundered their stores, and like a bull I have brought down _⌊the inhabitants_⌋.* ¹⁴ And my hand has found, like a nest, the wealth of the peoples, and like the gathering of forsaken eggs, I myself have gathered all the earth. And there was no fluttering wing or open mouth or chirp." ¹⁵ Does the ax boast against the one who cuts with it, or the saw magnify itself against the one who moves it to and fro? _⌊As if a rod should move the one who lifts it_⌋!* _⌊As if a staff should lift up that which is not wood_⌋!* ¹⁶ Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, will send leanness among his sturdy warriors, and a burning like the burning of fire will burn under his glory. ¹⁷ And the light of Israel will become like a fire, and his holy one like a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorns* and briers* in one day. ¹⁸ And he will destroy the glory of his forest and orchard _⌊completely_⌋,* and it will be like the wasting away of one who is sick. ¹⁹ And the rest of the trees* of his forest will be a small number, and a boy can write them down.

²⁵ So* he poured the wrath of his anger upon him and the strength of war. And it set him afire all around, but* he did not understand;* and it burned him, but* he did not take it to heart.

² "Son of man,* say to the leader of Tyre, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
"Because your heart was haughty, and you said, 'I am a god; I sit in the seat of the gods, I sit in the heart of the seas!' But* you are a human, not a god, and you gave your heart to be like the heart of a god.

³⁷ Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and honor the king of heaven, for all his works are truth,* and his ways are justice and that he is able to humble those who walk in pride."

²⁰ But _⌊when_⌋* his heart became arrogant and his spirit became hard so as to act proudly, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom and the* glory _⌊was taken away from him_⌋.* ²¹ And he was driven away _⌊from human society_⌋* and his mind was made like the animals* and his dwelling was with the wild asses; and _⌊he was given_⌋* grass like oxen to eat, and with* the dew of heaven his body was bathed, until he acknowledged that the Most High God is sovereign over the kingdom of humankind, and _⌊whoever_⌋* he wants he sets over it. ²² "But you his _⌊successor_⌋,* Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart _⌊even though_⌋* you knew all this. ²³ And now you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven, and the vessels of his temple you have brought in before you, and you and your lords,* your wives and your concubines, have been drinking wine from* them, and you have praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone* that do not see and do not hear and do not know, but the God _⌊who holds your life in his hand_⌋* and all of your ways _⌊come from him_⌋,* you have not honored.

³ The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of a rock, the heights of its dwelling, you who say in your heart: 'Who can bring me down to the ground?' ⁴ Even if you soar like the eagle, even if your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down!" _⌊declares_⌋* Yahweh:

⁶ His indignation—who can stand before it? Who can endure _⌊his fierce anger_⌋?* His wrath is poured out like fire; rocks are shattered before* him.

¹ * "For look! The day is about to come, burning like an oven, and all the arrogant and every _⌊evildoer_⌋* will be stubble. The coming day will consume* them," says Yahweh of hosts. "It will not leave behind for them root or branch.

¹⁴ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than that one! For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."

²² But the people began to call out loudly,* "The voice of a god and not of a man!" ²³ And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down _⌊because_⌋* he did not give the glory to God. And he was eaten by worms and* died.

⁸ but to those who act from selfish ambition and who disobey the truth, but who obey unrighteousness, wrath and anger. ⁹ There will be affliction and distress for every _⌊human being_⌋* who does evil, of the Jew first and of the Greek,

⁶ But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says,
"God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."*

⁵ In the same way, younger men, be subject to the elders, and all of you clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble. ⁶ Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you at the right time,

⁷ Yahweh makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and also exalts.

²⁰ You must not long for the night, to cut off people _⌊in their place_⌋.*

¹² Through God we will do _⌊valiantly_⌋,* and it is he who will tread down our enemies.

²⁵ The house of the proud, Yahweh will tear it down, but he will maintain the _⌊property line_⌋* of the widow.

³ When the clouds are full, they empty rain on the earth. Whether a tree falls to the south or whether it falls to the north, the place where the tree falls—there it will be.

⁶ I send him against a godless nation, and I command him against the people of my wrath, to capture spoil and to carry off plunder, and to make them* a trampling place, like the clay of the streets.

¹¹ And I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. And I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant, and I will bring the haughtiness of tyrants low.

³ "I have trodden the winepress alone, and there was no man from the peoples with me. And I trod them in my anger, and I trampled them in my wrath, and spattered their juice on my garments, and stained all my clothing,

⁵ And they will be like warriors, trampling in the mud of the streets in the battle. They will fight, because Yahweh is with them, and they will put to shame the riders on horses.

³ You will trample down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day that I am going to act," says Yahweh of hosts.

²⁵ to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to depart to his own place."

²⁰ And in a short time the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ* be with you.

⁸ And the king returned from the palace garden to the _⌊banquet hall_⌋,* where Haman was lying prostrate on the couch that Esther was on, and the king said, "Will he also molest the queen with me in the house?" As the words* went from the king's mouth they covered Haman's face.

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.

¹³ And the godless of heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them.

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.

¹⁰ Enter into the rock and hide yourself in the dust from the presence of the terror of Yahweh and from the glory of his majesty.

⁴⁴ The one who had died came out, his* feet and his* hands bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped with a facecloth. Jesus said to them, "Untie him and let him go."

³ For not with their sword did they possess the land, and their arm did not give them victory. Rather it was your right hand and your arm and the light of your presence, because you delighted in them.

⁶ For I do not trust my bow, and my sword cannot give me victory.

²⁹ He gives power to the weary, and he increases power for _⌊the powerless_⌋.*

⁶ For while* we were still helpless, yet at the proper time Christ died for the ungodly.

⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, ⁵ and we being dead in trespasses, he made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved), ⁶ and raised us together and seated us together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, ⁷ in order that he might show in the coming ages the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God; ⁹ it is not from works, so that no one can boast.

²⁴ And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kind: cattle and moving things, and wild animals* according to their kind." And it was so. ²⁵ So* God made wild animals* according to their kind and the cattle according to their kind, and every creeping thing of the earth according to its* kind. And God saw that it was good. ²⁶ And God said, "Let us make humankind in* our image and according to* our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of heaven,* and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every moving thing that moves upon the earth."

⁸ It explores the mountains as its pasture and searches after every kind of green plant.

²⁰ Yes, the mountains yield produce for it, and all _⌊wild animals_⌋* play there.

¹⁴ who causes grass to grow for the cattle and herbs for the service of humankind, to bring forth food from the earth,

²³ Its flesh's folds of skin cling together; it is cast on it—it will not be moved.

⁴ because _⌊I know_⌋* that you are obstinate, and your neck an iron sinew, and your forehead bronze.

¹³ By his breath _⌊the heavens were made clear_⌋;* his hand pierced the fleeing snake.

³³ "_⌊On the ground it has no equal_⌋*— a* creature without fear.

¹² If he* does not repent, he* will sharpen his sword. He has bent his bow and he has _⌊strung_⌋* it.

²⁴ How many are your works, O Yahweh; all of them you have done in wisdom. The earth is full of your creatures.

¹ On that day, Yahweh will punish with his cruel, great and strong sword Leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and Leviathan, the twisting serpent, and he will kill the sea monster that is in the sea.

¹⁵ "Look, Behemoth,* which I have made just as I made you; it eats grass like the ox.

²⁶ There the ships sail. Leviathan is there that you formed to play with.*

⁸ who covers the heavens with clouds, who provides rain for the earth, who causes grass to grow on the mountains. ⁹ He gives to the animal its food, and to the young ravens that cry.

⁶ And the rivers will become foul-smelling; the branches of the Nile of Egypt will become little and dry up; reed and rush will wither. ⁷ Bare places by the Nile will be dried up, by the edge of the Nile and all the sown land of the Nile; it will be driven about, and _⌊it will be no more_⌋.*

⁷ And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. Her resting place is in a settlement of jackals; the grass shall become like reeds* and rushes.*

⁴⁰ And on the first day you shall take for yourselves the first fruit of majestic trees, branches of palm trees and branches* of a leafy tree and of a brook's poplar trees, and you shall rejoice _⌊before_⌋* Yahweh your God for seven days.

⁷ Therefore they carry the abundance it has made and their store of goods over the river of the poplars.

⁵ and he took from the seed of the land and placed it in _⌊fertile soil_⌋* on* many waters; like a willow he planted it.

¹⁰ And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw the whole plain of the Jordan, that all of it was well-watered land—this was before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt _⌊in the direction of_⌋* Zoar.

¹⁵ When those carrying the ark came up to the Jordan, and the priests carrying the ark dipped their feet in the edge of the water (the Jordan was flowing over its banks during all the days of harvest),

⁸ I would hurry to my refuge from the raging wind and storm."

¹⁶ Therefore the Lord Yahweh says this:
"Look! I am laying a stone in Zion, a _⌊tested_⌋* stone, a precious cornerstone, a founded foundation:
'The one who trusts will not _⌊panic_⌋.'*

²⁵ I myself dug and drank waters, and I caused all the streams of Egypt to dry up by the sole of my feet."

¹ * "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or* _⌊can you tie down its mouth with a cord_⌋?* ² Can you put a rope in its nose? Or* can you pierce its jawbone with a hook?