Job 7 Cross References - LEB

¹ "Does not _⌊a human being* have hard service_⌋* on earth? And are not his* days like the days of a laborer? ² Like a slave he longs for the shadow, and like a laborer he waits for his wages. ³ So _⌊I had to inherit_⌋* months of worthlessness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me. ⁴ When I lie down, I say,* 'When shall I rise?' But* the night is long, and I have my fill of tossing until dawn. ⁵ My body is clothed with maggots and clods of dust; my skin hardens, then* it gives way again. ⁶ "My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end _⌊without hope_⌋.* ⁷ Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will not return to see good. 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. ¹¹ "Even* I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in my spirit's anguish; I will complain in my inner self's* bitterness. ¹² Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me? ¹³ When I say, 'My bed will comfort me, and my couch* will ease my complaint,' ¹⁴ then* you terrify me with dreams,* and with visions you terrify* 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. ¹⁷ "What is a human being that you make him great and that _⌊you fix your mind on him_⌋,* ¹⁸ so that* you visit him _⌊every morning_⌋,* you test him _⌊every moment_⌋?* 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_⌋."*

⁵⁰ And he shall calculate with his buyer from the year of _⌊his selling himself_⌋* until the Jubilee; and the value of his selling shall be according to the number of years—it shall be with him like* a hired worker's days.

¹⁸ It shall not be hard in your eyes _⌊when you send him forth free_⌋,* because for six years he has served you worth twice the wage of a hired worker; and Yahweh your God will bless you _⌊in whatever you will do_⌋.*

⁷ But a human being is born to trouble, and _⌊they soar aloft_⌋* like _⌊sparks_⌋.*

⁵ If his days are determined, the number of his months is with you; you have appointed his boundaries, and he cannot cross them. ⁶ Look away from him, and let him desist until he enjoys his days like a laborer.

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. ¹⁴ If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my compulsory service I will wait, until the coming of my relief.

⁴ "Let me know, O Yahweh, my end, and what is the measure of my days. Let me know how transient I am."

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.

¹⁶ For the Lord said this to me:
"_⌊In one more year_⌋,* like the years of a hired worker,
all the glory of Kedar will come to an end.

⁵ "Go and say to Hezekiah, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your ancestor:* "I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. _⌊Look, I am going to_⌋* add fifteen years to your days.

² "Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her,
that her compulsory labor is fulfilled, that her sin is paid for, that she has _⌊received_⌋* from the hand of Yahweh double for all her sins."

¹ "For the kingdom of heaven is like a man—the master of the house—who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. ² And after* coming to an agreement with the workers for a denarius per day, he sent them into his vineyard. ³ And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace. ⁴ And to those people he said, 'You also go into the vineyard, and I will give you whatever is right.' ⁵ So they went. Going out* again about the sixth and ninth hour he did the same thing. ⁶ And about the eleventh hour he went out and* found others standing there and said to them, 'Why are you standing here the whole day unemployed?' ⁷ They said to him, 'Because no one hired us.' He said to them, 'You go also into the vineyard.' ⁸ And when* evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the workers and pay them their* wages, beginning from the last up to the first.' ⁹ And when the ones hired about the eleventh hour came, they received a denarius apiece. ¹⁰ And when* the first came, they thought that they would receive more, and they also received a denarius apiece. ¹¹ And when they* received it,* they began to complain* against the master of the house, ¹² saying, 'These last people worked one hour and you made them equal to us who have endured the burden of the day and the burning heat!' ¹³ But he answered one of them and* said, 'Friend, I am not doing you wrong. Did you not come to an agreement with me for a denarius? ¹⁴ Take what is yours and go! But I want to give to this last person the same as I gave* to you also. ¹⁵ Is it not* permitted for me to do whatever I want with what is mine? Or is your eye evil because I am generous?'

⁹ Jesus replied, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks around in the daylight, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. ¹⁰ But if anyone walks around in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

¹³ " 'You* shall not exploit your* neighbor, and you* shall not rob him; a hired worker's wage you* shall not _⌊withhold_⌋* overnight until morning.

¹⁵ On his day you shall give his wage, and the sun shall not go _⌊down_⌋,* because he is poor and _⌊his life depends on it_⌋;* do this so that he does not cry out against you to Yahweh, _⌊and you incur guilt_⌋.*

¹³¹ I open my mouth and pant, because I long for your commands.

⁶ I stretch out my hands to you; my soul longs for you like a dry land. Selah

⁴ _⌊Sanctify_⌋* war against her. Arise, and let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the day turns, for the shadows of evening are lengthened.

⁵ "Then I will approach you for judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers, and against those who swear _⌊falsely_⌋,* and against the oppressors of the hired worker with his wages, the widow and the orphan, and _⌊the abusers of_⌋* the alien,* and yet do not fear me," says Yahweh of hosts.

⁴ Behold, the wages that were held back by you from the workers who reap your fields cry out, and the cries of the reapers have come to the ears of the Lord of hosts.

⁷ "Surely now he has worn me out; you* have devastated all my company.

² "_⌊O that I were_⌋* as in the months before, as in the days when God watched over me,

⁶ I am weary with my groaning; _⌊I flood_⌋* my bed every night. With my tears _⌊I drench_⌋* my couch.

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

¹⁴ I saw all the works that are done under the sun. Look! Everything is vanity and chasing wind.

⁶⁷ In the morning you shall say, '_⌊If only it was evening_⌋!'* and in the evening you shall say '_⌊If only it was morning_⌋!'* because of the dread of your heart that you shall feel, and because of the sight of your eyes that you shall see.

¹³ When I say, 'My bed will comfort me, and my couch* will ease my complaint,' ¹⁴ then* you terrify me with dreams,* and with visions you terrify* me.

¹² They make night into day, saying, 'Light is _⌊near to darkness_⌋.'*

¹⁷ _⌊At night I am in great pain_⌋;* my pains do not take a rest.

⁴ You hold open my eyelids. I am troubled and cannot speak.

²³ Like a lengthening shadow I am passing away; I am shaken off like a locust.

⁶ My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning. Yes, more than watchmen for the morning.

¹¹ "O afflicted one, driven away, who is not consoled. Look! I am about to set your stones in hard mortar, and I will lay your foundation with sapphires.

⁷ So* Satan* went out from _⌊Yahweh's presence_⌋,* and he inflicted Job with loathsome skin sores from the sole of his foot up to the crown of his head. ⁸ _⌊So_⌋* he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and he sat in the midst of the ashes.

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

¹⁴ if I call to the pit, 'You are my father,' to the maggot, 'You are my mother or* my sister,'

²⁶ And after my skin has been thus destroyed, but* from* my flesh I will see God,

²⁰ The womb forgets him. The maggot feasts on him until he is no longer remembered, and wickedness is broken like a* tree.

¹⁸ He seizes my clothing with _⌊great power_⌋;* he grasps me by my tunic's collar. ¹⁹ He has cast me into the dirt, and I have become like dust* and ashes.

⁵ My wounds start to stink; they rot because of my foolishness. ⁶ I am bowed down; I am bent over greatly. All the day I go about mourning. ⁷ For my loins are full of burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.

⁶ From the sole of the foot and up to the head there is no health in it; bruise and sore and bleeding wound have not been cleansed, and they have not been bound up and not softened with the oil.

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.*

²⁴ "And they shall go out and look at the corpses of the people* _⌊who have rebelled_⌋* against me,
for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh."

⁴³ And you will remember there your ways, and all of your deeds _⌊by which you were made unclean_⌋,* and you will feel a loathing _⌊for yourself_⌋* for all of your evils that you have done.

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.

¹¹ What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that _⌊I should hold out_⌋?*

²⁵ "And my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they do not see good.

¹⁵ Look,* though he kill me, I will hope in* him; however, I will defend my ways _⌊before him_⌋.*

²² Indeed, after _⌊a few years_⌋* have come, then* I will go the way from which I will not return.

¹¹ "My days are past; my plans are broken down— even the desires of my heart.

¹⁵ where* then is my hope? And _⌊who will see my hope_⌋?*

⁵ You sweep them away like a flood. They fall asleep.* In the morning they are like grass that sprouts anew. ⁶ In the morning it blossoms and sprouts anew; by evening it withers and dries up.

¹¹ My days are like a lengthened shadow, and I wither like grass.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are like the grass. As the flower of the field, so he blossoms. ¹⁶ When the wind passes over it, it is no more, and its place knows it no longer.

⁴ Humankind is like a breath, his days like a passing shadow.

³² By his evildoing, the wicked will be overthrown, and the righteous will find refuge in his death.

¹² My dwelling place is pulled up and removed from me like the tent of my shepherd; I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He cuts me off from the thrum; from day to night you bring me to an end. ¹³ I lie down* until morning; like a lion, so he breaks all my bones; from day to night you bring me to an end.

⁶ A voice is saying, "Call!" And he said, "What shall I call?" All _⌊humankind_⌋* are grass, and all his loyalty is like the flowers of the field. ⁷ Grass withers; the flower withers when the breath of Yahweh blows on it. Surely the people are grass.

²⁵ Restrain your foot from being barefoot, and your throat from thirst. But you said, 'It is hopeless. No! For I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.'*

¹² that you were at that time apart from Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, not having hope, and without God in the world.

¹¹ For the sun rises with its burning heat and dries up the grass, and its flower falls off, and the beauty of its appearance is lost. So also the rich person in his pursuits* will wither away.

¹⁴ you who do not know _⌊what will happen tomorrow_⌋*, _⌊what your life will be like_⌋*. For you are a smoky vapor that appears for a short time and then disappears.

¹³ Therefore, _⌊when you have prepared your minds for action_⌋* by* being self-controlled, put your hope completely in the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

²⁴ For
"all flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass withers and the flower falls off,

³⁶ And Jacob their father said to them, "You have bereaved me—Joseph is no more and Simeon is no more, and Benjamin you would take! All of this is against me!

⁸ Please, remember the word that you have commanded to your servant Moses, saying, 'If you act unfaithfully I will scatter you all among the nations.

⁹ Please* remember that you made me like clay, but* you turn me into dust again?

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.'"

¹⁸ O Yahweh, remember this: the enemy taunts, and foolish people treat your name with contempt.

²² Rise up, O God, plead your cause; remember the reproaching of you by the foolish _⌊all day long_⌋.*

³⁹ for he remembered that they were flesh, a passing wind that does not return.

⁴⁷ Remember what my lifespan is. Remember for what vanity you have created all the children of humankind.

⁵⁰ Remember, O Lord the taunting of your servants, how I bear in my bosom the taunts of all the many peoples,

¹⁵ You who know, O Yahweh, remember me, and attend to me, and take revenge for me against my persecutors _⌊in your forbearance_⌋.* You must take me away. Know that I am carrying disgrace because of you.

¹⁸ If he destroys him from his place, then* it deceives him, saying, 'I have never seen you.'

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.*

³ Even on such a one you fix your eyes, and you bring me into judgment with you.

⁹ The eye that saw him _⌊will not see him again_⌋,* and his place will no longer behold him.

³⁶ Then he passed on* and behold, he was not. And I sought him, but he could not be found.

¹¹ When with rebukes you chastise a man for sin, you* _⌊consume_⌋* like a moth his delightful things. Surely everyone is a mere vapor.* Selah

⁸ You have put our iniquities before you, our hidden sins into the light of your countenance. ⁹ For all of our days dwindle away in your rage; we complete our years like a sigh.

²³ But now he is dead. Why should I be fasting? Am I able to return him again? I am going to him, but he cannot return to me."

¹⁴ For _⌊we must certainly die_⌋,* and we are as the waters spilled to the ground which cannot be gathered. God will not take a life but devises plans for a banished person not to be cast out from him.

²¹ Before I go—and I will not return— to the land of darkness and deep shadow,

⁸ _⌊It is higher than the heaven_⌋;* what can you do? It is deeper than Sheol; what can you know?

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.

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

¹¹ Also, he loads down thick clouds with moisture; his lightning scatters the clouds.

¹³ Look away from me that I may be cheerful, before I depart and I am no more.

¹¹ I said, "I shall not see Yah! Yah in the land of the living! I shall no more look at humankind among the inhabitants of the world.

²¹ The east wind lifts him up, and he is gone, and it sweeps him away from his place.

²³ It claps its hands over him, and it hisses at him from its place.

¹⁶ When the wind passes over it, it is no more, and its place knows it no longer.

²¹ Then each said to his brother, "Surely we are guilty on account of our brother when we saw the anguish of his soul when he pleaded for mercy to us and we would not listen. Therefore this trouble has come to us."

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." ²⁸ Then she said, "Did I ask for a son from my lord? Did I not say that you must not mislead me?"

²⁶ Do you intend to reprove my words* and consider the words of a desperate man as wind?

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.*

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!

¹³ "_⌊Let me have silence_⌋,* and I myself* will speak, and let come over me whatever may.

⁶ If I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I cease, how much will leave me?

³ Bear with me, and I myself* will speak; then* after my speaking you can mock. ⁴ As for me, is my complaint for human beings? And if so, why cannot I be impatient?

²⁵ Yet* another dies with a bitter inner self* and has not tasted prosperity.

³ My heart grew hot inside me; in my sighing a fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue,

⁹ I have brought good tidings of righteousness in the great congregation. Look, I have not shut my lips. O Yahweh, _⌊you surely know that_⌋.*

¹⁵ What can I say? For* he has spoken to me, and he himself has done it. I will walk slowly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁷ Look! Bitterness was bitter to me for peace. And you were the one who loved* my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

³⁷ And taking along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be distressed and troubled. ³⁸ Then he said to them, "My soul is deeply grieved, to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake with me."

⁴⁴ And being in anguish, he began praying* more fervently and his sweat became like drops of blood falling down to the ground.*

⁴ For out of great distress and anguish of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not so that you may be caused to be sad, but so that you may know the love that I have especially for you.

¹⁷ "What is a human being that you make him great and that _⌊you fix your mind on him_⌋,*

⁶ On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone, ⁷ when the morning stars were singing together and all the sons of God* shouted for joy? ⁸ "Or who shut the sea in with doors at its bursting, when it went out of the womb, ⁹ at my making the clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band, ¹⁰ and I prescribed my rule for it, and I set bars and doors, ¹¹ and I said, 'You shall come up to here, but* you shall not go further, and here it will set a boundary _⌊for your proud surging waves_⌋'?*

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? ³ Will it make numerous pleas for mercy to you? Or will it speak gentle words to you? ⁴ Will it make a covenant with you? Will you take it as a slave forever? ⁵ Will you play with it as with birds and put it on a leash for your girls? ⁶ Will guildsmen bargain over it? Will they divide it between tradesmen? ⁷ Can you fill its kin with harpoons or* its head with fish spears? ⁸ Lay your hands on it; think about the battle—you will not do it again! ⁹ "Look, _⌊the hope of capturing it_⌋* is false. Will one be hurled down even at its sight? ¹⁰ Is it not fierce when somebody stirs it? Who then is he who would stand _⌊before it_⌋?* ¹¹ Who has come to confront me, that* I should repay him? Under all the heavens, _⌊it belongs to me_⌋.* ¹² "I will not keep quiet concerning its limbs or* concerning the extent of its might and the gracefulness of its frame. ¹³ Who can strip off _⌊its outer covering_⌋?* Who can penetrate its double harness? ¹⁴ Who can open the doors of its face? Its teeth all around are fearsome. ¹⁵ Its back* has scales of shields; it is shut up closely as with a seal. ¹⁶ They are close _⌊to one another_⌋—* even* the air cannot come between them. ¹⁷ They are joined _⌊one to another_⌋;* they cling together and cannot be separated. ¹⁸ "Its snorting flashes forth light, and its eyes are _⌊red like dawn_⌋.* ¹⁹ Torches go from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out. ²⁰ Smoke comes from its nostrils as from a kettle boiling and burning bulrushes. ²¹ Its breath kindles charcoal, and a flame comes from its mouth. ²² "Strength abides in its neck, and dismay* dances _⌊before it_⌋.* ²³ Its flesh's folds of skin cling together; it is cast on it—it will not be moved. ²⁴ Its heart is cast as stone; yes,* it is cast as the lower millstone. ²⁵ _⌊When it raises itself_⌋,* the mighty ones are terrified; they retreat because of its thrashing. ²⁶ Reaching it with the sword does not avail, nor with the spear, the dart, or* the javelin. ²⁷ It regards iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood. ²⁸ _⌊An arrow_⌋* will not make it flee; sling stones are turned to stubble for it. ²⁹ Clubs are regarded as stubble, and it laughs at the short sword's rattle. ³⁰ "Its underparts are shards of a potsherd; it moves over mud like a threshing sledge. ³¹ It makes the deep boil like a cooking pot; it makes the sea like a pot of ointment. ³² Behind it, _⌊it leaves a glistening wake_⌋;* one would think that the deep has gray hair. ³³ "_⌊On the ground it has no equal_⌋*— a* creature without fear. ³⁴ It observes all the lofty; it is king _⌊over all that are proud_⌋."*

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

² "Son of man,* raise a lament over Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and you must say to him,
'With a fierce, strong lion among nations you compared yourself, and you are like the sea monster in the seas, and you thrash about in your rivers, and you make water turbid with your feet, and you make your rivers muddy. ³ Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Now I will spread my net over you in the assembly of many peoples, and I will bring you up in my dragnet.

³ So _⌊I had to inherit_⌋* months of worthlessness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me. ⁴ When I lie down, I say,* 'When shall I rise?' But* the night is long, and I have my fill of tossing until dawn.

²⁷ Though* _⌊I say_⌋,* 'I will forget my complaint; I will change my expression, and I will rejoice,' ²⁸ I become afraid of all my sufferings; I know that you do not consider me innocent.

⁵ And the two of them, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison, dreamed a dream, each his own dream, with its own interpretation. ⁶ When Joseph came to them in the morning he looked at them, and behold, they were troubled. ⁷ And he asked the court officials of Pharaoh that were with him in the custody of his master's house, "Why are your faces sad today?"

⁸ And it happened that in the morning his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called all of the magicians* of Egypt, and all its wise men, and Pharaoh told his dream to them. But _⌊they had no interpretation_⌋* for Pharaoh.

¹³ When Gideon came, a man was recounting a dream* to his friend, and he said, "Behold, _⌊I had a dream_⌋;* a round loaf of barley bread was tumbling into the camp of Midian, and it came up to the tent, it struck it, and it fell and turned it upside down so that the tent fell." ¹⁴ His friend answered him and said, "This cannot be anything except the sword of Gideon son of Jehoash, a man of Israel; God has given Midian and the entire camp into his hand."

¹ Now* in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled and his sleep left him.

¹⁹ And while* he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent a message* to him, saying, "_⌊Have nothing to do with that righteous man_⌋,* for I have suffered much as a result of a dream today because of him.")

²³ When Ahithophel saw that his advice was not followed, he saddled the donkey, and he set out and went up to his house in his city. _⌊After he set his house in order_⌋,* he hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his ancestors.*

⁵ And throwing the silver coins into the temple he departed. And he went away and* hanged himself.

⁴⁶ Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I loathe my life because of the Hittite women.* If Jacob takes a wife from Hittite women* like these, from the _⌊native women_⌋,* _⌊what am I living for_⌋?"*

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."*

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?

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

²¹ "I am blameless; I do not care about myself;* I loathe my life.

²⁰ Are not my days few? Let him leave me alone; let him turn from me, and let me rejoice a little.

⁶ Look away from him, and let him desist until he enjoys his days like a laborer.

¹⁰ Remove from me your affliction. By the opposition of your hand I perish.

⁹ Only a vapor* are men of low degree, a deception are men of high degree. _⌊Weighed_⌋* in a balance, together they are lighter than a vapor.

³³ And he consumed their days with futility * their years with terror.*

¹¹ _⌊Increasing words only multiplies futility_⌋,* how does that profit anyone? ¹² For who knows what is good for a man in his life during the few days of his fleeting life, which are fleeting as a shadow? For who can tell anyone what will happen _⌊in the future_⌋* under the sun?

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!"

¹⁴ After whom did the king of Israel go out? After whom are you pursuing? After a dead dog? After one flea?

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

¹⁴ If he should set his heart to it, and he should gather his spirit and his breath to himself, ¹⁵ all flesh would perish together, and humankind would return to dust.

⁴ what is a human being that you think of him? and a child of humankind that you care for him?

³ O Yahweh, what is humankind that you take knowledge of him, or the son of man that you take thought of him?

⁶ But someone testified somewhere, saying,
"What is man, that you remember him, or the son of man, that you care for him?

¹ And it happened that after these things, God tested Abraham. And he said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am."

⁵ You will not bow down to them, and you will not serve them, because I am Yahweh your God, a jealous God, punishing the guilt of the parents on the children on the third and on the fourth generations* of those hating me,

³⁴ And now go, lead the people to where I spoke to you. Look, my angel will go before you, and on the day when I punish I will punish them for their sin."

¹⁶ the one _⌊feeding you_⌋* manna in the desert, food that your ancestors* did not know, in order to humble you and in order to test you so that he could do good to you _⌊in the future_⌋.*

¹⁴ The dead do not live; dead spirits do not rise because you have punished and destroyed them, and you have destroyed all memory of them.

⁷ Therefore, thus says Yahweh of hosts:
"Look, I am about to refine them, and I will test them, for what else can I do, because of the _⌊presence_⌋* of the daughter of my people?

¹⁰ Many will be purified and will be cleansed and will be refined, but the wicked will act wickedly _⌊and none of the wicked will understand_⌋,* but _⌊those who have insight_⌋* will understand.

⁹ And I will bring the remaining third into the fire, and I will refine them like one refines silver, and I will test them like one tests gold. They* will call my name, and I will answer them.* I will say, 'They* are my people,' and they* will say, 'Yahweh is my God.'"

⁷ so that the genuineness of your faith, more valuable than gold that is passing away, but is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

¹⁸ He will not allow me to _⌊catch_⌋* my breath; rather, he will fill me with bitterness.

³ My soul is also very terrified. But you, O Yahweh, how long?

¹ For the music director. A psalm of David.*
How long, O Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? ² How long must I take counsel* in my soul, and sorrow in my heart all the day? How long will my enemy be exalted over me? ³ Consider* and answer me, O Yahweh my God. Give light to my eyes lest I sleep the sleep of death,

³ How long will the wicked, O Yahweh, how long will the wicked exult?

¹⁰ and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, "_⌊How long_⌋*, holy and true Lord, will you not judge and avenge our blood from those who live on the earth?"

⁶ "You alone are Yahweh. You alone have made the heavens, the heavens of the heavens, and all of their army, the earth and all that is in it, the waters and all that is in them. You give life to all of them, and the army of the heavens worship you.

²⁴ For* my sighing comes _⌊before_⌋* my bread,* and my groanings gush forth like water

⁴ for the arrows of Shaddai are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

¹¹ "Even* I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in my spirit's anguish; I will complain in my inner self's* bitterness. ¹² Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?

²⁹ If I shall be declared guilty, why then should I labor in vain? ³⁰ If I wash myself with soap,* and I cleanse my hands with lye, ³¹ then you plunge me into the slime pit, and my clothes abhor me.

²⁶ "Indeed, you* write bitter things against me, and you* make me reap the iniquities of my childhood.

¹⁶ For then* you would count my steps, but you would not keep watch over my sin.

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.

⁵ Is not your wickedness great, and there is no end to your iniquities?

³³ _⌊Have I concealed_⌋* my transgressions as other human beings to hide my iniquity in my bosom

⁹ 'I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no guilt in me.

²⁷ "He will sing to men, and he will say, 'I have sinned and have perverted what is right, and it was not paid back to me.

⁶ If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

¹² For you will _⌊turn them to flight_⌋;* you will aim arrows on your bowstrings at their faces.

⁶ Your righteousness is _⌊like the mighty mountains_⌋,* your judgments like the great deep. You save man and beast, O Yahweh.

⁴ O Yahweh God of hosts, _⌊how long will you be angry_⌋* against the prayer of your people?

¹² He has bent his bow and set me as the target for the arrow.

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."

¹³ For now I would lie down, and I would be at peace; I would be asleep; then _⌊I would be at rest_⌋*

⁸ The eye of the one seeing me will not see me; your eyes are upon me, but* _⌊I will be gone_⌋.*

¹⁴ If I had sinned, then* you would be watching me, and you would not acquit me of my guilt.

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?

³² When* he is brought to the grave, then* someone stands guard over the tomb. ³³ The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone will follow after him, and _⌊before_⌋* him _⌊they are innumerable_⌋.*

¹⁵ As for man, his days are like the grass. As the flower of the field, so he blossoms.

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

¹⁹ Your dead shall live; _⌊their corpses_⌋* shall rise. Wake up and sing for joy, dwellers of the dust, for your dew is _⌊celestial dew_⌋,* and the earth will give birth to dead spirits.*

⁹ You must not be exceedingly angry, Yahweh, and you must not remember iniquity forever!
Look! Behold, now! We all are your people!

⁴² We ourselves have transgressed and rebelled, you have not forgiven. ⁴³ You have covered yourself _⌊in anger_⌋* and pursued us, you have slain and not shown mercy. ⁴⁴ You have covered yourself in a cloud _⌊so that prayer cannot pass through_⌋.*

²⁰ Why have you forgotten us forever? Why have you forsaken us _⌊for so long_⌋?* ²¹ Restore us to you, O Yahweh, that we will be restored; renew our days as of old. ²² Unless you have utterly rejected us, unless you are angry with us beyond measure.

² And many from those sleeping _⌊in the dusty ground_⌋* will awake, some to _⌊everlasting life_⌋* and some to disgrace and _⌊everlasting contempt_⌋.*

² Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Say to him, "Take away all guilt; accept good, and we will offer the fruit* of our lips.

¹⁸ Who is a God like you, forgiving sin and passing over rebellion for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, for he delights in loyal love. ¹⁹ _⌊He will again have compassion_⌋* on us; he will trample our iniquities. And you will hurl all their sins in the depths of the sea.

²⁹ On the next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, "Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

¹⁴ who gave himself for us, in order that he might redeem us from all lawlessness and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good deeds.

⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, so that he will forgive us our* sins and will cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

⁵ And you know that that one was revealed in order that he might take away sins, and in him there is no sin.