Job 32 Cross References - LITV

¹ And these three men rested from answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. ² And burned the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram; his wrath burned against Job, because he had justified himself rather than God. ³ Also his wrath burned against his three friends, because they had not found any answer, yet they had condemned Job. ⁴ And Elihu had waited for Job with words, because they were older than he in days. ⁵ When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men, then his anger burned. ⁶ And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and you are very aged; so I held back and was afraid to make my knowledge known to you. ⁷ I said, Days will speak, and many years will make wisdom known. ⁸ But it is a spirit in man giving them perception, even the breath of the Almighty. ⁹ It is not the great that are wise, nor the aged who perceive justice; ¹⁰ so then I say, Listen to me; I will declare my knowledge, I also. ¹¹ Behold, I waited for your words; I listened to your reasons while you searched out words; ¹² yea, I paid attention to you, and behold, not one of you proved Job wrong, nor answered his sayings; ¹³ that you not say, We have discovered wisdom. It is God who will scatter him, not man. ¹⁴ And he has not ordered words against me, and I will not answer him with your words. ¹⁵ They are broken; they do not reply again; words have departed from them. ¹⁶ Shall I wait because they do not speak, because they stand, not answering again? ¹⁷ I also will answer my share; I also will declare my knowledge. ¹⁸ For I am full of words; the spirit inside me pressed on me; ¹⁹ behold my breast is like wine that has no vent; it bursts like new wineskins. ²⁰ I will speak so that I may be relieved; I will open my lips and answer. ²¹ I will not now lift up the face of a man, nor eulogize any man. ²² for I do not know how to eulogize; else after a little my Maker will take me away.

²⁹ Turn back, I beseech you; let there be no wrong. Yea, return again, for my righteousness is in it.

² I will say to God, Do not condemn me; make me know why You contend with me.

⁷ You know that I am not wicked; and there is no one delivering out of Your hand.

¹⁵ Behold, He will cut me off; I will not wait, but I will justify my ways before His face.

⁷ There the righteous might reason with Him; and I would be forever delivered from my Judge.

⁴ my lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit. ⁵ Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die, I shall not retract my integrity from me. ⁶ I hold fast by my righteousness, and I will not abandon it; my heart shall not shame me any of my days.

¹¹ For the ear heard, and blessed me; and the eye saw, and witnessed for me. ¹² For I delivered the poor who cried for help and the orphan who had no helper to him. ¹³ The blessing of the perishing came on me; and I made the widow's heart to sing. ¹⁴ I put on righteousness and it clothed me; my judgment was like a robe and a diadem. ¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind, and feet for the lame. ¹⁶ I was father to the poor, and the cause which I did not know, I searched out. ¹⁷ I broke the fangs of the perverse, and cast the prey out of his teeth.

¹ I made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look intently on a virgin? ² For what is the portion from God above? And what is the legacy from the Almighty on high? ³ Is it not disaster to the perverse, and calamity to the workers of iniquity? ⁴ Does He not see my ways and count all my steps? ⁵ If I have walked with vanity, or my foot has hurried to deceit, ⁶ let me be weighed in a just balance so that God may know my integrity. ⁷ If my step has turned aside out of the way, or my heart has walked after my eyes, and if any blot has held fast to my hands, ⁸ let me sow, and let another eat; and let my harvests be rooted out. ⁹ If my heart has been enticed by a woman; or I have laid wait at my neighbor's door, ¹⁰ let my wife grind to another, and let others crouch over her. ¹¹ For that would be an evil scheme, and is iniquity for judges. ¹² For it is a fire that devours to the Place of Ruin, and it would root up all my gain. ¹³ If I despised the cause of my male slave or my slave-girl when they contended with me, ¹⁴ what then shall I do when God rises up? And when He calls me to account, what shall I answer Him? ¹⁵ Did not He who made me in the belly make him? And did not One shape us in the womb? ¹⁶ If I have withheld from the desire of the poor, or I have caused the widow's eyes to fail, ¹⁷ or have eaten my bit alone, and the orphan has not eaten it, ¹⁸ for from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and from my mother's womb I guided her. ¹⁹ If I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or there was no covering for the needy; ²⁰ if his loins have not blessed me, and he warmed himself with the fleece of my flock; ²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the orphan, when I watched over my help in the gate; ²² let my shoulder fall from the back, and let my arm be broken from the elbow. ²³ for trouble from God is a terror to me, and I could not do the thing because of His majesty. ²⁴ If I have made gold my hope or have called fine gold my trust; ²⁵ if I rejoiced because my wealth was great; or because my hand had gotten much; ²⁶ if I looked to the light when it shone, or the moon marching in splendor, ²⁷ and my heart was secretly enticed. or my mouth has kissed my hand; ²⁸ this also would be an iniquity for the judges; for I would have denied God above. ²⁹ If I rejoiced at the ruin of my enemy, and I was excited when evil found him; ³⁰ also I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse; ³¹ if the men of my tent did not say, Who can find one not being satisfied from his meat, ³² the stranger did not sleep in the street, for I opened my doors to the traveler; ³³ if I covered my transgressions like Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom, ³⁴ then let me fear before a great multitude, and let the scorn of families frighten me and I will be silent, and not go out the door. ³⁵ Oh that I had one to hear me! See, my mark! Let the Almighty answer me, and let my Accuser write an indictment. ³⁶ Surely I would carry it on my shoulder, and bind it like crowns to me. ³⁷ I would tell Him the number of my steps. Like a prince I would go near Him. ³⁸ If my land cries out against me, or its furrows weep together; ³⁹ if I have eaten its strength without silver, or have caused its owner to expire; ⁴⁰ let thorns come forth instead of wheat, and a weed instead of barley. The words of Job are finished.

⁹ You said, I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and no iniquity is in me;

²¹ Uz, his firstborn, Buz, and his brother Kemuel, the father of Aram,

³ Is it good to You that You should crush, that You should despise the work of Your hands, and You shine on the counsel of the wicked?

² As God lives, He has taken away my judgment; yea, the Almighty has made my soul bitter.

⁵ Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die, I shall not retract my integrity from me.

²¹ You changed to be cruel to me; You assault me with the might of Your hand;

⁵ For Job has said, I am righteous; also, God has taken away my right; ⁶ should I lie against my right? My wound is incurable, yet I am without rebellion.

¹⁷ Shall one who hates justice restrain it ? Or will you condemn a righteous, mighty one; ¹⁸ who says to a king, O worthless one; to nobles, O evil one?

² Do you think this to be just, you that say, I am more just than God?

⁸ Will you also set aside My judgment; will you condemn Me so that you may be justified?

⁹ For the zeal of Your house has consumed Me; and the reproaches of the ones who reproach You have fallen on Me.

⁵ And having looked around on them with anger, being greatly grieved over the hardness of their heart, He said to the man, Stretch out your hand! And he stretched out, and his hand was restored sound as the other.

²⁹ But desiring to justify himself, he said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor?

²⁶ "Be angry but do not sin;" do not let the sun go down on your wrath, LXX-Psa. 4:4; MT-Psa. 4:5

⁶ if you were pure and upright, surely now He would rise for you, and make whole the abode of your righteousness.

³⁴ For the company of the ungodly shall be bleak; and fire shall devour the tents of bribery;

⁵ Is not your wickedness great, and is there no end to your iniquities? ⁶ For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and you have stripped the naked of their clothing. ⁷ You have not given water to the faint to drink, and you withheld food from the hungry. ⁸ And the earth is to him, to the armed man; and the honored one lives in it. ⁹ You have sent widows away empty, and have crushed the arms of orphans. ¹⁰ On account of this snares are all around you, and suddenly dread troubles you; ¹¹ or darkness, so that you cannot see, and a flood of waters covers you. ¹² Is not God high in Heaven? Also behold the leading stars, for they are high. ¹³ And you say, What does God know? Can He judge through the dark cloud? ¹⁴ Clouds are a covering for Him, and He does not see; and He walks the circuit of the heavens. ¹⁵ Do you keep to the old way which evil men have trod? ¹⁶ They were seized, but there was not time; their foundation was poured out by a flood; ¹⁷ who said to God, Depart from us; and, What can the Almighty do to them? ¹⁸ Yet He filled their houses with substance; and the counsel of the wicked is far from me. ¹⁹ The righteous see it and are glad; and the innocent scornfully laugh; ²⁰ truly our adversary is not cut down, and fire has eaten their wealth. ²¹ Now be of service with Him, and be at peace; good shall come to you by them. ²² Now receive the law from His mouth and put His words in your heart. ²³ If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up; you shall put injustice far from your tents. ²⁴ Then you shall lay gold on the dust, even among the rocks of the torrents of Ophir. ²⁵ Yea, the Almighty shall be your gold and silver, a tower to you, ²⁶ for then you will delight over the Almighty, and you will lift up your face to God. ²⁷ You shall make your prayer to Him, and He will hear you; and you shall pay your vows. ²⁸ You shall also decide a thing, and it will stand for you; and light shall shine on your ways. ²⁹ For they have humiliated you; and you shall say, Pride! And He shall save the lowly of eyes. ³⁰ He shall deliver one not innocent and will deliver by the cleanness of your hands.

²⁵ And if not, then who will prove me a liar, and make my speech into nothing?

² Rule and fear are with Him. He makes peace in His high places. ³ Is there any number of His armies? And on whom does His light not rise? ⁴ How then can man be justified with God? Or how can one who is horn of a woman be pure? ⁵ Behold, even the moon, and it is not bright; and the stars are not pure in His eyes; ⁶ how much less man who is a maggot; and the son of man who is a worm!

² How have you helped the powerless, or saved the arm with no strength? ³ How have you advised the ones not wise or fully declared wise plans? ⁴ With whom have you spoken words? And whose breath came forth from you?

¹ And these three men rested from answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

⁵ For finding this man pestilent and moving insurrection among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the Nazarene sect;

¹³ nor are they able to prove that concerning which they now accuse me.

¹¹ Behold, I waited for your words; I listened to your reasons while you searched out words; ¹² yea, I paid attention to you, and behold, not one of you proved Job wrong, nor answered his sayings;

¹³ If one rejects a matter before he hears, it is folly and shame to him.

¹⁹ And it happened, as he came near to the camp and saw the calf and dances, the anger of Moses glowed. And he threw the tablets from his hands, and he broke them below the mountain.

² And burned the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram; his wrath burned against Job, because he had justified himself rather than God.

³² You shall rise up in the face of gray hair; and you shall honor the face of an old man; and be afraid of your God. I am Jehovah.

²⁸ And his eldest brother Eliab heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab's anger burned against David. And he said, Why is it you have come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the evil of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle. ²⁹ And David said, What have I done now? Was it not but a word? ³⁰ And he turned around from him to another and said according to this word. And the people answered him a word like the first word.

⁷ Were you the first man born? Or were you made before the hills?

¹⁰ With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, mightier than your father as to days.

⁷ Then give to all their dues: to the one due tax, the tax; to the one due tribute, the tribute; to the one due fear, the fear; to the one due honor, the honor.

¹ Do not sharply rebuke an elder, but exhort as a father; and younger ones as brothers,

⁶ the younger men in the same way exhort to be discreet;

⁵ Likewise, younger ones be subject to older ones; and all being subject to one another. Put on humility, because God sets Himself "against proud ones, but He gives grace to humble ones." Prov. 3:34

⁶ And king Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had been standing before the face of his father Solomon while he was alive, saying, How do you advise in order to answer this people? ⁷ And they spoke to him, saying, If you are servant to this people today, and will serve them, and answer them and speak to them good words, then they will be servants to you forever. ⁸ But he forsook the counsel of the elders which they advised him, and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him, who were standing before him.

⁸ For, I beg you, ask of the former generation, and prepare to the search of their fathers; ⁹ for we are but of yesterday, and we know nothing because our days on earth are a shadow. ¹⁰ Shall they not teach you, and tell you, and bring words out of their heart?

¹² With the aged is wisdom, and understanding in the length of days.

¹¹ Come, listen to me, my sons, I will teach you the fear of Jehovah. ¹² Who is the man who desires life, who loves days in order to see good?

¹ The Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: ² To know wisdom and instruction; to understand the words of understanding; ³ to receive instruction in prudence, justice, and judgment, and uprightness; ⁴ to give sense to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man.

³¹ The gray head is a crown of glory; it is found in the way of righteousness.

¹² For indeed because of the time you are due to be teachers, yet you need to have someone to teach you again the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God, and you have become in need of milk, and not of solid food;

³⁹ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Since God has taught you all this, there is no one wise and intelligent like you.

¹² behold, I have done according to your words. Behold, I have given to you a wise and understanding heart, so that there was none like you before you, and after you none shall rise up like you.

²⁸ And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had judged, and feared from the face of the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to do judgment.

²⁹ And God gave Solomon exceeding great wisdom and understanding, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the lip of the sea.

¹² Now a word was stolen to me, and my ear received a whisper of it. ¹³ In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, ¹⁴ fear and trembling met me, and made my many bones dread. ¹⁵ Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up; ¹⁶ it stood still, but I could not discern its form; an image was before my eyes; there was silence; then I heard a voice: ¹⁷ Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be purer than his Maker? ¹⁸ Behold, He puts no trust in His servants; and He charges His angels with folly! ¹⁹ How much more those that dwell in houses of clay; whose foundation is in the dust; they crush them before the moth! ²⁰ They are shattered from morning till evening; they perish forever with no one regarding. ²¹ Is not their tent cord pulled up within them? They die, but not with wisdom.

⁴ The Spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

¹⁶ then He opens the ear of men and seals their instruction,

¹¹ teaching us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?

³⁶ Who has put wisdom in the inward parts; or who has given understanding to the mind?

⁶ For Jehovah gives wisdom; out of His mouth are knowledge and understanding.

²⁶ For God gives wisdom, and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight. But to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and collecting, to give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and striving after wind.

¹⁷ As for these four boys, God gave them knowledge and skill in all writing and wisdom. And Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

²¹ And He changes the times and the seasons; He causes to pass away kings, and sets up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who know understanding.

¹⁰ But God revealed them to us by His Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. ¹¹ For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of a man within him? So also no one has known the things of God except the Spirit of God. ¹² But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, so that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God.

⁸ For through the Spirit is given to one a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;

¹⁶ Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,

⁵ But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from God, who gives to all freely and with no reproach, and it will be given to Him.

²⁰ turning aside the lip of the trusted men; and He takes away the reason of the aged.

¹³ A poor and a wise child is better than the old and stupid king who does not know to be warned any more.

⁵ I will go up for myself to the great men and will speak to them. For they have known the way of Jehovah, the judgment of their God. Surely these have joined in breaking the yoke; they have torn off the bonds.

²⁵ Answering at that time, Jesus said, I praise You, Father, Lord of Heaven and of Earth, because You hid these things from the sophisticated and cunning and revealed them to babes.

⁴⁸ Not any from the rulers or from the Pharisees believed into him?

²⁶ For you see your calling, brothers, that there are not many wise according to flesh, nor many powerful, not many wellborn. ²⁷ But God chose the foolish things of the world that the wise might be put to shame, and God chose the weak things of the world so that He might put to shame the strong things.

⁷ But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, having been hidden, which God predetermined before the ages for our glory, ⁸ which none of the rulers of this age has known. For if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;

⁶ But you dishonored the poor one. Do not the rich ones oppress you, and they drag you to judgment seats? ⁷ Do they not blaspheme the good Name called on you?

²⁵ But about virgins, I have no command of the Lord. But I give judgment, as having received mercy by the Lord to be faithful.

⁴⁰ But she is happier if she remains so, according to my judgment. And I think I also have the Spirit of God.

²⁷ Consider this. We have searched it out; it is so. Hear it, and know it for yourself.

²¹ They listened to me and waited, and kept silence for my counsel.

²³ And they waited for me like the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

⁴ And Elihu had waited for Job with words, because they were older than he in days.

¹⁷ He who is first in his cause seems just, but his neighbor comes and searches him.

¹¹ A rich man is wise in his own eyes, but the discerning poor searches him out.

⁹ And more than that, the Preacher was wise; he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he listened, and looked, and set in order many proverbs. ¹⁰ The Preacher sought to find out pleasing words; and words of truth written on uprightness.

³ Also his wrath burned against his three friends, because they had not found any answer, yet they had condemned Job.

⁷ wishing to be teachers of law, neither understanding what they say, nor about that which they confidently affirm.

²³ that I will not take from all that is yours, from a thread to a shoe latchet, and that you may not say, I have made Abram rich.

² And Jehovah said to Gideon, The people with you are too many for Me to give Midian into their hands, that Israel not glorify itself against Me, saying, My hand has delivered me.

²¹ And he said, I came naked out of my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. Jehovah gave, and Jehovah has taken away. Blessed be the name of Jehovah.

¹⁰ But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish ones speak. Also, shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

⁹ They perish from the breath of God, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.

⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; their fury is drinking my spirit; the terrors of God are set against me.

² For truly you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

⁸ Have you heard the secret counsel of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself? ⁹ What do you know that we do not know? Or understand, that is not with us? ¹⁰ With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, mightier than your father as to days.

⁶ know now that God has overthrown me and His net has closed on me.

²¹ Have pity on me! Have pity on me, you my friends. For the hand of God has touched me.

²¹ Woe to those wise in their own eyes, and discerning in their own sight!

⁵ And I declared to you from then; before it came I made you hear, lest you should say, My idol did them; and my image and my casted image commanded them.

⁷ They are created now, and not from then; even before today, but you did not hear them; lest you should say, See, I knew them.

²³ So says Jehovah, Do not let the wise glory in his wisdom, and do not let the mighty glory in his might. Do not let the rich glory in his riches.

³ Behold, you are wiser than Daniel. Every one of the secret things are not hidden to you.

⁷ Jehovah also shall save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not be magnified above Judah.

¹¹ Jesus answered, You would have no authority against Me, not any, if it were not given to you from above. Because of this, the one delivering Me to you has a greater sin.

¹⁹ For it has been written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the understanding of the understanding ones." Isa. 29:14 ²⁰ Where is the wise? Where the scribe? Where the lawyer of this world? Did God not make the wisdom of this world foolish? ²¹ For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom did not know God, God was pleased through the foolishness of preaching to save the ones believing.

²⁷ But God chose the foolish things of the world that the wise might be put to shame, and God chose the weak things of the world so that He might put to shame the strong things. ²⁸ And God chose the low-born of the world, and the despised, and the things that are not, so that He might bring to nothing the things that are, ²⁹ so that no flesh might glory in His presence.

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself, if anyone thinks to be wise among you in this age, let him become foolish, that he may become wise.

²⁴ Teach me, and I will be silent; and cause me to understand in what I have erred. ²⁵ Right words are powerful, but what does your arguing argue?

²² After my words, they did not go on, and my speech dropped on them.

²³ And then I will declare to them, I never knew you; "depart from Me, those working lawlessness!" Psa. 6:8

²² And hearing, they marveled. And leaving Him, they went away.

²⁶ In the same way also the second, and the third, until the seven.

³⁴ But hearing that He had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees were gathered together.

⁴⁶ And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor did anyone dare from that day to question Him any more.

⁵ Oh that you would stop speaking entirely; and it would be your wisdom!

²⁸ Even a fool who is silent is counted wise, he who shuts his lips is counted as understanding.

¹³ So the understanding ones shall keep silent in that time, for it is an evil time.

¹⁹ So that, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

¹⁰ so then I say, Listen to me; I will declare my knowledge, I also.

¹² Behold, you are not right in this. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.

³ For you say, What will it benefit you? What shall I profit more than if I had sinned? ⁴ I will answer your words, and your friends with you.

³ My heart was hot within me; while the fire burned I was meditating; I spoke with my tongue:

⁹ And I said, I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name. But His Word was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary of holding in, and I could not prevail.

¹⁴ So the Spirit lifted me up and took me, and I went bitterly in the heat of my spirit, but the hand of Jehovah was strong upon me. ¹⁵ Then I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, those dwelling by the river Chebar. And I sat there where they were sitting. I also dwelt there seven days, being benumbed among them. ¹⁶ And it happened at the end of the seven days, even it happened that the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, ¹⁷ Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. And hear the word of My mouth, and warn them from Me. ¹⁸ In My saying to the wicked, Surely you shall die; and you do not warn him, and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, he, the wicked, shall die in his iniquity. But I will require his blood at your hand. ¹⁹ And you, because you have warned the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his way, he, the wicked, shall die in his iniquity. But you have delivered your soul. ²⁰ And when the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die. Since you have not warned him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered. But I will require his blood at your hand. ²¹ But you, because you warned him, the righteous, so that the righteous should not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he is warned. And you have delivered your soul. ²² And the hand of Jehovah was on me there. And He said to me, Rise up, go forth into the plain, and I will speak with you there. ²³ And I rose up and went forth into the plain. And, behold, there the glory of Jehovah was standing, like the glory which I saw by the river Chebar. And I fell on my face. ²⁴ And the Spirit entered into me and stood me on my feet and spoke with me. And He said to me, Come, shut yourself within your house. ²⁵ But you, son of man, behold, they shall put on you cords and shall bind you with them, and you shall not go out among them. ²⁶ And I will make your tongue cling to your palate, and you shall be dumb. And there shall not be to them a reproving man. For they are a rebellious house. ²⁷ But in My speaking with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah. He who hears, let him hear; and he who stops, let him stop. For they are a rebellious house.

²⁰ For we are not able not to speak what we saw and heard.

¹³ For if we are insane, it is to God; or if we are in our senses, it is for you. ¹⁴ For the love of Christ constrains us, having judged this, that if One died for all, then the all died;

¹⁷ Nor do they put new wine into old skins; otherwise, the skins are burst, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be ruined. But they put new wine into fresh skins, and both are preserved together.

¹³ Be silent from me, that I may speak; and let what will pass over me.

¹⁹ Who is he who will strive with me? For then I would be quiet and die.

² So my thoughts cause me to answer, even because of my haste in me.

³ Rise with me and I shall speak; then after I have spoken, you may mock.

⁶ Hear, for I will speak of excellent things, and from the opening of my lips shall be right things. ⁷ For my mouth shall speak of truth, and wickedness is hateful to my lips.

¹⁵ You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment; you shall not respect the person of the poor, nor favor the person of the mighty; but in righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.

¹⁷ You shall not respect persons in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid because of the face of a man, for the judgment is God's; and the thing too hard for you, you shall bring near to me, and I shall hear it.

¹⁹ You shall not pervert judgment. You shall not regard faces, nor shall you take a bribe; for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.

¹⁷ And your servant said, Please let the word of my lord the king be comforting. For as a messenger of God, so is my lord the king, to understand the good and the evil. And Jehovah your God shall be with you.

²⁰ Your servant Joab has done this thing to turn about the face of the matter, and my lord is wise according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all that is in the land.

⁸ Will you lift up His face, or will you contend for God?

¹⁰ He will surely reprove you if you secretly lift up faces.

¹⁹ How much less to Him who does not lift up the face of rulers, nor regard the rich before the poor; for all of them are the work of His hands.

²³ These also are for the wise: to respect persons in judgment is not good.

¹⁶ And they sent to Him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that you are true, and teach the way of God in truth, and it does not concern you about anyone, for you do not look to the face of men.

²² And the mass of people cried out, The voice of a god, and not of a man! ²³ And instantly an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give the glory to God. And having been eaten by worms, his soul went out.

² And Tertullus being called, he began to accuse, saying, ³ Obtaining much peace through you and excellent accomplishments having come to this nation due to your forethought, in everything and everywhere we accept with all thankfulness, most excellent Felix.

⁵ He informs against friends for a share; even his son's eyes shall be consumed.

² They speak vanity, each man with his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak. ³ Jehovah shall cut off all with flattering lips and the tongue that speaks great things;

⁵ A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his steps.

¹⁰ For do I now persuade men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I would not be a slave of Christ.

⁵ For neither were we then found with words of flattery, even as you know, nor with pretense of covetousness (God is witness),