Job 6 Cross References - LITV

¹ And Job answered and said: ² Oh that my vexation were carefully weighed, and my ruin lifted in the balances together! ³ For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; on account of this my words have been rash. ⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; their fury is drinking my spirit; the terrors of God are set against me. ⁵ Does the wild ass bray over tender grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder? ⁶ Are tasteless things eaten without salt? Or is there taste in the slime of an egg? ⁷ My soul refuses to touch them; they are sickening food to me. ⁸ Who will give it that my desire might come, and God would grant my longing; ⁹ and God would be willing and crush me; let loose His hand and cut me off? ¹⁰ And it is yet my comfort; and I would exult in pain not spared; for I have not hidden the words of the Holy One. ¹¹ What is my strength that I should wait? And what is my end that I should prolong my life? ¹² Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh bronze? ¹³ Is not my help within me? And is wisdom driven from me? ¹⁴ To the faint, mercy is due from his friend; for he forsakes the fear of the Almighty. ¹⁵ My brothers have dealt deceitfully, like the torrent; like the streams of torrents, they vanish; ¹⁶ those darkened from ice, in which the snow hides itself. ¹⁷ At the time they are warmed, they are cut off; when it is hot, they vanish from their place. ¹⁸ The paths of their way bend; they go to nothing, and are lost. ¹⁹ The troops of Tema looked; the travelers of Sheba hoped for them; ²⁰ they were ashamed because they had hoped; they came there, and were ashamed. ²¹ Surely now you have become like it; you see my dismay, and are afraid. ²² Did I indeed say, Give to me? Or, offer a bribe for me from your wealth? ²³ Or, Deliver me from a foe's hand? Or, Redeem me from the oppressors hand? 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? ²⁶ Do you intend to criticize words, and the speeches of one who is hopeless, that are as wind? ²⁷ Yea, you cause even an orphan to fall; and you bargain over your friend. ²⁸ And now, please look on me. For if I lie, it is before your face. ²⁹ Turn back, I beseech you; let there be no wrong. Yea, return again, for my righteousness is in it. ³⁰ Is there wrong in my tongue? Cannot my palate discern desirable things?

¹ And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

⁵ But now it has come upon you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

² Even today my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy over my groaning.

⁶ let me be weighed in a just balance so that God may know my integrity.

¹⁹ Make us know what we shall say to Him; for we cannot arrange our case because of darkness. ²⁰ Shall it be told to Him that I would speak? If a man speaks, surely he will be swallowed up.

⁵ Many things have You done, O Jehovah my God; Your works of wonder and Your purposes toward us; there is none to set in order to You; I will declare and I will speak; they are more than can be counted.

⁴ You seized the watches of my eyes; I am troubled, and I cannot speak.

³ A stone is heavy, and sand a burden, but a fool's anger is heavier than both.

²⁸ Come to Me, all those laboring and being burdened, and I will give you rest.

²³ I will heap evils on them; I will use up My arrows on them. ²⁴ I will send on them exhaustion by famine, and depletion by burning heat, and bitter destruction, and the teeth of beasts, with the venom of crawling things of the dust.

⁴² I will make My arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the hairy head of the enemy.

¹⁷ He who breaks me with a tempest, and adds to my wounds without cause;

¹² I was at ease, but He has shattered me; yea, He has also taken hold on my neck and broken me to bits; and He has set me up as a target for Him. ¹³ His archers surround me; He splits my inward parts and has no pity; He pours out my gall on the ground ¹⁴ He breaks me with break on top of break; He runs on me like a warrior.

²⁰ His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

¹⁵ Terrors are turned on me; they pursue my soul like the wind, and my goods pass away like a cloud.

²³ for trouble from God is a terror to me, and I could not do the thing because of His majesty.

¹³ yea, He has fitted for him instruments of death. He will make ready His arrows for pursuers.

¹⁴ Yea, He sent out His arrows and scattered them; and He shot out lightnings and confounded them.

¹² for You shall make them turn the back; against their faces You shall make ready Your arrows on Your strings.

² For Your arrows sink in me, and Your hand presses heavily on me.

⁵ Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the King's enemies; peoples fall under You.

¹⁵ I am afflicted and dying from childhood; I suffer Your terrors; I am distracted. ¹⁶ Your fierce wrath goes over me; Your terrors have cut me off.

⁷ O Jehovah, answer me quickly; my spirit is failing; do not hide Your face from me lest I be like the ones who go down to the Pit.

¹⁴ The spirit of a man will nourish his sickness, but who can bear a wounded spirit?

¹² He has trod His bow and set me up as a mark for the arrow. ¹³ He caused the sons of His quiver to enter into my inward parts.

³³ And He took along Peter and James and John with Him. And He began to be much amazed and to be deeply troubled. ³⁴ And He said to them, My soul is deeply grieved, unto death. Remain here and watch.

³⁴ And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? (Which being translated is, "My God, My God, why did You forsake Me?") Psa. 22:1; 69:21

¹¹ Then knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, and we have been manifest to God; and I also hope to have been manifest in your consciences.

¹ To the chief musician. A Contemplation for the sons of Korah. As the deer pants after the channels of water, so my soul pants after You, O God.

¹⁴ He causes the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for the service of man, to bring food out of the earth.

⁶ And the wild asses stood in the high places; they snuffed up the wind like jackals; their eyes failed because there was no grass.

¹⁸ How the beasts groan! The herds of livestock are vexed, for there is no pasture for them. Even the flocks of sheep are perishing. ¹⁹ O Jehovah, to You I will cry, for the fire has burned up the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field. ²⁰ The beasts of the field also cry to You, for the rivers of water are dried up, and the fire has burned up the pastures of the wilderness.

¹³ And every offering of your food offering you shall season with salt, and you shall not let the salt of the covenant of your God be lacking from your food offering; you shall offer salt with all your offerings.

²⁵ Right words are powerful, but what does your arguing argue?

³⁰ Is there wrong in my tongue? Cannot my palate discern desirable things?

¹¹ Does the ear not try words, and the mouth taste food for itself?

² I have heard many such things . You are all miserable comforters.

³ for the ear tries words as the palate tastes food.

¹⁰³ How sweet are Your words to my palate! More than honey to my mouth!

³⁴ The salt is good, but if the salt becomes tasteless, with what will it be seasoned?

⁶ Let your word be always with grace, having been seasoned with salt, to know how you ought to answer each one.

⁴ For it is impossible for those being once enlightened, and having tasted of the heavenly gift, and becoming sharers of the Holy Spirit, ⁵ and tasting the good Word of God, and the works of power of a coming age,

¹² And she said, As Jehovah your God lives, I do not have a cake, only a handful of meal in a pitcher, and a little oil in a jar; and behold, I am gathering two sticks and will go in and prepare for myself and for my son; and we shall eat it, and die.

²⁷ and say, So says the king, Put this one in the house of restraint, and cause him to eat the bread of oppression, and the water of oppression, until I come in peace.

²⁴ For my sighing comes before my food; and my groanings are poured out like the waters.

⁹ For I have eaten ashes like bread, and have mixed my drink with weeping;

¹⁴ Then I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! Behold, my soul has not been defiled. I have not even eaten a carcass or a torn animal, from my youth even until now. And unclean flesh has not come into my mouth.

¹⁶ And He said to me, Son of man, behold, I am breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem. And they shall eat bread by weight, and with anxiety. And they shall drink water by measure, and in horror,

¹⁸ Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with anxiety. ¹⁹ And say to the people of the land, So says the Lord Jehovah to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water with horror, so that her land may be desolated of her fullness, because of the violence of all those who live in her.

³ I ate no food for delight, and no flesh or wine came into my mouth. I did not anoint myself at all until three weeks of days were fulfilled.

¹¹ What is my strength that I should wait? And what is my end that I should prolong my life? ¹² Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh bronze? ¹³ Is not my help within me? And is wisdom driven from me?

¹⁴ I have said to corruption, You are my father; to the worm, My mother and my sister. ¹⁵ And where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it? ¹⁶ They shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when our descent together is in the dust.

⁸¹ Kaph. My soul is being consumed for Your salvation; I hope in Your word.

¹⁴ I am not able, I alone, to bear all this people, for it is too heavy for me; ¹⁵ and if You deal thus with me, please quickly kill me, if I have found grace in Your eyes, and let me not look on my affliction.

⁴ and he himself went into the wilderness a day's journey, and came and sat under a certain broom tree. And he begged for his life, that he might die, and said, Enough, now, O Jehovah; take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.

²⁰ Why is light given to the miserable one, and life to him who is bitter in soul; ²¹ who is waiting for death, but it is not; and they dig for it more than for treasures? ²² They are rejoicing to exultation. They are glad when they find the grave.

¹⁵ so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than my bones. ¹⁶ I despise them; I will not live always. Let me alone, for my days are vanity.

¹³ Who will grant that You would hide me in Sheol; You would conceal me until Your anger turns back; that You would set a limit for me and remember me?

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

⁴ For by day and by night Your hand was heavy on me; my sap was turned into the droughts of summer. Selah.

¹⁰ Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction. ¹¹ For My sake, for My sake, I will act; for how is it defiled? And I will not give My glory to another. ¹² Listen to Me, O Jacob, and Israel My called: I am He; I am the first; I surely am the last. ¹³ My hand surely founded earth, and My right hand has stretched out the heavens; I called to them, they stood up together.

³ And now, O Jehovah, please take my life from me. For better is my death than my life.

⁸ And it happened when the sun shone, God had appointed a scorching east wind; and the sun struck Jonah's head, so that he fainted; and he asked for his life to die. And he said, Better is my death than my life.

⁶ And in those days men will seek death, and they will not find it. And they will long to die, yet death will flee from them.

² Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them, You are holy, for I am holy, Jehovah your God.

²⁰ Jehovah will not be willing to forgive him, for then Jehovah's anger and His zeal shall smoke, and His zeal shall be against that man, and all the curses written in this book shall lie upon him. And Jehovah shall blot out his name from under the heavens.

² None is holy like Jehovah, for there is none except You; yea, there is no rock like our God.

²² They are rejoicing to exultation. They are glad when they find the grave.

⁴ He is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has been hard against Him, and been at peace?

³³ And the clods of the valley shall be sweet to him; and every man shall draw after him; and there is not any number before him.

²² Now receive the law from His mouth and put His words in your heart.

¹² nor have I departed from the command of His lips; I treasured the words of His mouth more than my portion.

³⁰ The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue speaks judgment.

⁹ I have announced righteousness in the great assembly; behold, I will not restrain My lips; O Jehovah You know. ¹⁰ I have not concealed Your righteousness in My heart; I speak Your faithfulness and Your salvation. I have not hidden Your loving-kindness and Your truth for the great assembly.

¹⁷ O God, You have taught me from my youth; and until now I have declared Your wonders. ¹⁸ And now that I am old and grayheaded, O God, do not leave me until I have manifested Your strength to the generation, Your power to everyone who is to come.

¹³ I have declared all the judgments of Your mouth with my lips;

¹¹ Turn aside from the way; stretch from the path; cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. ¹² For this reason, so says the Holy One of Israel, Because of your rejection of this word, and your trust in oppression and perversity, even resting on it;

¹⁵ For so says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, and His name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, even with the contrite and humble of spirit; to make live the spirit of the humble and to make live the heart of the contrite ones.

⁹ I will not carry out the heat of My anger; I will not return to destroy Ephraim. For I am God, and not a man, the Holy One in your midst. And I will not enter into the city.

¹² Are You not from of old, Jehovah our God, my Holy One? We shall not die, Jehovah, for You have appointed him for judgment. And, my Rock, You have established him for correction.

³ God comes from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His majesty covers the heavens, and His praise fills the earth.

²⁰ as I kept nothing back of what is profitable, so as not to tell you, and to teach you publicly, and from house to house,

²⁷ For I did not keep back from declaring to you all the counsel of God.

³² Truly He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all, how will He not freely give us all things with Him?

⁴ For if God did not spare sinning angels, but delivered them to chains of darkness, thrust down into Tartarus, having been kept to judgment; ⁵ and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah the eighth, a herald of righteousness, bringing a flood on a world of ungodly ones;

⁷ And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia, write: These things says the Holy One, the True One, the One having "the key of David," "the One opening, and no one shuts; and shuts, and no one opens:" Isa. 22:22

⁸ And the four living creatures each one had six wings around, and within being full of eyes. And they had no rest day and night, saying, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty," the One who was, and is, and is coming! Isa. 6:3

⁵ My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and it runs afresh . ⁶ My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are ended without hope. ⁷ Remember that my life is a breath; my eyes shall not return to see good.

²⁰ Are not my days few? Then cease and set me alone, that I may take a little comfort

²⁵ Will You terrify a leaf driven to and fro? Will you pursue the dry stubble?

²⁸ And he wears out like a rotten thing, like a garment which a moth eats.

¹ My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; graves are for me.

⁴ As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should not my spirit be short?

⁵ Behold, like a handbreadth You gave my days, even my life was non-existence before You;

⁵ You flooded them away; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass growing; ⁶ in the morning it sprouts and shoots up; in the evening it withers and dries up. ⁷ For we are consumed by Your anger, and we are troubled by Your wrath. ⁸ You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your face. ⁹ For all our days pass away in Your wrath; we finish our years like a murmur. ¹⁰ The days of our years are seventy; and if any by strength live eighty years, yet their pride is labor and vanity; for it soon passes, and we fly away.

²³ He diminished my strength in the way; He shortened my days.

¹⁴ For He knows how we are made, remembering that we are dust. ¹⁵ As for man, his days are as grass; as the flower of the field, so he flourishes. ¹⁶ For the wind passes over it, and it is not; and its place never knows it again.

¹⁸ his bones are like tubes of bronze; his bones like bars of iron;

²⁴ His heart is cast hard as a stone, even cast hard as a piece of riding millstone.

² For truly you are the people, and wisdom will die with you. ³ I also have a heart as well as you; I do not fall short of you. And with whom are not things like these?

² As you know, I also know; I do not fall short of you.

²⁸ For you may say, Why do we persecute him? And the root of the matter is found in me.

² How have you helped the powerless, or saved the arm with no strength?

¹² For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we had our conduct in the world in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.

⁴ But let each one prove his work, and then he alone will have a boast in himself and not as to another.

¹¹ And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will kill me for my wife's sake.

³ Behold, you have instructed many; and you have made weak hands strong. ⁴ Your words have upheld him who was falling, and you have made feeble knees strong. ⁵ But now it has come upon you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

⁴ Yea, you do away with fear, and take away devotion before God.

⁵ I might make you strong with my mouth, and the moving of my lips could spare you.

¹ To the chief musician; of the servant of Jehovah; of David. The oracle utters transgression to the wicked within my heart: There is no fear of God before his eyes. ² For he flatters himself in his own eyes in order to find his iniquity, in order to hate it . ³ The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit; he ceases to act wisely, to do good.

¹⁷ A friend loves at every time, but a brother is born for the time of trouble.

⁴⁰ But answering, the other rebuked him, saying, Do you not fear God, for you are in the same judgment?

¹⁵ Rejoice with rejoicing ones, and weep with weeping ones;

²⁶ And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it . If one member is glorified, all the members rejoice with it .

²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I do not burn?

² Bear one another's burdens, and so you will fulfill the law of Christ.

³ Be mindful of the prisoners, as having been bound with them; of those ill-treated, as also being in the body yourselves.

¹⁹ All the men of my counsel detest me; even this one I loved has turned against me.

¹¹ My lovers and my friends stand apart from my stroke, and my neighbors have stood far off.

⁹ Even a man desiring my welfare, I trusted in him, eating of my bread; this one has lifted up his heel against me.

¹² For it is not an enemy reproaching me, or I could bear it; it is not one who hates me who is magnifying himself against me; or I would hide myself from him. ¹³ But it is you, a man of my rank, my friend and my associate. ¹⁴ We sweetened counsel together; we marched into the house of God with the throng.

¹⁸ You have taken lover and friend far from me, he who knows me, into darkness.

⁴ Let everyone be on guard against his neighbor, and do not trust any brother. For every brother will supplant, and every neighbor will walk as a slanderer. ⁵ And everyone will deceive his neighbor, and they will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves to commit iniquity.

¹⁸ Why has my pain been without end and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You surely are to me like deceitful waters which cannot be trusted.

¹⁴ All your lovers have forgotten you; they do not seek you. For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, because of the greatness of your iniquity. Your sins are many.

⁵ Put no faith in a companion; put no trust in a friend; keep the door of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom; ⁶ for a son despises his father; a daughter rises up against her mother; the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his house.

¹⁸ I do not speak concerning all of you; I know whom I chose out; but that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "The one eating the bread with Me lifted up his heel against Me." Psa. 41:9

³² Behold, an hour is coming, and now has come, that you are scattered, each one to his own things, and you will leave Me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

¹² These are sunken rocks in your love feasts, feasting together with you, feeding themselves without fear, waterless clouds being carried about by winds, fruitless autumn trees, having died twice, having been plucked up by the roots;

¹ And Elijah the Tishbite, of the sojourners of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Jehovah the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be no dew nor rain these years, except according to my word.

¹⁹ Drought and heat eat up the snow waters; Sheol those who have sinned.

⁷ And the sons of Cush were Seba and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And Raamah's sons were Sheba and Dedan.

³ And Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim and Leummim.

¹⁵ Hadad, and Tema, and Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

¹ And the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon as to the name of Jehovah, and she came to test him with hard questions.

¹⁰ The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents; the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

¹⁴ The people of the land of Tema bring water to him who is thirsty; they went to meet the fugitive with his bread.

²³ Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all who cut the corners of their beards,

²² The merchants of Sheba and Raamah were your merchants; with the chief of all the spices, and with every precious stone and gold, they gave for your wares. ²³ Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Assyria, Chilmad were your merchants.

³ And their nobles have sent their little ones for water. They came to the cisterns; they found no water. They returned with their vessels empty. They were ashamed and confounded and covered their head. ⁴ Because the ground was cracked, for there was no rain in the land; the plowmen were ashamed; they covered their head.

¹³ O Jehovah, the Hope of Israel, all who forsake You shall be ashamed. Those who depart from Me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Jehovah, the Fountain of living waters.

⁵ And the hope does not put us to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit given to us;

³³ as it has been written, "Behold, I place in" "Zion a Stone-of-stumbling," "and a Rock-of-offense," "and everyone believing on Him will not be put to shame." LXX and MT-Isa. 28:16; MT-Isa. 8:14

¹¹ And three friends of Job heard of all this evil that had come on him. And they each one came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite; Bildad the Shuhite; and Zophar the Naamathite. And they had met together to come to lament with him, and to comfort him. ¹² And when they lifted up their eyes from a distance and did not recognize him, they lifted up their voice and wept then. And each one tore his robe. And they sprinkled dust on their heads toward the heavens. ¹³ And they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights. And no one was speaking a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

¹⁵ My brothers have dealt deceitfully, like the torrent; like the streams of torrents, they vanish;

⁴ But you are imputers of lies; you are all worthless healers.

⁹ Surely the sons of men are vanity, the sons of man are a lie; they go up in the scales; they are higher than vanity together.

⁷ All the poor man's brothers hate him, and his friends also surely leave him; he pursues them with words, yet they are not.

²² Cease yourself from man, whose breath is in his nostril, for in what is he to be esteemed?

⁵ So says Jehovah, Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and who makes flesh his arm, and who turns aside his heart from Jehovah. ⁶ For he shall be like a juniper in the desert, and shall not see when good comes. But he shall live in parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land that is not inhabited.

⁹ We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed. Forsake her, and let us go, each one into his own country. For her judgment reaches to the heavens, and is lifted up to the skies.

³¹ Then Jesus said to them, You all will be offended in Me during this night. For it has been written, "I will smite the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered." Zech. 13:7

⁵⁶ But all this is happening that the Scriptures of the prophets may be fulfilled. Then all the disciples ran away, forsaking Him.

¹⁶ In my first defense no one was beside me, but all deserted me. May it not be reckoned to them.

⁹ And the kings of the earth will weep for her, and will wail over her, those having fornicated and having luxuriated with her, when they see the smoke of her burning; ¹⁰ standing from afar because of the fear of her torment, saying, Woe! Woe to the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For in one hour your judgment came.

¹⁷ For in one hour such great wealth was desolated. And every ship-pilot and all company on the ships, and sailors, and as many as work the sea, stood from afar, ¹⁸ and cried out, seeing the smoke of her burning, saying, What is like the great city?

³ Behold, I am here! Testify against me before Jehovah and before His anointed: Whose ox have I taken, and whose ass have I taken, and whom have I offended? Whom have I abused, and from whose hand have I taken a bribe that I might hide my eyes with it; and I will give back to you.

¹¹ And all his brothers and all his sisters came to him; and all knowing him before. And they ate bread with him in his house and consoled him and comforted him as to all the evil that Jehovah had brought on him. And they each gave him a piece of money, and each one ring of gold.

³³ I have desired the silver, or gold, or clothing of no one.

⁴⁸ after he has been sold, there is a redemption to him; one of his brothers may redeem him,

⁸ And I said to them, According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers, the Jews who were sold to the nations. And will you yet sell your brothers? Or shall they be sold to us? Then they were silent, and did not find a word.

²⁰ In famine He will redeem you from death; and in war from the hand of the sword.

⁷ A man cannot at all redeem a brother, nor give to God a ransom for him, ⁸ for the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceases forever,

¹⁵ But God will redeem my soul from the hand of Sheol; for He will take me. Selah.

² Let the redeemed of Jehovah say so, whom He redeemed from the hand of the foe;

²¹ And I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the evil ones.

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

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

¹¹ Behold, I waited for your words; I listened to your reasons while you searched out 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?

¹ However, Job, now hear my speech and listen to all my words.

³¹ Pay attention, O Job; listen to me; be silent, and I will speak. ³² If you have anything to say, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you. ³³ If not, you listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.

³² Besides what I see, You teach me; if I have done iniquity, I will not do it again.

¹² Who can discern errors? Acquit me from secret faults,

⁸ I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I will counsel you, My eye shall be on you.

¹ To the chief musician, to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, I will keep my ways from sinning with my tongue; I will keep my mouth with a muzzle while the wicked are before me. ² I became dumb, keeping still; from good I was silent, and my pain was stirred.

⁹ Give to a wise one, and he will be more wise; teach a just one, and he will increase in learning.

¹² As a ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover on a hearing ear.

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

² For we all stumble in many ways . If any one does not stumble in word, this one is a mature man, able also to bridle the whole body.

⁴ Your words have upheld him who was falling, and you have made feeble knees strong.

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

³ Is there an end to windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer? ⁴ I also could speak as you. If your soul were in the place of my soul, I could bind words against you and shake at you with my head. ⁵ I might make you strong with my mouth, and the moving of my lips could spare you.

³⁴ How then do you comfort me with vanity? Yea, in your answers remains treachery.

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

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

¹⁸ There is a rash speaking like thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

²¹ The wise in heart shall be called prudent, and sweetness of lips increases learning. ²² Prudence is a fountain of life to those who own it, but the teaching of fools is folly. ²³ The heart of the wise makes his mouth prudent, and he adds learning on his lips. ²⁴ Pleasant words are an overflowing of honey, sweetness to the soul and healing to the bones.

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it shall eat its fruit.

¹¹ A word rightly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

¹⁰ The Preacher sought to find out pleasing words; and words of truth written on uprightness. ¹¹ The words of the wise are as goads; yea, as nails driven by the masters of collections, they are given from one Shepherd.

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.

³ Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night which said, A man-child has been conceived. ⁴ Let that day be darkness! Let not God look on it from above, nor let the light shine on it. ⁵ Let darkness and the shadow of death seize upon it. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that blackens the day terrify it. ⁶ As for that night, let darkness seize it! Let it not be joined to the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months. ⁷ Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful voice come in it. ⁸ Let those curse it who curse the day, those ready to stir up Leviathan. ⁹ Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none, let it wait for eyelids of the dawn. ¹⁰ For it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb; nor did it hide toil from my eyes. ¹¹ Why did I not die from the womb, come from the womb and expire? ¹² Why did the knees go before me; or why the breasts, that I should suck? ¹³ For now I would have lain down and have been quiet; I would have slept. Then I would have been at rest, ¹⁴ with kings and wise men of the earth, who built ruins for themselves; ¹⁵ or with chiefs; they had gold, they filled their houses with silver; ¹⁶ or as a hidden miscarriage, I would not have been, like infants who never saw light. ¹⁷ There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest; ¹⁸ The prisoners are at ease together, they hear not the voice of the slave driver; ¹⁹ the small and the great, he is there, and the slave free from his master. ²⁰ Why is light given to the miserable one, and life to him who is bitter in soul; ²¹ who is waiting for death, but it is not; and they dig for it more than for treasures? ²² They are rejoicing to exultation. They are glad when they find the grave. ²³ To a man whose way is hidden, God has made a hedge about him. ²⁴ For my sighing comes before my food; and my groanings are poured out like the waters. ²⁵ For the dreadful thing I dreaded has come on me; and that which I feared has come to me. ²⁶ I am not at ease, nor am I at rest; nor am I quiet; yet turmoil comes.

³ Behold, you have instructed many; and you have made weak hands strong. ⁴ Your words have upheld him who was falling, and you have made feeble knees strong.

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

⁹ and God would be willing and crush me; let loose His hand and cut me off?

² Until when will you speak these things, since the words of your mouth are like a mighty wind?

¹ My soul loathes my life; I will leave my complaint on myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

³ for the ear tries words as the palate tastes food. ⁴ Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us know among ourselves what is good. 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. ⁷ What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water; ⁸ who goes in company with those who work iniquity, and walks with wicked men? ⁹ For he has said, It is no benefit for a man when he is accepted with God.

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

⁵ Once I have spoken, but I will not answer; yea, twice, but I will go no further.

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

³ Who is this hiding counsel without knowledge? So I declared, but did not understand things too wonderful for me; yea, I did not know.

⁷ And it happened, after Jehovah spoke these words to Job, Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My anger flows against you and your two friends. For You have not spoken the right about Me, as My servant Job.

¹ Ephraim feeds on wind, and follows after the east wind; all the day he multiplies lies and ruin. And they cut a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

³⁷ For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.

¹⁴ so that we may no longer be infants, having been blown and carried to and fro by every wind of doctrine, in the underhandedness of men, in craftiness with a view to the trickery of error,

²² You shall not afflict an orphan or a widow. ²³ If you afflict him, if he at all cries to Me, I will surely hear his cry, ²⁴ and My anger shall glow, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall become widows, and your sons orphans.

⁹ You have sent widows away empty, and have crushed the arms of orphans.

³ If they drive away the ass of orphans; they take the widow's ox for a pledge;

⁹ They seize the orphan from the breast, and lay a pledge on the poor.

¹² For I delivered the poor who cried for help and the orphan who had no helper to him.

¹⁷ or have eaten my bit alone, and the orphan has not eaten it,

²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the orphan, when I watched over my help in the gate;

¹⁵ he dug a pit and bored it, and has fallen into the ditch he made.

⁶ They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down; they have dug a pit before me; they have fallen into it. Selah.

³ Judge the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy.

¹⁰ Do not move the old landmark, and do not enter into the fields of the fatherless, ¹¹ for their Redeemer is mighty, He will contend for their cause with you.

²⁰ Should evil be repaid for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember, I stood before You to speak good concerning them, to turn Your wrath from them.

²² Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring a raiding party on them. For they have dug a pit to seize me, and have hidden snares for my feet.

⁷ In you they have despised father and mother. In your midst they have dealt with the alien by oppression. In you they oppressed the widow and the orphan.

³ And they have cast lots for My people. And they have given a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine, and they drank.

¹⁰ Yet she went into exile; she went into captivity. Also her young ones were dashed to pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honored ones, and all her great ones were bound in chains.

⁵ And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against those swearing to a lie; and against those who extort from the hired laborer's pay; and turning away the widow, and the fatherless, and the alien, and not fearing Me, says Jehovah of hosts.

²⁷ Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their afflictions, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

³ And by covetousness, with well-turned words, they will use you for gain, for whom judgment of old does not linger, and their destruction does not slumber.

³ Should your lies make men silent? And will you mock, and no one make you ashamed?

⁴ my lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

³ My words shall be from my upright heart; and my lips will clearly speak knowledge.

⁴ For truly my words are not false; the perfect One in knowledge is with you.

¹⁰ And now all of them, go back and please come again; and I shall not find among you a wise man.

¹⁰ But He knows the way with me. When I am tried, I shall come forth as gold.

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.

⁵ For Job has said, I am righteous; also, God has taken away my right;

⁶ Therefore, I despise myself, and I have repented on dust and ashes.

¹⁸ Then you shall again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who does not serve Him.

⁶ Are tasteless things eaten without salt? Or is there taste in the slime of an egg?

⁸ Surely you have spoken in my ears, and I have heard the sound of words. ⁹ You said, I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and no iniquity is in me; ¹⁰ behold, He finds alienation on me; He considers me His enemy; ¹¹ He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches all my paths. ¹² Behold, you are not right in this. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.

³ Who is this hiding counsel without knowledge? So I declared, but did not understand things too wonderful for me; yea, I did not know. ⁴ I pray, Listen, and I will speak; I will ask You, and You will make me know. ⁵ I have heard of You by hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen You; ⁶ Therefore, I despise myself, and I have repented on dust and ashes.

¹⁴ But solid food is for those full grown, having exercised the faculties through habit, for distinction of both good and bad.