Job 13:1 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ Behold, mine eye has seen these things, and mine ear has heard [them].

¹² But if there had been any truth in your words, none of these evils would have befallen you. Shall not mine ear receive excellent [revelations] from him?

⁹ who does great things and untraceable, glorious things also, and marvelous, of which there is no number: ¹⁰ who gives rain upon the earth, sending water on the earth: ¹¹ who exalts the lowly, and raises up them that are lost: ¹² frustrating the counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not perform the truth: ¹³ who takes the wise in their wisdom, and subverts the counsel of the crafty ¹⁴ In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the noon-day even as in the night: ¹⁵ and let them perish in war, and let the weak escape from the hand of the mighty. ¹⁶ And let the weak have hope, but the mouth of the unjust be stopped.

²⁷ Behold, we have thus sought out these matters; these are what we have heard: but do you reflect with yourself, if you have done anything [wrong].

⁸ For ask of the former generation, and search diligently among the race of [our] fathers: ⁹ (for we are of yesterday, and know nothing; for our life upon the earth is a shadow:) ¹⁰ shall not these teach you, and report [to you], and bring out words from [their] heart?

⁹ Who then has not known in all these things, that the hand of the Lord has made them? ¹⁰ Whereas the life of all living things is in his hand, and the breath of every man. ¹¹ For the ear tries words, and the palate tastes meats. ¹² In length of time is wisdom, and in long life knowledge. ¹³ With him are wisdom and power, with him counsel and understanding. ¹⁴ If he should cast down, who will build up? if he should shut up against man, who shall open? ¹⁵ If he should withhold the water, he will dry the earth: and if he should let it loose, he overthrows and destroys it. ¹⁶ With him are strength and power: he has knowledge and understanding. ¹⁷ He leads counselors away captive, and maddens the judges of the earth. ¹⁸ He seats kings upon thrones, and girds their loins with a girdle. ¹⁹ He sends away priests into captivity, and overthrows the mighty ones of the earth. ²⁰ He changes the lips of the trusty, and he knows the understanding of the elders. ²¹ He pours dishonor upon princes, and heals the lowly. ²² Revealing deep things out of darkness: and he has brought into light the shadow of death. ²³ Causing the nations to wander, and destroying them: overthrowing the nations, and leading them [away]. ²⁴ Perplexing the minds of the princes of the earth: and he causes them to wander in a way, they have not known, [saying], ²⁵ Let them grope [in] darkness, and [let there be] no light, and let them wander as a drunken man.

¹⁷ But I will tell you, listen to me; I will tell you now what I have seen; ¹⁸ things wise men say, and their fathers have not hidden.

³ For who is he that hides counsel from you? or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from you? and who will tell me what I knew not, great and wonderful things which I understood not? ⁴ But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask you, and do you teach me. ⁵ I have heard the report of you by the ear before; but now mine eye has seen you. ⁶ Therefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes.

³ They have shed their blood as water, round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury [them]. ⁴ We are become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to them [that are] round about us.