Job 15 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ Then Eliphaz the Thaemanite answered and said, ² Will a wise man give for answer a [mere] breath of wisdom? and does he fill up the pain of his belly, ³ reasoning with improper sayings, and with words wherein is no profit? ⁴ Hast not you moreover cast off fear, and accomplished such words before the Lord? ⁵ You are guilty by the words of your mouth, neither have you discerned the words of the mighty. ⁶ Let your own mouth, and not me, reprove you: and your lips shall testify against you. ⁷ What! are you the first man that was born? or were you established before the hills? ⁸ Or have you heard the ordinance of the Lord? or has God used you as [his] counsellor? and has wisdom come [only] to you? ⁹ For what know you, that, we know not? or what understand you, which we do not also? ¹⁰ Truly among us [are] both the old and very aged man, more advanced in days than your father. ¹¹ You have been scourged for [but] few of your sins: you have spoken haughtily [and] extravagantly. ¹² What has your heart dared? or what have your eyes [aimed at], ¹³ that you have vented [your] rage before the Lord, and delivered such words from [your] mouth? ¹⁴ For who, being a mortal, [is such] that he shall be blameless? or, [who that is] born of a woman, that he should be just? ¹⁵ Forasmuch as he trusts not his saints; and the heaven is not pure before him. ¹⁶ Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught. 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. ¹⁹ To them alone the earth was given, and no stranger came upon them. ²⁰ All the life of the ungodly [is spent] in care, and the years granted to the oppressor are numbered. ²¹ And his terror is in his ears: just when he seems to be at peace, his overthrow will come. ²² Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, for he has been already made over to the power of the sword. ²³ And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; and he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcass: and a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind. ²⁴ Distress also and anguish shall come upon him: he shall fall as a captain in the first rank. ²⁵ For he has lifted his hands against the Lord, and he has hardened his neck against the Almighty Lord. ²⁶ And he has run against him with insolence, on the thickness of the back of his shield. ²⁷ For he has covered his face with his fat, and made layers of fat upon his thighs. ²⁸ And let him lodge in desolate cities, and enter into houses without inhabitant: and what they have prepared, others shall carry away. ²⁹ Neither shall he at all grow rich, nor shall his substance remain: he shall not cast a shadow upon the earth. ³⁰ Neither shall he in any wise escape the darkness: let the wind blast his blossom, and let his flower fall off. ³¹ Let him not think that he shall endure; for his end shall be vanity. ³² His harvest shall perish before the time, and his branch shall not flourish. ³³ And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time, and let him fall as the blossom of the olive. ³⁴ For death is the witness of an ungodly man, and fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts. ³⁵ And he shall conceive sorrows, and his end shall be vanity, and his belly shall bear deceit.

¹¹ Now his three friends having heard of all the evil that was come upon him, came to him each from his own country: Eliphaz the king of the Thaemans, Baldad sovereign of the Saucheans, Sophar king of he Minaeans: and they came to him with one accord, to comfort and to visit him.

¹ Then Eliphaz the Thaemanite answered and said,

¹ Then Eliphaz the Thaemanite answered and said,

⁷ And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken all these words to Job, [that] the Lord said to Eliphaz the Thaemanite, You have sinned, and your two friends: for you⌃ have not said anything true before me, as my servant Job [has].

⁹ So Eliphaz the Thaemanite, and Baldad the Sauchite, and Sophar the Minaean, went and did as the Lord commanded them: and he pardoned their sin for the sake of Job.

²⁶ Neither will your reproof cause me to cease my words, for neither will I endure the sound of your speech.

² How long will you speak these things, [how long shall] the breath of your mouth [be] abundant in words?

² He that speaks much, should also hear on the other side: or does the fluent speaker think himself to be righteous? blessed [is] the short lived offspring of woman. ³ Be not a speaker of many words; for is there none to answer you?

² And I know all that you⌃ too know; and I have not less understanding than you.

¹ But Ephraim is an evil spirit, he has chased the east wind all the day: he has multiplied empty and vain things, and made a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil has gone in the way of traffic into Egypt.

⁴ But you⌃ are all bad physicians, and healers of diseases. ⁵ But would that you⌃ were silent, and it would be wisdom to you in the end.

² I have heard many such things: poor comforters are you⌃ all. ³ What! is there any reason in vain words? or what will hinder you from answering?

¹ But Job answered and said, ² To whom do you attach yourself, or whom are you going to assist? is it not he that [has] much strength, and [he] who has a strong arm? ³ To whom have you given counsel? is it not to him who has all wisdom? whom will you follow? is it not one who has the greatest power?

¹³ You⌃ have spoken grievous words against me, says the Lord. Yet you⌃ said, Wherein have we spoken against you? ¹⁴ You⌃ said, He that serves God labors in vain: and what have we gained in that we have kept his ordinances, and in that we have walked as suppliants before the face of the Lord Almighty? ¹⁵ And now we pronounce strangers blessed; and all they who act unlawfully are built up; and they have resisted God, and [yet] have been delivered.

¹³ So Saul died for his transgressions, wherein he transgressed against God, against the word of the Lord, forasmuch as he kept [it] not, because Saul enquired of a wizard to seek [counsel], and Samuel the prophet answered him: ¹⁴ and he sought not the Lord: so he killed him, and turned the kingdom to David the son of Jesse.

⁵ Yet now [that] pain has come upon you, and touched you, you are troubled. ⁶ Is not your fear [founded] in folly, your hope also, and the mischief of your way?

⁸ Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the sovereign of all;

¹⁴ Mercy has rejected me; and the visitation of the Lord has disregarded me.

¹⁰ has he any confidence before him? or will [God] hear him as he calls upon him?

¹ (37) [A Psalm] of David. Fret not yourself because of evil-doers, neither be envious of them that do iniquity. ² For they shall soon be withered as the grass, and shall soon fall away as the green herbs. ³ Hope in the Lord, and do good; and dwell on the land, and you shall be fed with the wealth of it.

¹⁴ And their hearts did not cry to me, but they howled on their beds: they pined for oil and wine.

¹⁰ But a remnant shall be left behind, and their relations shall take them, and shall strenuously endeavor to carry forth their bones from the house: and one shall say to the heads of the house, Is there yet [any one] else with you?

⁶ and them that turn aside from the Lord, and them that seek not the Lord, and them that cleave not to the Lord.

¹³ who takes the wise in their wisdom, and subverts the counsel of the crafty

²² Therefore I said, Wrath slays the great and mighty man. ²³ For the worthless die, but the righteous are laughed to scorn. ²⁴ For they are delivered into the hands of the unrighteous [man]: he covers the faces of the judges [of the earth]: but if it be not he, who is it?

⁶ even as many as provoke the Lord, as if there were indeed to be no inquisition [made] of them.

¹⁹ Then shall you be pleased with a sacrifice of righteousness, offering, and whole burnt sacrifices: then shall they offer calves upon your altar.

² God looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any that understood, or sought after God. ³ They have all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, there is not even one. ⁴ Will none of the workers of iniquity know, who devour my people as they would eat bread? they have not called upon God. There were they greatly afraid, where there was no fear:

³ The words of transgressors have overpowered us; but do you pardon our sins.

² My help [shall come] from the Lord, who made the heaven and the earth. ³ Let not your foot be moved; and let not your keeper slumber.

³ And they have bent their tongue like a bow: falsehood and not faithfulness has prevailed upon the earth; for they have gone on from evil to evil, and have not known me, says the Lord. ⁴ Beware you⌃ each of his neighbor, and trust you⌃ not in your brethren: for every one will surely supplant, and every friend will walk craftily. ⁵ Every one will mock his friend; they will not speak truth: their tongue has learned to speak falsehoods; they have committed iniquity, they ceased not, so as to return.

⁸ Their tongue is a wounding arrow; the words of their mouth are deceitful: [one] speaks peaceably to his neighbor, but in himself retains enmity.

²⁰ For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane: and though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse.

⁸ But you have said in mine ears, (I have heard the voice of your words;) because you say, I am pure, not having sinned; ⁹ I am blameless, for I have not transgressed. ¹⁰ Yet he has discovered a charge against me, and he has reckoned me as an adversary. ¹¹ And he has put my foot in the stocks, and has watched all my ways. ¹² For how say you, I am righteous, yet he has not listened to me? for he that is above mortals is eternal.

⁵ For Job has said, I am righteous: the Lord has removed my judgment. ⁶ And he has erred in my judgment: my wound is severe without unrighteousness [of mine]. ⁷ What man is as Job, drinking scorning like water? ⁸ [saying], I have not sinned, nor committed ungodliness, nor had fellowship with workers of iniquity, to go with the ungodly. ⁹ For you should not say, There shall be no visitation of a man, whereas [there is] a visitation on him from the Lord.

² What is this that you think to be according to right? who are you that you have said, I am righteous before the Lord? ³ I will answer you, and your three friends.

⁸ And hide them together in the earth; and fill their faces with shame.

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?

⁸ The nations shall be troubled, and they that inhabit the ends [of the earth] shall be afraid of your signs; you will cause the outgoings of morning and evening to rejoice.

¹ And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and brought forth Cain and said, I have gained a man through God.

¹² In length of time is wisdom, and in long life knowledge.

¹⁰ Truly among us [are] both the old and very aged man, more advanced in days than your father.

⁴ Where was you when I founded the earth? tell me now, if you have knowledge, ⁵ who set the measures of it, if you know? or who stretched a line upon it? ⁶ On what are its rings fastened? and who is he that laid the corner-stone upon it? ⁷ When the stars were made, all my angels praised me with a loud voice. ⁸ And I shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed out, coming forth out its mother's womb. ⁹ And I made a cloud its clothing, and swathed it in mist. ¹⁰ And I set bounds to it, surrounding it with bars and gates. ¹¹ And I said to it, Hitherto shall you come, but you shall not go beyond, but your waves shall be confined within you. ¹² Or did I order the morning light in your time; and [did] the morning star [then first] see his appointed place; ¹³ to lay hold of the extremities of the earth, to cast out the ungodly out of it? ¹⁴ Or did you take clay of the ground, and form a living creature, and set it with the power of speech upon the earth? ¹⁵ And have you removed light from the ungodly, and crushed the arm of the proud? ¹⁶ Or have you gone to the source of the sea, and walked in the tracks of the deep? ¹⁷ And do the gates of death open to you for fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw you? ¹⁸ And have you been instructed in the breadth of the [whole earth] under heaven? tell me now, what is the extent of it? ¹⁹ And in what kind of a land does the light dwell? and of what kind is the place of darkness? ²⁰ If you could bring me to their [utmost] boundaries, and if also you know their paths; ²¹ I know then that you were born at that time, and the number of your years is great. ²² But have you gone to the treasures of snow? and have you seen the treasures of hail? ²³ And is there a store [of them], for you against the time of [your] enemies, for the day of wars and battle? ²⁴ And whence proceeds the frost? or [whence] is the south wind dispersed over the [whole world] under heaven? ²⁵ And who prepared a course for the violent rain, and a way for the thunders; ²⁶ to rain upon the land where [there is] no man, the wilderness, where there is not a man in it; so as to feed the untrodden and uninhabited [land], ²⁷ and cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs? ²⁸ Who is the rain's father? and who has generated the drops of dew? ²⁹ And out of whose womb comes the ice? and who has produced the frost in the sky, ³⁰ which descends like flowing water? who has terrified the face of the ungodly? ³¹ And do you understand the band of Pleias, and have you opened the barrier of Orion? ³² Or will you reveal Mazuroth in his season, and the evening star with his rays? Will you guide them? ³³ And know you the changes of heaven, or the events which take place together under heaven? ³⁴ And will you call a cloud with your voice, and will it obey you with a violent shower of much rain? ³⁵ And will you send lightnings, and they shall go? and shall they say to you, What is [your pleasure]? ³⁶ And who has given to women skill in weaving, or knowledge of embroidery? ³⁷ And who is he that numbers the clouds in wisdom, and has bowed the heaven [down] to the earth? ³⁸ For it is spread out as dusty earth, and I have cemented it as one hewn stone to another. ³⁹ And will you hunt a prey for the lions? and satisfy the desires of the serpents? ⁴⁰ For they fear in their lairs, and lying in wait couch in the woods. ⁴¹ And who has prepared food for the raven? for its young ones wander and cry to the Lord, in search of food.

² He shall say to the Lord, You are my helper and my refuge: my God; I will hope in him.

²² The Lord made me the beginning of his ways for his works. ²³ He established me before time [was] in the beginning, before he made the earth: ²⁴ even before he made the depths; before the fountains of water came forth: ²⁵ before the mountains were settled, and before all hills, he begets me.

²⁹ The secret things [belong] to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed [belong] to us and to our children for ever, to do all the words of this law.

⁶ Then shall he declare to you the power of wisdom; for it shall be double of that which is with you: and then shall you know, that a just recompence of your sins has come to you from the Lord.

² So then you⌃ [alone] are men, and wisdom shall die with you?

⁵ But would that you⌃ were silent, and it would be wisdom to you in the end. ⁶ But hear you⌃ the reasoning of my mouth, and attend to the judgment of my lips.

⁴ [As] when I steadfastly pursued my ways, when God took care of my house.

³² For every transgressor is unclean before the Lord; neither does he sit among the righteous.

¹⁸ For who has stood in the counsel of the Lord, and seen his word? who has listened, and heard?

⁷ For the Lord God will do nothing, without revealing instruction to his servants the prophets.

³ [But] I also have a heart as well as you.

³ To whom have you given counsel? is it not to him who has all wisdom? whom will you follow? is it not one who has the greatest power? ⁴ To whom have you uttered words? and whose breath is it that has come forth from you?

⁷ Remember the days of old, consider the years for past ages: ask your father, and he shall relate to you, your elders, and they shall tell you.

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?

²⁰ He changes the lips of the trusty, and he knows the understanding of the elders.

⁶ And Elius the Buzite the son of Barachiel answered and said, I am younger in age, and you⌃ are elder, therefore I kept silence, fearing to declare to you my own knowledge. ⁷ And I said, It is not time that speaks, though in many years [men] know wisdom:

³¹ Old age is a crown of honor, but it is found in the ways of righteousness.

²⁴ And Sedekias the son of Chanaan came near and struck Michaias on the cheek, and said, What sort of a spirit of the Lord [has] spoken in you?

⁸ Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the sovereign of all; 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. ¹⁷ But blessed [is] the man whom the Lord has reproved; and reject not you the chastening of the Almighty. ¹⁸ for he causes [a man] to be in pain, and restores [him] again: he smites, and his hands heal. ¹⁹ Six time he shall deliver you out of distresses: and in the seventh harm shall not touch you. ²⁰ In famine he shall deliver you from death: and in war he shall free you from the power of the sword. ²¹ He shall hide you from the scourge of the tongue: and you shall not be afraid of coming evils. ²² You shall laugh at the unrighteous and the lawless: and you shall not be afraid of wild beasts. ²³ For the wild beasts of the field shall be at peace with you. ²⁴ Then shall you know that your house shall be at peace, and the provision for your tabernacle shall not fail. ²⁵ And you shall know that your seed [shall be] abundant; and your children shall be like the herbage of the field. ²⁶ And you shall come to the grave like ripe corn reaped in its season, or as a heap of the corn-flour collected in proper time.

¹³ For if you have made your heart pure, and lift up [your] hands towards him; ¹⁴ if there is any iniquity in your hands, put if far from you, and let not unrighteousness lodge in your habitation. ¹⁵ For thus shall your countenance shine again, as pure water; and you shall dive yourself of uncleanness, and shall not fear. ¹⁶ And you shall forget trouble, as a wave that has passed by; and you shall not be scared. ¹⁷ And your prayer [shall be] as the morning star, and life shall arise to you [as] from the noonday. ¹⁸ And you shall be confident, because you have hope; and peace shall dawn to you from out of anxiety and care. ¹⁹ For you shall be at ease, and there shall be no one to fight against you; and many shall charge, and make supplication to you.

⁸ Or have you heard the ordinance of the Lord? or has God used you as [his] counsellor? and has wisdom come [only] to you?

¹⁶ And he has also enticed you out of the mouth of the enemy:

¹³ For if you have made your heart pure, and lift up [your] hands towards him;

² Weary I entreat; and what have I done? and strangers have stolen my goods.

¹³ And the same winks with the eye, and makes a sign with his foot, and teaches with the beckonings of his fingers.

⁹ Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart blameless, but not in the sight of your eyes: yet know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

⁴ For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: who has hardened himself against him and endured?

³ Is it good before you if I be unrighteous? for you have disowned the work of your hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly.

²⁵ For he has lifted his hands against the Lord, and he has hardened his neck against the Almighty Lord. ²⁶ And he has run against him with insolence, on the thickness of the back of his shield. ²⁷ For he has covered his face with his fat, and made layers of fat upon his thighs.

¹³ But I, when they troubled me, put on sackcloth, and humbled my soul with fasting: and my prayer shall return to my [own] bosom.

¹³ You⌃ have spoken grievous words against me, says the Lord. Yet you⌃ said, Wherein have we spoken against you?

⁴⁶ [If it be] that they shall sin against you, (for there is not a man who will not sin,) and you shall bring them and deliver them up before their enemies, and they that take [them] captive shall carry [them] to a land far or near,

³⁶ Whereas if they shall sin against you, (for there is no man who will not sin,) and you shall strike them, and deliver them up before their enemies, and they that take them captive shall carry them away into a land of enemies, to a land far off or near;

² I know of a truth that it is so: for how shall a mortal man be just before the Lord?

⁴ For who shall be pure from uncleanness? not even one;

⁴ For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself? ⁵ If he gives an order to the moon, then it shines not; and the stars are not pure before him. ⁶ But alas! man is corruption, and the son of man a worm.

³ Who has not spoken craftily with is tongue, neither has done evil to his neighbor, nor taken up a reproach against them that lived nearest to him.

⁵ Therefore may God destroy you for ever, may he pluck you up and utterly remove you from [your] dwelling, and your root from the land of the living. Pause.

⁹ Who will boast that he has a pure heart? or who will boldly say that he is pure from sins?

²⁰ Wisdom will help the wise man more than ten mighty men which are in the city.

²⁹ which my soul sought after, but I found not: for I have found one man of a thousand; but a woman in all these I have not found.

¹⁸ Whereas he trust not in his servants, and perceives perverseness in his angels.

¹ But call, if any one will listen to you, or if you shall see any of the holy angels.

⁵ If he gives an order to the moon, then it shines not; and the stars are not pure before him.

² And seraphs stood round about him: each one had six wings: and with two they covered [their] face, and with two they covered [their] feet, and with two they flew. ³ And one cried to the other, and they said, Holy, holy, holy [is the] Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. ⁴ And the lintel shook at the voice they uttered, and the house was filled with smoke. ⁵ And I said, Woe is me, for I am pricked to the heart; for being a man, and having unclean lips, I dwell in the midst of a people having unclean lips; and I have seen with mine eyes the King, the Lord of hosts.

¹⁹ But [as for] them that dwell in houses of clay, of whom we also are formed of the same clay, he smites them like a moth.

¹² Though evil be sweet in his mouth, [though] he will hide it under his tongue;

⁷ What man is as Job, drinking scorning like water?

⁶ Therefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes.

¹ (15) A Psalm of David. O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tabernacle? and who shall dwell in your holy mountain? ² He that walks blameless, and works righteousness, who speaks truth in his heart. ³ Who has not spoken craftily with is tongue, neither has done evil to his neighbor, nor taken up a reproach against them that lived nearest to him.

³ For strangers have risen up against me, and mighty men have sought my life: they have not set God before them. Pause.

²⁸ He that becomes surety for a foolish child will despise the ordinance: and the mouth of ungodly men shall drink down judgment.

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].

¹ Howbeit hear, Job, my words, and listen to my speech.

² Hear me, you⌃ wise men; listen, you⌃ that have knowledge.

² Wait for me yet a little while, that I may teach you: for there is yet speech in me.

⁸ For ask of the former generation, and search diligently among the race of [our] fathers:

¹⁸ Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, who alone does wonders.

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. ⁵ How long, O Lord? will you be angry for ever? shall your jealousy burn like fire? ⁶ Pour out your wrath upon the heathen that have not known you, and upon the kingdoms which have not called upon your name.

¹⁹ The living shall bless you, as I also [do]: for from this day shall I beget children, who shall declare your righteousness,

²⁵ And to Heber were born two sons, the name of the one, Phaleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and the name of his brother Jektan.

³² These are the tribes of the sons of Noe, according to their generations, according to their nations: of them were the islands of the Gentiles scattered over the earth after the flood.

⁸ When the Most High divided the nations, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the nations according to the number of the angels of God.

¹⁷ And you⌃ shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwell in Sion my holy mountain: and Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall not pass through her anymore.

¹ But why have the seasons been hidden from the Lord,

¹³ This is the portion of an ungodly man from the Lord, and the possession of oppressors shall come upon them from the Almighty.

³ For he shall deliver you from the snare of the hunters, from [every] troublesome matter. ⁴ He shall overshadow you with his shoulders, and you shall trust under his wings: his truth shall cover you with a shield.

¹² They shall bear you up on their hands, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone.

³ There is this evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes, the heart of the sons of men is filled with evil, and madness is in their heart during their life, and after that [they go] to the dead.

⁹ And the Lord God called Adam and said to him, Adam, where are you? ¹⁰ And he said to him, I heard your voice as you walked in the garden, and I feared because I was naked and I hid myself.

³⁶ And to those who are left of you I will bring bondage into their heart in the land of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee as fleeing from war, and shall fall when none pursues them.

³⁶ And Abigaia came to Nabal: and, behold, he had a banquet in this house, as the banquet of a king, and the heart of Nabal [was] merry within him, and he [was] very drunken: and she told him nothing great or small till the morning light. ³⁷ And it came to pass in the morning, when Nabal recovered from his wine, his wife told him these words; and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. ³⁸ And it came to pass after about ten days, that the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.

⁶ For the Lord had made the army of Syria to hear a sound of chariots, and a sound of horses, [even] the sound of a great host: and [each] man said to his fellow, Now has the king of Israel hired against us the kings of the Chettites, and the kings of Egypt, to come against us.

¹³ And it came to pass on a certain day, that Job's sons and his daughters were drinking wine in the house of their elder brother. ¹⁴ And, behold, there came a messenger to Job, and said to him, The yokes of oxen were plowing, and the she-asses were feeding near them; ¹⁵ and the spoilers came and took them for a prey, and killed the servants with the sword; and I having escaped alone am come to tell you. ¹⁶ While he was yet speaking, there came another messenger, and said to Job, Fire has fallen from heaven, and burnt up the sheep, and devoured the shepherds like wise; and I having escaped alone am come to tell you. ¹⁷ While he was yet speaking, there came another messenger, and said to Job, The horsemen formed three companies against us, and surrounded the camels, and took them for a prey, and killed the servants with the sword; and I only escaped, and am come to tell you. ¹⁸ While he is yet speaking, another messenger comes, saying to Job, While your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking with their elder brother, ¹⁹ suddenly a great wind came on from the desert, and caught the four corners of the house, and the house fell upon your children, and they are dead; and I have escaped alone, and am come to tell you.

¹¹ Let pains destroy him round about, and let many [enemies] come about him,

⁵ But the mirth of the ungodly is a signal downfall, and the joy of transgressors is destruction: ⁶ although his gifts should go up to heaven, and his sacrifice reach the clouds. ⁷ For when he shall seem to be now established, then he shall utterly perish: and they that knew him shall say, Where is he?

²² But when he shall seem to be just satisfied, he shall be straitened; and all distress shall come upon him. ²³ If by any means he would fill his belly, let [God] send upon him the fury of wrath; let him bring a torrent of pains upon him. ²⁴ And he shall by no means escape from the power of the sword; let the brazen bow wound him. ²⁵ And let the arrow pierce through his body; and let the stars be against his dwelling-place: let terrors come upon him.

²⁰ Pains have come upon him as water, and darkness has carried him away by night.

¹⁸ Remember this your creation: an enemy has reproached the Lord, and a foolish people has provoked your name. ¹⁹ Deliver not to the wild beasts a soul that gives praise to you: forget not for ever the souls of your poor. ²⁰ Look upon your covenant: for the dark [places] of the earth are filled with the habitations of iniquity.

²⁶ therefore I also will laugh at your destruction; and I will rejoice against [you] when ruin comes upon you: ²⁷ yes when dismay suddenly comes upon you, and [your] overthrow shall arrive like a tempest; and when tribulation and distress shall come upon you, or when ruin shall come upon you.

³³ While he was yet speaking with them, behold, a messenger came to him: and he said, Behold, this evil [is] of the Lord; why should I wait for the Lord any longer?

¹¹ For what is my strength, that I continue? what is my time, that my soul endures?

¹⁶ And if I should call and he should not listen, I can’t believe that he has listened to my voice.

²⁹ Do you⌃ also beware of deceit: for wrath will come upon transgressors; and then shall they know where their substance is.

¹⁴ And if their children be many, they shall be for slaughter: and if they grow up, they shall beg.

²¹ And famine shall come sorely upon you, and it shall come to pass, [that] when you⌃ shall be hungry, you⌃ shall be grieved, and you⌃ shall speak ill of the prince and your fathers' ordinances: and they shall look up to heaven above, ²² and they shall look on the earth below, and behold severe distress, and darkness, affliction, and anguish, and darkness so that [one can’t] see; and he that is in anguish shall not be distressed only for a time.

¹² When you till the earth, then it shall not continue to give its strength to you: you shall be groaning and trembling on the earth.

⁵ But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up. ⁶ His light [shall be] darkness in [his] habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

¹² [vex him] with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.

¹⁸ Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.

³ [One is] childless in lack and famine, [such as] they that fled but lately the distress and misery of drought. ⁴ Who compass the salt places on the sounding [shore], who had salt [herbs] for their food, and were dishonorable and of no repute, in lack of every good thing; who also ate roots of trees by reason of great hunger.

⁸ For even if a man should live many years, [and] rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

⁶ Egypt gave the hand [to us], Assur to their own satisfaction.

⁹ We shall bring in our bread with [danger of] our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

² for a day of darkness and gloominess is near, a day of cloud and mist: a numerous and strong people shall be spread upon the mountains as the morning; there has not been from the beginning one like it, and after it there shall not be again even to the years of many generations.

²⁰ Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light? and is not this [day] gloom without brightness?

¹⁵ A mighty day of wrath is that day, a day of affliction and distress, a day of desolation and destruction, a day of gloominess and darkness, a day of cloud and vapor,

² Oh that one would indeed weigh the wrath that is upon me, and take up my griefs in a balance together! ³ And verily they would be heavier than the sand by the seashore: but, as it seems, my words are vain. ⁴ For the arrows of the Lord are in my body, whose violence drinks up my blood: whenever I am going to speak, they pierce me.

²⁷ yes when dismay suddenly comes upon you, and [your] overthrow shall arrive like a tempest; and when tribulation and distress shall come upon you, or when ruin shall come upon you.

¹¹ Then poverty comes upon you as an evil traveller, and lack as a swift courier: but if you be diligent, your harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.

³⁴ But if you do this, your poverty will come speedily; and your lack like a swift courier.

³ I give command, and I bring them: giants are coming to fulfil my wrath, rejoicing at the same time and insulting.

² And Pharao said, Who is he that I should listen to his voice, so that I should send away the children of Israel? I do not know the Lord, and I will not let Israel go. ³ And they say to him, The God of the Hebrews has called us to him: we will go therefore a three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest at any time death or slaughter happen to us.

¹⁷ Do you then yet exert yourself to hinder my people, so as not to let them go?

²³ And if hereupon you⌃ are not corrected, but walk perversely towards me,

⁷ And the Philistines feared, and said, These are the Gods that are come to them into the camp. ⁸ Woe to us, O Lord, deliver us today for such a thing has not happened aforetime: woe to us, who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these [are] the Gods that struck Egypt with every plague, and in the wilderness. ⁹ Strengthen yourselves and behave yourselves like men, O you⌃ Philistines, that you⌃ may not serve the Hebrews as they have served us, but be you⌃ men and fight with them.

⁶ And why do you⌃ harden your hearts, as Egypt and Pharao hardened their hearts? [was it] not [so] when he mocked them, [that] they let the people go, and they departed?

⁹ And he shall recount to them their works, and their transgressions, for such will act with violence.

⁹ [Then] will I confess that your right hand can save [you]. ¹⁰ But now look at the wild beasts with you; they eat grass like oxen. ¹¹ Behold now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.

⁹ We have not seen our signs; there is no longer a prophet; and [God] will not know us any more.

¹¹ Therefore turn you away your hand, and your right hand from the midst of your bosom for ever?

⁹ Know, you⌃ Gentiles, and be conquered; listen you⌃, even to the extremity of the earth: be conquered, after you⌃ strengthened yourselves; for even if you⌃ should again strengthen yourselves, you⌃ shall again be conquered. ¹⁰ And whatever counsel you⌃ shall take, the Lord shall bring it to nothing; and whatever word you⌃ shall speak, it shall not stand among you: for God is with us.

¹² And it shall come to pass, when the Lord shall have finished doing all things on Mount Sion and Jerusalem, [that] I will visit upon the proud heart, [even] upon the ruler of the Assyrians, and upon the boastful haughtiness of his eyes. ¹³ For he said, I will act in strength, and in the wisdom of [my] understanding I will remove the boundaries of nations, and will spoil their strength. ¹⁴ And I will shake the inhabited cities: and I will take with my hand all the world as a nest: and I will even take them as eggs that have been left; and there is none that shall escape me, or contradict me.

⁴ There is no woman that has not taken hold of it; who will set me to watch stubble in the field? because of this enemy I have set her aside; therefore on this account the Lord has done all that he appointed.

⁴ Who has wrought and done these things? he has called it who called it from the generations of old; I God, the first and to [all] futurity, I AM. ⁵ The nations saw, and feared; the ends of the earth drew near, and came together, ⁶ every one judging for his neighbor and [that] to assist his brother: and one will say, ⁷ The artificer has become strong, and the coppersmith that smites with the hammer, [and] forges also: sometimes he will say, It is a piece well joined: they have fastened them with nails; they will fix them, and they shall not be moved.

²³ And you has been exalted against the Lord God of heaven; and they have brought before you the vessels of his house, and you, and your nobles, and your mistresses, and your concubines, have drunk wine out of them; and you has praised the gods of gold, and silver, and brass, and iron, and wood, and stone, which see not, and which hear not, and know not: and the God in whose hand are your breath, and all your ways has you not glorified.

⁸ Juda, your brethren have praised you, and your hands shall be on the back of your enemies; your father's sons shall do you reverence.

²² but only [troubled him] in his affliction: and he departed yet more from the Lord, and king Achaz said,

¹³ Know you⌃ not what I and my fathers have done to all the nations of the countries? Could the gods of the nations of all the earth at all rescue their people out of my hand? ¹⁴ Who is there among all the gods of those nations whom my fathers utterly destroyed, [worthy of trust]? Could they deliver their people out of my hand, that your God should deliver you out of my hand? ¹⁵ Now then, let not Ezekias deceive you, and let him not make you thus confident, and believe him not: for no god of any kingdom or nation is at all able to deliver his people out of my hand, or the hand of my fathers: therefore your God shall not deliver you out of my hand. ¹⁶ And his servants continued to speak against the Lord God, and against his servant Ezekias. ¹⁷ And he wrote a letter to reproach the Lord God of Israel, and spoke concerning him, saying, As the gods of the nations of the earth have not delivered their people out of my hand, so the God of Ezekias shall by no means deliver his people out of my hand.

¹² For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men, and thrown me upon the ungodly.

¹⁵ So Jacob ate and was filled, and the beloved one kicked; he grew fat, he became thick and broad: then he forsook the God that made him, and departed from God his Saviour.

¹⁰ Howbeit, do you⌃ all strengthen [yourselves] and come now, for I do not find truth in you.

¹⁰ And he mounted on cherubs and flew: he flew on the wings of winds.

⁷ They have burnt your sanctuary with fire to the ground; they have profaned the habitation of your name.

¹⁰ For the heart of this people has become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

²⁸ and they have transgressed [the rule of] judgment; they have not judged the cause of the orphan, nor have they judged the cause of the widow.

¹⁴ with kings [and] councillors of the earth, who gloried in [their] swords;

¹⁵ It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.

⁸ Woe [to them] that join house to house, and add field to field, that they may take away something of their neighbor's: will you⌃ dwell alone upon the land? ⁹ For these things have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts: for though many houses should be built, many and fair houses shall be desolate, and there shall be no inhabitants in them. ¹⁰ For where ten yoke of oxen plow [the land] shall yield one, and he that sows six homers shall produce three measures.

¹¹ And I will remove the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and make it a dwelling-place of dragons; and I will utterly waste the cities of Juda, so that they shall not be inhabited.

¹⁸ [As] I live, says the Lord God, he shall come as Itabyrion among the mountains, and as Carmel that is on the sea.

¹² Therefore on your account Sion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a storehouse of fruits, and the mountain of the house as a grove of the forest.

¹⁸ Who is a God like you, cancelling iniquities, and passing over the sins of the remnant of his inheritance? and he has not kept his anger for a testimony, for he delights in mercy.

²² But when he shall seem to be just satisfied, he shall be straitened; and all distress shall come upon him. ²³ If by any means he would fill his belly, let [God] send upon him the fury of wrath; let him bring a torrent of pains upon him. ²⁴ And he shall by no means escape from the power of the sword; let the brazen bow wound him. ²⁵ And let the arrow pierce through his body; and let the stars be against his dwelling-place: let terrors come upon him. ²⁶ And let all darkness wait for him: a fire that burns not out shall consume him; and let a stranger plague his house. ²⁷ And let the heaven reveal his iniquities, and the earth rise up against him. ²⁸ Let destruction bring his house to an end; let a day of wrath come upon him.

¹⁵ Will you [not] mark the old way, which righteous men have trodden? ¹⁶ who were seized before their time: their foundations [are as] an overflowing stream. ¹⁷ Who say, What will the Lord do to us? or what will the Almighty bring upon us? ¹⁸ Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel for the wicked is far from him. ¹⁹ The righteous have seen [it], and laughed, and the blameless one has derided [them]. ²⁰ Verily their substance has been utterly destroyed, and the fire shall devour what is left of their [property].

¹⁶ Even if he should gather silver as earth, and prepare gold as clay; ¹⁷ All these things shall the righteous gain, and the true-hearted shall possess his wealth.

¹⁶ But to the sinner God has said, Why do you declare my ordinances, and take up my covenant in your mouth? ¹⁷ Whereas you have hated instruction, and have cast my words behind [you].

⁹ They shall perish by the command of the Lord, and shall be utterly consumed by the breath of his wrath.

¹⁴ In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the noon-day even as in the night:

²¹ before I go whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess; ²² to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither [can any one] see the life of mortals.

²² Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, for he has been already made over to the power of the sword.

²⁶ And let all darkness wait for him: a fire that burns not out shall consume him; and let a stranger plague his house.

²⁰ Verily their substance has been utterly destroyed, and the fire shall devour what is left of their [property].

⁴ but he shall judge the cause of the lowly, and shall reprove the lowly of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with the word of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he destroy the ungodly one.

³³ For you shall be required before [your] time: has it been prepared for you also to reign? nay, God has [prepared for you] a deep trench, wood piled, fire and much wood: the wrath of the Lord [shall be] as a trench kindled with sulphur.

⁴ It is only given to the fire to be consumed; the fire consumes that which is yearly pruned of it, and it is utterly gone. Will it be useful for [any] work? ⁵ Not even while it is yet whole will it be [useful] for [any] work: if the fire shall have utterly consumed it, will it still be [fit] for work? ⁶ Therefore say, Thus says the Lord, As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given up to the fire to be consumed, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ⁷ And I will set my face against them; they shall go forth of the fire, and [yet] fire shall devour them; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have set my face against them.

⁴⁷ and you shall say to the forest of Nageb, Hear the word of the Lord; thus says the Lord, [even] the Lord; Behold, I [will] kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour in you every green tree, and every dry tree: the flame that is kindled shall not be quenched, and every face shall be scorched with it from the south to the north. ⁴⁸ And all flesh shall know that I the Lord have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.

⁸ Accordingly as I have seen men plowing barren places, and they that sow them will reap sorrows for themselves.

¹⁶ With him are strength and power: he has knowledge and understanding.

¹⁰ They shall be delivered up to the power of the sword; they shall be portions for foxes.

⁸ He that sows wickedness shall reap troubles; and shall fully receive the punishment of his deeds. God loves a cheerful and liberal man; but [a man] shall fully prove the folly of his works.

¹⁰ Because you have forsaken God your Saviour, and have not been mindful of the Lord your helper; therefore shall you plant a false plant, and a false seed. ¹¹ In the day wherein you shall plant you shall be deceived; but if you sow in the morning, [the seed] shall spring up for a crop in the day wherein you shall obtain an inheritance, and as a man's father, you shall obtain an inheritance for your sons.

²⁰ Know you that their heart is ashes, and they err, and no one is able to deliver his soul: see, you⌃ will not say, [There is a] lie in my right hand.

⁴ None speaks justly, neither is there true judgment: they trust in vanities, and speak empty [words]; for they conceive trouble, and bring forth iniquity.

⁷ for they sowed blighted [seed], and their destruction shall await them, a sheaf of corn that avails not to make meal; and even if it should produce it, strangers shall devour it.

⁸ When my soul was failing me, I remembered the Lord; and may my prayer come to you into your holy temple.

¹⁶ For it is moist under the sun, and his branch shall come forth out of his dung-heap. ¹⁷ He lies down upon a gathering of stones, and shall live in the mist of flints. ¹⁸ If [God] should destroy [him], his place shall deny him. Hast you not seen such things, ¹⁹ that such is the overthrow of the ungodly? and out of the earth another shall grow.

⁷ For there is hope for a tree, even if it should be cut down, [that] it shall blossom again, and its branch shall not fail. ⁸ For though its root should grow old in the earth, and its stem die in the rock; ⁹ it will blossom from the scent of water, and will produce a crop, as one newly planted.

¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above. ¹⁷ Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out.

¹⁶ who were seized before their time: their foundations [are as] an overflowing stream.

⁵ or God has scattered the bones of the men-pleasers; they were ashamed, for God despised them. ⁶ Who will bring the salvation of Israel out of Sion? When the Lord turns the captivity of his people, Jacob shall exult, and Israel shall be glad.

¹⁷ Be not very just; neither be very wise: lest you be confounded.

¹¹ And after a time there shall be in it no green thing because of [the grass] being parched. Come hither, you⌃ women that come from a sight; for it is a people of no understanding; therefore he that made them shall have no pity upon them, and he that formed them shall have no mercy [upon them].

⁸ She thrives in a fair field by much water, to produce shoots and bear fruit, that she might become a great vine. ⁹ Therefore say, Thus says the Lord; Shall it prosper? shall not the roots of her tender stem and her fruit be blighted? yes, all her early shoots shall be dried up, and [that] not by a mighty arm, nor by many people, to tear her up from her roots. ¹⁰ And, behold, it thrives: shall it prosper? shall it not wither as soon as the east wind touches it? it shall be withered together with the growth of its shoots.

¹⁶ Ephraim is sick, he is dried up at his roots, he shall in no wise any more bear fruit: therefore even if they should beget [children], I will kill the desired [fruit] of their womb.

⁵ I will restore their dwellings, I will love them truly: for he has turned away my wrath from him. ⁶ I will be as dew to Israel: he shall bloom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Libanus. ⁷ His branches shall spread, and he shall be as a fruitful olive, and his smell shall be as [the smell] of Libanus.

³⁹ You shall plant a vineyard, and dress it, and shall not drink the wine, neither shall you delight yourself with it, because the worm shall devour it. ⁴⁰ You shall have olive trees in all your borders, and you shall not anoint you with oil, because your olive shall utterly cast [its fruit].

⁹ The land mourns; Libanus is ashamed: Saron is become marshes; Galilee shall be laid bare, and Chermel.

³ And his sons did not walk in his way; and they turned aside after gain, and took gifts, and perverted judgments.

³ Behold, [here am] I, answer against me before the Lord and before his anointed: whose calf have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom of you have I oppressed? or from whose hand have I taken a bribe, even [to] a sandal? bear witness against me, and I will make restitution to you.

¹³ Thus then shall be the end of all that forget the Lord: for the hope of the ungodly shall perish.

²² But their adversaries shall clothe themselves with shame; and the habitation of the ungodly shall perish.

¹⁴ if there is any iniquity in your hands, put if far from you, and let not unrighteousness lodge in your habitation.

¹ Then Sophar the Minaean answered and said,

⁵ Is not your wickedness abundant, and your sins innumerable? ⁶ And you have taken security of your brethren for nothing, and have taken away the clothing of the naked. ⁷ Neither have you given water to the thirsty to drink, but have taken away the morsel of the hungry. ⁸ And you have accepted the persons of some; and you have established those [that were already settled] on the earth. ⁹ But you have sent widows away empty, and has afflicted orphans.

⁸ For what is the hope of the ungodly, that he holds to it? will he indeed trust in the Lord [and] be saved?

¹² For I saved the poor out of the hand of the oppressor, and helped the fatherless who had no helper. ¹³ Let the blessing of the perishing one come upon me; yes, the mouth of the widow has blessed me. ¹⁴ Also I put on righteousness, and clothed myself with judgment like a mantle. ¹⁵ I was the eye of the blind, and the foot of the lame. ¹⁶ I was the father of the helpless; and I searched out the cause which I knew not. ¹⁷ And I broke the jaw teeth of the unrighteous; I plucked the spoil out of the midst of their teeth.

¹³ And the hypocrites in heart will array wrath [against themselves]; they will not cry, because he has bound them.

¹⁴ The sinners in Sion have departed; trembling shall seize the ungodly. Who will tell you that a fire is kindled? Who will tell you of the eternal place? ¹⁵ He that walks in righteousness, speaking rightly, hating transgression and iniquity, and shaking his hands from gifts, stopping his ears that he should not hear the judgment of blood, shutting his eyes that he should not see injustice.

¹¹ Therefore because they have struck the poor with their fists, and you⌃ have received of them choice gifts; you⌃ have built polished houses, but you⌃ shall not dwell in them; you⌃ have planted desirable vineyards, but you⌃ shall not drink the wine of them. ¹² For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the just, taking bribes, and turning aside [the judgment of] the poor in the gates.

² For the godly is perished from the earth; and there is none among men that orders [his way] aright: they all quarrel even to blood: they grievously afflict every one his neighbor:

¹⁴ Behold, he has travailed with unrighteousness, he has conceived trouble, and brought forth iniquity.

⁴ None speaks justly, neither is there true judgment: they trust in vanities, and speak empty [words]; for they conceive trouble, and bring forth iniquity. ⁵ They have hatched asps' eggs, and weave a spider's web: and he that is going to eat of their eggs, having crushed an addled egg, has found also in it a basilisk.

¹³ Therefore have you⌃ passed over ungodliness in silence, and reaped the sins of it? you⌃ have eaten false fruit; for you has trusted in your sins, in the abundance of your power.