Job 21 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ But Job answered and said, ² Hear you⌃, hear you⌃ my words, that I may not have this consolation from you. ³ Raise me, and I will speak; then you⌃ shall not laugh me to scorn. ⁴ What! is my reproof of man? and why should I not be angry? ⁵ Look upon me, and wonder, laying your hand upon your cheek. ⁶ For even when I remember, I am alarmed, and pains seize my flesh. ⁷ Therefore do the ungodly live, and grow old even in wealth? ⁸ Their seed is according to [their] desire, and their children are in [their] sight. ⁹ Their houses are prosperous, neither [have they] any where [cause for] fear, neither is there a scourge from the Lord upon them. ¹⁰ Their cow does not cast her calf, and their [beast] with young is safe, and does not miscarry. ¹¹ And they remain as an unfailing flock, and their children play before [them], taking up the lute and harp; ¹² and they rejoice at the voice of a song. ¹³ And they spend their days in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of the grave. ¹⁴ Yet [such a man] says to the Lord, Depart from me; I desire not to know your ways. ¹⁵ What is the Mighty One, that we should serve him? and what profit is there that we should approach him? ¹⁶ For their good things were in [their] hands, but he regards not the works of the ungodly. ¹⁷ Nevertheless, the lamp of the ungodly also shall be put out, and destruction shall come upon them, and pangs of vengeance shall seize them. ¹⁸ And they shall be as chaff before the wind, or as dust which the storm has taken up. ¹⁹ Let his substance fail [to supply] his children: [God] shall recompense him, and he shall know it. ²⁰ Let his eyes see his own destruction, and let him not be saved by the Lord. ²¹ For his desire is in his house with him, and the number of his months has been suddenly cut off. ²² Is it not the Lord who teaches understanding and knowledge? and does not he judge murders? ²³ One shall die in his perfect strength, and wholly at ease and prosperous; ²⁴ and his inwards are full of fat, and his marrow is diffused [throughout him]. ²⁵ And another dies in bitterness of soul, not eating any good thing. ²⁶ But they lie down in the earth together, and corruption covers them. ²⁷ So I know you, that you⌃ presumptuously attack me: ²⁸ so that you⌃ will say, Where is the house of the prince? and where is the covering of the tabernacles of the ungodly? ²⁹ Ask those that go by the way, and do not disown their tokens. ³⁰ For the wicked hastens to the day of destruction: they shall be led away for the day of his vengeance. ³¹ Who will tell him his way to his face, whereas he has done [it]? who shall recompense him? ³² And he has been led away to the tombs, and he has watched over the heaps. ³³ The stones of the valley have been sweet to him, and every man shall depart after him, and [there are] innumerable [ones] before him. ³⁴ How then do you⌃ comfort me in vain? whereas I have no rest from your molestation.

⁷ And it was reported to Joatham, and he went and stood on the top of mount Garizin, and lifted up his voice, and wept, and said to them, Hear me, you⌃ men of Sicima, and God shall hear you.

³ Nevertheless I will speak to the Lord, and I will reason before him, if he will. ⁴ But you⌃ are all bad physicians, and healers of diseases.

¹¹ You have been scourged for [but] few of your sins: you have spoken haughtily [and] extravagantly.

² I have heard many such things: poor comforters are you⌃ all.

² How long will you continue? forbear, that we also may speak.

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

³¹ Listen, Job, and hear me: be silent, and I will speak. ³² If you have words, answer me: speak, for I desire you to be justified. ³³ If not, do you hear me: be silent, and I will teach you.

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

² Therefore do you⌃ value at the price of money, and [give] your labor for that which will not satisfy? listen to me, and you⌃ shall eat that which is good, and your soul shall feast itself on good things.

⁴ For a righteous and blameless man has become a subject for mockery. ⁵ For it had been ordained that he should fall under others at the appointed time, and that his houses should be spoiled by transgressors: let not however any one trust that, being evil, he shall be [held] guiltless,

⁹ For [it were] well if he would thoroughly search you: for though doing all things [in your power] you⌃ should attach yourselves to him,

¹³ Be silent, that I may speak, and cease from [mine] anger,

¹⁰ In his anger he has cast me down; he has gnashed his teeth upon me: the weapons of his robbers have fallen upon me.

²⁰ And now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.

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

⁹ And Moses spoke thus to the sons of Israel, and they listened not to Moses for faint-heartedness, and for their hard tasks.

¹⁶ Count not your handmaid for a pestilent woman, for by reason of the abundance of my importunity I have continued [my prayer] until now.

²⁶ And the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, and a woman cried to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. ²⁷ And he said to her, Unless the Lord help you, whence shall I help you? from the corn-floor, or from the wine-press?

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

¹¹ Then neither will I refrain my mouth: I will speak being in distress; being in anguish I will disclose the bitterness of my soul. ¹² Am I a sea, or a serpent, that you have set a watch over me? ¹³ I said that my bed should comfort me, and I would privately counsel with myself on my couch. ¹⁴ You scare me with dreams, and do terrify me with visions. ¹⁵ You will separate life from my spirit; and yet [keep] my bones from death. ¹⁶ For I shall not live for ever, that I should patiently endure: depart from me, for my life [is] vain. ¹⁷ For what is man, that you have magnified him? or that you give heed to him? ¹⁸ Will you visit him till the morning, and judge him till [the time of] rest? ¹⁹ How long do you not let me alone, nor let me go, until I shall swallow down my spittle? ²⁰ If I have sinned, what shall I be able to do, O you that understand the mind of men? why have you made me as your accuser, and [why] am I a burden to you? ²¹ Why have you not forgotten my iniquity, and purged my sin? but now I shall depart to the earth; and in the morning I am no more.

¹ Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul. ² And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and therefore have you thus judged me?

¹ (23) A Psalm of David. The Lord tends me as a shepherd, and I shall lack nothing. ² In a place of green grass, there he has made me dwell: he has nourished me by the water of rest. ³ He has restored my soul: he has guided me into the paths of righteousness, for his name's sake.

³ All which we have heard and known, and our fathers have declared to us. ⁴ They were not hid from their children to a second generations; [the fathers] declaring the praises of the Lord, and his mighty acts, and his wonders which he wrought. ⁵ And he raised up a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, to make it known to their children: ⁶ that another generation might know, even the sons which should be born; and they should arise and declare them to their children. ⁷ That they might set their hope on God, and not forget the works of God, but diligently seek his commandments. ⁸ That they should not be as their fathers, a perverse and provoking generation; a generation which set not its heart aright, and its spirit was not steadfast with God. ⁹ The children of Ephraim, bending and shooting [with] the bow, turned [back] in the day of battle.

¹ (103) [A Psalm] of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all [that is] within me, [bless] his holy name.

² And enter not into judgment with your servant, for in your sight shall no [man] living be justified. ³ For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has brought my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in a dark [place], as those that have been long dead.

¹⁹ And they said to him, Be silent, lay your hand upon your mouth, and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest: [is it] better for you to be the priest of the house of one man, or to be the priest of a tribe and house for a family of Israel?

¹² And when they saw him from a distance they did not know him; and they cried with a loud voice, and wept, and tore every one his garment, and sprinkled dust upon [their heads],

⁸ Wonder has seized true men upon this; and let the just rise up against the transgressor.

²⁰ My flesh is corrupt under my skin, and my bones are held in [my] teeth. ²¹ Pity me, pity me, O friends; for it is the hand of the Lord that has touched me.

⁹ And the great men ceased speaking, and laid their finger on their mouth.

⁴ Hast you an arm like the Lord's? or do you thunder with a voice like his?

⁹ I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; behold! I will not refrain my lips; O Lord, you know my righteousness.

³² If you abandon yourself to mirth, and stretch forth your hand in a quarrel, you shall be disgraced.

¹³ Therefore the prudent shall be silent at that time; for it is a time of evils.

¹⁶ The nations shall see and be ashamed; and at all their might they shall lay their hands upon their mouth, their ears shall be deafened.

³ All which we have heard and known, and our fathers have declared to us.

¹⁵ Blessed is the people that knows the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of your countenance.

¹⁹ ZAIN. I remembered by reason of my poverty, and because of persecution my bitterness and gall shall be remembered; ²⁰ and my soul shall meditate with me.

¹⁶ I watched, and my belly trembled at the sound of the prayer of my lips, and trembling entered into my bones, and my frame was troubled within me; I will rest in the day of affliction, from going up to the people of my sojourning.

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

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

³ Lift up your hands against their pride continually; [because of] all that the enemy has done wickedly in your holy places. ⁴ And they that hate you have boasted in the midst of your feast; they have set up their standards for signs, ⁵ ignorantly as it were in the entrance above; ⁶ they cut down its doors at once with axes as in a wood of trees; they have broken it down with hatchet and stone cutter. ⁷ They have burnt your sanctuary with fire to the ground; they have profaned the habitation of your name. ⁸ They have said in their heart, [even] all their kindred together, Come, let us abolish the feasts of the Lord from the earth. ⁹ We have not seen our signs; there is no longer a prophet; and [God] will not know us any more. ¹⁰ How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach? shall the enemy provoke your name forever? ¹¹ Therefore turn you away your hand, and your right hand from the midst of your bosom for ever? ¹² But God is our King of old; he has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.

¹ Righteous are you, O Lord, that I may make my defence to you, yes, I will speak to you [of] judgments. Why [is it] that the way of ungodly [men] prospers? [that] all that deal very treacherously are flourishing? ² You have planted them, and they have taken root; they have begotten children, and become fruitful; you are near to their mouth, and far from their reins. ³ But you, Lord, know me; you have proved my heart before you; purify them for the day of their slaughter.

¹⁷ The tree which you saw, that grew large and strong, whose height reached to the sky and its extent to all the earth;

¹³ [His] eye is too pure to behold evil [doings], and to look upon grievous afflictions: therefore do you look upon despisers? will you be silent when the ungodly swallows up the just?

¹⁵ He has brought up destruction with a hook, and drawn one with a casting net, and caught another in his drags: therefore shall his heart rejoice and be glad. ¹⁶ Therefore will he sacrifice to his drag, and burn incense to his casting-net, because by them he has made his portion fat, and his meats choice.

³ And I have seen foolish ones taking root: but suddenly their habitation was devoured. ⁴ Let their children be far from safety, and let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer.

¹⁹ He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.

¹⁰ Let [his] inferiors destroy his children, and let his hands kindle the fire of sorrow.

²⁸ Let destruction bring his house to an end; let a day of wrath come upon him.

¹⁴ And he sent forth [his] weapons, and scattered them; and multiplied lightnings, and routed them.

⁶ Children's children are the crown of old men; and their fathers are the glory of children. The faithful has the whole world full of wealth; but the faithless not even a farthing.

³⁴ Let him remove [his] rod from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

²¹ And his terror is in his ears: just when he seems to be at peace, his overthrow will come.

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

⁵ ignorantly as it were in the entrance above;

¹⁹ Deliver not to the wild beasts a soul that gives praise to you: forget not for ever the souls of your poor.

¹⁹ peace upon peace to them that are far off, and to them that are near: and the Lord has said, I will heal them. ²⁰ But the unrighteous shall be tossed as troubled waves, and shall not be able to rest. ²¹ There is no joy to the ungodly, said God.

²⁶ There shall not be on your land one that is impotent or barren. I will surely fulfil the number of your days.

¹³ And he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; and he will bless the off-spring of your body, and the fruit of your land, your corn, and your wine, and your oil, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep, on the land which the Lord sware to your fathers to give to you. ¹⁴ You shall be blessed beyond all nations; there shall not be among you an impotent or barren one, or among your cattle.

¹¹ And the Lord your God shall multiply you for good in the offspring of your body, and in the offspring of your cattle, and in the fruits of your land, on your land which the Lord sware to your fathers to give to you.

¹³ Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion [endures] through all generations. The Lord is faithful in his words, and holy in all his works. ¹⁴ The Lord supports all that are falling, and sets up all that are broken down.

¹ [I saw] that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: yes, there is no man that knows either love or hatred, [though] all are before their face. ² Vanity is in all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good, and to the bad; both to the pure, and to the impure; both to him that sacrifices, and to him that sacrifice not: as is the good, so is the sinner: as is the swearer, even so is he that fears an oath.

³ Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine on the sides of your house: your children as young olive-plants round about your table. ⁴ Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that fears the Lord. ⁵ May the Lord bless you out of Sion; and may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

²¹ And the name of his brother was Jubal; he it was who invented the lute and harp.

²⁷ Whereas if you had told me, I would have sent you away with mirth, and with songs, and timbrels, and harp.

¹² For they drink wine with harp, and lute, and drums, and pipes: but they regard not the works of the Lord, and consider not the works of his hands.

¹³ but they engaged in joy and gladness, slaying calves, and killing sheep, so as to eat flesh, and drink wine; saying, Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die.

⁴ who sleep upon beds of ivory, and live delicately on their couches, and eat kids out of the flocks, and sucking calves out of the midst of the stalls; ⁵ who excel in the sound of musical instruments; they have regarded them as dwelling, not as fleeting [pleasures]; ⁶ who drink strained wine, and anoint themselves with the best ointment; and have suffered nothing on occasion of the calamity of Joseph.

¹¹ If they should hear and serve [him], they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in honor.

⁴ And they that hate you have boasted in the midst of your feast; they have set up their standards for signs,

¹⁷ Who say, What will the Lord do to us? or what will the Almighty bring upon us?

⁴ For they have pulled down what you did frame, but what has the righteous done?

⁷ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; and [there is] good understanding to all that practise it: and piety toward God is the beginning of discernment; but the ungodly will set at nothing wisdom and instruction.

²² So long as the simple cleave to justice, they shall not be ashamed: but the foolish being lovers of haughtiness, having become ungodly have hated knowledge, and are become subject to reproofs.

²⁹ For they hated wisdom, and did not choose the word of the Lord:

¹⁵ He has brought up destruction with a hook, and drawn one with a casting net, and caught another in his drags: therefore shall his heart rejoice and be glad.

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.

⁹ For you should not say, There shall be no visitation of a man, whereas [there is] a visitation on him from the Lord.

³ I will answer you, and your three friends.

⁴ lest at any time mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him: my persecutors will exult if ever I should be moved.

⁹ lest I be filled and become false, and say, Who sees me? or be poor and steal, and swear [vainly] by the name of God.

¹¹ and turn us aside from this way; remove from us this path, and remove from us the oracle of Israel.

¹⁹ I have not spoken in secret, nor in a dark place of the earth: I said not to the seed of Jacob, Seek vanity: I, even I, am the Lord, speaking righteousness, and proclaiming truth.

⁶ According to their pastures, so they were completely filled; and their hearts were exalted; therefore they forgot me.

¹³ And you⌃ said, These [services] are troublesome: therefore I have utterly rejected them with scorn, says the Lord Almighty: and you⌃ brought in torn victims, and lame, and sick: if then you⌃ should bring an offering, shall I accept them at your hands? says the Lord Almighty. ¹⁴ And cursed [is the man] who had the power, and possessed a male in his flock, and whose vow is upon him, and who sacrifices a corrupt thing to the Lord: for I am a great King, says the Lord Almighty, and my name is glorious among the nations.

⁶ Let not my soul come into their counsel, and let not mine inward parts contend in their conspiracy, for in their wrath they killed men, and in their passion they houghed a bull.

²¹ and said, I myself came forth naked from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there; the Lord gave, the Lord has taken away: as it seemed good to the Lord, so has it come to pass; blessed be the name of the Lord.

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.

¹⁸ Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel for the wicked is far from him.

¹ Blessed is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, and has not stood in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the seat of evil men.

⁶ And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge. Pause. ⁷ Hear, my people, and I will speak to you, O Israel: and I will testify to you: I am God, your God.

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.

¹⁰ [My] son, let not ungodly men lead you astray, neither consent you [to them].

⁸ Remove your way far from her; draw not near to the doors of her house:

⁸ There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; and there is no power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in the day of the battle; neither shall ungodliness save her votary.

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.

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

¹⁰ The Lord frustrates the counsels of the nations; he brings to nothing also the reasonings of the peoples, and brings to nothing the counsels of princes.

⁷ A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you. ⁸ Only with your eyes shall you observe and see the reward of sinners. ⁹ For you, O Lord, are my hope: you, my soul, have made the Most High your refuge.

⁹ The righteous always have light: but the light of the ungodly is quenched. Crafty souls go astray in sins: but just men pity, and are merciful.

²⁰ The lamp of him that reviles father or mother shall be put out, and his eyeballs shall see darkness.

²⁰ For the evil man shall have no posterity: and the light of the wicked shall be put out.

⁷ And in the abundance of your glory you have broken the adversaries to pieces: you sent forth your wrath, it devoured them as stubble.

²⁵ Will you be startled [at me], as [at] a leaf shaken by the wind? or will you set yourself against me as against grass borne upon the breeze?

⁴ Not so the ungodly; —not so: but rather as the chaff which the wind scatters away from the face of the earth.

⁵ O Lord, your mercy is in the heaven; and your truth [reaches] to the clouds.

²⁴ Therefore as stubble shall be burnt by a coal of fire, and shall be consumed by a violent flame, their root shall be as chaff, and their flower shall go up as dust: for they rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and insulted the word of the Holy One of Israel.

¹³ many nations like much water, as when much water rushes violently: and they shall drive him away, and pursue him afar, as the dust of chaff when men winnow before the wind, and as a storm whirling the dust of the wheel.

⁵ But the wealth of the ungodly shall be as dust from a wheel, and the multitude of them that oppress you as flying chaff, and it shall be suddenly as a moment,

²⁴ For they shall not plant, neither shall they sow, neither shall their root be fixed in the ground: he has blown upon them, and they are withered, and a storm shall carry them away like sticks.

¹⁵ Behold, I have made you as new saw-shaped threshing wheels of a waggon; and you shall thresh the mountains, and beat the hills to powder, and make [them] as chaff: ¹⁶ and you shall winnow [them], and the wind shall carry them away, and a tempest shall scatter them: but you shall rejoice in the holy ones of Israel.

²⁴ So I scattered them as sticks carried by the wind into the wilderness.

³ Therefore shall they be as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that passes away, as chaff blown away from the threshing floor, and as a vapor from tears.

¹⁰ For [the enemy] shall be laid bare even to the foundation, and shall be devoured as twisted yew, and as stubble fully dry.

⁷ Hast you not sinned if you have brought it rightly, but not rightly divided it? be still, to you shall be his submission, and you shall rule over him.

⁵ You shall not bow down to them, nor serve them; for I am the Lord your God, a jealous God, recompensing the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation to them that hate me,

³⁴ Behold! are not these things stored up by me, and sealed among my treasures?

⁴¹ For I will sharpen my sword like lightning, and my hand shall take hold of judgment; and I will render judgment to my enemies, and will recompense them that hate me.

³⁹ And that I am this day a [mere] kinsman [of his], and [as it were] a subject; but these men the sons of Saruia are too hard for me: the Lord reward the evil-doer according to his wickedness.

²⁴ You shall lay up for yourself [treasure] in a heap on the rock; and Sophir [shall be] as the rock of the torrent.

⁵ Fear and trembling came upon me, and darkness covered me.

²¹ Prepare your children to be slain for the sins of their father; that they arise not, and inherit the earth, nor fill the earth with wars.

⁴ He bears our sins, and is pained for us: yet we accounted him to be in trouble, and in suffering, and in affliction. ⁵ But he was wounded on account of our sins, and was bruised because of our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; [and] by his bruises we were healed. ⁶ All we as sheep have gone astray; every one has gone astray in his way; and the Lord gave him up for our sins.

²⁹ And I have heard of the pride of Moab, he has greatly heightened his pride and his haughtiness, and his heart has been lifted up.

² Son of man, what mean you⌃ by this parable among the children of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten unripe grapes, and the children's teeth have been set on edge?

¹⁴ And if he beget a son, and [the son] see all his father's sins which he has wrought, and fear, and not do according to them,

¹⁹ But you⌃ will say, Why has not the son borne the iniquity of the father? Because the son has wrought judgment and mercy, has kept all my statues, and done them, he shall surely live. ²⁰ But the soul that sins shall die: and the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, nor shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the iniquity of the transgressor shall be upon him.

¹⁸ Then shall you⌃ return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, and between him that serves God, and him that serves [him] not.

¹⁹ The rich man shall lie down, and shall not continue: he has opened his eyes, and he is not.

³ because you were my hope, a tower of strength from the face of the enemy.

⁸ You did cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,

¹⁷ Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that have drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury: for you have drunk out and drained the cup of calamity, the cup of wrath:

⁷ And now thus has the Lord Almighty said, Therefore do you⌃ commit [these] great evils against your souls? to cut off man and woman of you, infant and suckling from the midst of Juda, to the end that not one of you should be left;

⁵ if even his life should be [but] one day upon the earth: and his months are numbered by him: you have appointed [him] for a time, and he shall by no means exceed [it].

²¹ and though his children be multiplied, he knows [it] not; and if they be few, he is not aware.

¹⁸ And I hated the whole of my labor which I took under the sun; because I must leave it to the man who will come after me. ¹⁹ And who knows whether he will be a wise [man] or a fool? and whether he will have power over all my labor in which I laboured, and wherein I grew wise under the sun? this is also vanity.

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

¹⁵ Forasmuch as he trusts not his saints; and the heaven is not pure before him.

¹⁷ Behold then the one that hates iniquities, and that destroys the wicked, who is for ever just. ¹⁸ [He is] ungodly that says to a king, You are a transgressor, [that says] to princes, O most ungodly one. ¹⁹ [Such a one] as would not reverence the face of an honorable man, neither knows how to give honor to the great, so as that their persons should be respected.

¹¹ who makes me to differ from the four-footed beasts of the earth, and from the birds of the sky?

²² Behold, the Mighty One shall prevail by his strength: for who is powerful as he is?

² Nay, gird up now your loins like a man; and I will ask you, and do you answer me.

¹ (83) A Song of a Psalm for Asaph. O God, who shall be compared to you? be not silent, neither be still, O God.

⁵ What [ailed] you, O sea, that you fled? and you Jordan, that you were turned back? ⁶ [You⌃] mountains, that you⌃ skipped like rams, and [you⌃] hills, like lambs?

⁸ Also the abundance of the earth is for every one: the king [is dependent on] the tilled field.

¹³ Who has known the mind of the Lord? and who has been his counsellor, to instruct him? ¹⁴ Or with whom has he taken counsel, and he has instructed him? or who has taught him judgment, or who has taught him the way of understanding;

²² [It is] he that comprehends the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants in it are as grasshoppers; he that set up the heaven as a chamber, and stretched [it] out as a tent to dwell in: ²³ he that appoints princes to rule as nothing, and has made the earth as nothing.

⁹ What excellent thing have I prepared as clay of the potter? Will the plowman plow the earth all day? shall the clay say to the potter, What are you doing that you do not work, nor have hands? shall the thing formed answer him that formed it?

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.

¹⁷ Whereas you have hated instruction, and have cast my words behind [you].

⁴ And they that hate you have boasted in the midst of your feast; they have set up their standards for signs, ⁵ ignorantly as it were in the entrance above;

²⁷ For he has covered his face with his fat, and made layers of fat upon his thighs.

⁸ Then shall there be health to your body, and good keeping to your bones.

⁸ And Chusi said, You know your father and his men, that they are very mighty, and bitter in their spirit, as a bereaved bear in the field, [and as a wild boar in the plain]: and your father [is] a man of war, and will not give the people rest.

¹² And the woman said, [As] the Lord your God lives, I have not a cake, but only a handful of meal in the pitcher, and a little oil in a cruse, and, behold, I am going to gather two sticks, and I shall go in and dress it for myself and my children, and we shall eat it and die.

²⁰ For why is light given to those who are in bitterness, and life to those souls which are in griefs?

¹¹ Then neither will I refrain my mouth: I will speak being in distress; being in anguish I will disclose the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁸ For he suffers me not to take breath, but he has filled me with bitterness.

¹ Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul.

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.

¹⁰ [If] a man's mind is intelligent, his soul is sorrowful; and when he rejoices, he has no fellowship with pride.

² a man to whom God shall give wealth, and substance, and honor, and he wants nothing for his soul of all things that he shall desire, yet God shall not give him power to eat of it, for a stranger shall devour it: this is vanity, and an evil infirmity.

¹⁶ [Yes], O Lord, for it was told you concerning this; and you have revived my breath; and I am comforted, and live. ¹⁷ For you have chosen my soul, that it should not perish: and you have cast all [my] sins behind me.

¹⁶ And he said to me, Son of man, behold, I break the support of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight and in lack; and shall drink water by measure, and in a state of ruin: ¹⁷ that they may lack bread and water; and a man and his brother shall be brought to ruin, and they shall pine away in their iniquities.

¹⁸ Son of man, eat your bread with sorrow, and drink [your] water with torment and affliction.

¹⁸ And the men of old time have together ceased to hear the exactor's voice. ¹⁹ The small and great are there, and the servant that feared his lord.

¹⁴ I have called upon death to be my father, and corruption [to be] my mother and sister.

²⁶ [and] to raise up upon the earth my skin that endures these [sufferings]: for these things have been accomplished to me of the Lord;

¹¹ His bones have been filled with [vigour of] his youth, and it shall lie down with him in the dust.

²⁰ Then is his sin brought to remembrance, and he vanishes like a vapor of dew: but let what he has done be recompensed to him, and let every unrighteous one be crushed like rotten wood.

¹⁴ Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay your vows to the Most High.

² Vanity is in all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good, and to the bad; both to the pure, and to the impure; both to him that sacrifices, and to him that sacrifice not: as is the good, so is the sinner: as is the swearer, even so is he that fears an oath.

¹¹ Your glory has come down to Hades, and your great mirth: under you they shall spread corruption, and the worm shall be your covering.

⁸ Accordingly as I have seen men plowing barren places, and they that sow them will reap sorrows for themselves. ⁹ They shall perish by the command of the Lord, and shall be utterly consumed by the breath of his wrath. ¹⁰ The strength of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the exulting cry of serpents are quenched. ¹¹ The old lion has perished for lack of food, and the lions' whelps have forsaken one another.

³ And I have seen foolish ones taking root: but suddenly their habitation was devoured. ⁴ Let their children be far from safety, and let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer. ⁵ For what they have collected, the just shall eat; but they shall not be delivered out of calamities: let their strength be utterly exhausted.

³ Will the Lord be unjust when he judges; or will he that has made all things pervert justice? ⁴ If your sons have sinned before him, he has cast them away because of their transgression. ⁵ But be you early in prayer to the Lord Almighty. ⁶ If you are pure and true, he will listen to your supplication, and will restore to you the habitation of righteousness.

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.

⁵ But the mirth of the ungodly is a signal downfall, and the joy of transgressors is destruction:

²⁹ This is the portion of an ungodly man from the Lord, and the possession of his goods [appointed him] by the all-seeing [God].

³ And he was also very angry with [his] three friends, because they were not able to return answers to Job, yet set him down for an ungodly man.

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].

⁴ You have given a token to them that fear you, that they might flee from the bow. Pause.

²⁶ And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Separate yourselves from the tents of these stubborn men, and touch nothing that belongs to them, lest you⌃ be consumed with them in all their sin. ²⁷ And they stood aloof from the tent of Core round about; and Dathan and Abiron went forth and stood by the doors of their tents, and their wives and their children and their store. ²⁸ And Moses said, Hereby shall you⌃ know that the Lord has sent me to perform all these works, that [I have] not [done them] of myself. ²⁹ If these men shall die according to the death of all men, if also their visitation shall be according to the visitation of all men, then the Lord has not sent me. ³⁰ But if the Lord shall show by a wonder, and the earth shall open her mouth and swallow them up, and their houses, and their tents, and all that belongs to them, and they shall go down alive into Hades, then you⌃ shall know that these men have provoked the Lord. ³¹ And when he ceased speaking all these words, the ground clave asunder beneath them. ³² And the ground opened, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that were with Core, and their cattle. ³³ And they went down and all that they had, alive into Hades; and the ground covered them, and they perished from the midst of the congregation. ³⁴ And all Israel round about them fled from the sound of them, for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up [also].

³ And his cattle consisted of seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-asses in the pastures, and a very great household, and he had a great husbandry on the earth; and that man was [most] noble of the [men] of the east.

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

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?

³⁷ And if I did not read it and return it, having taken nothing from the debtor:

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.

⁹ Woe to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evils. ¹⁰ You have devised shame to your house, you have utterly destroyed many nations, and your soul has sinned. ¹¹ For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beetle out of the timber shall speak.

⁴ And I will bring it forth, says the Lord Almighty, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that swears falsely by my name: and it shall rest in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, and the timber of it, and the stones of it.

⁸ And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

⁵ He has given food to them that fear him: he will remember his covenant for ever.

⁴ [Possessions will not profit in a day of wrath, but righteousness will deliver from death. ]

² God is jealous, and the Lord avenges; the Lord avenges with wrath; the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he cuts off his enemies.

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,

¹⁰ and who recompenses them that hate him to their face, to destroy them utterly; and will not be slack with them that hate him: he will recompense them to their face.

⁷ And Nathan said to David, You are the man that has done this. Thus says the Lord God of Israel, I anointed you to be king over Israel, and I rescued you out the hand of Saul; ⁸ and I gave you the house of your lord, and the wives of your lord into your bosom, and I gave to you the house of Israel and Juda; and if that had been little, I would have given you yet more. ⁹ Why have you set at nothing the word of the Lord, to do that which is evil in his eyes? you have slain Urias the Chettite with the sword, and you have taken his wife to be your wife, and you have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. ¹⁰ Now therefore the sword shall not depart from your house for ever, because you has set me at nothing, and you have taken the wife of Urias the Chettite, to be your wife. ¹¹ Thus says the Lord, Behold, I will raise up against you evil out of your house, and I will take your wives before your eyes, and will give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. ¹² For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing in the sight of all Israel, and before the sun.

¹⁹ and let not the young men the heads of the districts go forth of the city. And the force that was behind them ²⁰ struck each one the man next to him; and each one a second time struck the man next to him: and Syria fled, and Israel pursued them; and the son of Ader, [even] the king of Syria, escapes on the horse of a horseman. ²¹ And the king of Israel went forth, and took all the horses and the chariots, and struck [the enemy] with a great slaughter in Syria. ²² And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said, Strengthen yourself, and observe, and see what you shall do; for at the return of the year the son of Ader king of Syria comes up against you. ²³ And the servants of the king of Syria, even they said, The God of Israel [is] a God of mountains, and not a God of valleys; therefore has he prevailed against us: but if we should fight against them in the plain, verily we shall prevail against them. ²⁴ And do you this thing: Send away the kings, each one to his place, and set princes in their stead.

¹⁹ Let his substance fail [to supply] his children: [God] shall recompense him, and he shall know it.

¹¹ Out of his nostrils proceeds smoke of a furnace burning with fire of coals.

¹³ We have sinned, and dealt falsely, and revolted from our God: we have spoken unrighteous words, and have been disobedient; we have conceived and uttered from our heart unrighteous words.

³³ What fair device will you yet employ in your ways, so as to seek love? [it shall] not [be] so; moreover you has done wickedly in corrupting your ways; ³⁴ and in your hands has been found the blood of innocent souls; I have not found them in holes, but on every oak. ³⁵ Yet you said, I am innocent: only let his wrath be turned away from me. Behold, I [will] plead with you, whereas you say, I have not sinned.

²¹ Be you in the depth of the pit: to whom are you superior? yes, go down, and lie with the uncircumcised, in the midst of them [that are] slain with the sword. ²² There are Assur and all his company: all [his] slain have been laid there: ²³ and their burial is in the depth of the pit, and his company are set around about his tomb: all the slain that fell by the sword, who had caused the fear of them [to be] upon the land of the living. ²⁴ There is Aelam and all his host round about his tomb: all the slain that fell by the sword, and the uncircumcised that go down to the deep of the earth, who caused their fear to be upon the land of the living: and they have received their punishment with them that go down to the pit, ²⁵ in the midst of the slain. ²⁶ There were laid Mosoch, and Thobel, and all his strength round about his tomb: all his slain men, all the uncircumcised, slain with the sword, who caused their fear to be in the land of the living. ²⁷ And they are laid with the giants that fell of old, who went down to Hades with [their] weapons of war: and they laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities were upon their bones, because they terrified all men during their life. ²⁸ And you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that have been slain by the sword. ²⁹ There are laid the princes of Assur, who yielded their strength to a wound of the sword: these are laid with the slain, with them that go down to the pit. ³⁰ There are the princes of the north, [even] all the captains of Assur, who go down slain [to Hades]: they lie uncircumcised among the slain with the sword together with their terror and their strength, and they have received their punishment with them that go down to the pit. ³¹ King Pharao shall see them, and shall be comforted over all their force, says the Lord God. ³² For I have caused his fear to be upon the land of the living yet he shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, [even] Pharao, and all his multitude with him, says the Lord God.

¹⁹ In the sweat of your face shall you eat your bread until you return to the earth out of which you were taken, for earth you are and to earth you shall return.

¹⁷ There the ungodly have burnt out the fury of rage; there the wearied in body rest.

²² and would be very joyful if they should gain it?

¹⁶ Will they go down with me to Hades, or shall we go down together to the tomb?

²⁴ For his exaltation has hurt many; but he has withered as mallows in the heat, or as an ear of corn falling off of itself from the stalk.

²³ For I know that death will destroy me: for the earth is the house [appointed] for every mortal.

⁴ A generation goes, and a generation comes: but the earth stands for ever.

⁷ [before] the dust also return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return to God who gave it.

⁴ But you⌃ are all bad physicians, and healers of diseases.