Job 22 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ Then Eliphaz the Thaemanite answered and said, ² Is it not the Lord that teaches understanding and knowledge? ³ For what matters it to the Lord, if you were blameless in [your] works? or is it profitable that you should perfect your way? ⁴ Will you maintain and plead your own cause? and will he enter into judgment with you? 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. ¹⁰ Therefore snares have compassed you, and disastrous war has troubled you. ¹¹ The light has proved darkness to you, and water has covered you on your lying down. ¹² Does not he that dwells in the high places observe? and has he not brought down the proud? ¹³ And you has said, What does the Mighty One know? does he judge in the dark? ¹⁴ A cloud is his hiding-place, and he shall not be seen; and he passes through the circle of heaven. 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]. ²¹ Be firm, I pray you, if you can endure; then your fruit shall prosper. ²² And receive a declaration from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart. ²³ And if you shall turn and humble yourself before the Lord, you have [thus] removed unrighteousness far from your habitation. ²⁴ You shall lay up for yourself [treasure] in a heap on the rock; and Sophir [shall be] as the rock of the torrent. ²⁵ So the Almighty shall be your helper from enemies, and he shall bring you forth pure as silver that has been tried by fire. ²⁶ Then shall you have boldness before the Lord, looking up cheerfully to heaven. ²⁷ And he shall hear you when you pray to him, and he shall grant you [power] to pay your vows. ²⁸ And he shall establish to you again a habitation of righteousness and there shall be light upon your paths. ²⁹ Because you have humbled yourself; and you shall say, [Man] has behaved proudly, but he shall save him that is of lowly eyes. ³⁰ He shall deliver the innocent, and do you save yourself by your pure hands.

¹³ to keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his ordinances, all that I charge you today, that it may be well with you?

¹⁵ What is the Mighty One, that we should serve him? and what profit is there that we should approach him?

⁶ and if too you have transgressed much, what can you perform? ⁷ And suppose you are righteous, what will you give him? or what shall he receive of your hand? ⁸ Your ungodliness [may affect] a man who is like to you; or your righteousness a son of man.

² Let my judgment come forth from your presence; let mine eyes behold righteousness.

¹³ Blessed is the man who has found wisdom, and the mortal who knows prudence. ¹⁴ For it is better to traffic for her, than for treasures of gold and silver. ¹⁵ And she is more valuable than precious stones: no evil thing shall resist her: she is well known to all that approach her, and no precious thing is equal to her in value. ¹⁶ For length of existence and years of life are in her right hand; and in her left hand are wealth and glory: out of her mouth proceeds righteousness, and she carries law and mercy upon her tongue. ¹⁷ Her ways are good ways, and all her paths are peaceful. ¹⁸ She is a tree of life to all that lay hold upon her; and she is [a] secure [help] to all that stay themselves on her, as on the Lord.

⁸ Secure it, and it shall exalt you: honor it, that it may embrace you; ⁹ that it may give to your head a crown of graces, and may cover you with a crown of delight.

¹² Son, if you be wise for yourself, you shall also be wise for your neighbors; and if you should prove wicked, you alone will bear the evil. He that stays himself upon falsehoods, attempts to rule the winds, and the same will pursue birds in their fight: for he has forsaken the ways of his own vineyard, and he has caused the axles of his own husbandry to go astray; and he goes through a dry desert, and a [land] appointed to drought, and he gathers barrenness with his hands.

¹¹ Say not, What has happened, that the former days were better than these? for you do not enquire in wisdom concerning this. ¹² Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and [there is] an advantage [by it] to them that see the sun.

¹⁷ And I know, Lord, that you are he that searches the hearts, and you love righteousness. I have willingly offered all these things in simplicity of heart; and now I have seen with joy your people here present, willingly offering to you.

¹⁰ For he knows already my way; and he has tried me as gold. ¹¹ And I will go forth according to his commandments, for I have kept his ways; and I shall not turn aside from his commandments, ¹² neither shall I transgress; but I have hid his words in my bosom.

¹ (40) For the end, a Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; and he attended to me, and listened to my supplication.

³ What should be given to you, and what should be added to you, for [your] crafty tongue? ⁴ Sharpened weapons of the mighty, with coals of the desert. ⁵ Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged; I have tabernacled among the tents of Kedar. ⁶ My soul has long been a sojourner;

¹ False balances are an abomination before the Lord: but a just weight is acceptable to him.

²⁰ Perverse ways are an abomination to the Lord: but all they that are blameless in their ways are acceptable to him.

²² Lying lips are a abomination to the Lord; but he that deals faithfully is accepted with him.

⁸ The sacrifices of the ungodly are an abomination to the Lord; but the prayers of them that walk honestly are acceptable with him.

¹⁷ you⌃ that have provoked God with your words. But you⌃ said, Wherein have we provoked him? In that you⌃ say, Every one that does evil is a pleasing [object] in the sight of the Lord, and he takes pleasure in such; and where is the God of justice?

¹² Am I a sea, or a serpent, that you have set a watch over me?

¹⁹ For indeed he is strong in power: who then shall resist his judgment?

³² For you are not man like me, with whom I could contend, that we might come together to judgment.

³ Hast you not taken account even of him, and caused him to enter into judgment before you?

²¹ Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let mine eye weep before him.

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

⁶ Though he should come on me in [his] great strength, then he would not threaten me; ⁷ for truth and reproof are from him; and he would bring forth my judgment to an end.

²³ For he will not lay upon a man more [than right].

¹¹ But you, Lord, remove not your compassion far from me; your mercy and your truth have helped me continually.

⁶ And I meditated; I communed with my heart by night, and diligently searched my spirit, [saying],

¹⁶ And he fed them with the fat of wheat; and satisfied them with honey out of the rock.

³ Let Israel hope in the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.

² My mercy, and my refuge; my helper, and my deliverer; my protector, in whom I have trusted; who subdues my people under me.

¹⁴ For God will bring every work into judgment, with everything that has been overlooked, whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil.

¹⁴ The Lord himself shall enter into judgment with the elders of the people, and with their rulers: but why have you⌃ set my vineyard on fire, and [why is] the spoil of the poor in your houses? ¹⁵ Why do you⌃ wrong my people, and shame the face of the poor?

⁷ Remember then who has perished, being pure? or when were the true-hearted utterly destroyed? 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

²⁷ So I know you, that you⌃ presumptuously attack me:

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.

¹² But you did help me because of [mine] innocence, and have established me before you for ever.

²⁶ And if you take your neighbor's garment for a pledge, you shall restore it to him before sunset.

⁶ the former husband who sent her away shall not be able to return and take her to himself for a wife, after she has been defiled; because it is an abomination before the Lord your God, and you⌃ shall not defile the land, which the Lord your God gives you to inherit.

¹⁰ Take heed to yourself in [regard of] the plague of leprosy: you shall take great heed to do according to all the law, which the priests the Levites shall report to you; take heed to do, as I have charged you. ¹¹ Remember all that the Lord your God did to Mariam in the way, when you⌃ were going out of Egypt. ¹² If your neighbor owe you a debt, any debt whatever, you shall not go into his house to take his pledge: ¹³ you shall stand without, and the man who is in your debt shall bring the pledge out to you. ¹⁴ And if the man be poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge. ¹⁵ You shall surely restore his pledge at sunset, and he shall sleep in his garment, and he shall bless you; and it shall be mercy to you before the Lord your God. ¹⁶ You shall not unjustly withhold the wages of the poor and needy of your brethren, or of the strangers who are in your cities. ¹⁷ You shall pay him his wages the same day, the sun shall not go down upon it, because he is poor and he trusts in it; and he shall cry against you to the Lord, and it shall be sin in you. ¹⁸ The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, and the sons shall not be put to death for the fathers; every one shall be put to death for his own sin.

³ They have led away, the ass of the fatherless, and taken the widow's ox for a pledge.

⁹ They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, and have afflicted the outcast. ¹⁰ And they have wrongfully caused [others] to sleep without clothing, and taken away the morsel of the hungry.

¹⁹ And if too I overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him; ²⁰ and if the poor did not bless me, and their shoulders were [not] warmed with the fleece of my lambs;

⁷ and shall not oppress any man, [but] shall return the pledge of the debtor, and shall be guilty of no plunder, shall give his bread to the hungry, and clothe the naked;

¹² and has oppressed the poor and needy, and has committed robbery, and not restored a pledge, and has set his eyes upon idols, has wrought iniquities,

¹⁶ and has not oppressed a man, and has not retained the pledge, nor committed robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has clothed the naked,

⁸ And binding their clothes with cords they have made them curtains near the altar, and they have drunk wine gained by extortion in the house of their God.

⁷ And if there shall be in the midst of you a poor [man] of your brethren in one of your cities in the land, which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, neither shall you by any means close up your hand from your brother who is in lack. ⁸ You shall surely open your hands to him, and shall lend to him as much as he wants according to his need. ⁹ Take heed to yourself that there be not a secret thing in your heart, an iniquity, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, draws near; and your eye shall be evil to your brother that is in lack, and you shall not give to him, and he shall cry against you to the Lord, and there shall be great sin in you. ¹⁰ You shall surely give to him, and you shall lend him as much as he wants, according as he is in need; and you shall not grudge in your heart as you give to him, because on this account the Lord your God will bless you in all your works, and in all things on which you shall lay your hand. ¹¹ For the poor shall not fail off your land, therefore I charge you to do this thing, saying, You shall surely open your hands to your poor brother, and to him that is distressed upon your land.

¹⁷ And if too I ate my morsel alone, and did not impart [of it] to the orphan;

³¹ And if too my handmaids have often said, Oh that we might be satisfied with his flesh; (whereas I was very kind:

⁹ who settles the barren [woman] in a house, [as] a mother rejoicing over children.

²⁴ There are [some] who scatter their own, and make it more: and there are [some] also who gather, [yet] have less. ²⁵ Every sincere soul is blessed: but a passionate man is not graceful.

¹⁷ He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord; and he will recompense to him according to his gift.

⁷ Break your bread to the hungry, and lead the unsheltered poor to your house: if you see one naked, clothe [him], and you shall not disregard the relations of your own seed.

¹⁰ and [if] you give bread to the hungry from your heart, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light spring up in darkness, and your darkness [shall be] as noon-day:

¹¹ And the king of Israel answered and said, Let it be sufficient; let not the humpbacked boast as he that is upright. ¹² And it came to pass when he returned him this answer, he and all the kings with him were drinking in tents: and he said to his servants, Form a trench. And they made a trench against the city. ¹³ And, behold, a prophet came to Achaab king of Israel, and said, Thus says the Lord, Hast you seen this great multitude? behold, I give it this day into your hands; and you shall know that I [am] the Lord. ¹⁴ And Achaab said, Whereby? And he said, Thus says the Lord, by the young men of the heads of the districts. And Achaab said, Who shall begin the battle? and he said, You. ¹⁵ And Achaab numbered the young men the heads of the districts, and they were two hundred and thirty: and afterwards he numbered the people, [even] every man fit for war, seven thousand.

⁸ Or will you⌃ draw back? nay do, you⌃ yourselves be judges.

⁷ When I went forth early in the city, and the seat was placed for me in the streets. ⁸ The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and all the old men stood up. ⁹ And the great men ceased speaking, and laid their finger on their mouth. ¹⁰ And they that heard [me] blessed me, and their tongue clave to their throat. ¹¹ For the ear heard, and blessed me; and the eye saw me, and turned aside. 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.

³⁴ (for I did not stand in awe of a great multitude, so as not to declare boldly before them:) and if too I permitted a poor man to go out of my door with an empty bosom:

³ the captain of fifty also, and the honorable counsellor, and the wise artificer, and the intelligent hearer.

¹⁵ the old man, and them that respect persons, this is the head; and the prophet teaching unlawful things, he is the tail.

³ they prepare their hands for mischief, the prince asks [a reward], and the judge speaks flattering words; it is the desire of their soul:

²¹ And you⌃ shall not hurt a stranger, nor afflict him; for you⌃ were strangers in the land of Egypt. ²² You⌃ shall hurt no widow or orphan. ²³ And if you⌃ should afflict them by ill-treatment, and they should cry aloud to me, I will surely hear their voice. ²⁴ And I will be very angry, and will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children orphans.

¹⁹ Cursed is every one that shall pervert the judgment of the stranger, and orphan, and widow: and all the people shall say, So be it.

²¹ For he has not treated the barren woman well, and has had no pity on a feeble woman.

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.

¹⁶ But the helpless missed not whatever need they had, and I did not cause the eye of the widow to fail. ¹⁷ And if too I ate my morsel alone, and did not impart [of it] to the orphan; ¹⁸ (for I nourished [them] as a father from my youth and guided [them] from my mother's womb.)

²¹ if I lifted my hand against an orphan, trusting that my strength was far superior [to his]:

¹⁷ For I am ready for plagues, and my grief is continually before me.

⁶ Come, let us worship and fall down before him; and weep before the Lord that made us.

¹⁷ learn to do well; diligently seek judgment, deliver him that is suffering wrong, plead for the orphan, and obtain justice for the widow.

²³ Your princes are rebellious, companions of thieves, loving bribes, seeking after rewards; not pleading for orphans, and not heeding the cause of widows.

² perverting the cause of the poor, violently wresting the judgment of the needy ones of my people, that the widow may be a prey to them, and the orphan a spoil.

⁷ In you they have reviled father and mother; and in you they have behaved unjustly toward the stranger: they have oppressed the orphan and widow.

²² Therefore thus says the Lord God; Behold, I am against Pharao king of Egypt, and I will break his strong and outstretched arms, and will strike down his sword out of his hand.

⁵ And I will draw near to you in judgment; and I will be a sift witness against the witches, and against the adulteresses, and against them that swear falsely by my name, and against them that keep back the hireling's wages, and them that oppress the widow, and afflict orphans, and that wrest the judgment of the stranger, and fear not me, says the Lord Almighty.

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.

²¹ Withhold [your] hand from me: and let not your fear terrify me.

⁸ His foot also has been caught in a snare, [and] let it be entangled in a net. ⁹ And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction. ¹⁰ His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path.

⁶ Know then that it is the Lord that has troubled [me], and has raised his bulwark against me.

⁶ The oracles of the Lord are pure oracles; as silver tried in the fire, proved [in] a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

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.

²⁵ And you shall not be afraid of alarm coming upon you, neither of approaching attacks of ungodly men. ²⁶ For the Lord shall be over all your ways, and shall establish your foot that you be not moved.

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

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.

⁸ I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape: he has set darkness before my face.

³⁴ And will you call a cloud with your voice, and will it obey you with a violent shower of much rain?

¹ (70) For the end, by David for a remembrance, that the Lord may save me. Draw near, O God, to my help. ² Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek my soul: let them be turned backward and put to shame, that wish me evil.

⁴ Do good, O Lord, to them [that are] good, and to them [that are] upright in heart. ⁵ But them that turn aside to crooked ways the Lord will lead away with the workers of iniquity: [but] peace [shall be] upon Israel.

¹⁹ But the ways of the ungodly are dark; they know not how they stumble.

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.

² He has taken me, and led me away into darkness, and not [into] light.

⁵⁴ Water flowed over my head: I said, I am cut off.

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. ³ Before them is a consuming fire, and behind them is a flame kindled: the land before them is as a paradise of delight, and behind them a desolate plain: and there shall none of them escape.

³ and said, I cried in my affliction to the Lord my God, and he listened to me, [even] to my cry out of the belly of hell: you heard my voice.

⁸ Heaven [is] high; and what will you do? and there are deeper things than those in hell; what do you know?

³ For I will regard the heavens, the work of your fingers; the moon and stars, which you have established. ⁴ What is man, that you are mindful of him? or the son of man, that you visit him?

³ The pangs of death compassed me; the dangers of hell found me: I found affliction and sorrow.

¹⁶ O Lord, I am your servant; I am your servant, and the son of your handmaid: you have burst by bonds asunder.

² For through the multitude of trial a dream comes; and a fool's voice is with a multitude of words.

¹⁵ Thus says the Most High, who dwells on high for ever, Holy in the holies, is his name, the Most High resting in the holies, and giving patience to the faint-hearted, and giving life to the broken-hearted:

¹ Thus says the Lord, Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what kind of a house will you⌃ build me? and of what kind [is to be] the place of my rest?

⁷ Galaad is mine, and Manasse is mine; and Ephraim is the strength of my head;

⁵ [You are] wonderful in righteousness. Listen to us, O God our Saviour; the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them [that are] on the sea afar off:

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

⁷ For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. ⁸ To-day, if you⌃ will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, according to the day of irritation in the wilderness: ⁹ where your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works.

¹⁵ Woe to them that deepen their counsel, and not by the Lord. Woe to them that take secret counsel, and whose works are in darkness, and they say, Who has seen us? and who shall know us, or what we do?

¹² And he said to me, You have seen, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel do, each one of them in their secret chamber: because they have said, The Lord see not; The Lord has forsaken the earth.

⁹ Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Juda is become very exceedingly great: for the land is filled with many nations, and the city is filled with iniquity and uncleanness: because they have said, The Lord has forsaken the earth, The Lord looks not upon [it].

¹² And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] I will search Jerusalem with a candle, and will take vengeance on the men that despise the things committed to them; but they say in their hearts, The Lord will not do any good, neither will he do any evil.

⁹ He keeps back the face of his throne, stretching out his cloud upon it.

²² Neither shall there be a place for the workers of iniquity to hide themselves.

¹⁴ Turn away from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

² The Lord has made known his salvation, he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations.

¹ (140) For the end, a Psalm of David. Rescue me, O Lord, from the evil man; deliver me from the unjust man. ² Who have devised injustice in their hearts; all the day they prepared war.

¹¹ A talkative man shall not prosper on the earth: evils shall hunt the unrighteous man to destruction. ¹² I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the poor, and the right of the needy ones.

²⁴ Shall any one hide himself in secret places, and I not see him? Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the Lord.

⁵ And the Lord God, having seen that the wicked actions of men were multiplied upon the earth, and that every one in his heart was intently brooding over evil continually,

¹¹ But the earth was corrupted before God, and the earth was filled with iniquity. ¹² And the Lord God saw the earth, and it was corrupted; because all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth. ¹³ And the Lord God said to Noe, A period of all men is come before me; because the earth has been filled with iniquity by them, and, behold, I destroy them and the earth.

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the abyss were broken up, and the flood-gates of heaven were opened.

¹⁷ And the flood was upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and the water abounded greatly and bore up the ark, and it was lifted on high from off the earth. ¹⁸ And the water prevailed and abounded exceedingly upon the earth, and the ark was borne upon the water. ¹⁹ And the water prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and covered all the high mountains which were under heaven. ²⁰ Fifteen cubits upwards was the water raised, and it covered all the high mountains. ²¹ And there died all flesh that moved upon the earth, of flying creatures and cattle, and of wild beasts, and every reptile moving upon the earth, and every man. ²² And all things which have the breath of life, and whatever was on the dry land, died. ²³ And [God] blotted out every offspring which was upon the face of the earth, both man and beast, and reptiles, and birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth, and Noe was left alone, and those with him in the ark. ²⁴ And the water was raised over the earth an hundred and fifty days.

¹⁹ The waters wear the stones, and waters falling headlong [overflow] a heap of the earth: and you destroy the hope of man.

³² His harvest shall perish before the time, and his branch shall not flourish.

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

¹⁰ Their cow does not cast her calf, and their [beast] with young is safe, and does not miscarry.

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?

⁶ Many say, Who will show us good things? the light of your countenance, O Lord, has been manifested towards us.

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

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?

⁷ The Lord makes poor, and makes rich; he brings low, and lifts up.

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

¹⁶ For their good things were in [their] hands, but he regards not the works of the ungodly.

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.

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

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.

²³ For the worthless die, but the righteous are laughed to scorn.

¹¹ And their sepulchres are their houses for ever, [even] their tabernacles to all generations: they have called their lands after their own names.

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 [As for] my God, his mercy shall go before me: my God will show me [vengeance] on mine enemies.

⁸ The rivers shall clap their hands together; the mountains shall exult.

¹⁰ In the prosperity of righteous men a city prospers: but by the mouth of ungodly men it is overthrown.

²⁴ And the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

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.

⁷ Remember then who has perished, being pure? or when were the true-hearted utterly destroyed?

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.

³⁰ Neither shall he in any wise escape the darkness: let the wind blast his blossom, and let his flower fall off.

¹⁸ He has laboured unprofitably and in vain, [for] wealth of which he shall not taste: [it is] as a lean thing, unfit for food, which he can’t swallow. ¹⁹ For he has broken down the houses of many mighty men: and he has plundered an habitation, though he built [it] not.

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 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?

⁹ And now, [my] son Solomon, know the God of your fathers, and serve him with a perfect heart and willing soul: for the Lord searches all hearts, and knows every thought: if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you should forsake him, he will forsake you for ever.

¹⁰ All my bones shall say, O Lord, who is like to you? delivering the poor out of the hand of them that are stronger than he, yes, the poor and needy one from them that spoil him.

⁵ I am burnt up; they that dwell in her shall cry, Let us make peace with him, let us make peace,

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.

¹ And now, Israel, hear the ordinances and judgments, all that I teach you this day to do: that you⌃ may live, and be multiplied, and that you⌃ may go in and inherit the land, which the Lord God of your fathers gives you. ² You⌃ shall not add to the word which I command you, and you⌃ shall not take from it: keep the commandments of the Lord our God, all that I command you this day.

⁶ And these words, all that I command you this day, shall be in your heart and in your soul. ⁷ And you shall teach them to your children, and you shall speak of them sitting in the house, and walking by the way, and lying down, and rising up. ⁸ And you shall fasten them for a sign upon your hand, and it shall be immoveable before your eyes. ⁹ And you⌃ shall write them on the lintels of your houses and of your gates.

¹² neither shall I transgress; but I have hid his words in my bosom.

¹ [My] son, if you will receive the utterance of my commandment, and hide it with you; ² your ear shall listen to wisdom; you shall also apply your heart to understanding, and shall apply it to the instruction of your son. ³ For it you shall call to wisdom, and utter your voice for understanding; ⁴ and if you shall seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures; ⁵ then shall you understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God. ⁶ For the Lord gives wisdom; and from his presence [come] knowledge and understanding, ⁷ and he treasures up salvation for them that walk uprightly: he will protect their way; ⁸ that he may guard the righteous ways: and he will preserve the way of them that fear him. ⁹ Then shall you understand righteousness, and judgment; and shall direct all your course aright.

⁴ who spoke and instructed me, [saying], Let our speech be fixed in your heart, keep [our] commandments, forget them not:

²¹ that your fountains may not fail you; keep them in [your] heart.

¹⁶ consume them; and your word shall be to me for the joy and gladness of my heart: for your name has been called upon me, O Lord Almighty.

¹³ Rise, sanctify the people and tell them to sanctify themselves for the morrow: thus says the Lord God of Israel, The accursed thing is among you; you⌃ shall not be able to stand before your enemies, until you⌃ shall have removed the cursed thing from among you. ¹⁴ And you⌃ shall all be gathered together by your tribes in the morning, and it shall come to pass that the tribe which the Lord shall show, you⌃ shall bring by families; and the family which the Lord shall show, you⌃ shall bring by households; and the household which the Lord shall show, you⌃ shall bring man by man. ¹⁵ And the man who shall be pointed out, shall be burnt with fire, and all that he has; because he has transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and has wrought wickedness in Israel. ¹⁶ And Joshua rose up early, and brought the people by their tribes; and the tribe of Juda was pointed out.

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.

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.

¹⁴ If he should cast down, who will build up? if he should shut up against man, who shall open?

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

²² And the Lord shall strike the Egyptians with a stroke, and shall completely heal them: and they shall return to the Lord, and he shall hear them, and thoroughly heal them.

⁶ Turn, you⌃ children of Israel, who devise a deep and sinful counsel.

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.

⁶ Seek you⌃ the Lord, and when you⌃ find him, call upon him; and when he shall draw near to you, ⁷ let the ungodly leave his ways, and the transgressor his counsels: and let him return to the Lord, and he shall find mercy; for he shall abundantly pardon your sins.

⁴ Moab is ruined, proclaim [it] to Zogora:

¹ Samaria shall be utterly destroyed: for she has resisted her God; they shall fall by the sword, and their sucklings shall be dashed against the ground, and their women with child ripped up. ² Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God; for the people have fallen through your iniquities.

³ And you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord Almighty: Turn to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will turn to you, says the Lord of hosts.

³ And he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth: for every thief shall be punished with death on this side, and every false swearer shall be punished on that side. 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.

²⁹ and Uphir, and Evila, and Jobab, all these were the sons of Jektan.

²⁸ And they came to Sophira, and took thence a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

²¹ And all the vessels made by Solomon [were] of gold, and the lavers [were] golden, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; there was no silver, for it was not accounted of in the days of Solomon.

⁵ And the brazen altar which Beseleel the son of Urias, the son of Or, had made, was there before the tabernacle of the Lord: and Solomon and the congregation enquired at it.

¹⁰ And the servants of Solomon and the servants of Chiram brought gold to Solomon out of Suphir, and pine timber, and precious stones.

²⁷ And the king made gold and silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars as the sycamore trees in the plain for abundance.

²⁵ and if too I rejoiced when my wealth was abundant, and if too I laid my hand on innumerable [treasures]:

⁹ Putting an end to wars as for the ends of the earth; he will crush the bow, and break in pieces the weapon, and burn the bucklers with fire.

¹² And they that are left shall be more precious than gold tried in the fire; and a man shall be more precious than the stone that is in Suphir.

¹ And after these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram, I shield you, your reward shall be very great.

⁵ Direct my steps in your paths, that my steps slip not. ⁶ I have cried, for you heard me, O God: incline your ear to me, and listen to my words.

² Day to day utters speech, and night to night proclaims knowledge.

¹¹ Truth has sprung out of the earth; and righteousness has looked down from heaven.

⁶ They shall be delivered up to the law: our salvation is our treasure: there are wisdom and knowledge and piety toward the Lord; these are the treasures of righteousness.

¹⁰ Fear not; for I am with you: wander not; for I am your God, who have strengthened you; and I have helped you, and have established you with my just right hand.

¹⁵ For thus shall your countenance shine again, as pure water; and you shall dive yourself of uncleanness, and shall not fear.

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

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

¹ (26) [A Psalm] of David. Judge me, O Lord; for I have walked in my innocence: and hoping in the Lord I shall not be moved.

⁴ For my transgressions have gone over mine head: they have pressed heavily upon me like a weighty burden.

⁴ I will make mention of Raab and Babylon to them that know me: behold also the Philistines, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians: these were born there.

⁸ whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity.

³ As the apple among the trees of the wood, so is my kinsman among the sons. I desired his shadow, and sat down, and his fruit was sweet in my throat.

¹⁴ then shall you trust on the Lord; and he shall bring you up to the good places of the land, and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.

²⁶ And he shall pray to the Lord, and his prayer shall be accepted of him; he shall enter with a cheerful countenance, with a full expression [of praise]: for he will render to men [their] due.

²⁸ so as to bring before him the cry of the needy; for he will hear the cry of the poor.

¹⁴ Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation: [and] my tongue shall joyfully declare your righteousness. ¹⁵ O Lord, you shall open my lips; and my mouth shall declare your praise.

¹⁵ that the Lord my God is righteous, and there is no iniquity in him.

¹ (117) Alleluia. Praise the Lord, all you⌃ nations: praise him, all you⌃ peoples.

⁴ [It is] better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.

⁹ Then shall you cry, and God shall listen to you; while you are yet speaking he will say, Behold, I am here. If you remove from you the band, and the stretching forth of the hands, and murmuring speech;

⁹ They that observe vanities and lies have forsaken their own mercy.

³ As when his lamp shone over my head; when by his light I walked through darkness.

⁴ He asked life of you, and you gave him length of days for ever and ever.

⁴ The Lord is high above all the nations; his glory is above the heavens.

¹⁸ But the ways of the righteous shine like light; they go on and shine, until the day be fully come.

²¹ and your ears shall hear the words of them that went after you to lead you astray, who say, This [is] the way, let us walk in it, whether to the right or to the left.

³⁷ Who has thus spoken, and it has come to pass? the Lord has not commanded it.

² But to you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise, and healing [shall be] in his wings: and you⌃ shall go forth, and bound as young calves let loose from bonds.

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. 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].

² I will be glad and exult in you: I will sing to your name, O you Most High. ³ When mine enemies are turned back, they shall be feeble and perish at your presence.

¹⁴ Then shall they be increased in a fine old age; and they shall be prosperous; that they may declare ¹⁵ that the Lord my God is righteous, and there is no iniquity in him.

⁶ The knowledge of you is too wonderful for me; it is very difficult, I can’t [attain] to it.

²³ Pride brings a man low, but the Lord upholds the humble-minded with honor.

² For all these things are mine, says the Lord: and to whom will I have respect, but to the humble and meek, and the [man] that trembles [at] my words?

²⁶ You have taken off the mitre and put on the crown, it shall not have such [another] after it: you have abased that which was high, and exalted that which was low. ²⁷ Injustice, injustice, injustice, will I make it: woe to it: such shall it be until he comes to whom it belongs; and I will deliver [it] to him.

²⁶ And the Lord said, If there should be in Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole city, and the whole place for their sakes. ²⁷ And Abraam answered and said, Now I have begun to speak to my Lord, and I am earth and ashes. ²⁸ But if the fifty righteous should be diminished to forty-five, will you destroy the whole city because of the five [lacking]? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I should find there forty-five. ²⁹ And he continued to speak to him still, and said, But if there should be found there forty? And he said, I will not destroy it for the forty's sake. ³⁰ And he said, Will there be anything [against me], Lord, if I shall speak? but if there be found there thirty? And he said, I will not destroy it for the thirty's sake. ³¹ And he said, Since I am able to speak to the Lord, what if there should be found there twenty? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I should find there twenty. ³² And he said, Will there be anything [against me], Lord, if I speak yet once? but if there should be found there ten? And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.

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]. ⁸ Now then take seven bullocks, and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and he shall offer a burnt offering for you. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will only accept him: for but his sake, I would have destroyed you, for you⌃ have not spoken the truth against my servant Job.

⁴ Show me your ways, O Lord; and teach me your paths.

¹⁵ When you⌃ stretch forth your hands, I will turn away mine eyes from you: and though you⌃ make many supplications, I will not listen to you; for your hands are full of blood.

¹² And your old waste desert [places] shall be built up, and your foundations shall last through all generations; and you shall be called a repairer of breaches, and you shall cause your paths between to be in peace.

¹ Run you⌃ about in the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and know, and seek in her broad places, if you⌃ can find [one], if there is any one that does judgment, and seeks faithfulness; and I will pardon them, says the Lord.

⁹ And now entreat the face of your God, and make supplication to him. These things have been done by your hands; shall I accept you? says the Lord Almighty.