Job 23 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ Then Job answered and said, ² Yes, I know that pleading is out of my reach; and his hand has been made heavy upon my groaning. ³ Who would then know that I might find him, and come to an end [of the matter]? ⁴ And I would plead my own cause, and he would fill my mouth with arguments. ⁵ And I would know the remedies which he would speak to me, and I would perceive what he would tell me. 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. ⁸ For if I shall go first, and exist no longer, still what do I know [concerning] the latter end? ⁹ When he wrought on the left hand, then I observed [it] not: his right hand shall encompass me but I shall not see [it]. 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. ¹³ And if too he has thus judged, who is he that has contradicted, for he has both willed [a thing] and done it. ¹⁵ Therefore am I troubled at him; and when I was reproved, I thought of him. Therefore let me take good heed before him: I will consider, and be afraid of him. ¹⁶ But the Lord has softened my heart, and the Almighty has troubled me. ¹⁷ For I knew not that darkness would come upon me, and thick darkness has covered [me] before my face.

² Oh that one would indeed weigh the wrath that is upon me, and take up my griefs in a balance together! ³ And verily they would be heavier than the sand by the seashore: but, as it seems, my words are vain.

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.

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.

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.

⁴ For the word of the Lord is right; and all his works are faithful.

² I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter dark sayings [which have been] from the beginning. 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.

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.

³ Nevertheless I will speak to the Lord, and I will reason before him, if he will.

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

³⁵ (Oh that I had a hearer,) and if I had not feared the hand of the Lord; and [as to] the written charge which I had against any one, ³⁶ I would place [it] as a chaplet on my shoulders, and read it. ³⁷ And if I did not read it and return it, having taken nothing from the debtor:

¹ And the Lord yet again answered and spoke to Job out of the cloud, [saying], ² Nay, gird up now your loins like a man; and I will ask you, and do you answer me. ³ Do not set aside my judgment: and do you think that I have dealt with you in any other way, than that you might appear to be righteous? ⁴ Hast you an arm like the Lord's? or do you thunder with a voice like his? ⁵ Assume now a lofty bearing and power; and clothe yourself with glory and honor.

⁸ For the way of the Lord is judgment: we have hoped in your name, and on the remembrance [of you],

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.

⁷ Our sins have risen up against us: O Lord, do you for us for your own sake; for our sins are many before you; for we have sinned against you.

²⁵ By no means shall you do as this thing [is] so as to destroy the righteous with the wicked, so the righteous shall be as the wicked: by no means. You that judge the whole earth, shall you not do right? 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.

¹² But you said, I will do you good, and will make your seed as the sand of the sea, which shall not be numbered for multitude.

¹² [Take heed] lest at any time the Egyptians speak, saying, With evil intent he brought them out to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from off the earth; cease from your wrathful anger, and be merciful to the sin of your people, ¹³ remembering Abraam and Isaac and Jacob your servants, to whom you have sworn by yourself, and have spoken to them, saying, I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of heaven for multitude, and all this land which you spoke of to give to them, so that they shall possess it for ever.

¹³ And Moses said to the Lord, So Egypt shall hear, for you have brought up this people from them by your might. ¹⁴ Moreover all the dwellers upon this land have heard that you are Lord in the midst of this people, who, O Lord, are seen [by them] face to face, and your cloud rests upon them, and you go before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire. ¹⁵ And [if] you shall destroy this nation as one man; then all the nations that have heard your name shall speak, saying, ¹⁶ Because the Lord could not bring this people into the land which he sware to them, he has overthrown them in the wilderness. ¹⁷ And now, O Lord, let your strength be exalted, as you spoke, saying, ¹⁸ The Lord [is] longsuffering and merciful, and true, removing transgressions and iniquities and sins, and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. ¹⁹ Forgive this people their sin according to your great mercy, as you were favourable to them from Egypt until now.

⁸ And what shall I say since Israel has turned his back before his enemy? ⁹ And when the Chananite and all the inhabitants of the land hear it, they shall compass us round and destroy us from off the land: and what will you do [for] your great name?

¹⁸ Behold, I am near my judgment: I know that I shall appear evidently just.

¹⁹ Therefore teach me, what shall we say to him? and let us cease from saying much.

¹¹ But I have walked in my innocence: redeem me, and have mercy upon me.

¹ (44) For the end, a Psalm for instruction, for the sons of Core. O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, the work which you wrought in their days, in the days of old.

²⁶ But do you remember, and let us plead [together]: do you first confess your transgressions, that you may be justified.

¹⁸ Incline your ear, O my God, and hear; open your eyes and behold our desolation, and that of your city on which your name is called: for we do not bring our pitiful case before you on [the ground of] our righteousness, but on [the ground of] your manifold compassions, O Lord. ¹⁹ Listen, O Lord; be propitious, O Lord; attend, O Lord; delay not, O my God, for your own sake: for your name is called upon your city and upon your people.

² And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and therefore have you thus judged me?

²² Then shall you call, and I will listen to you: or you shall speak, and I will give you an answer. ²³ How many are my sins and my transgressions? teach me what they are.

² I know that you can do all things, and nothing is impossible with you. ³ For who is he that hides counsel from you? or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from you? and who will tell me what I knew not, great and wonderful things which I understood not? ⁴ But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask you, and do you teach me. ⁵ I have heard the report of you by the ear before; but now mine eye has seen you. ⁶ Therefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes.

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

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

³³ Would that [he] our mediator were [present], and a reprover, and one who should hear [the cause] between both. ³⁴ Let him remove [his] rod from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

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

³ You have traced my path and my bed, and have foreseen all my ways.

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

⁸ Fighting and reproaching he will dismiss them; did you not meditate with a harsh spirit, to kill them with a wrathful spirit?

³³ Therefore, [as] I live, says the Lord, I will reign over you with a strong hand, and with a high arm, and with outpoured wrath:

³⁵ And I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, and will plead with you there face to face.

¹⁵ For though I be righteous, he will not listen to me: I will entreat his judgment.

¹⁸ And come, let us reason together, says the Lord: and though your sins be as purple, I will make them white as snow; and though they be as scarlet, I will make [them] white as wool.

⁵ Will [God's anger] continue for ever, or be preserved to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done these bad things, and had power [to do them].

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?

¹¹ If ever he should go beyond me, I shall not see him: if he should pass by me, neither thus have I known [it].

¹⁴ He beholds them that perform lawless deeds, and he will save me: and do you plead before him, if you can praise him, as it is [possible] even now.

¹ (11 in KJV) For the end, a Psalm of David. In the Lord I have put my trust: how will you⌃ say to my soul,

¹ (14) For the end, Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted [themselves], and become abominable in their devices; there is none that does goodness, there is not even so much as one. ² The Lord looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any that understood, or sought after god. ³ They are all gone out of the way, they are together become good for nothing, there is none that does good, no not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes.

¹⁵ For you are God, yet we knew [it] not, the God of Israel, the Saviour.

¹⁷ And [one] shall say, I will wait for God, who has turned away his face from the house of Jacob, and I will trust in him.

¹⁹ For I know that he will order his sons, and his house after him, and they will keep the ways of the Lord, to do justice and judgment, that the Lord may bring upon Abraam all things whatever he has spoken to him.

² And you shall remember all the way which the Lord your God led you in the wilderness, that he might afflict you, and try you, and that the things in your heart might be made manifest, whether you would keep his commandments or no.

³ Lord, remember, I pray you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your eyes. And Ezekias wept with a great weeping.

¹¹ But put forth your hand, and touch all that he has: verily he will bless you to [your] face. ¹² Then the Lord said to the devil, Behold, I give into your hand all that he has, but touch not himself. So the devil went out from the presence of the Lord.

⁵ Nay, but put forth your hand, and touch his bones and his flesh: verily he will bless you to [your] face. ⁶ And the Lord said to the devil, Behold, I deliver him up to you; only save his life.

⁵ I have heard the report of you by the ear before; but now mine eye has seen you. ⁶ Therefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes. 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.

⁶ For the Lord knows the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

³ I will call upon the Lord with praises, and I shall be saved from mine enemies.

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. ³ They have sharpened their tongue as [the tongue] of a serpent; the poison of asps is under their lips. Pause.

³ As silver and gold are tried in a furnace, so are choice hearts with the Lord.

⁹ And I will bring the third [part] through the fire, and I will try them as silver is tried, and I will prove them as gold is proved: they shall call upon my name, and I will hear them, and say, This is my people: and they shall say, The Lord [is] my God.

² And who will abide the day of his coming? or who will withstand at his appearing? for he is coming in as the fire of a furnace and as the herb of fullers. ³ He shall sit to melt and purify as it were silver, and as it were gold: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver, and they shall offer to the Lord an offering in righteousness.

² And now, behold, the king goes before you; and I am grown old and shall rest; and, behold, my sons [are] among you; and, behold, I have gone about before you from my youth to this day. ³ Behold, [here am] I, answer against me before the Lord and before his anointed: whose calf have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom of you have I oppressed? or from whose hand have I taken a bribe, even [to] a sandal? bear witness against me, and I will make restitution to you. ⁴ And they said to Samuel, You have not injured us, and you have not oppressed us; and you have not afflicted us, and you have not taken anything from any one's hand. ⁵ And Samuel said to the people, The Lord [is] witness among you, and his anointed [is] witness this day, that you⌃ have not found anything in my hand: and they said, [He is] witness.

⁹ But let the faithful hold on his own way, and let him that is pure of hands take courage.

⁵ The pangs of hell came round about me: the snares of death prevented me.

³ Hope in the Lord, and do good; and dwell on the land, and you shall be fed with the wealth of it.

⁵ They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

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

¹⁰ Let the grave be my city, upon the walls of which I have leaped: I will not shrink from it; for I have not denied the holy words of my God.

²² And receive a declaration from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

⁹ O Lord, save the king: and hear us in whatever day we call upon you.

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.

¹⁹ God is not as man to waver, nor as the son of man to be threatened; shall he say and not perform? shall he speak and not keep [to his word]? ²⁰ Behold, I have received [commandment] to bless: I will bless, and not turn back.

¹² If he would take away, who shall turn him back? or who shall say to him, What have you done? ¹³ For [if] he has turned away [his] anger, the whales under heaven have stooped under him.

¹⁰ And if he should overthrow all things, who will say to him, What have you done?

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

²⁹ And he will give quiet, and who will condemn? and he will hide his face, and who shall see him? whether [it be done] against a nation, or against a man also:

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

⁶ To him who established the earth on the waters; for his mercy [endures] for ever.

²¹ [There are] many thoughts in a man's heart; but the counsel of the Lord abides for ever.

¹⁵ That which is crooked can’t be made straight: and deficiency can’t be numbered.

¹⁴ I know that whatever things God has done, they shall be for ever: it is impossible to add to it, and it is impossible to take away from it: and God has done [it], that [men] may fear before him.

²⁴ Thus says the Lord of hosts, As I have said, so it shall be: and as I have purposed, so [the matter] shall remain: ²⁵ [even] to destroy the Assyrians upon my land, and upon my mountains: and they shall be for trampling; and their yoke shall be taken away from them, and their glory shall be taken away from their shoulders. ²⁶ This is the purpose which the Lord has purposed upon the whole earth: and this the hand that is uplifted against all the nations. ²⁷ For what the Holy God has purposed, who shall frustrate? and who shall turn back his uplifted hand?

¹⁰ telling beforehand the latter events before they come to pass, and they are accomplished together: and I said, all my counsel shall stand, and I will do all things that I have planned:

³ So have I also endured months of vanity, and nights of pain have been appointed me.

¹⁹ They spoke also against God, and said, Will God be able to prepare a table in the wilderness?

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

²⁷ For say not you, O Jacob, and why have you spoken, Israel, [saying], My way is hid from God, and my God has taken away [my] judgement, and has departed? ²⁸ And now, have you not known? have you not heard? the eternal God, the God that formed the ends of the earth, shall not hunger, nor be weary, and there is no searching of his understanding.

⁹ The Lord's voice shall be proclaimed in the city, and he shall save those that fear his name: hear, O tribe; and who shall order the city?

¹⁵ Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and if I should be righteous, I can’t lift myself up, for I am full of dishonor.

³ Who would then know that I might find him, and come to an end [of the matter]?

²³ For the fear of the Lord constrained me, and I can’t bear up by reason of his burden.

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

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.

³ Hear, O Israel; you⌃ are going this day to battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint, fear not, neither be confounded, neither turn aside from their face.

²⁰ And she said to them, Nay, do not call me Noemin; call me 'Bitter,' for the Mighty One has dealt very bitterly with me.

² [As] God lives, who has thus judge me; and the Almighty, who has embittered my soul;

¹⁶ And in your name shall they rejoice all the day: and in your righteousness shall they be exalted.

⁵ And I said, Woe is me, for I am pricked to the heart; for being a man, and having unclean lips, I dwell in the midst of a people having unclean lips; and I have seen with mine eyes the King, the Lord of hosts.

¹⁶ I will not take vengeance on you for ever, neither will I be always angry with you: for my Spirit shall go forth from me, and I have created all breath.

¹⁵ Alas, Alas, Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and it will come as trouble upon trouble.

²⁰ It shall not be so [therefore]: behold, I [will] add you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your tomb in peace, and your eyes shall not see [any] among all the evils which I bring upon this place.

⁹ Let the Lord begin and wound me, but let him not utterly destroy me.

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

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.

¹¹ The light has proved darkness to you, and water has covered you on your lying down.

¹ See how the just man has perished, and no one lays [it] to heart: and righteous men are taken away, and no one considers: for the righteous has been removed out of the way of injustice.