Job 24 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ But why have the seasons been hidden from the Lord, ² while the ungodly have passed over the bound, carrying off the flock with the shepherd? ³ They have led away, the ass of the fatherless, and taken the widow's ox for a pledge. ⁴ They have turned aside the weak from the right way: and the meek of the earth have hidden themselves together. ⁵ And they have departed like asses in the field, having gone forth on my account according to their own order: his bread is sweet to [his] little ones. ⁶ They have reaped a field that was not their own before the time: the poor have laboured in the vineyards of the ungodly without pay and without food. ⁷ They have caused many naked to sleep without clothes, and they have taken away the covering of their body. ⁸ They are wet with the drops of the mountains: they have embraced the rock, because they had no shelter. 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. ¹¹ They have unrighteously laid wait in narrow places, and have not known the righteous way. ¹² Who have cast forth [the] poor from the city and their own houses, and the soul of the children has groaned aloud. ¹³ Why then has he not visited these? forasmuch as they were upon the earth, and took no notice, and they knew not the way of righteousness, neither have they walked in their [appointed] paths? ¹⁴ But having known their works, he delivered them into darkness: and in the night one will be as a thief: ¹⁵ and the eye of the adulterer has watched [for] the darkness, saying, Eye shall not perceive me, and he puts a covering on his face. ¹⁶ In darkness he digs through houses: by day they conceal themselves securely: they know not the light. ¹⁷ For the morning is to them all [as] the shadow of death, for [each] will be conscious of the terror of the shadow of death. ¹⁸ He is swift on the face of the water: let his portion be cursed on the earth; and let their plants be laid bare. ¹⁹ [Let them be] withered upon the earth; for they have plundered the sheaves of the fatherless. 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. ²¹ For he has not treated the barren woman well, and has had no pity on a feeble woman. ²² And in wrath he has overthrown the helpless: therefore when he has arisen, [a man] will not feel secure of his own life. ²³ When he has fallen sick, let him not hope to recover: but let him perish by disease. 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. ²⁵ But if not, who is he that says I speak falsely, and will make my words of no account?

⁴ For yet seven days [having passed] I bring rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will blot out every offspring which I have made from the face of all the earth.

¹⁷ And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraam my servant what things I intend to do?

²⁰ And the Lord said, The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha has been increased towards me, and their sins are very great. ²¹ I will therefore go down and see, if they completely correspond with the cry which comes to me, and if not, that I may know.

¹⁰ And let them that know your name hope in you: for you, O Lord, have not failed them that diligently seek you.

¹⁰ And yet a little while, and the sinner shall not be, and you shall seek for his place, and shall not find [it].

¹⁶ The day is your, and the night is your; you have prepared the sun and the moon. ¹⁷ You have made all the borders of the earth; you have made summer and spring. ¹⁸ Remember this your creation: an enemy has reproached the Lord, and a foolish people has provoked your name. ¹⁹ Deliver not to the wild beasts a soul that gives praise to you: forget not for ever the souls of your poor.

¹⁷ And I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the ungodly: for there is a time there for every action and for every work.

⁶ For to every thing there is time and judgment; for the knowledge of a man is great to him. ⁷ For there is no one that knows what is going to be: for who shall tell him how it shall be?

¹¹ I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, nor yet wealth to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of knowledge; for time and chance will happen to them all. ¹² For surely man also knows not his time: as fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as birds that are caught in a snare; even thus the sons of men are snared at an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.

¹² For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and haughty, and upon every one that is high and towering, and they shall be brought down;

²² The little one shall become thousands, and the least a great nation; I the Lord will gather them in [due] time.

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.

²¹ And he changes times and seasons: he appoints kings, and removes [them], giving wisdom to the wise, and prudence to them that have understanding:

¹⁴ You shall not move the landmarks of your neighbor, which your fathers set in the inheritance, in which you have obtained a share in the land, which the Lord your God gives you to inherit.

¹⁷ Cursed is he that removes his neighbor's landmarks: and all the people shall say, So be it.

¹⁵ and the spoilers came and took them for a prey, and killed the servants with the sword; and I having escaped alone am come to tell you.

¹⁷ While he was yet speaking, there came another messenger, and said to Job, The horsemen formed three companies against us, and surrounded the camels, and took them for a prey, and killed the servants with the sword; and I only escaped, and am come to tell you.

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.

²⁸ Remove not the old landmarks, which your fathers placed.

¹⁰ Remove not the ancient landmarks; and enter not upon the possession of the fatherless:

¹⁰ The princes of Juda became as they that removed the bounds: I will pour out upon them my fury as water.

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.

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. ¹⁹ You shall not wrest the judgment of the stranger and the fatherless, and widow; you shall not take the widow's garment for a pledge. ²⁰ And you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you from thence; therefore I charge you to do this thing. ²¹ And when you shall have reaped corn in your field, and shall have forgotten a sheaf in your field, you shall not return to take it; it shall be for the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works of your hands.

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.

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.

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;

¹⁴ But having known their works, he delivered them into darkness: and in the night one will be as a thief:

¹² For I saved the poor out of the hand of the oppressor, and helped the fatherless who had no helper.

²⁵ Yet I wept over every helpless man; I groaned when I saw a man in distress.

¹⁶ But the helpless missed not whatever need they had, and I did not cause the eye of the widow to fail.

¹ (42) For the end, [a Psalm] for instruction, for the sons of Core. As the hart earnestly desires the fountains of water, so my soul earnestly longs for you, O God.

¹⁶ He that oppresses the poor, increases his own substance, yet gives to the rich so as to make it less.

¹² By reason of the help of righteous men great glory arises: but in the places of the ungodly men are caught.

²⁸ In the places of ungodly [men] the righteous mourn: but in their destruction the righteous shall be multiplied.

¹⁴ A wicked generation have swords [for] teeth and jaw teeth [as] knives, so as to destroy and devour the lowly from the earth, and the poor of them from among men.

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.

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,

¹⁸ But if his father grievously afflict, or plunder, he has wrought enmity in the midst of my people, and shall die in his iniquity.

²⁹ That sorely oppress the people of the land with injustice, and commit robbery; oppressing the poor and needy, and not dealing justly with the stranger.

⁷ wherewith to tread on the dust of the earth, and they have struck upon the heads of the poor, and have perverted the way of the lowly: and a son and his father have gone into the same maid, that they might profane the name of their God.

⁴ Hear now this, you⌃ that oppress the poor in the morning, and drive the needy ones by tyranny from the earth, ⁵ saying, When will the month pass away, and we shall sell, and the sabbath, and we shall open the treasure, to make the measure small, and to enlarge the weight, and make the balance unfair? ⁶ That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes; and we will trade in every kind of fruit.

¹ They meditated troubles, and wrought wickedness on their beds, and they put it in execution with the daylight; for they have not lifted up their hands to God. ² And they desired fields, and plundered orphans, and oppressed families, and spoiled a man and his house, even a man and his inheritance.

¹² He shall be a wild man, his hands against all, and the hands of all against him, and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

⁴⁰ And you shall live by your sword, and shall serve your brother; and there shall be [a time] when you shall break and loosen his yoke from off your neck.

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

⁵ And who is he that sent forth the wild ass free? and who loosed his bands? ⁶ whereas I made his habitation the wilderness, and the salt land his coverts. ⁷ He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, and hears not the chiding of the tax-gatherer.

²³ Israel also came into Egypt, and Jacob sojourned in the land of Cham.

¹⁶ For they can’t sleep, unless they have done evil: their sleep is taken away, and they rest not.

²⁴ she has extended her ways over the waters of the desert; she was hurried along by the lusts of her soul; she is given up [to them], who will turn her back? none that seek her shall be weary; at [the time of] her humiliation they shall find her.

⁶ Therefore their hearts are inflamed as an oven, while they rage all the night: Ephraim is satisfied with sleep; the morning is come; he is burnt up as a flame of fire.

⁹ For they have gone up to the Assyrians: Ephraim has been strengthened against himself; they loved gifts.

¹ They meditated troubles, and wrought wickedness on their beds, and they put it in execution with the daylight; for they have not lifted up their hands to God.

³ Her princes within her were as roaring lions, her judges as the wolves of Arabia; they remained not till the morrow.

³³ A nation which you know not shall eat the produce of your land, and all your labors; and you shall be injured and crushed always.

⁵¹ And it shall eat up the young of your cattle, and the fruits of your land, so as not to leave to you corn, wine, oil, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep, until it shall have destroyed you;

³ And it came to pass when the children of Israel sowed, that Madiam and Amalec went up, and the children of the east went up together with them. ⁴ And they encamped against them, and destroyed their fruits until they came to Gaza; and they left not the support of life in the land of Israel, not even ox or ass among the herds. ⁵ For they and their stock came up, and their tents were with them, as the locust in multitude, and there was no number to them and their camels; and they came to the land of Israel, and laid it waste. ⁶ And Israel was greatly impoverished because of Madiam.

¹⁵ You shall sow, but you shall not reap; you shall press the olive, but you shall not anoint yourself with oil; and [shall make] wine, but you⌃ shall drink no wine: and the ordinances of my people shall be utterly abolished.

⁴⁰ I was parched with heat by day, and [chilled] with frost by night, and my sleep departed from my eyes.

²⁶ And if you take your neighbor's garment for a pledge, you shall restore it to him before sunset. ²⁷ For this is his clothing, this is the only covering of his nakedness; wherein shall he sleep? If then he shall cry to me, I will listen to him, for I am merciful.

⁶ And you have taken security of your brethren for nothing, and have taken away the clothing of the naked.

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; ²¹ Her husband is not anxious about those at home when he tarries anywhere abroad: for all her household are clothed.

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.

² I sleep, but my heart is awake: the voice of my kinsman knocks at the door, [saying], Open, open to me, my companion, my sister, my dove, my perfect one: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

⁵ HE. They that feed on dainties are desolate in the streets: they that used to be nursed in scarlet have clothed themselves with dung.

¹ And one of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisaie, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared the Lord: and the creditor is come to take my two sons to be his servants.

⁵ And now our flesh [is] as the flesh of our brethren, our children [are] as their children: yet, behold, we are reducing our sons and our daughters to slavery, and some of our daughters are enslaved: and there is no power of our hands, for our fields and our vineyards [belong] to the nobles.

¹⁹ You shall not wrest the judgment of the stranger and the fatherless, and widow; you shall not take the widow's garment for a pledge.

⁷ wherewith to tread on the dust of the earth, and they have struck upon the heads of the poor, and have perverted the way of the lowly: and a son and his father have gone into the same maid, that they might profane the name of their God. 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.

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

⁴ You shall not muzzle the ox that treads out the corn.

¹³ He that builds his house not with justice, and his upper chambers not with judgment, who works by means of his neighbor for nothing, and will by no means give him his reward.

¹³ And the Egyptians tyrannized over the children of Israel by force. ¹⁴ And they embittered their life by hard labors, in the clay and in brick-making, and all the works in the plains, according to all the works, wherein they caused them to serve with violence.

²³ And in those days after a length of time, the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel groaned because of their tasks, and cried, and their cry because of their tasks went up to God. ²⁴ And God heard their groanings, and God remembered his covenant made with Abraam and Isaac and Jacob.

²⁷ For this is his clothing, this is the only covering of his nakedness; wherein shall he sleep? If then he shall cry to me, I will listen to him, for I am merciful.

¹⁶ And they put away the strange gods from the midst of them, and served the Lord only, and his soul was pained for the trouble of Israel.

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

⁵ But I have hoped in your mercy; my heart shall exult in your salvation.

¹ So I returned, and saw all the oppressions that were done under the sun: and behold the tear of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of them that oppressed them was power; but they had no comforter:

¹¹ Because there is no contradiction made on the part of those who do evil quickly, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully determined in them to do evil. ¹² He that has sinned has done evil from that time, and long from beforehand: nevertheless I know, that it is well with them that fear God, that they may fear before him:

⁵ And now why are you⌃ here? Thus says the Lord, Because my people was taken for nothing, wonder you⌃ and howl. Thus says the Lord, On account of you my name is continually blasphemed among the Gentiles.

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?

¹⁵ And now we pronounce strangers blessed; and all they who act unlawfully are built up; and they have resisted God, and [yet] have been delivered.

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.

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

¹⁴ And the morning came, and David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Urias. ¹⁵ And he wrote in the letter, saying, Station Urias in front of the severe [part] of the fight, and retreat from behind him, so shall he be wounded and die. ¹⁶ And it came to pass while Joab was watching against the city, that he set Urias in a place where he knew that valiant men were. ¹⁷ And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and some of the people of the servants of David fell, and Urias the Chettite died also.

⁸ For the Lord [is] righteous, and loves righteousness; his face beholds uprightness.

¹⁴ And having taken off the garments of her widowhood from her, she put on a veil, and ornamented her face, and sat by the gates of Aenan, which is in the way to Thamna, for she saw that Selom was grown; but he gave her not to him for a wife. ¹⁵ And when Judas saw her, he thought her to be a harlot; for she covered her face, and he knew her not.

¹⁴ You shall not steal.

⁴ And David sent messengers, and took her, and went in to her, and he lay with her: and she was purified from her uncleanness, and returned to her house. ⁵ And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, I am with child. ⁶ And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Urias the Chettite; and Joab sent Urias to David. ⁷ And Urias arrived and went in to him, and David asked him how Joab was, and how the people were, and how the war went on. ⁸ And David said to Urias, Go to your house, and wash your feet: and Urias departed from the house of the king, and a portion [of meat] from the king followed him. ⁹ And Urias slept at the door of the king with the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house. ¹⁰ And they brought David word, saying, Urias has not gone down to his house. And David said to Urias, Are you not come from a journey? why have you not gone down to your house? ¹¹ And Urias said to David, The ark, and Israel, and Juda dwell in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; and shall I go into my house to eat and drink, and lie with my wife? how [should I do this? as] your soul lives, I will not do this thing. ¹² And David said to Urias, Remain here today also, and to-morrow I will let you go. So Urias remained in Jerusalem that day and the day following. ¹³ And David called him, and he ate before him and drank, and he made him drunk: and he went out in the evening to lie upon his bed with the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.

¹² For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing in the sight of all Israel, and before the sun.

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.

¹⁸ Do good, O Lord, to Sion in your good pleasure; and let the walls of Jerusalem be built.

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.

³² But the adulterer through lack of sense procures destruction to his soul. ³³ He endures both pain and disgrace, and his reproach shall never be wiped off. ³⁴ For the soul of her husband is full of jealousy: he will not spare in the day of vengeance. ³⁵ He will not forego [his] enmity for any ransom: neither will he be reconciled for many gifts.

⁹ when there happens [to be] the stillness of night and of darkness: ¹⁰ and the woman meets him having the appearance of a harlot, that causes the hearts of young men to flutter.

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].

² And if the thief be found in the breach [made by himself] and be struck and die, there shall not be blood shed for him. ³ But if the sun be risen upon him, he is guilty, he shall die instead; and if a thief have nothing, let him be sold in compensation for what he has stolen.

¹³ Why then has he not visited these? forasmuch as they were upon the earth, and took no notice, and they knew not the way of righteousness, neither have they walked in their [appointed] paths?

¹² Or did I order the morning light in your time; and [did] the morning star [then first] see his appointed place; ¹³ to lay hold of the extremities of the earth, to cast out the ungodly out of it?

⁵ Dig for yourself into the wall [of the house], and you shall pass through it in their sight: ⁶ you shall be lifted up on [men's] shoulders, and shall go forth in secret: you shall cover your face, and shall not see the ground: because I have made you a sign to the house of Israel. ⁷ And I did thus according to all that he commanded me; and I carried forth my baggage for captivity by day, and in the evening I dug through the wall for myself, and went out secretly; I was taken up on [men's] shoulders before them.

¹² And the prince in the midst of them shall be borne upon shoulders, and shall go forth in secret through the wall, and shall dig so that he may go forth thereby: he shall cover his face, that he may not be seen by [any] eye, and he himself shall not see the ground.

⁵ But let darkness and the shadow of death seize it; let blackness come upon it;

²⁶ As is the shame of a thief when he is caught, so shall the children of Israel be ashamed; they, and their kings, and their princes, and their priests, and their prophets.

¹⁶ Cursed [shall] you [be] in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. ¹⁷ Cursed shall be your barns and your stores. ¹⁸ Cursed shall be the offspring of your body, and the fruits of your land, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep. ¹⁹ Cursed shall you be in your coming in, and cursed shall you be in your going out. ²⁰ The Lord send upon you lack, and famine, and consumption of all things on which you shall put your hand, until he shall have utterly destroyed you, and until he shall have consumed you quickly because of your evil devices, because you have forsaken me.

²⁶ Or again, is there a trace of [their] path [left] by ships? or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks [its] prey?

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

⁷ Behold, they shall utter a voice with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips; for who, [say they], has heard?

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

³³ The curse of God is in the houses of the ungodly; but the habitations of the just are blessed.

¹⁰ Till your land; for ships no more come out of Carthage.

² If you⌃ will not listen, and if you⌃ will not lay [it] to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord Almighty, then I will send forth the curse upon you, and I will bring a curse upon your blessing: yes, I will curse it, and I will scatter your blessing, and it shall not exist among you, because you⌃ lay not this to heart.

¹⁵ My nearest relations have not regarded me; they have passed me by like a failing brook, or like a wave. ¹⁶ They who used to reverence me, now have come against me like snow or congealed ice. ¹⁷ When it has melted at the approach of heat, it is not known what it was.

¹³ And they spend their days in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of the grave.

²³ One shall die in his perfect strength, and wholly at ease and prosperous;

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.

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

⁸ But you, Lord, will laugh them to scorn; you will utterly set at nothing all the heathen. ⁹ will keep my strength, [looking] to you; for you, O God, are my helper.

² I am stuck fast in deep mire, and there is no standing: I am come in to the depths of the sea, and a storm has overwhelmed me.

³² The ungodly shall be driven away in his wickedness: but he who is secure in his own holiness is just.

⁴ for who is he that has fellowship with all the living? there is hope [of him]: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. ⁵ For the living will know that they shall die: but the dead know nothing, and there is no longer any reward to them; for their memory is lost. ⁶ also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, have now perished; yes, there is no portion for them any more for ever in all that is done under the sun.

⁷ For there is hope for a tree, even if it should be cut down, [that] it shall blossom again, and its branch shall not fail. ⁸ For though its root should grow old in the earth, and its stem die in the rock; ⁹ it will blossom from the scent of water, and will produce a crop, as one newly planted. ¹⁰ But a man that has died is utterly gone; and when a mortal has fallen, he is no more.

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

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

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;

⁷ The memory of the just is praised; but the name of the ungodly [man] is extinguished.

¹⁰ And then I saw the ungodly carried into the tombs, and [that] out of the holy place: and they departed, and were praised in the city, because they had done thus: this also is vanity.

¹⁴ But the dead shall not see life, neither shall physicians by any means raise [them] up: therefore you have brought [wrath] upon [them], and slain [them], and have taken away every male of them. Bring more evils upon them, O Lord;

¹⁴ The matter is by the decree of the watcher, and the demand is a word of the holy ones; that the living may known that the Lord is most high [over] the kingdom of men, and he will give it to whoever he shall please, and will set up over it that which is set at nothing of men.

⁶ For the Lord gave her no child in her affliction, and according to the despondency of her affliction; and she was dispirited on this account, that the Lord shut up her womb so as not to give her a child. ⁷ So she did year by year, in going up to the house of the Lord; and she was dispirited, and wept, and did not eat.

⁹ But you have sent widows away empty, and has afflicted orphans.

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

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.)

⁸ And he spoke to king Artaxerxes, saying, There is a nation scattered among the nations in all your kingdom, and their laws differ from [those of] all the [other] nations; and they disobey the laws of the king; and it is not expedient for the king to let them alone. ⁹ If it seem good to the king, let him make a decree to destroy them: and I will remit into the king's treasury ten thousand talents of silver. ¹⁰ And the king took off his ring, and gave it into the hands of Aman, to seal the decrees against the Jews.

⁴ Then the governors and satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel; but they found against him no occasion, nor trespass, nor error, because he was faithful. ⁵ And the governors said, We shall not find occasion against Daniel, except in the ordinances of his God. ⁶ Then the governors and satraps stood by the king, and said to him, King Darius, live for ever. ⁷ All who preside over your kingdom, captains and satraps, chiefs and local governors, have taken counsel together, to establish by a royal statue and to confirm a decree, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, save of you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions. ⁸ Now then, O king, establish the decree, and publish a writ, that the decree of the Persians and Medes be not changed. ⁹ Then king Darius commanded the decree to be written.

¹¹ For he knows the works of transgressors; and when he sees wickedness, he will not overlook [it].

⁴ who have said, We will magnify our tongue; our lips are our own: who is Lord of us? ⁵ Because of the misery of the poor, and because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the Lord, I will set [them] in safety; I will speak [to them] thereof openly.

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.

²¹ For the ways of a man are before the eyes of God, and he looks on all his paths.

³ The eyes of the Lord behold both the evil and the good in every place.

²¹ If your enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink; ²² for so doing you shall heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward you [with] good. ²³ The north wind raises clouds; so an impudent face provokes the tongue.

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

¹¹ Because there is no contradiction made on the part of those who do evil quickly, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully determined in them to do evil.

⁸ And if they should say to him, You alone are ruler; ⁹ then shall he say, Have I not taken the country above Babylon and Chalanes, where the tower was built? and have I [not] taken Arabia, and Damascus, and Samaria? ¹⁰ As I have taken them, I will also take all the kingdoms: howl, you⌃ idols in Jerusalem, and in Samaria. ¹¹ For as I did to Samaria and her idols, so will I do also to Jerusalem and her idols.

⁷ The Lord swears against the pride of Jacob, None of your works shall ever be forgotten.

² Though they hid themselves in hell, thence shall my hand drag them forth; and though they go up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.

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?

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

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

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

¹⁰ My heart is troubled, my strength has failed me; and the light of mine eyes is not with me.

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

⁵ And it shall be as if one should gather standing corn, and reap the grain of the ears; and it shall be as if one should gather ears in a rich valley; ⁶ and [as if] there should be left stubble therein, or [as it were] the berries of an olive tree, two or three on the topmost bough, or [as if] four or five should be left on their branches; thus says the Lord, the God of Israel.

²⁸ But now, having looked upon your countenances, I will not lie.

²⁴ For they are delivered into the hands of the unrighteous [man]: he covers the faces of the judges [of the earth]: but if it be not he, who is it?

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

² Will a wise man give for answer a [mere] breath of wisdom? and does he fill up the pain of his belly,

⁴ my lips shall not speak evil words, neither shall my soul meditate unrighteous thoughts.