Job 31 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ I made a covenant with mine eyes, and I will not think upon a virgin. ² Now what portion has God given from above? and is there an inheritance [given] of the Mighty One from the highest? ³ Alas! destruction to the unrighteous, and rejection to them that do iniquity. ⁴ Will he not see my way, and number all my steps? ⁵ But if I had gone with scorners, and if too my foot has hasted to deceit: ⁶ (for I am weighed in a just balance, and the Lord knows my innocence:) ⁷ if my foot has turned aside out of the way, or if mine heart has followed mine eye, and if too I have touched gifts with my hands; ⁸ then let me sow, and let others eat; and let me be uprooted on the earth. ⁹ If my heart has gone forth after another man's wife, and if I laid wait at her doors; ¹⁰ then let my wife also please another, and let my children be brought low. ¹¹ For the rage of anger is not to be controlled, [in the case] of defiling [another] man's wife. ¹² For it is a fire burning on every side, and whoever it attacks, it utterly destroys. ¹³ And if too I despised the judgment of my servant or [my] handmaid, when they pleaded with me; ¹⁴ what then shall I do if the Lord should try me? and if also he should at all visit me, can I make an answer? ¹⁵ Were not they too formed as I also was formed in the womb? yes, we were formed in the same womb. 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.) 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 if I lifted my hand against an orphan, trusting that my strength was far superior [to his]: ²² let them my shoulder start from the blade-bone, and my arm be crushed off from the elbow. ²³ For the fear of the Lord constrained me, and I can’t bear up by reason of his burden. ²⁴ If I made gold my treasure, and if too I trusted the precious stone; ²⁵ and if too I rejoiced when my wealth was abundant, and if too I laid my hand on innumerable [treasures]: ²⁶ (do we not see the shining sun eclipsed, and the moon waning? for they have not [power to continue]:) ²⁷ and if my heart was secretly deceived, and if I have laid my hand upon my mouth and kissed it: ²⁸ let this also then be reckoned to me as the greatest iniquity: for I [should] have lied against the Lord Most High. ²⁹ And if too I was glad at the fall of mine enemies, and mine heart said, Aha! ³⁰ let then mine ear hear my curse, and let me be a byword among my people in my affliction. ³¹ And if too my handmaids have often said, Oh that we might be satisfied with his flesh; (whereas I was very kind: ³² for the stranger did not lodge without, and my door was opened to every one that came:) ³³ or if too having sinned unintentionally, I hid my sin; 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: 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: ³⁸ If at any time the land groaned against me, and if its furrows mourned together; ³⁹ and if I ate its strength alone without price, and if I too grieved the heart of the owner of the soil, by taking [anything] from [him]: ⁴⁰ then let the nettle come up to me instead of wheat, and a bramble instead of barley. And Job ceased speaking.

² that the sons of God having seen the daughters of men that they were beautiful, took to themselves wives of all whom they chose.

² And it came to pass toward evening, that David arose off his couch, and walked on the roof of the king's house, and saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. ³ And David sent and enquired about the woman: and [one] said, [Is] not this Bersabee the daughter of Eliab, the wife of Urias the Chettite? 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.

²⁵ Let your eyes look right on, and let your eyelids assent [to] just [things].

²⁵ Let not the desire of beauty overcome you, neither be you caught by your eyes, neither be captivated with her eyelids.

³¹ For if you should set your eyes on bowls and cups, you shall afterwards go more naked than a pestle. ³² But at last [such a one] stretches himself out as one struck by a serpent, and venom is diffused through him as by a horned serpent. ³³ Whenever your eyes shall behold a strange woman, then your mouth shall speak perverse things.

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

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

³⁰ For the wicked hastens to the day of destruction: they shall be led away for the day of his vengeance.

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

¹⁸ Remember this your creation: an enemy has reproached the Lord, and a foolish people has provoked your name.

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.

²⁹ The fear of the Lord is a strong hold of the saints: but ruin [comes] to them that work wickedness.

¹⁵ [It is] the joy of the righteous to do judgment: but a holy [man] is abominable with evil-doers.

²¹ The Lord shall rise up as a mountain of ungodly [men], and shall be in the valley of Gabaon; he shall perform his works with wrath, [even] a work of bitterness, and his wrath shall deal strangely, and his destruction shall be strange.

¹³ And she called the name of the Lord God who spoke to her, You are God who see me; for she said, For I have openly seen him that appeared to me.

⁹ For the eyes of the Lord look upon all the earth, to strengthen every heart that is perfect toward him. In this you have done foolishly; henceforth there shall be war with you.

¹⁶ But you have numbered my devices: and not one of my sins shall escape you?

²¹ For he surveys the works of men, and nothing of what they do has escaped him.

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.

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.

¹⁷ For mine eyes are upon all their ways; and their iniquities have not been hidden from mine eyes.

¹⁹ and Pharao king of Egypt, and his servants, and his nobles, and all his people;

² O you⌃ sons of men, how long [will you⌃ be] slow of heart? therefore do you⌃ love vanity, and seek falsehood? Pause.

³ O Lord my God, if I have done this; (if there is unrighteousness in my hands;) ⁴ if I have requited with evil those who requited me [with good]; may I then perish empty by means of my enemies. ⁵ Let the enemy persecute my soul, an take it; and let him trample my life on the ground, and lay my glory in the dust. Pause.

² How long shall I take counsel in my soul, [having] sorrows in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

¹¹ He that tills his own land shall be satisfied with bread; but they that pursue vanities are void of understanding. He that enjoys himself in banquets of wine, shall leave dishonor in his own strong holds.

⁵ Thus says the Lord, What trespass have your fathers found in me, that they have revolted far from me, and gone after vanities, and become vain?

⁸ And therefore say, Thus says the Lord; Because your words are false, and your prophecies are vain, therefore, behold, I am against you, says the Lord.

¹¹ you⌃ have fled, no one pursuing [you: your] spirit has framed falsehood, it has dropped on you for wine and strong drink. But it shall come to pass, [that] out of the dropping of this people,

²² God [even] God is the Lord, and God [even] God himself knows, and Israel he shall know; if we have transgressed before the Lord by apostasy, let him not deliver us this day.

³ Boast not, and utter not high things; let not high-sounding words come out of your mouth, for the Lord [is] a God of knowledge, and God prepares his own designs.

² Oh that one would indeed weigh the wrath that is upon me, and take up my griefs in a balance together!

⁵ Far be it from me that I should justify you till I die; for I will not let go my innocence, ⁶ but keeping fast to [my] righteousness I will by no means let it go: for I am not conscious to myself of having done any thing amiss.

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

⁸ The Lord shall judge the nations: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to my innocence that is in me. ⁹ Oh let the wickedness of sinners come to an end; and [then] you shall direct the righteous, O God that search the hearts and reins.

² The Lord is my firm support, and my refuge, and my deliverer; my God is my helper, I will hope in him; [he is] my defender, and the horn of my salvation, and my helper. ³ I will call upon the Lord with praises, and I shall be saved from mine enemies.

¹ (27) [A Psalm] of David, before he was anointed. The Lord is my light and my Saviour; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the defender of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

¹¹ The poise of the balance is righteousness with the Lord; and his works are righteous measures.

⁷ The way of the godly is made straight: the way of the godly is also prepared.

²⁷ Thekel; it has been weighed in the balance, and found lacking.

¹¹ Shall the wicked be justified by the balanced, or deceitful weights in the bag,

³⁹ And it shall be on your fringes, and you⌃ shall look on them, and you⌃ shall remember all the commands of the Lord, and do them: and you⌃ shall not turn back after your imaginations, and after [the sight of your] eyes in the things after which you⌃ go a whoring;

³⁰ For if I should wash myself with snow, and purge myself with pure hands,

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,

³ For my days have vanished like smoke, and my bones have been parched like a stick.

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

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.

⁹ then they of you that escape among the nations whither they were carried captive shall remember me; (I have sworn [an oath] against their heart that goes a-whoring from me, and their eyes that go a-whoring after their practices;) and they shall mourn over themselves for all their abominations.

³ Son of man, these men have conceived their devices in their hearts, and have set before their faces the punishment of their iniquities: shall I indeed answer them?

⁷ For any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, who shall separate himself from me, and conceive his imaginations in his heart, and set before his face the punishment of his iniquity, and come to the prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the Lord will answer him, [according to the things] wherein he is entangled.

¹⁶ then will I do thus to you: I will even bring upon you perplexity and the itch, and the fever that causes your eyes to waste away, and [disease] that consumes your life; and you⌃ shall sow your seeds in vain, and your enemies shall eat them.

³⁰ you shall take a wife, and another man shall have her; you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes of it. ³¹ Your calf [shall be] slain before you, and you shall not eat of it; your ass shall be violently taken away from you, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no helper. ³² Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another nation, and your eyes wasting away shall look for them: your hand shall have no strength. 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.

³⁸ You shall carry forth much seed into the field, and you shall bring in little, because the locust shall devour it.

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.

⁴ Let their children be far from safety, and let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer. ⁵ For what they have collected, the just shall eat; but they shall not be delivered out of calamities: let their strength be utterly exhausted.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

⁵ And the princess of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Beguile him, and see wherein his great strength [is], and wherewith we shall prevail against him, and bind him to humble him; and we will give you each eleven hundred [pieces] of silver.

⁴ And it came to pass in the time of the old age of Solomon, that his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as [was] the heart of David his father. And the strange women turned away his heart after their gods. Then Solomon built a high place to Chamos the idol of Moab, and to their king the idol of the children of Ammon,

²⁶ Did not Solomon king of Israel sin thus? though there was no king like him among many nations, and he was beloved of God, and God made him king over all Israel; yet strange women turned him aside.

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.

¹⁶ to remove you far from the straight way, and to estrange you from a righteous purpose. [My] son, let not evil counsel overtake you, ¹⁷ [of her] who has forsaken the instruction of her youth, and forgotten the covenant of God. ¹⁸ For she has fixed her house near death, and [guided] her wheels near Hades with the giants. ¹⁹ None that go by her shall return, neither shall they take hold of right paths, for they are not apprehended of the years of life.

³ for honey drops from the lips of a harlot, who for a season pleases your palate: ⁴ but afterwards you will find her more bitter than gall, and sharper than a two-edged sword. ⁵ For the feet of folly lead those who deal with her down to the grave with death; and her steps are not established. ⁶ For she goes not upon the paths of life; but her ways are slippery, and not easily known. ⁷ Now then, [my] son, hear me, and make not my words of none effect. ⁸ Remove your way far from her; draw not near to the doors of her house: ⁹ lest you give away your life to others, and your substance to the merciless: ¹⁰ lest strangers be filled with your strength, and your labors come into the houses of strangers; ¹¹ And you repent at last, when the flesh of your body is consumed, ¹² and you shall say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart avoided reproofs! ¹³ I heard not the voice of him that instructed me, and taught me, neither did I apply mine ear. ¹⁴ I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. ¹⁵ Drink waters out of your own vessels, and out of your own springing wells. ¹⁶ Let not waters out of your fountain be spilt by you, but let your waters go into your streets. ¹⁷ Let them be only your own, and let no stranger partake with you. ¹⁸ Let your fountain of water be [truly] your own; and rejoice with the wife of your youth. ¹⁹ Let [your] loving hart and your graceful colt company with you, and let her be considered your own, and be with you at all times; for ravished with her love you shall be greatly increased. ²⁰ Be not intimate with a strange woman, neither fold yourself in the arms of a woman not your own. ²¹ For the ways of a man are before the eyes of God, and he looks on all his paths. ²² Iniquities ensnare a man, and every one is bound in the chains of his own sins. ²³ Such a man dies with the uninstructed; and he is cast forth from the abundance of his own substance, and has perished through folly.

²¹ So with much converse she prevailed on him to go astray, and with the snares of her lips forced him from [the right path].

¹⁴ The mouth of a transgressor is a deep pit; and he that is hated of the Lord shall fall into it. Evil ways are before a man, and he does not like to turn away from them; but it is needful to turn aside from a perverse and bad way.

²⁶ I and my heart went round about to know, and to examine, and to seek wisdom, and the account [of things], and to know the folly and trouble and madness of the ungodly man.

⁸ They became as wanton horses: they neighed each one after his neighbor's wife.

⁴ They are all adulterers, as an oven glowing with flame for hot-baking, on account of the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.

⁵ And every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharao that sits on the throne, even to the firstborn of the woman-servant that is by the mill, and to the firstborn of all cattle.

³⁰ you shall take a wife, and another man shall have her; you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes of it.

¹¹ Thus says the Lord, Behold, I will raise up against you evil out of your house, and I will take your wives before your eyes, and will give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

² Take a millstone, grind meal: remove your veil, uncover your white hairs, make bare the leg, pass through the rivers.

¹⁰ Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to [new] inheritors; and they shall gather their fruits, says the Lord.

¹³ They have sacrificed on the tops of the mountains, and on the hills they have sacrificed under the oak and poplar, and under the shady tree, because the shade was good: therefore your daughters shall go a-whoring, and your daughters-in-law shall commit adultery. ¹⁴ And I will not visit upon your daughters when they shall commit fornication, nor your daughters-in-law when they shall commit adultery: for they themselves mingled themselves with harlots, and sacrificed with polluted ones, and the people that understood not entangled itself with a harlot.

⁹ And Abimelech called Abraam and said to him, What is this that you have done to us? Have we sinned against you, that you have brought upon me and upon my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me a deed, which no one ought to do.

¹⁰ And Abimelech said to him, Why have you done this to us? one of my kindred within a little had lain with your wife, and you would have brought [a sin of] ignorance upon us.

²⁴ And it came to pass after three months, that it was told Judas, saying, Thamar your daughter-in-law has grievously played the harlot, and behold she is with child by whoredom; and Judas said, Bring her out, and let her be burnt.

⁹ and in this house there is nothing above me, nor has anything been kept back from me, but you, because you are his wife—how then shall I do this wicked thing, and sin against God?

¹⁴ You shall not steal.

¹⁰ Whatever man shall commit adultery with the wife of a man, or whoever shall commit adultery with the wife of his neighbor, let them die the death, the adulterer and the adulteress.

²² And if a man be found lying with a woman married to a man, you⌃ shall kill them both, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shall you remove the wicked one out of Israel. ²³ And if there be a young damsel espoused to a man, and a man should have found her in the city and have lain with her; ²⁴ you⌃ shall bring them both out to the gate of their city, and they shall be stoned with stones, and they shall die; the damsel, because she cried not in the city; and the man, because he humbled his neighbor's spouse: so shall you remove the evil one from yourselves.

²⁸ let this also then be reckoned to me as the greatest iniquity: for I [should] have lied against the Lord Most High.

²⁹ So is he that goes in to a married woman; he shall not be held guiltless, neither any one that touches her. ³⁰ It is not to be wondered at if one should be taken stealing, for he steals that when hungry he may satisfy his soul: ³¹ but if he should be taken, he shall repay sevenfold, and shall deliver himself by giving all his goods. 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.

³⁸ And I will be avenged on you with the vengeance of an adulteress, and I will bring upon you blood of fury and jealousy.

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

⁶ Hell is naked before him, and destruction has no covering.

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

²⁷ Shall any one bind fire in his bosom, and not burn his garments?

⁷ In what [way] shall I forgive you for these things? Your sons have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: and I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and lodged in harlots' houses. ⁸ They became as wanton horses: they neighed each one after his neighbor's wife. ⁹ Shall I not visit for these things? says the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this.

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.

²⁰ And if a man strike his man-servant or his maidservant, with a rod, and [the party] die under his hands, he shall be surely punished. ²¹ But if [the servant] continue to live a day or two, let not [the master] be punished; for he is his money.

²⁶ And if one strike the eye of his man-servant, or the eye of his maidservant, and put it out, he shall let them go free for their eye's sake. ²⁷ And if he should strike out the tooth of his man-servant, or the tooth of his maidservant, he shall send them away free for their tooth's sake.

⁴³ You shall not oppress him with labor, and shall fear the Lord your God.

⁴⁶ And you⌃ shall distribute them to your children after you, and they shall be to you permanent possessions for ever: but of your brethren the children of Israel, one shall not oppress his brother in labors.

¹² And if your brother [or sister], a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, be sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall send him out free from you. ¹³ And when you shall send him out free from you, you shall not send him out empty. ¹⁴ You shall give him provision for the way from your flock, and from your corn, and from your wine; as the Lord your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. ¹⁵ And you shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you from thence; therefore I charge you to do this thing.

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.

¹⁴ For they prophesy unrighteous [words] to you, ¹⁵ for I sent them not, says the Lord; and they prophesy [in] my name unjustly, that I might destroy you, and you⌃ should perish, and your prophets, who unrighteously prophesy lies to you. ¹⁶ I spoke to you, and to all this people, and to the priests, saying, Thus said the Lord; Listen not to the words of the prophets that prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the Lord's house shall return from Babylon: for they prophesy to you unrighteous [words]. ¹⁷ I sent them not.

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

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

⁶ Arise, O Lord, in your wrath; be exalted in the utmost boundaries of mine enemies: awake, O Lord my God, according to the decree which you did command.

¹² For he remembered them, [in] making inquisition for blood: he has not forgotten the supplication of the poor.

¹⁹ Arise, O Lord, let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged before you.

⁹ Will God forget to pity? or will he shut up his compassions in his wrath? Pause.

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

³ And what will they do in the day of visitation? for affliction shall come to you from afar: and to whom will you⌃ flee for help? and where will you⌃ leave your glory,

⁷ The days of vengeance are come, the days of your recompense are come; and Israel shall be afflicted as the prophet that is mad, as a man deranged: by reason of the multitude of your iniquities your madness has abounded.

⁴ therefore I will take away their goods as a devouring moth, and as one who acts by a [rigid] rule in a day of visitation. Woe, woe, your times of vengeance are come; now shall be their lamentations.

¹³ Let all flesh fear before the Lord: for he has risen up from his holy clouds.

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.

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

⁸ Your hands have formed me and made me; afterwards you did change [your mind], and strike me. ⁹ Remember that you have made me [as] clay, and you do turn me again to earth. ¹⁰ Hast you not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese? ¹¹ And you did clothe me with skin and flesh, and frame me with bones and sinews. ¹² And you did bestow upon me life and mercy, and your oversight has preserved my spirit.

¹⁹ [Such a one] as would not reverence the face of an honorable man, neither knows how to give honor to the great, so as that their persons should be respected.

³¹ He that oppresses the needy provokes his Maker: but he that honors him has pity upon the poor.

² The rich and the poor meet together; but the Lord made them both.

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 Have you⌃ not all one father? Did not one God create you? why have you⌃ forsaken every man his brother, to profane the covenant of your fathers?

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.

³² Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another nation, and your eyes wasting away shall look for them: your hand shall have no strength.

¹⁶ And let the weak have hope, but the mouth of the unjust be stopped.

¹⁹ For he has broken down the houses of many mighty men: and he has plundered an habitation, though he built [it] not.

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.

³ Let them that say to me, Aha, aha, be turned back and put to shame immediately.

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

¹⁴ As a swallow, so will I cry, and as a dove, so do I mourn: for mine eyes have failed with looking to the height of heaven to the Lord, who has delivered me, and removed the sorrow of my soul.

¹⁷ PHE. While we yet lived our eyes failed, while we looked in vain for our help. TSADE. We looked to a nation that could not save.

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.

¹⁴ You shall give him provision for the way from your flock, and from your corn, and from your wine; as the Lord your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

¹⁰ And [the governor] said to them, Go, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions to them that have nothing; for the day is holy to our Lord: and faint not, for the Lord is our strength.

⁷ Neither have you given water to the thirsty to drink, but have taken away the morsel of the hungry.

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.

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;

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,

¹⁵ And the men who were called by name rose up, and took hold of the prisoners, and clothed all the naked from the spoils, and gave them garments and shoes, and gave them [food] to eat, and [oil] to anoint themselves [with], and they helped also every one that was weak with asses, and placed them in Jericho, the city of palm-trees, with their brethren; and they returned to Samaria.

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

⁴ They have turned aside the weak from the right way: and the meek of the earth have hidden themselves together.

¹³ Let the blessing of the perishing one come upon me; yes, the mouth of the widow has blessed me.

¹³ you shall stand without, and the man who is in your debt shall bring the pledge out to you.

¹¹ For the ear heard, and blessed me; and the eye saw me, and turned aside.

²⁷ Even because you⌃ attack the fatherless, and insult your friend.

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

⁹ They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, and have afflicted the outcast.

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

¹⁰ Remove not the ancient landmarks; and enter not upon the possession of the fatherless: ¹¹ for the Lord is their redeemer; he is mighty, and will plead their cause with you.

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

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.

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.

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:

²² God [even] God is the Lord, and God [even] God himself knows, and Israel he shall know; if we have transgressed before the Lord by apostasy, let him not deliver us this day. ²³ And if we have built to ourselves an altar, so as to apostatize from the Lord our God, so as to offer upon it a sacrifice of whole burnt offerings, so as to offer upon it a sacrifice of peace-offering, —the Lord shall require it.

¹⁰ then let my wife also please another, and let my children be brought low.

⁴⁰ then let the nettle come up to me instead of wheat, and a bramble instead of barley. And Job ceased speaking.

¹⁵ And have you removed light from the ungodly, and crushed the arm of the proud?

⁶ For the Lord is high, and [yet] regards the lowly; and he knows high things from afar off.

¹¹ shall not his whirlpool sweep you round, and terror from him fall upon you?

²³ If by any means he would fill his belly, let [God] send upon him the fury of wrath; let him bring a torrent of pains upon him.

²⁰ Let his eyes see his own destruction, and let him not be saved by the Lord.

⁹ [Then] will I confess that your right hand can save [you].

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 Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be well pleased no more?

⁶ Howl you⌃, for the day of the Lord is near, and destruction from God shall arrive.

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

¹ And Jacob heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying, Jacob has taken all that was our father's, and of our father's property has he gotten all this glory.

¹² lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived in them; ¹³ and your oxen and your sheep are multiplied to you, and your silver and your gold are multiplied to you, and all your possessions are multiplied to you, ¹⁴ you should be exalted in heart, and forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage:

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

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

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

¹⁵ The wealth of rich men is a strong city; but poverty is the ruin of the ungodly.

²⁸ He that trusts in wealth shall fall; but he that helps righteous men shall rise.

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

¹⁷ Lest you should say in your heart, My strength, and the power of mine hand have wrought for me this great wealth. ¹⁸ But you shall remember the Lord your God, that he gives you strength to get wealth; even that he may establish his covenant, which the Lord sware to your fathers, as at this day.

¹¹ And he showed them his wealth, and the glory with which the king had invested him, and how he had caused him to take precedence and bear chief rule in the kingdom.

⁵ If you should fix your eye upon him, he will disappear; for wings like an eagle's are prepared for him, and he returns to the house of his master.

¹³ For he said, I will act in strength, and in the wisdom of [my] understanding I will remove the boundaries of nations, and will spoil their strength. ¹⁴ And I will shake the inhabited cities: and I will take with my hand all the world as a nest: and I will even take them as eggs that have been left; and there is none that shall escape me, or contradict me.

²³ Thus says the Lord, Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, and let not the strong man boast in his strength, and let not the rich man boast in his wealth;

⁵ By your abundant knowledge and your traffic you have multiplied your power; your heart has been lifted up by your power.

³⁰ In the same hour the word was fulfilled upon Nabuchodonosor: and he was driven forth from men, and he ate grass as an ox, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, until his hairs were grown like lions' [hairs], and his nails as birds' [claws].

⁸ And Ephraim said, Nevertheless I am rich, I have found refreshment to myself. None of his labors shall be found [available] to him, by reason of the sins which he has committed.

¹⁶ Therefore will he sacrifice to his drag, and burn incense to his casting-net, because by them he has made his portion fat, and his meats choice.

¹⁶ And God made the two great lights, the greater light for regulating the day and the lesser light for regulating the night, the stars also. ¹⁷ And God placed them in the firmament of the heaven, so as to shine upon the earth, ¹⁸ and to regulate day and night, and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

¹⁹ and lest having looked up to the sky, and having seen the sun and the moon and the stars, and all the heavenly bodies, you should go astray and worship them, and serve them, which the Lord your God has distributed to all the nations under heaven.

¹⁶ take heed to yourself that your heart be not puffed up, and you⌃ transgress, and serve other gods, and worship them:

³ and they should go and serve other gods, and worship them, the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which he commanded you not to do,

⁵ And he burned the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Juda [had] appointed, (and they burned incense in the high places and in the cities of Juda, and the places around about Jerusalem); and them that burned incense to Baal, and to the sun, and to the moon, and to Mazuroth, and to all the host of heaven.

¹¹ And he burned the horses which the king of Juda had given to the sun in the entrance of the house of the Lord, by the treasury of Nathan the king's eunuch, in the suburbs; and he burned the chariot of the sun with fire.

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?

² and they shall spread them out to the sun, and the moon, and to all the stars, and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and to which they have held, and which they have worshipped; they shall not be mourned for, neither shall they be buried; but they shall be for an example on the face of the earth,

¹⁷ Then Sedekias sent, and called him; and the king asked him secretly, saying, Is there a word from the Lord? and he said, There is: you shall be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon.

¹⁶ And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord, and at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty men, with their back parts toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces [turned] the opposite way; and these were worshipping the sun.

⁶ And if your brother by your father or mother, or your son, or daughter, or your wife in your bosom, or friend who is equal to your own soul, entreat you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known,

¹⁸ And you shall leave in Israel seven thousand men, all the knees which had not bowed themselves to Baal, and every mouth which had not worshipped him.

¹² Accept correction, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you⌃ should perish from the righteous way: whenever his wrath shall be suddenly kindled, blessed are all they that trust in him.

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

² And now they have sinned increasingly, and have made for themselves a molten image of their silver, according to the fashion of idols, the work of artificers accomplished for them: they say, Sacrifice men, for the calves have come to an end.

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?

² And if there should be found in any one of your cities, which the Lord your God gives you, a man or a woman who shall do that which is evil before the Lord your God, so as to transgress his covenant, ³ and they should go and serve other gods, and worship them, the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which he commanded you not to do, ⁴ and it be told you, and you shall have enquired diligently, and, behold, the thing really took place, this abomination has been done in Israel; ⁵ then shall you bring out that man, or that woman, and you⌃ shall stone them with stones, and they shall die. ⁶ He shall die on the testimony of two or three witnesses; a man who is put to death shall not be put to death for one witness. ⁷ And the hand of the witnesses shall be upon him among the first to put him to death, and the hand of the people at the last; so shall you remove the evil one from among yourselves.

⁹ then you shall arise and go up to the place which the Lord your God shall choose, and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days, and they shall search out [the matter] and report the judgment to you.

²³ And now take away the strange gods that are among you, and set your heart right toward the Lord God of Israel.

²⁷ And Joshua said to the people, Behold, this stone shall be among you for a witness, for it has heard all the words that have been spoken to it by the Lord; for he has spoken to you this day; and this [stone] shall be among you for a witness in the last days, whenever you⌃ shall deal falsely with the Lord my God.

²⁷ And now I have not sinned against you, but you wrong me in preparing war against me: may the Lord the Judge judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.

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

⁷ for truth and reproof are from him; and he would bring forth my judgment to an end.

¹¹ For the rage of anger is not to be controlled, [in the case] of defiling [another] man's wife.

⁶ For, behold, you love truth: you have manifested to me the secret and hidden things of your wisdom.

¹² And they lamented, and wept, and fasted till evening, for Saul and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Juda, and for the house of Israel, because they were struck with the sword.

¹⁰ he that reported to me that Saul was dead, even he was as one bringing glad tidings before me: but I seized him and killed him in Sekelac, to whom I ought, [as he thought], to have given a reward for his tidings. ¹¹ And now evil men have slain a righteous men in his house on his bed: now then I will require his blood of your hand, and I will destroy you from off the earth.

⁵ And king David came to Baurim; and, behold, there came out from thence a man of the family of the house of Saul, and his name [was] Semei the son of Gera. He came forth and cursed as he went, ⁶ and cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on the right and left hand of the king. ⁷ And thus Semei said when he cursed him, Go out, go out, you bloody man, and man of sin. ⁸ The Lord has returned upon you all the blood of the house of Saul, because you have reigned in his stead; and the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of Abessalom your son: and, behold, you [are taken] in your mischief, because you [are] a bloody man.

⁵ He that laughs at the poor provokes him that made him; and he that rejoices at the destruction of another shall not be held guiltless: but he that has compassion shall find mercy.

¹⁷ If your enemy should fall, rejoice not over him, neither be elated at his overthrow. ¹⁸ For the Lord will see [it], and it will not please him, and he will turn away his wrath from him.

¹² And you should not have looked on the day of your brother in the day of strangers; nor should you have rejoiced against the children of Juda in the day of their destruction; neither should you have boasted in the day of [their] affliction.

⁴ And if you meet your enemy's ox or his ass going astray, you shall turn them back and restore them to him. ⁵ And if you see your enemy's ass fallen under its burden, you shall not pass by it, but shall help to raise it with him.

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

⁶ For [there is evil] in a multitude of dreams and vanities and many words: but fear you God.

⁴ And he came to the flocks of sheep that were by the way, and there was a cave there; and Saul went in to make preparation, and David and his men were sitting in the inner part of the cave.

¹⁰ And David said to Saul, Why do you listen to the words of the people, saying, Behold, David seeks your life?

⁸ And Abessa said to David, The Lord has this day shut up your enemy into your hands, and now I will strike him to the earth with the spear to the ground once [for all], and I will not strike him again.

⁹ And Abessa the son of Saruia said to the king, Why does this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over now and take off his head. ¹⁰ And the king said, What have I to do with you, you⌃ sons of Saruia? even let him alone, and so let him curse, for the Lord has told him to curse David: and who shall say, Why have you done thus?

²¹ And Abessai the son of Saruia answered and said, Shall not Semei therefore be put to death, because he cursed the Lord's anointed? ²² And David said, What have I to do with you, you⌃ sons of Saruia, that you⌃ as it were lie in wait against me this day? today no man in Israel shall be put to death, for I know not if I this day reign over Israel.

²² Therefore do you⌃ persecute me as also the Lord [does], and are not satisfied with my flesh?

² Listen to the voice of my supplication, when I pray to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy temple.

¹¹ If they should exhort you, saying, Come with us, partake in blood, and let us unjustly hide the just man in the earth: ¹² and let us swallow him alive, as Hades [would], and remove the memorial of him from the earth:

¹⁸ For they that are concerned in murder store up evils for themselves; and the overthrow of transgressors is evil.

² [who] hate good, and seek evil; [who] tear their skins off them, and their flesh off their bones: ³ even as they devoured the flesh of my people, and stripped their skins off them, and broke their bones, and divided [them] as flesh for the caldron, and as meat for the pot,

² Behold! [my] lords, turn aside to the house of your servant, and rest from your journey, and wash your feet, and having risen early in the morning you⌃ shall depart on your journey. And they said, Nay, but we will lodge in the street. ³ And he constrained them, and they turned aside to him, and they entered into his house, and he made a feast for them, and baked unleavened cakes for them, and they did eat.

¹⁵ And they turned aside thence to go in to lodge in Gabaa; and they went in, and sat down in the street of the city, and there was no one who conducted them into a house to lodge.

²⁰ And the old man said, Peace [be] to you; only be every lack of your upon me, only do you by no means lodge in the street. ²¹ And he brought him into his house, and made room for his asses; and they washed their feet, and ate and drank.

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.)

⁷ And the eyes of both were opened, and they perceived that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons to go round them. ⁸ And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the afternoon; and both Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of the Lord God in the midst of the trees of the garden.

¹² And Adam said, The woman whom you gave to be with me—she gave me of the tree and I ate.

¹¹ The people has sinned, and transgressed the covenant which I made with them; they have stolen from the cursed thing, and put it into their store.

¹³ He that covers his own ungodliness shall not prosper: but he that blames [himself] shall be loved.

⁷ For I will [have] mercy rather than sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than whole burnt offerings.

² You shall not associate with the multitude for evil; you shall not join yourself with a multitude to turn aside with the majority so as to shut out judgment.

²⁷ And he says to them, Thus says the Lord God of Israel, Put every one his sword on his thigh, and go through and return from gate to gate through the camp, and kill every one his brother, and every one his neighbor, and every one him that is nearest to him.

¹⁴ Now the name of the struck Israelitish man, who was struck with the Madianitish woman, [was] Zambri son of Salmon, prince of a house of the tribe of Symeon. ¹⁵ And the name of the Madianitish woman who was struck, [was] Chasbi, daughter of Sur, a prince of the nation of Ommoth: it is a chief house among the people of Madiam.

⁷ And my heart took counsel within me, and I contended against the nobles, and the princes, and I said to them, Should every man demand of his brother what you⌃ demand? And I appointed against them a great assembly,

⁴ And before this time Eliasib the priest lived in the treasury of the house of our God, connected with Tobias; ⁵ and he made himself a great treasury, and there they were formerly in the habit of bestowing the offerings, and the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithe of the corn, and the wine, and the oil, the ordered portion of the Levites, and singers, and porters; and the first fruits of the priests. ⁶ But in all this [time] I was not in Jerusalem; for in the thirty-second year of Arthasastha king of Babylon I came to the king, and after a certain time I made my request of the king; ⁷ and I came to Jerusalem, and I understood the mischief which Eliasib had done in the case of Tobias, in making for him a treasury in the court of the house of God. ⁸ And it appeared very evil to me: so I cast forth all the furniture of the house of Tobias from the treasury.

²⁸ and Elisub the high priest, [one] of the sons of Joada, [being] son-in-law of Sanaballat the Uranite, I chased him away from me.

¹¹ All the nations of the empire know, that whoever, man or woman, shall go in to the king into the inner court uncalled, that person can’t live: only to whoever the king shall stretch out [his] golden sceptre, he shall live: and I have not been called to go into the king, for these thirty days.

¹⁴ For if you shall refuse to listen on this occasion, help and protection will be to the Jews from another quarter; but you and your father's house will perish: and who knows, if you have been made queen for this [very] occasion?

⁸ And you have accepted the persons of some; and you have established those [that were already settled] on the earth.

¹¹ Deliver them that are led away to death, and redeem them that are appointed to be slain; spare not [your help]. ¹² But if you should say, I know not this man; know that the Lord knows the hearts of all; and he that formed breath for all, he knows all things, who renders to every man according to his works.

²⁵ [they] fearing and reverencing men [unreasonably] have been overthrown, but he that trusts in the Lord shall rejoice. Ungodliness causes a man to stumble: but he that trusts in his master shall be safe.

⁴ For I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: you shall yet take your timbrel, and go forth with the party of them that make merry. ⁵ For you⌃ have planted vineyards on the mountains of Samaria: plant you⌃, and praise.

¹⁶ Thus says the Lord; Let your voice cease from weeping, and your eyes from your tears: for their is a reward for your works; and they shall return from the land of [your] enemies.

¹⁹ For after my captivity I repented; and after I knew, I groaned for the day of shame, and showed you that I bore reproach from my youth.

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

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

²¹ Withhold [your] hand from me: and let not your fear terrify me. ²² Then shall you call, and I will listen to you: or you shall speak, and I will give you an answer.

²⁴ Therefore hide you yourself from me, and deem me your enemy?

³ Who is this? let him join hands with me.

⁷ Behold, I laugh at reproach; I will not speak: [or] I will cry out, but [there is] nowhere judgment.

¹¹ And he has dreadfully handled me in anger, and has counted me for an enemy.

²³ For oh that my words were written, and that they were recorded in a book forever, ²⁴ with an iron pen and lead, or graven in the rocks!

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.

⁷ Nay rather, but let mine enemies be as the overthrow of the ungodly, and they that rise up against me, as the destruction of transgressors.

²⁸ I went mourning without restraint: and I have stood and cried out in the assembly.

⁶ You are formed out of the clay as also I: we have been formed out of the same [substance].

¹⁰ Yet he has discovered a charge against me, and he has reckoned me as an adversary. ¹¹ And he has put my foot in the stocks, and has watched all my ways.

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 And after Elius had ceased from speaking, the Lord spoke to Job through the whirlwind and clouds, [saying], ² Who is this that hides counsel from me, and confines words in [his] heart, and thinks to conceal [them] from me? ³ Gird your loins like a man; and I will ask you, and do you answer me.

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.

¹² And you shall put the two stones on the shoulders of the shoulder-piece: they are memorial-stones for the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel before the Lord on his two shoulders, a memorial for them.

¹⁴ Also I put on righteousness, and clothed myself with judgment like a mantle.

²² And I will give him the glory of David; and he shall rule, and there shall be none to speak against him: and I will give him the key of the house of David [upon] his shoulder; and he shall open, and there shall be none to shut; and he shall shut, and there shall be none to open.

³ And you shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

²⁸ And he said to him, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name; for you have prevailed with God, and shall be mighty with men.

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

³ For if he would enter into judgment with him, [God] would not listen to him, so that he should answer to one of his charges of a thousand.

¹⁵ Though the Mighty One should lay hand upon me, forasmuch as he has begun, verily I will speak, and plead before him.

²⁵ I chose out their way, and sat chief, and lived as a king in the midst of warriors, as one comforting mourners.

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.

²⁷ And let the heaven reveal his iniquities, and the earth rise up against him.

¹³ I will go into your house with whole burnt offerings; I will pay you my vows,

¹¹ For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beetle out of the timber shall speak.

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

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. ¹⁶ And he went forth at noon, an the son of Ader was drinking [and] getting drunk in Socchoth, he and the kings, [even] thirty and two kings, his allies.

¹⁹ and let not the young men the heads of the districts go forth of the city. And the force that was behind them

¹⁹ These are the ways of all that perform lawless deeds; for by ungodliness they destroy their own life.

²¹ For, behold, the Lord is bringing wrath from [his] holy place upon the dwellers on the earth: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall not cover her slain.

⁶ Behold, the princes of the house of Israel have conspired in you each one with his kindred, that they might shed blood.

¹² In you they have received gifts to shed blood; they have received in you interest and usurious increase; and by oppression you have brought your wickedness to the full, and have forgotten me, says the Lord. ¹³ And if I shall strike my hand at [your iniquities] which you have accomplished, which you have wrought, and at your blood that has been shed in the midst of you,

¹⁷ And to Adam he said, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and eaten of the tree concerning which I charged you of it only not to eat—of that you have eaten, cursed [is] the ground in your labors, in pain shall you eat of it all the days of your life. ¹⁸ Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to you, and you shall eat the herb of the field.

²⁰ As the dream of one awakening, O Lord, in your city you will despise their image.

²³ And it shall come to pass in that day, [for] every place where there shall be a thousand vines at a thousand shekels, they shall become barren land and thorns.

⁹ Therefore, [as] I live, says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodoma, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrha; and Damascus [shall be] left as a heap of the threshing floor, and desolate for ever: and the remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the remnant of my nations shall inherit them.

³ and hated Esau and laid waste his borders, and made his heritage as dwellings of the wilderness?