Proverbs 18:14 Cross References - LXX2012

¹⁴ A wise servant calms a man's anger; but who can endure a faint-hearted man?

²⁰ So Job arose, and tore his garments, and shaved the hair of his head, and fell on the earth, and worshipped, ²¹ and said, I myself came forth naked from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there; the Lord gave, the Lord has taken away: as it seemed good to the Lord, so has it come to pass; blessed be the name of the Lord.

⁷ So the devil went out from the Lord, and struck Job with sore boils from [his] feet to [his] head. ⁸ And he took a potsherd to scrape away the discharge, and sat upon a dung-heap outside the city. ⁹ And when much time had passed, his wife said to him, How long will you hold out, saying, Behold, I wait yet a little while, expecting the hope of my deliverance? for, behold, your memorial is abolished from the earth, [even your] sons and daughters, the pangs and pains of my womb which I bore in vain with sorrows; and you yourself sit down to spend the nights in the open air among the corruption of worms, and I am a wanderer and a servant from place to place and house to house, waiting for the setting of the sun, that I may rest from my labors and my pangs which now beset me: but say some word against the Lord, and die. ¹⁰ But he looked on her, and said to her, You have spoken like one of the foolish women. If we have received good things of the hand of the Lord, shall we not endure evil things? In all these things that happened to him, Job sinned not at all with his lips before God.

⁴ For the arrows of the Lord are in my body, whose violence drinks up my blood: whenever I am going to speak, they pierce me.

¹⁴ You scare me with dreams, and do terrify me with visions. ¹⁵ You will separate life from my spirit; and yet [keep] my bones from death.

¹⁵ Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and if I should be righteous, I can’t lift myself up, for I am full of dishonor. ¹⁶ For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again you have changed and are terribly destroying me; ¹⁷ renewing against me my torture: and you have dealt with me in great anger, and you have brought trials upon me.

⁹ Pity me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with indignation, my soul and by belly. ¹⁰ For my life is spent with grief, and my years with groanings: my strength has been weakened through poverty, and my bones are troubled.

³ Sing to him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise. ⁴ For the word of the Lord is right; and all his works are faithful.

² I was dumb, and humbled myself, and kept silence from good [words]; and my grief was renewed. ³ My heart grew hot within me, and a fire would kindle in my meditation: I spoke with my tongue, ⁴ O Lord, make me to know mine end, and the number of my days, what it is; that I may know what I lack.

³ They shall be afraid, but I will trust in you.

⁵ All the day long they have abominated my words; all their devices [are] against me for evil.

² I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter dark sayings [which have been] from the beginning. ³ All which we have heard and known, and our fathers have declared to us.

¹⁴ Justice and judgment are the establishment of your throne: mercy and truth shall go before your face. ¹⁵ Blessed is the people that knows the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of your countenance. ¹⁶ And in your name shall they rejoice all the day: and in your righteousness shall they be exalted.

³ He makes your borders peaceful, and fills you with the flour of wheat.

¹³ When the heart rejoices the countenance is cheerful; but when it is in sorrow, [the countenance] is sad.

²² A glad heart promotes health; but the bones of a sorrowful man dry up.