Job 16:17 Cross References - Leeser

¹⁷ Not because any violence is in my hands, and while my prayer is pure.

⁵ If thou wilt earnestly seek for God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; ⁶ If thou become pure and upright: surely then will he watch over thee, and restore thy righteous habitation.

¹⁴ If wrong be in thy hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tents.

²⁰ All his days is the wicked plagued with pain, and the number of years which are laid by for the tyrant.

³⁴ For the assembly of hypocrites will remain desolate, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

²⁷ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the opinions which ye wrongfully devise against me. ²⁸ For ye say, Where is the house of the noble-minded? and where is the tent of the dwelling-places of the wicked?

⁵ Is not thy evil great? and no end to thy iniquities? ⁶ For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brothers for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. ⁷ Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and from the hungry thou hast withholden bread. ⁸ But as for the man of a strong arm, he obtained the land, and the highly honored could dwell therein. ⁹ Widows hast thou sent away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

⁶ I have laid fast hold on my righteousness, and I will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me for my conduct during all my life. ⁷ Like the wicked is therefore my enemy, and he that riseth up against me like a wrong-doer.

¹² Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, yea, that had none to help him. ¹³ The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; and the heart of the widow I caused to sing for joy. ¹⁴ I took righteousness as my garment, and it clothed me: as a robe and a mitre was justice unto me. ¹⁵ Eyes was I to the blind; and feet to the lame was I. ¹⁶ A father was I to the needy; and the cause of him I knew not I used to investigate. ¹⁷ And I broke the cutting-teeth of the wrong-doer, and out of his teeth I cast down his prey.

¹ A covenant had I made with my eyes: how then should I fix my look on a virgin? ² And what then would have been my portion of God from above? and what lot of the Almighty from on high? ³ Is not calamity ready for the unjust? and misfortune for the wrong-doers? ⁴ Behold, he truly seeth my ways, and numbereth all my steps; ⁵ And knoweth whether I have walked with vain desires, or if my foot hath hastened after deceit. ⁶ Let him weigh me then in a righteous balance, and let God acknowledge my integrity, ⁷ If my step have turned aside from the proper way, and my heart have walked after my eyes, and if any blemish have cleaved to my hands: ⁸ Then let me sow, and let another eat; and let what I have growing be rooted out. ⁹ If my heart have been beguiled toward a woman, or if I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door: ¹⁰ Then may my wife labor at the mill for another, and may strangers ill-use her; ¹¹ For this would be incest; yea, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; ¹² For it would be a fire that consumeth down to the place of corruption, and would root out all my products. ¹³ If ever I cast aside the justice due to my man-servant and my maid-servant, when they contended with me: ¹⁴ What then could I do when God should rise up? and when he should investigate, what could I answer him? ¹⁵ Did not he that made me make him born or a woman? and did not the same one fashion us in the womb? ¹⁶ If ever I denied the wish of the indigent, or ever allowed the eyes of the widow to fall in vain hopes; ¹⁷ Or if ever I ate my bread by myself alone, and the fatherless did not eat thereof; ¹⁸ (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as though we were of one father, and I have guided her as though she was sprung from my mother’s womb;) ¹⁹ If ever I saw any one perishing for want of clothing, or the needy without covering: ²⁰ If his loins have not blessed me, and if he have not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep; ²¹ If I have swung my hand against the fatherless, because I saw in the gate those that would help me: ²² Then may my shoulder fall from my shoulder-blade, and my arm be broken from the channel-bone; ²³ For dreaded by me was the calamitous punishment of God, and against his highness I can accomplish nothing. ²⁴ If I have made gold my confidence, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my trust: ²⁵ If ever I rejoiced because my wealth was abundant, and because my hand had gotten much; ²⁶ If ever I looked at the light of the sun when he shone brightly and on the moon walking in splendor: ²⁷ And my heart became misled in secret, and my hand kissed my mouth: ²⁸ This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge; for thus would I have denied the God that is above. ²⁹ If ever I rejoiced at the downfall of him that hated me, or was elated when evil befell him;— ³⁰ But I suffered not my mouth to sin by denouncing with a curse his soul:— ³¹ If the men of my tent said not, Oh is there one that is not satisfied of his flesh;— ³² In the street a stranger had not to lodge; my doors I held open to the roadside; ³³ If I covered up my transgressions like a common man, by hiding in my bosom my iniquity; ³⁴ Because I dreaded the great multitude, or because the contempt of families did terrify me, so that I kept silence, and dared not to go out of the door;— ³⁵ Oh who will bring me one that would hear me! behold, here is my plea; may the Almighty answer me; and any record which my opponent may have written,— ³⁶ Surely upon my shoulder would I carry it: I would bind it as a crown unto me. ³⁷ The number of my steps would I tell him: as to a prince would I go near unto him.— ³⁸ If my land ever cried out because of me, or if its furrows wept together; ³⁹ If I ever consumed its strength without payment, or caused the soul of its owners to grieve: ⁴⁰ Then may instead of wheat, thorns come forth, and instead of barley, cockle. (Here end the words of Job.)

^{3 (7:4)} O Lord my God, if I have done this; if there be injustice in my hands; ^{4 (7:5)} If I have recompensed him that was at peace with me with evil; If I have taken aught from my assailants without cause: ^{5 (7:6)} May the enemy hotly pursue my soul, and overtake it; and tread down upon the earth my life, and cause my honor to be in the dust. Selah.

^{17 (44:18)} All this is come over us, yet have we not forgotten thee; nor have we dealt falsely by thy covenant; ^{18 (44:19)} Our heart is not moved backward, nor hath our step turned aside from thy path: ^{19 (44:20)} Even when thou didst crush us in the abode of monsters, and cover us with the shadow of death. ^{20 (44:21)} If we had forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange God: ^{21 (44:22)} Would not God search out this? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

¹⁸ If I had looked on wickedness with my heart, the Lord would not have heard; ¹⁹ But verily God hath heard; he hath listened to the voice of my prayer.

⁸ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination of the Lord: but, the prayer of the upright obtaineth his favor.

⁶ Their webs cannot serve for garments, and they cannot clothe themselves with their works: their works are works of wickedness, and the deed of violence is in their hands.

⁸ But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let men call unto God with might; and let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence which is in their hands.