Job 23 Cross References - Leeser

¹ Then answered Job, and said, ² Even now is my complaint bitter: my suffering is heavier than my groans. ³ Oh who would grant that I knew where I might find him! that I might attain to his Judgment throne! ⁴ I would put in order before him my cause, and my mouth would I fill with arguments. ⁵ I should know the words which he might answer me, and understand what he might say unto me. ⁶ Would he with his power contend against me? he would truly not lay such doings to my charge. ⁷ There would an upright one argue with him; and I should be allowed to escape for ever by my judge. ⁸ But, lo, I go eastward—and he is not there; and to the west—and I cannot perceive him; ⁹ When he doth great things at the north, I behold him not; he hideth himself in the south—and I see him not. ¹⁰ But he knoweth the way that I take: were he to probe me, I should come forth as gold. ¹¹ On his steps my foot hath held fast: his way have I kept, and swerved not. ¹² From the commandment of his lips have I also not moved away: as a fixed statute for me have I treasured up the sayings of his mouth. ¹³ But he is unchangeably one, and who can turn him? And what his will desireth, even that he doth. ¹⁴ For he will bring to completion what hath been destined for me: and like these hath he many other things with him. ¹⁵ Therefore am I terrified at his presence: I will reflect, and be in dread of him. ¹⁶ Still God hath made timid my heart, and the Almighty hath terrified me; ¹⁷ Because I was not destroyed before this darkness, and because he hath not hidden from my face this gloom.

² Oh that my vexation could be truly weighed, and my calamity; oh that men might lift it up in the balances at once! ³ For now it is already heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore are my words confused.

¹¹ Therefore will I also not restrain my mouth: I will speak in the anguish of my spirit: I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

¹ My soul is disgusted with my life; I will give free vent to my complaint over myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

⁶ And that he would declare unto thee the secrets of wisdom; for it is double to that which is really in our possession: and thou wouldst experience that God overlooketh unto thee much of thy iniquity.

⁴ For by day and night lay thy hand heavily upon me: my life’s moisture hath been changed through the droughts of summer. Selah.

^{2 (77:3)} On the day of my distress I sought the Lord; in the night my hand was stretched out, and did not cease: my soul refused to be comforted. ^{3 (77:4)} I think of God, and moan: I reflect, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah. ^{4 (77:5)} Thou holdest my eyes awake: I am troubled and I cannot speak. ^{5 (77:6)} I think over the days of old, the years of ancient times. ^{6 (77:7)} I call to remembrance my song in the night; with my own heart I reflect: and my spirit maketh diligent search. ^{7 (77:8)} Will the Lord cast me off for ever? and will he never more give his favor again? ^{8 (77:9)} Is his kindness spent for ever? is his promise come to an end for all generations? ^{9 (77:10)} Hath God forgotten to be gracious? or hath he shut up in anger his mercies? Selah.

¹⁹ Remembering my affliction and the cause of my complaint, wormwood and poison. ²⁰ Remembering this continually my soul is bowed down deeply within me.

³ However, I would gladly speak to the Almighty; and to argue with God do I desire.

²¹ And oh that a man might plead with God, as one son of earth with the other!

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.—

¹ And the Lord addressed Job, and said, ² Will he that contendeth with the Almighty yet find fault? him that reproveth God answer this. ³ Then answered Job the Lord, and said, ⁴ Behold, I am too vile: what shall I answer thee? my hand do I place on my mouth. ⁵ Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will not repeat it again.

⁸ Yea, on the path of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee; for thy name, and for the remembrance of thee, was the longing of our soul.

⁶ Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found, call ye on him, while he is near. ⁷ Let the wicked forsake his way, and the man of unrighteousness his thoughts; and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and unto our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

⁷ If our iniquities testify against us, O Lord, do thou act for the sake of thy name; for our backslidings are many; against thee have we sinned.

²⁵ Far be it from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, and that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be this from thee; shall the Judge of all the earth not exercise justice? ²⁶ And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then will I spare all of the place for their sake. ²⁷ And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, although I am but dust and ashes: ²⁸ Peradventure there will lack five of the fifty righteous; wilt thou then destroy all the city for the lack of these five? And he said, I will not destroy, if I find there forty and five. ²⁹ And he spoke yet again unto him, and said, Peradventure there will be found there forty. And he said, I will not do it for the sake of the forty. ³⁰ And he said, Oh, let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there will be found there thirty. And he said, I will not do it, if I find there thirty. ³¹ And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there will be found there twenty. And he said, I will not destroy for the sake of the twenty. ³² And he said, Oh, let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure there will be found there ten. And he said, I will not destroy, for the sake of the ten.

¹² And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

¹² Wherefore should the Egyptians say thus, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to destroy them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent thee of the evil decreed against thy people. ¹³ Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou didst swear by thy own self, and speak unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven; and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.

¹³ And Moses said unto the Lord, But when the Egyptian hear, from the midst of whom thou hast brought up in thy might this people;— ¹⁴ And when they tell to the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that thou, Lord, art in the midst of this people, that face to face thou, Lord, art seen, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that in a pillar of cloud thou goest before them by day, and in a pillar of fire by night;— ¹⁵ That thou hast killed this people as one man: then will the nations that have heard thy fame, say in this manner, ¹⁶ That because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he had sworn unto them, hath he slain them in the wilderness. ¹⁷ And now, I beseech thee, let the greatness of the power of the Lord be made manifest, as thou hast spoken, saying, ¹⁸ The Eternal is long-suffering, and abundant in beneficence, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation. ¹⁹ Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of thy beneficence, and as thou hast been indulgent to this people, from Egypt even until hitherto.

⁸ I pray thee, O Lord, what shall I say, since Israel have turned their back before their enemies! ⁹ And when the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, they will environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth; and what wilt thou do for thy great name?

¹⁸ Behold now, I have arrayed my cause: I know that I shall be indeed justified.

¹⁹ Let us know what we shall say unto him: we cannot set aught in order before him because of darkness.

¹¹ For the sake of thy name, O Lord, pardon my iniquity: although it is great.

¹ Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: from the deceitful and unjust man do thou deliver me.

²⁶ Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: relate thou, in order that thou mayest be justified.

¹⁸ Incline, O my God, thy ear, and hear; open thy eyes, and look on our desolations, and the city whereupon thy name is called: for not relying on our acts of righteousness do we present humbly our supplications before thee, but relying on thy great mercies. ¹⁹ O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do it; delay it not; for thy own sake, O my God; for thy name is called upon thy city and upon thy people.

² I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; let me know for what cause thou contendest against me.

²² Then call thou, and I will answer; or let me speak, and do thou reply to me. ²³ How many are my iniquities and sins? my transgression and my sin let me know.

² I acknowledge that thou art able to do every thing, and that no deep plan of thine can be restrained. ³ Who is he that dareth to conceal thy counsel without knowledge? Truly I have spoken of what I understood not, of things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. ⁴ Oh do but hear me, and I will indeed speak: I will ask of thee, and do thou inform me. ⁵ I had only heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; but now my eye hath seen thee. ⁶ Therefore I reject what I have said, and repent; because I am dust and ashes.

⁴ He is wise of heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and escaped unscathed?

¹⁹ If it regard strength, lo, he is the powerful; and if justice, who will cite him for me to appear?

³³ There is no one who can decide between us, who could lay his hand upon us both. ³⁴ Let him but remove from me his rod, and let not his dread terrify me:

²¹ Remove thy hand far from me; and let not thy dread terrify me.

³ On the day when I called didst thou answer me, and raise me up with strength in my soul.

⁴ Wrath have I not: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would pass through them, and I would burn them altogether.

⁸ In measure, by driving him forth, thou strivest with him: he removed him with his violent storm on the day of the east wind.

³³ As I live, saith the Lord Eternal, surely, with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you:

³⁵ And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and I will hold judgment over you there, face to face.

¹⁵ Whom, were I even righteous, I could not answer? to him that condemneth me I could only make supplication.

¹⁸ Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins should be as scarlet, they shall become white as the snow; though they should be red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

⁵ Will he bear grudge for ever? will he keep it to eternity? Behold, thou hast spoken this, and yet hast done the things that are evil as much as thou wast able.

¹ Too righteous art thou, O Lord, that I could plead with thee; yet must I speak of the principles of justice with thee: Wherefore is the way of the wicked happy? do all those prosper that deal treacherously?

¹¹ Lo, were he to go past by me, I should not see him; and were he to pass along, I should not perceive him.

¹⁴ Although thou sayest, thou canst not see him: yet the decision is before him; and do thou wait for him.

¹ Wherefore, O Lord, standest thou afar off? hidest thyself in times of distress?

¹ To the chief musician, a psalm of David. ^(13:2) How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me continually! how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? ^{2 (13:3)} How long shall I have to devise resolves in my soul, with grief in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy exalt himself over me? ^{3 (13:4)} Look down, answer me, O Lord my God! enlighten my eyes, that I may not sleep the sleep of death;

¹⁵ Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.

^{46 (89:47)} How long, Lord, wilt thou hide thyself, continually? how long shall thy fury burn like fire?

¹⁷ And I will wait for the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope for him.

¹⁹ For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, that they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice; in order that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken concerning him.

² And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, in order to afflict thee, to prove thee, to know what is in thy heart, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments, or not.

³ I beseech thee, O Lord, remember now that I have walked before thee in truth, and with an undivided heart, and have done what is good in thy eyes. And Hezekiah wept aloud.

¹¹ But stretch only forth thy hand and touch all that he hath, and see whether he will not renounce thee to thy face. ¹² Then said the Lord unto the Accuser, Behold, all that is his be in thy power; only against himself shalt thou not stretch forth thy hand. The Accuser went thereupon away from the presence of the Lord.

⁵ But stretch only forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and see whether he will not renounce thee to thy face. ⁶ Then said the Lord unto the Accuser, Behold, he is in thy hand: only take care of his life.

⁵ I had only heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; but now my eye hath seen thee. ⁶ Therefore I reject what I have said, and repent; because I am dust and ashes. ⁷ And it came to pass, after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Themanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; because ye have not spoken of me properly, like my servant Job. ⁸ And now take unto yourselves seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up a burnt-offering in your behalf; and my servant Job shall pray for you; for him alone will I receive favorably, so as not to deal with you after your folly; because ye have not spoken of me properly, like my servant Job.

⁶ For the Lord regardeth the way of the righteous; but the way of the wicked leadeth to perdition.

³ Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast thought of me in the night; thou hast refined me—thou couldst find nothing: my purpose doth not pass beyond the words of my mouth.

¹⁰ For thou hast proved us, O God: thou hast refined us, as silver is refined.

¹ To the chief musician, by David, a psalm. O Lord! thou hast searched me through, and thou knowest me. ² Thou indeed knowest my sitting down and my rising up, thou understandest my thinking while yet afar off. ³ My walking and my lying down hast thou limited, and with all my ways art thou acquainted.

³ The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but the Lord probeth the hearts.

⁹ And I will bring the third part into the fire, and I will refine them as one refineth silver, and will probe them as gold is probed: they will call on my name, and I will answer their prayer; I will say, They arc my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.

² But who can sustain the day of his coming? and who can stand when he appeareth? for he is like the fire of the melter, and like the lye of the washers: ³ And he will sit as a melter and purifier of silver; and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness

² And now, behold, the king is walking before you; and I am old and gray-headed; and my sons, behold, they are with you; and I have walked before you from my youth even until this day. ³ Behold, here am I; testify against me in the presence of the Lord, and in the presence of his anointed: Whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or from whose hand have I received any ransom so that I withdrew my eyes from him? and I will restore it you. ⁴ And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor hast thou oppressed us, and thou hast not taken from any man’s hand the least. ⁵ And he said unto them, The Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found in my hand the least: and they answered, He is witness.

⁹ Yet will the righteous hold firmly on to his way; and he that is clean of hands will acquire additional strength.

⁵ My steps held firmly to thy tracks, and my footsteps did not slip.

^{20 (18:21)} The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the purity of my hands did he recompense me. ^{21 (18:22)} For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God. ^{22 (18:23)} For all his ordinances were before me, and his statutes had I not put away from me. ^{23 (18:24)} I was also upright with him, and I guarded myself against my iniquity. ^{24 (18:25)} Therefore did the Lord recompense me according to my righteousness, according to the purity of my hands before his eyes.

^{3 (36:4)} The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, to do good.

^{18 (44:19)} Our heart is not moved backward, nor hath our step turned aside from thy path:

⁵ But as for those who turn aside unto their crooked ways, them will the Lord drive away with the workers of wickedness; but peace shall be upon Israel.

⁶ And those that are turned away from following the Lord; and those that have not sought for the Lord, and have not inquired of him.

¹⁰ Then would this be still my comfort; yea, I would rejoice in my pain while be would not spare: that I have not gainsaid the commands of the Holy One.—

²² Do but accept instruction from his mouth, and lay up his saying in thy heart.

^{9 (19:10)} The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring for ever: the ordinances of the Lord are the truth, they are just altogether. ^{10 (19:11)} They are those which are to be desired more than gold, and much fine gold; and they are sweeter than honey and the dropping of honeycomb.

¹¹ In my heart have I treasured up thy saying, in order that I may not sin against thee.

¹⁰³ How much sweeter are to my palate thy sayings than honey to my mouth!

¹²⁷ Therefore do I love thy commandments more than gold, and more than fine gold.

¹⁶ When thy words were made manifest to me, then I greedily received them; and thy word became unto me the gladness and joy of my heart; for thy name is called upon me, O Lord of hosts.

¹⁹ God is not a man, that he should lie; nor a son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? and hath he spoken, and shall he not fulfill it? ²⁰ Behold, to bless I have received the word; and he hath blessed, and I cannot reverse it.

¹² Behold, were he to snatch aught away, who could hold him back? who would say unto him, What dost thou? ¹³ God will not withdraw his anger: beneath him sink down the helpers of the proud.

¹⁰ If he pass by, and surrender one to suffering, and call together an assembly, who can hinder him?

¹⁴ Behold, he pulleth down, and there can be no rebuilding: he locketh the prison upon a man, and there can be no opening,

²⁹ When he now granteth rest, who will condemn him! and when he hideth his face, who can behold him? whether it be against a nation, or against one man, it is the same:

³ Whereas our God is in the heavens: whatsoever he desireth hath he done.

⁶ Whatsoever the Lord willeth, hath he done in the heavens, and on the earth, in the seas, and in all the deeps.

²¹ There are many thoughts in a man’s heart; but the counsel of the Lord alone will stand firm.

¹⁵ What is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is defective cannot be numbered.

¹⁴ I know that whatsoever God doth, that will be for ever; to it nothing can be added, and from it there is nothing to be diminished: and God hath so made it, that men should be afraid of him.

²⁴ Sworn hath the Lord of hosts, saying, Surely as I have purposed, so doth it come to pass; and as I have resolved, so shall it occur: ²⁵ To break Asshur in my own land, and upon my mountains will I tread him under foot; then shall his yoke be removed from off them, and his burden from off their shoulders. ²⁶ This is the resolve that is resolved over all the earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations. ²⁷ For the Lord of hosts hath resolved, and who shall frustrate it? and it is his hand which is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

¹⁰ Declaring from the beginning the end, and from the earliest days the things that have not yet been done, saying, My counsel shall stand firm, and all my pleasure will I do:

^{35 (4:32)} And by whom all the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nought; and who according to his pleasure doth with the host of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth; while there is none that can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

³ So was I compelled to possess months of vanity, and nights of trouble were counted out unto me.

^{19 (77:20)} Through the sea led thy way, and thy path was through mighty waters, and thy footsteps could not be known.

² Clouds and thick darkness are round about him: righteousness and justice are the support of his throne.

²⁷ Why wilt thou say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from the Lord, and my cause hath passed from the cognizance of my God? ²⁸ Dost thou not know? hast thou not heard? The God of everlasting is the Lord, is the Creator of the ends of the earth; he will not be faint and weary; unsearchable is his understanding.

⁹ The voice of the Lord calleth unto the city,—and the man of wisdom shall see thy name:—hear ye the rod of punishment, and who hath ordained it.

¹⁵ If I be wicked, woe unto me: and if I be righteous, I can still not lift up my head; I am sated with disgrace, and ever seeing my affliction;

³ Oh who would grant that I knew where I might find him! that I might attain to his Judgment throne!

²³ For dreaded by me was the calamitous punishment of God, and against his highness I can accomplish nothing.

^{3 (77:4)} I think of God, and moan: I reflect, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.

¹²⁰ My flesh trembleth shudderingly from dread of thee, and of thy decrees am I afraid.

¹⁶ I heard it, and my inmost parts trembled; at the report my lips quivered; rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in my place, that I should rest till the day of distress, till the withdrawing of the people that will invade us with its troops.

³ And he shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye come nigh this day unto the battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and be not downcast, and do not tremble because of them:

²⁰ And she said unto them, Call me not Na’omi, call me Mara; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

² As God liveth, who hath removed justice from me; and by the Almighty, who hath embittered my soul:

^{14 (22:15)} Like water am I poured out, and all my bones are disjointed: my heart is become like wax, it is melted in the midst of my entrails.

^{16 (88:17)} Over me have the fires of thy wrath passed; thy terrors have destroyed me;

⁵ And I said, Woe is me! for I am lost; because a man of unclean lips am I, and in the midst of a people of unclean lips do I dwell; for the King, the Lord of hosts have my eyes seen.

¹⁶ For not to eternity will I contend, neither will I be for ever wroth: when the spirit from before me is overwhelmed, and the souls which I have made.

⁴⁶ And so that your heart may not faint, and ye fear at the report that is heard in the land: when the report cometh in one year, and after that in another year cometh another report, and when violence be done in the land, by ruler against ruler.

¹⁵ Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and like destruction from the Almighty will it come.

²⁰ Therefore, behold, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered unto thy graves in peace; and thy eyes shall not look on all the evil which I am bringing over this place. And they brought the king word again.

⁹ Yea, that it would please God that he might crush me: that he would let loose his hand, and make an end of me!

²² He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is looked for by the sword.

⁶ The light becometh dark in his tent, and his lamp will be quenched above him.

¹⁸ Men will thrust him out from light into darkness, and out of the world will they drive him.

⁸ My road hath he fenced up, so that I cannot pass out; and on my paths he placeth darkness.

¹¹ Or seest thou not the darkness? and the abundance of water which covereth thee?

¹ The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and pious men are taken away, without one considering that before the evil the righteous is taken away.