Job 10 Cross References - MLV

¹ My soul is weary of my life. I will give free reign to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. ² I will say to God, Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me. ³ Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
⁴ Have you eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees? ⁵ Are your days as the days of man, or your years as man's days, ⁶ that you inquire after my iniquity and search after my sin, ⁷ although you know that I am not wicked. And there is none that can deliver out of your hand?
⁸ Your hands have made me and fashioned me together all around, yet you destroy me. ⁹ I beseech you, remember that you have fashioned me as clay. And will you bring me into dust again? ¹⁰ Have you not poured me out as milk and curdled me like cheese?
¹¹ You have clothed me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and muscles. ¹² You have granted me life and loving kindness and your visitation has preserved my spirit. ¹³ Yet these things you hid in your heart. I know that this is with you.
¹⁴ If I sin, then you mark me. And you will not acquit me from my iniquity. ¹⁵ If I am wicked, woe to me. And if I am righteous, yet I will not lift up my head, being filled with shame and looking upon my affliction.
¹⁶ And if my head exalts itself, you hunt me as a lion. And again you show yourself marvelous upon me. ¹⁷ You renew your witnesses against me and increase your indignation upon me. Changes and warfare are with me.
¹⁸ Why then have you brought me forth out of the womb? I would have given up the spirit and no eye had seen me. ¹⁹ I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
²⁰ Are not my days few? Cease then and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little ²¹ before I go where I will not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death, ²² the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order and where the light is as midnight.

¹⁵ And if you deal thus with me, I beseech you, kill me out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight and do not let me see my wretchedness.

⁴ But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree. And he requested for himself that he might die and said, It is enough, now, O Jehovah, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.

²⁰ Why is light given to him who is in misery and life to the bitter in soul, ²¹ who long for death, but it does not come and dig for it more than for hid treasures, ²² who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they can find the grave? ²³ Why is light given to a man whose way is hid and whom God has hedged in?

¹⁵ But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty. ¹⁶ So a poor man has hope and unrighteousness stops her mouth.

²⁰ In famine he will redeem you from death and in war from the power of the sword.

² O that my grief were but weighed and all my calamity laid in the balances! ³ For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas. Therefore my words have been rash. ⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which my spirit drinks up. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

⁸ O that I might have my request and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! ⁹ Even that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

²⁶ Do you* think to reprove words, seeing that the speeches of a man who is desperate are as wind?

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

¹⁶ I loathe my life. I would not live everlasting. Let me alone, for my days are vanity.

²¹ Though I were perfect, I do not regard myself. I despise my life.

¹⁵ If I am wicked, woe to me. And if I am righteous, yet I will not lift up my head, being filled with shame and looking upon my affliction.
¹⁶ And if my head exalts itself, you hunt me as a lion. And again you show yourself marvelous upon me.

¹³ O that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath be past, that you would appoint for me a set time and remember me!

⁶ Though I speak, my grief is not kept back and though I forbear, what am I eased? ⁷ But now he has made me weary. You have made desolate all my company. ⁸ And you have laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me. And my leanness rises up against me; it testifies to my face.
⁹ He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed upon me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes upon me. ¹⁰ They have opened wide their mouth upon me. They have struck me upon the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me. ¹¹ God delivers me to the perverse and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
¹² I was at ease and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his mark. ¹³ His archers encompass me all around. He splits my reins apart and does not spare. He pours out my gall upon the ground. ¹⁴ He breaks me with breach upon breach. He runs upon me like a giant.
¹⁵ I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my horn in the dust. ¹⁶ My face is red with weeping and the shadow of death is on my eyelids,

⁴ And be it indeed that I have erred, my error remains with myself.

² Hear diligently my speech, And let this be your* consolations. ³ Allow me and I also will speak and after I have spoken, mock on. ⁴ As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?

³ Because I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long. ⁴ Because day and night your hand was heavy upon me. My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. Selah.
⁵ I acknowledged my sin to you and I did not hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Jehovah and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

¹⁵ What shall I say? He has both spoken to me and himself has done it. I will go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁷ Behold, for peace I had great bitterness. But you have by love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption. For you have cast all my sins behind your back.

³ Therefore now, O Jehovah, I beseech you, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.

⁸ And it happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted and requested for himself that he might die and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

⁵ if you would seek diligently to God and make your supplication to the Almighty, ⁶ if you were pure and upright, surely now he would awake for you and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

²⁹ I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

³¹ For has any said to God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more; ³² teach me what I do not see; if I have done unrighteousness, I will do it no more?

¹ O Jehovah, do not rebuke me in your anger, nor discipline me in your hot displeasure. ² Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, because I am withered away. O Jehovah, heal me, because my bones are troubled.
³ My soul also is greatly troubled. And you, O Jehovah, how long? ⁴ Return, O Jehovah, deliver my soul. Save me for your loving kindness' sake.

⁷ Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. According to your loving kindness you remember me, for your goodness' sake, O Jehovah.

¹ O Jehovah, rebuke me not in your wrath, nor discipline me in your hot displeasure. ² Because your arrows stick fast in me and your hand presses me severely. ³ There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, nor is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
⁴ Because my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. ⁵ My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.
⁶ I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all the day long. ⁷ Because my loins are filled with burning and there is no soundness in my flesh. ⁸ I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned because of the roaring of my heart.

²¹ But deal with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for your name's sake. Because your loving kindness is good, deliver me,

²³ Search me, O God and know my heart. Try me and know my thoughts, ²⁴ and see if there is any wicked way in me. And lead me in the way everlasting.

² And do not enter into judgment with your servant. Because in your sight no man living is righteous.

⁴⁰ Let us search and try our ways and turn again to Jehovah. ⁴¹ Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
⁴² We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned.

¹⁶ The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us! For we have sinned. ¹⁷ For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim,

¹ Consequently now nothing is condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who are not walking according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

³¹ For if we were discerning ourselves, we would not be judged. ³² But being judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, in order that we should not be condemned together with the world.

²⁰ Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, nor will he uphold the evildoers.

²² It is all one thing. Therefore I say, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.

²⁴ The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of the judges of it. If not he, who then is it?

¹⁵ You would call and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.

¹⁶ Behold, is their prosperity not in their hand. (The counsel of the wicked is far from me.)

¹⁸ Yet he filled their houses with good things. But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

⁵ For Job has said, I am righteous and God has taken away my right. ⁶ Notwithstanding my right I am accounted a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.
⁷ What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water,

¹⁸ who says to a king, You are worthless, to ranking men, You * are wicked, ¹⁹ who does not respect the persons of rulers, nor regards the rich more than the poor. For they all are the work of his hands.

⁷ He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but he sets them forever with kings upon the throne and they are exalted.
⁸ And if they are bound in fetters and be taken in the cords of afflictions, ⁹ then he shows them their work and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

¹⁷ But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold, ¹⁸ and there will be wrath upon the impious because of the ungodliness of bribes which the unrighteous receive.

² Shall he who quibbles contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.

⁸ Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

³³ Because Jehovah hears the needy and does not despise his prisoners.

⁸ Jehovah will perfect what is on my behalf. Your loving kindness, O Jehovah, is everlasting. Do not forsake the works of your own hands.

⁸ But now, O Jehovah, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter and we are all the work of your hand.

¹ You are righteous, O Jehovah, when I contend with you. Yet I would reason the case with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those at ease who deal very treacherously? ² You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root, they grow. Yes, they bring forth fruit. You are near in their mouth and far from their heart. But you, O Jehovah, know me. You see me and try my heart toward you.
³ Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

² He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness and not in light. ³ Surely he turns his hand against me, again and again all the day. ⁴ He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones. ⁵ He has built against me and encompassed me with gall and travail. ⁶ He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those who have been dead of old.
⁷ He has walled me around, that I cannot go forth. He has made my chain heavy. ⁸ Yes, when I cry and call for help, he shuts out my prayer. ⁹ He has walled up my ways with hewn stone. He has made my paths crooked.
¹⁰ He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in concealed places. ¹¹ He has turned aside my ways and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate. ¹² He has bent his bow and set me as a mark for the arrow. ¹³ He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins. ¹⁴ I have become a laughing-stock to all my people and their song all the day.
¹⁵ He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with wormwood. ¹⁶ He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones. He has covered me with ashes. ¹⁷ And you have removed my soul far off from peace. I forgot prosperity. ¹⁸ And I said, My strength has perished and my expectation from Jehovah.

¹⁹ So-then those who are also suffering according to the will of God in good-doing, let them consign themselves, their souls, as to a faithful Creator.

⁷ But Jehovah said to Samuel, Do not look on his countenance, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For Jehovah sees not as man sees, for man looks on the outward appearance, but Jehovah looks on the heart.

³² For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

¹⁵ And he said to them, You are those who are making yourselves righteous in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts, because what is exalted among men is an abomination in God’s sight.

¹⁴ Now his head and his hair were white like white wool, like snow, and his eyes were like a flame of fire;

²⁶ Behold, God is great and we do not know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.

² Before the mountains were brought forth, or you had ever formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
³ You turn man to destruction and say, Return, you* the sons of men. ⁴ Because a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past and as a watch in the night.

¹² But you, O Jehovah, will abide everlasting and your memorial to all generations.

²⁴ I said, O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.
²⁵ You laid of old the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work of your hands. ²⁶ They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will grow old like a garment. As a raiment you will change them and they will be changed, ²⁷ but you are the same and your years will have no end.

¹² and you will coil them up like an outer dressing and they will be changed, but you are the same and your years will not be failing.’

⁸ But beloved, let this one thing not elude you, that one day with the Lord is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.

¹⁴ If I sin, then you mark me. And you will not acquit me from my iniquity. ¹⁵ If I am wicked, woe to me. And if I am righteous, yet I will not lift up my head, being filled with shame and looking upon my affliction.
¹⁶ And if my head exalts itself, you hunt me as a lion. And again you show yourself marvelous upon me. ¹⁷ You renew your witnesses against me and increase your indignation upon me. Changes and warfare are with me.

¹⁶ But now you number my steps. Do you not watch over my sin?14:17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag and you fasten up my iniquity.

¹⁵ Break you the arm of the sinner and the evil man. His wickedness will be sought and will not be found.

²¹ will not God search this out? Because he knows the secrets of the heart.

³⁴ Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor. You did not find them breaking in. But it is because of all these things.

¹² And it will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps and I will punish the men who are settled on their lees, who say in their heart, Jehovah will not do good, nor will he do evil.

²⁴ But Jesus himself was not entrusting himself to them, because he knew all men, \ulnone\nosupersub ²⁵ and because he had no need that anyone should testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.

⁵ So-then, do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord should come, who will both be illuminating the hidden things of darkness and will be manifesting the plans of the hearts, and then the praise from God will happen for each.

³⁹ See now that I, even I, am he and there is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. And there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

¹⁰ But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out as gold.

¹³ But he is in one mind and who can turn him? And what his soul desires, even that he does. ¹⁴ For he performs what is appointed for me. And many such things are with him.

⁶ (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

¹⁴ what then shall I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what shall I answer him?

³⁵ O that I had someone to hear me (Behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me) and that I had the indictment which my adversary has written!

⁷ And it was so, that, after Jehovah had spoken these words to Job, Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends. For you* have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

⁶ Because Jehovah knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

³ O Jehovah my God, if I have done this, if there is unrighteousness in my hands,

⁸ Jehovah will judge the peoples. Judge me, O Jehovah, according to my righteousness and to my integrity that is in me.
⁹ O let the evil of the wicked man come to an end, but establish the righteous man. For the righteous God tries the minds and hearts.

³ You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me and find nothing. I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.

¹ Judge me, O Jehovah, because I have walked in my integrity. I have also trusted in Jehovah without wavering. ² Examine me, O Jehovah and prove me. Try my heart and my mind. ³ Because your loving kindness is before my eyes and I have walked in your truth.
⁴ I have not sat with men of falsehood, nor will I go in with pretenders. ⁵ I hate the assembly of evildoers and will not sit with the wicked.

²² Now consider this, you* who forget God, lest I tear you* in pieces and there is none to deliver:

¹ O Jehovah, you have searched and known me. ² You know my sitting down and my rising up. You understand my thought afar off.

²¹ Do I not hate them, O Jehovah, who hate you? And am I not grieved with those who rise up against you? ²² I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.

¹⁵ Now if you* are ready that at what time you* hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, trigon, psaltery and dulcimer and all kinds of music, you* fall down and worship the image which I have made, well. But if you* do not worship, you* will be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. And who is that god who will deliver you* out of my hands?

¹⁰ And now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers and none will deliver her out of my hand.

²⁸ and I give to them everlasting life, and they may never perish and not anyone will be taking them out of my hand. ²⁹ My Father, who has given them to me, he is greater than all, and no one is able to take them out of my Father’s hand. ³⁰ I and the Father are one.

¹⁷ He says to him the third-time, Simon, Son of Jonah, Do you ^{F} love me?
Peter was sorrowful because he said to him the third-time, Do you ^{F} love me like a friend? And he said to him, Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you like a friend.
Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep.

¹² For this is our boasting, the testimony of our conscience, that in clarity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we conducted ourselves in the world and even-more toward you.

¹⁰ You and God are witnesses, as we became holy and righteous and blameless toward you who believe.

⁶ And Jehovah regretted that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him in his heart. ⁷ And Jehovah said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the ground, from man to beast, to creeping things and birds of the heavens, because I regret that I have made them.

³ Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

⁷³ Your hands have made me and fashioned me. Give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.

⁷ everyone who is called by my name and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.

³ Then I went down to the potter's house, and behold, he was making a work on the wheels. ⁴ And when the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it another vessel again, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
⁵ Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, ⁶ O house of Israel, cannot I do with you* as this potter? says Jehovah. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are you* in my hand, O house of Israel.
⁷ At that instant I will speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it, ⁸ if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will relent of the evil that I thought to do to them.
⁹ And at that instant I will speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it, ¹⁰ if they do what is evil in my sight, that they obey not my voice, then I will relent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.

⁷ And Jehovah God formed man out of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.

¹⁹ You will eat bread by the sweat of your face, till you return to the ground, because out of it you were taken. For you are dust and you will return to dust.

⁷ O remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.

¹⁴ if I have said to corruption, You are my father, to the worm, My mother and my sister,

¹⁵ My strength is dried up like an earthen vessel and my tongue clings to my jaws and you have set me into the dust of death.

⁶ Remember, O Jehovah, your tender mercies and your loving kindness. Because they are from everlasting.
⁷ Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. According to your loving kindness you remember me, for your goodness' sake, O Jehovah.

¹⁸ Consider my affliction and my travail and forgive all my sins.

⁴⁷ O remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the sons of men!

³ You turn man to destruction and say, Return, you* the sons of men.

⁴ Remember me, O Jehovah, with the favor that you bear to your people. O visit me with your salvation,

⁷ and the dust returns to the earth as it was and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

⁹ Woe to him who contends with his maker, a earthen vessel among the earthen vessels of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What are you making? or your work, He has no hands?

⁶ O house of Israel, cannot I do with you* as this potter? says Jehovah. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are you* in my hand, O house of Israel.

²¹ Or does the potter not have authority over the clay, to make out of the same batch one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?

¹⁴ I will give thanks to you, because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works and that my soul knows right well.
¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you, when I was made in secret, curiously worked in the lowest parts of the earth. ¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed substance and in your book they were all written, even the days that were formed, when as yet there was none of them.

¹⁷ He moves his tail like a cedar. The muscles of his thighs are knit together.
¹⁸ His bones are as tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.

⁴ Again he said to me, Prophesy over these bones and say to them, O you* dry bones, hear the word of Jehovah. ⁵ The lord Jehovah says thus to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you* and you* will live. ⁶ And I will lay muscles upon you* and will bring up flesh upon you* and cover you* with skin and put breath in you* and you* will live.
And you* will know that I am Jehovah.
⁷ So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, an earthquake and the bones came together, bone to its bone. ⁸ And I beheld, and behold, there were muscles upon them and flesh came up and skin covered them above, but there was no breath in them.

² For indeed we are groaning in this house, longing to be clothed with our house which is from heaven; ³ if actually in also having clothed ourselves, we will not be found naked.

¹⁶ from whom all the body is fitly framed and knitted together, through every supplying joint, according to the working in measure of each part, which is making the growth of the body to the building up of itself in love.

¹⁹ Behold now, your servant has found favor in your sight and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me and I die.

⁴ The Spirit of God has made me and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

²⁵ Because of this, I am saying to you, Do not be anxious for your life, what you may eat and what you may drink; nor for what you may clothe your body with. Is not the life worth more-than the nourishment and the body worth more-than the clothing?

²⁵ nor is he assisted by men’s hands, as if needy of anything, he is giving to all, life and breath in all things.

²⁸ For we live and move and are in him; as some also, according to your own poets, have said, For we are also his offspring.

⁹ on the left hand, when he works, but I cannot behold him. He hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him.

¹³ But he is in one mind and who can turn him? And what his soul desires, even that he does.

⁶ Because to every purpose there is a time and decision, although the distress of man is great upon him. ⁷ Because he does not know what will be, because who can tell him how it will be?

⁷ I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create evil. I am Jehovah who does all these things.

¹⁵ Verily you are a God who hides yourself, O God of Israel, the Savior.

⁹ Remember the former things of old, for I am God and there is none else. I am God and there is none like me, ¹⁰ declaring the end from the beginning and from long-ago things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel will stand and I will do all my pleasure, ¹¹ calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yes, I have spoken. I will also make it occur. I have purposed. I will also do it.

³⁷ Who is he that says and it happens, when the Lord does not command it?

³³ O the depth of the riches, and of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and untraceable his ways!

¹¹ This was according to the everlasting purpose which he made in Christ Jesus our Lord;

⁷ keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons and upon the sons' sons, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

¹⁸ Jehovah is slow to anger and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

²¹ And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust and you will seek me diligently, but I will not be.

²⁸ I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that you will not hold me innocent.

²⁶ For you write bitter things against me and make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth. ²⁷ You also put my feet in the stocks and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet.

³ If you, Jehovah, should note iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

¹ O Jehovah, you have searched and known me.

⁷ And Jehovah said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, because I know their sorrows.

¹² Behold, he seizes; who can hinder him? Who will say to him, What are you doing?

¹⁵ Whom, though I were righteous, yet I would not answer. I would make supplication to my judge.

²⁰ Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am perfect, it will prove me perverse. ²¹ Though I were perfect, I do not regard myself. I despise my life.

⁷ although you know that I am not wicked. And there is none that can deliver out of your hand?

⁶ Even when I remember, I am troubled and horror takes hold on my flesh.

¹⁵ Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.

⁷ Let my enemy be as the wicked and let he who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

¹⁷ Wicked men will be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

¹⁵³ Consider my affliction and deliver me, because I do not forget your law.

¹¹ Woe to the wicked! It is ill with him, for what his hands have done will be done to him.

⁵ Then I said, Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. For my eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.

⁵ You meet he who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways.
Behold, you were angry and we sinned. In them is eternity, shall we be saved? ⁶ For we have all become as unclean and all our righteous acts are as a menstruation cloth. And we all fade as a leaf. And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

²⁰ Behold, O Jehovah, for I am in distress. My heart is troubled. My heart is turned within me. For I have grievously rebelled. Abroad the sword bereaves; at home there is as death.

¹ Remember, O Jehovah, what has come upon us. Behold and see our reproach. ² Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. ³ We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows. ⁴ We have drunken our water for money. Our wood is sold to us.
⁵ Our pursuers are upon our necks. We are weary and have no rest. ⁶ We have given the hand to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. ⁷ Our fathers sinned and are not and we have borne their iniquities.
⁸ Servants rule over us. There is none to deliver us out of their hand. ⁹ We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. ¹⁰ Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
¹¹ They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah. ¹² Rulers were hanged up by their hand. The faces of elders were not honored. ¹³ The young men bore the mill and the sons stumbled under the wood. ¹⁴ The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music. ¹⁵ The joy of our heart is ceased, our dance is turned into mourning.
¹⁶ The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us! For we have sinned. ¹⁷ For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim, ¹⁸ for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk upon it.
¹⁹ You, O Jehovah, abide everlasting. Your throne is from generation to generation.
²⁰ Why do you forget us forever and forsake us so long time? ²¹ Turn us back to you, O Jehovah and we will be turned back. Renew our days as of long-ago. ²² But you have utterly rejected us. You are very angry against us.

¹⁸ Then you* will return and discern between the righteous man and the wicked man, between he who serves God and he who does not serve him.

¹⁰ So also you, whenever you have done all the things which were commanded to you, say, We are useless bondservants, because we have done what we are obligated to have done.

⁸ But to those seeking things out of selfish ambition and who are indeed disobedient to the truth, but obey unrighteousness, he will repay with fury and wrath, ⁹ affliction and distress upon every soul of man who is working evil, both of the Jew first and of the Greek.

²⁹ If these men die the common death of all men, or if they are visited after the visitation of all men, then Jehovah has not sent me. ³⁰ But if Jehovah makes a new thing and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up, with all that pertains to them and they go down alive into Sheol, then you* will understand that these men have despised Jehovah.

⁵⁹ then Jehovah will make your calamities extraordinary and the calamities of your seed, even great calamities and of long continuance and severe sicknesses and of long continuance.

⁹ who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number,

¹³ I quieted myself until morning. As a lion, so he breaks all my bones. From day even to night will you make an end of me.

¹⁰ He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in concealed places.

⁷ Therefore I am to them as a lion. As a leopard I will watch by the way. ⁸ I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her cubs and will tear the encasement of their heart. And there I will devour them like a lioness. The wild beast will tear them.

⁸ The lion has roared, who will not fear? The lord Jehovah has spoken, who can but prophesy?

²¹ I went out full and Jehovah has brought me home again empty. Why do you* call me Naomi, seeing Jehovah has testified against me and the Almighty has afflicted me?

⁸ And you have laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me. And my leanness rises up against me; it testifies to my face.

⁶ know now that God has subverted me and has encompassed me with his net.
⁷ Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
⁸ He has walled up my way that I cannot pass and has set darkness in my paths. ⁹ He has stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head. ¹⁰ He has broken me down on every side and I have gone. And he has plucked up my hope like a tree. ¹¹ He has also kindled his wrath against me. And he considers me to him as his adversaries.

¹⁹ God will hear and respond to them, (even he who abides of long-ago), Selah, men who have no changes and who do not fear God.

¹¹ Moab has been at ease from his youth and he has settled on his lees and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into captivity. Therefore his taste remains in him and his scent is not changed.

¹⁰ Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.
¹¹ Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

²⁰ But the eyes of the wicked will fail and they will have no way to flee. And their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.

¹⁰ But man dies and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit and where is he?

¹⁰ Woe is me, my mother, that you have bore me, a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, nor have men lent to me, yet every one of them curses me.

¹⁴ Cursed be the day in which I was born. Do not let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed. ¹⁵ Cursed be the man who brought news to my father, saying, A male-child is born to you, making him very glad. ¹⁶ And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew and did not relent. And let him hear a cry in the morning and shouting at noontime, ¹⁷ because he did not kill me from the womb and so my mother would have been my grave and her womb always great.
¹⁸ Why did I come forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

²⁴ The Son of Man indeed is going, just-as it has been written concerning him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is given up! It was

⁸ as a snail which melts and passes away, as the untimely birth of a woman, that has not seen the sun.

⁶ My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and are spent without hope. ⁷ O remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.

¹⁶ I loathe my life. I would not live everlasting. Let me alone, for my days are vanity. ¹⁷ What is man, that you should magnify him and that you should set your mind upon him, ¹⁸ and that you should visit him every morning and try him every moment? ¹⁹ How long will you not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? ²⁰ If I have sinned, what do I do to you, O you, watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself? ²¹ And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust and you will seek me diligently, but I will not be.

⁹ (for we are but of yesterday and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow).

²⁵ Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good, ²⁶ They are passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

²¹ Withdraw your hand far from me and do not let your dread make me afraid.

¹ Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days and full of trouble.

⁵ Behold, you have made my days as the width of hands and my life-time is as nothing before you. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.

¹³ O spare me, that I may recover strength before I go from here and be no more.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. ¹⁶ Because the wind passes over it and it has gone and the place of it will know it no more.

²³ But now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.

¹⁴ For we must die and are as water split on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; God does not take away life, but devises means that he who is banished is not an outcast from him.

⁵ Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell upon it. Let blackness come upon it.

¹³ For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest

⁸ The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more. Your eyes will be upon me, but I will not be.
⁹ As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more. ¹⁰ He will return no more to his house, nor will his place know him any more.

¹⁰ But man dies and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit and where is he? ¹¹ As the waters fail from the sea and the river wastes away and dries up, ¹² so man lies down and does not rise. Till the heavens be no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep. ¹³ O that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath be past, that you would appoint for me a set time and remember me!
¹⁴ If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my warfare I would wait till my release should come.

²² For when a few years are come, I will go the way where I will not return.

⁴ Even, because I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, because you are with me, your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

⁶ You have laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the depths.

¹¹ Shall your loving kindness be declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in destruction? ¹² Shall your wonders be known in the dark and your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

¹¹ I said, I will not see Jehovah, even Jehovah in the land of the living. I will behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

⁶ Nor did they say, Where is Jehovah who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through and where no man dwelt?

²² There is no darkness, nor thick gloom where the workers of wickedness may hide themselves.

¹⁷ Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

¹⁹ that you have greatly broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.

¹² Shall your wonders be known in the dark and your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

¹⁶ Give glory to Jehovah your* God, before he causes darkness and before your* feet stumble upon the dark mountains. And while you* look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death and makes it gross darkness.

²⁶ And upon all things, a great chasm is established between us and you, that those who wish to cross over from here to you may not be able, nor may they ferry over from there to us.