Job 21 Cross References - MLV

¹ Then Job answered and said, 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? ⁵ Mark me and be astonished and lay your* hand upon your* mouth.
⁶ Even when I remember, I am troubled and horror takes hold on my flesh. ⁷ Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, grow mighty in power? ⁸ Their seed is established with them in their sight and their offspring before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses are safe from fear, nor is the rod of God upon them. ¹⁰ Their bull breeds and does not fail. Their cow brings forth safely and does not miscarry. ¹¹ They send forth their little ones like a flock and their children dance. ¹² They sing to the timbrel and harp and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
¹³ They spend their days in prosperity and in a moment they go down to Sheol.
¹⁴ And they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of your ways. ¹⁵ What is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray to him? ¹⁶ Behold, is their prosperity not in their hand. (The counsel of the wicked is far from me.) ¹⁷ How often is it that the lamp of the profane is put out, that their calamity comes upon them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger, ¹⁸ that they are as stubble before the wind and as chaff that the storm carries away?
¹⁹ You * say, God lays up his wickedness for his sons. Let him recompense it to himself that he may know it. ²⁰ Let his own eyes see his destruction and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty. ²¹ For what does he care for his house after him when the number of his months is cut off?
²² Shall any teach God knowledge, seeing he judges those who are high? ²³ One man dies in his full strength, being entirely at ease and quiet. ²⁴ His pails are full of milk and the marrow of his bones is moistened. ²⁵ And another man dies in bitterness of soul and never tastes of good. ²⁶ They lie down alike in the dust and the worm covers them.
²⁷ Behold, I know your* thoughts and the devices with which you* would wrong me. ²⁸ For you* say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent in which the wicked dwelt?
²⁹ Have you* not asked wayfaring men? And do you* not know their evidences, ³⁰ that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath? ³¹ Who will declare his way to his face? And who will repay him what he has done?
³² Yet he will be borne to the grave and men will keep watch over the tomb. ³³ The clods of the valley will be sweet to him. And all men will draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.
³⁴ How then you* comfort me in vain, seeing in your* answers there remains falsehood?

⁷ And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and lifted up his voice and cried out and said to them, Listen to me, you* men of Shechem, that God may listen to you*.

³ Surely I would speak to the Almighty and I desire to reason with God.
⁴ But you* are forgers of lies. You* are all physicians of no value.

¹¹ Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?

² I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are you* all.

² How long will you* hunt for words? Consider and afterwards we will speak.

¹ However, Job, I beseech you, hear my speech and listen to all my words.

³¹ Mark well, O Job, listen to me. Keep silent and I will speak. ³² If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify you. ³³ If not, listen to me. Keep silent and I will teach you.

² Hear my words, you* wise men and listen to me, you* who have knowledge.

² Why do you* spend money for what is not bread and your* labor for what does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to me and eat you* what is good and let your* soul delight itself in fatness.

¹ Because of this, we ought to take-heed even-more to the things which were heard, lest we might drift away.

⁴ I am as a man who is a laughing-stock to his neighbor. I who called upon God and he answered. The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
⁵ In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for calamity. It is ready for those whose foot slips.

⁹ Is it good that he should search you* out? Or as deceiving a man, will you* deceive him?

¹³ Be quiet. Let me alone that I may speak and let come on me what will.

¹⁰ They have opened wide their mouth upon me. They have struck me upon the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

²⁰ My friends scoff at me. My eye pours out tears to God

² Surely there are mockers with me and my eye dwells upon their provocation.

⁹ And Moses spoke so to the sons of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses for anguish of spirit and for cruel bondage.

¹⁶ Count not your handmaid for a worthless woman, for out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation have I spoken until now.

²⁶ And as the King of Israel was passing by upon the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. ²⁷ And he said, If Jehovah does not help you, from where shall I help you? Out of the threshing-floor, or out of the winepress?

¹¹ What is my strength that I should wait? And what is my end that I should be patient?

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.
¹² Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that you set a watch over me? ¹³ When I say, My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint. ¹⁴ Then you scare me with dreams and terrify me through visions, ¹⁵ so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than these my bones. 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.

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.

¹ My God, my God, why have you forsaken me, far from helping me and the words of my groaning? ² O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you do not answer; and in the night, and there is no silence for me. ³ But you are holy, O you who inhabit the praises of Israel.

¹¹ Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you in an uproar within me? Hope in God, because I will yet praise him, the help of my countenance and my God.

³ I remember God and I am in an uproar. I complain and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.
⁴ You have held my eyelids watching. I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
⁵ I have considered the days of long-ago, the years of ancient times. ⁶ I call to remembrance my song in the night. I meditate with my own heart and my spirit makes diligent search.
⁷ Will the Lord cast off everlasting? And will he be favorable no more? ⁸ Has his loving kindness ceased forever? Does his promise come to an end in this generation? ⁹ Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he shut up his tender mercies in anger? Selah.

¹ Hear my prayer, O Jehovah and let my cry come to you.

² I pour out my complaint before him. I show my trouble before him.
³ When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my path. In the way in which I walk they have hidden a snare for me.

³⁸ Then he says to them, My soul is very sorrowful until death. Remain here and watch with me.

¹⁹ And they said to him, Hold your peace, lay your hand upon your mouth and go with us and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?

¹² And when they lifted up their eyes afar off and did not recognize him, they lifted up their voice and wept. And each one tore his robe and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

⁸ Upright men will be astonished at this and the innocent will stir himself up against the profane.

²⁰ My bone cleaves to my skin and to my flesh and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.
²¹ Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O you* my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.

⁹ The rulers refrained from talking and laid their hand on their mouth.

⁴ Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand upon my mouth.

⁹ I was mute. I did not open my mouth, because you did it.

³² If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, lay your hand upon your mouth.

¹³ Therefore he who is prudent will keep silence in such a time, for it is an evil time.

¹⁶ The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand upon their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.

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!

³ I remember God and I am in an uproar. I complain and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.

¹⁵ I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors I am confounded.

¹²⁰ My flesh trembles for fear of you and I am afraid of your judgments.

¹⁹ Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. ²⁰ My soul still has them in remembrance and is bowed down within me.

¹⁶ I heard and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.

⁶ The tents of robbers prosper and those who provoke God are secure. Into whose hand God brings abundantly.

¹⁰ They are enclosed in their own fat. They speak proudly with their mouth.

³⁵ I have seen a wicked man in great power and spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

³ Because I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. ⁴ Because there are no pains in their death, but their strength is firm.
⁵ They are not in trouble as other men, nor are they plagued like other men. ⁶ Therefore pride is as a chain around their neck. Violence covers them as a garment.
⁷ Their eyes stand out with fatness. They have more than heart could wish.
⁸ They scoff and utter oppression in wickedness. They speak loftily. ⁹ They have set their mouth in the heavens and their tongue walks through the earth.
¹⁰ Therefore his people return here and waters of a full cup are drained by them.
¹¹ And they say, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?
¹² Behold, these are the wicked and those who prosper of old. They have possessed wealth.

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.

¹⁷ The sentence is by the decree of the watchers and the demand by the word of the holy ones, to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever he will and sets up over it the lowest of men.

¹³ You who are of purer eyes than to behold evil and who cannot look on perverseness, why do you look upon those who deal treacherously and hold your peace when the wicked man swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

¹⁵ He takes all of them up with the hook. He catches them in his net and gathers them in his drag. Therefore he rejoices and is glad. ¹⁶ Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his drag, because by them his portion is fat and his food plentiful.

² And the beast which I saw was similar to a leopard and his feet were like the feet of a bear and his mouth like the mouth of a lion and the dragon gave him his power and his throne and great authority. ³ And I saw one of his heads, like what has been slaughtered to death, and his deadly wound was healed and the whole earth marveled after the beast; ⁴ and they worshiped the dragon who has given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, Who is similar to the beast? And who is mighty to make war with him? ⁵ And a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies was given to him, and authority to make war forty-two months was given to him. ⁶ And he opened his mouth to blaspheme toward God, to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle, and blaspheme those who are residing in the heaven. ⁷ And it was given to him to make a war with the holy-ones and to overcome them and authority over every tribe and people and language and nation was given to him.

² with whom the kings of the earth fornicated and those who are dwelling in the earth were made drunken from the wine of her fornication. ³ And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet beast, being full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ And the woman having been dressed in purple and scarlet arrayed with gold and precious stone and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup being full of abominations and the unclean things of her fornication of the earth,

³ I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation. ⁴ His sons are far from safety and they are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

¹⁹ He will have neither son nor son's son among his people, nor any remaining where he traveled.

¹⁰ His sons will seek the favor of the poor and his hands will give back his wealth.

²⁸ The increase of his house will depart, flowed away in the day of his wrath.

¹⁴ from men by your hand, O Jehovah, from men of the world whose portion is in this life and whose belly you fill with your treasure. They are satisfied with sons and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

⁶ Son's sons are the crown of old men and the glory of sons are their fathers.

³⁴ Let him take his rod away from me and do not let his terror make me afraid.

²¹ Sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.

¹¹ Terrors will make him afraid on every side and will chase him at his heels.

⁵ They are not in trouble as other men, nor are they plagued like other men.

¹⁹ How they have become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

¹⁹ I create the fruit of the lips. Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near, says Jehovah and I will heal him.
²⁰ But the wicked are like the troubled sea, for it cannot rest and its waters cast up mud and dirt. ²¹ There is no peace, says my God, to the wicked.

²⁶ There will none cast her young, nor be barren, in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.

¹³ And he will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.
¹⁴ You will be blessed above all peoples. There will not be male or female barren among you*, or among your* cattle.

¹¹ And Jehovah will make you plenteous for good, in the fruit of your body and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers to give you.

¹³ our garners are full, affording all manner of store, our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields, ¹⁴ our oxen are well laden, no breaking in and no going forth and no outcry in our streets,

¹ This I laid to my heart for all, even to explore all this, that the righteous and the wise and their works, are in the hand of God. No man understands, either love or hatred. All is before them.
² All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous man and to the wicked man, to the good man and to the clean man and to the unclean man, to him who sacrifices and to him who does not sacrifice, as is the good man, so is the sinner and he who swears, as he who fears an oath.

¹⁶ Now he spoke a parable to them, saying: The farmland of a certain rich man was fertile; ¹⁷ and he was reasoning in himself, saying, What should I do, because I have nowhere, in which, I will gather together my fruits? ¹⁸ And he said, I will be doing this: I will be taking down my barns and build greater ones. And I will be gathering together there, all my fruits of labor and my good things. ¹⁹ And I will be saying to my soul, Soul, you have many good things laid up for many years; rest yourself, eat, drink, and be joyous.
²⁰ But God said to him, Fool, your soul is asked back from you in this night, and the things which you prepared, whose will they be? ²¹ So is he who is storing up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

¹⁹ Now there was a certain rich man and he was clothing himself in purple and fine-linen, having been radiantly joyous daily.

⁴¹ Yet he sets a needy man on high from affliction and makes him families like a flock.

³ Behold, sons are a heritage of Jehovah and the fruit of the womb is a reward. ⁴ As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the sons of youth.
⁵ The man who has his quiver full of them is fortunate. They will not be put to shame because they speak with their enemies in the gate.

²¹ And his brother's name was Jubal. He was the father of all those who handle the harp and pipe.

²⁷ Why did you flee secretly and creep away from me and did not tell me, that I might have sent you away with gladness and with songs, with tambourine and with harp,

¹² And the harp and the lute, the tambourine and the pipe and wine, are in their feasts, but they do not regard the work of Jehovah, nor have they considered the operation of his hands.

¹³ And behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.

⁴ who lie upon beds of ivory and stretch themselves upon their couches and eat the lambs out of the flock and the calves out of the midst of the stall, ⁵ who scatter-words to the mouth of the harp, who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David, ⁶ who drink wine in bowls and anoint themselves with the chief oils, but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

¹¹ If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity and their years in pleasures.

⁴ Because there are no pains in their death, but their strength is firm.

³⁸ For just-as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and being betrothed, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, ³⁹ and they did not know until the flood came and took them all away; so the presence of the Son of Man will also be.

¹⁹ And I will be saying to my soul, Soul, you have many good things laid up for many years; rest yourself, eat, drink, and be joyous.
²⁰ But God said to him, Fool, your soul is asked back from you in this night, and the things which you prepared, whose will they be?

²⁸ Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; ²⁹ but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

¹⁷ who said to God, Depart from us, and What can the Almighty do for us?

⁴ The wicked man, in the pride of his countenance, says, He will not require it. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

¹¹ He says in his heart, God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.

⁷ The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge. The foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

²² How long, you* simple ones, will you* love simplicity? And scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

²⁹ because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of Jehovah.

¹⁵ He takes all of them up with the hook. He catches them in his net and gathers them in his drag. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.

²⁸ Now when he saw Jesus, and having cried out, he fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What is this thing with me and with you, Jesus, Son of the Highest God? I beseech of you. Do not torment me.

³⁷ And all the multitude of the region around the Gadarenes asked him to go away from them, because they were being held by great fear, and he stepped into the ship and returned.

¹⁹ Now this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. ²⁰ For everyone who is practicing evil, hates the light, and is not coming to the light, in order that his works should not convict him.

⁴⁵ But because I speak the truth, you do not believe me. ⁴⁶ Which out of you convicts me concerning sin? But if I speak the truth, why are you not believing in me? ⁴⁷ He who is from God hears the declarations of God, but because of this, you do not hear them, because you are not from God.

²³ He who hates me also hates my Father. ²⁴ If I had not done the works which no other has done among them, then they were having no sin, but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

²⁸ And just-as they did not approve to have God in their full knowledge, God gave them up to an unapproved mind, to do those things which are not proper.

⁷ because the mindset of the flesh is hostility toward God; for it is not subject to the law of God, for neither is it able to be;

¹⁰ and in all deception of unrighteousness in those who are perishing, because they did not accept the love of the truth, that they might be saved. ¹¹ And because of this, God will be sending them a working of error, that they may believe in the lie; ¹² in order that they all might be judged who did not believe the truth, but were delighted in unrighteousness.

³ For the time will be coming when they will not be tolerating the sound teaching, but having itchy ears, they will be piling up for themselves teachers according to their own lusts; ⁴ and will indeed turn their ears away from the truth and their ears will be turned aside to fables.

² And Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I do not know Jehovah and moreover I will not let Israel go.

⁹ For you should not say, There will be no visitation to a man; visitation is to him from the Lord.

³ That you said, What advantage will it be to you? And, What profit shall I have more than if I had sinned?

⁴ who have said, We prevail with our tongue will. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?

⁹ lest I am full and deny you and say, Who is Jehovah? or lest I am poor and steal and use the name of my God profanely.

¹¹ You* get out of the way. Turn aside out of the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

¹⁹ I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Seek me in vain. I, Jehovah, speak righteousness, declaring uprightness.

⁶ According to their pasture, so they were filled. They were filled and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.

¹³ You* also say, Behold, what a weariness it is! And you* have sniffed at it, says Jehovah of hosts. And you* have brought what was taken by violence and the lame and the sick. Thus you* bring the offering.
Should I accept this at your* hand? says Jehovah. ¹⁴ But cursed be the deceiver, who has in his flock a male and vows and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished thing. For I am a great King, says Jehovah of hosts and my name is feared among the Gentiles.

⁷ Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will be finding; knock and it will be opened to you.

²⁴ Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask and you will receive, in order that your joy may be fulfilled.

⁶ O my soul, do not come into their council, to their assembly, my glory, do not be united, because they killed* a man in their anger and they hocked an ox in their self-will.

²¹ And he said, Naked I came out of my mother's womb and naked I will return there. Jehovah gave and Jehovah has taken away, praise the name of Jehovah.

⁹ Who does not know in all these, that the hand of Jehovah has worked this, ¹⁰ in whose hand is the soul of every living thing and the breath of all mankind?

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

¹ The man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers is fortunate,

⁶ Those who trust in their wealth and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches, ⁷ none can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him

⁵ God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up and pluck you out of your tent and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
⁶ The righteous also will see and fear and will laugh at him, saying, ⁷ Behold, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

⁸ Remove your way far from her and do not come near the door of her house,

⁸ There is no man who has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, nor has he power over the day of death. And there is no discharge in war. Neither will wickedness deliver he who is given to it.

² And having summoned him, he said to him, What is this that I am hearing concerning you? Give me the account of your stewardship; for you are not able to be a steward any longer.

²⁵ But Abraham said, Child, remember that you received your good things in your life and Lazarus likewise evil things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish.

⁵ Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out and the spark of his fire will not shine. ⁶ The light will be dark in his tent and his lamp above him will be put out.

¹⁸ He will be driven from light into darkness and chased out of the world.

¹⁰ Many sorrows will be to the wicked, but he who trusts in Jehovah, loving kindness will encompass him around.

⁷ Because we are consumed in your anger and in your wrath are we troubled. ⁸ You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance.
⁹ Because all our days are passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

⁹ The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

²⁰ He who curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in blackness of darkness.

²⁰ Because there will be no reward to the evil man. The lamp of the wicked will be put out.

⁸ Now the foolish said to the prudent, Give us some oil from your oil, because our lamps are quenched.

⁴⁶ the lord of that bondservant will be coming in a day in which he is not expecting, and in an hour in which he does not know, and will be flogging him and will be placing his part with the unbelieving.

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.

⁷ And in the greatness of your excellency you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send forth your wrath, it consumes them as stubble.

²⁵ Will you harass a driven leaf? And will you pursue the dry stubble?

⁴ The wicked are not so, because they are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

⁵ Let them be as chaff before the wind and the messenger of Jehovah driving them on.

¹³ O my God, make them like the whirling dust, as stubble before the wind,

²⁴ Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will be as rottenness and their blossom will go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

¹³ The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters, but he will rebuke them. And they will flee far off and will be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind and like the whirling dust before the storm.

⁵ But the multitude of your foes will be like small dust and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passes away. Yes, it will be in an instant suddenly

²⁴ Yes, they have not been planted. Yes, they have not been sown. Yes, their stock has not taken root in the earth. Moreover he blows upon them and they wither and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

¹⁵ Behold, I have made you as a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth. You will thresh the mountains and beat them small and will make the hills as chaff. ¹⁶ You will winnow them and the wind will carry them away and the whirlwind will scatter them. And you will rejoice in Jehovah. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

²⁴ Therefore I will scatter them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness.

³ Therefore they will be as the morning cloud and as the dew that passes away early, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor and as the smoke out of the chimney.

¹⁰ For entangled like thorns and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.

¹² whose winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will be thoroughly cleansing his threshing floor, and he will be gathering his grain into the barn, but the chaff he will be burning up with unquenchable fire.

⁷ If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire will be for you and you should rule over it.

⁵ You will not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them, because I, Jehovah your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of those who hate me,

³⁴ Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?

⁴¹ if I flash my glittering sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to my adversaries and will recompense those who hate me.

³⁹ And I am this day weak, though anointed king and these men the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. Jehovah reward the evildoer according to his wickedness.

²⁴ Then you will lay up gold as dust and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

⁵ He will reward the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth.

⁹ Let his sons be fatherless and his wife a widow. ¹⁰ Let his sons be vagabonds and beg and let them seek out of their desolate places. ¹¹ Let a creditor exact all that he has and let strangers make spoil of his labor.
¹² Let there be none to prolong kindness to him, nor let there be any to have pity on his fatherless sons. ¹³ Let his posterity be cut off. Let their name be blotted out in the following generation.
¹⁴ Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah and do not let the sin of his mother be blotted out.
¹⁵ Let them be before Jehovah continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth, ¹⁶ because he did not remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man and the broken in heart, to kill.
¹⁷ Yes, he loved cursing and it came to him. And he did not delight in blessing and it was far from him.
¹⁸ He also clothed himself with cursing as with his garment and it came into his inward parts like water and like oil into his bones. ¹⁹ Let it be to him as the garments with which he covers himself and for the belt with which he is girded continually.
²⁰ This is the reward of my adversaries from Jehovah and of those who speak evil against my soul.
²¹ But deal with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for your name's sake. Because your loving kindness is good, deliver me, ²² because I am poor and needy and my heart is wounded within me.
²³ I have gone like the shadow when it declines. I am tossed up and down as the locust. ²⁴ My knees are weak through fasting and my flesh fails of fatness.
²⁵ I also have become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.
²⁶ Help me, O Jehovah my God. O save me according to your loving kindness, ²⁷ that they may know that this is your hand, that you, Jehovah, have done it.
²⁸ Let them curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be put to shame, but your servant will rejoice.
²⁹ Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor and let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
³⁰ I will give great thanks to Jehovah with my mouth. Yes, I will praise him among the multitude. ³¹ Because he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.

²¹ Prepare you* slaughter for his sons for the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth and fill the face of the world with cities.

⁴ Surely he has borne our griefs and has carried our sorrows.
Yet we esteemed him stricken, struck by God and afflicted. ⁵ But he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed.
⁶ All we like sheep have gone-astray. We have turned every one to his own way and Jehovah has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

²⁹ In those days they will no more say, The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the son's teeth are set on edge.

² What do you* mean, that you* use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the son's teeth are set on edge?

¹⁴ Now behold, if he begets a son, who sees all his father's sins, which he has done and fears and does not do such like,

¹⁹ Yet you* say, Why does not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son has done what is lawful and right and has kept all my statutes and has done them, he will surely live. ²⁰ The soul that sins, it will die.
The son will not bear the iniquity of the father, nor will the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of a righteous man will be upon him and the wickedness of a wicked man will be upon him.

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.

¹⁹ Do not store up treasures for you upon the earth, where moth and rust ingest, and where thieves burrow through your^\'b0 wall and steal. ²⁰ But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust ingest, and where thieves do not burrow through or steal.

²⁷ For the Son of Man is about to come in the glory of his Father with his messengers, and then he will be giving to each one according to his practice.

³¹ So-then you are testifying to yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. ³² And you, fill up the measure of your fathers. ³³ Serpents, offspring of vipers! How may you flee from the judgment of hell? ³⁴ Because of this, behold, I am sending to you prophets and wise men and scribes, and out of them you will be killing and will be crucifying, and some of them you will be scourging in your synagogues and will be persecuting from city to city, ³⁵ so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

⁵ But you store up wrath for yourself according to your hardness and unrepentant heart in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

²¹ For the one who knew no sin, he was made the sin offering on our behalf; in order that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

¹⁴ Alexander the coppersmith showed to ward me many evils. May the Lord give to him according to his works;

⁶ Repay to her as she has also given to you and you do this double to her–double again according to her works; in the cup which she mingled, mingle to her double again.

¹⁹ He lies down rich, but he will not be gathered to his fathers. He opens his eyes and he is not.

³ You have shown your people hard things. You have made us to drink the wine of staggering.

⁸ Because in the hand of Jehovah there is a cup and the wine foams. It is full of mixture and he pours out of the same, surely to the dregs of it. All the wicked of the earth will drain them and drink them.

¹⁷ Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, who have drunk at the hand of Jehovah the cup of his wrath. You have drunk the bowl of the cup of staggering and drained it.

¹⁵ For Jehovah says thus, the God of Israel, to me: Take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it. ¹⁶ And they will drink and reel to and fro and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

⁷ Babylon has been a golden cup in Jehovah's hand, that made all the earth drunken. The nations have drunk of her wine, therefore the nations are mad.

²³ And in Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and he sees Abraham from afar, and Lazarus in his bosom.

¹⁰ he will also be drinking out of the wine of the fury of God of which has been mingled undiluted in the cup of his wrath, and he will be tormented in fire and brimstone in the sight of the holy messengers and in the sight of the Lamb;

¹⁵ And a sharp two edged long-sword travels out from his mouth, in order that he might strike the nations with it and he will shepherd them with an iron rod and he tramples on the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God, the Almighty.

⁵ Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you and you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass,

²¹ His sons come to honor and he does not know it and they are brought low, but he does not perceive it of them.

²³ But you, O God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men will not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

²⁴ I said, O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.

¹⁸ And I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will be after me. ¹⁹ And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all my labor in which I have labored and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

²⁷ But he said, Therefore father, I am requesting him in order that you should send him to my father’s house; ²⁸ for I have five brethren; that he may thoroughly testify to them, in order that they may not even come into this place of torment.

¹⁸ Behold, he puts no trust in his servants and he charges his messengers with error.

¹⁵ Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

¹⁷ Behold he who hates lawlessness and who destroys evil men, who is forever righteousness, 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.

¹¹ who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?

²² Behold, God does loftily in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

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

¹ God stands in the congregation of God. He judges among the gods.

⁵ Who is like Jehovah our God who has his seat on high, ⁶ and yet looks upon the low things in heaven and in the earth.

⁸ If you see the oppression of a poor man and the violent robbery of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter. Because a man higher than the high is observing and there are higher men than they.

¹³ Who has known the mind of Jehovah, or being his counselor has taught him? ¹⁴ He took counsel with whom. And who instructed him and taught him in the path of justice. And taught him knowledge and showed to him the way of understanding?

²² It is he who sits above the circle of the earth and the inhabitants of it are as grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens as a curtain and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in, ²³ who brings rulers to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth as vanity.

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?

³⁴ For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has become his counselor?

¹⁶ For who has known the mind of the Lord, who will be lecturing him? But we have the mind of Christ.

³ Do you not know that we will be judging the messengers? Why not judge the things of everyday life?

⁴ For if God did not spare messengers who sinned, but threw them into hell and gave them to restraints of blackness, being kept for judgment;

⁶ And the messengers who did not keep to their own principality, but having left their own house, he has kept to the judgment of the great day in eternal bonds under blackness.

¹ And I saw a messenger coming down from heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. ² And he took-hold of the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and the Adversary, the one who is misleading the whole inhabited-earth and bound him a thousand years, ³ and cast him into the abyss and locked it and sealed it above him, in order that he may not mislead the nations anymore, till the thousand years might be completed. It is essential for him to be loosed for a little time after these things.

¹² And I saw the dead, the greatest and the least, standing in the sight of the throne, and books were opened and another book was opened, which is the Book of Life and the dead were judged out of the things which have been written in the books, according to their works. ¹³ And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them and they were judged each one according to their works. ¹⁴ And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, which is the lake of fire. ¹⁵ And if anyone was not found, having been written in the Book of Life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

²² In the fullness of his sufficiency he will be in straits. The hand of everyone who is in misery will come upon him. ²³ When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him and will rain it upon him while he is eating.

¹⁷ Because when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory will not descend after him.

⁴ Because there are no pains in their death, but their strength is firm.
⁵ They are not in trouble as other men, nor are they plagued like other men.

²⁷ because he has covered his face with his fatness and gathered fat upon his loins.

⁸ It will be health to your navel and marrow to your bones.

⁸ Hushai said moreover, You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men and they are chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. And your father is a man of war and will not lodge with the people.

¹² And she said, As Jehovah your God lives, I do not have a cake, but a handful of meal in the pitcher and a little oil in the jar. And behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son that we may eat it and die.

²⁰ Why is light given to him who is in misery and life to the bitter in soul,

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.

¹⁸ He will not allow me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

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.

²³ When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him and will rain it upon him while he is eating.

¹⁰ The heart knows its own bitterness and a stranger does not share with its joy.

² A man to whom God gives riches, wealth and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity and it is an evil disease.

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. ¹⁶ O Lord, by these things men live and entirely in it is the life of my spirit. Therefore recover me and make me to live.
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.

¹⁶ Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem and they will eat bread by weight and with fearfulness and they will drink water by measure and in dismay, ¹⁷ that they may lack bread and water and be dismayed one with another and pine away in their iniquity.

¹⁸ Son of man, eat your bread with quaking and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness.

¹⁸ There the prisoners are at ease together. They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster. ¹⁹ The small and the great are there. And the servant is free from his master.

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

²⁶ And after my skin, this body, is destroyed, then outside my flesh I will see God,

¹¹ His bones are full of his youth, but it will lie down with him in the dust.

²⁰ The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. And unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.

¹⁴ They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd and the upright will have dominion over them in the morning. And their beauty will be for Sheol to consume, that there is no habitation for it.

² All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous man and to the wicked man, to the good man and to the clean man and to the unclean man, to him who sacrifices and to him who does not sacrifice, as is the good man, so is the sinner and he who swears, as he who fears an oath.

¹¹ Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the noise of your viols. The worm is spread under you and worms cover you.

⁸ According to what I have seen, those who plow wickedness and sow trouble, reap the same. ⁹ By the breath of God they perish and by the blast of his anger they are consumed. ¹⁰ The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. ¹¹ The old lion perishes for lack of prey and the cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.

³ I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation. ⁴ His sons are far from safety and they are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them, ⁵ whose harvest the hungry eat up and takes it even out of the thorns and the snare pants for their substance.

³ Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness? ⁴ If your sons have sinned against him and he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression, 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.

²⁰ The wicked man travails with pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor. ²¹ Sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come upon him. ²² He does not believe that he will return out of darkness. And he is awaited by the sword. ²³ He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. ²⁴ Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him as a king ready to the battle. ²⁵ Because he has stretched out his hand against God and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty.
²⁶ He runs upon him with a stiff neck, with the thick studs of his bucklers, ²⁷ because he has covered his face with his fatness and gathered fat upon his loins. ²⁸ And he has dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man inhabited, which were ready to become heaps. ²⁹ He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth. ³⁰ He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his offshoots and by the breath of God's mouth he will go away.
³¹ Let him not trust in vanity, making himself go-astray. For vanity will be his recompense. ³² It will be accomplished before his time and his branch will not be green. ³³ He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.
³⁴ For the company of the hypocrites will be barren and fire will consume the tents of bribery. ³⁵ They conceive mischief and bring forth wickness and their heart prepares deceit.

⁵ that the triumphing of the wicked is short and the joy of the profane but for a moment?

²⁹ This is the portion of a wicked man from God and the heritage appointed to him by God.

³ His anger was also kindled against his three friends because they had found no answer and yet had condemned Job.

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.

⁴ They run and prepare themselves without my fault. Awake to help me and behold.

⁸⁶ All your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me.

²² But Jesus fully knowing their reasonings, answered and said to them, What are you reasoning in your hearts?

¹⁹ For this is grace, if anyone undergoes sorrows, suffering wrongfully because of his consciousness of God.

²⁶ And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Depart, I beseech you*, from the tents of these wicked men and touch nothing of theirs, lest you* are consumed in all their sins. ²⁷ So they got up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan and Abiram, on every side. And Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the door of their tents and their wives and their sons and their little ones.
²⁸ And Moses said, Hereby you* will know that Jehovah has sent me to do all these works, for it is not of my own mind. 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.
³¹ And it happened, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground split asunder that was under them, ³² and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up and their households and all the men that pertained to Korah and all their goods. ³³ So they and all that pertained to them, went down alive into Sheol. And the earth closed upon them and they perished from among the assembly.
³⁴ And all Israel that were all around them fled at the cry of them, for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.

³ His substance also was seven thousand sheep and three thousand camels and five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred female-donkeys and a very great household, so that this man was the greatest of all the sons of the east.

²² Those who hate you will be clothed with shame and the tent of the wicked will be no more.

⁷ yet he will perish forever like his own manure. Those who have seen him will say, Where is he?

³⁷ I would declare to him the number of my steps. I would go near to him as a prince.

³⁶ But I passed by, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.

⁵ God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up and pluck you out of your tent and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
⁶ The righteous also will see and fear and will laugh at him, saying,

⁹ Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil! ¹⁰ You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples and have sinned against your soul. ¹¹ For the stone will cry out of the wall and the beam out of the timber will answer it.

⁴ I will cause it to go forth, says Jehovah of hosts and it will enter into the house of the thief and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name. And it will abide in the midst of his house and will consume it, with the timber of it and the stones of it.

⁸ Neither do those who go by say, The blessing of Jehovah be upon you*. We praise you in the name of Jehovah.

⁵ The Lord at your right hand will strike through kings in the day of his wrath.

⁴ Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

⁴ Jehovah has made everything for its own end, yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

² Jehovah is a jealous God and avenges. Jehovah avenges and is full of wrath. Jehovah takes vengeance on his adversaries and he reserves wrath for his enemies.

¹⁵ That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of waste and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

⁹ The Lord knows how to rescue the devout out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous to a day of judgment to be punished; ¹⁰ and especially those who are conducting-themselves after the flesh in the lust of defilement and while despising lordship. Daring and self-willed, they are not trembling when blaspheming heavenly glories; ¹¹ where messengers, ( though being greater in strength and power), do not bring a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord. ¹² But these unrighteous men are like natural unreasoning creatures, having been born for apprehension and corruption, blaspheming in what they are ignorant of, and they will be utterly corrupted in their corruption. ¹³ They will be getting the wages of unrighteousness; those who are deeming the carousing in the day to be a sensual-delight. They are stains and blemishes, carousing in their own acts of deception, while feasting sumptuously alongside you, ¹⁴ having eyes full of an adulteress and an unceasing sin; enticing unstable souls; having a heart which has been exercised from greed; children of the curse; ¹⁵ having left the straight way. They were misled, having followed in the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; ¹⁶ but he had his reproof from his own violation of the law: a voiceless donkey, having spoken in a human voice, forbade the insanity of the prophet.
¹⁷ These people are waterless springs and clouds driven by a gale of wind to whom the blackness of darkness has been kept forever.

⁷ But the current heavens and the earth have been stored up for fire by the same word, being kept to the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

¹³ wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames, misleading stars–for whom the blackness of darkness has been kept forever.

¹⁷ for the great day of his wrath has come, and who is able to stand?

¹⁰ and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to him who hates him. He will repay him to his face.

⁷ And Nathan said to David, You are the man. Jehovah says thus, the God of Israel, I anointed you king over Israel and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul. ⁸ And I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your bosom and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if that had been too little, I would have added to you such and such things.
⁹ Why have you despised the word of Jehovah, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have slain him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.
¹⁰ Now therefore the sword will not depart (everlasting and forever) from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife. ¹¹ Jehovah says thus, Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. ¹² For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.

¹⁹ And you will speak to him, saying, Jehovah says thus, Have you killed and also taken possession? And you will speak to him, saying, Jehovah says thus, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth will dogs lick your blood, even your.
²⁰ And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found you because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of Jehovah.
²¹ Behold, I will bring evil upon you and will utterly sweep you away and will cut off from Ahab every one who urinates on the wall and he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel. ²² And I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger and have made Israel to sin.
²³ And Jehovah spoke also of Jezebel, saying, The dogs will eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel. ²⁴ He who dies of Ahab in the city the dogs will eat and he who dies in the field will the birds of the heavens eat.

¹⁹ You * say, God lays up his wickedness for his sons. Let him recompense it to himself that he may know it.

¹¹ Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Under the whole heaven is mine.

²¹ These things you have done and I kept silence. You thought that I was altogether such a one as yourself. But I will reprove you and set them in order before your eyes.

¹³ transgressing and denying Jehovah and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

³³ How you trim your way to seek love! Therefore even the wicked women you have taught your ways. 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.
³⁵ Yet you said, I am innocent. Surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with you because you say, I have not sinned.

¹⁸ For John said to Herod, ‘It is not legal for you to have your brother’s wife.’

²⁵ But while reasoning concerning righteousness and self-control and the future judgment which will be, Felix having become fearful, answered, Travel on now, and when I take the next opportunity, I myself will call you.

¹⁹ Beloved, do not be avenging yourselves, but give a chance for the wrath of God; for it has been written, ‘Vengeance is for me. I will be repaying, says the Lord.’

¹¹ But when Peter came to Antioch, I stood against him to his face, because he was being condemned.

¹³ For the judgment is merciless to the one who has not practiced mercy; mercy wins over judgment.

²¹ The strong among the mighty will speak to him out of the midst of Sheol with those who help him. They have gone down. They lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
²² Asshur is there and all her company. Her graves are all around her, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, ²³ whose graves are set in the outermost parts of the pit. And her company is all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.
²⁴ There is Elam and all her multitude all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit.
²⁵ They have set a bed for her in the midst of the slain with all her multitude. Her graves are all around her, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword. For their terror was caused in the land of the living and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. He is put in the midst of those who are slain.
²⁶ There is Meshech, Tubal and all their multitude. Their graves are all around them, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, for they caused their terror in the land of the living.
²⁷ And they will not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war and have laid their swords under their heads. But their iniquities are upon their bones, for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
²⁸ But you will be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised and will lie with those who are slain by the sword.
²⁹ There is Edom, its kings and all its rulers, who in their might are laid with those who are slain by the sword. They will lie with the uncircumcised and with those who go down to the pit.
³⁰ There are the rulers of the north, all of them and all the Sidonians, who have gone down with the slain. In the terror which they caused by their might they are put to shame. And they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.
³¹ Pharaoh will see them and will be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, says the lord Jehovah. ³² For I have put his terror in the land of the living and he will be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the lord Jehovah.

²² Now it happened, that the poor man died and that he was carried away by the messengers into Abraham’s bosom, and the rich man also died and was buried.

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.

¹⁷ There the wicked cease from troubling and there the weary are at rest.

²² who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they can find the grave?

¹⁶ It will go down to the bars of Sheol when once there is rest in the dust.

²⁴ They are exalted.
Yet a little while and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low. They are taken out of the way as all others and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

²³ For I know that you will bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living.

⁴ One generation goes and another generation comes, but the earth abides everlasting.

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

²⁷ And inasmuch as it is laid up for men to die once but after this is the judgment;

⁴ But you* are forgers of lies. You* are all physicians of no value.