Job 23 Cross References - MLV

¹ Then Job answered and said, ² Even today my complaint is rebellious. My stroke is heavier than my groaning. ³ O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!
⁴ I would set my case in order before him and fill my mouth with arguments. ⁵ I would know the words which he would answer me and understand what he would say to me. ⁶ Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would give heed to me. ⁷ There the upright might reason with him. So I should be delivered forever from my judge. ⁸ Behold, I go before, but he is not there and backward, but I cannot perceive him, 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.
¹⁰ But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out as gold. ¹¹ My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way and not turned aside. ¹² I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips, I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
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.
¹⁵ Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him. ¹⁶ For God has made my heart faint and the Almighty has terrified me, ¹⁷ because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

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.

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.

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.

⁶ and that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For he is great in understanding. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

⁴ Because day and night your hand was heavy upon me. My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. Selah.

² I sought the Lord in the day of my trouble. My hand was stretched out in the night and did not slack. My soul refused to be comforted. 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.

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.

³ Surely I would speak to the Almighty and I desire to reason with God.

²¹ that he would maintain the right of a man with God and of a son of man with his neighbor!

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! ³⁶ Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder. I would bind it to me as a crown. ³⁷ I would declare to him the number of my steps. I would go near to him as a prince.

¹ Moreover Jehovah answered Job and said, ² Shall he who quibbles contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.
³ Then Job answered Jehovah and said, ⁴ Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand upon my mouth. ⁵ I have spoken once and I will not answer, yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.

⁸ Yes, in the way of your judgments, O Jehovah, we have waited for you, to your name. Even to your memorial, is the desire of our soul.

⁶ Seek Jehovah while he may be found. Call you* upon him while he is near. ⁷ Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts. And let him return to Jehovah and he will have mercy upon him and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

⁷ Though our iniquities testify against us, work you for your name's sake, O Jehovah. For our backslidings are many. We have sinned against you.

¹⁹ as that, God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ not counting to them their trespasses and having placed the word of reconciliation in us. ²⁰ Therefore, we are ambassadors on behalf of Christ; as though God is encouraging you through us. We are beseeching you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

⁶ Therefore, since it is left for some to enter into it, and those to whom the good-news was proclaimed beforehand did not enter into it because of disobedience,

²⁵ Far be it from you to do such a thing, to kill a righteous man with a wicked man, that so the righteous man should be as the wicked man. Far be it from you. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
²⁶ And Jehovah said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous men within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake. ²⁷ And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken it upon me to speak to the Lord, who am I but dust and ashes.
²⁸ Perhaps there will lack five of the fifty righteous men. Will you destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there.
²⁹ And he spoke to him yet again and said, Perhaps there will be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for the forty's sake.
³⁰ And he said, Oh let the Lord not be furious and I will speak. Perhaps there will be thirty found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.
³¹ And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak to the Lord. Perhaps there will be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake.
³² And he said, Oh let the Lord not be furious and I will speak yet but this once. Perhaps ten will be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.

¹² And you said, I will surely do you good and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

¹² Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, He brought them forth for evil, to kill them on the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from your fierce wrath and relent of this evil against your people.
¹³ Remember Abraham, Isaac and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self and said to them, I will multiply your* seed as the stars of heaven. And all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your* seed and they will inherit it everlasting.

¹³ And Moses said to Jehovah, Then the Egyptians will hear it, for you brought up this people in your might from among them, ¹⁴ and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Jehovah are in the midst of this people, for you Jehovah are seen face to face and your cloud stands over them and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night. ¹⁵ Now if you will kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying, ¹⁶ Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.
¹⁷ And now, I beseech you, let the power of the Lord be great, just-as you have spoken, saying, 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. ¹⁹ Pardon, I beseech you, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness and just-as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.

⁸ Oh, Lord, what shall I say after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies! ⁹ For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and will encompass us around and cut off our name from the earth and what will you do for your great name?

¹⁸ Behold now, I have set my case in order. I know that I am righteous.

¹⁹ Teach us what we will say to him. We cannot set in array because of darkness.

¹¹ For your name's sake, O Jehovah, pardon my iniquity, because it is great.

¹ Judge me, O God and plead my cause against a profane nation. O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

²⁶ Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Set forth your case that you may be justified.

¹⁸ O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and behold our desolations and the city which is called by your name. For we do not present our supplications before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies' sake.
¹⁹ O Lord, hear. O Lord, forgive. O Lord, listen and do. Defer not, for your own sake, O my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.

² I will say to God, Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

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

² I know that you can do all things and that no purpose of your can be restrained. ³ Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
⁴ Hear, I beseech you and I will speak, I will ask of you and declare you to me. ⁵ I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you. ⁶ Therefore I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes.

³ But it is at the least concern to me, in order that I might be judged by you or by a human judgment day. But I am not even judging myself. ⁴ For I have been conscious of nothing in myself, but I have not been made righteous in this thing. But he who is judging me is the Lord.

⁴ He is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?

¹⁹ If of strength behold, he is mighty! And if of justice, who will summon me?

³³ There is no umpire between us who might lay his hand upon us both.
³⁴ Let him take his rod away from me and do not let his terror make me afraid.

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

³ You answered me in the day that I called. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

⁴ Wrath is not in me. Would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them. I would burn them together.

⁸ In measure, in sending it forth, you contend with it. He has removed with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.

³³ As I live, says the lord Jehovah, surely with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out, I will be king over you*.

³⁵ and I will bring you* into the wilderness of the peoples. And there I will enter into judgment with you* face to face.

⁹ And he has said to me, My grace is enough for you; for my power is completed in weakness. Therefore I will rather gladly be boasting in my weaknesses, in order that the power of the Christ might reside upon me. ¹⁰ Hence I am delighting in weaknesses, in insults, in calamities, in persecutions, in distresses, on behalf of Christ; for whenever I am weak, then I am mighty.

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

¹⁸ Come now and let us reason together, says Jehovah, though your* sins be as scarlet, they will be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they will be as wool.

⁵ Will he retain his anger everlasting? Will he keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things and have had your way.

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?

¹⁹ Now we know how-much, as many things as the law says, it is speaking to those in the law; in order that every mouth may be sealed and all the world may become under the sentence of God; ²⁰ because no flesh will be made righteous in his sight from the works of the law; for through the law comes the full knowledge of sin.
²¹ But now the righteousness of God has been manifested separate from the law, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; ²² even the righteousness of God through faith of Jesus Christ toward all and upon all those who believe; for there is no distinction;

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.

³³ Who shall accuse anything against God’s chosen? It is God who makes righteous. ³⁴ Who is the one who condemns? Christ is the one who died, but rather, who was also raised up from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also is petitioning on our behalf.

¹¹ Behold, he goes by me and I do not see him. He also passes on, but I do not perceive him.

¹⁴ How much less when you say that you do not behold him. The case is before him and you wait for him!

¹ Why do you stand afar off, O Jehovah? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

¹ How long, O Jehovah? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? ² How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long will my enemy be exalted over me?
³ Consider and answer me, O Jehovah my God. Lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the death,

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

¹⁶ he who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no one from man has seen, nor is able to see: to whom is honor and everlasting dominion. Amen.

⁴⁶ How long, O Jehovah? Will you hide yourself forever? Shall your wrath burn like fire?

¹⁷ And I will wait for Jehovah, who hides his face from the house of Jacob and I will be a man who has trusted in him.

¹⁹ For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice, to the end that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham what he has spoken of him.

² And you will remember all the way which Jehovah your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.

³ Remember now, O Jehovah, I beseech you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart and have done what is good in your sight. And Hezekiah wept greatly.

¹¹ But put forth your hand now and touch all that he has and he will renounce you to your face. ¹² And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, all that he has is in your power, only upon himself do not put forth your hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah.

⁵ But put forth your hand now and touch his bone and his flesh and he will renounce you to your face. ⁶ And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, he is in your hand, only spare his life.

⁵ I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you. ⁶ Therefore I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes.
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.
⁸ Now therefore, take to you* seven bullocks and seven rams. And go to my servant Job and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering. And my servant Job will pray for you*, for him I will accept, that I not deal with you* after your* senselessness. 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 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.

¹⁰ Because you, O God, have proved us. You have tried us as silver is tried.

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. ³ You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.

³ The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, but Jehovah tries the hearts.

⁹ And I will bring the third part into the fire and will refine them as silver is refined and will try them as gold is tried. They will call on my name and I will hear them. I will say, It is my people and they will say, Jehovah is my God.

² But who can abide the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like launder's soap.
³ And he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver. And he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them as gold and silver. And they will offer to Jehovah offerings in righteousness.

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.

¹⁹ Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal, ‘The Lord knows those who are his,’

¹⁷ In faith, Abraham, being tested, has offered up Isaac. And he who had accepted the promises was offering up his only begotten son;

² My brethren, deem it with all joy, whenever you fall into various temptations, ³ knowing that the proving of your faith is working out endurance. ⁴ But let endurance have its completed work, in order that you may be complete and whole, deficient in nothing.

¹² The fortunate man who is enduring temptation, because having become approved, he will be receiving the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

⁷ in order that the trial of your faith, ( being much more precious than gold, which perishes), even now being tested through fire, may be found for praise and honor and to glory in the revelation of Jesus Christ.

² And now, behold, the king walks before you*. And I am old and gray headed, and behold, my sons are with you*. And I have walked before you* from my youth to this day.
³ Here I am. Witness against me before Jehovah and before his anointed: Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or of whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? And I will restore it to you*.
⁴ And they said, You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything of any man's hand. ⁵ And he said to them, Jehovah is witness against you* and his anointed is witness this day, that you* have not found anything in my hand. And they said, He is witness.

⁹ Yet the righteous will hold on his way. And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

⁵ My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.

²⁰ Jehovah has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me. ²¹ Because I have kept the ways of Jehovah and have not wickedly departed from my God.
²² Because all his ordinances were before me and I put not away his statutes from me. ²³ I was also perfect with him and I kept myself from my iniquity.
²⁴ Therefore Jehovah has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

³ The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

¹⁸ Our heart is not turned back, nor have our steps declined from your way,

⁵ But as for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, Jehovah will lead them forth with the workers of wickedness.
Peace be upon Israel.

⁶ and those who are turned back from following Jehovah and those who have not sought Jehovah, nor inquired after him.

¹³ But those upon the rock are those who, whenever they hear, accept the word with joy, and these have no root, who for a short time believe, and in time of temptation, withdraw. ¹⁴ But what fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and while they are traveling on with life, they are choked by anxieties and riches and sensual-delights of this life, and they are not bringing themselves to maturity. ¹⁵ But that seed in the good soil, these are such as in a good and beautiful heart, having heard the word, hold-onto it and are bearing-fruit with endurance.

¹⁸ Now as they came to him, he said to them, You know, from the first day of which I stepped into Asia, how I happened to be with you all the time, ¹⁹ serving the Lord with all humility and from many tears, and from tests which befell me among the pacts of the Jews;

³³ I coveted no one’s silver or gold or garment. ³⁴ You yourselves know that these hands attended to my needs, and to those being with me.

⁷ Everlasting life to those who indeed by endurance in good work are seeking glory and honor and incorruption.

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.

²⁰ For if, having fled away from the defilements of the world in the full knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and having been again entangled, they are succumbed in these things, the last state has become worse to them than the first. ²¹ For it was better for them to have not known fully the way of righteousness, than to turn away from the holy commandment given to them after having fully known it. ²² But it has befallen to them as the way of the true proverb, ‘ The dog having turning again toward his own vomit,’and the sow that had fully-washed, to wallowing in the mud.

¹⁰ And be it still my consolation, yes, let me rejoice (in pain that does not spare), that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

²² I beseech you, receive the law from his mouth and lay up his words in your heart.

⁹ The fear of Jehovah is clean, enduring forever. The ordinances of Jehovah are true and righteous altogether. ¹⁰ They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold. Sweeter also than honey and the droppings of the honeycomb.

¹¹ I have laid your word up in my heart that I might not sin against you.

¹⁰³ How sweet are your words to my taste, than honey to my mouth!

¹²⁷ Therefore I love your commandments above gold, yes, above fine gold.

¹⁶ Your words were found and I ate them. And your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart. For I am called by your name, O Jehovah, God of hosts.

⁴² But the Lord said, Who then is the faithful and prudent steward, whom his lord will be designating over his bondservants, to give them their food-allowance in season?

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.

³² But he said to them, I have food to eat which you do not know.

³⁴ Jesus says to them, My food is that I should be doing the will of the one who sent me, and should complete his work.

⁶⁶ Many of his disciples went away from this speech to things left behind and were walking no more with him. ⁶⁷ Therefore Jesus said to the twelve, You will not also be going away, will you?
⁶⁸ Therefore Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom will we go? You have the words of everlasting life. ⁶⁹ And we have believed and have known that you are the Christ the Son of the living God.

³¹ Therefore Jesus said to those Jews who have believed in him, If you abide in my word, then you truly are my disciples;

²² further strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to remain in the faith, and that it is essential for us through many afflictions to enter into the kingdom of God.

³⁸ But my righteous one will be living from faith and if he retreats back, my soul does not delight in him.’ ³⁹ But we are not from this retreating back leading to destruction, but we are from the faith leading to the preservation of the soul.

² as newborn babies, long-for the logical milk which has no treachery, in order that you may grow in it;

¹⁹ They went out away from us, but they were not from us; for if they had been from us, they would have remained with us, but they went out, in order that they might be made manifest that all of them are not from us.

¹⁹ God is not a man, that he should lie, neither the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said and will he not do it? Or has he spoken and will he not make it good? ²⁰ Behold, I have received to bless. And he has blessed and I cannot reverse it.

¹² Behold, he seizes; who can hinder him? Who will say to him, What are you doing? ¹³ God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

¹⁰ If he passes through and shuts up and all to judgment, then who can hinder him?

¹⁴ Behold, he breaks down and it cannot be built again. He shuts up a man and there can be no opening.

²⁹ When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? And when he hides his face, who then can behold him? It is the same whether to a nation, or to a man,

³ But our God is in the heavens. He has done whatever he pleased.

⁶ Whatever Jehovah pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all depths,

²¹ There are many devices in a man's heart, but the counsel of Jehovah, that will stand.

¹⁵ What is crooked cannot be made straight and what is wanting cannot be numbered.

¹⁴ I know that, whatever God does, it will be forever. Nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it. And God has done it that men should fear before him.

²⁴ Jehovah of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely, as I have thought, so will it happen and as I have purposed, so will it stand, ²⁵ that I will break the Assyrian in my land and tread him under foot upon my mountains. Then will his yoke depart from them and his burden depart from their shoulder.
²⁶ This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. ²⁷ For Jehovah of hosts has purposed and who will annul it? And his hand is stretched out and who will turn it back?

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,

³⁵ And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing and he does according to his will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth. And none can stay his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?

¹⁹ Therefore you will say to me, Why is he still finding-fault? For who is standing against his will?

⁹ having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his delight which he purposed in him, ¹⁰ to a stewardship of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in the Christ, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth. ¹¹ In him in whom, we were also made an inheritance, having been predetermined according to the purpose of the one who is working all things after the plan of his will.

¹⁷ Every good act of giving, and every complete gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor a shadow of turning.

³ so I am made to possess months of misery and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

¹⁹ Your way was in the sea and your paths in the great waters. And your footsteps were not known.

² Clouds and darkness are all around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

²⁷ Why do you say, O Jacob and speak, O Israel, My way is hid from Jehovah. And the justice due to me is passed away from my God?
²⁸ Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, nor is weary. There is no searching of his understanding.

⁹ The voice of Jehovah cries to the city and the man of wisdom will see your name. Hear the rod and who has appointed 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!

³ that no one be shook up in these afflictions; for you yourselves know that we are destined for this thing.

⁹ Because God appointed us not for wrath, but for the acquisition of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

⁸ and, ‘A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense'; those who are stumbling in the word, being disobedient, toward which they were also appointed.

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.

³ O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!

²³ For calamity from God is a terror to me and I can do nothing because of his majesty.

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

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

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.

³ and will say to them, Hear, O Israel, you* draw near this day to battle against your* enemies. Do not let your* heart faint. Do not fear, nor tremble, neither be you* frightened at them.

²⁰ And she said to them, Call me not Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

² As God lives, who has taken away my right and the Almighty, who has distressed my soul,

¹⁴ I am poured out like water and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.

¹⁶ Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.

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.

¹⁶ For I will not contend everlasting, nor will I always be angry, for the spirit would faint before me and the souls that I have made.

⁴⁶ And do not let your* heart faint. Neither fear for the news that will be heard in the land. For news will come one year and after that in another year, news and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

¹⁵ Alas for the day! For the day of Jehovah is at hand and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

²⁰ Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers and you will be gathered to your grave in peace, neither will your eyes see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.

⁹ Even that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

²² He does not believe that he will return out of darkness. And he is awaited by the sword.

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.

⁸ He has walled up my way that I cannot pass and has set darkness in my paths.

¹¹ or darkness, so that you cannot see and abundance of waters cover you.

¹ The righteous man perishes and no man lays it to heart. And merciful men are taken away; none considering that the righteous man is taken away from the evil.