Job 12 Cross References - MSTC

¹ So Job answered, and said, ² "Then, no doubt, ye are the men alone; and wisdom shall perish with you. ³ But I have understanding as well as ye, and am no less than ye. Yea who knoweth not these things? ⁴ Thus, he that calleth upon God, and whom God heareth, is mocked of his neighbour; the godly and innocent man is laughed to scorn. ⁵ Godliness is a light despised in the hearts of the rich, and is set for them to stumble upon. ⁶ "The houses of robbers are in wealth and prosperity; and they that maliciously meddle against God, dwell without care: yea, God giveth all things richly with his hand. ⁷ Ask the cattle, and they shall inform thee; the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee. ⁸ Speak to the earth, and it shall show thee; or to the fishes of the sea, and they shall certify thee. ⁹ What is he, but he knoweth that the hand of the LORD made all these? ¹⁰ In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all men. ¹¹ Have not the ears pleasure in hearing, and the mouth in tasting the thing that it eateth? ¹² "Among old persons there is wisdom, and among the aged is understanding. ¹³ Yea, with God is wisdom and strength - it is he that hath counsel and foreknowledge. ¹⁴ If he break down a thing, who can set it up again? If he shut a thing, who will open it? ¹⁵ Behold, if he withhold the waters, they dry up; If he let them go, they destroy the earth. ¹⁶ With him is strength and wisdom: he knoweth both the deceiver and him that is deceived. ¹⁷ He carrieth away the wise men, as it were a spoil, and bringeth the judges out of their wits. ¹⁸ He taketh away the subjection of the people from their kings, and girdeth their loins with a bond. ¹⁹ He leadeth away the priests into captivity, and turneth the mighty upside down. ²⁰ He taketh the verity from out of the mouth, and disappointeth the aged of their wisdom. ²¹ He poureth out confusion upon princes, and comforteth them that have been oppressed. ²² "Look: what lieth hid in darkness, he declareth it openly! And the very shadow of death bringeth he to light! ²³ He both increaseth the people and destroyeth them; He maketh them to multiply, and driveth them away. ²⁴ He changeth the heart of the princes and kings of the earth, and disapointeth them; so that they go wandering out of the way, ²⁵ and grope in the dark without light, staggering to and fro like drunken men.

²⁴ Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and wherein I have erred, cause me to understand. ²⁵ How steadfast are the words of truth! And which of you can rebuke or reprove them?

⁸ "Enquire, I pray thee, of them that have been before thee; and search diligently among thy forefathers. ⁹ For we are but of yesterday, and consider not that our days upon earth are but a very shadow. ¹⁰ They shall show thee, they shall tell thee, yea they will gladly confess the same.

² "Should not he that maketh many words, be answered? Should he that babbleth much, be commended therein?

⁶ that he might show thee out of his secret wisdom how manifold his law is! Then shouldest thou know that God had forgotten thee, because of thy sins.

¹² A vain body exalteth himself, and man, newborn, is like a wild ass's colt.

² "Should a wise man's answer be as the science of the wind, and fill his belly with the wind of the east?

⁴ Thou hast withholden their hearts from understanding, therefore shall they not be set up on high.

¹⁰ "As for you, turn you, and get you hence, I pray you - seeing I cannot see one wise man among you.

³ I have sufficiently heard thy checking and reproof; therefore am I purposed to make answer after mine understanding.

⁷ for I thought thus within myself: It becometh old men to speak, and the aged to teach wisdom. ⁸ Every man, no doubt, hath a mind; but it is the inspiration of the Almighty that giveth understanding. ⁹ Great men are not always wise, neither doth every aged man understand the thing that is lawful. ¹⁰ Therefore will I speak also, insofar as I may be heard, and will show you mine opinion. ¹¹ For when I had waited till ye made an end of your talking, and heard your wisdom, what arguments you made in your communication; ¹² Yea, when I had diligently pondered what ye said, I found not one of you that made any good argument against Job, or that directly could make answer unto his words, ¹³ lest ye should praise yourselves, to have found out wisdom: because it is God that hath cast him out, and no man.

¹¹ The rich man thinketh himself to be wise; but the poor that hath understanding, can perceive him well enough.

²¹ Woe be unto them that are wise in their own sight, and think themselves to have understanding.

¹⁰ We are fools for Christ's sake, and ye are wise through Christ: we are weak, and ye are strong. Ye are honorable, and we are despised.

⁵ This I say to your shame. Is there utterly no wise man among you? What, not one at all? That can judge between brother and brother? ⁶ That which is unsavory, shalt it be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the white of an egg? ⁷ The things that sometime I might not away withal, are now my meat for very sorrow.

² Look what ye know, that same do I know also, neither am I inferior unto you. ³ Nevertheless I am purposed to talk with the almighty, and my desire is to commune with God. ⁴ As for you, ye are workmasters of lies, and unprofitable physicians altogether. ⁵ Would God ye kept your tongue, that ye might be taken for wise men!

² "O how helpest thou the weak? What comfort givest thou unto him that hath no strength? ³ Where is the counsel that thou shouldest give him, which hath no wisdom? Wilt thou so show thine excellent righteousness? ⁴ Give not the fool an answer after his foolishness, lest thou become like unto him;

⁵ I suppose that I was not behind the chief apostles.

²¹ I speak as concerning rebuke, as though we had been weak. Howbeit, whereinsoever any man dare be bold — I speak foolishly — I dare be bold also. ²² They are Hebrews, so am I. They are Israelites, even so am I. They are the seed of Abraham, even so am I. ²³ They are the ministers of Christ — I speak as a fool — I am more: In labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prison more plenteously,

²⁹ Turn into your own selves, I pray you: be indifferent judges, and consider my guiltlessness:

³ Should men give ear unto thee only? Thou wilt laugh other men to scorn; and shall nobody mock thee again?

¹⁰ They have opened their mouths wide upon me, and smitten me upon the cheek despitefully, they have eased themselves through mine adversity.

²⁰ My friends laugh me to scorn, but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

² Froward men are with me, and mine eye must continue in the bitterness of them.

⁶ He hath made me as it were a byword of the common people. I am his jesting stock among them.

³ Suffer me a little, that I may speak also, and then laugh my words to scorn, if ye will.

¹ But now, they that are mine inferiors and younger than I, have me in derision; yea even they, whose fathers I would have thought scorn to have set with the dogs of my cattle.

⁷ All they that see me, laugh me to scorn: they shoot out their lips, and shake their heads. ⁸ "He trusted in the LORD, that he would deliver him; let him deliver him, if he will have him."

¹⁶ With the flatterers were busy mockers, who gnashed upon me with their teeth.

¹⁵ When he calleth upon me, I shall hear him: Yea I am with him in his trouble; whereout I will deliver him, and bring him to honour.

² Whoso feareth the LORD, walketh in the right path: and regardeth not him that abhorreth the ways of the LORD.

³ Thou hast cried unto me, and I have heard thee: I have showed great and high things, which were unknown unto you."

⁷ Nevertheless, I will look up unto the LORD; I will patiently abide God my saviour: my God shall hear me.

²⁹ and plaited a crown of thorns and put upon his head, and a reed in his right hand. And bowed their knees before him, and mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews,"

⁴⁰ And they laughed him to scorn. Then he put them all out, and took the father and the mother of the maiden, and them that were with him, and entered in where the maiden lay;

¹⁴ All these things heard the Pharisees also which were covetous. And they mocked him,

³² When they heard of the resurrection from death, some mocked, and others said, "We will hear thee again of this matter."

³⁶ Others tasted of mockings, and scourgings, moreover of bonds and prisonment:

³⁵ "'Vengeance is mine, and I will reward! Their feet shall slide, when the time cometh. For the time of their destruction is at hand, and the time that shall come upon them maketh haste.'

⁵ Doth the wild ass roar when he hath grass? Or crieth the ox, when he hath fodder enough?

⁴ I could speak as ye do also. But would God, that your soul were in my soul's stead: then should I heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.

⁵ Shall not the light of the ungodly be put out? Yea, the flame of his fire shall not burn.

⁵ O hold thou up my goings in thy paths: that my footsteps slip not.

¹⁸ When I said, "My foot hath slipped, thy mercy, O LORD, held me up."

³ Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we are utterly despised. ⁴ Our soul is filled with the scornful reproof of the wealthy, and with the despitefulness of the proud.

⁹ The light of the righteous maketh joyful; but the candle of the ungodly shall be put out.

²⁰ Whoso curseth his father and mother, his light shall be put out in the midst of darkness.

¹⁶ Honour the LORD your God herein, or he take his light from you, and before your feet stumble in darkness at the hill: lest when ye look for the light, he turn it into the shadow and darkness of death.

¹ O Woe be to the proud wealthy in Zion, to such as think them so sure upon the mount of Samaria: which hold themselves for the best of the world, and rule the house of Israel, even as they list. ² Go unto Calneh, and see: and from thence get you to Hamath the great city, and so go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better at ease than these kingdoms, or the border of their land wider than yours? ³ Ye are taken out for the evil day, even ye that sit in the stole of willfulness; ⁴ Ye that lie upon beds of ivory, and use your wantonness upon your couches; ye that eat the best lambs of the flock, and the fattest calves of the drove; ⁵ ye that sing to the lute, and in playing of instruments compare yourselves unto David; ⁶ ye that drink wine out of goblets, and anoint yourselves with the best oil: but no man is sorry for Joseph's hurt.

⁸ And the foolish said to the wise, 'Give us of your oil, for our lamps go out.'

¹⁹ and I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up in store for many years, take thine ease: eat, drink and be merry.'

¹⁹ "There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple, and fine bysse, and fared deliciously every day. ²⁰ And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, which lay at his gate full of sores,

²⁴ As for the world, he giveth it over into the power of the wicked; and he shall cover the faces of the judges thereof. Is it not so? Where is he - or who is he - that can show the contrary?

⁷ "Wherefore do wicked men live in health and prosperity, come to their old age, and increase in riches? ⁸ Their children's children live in their sight, and their generation before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses are safe from all fear, for the rod of God doth not smite them. ¹⁰ Their bullock gendereth, and that not out of time: their cow calveth, and is not unfruitful. ¹¹ They send forth their children by flocks, and their sons lead the dance. ¹² They bear with them tabrets and harps, and have instruments of music at their pleasure. ¹³ They spend their days in wealthiness: but suddenly, they go down to hell. ¹⁴ They say unto God, 'Go from us: we desire not the knowledge of thy ways! ¹⁵ What manner of fellow is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, to submit ourselves unto him?'

¹⁸ He filled their houses with good things. But the council of the ungodly is far from me.

¹⁴ From the men of thy hand, O LORD, from the men, I say, and from the evil world, which have their portion in this life, whose bellies thou fillest with thy hid treasure.

¹ {A Psalm of David} Fret not thyself because of the ungodly; neither be thou envious against the evil doers.

³⁵ I myself have seen the ungodly in great power, and flourishing like a green bay-tree.

¹¹ "Tush," say they, "How should God perceive it? Is there knowledge in the most high?" ¹² Lo, these are the ungodly, these prosper in the world, these have riches in possession;

²⁷ And like as a net is full of birds, so are their houses full of that which they have gotten with falsity and deceit. Hereof cometh their great substance and riches,

²⁹ Ask any man that goeth by the way, and - if ye will not regard their tokens and deeds - he shall tell you, ³⁰ that the wicked is kept unto the day of destruction, and that the ungodly shall be brought forth in the day of wrath.

⁶ Go to the Emmet, thou sluggard: consider her ways, and learn to be wise.

³ The ox knoweth his owner, and the Ass his master's crib; but Israel knoweth nothing. My people hath no understanding.

⁷ The Stork knoweth her appointed time; the Turtledove, the Swallow and the Crane consider the time of their travail: but my people will not know the time of the punishment of the LORD.

¹⁷ And beware that thou say not in thine heart, 'My power and the might of mine own hand hath done me all these acts.' ¹⁸ But remember the LORD thy God, how that it is he which gave thee power to do manfully, for to make good the covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is come to pass this day.

⁷ The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich; bringeth low, and heaveth up on high.

³ But I have understanding as well as ye, and am no less than ye. Yea who knoweth not these things?

²⁰ All this do I, that they altogether may see a mark, perceive with their hearts and consider, that the hand of the LORD maketh these things, and that the holy one of Israel bringeth them to pass.

⁵ I am he that made the earth, the men, and the cattle that are upon the ground, with my great power and outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it pleased me. ⁶ And now will I deliver all these lands into the power of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant. The beasts also of the field shall I give him to do him service.

¹⁸ O king, God the highest gave unto Nebuchadnezzar, thy father, the dignity of a king, with worship and honor:

¹⁷ Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his intercession. O let thy face shine over thy Sanctuary, that lieth waste.

³⁵ When the town clerk had ceased the people he said, "Ye men of Ephesus: what man is it that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which came from heaven?

³⁶ For of him, and through him, and for him are all things. To him be glory forever Amen.

⁵ Hearken, my dear beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world, which are rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he promised to them that love him? ⁶ But ye have despised the poor. Are not the rich they which oppress you: and they which draw you before judges? ⁷ Do not they speak evil of that good name after which ye be named?

⁷ Then the LORD God shope man, even of the mold of the earth, and breathed into his face the breath of life. So man was made a living soul.

¹⁷ For behold, I will bring in a flood of water upon the earth to destroy all flesh from under heaven, wherein breath of life is, so that all that is in the earth shall perish.

²² And they fell upon their faces, and said, "O most mighty God of the spirits of all flesh; one man hath sinned, and wilt thou be wroth with all the multitude?"

³ My lips shall talk of no vanity, and my tongue shall speak no deceit,

⁴ The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the almighty hath given me my life.

¹⁴ To whom hath he given his heart, for to draw his spirit and breath unto him? ¹⁵ All flesh shall come together unto naught, and all men shall turn again unto earth.

²⁹ But when thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; when thou takest away their breath, they die, and are turned again to their dust.

³ O put not your trust in princes, nor in any child of man, for there is no help in them. ⁴ For when the breath of man goeth forth, he shall turn again to his earth, and so all his thoughts perish.

²³ but hast magnified thyself above the LORD of heaven, so that the vessels of his house were brought before thee: that thou, and thy lords, with thy queen and concubines, might drink wine thereout: and hast praised the Idols of silver and gold, copper and iron, of wood and stone. As for the God in whose hand consisteth thy breath and all thy ways: thou hast not loved him.

⁶ That which is born of the flesh, is flesh. And that which is born of the spirit, is spirit.

²⁵ neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed of any thing. Seeing he himself giveth life and breath to all men everywhere,

²⁸ For in him we live, move, and have our being, as certain of your own poets said. For we are also his generation.

³⁰ whether there be any unrighteousness in my tongue, or vain words in my mouth.

³ For like as the mouth tasteth the meats, so the ear proveth and discerneth the words.

¹⁵ I speak as unto them which have discretion: judge ye what I say.

¹⁰ that ye might accept things most excellent, that ye might be pure and such as should hurt no man's conscience, until the day of Christ;

¹⁴ But strong meat belongeth to them that are perfect, which through custom have their wits exercised, to judge both good and evil also.

³ If so be that ye have tasted how pleasant the Lord is,

⁸ "Enquire, I pray thee, of them that have been before thee; and search diligently among thy forefathers.

¹⁰ With us are old and aged men; yea, such as have lived longer than thy forefathers.

⁷ for I thought thus within myself: It becometh old men to speak, and the aged to teach wisdom.

⁴ He is wise of heart, and mighty in strength. Who ever prospered that took part against him?

¹⁶ With him is strength and wisdom: he knoweth both the deceiver and him that is deceived.

²⁰ "From where then cometh wisdom? And where is the place of understanding? ²¹ She is hid from the eyes of all men; yea, and from the fouls of the air. ²² Destruction and death say, 'We have heard tell of her with our ears.' ²³ But God seeth her way, and knoweth her place. ²⁴ For he holdeth the ends of the world and looketh upon all that is under the heaven. ²⁵ When he weighed the winds, and measured the waters; ²⁶ When he set the rain in order, and gave the mighty floods a law; ²⁷ Then did he see her, then declared he her, prepared her and knew her. ²⁸ And unto man he said, 'Behold, to fear the LORD is wisdom: and to forsake evil, is understanding.'"

⁶ So that he gave answer himself, and said, "Considering that I am young, and ye be men of age, I was afraid, and durst not show forth my mind, ⁷ for I thought thus within myself: It becometh old men to speak, and the aged to teach wisdom. ⁸ Every man, no doubt, hath a mind; but it is the inspiration of the Almighty that giveth understanding. ⁹ Great men are not always wise, neither doth every aged man understand the thing that is lawful.

⁵ "Behold, God casteth not away the mighty, for he himself is mighty in power and wisdom.

³⁶ Who giveth sure wisdom or steadfast understanding?

⁵ Great is our LORD, and great is his power: yea, and his wisdom is infinite.

⁶ For it is the LORD that giveth wisdom, out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. ⁷ He preserveth the welfare of the righteous, and defendeth them that walk innocently;

¹⁴ I can give counsel, and be a guide: I have understanding, I have strength.

¹³ Who hath reformed the mind of the LORD? Or who is of his counsel to teach him? ¹⁴ At whom hath he asked counsel, to make him understand, and to learn him the way of judgment: to teach him science: and to instruct him in the way of understanding?

¹⁰ In the beginning of a thing, I show the end thereof: and I tell before, things that are not yet come to pass. With one word is my device accomplished, and fulfilleth all my pleasure.

¹² But as for our God, he made the earth with his power, and with his wisdom hath he finished the whole compass of the world; with his discretion hath he spread out the heavens.

²⁰ Daniel also cried aloud, and said, "O that the name of God might be praised for ever and ever, for wisdom and strength are his own!

¹⁵ For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, where against all your adversaries shall not be able to speak nor resist.

³⁴ For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who was his counselor?

²⁴ But unto them which are called, both of Jews and Greeks, we preach Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

⁸ which grace he shed on us abundantly in all wisdom, and prudence.

¹¹ in whom we are made heirs, and were thereto predestinate according to the purpose of him which worketh all things after the purpose of his own will:

³ in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

⁵ If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, which giveth to all men indifferently and casteth no man in the teeth; and it shall be given him.

⁴⁶ This day shall the LORD deliver thee into my hand, and I shall smite thee and take thine head from thee, and will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air and to the beasts of the earth — and all the world shall know that there is a God in Israel.

¹⁸ And thou hast showed this day how that thou hast dealt lovingly with me: forasmuch as when the LORD had locked me in thine hands, thou slewest me not.

⁸ The said Abishai to David, "God hath closed in thine enemy unto thine hand this day. Now therefore let me smite him a fellowship with my spear to the earth, even one stroke, and I will not smite him the second time."

¹² If he be hasty to take anything away, who will make him restore it again? Who will say unto him, 'What doest thou?' ¹³ He is God, whose wrath no man may withstand: but the proudest of all must stoop under him.

¹⁰ Though he turn all things upside down, close them in, or thrust them together, who dare check him therefore?

¹¹ God hath given me over to the ungodly, and delivered me into the hands of the wicked.

¹⁰ He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am undone: My hope hath he taken away from me, as it were a tree plucked up by the root.

⁷ He sendeth fear upon every man, that they might know their own works.

²³ and will give it to the Otters, and will make water puddles of it. and I will sweep them out with the broom of destruction, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

²² I will also lay the key of David's house upon his shoulders, and if he open, no man shall shut: and if he do shut, no man shall open.

² Thou makest of towns, heaps of stone; and of head

⁵⁸ "Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts: The thick wall of Babylon shall be broken, and her proud gates shall be burnt up. And the thing that the Gentiles and the people have wrought with great travail and labour shall come to naught and be consumed in the fire."

⁶⁴ and say, 'Even thus shall Babylon sink, and be thrust down with the burden of trouble that I will bring upon her: so that she shall never come up again.'" Thus far are the preachings of Jeremiah.

⁴ And though Edom said, "Well, we are destroyed, we will go build up again the places that be wasted": yet sayeth the LORD of Hosts, "What they builded, that brake I down: so that it was called a cursed land and people, whom the LORD hath ever been angry withal."

³² God hath wrapped all nations in unbelief, that he might have mercy on all.

⁷ "And write unto the tidings-bringer of the congregation of Philadelphia, 'This saith he that is holy and true, which hath the key of David; which openeth and no man shutteth, and shutteth and no man openeth.

¹³ Then said God to Noah, "The end of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is full of their mischief. And lo, I will destroy them with the earth.

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, that same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened,

¹⁷ and then the wrath of the LORD wax hot upon you and shut up the heaven that there be no rain and that your land yield not her fruit, and that ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.

³⁵ If heaven be shut up, that there be no rain, because they have sinned against thee: yet if they pray in this place and praise thy name and turn from their sins, through thy scourging of them: ³⁶ then hear thou up to heaven, and be merciful unto the sin of thy servants and of thy people Israel, that thou show them a good way to walk in, and give rain upon thy land that thou hast given unto thy people to inherit.

¹ And Elijah the Tishbite, which was of the inhabiters of Gilead, said unto Ahab, "As truly as the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, save as I appoint it."

¹⁰ In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all men.

⁷ But at thy rebuke they flee, at the voice of thy thunder they are afraid. ⁸ Then are the hills seen aloft, and the valleys beneath — in their place which thou hast appointed for them. ⁹ Thou hast set them their bounds, which they may not pass, that they turn not again to cover the earth.

²² Are there any among the gods of the Gentiles, that send rain or give the showers of heaven? Dost not thou it, O LORD our God, in whom we trust? Yea LORD, thou dost all these things."

⁸ Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into morning and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: the LORD is his name.

⁴ When he reproveth the sea, he drieth it up, and turneth all the floods to dry land. Bashan is desolate, Carmel and the pleasure of Lebanon wasteth away.

²⁵ But I tell you of a truth, Many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when heaven was shut three years and six months, when great famishment was throughout all the land;

¹⁷ Elijah was a man, mortal even as we are, and he prayed in his prayer, that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. ¹⁸ And again he prayed, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

⁶ These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophesying: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all manner plagues, as often as they will.

²² And he said, 'I will go out and be a false spirit in the mouths of all Prophets.' And the LORD said, 'Thou shalt deceive him and also prevail, go forth and do even so.' ²³ Now therefore behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy Prophets: when in very deed the LORD hath spoken evil toward thee."

¹³ Yea, with God is wisdom and strength - it is he that hath counsel and foreknowledge.

⁷ Will ye make an answer for God with lies, and maintain him with deceit?

⁹ Shall that help you, when he calleth you to reckoning? Think ye to beguile him, as a man is beguiled?

⁹ And if that Prophet be deceived, when he telleth him a word: then I the LORD myself have deceived that Prophet, and will stretch forth mine hand upon him, to root him out of my people of Israel:

¹³ Lead us not into temptation: but deliver us from evil, For thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory for ever. Amen.

³¹ And one told David, saying, "Ahithophel is one of them that have conspired with Absalom." Then said David, "O LORD, turn the counsel of Ahithophel unto foolishness."

¹⁴ And Absalom and all the men of Israel said that the counsel of Hushai the Archite was better than the counsel of Ahithophel — For it was even the LORD's determination to destroy the counsel of Ahithophel, which was good, that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.

²³ And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass and arose and gat him home to his own house and to his own city, and put his household in order and hanged himself and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

¹⁴ like as the kings and lords of the earth, which build themselves special places:

¹² I am come of the old regal Progeny"? Where are they? Where are now thy wise men? Let them tell thee, if they can, what the LORD of Hosts hath taken in hand against Egypt. ¹³ The princes of Zoan are become fools, and the princes of Noph are deceived: yea, they deceive Egypt with their nobility of their stock. ¹⁴ For the LORD hath made Egypt drunken with the spirit of error, and they shall use it in all matters: even like as a drunken man goeth spewing about.

¹⁴ therefore will I also show unto this people a marvelous, terrible, and great thing - Namely this: I will destroy the wisdom of their wise, and the understanding of their learned men shall perish."

¹⁹ For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and will cast away the understanding of the prudent." ²⁰ Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the searcher of this world? Hath not God made the wisdom of this world foolishness?

¹¹ Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the Captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh in a hold and bound him with chains and carried him to Babylon. ¹² And when he was in tribulation he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself exceedingly before the God of his fathers, ¹³ and made intercession to him: and he was entreated of him and heard his prayer and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. And then Manasseh knew how that the LORD was very God. ¹⁴ After that, he built a wall without the city of David on the west side of Gihon in the brook and so forth to the fish gate and round about Ophel, and brought it up of a very great height, and put captains of war in all the strong cities of Judah.

¹⁶ Behold, O LORD, how that I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid. Thou hast broken my bonds in sunder.

³¹ In the thirty seventh year after that Jehoiachin the king of Judah was carried away in the twenty fifth day of the twelfth Month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, the same year that he reigned, gave Jehoiachin the king of Judah his pardon, and let him out of prison, ³² and spake lovingly to him. And set his throne above the thrones of the other kings that were with him in Babylon. ³³ He changed also the clothes of his prison; yea, and he ate with him all his life long. ³⁴ And he had a continual living given him of the king of Babylon; every day a certain thing allowed him all the days of his life, until he died.

²¹ He changeth the times and ages; he putteth down kings, he setteth up kings; he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and understanding to those that understand;

¹⁶ And hath on his vesture and on his thigh, a name written, "King of Kings, and Lord of lords."

²⁴ And when they had brought out those kings unto Joshua: Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the captains of the men of war, which came with him, "Come near and put your feet upon the necks of these kings." And they came near and put their feet upon the necks of them.

⁴² And all those kings and their land, Joshua took at one time: because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.

⁴⁵ Then said David to the Philistine, "Thou comest to me with a sword, a spear, and a shield: But I come to thee in the name of the LORD of Hosts, the God of the host of Israel whom thou hast railed upon. ⁴⁶ This day shall the LORD deliver thee into my hand, and I shall smite thee and take thine head from thee, and will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air and to the beasts of the earth — and all the world shall know that there is a God in Israel.

²² They pluck down the mighty with their power, and when they themselves are gotten up, they are never without fear, as long as they live.

²⁸ Insomuch that they have caused the voice of the poor to come unto him, and now he heareth the complaint of such as are in necessity.

⁹ "There is a great cry and complaint made by them that are oppressed with violence; yea, every man complaineth upon the cruel arm of tyrants.

³⁶ Thus the angel went forth, and slew of the Assyrians host, a hundred and eighty five thousand. And when men arose up early, at Jerusalem: Behold, all lay full of dead bodies. ³⁷ So Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians brake up, and dwelt at Nineveh. ³⁸ Afterward it chanced, as he prayed in the temple of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer, his own sons, slew him with the sword, and fled into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned after him.

¹ Thus sayeth the LORD unto Cyrus his anointed, whom I have taken by the righthand, to subdue nations before him: I will loose the girdles of kings, that they shall open the gates before thy face, and not to shut their doors.

¹⁴ These shall fight with the lamb, and the lamb shall overcome them: For he is Lord of Lords, and King of Kings: and they that are on his side, are called, and chosen, and faithful."

¹⁹ And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth, and their warriors gathered together to make battle against him that sat on the horse and against his soldiers. ²⁰ And the beast was taken, and with him that false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that received the beast's mark, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast into a pond of fire burning with brimstone: ²¹ and the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth, and all the fowls were fulfilled with their flesh.

²⁴ He changeth the heart of the princes and kings of the earth, and disapointeth them; so that they go wandering out of the way,

⁹ Great men are not always wise, neither doth every aged man understand the thing that is lawful.

¹⁷ And that because God hath taken wisdom from her, and hath not given her understanding.

²¹ The lips of the righteous feed a whole multitude; but fools shall die in their own folly.

¹⁹ A true mouth is ever constant; but a dissembling tongue is soon changed.

²² The LORD abhoreth deceitful lips; but they that labour for truth please him.

¹ For lo, shall the LORD God of Hosts doth take away from Jerusalem and Judah all possessions and power, all meat and drink, ² the captain and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the wise and the aged man, ³ the captain of fifty and the honorable, the senators and men of understanding, the masters of crafts and orators.

² If thou wilt not let them go, behold: I will smite all thy land with frogs.

²⁴ And they laid it up till the morning as Moses bade, and it stank not, neither was there any worms therein.

²³ And thereto against Jezebel came the word of the LORD, saying, "Dogs shall eat Jezebel, under the walls of Jezreel. ²⁴ And he that dieth of Ahab in the town, him shall dogs eat: and he that dieth in the fields, him shall the fowls of the air eat."

²⁶ 'I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth and of his sons,' said the LORD, 'and I will quite him in this ground,' sayeth the LORD. Now therefore take him and cast him in the plot of ground according to the word of the LORD."

³⁴ And then when he was come in and had eaten and drunk, he said, "Go and visit, I pray you, yonder cursed creature; and bury her, for she is a king's daughter." ³⁵ And when they came to bury her, they found no more of her, than the skull and the two feet and the two hands. ³⁶ And they came again and told him. And he said, "It is the word of the LORD which he spake by the hand of his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 'In the field of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel, ³⁷ and the carcass of Jezebel shall be dung upon the earth, in the field of Jezreel, that men shall not say, this is Jezebel.'"

⁴⁰ though he suffer them to be evil-entreated through tyrants, or let them wander out of the way in the wilderness,

²⁷ There is not one faint or feeble among them, no not a sluggish nor slippery person. There shall not one of them put off the girdle from his loins, nor loose the latchet of his shoe.

⁵ And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

²¹ and array him with thy coat, and gird him with thy girdle, and I will give thy power into his hand. He shall be a father of the citizens of Jerusalem, and of the kindred of Judah.

⁹ Even the LORD of Hosts hath devised it, that he may put down all pomp, and minish all the Glory of the world.

²¹ At in that day shall the LORD muster together the high host above, and the kings of the world upon the earth. ²² These shall be coupled together as prisoners be, and shall be shut up in one ward and punished innumerable days.

³⁸ Afterward it chanced, as he prayed in the temple of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer, his own sons, slew him with the sword, and fled into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned after him.

²¹ He changeth the times and ages; he putteth down kings, he setteth up kings; he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and understanding to those that understand; ²² he openeth the deep secrets; he knoweth the thing that lieth in darkness, for the light dwelleth with him.

³² Thou shalt be cast out of men's company: thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, so that thou shalt eat grass like as an ox, till seven years be come and gone over thee: even until thou knowest, that the highest hath power upon the kingdoms of men, and that he may give them, unto whom it pleaseth him.'" ³³ The very same hour was this matter fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: so that he was cast out of men's company, and ate grass like an ox; His body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were as great as Eagle's feathers, and his nails like bird's claws.

¹² And after they were warned of God in a dream that they should not go again to Herod, they returned into their own country another way. ¹³ When they were departed, Behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream saying,. "Arise, and take the child and his mother, and fly into Egypt, and abide there till I bring thee word: For Herod will seek the child to destroy him."

²³ And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the honour, and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.

¹⁰ Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

¹⁴ Stand, therefore, and your loins gird about with verity, having on the breastplate of righteousness,

¹² And one of his servants said, "Nay, my lord king: Elisha the prophet that is in Israel, he telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy sleeping chamber."

⁵ but let it be stained with darkness, and the shadow of death. Let the dim cloud fall upon it, and let it be lapped in with sorrow.

¹⁷ For as soon as the day breaketh, the shadow of death cometh upon them, and they go in horrible darkness.

²⁰ "From where then cometh wisdom? And where is the place of understanding? ²¹ She is hid from the eyes of all men; yea, and from the fouls of the air. ²² Destruction and death say, 'We have heard tell of her with our ears.' ²³ But God seeth her way, and knoweth her place.

²² There is no darkness, nor thick shadow, that can hide the wicked doers from him.

²¹ should not God find it out? For he knoweth the very secrets of the heart.

¹² Yea, the darkness is no darkness with thee, but the night is as clear as the day; the darkness and light are both alike.

²² he openeth the deep secrets; he knoweth the thing that lieth in darkness, for the light dwelleth with him.

²⁶ Fear them not therefore: there is nothing so close, that shall not be opened; and nothing so secret, that shall not be known.

⁷⁹ To give light to them that sat in darkness, and in shadow of death, and to guide our feet into the way of peace."

¹⁰ But God hath opened them unto us by his spirit. For the spirit searcheth all things, yea the bottom of God's secrets.

⁵ Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, which will lighten things that are hid in darkness: and open the counsels of the hearts. And then shall every man have praise of God.

⁷ the children of Israel grew, increased, multiplied and waxed exceeding mighty: so that the land was full of them.

²⁰ And God therefore dealt well with the midwives. And the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty,

³⁸ He blesseth them, so that they multiply exceedingly, and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.

³ Shalt thou multiply the people, and not increase the joy also? They shall rejoice before thee even as men make merry in harvest, and as men that have gotten the victory, when they deal the spoil.

¹⁵ Again, thou increasest the people, O LORD, thou increasest the people. Thou shalt be praised and magnified in all the ends of the world.

⁶ It will come to this point, that Jacob shall be rooted again, and Israel shall be green, and bear flowers, and they shall fill the whole world with their fruit.

² Look unto Abraham your father and unto Sarah that bare you: how I called him only, and blessed him and multiplied him.

²² The youngest and least shall grow into a thousand, and the simplest into a strong people. I the LORD shall shortly bring this thing to pass in his time.

¹⁹ And out of them shall go thanksgiving, and the voice of joy. I will multiply them, and they shall not diminish: I shall endue them with honour, and no man shall subdue them.

²² For like as the stars of heaven may not be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and of the Levites my ministers."

⁸ I will blow for them and gather them together, for I will redeem them. They shall increase, as they increased afore.

²⁰ He taketh the verity from out of the mouth, and disappointeth the aged of their wisdom.

⁴ They went astray in the wilderness in an untrodden way, and found no city to dwell in.

⁹ And so he said, "Go, and tell this people: 'Ye shall hear indeed, but ye shall not understand; ye shall plainly see, and not perceive. ¹⁰ Harden the heart of this people, stop their ears, and shut their eyes, that they see not with their eyes, hear not with their ears, and understand not with their heart, and convert and be healed."

¹ This is the heavy burden upon Egypt: Behold, the LORD will ride upon a swift cloud, and come into Egypt. And the idols of Egypt shall tremble at his coming, and the heart of Egypt shall quake within her.

¹⁶ That man's heart of his shall be taken from him, and a beast's heart shall be given him, till seven years be come and gone upon him.

³³ The very same hour was this matter fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: so that he was cast out of men's company, and ate grass like an ox; His body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were as great as Eagle's feathers, and his nails like bird's claws.

¹¹ Ephraim is like a dove, that is beguiled, and hath no heart. Now call they upon the Egyptians, now go they to the Assyrians:

¹¹ And the men that were at the door of the house, they smote with blindness — both small and great, so that they could not find the door.

²⁹ And thou shalt grope at noonday as the blind gropeth in darkness, and shalt not come to the right way. And thou shalt suffer violence and wrong all thy life long, and no man shall help thee.

¹⁴ Insomuch that they run into darkness by fair day, and grope about them at the noonday, like as in the night.

²⁷ They reel to and fro, they stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

¹⁴ For the LORD hath made Egypt drunken with the spirit of error, and they shall use it in all matters: even like as a drunken man goeth spewing about.

²⁰ The earth shall stagger like a drunkard, to and fro; and be taken away like a tent. Her misdeeds shall lie so heavy upon her, that she must fall, and never rise up again.

¹⁰ We grope like the blind upon the wall, we grope even as one that hath none eyes. We stumble at the noonday, as though it were toward night; in the falling places, like men that are half dead.

¹¹ And now behold the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind and not see the sun for a season." And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; And he went about, seeking them that should lead him by the hand.

¹¹ And he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness; and knoweth not whither he goeth, for darkness hath blinded his eyes.