Job 13 Cross References - MSTC

¹ Lo, all this have I seen with mine eye, heard with mine ear, and understand it. 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! ⁶ Therefore hear my words, and ponder the sentence of my lips. ⁷ Will ye make an answer for God with lies, and maintain him with deceit? ⁸ Will ye accept the person of God, or will ye contend with him? ⁹ Shall that help you, when he calleth you to reckoning? Think ye to beguile him, as a man is beguiled? ¹⁰ He shall punish you, and reprove you, if ye do secretly accept any person. ¹¹ Shall he not make you afraid, when he showeth himself? Shall not his terrible face fall upon you? ¹² Your remembrance shall be like unto the dust, and your pride shall be turned to clay. ¹³ "Hold your tongues now, and let me speak, for there is something come into my mind. ¹⁴ Wherefore do I bear my flesh in my teeth, and put my soul in my hands? ¹⁵ Lo, though he slay me, yet will I put my trust in him. But if I shew and reprove mine own ways in his sight, ¹⁶ he shall make me whole: And why? There may no hypocrite come before him. ¹⁷ Hear my words, and ponder my sayings with your ears. ¹⁸ Behold, now have I prepared my judgment, and know that I shall be found righteous. ¹⁹ What is he that will go to law with me? For if I hold my tongue, I shall die. ²⁰ Nevertheless, grant me two things, and then will I not hide myself from thee. ²¹ Withdraw thine hand from me, and let not the fearful dread of thee make me afraid. ²² And then send for me to the law, that I may answer for myself: or else, let me speak, and give thou the answer. ²³ "How great are my misdeeds and sins? Let me know my transgressions and offenses. ²⁴ Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? ²⁵ Wilt thou be so cruel and extreme unto a flying leaf, and follow upon dry stubble? ²⁶ For thou layest sharply to my charge, and punisheth me, for the sins of my youth. ²⁷ Thou hast put my foot in the stocks: thou lookest narrowly unto all my paths, and markest the steps of my feet. ²⁸ Whereas I, notwithstanding, must consume like as a foul carrion, and as a cloth that is moth eaten.

¹² "And unto me came the word secretly, and mine ear hath received a little thereof.

⁹ which doeth things, that are unsearchable, and marvelous without number. ¹⁰ Which giveth rain upon the earth, and poureth water upon all things; ¹¹ which setteth up them of low degree, and sendeth prosperity to those that are in heaviness; ¹² Which destroyeth the devices of the subtle, so that they are not able to perform the things that they take in hand; ¹³ which compasseth the wise in their own craftiness, and overthroweth the counsel of the wicked. ¹⁴ Insomuch that they run into darkness by fair day, and grope about them at the noonday, like as in the night. ¹⁵ And so he delivereth the poor from the sword, from the threatenings of the ungodly, and from the hand of the cruel; ¹⁶ that the poor may have hope, and that the mouth of the oppressor may be stopped.

²⁷ Lo, this we ourselves have proved by experience, and even this it is. Hearken thou to it also, that thou mayest take heed to thyself."

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.

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.

¹⁷ "I will tell thee; hear me. I will show thee a thing, that I know; ¹⁸ which wise men have told, and hath not been hid from their fathers:

³ For who can keep his own counsel so secret, but it shall be known? Therefore have I spoken unwisely, seeing these things are so high, and pass mine understanding. ⁴ O hearken thou unto me also, and let me speak: answer me unto the thing that I will ask thee. ⁵ I have given diligent ear unto thee, and now I see thee with mine eyes. ⁶ Wherefore I give mine own self the blame, and take repentance in the dust and ashes."

³ which we have heard and known, and such as our fathers have told us, ⁴ that we should not hide them from the children of the generations to come but to show the honour of the LORD, his mighty and wonderful works that he hath done.

³ That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye may have fellowship with us, and that our fellowship may be with the father, and his son Jesus Christ.

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

⁸ Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God, that all wisdom is too little for thee? ⁹ What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, but we can the same?

³⁵ As for Job he hath neither spoken to the purpose nor wisely.

¹⁶ Therefore hath Job opened his mouth but in vain, and foolishly hath he made so many words."

² Hear then the sound of his voice, and the noise that goeth out of his mouth.

⁴ "Behold, I am too vile a person to answer thee, therefore will I lay my hand upon my mouth. ⁵ Once or twice have I spoken, but I will say no more."

⁷ Now when the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, he said unto Eliphaz the Temanite, "I am displeased with thee and thy two friends, for ye have not spoken the thing that is right before me, like as my servant Job hath done.

¹ To speak of things dedicated unto idols, we are sure that we all have knowledge. Knowledge maketh a man swell: but love edifieth. ² If any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

⁴ For if he that cometh to you preach another Jesus than him whom we preached, or if ye receive another spirit than that which ye have received, either another gospel than that ye have received; ye might right well have been content. ⁵ I suppose that I was not behind the chief apostles.

¹⁶ I say again, lest any man think that I am foolish: or else even now take me as a fool, that I may boast myself a little. ¹⁷ That I speak, I speak it not after the ways of the Lord: but as it were foolishly, while we are now come to boasting. ¹⁸ Seeing that many rejoice after the flesh, I will rejoice also.

¹¹ I am made a fool in boasting myself. Ye have compelled me: I ought to have been commended of you. For in nothing was I inferior unto the chief apostles, though I be nothing:

³ If he will argue with him, he shall not be able to answer him unto one among a thousand.

¹⁴ How should I then answer him? Or what words should I find out against him? ¹⁵ Yea though I be righteous, yet will I not give him one word again, but meekly submit myself to my judge.

³⁴ Let him take his rod away from me; yea, let him make me no more afraid of him, ³⁵ and then shall I answer him without any fear. For as long as I am in such fearfulness, I can make no answer: And why?

⁵ O that God would speak, and open his lips against thee,

¹⁵ Lo, though he slay me, yet will I put my trust in him. But if I shew and reprove mine own ways in his sight,

²² And then send for me to the law, that I may answer for myself: or else, let me speak, and give thou the answer.

³ O that I might see him and find him: O that I might come before his seat, ⁴ to plead my cause before him, and to fill my mouth with arguments: ⁵ That I might know, what answer he would give me: and that I might understand, what he would say unto me. ⁶ Will he plead against me with his great power and strength? No, but he will make me the stronger. ⁷ He that is just shall enter disputation with him, and my judge shall deliver me forever.

³⁵ O that I had one which would hear me. Lo, this is my cause: Let the almighty give me answer, and let him that is my contrary party, sue me with libel.

¹⁸ And so though your sins be like to purple, they shall be made as white as snow; and though they be as red as scarlet, they shall be made like white wool. ¹⁹ If ye will agree and hearken, ye shall eat the best of the land, saith the LORD God. ²⁰ But if ye be obstinate and rebellious, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for thus the LORD hath promised with his own mouth.

²¹ Stand at your cause, sayeth the LORD, and bring forth your strongest ground, counseleth the King of Jacob.

¹ O LORD, thou art more righteous than that I should dispute with thee: Nevertheless, let me talk with thee in things reasonable. How happeneth it, that the way of the ungodly is so prosperous? And that it goeth so well with them, which without any shame offend and live in wickedness? ² Thou plantest them, they take root, they grow, and bring forth fruit. They boast much of thee, yet doest thou not punish them.

² O hear the punishment of the LORD, ye mountains, and ye mighty foundations of the earth: for the LORD will reprove his people, and reason with Israel.

¹⁶ "Thou shalt bear no false witness against thy neighbor.

⁷ "Consider, I pray thee: who ever perished being an innocent? Or, when were the godly destroyed? ⁸ For, as I have proved by experience, they that plow iniquity and sow wretchedness, reap the same. ⁹ With the blast of God they perish, and with the breath of his anger are they consumed away. ¹⁰ The roaring of the lion, the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the lion's whelps are broken. ¹¹ The lion perisheth, for lack of prey, and the lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

¹ Name me one else, if thou can find any: yea, look about thee upon any of the holy men. ² As for the foolish man, displeasure killeth him; and anger slayeth the ignorant. ³ I have seen myself, when the foolish was deep rooted, that his beauty was suddenly destroyed, ⁴ that his children were without prosperity or health; that they were slain in the door, and no man to deliver them; ⁵ that his harvest was eaten up of the hungry; that the weaponed man had spoiled it, and that the thirsty had drunk up his riches.

²¹ Even so are ye also come unto me: but now that ye see my misery, ye are afraid.

³ Doth God pervert the thing that is lawful? Or, doth the Almighty destroy the thing that is right? ⁴ When thy sons sinned against him, did not he punish them for their wickedness?

² "I have oft times heard such things. Miserable givers of comfort are ye, all the sort of you.

⁵ Shall not the light of the ungodly be put out? Yea, the flame of his fire shall not burn. ⁶ The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his candle shall be put out with him. ⁷ His presumptuous goings shall be kept in, and his own counsel shall cast him down. ⁸ For his feet shall be taken in the net, and he is at his wits end. ⁹ His foot shall be holden in the gilder, and the thirsty shall catch him. ¹⁰ The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a pitfall in the way. ¹¹ "Fearfulness shall make him afraid on every side, that he shall not know where to get out. ¹² Hunger shall be his substance, and misfortune shall hang upon him. ¹³ He shall eat the strength of his own skin; the firstborn of death shall eat his members. ¹⁴ All his comfort and hope shall be rooted out of his dwelling, and shall bring him unto the king of fear. ¹⁵ Other men shall dwell in his house - which now is none of his - and brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. ¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his harvest be cut down. ¹⁷ His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and his name shall not be praised in the streets: ¹⁸ he shall be driven from the light into darkness, and cast clean out of the world. ¹⁹ He shall neither have children nor kinfolks among his people, no nor any posterity in his country: ²⁰ young and old shall be astonished at his death. ²¹ Such are now the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God."

²⁷ "But I know what ye think; yea, and what ye imagine against me unrighteously. ²⁸ For ye say, 'Where is the prince's palace? Where is the dwelling of the ungodly? 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. ³¹ Who dare reprove him for his ways to his face? Who rewardeth him for the ungraciousness that he doth? ³² Yet shall he be brought to his grave, and dwell among the heap of the dead. ³³ Then shall he be fain to be buried among the stones by the brookside. All men must follow him, and there are innumerable gone before him. ³⁴ How vain, then, is the comfort that ye give me? Are not your answers clean contrary to right and truth?"

⁶ Thou hast taken the pledge from thy brethren for naught, and robbed the naked of their clothing; ⁷ To such as were weary, hast thou given no water to drink, and thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry. ⁸ Should such one then as useth violence, wrong and oppression, doing all things of partiality, and having respect of persons, dwell in the land? ⁹ Thou hast sent widows away empty and oppressed the poor fatherless. ¹⁰ Therefore art thou compassed about with snares on every side, and suddenly vexed with fear. ¹¹ Shouldest thou then see no darkness? Should not the water flood run over thee? ¹² Now because that God is higher than the heavens, and because thou seest the stars are so high, ¹³ wilt thou therefore say, 'Tush, how should God know? Doth his dominion reach beyond the clouds? ¹⁴ Tush, the clouds cover him that he may not see, for he dwelleth in heaven.' ¹⁵ "Well, thou wilt keep the old way, that all wicked men have gone: ¹⁶ which were cut down out of time, and whose foundation was as a running water, ¹⁷ which said unto God, 'Go from us.' And what did the Almighty do with them? ¹⁸ He filled their houses with good things. But the council of the ungodly is far from me. ¹⁹ For with joy shall the godly, and with gladness shall the innocent, ²⁰ see that their increase shall be hewn down, and their posterity consumed with fire. ²¹ "Therefore reconcile thee unto God, and be content, so shall all things prosper with thee right well. ²² Receive the law at his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart. ²³ For if thou wilt turn to the Almighty, thou shalt stand fast, and all unrighteousness shall be far from thy dwelling: ²⁴ He shall give thee a harvest, which in plenty and abundance shall exceed the dust of the earth, and the gold of Ophir like river stones. ²⁵ Yea, the Almighty his own self shall be thine harvest, and the heap of thy money. ²⁶ Then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and lift up thy face unto God. ²⁷ Then shalt thou make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt keep thy promises. ²⁸ Then, look what thou takest in hand: he shall make it to prosper with thee, and the light shall shine in thy ways. ²⁹ For who so humbleth himself, him shall he set up: and who so looketh meekly, shall be healed. ³⁰ If thou be innocent, he shall save thee: and through the unguiltiness of thine hands shalt thou be delivered."

⁶⁹ The proud imagine lies upon me, but I keep thy commandments with my whole heart.

¹⁴ And beside that, they heal the hurt of my people with sweet words, saying, 'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace at all.

²² for there is no more treacle at Gilead, and there is no Physician, that can heal the hurt of my people.

³² Behold, here am I, sayeth the LORD, against those prophets that dare prophesy lies, and deceive my people with their vanities, and miracles, whom I never sent, nor commanded them. They shall do this people great harm, sayeth the LORD.

¹³ There is no man to meddle with thy cause, or to bind up thy wounds: there may no man help thee.

¹¹ Go up, O Gilead, and bring treacle unto the daughter of Egypt: But in vain shalt thou go to surgery, for thy wound shalt not be stopped.

⁴ The weak have ye not holden up, the sick have ye not healed: the broken have ye not bound together, the outcasts have ye not brought again. The lost have ye not sought, but churlishly and cruelly have ye ruled them.

¹³ When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his disease: Ephraim went unto Assyria, and sent unto king Jareb: yet could not he help you, nor ease you of your pain.

¹⁷ When Jesus heard that, he said unto them, "The whole have no need of the Physician: but the sick. I came not to call the righteous, but the sinners to repentance."

²⁶ and had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and felt none amendment at all: But waxed worse and worse.

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

¹³ "Hold your tongues now, and let me speak, for there is something come into my mind.

³ Shall not thy vain words come yet to an end? Or, hast thou yet any more to say?

² "When will ye make an end of your words? Mark well, and consider, we will speak also.

² "How long will ye vex my mind, and trouble me with words?

² "O hear my words, and amend yourselves. ³ Suffer me a little, that I may speak also, and then laugh my words to scorn, if ye will.

¹ So these three men would strive no more with Job, because he held himself a righteous man.

²⁸ Yea, a very fool, when he holdeth his tongue, is counted wise; and to have understanding, when he shutteth his lips.

³ For where much carefulness is, there are many dreams: and where many words are, there men may hear fools.

¹³ Therefore the wise must now be fain to hold his tongue, so wicked a time is it.

¹⁹ Wherefore, dear brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.

⁷ And when it was told Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lift up his voice and called, and said unto them, "Hearken unto me you citizens of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.

¹ Therefore hear my words, O Job, and hearken unto all that I will say: ² Behold, I will open my mouth, and my tongue shall speak out of my jaws. ³ My heart shall order my words aright, and my lips shall talk of pure wisdom.

² "Hear my words, O ye wise men: hearken unto me, ye that have understanding.

⁶ Give ear, for I will speak of great matters, and open my lips to tell things that be right. ⁷ For my throat shall be talking of the truth, and my lips abhor ungodliness.

⁷ "Consider, I pray thee: who ever perished being an innocent? Or, when were the godly destroyed?

² "Should not he that maketh many words, be answered? Should he that babbleth much, be commended therein? ³ Should men give ear unto thee only? Thou wilt laugh other men to scorn; and shall nobody mock thee again? ⁴ Wilt thou say unto God, 'The thing that I take in hand is perfect, and I am clean in thy sight'?

⁵ He promiseth his friends part of his good, but his own children spend it.

⁴ while my breath is in me, and as long as the wind that God hath given me is in my nostrils.

²¹ I will regard no manner of person, no man will I spare. ²² For if I would go about to please men, I know not how soon my maker would take me away.

⁴ True are my words, and no lie: and the knowledge wherewithal I argue against thee, is perfect.

² They shall excommunicate you: yea the time shall come, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he doth God true service.

⁵ If our unrighteousness make the righteousness of God more excellent: what shall we say? Is God unrighteous which taketh vengeance? I speak after the manner of men. ⁶ God forbid. For how then shall God judge the world? ⁷ If the verity of God appear more excellent through my lie, unto his praise, why am I henceforth judged as a sinner? ⁸ And say not rather — as men evil-speak of us, and as some affirm that we say — "Let us do evil, that good may come thereof." Whose damnation is just.

² but have cast from us the cloaks of unhonesty, and walk not in craftiness, neither corrupt we the word of God: but walk in open truth, and report ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

² Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil: neither answer in a matter of plea that thou wouldest, to follow many, turn aside from the truth; ³ neither shalt thou paint a poor man's cause.

¹⁵ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment. Thou shalt not favour the poor nor honour the mighty, but shalt judge thy neighbour righteously.

²¹ I will regard no manner of person, no man will I spare.

¹⁹ 'Ungodly men are ye.' He hath none respect unto the persons of the lordly, and regardeth not the rich more than the poor. For they be all the work of his hands.

²³ These are also the sayings of the wise. It is not good to have respect of any person in judgment.

⁹ Therefore will I also make you to be despised, and to be of no reputation among all the people: because ye have not kept my ways, but been partial in the law.

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

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

³⁶ O father let Job be well tried, because he hath turned himself to the wicked:

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

²³ Try me, O God, and seek the ground of mine heart; prove me, and examine my thoughts.

²² And therefore make no mocks at it, that your captivity increase not. For I have heard the LORD God of Hosts say that there shall come a sudden destruction and plague upon the whole earth.

¹⁰ "Even I the LORD search out the ground of the heart, and try the reins, and reward every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his counsels."

⁷ Be not deceived, God is not mocked. For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he reap. ⁸ He that soweth in his flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption: but he that soweth in the spirit shall, of the spirit, reap life everlasting.

⁷ Now when the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, he said unto Eliphaz the Temanite, "I am displeased with thee and thy two friends, for ye have not spoken the thing that is right before me, like as my servant Job hath done. ⁸ Therefore take seven oxen and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, offer up also for yourselves a burnt offering: and let my servant Job pray for you. Him will I accept, and not deal with you after your foolishness: in that ye have not spoken the thing which is right, like as my servant Job hath done."

²¹ This thou doest, while I hold my tongue: and thinkest wickedly that I am even such a one as thyself; but I will reprove thee, and set before thee the things that thou hast done. ²² O consider this, ye that forget God, lest I pluck you away, and there be none to deliver you.

² How long will ye give wrong judgment, and accept the persons of the ungodly? Selah.

⁹ But if ye regard one person more than another, ye commit sin, and are rebuked of the law as transgressors.

¹⁶ Let fear and dread fall upon them through the greatness of thine arm, and let them be as still as a stone, while thy people pass through, O LORD; while the people pass through, which thou hast gotten.

²¹ Withdraw thine hand from me, and let not the fearful dread of thee make me afraid.

²³ For I have ever feared the vengeance and punishment of God, and knew very well that I was not able to bear his burden.

¹²⁰ My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.

¹³ but sanctify the LORD of Hosts: let him be your fear and dread.

²² Fear ye not me, sayeth the LORD? Are ye not ashamed, to look me in the face? Which bind the sea with the sand, so that it cannot pass his bounds: for though it rage, yet can it do nothing; and though the waves thereof do swell, yet may they not go over.

¹⁰ But the LORD is a true God, a living God, and an everlasting king. If he be wroth, the earth shaketh: all the Gentiles may not abide his indignation.

²⁸ And fear ye not them which kill the body, and be not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body into hell.

³ and they sang the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the lamb, saying, ⁴ Who shall not fear, o Lord, and glorify thy name? For thou only art holy, and all gentiles shall come and worship before thee, for thy judgments are made manifest."

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.

²⁷ And Abraham answered and said, "Behold, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, and yet am but dust and ashes.

¹⁴ And the LORD said unto Moses, "Write this for a remembrance in a book and tell it unto Joshua, for I will put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven."

¹⁹ How much more then shall they that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is but earth: which shall be consumed by the moth?

¹⁷ His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and his name shall not be praised in the streets:

¹⁶ But the face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to root out the remembrance of them from the earth.

¹² But thou, O LORD, endurest forever, and thy remembrance throughout all generations.

¹⁵ Let them be always before the LORD, that he may root out the memorial of them from off the earth;

⁷ The memorial of the just shall have a good report; but the name of the ungodly shall stink.

¹⁴ The malicious tyrants when they die, are neither in life nor in the resurrection, for thou visitest them and rootest them out, and destroyest all the memorial of them.

¹ We know surely if our earthy mansion wherein we now dwell were destroyed, that we have a building ordained of God, a habitation not made with hands, but eternal in heaven:

⁹ That he would begin and smite me: that he would let his hand go, and hew me down. ¹⁰ Then should I have some comfort: yea, I would desire him in my pain, that he should not spare, for I will not be against the words of the holy one.

¹¹ Therefore I will not spare my mouth, but will speak in the trouble of my spirit; in that bitterness of my mind will I talk.

¹⁵ that my soul wisheth rather to be strangled, and my bones to be dead. ¹⁶ I can see no remedy. I shall live no more. O spare me then, for my days are but vain.

¹ It grieveth my soul to live. Nevertheless, now will I put forth my words: I will speak out of the very heaviness of my soul,

⁵ Would God ye kept your tongue, that ye might be taken for wise men!

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

³ And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands and went upon the children of Ammon. And the LORD delivered them into my hands. Wherefore then are ye come upon me to fight with me?"

⁵ For he did put his life in his hand and slew the Philistine, and the LORD gave a great victory to all Israel. And thou sawest it, and thou rejoicedest. Wherefore then shouldest thou sin against innocent blood, and slay David for nought?"

²¹ And the woman came unto Saul and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him, "See, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice and have put my soul in thy hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou saidst unto me.

⁴ Why destroyest thou thyself with anger? Shall the earth be forsaken, or the stones removed out of their place because of thee?

¹⁰⁹ My soul is always in my hand, yet do I not forget thy law.

⁵ The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth up his own flesh.

²⁰ but robbeth him on the righthand, and doth famish; he eateth on the left hand and he shall not have enough. Every man shall eat the flesh of his own arm.

²⁶ And will feed thine enemies with their own flesh, and make them drink of their own blood, as of sweet wine. And all flesh shall know, O Jacob, that I am the LORD - thy Saviour and strong avenger.

⁶ my days pass over more speedily than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

⁷ Whereas, notwithstanding, thou knowest that I am no wicked person, and that there is no man able to deliver me out of thine hand.

¹⁸ Behold, now have I prepared my judgment, and know that I shall be found righteous.

¹⁷ "Howbeit there is no wickedness in my hands, and my prayer is clean.

²¹ Though a body might plead with God, as one man doth with another,

²⁵ "For I am sure that my redeemer liveth, and that I shall rise out of the earth in the latter day: ²⁶ that I shall be clothed again with this skin, and see God in my flesh. ²⁷ Yea, I myself shall behold him - not with other, but with these same eyes, though my reins are consumed within me. ²⁸ Did not ye say, "Why doth he suffer persecution?" Is there found an occasion against me?

¹⁰ But as for my way, he knoweth it: and tryeth me as the gold in the fire.

⁵ God forbid, that I should grant your cause to be right! As for me, until mine end come will I never go from my innocence.

³¹ Yet they of mine own household say, 'Who shall let us to have our belly full of his flesh?' ³² I have not suffered a stranger to lie without, but opened my doors unto him. ³³ "Have I kept secret my sin, and hid mine iniquity as Adam did? ³⁴ For if I had feared any great multitude of people, or if I had been despised of the simple; Oh then should I have been afraid. Thus have I quietly spent my life, and not gone out at the door. ³⁵ O that I had one which would hear me. Lo, this is my cause: Let the almighty give me answer, and let him that is my contrary party, sue me with libel. ³⁶ Then shall I take it upon my shoulder, and as a garland about my head. ³⁷ I have told the number of my goings, and delivered them unto him as to a prince.

² "Can he that striveth with the Almighty be at rest? Should not he which disputeth with God, give him an answer?"

⁸ Wilt thou disannul my judgment? Or wilt thou condemn me, that thou thyself mayest be made righteous?

⁴ Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me: thy rod and thy staff comfort me.

³² The ungodly is afraid of every peril; but the righteous hath a good hope even in death.

³⁸ Yea and I am sure that neither death, neither life, neither angels; nor rule, neither power, neither things present, neither things to come, ³⁹ neither height, neither lowth, neither any other creature shall be able to depart us from the love of God, showed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

²⁰ But if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and knoweth all things.

² The LORD is my strength and my song, and is become my salvation. He is my God, and I will glorify him! He is my father's God, and I will lift him up on high!

¹³ Even so goeth it with all them that forget God: and even thus also shall the hypocrite's hope come to naught.

⁸ What hope hath the hypocrite, though he have great good, and though God give him riches after his heart's desire? ⁹ Doth God hear him the sooner, when he crieth unto him in his necessity? ¹⁰ Hath he such pleasure and delight in the Almighty, that he dare always call upon God?

¹³ As for such as be fained hypocrites, they heap up wrath for themselves: for they call not upon him, though they be his prisoners.

¹ {A Psalm of David} The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom then should I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom then shall I be afraid?

⁶ He only is my strength, my salvation, my defense: so that I shall not fall. ⁷ In God is my health and my glory, the rock of my might; and in God is my trust.

¹⁴ The LORD is my strength, and my song, and is become my salvation.

²¹ I thank thee, for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation.

¹ So that then thou shalt say, "I will praise thee O LORD, that though thou were angry with me, yet thine anger is turned, and thou hast comforted me. ² Behold, God is my salvation: I will be bold therefore and not fear. For the LORD God is my strength and my praise whereof I sing: and is become my saviour.

¹⁴ The sinners at Zion are afraid, and a sudden fearfulness is come upon the hypocrites. "What is he among us," say they, "that will dwell by that consuming fire? Which of us may abide that everlasting heat?"

²³ The hills fall, and all the high pride of the mountains; but the health of Israel standeth only upon God our LORD.

⁴⁷ For so hath the Lord commanded us, 'I have made thee a light to the gentiles, that thou be salvation unto the end of the world.'"

⁶ Therefore hear my words, and ponder the sentence of my lips.

² "O hear my words, and amend yourselves.

¹ Therefore hear my words, O Job, and hearken unto all that I will say:

² "I know it is so of a truth: for how may a man, compared unto God, be justified? ³ If he will argue with him, he shall not be able to answer him unto one among a thousand.

²⁰ If I will justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me; if I will put forth my self for a perfect man, he shall prove me a wicked doer.

⁴ to plead my cause before him, and to fill my mouth with arguments:

⁷ Gird up thy loins like a man, and tell me the things that I will ask thee. ⁸ Wilt thou disannul my judgment? Or wilt thou condemn me, that thou thyself mayest be made righteous?

²⁶ Put me now in remembrance, for we will reason together, and show what thou hast for thee, to make thee righteous.

³³ Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's chosen? It is God that justifieth: ³⁴ who then shall condemn? It is Christ which is dead; Yea rather which is risen again, which is also on the righthand of God and maketh intercession for us.

¹² Our rejoicing is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in singleness of heart and with godly pureness — and not in fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God — we have had our conversation in the world, and most of all to you-wards.

⁸ "Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me altogether round about. Wilt thou then destroy me suddenly?

⁵ But if ye will enhance yourselves against me, and accuse me to be a wicked person because of the shame that is come upon me;

⁵ If thou canst, then give me answer: prepare thyself to stand before me face to face. ⁶ Behold, before God am I, even as thou, for I am fashioned and made even of the same mould. ⁷ Therefore, thou needest not be afraid of me, neither needest thou to fear that my authority shall be too heavy for thee.

³² But if thou hast anything to say, then answer me, and speak, for thy answer pleaseth me.

⁷ for the LORD God helpeth me. Therefore shall I not be confounded. I have hardened my face like a flint stone, for I am sure, that I shall not come to confusion. ⁸ Mine advocate speaketh for me, who will then go with me to law? Let us stand one against another: if there be any that will reason with me, let him come here forth to me.

⁹ Wherefore, I thought from henceforth not to speak of him, nor to preach anymore in his name. But the word of the LORD was a very burning fire in my heart and in my bones, which when I would have stopped, I might not.

³³ Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's chosen? It is God that justifieth:

⁸ And they heard the voice of the LORD God as he walked in the garden in the cool of the day. And Adam hid himself and his wife also from the face of the LORD God, among the trees of the garden. ⁹ And the LORD God called Adam and said unto him, "Where art thou?" ¹⁰ And he answered, "Thy voice I heard in the garden, but I was afraid because I was naked, and therefore hid myself."

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.

¹⁵ And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in dens, and in rocks of the hills, ¹⁶ and said to the hills, and rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the presence of him that sitteth on the seat, and from the wrath of the lamb,

³⁴ Let him take his rod away from me; yea, let him make me no more afraid of him,

²⁰ Shall not my short life come so soon to an end? O hold thee from me, let me alone, that I may ease myself a little

¹¹ Shall he not make you afraid, when he showeth himself? Shall not his terrible face fall upon you?

¹⁵ "Well, thou wilt keep the old way, that all wicked men have gone: ¹⁶ which were cut down out of time, and whose foundation was as a running water, ¹⁷ which said unto God, 'Go from us.' And what did the Almighty do with them?

⁷ Therefore, thou needest not be afraid of me, neither needest thou to fear that my authority shall be too heavy for thee.

¹⁰ Turn thy plagues away from me, for I am consumed through the fear of thy hand.

¹⁶ If I had called upon him, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had heard my voice!

³² For he that I must give answer unto, and with whom I go to law, is not a man as I am.

¹⁵ If thou wouldest but call me, I should obey thee: only despise not the work of thine own hands.

³ Gird up thy loins like a man, for I will question thee, see thou give me a direct answer.

⁵ Is not thy wickedness great, and thine ungracious deeds innumerable?

⁸ But if they be laid in prison and chains, or bound with the bonds of poverty: ⁹ then sheweth he them their works and deeds and the sins wherewith they have used cruel violence.

²⁰ If we have forgotten the name of our God, and hold up our hands to any strange god, ²¹ should not God find it out? For he knoweth the very secrets of the heart.

²⁰ And he said, 'I will hide my face from them and will see what their end shall be. For they are a froward generation, and children in whom is no faith.

¹⁶ Then said Samuel, "Wherefore dost thou ask of me? While the LORD is gone from thee and is thine enemy,

² and will say unto God: O do not condemn me; but show me the cause, wherefore thou contendest so with me.

⁹ He is angry at me, he hateth me, and gnasheth upon me with his teeth. Mine enemy scowleth upon me with his eyes.

¹¹ His wrath is kindled against me; he taketh me, as though I were his enemy.

² "Oh that I were as I was in the months by past, and in the days when God preserved me; ³ When his light shined upon my head; when I went after the same light and shining, even through the darkness.

²¹ Thou art become mine enemy, and with thy violent hand thou takest part against me.

¹⁰ But lo, he hath picked a quarrel against me, and taketh me for his enemy:

¹ Why standest thou so far off, O LORD, and hidest thy face in the needful time of trouble?

¹ {To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? Forever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

²⁴ Wherefore hidest thou thy face? Wilt thou clean forget our misery and oppression?

⁶ I called to remembrance my song in the night, I communed with mine own heart, and sought out my spirit. ⁷ Will the LORD absent himself forever? Will he be no more intreated? ⁸ Is his mercy clean gone? Is his promise come utterly to an end for evermore? ⁹ Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Or, hath he shut up his loving-kindness in displeasure? Selah.

¹⁴ LORD, why abhorrest thou my soul, and hidest thou thy face from me?

¹⁷ Thus I wait upon the LORD that hath turned his face from the house of Jacob, and I look unto him.

⁵ {He} The LORD is become like as it were an enemy: he hath cast down Israel and all his places. Yea, all his strongholds hath he destroyed, and filled the daughter of Judah with much sorrow and heaviness.

¹⁵ And count him not as an enemy: but warn him as a brother.

³⁶ "'And upon them that are left alive of you, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the land of their enemies: so that the sound of a leaf that falleth, shall chase them and they shall flee as though they fled a sword, and shall fall no man following them.

¹⁴ After whom art thou come out, thou king of Israel? After whom chasest thou? Even after a dead dog, and after a flea!

³ Doest thou open thine eyes upon such one, and bringest me in thy judgment?

¹⁸ Yea, they shall be even as chaff before the wind, and as dust that the storm carrieth away.

¹³ Even like many waters shall the people rage: God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and vanish away like the dust with the wind upon a hill, and as the whirlwind through a storm.

²⁰ A bruised reed shall he not break, and flax that beginneth to burn he shall not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.

²⁰ But she said unto them, "Call me not Naomi: call me Mara, for the Almighty hath made me very bitter.

²⁰ "Wherefore is the light given to him that is in misery? And life unto them that have heavy hearts?

¹¹ From his youth his bones are full of vice; but now shall it lie down with him in the earth.

⁷ O remember not the sins and offenses of my youth; but according to thy mercy think upon me, O LORD, for thy goodness.

³ For my soul is full of trouble, and my life draweth nigh unto hell. ⁴ I am counted as one of them that go down into the pit, and I am even as a man that hath no strength; ⁵ free among the dead, like unto them that lie in the grave, which be out of remembrance, and are cut away from thy hand. ⁶ Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in a place of darkness and in the deep. ⁷ Thine indignation lieth hard upon me, and thou hast vexed me with all thy floods. Selah. ⁸ Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me, and made me to be abhorred of them. I am so fast in prison that I cannot get forth. ⁹ My sight faileth for very trouble: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched forth my hands unto thee. ¹⁰ Dost thou show wonders among the dead? Can the Physicians raise them up again, that they may praise thee? Selah. ¹¹ May thy loving-kindness be showed in the grave? Or thy faithfulness in destruction? ¹² Shall thy wondrous works be known in the dark? Or thy righteousness in the land where all things are forgotten? ¹³ Unto thee have I cried, O LORD, and early shall my prayer come before thee. ¹⁴ LORD, why abhorrest thou my soul, and hidest thou thy face from me? ¹⁵ I am in misery, and like unto him that is at the point to die; even from my youth up, thy terrors have I suffered with a troubled mind. ¹⁶ Thy wrathful displeasure goeth over me; and the fear of thee hath undone me. ¹⁷ They came round about me daily like water, and compassed me together on every side. ¹⁸ My lovers and friends hast thou put away from me, and hid mine acquaintance out of my sight.

¹¹ Yea, that thou mourn not at the last, when thou hast spent thy body and goods, ¹² and then say, "Alas, why hated I nurture? Why did my heart despise correction? ¹³ Wherefore was not I obedient unto the voice of my teachers, and hearken not unto them that informed me?

¹⁹ Yea, as soon as thou turnest me, I shall reform myself: and when I understand, I shall smite upon my thigh. For verily I have committed shameful things: O let my youth bear this reproof and confusion.'

⁵ And a certain man was there, which had been diseased thirty eight years.

¹⁴ And after that, Jesus found him in the temple, and said unto him, "Behold, thou art made whole: see thou sin no more, lest a worse thing happen unto thee."

¹⁰ Whereupon Asa was wroth with the seer and put him in the converting house, for he was displeased with him because of that. Moreover Asa oppressed certain of the people the same season. ¹¹ The deeds of Asa both first, and last, are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. ¹² And the thirty ninth year of his reign Asa fell sick of his feet, and that his disease exceeded. And thereto in his sickness he asked no counsel of the LORD, but of Physicians.

⁷ So went Satan forth from the LORD, and smote Job with marvelous sore boils, from the sole of the foot unto his crown;

⁶ that thou makest such inquisition for my wickedness, and searchest out my sin?

¹⁶ "For thou hast numbered all my goings, yet be not thou too extreme upon my sins.

¹¹ He hath put my foot in the stocks, and looketh narrowly unto all my paths.'

²² suddenly to follow her - as it were an ox to the slaughter, and like as it were a fool that laugheth when he goeth to the stocks to be punished -

²⁴ Which jailer, when he had received such commandment, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

¹² Oh, let her not be as one that came dead out of his mother's womb: for half her flesh is eaten away."

¹⁷ My bones are pierced through in the night season, and my sinews take no rest. ¹⁸ With all their power have they changed my garment, and girded me therewith, as it were with a coat. ¹⁹ I am even as it were clay, and am become like ashes and dust.

²⁹ But now I am a companion of dragons, and a fellow of ostriches. ³⁰ My skin upon me is turned to black, and my bones are burnt with heat;

¹¹ When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin, thou makest his beauty to consume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment; every man therefore is but vanity. Selah.

¹² Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as a caterpillar.