Job 14 Cross References - MSTC

¹ Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of divers miseries. ² He cometh up and is cut down like a flower. He flyeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one state. ³ Doest thou open thine eyes upon such one, and bringest me in thy judgment? ⁴ Who can make it clean, that cometh from an unclean thing? Nobody. ⁵ The days of man are short, the number of his months are known only to thee. Thou hast appointed him his bounds; he cannot go beyond them. ⁶ Go from him, that he may rest until his day come: which he looketh for, like as a hireling doth. ⁷ "If a tree be cut down, there is some hope yet, that it will sprout and shoot forth the branches again; ⁸ For though a root be waxen old and dead in the ground, ⁹ yet when the stock getteth the scent of water, it will bud, and bring forth bows, like as when it was first planted. ¹⁰ But as for man; when he is dead, perished and consumed away, what becometh of him? ¹¹ The floods when they be dried up, and the rivers when they be empty, are filled again through the flowing waters of the sea: ¹² but when man sleepeth, he riseth not again, until the heaven perish: he shall not wake up nor rise out of his sleep. ¹³ O that thou wouldest keep me, and hide me in the hell, until thy wrath were stilled: and to appoint me a time, wherein thou mightest remember me. ¹⁴ May a dead man live again? All the days of this my pilgrimage am I looking, till my changing shall come. ¹⁵ If thou wouldest but call me, I should obey thee: only despise not the work of thine own hands. ¹⁶ "For thou hast numbered all my goings, yet be not thou too extreme upon my sins. ¹⁷ Thou hast sealed up mine offenses, as it were in a bag: but be merciful unto my wickedness. ¹⁸ The mountains fall away at the last, the rocks are removed out of their place; ¹⁹ the waters pierce through the very stones by little and little, the floods wash away the gravel and the earth. Even so destroyest thou the hope of man in like manner. ²⁰ Thou prevailest against him, so that he passeth away; thou changes his estate, and puttest him from thee. ²¹ Whether his children come to worship or no, he cannot tell: And if they be men of low degree, he knoweth not. ²² While he liveth, his flesh must have travail: And while the soul is in him, he must be in sorrow."

⁹ And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, "The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have the days of my life been, and have not attained unto the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimages."

⁷ but it is man, that is born unto misery, like as the sparks fly up out of the hot coals.

¹ Is not the life of man upon earth a very battle? Are not his days like the days of a hired servant?

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

²⁵ "My days are more swift than a runner: they are gone, and have seen no good thing.

¹⁴ What is man, that he should be clean? What hath he, which is born of a woman, whereby he might be known to be righteous?

⁴ But how may a man compared unto God be justified? Or, how can he be clean, that is born of a woman?

⁵ Behold, thou hast made my days a span long, and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. Selah

⁵ Behold, I was born in wickedness, and in sin hath my mother conceived me.

¹⁷ Thus began I to be weary of my life, in so much that I could away with nothing that is done under the Sun, for all was but vanity and vexation of mind:

²³ but heaviness, sorrow and disquietness all the days of his life? Insomuch that his heart cannot rest in the night. Is not this also a vain thing?

¹¹ Verily I say unto you, Among the children of women arose there not a greater than John the Baptist: Notwithstanding, he that is least in the kingdom of heaven, is greater than he.

¹⁵ For we be but strangers before thee and tenants, as were all our fathers. Our days on the earth is but a shadow, and there is none abiding.

⁹ For we are but of yesterday, and consider not that our days upon earth are but a very shadow.

²⁵ "My days are more swift than a runner: they are gone, and have seen no good thing. ²⁶ They are passed away, as the ships that be good under sail, and as the Eagle that hasteth to the prey.

⁵ As soon as thou scatterest them, they are even as asleep, and fade away suddenly like the grass. ⁶ In the morning it is green and groweth up; but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered. ⁷ For we consume away in thy displeasure, and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation. ⁸ Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee, and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. ⁹ For when thou art angry, all our days are gone; we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.

⁷ that the ungodly are green as grass, and that all the works of wickedness do flourish, to be destroyed forever.

¹² The righteous shall flourish like a palm-tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

¹¹ My days are gone like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.

¹⁵ that a man in his time is but as grass, and flourisheth as a flower of the field. ¹⁶ For as soon as the wind goeth over it, it is gone, and the place thereof knoweth it no more.

⁴ Man is like a thing of naught; his time passeth away like a shadow.

¹³ Again, as for the ungodly, it shall not be well with him, neither shall he prolong his days: but even as a shadow, so shall he be that feareth not God.

⁶ The same voice spake, "Now cry." And I said, "What shall I cry?" Then spake it, "That all flesh is grass, and that all the beauty thereof, is as the flower of the field. ⁷ When the grass is withered, the flower falleth away. Even so is the people as grass, when the breath of the LORD bloweth upon them. ⁸ Nevertheless whether the grass wither, or the flower fade away: Yet the word of our God endureth forever."

¹⁰ and the rich in that he is made low. For even as the flower of the grass shall he vanish away. ¹¹ The sun riseth with heat, and the grass withereth and his flower falleth away, and the beauty of the fashion of it perisheth: even so shall the rich man perish with his abundance.

¹⁴ and yet cannot tell what shall happen tomorrow. For what thing is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

²⁴ For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man is as the flower of grass; the grass is withered, and the flower falleth away,

¹⁷ "What is man, that thou dost magnify him? And that thou settest thy heart upon him? ¹⁸ Thou visitest him early, and every day: and suddenly doest thou try him.

¹⁹ If men will speak of strength, he is the strongest of all; if men will speak of righteousness, who dare be my record? 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.

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

²⁵ Wilt thou be so cruel and extreme unto a flying leaf, and follow upon dry stubble?

²⁷ Thou hast put my foot in the stocks: thou lookest narrowly unto all my paths, and markest the steps of my feet.

⁴ What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And what is the son of man that thou visitest him?

² And enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

³ LORD, what is man, that thou hast such respect unto him? Or the son of man, that thou so regardest him?

¹⁹ Yea and we know that whatsoever the law saith, he saith it to them which are under the law: That all mouths may be stopped, and all the world be subdued to God,

³ And when Adam was a hundred and thirty years old, he begat a son after his likeness and similitude: and called his name Seth.

⁴ But how may a man compared unto God be justified? Or, how can he be clean, that is born of a woman? ⁵ Behold, the Moon shineth nothing in comparison to him, and the stars are unclean in his sight. ⁶ How much more then man, that is but corruption, and the son of man, which is but a worm?"

⁵ As soon as thou scatterest them, they are even as asleep, and fade away suddenly like the grass.

³⁵ And the angel answered, and said unto her, "The holy ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the highest shall overshadow thee. Therefore also that holy thing which shall be born, shall be called the son of God.

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

¹² Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by the means of sin; And so death went over all men, insomuch that all men sinned.

⁸ So then, they that are given to the flesh, cannot please God. ⁹ But ye are not given to the flesh; But to the spirit: If so be that the spirit of God dwell in you. If there be any man that hath not the spirit of Christ, the same is none of his.

³ among which we also had our conversation in time past, in the lusts of our flesh, and fulfilled the will of the flesh, and of the mind: and were naturally the children of wrath, even as well as others.

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

¹⁴ May a dead man live again? All the days of this my pilgrimage am I looking, till my changing shall come.

²¹ For what careth he, what become of his household after his death, when the number of his months is cut short?

¹³ "It is he, himself, alone. Who will turn him back? He doth as him listeth, and bringeth to pass what he will. ¹⁴ He rewardeth me into my bosom, and many other things more doth he, as he may by his power.

⁴ "LORD, let me know mine end, and the number of my days: that I may be certified how long I have to live.

⁹ Thou hast set them their bounds, which they may not pass, that they turn not again to cover the 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.

³⁵ in comparison of whom, all they that dwell upon the earth are to be reputed as nothing. He handleth according to his will, among the powers of heaven and among the inhabiters of the earth - and there is none that may resist his hand, or say, 'What doest thou?'

²⁶ Now the interpretation of the thing is this: Mene, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end.

³⁰ The very same night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain,

²⁴ Seventy weeks are determined over thy people, and over the holy city: that the wickedness may be consumed, that the sin may have an end, that the offense may be reconciled, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, to fulfill the visions and the Prophets, and to anoint the most holy one.

³⁶ The king shall do what him list, he shall exalt and magnify himself against all that is God. Yea, he shall speak marvelous things against the God of all gods, wherein he shall prosper, so long till the wrath be fulfilled, for the conclusion is devised already.

²⁰ But God said unto him, 'Thou fool, this night will they fetch away thy soul again from thee. Then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?'

²⁶ and hath made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all the face of the earth; and hath assigned before: how long time, and also the ends of their inhabitation.

²⁷ And as it is appointed unto men that they shall once die, and then cometh the judgment,

¹⁸ and am alive, and was dead. And behold I am alive for evermore, and have the keys of hell and of death.

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.

¹ Is not the life of man upon earth a very battle? Are not his days like the days of a hired servant? ² For like as a bond servant desireth the shadow, and as a hireling would fain have an end of his work:

¹⁶ I can see no remedy. I shall live no more. O spare me then, for my days are but vain.

¹⁹ Why goest thou not from me, nor lettest me alone, so long till I swallow down my spittle?

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

¹³ O spare me a little that I may recover my strength, before I go hence, and be no more seen."

¹ For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a householder which went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard. ² And he agreed with the laborers for a penny a day, and sent them into his vineyard. ³ And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the market place, ⁴ and said unto them: go ye also into my vineyard, and whatsoever is right, I will give you: and they went their way. ⁵ Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise. ⁶ And he went out about the eleventh hour and found others standing idle, and said unto them, 'Why stand ye here all the day idle?' ⁷ They said unto him, 'Because no man hath hired us'. He said to them, 'Go ye also into my vineyard, and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.' ⁸ When even was come, the Lord of the vineyard said unto his steward, 'Call the laborers, and give them their hire, beginning at the last, till thou come to the first.'

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.

¹ There shall come a rod out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch shall spring out of his root.

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.

¹⁵ Nevertheless, leave the ground of his root still in the earth, and bind him upon the plain field, with chains of iron and steel. With the dew of heaven shall he be wet, and he shall have his part in the herbs of the ground with other wild beasts.

²³ But whereas the king saw a watcher, even a holy angel, that came down from heaven, and said, 'Hew down the tree, and destroy it: yet leave the ground of the root in the earth, and bind him upon the plain field with chains of iron and steel: He shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and his part shall be with the beasts of the field, till seven years be come and gone upon him.' ²⁴ This, O king, is the interpretation: yea, it is the very device of him that is highest of all, and it toucheth my lord the king. ²⁵ Thou shalt be cast out from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: with grass shalt thou be fed like an ox. Thou must be wet with the dew of the heaven: yea, seven years shall come and go upon thee, till thou know that the highest hath power upon the kingdoms of men, and giveth them to whom he list.

¹⁹ But as for thy dead men and ours, that be departed, they are in life and resurrection. They lie in the earth, they wake, and have joy: for thy dew is a dew of life and light. But the place of the malicious Tyrants is fallen away.

²⁴ Verily, verily I say unto you, except the wheat corn fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone. If it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

³⁶ Thou fool, that which thou sowest, is not quickened except it die.

³ and say, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: There came a great Eagle with great wings; yea, with mighty long wings, full of feathers of divers colours; upon the mount of Lebanon, and took a branch from a Cedar tree, ⁴ and brake off the top of his twig, and carried it into the land of Canaan, and set it in a city of merchants. ⁵ He took also a branch of the land, and planted it in a fruitful ground, he brought it unto great waters, and set it as a willow tree thereby. ⁶ Then did it grow, and was a great vine stock, but low by the ground: thus there came of it a vine, and it brought forth blossoms, and spread out branches. ⁷ But there was another Eagle, a great one, which had great wings and many feathers: and behold, the roots of this vine had a hunger after him, and spread out his branches toward him, to water his fruits. ⁸ Nevertheless it was planted upon a good ground beside great waters: so that by reason it should have brought out branches and fruit, and have been a goodly vine.' ⁹ Speak thou therefore, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Shall this vine prosper? Shall not his roots be plucked out, his fruit be broken off, his green branches wither and fade away? Yea without either strong armies or many people, shall it be plucked up by the roots. ¹⁰ Behold, it was planted: shall it prosper therefore? Shall it not be dried up and withered, yea even in the shooting out of his blossoms, as soon as the east wind bloweth?'"

²² "'Thus sayeth the LORD God: I will also take a branch from a high Cedar tree, and will set it, and take the uppermost twig, that yet is but tender, and plant it upon a high hill: ²³ Namely, upon the high hill of Zion will I plant it: that it may bring forth twigs, and give fruit, and be a great Cedar tree: so that all manner of fowls may bide in it, and make their nests under the shadow of his branches. ²⁴ And all the trees of the field shall know, that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, and set the low tree up: that I have dried up the green tree, and made the dry tree to flourish: Even I the LORD that spake it, have also brought it to pass.'"

¹⁰ "As for thy mother, she is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waterside: her fruits and branches are grown out of many waters,

¹⁷ Though some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, art graft in among them, and made partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree; ¹⁸ boast not thyself against the branches. For if thou boast thyself, remember that thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. ¹⁹ Thou wilt say then, "The branches are broken off, that I might be graft in." ²⁰ Thou sayest well: because of unbelief they are broken off, and thou standest steadfast in faith. Be not high minded, but fear: ²¹ seeing that God spared not the natural branches, lest haply he also spare not thee. ²² Behold the kindness and rigorousness of God: on them which fell, rigorousness: but towards thee, kindness; if thou continue in his kindness. Or else thou shalt be hewn off, ²³ and they if they bide not still in unbelief shall be grafted in again. For God is of power to graft them in again. ²⁴ For if thou wast cut out of a natural wild olive tree, and wast grafted contrary to nature in a true olive tree: how much more shall the natural branches be graffed in their own olive tree again?

³³ When Jacob had commanded all that he would unto his sons, he plucked up his feet upon the bed and died, and was put unto his people.

¹¹ "Alas, why died I not in the birth? Why did not I perish, as soon as I came out of my mother's womb?

⁷ "O remember that my life is but a wind, and that mine eye shall no more see the pleasures thereof; ⁸ yea, and that none other man's eye shall see me anymore. ⁹ For if thou fasten thine eyes upon me, I come to naught like as a cloud is consumed and vanisheth away. Even so, he that goeth down to hell, cometh no more up, ¹⁰ nor turneth again into his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

¹⁸ Wherefore hast thou brought me out of my mother's womb? O that I had perished, and that no eye had seen me.

²⁰ As for the eyes of the ungodly, they shall be consumed, and not escape: their hope shall be misery and sorrow of mind."

¹² but when man sleepeth, he riseth not again, until the heaven perish: he shall not wake up nor rise out of his sleep.

¹³ Though I tarry never so much, yet the grave is my house, and I must make my bed in the dark. ¹⁴ I call corruption my father, and the worms call I my mother and my sister. ¹⁵ What helpeth then my long tarrying? Or, who will fulfill the thing that I look for? ¹⁶ All that I have, shall go down into the pit, and lie with me in the dust."

²⁶ that I shall be clothed again with this skin, and see God in my flesh.

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

⁵⁰ Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up the ghost.

²² And it fortuned that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: The rich man also died, and was buried in hell. ²³ And being in hell, in torments, he lift up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom;

¹⁰ Then she fell down straightway at his feet and yielded up the ghost. And the young men came in and found her dead, and carried her out and buried her by her husband.

¹⁵ Mine own brethren pass over by me, as the water brook that hastily runneth through the valleys. ¹⁶ But they that fear the hoarfrost, the snow shall fall upon them. ¹⁷ When their time cometh, they shall be destroyed and perish: and when they be set on fire, they shall be removed out of their place, ¹⁸ for the paths that they go in are crooked: they haste after vain things, and shall perish.

⁵ The water of the sea shall be drawn out, the Nile shall sink away, and be drunk up.

¹⁸ Shall my heaviness endure forever? Are my plagues then so great, that they may never be healed? Wilt thou be as a water that faileth, and cannot continue?"

¹³ Then should I now have lain still; I should have slept, and been at rest,

²¹ Why dost thou not forgive my sin? Wherefore takest thou not away my wickedness? Behold, now must I sleep in the dust: And if thou seekest me tomorrow in the morning, I shall be gone."

²¹ before I go thither, from whence I shall not turn again. Namely, to that land of darkness and shadow of death: ²² yea, into a land as dark as darkness itself, and into the shadow of death where is none order; but light there is as darkness."

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.

²³ Sure I am, that thou wilt deliver me unto death: whereas a lodging is prepared for all men living.

²⁶ They shall perish, but thou shalt endure; they all shall wax old as doth a garment, and as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed.

¹⁹ For it happeneth unto men as it doth unto beasts, and as the one dieth, so dieth the other. Yea, they have both one manner of breath, so that - in this - a man hath no preeminence above a beast, but all are subdued unto vanity. ²⁰ They go all unto one place, for as they be all of dust, so shall they all turn unto dust again. ²¹ Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the breath of the beast that goeth down into the earth?

⁵ When men shall fear in high places, and be afraid in the streets; when the Almond tree shall be despised, the grasshopper born out, and when great poverty shall break in; when man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.

⁶ Lift up your eyes to heaven and behold the earth beneath. For heaven shall vanish away as smoke, and the earth shall wear away as a vesture, and the inhabiters thereof shall perish away after the same manner: but my salvation shall endure ever, and my righteousness shall not perish.

¹⁷ For lo, I shall make a new heaven, and a new earth. And as for the old, they shall never be thought upon, nor kept in mind:

²² For like as the new heaven and the new earth which I will make, shall be fast established by me, sayeth the LORD, So shall your seed and your name continue.

² Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth, shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to perpetual shame and reproof.

³⁵ Heaven and earth shall perish: but my words shall abide.

¹¹ This said he. And after that he said unto them, "Our friend Lazarus sleepeth, but I go to wake him out of sleep." ¹² Then said his disciples, "Lord, if he sleep, then shall he do well enough." ¹³ Howbeit, Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of the natural sleep.

²¹ that is, to wit, Jesus Christ: which must receive heaven until the time that all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began, be restored again.

²⁰ because the creatures are subdued to vanity against their will: but for his will which subdueth them in hope.

¹⁴ Wherefore he saith, "Awake thou that sleepest, and stand up from death, and Christ shall give thee light."

¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again: even so them also which sleep by Jesus, will God bring again with him. ¹⁵ And this say we unto you in the word of the Lord, that we which live and are remaining in the coming of the Lord, shall not come before they which sleep.

⁷ But the heavens verily and earth which are now, are kept by the same word in store, and reserved unto fire, against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

¹⁰ Nevertheless, the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in the which day, the heavens shall perish with terrible noise, and the elements shall melt with heat, and the earth, with the works that are therein, shall burn. ¹¹ If all these things shall perish, what manner persons ought ye to be in holy conversation, and godliness: ¹² looking for, and hasting unto, the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens shall perish with fire, and the elements shall be consumed with heat. ¹³ Nevertheless, we look for a new heaven, and a new earth, according to his promise, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

¹¹ And I saw a great white seat and him that sat on it, from whose face fled away both the earth and heaven, and their place was no more found.

¹ And I saw a new heaven, and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth were vanished away, and there was no more sea.

¹ And God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to blow upon the earth, and the waters ceased;

¹⁷ There, must the wicked cease from their tyranny, there such as are overlaboured be at rest. ¹⁸ There, are those let out free which have been in prison, so that they hear no more the voice of the oppressor. ¹⁹ There, are small and great; the bondman, and he that is free from his master.

⁴ Remember me, O LORD, according to the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy 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.

²⁰ So go now my people into thy chamber, and shut the door to thee, and suffer now the twinkling of an eye, till the wrath be overpast. ²¹ For behold, the LORD will go out of his habitation, and visit the wickedness of them that dwell upon earth. The earth also shall disclose her own blood, and shall no more hide those that are slain in her.

¹ But in the mean season the righteous perisheth, and no man regardeth it in his heart. Good godly people are taken away, and no man considereth it. Namely, that the righteous is conveyed away through the wicked, ² that he himself might be in rest, lie quietly upon his bed, and live after his own pleasure.

³² But of the day and the hour, knoweth no man: No, not the angels which are in heaven: neither the son himself, save the father only.

⁴² And he said unto Jesus, "Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom."

⁷ And he said unto them, "It is not for you to know the times, or the seasons which the father hath put in his own power:

³¹ because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world according to righteousness, by that man, whom he hath appointed, and hath offered faith to all men, after that he had raised him from death."

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,

⁵ The days of man are short, the number of his months are known only to thee. Thou hast appointed him his bounds; he cannot go beyond them.

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.

¹⁶ After this lived Job forty years, so that he saw his children, and his children's children to the fourth generation.

¹⁴ O tarry thou the LORD's leisure. Be strong, and he shall comfort thine heart; and put thou thy trust in the LORD.

¹ {To the chanter, a Psalm of David} I waited patiently for the LORD, and he inclined unto me, and heard my calling. ² He brought me out of the horrible pit, out of the mire and clay; he set my feet upon the rock, and ordered my goings.

²⁵ {Tet} O how good is the LORD unto them that put their trust in him, and to the soul that seeketh after him? ²⁶ O how good is it, with stillness, to wait and tarry for the health of the LORD?

¹ The hand of the LORD came upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and let me down in a plain field that lay full of bones. ² And he led me round about by them, and behold, the bones that lay upon the field were very many, and marvelous dry also. ³ Then said he unto me, "Thou son of man: thinkest thou these bones may live again?" And I answered, "O LORD God, thou knowest." ⁴ And he said unto me, "Prophesy thou upon these bones, and speak unto them, 'Ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. ⁵ Thus sayeth the LORD God unto these bones: Behold, I will put breath into you, that ye may live. ⁶ I will give you sinews, and make flesh grow upon you, and cover you over with skin: and so give you breath, that ye may live and know that I am the LORD.'" ⁷ So I prophesied, as he had commanded me: and as I was prophesying, there came a noise and a great motion, so that the bones ran every one to another. ⁸ Now when I had looked, behold, they had sinews, and flesh grew upon them: and above they were covered with skin, but there was no breath in them. ⁹ Then said he unto me, "Thou son of man, prophesy thou toward the wind: prophesy, and speak to the wind, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Come, O thou air, from the four winds, and blow upon these slain, that they may be restored to life.'" ¹⁰ So I prophesied, as he had commanded me: then came the breath into them and they received life, and stood up upon their feet: a marvelous great sortie. ¹¹ Moreover, he said unto me, "Thou son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, 'Our bones are dried up, our hope is gone, we are clean cut off.' ¹² Therefore prophesy thou, and speak unto them, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, I will open your graves, O my people, and take you out of your sepulchers, and bring you into the land of Israel again. ¹³ So shall ye know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves, and bring you out of them. ¹⁴ My spirit also will I put in you, and ye shall live: I will set you again in your own land, and ye shall know that I am the LORD which have said it, and fulfilled it indeed.'"

²⁹ Jesus answered and said unto them, "Ye are deceived, and understand not what the scripture meaneth, nor yet the power of God. ³⁰ For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are married: but are as the angels of God in heaven. ³¹ As touching the resurrection of the dead: have ye not read what is said unto you of God, which sayeth, ³² 'I am Abraham's God, and Isaac's God, and the God of Jacob?' God is not the God of the dead: but of the living."

²⁸ Marvel not at this: that the hour shall come, in which all that are in the graves, shall hear his voice, ²⁹ and shall come forth: They that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; And they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

⁸ Why should it be thought a thing incredible unto you, that God should raise again the dead?

⁴² So is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, and riseth in incorruption. ⁴³ It is sown in dishonour, and riseth in honour. It is sown in weakness, and riseth in power. ⁴⁴ It is sown a natural body, and riseth a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body.

⁵¹ Behold, I show a mystery unto you: we shall not all sleep: but we shall all be changed, ⁵² and that in a moment, and in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound of the last trumpet. For the trumpet shall blow, and the dead shall rise incorruptible: And we shall be changed.

²¹ which shall change into another fashion our vile bodies, that they may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself.

¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again: even so them also which sleep by Jesus, will God bring again with him. ¹⁵ And this say we unto you in the word of the Lord, that we which live and are remaining in the coming of the Lord, shall not come before they which sleep. ¹⁶ For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, and the voice of the archangel, and trump of God. And the dead in Christ shall arise first:

⁷ Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience there upon, until he receive the early and the latter rain. ⁸ Be ye also patient therefore, and settle your hearts, for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

¹³ And the sea gave up her dead, which were in her, and death and hell delivered up the dead, which were in them: and they were judged every man according to his deeds.

³ Thinkest thou it well done, to oppress me, to cast me off - being a work of thine hands - and to maintain the counsel of the ungodly?

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

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.

⁴ He shall call the heavens from above, and the earth, that he may judge his people. ⁵ "Gather my saints together unto me, those that set more by the covenant than by any offering."

⁸ The LORD shall make good his loving-kindness toward me. Yea, thy mercy, O LORD, endureth forever; despise not then the works of thine own hands.

¹⁷ then shall we which live and remain, be caught up with them also in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so shall we ever be with the Lord.

¹⁹ Wherefore, let them that suffer according to the will of God, commit their souls to him with well doing, as unto a faithful creator.

²⁸ And now babes, abide in him, that when he shall appear, we may have confidence and not be made ashamed of him at his coming.

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

¹⁴ "If I did sin, thou haddest an eye unto me, and shalt not declare me innocent because of mine offense.

⁴ Doth not he see my ways, and tell all my goings?

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

²¹ And why? His eyes look upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.

⁶ They hold all together, and keep themselves close, and mark my steps, when they lay wait for my soul.

¹ {To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} O LORD, thou searchest me out, and knowest me. ² Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising; thou understandest my thoughts afar off. ³ Thou art about my path and about my bed, and spiest out all my ways. ⁴ For lo, there is not a word in my tongue, but thou, O LORD, knowest it altogether.

²¹ For every man's ways are open in the sight of the LORD, and he pondereth all their goings.

¹⁹ great in counsel, and infinite in thought. Thine eyes look upon all the ways of men's children, to reward every one after his way, and according to the fruits of his inventions.

³⁴ Are not such things laid in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?

¹⁹ And though God save their children from such sorrow, yet will he so reward themselves, that they shall know it.

¹² The wickedness of Ephraim is bound together, and his sin lieth hid.

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

²⁵ Thou, LORD, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of thy hands. ²⁶ They shall perish, but thou shalt endure; they all shall wax old as doth a garment, and as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed.

¹² "Who hath holden the waters in his fist? Who hath measured heaven with his span, and hath comprehended all the earth of the world in three measures? Who hath weighed the mountains and hills in a balance?

¹⁵ Behold, I will make thee a treading cart and a new flail, that thou mayest thresh and grind the mountains, and bring the hills to powder. ¹⁶ Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them. But thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shall delight in praising the holy one of Israel.

¹⁰ The mountains shall remove, and the hills shall fall down: but my loving-kindness shall not move, and the bond of my peace shall not fall down from thee, sayeth the LORD thy merciful lover.

¹ O that thou wouldest cleave the heaven in sunder, and come down: that the mountains might melt away at thy presence,

²⁴ I beheld the mountains, and they tremble, and all the hills were in a fear.

⁵¹ And behold, the veil of the temple did rent in twain from the top to the bottom, and the earth did quake,

¹⁴ And heaven vanished away, as a scroll when it is rolled together. And all mountains and isles were moved out of their places.

⁸ And the second angel blew: and as it were a great mountain: burning with fire was cast into the sea, and the third part of the sea turned to blood,

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.

²¹ And all flesh that moved on the earth, both birds, cattle and beasts, perished; with all that crept on the earth, and all men: ²² so that all that had the breath of life in the nostrils of it, throughout all that was on dry land, died. ²³ Thus was destroyed all that was upon the earth; both man, beasts, worms and fowls of the air, so that they were destroyed from the earth: save Noah was reserved only and they that were with him in the ark.

⁸ What hope hath the hypocrite, though he have great good, and though God give him riches after his heart's desire?

⁶ And in my prosperity I said, "I shall never be removed." And why? Thou, LORD, of thy goodness, hast made my hill so strong. ⁷ But as soon as thou didst turn thy face from me, I was troubled.

¹¹ Moreover, he said unto me, "Thou son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, 'Our bones are dried up, our hope is gone, we are clean cut off.'

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.' ²⁰ But God said unto him, 'Thou fool, this night will they fetch away thy soul again from thee. Then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?'

¹² So when they lift up their eyes afar off, they knew him not. Then they cried, and wept: then every one of them rent his clothes, and sprinkled dust upon their heads in the air.

⁸ Neither is there any man that hath power over the spirit, to keep still the spirit, nor to have any power in the time of death: it is not he also that can make an end of the battle, neither may ungodliness deliver him that meddleth withall.

⁸ {Khet} But now their faces are very black: Insomuch, that thou shouldest not know them in the streets. Their skin cleaveth to their bones; It is withered, and become like a dry stock.

²⁰ And about the time of her death, the women that stood about her, said unto her, "Fear not for thou hast borne a son." But she answered not, nor regarded it.

⁶ Yea every man walketh as it were a shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain: he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.

¹⁸ Yea, I was weary of all my labour, which I had taken under the Sun, because I should be fain to leave them unto another man, that cometh after me. ¹⁹ For who knoweth, whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? And yet shall he be lord of all my labours, which I with such wisdom have taken under the Sun. Is not this a vain thing?

⁵ For they that be living, know that they shall die: but they that be dead, know nothing, neither deserve they anymore. For their memorial is forgotten,

⁷ Yea, and part of thy sons, that shall come of thee, and whom thou shalt get, shall be carried hence, and become gelded chamberlains in the king of Babylon's court." ⁸ Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, "Good is the word of God which thou hast told me." He said moreover, "For there shall be peace and faithfulness in my time."

¹⁶ Yet art thou our father: For Abraham knoweth us not, neither is Israel acquainted with us. But thou LORD art our father and redeemer, and thy name is everlasting.

²⁰ My bone hangeth to my skin, and my flesh is away; there is left me only the skin about my teeth.

²² Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied of my flesh?

¹⁹ "He chasteneth him with sickness, and bringeth him to his bed: he layeth sore punishment upon his bones, ²⁰ so that his life may away with no bread, and his soul abhorreth to eat any dainty meat: ²¹ Insomuch that his body is clean consumed away, and his bones appear no more.

²³ And being in hell, in torments, he lift up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom; ²⁴ And he cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame.'