Job 15 Cross References - MSTC

¹ Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, ² "Should a wise man's answer be as the science of the wind, and fill his belly with the wind of the east? ³ Thou reprovest with words, that are worth nothing; and speakest the things which can do no good! ⁴ As for shame, thou hast set it aside - else wouldest thou not make so many words before God. ⁵ But thy wickedness teacheth thy mouth, and so thou hast chosen thee a crafty tongue. ⁶ Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea thine own lips shape the answer. ⁷ Art thou the first man that ever was born? Or, wast thou made before the hills? 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? ¹⁰ With us are old and aged men; yea, such as have lived longer than thy forefathers. ¹¹ Thinkest thou it a small thing of the consolations of God? With thee is a lying word. ¹² Why doth thine heart make thee so proud? Why standest thou so greatly in thine own conceit? Where unto look thine eyes, ¹³ that thy mind is so puffed up against God and lettest such words go out of thy mouth? 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? ¹⁵ Behold, he doth not trust his saints; yea, the very heavens are not clean in his sight. ¹⁶ How much more then an abominable and vile man, which drinketh wickedness like water? 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: ¹⁹ unto whom only the land was given, that no stranger should come among them. ²⁰ The ungodly despaireth all the days of his life, and the number of a tyrant's years is unknown. ²¹ A fearful sound is ever in his ears, and when it is peace yet feareth he destruction. ²² He believeth never to be delivered out of darkness; the sword is always before his eyes. ²³ When he goeth forth to get his living, he thinketh plainly, that the day of darkness is at hand. ²⁴ Sorrow and carefulness make him afraid, and compass him round about, like as it where a king with his host ready to the battle. ²⁵ For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and armed himself against the Almighty. ²⁶ He runneth proudly upon him, and with a stiff neck fighteth he against him: ²⁷ whereas he covereth his face with fatness, and maketh his body well liking. ²⁸ Therefore shall his dwelling be in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, but are become heaps of stones. ²⁹ He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, nor increase upon earth. ³⁰ He shall never come out of darkness, the flame shall dry up his branches, with the blast of the mouth of God shall he be taken away. ³¹ He will never apply himself to faithfulness and truth, so sore is he deceived with vanity. ³² He shall perish, before his time be worn out, and his hand shall not be green. ³³ He shall be plucked off as an untimely grape from the vine, and shall let his flower fall, as the olive doth. ³⁴ For the congregation of hypocrites is unfruitful, and the fire shall consume the houses of such as are greedy to receive gifts. ³⁵ He conceiveth travail, he beareth mischief, and his body bringeth forth deceit."

¹¹ Now when Job's friends heard of all the trouble that happened to him, there came three of them, every one from his own place: namely, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they were agreed together to come, to shew their compassion on him, and to comfort him.

¹ Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite and said unto him,

¹ So Eliphaz the Temanite gave answer, and said,

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.

⁹ So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went their way, and did according as the LORD commanded them. The LORD also accepted the person of Job,

²⁶ Do ye take deliberacy to check men's sayings, and judge a poor word spoken in vain?

² "How long wilt thou talk of such things? How long shall thy mouth speak so proud words?

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?

² Look what ye know, that same do I know also, neither am I inferior unto you.

¹ Ephraim keepeth the air, and followeth after the east wind: he is ever increasing lies and destruction. They be confederate with the Assyrians, their oil is carried into Egypt.

¹³ If any man be wise and endued with learning among you, let him show the works of his good conversation in meekness that is coupled with wisdom.

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 "I have oft times heard such things. Miserable givers of comfort are ye, all the sort of you. ³ Shall not thy vain words come yet to an end? Or, hast thou yet any more to say?

¹ Job answered, and said, 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?

¹³ Ye speak hard words against me, sayeth the LORD. And yet ye say, 'What have we spoken against thee?' ¹⁴ Ye have said, 'It is but lost labour, to serve God: What profit have we for keeping his commandments, and for walking humbly before the LORD of Hosts? ¹⁵ Therefore may we say, that the proud are happy, and that they which deal with ungodliness, are set up: for they tempt God and yet escape.'

³⁶ But I say unto you, that of every idle word, that men shall have spoken, they shall give accounts at the day of judgment. ³⁷ For by thy words thou shalt be justified: and by thy words thou shalt be condemned."

⁶ Let your speech be always well favoured and be powdered with salt, that ye may know how to answer every man.

⁴ he is puffed up and knoweth nothing: but wasteth his brains about questions, and strife of words, whereof spring envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings ⁵ and vain disputations of men with corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, which think that lucre is godliness. From such, separate thyself.

¹³ And so Saul died for his trespass that he trespassed against the LORD, in that he kept not the word of the LORD, and in that he asked counsel of a woman that wrought with a spirit, ¹⁴ and asked not of the LORD. And therefore the Lord killed him and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.

⁵ But now that the plague is come upon thee, thou shrinkest away: now that it hath touched thyself, thou art faint hearted. ⁶ Where is now thy fear of God, thy steadfastness, thy patience, and the perfectness of thy ways?

⁸ But now will I speak of the LORD, and talk of God:

¹⁴ like as if one withdrew a good deed from his friend, and forsook the fear of the Almighty God?

¹⁰ Hath he such pleasure and delight in the Almighty, that he dare always call upon God?

¹ {To the Chanter, of David the servant of the Lord} My heart showeth me the wickedness of the ungodly, that there is no fear of God before his eyes. ² For he flattereth himself in his own sight, until his abominable sin be found out. ³ The words of his mouth are unrighteous and full of deceit; he hath left off to behave himself wisely, and to do good.

¹²⁶ It is time for thee, O LORD, to lay to thine hand; for they have destroyed thy law.

¹⁴ They call not upon me with their hearts, but lie howling upon their beds. Whereas they come together, it is but for meat and drink, and me will they not obey.

¹⁰ So their next kinfolks and the dead buriers shall take them, and carry away their bones, and say unto him that is in the innermore house, 'Is there yet any more by thee?' And he shall answer, 'They are all gone. Hold thy tongue,' shall he say. For they would not remember the name of the LORD.

⁶ which start back from the LORD, and neither seek after the LORD, nor regard him.

¹ He put forth a similitude unto them, signifying that men ought always to pray, and not to be weary,

³¹ Do we then destroy the law through faith? God forbid. But we, rather, maintain the law.

²¹ I despise not the grace of God: For if righteousness come of the law, then is Christ died in vain.

¹³ which compasseth the wise in their own craftiness, and overthroweth the counsel of the wicked.

²² "This one thing will I say: He destroyeth both the righteous and ungodly. ²³ And though he slay suddenly with the scourge, yet will he laugh at the punishment of the innocent. 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?

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.

¹⁹ Thou lettest thy mouth speak wickedness, and thy tongue painteth deceit. ²⁰ Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother, yea and slanderest thine own mother's son.

² Thy tongue imagineth wickedness, and with lies it cutteth like a sharp razor. ³ Thou lovest ungraciousness more than good, to talk of lies more than righteousness. Selah. ⁴ Thou lovest to speak all words that may do hurt, O thou false tongue.

³ who have whet their tongue like a sword, and shoot out their arrows, even bitter words,

² Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue! ³ What reward shall be given or done unto thee, thou false tongue?

³ They bend their tongues like bows, to shoot out lies: As for the truth, they may nothing away with all in the world. For they go from one wickedness to another, and hold nothing of me, sayeth the LORD. ⁴ Yea, one must keep himself from another; no man may safely trust his own brother. For one brother undermineth another, and one neighbour begileth another. ⁵ Yea, one dissesembleth with another, and they deal with no truth. They have practiced their tongues to lie, and taken great pains to do mischief.

⁸ Their tongues are like sharp arrows, to speak deceit. With their mouth they speak peaceably to their neighbour, but privily they lay wait for him.

²¹ For from within even out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts: adultery, fornication, murder, ²² theft, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, uncleanness, and a wicked eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

⁴⁵ A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good. And an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart, bringeth forth that which is evil. For of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaketh.

²⁶ If any man among you seem devout, and refrain not his tongue: but deceive his own heart, this man's devotion is in vain.

⁵ even so the tongue is little member and boasteth great things. Behold how great a thing a little fire kindleth, ⁶ and the tongue is fire, and a world of wickedness. So is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth afire all that we have of nature, and is itself set afire, even of hell. ⁷ All the natures of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and things of the sea, are meeked and tamed of the nature of man. ⁸ But the tongue can no man tame. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

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.

⁸ "Now hast thou spoken in mine ears, and I have heard the voice of thy words: ⁹ 'I am clean without any fault, I am innocent, and there is no wickedness in me. ¹⁰ But lo, he hath picked a quarrel against me, and taketh me for his enemy: ¹¹ He hath put my foot in the stocks, and looketh narrowly unto all my paths.' ¹² "Behold, unto these unreasonable words of thine will I make answer. Should God be reproved of man?

⁵ And why? Job hath said, 'I am righteous, but God doth me wrong.' ⁶ I must needs be a liar, though my cause be right, and violently am I plagued whereas I made no fault.' ⁷ Where is there such one as Job, that drinketh up scornfulness like water? ⁸ Which goeth in company of wicked doers, and walketh with ungodly men? ⁹ For he sayeth, 'Though a man be good, yet is he naught before God.'

² "Thinkest thou it right, that thou saidst, 'I am righteous before God?' ³ For thou sayest, 'What advantage will it be unto thee, and what profit shall thou have of my sin?'

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

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.

⁸ Yea, their own tongues shall make them fall, insomuch that whoso seeth them, shall laugh them to scorn.

³⁷ For by thy words thou shalt be justified: and by thy words thou shalt be condemned."

⁶⁵ Then the high priest rent his clothes saying, "He hath blasphemed: what need we of any more witnesses? Behold, now have ye heard his blasphemy:

²² And he said unto him, 'Of thine own mouth judge I thee, thou evil servant. Knowest thou that I am a strait man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow?

¹ And Adam lay with Eve his wife, which conceived and bare Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man of the LORD."

¹² "Among old persons there is wisdom, and among the aged is understanding.

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

⁴ "Where wast thou, when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell plainly if thou hast understanding. ⁵ Who hath measured it, knowest thou? Or, who hath spread the line upon it? ⁶ Where upon stand the pillars of it? Or, who laid the corner stone? ⁷ Where wast thou, when the morning stars praised me together, and all the children of God rejoiced triumphantly? ⁸ Who shut the sea with doors, when it brake forth as a child out of his mother's womb? ⁹ When I made the clouds to be a covering for it, and swaddled it with the dark; ¹⁰ When I gave it my commandment, making doors and bars for it; ¹¹ saying, 'Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further, and here shalt thou lay down thy proud and high waves.' ¹² "Hast thou given the morning his charge, as soon as thou wast born, and showed the day spring his place, ¹³ that it might take hold of the corners of the earth, and that the ungodly might be shaken out? ¹⁴ Their tokens and weapons hast thou turned like clay, and set them up again as the changing of a garment. ¹⁵ Yea, thou hast spoiled the ungodly of their light, and broken the arm of the proud. ¹⁶ Camest thou ever into the ground of the sea: or hast thou walked in the low corners of the deep? ¹⁷ Have the gates of death been open unto thee, or hast thou seen the door of everlasting treasure? ¹⁸ Hast thou also perceived how broad the earth is? Now if thou hast knowledge of all, ¹⁹ then show me where light dwelleth, and where darkness is: ²⁰ that thou mayest bring us unto their quarters, if thou canst tell the way to their houses. ²¹ Knowest thou, when thou wast born, how old thou shouldest be? ²² Wentest thou ever into the treasures of the snow? Or hast thou seen the secret places of the hail, ²³ which I have prepared against the time of trouble, against the time of battle and war? ²⁴ By what way is the light parted, and the heat dealt out upon the earth? ²⁵ "Who divideth the abundance of waters into rivers, or who maketh a way for the stormy weather, ²⁶ that it watereth and moistureth the dry and barren ground: ²⁷ to make the grass grow in places where no body dwelleth, and in the wilderness where no man remaineth? ²⁸ Who is the father of rain? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew? ²⁹ Out of whose womb came the ice? Who hath gendered the coldness of the air? ³⁰ That the waters are as hard as stones, and lie congealed above the deep. ³¹ Hast thou brought the seven stars together? Or art thou able to loose the bands of Orion? ³² Canst thou bring forth the morning star or the evening star at convenient times, and convey them home again? ³³ Knewest thou the course of heaven, that thou mayest set up the ordinance thereof upon the earth? ³⁴ Moreover, canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that they may pour down a great rain upon thee? ³⁵ Canst thou thunder also that they may go their way, and be obedient unto thee, saying, 'Lo here are we'? ³⁶ Who giveth sure wisdom or steadfast understanding? ³⁷ Who numbereth the clouds in wisdom? Who stilleth the vehement waters of heaven? ³⁸ Who turneth the clots to dust, and then to be clots again? ³⁹ Huntest thou the prey from the lion, or feedest thou his whelps ⁴⁰ living in their dens, and lurking in their couches? ⁴¹ Who provideth meat for the raven, when his young ones cry unto God, and fly about for want of meat?

² Before the mountains were brought forth, before the earth and the world were made, thou art God from everlasting and world without end.

²² "The LORD himself had me in possession in the beginning of his ways, before he began his works afore time. ²³ I have been ordained from everlasting, and from the beginning before the earth was made. ²⁴ When I was born, there were neither depths nor springs of water. ²⁵ Before the foundations of the mountains were laid, yea before all hills was I born.

²⁹ The secrets pertain unto the LORD our God and the things that are opened pertain unto us and our children forever, that we do all the words of this law.

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.

² "Then, no doubt, ye are the men alone; and wisdom shall perish with you.

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.

⁴ As it stood with me, when I was young, when God prospered my house;

¹⁴ The secret of the LORD is among them that fear him, and he showeth them his covenant.

³² for the LORD abhorreth the froward, but his secret is among the righteous.

¹⁸ For who hath sitten in the council of the LORD, that he hath heard and understood what he is about to do? Who hath marked his device, and heard it?

⁷ Now doth the LORD God no manner of thing, but he telleth his secret before unto his servants the prophets.

²⁵ At that time, Jesus answered and said, "I praise thee, O father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast opened them unto babes,

¹¹ He answered, and said unto them, "It is given unto you to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

³⁵ to fulfill that which was spoken by the prophet saying, "I will open my mouth in similitudes, and will speak forth things which have been kept secret from the beginning of the world."

¹⁵ Henceforth, call I you not servants: For the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth. But you have I called friends: For all things that I have heard of my father, I have opened to you.

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

²⁵ To him that is of power to establish you according to my gospel and preaching of Jesus Christ, in uttering of the mystery which was kept secret since the world began, ²⁶ but now is opened at this time and declared opened by the scriptures of prophecy, at the commandment of the everlasting God, to stir up obedience to the faith published among all nations:

⁹ But as it is written, "The eye hath not seen, and the ear hath not heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." ¹⁰ But God hath opened them unto us by his spirit. For the spirit searcheth all things, yea the bottom of God's secrets. ¹¹ For what man knoweth the things of a man: save the spirit of a man which is within him? Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the spirit of God.

¹⁶ "For who knoweth the mind of the Lord, other who shall inform him?" But we understand the mind of Christ.

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

³ Where is the counsel that thou shouldest give him, which hath no wisdom? Wilt thou so show thine excellent righteousness? ⁴ Before whom hast thou spoken those words? Who made the breath to come out of the mouth?

⁷ Look ye on things after the outer appearance? If any man trust in himself that he is Christ's, let the same also consider of himself, that as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.

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, ²⁴ in death often. Of the Jews, five times received I, every time, forty stripes, save one. ²⁵ Thrice was I beaten with rods. I was once stoned. I suffered thrice shipwreck. Night and day have I been in the deep of the sea. ²⁶ In journeying often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers; in jeopardies of mine own nation, in jeopardies among the heathen. I have been in perils in cities, in perils in wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; ²⁷ in labour and travail, in watching often, in hunger, in thirst, in fastings often, in cold and in nakedness. ²⁸ And beside the things which outwardly happen unto me, I am cumbered daily and do care for all congregations. ²⁹ Who is sick: and I am not sick? Who is hurt in the faith: and my heart burneth not? ³⁰ If I must needs rejoice, I will rejoice of mine infirmities.

⁷ Remember the days that are past: consider the years from time to time. Ask thy father and he will show thee; thine elders, and they will tell thee.

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.

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

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.

³¹ Age is a crown of worship, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

²⁴ Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, "How is the spirit of the LORD gone from me, to speak in thee?"

⁸ But now will I speak of the LORD, and talk of God: 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. ¹⁷ "Behold, happy is the man whom God punisheth: therefore, despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty. ¹⁸ For though he make a wound, he giveth a medicine again: though he smite, his hand maketh whole again. ¹⁹ He delivereth thee out of six troubles, so that in the seventh there can no harm touch thee. ²⁰ In the midst of hunger he saveth thee from death: and when it is war, from the power of the sword. ²¹ He shall keep thee from the perilous tongue so that when trouble cometh, thou shalt not need to fear. ²² In destruction and dearth thou shalt be merry, and shalt not be afraid for the beasts of the earth: ²³ But the castles in the land shall be confederate with thee, and the beasts of the field shall give thee peace. ²⁴ Yea, thou shalt know that thy dwelling place shall be in rest: thou shalt behold thy substance, and be no more punished for sin. ²⁵ Thou shalt see also, that thy seed shall increase, and that thy posterity shall be as the grass upon the earth. ²⁶ Thou shalt come to thy grave in a fair age, like as the corn sheaves are brought in to the barn in due season.

¹³ "If thou hadst now a right heart, and liftest up thine hands toward him; ¹⁴ if thou wouldst put away the wickedness which thou hast in hand, so that no ungodliness dwelt in thy house; ¹⁵ Then mightest thou lift up thy face without shame! Then shouldest thou be sure, and have no need to fear. ¹⁶ Then shouldest thou forget thy misery, and think no more upon it, than upon the waters that run by. ¹⁷ Then should the residue of thy life be as clear as the noon day, and spring forth as the morning. ¹⁸ Then mightest thou have comfort, in the hope that thou hast; and sleep quietly, when thou art buried. ¹⁹ Then shouldest thou take thy rest, and no man to make thee afraid, yea many one should set much by thee.

⁸ Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God, that all wisdom is too little for thee?

¹⁶ Even so shall he keep thee - if thou wilt be content - from the bottomless pit that is beneath: and if thou wilt hold the quiet, he shall fill thy table with plenteousness.

³ Blessed be God the father of our Lord Jesus the Christ, father of mercy, and the God of all comfort, ⁴ which comforteth us in all our tribulation, insomuch that we are able to comfort them which are troubled, in whatsoever tribulation it be, with the same comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. ⁵ For as the afflictions of Christ are plenteous in us: even so is our consolation plenteous by Christ.

⁶ Nevertheless God, that comforteth the abject, comforted us at the coming of Titus.

¹³ "If thou hadst now a right heart, and liftest up thine hands toward him;

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

¹⁹ O let not them that are mine enemies triumph over me ungodly; neither let them wink with their eyes, that hate me without a cause.

¹³ he winketh with his eyes, he tokeneth with his feet, he pointeth with his fingers,

⁹ Be glad then, O thou young man, in thy youth, and let thine heart be merry in thy young days; follow the ways of thine own heart, and the lust of thine eyes: but be thou sure, that God shall bring thee into judgment for all these things.

³ Then said Peter, "Ananias how is it that Satan hath filled thine heart, that thou shouldest lie unto the holy ghost, and keep away part of the price of the livelihood: ⁴ Pertained it not unto thee only? And after it was sold, was not the price in thine own power? How is it that thou hast conceived this thing in thine heart? Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God."

²² Repent, therefore, of this thy wickedness, and pray God that the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.

¹⁴ But every man is tempted, drawn away, and enticed of his own concupiscence. ¹⁵ Then when lust hath conceived, she bringeth forth sin, and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death.

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

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?

²⁵ For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and armed himself against the Almighty. ²⁶ He runneth proudly upon him, and with a stiff neck fighteth he against him: ²⁷ whereas he covereth his face with fatness, and maketh his body well liking.

¹³ Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips, that they speak no guile.

¹³ Ye speak hard words against me, sayeth the LORD. And yet ye say, 'What have we spoken against thee?'

⁷ because that the fleshly mind is enmity against God: For it is not obedient to the law of God, neither can be. ⁸ So then, they that are given to the flesh, cannot please God.

² For in many things we sin all. If a man sin not in word, the same is a perfect man and able to tame all the body. ³ Behold, we put bits into the horses' mouths that they should obey us, and we turn about all the body. ⁴ Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the violence of the governor will: ⁵ even so the tongue is little member and boasteth great things. Behold how great a thing a little fire kindleth, ⁶ and the tongue is fire, and a world of wickedness. So is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth afire all that we have of nature, and is itself set afire, even of hell.

⁴⁶ And finally, when they shall have sinned against thee — for there is no man that sinneth not — and thou art angry with them and hast delivered them to their enemies, that they be carried away prisoners unto the land of their enemies, whether far or near;

³⁶ If they shall sin against thee - as there is no man, but that he shall sin - and thou be angry with them and deliver them to their enemies, and they lead them away captive unto a country far or nigh;

² "I know it is so of a truth: for how may a man, compared unto God, be justified?

⁴ Who can make it clean, that cometh from an unclean thing? Nobody.

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?"

³ But they are all gone out of the way, they are all together become abominable: there is none that doeth good, no not one.

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

⁹ Who can say, "My heart is clean, I am innocent from sin"?

²⁰ For there is not one just upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not.

²⁹ Lo, this only have I found, that God made man just and right, but they seek divers subtleties.

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

¹⁸ For I know that in me, that is to say, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing. To will is present with me: but I find no means to perform that which is good.

²² But the scripture concluded all things under sin, that the promise by the faith of Jesus Christ should be given unto them that believe.

² in the which, in time past, ye walked, according to the course of this world, and after the governor that ruleth in the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of unbelief, 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.

⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and truth is not in us. ⁹ If we knowledge our sins, he is faithful and just, to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ¹⁰ If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

¹⁸ Behold, he hath found unfaithfulness among his own servants, and proud disobedience among his angels.

¹ Name me one else, if thou can find any: yea, look about thee upon any of the holy men.

⁵ Behold, the Moon shineth nothing in comparison to him, and the stars are unclean in his sight.

² From above flickered the Seraphims, whereof every one had six wings: With twain each covered his face, with twain his feet, and with twain did he fly. ³ They cried also each one to other on this manner: "Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of Hosts! The whole world is full of his glory!" ⁴ Yea, the joists and doorchecks moved at their crying, and the house was full of smoke. ⁵ Then I said, "O woe is me! For I am lost: inasmuch as I am a man of unclean lips, and dwell among people that hath unclean lips also. For mine eyes have seen the King and LORD of Hosts."

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?

¹² When wickedness was sweet in his mouth, he hid it under his tongue.

⁷ Where is there such one as Job, that drinketh up scornfulness like water?

⁶ Wherefore I give mine own self the blame, and take repentance in the dust and ashes."

¹ {To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} The fool hath said in his heart, "Tush, there is no God." They are corrupt, and become abominable in their doings; there is none that doeth good, no not one. ² The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that would understand and seek after God. ³ But they are all gone out of the way, they are all together become abominable: there is none that doeth good, no not one.

³ But they are all gone out of the way, they are altogether become abominable. There is none that doeth good, no not one.

²⁸ A false witness laugheth judgement to scorn; and the mouth of the ungodly eateth up wickedness.

²⁸ And as it seemed not good unto them to be a known of God, even so God delivered them up unto a lewd mind, that they should do those things which were not comely, ²⁹ being full of all unrighteous doing: of fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, evil-conditioned whisperers, ³⁰ backbiters, haters of God, doers of wrong, proud, boasters, bringers-up of evil things, disobedient to fathers and mothers,

⁹ What say we then? Are we better than they? No, in no wise. For we have already proved how that both Jews and gentiles are all under sin, ¹⁰ as it is written, "There is none righteous, no not one: ¹¹ There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God, ¹² they are all gone out of the way, they are all made unprofitable, there is none that doeth good, no not one." ¹³ "Their throat is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they have deceived." "The poison of Asps is under their lips." ¹⁴ "Whose mouths are full of cursing and bitterness." ¹⁵ "Their feet are swift to shed blood. ¹⁶ Destruction and wretchedness are in their ways: ¹⁷ And the way of peace have they not known." ¹⁸ "There is no fear of God before their eyes." 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 For we ourselves also were in times past, unwise, disobedient, deceived, in danger to lusts, and to divers manners of voluptuousness, living in maliciousness and envy, full of hate, hating one another.

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."

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

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

² "Hold thee still a little, and I shall show thee what I have yet to speak on God's behalf.

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

¹⁸ Forsake me not, O God, in mine old age, when I am grey-headed, until I have showed thy strength unto children's children, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come.

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. ⁵ He made a covenant with Jacob, and gave Israel a law, which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children, ⁶ that their posterity might know it, and the children which were yet unborn, to the intent that when they came up, they might show their children the same;

¹⁹ but the living, yea the living acknowledge thee, like as I do this day. The father telleth his children of thy faithfulness.

²⁵ And Eber begat two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his time the earth was divided. And the name of his brother was Joktan.

³² These are the kindreds of the sons of Noah, in their generations and nations. And of these came the people that were in the world after the flood.

⁸ When the most highest gave the nations an inheritance, and divided the sons of Adam, he put the borders of the nations fast by the multitude of the children of Israel.

¹⁷ And ye shall know that I, the LORD your God, dwell in Zion my holy mount. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and there shall no stranger pass through there any more.

¹ Considering then that there is no time hid from the Almighty, how happeneth it, that they which know him, will not regard his days?

¹³ saying, 'This is that portion that the wicked shall have of God, and the heritage that Tyrants shall receive of the Almighty'?

³ Thou turnest man to destruction; Again, thou sayest, "Come again, ye children of men." ⁴ For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday, seeing that is passed as a watch in the night.

¹² O teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

³ Among all things that come to pass under the Sun, this is a mystery, that it happeneth unto all alike. This is the cause also that the hearts of men are full of wickedness, and mad foolishness is in their hearts, as long as they live, until they die.

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?' ²¹ So is it with him that gathered riches, and is not rich in God."

²² For we know that every creature groaneth with us also, and travaileth in pain even unto this time.

¹ Go to now, ye rich men. Weep, and howl on your wretchedness that shall come upon you. ² Your riches is corrupt, your garments are motheaten. ³ Your gold and your silver are cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness unto you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together in your last days. ⁴ Behold, the hire of the laborers which have reaped down your fields — which hire is of you kept back by fraud — crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped, are entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts. ⁵ Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth and in wantonness. Ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. ⁶ Ye have condemned and have killed the just, and he hath not resisted you.

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."

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.

³⁶ And when Abigail came to Nabal, behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, and he was drunk a good. Wherefore she told him nought, neither little nor more, until the morrow day. ³⁷ But in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these words, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone, ³⁸ and upon a ten days after, the LORD smote Nabal that he died.

⁶ For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians hear a noise of chariots and a noise of horses, and the noise of a great Host. Insomuch that they said one to another, "See, the king of Israel hath hired against us, the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt, to come upon us."

¹³ Now upon a certain day when his sons and daughters were eating, and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house, ¹⁴ there came a messenger unto Job, and said, "While the oxen were a plowing, and the asses going in the pasture beside them, ¹⁵ the Sabeans came in violently, and took them all away: yea, they have slain thy servants with the sword, and I only ran my way, to tell thee." ¹⁶ And while he was yet speaking, there came another, and said, "The fire of God is fallen from heaven, it hath consumed, and burnt up all thy sheep and servants: and I only ran my way, to tell thee." ¹⁷ In the mean season while he was yet speaking, there came another, and said, "The Chaldeans made three armies, and fell upon thy camels, which they have carried away: yea, and slain thy servants with the sword, and I only am gotten away, to tell thee." ¹⁸ While he was speaking, there came yet another, and said, "Thy sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house, ¹⁹ and suddenly there came a mighty great wind out of the South, and smote the four corners of the house: which fell upon thy children, so that they are dead, and I alone am gotten away, to tell thee."

¹¹ "Fearfulness shall make him afraid on every side, that he shall not know where to get out.

⁵ the praise of the ungodly hath been short, and that the joy of the hypocrites continued but the twinkling of an eye? ⁶ Though he be magnified up to the heaven, so that his head reacheth into the clouds: ⁷ yet he perisheth at the last, like dung. Insomuch that they which have seen him, say, 'Where is he?'

²² Though he had plenteousness of everything, yet was he poor, and therefore he is but a wretch on every side. ²³ "For though the wicked have never so much to fill his belly, yet God shall send his wrath upon him, and cause his indignation to rain over him: ²⁴ so that if he flee the iron weapons, he shall be shot with the steel bow. ²⁵ The arrow shall be taken forth, and go out at his back; and a glistering sword through the gall of him. Fear shall come upon him.

²⁰ Destruction taketh hold upon him as a water flood, and the tempest stealeth him away in the night season.

¹⁸ Namely, how thou hast set them in a slippery places, that thou mayest cast them down headlong and destroy them. ¹⁹ O how suddenly do they consume, perish and come to a fearful end! ²⁰ Yea, even like as a dream when one awaketh, so makest thou their image to vanish out of the city.

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

²⁶ Therefore shall I also laugh in your destruction, and mock you, when the thing that ye fear cometh upon you: ²⁷ even when the thing that ye be afraid of, falleth in suddenly like a storm, and your misery like a tempest: yea, when trouble and heaviness cometh upon you.

²¹ And upon a day appointed, Herod arrayed him in royal apparel, and set him in his seat, and made an oration unto them. ²² And the people gave a shout, saying, "It is the voice of a god and not of a man." 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 Neither murmur ye as some of them murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

³ For when they shall say, "Peace, no danger," then cometh on them sudden destruction, as the travailing of a woman with child, and they shall not escape.

¹¹ And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue, is Abadon: but in the Greek tongue, Apollion, that is to say: a destroyer.

³³ And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger was come unto him. And he said, "Behold, this evil is of the LORD! What more shall we look for of the LORD?"

¹¹ What power have I to endure? Or, what is mine end, that my soul might be patient?

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

²⁹ But beware of the sword, for the sword will be avenged of wickedness. And be sure, that there is a judgment."

¹⁴ If he get many children, they shall perish with the sword, and his posterity shall have scarceness of bread.

²¹ If he do not this, he stumbleth and suffereth hunger. And if he suffer hunger, he is out of patience, and blasphemeth his king and his God. Then looketh he upward, and downward to the earth, ²² and behold, there is trouble and darkness; vexation is round about him, and the cloud of error. And out of such adversity, shall he not escape.

⁵ And he cast down the silver plates in the temple, and departed, and went and hung himself.

¹² For when thou tillest the ground she shall henceforth not give her power unto thee. A vagabond and a renegade shalt thou be upon the earth."

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.

¹² Hunger shall be his substance, and misfortune shall hang upon him.

¹⁸ he shall be driven from the light into darkness, and cast clean out of the world.

³ For very misery and hunger, they went about in the wilderness like wretches and beggars, ⁴ plucking up herbs from among the bushes, and the Juniper's root was their meat.

¹⁵ Let them run here and there for meat, and grudge when they have not enough.

¹⁰ Let his children be vagabonds, and beg their bread; let them seek it also out of desolate places.

⁸ If a man live many years, and be glad in them all, let him remember the days of darkness, which shall be many: And when they come, all things shall be but vanity.

⁶ Afore time we yielded ourselves to the Egyptians, and now to the Assyrians, only that we might have bread enough.

⁹ We must get our living with the peril of our lives because of the drought of the wilderness.

² a dark and gloomy day, a cloudy and black day. As the morning is spread over the mountains, so it this populous and strong people: such as have not been since the beginning, neither shall be after them for evermore.

²⁰ Shall not the day of the LORD be dark, and not clear? Shall it not be cloudy, and no shine in it?

¹⁵ For that day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and heaviness, a day of utter destruction and misery, a dark and gloomy day, a cloudy and stormy day,

²⁷ but a fearful looking for judgment, and violent fire, which shall devour the adversaries.

³⁷ were stoned, were hewn asunder, were tempted, were slain with swords, walked up and down in sheep skins, in goat skins, in need, tribulation, and vexation, ³⁸ which the world was not worthy of: They wandered in wilderness, in mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.

² "Oh that my misery were weighed, and my punishment laid in the balances: ³ For then should it be heavier than the sand of the sea. This is the cause, that my words are so sorrowful. ⁴ For the arrows of the almighty are in me, whose indignation hath drunk up my spirit, and the terrible fears of God fight against me.

¹⁴³ Trouble and heaviness have taken hold upon me; yet is my delight in thy commandments.

²⁷ even when the thing that ye be afraid of, falleth in suddenly like a storm, and your misery like a tempest: yea, when trouble and heaviness cometh upon you.

¹¹ so shall poverty come unto thee as one that travaileth by the way, and necessity like a weaponed man.

³⁴ so shall poverty come unto thee as one that travaileth by the way, and necessity like a weaponed man.

³ For I will send for my deputies and my giants, sayeth the LORD, and in my wrath I will call for such as triumph in my glory.

³⁷ And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to wax sorrowful and to be in agony. ³⁸ Then said Jesus unto them, "My soul is heavy even unto the death. Tarry ye here: and watch with me."

⁹ tribulation and anguish, upon the soul of every man that doth evil. Of the Jew first: And also of the gentile.

² And Pharaoh answered, "What fellow is the LORD, that I should hear his voice for to let Israel go? ³ I know not the LORD, neither will let Israel go." And they said, "The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he smite us either with pestilence or with sword."

¹⁷ If it be so that thou stoppest my people, that thou wilt not let them go:

²³ And if ye will not be learned yet for all this, but shall walk contrary unto me,

⁷ And the Philistines were afraid, when it was told how that God was come into the host and said, "Woe unto us, for it was never so before this. ⁸ Woe unto us, who shall deliver us out of the hand of this mighty God? This is the God that smote the Egyptians with all manner of plagues in the wilderness. ⁹ Be strong and quit yourselves like men, ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Be men therefore and fight."

⁶ Wherefore should ye harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? Which for all that, when he had played his pageants with them, were fain to let the people go and depart.

⁹ then sheweth he them their works and deeds and the sins wherewith they have used cruel violence.

⁹ Is thine arm then like the arm of God? Maketh thy voice such a sound as his doth? ¹⁰ Then arm thyself with thine own power! Up, deck thee in thy jolly array, ¹¹ pour out thy indignation of thy wrath; see that thou cast down all the proud,

⁷ "Lo, this is the man that took not God for his strength, but trusted unto the multitude of his riches, and was mighty in his wickedness!"

⁹ They stretch forth their mouth unto the heaven, and their tongue goeth through the world.

¹¹ "Tush," say they, "How should God perceive it? Is there knowledge in the most high?"

⁹ Go together ye people, and gather you, hearken to all ye of far countries. Muster you, and you shall be broken down: prepare you to battle and you shall be torn in pieces. ¹⁰ Take your counsel together, yet must your counsel come to nought; go in hand withal, yet shall it not prosper. For God is with us.

¹² Wherefore the LORD sayeth: As soon as I have performed my whole work upon the hill of Zion and Jerusalem, then will I also visit the noble and stout king of Assyria, with his wisdom and pride." ¹³ For he standeth thus in his own conceit: "This do I, through the power of my own hand, and through my wisdom: For I am wise, I am he that removes the lands of the people, I rob their princes: and like one of the worthies I drive them from their high seats. ¹⁴ My hand hath found out the Hosts of the people, as it were a nest. And like as eggs, that were laid here and there, are gathered together: So do I gather all countries. And there is no man, that dare be so bold as to touch a feather, that dare open his mouth, or once whisper."

⁴ I hear no evil will in my mind. Who will compel me that I, greatly forgetting all faithfulness, should burn it up at once with thorns and bushes?

⁴ Who hath made, created, and called the generations from the beginning? Even I the LORD, which am the first, and with the last. ⁵ The Isles saw and did fear, and ye ends of the earth were abashed, drew nigh, and came hither. ⁶ Every man exhorted his neighbour, and brother, and bad him be strong. ⁷ The Smith comforted the molder, and the Ironsmith the hammer man, saying, 'It shall be good, that we fasten this cast work,' and then they fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.

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.

⁵ And he said, "What art thou, Lord?" And the Lord said, "I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it shall be hard for thee to kick against the prick."

¹ In that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the congregation.

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.

⁸ "Judah, thy brethren shall praise thee, and thine hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies, and thy father's children shall stoop unto thee.

²² And thereto in the very time of his tribulation did king Ahaz trespass yet more against the LORD.

¹³ Moreover, have ye not heard what I and my fathers have done unto the people of all lands? Were the gods of the people of other lands able to save their lands out of my hand? ¹⁴ Which of all the gods was it, of those nations that my fathers destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand? ¹⁵ Wherefore now let not Hezekiah deceive you, either persuade you of this fashion, nor yet believe him. For as no god among so many nations and kingdoms, was able to rid his people out of mine hand and the hands of my fathers: even so much less shall your God keep you out of mine hand!" ¹⁶ And yet more did his servants speak against the LORD God and against his servant Hezekiah. ¹⁷ And thereto he wrote a letter to rail on the LORD God of Israel and spake therein, saying, "As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, no more shall the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand."

¹² I was some time in wealth, but suddenly hath he brought me to naught. He hath taken me by the neck, he hath rent me, and set me, as it were a mark for him to shoot at.

⁴⁰ Thou hast made mine enemies also to turn their backs upon me, and I shall destroy them that hate me. {TYNDALE: And thou madest mine enemies to turn their backs to me, and them that hated me, and I destroyed them.}

¹⁵ "And Israel waxed fat, and kicked. Thou wast fat, thick and smooth. And he let God go, that made him; and despised the rock that saved him.

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

¹⁰ They are enclosed in their own fat, and their mouth speaketh proud things.

⁷ Their eyes swell with fatness, and they do even what they lust.

³¹ the heavy wrath of God came upon them, and slew the wealthiest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

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."

²⁸ hereof are they fat and wealthy, and are run away from me with shameful blasphemies. They minister not the law, they make no end of the fatherless cause, they judge not the poor according to equity.

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

¹⁵ Other men shall dwell in his house - which now is none of his - and brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

⁸ Woe be unto you that join one house to another, and bring one land so nigh unto another, that the poor can get no more ground. Will ye dwell upon the earth alone? ⁹ The LORD of Hosts roundeth me thus in mine ear: Shall not many greater and more gorgeous houses be so waste, that no man shall dwell in them? ¹⁰ And ten acres of vines shall give but a quart, and thirty bushels of seed shall give but an ephah.

¹¹ I will make Jerusalem also a heap of stones, and a den of venomous worms. And I will make the cities of Judah so waste, that no man shall dwell therein."

¹⁸ "Micah the Morasthite, which was a prophet under Hezekiah king of Judah, spake to all the people of Judah, 'Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts: Zion shall be plowed like a field, Jerusalem shall be a heap of stones, and the hill of the LORD's house shall be turned to a high wood.'

³⁷ Babylon shall become a heap of stones, a dwelling place for dragons, a fearfulness and wondering, because no man dwelleth there.

¹² Therefore shall Zion, for your sakes, be plowed like a field: Jerusalem shall become a heap of stones, and the hill of the temple shall be turned to a high wood.

¹⁸ Where is there such a God as thou? That pardonest wickedness, and forgivest the offenses of the remnant of thine heritage? He keepeth not his wrath for ever. And why? His delight is to have compassion.

²² Though he had plenteousness of everything, yet was he poor, and therefore he is but a wretch on every side. ²³ "For though the wicked have never so much to fill his belly, yet God shall send his wrath upon him, and cause his indignation to rain over him: ²⁴ so that if he flee the iron weapons, he shall be shot with the steel bow. ²⁵ The arrow shall be taken forth, and go out at his back; and a glistering sword through the gall of him. Fear shall come upon him. ²⁶ There shall no darkness be able to hide him. An unkindled fire shall consume him; and look, what remaineth in his house, it shall be destroyed. ²⁷ The heaven shall declare his wickedness, and the earth shall take part against him. ²⁸ The substance that he hath in his house, shall be taken away and perish, in the day of the LORD's wrath.

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.

¹⁶ Though he have as much money as the dust of the earth, and raiment as ready as the clay, ¹⁷ he may well prepare it: but the godly shall put it upon him, and the innocent shall deal out the money.

¹⁶ Be not thou afraid, though one be made rich, or if the glory of his house be increased; ¹⁷ for he shall carry nothing away with him when he dieth, neither shall his pomp follow him.

² And he called him, and said unto him, 'How is it, that I hear this of thee? Give accounts of thy stewardship. For thou mayest be no longer my steward.'

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, ²¹ desiring to be refreshed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's board. Nevertheless, the dogs came, and licked his sores. 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.

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.

¹ Go to now, ye rich men. Weep, and howl on your wretchedness that shall come upon you. ² Your riches is corrupt, your garments are motheaten. ³ Your gold and your silver are cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness unto you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together in your last days.

⁹ With the blast of God they perish, and with the breath of his anger are they consumed away.

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

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."

²² He believeth never to be delivered out of darkness; the sword is always before his eyes.

²⁶ There shall no darkness be able to hide him. An unkindled fire shall consume him; and look, what remaineth in his house, it shall be destroyed.

²⁰ see that their increase shall be hewn down, and their posterity consumed with fire.

⁴ But he shall judge the causes of the poor with righteousness, and shall rebuke with equity for the humble of the earth. And he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall slay the wicked.

³³ For the fire of pain is ordained from the beginning: yea, even for kings it is prepared. This hath the LORD set in the deep, and made it wide: the burning whereof is fire and much wood. The breath of the LORD, which is a river of brimstone, doth kindle it.

⁴ Behold, it is cast into the fire to be burnt; the fire consumeth both the ends of it, the midst is burnt to ashes. Is it mete then for any work? No. ⁵ Seeing then, that it was mete for no work, being whole: much less may there anything be made of it, when the fire hath consumed and burnt it. ⁶ And therefore thus sayeth the LORD God: Like as I cast the vine into the fire for to be burnt, as other trees of the wood: Even so will I do with them that dwell in Jerusalem, ⁷ and set my face against them: they shall go out from the fire, and yet the fire shall consume them. Then shall ye know that I am the LORD: when I set my face against them,

⁴⁷ and say to the wood toward the south, 'Hear the word of the LORD, thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, that shall consume thee green trees with the dry. No man shall be able to quench his flame, but all that looketh from the south to the north shall be burnt therein. ⁴⁸ And all flesh shall see, that I the LORD have kindled it, so that no man may quench it.'"

¹² And the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into the utter darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

¹³ Then said the King to his ministers, 'Take and bind him hand and foot, and cast him into utter darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

⁴¹ Then shall the King say unto them that shall be on the left hand, 'Depart from me ye cursed, into everlasting fire, which is prepared for the devil and his angels.

⁴³ Wherefore, if thy hand offend thee, cut him off. It is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than to go, having two hands, into hell: into fire that never shall be quenched, ⁴⁴ where their worm dieth not, and the fire never goeth out. ⁴⁵ Likewise, if thy foot offend thee, cut him off. For it is better for thee to go halt into life, than, having two feet, to be cast into hell: into fire that never shall be quenched, ⁴⁶ where their worm dieth not, and the fire never goeth out. ⁴⁷ Even so, if thine eye offend thee, pluck him out. It is better for thee to go into the kingdom of God with one eye, than, having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire: ⁴⁸ where their worm dieth not, and the fire never goeth out. ⁴⁹ "Every man therefore shall be salted with fire: And every sacrifice shall be seasoned with salt.

⁸ in flaming fire, rendering vengeance unto them that know not God, and to them that obey not unto the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁹ which shall be punished with everlasting damnation, from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power,

¹⁷ These are wells without water, and clouds carried about of a tempest, to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever.

¹³ They are raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame. They are wandering stars, to whom is reserved the mist of darkness forever.

¹⁵ and out of his mouth went out a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the heathen. And he shall rule them with a rod of iron, and he trod the wine-vat of fierceness and wrath of almighty God.

⁸ For, as I have proved by experience, they that plow iniquity and sow wretchedness, reap the same.

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

¹⁰ O trust not in wrong or robbery; give not yourselves unto vanity. If riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

⁸ He that soweth wickedness shall reap sorrow; and the rod of his plague shall destroy him.

¹⁰ So shalt thou, O Damascus, be desolate: because thou hast forgotten God thy Saviour, and hast not called to remembrance the rock of thy strength. Wherefore thou hast also set a fair plant, and grafted a strange branch. ¹¹ In the day when thou didst plant it, it was great, and gave soon the fruit of thy seed: But in the day of harvest, thou shalt reap a heap of sorrows and miseries.

²⁰ The keeping of dust, and foolishness of heart hath turned them aside: so that none of them can have a free conscience to think, "Do not I err?"

⁴ No man regardeth righteousness, and no man judgeth truly. Every man hopeth in vain things, and imagineth deceit; conceiveth weariness, and bringeth forth evil.

⁷ They have sown wind, therefore shall they reap a whirlwind. Their seed shall bear no corn, there shall no meal be made of their increase: though they reap, yet shall strangers devour it up.

⁸ They that observe vain vanities, have forsaken him that was merciful unto them.

³ If any man seem to himself that he is somewhat, when indeed he is nothing, the same deceiveth himself in his imagination.

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.

⁶ Let no man deceive you with vain words. For through such things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of unbelief.

¹⁶ "Oftentimes, a thing doth flourish, and men think that it may abide the sunshine. It shooteth forth the branches in its garden, ¹⁷ and it taketh many roots: insomuch that it is like a house of stone. ¹⁸ But if it be taken out of its place, every man denieth it, saying, 'I know thee not.' ¹⁹ Lo, thus is it with him that rejoiceth in his own doings: and as for others, they grow out of the earth.

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.

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:

¹⁶ which were cut down out of time, and whose foundation was as a running water,

⁵ Therefore shall God destroy thee forever; he shall take thee, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah. ⁶ The righteous also shall see this, and fear, and shall laugh him to scorn. ⁷ "Lo, this is the man that took not God for his strength, but trusted unto the multitude of his riches, and was mighty in his wickedness!" ⁸ As for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God, my trust is in the tender mercy of God for ever and ever.

²³ But as for them, thou, O God, shalt bring them into the pit of destruction. The bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. Nevertheless, my trust shall be in thee, O LORD.

¹⁷ be neither too unrighteous also nor too foolish, lest thou die before thy time.

¹¹ Their harvest shall be burnt; their wives, which were their beauty when they came forth, shall be defiled. For it is a people without understanding, and therefore he that created them, shall not favour them; and he that made them, shall not be merciful to them.

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?'"

¹⁶ Ephraim is hewn down, their root is dried up, so that they shall bring no more fruit: yea and though they bring forth any, yet will I slay even the best beloved fruit of their body.

⁵ I will be as dew to Israel, and he shall flourish as a lily, and stretch out his roots as Lebanon. ⁶ His branches shall run out, and as an olive tree shall his glory be, and his savour as Lebanon. ⁷ They that shall turn and sit in his shadow, shall live with corn, and flourish as vines. His renown shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

⁶ If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered: and men gather it and cast it into the fire, and it burneth.

³⁹ Thou shalt plant a vineyard and dress it, but shalt neither drink of the wine neither gather of the grapes: for the worms shall eat it. ⁴⁰ Thou shalt have olive trees in all thy coasts, but shalt not be anointed with the oil: for thine olive trees shall be rooted out.

⁹ the desolate earth is in heaviness. Lebanon taketh it but for a sport, that it is hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness: Bashan and Carmel are turned upside down.

¹³ and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth from her her figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

³ Nevertheless, his sons followed not his steps: but turned aside after lucre and took rewards, and perverted the right.

³ Behold, here I am. Answer me before the LORD and before his anointed, whose ox have I taken? Or whose ass have I taken? Whom have I done wrong to? Or whom have I oppressed? And of whose hand have I received any bribe, to blind mine eyes therewith? And I will restore it you again."

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

²² They that hate thee, shall be confounded, and the dwellings of the ungodly shall come to naught."

¹⁴ if thou wouldst put away the wickedness which thou hast in hand, so that no ungodliness dwelt in thy house;

¹ Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

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

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

¹² "For I delivered the poor when he cried, and the fatherless that wanted help. ¹³ He that should have been lost, gave me a good word, and the widow's heart praised me. ¹⁴ And why? I put upon me righteousness, which covered me as a garment, and equity was my crown. ¹⁵ I was an eye unto the blind, and a foot to the lame; ¹⁶ I was a father unto the poor, and when I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligently. ¹⁷ I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of their teeth.

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.

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?" ¹⁵ He that leadeth a godly life - say I - and speaketh the truth; He that abhorreth to do violence and deceit; he that keepeth his hand that he touch no reward; which stoppeth his ears, that he hear no counsel against the innocent; which holdeth down his eyes, that he see none evil.

¹¹ Forsomuch then as ye oppress the poor, and rob him of his best sustenance: therefore, where as ye have builded houses of square stone, ye shall not dwell in them. Marvelous pleasant vineyards shall ye plant; but the wine of them shall ye not drink. And why? ¹² As for the multitude of your wickednesses and your stout sins, I know them right well. Enemies are ye of the righteous; ye take rewards; ye oppress the poor in judgment.

² There is not a godly man upon earth, there is not one righteous among men. They labour all to shed blood, and every man hunteth his brother to death:

⁵¹ and will divide him, and give him his reward with hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

¹⁴ Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, he hath conceived sorrow, and brought forth ungodliness.

⁴ No man regardeth righteousness, and no man judgeth truly. Every man hopeth in vain things, and imagineth deceit; conceiveth weariness, and bringeth forth evil. ⁵ They breed cockatrice eggs, and weave the spider's web. Whoso eateth of their eggs dieth. But if one treadeth upon them, there cometh up a serpent.

¹³ But now they have plowed them wickedness, therefore shall they reap sin, and eat the fruit of lies. Seeing thou puttest thy confidence in thine own ways, and leanest to the multitude of thy worthies:

¹⁵ Then when lust hath conceived, she bringeth forth sin, and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death.