Job 16 Cross References - MSTC

¹ Job answered, and said, 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? ⁴ I could speak as ye do also. But would God, that your soul were in my soul's stead: then should I heap up words against you, and shake my head at you. ⁵ I should comfort you with my mouth, and release your pain with the talking of my lips. ⁶ "But what shall I do? For all my words, my sorrow will not cease: and though I hold my tongue, yet will it not depart from me. ⁷ But now that God hath sent me adversity, thou hast troubled all my congregation. ⁸ And that thou hast filled me with wrinkles, my flesh is witness; and my leanness riseth up against me and beareth witness thereof in my face. ⁹ He is angry at me, he hateth me, and gnasheth upon me with his teeth. Mine enemy scowleth upon me with his eyes. ¹⁰ They have opened their mouths wide upon me, and smitten me upon the cheek despitefully, they have eased themselves through mine adversity. ¹¹ God hath given me over to the ungodly, and delivered me into the hands of the wicked. 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. ¹³ His archers compass me round about; he hath wounded my loins, and not spared. My bowels hath he poured upon the ground. ¹⁴ He hath given me one wound upon another, and is fallen upon me like a giant. ¹⁵ I have sewed a sackcloth upon my skin, and lie with my strength in the dust. ¹⁶ My face is swollen with weeping, and mine eyes are waxen dim. ¹⁷ "Howbeit there is no wickedness in my hands, and my prayer is clean. ¹⁸ O earth, cover not my blood, and let my crying find no room. ¹⁹ For lo, my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth me, is above in the height. ²⁰ My friends laugh me to scorn, but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. ²¹ Though a body might plead with God, as one man doth with another, ²² yet the number of my years are come - and I must go the way from whence I shall not turn again.

⁶ That which is unsavory, shalt it be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

²⁵ How steadfast are the words of truth! And which of you can rebuke or reprove them?

² "Should not he that maketh many words, be answered? Should he that babbleth much, be commended therein? ³ Should men give ear unto thee only? Thou wilt laugh other men to scorn; and shall nobody mock thee again?

⁴ 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 "How long will ye vex my mind, and trouble me with words? ³ Lo, ten times have ye reproved me: are ye not ashamed, for to laugh me to scorn?

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?

²⁶ For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk how they may vex them whom thou hast wounded.

¹⁶ The one part preacheth Christ of strife, and not purely, supposing to add more adversity to my bonds.

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

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

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

³ And with Job's three friends he was angry also, because they had found no reasonable answer to overcome him. ⁴ Now tarried Elihu till they had ended their communication with Job: for why? They were elder than he. ⁵ So when Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, saw that these three men were not able to make Job answer, he was miscontent. 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,

⁴⁶ And none of them could answer him again one word. Neither durst any from that day forth, ask him any more questions.

¹¹ whose mouths must be stopped, which pervert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, because of filthy lucre.

⁸ and with the wholesome word which cannot be rebuked, that he which withstandeth may be ashamed, having no thing in you that he may dispraise.

²¹ This is the thing that the LORD sayeth of him: He hath despised thee, O virgin daughter of Zion; he hath shaken his head at thee, thou daughter of Jerusalem.

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

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

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

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

⁷ All they that see me, laugh me to scorn: they shoot out their lips, and shake their heads.

¹⁴ Thou makest us to be a byword among the Heathen, and that the people shake their heads at us.

²⁵ I am become a reproach unto them; they look upon me and shake their heads.

¹⁹ Where much babbling is, there must needs be offense; he that refraineth his lips is wisest of all.

¹⁴ A fool is so full of words, that a man cannot tell what end he shall make. Who will then warn him of it that shall follow after him?

¹⁶ Wherethrough they have brought their land into an everlasting wilderness and scorn: So that whosoever traveleth thereby, shall be abashed, and wag their heads.

¹⁵ {Samekh} All they that go by thee clap their hands at thee - hissing and wagging their heads upon the daughter Jerusalem - and say, "Is this the city that men call so fair, wherein the whole land rejoiceth?"

¹⁵ This is the proud and careless city, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is else none." O how is she made so waste, that the beasts lie therein? Whoso goeth by, mocketh her, and pointeth at her with his finger.

¹² "Therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, even so do ye to them: this is the law and the prophets.

³⁹ They that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads ⁴⁰ and saying, "Thou that destroyest the temple of God, and buildest it in three days: save thyself. If thou be the son of God, come down from the cross."

¹⁵ Be merry with them that are merry. Weep with them that weep.

²⁶ And if one member suffer, all suffer with him: if one member be had in honour, all members be glad also.

³ Behold, thou hast been a teacher of many, and hast comforted the weary hands. ⁴ Thy words have set up those that were fallen, thou hast refreshed the weak knees.

²⁵ When I agreed unto their way, I was the chief, and sat as a king among his servants; and when they were in heaviness, I was their comforter.

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

⁹ The heart is glad of a sweet ointment and savour, but a stomach that can give good counsel, rejoiceth a man's neighbour.

¹⁷ Like as one iron wheteth another, so doth one man comfort another.

³ And therefore strengthen the weak hands, and comfort the feeble knees. ⁴ Say unto them that are of a fearful heart, "Be of good cheer, and fear not. Behold, your God cometh, to take vengeance, and to reward, God cometh his own self, and will deliver you."

¹ Brethren, if any man be fallen by chance into any fault, ye which are spiritual, help to amend him, in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

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

¹ {To the Chanter, for Jeduthun, a Psalm of Asaph} I cried unto God with my voice; yea, even unto God cried I with my voice, and he heard me. ² In the time of my trouble I sought the LORD, I held up mine hands to him in the night season, for my soul refused all other comfort. ³ When I was in heaviness, I thought upon God: when my heart was vexed, then did I speak. Selah. ⁴ Thou heldest mine eyes waking, I was so feeble, that I could not speak. ⁵ Then remembered I the times of old, and the years that were past. ⁶ I called to remembrance my song in the night, I communed with mine own heart, and sought out my spirit. ⁷ Will the LORD absent himself forever? Will he be no more intreated? ⁸ Is his mercy clean gone? Is his promise come utterly to an end for evermore? ⁹ Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Or, hath he shut up his loving-kindness in displeasure? Selah.

¹⁵ I am in misery, and like unto him that is at the point to die; even from my youth up, thy terrors have I suffered with a troubled mind. ¹⁶ Thy wrathful displeasure goeth over me; and the fear of thee hath undone me. ¹⁷ They came round about me daily like water, and compassed me together on every side. ¹⁸ My lovers and friends hast thou put away from me, and hid mine acquaintance out of my sight.

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."

¹⁷ There, must the wicked cease from their tyranny, there such as are overlaboured be at rest.

³ Even so have I laboured whole months long - but in vain - and many a careful night have I told.

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

⁵ When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children stood about me; ⁶ When my ways ran over with butter, and when the stony rocks gave me rivers of oil; ⁷ When I went through the city unto the gate, and when they set me a chair in the street; ⁸ When the young men, as soon as they saw me, hid themselves, and when the aged arose, and stood up unto me; ⁹ when the princes left of their talking, and laid their hand to their mouth; ¹⁰ when the mighty kept still their voice, and when their tongues cleaved to the roof of their mouths; ¹¹ When all they that heard me, called me happy, and when all they that saw me, wished me good. 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. ¹⁸ "Therefore, I thought verily that I should have died in my nest: and that my days should have been as many as the sands of the sea. ¹⁹ For my root was spread out by the water's side, and the dew lay upon my corn. ²⁰ My honor increased more and more, and my bow was ever the stronger in my hand. ²¹ Unto me men gave ear, me they regarded, and with silence they tarried for my counsel. ²² If I had spoken, they would have it none other ways, my words were so well taken among them. ²³ They waited for me, as the earth doth for the rain; and gaped upon me, as the ground doth to receive the latter shower. ²⁴ When I laughed, they knew well it was not earnest; and this testimony of my countenance pleased them nothing at all. ²⁵ When I agreed unto their way, I was the chief, and sat as a king among his servants; and when they were in heaviness, I was their comforter.

⁶ I am weary of my groaning; every night wash I my bed, and water my couch with my tears. ⁷ My beauty is gone for very trouble, and worn away because of all mine enemies.

¹¹ My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD, neither faint when thou are rebuked of him. ¹² For whom the LORD loveth, him he chasteneth: and yet delighteth in him even as a father in his own son.

⁴ The LORD God hath given me a well learned tongue, so that I can comfort them which are troubled; yea, and that in due season. He waked mine ear up betimes in the morning, as schoolmasters do; that I might hark.

¹³ Therefore I will take in hand to punish thee, and to make thee desolate because of thy sins.

²¹ I went out full: but the LORD hath brought me home empty. Why should ye then call me Naomi: seeing the LORD hath humbled me, and the Almighty hath brought me unto adversity?"

¹⁷ Thou bringest fresh witnesses against me, and thy wrath increasest thou upon me; very many are the plagues that I am in.

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

¹⁵ And he gave them their desire, but sent leanness withal into their soul.

²⁴ My knees are weak through fasting; my flesh is dried up for want of fatness.

¹⁶ Therefore shall the LORD of Hosts send him poverty in his riches, and burn up his power, as it were with a fire.

¹⁶ We heard songs sung to the praise of the righteous, from all the ends of the world. And I said, "O mine unfruitfulness! O my poverty! Woe is me! The transgressors have offended; the transgressors have grievously offended!"

²⁷ to make it unto himself a glorious congregation without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it should be holy and without blame.

¹⁶ Thou huntest me out, being in heaviness, as it were a lion, and troublest me out of measure. ¹⁷ Thou bringest fresh witnesses against me, and thy wrath increasest thou upon me; very many are the plagues that I am in.

²⁴ Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

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

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

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

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

¹² The ungodly layeth wait for the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

²² O consider this, ye that forget God, lest I pluck you away, and there be none to deliver you.

¹⁶ {Ayin} All thine enemies gape upon thee, whispering and biting their teeth, saying, "Let us devour, for the time that we looked for is come: we have found and seen it."

¹⁰ {Daleth} He layeth wait for me like a Bear, and as a lion in a hole.

¹⁴ I am unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a lion's whelp to the house of Judah. Even I, I will spoil them, and go my way. I will take them with me, and no man shall rescue them.

¹ In their adversity they shall seek me, and say, "Come, let us turn again to the LORD: for he hath smitten us, and he shall heal us;

⁸ O thou enemy of mine, rejoice not at my fall, for I shall get up again: and though I sit in darkness, yet the LORD is my light.

⁵⁴ When they heard these things, their hearts clave asunder, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.

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?"

²³ And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah, went to and smote Micaiah upon the cheek, and said, "By what way went the spirit of the LORD from me, to speak in thee?"

¹³ They gape upon me with their mouths, as it were a rampaging and a roaring lion.

¹⁶ For many dogs are come about me, the counsel of the wicked layeth siege against me. ¹⁷ They pierced my hands and my feet; I may tell all my bones. They stand staring and looking upon me.

¹⁵ But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: Yea, the very lame came together against me unawares, making mouths at me, and ceased not.

²¹ They gape upon me with their mouths, saying, "There! There! We see it with our eyes!"

²¹ They gather them together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

⁶ But I offer my back unto the smiters, and my cheeks to the nippers. I turn not my face from shame and spitting,

³⁰ He offereth his cheek to the smiter; he will be content with reproves.

¹ After that shalt thou be robbed thyself, O thou robber's daughter: they shall lay siege against us, and smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

⁶⁷ Then spat they in his face, and buffeted him with their fists. And others smote him with the palm of their hands on the face,

³⁵ And the people stood and beheld. And the rulers mocked him with them, saying, "He helped other men, let him help himself if he be Christ, the chosen of God." ³⁶ The soldiers also mocked him, and came and gave him vinegar,

²² When he had thus spoken, one of the ministers which stood by, smote Jesus on the face saying, "Answerest thou the high priest so?"

²⁷ For of a truth, against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and also Pontius Pilate with the gentiles, and the people of Israel, gathered themselves together:

² The high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by, to smite him on the mouth.

²⁰ For ye suffer even if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour, if a man take, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

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

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,

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

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

¹² Deliver me not over into the will of mine adversaries; for there are false witnesses risen up against me, and such as imagine mischief.

⁸ and hast shut me up into the hand of the enemy; but hast set my feet in a large room.

¹⁶ Then delivered he him unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.

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

⁷ And lest I should be exalted out of measure through the abundance of revelations, there was given unto me of God unquietness of the flesh: the messenger of Satan to buffet me, because I should not be exalted out of measure.

² This man had seven sons, and three daughters. ³ His substance was seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-asses, and a very great household: so that he was one of the most principal men among all them of the east country.

²⁶ Was I not happy? Had I not quietness? Was I not in rest? And now cometh such misery upon me!"

¹⁰ The roaring of the lion, the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the lion's whelps are broken.

¹² Am I a sea, or a whalefish, that thou keepest me so in prison?

²⁰ I have offended; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? Why hast thou made me to stand in thy way, and am so heavy a burden unto myself?

¹⁷ He troubleth me so with the tempest, and woundeth me out of measure without a cause.

²⁶ He runneth proudly upon him, and with a stiff neck fighteth he against him:

³ When his light shined upon my head; when I went after the same light and shining, even through the darkness.

¹⁸ "Therefore, I thought verily that I should have died in my nest: and that my days should have been as many as the sands of the sea. ¹⁹ For my root was spread out by the water's side, and the dew lay upon my corn.

¹⁹ no, not when thou hast smitten us into the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death

⁴ {Beth} My flesh and my skin hath he made old, my bones hath he bruised.

¹¹ He hath marred my ways, and broken me in pieces: he hath laid me waste altogether. ¹² He hath bent his bow, and made me as it were a mark to shoot at.

⁷ When they took hold of thee with their hand thou breakest and prickest them on every side: and if they leaned upon thee, thou brakest and hurtest the reins of their backs.

⁴⁴ And whosoever shall fall on this stone, he shall be alto broken. But on whosoever it shall fall upon, it will grind him to powder."

⁴ which have for my life laid down their own necks. Unto which not I only give thanks: but also the congregations of the gentiles.

²³ The shooters have envied him and chide with him and hated him,

²⁰ "And so the LORD will not be merciful unto him, but then the wrath of the LORD and his jealousy, smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book light upon him, and the LORD do out his name from under heaven,

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.

¹⁰ Then should I have some comfort: yea, I would desire him in my pain, that he should not spare, for I will not be against the words of the holy one.

²⁷ Yea, I myself shall behold him - not with other, but with these same eyes, though my reins are consumed within me.

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.

¹² If a man will not turn, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow and made it ready. ¹³ He hath prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

¹¹ {Khaf} Mine eyes begin to fail me through weeping, my body is disquieted, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the great hurt of my people, seeing the children and babes did swoon in the streets of the city.

¹³ {He} The arrows of his quiver hath he shot, even into my reins.

¹¹ Wherefore as truly as I live, sayeth the LORD God, seeing thou hast defiled my Sanctuary with all manner of abominations and with all thy shameful offenses: For this cause will I also destroy thee. Mine eye shall not oversee thee, neither will I spare thee.

³² Which spared not his own son, but gave him for us all: How shall he not with him give us all things also?

⁵ neither spared the old world, but saved Noah, the eighth preacher of righteousness, and brought in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

⁸ And he smote them leg and thigh with a mighty plague. And then he went and dwelt in the cave of the rock Etam.

⁷ One deep calleth another with the voice of thy water-pipes, all thy waves and water floods are gone over me.

³ Against me only he turneth his hand, and layeth it ever upon me. ⁴ {Beth} My flesh and my skin hath he made old, my bones hath he bruised. ⁵ He hath builded round about me, and closed me in with gall and travail.

⁷ These shall run like giants, and leap over the walls like men of war. Every man in his going will keep his array, and not go out of his Path.

³⁴ And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth about his loins, and sorrowed for his son a long season.

¹⁰ The LORD's adversaries shall be made to fear him: and out of heaven he shall thunder upon them. The LORD shall judge the ends of the world, and shall give might unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed."

²⁷ When Ahab heard those words, he rent his clothes and put sackcloth about his flesh and fasted, and lay in sack and went comfortless.

¹⁹ I am even as it were clay, and am become like ashes and dust.

⁵ Then let mine enemy persecute my soul, and take me. Yea, let him tread my life down upon the earth, and lay mine honor in the dust. Selah.

⁵ Set not up your horn on high, and speak not with a stiff neck."

¹⁰ All the horns of the ungodly will I break, and the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

¹² And at the same time shall the LORD of Hosts call men to weeping, mourning, to baldness and a putting on of sackcloth.

⁷ Mine eye is dim for very heaviness, and all my strength is become like a shadow.

⁹ Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble, and mine eye is consumed for very heaviness, yea my soul and my body.

³ For while I held my tongue, my bones consumed away through my daily complaining.

³ I am weary of crying; my throat is dry. My sight faileth me, for waiting so long upon my God.

³ For my days are consumed away like smoke, and my bones are burnt up as it were a firebrand. ⁴ My heart is smitten down, and withered like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread. ⁵ For the voice of my groaning, my bones will scarce cleave to my flesh.

⁹ I eat ashes with my bread, and mingle my drink with weeping,

³ The snares of death compassed me round about, the pains of hell got hold upon me.

¹⁴ Like as the multitude shall wonder upon him, because his face shall be so deformed and not as a man's face, and his beauty like no man:

¹⁶ {Ayin} Therefore do I weep, and mine eyes gush out of water: for the comforter that should quicken me is far from me. My children are driven away. For why? The enemy hath gotten the over hand.

¹ And Jonah prayed unto the LORD his god out of the bowels of the fish. ² And he said, "In my tribulation I called unto the LORD, and he answered me: out of the belly of hell I cried, and thou heardest my voice. ³ For thou hadst cast me down deep in the midst of the sea; and the flood compassed me about: and all thy waves and rolls of water went over me. ⁴ And I thought that I had been cast away out of thy sight. But I will yet again look toward thy holy temple. ⁵ The water compassed me even unto the very soul of me; the deep lay about me, and the weeds were wrapped about mine head. ⁶ And I went down unto the bottom of the hills, and was barred in with earth on every side forever. And yet thou, LORD my God, broughtest up my life again out of corruption. ⁷ When my soul fainted in me, I thought on the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, even into thy holy temple. ⁸ They that observe vain vanities, have forsaken him that was merciful unto them. ⁹ But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving, and will pay that that I have vowed, that saving cometh of the LORD." ¹⁰ And the LORD spake unto the fish: and it cast out Jonah again upon the dry land.

³⁴ And said unto them, "My soul is very heavy even unto the death, tarry here and watch."

⁵ If thou wouldest now resort unto God betimes, and make thy humble prayer to the Almighty; ⁶ If thou wouldest live a pure and godly life; should he not wake up unto thee immediately, and give thee the beauty of righteousness again?

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

²⁰ The ungodly despaireth all the days of his life, and the number of a tyrant's years is unknown.

³⁴ For the congregation of hypocrites is unfruitful, and the fire shall consume the houses of such as are greedy to receive gifts.

²⁷ "But I know what ye think; yea, and what ye imagine against me unrighteously. ²⁸ For ye say, 'Where is the prince's palace? Where is the dwelling of the ungodly?

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.

⁶ My righteous dealing will I keep fast, and not forsake it; for my conscience reproveth me not in all my conversation. ⁷ "Therefore mine enemy shall be found as the ungodly; and he that taketh part against me, as the unrighteous.

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.

¹ I made a covenant with mine eyes, that I would not look upon a damsel. ² For how great a portion shall I have of God from above? And what inheritance from the Almighty on high? ³ As for the ungodly and he that joineth himself to the company of wicked doers: shall not destruction and misery come upon him? ⁴ Doth not he see my ways, and tell all my goings? ⁵ If I have cleaved unto vanity, or if my feet have run to deceive, ⁶ let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may see my innocence. ⁷ If so be that I have withdrawn my foot out of the right way, if my heart hath followed mine eyesight, if I have stained or defiled my hands, ⁸ then shall I sow, and another eat; yea, my generation and posterity shall be clean rooted out. ⁹ "If my heart hath lusted after my neighbour's wife, or if I have laid wait at his door: ¹⁰ O then let my wife be another man's harlot and let others lie with her. ¹¹ For this is a wickedness and sin, that is worthy to be punished; ¹² yea, a fire that utterly should consume, and root out all my substance. ¹³ Did I ever think scorn to do right unto my servants and maidens, when they had any matter against me? ¹⁴ But seeing that God will sit in judgment, what shall I do? And for so much as he will needs visit me, what answer shall I give him? ¹⁵ He that fashioned me in my mother's womb, made he not him also? Were we not both shapen alike in our mother's bodies? ¹⁶ "When the poor desireth anything of me, have I denied it them? Have I caused the widow stand waiting for me in vain? ¹⁷ Have I eaten my portion alone, that the fatherless hath had no part with me? ¹⁸ For mercy grew up with me from my youth, and compassion from my mother's womb. ¹⁹ Have I seen any man perish through nakedness and want of clothing? Or any poor man for lack of raiment, ²⁰ whose sides thanked me not, because he was warmed with the wool of my sheep? ²¹ Did I ever lift up my hand to hurt the fatherless; yea, in the gates where I saw myself to be in authority? ²² Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder, and mine arm holes be broken from the joints. ²³ For I have ever feared the vengeance and punishment of God, and knew very well that I was not able to bear his burden. ²⁴ "Have I put my trust in gold? Or, have I said to the finest gold of all, 'Thou art my confidence?' ²⁵ Have I rejoiced because my substance was great, and because my hand gat so much? ²⁶ Did I ever greatly regard the rising of the sun? Or, had I the going down of the moon in great reputation? ²⁷ Hath my heart meddled privily with any deceit? Or, did I ever kiss mine own hand? ²⁸ That were a wickedness worth to be punished, for then should I have denied the God that is above. ²⁹ Have I ever rejoiced at the hurt of mine enemy? Or was I ever glad, that any harm happened to him? Oh no. ³⁰ I never suffered my mouth to do such a sin, as to wish him evil. ³¹ Yet they of mine own household say, 'Who shall let us to have our belly full of his flesh?' ³² I have not suffered a stranger to lie without, but opened my doors unto him. ³³ "Have I kept secret my sin, and hid mine iniquity as Adam did? ³⁴ For if I had feared any great multitude of people, or if I had been despised of the simple; Oh then should I have been afraid. Thus have I quietly spent my life, and not gone out at the door. ³⁵ O that I had one which would hear me. Lo, this is my cause: Let the almighty give me answer, and let him that is my contrary party, sue me with libel. ³⁶ Then shall I take it upon my shoulder, and as a garland about my head. ³⁷ I have told the number of my goings, and delivered them unto him as to a prince. ³⁸ But if cause be that my land cry against me, or that the furrows thereof make any complaint; ³⁹ if I have eaten the fruits thereof unpaid for, yea if I have grieved any of the plowmen; ⁴⁰ then let thistles grow instead of my wheat, and thorns for my barley."

³ O LORD my God, if I have done any such thing, or if there be any wickedness in my hands, ⁴ if I have rewarded evil unto him that dealt friendly with me, or hurt them that without any cause are mine enemies; ⁵ Then let mine enemy persecute my soul, and take me. Yea, let him tread my life down upon the earth, and lay mine honor in the dust. Selah.

¹⁷ And though all this be come upon us, yet do we not forget thee, nor behave ourselves unfaithfully in thy covenant. ¹⁸ Our heart is not turned back, neither our steps gone out of thy way, ¹⁹ no, not when thou hast smitten us into the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death ²⁰ If we have forgotten the name of our God, and hold up our hands to any strange god, ²¹ should not God find it out? For he knoweth the very secrets of the heart.

¹⁸ If I incline unto wickedness with my heart, the LORD will not hear me. ¹⁹ But God hath heard me; and considered the voice of my prayer.

⁸ The LORD abhorreth the sacrifice of the ungodly; but the prayer of the righteous is acceptable to him.

⁶ Their web maketh no cloth and they may not cover themselves with their labours. Their deeds are the deeds of wickedness, and the work of robbery is in their hands.

⁸ And they put on sackcloth both man and beast, and cried unto God mightily, and turned every man from his wicked way, and from doing wrong in which they were accustomed, saying,

⁸ I will, therefore, that the men pray every where, lifting up pure hands without wrath, or doubting.

¹¹ And now cursed be thou as pertaining to the earth, which opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood of thine hand.

⁵ Cover not their wickedness, and let not their sin be put out from thy presence: for they have provoked the builders.

⁹ Doth God hear him the sooner, when he crieth unto him in his necessity?

¹⁵ When ye hold out your hands, I will turn my eyes from you. And though ye make many prayers, yet will I hear nothing at all; for your hands are full of blood.

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.

⁹ Then shouldest thou call, and the LORD answer; then shouldest thou cry, and he shall say, "Lo, here am I. For I the LORD thy God am merciful." ¹⁰ Yea If thou layest away thy burdens, and holdest thy fingers, and ceasest from blasphemous talking; if thou hast compassion upon the hungry, and refreshest the troubled soul: Then shall thy light spring out in the darkness, and thy darkness shall be as the noon day.

²⁹ O thou earth, earth, earth: hear the word of the LORD!

⁷ for the blood is yet in it. Upon a plain dry stone hath she poured it, and not upon the ground, that it might be covered with dust.

³ Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, even to consume it upon your voluptuousness. ⁴ Ye adulterers, and women that break matrimony: know ye not how that the friendship of the world is enmity to Godward? Whosoever will be friend of the world, is made the enemy of God.

⁵⁰ that thou shalt not vex my daughters neither shalt take other wives unto them. Here is no man with us: behold, God is witness betwixt thee and me."

⁵ Then said he to them, "The LORD is witness unto you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have found nought in my hands." And they answered, "We are witnesses."

² "Power and fear is with him above, that maketh peace, sitting in his highness,

⁵ Who is like unto the LORD our God, that hath his dwelling so high;

⁹ For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit, in the Gospel of his son that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers,

¹ I say the truth in Christ, and lie not, in that whereof my conscience beareth me witness in the holy ghost,

²³ I call God for a record unto my soul, that for to favor you withal, I came not any more unto Corinth.

³¹ The God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

⁵ Neither was our conversation at any time with flattering words — as ye well know — neither in cloaked covetousness, God is record:

¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and so is God, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

⁴ Thus, he that calleth upon God, and whom God heareth, is mocked of his neighbour; the godly and innocent man is laughed to scorn. ⁵ Godliness is a light despised in the hearts of the rich, and is set for them to stumble upon.

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

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

⁴ For the love that I had unto them, they take now my contrary part; but I give myself unto prayer.

² I pour out my complaint before him, and show him of my trouble.

⁴ He strove with the angel, and gat the victory: so that he prayed and desired him. He found him at Bethel, and there he talked with us. ⁵ Yea, the LORD God of hosts, even the LORD himself remembered him:

¹¹ And they were filled full of madness, and communed one with another, what they might do to Jesus. ¹² And it fortuned in those days, that he went out into a mountain for to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

⁷ Which in the days of his flesh, did offer up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death: and was also heard, because of his godliness.

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

³ Nevertheless I am purposed to talk with the almighty, and my desire is to commune with God.

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

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

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

¹ Moreover, God spake unto Job, and said, ² "Can he that striveth with the Almighty be at rest? Should not he which disputeth with God, give him an answer?" ³ Job answered the LORD, saying, ⁴ "Behold, I am too vile a person to answer thee, therefore will I lay my hand upon my mouth. ⁵ Once or twice have I spoken, but I will say no more."

¹⁰ The thing that hath been is named already, and known - that it is man himself: neither may he go to law with him that is mightier than he.

⁹ Woe be unto him that chideth with his maker, the potsherd with the potter. Sayeth the clay to the potter, "What makest thou?" or "Thy work serveth for nothing?"

²⁰ But O man what art thou, which disputest with God? Shall the work say to the workman, "Why hast thou made me on this fashion?"

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.

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.

¹⁰ But as for man; when he is dead, perished and consumed away, what becometh of him?

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

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.