Job 17 Cross References - MSTC

¹ My breath faileth, my days are shortened. I am hard at death's door. ² Froward men are with me, and mine eye must continue in the bitterness of them. ³ O deliver me and set me by thee: who shall then be able to thrust my hands together? ⁴ Thou hast withholden their hearts from understanding, therefore shall they not be set up on high. ⁵ He promiseth his friends part of his good, but his own children spend it. ⁶ He hath made me as it were a byword of the common people. I am his jesting stock among them. ⁷ Mine eye is dim for very heaviness, and all my strength is become like a shadow. ⁸ Virtuous men therefore shall well consider this, and the innocent shall take part against the hypocrite. ⁹ The righteous also will keep his way, and he that hath clean hands, will ever be stronger and stronger. ¹⁰ "As for you, turn you, and get you hence, I pray you - seeing I cannot see one wise man among you. ¹¹ My days are past, my thoughts are vanished away, which have vexed my heart, ¹² changing the night into day, and the light into darkness. ¹³ Though I tarry never so much, yet the grave is my house, and I must make my bed in the dark. ¹⁴ I call corruption my father, and the worms call I my mother and my sister. ¹⁵ What helpeth then my long tarrying? Or, who will fulfill the thing that I look for? ¹⁶ All that I have, shall go down into the pit, and lie with me in the dust."

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

¹³ Though I tarry never so much, yet the grave is my house, and I must make my bed in the dark. ¹⁴ I call corruption my father, and the worms call I my mother and my sister.

¹⁷ Mine own wife may not abide my breath, I was fain to speak fair for the children of mine own body.

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

³ For my soul is full of trouble, and my life draweth nigh unto hell. ⁴ I am counted as one of them that go down into the pit, and I am even as a man that hath no strength; ⁵ free among the dead, like unto them that lie in the grave, which be out of remembrance, and are cut away from thy hand.

¹⁰ "I thought I should have gone to the gates of hell in my best age, and have wanted the residue of my years. ¹¹ I spake within myself, 'I shall never visit the LORD God in this life: I shall never see man among the dwellers of the world. ¹² Mine age is folden up together, and taken away from me, like a shepherd's cottage: my life is hewn off, like as a weaver cutteth off his web. While I was yet taking my rest, he hewed me off, and made an end of me in one day.' ¹³ I thought I would have lived unto the morrow, but he bruised my bones like a lion, and made an end of me in one day. ¹⁴ Then chattered I like a swallow, and like a crane, and mourned as a dove. I lift up mine eyes to the height: 'O LORD,' say I, 'violence is done unto me, be thou surety for me.'

¹⁶ For I chide not ever, and am not wroth without end. But the blasting goeth from me, though I make the breath.

⁶ And thereto her enemy Peninnah vexed her a good in casting her in the teeth how the LORD had made her barren. ⁷ And so did she year by year, as oft as she went up to the house of the LORD. And so chafed her: wherefore Hannah wept and ate not.

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.

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

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

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

¹³ His soul shall dwell at ease, and his seed shall inherit the land.

¹⁴ I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother; I went heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother. 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. ¹⁶ With the flatterers were busy mockers, who gnashed upon me with their teeth.

¹ Whoso dwelleth under the defense of the most high, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

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." ⁴¹ Likewise also the high priests, mocking him with the scribes and elders, said, ⁴² "He saved others, himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel: let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. ⁴³ He trusted in God: let God deliver him now if he will have him, for he said, 'I am the son of God.'" ⁴⁴ That same, also the thieves which were crucified with him cast in his teeth.

⁹ I will be surety for him, and of my hands require him. If I bring him not to thee and set him before thine eyes, then let me bear the blame forever.

³² For I thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father and said, 'If I bring him not unto thee again. I will bear the blame all my life long.'

³³ Neither is there any daysman to lay his hand between us.

¹²² Be thou surety for thy servant to do him good, that the proud do me no wrong.

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

¹⁵ He that is surety for a stranger, hurteth himself; but he that meddleth not with suretyship, is sure.

¹⁸ Whoso promiseth by the hand, and is surety for another; he is a fool.

¹⁶ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; and take a pledge of him for the unknown man's sake.

²⁶ Be not thou one of them that bind their hand upon promise, and are surety for debt;

¹⁴ Then chattered I like a swallow, and like a crane, and mourned as a dove. I lift up mine eyes to the height: 'O LORD,' say I, 'violence is done unto me, be thou surety for me.'

²² And for that cause was Jesus an establisher of a better testament.

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

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

¹⁶ And as the prophet spake to him, he said to the prophet, "Have men made thee of the king's counsel? Cease, lest thou be beaten." And the prophet ceased, and said, "I am sure that God hath taken counsel to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and obeyest not my counsel."

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

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.

⁸ according as it is written, "God hath given them the spirit of unquietness: eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, even unto this day."

²⁰ Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the searcher of this world? Hath not God made the wisdom of this world foolishness?

⁵ See that thou neither bow thyself unto them neither serve them: for I, the LORD thy God, am a jealous God, and visit the sin of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:

⁶⁵ And among these nations thou shalt be no small season, and yet shalt have no rest for the sole of thy foot. For the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart and dazing eyes and sorrow of mind.

¹² Notwithstanding, in thy days I will not do it, because of David thy father: but I will take it from thy son.

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

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

² They talk of vanity every one with his neighbour; they do but flatter with their lips, and dissemble in their double heart. ³ The LORD shall root out all deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things,

¹⁹ Meddle not with him that betrayeth secrets, and is a slanderer, and deceiveth with his lips.

⁵ Whoso flattereth his neighbour, layeth a net for his feet.

¹⁷ {Pe} Wherefore yet our eyes fail us, while we look for vain help: seeing we be ever waiting upon a people that can do us no good.

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

²⁷ Wherefore wentest thou away secretly, unknown to me, and didst not tell me, that I might have brought thee on the way with mirth, singing, timbrels and harps,

⁷ then I will weed Israel out of the land which I have given them. And this house which I have hallowed for my name, I will put out of my sight. And Israel shall be a proverb and a fable unto all nations.

⁹ Now am I their song, and am become their jesting stock;

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

¹² In those companies are harps and lutes, tabrets and pipes, and wine. But they regard not the work of the LORD, and consider not the operation of his hands.

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.

¹⁶ My face is swollen with weeping, and mine eyes are waxen dim.

⁷ My beauty is gone for very trouble, and worn away because of all mine enemies.

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. ¹⁰ For my life is waxen old with heaviness, and my years with mourning. My strength faileth me, because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

²³ I go hence like the shadow that departeth, and am driven away as the grasshopper.

¹² For who knoweth what is good for man living, in the days of his vain life, which is but a shadow? Or, who will tell a man what shall happen after him under the Sun?

¹⁷ Therefore our heart is full of heaviness, and our eyes dim:

¹⁹ For with joy shall the godly, and with gladness shall the innocent,

³⁰ From the wickedness and sin of the people, he maketh a hypocrite to reign over them.

¹² Lo, these are the ungodly, these prosper in the world, these have riches in possession; ¹³ and I said, "Then have I cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency? ¹⁴ Wherefore should I be then punished daily, and be chastened every morning?" ¹⁵ Yea, I had almost also said even as they do; but lo, then should I have condemned the generation of thy children.

⁸ If thou seest the poor to be oppressed and wrongfully dealt withal, so that equity and the right of the law is wrested in the land: marvel not thou at such judgment, for one great man keepeth touch with another, and the mighty help themselves together.

¹³ Thine eyes are clean, thou mayest not see evil, thou cannot behold the thing that is wicked. Wherefore then doest thou look upon the ungodly, and holdest thy tongue, when the wicked devoureth the man that is better than himself?

⁴⁶ Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, "It was meet that the word of God should first have been preached to you. But seeing ye put it from you, and think yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the gentiles.

³³ O the deepness of the abundant wisdom and knowledge of God: how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out.

⁵ Said not he unto me, that she was his sister? Yea, and said not she herself that he was her brother? With a pure heart and innocent hands have I done this!"

³⁰ If thou be innocent, he shall save thee: and through the unguiltiness of thine hands shalt thou be delivered."

⁴ Even he that hath clean hands, and a pure heart, and that hath not lift up his mind unto vanity, nor sworn to deceive his neighbour.

⁶ I wash my hands with innocency, O LORD, and so will I go to thine altar,

¹³ and I said, "Then have I cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency?

⁷ They will go from strength to strength, and unto the God of Gods appeareth every one of them in Zion.

¹¹ For the LORD God is a light and defense; the LORD will give grace and worship, and no good thing shall he withhold from them that live a godly life.

¹⁸ The path of the righteous shineth as the light, and is ever brighter and brighter unto the perfect day.

¹⁶ A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil; but a fool goeth on presumptuously.

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. ¹⁶ Thus saith the LORD God: Wash and be clean; put away the wickedness of your imaginations out of my sight. Cease to do evil and learn to do well.

⁸ There shall be foot paths and common streets: this shall be called the holy way. No unclean person shall go through it, for the LORD himself shall go with them that way, and the ignorant shall not err. ⁹ There shall be no lion, and no ravishing beast shall come therein, nor be there, but men shall go there free and safe. ¹⁰ And the redeemed of the LORD shall convert, and come to Zion with thanksgiving. Everlasting joy shall they have, pleasure and gladness shall be among them. And as for all sorrow and heaviness, it shall vanish away.

²⁹ But that he giveth strength unto the weary, and power unto the faint? ³⁰ Children are weary and faint, and the strongest men fall: ³¹ But unto them that have the LORD before their eyes, shall strength be increased, Eagles wings shall grow upon them; When they run, they shall not fall; and when they go, they shall not be weary."

² And when they saw certain of his disciples eat bread with common hands, that is to say, with unwashen hands, they complained.

⁹ and he said unto me, "My grace is sufficient for thee. For my strength is made perfect through weakness." Very gladly therefore will I rejoice of my weakness, that the strength of Christ may dwell in me. ¹⁰ Therefore have I delectation in infirmities, in rebukes, in need, in persecutions, in anguish, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

⁵ which are kept by the power of God through salvation, which salvation is prepared already to be showed in the last time,

¹⁹ They went out of us, but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us. But that fortuned, that it might appear that they were not of us.

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

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

⁹ What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, but we can the same?

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

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

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.

¹⁸ Turn you therefore, and consider what difference is betwixt the righteous and ungodly: betwixt him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.

⁵ This I say to your shame. Is there utterly no wise man among you? What, not one at all? That can judge between brother and brother?

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

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

⁹ A man deviseth a way in his heart; but it is the LORD that ordereth his goings.

²¹ There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD shall stand.

¹⁰ Whatsoever thou takest in hand to do, that do with all thy power: for among the dead, where thou goest unto, there is neither work, counsel, knowledge nor wisdom.

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.

¹⁰ "I thought I should have gone to the gates of hell in my best age, and have wanted the residue of my years.

³⁷ {Mem} What is he then that sayeth, "There should something be done without the LORD's commandment:

¹³ I would that ye should know, brethren, how that I have oftentimes purposed to come unto you, but have been let hitherto, to have some fruit among you, as I have among other of the gentiles.

¹⁵ And in this confidence was I minded the other time to have come unto you, that ye might have had yet one pleasure more, ¹⁶ and to have passed by you into Macedonia, and to have come again out of Macedonia unto you, and to have been led forth to Jewry ward of you. ¹⁷ When I thus wise was minded: Did I use lightness? Or think I carnally those things which I think, that with me should be "yea, yea," and "nay, nay?"

¹³ Go to now, ye that say, "Today and tomorrow let us go into such a city and continue there a year and buy, and sell, and win," ¹⁴ and yet cannot tell what shall happen tomorrow. For what thing is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. ¹⁵ For that, ye ought to say, "If the Lord will, and if we live, let us do this or that."

⁶⁷ In the morning thou shalt say, 'Would God it were night.' And at night thou shalt say, 'Would God it were morning' — for fear of thine heart which thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

³ Even so have I laboured whole months long - but in vain - and many a careful night have I told. ⁴ When I laid me down to sleep, I said, 'O when shall I rise?' Again, I longed sore for the night. Thus am I full of sorrow, till it be dark.

¹³ When I think, 'My bed shall comfort me; I shall have some refreshing by talking to myself upon my couch,' ¹⁴ then troublest thou me with dreams - and makest me so afraid through visions

¹⁴ Timely in the morning do they arise, to murder the simple and poor, and in the night they go a stealing. ¹⁵ The eye of the ungodly is like the adulterer, that waiteth for the darkness, and sayeth thus in himself, 'Tush, there shall no man see me,' and so he disguiseth his face. ¹⁶ In the night season they search the houses, and hide themselves in the daytime, but will not know the light.

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

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."

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

¹ My breath faileth, my days are shortened. I am hard at death's door.

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

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

⁸ If I climb up into heaven, thou art there; if I go down to hell, thou art there also.

² that he himself might be in rest, lie quietly upon his bed, and live after his own pleasure.

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

²⁸ Whereas I, notwithstanding, must consume like as a foul carrion, and as a cloth that is moth eaten.

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

²⁶ Now sleep they both alike in the earth, and the worms cover them.

³² Yet shall he be brought to his grave, and dwell among the heap of the dead. ³³ Then shall he be fain to be buried among the stones by the brookside. All men must follow him, and there are innumerable gone before him.

²⁰ O that all compassion upon them were forgotten: that their dainties were worms, that they were clean put out of remembrance, and utterly hewn down like an unfruitful tree.

³⁰ My skin upon me is turned to black, and my bones are burnt with heat;

¹⁰ For why? Thou shalt not leave my soul in hell, neither shalt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.

⁹ Yea, though he live long, and see not the grave.

¹¹ Thy pomp and thy pride is gone down to hell: Moths shall be laid under thee, and worms shall be thy covering.

²⁷ because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt suffer thine holy to see corruption. ²⁸ Thou hast showed me the ways of life; and shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.' ²⁹ "Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David: For he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre remaineth with us unto his day. ³⁰ Therefore seeing he was a prophet, and knew that God had sworn with an oath to him, that the fruit of his loins should sit on his seat — in that Christ should rise again in the flesh - ³¹ He saw before, and spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul should not be left in hell: neither his flesh should see corruption.

³⁴ As concerning that he so raised him up from death, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, 'The holy promises made to David I will give them faithfully to you.' ³⁵ Wherefore he saith also in another place, 'Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy to see corruption.' ³⁶ Howbeit David, after he had in his time fulfilled the will of God, he slept, and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption. ³⁷ But he whom God raised again, saw no corruption.

⁴² So is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, and riseth in incorruption.

⁵³ For this corruptible must put on incorruptibility: and this mortal must put on immortality. ⁵⁴ When this corruptible hath put on incorruptibility: and this mortal hath put on immortality: then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, "Death is consumed into victory."

⁶ Where is now thy fear of God, thy steadfastness, thy patience, and the perfectness of thy ways?

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

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

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

¹³ He shall eat the strength of his own skin; the firstborn of death shall eat his members. ¹⁴ All his comfort and hope shall be rooted out of his dwelling, and shall bring him unto the king of fear.

¹⁸ keepeth his soul from destruction, and his life from the sword. ¹⁹ "He chasteneth him with sickness, and bringeth him to his bed: he layeth sore punishment upon his bones, ²⁰ so that his life may away with no bread, and his soul abhorreth to eat any dainty meat: ²¹ Insomuch that his body is clean consumed away, and his bones appear no more. ²² His soul draweth on to destruction, and his life to death. ²³ Now if there be a messenger, one among a thousand sent for to speak unto man, and to show him the right way; ²⁴ then the LORD is merciful unto him, and sayeth, 'He shall be delivered, that he fall not down to destruction, for I am sufficiently reconciled.' ²⁵ Then his flesh, which hath been in misery and trouble, shall be as it was in his youth. ²⁶ For if he submit himself unto God, he is gracious, and showeth him his countenance joyfully, and rewardeth man for his righteousness. ²⁷ Such a respect hath he unto men. Therefore let a man confess, and say, 'I offended, but he hath chastened and reformed me: I did unrighteously nevertheless he hath not recompensed me thereafter. ²⁸ Yea, he hath delivered my soul from destruction, and my life, that it seeth the light.'

⁴ I am counted as one of them that go down into the pit, and I am even as a man that hath no strength; ⁵ free among the dead, like unto them that lie in the grave, which be out of remembrance, and are cut away from thy hand. ⁶ Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in a place of darkness and in the deep. ⁷ Thine indignation lieth hard upon me, and thou hast vexed me with all thy floods. Selah. ⁸ Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me, and made me to be abhorred of them. I am so fast in prison that I cannot get forth.

⁷ Hear me, O LORD, and that soon, for my spirit waxeth faint; hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the grave.

¹⁷ Behold, bitter as gall was my pensiveness: so sore longed I for health. And it was thy pleasure to deliver me from the filthy pit: for thou it is, O Lord, that hath cast all my sins behind thy back. ¹⁸ For hell praiseth not thee, death doth not magnify thee. They that go down into the grave, praise not thy truth:

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

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.

⁹ Also we received an answer of death in ourselves, and that was done because we should not put our trust in ourselves, but in God, which raiseth the dead to life again -