Job 18 Cross References - MSTC

¹ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, ² "When will ye make an end of your words? Mark well, and consider, we will speak also. ³ Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed so vile in your sight? ⁴ Why destroyest thou thyself with anger? Shall the earth be forsaken, or the stones removed out of their place because of thee? ⁵ Shall not the light of the ungodly be put out? Yea, the flame of his fire shall not burn. ⁶ The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his candle shall be put out with him. ⁷ His presumptuous goings shall be kept in, and his own counsel shall cast him down. ⁸ For his feet shall be taken in the net, and he is at his wits end. ⁹ His foot shall be holden in the gilder, and the thirsty shall catch him. ¹⁰ The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a pitfall in the way. ¹¹ "Fearfulness shall make him afraid on every side, that he shall not know where to get out. ¹² Hunger shall be his substance, and misfortune shall hang upon him. ¹³ He shall eat the strength of his own skin; the firstborn of death shall eat his members. ¹⁴ All his comfort and hope shall be rooted out of his dwelling, and shall bring him unto the king of fear. ¹⁵ Other men shall dwell in his house - which now is none of his - and brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. ¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his harvest be cut down. ¹⁷ His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and his name shall not be praised in the streets: ¹⁸ he shall be driven from the light into darkness, and cast clean out of the world. ¹⁹ He shall neither have children nor kinfolks among his people, no nor any posterity in his country: ²⁰ young and old shall be astonished at his death. ²¹ Such are now the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God."

²⁴ Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah, brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven,

³ "Reuben, thou art mine eldest son, my might and the beginning of my strength, chief in receiving and chief in power.

² And Pharaoh answered, "What fellow is the LORD, that I should hear his voice for to let Israel go?

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.

²³ how all the land is burnt up with brimstone and salt, that it is neither sown nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, after the overthrowing of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim: which the LORD overthrew in his wrath and anger.

²³ how all the land is burnt up with brimstone and salt, that it is neither sown nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, after the overthrowing of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim: which the LORD overthrew in his wrath and anger. ²⁴ And then all nations also say, "Wherefore hath the LORD done of this fashion unto this land? O how fierce is this great wrath?'

¹⁰ And even so, all that generation were put unto their fathers. And there arose another generation after them which neither knew the LORD, nor yet the works which he did unto Israel.

⁵ They that were full, have hired out themselves for bread, and they that were hungry cease so to be: insomuch that the barren hath borne seven, and she that had many children is waxed feeble.

¹² But the sons of Eli were unthrifty children, and knew not the LORD. For the manner of the priests with the people was:

³⁶ And they that are left in thine house, shall come and crouch to him for a little piece of silver and a cake of bread, and shall say: put me, I pray thee, in one office or other among the priests, that I may eat a morsel of bread.'"

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.

⁸ And this house which is so high, all that pass by it shall be astonished and shall hiss and say, 'Why hath the LORD dealt on this manner with this land and with this house?'

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." ⁷ And upon that they arose and fled in the dark, and left their tents, their horses, their asses and the field they had pitched even as it was, and fled for their lives.

⁹ And thou, Solomon my son: know God thy father and serve him with a pure heart and lust of soul. For the LORD searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the imaginations of thoughts. If thou shalt seek him, he will be found of thee: But and if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off forever.

⁹ If it please the king, let him write that they may be destroyed, and so will I weigh down ten thousand talents of silver, under the hands of the workmen, to be brought into the king's chamber."

¹³ and told Zeresh his wife and all his friends, everything that had happened him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, "If it be Mordecai of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou canst do nothing unto him, but shalt fall before him."

⁵ The king Ahasuerus spake and said unto queen Esther, "Who is he? And where is he that dare presume in his mind to do such a thing after that manner?"

¹⁰ So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had made for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

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."

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."

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 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. ¹² So when they lift up their eyes afar off, they knew him not. Then they cried, and wept: then every one of them rent his clothes, and sprinkled dust upon their heads in the air. ¹³ They sat them down by him also upon the ground seven days and seven nights. Neither was there any of them that spake one word unto him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

⁵ but let it be stained with darkness, and the shadow of death. Let the dim cloud fall upon it, and let it be lapped in with sorrow. ⁶ Let the dark storm overcome that night; let it not be reckoned among the days of the year, nor counted in the months.

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

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

² As for the foolish man, displeasure killeth him; and anger slayeth the ignorant. ³ I have seen myself, when the foolish was deep rooted, that his beauty was suddenly destroyed, ⁴ that his children were without prosperity or health; that they were slain in the door, and no man to deliver them; ⁵ that his harvest was eaten up of the hungry; that the weaponed man had spoiled it, and that the thirsty had drunk up his riches.

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.

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.

¹ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, ² "How long wilt thou talk of such things? How long shall thy mouth speak so proud words?

⁴ When thy sons sinned against him, did not he punish them for their wickedness?

¹⁴ His confidence shall be destroyed, for he trusteth in a spider's web.

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

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."

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

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

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

⁷ Ask the cattle, and they shall inform thee; the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee. ⁸ Speak to the earth, and it shall show thee; or to the fishes of the sea, and they shall certify thee.

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.

¹² Your remembrance shall be like unto the dust, and your pride shall be turned to clay.

¹⁴ Wherefore do I bear my flesh in my teeth, and put my soul in my hands?

¹⁸ The mountains fall away at the last, the rocks are removed out of their place;

⁶ Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea thine own lips shape the answer.

²¹ A fearful sound is ever in his ears, and when it is peace yet feareth he destruction.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

¹⁶ All that I have, shall go down into the pit, and lie with me in the dust."

¹² Hunger shall be his substance, and misfortune shall hang upon him. ¹³ He shall eat the strength of his own skin; the firstborn of death shall eat his members.

¹³ He hath put my brethren far away from me, and such as were of mine acquaintance, are become strangers unto me. ¹⁴ Mine own kinfolk have forsaken me, and my friends have put me out of remembrance. ¹⁵ The servants and maids of mine own house take me for a stranger, and I am become as an alien in their sight. ¹⁶ When I call upon my servant, he giveth me no answer: no though I pray him with my mouth. ¹⁷ Mine own wife may not abide my breath, I was fain to speak fair for the children of mine own body. ¹⁸ Yea the children despised me, and when I was gone from them, they spake evil upon me. ¹⁹ All such as were my most familiars, abhor me: And they whom I loved best, are turned against me.

⁵ the praise of the ungodly hath been short, and that the joy of the hypocrites continued but the twinkling of an eye?

⁸ He vanisheth as a dream, so that he can no more be found, and passeth away as a vision in the night.

¹⁸ But he shall labour, and yet have nothing to eat. Great travail shall he make for riches, but he shall not enjoy them. ¹⁹ And why? He hath oppressed the poor, and not helped them: houses hath he spoiled, and not builded them. ²⁰ His belly could never be filled; therefore shall he perish in his covetousness. ²¹ He devoured so greedily that he left nothing behind; therefore his goods shall not prosper. ²² Though he had plenteousness of everything, yet was he poor, and therefore he is but a wretch on every side.

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.

² "O hear my words, and amend yourselves.

¹⁴ They say unto God, 'Go from us: we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!

¹⁷ "How oft shall the candle of the wicked be put out? How oft cometh their destruction upon them? Oh what sorrow shall God give them for their part in his wrath!

²⁸ For ye say, 'Where is the prince's palace? Where is the dwelling of the ungodly?

¹⁰ Therefore art thou compassed about with snares on every side, and suddenly vexed with fear.

¹⁷ For as soon as the day breaketh, the shadow of death cometh upon them, and they go in horrible darkness.

¹ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

¹⁴ If he get many children, they shall perish with the sword, and his posterity shall have scarceness of bread. ¹⁵ Look, whom he leaveth behind him, they shall die and be buried, and no man shall have pity of his widows.

¹⁹ For my root was spread out by the water's side, and the dew lay upon my corn.

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;

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

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.

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

³⁴ If a man will consider all high things, this same is a king over all the children of pride."

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

¹³ He had children also, seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴ The first he called Day; the second Poverty; the third All-plenteousness. ¹⁵ In all the land were none found so fair, as the daughters of Job, and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. ¹⁶ After this lived Job forty years, so that he saw his children, and his children's children to the fourth generation.

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

¹⁵ The Heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the same net which they hid privily, is their own foot taken.

⁶ Upon the ungodly he shall rain snares, fire, brimstone, storm and tempest: this shall be their portion to drink.

²⁸ Thou also shalt light my candle; the LORD my God shall make my darkness to be light. {TYNDALE: Thou art my light, O LORD, and the LORD shall light my darkness.}

³⁶ Thou shalt make room enough under me for to go, that my footsteps shall not slide. {TYNDALE: And thou madest me space to walk in, that my feet should not stumble.}

¹⁰ The LORD bringeth the counsel of the Heathen to naught, and maketh the devices of the people to be of none effect, and casteth out the counsels of princes.

¹⁰ The lions do lack, and suffer hunger; but they who seek the LORD shall want no manner of thing that is good.

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

⁸ Let a sudden destruction come upon him unawares, and his net that he hath laid privily catch himself, that he may fall into his own mischief.

¹³ But the LORD laugheth him to scorn, for he seeth that his day is coming.

⁵ They are afraid where no fear is; for God breaketh the bones of them that besiege thee. Thou hast put them to confusion, because God hath despised them.

⁴ My heart is heavy within me, and the fear of death is fallen upon me.

¹⁹ O how suddenly do they consume, perish and come to a fearful end!

²² So foolish was I, and ignorant, even as it were a beast before thee.

⁶ Pour out thine indignation upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name.

⁴ "Come," say they, "let us root them out, that they be no more a people, and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance."

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

¹³ Let his posterity be destroyed; and in the next generation let his name be clean put out.

¹⁰ The ungodly shall see it, and it shall grieve him; he shall gnash with his teeth, and consume away, and the desire of the ungodly shall perish.

⁷ Remember the children of Edom, O LORD, in the day of Jerusalem, how they said, "Down with it! Down with it, even to the ground!"

³⁰ but abhorred my counsel, and despised my correction. ³¹ Therefore shall they eat the fruits of their own way, and be filled with their own counsels: ³² for the turning away of the unwise shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall be their own destruction.

²² But the ungodly shall be rooted out of the land, and the wicked doers shall be taken out of it.

¹² So that if thou goest therein, there shall no straitness hinder thee: and when thou runnest, thou shalt not fall.

¹⁹ But the way of the ungodly is as the darkness, wherein men fall, or they be aware.

²² The wickedness of the ungodly shall catch himself, and with the snares of his own sins shall he be trapped.

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

²⁸ The patient abiding of the righteous shall be turned to gladness; but the hope of the ungodly shall perish.

⁹ The light of the righteous maketh joyful; but the candle of the ungodly shall be put out.

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

¹³ He that giveth sentence in a matter before he hear it, is a fool, and worthy to be confounded.

²⁰ Whoso curseth his father and mother, his light shall be put out in the midst of darkness.

²⁰ And why? The wicked hath nothing to hope for, and the candle of the ungodly shall be put out.

¹ The ungodly fleeth, no man chasing him; but the righteous standeth stiff as a lion.

⁶ The sin of the wicked is his own snare, but the righteous shall be glad and rejoice.

¹⁸ I communed with mine own heart also concerning the children of men: how God hath chosen them, and yet letteth them appear as though they were beasts.

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?

²⁴ Therefore like as fire licketh up the straw, and as the flame consumeth the stubble: Even so - when their root is full - their blossom shall vanish away like dust or smoke. For they have cast away the law of the LORD of Hosts, and blaspheme the word of the holy maker of Israel.

¹⁴ For he is the sanctifying, and stone to stumble at, the rock to fall upon, a snare and net to both the houses: to Israel, and the inhabiters of Jerusalem. ¹⁵ And many shall stumble, fall, and be broken upon him: yea they shall be snared and taken."

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,

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.

²¹ There shall a way be sought to destroy their children, for their fathers' wickedness: They shall not rise up again to possess the land, and fill the world full of castles and towns. ²² I will stand up against them, sayeth the LORD of Hosts, and root out the name and generation of Babylon, sayeth the LORD,

³⁰ But the poor shall feed of the best things, and the simple shall dwell in safety. Thy roots will I destroy with hunger, and it shall slay thy remnant.

¹³ Even like many waters shall the people rage: God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and vanish away like the dust with the wind upon a hill, and as the whirlwind through a storm. ¹⁴ At even, behold, there is trouble: yet in the morning it is gone with them. This is the portion of them that oppress us, and the heritage of them that rob us.

⁹ Thy floods shall be turned to pitch, and thine earth to brimstone, and therewith shall the land be kindled, ¹⁰ so that it shall not be quenched day nor night, but smoke evermore and so forth to lie waste. And no man shall go through thy land forever.

¹¹ But take heed, ye have all kindled a fire, and girded yourselves with the flame. Ye walk in the glistering of your own fire, and in the flame that ye have kindled. This cometh unto you from my hand, namely that ye shall sleep in sorrow.

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

²⁵ No man go forth into the field, no man come upon the high street: for the sword and fear of the enemy shall be on every side!"

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.

²⁵ Pour out thine indignation rather upon the Gentiles, that know thee not, and upon the people that call not on thy name: And that because they have consumed, devoured and destroyed Jacob, and have rooted out his glory.

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.

³ The next day following, Pashhur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks again. Then said Jeremiah unto him, "The LORD shall call thee no more Pashhur, that is, excellent and increasing; but Magormissabib, that is, fearful and afraid everywhere. ⁴ For thus sayeth the LORD: behold, I will make thee afraid, thee thyself and all that favour thee: which shall perish with the sword of their enemies, even before thy face. And I will give whole Judah under the power of the king of Babylon, which shall carry some unto Babylon, prisoners, and slay some with the sword.

¹³ Woe worth him, that buildeth his house with unrighteousness, and his parlors with the good that he hath gotten by violence: which never recompenceth his neighbour's labour, nor payeth him his hire.

³⁰ Write this man among the outlaws, for no prosperity shall this man have all his life long. Neither shall any of his seed be so happy as to sit upon the seat of David, and to bear rule in Judah."

⁵ But alas, how happeneth it, that I see you so afraid? Why shrink ye back? Wherefore are your worthies slain? Yea, they run so fast away, that none of them looketh behind him. Fearfulness is fallen upon every one of them, sayeth the LORD.

²⁹ Their tents and their flocks shall they take away; yea, their hangings and their vessel. Their Camels also shall they carry away with them. They shall come about them on every side with a fearful cry.

²⁷ They shall slay all her mighty soldiers, and put them to death. Woe be unto them, for the day and the time of their visitation is at hand.

⁹ Then said he unto me, "The wickedness of the house of Israel and Judah is very great: so that the land is full of blood, and the city full of unfaithfulness. For they say, 'Tush, the LORD regardeth not the earth, he seeth us not.'

¹³ My line will I spread out upon him, and catch him in my net, and carry him to Babylon, in the land of the Chaldeans: which he shall not see, and yet shall he die there.

²⁵ O thou shameful wicked guide of Israel whose day is come, even the time that wickedness shall have an end:

³ Thus sayeth the LORD God: I will spread my net over thee, namely, a great multitude of people: these shall drive thee into my yarn,

³³ The very same hour was this matter fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: so that he was cast out of men's company, and ate grass like an ox; His body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were as great as Eagle's feathers, and his nails like bird's claws.

²¹ He was shot out from among men, his heart was like a beast's heart, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: he was fain to eat grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven: till he knew, that the highest had power upon the kingdoms of men, and setteth over them, whom he list.

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.

⁶ It shall be brought to the Assyrians for a present unto king Jareb. Ephraim shall receive full punishment; Israel shall be confounded for his own imaginations;

⁹ "'Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, that was as high as the Cedar trees, and as strong as the oaks: notwithstanding I destroyed his fruit from above and his root from under.

¹¹ and that because of the time when thou didst set thyself against him; even when the enemies carried away his host, and when the aliens came in at his ports, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, and thou thyself wast as one of them. ¹² Thou shalt no more see the day of thy brother; thou shalt no more behold the time of his captivity; thou shalt no more rejoice over the children of Judah, in the day of their destruction; thou shalt triumph no more in the time of their trouble. ¹³ Thou shalt no more come in at the gates of my people, in the time of their decay; thou shalt not see their misery in the day of their fall. Thou shalt send out no man against their host, in the day of their adversity; ¹⁴ neither shalt thou stand waiting anymore at the corners of the streets, to murder such as are fled, or to take them prisoners that remain in the day of their trouble. ¹⁵ For the day of the LORD is hard by upon all Heathen. Like as thou hast done, so shalt thou be dealt withal. Yea, thou shalt be rewarded even upon thine 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.

⁹ And God said unto Jonah, "Art thou so angry for thy wild vine?" And he said, "I am angry a good, even unto the death."

⁶ But shall not all these take up a proverb against him, and mock him with a byword, and say, "Woe unto him that heapeth up other men's goods: How long will he lade himself with thick clay?" ⁷ O how suddenly will they stand up, that shall bite thee, and awake, that shall tear thee in pieces? Yea, thou shalt be their prey. ⁸ Seeing thou hast spoiled many Heathen, therefore shall the remnant of the people spoil thee: because of men's blood, and for the wrong done in the land, in the city and unto all them that dwell therein. ⁹ Woe unto him, that covetously gathereth evil gotten goods into his house: that he may set his nest on high, to escape from the power of misfortune. ¹⁰ Thou hast devised the shame of thine own house, for thou hast slain too much people, and hast willfully offended: ¹¹ so that the very stones of the wall shall cry out of it, and the timber that lieth betwixt the joints of the building shall answer.

⁴ I will bring it forth, sayeth the LORD of Hosts, so that it shall come to the house of the thief, and to the house of him, that falsely sweareth by my name: and shall remain in his house, and consume it, with the timber and stones thereof.'

¹² This shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite all people, that have fought against Jerusalem: Namely, their flesh shall consume away, though they stand upon their feet; their eyes shall be corrupt in their holes, and their tongue shall consume in their mouth.

¹ For mark, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven: and all the proud, yea and all such as do wickedness, shall be straw: and the day that is for to come, shall burn them up, sayeth the LORD of Hosts, so that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

²⁶ And whosoever heareth of me these sayings, and doeth them not the same, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: ²⁷ And abundance of rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

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

¹⁸ And whensoever he taketh him, he teareth him, and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away. And I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out, and they could not."

³⁹ and see, a spirit taketh him, and suddenly he crieth, and he teareth him that he foameth again, and with much pain departeth he from him, when he hath rent him:

⁴² saying, "If thou hadst known those things which belong unto thy peace, even at thy time: But now are they hid from thine eyes.

⁴⁴ And make thee even with the ground, with thy children which are in thee. And they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another, because thou knowest not the time of thy visitation."

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,

⁹ And David saith, "Let their table be made a snare to take them withal, and an occasion to fall, and a reward unto them.

¹⁰ Be kind one to another, with brotherly love. In giving honour go one before another.

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He compasseth the wise in their craftiness."

⁵⁵ "Death where is thy sting? Hell where is thy victory?" ⁵⁶ The sting of death is sin: and the strength of sin is the law.

¹¹ Seeing, then, that we know how the Lord is to be feared, we fare fair with men. For we are known well enough unto God. I trust also that we are known in your consciences.

⁵ and not in the lust of concupiscence, as do the heathen, which know not God,

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.

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,

⁷ He must also be well reported of among them which are without forth, lest he fall into rebuke, and into the snare of the evil speaker.

⁹ They that will be rich, fall into temptation and snares, and into many foolish and noisome lusts, which drown men in perdition and destruction.

²⁶ that they may come to themselves again out of the snare of the devil, which are now taken of him at his will.

¹⁶ They confess that they know God: but with the deeds they deny him and are abominable, and disobedient, and unto all good works discommendable.

¹⁵ And that he might deliver them which, through fear of death, all their life time were in danger of bondage.

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

³ and through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you, whose judgment is not far off, and their damnation sleepeth not.

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.

⁸ And I looked. And behold, a green horse; and his name that sat on him was Death, and hell followed after him, and power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, that cometh of vermin of the earth.

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

²³ and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride, shall be heard no more in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth. And with thine enchantment were deceived all nations:

²⁰ And the beast was taken, and with him that false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that received the beast's mark, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast into a pond of fire burning with brimstone:

⁸ But the fearful and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."