Job 19 Cross References - MSTC

¹ Job answered, and said, 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? ⁴ If I go wrong, I go wrong to myself. ⁵ But if ye will enhance yourselves against me, and accuse me to be a wicked person because of the shame that is come upon me; ⁶ know this then: that it is God which hath handled me so violently, and hath compassed me about with his net. ⁷ Behold: though I cry, yet violence is done unto me. I cannot be heard! Though I complain, there is none to give sentence with me. ⁸ "He hath hedged up my way, that I cannot pass; he hath set darkness in my gate. ⁹ He hath spoiled me of mine honour, and taken the crown away from my head. 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. ¹¹ His wrath is kindled against me; he taketh me, as though I were his enemy. ¹² His men of war came together, which made their way over me, and besieged my dwelling round about. 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. ²⁰ My bone hangeth to my skin, and my flesh is away; there is left me only the skin about my teeth. ²¹ Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends! For the hand of God hath touched me. ²² Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied of my flesh? ²³ O that my words were written, O that they were put in a book: ²⁴ would God they were graven with an iron pen in lead or in stone. ²⁵ "For I am sure that my redeemer liveth, and that I shall rise out of the earth in the latter day: ²⁶ that I shall be clothed again with this skin, and see God in my flesh. ²⁷ Yea, I myself shall behold him - not with other, but with these same eyes, though my reins are consumed within me. ²⁸ Did not ye say, "Why doth he suffer persecution?" Is there found an occasion against me? ²⁹ But beware of the sword, for the sword will be avenged of wickedness. And be sure, that there is a judgment."

¹⁵ Moreover, I will put hatred between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. And that seed shall tread thee on the head, and thou shalt tread it on the heel."

¹⁸ And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice."

⁷ And your father hath deceived me and changed my wages ten times: But God suffered him not to hurt me.

⁷ When Joseph saw his brethren, he knew them: But made strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them saying, "Whence come ye?" And they said, "Out of the land of Canaan, to buy victuals."

¹¹ After the work of a stone graver, even as signets are graven, shalt thou grave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel, and shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold. ¹² And thou shalt put the two stones upon the two shoulders of the ephod, and they shall be stones of remembrance unto the children of Israel. And Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a remembrance.

²¹ And the stones shall be graven as signets be graven: with the names of the children of Israel, even with twelve names every one with his name according to the twelve tribes.

¹⁶ and were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God graven upon the tables.

²⁶ And when I have broken the staff of your bread: that ten wives shall bake your bread in one oven and men shall deliver you your bread again by weight, then shall ye eat and shall not be satisfied.

²² For of all those men which have seen my glory and my miracles which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now this ten times and have not hearkened unto my voice,

¹⁷ I see him but not now, I behold him but not nigh. There shall come a star of Jacob and rise a scepter of Israel, which shall smite the coasts of Moab and undermine all the children of Seth.

² And when ye be come over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, set up great stones and plaster them with plaster, ³ and write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art come over: that thou mayest come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee: a land that floweth with milk and honey, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee.

⁸ And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law, manifestly and well."

²² For fire is kindled in my wrath: and shall burn unto the bottom of hell; and shall consume the earth with her increase; and set afire the bottoms of the mountains.

⁷ And they cried unto the LORD. And he put darkness between you and the Egyptians and brought the sea upon them and covered them. And your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt. And ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.

¹⁶ And as she lay upon him with her words continually vexing of him, his soul was encumbered even unto the death.

⁶ And thereto her enemy Peninnah vexed her a good in casting her in the teeth how the LORD had made her barren.

²³ And the counsel of Ahithophel which he counseled in those days, was as a man had asked counsel of God: even so was all the counsel of Ahithophel, both unto David and also unto Absalom.

¹⁷ Then spake David unto the LORD when he saw the Angel that smote the people, and said, "Lo, it is I that have sinned, and I that have done wickedly. But these sheep what have they done? Let I pray thee thine hand be on me and on my father's house."

¹³ Howbeit, all Israel shall mourn him and bury him, for this only of all Jeroboam shall come to the sepulchre, because in him there is found goodness toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

²³ And he went from thence up to Bethel. And as he was going up in the way, there came little lads out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, "Go up, thou bald head! Go up thou baldhead!"

³ And they said unto me, "The remnant of the captivity are there in the land in great misfortune and rebuke. The walls of Jerusalem are broken down, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire."

¹² But when the Jews that dwelt beside them came out of all the places where they dwelt about us, and told us - as good as ten times -

¹¹ But lay thine hand upon him a little, touch once all that he hath, and, I hold, he shall curse thee to thy face."

¹³ Now upon a certain day when his sons and daughters were eating, and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house, ¹⁴ there came a messenger unto Job, and said, "While the oxen were a plowing, and the asses going in the pasture beside them, ¹⁵ the Sabeans came in violently, and took them all away: yea, they have slain thy servants with the sword, and I only ran my way, to tell thee."

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."

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."

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."

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."

⁴ Satan answered the LORD, and said, "Skin for skin? Yea, a man will give all that ever he hath, for his life. ⁵ But lay thine hand upon him, touch him once upon the bone and flesh, and, I hold, he shall curse thee to thy face."

⁵ But lay thine hand upon him, touch him once upon the bone and flesh, and, I hold, he shall curse thee to thy face." ⁶ Then said the LORD unto Satan, "Lo, there hast thou him in thy power, but spare his life." ⁷ So went Satan forth from the LORD, and smote Job with marvelous sore boils, from the sole of the foot unto his crown;

⁹ Then said his wife unto him, "Dost thou yet continue in thy perfectness? Curse God, and die." ¹⁰ But Job said unto her, "Thou speakest like a foolish woman. Seeing we have received prosperity at the hand of God, wherefore should we not be content with adversity also?" In all these things, did not Job sin with his lips.

¹⁰ But Job said unto her, "Thou speakest like a foolish woman. Seeing we have received prosperity at the hand of God, wherefore should we not be content with adversity also?" In all these things, did not Job sin with his lips.

²³ That should be joy to the man whose way is hid, which God keepeth back from him.

⁶ Where is now thy fear of God, thy steadfastness, thy patience, and the perfectness of thy ways? ⁷ "Consider, I pray thee: who ever perished being an innocent? Or, when were the godly destroyed? ⁸ For, as I have proved by experience, they that plow iniquity and sow wretchedness, reap the same. ⁹ With the blast of God they perish, and with the breath of his anger are they consumed away. ¹⁰ The roaring of the lion, the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the lion's whelps are broken. ¹¹ The lion perisheth, for lack of prey, and the lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

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;

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.

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

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

¹⁴ like as if one withdrew a good deed from his friend, and forsook the fear of the Almighty God? ¹⁵ Mine own brethren pass over by me, as the water brook that hastily runneth through the valleys.

²¹ Even so are ye also come unto me: but now that ye see my misery, ye are afraid. ²² "Did I desire you to come hither? Or to give me any of your substance? ²³ To deliver me from the enemy's hand, or to save me from the power of the mighty?

⁵ My flesh is clothed with worms, filthiness and dust; my skin is withered, and crumpled together; ⁶ my days pass over more speedily than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

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?

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? 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?

¹³ Even so goeth it with all them that forget God: and even thus also shall the hypocrite's hope come to naught. ¹⁴ His confidence shall be destroyed, for he trusteth in a spider's web. ¹⁵ He leaneth him upon his house, but he shall not stand; he holdeth him fast by it, yet shall he not endure. ¹⁶ "Oftentimes, a thing doth flourish, and men think that it may abide the sunshine. It shooteth forth the branches in its garden, ¹⁷ and it taketh many roots: insomuch that it is like a house of stone. ¹⁸ But if it be taken out of its place, every man denieth it, saying, 'I know thee not.'

²⁴ As for the world, he giveth it over into the power of the wicked; and he shall cover the faces of the judges thereof. Is it not so? Where is he - or who is he - that can show the contrary?

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

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

¹⁵ If I have done wickedly, woe is me therefore. If I have done righteously, yet dare I not lift up my head; so full am I of confusion, and see mine own misery. ¹⁶ Thou huntest me out, being in heaviness, as it were a lion, and troublest me out of measure.

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.

³ Should men give ear unto thee only? Thou wilt laugh other men to scorn; and shall nobody mock thee again?

³ Should men give ear unto thee only? Thou wilt laugh other men to scorn; and shall nobody mock thee again? ⁴ Wilt thou say unto God, 'The thing that I take in hand is perfect, and I am clean in thy sight'? ⁵ O that God would speak, and open his lips against thee, ⁶ that he might show thee out of his secret wisdom how manifold his law is! Then shouldest thou know that God had forgotten thee, because of thy sins.

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

¹⁴ If he break down a thing, who can set it up again? If he shut a thing, who will open it?

¹⁷ He carrieth away the wise men, as it were a spoil, and bringeth the judges out of their wits.

⁷ Will ye make an answer for God with lies, and maintain him with deceit? ⁸ Will ye accept the person of God, or will ye contend with him? ⁹ Shall that help you, when he calleth you to reckoning? Think ye to beguile him, as a man is beguiled? ¹⁰ He shall punish you, and reprove you, if ye do secretly accept any person. ¹¹ Shall he not make you afraid, when he showeth himself? Shall not his terrible face fall upon you?

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, ¹⁶ he shall make me whole: And why? There may no hypocrite come before him. ¹⁷ Hear my words, and ponder my sayings with your ears. ¹⁸ Behold, now have I prepared my judgment, and know that I shall be found righteous. ¹⁹ What is he that will go to law with me? For if I hold my tongue, I shall die. ²⁰ Nevertheless, grant me two things, and then will I not hide myself from thee. ²¹ Withdraw thine hand from me, and let not the fearful dread of thee make me afraid. 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. ²³ "How great are my misdeeds and sins? Let me know my transgressions and offenses. ²⁴ Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? ²⁵ Wilt thou be so cruel and extreme unto a flying leaf, and follow upon dry stubble?

⁴ As for shame, thou hast set it aside - else wouldest thou not make so many words before God. ⁵ But thy wickedness teacheth thy mouth, and so thou hast chosen thee a crafty tongue. ⁶ Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea thine own lips shape the answer.

¹¹ Thinkest thou it a small thing of the consolations of God? With thee is a lying word. ¹² Why doth thine heart make thee so proud? Why standest thou so greatly in thine own conceit? Where unto look thine eyes,

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

⁷ But now that God hath sent me adversity, thou hast troubled all my congregation.

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

¹¹ God hath given me over to the ungodly, and delivered me into the hands of the wicked.

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.

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.

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.

¹⁹ For lo, my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth me, is above in the height.

²¹ Though a body might plead with God, as one man doth with another,

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

¹¹ My days are past, my thoughts are vanished away, which have vexed my heart,

¹⁵ What helpeth then my long tarrying? Or, who will fulfill the thing that I look for?

² "When will ye make an end of your words? Mark well, and consider, we will speak also.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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

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

²⁷ "But I know what ye think; yea, and what ye imagine against me unrighteously.

⁴ Is he afraid to reprove thee, and to step forth with thee into judgment?

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.

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.

² "As truly as God liveth, which hath taken away my power from me; and the Almighty, that hath vexed my mind;

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.

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.

¹ But now, they that are mine inferiors and younger than I, have me in derision; yea even they, whose fathers I would have thought scorn to have set with the dogs of my cattle.

¹² Upon my right hand they rose together against me; they have hurt my feet, made a way to destroy me,

²⁰ When I cry unto thee, thou doest not hear me: and though I stand before thee, yet thou regardest me not.

²⁶ Yet nevertheless, whereas I looked for good, evil happened unto me; and whereas I waited for light, there came darkness.

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

³¹ Yet they of mine own household say, 'Who shall let us to have our belly full of his flesh?'

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.

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.

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.

¹⁰ But lo, he hath picked a quarrel against me, and taketh me for his enemy:

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.'

⁵ And why? Job hath said, 'I am righteous, but God doth me wrong.'

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

⁵ Therefore the ungodly shall not be able to stand in the judgment, neither the sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

² Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am weak; O LORD, heal me, for my bones are vexed. ³ My soul also is sore troubled; but LORD, how long wilt thou punish me?

⁷ But the LORD shall endure forever; he hath also prepared his seat for judgment.

¹ {To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? Forever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

⁹ Wherefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth; my flesh also shall rest in hope.

¹¹ Thou shalt show me the path of life; in thy presence is the fulness of joy, and at thy righthand there is pleasure for evermore.

¹⁵ They have children at their desire, and leave the rest of their substance for their babes. But as for me, I shall behold thy presence in righteousness: and when I awake up after thy likeness, I shall be satisfied with it.

¹⁴ Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD; my strength and my redeemer.

² O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not: and in the night season also I take no rest.

¹⁴ I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart also in the midst of my body is even like melting wax. ¹⁵ My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my gums, and thou shalt bring me into the dust of death. 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.

¹¹ I am become a very reproof among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours. And they of mine own acquaintance are afraid of me; they that see me in the street, convey themselves from me.

³ For while I held my tongue, my bones consumed away through my daily complaining. ⁴ For thy hand is heavy upon me both day and night, and my moisture is like the drought in Summer. Selah.

²⁶ Let them be put to confusion and shame together, that rejoice at my trouble: let them be clothed with rebuke and dishonour, that boast themselves against me.

³⁵ I myself have seen the ungodly in great power, and flourishing like a green bay-tree. ³⁶ But when I went by, lo, he was gone; I sought him, but his place could nowhere be found.

² For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. ³ There is no health in my flesh, because of thy displeasure; neither is there any rest in my bones, by reason of my sin.

¹¹ My lovers and friends stand looking upon my trouble, and my kinsmen are gone afar off.

¹⁶ My desire is that mine enemies triumph not over me; for if my foot slip, they rejoice greatly against me.

⁹ Yea, even mine own familiar friend, whom I trusted, who did also eat my bread, hath lift up his heel against me.

¹¹ By this I know thou favourest me, that my enemy doth not triumph against me.

¹⁰ My bones are smitten asunder as with a sword, while mine enemies that trouble me cast me in the teeth, daily saying unto me, "Where is now thy God?"

⁹ But now thou art far off, and puttest us to confusion, and goest not forth with our armies. ¹⁰ Thou makest us to turn our backs upon our enemies, so that they which hate us spoil our goods. ¹¹ Thou lettest us be eaten up like sheep, and scatterest us among the Heathen. ¹² Thou sellest thy people for naught, and takest no money for them. ¹³ Thou makest us to be rebuked of our neighbours, to be laughed to scorn and had in derision of them that are round about us. ¹⁴ Thou makest us to be a byword among the Heathen, and that the people shake their heads at us.

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

¹² If it were mine enemy that reviled me, I could bear it: or if one that ought me evil will did threaten me, I would hide myself from him.

¹² If it were mine enemy that reviled me, I could bear it: or if one that ought me evil will did threaten me, I would hide myself from him. ¹³ But it was even thou, my companion, my guide, and mine own familiar friend. ¹⁴ We took sweet counsel together, and walked in the house of God as friends.

²⁰ Yea, they lay hands upon such as be at peace with him, and so they break his covenant. ²¹ Their mouths are softer than butter, and yet have they battle in their mind: their words are smoother than oil, and yet be they very swords.

¹⁰ The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance, and shall wash his feet in the blood of the ungodly. ¹¹ So that men shall say, "Verily there is a reward for the righteous! Doubtless, there is a God that judgeth the earth!"

⁷ Behold, they speak against me with their mouth, and swords are under their lips, for who reproveth them?

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

¹⁰ For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou hast tried us like as silver is tried. ¹¹ Thou hast brought us into captivity, and laid trouble upon our loins. ¹² Thou hast suffered men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and water, and thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.

⁸ I am become a stranger unto my brethren, even an alien unto my mother's children.

²⁰ Thy rebuke breaketh my heart, and maketh me heavy. I look for some to have pity upon me, but there is no man; and for some to comfort me, but I find none.

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

²⁶ My flesh and my heart faileth; but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.

³⁵ And they remembered that God was their strength, and that the high God was their redeemer.

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.

¹³ Unto thee have I cried, O LORD, and early shall my prayer come before thee. ¹⁴ LORD, why abhorrest thou my soul, and hidest thou thy face from me? 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.

¹⁸ My lovers and friends hast thou put away from me, and hid mine acquaintance out of my sight.

³⁹ Thou hast broken the covenant of thy servant, and cast his crown to the ground.

⁴⁴ Thou hast put out his glory, and cast his throne down to the ground.

⁴⁶ LORD, how long wilt thou hide thyself? Forever? And shall thy wrath burn like fire?

⁷ For we consume away in thy displeasure, and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation.

³ For my days are consumed away like smoke, and my bones are burnt up as it were a firebrand.

⁵ For the voice of my groaning, my bones will scarce cleave to my flesh.

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

⁴ For the love that I had unto them, they take now my contrary part; but I give myself unto prayer. ⁵ Thus they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my good will.

³ Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we are utterly despised.

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

¹² If thou be wise, thy wisdom shall do thyself good: but if thou thinkest scorn thereof, it shall be thine own harm.

¹⁸ A slanderous person pricketh like a sword; but a wise man's tongue is wholesome.

²¹ Death and life stand in the power of the tongue; he that loveth it, shall enjoy the fruit thereof.

²⁴ A friend that delighteth in love, doth a man more friendship, and sticketh faster unto him than a brother.

¹¹ For he that delivereth them is mighty, even he shall defend their cause against thee.

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

¹⁴ For God shall judge all works and secret things, whether they be good or evil.

⁵ One shall ever be doing violence and wrong to another. The boy shall presume against the elder, and the vile person against the honorable.

¹ Then shall seven wives take hold of one man, and say, "We will lay all our meat and clothing together in common, only that we may be called thy wives, and that this shameful reproof may be taken from us."

¹ Moreover the LORD said unto me, "Take thee a great leaf, and write in it, as men do with a pen, 'Make hasty speed to rob, and haste to the spoil.'"

⁵ Woe be also unto Assyria, which is a staff of my wrath, in whose hand is the rod of my punishment. ⁶ For I shall send him among those hypocritical people, among the people that have deserved my disfavour shall I send him: that he may utterly rob them, spoil them, and tread them down like the mire in the street.

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

⁸ Now therefore, go thy way; and write them this before them in a table, and note it in a book: that it may finally remain and be kept still forever.

¹⁴ Thus sayeth the LORD the holy one of Israel, your redeemer, "For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and brought down the strongest of them. All they are fugitive with the Chaldeans that boast them of their ships:

¹⁰ Therefore, whoso feareth the LORD among you, let him hear the voice of his servant. Who so walketh in darkness, and no light shineth upon him, let him trust in the LORD and hold him by his God.

²³ And will put it in their hand that trouble thee: which have spoken to thy soul, "Stoop down, that we may go over thee: make thy body even with the ground, and as the street to go upon."

⁵ For he that made thee, shall be thy LORD and husband, whose name is the LORD of Hosts: and thine avenger shall be even the holy one of Israel, the LORD of the whole world.

²⁰ But unto Zion there shall come a redeemer, and unto them in Jacob that turn from wickedness, sayeth the LORD. ²¹ I will make this covenant with them, sayeth the LORD: My spirit that is come upon thee, and the words which I have put in thy mouth, shall never go out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy children, nor out of the mouth of thy children's children, from this time forth for evermore.

⁶ But ye shall be named the priests of the LORD, and men shall call you the servants of our God. Ye shall enjoy the goods of the Gentiles and triumph in their substance.

¹⁶ Honour the LORD your God herein, or he take his light from you, and before your feet stumble in darkness at the hill: lest when ye look for the light, he turn it into the shadow and darkness of death.

¹ your sin, O ye of the tribe of Judah, is written in the table of your hearts, and graven so upon the edges of your altars with a pen of iron and with an adamant claw:

⁸ because I have now preached long against malicious Tyranny, and showed them of destruction. For the which cause they cast the word of the LORD in my teeth, and take me ever to the worst.

¹⁰ For why? I heard so many derisions and blasphemies, yea even of my own companions, and such as were conversant with me: which went about, to make me afraid, saying, "Upon him; let us go upon him, to fear him, and make him hold his tongue: that we may overcome him, and be avenged of him."

¹² Wherefore, their way shall be slippery in the darkness, wherein they may stagger and fall. For I will bring a plague upon them, even the year of their visitation, sayeth the LORD.

³⁴ But their avenger and redeemer is mighty, whose name is the LORD of Hosts: he shall maintain their cause, he shall make the land shake, and judge them that dwell therein, one with another.

¹² {Lamed} O ye all that go fore by, behold and see, if there be any sorrow like unto mine. wherewith the LORD hath troubled me in the day of his fearful wrath. ¹³ {Mem} From above hath he sent down a fire into my bones: and it burned them cruelly. He hath laid a net for my feet, and thrown me wide open: he hath made me desolate, so that I must ever be mourning.

⁵ {He} The LORD is become like as it were an enemy: he hath cast down Israel and all his places. Yea, all his strongholds hath he destroyed, and filled the daughter of Judah with much sorrow and heaviness.

⁵ {He} The LORD is become like as it were an enemy: he hath cast down Israel and all his places. Yea, all his strongholds hath he destroyed, and filled the daughter of Judah with much sorrow and heaviness. ⁶ {Vav} Her tabernacle - which was like a garden of pleasure - hath he destroyed; her high solemn feasts hath he put down. The LORD hath brought it so to pass, that the high solemn feasts and Sabbaths in Zion are clean forgotten. In his heavy displeasure hath he made the king and priests to be despised.

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

⁷ {Gimel} He hath so hedged me in, that I cannot get out; and hath laid heavy links upon me. ⁸ Though I cry and call piteously, yet heareth he not my prayer. ⁹ He hath stopped up my ways with four square stones, and made my paths crooked.

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

¹⁰ Our skin is as it had been burnt in an oven, for very sore hunger.

¹⁶ The garland of our head is fallen: alas, that ever we sinned so sore!

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.

⁴ Behold, all souls are mine. Like as the father is mine, so is the son mine also. The soul that sinneth, shall die.

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,

²⁰ Therefore stood they before the king, which in all wisdom and matters of understanding that he enquired of them, found them ten times better than all the soothsayers and charmers that were in all his realm.

⁶ "But I will hedge her way with thorns, and stop it, that she shall not find her footsteps:

¹² but while they be going here and there, I shall spread my net over them, and draw them down as the fowls of the air. And according as they have been warned, so will I punish them.

¹¹ Ephraim flyeth like a bird, so shall their glory also: Insomuch that they shall neither beget, conceive nor bear children.

³ ye eat the flesh of my people, and flay of their skin; ye break their bones, ye chop them in pieces as it were into a cauldron, and as flesh into a pot.

⁵ Let no man believe his friend, nor put his confidence in a prince. Keep the door of thy mouth, from her that lieth in thy bosom: ⁶ for the son shall put his father to dishonour, the daughter shall rise against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: and a man's foes shall be even they of his own household.

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.

² O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? How long shall I complain unto thee, suffering wrong, and thou wilt not help? ³ Why lettest thou me see weariness and labour? Tyranny and violence are before me, power overgoeth right:

¹⁰ This shall happen unto them for their pride, because they have dealt so shamefully with the LORD of Hosts' people, and magnified themselves above them.

⁷ The LORD shall preserve the tents of Judah, like as afore time: so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the citizens of Jerusalem, shall be but little regarded in comparison of the glory of Judah.

⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

¹ Judge not, that ye be not judged. ² For as ye judge, so shall ye be judged: and with what measure ye mete, with the same shall it be measured to you again.

²¹ The brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son: and the children shall arise against their fathers, and mothers, and shall put them to death,

⁵⁶ All this was done that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples forsook him and fled.

²⁵ "This wise hath God dealt with me, in the days when he looked on me, to take from me the rebuke that I suffered among men."

² And Jesus answered, and said unto them, "Suppose ye that these Galileans, were greater sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered such punishment? ³ I tell you, Nay, but except ye repent, ye shall all in likewise perish. ⁴ Or those eighteen upon which the tower in Siloam fell and slew them: think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwell in Jerusalem?

⁴⁸ And Jesus said unto him, "Judas, betrayest thou the son of man with a kiss?"

²² Neither judgeth the father any man: but hath committed all judgment unto the son, ²³ because that all men should honour the son, even as they honour the father. He that honoureth not the son, the same honoureth not the father which hath sent him. ²⁴ Verily, verily I say unto you, He that heareth my words, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life: and shall not come into damnation, but is escaped from death unto life. ²⁵ Verily, verily I say unto you, the time shall come, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the son of God. And they that hear, shall live. ²⁶ For as the father hath life in himself, so likewise hath he given to the son to have life in himself. ²⁷ And hath given him power also to judge in that he is the son of man. ²⁸ Marvel not at this: that the hour shall come, in which all that are in the graves, shall hear his voice, ²⁹ and shall come forth: They that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; And they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

¹² Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness: but shall have the light of life."

² And his disciples asked him saying, "Master, who did sin: this man, or his father and mother, that he was born blind?"

³⁴ They answered, and said unto him, "Thou art altogether born in sin: and dost thou teach us?" And they cast him out.

¹⁸ "I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: But that the scripture be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.

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

¹ Let every soul submit himself unto the authority of the higher powers. For there is no power, but of God. The powers that be, are ordained of God. ² Whosoever therefore resisteth power, resisteth the ordinance of God. And they that resist, shall receive to themselves damnation. ³ For rulers are not to be feared for good works but for evil. Wilt thou be without fear of the power? Do well then: and so shalt thou be praised of the same. ⁴ For he is the minister of God, for thy wealth. But and if thou do evil, then fear: for he beareth not a sword for nought; but is the minister of God, to take vengeance on them that do evil.

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

¹² Now we see in a glass, even in a dark speaking: but then shall we see face to face. Now I know unperfectly: but then shall I know even as I am known.

⁵³ For this corruptible must put on incorruptibility: and this mortal must put on immortality.

⁸ We are troubled on every side, yet are we not without shift. We are in poverty: but not utterly without somewhat. ⁹ We are persecuted: but are not forsaken. We are cast down: nevertheless we perish not.

¹⁰ For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that every man may receive the works of his body according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

⁵ For every man shall bear his own burden.

⁷ By whom we have redemption through his blood, that is to say, even the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace,

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

¹⁶ At my first answering for myself, no man assisted me, but all forsook me. I pray God, that it may not be laid to their charges:

³ Remember them that are in bonds, even as though ye were bound with them. Be mindful of them which are in adversity, as ye which are yet in your bodies.

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

¹¹ Backbite not one another, brethren. He that backbiteth his brother, and he that judgeth his brother, backbiteth the law, and judgeth the law: but and if thou judge the law, thou art not an observer of the law: but a judge. ¹² There is one law giver, which is able to save and to destroy. What art thou that judgest another man?

⁷ And just Lot, vexed with the uncleanly conversation of the wicked, delivered he - ⁸ For he being righteous and dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds -

² Dearly beloved, now are we the sons of God, and yet it doth not appear what we shall be. But we know that when it shall appear, we shall be like him. For we shall see him as he is.

¹⁴ Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied before of such saying, "Behold, the Lord shall come with thousands of saints,

⁷ Behold, he cometh with clouds, and all eyes shall see him: and they also which pierced him. And all kindreds of the earth shall wail. Even so, amen.

¹⁰ and they cried with a loud voice saying, "How long tarriest thou Lord holy and true, to judge and to avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?"