Job 20 Cross References - MSTC

¹ Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, ² "For the same cause do my thoughts compel me to answer. And why? My mind is tossed here and there. ³ I have sufficiently heard thy checking and reproof; therefore am I purposed to make answer after mine understanding. ⁴ Knowest thou not this, namely: that from the beginning - ever since the creation of man upon earth - ⁵ the praise of the ungodly hath been short, and that the joy of the hypocrites continued but the twinkling of an eye? ⁶ Though he be magnified up to the heaven, so that his head reacheth into the clouds: ⁷ yet he perisheth at the last, like dung. Insomuch that they which have seen him, say, 'Where is he?' ⁸ He vanisheth as a dream, so that he can no more be found, and passeth away as a vision in the night. ⁹ So that the eye which saw him before, getteth now no sight of him, and his place knoweth him no more. ¹⁰ "His children shall be fain to agree with the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. ¹¹ From his youth his bones are full of vice; but now shall it lie down with him in the earth. ¹² When wickedness was sweet in his mouth, he hid it under his tongue. ¹³ That he favoured, that would he not forsake; but kept it close in his throat. ¹⁴ The bread that he did eat is turned to the poison of serpents, within his body. ¹⁵ The riches that he devoured, shall he vomit out again; for God shall draw them out of his belly. ¹⁶ He shall suck the serpent's gall, and the adder's tongue shall slay him: ¹⁷ so that he shall no more see the rivers, and brooks of honey and butter. 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. ²³ "For though the wicked have never so much to fill his belly, yet God shall send his wrath upon him, and cause his indignation to rain over him: ²⁴ so that if he flee the iron weapons, he shall be shot with the steel bow. ²⁵ The arrow shall be taken forth, and go out at his back; and a glistering sword through the gall of him. Fear shall come upon him. ²⁶ There shall no darkness be able to hide him. An unkindled fire shall consume him; and look, what remaineth in his house, it shall be destroyed. ²⁷ The heaven shall declare his wickedness, and the earth shall take part against him. ²⁸ The substance that he hath in his house, shall be taken away and perish, in the day of the LORD's wrath. ²⁹ This is the portion that the wicked shall have of God, and the heritage that he may look for of the LORD."

²⁸ And God blessed them, and God said unto them, "Grow and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over all the beasts that move on the earth.

⁶ And the woman saw that it was a good tree to eat of, and lusty unto the eyes, and a pleasant tree for to make wise. And took of the fruit of it and ate, and gave unto her husband also with her, and he ate.

¹ And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, "Increase and multiply and fill the earth. ² The fear also and dread of you be upon all beasts of the earth, and upon all fowls of the air, and upon all that creepeth on the earth, and upon all fishes of the sea, which are given unto your hands. ³ And all that moveth upon the earth, having life, shall be your meat: Even as the green herbs, so give I you all things.

⁴ And they said, "Come on, let us build us a city and a tower, that the top may reach unto heaven. And let us make us a name, for peradventure we shall be scattered abroad over all the earth."

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

² If thou wilt not let them go but wilt hold them still:

²³ And Moses stretched out his rod unto heaven, and the LORD thundered and hailed, so that the fire ran along upon the ground. And the LORD so hailed in the land of Egypt

³⁶ And the LORD gat the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and so they borrowed, and robbed the Egyptians.

⁹ The enemy said, 'I will follow and overtake them, and will divide the spoil: I will satisfy my lust upon them: I will draw my sword, and mine hand shall destroy them.' ¹⁰ Thou blewest with thy breath and the sea covered them, and they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

¹ If a man steal an ox or sheep and kill it or sell it, he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

³ except the su be up when he is found, then there shall be blood shed for him. A thief shall make restitution: If he have not wherewith, he shall be sold for his theft.

¹⁸ And say unto the people, 'Hallow your selves against tomorrow, that ye may eat flesh, for ye have whined in the ears of the LORD saying: Who shall give us flesh to eat? For we were happy when we were in Egypt! Therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat. ¹⁹ Ye shall not eat one day only, either two or five days, either ten or twenty days: ²⁰ but even a month long, and until it come out at the nostrils of you, that ye be ready to parbreak: because that ye have cast the LORD aside which is among you, and have wept before him saying: Why came we out of Egypt?"

³³ And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, yer it was chewed up, the wrath of the LORD waxed hot upon the people, and the LORD slew of the people an exceeding mighty slaughter.

²³ there shall not one see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that railed upon me, see it.

³¹ Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof. Thine ass shall be violently taken away even before thy face, and shall not be restored thee again. Thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and no man shall help thee.

³³ The fruit of thy land and all thy labours shall a nation eat, which thou knowest not; and thou shalt but suffer violence only and be oppressed always,

²⁰ "And so the LORD will not be merciful unto him, but then the wrath of the LORD and his jealousy, smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book light upon him, and the LORD do out his name from under heaven, ²¹ and separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel according unto all the curses of the covenant that is written in the book of this law. ²² So that the generation to come, of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, say when they see the plagues of that land, and the diseases wherewith the LORD hath smitten it, 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?' ²⁵ And men shall say, 'Because they left the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers which he made with them, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. ²⁶ And they went and served strange gods and worshipped them: gods which they knew not and which had given them nought. ²⁷ And therefore the wrath of the LORD waxed hot upon that land to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book. ²⁸ And the LORD cast them out of their land in anger, wrath and great furiousness, and cast them into a strange land, as it is come to pass this day.'

²⁸ Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears and call heaven and earth to record against them.

¹³ He set him up upon a high land, and he ate the increase of the fields. And he gave him honey to suck out of the rock, and oil out of the hard stone. ¹⁴ With butter of the kine and milk of the sheep, with fat of the lambs, and fat rams and he-goats, with fat kidneys and with wheat. And of the blood of grapes, thou drunkest wine.

²⁴ Burnt with hunger and consumed with heat and with bitter pestilence. I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, and poison serpents.

⁴¹ If I whet the lightning of my sword, and mine hand take in hand to do justice, I will show vengeance on mine enemies and will reward them that hate me.

²¹ But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes; and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters. And he was made to grind in the prison house. ²² Howbeit, the hair of his head began to grow again after that he was shorn. ²³ Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together, for to offer a solemn offering unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, "Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hands." ²⁴ And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, "Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, that destroyed our country and slew many of us." ²⁵ And when their hearts were merry, they said, "Send for Samson and let him play before us." And they fetched Samson out of the prison house, and he played before them, and they set him between the pillars. ²⁶ And Samson said unto the lad that led him by the hand, "Set me that I may touch the pillars that the house stands upon, and that I may lean to them." ²⁷ And the house was full of men and women. And there was all the lords of the Philistines. And there were upon the roof a three thousand men and women, that beheld how Samson played. ²⁸ And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, "My Lord Jehovah think upon me, and strengthen me at this time only, O God, that I may be avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes." ²⁹ And Samson caught the two middle pillars on which the house stood and on which it was borne up, the one in his righthand, and the other in his left, ³⁰ and said, "My soul die with the Philistines," and bowed them with might. And the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people that were therein. And so the dead which he slew at his death, were more than they which he slew in his life.

³ Behold, here I am. Answer me before the LORD and before his anointed, whose ox have I taken? Or whose ass have I taken? Whom have I done wrong to? Or whom have I oppressed? And of whose hand have I received any bribe, to blind mine eyes therewith? And I will restore it you again." ⁴ And they said, "Thou hast done us no wrong, nor oppressed us; neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand."

² And it chanced in an evening that David arose from his couch and walked upon the roof of the king's palace; and from the roof saw a very beautiful woman washing herself. And he sent to enquire what woman it should be. ³ And it was answered again, that she was Bathsheba the daughter of Eliam and wife to Uriah the Hittite. ⁴ And David sent messengers and fetched her, and she came unto him, and he lay with her. And she was straightway purified of her uncleanness, and returned unto her house. ⁵ And when the woman had perceived that she had conceived, she sent and told David, and said, "I am with child."

⁶ and shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing and because he had no pity."

¹⁰ Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house, because thou hast despised me and taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite, to be thy wife.' ¹¹ Thus sayeth the LORD, 'Behold, I will stir up evil against thee even of thine own house and will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, which shall sleep with them in the sight of the sun.

²⁹ honey, butter, sheep and cheese of kine — for David, and all the people that were with him, to eat. For they supposed that the people should be hungry, fainty, and thirsty in the wilderness.

¹⁴ Then said Joab, "I may not stand tarrying with thee. And therewith he took three spears in his hand and thrust them into the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive on the body of the tree.

³⁵ And teacheth my hands to fight, that a bow of brass is too weak for mine arms.

¹⁰ Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam and will strike from Jeroboam all that pisseth against the wall, and whatsoever is in prison or forsaken in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as men take away a dung hill, till it be consumed.

³⁰ And the rest fled to Aphek into the city. And there fell a wall upon twenty seven thousand of them that were left. And Benhadad fled and went into the city, from chamber to chamber.

¹⁹ And say unto him, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: thou hast killed and thereto gotten possession.' And say moreover unto him, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: in the place where dogs lapped the blood of Naboth, shall dogs lap even thy blood also.'"

² Then a great lord on whose hand the king leaned, answered the man of God and said, "Though the LORD would make windows in heaven, yet would not this be." And he said again, "Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes and shalt not eat thereof."

³⁷ and the carcass of Jezebel shall be dung upon the earth, in the field of Jezreel, that men shall not say, this is Jezebel.'"

¹⁷ Behold, the day shall come, that all that is in thine house and that thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried to Babylon, and nothing shall be left, sayeth the LORD.

² And the LORD sent upon him men of war out of Chaldea, out of Syria, out of the Moabites, and from the children of Ammon: and sent them into Judah to destroy it, according to the saying of the LORD which he spake by his servants the Prophets.

¹¹ and told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children all together how the king had promoted him so greatly, and how that he was taken above the princes and servants of the king. ¹² Haman said moreover, "Yea and Esther the queen let no man come with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared, except me, and tomorrow am I bidden unto her also with the king.

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."

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.

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

² "If we begin to commune with thee, peradventure thou wilt be discontent; but who can withhold himself from speaking?

²⁰ They shall be destroyed from morning unto the evening: yea, they shall perish everlastingly, and no man think thereon.

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.

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.

⁸ yea, and that none other man's eye shall see me anymore.

¹⁰ nor turneth again into his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

⁸ "Enquire, I pray thee, of them that have been before thee; and search diligently among thy forefathers. ⁹ For we are but of yesterday, and consider not that our days upon earth are but a very shadow.

¹² No: but before it be shot forth, and before it be gathered, it withereth; before any other herb. ¹³ Even so goeth it with all them that forget God: and even thus also shall the hypocrite's hope come to naught.

¹⁸ But if it be taken out of its place, every man denieth it, saying, 'I know thee not.' ¹⁹ Lo, thus is it with him that rejoiceth in his own doings: and as for others, they grow out of the earth.

¹ Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

¹⁹ What is he that will go to law with me? For if I hold my tongue, I shall die.

²⁶ For thou layest sharply to my charge, and punisheth me, for the sins of my youth.

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

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

¹⁶ How much more then an abominable and vile man, which drinketh wickedness like water?

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

²⁹ He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, nor increase upon earth.

²⁹ He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, nor increase upon earth. ³⁰ He shall never come out of darkness, the flame shall dry up his branches, with the blast of the mouth of God shall he be taken away. ³¹ He will never apply himself to faithfulness and truth, so sore is he deceived with vanity. ³² He shall perish, before his time be worn out, and his hand shall not be green. ³³ He shall be plucked off as an untimely grape from the vine, and shall let his flower fall, as the olive doth. ³⁴ For the congregation of hypocrites is unfruitful, and the fire shall consume the houses of such as are greedy to receive gifts.

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

¹³ His archers compass me round about; he hath wounded my loins, and not spared. My bowels hath he poured upon the ground.

¹⁸ O earth, cover not my blood, and let my crying find no room.

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.

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

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

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

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:

¹⁹ He shall neither have children nor kinfolks among his people, no nor any posterity in his country:

²¹ Such are now the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God."

³ Lo, ten times have ye reproved me: are ye not ashamed, for to laugh me to scorn?

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

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

² "For the same cause do my thoughts compel me to answer. And why? My mind is tossed here and there. ³ I have sufficiently heard thy checking and reproof; therefore am I purposed to make answer after mine understanding.

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

⁷ yet he perisheth at the last, like dung. Insomuch that they which have seen him, say, 'Where is he?'

¹⁰ "His children shall be fain to agree with the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

¹⁵ The riches that he devoured, shall he vomit out again; for God shall draw them out of his belly. ¹⁶ He shall suck the serpent's gall, and the adder's tongue shall slay him:

¹⁸ But he shall labour, and yet have nothing to eat. Great travail shall he make for riches, but he shall not enjoy them.

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.

²⁶ Now sleep they both alike in the earth, and the worms cover them. ²⁷ "But I know what ye think; yea, and what ye imagine against me unrighteously. ²⁸ For ye say, 'Where is the prince's palace? Where is the dwelling of the ungodly?

³⁰ that the wicked is kept unto the day of destruction, and that the ungodly shall be brought forth in the day of wrath.

⁶ Thou hast taken the pledge from thy brethren for naught, and robbed the naked of their clothing;

² For some men there be, that remove other men's landmarks; that rob them of their cattle, and keep the same for their own; ³ that drive away the ass of the fatherless; that take the widow's ox for a pledge; ⁴ that thrust the poor out of the way, and oppress the simple of the world together. ⁵ Behold, even as the wild asses in the desert go they forth to their work, and rise betimes to spoil: Yea, the very wilderness ministereth food for them and their children. by times, as their manner is, to spoil: Yea the very wilderness ministereth food for their children. ⁶ They reap the corn field that is not their own; and let the vineyard of the ungodly alone. ⁷ They are the cause that so many men are naked and bare, having no clothes to cover them and keep them from cold; ⁸ So that when the showers in the mountains have rained upon them, and they be all wet, they have none other succour, but to embrace the rock for want of a covering. ⁹ They spoil the sucking fatherless children, and put the poor in prison, ¹⁰ insomuch that they let him go naked without clothing, and take way the sheaf of the hungry. ¹¹ The poor are fain to labour in their oil mills, yea and to tread in their wine presses, and yet to suffer thirst. ¹² "The whole city crieth unto the LORD with sighing, the souls of the slain make their complaint: But God destroyeth them not for all this,

³ My lips shall talk of no vanity, and my tongue shall speak no deceit,

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

¹¹ "I will teach you in the name of God: and the thing that I have of the Almighty, will I not keep from you.

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

¹³ saying, 'This is that portion that the wicked shall have of God, and the heritage that Tyrants shall receive of the Almighty'? ¹⁴ If he get many children, they shall perish with the sword, and his posterity shall have scarceness of bread.

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.

¹⁵ Look, whom he leaveth behind him, they shall die and be buried, and no man shall have pity of his widows. ¹⁶ Though he have as much money as the dust of the earth, and raiment as ready as the clay,

¹⁶ Though he have as much money as the dust of the earth, and raiment as ready as the clay,

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

¹⁷ he may well prepare it: but the godly shall put it upon him, and the innocent shall deal out the money.

¹⁷ he may well prepare it: but the godly shall put it upon him, and the innocent shall deal out the money. ¹⁸ His house shall endure as the moth, and as a booth that the watchman maketh.

¹⁸ His house shall endure as the moth, and as a booth that the watchman maketh. ¹⁹ When the rich man dieth, he carrieth nothing with him: he is gone in the twinkling of an eye.

¹⁹ When the rich man dieth, he carrieth nothing with him: he is gone in the twinkling of an eye. ²⁰ Destruction taketh hold upon him as a water flood, and the tempest stealeth him away in the night season.

²⁰ Destruction taketh hold upon him as a water flood, and the tempest stealeth him away in the night season. ²¹ A vehement wind carrieth him hence, and departeth: a storm plucketh him out of his place. ²² It rusheth in upon him, and spareth him not, he may not escape from the power thereof. ²³ Then clap men their hands at him, yea and jest of him, when they look upon his place.

⁶ When my ways ran over with butter, and when the stony rocks gave me rivers of oil;

² For how great a portion shall I have of God from above? And what inheritance from the Almighty on high? ³ As for the ungodly and he that joineth himself to the company of wicked doers: shall not destruction and misery come upon him?

¹³ Did I ever think scorn to do right unto my servants and maidens, when they had any matter against me? ¹⁴ But seeing that God will sit in judgment, what shall I do? And for so much as he will needs visit me, what answer shall I give him? ¹⁵ He that fashioned me in my mother's womb, made he not him also? Were we not both shapen alike in our mother's bodies? ¹⁶ "When the poor desireth anything of me, have I denied it them? Have I caused the widow stand waiting for me in vain? ¹⁷ Have I eaten my portion alone, that the fatherless hath had no part with me? ¹⁸ For mercy grew up with me from my youth, and compassion from my mother's womb. ¹⁹ Have I seen any man perish through nakedness and want of clothing? Or any poor man for lack of raiment, ²⁰ whose sides thanked me not, because he was warmed with the wool of my sheep? ²¹ Did I ever lift up my hand to hurt the fatherless; yea, in the gates where I saw myself to be in authority? ²² Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder, and mine arm holes be broken from the joints.

²⁵ Have I rejoiced because my substance was great, and because my hand gat so much?

²⁹ Have I ever rejoiced at the hurt of mine enemy? Or was I ever glad, that any harm happened to him? Oh no.

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;

⁷ for I thought thus within myself: It becometh old men to speak, and the aged to teach wisdom.

¹³ lest ye should praise yourselves, to have found out wisdom: because it is God that hath cast him out, and no man. ¹⁴ Nevertheless, seeing he hath not spoken unto me, therefore will not I answer him as ye have done." ¹⁵ For they where so abashed that they could not make answer, nor speak one word. ¹⁶ "But insomuch as ye will not speak, standing still like dumb men, and making no answer: ¹⁷ I have a good hope for my part to shape him an answer, and to show him my meaning. ¹⁸ For I am full of words, and the spirit that is within me, compelleth me. ¹⁹ Behold, I am as the new wine, which hath no vent, and bursteth the new vessels in sunder. ²⁰ Therefore will I speak, that I may have vent: I will open my lips, and make answer.

³ My heart shall order my words aright, and my lips shall talk of pure wisdom.

⁹ "There is a great cry and complaint made by them that are oppressed with violence; yea, every man complaineth upon the cruel arm of tyrants.

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,

¹² If a man will not turn, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow and made it ready.

⁷ His mouth is full of cursing, deceit and fraud; under his tongue is travail and sorrow.

¹⁸ to help the fatherless and the poor unto their right, that the man of the earth be no more exalted against them.

⁵ The LORD alloweth the righteous; but the ungodly, and him that delighteth in wickedness, doth his soul abhor. ⁶ Upon the ungodly he shall rain snares, fire, brimstone, storm and tempest: this shall be their portion to drink.

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

⁵ "Now, for the comfortless troubles' sake of the needy, and because of the deep sighing of the poor, I will arise," saith the LORD, "and will help them, and set them at rest."

¹⁰ He rode upon the Cherub, and did fly: he came flying upon the wings of the wind. {TYNDALE: And he rode upon Cherub and flew: and appeared upon the wings of the wind.}

⁹ Thou shalt make them like a fiery oven in the time of thy wrath; the LORD shall destroy them in his displeasure, and the fire shall consume them.

⁷ O remember not the sins and offenses of my youth; but according to thy mercy think upon me, O LORD, for thy goodness.

²² And when I made haste, I said, "I am cast out of the sight of thine eyes." Nevertheless, thou heardest the voice of my prayer, when I cried unto thee.

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.

⁸ They shall be satisfied with the plenteousness of thy house, and thou shalt give them drink of the river of thy pleasures. ⁹ For with thee is the well of life; and in thy light shall we see light.

¹⁰ Suffer yet a little while, and the ungodly shall be clean gone; thou shalt look after his place, and he shall be away.

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.

³⁶ But when I went by, lo, he was gone; I sought him, but his place could nowhere be found.

¹ {To the Chanter, To Bring Remembrance} Put me not to rebuke, O LORD, in thy anger; O chasten me not in thy heavy displeasure. 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. ⁴ For my wickednesses are gone over my head, and are like a sore burden, too heavy for me to bear. ⁵ My wounds stink, and are corrupt, through my foolishness. ⁶ I am brought into so great trouble and misery, that I go mourning all the day long. ⁷ For my loins are filled with a sore disease, and there is no whole part in my body. ⁸ I am feeble and sore smitten, I roar for the very disquietness of my heart.

² I held my tongue; I was dumb. I kept silence, yea even from good words, but it was pain and grief to me. ³ My heart was hot within me, and while I was thus musing, the fire kindled, and at the last I spoke with my tongue,

⁵ Behold, thou hast made my days a span long, and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. Selah

²⁰ If we have forgotten the name of our God, and hold up our hands to any strange god, ²¹ should not God find it out? For he knoweth the very secrets of the heart.

³ My mouth shall speak of wisdom, and my heart shall muse of understanding.

⁸ Oh let me hear of joy and gladness, that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. ⁹ Turn thy face from my sins, and put out all my misdeeds.

¹⁸ Namely, how thou hast set them in a slippery places, that thou mayest cast them down headlong and destroy them. ¹⁹ O how suddenly do they consume, perish and come to a fearful end!

¹⁹ O how suddenly do they consume, perish and come to a fearful end! ²⁰ Yea, even like as a dream when one awaketh, so makest thou their image to vanish out of the city.

²⁰ Yea, even like as a dream when one awaketh, so makest thou their image to vanish out of the city.

² I will open my mouth in similitudes, and will speak forth things which have been kept secret from the beginning of the world; ³ which we have heard and known, and such as our fathers have told us, ⁴ that we should not hide them from the children of the generations to come but to show the honour of the LORD, his mighty and wonderful works that he hath done. ⁵ He made a covenant with Jacob, and gave Israel a law, which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children,

³⁰ And they were not disappointed of their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths, ³¹ the heavy wrath of God came upon them, and slew the wealthiest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

¹⁶ He should have fed them also with the finest wheat-flour; and with honey out of the stony rock should I have satisfied thee."

¹⁰ who perished at Endor, and became as the dung of the earth.

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.

⁵ As soon as thou scatterest them, they are even as asleep, and fade away suddenly like the grass.

¹⁵ that a man in his time is but as grass, and flourisheth as a flower of the field. ¹⁶ For as soon as the wind goeth over it, it is gone, and the place thereof knoweth it no more.

⁹ Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. ¹⁰ Let his children be vagabonds, and beg their bread; let them seek it also out of desolate places.

¹⁰ Let his children be vagabonds, and beg their bread; let them seek it also out of desolate places. ¹¹ Let the extortioner consume all that he hath; and let stranger spoil his labour. ¹² Let there be no man to pity him, nor to have compassion on his fatherless children. ¹³ Let his posterity be destroyed; and in the next generation let his name be clean put out. ¹⁴ Let the wickedness of his fathers be had in remembrance in the sight of LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be done away. ¹⁵ Let them be always before the LORD, that he may root out the memorial of them from off the earth;

¹⁷ His delight was in cursing, and therefore shall it happen unto him; he loved not blessing, therefore shall it be far from him. ¹⁸ He clothed himself with cursing like as with a raiment: yea it went into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

¹⁶ All the whole heavens are the LORD's; but the earth hath he given unto the children of men.

¹¹ I said in my haste, "All men are liars."

⁴ Even mighty and sharp arrows, with hot burning coals.

¹² Let us swallow them up like the hell, let us devour them quick and whole, as those that go down into the pit.

³¹ Therefore shall they eat the fruits of their own way, and be filled with their own counsels:

¹¹ Yea, that thou mourn not at the last, when thou hast spent thy body and goods, ¹² and then say, "Alas, why hated I nurture? Why did my heart despise correction? ¹³ Wherefore was not I obedient unto the voice of my teachers, and hearken not unto them that informed me?

²² The wickedness of the ungodly shall catch himself, and with the snares of his own sins shall he be trapped. ²³ Because he would not be reformed, he shall die: and for his great foolishness he shall be destroyed.

³¹ But if he may be gotten, he restoreth again seven times as much, or else he maketh recompense with all the goods of his house.

²³ so long till she hath wounded his liver with her dart: like as if a bird hasted to the snare, not knowing that the peril of his life lieth thereupon.

¹⁷ "Stolen waters are sweet, and the bread that is privily eaten, hath a good taste." ¹⁸ But they consider not that death is there, and that her guests go down to hell.

⁴ Riches help not in the day of vengeance; but righteousness delivereth from death.

²⁹ Patience is a token of wisdom; but wrath and hasty displeasure is a token of foolishness.

³¹ He that doth a poor man wrong, blasphemeth his maker; but whoso hath pity of the poor, doth honour unto God. ³² The ungodly is afraid of every peril; but the righteous hath a good hope even in death.

¹⁷ Every man liketh the bread that is gotten in deceit; but at the last his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

²² See that thou rob not the poor because he is weak, and oppress not the simple in judgment; ²³ for the LORD himself will defend their cause, and do violence unto them that have used violence.

⁸ Yea the morsels that thou hast eaten shalt thou parbreak and loose those sweet words.

²⁰ Keep no company with winebibbers and riotous eaters of flesh; ²¹ for such as be drunkards and riotous shall come to poverty, and he that is given to much sleep, shall go with a ragged coat.

²⁹ Where is woe? Where is sorrow? Where is strife? Where is brawling? Where are wounds without cause? Where be red eyes? ³⁰ Even among those that be ever at the wine, and seek excess. ³¹ Look not thou upon the wine, how red it is, and what a color it giveth in the glass. ³² It goeth down softly; but at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth as an adder. ³³ So shall thine eyes look unto strange women, and thine heart shall muse upon froward things. ³⁴ Yea, thou shalt be as though thou slept in the midst of the sea, or on the top of the mast of a ship. ³⁵ "They wounded me," shalt thou say, "but it hath not hurt me. They smote me, but I felt it not. When I am well awakened, I will go to the drink again."

³ One poor man oppressing another by violence, is like a continual rain that destroyeth the fruit.

²⁰ If thou seest a man that is hasty to speak unadvised; thou mayest trust a fool more than him.

¹⁸ Yea, I was weary of all my labour, which I had taken under the Sun, because I should be fain to leave them unto another man, that cometh after me. ¹⁹ For who knoweth, whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? And yet shall he be lord of all my labours, which I with such wisdom have taken under the Sun. Is not this a vain thing? ²⁰ So I turned me to refrain my mind from all such travail, as I took under the Sun:

¹ So I turned me, and considered all the violent wrong that is done under the Sun, and beheld the tears of such as were oppressed; and there was no man to comfort them or that would deliver and defend them from the violence of their oppressors.

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 Yet is there a sore plague, which I have seen under the sun: namely, riches kept to the hurt of him that hath them in possession. ¹⁴ For oft times they perish with his great misery and trouble: and if he have a child it getteth nothing.

⁹ Be not hastily angry in thy mind, for wrath resteth in the bosom of a fool.

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.

⁷ As for the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts, it is the house of Israel, and whole Judah his fair planting. Of these he looked for equity, but see there is wrong; for righteousness, lo, it is but misery. 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?

¹⁵ He shall eat butter and honey, that he may have understanding to refuse the evil and to choose the good.

²² Then because of the abundance of milk, he shall make butter and eat it. So that every one which remaineth in the land, shall eat butter and honey.

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.

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.

¹³ For thou thoughtest in thine heart, "I will climb up into heaven, and make my seat above the stars of God; I will sit also upon the holy mount toward the North; ¹⁴ I will climb up above the clouds; and will be like the highest of all."

²⁰ and art not buried with them. Even because that thou hast wasted thy land, and destroyed thy people. For the generation of the wicked shall be without honour, forever. 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,

⁴ My heart panted, I trembled for fear. The night of my voluptuousness hath he turned against me into fear.

⁷ The sweet wine shall mourn, the grapes shall be weak, and all that have been merry in heart, shall sigh. ⁸ The mirth of tabrets shall be laid down, the cheer of the joyful shall cease, and the pleasure of lutes shall have an end: ⁹ there shall no more wine be drunk with mirth, the beer shall be bitter to them that drink it; ¹⁰ the wicked cities shall be broken down, all houses shall be shut that no man may come in. ¹¹ In the streets shall there be lift up a cry because of wine, all men's cheer shall vanish away, and all joy of the earth shall pass.

¹⁸ It will come to pass, that whoso escapeth the terrible cry, shall fall in to the pit. And if he come out of the pit, he shall be taken with the snare. For the windows above shall be opened, and the foundations of the earth shall move.

²¹ For behold, the LORD will go out of his habitation, and visit the wickedness of them that dwell upon earth. The earth also shall disclose her own blood, and shall no more hide those that are slain in her.

⁷ And the multitude of all nations that fight against Ariel shall be as a dream seen by night; even so shall all they be that make war against it, and strongholds to overcome it. ⁸ In conclusion: it shall be even as when a hungry man dreameth that he is eating, and when he awaketh his soul is empty; or as when a thirsty man dreameth that he is drinking, and when he awaketh he yet is faint, and his soul hath appetite. So is the multitude of all people that muster themselves against the hill of Zion.

⁶ Your beasts have born burdens upon their backs toward the South, through the way that is full of peril and trouble, because of the lion and lioness; of the Cockatrice and shooting dragon. Yea the Mules bare your substance, and the Camels brought your treasure, upon their crooked backs, unto a people that cannot help you.

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

¹⁷ When the thirsty and poor seek water, and find none, and when their tongue is dry of thirst: I give it them, sayeth the LORD. I, the God of Israel, forsake them not.

²⁰ But the wicked are like the raging sea, that cannot rest; whose water foameth with the mire and gravel. ²¹ Even so the wicked have no peace, sayeth my God.

¹⁹ Thine own wickedness shall reprove thee, and thy turning away shall condemn thee: that thou mayest know and understand, how evil and hurtful a thing it is, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and not feared him, sayeth the LORD God of Hosts.

² and laid against the Sun, the Moon and all the heavenly host: whom they loved, whom they served, whom they ran after, whom they sought and worshipped. They shall neither be gathered together nor buried, but shall lie upon the earth, to their shame and despising.

¹⁵ O thou beloved, why doest thou so shameful great blasphemies in my house? Even as though that holy flesh might absolve thee, specially when thou hast made thy boast of thy wickedness. ¹⁶ The LORD called thee a green olive tree, a fair one, a fruitful one, a goodly one: but now that there is a contrary report of thee abroad, he will burn thee up, and destroy thy branches.

⁶ He shall be like the heath that groweth in the wilderness. As for the good thing that is for to come, he shall not see it: but dwell in a dry place of the wilderness, in a salt and unoccupied land." ⁷ O Blessed is the man that putteth his trust in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is himself. ⁸ For he shall be as a tree, that is planted by the waterside: which spreadeth out the root unto moistness, whom the heat cannot harm, when it cometh, but his leaves are green. And though there grow but little fruit because of drought yet is he not careful, but he never leaveth off to bring forth fruit.

¹¹ The deceitful maketh a nest, but bringeth forth no young: He cometh by riches, but not righteously. In the midst of his life must he leave them behind him, and at the last be found a very fool.

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.

⁹ Wherefore, I thought from henceforth not to speak of him, nor to preach anymore in his name. But the word of the LORD was a very burning fire in my heart and in my bones, which when I would have stopped, I might not.

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.

¹⁷ Nevertheless, as for thine eyes and thine heart, they look upon covetousness, to shed innocent blood, and to do wrong and violence.'"

²³ Because they sinned shamefully in Israel. For they have not only defiled their neighbours' wives, but also preached lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them. This I testify, and assure, sayeth the LORD.

⁴³ Fear, pit, and snare shall come upon thee, O Moab, sayeth the LORD. ⁴⁴ Whoso escapeth the fear, shall fall in the pit: and whoso getteth out of the pit, shall be taken in the snare. For I will bring a year of visitation upon Moab, sayeth the LORD.

³⁴ 'Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured and destroyed me, he hath made me an empty vessel. He swallowed me up like a dragon, and filled his belly with my delicates: he hath cast me out.

⁴⁴ Moreover, I will visit Bel at Babylon: and the thing that he hath swallowed up, that same shall I pluck out of his mouth. The Gentiles also shall run no more unto him; yea, and the walls of Babylon shall fall.

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

³⁴ {Lamed} To tread all the prisoners of the earth under his feet.

³⁸ out of the mouth of the most Highest goeth not evil and good"?

¹² The time cometh, the day draweth nigh. Whoso buyeth, let him not rejoice: he that selleth, let him not be sorry. For why? Trouble shall come in the midst of all rest:

²⁹ The people in the land useth wicked extortion and robbery. They vex the poor and needy and oppress the stranger against right.

¹³ Thy filthiness is abominable, for I would have cleansed thee, but thou wouldest not be cleansed. Thou canst not be purged from thine uncleanness, till I have poured my wrathful indignation upon thee.

²⁷ Should not they then lie also among the worthies, and uncircumcised Giants which with their weapons are gone down to hell? Whose swords are laid under their heads, whose wickedness is upon their bones, because that as worthies they have brought fear in to the land of the living.

¹¹ which was very high, great and mighty. The height reached unto the heaven, and the breadth extended to all the ends of the earth:

²² Even thou, O king, art the tree: great and strong. Thy greatness increaseth, and reacheth unto the heaven, so doth thy power to the ends of the earth.

⁷ They have sown wind, therefore shall they reap a whirlwind. Their seed shall bear no corn, there shall no meal be made of their increase: though they reap, yet shall strangers devour it up. ⁸ Israel shall perish, the Gentiles shall entreat him as a foul vessel.

¹ Do not thou triumph, O Israel; make no boasting more than the Heathen. For thou hast committed adultery against thy God: strange rewards hast thou loved, more than all the corn floors.

¹ O hear this word, ye fat cows, that be upon the hill of Samaria; yea, that do poor men wrong, and oppress the needy; yea, that say to your lords, 'Bring hither, let us drink.' ² Therefore the LORD hath sworn by his holiness, 'The days shall come upon you, that ye shall be lift up upon spears, and your posterity carried away upon fish hooks. ³ Ye shall get you out at the gaps one after another, and in Harmon shall ye be cast away,' sayeth the LORD.

¹⁹ Yea, like as when a man runneth from a lion, and a bear meeteth with him; or when he cometh into the house, and leaneth his hand upon the wall, a serpent biteth him.

⁴ Hear this, O ye that oppress the poor, and destroy the needy in the lands, saying,

¹ I saw the LORD standing upon the altar, and he said, "Smite the door check, that the posts may shake withal. For their covetousness shall fall upon all their heads, and their posterity shall be slain with the sword. They shall not flee away, there shall not one of them escape, nor be delivered. ² Though they were buried in the hell, my hand shall fetch them from thence. Though they climb up to heaven, yet shall I cast them down.

² Though they were buried in the hell, my hand shall fetch them from thence. Though they climb up to heaven, yet shall I cast them down. ³ Though they hide themselves upon the top of Carmel, yet shall I seek them out, and bring them from thence. Though they creep down from my sight into the deep of the sea, I shall command the serpent, even there to bite them.

³ The pride of thine heart hath lift thee up, thou that dwellest in the strongholds of stone, and hast made thee a high seat. Thou sayest in thine heart, "Who shall cast me down to the ground?" ⁴ But though thou wentest up as high as the Eagle, and madest thy nest above among the stars: yet would I pluck thee down from thence.

² When they covet to have land, they take it by violence; they rob men of their houses. Thus they oppress a man for his house, and every man for his heritage.

⁹ the women of my people have ye shot out from their good houses, and taken away my excellent gifts from their children.

¹⁸ Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in that wrathful day of the LORD, but the whole land shall be consumed through the fire of his jealousy: for he shall soon make clean riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

² If ye will not hear it, nor regard it, to give the glory unto my name, sayeth the LORD of Hosts, I will send a curse upon you, and will curse your blessings. Yea, curse them will I if ye do not take heed.

⁵ I will come and punish you, and I myself will be a swift witness against the witches, against the adulterers, against false swearers: yea, and against those that wrongfully keep back the hireling's duty, which vex the widows and the fatherless, and oppress the stranger, and fear not me, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

⁷ When he saw many of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, "O generation of vipers, who hath taught you to flee from the vengeance to come?

¹² Which hath also his fan in his hand, and will purge his floor, and gather the wheat into His garner; and will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire."

²⁹ Wherfore if thy right eye offend thee, pluck him out, and cast him from thee: better it is for thee that one of thy members perish, than that thy whole body should be cast into hell. ³⁰ Also: if thy right hand offend thee, cut him off, and cast him from thee: better it is that one of thy members perish than that all thy body should be cast into hell.

²¹ "Not all they that say unto me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter in to the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth my father's will which is in heaven.

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

²³ And thou, Capernaum, which art lift up unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the miracles, which have been done in thee, had been showed in Sodom, they had remained to this day.

²⁰ But he that was sown in the stony ground, is he which heareth the word of God, and anon with joy receiveth it, ²¹ yet hath no roots in himself, and therefore dureth but a season: for as soon as tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he falleth.

²⁶ What shall it profit a man, though he should win all the whole world, if he lose his own soul? Or else, what shall a man give to redeem his soul again withal?

¹³ Woe be unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven before men: ye yourselves go not in, neither suffer ye them that come to enter in.

²⁴ Ye blind guides, which strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.

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

³ Then when Judas, which betrayed him, saw that he was condemned, he repented himself; and brought again the thirty plates of silver to the chief priests and elders, ⁴ saying, "I have sinned, betraying the innocent blood." And they said, "What is that to us? see thou to that."

²⁵ And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, "I will, that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John Baptist."

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

² For there is nothing covered, that shall not be uncovered: neither hid, that shall not be known. ³ For whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness: that same shall be heard in light. And that which ye have spoken in the ear, even in secret places, shall be preached even on the top of the houses.

¹⁷ and he thought in himself saying, 'What shall I do? Because I have no room where to bestow my fruits.' ¹⁸ And he said, 'This will I do. I will destroy my barns, and build greater: and therein will I gather all my fruits, and my goods: ¹⁹ and I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up in store for many years, take thine ease: eat, drink and be merry.' ²⁰ But God said unto him, 'Thou fool, this night will they fetch away thy soul again from thee. Then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?'

²⁴ And he cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame.'

²⁴ And he cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame.' ²⁵ But Abraham said unto him, 'Son remember, that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy pleasure, and contrariwise, Lazarus pain. Now therefore is he comforted, and thou art punished.

⁸ And Zacchaeus stood forth and said unto the Lord, "Behold Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have done any man wrong, I will restore him four fold."

²¹ Then said Jesus again unto them, "I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins. Whither I go thither can ye not come."

²⁴ I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins. For except ye believe that I am he, ye shall die in your sins."

²⁵ that the one may take the room of this ministration, and apostleship from the which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place."

²² And the people gave a shout, saying, "It is the voice of a god and not of a man." ²³ And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the honour, and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.

³ And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, And put them into the fire, there came a viper out of the heat and leapt on his hand. ⁴ When the men of the country saw the worm hang on his hand, they said among themselves, "This man must needs be a murderer: Whom, though he have escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live." ⁵ But he shook off the vermin into the fire, and felt no harm. ⁶ Howbeit, they waited when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly. But after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.

¹⁶ at the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, by Jesus Christ according to my Gospel.

¹³ "Their throat is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they have deceived." "The poison of Asps is under their lips."

¹³ For if ye live after the flesh, ye must die. But if ye mortify the deeds of the body, by the help of the spirit, ye shall live,

² For I bear them record, that they have a fervent mind to Godward, but not according to knowledge.

⁵ Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, which will lighten things that are hid in darkness: and open the counsels of the hearts. And then shall every man have praise of God.

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.

⁴ Let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in his own self, and not in another.

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

⁶ But ye have despised the poor. Are not the rich they which oppress you: and they which draw you before judges?

¹³ For there shall be judgment, merciless, to him that showeth no mercy, and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.

⁸ Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands ye sinners, and purge your hearts ye wavering minded. ⁹ Suffer afflictions: sorrow ye and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

¹⁶ But now ye rejoice in your boastings. All such rejoicing is evil.

¹ Go to now, ye rich men. Weep, and howl on your wretchedness that shall come upon you. ² Your riches is corrupt, your garments are motheaten. ³ Your gold and your silver are cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness unto you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together in your last days. ⁴ Behold, the hire of the laborers which have reaped down your fields — which hire is of you kept back by fraud — crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped, are entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

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.

⁷ And as much as she glorified herself and lived wantonly, so much pour ye in for her of punishment, and sorrow, for she said in her heart, 'I sit, being a queen and am no widow and shall see no sorrow.'

¹⁷ for at one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every ship governor, and all they that occupied ships, and shipmen which work in the sea, stood afar off;

¹ And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the seat of God and of the lamb.