Job 22:8 Cross References - MSTC

⁸ Should such one then as useth violence, wrong and oppression, doing all things of partiality, and having respect of persons, dwell in the land?

¹¹ And the elders and nobles of his city, which dwelt in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letter which she had sent unto them. ¹² They proclaimed fasting, and set Naboth on high among the people, ¹³ and there came in two unthrifty persons and sat before him. And the two unthrifty persons witnessed against Naboth before the people, saying, "Naboth did curse God and the king." And upon that they carried him out of the city and stoned him with stones to death. ¹⁴ And then they sent to Jezebel saying, "Naboth is stoned to death." ¹⁵ And when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned to death, she said to Ahab, "Up, and take possession of the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezreelite, which he denied to give thee for silver, for Naboth is not alive, but dead."

⁸ Will ye accept the person of God, or will ye contend with him?

⁷ When I went through the city unto the gate, and when they set me a chair in the street; ⁸ When the young men, as soon as they saw me, hid themselves, and when the aged arose, and stood up unto me; ⁹ when the princes left of their talking, and laid their hand to their mouth; ¹⁰ when the mighty kept still their voice, and when their tongues cleaved to the roof of their mouths; ¹¹ When all they that heard me, called me happy, and when all they that saw me, wished me good. ¹² "For I delivered the poor when he cried, and the fatherless that wanted help. ¹³ He that should have been lost, gave me a good word, and the widow's heart praised me. ¹⁴ And why? I put upon me righteousness, which covered me as a garment, and equity was my crown. ¹⁵ I was an eye unto the blind, and a foot to the lame; ¹⁶ I was a father unto the poor, and when I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligently. ¹⁷ I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of their teeth.

³⁴ For if I had feared any great multitude of people, or if I had been despised of the simple; Oh then should I have been afraid. Thus have I quietly spent my life, and not gone out at the door.

⁸ The ungodly walk on every side; when they are exalted, the children of men are put to rebuke.

³ the captain of fifty and the honorable, the senators and men of understanding, the masters of crafts and orators.

¹⁵ By the head, is understood the senator and honorable man, and by the tail, the Prophet that preacheth lies.

³ yet they say they do well when they do evil. As the prince will, so sayeth the judge: that he may do him a pleasure again. The great man speaketh what his heart desireth; and the hearers allow him.