Job 17 Cross References - NSB

¹ »My spirit is broken. My days are extinguished. The grave is waiting for me. ² »Mockers surrounded me. My eye dwells on their provocation. ³ »Please guarantee my bail. Who else will guarantee it with a handshake? ⁴ »You close their minds and hearts so that they cannot understand. That is why you will not honor them. ⁵ »Whoever turns in friends to get their property should have his children's eyesight fail. ⁶ »Now he has made me a laughingstock for many people. Now they spit in my face. ⁷ »My eyes are dim because of grief. My limbs are like a shadow. ⁸ »This shocks decent people. The innocent are against the godless people. ⁹ »Yet, the righteous person clings to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger. ¹⁰ »But now, you must come and try again! I will not find one wise man among you. ¹¹ »My days are passing by. My plans are broken. My dreams are shattered. ¹² »You say that night is day. Light has nearly become darkness. ¹³ »Should I look for the grave as my home and make my bed in the darkness? ¹⁴ »If I say to the pit: You are my father! And to the worm: You are my mother and sister! ¹⁵ »Where is my hope? Can you see any hope left in me? ¹⁶ »Will hope go down with me to the gates of the grave? Will my hope rest with me in the dust?«

⁵ »Abraham said that she was his sister. She said the same thing. I did this with a clear conscience. I have done no wrong!«

²⁷ »Why did you deceive me and slip away without telling me? If you had told me, I would have sent you on your way with rejoicing and singing to the music of tambourines and harps.

⁹ »I guarantee that he will come back. You can hold me responsible for him. If I do not bring him back to you and place him here in front of you, you can blame me the rest of my life.

³² »I promised my father I would bring him home safely. If I do not, I told my father he could blame me the rest of my life.

⁵ »Do not worship them or serve them. I, Jehovah your God, am a God demanding exclusive devotion. (I do not tolerate rivals.) I will not share your affection with any other god. I punish children for their parents’ sins to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.

⁶⁵ »You will find no peace among those nations. There will be no place to call your own. There Jehovah will give you an unsettled mind, failing eyesight, and despair.

⁶⁷ »Your hearts will pound with fear at everything you see. Every morning you will wish for evening. Every evening you will wish for morning.

⁶ The other wife did everything possible to make her unhappy. This is because Jehovah had not given her children. ⁷ Year after year when Peninnah went to the Temple of Jehovah, she kept on provoking Hannah. It bothered Hannah so much she wept and did not eat.

³¹ Someone told David: »Ahithophel is helping Absalom conspire against you!« David said: »Please Jehovah keep Ahithophel’s plans from working!«

¹⁴ Absalom and all the people of Israel said: »The advice of Hushai from Archi’s family is better than Ahithophel’s advice. Jehovah commanded Ahithophel’s good advice to be defeated in order to ruin Absalom.«

⁷ »I will have Israel cut off from the land I gave them. I will abandon this house even though I have made it holy for myself. I will put you out of my sight. Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.

¹² »I will not do it in your lifetime, because of your father David, but I will take it from your son.

¹⁶ The king asked him: »Did we make you an adviser to the king? Stop! Do you want me to have you killed?« The prophet stopped. He said: »I know that God has decided to destroy you because you did this. Yet you refuse to listen to my advice.«

¹³ »For now I would be lying down in peace. I would be asleep and at rest.

¹⁷ »There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest. ¹⁸ »Captives also enjoy their ease; they no longer hear the slave driver’s shout. ¹⁹ »The small and the great are there. The slave is freed from his master.

⁶ »Does your respect for God give you confidence and your lifetime of integrity give you hope?

¹¹ »What strength do I have, that I should wait and hope? What prospects, that I should be patient?

²⁹ »Relent and do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my integrity is at stake.

³ »I am allotted months of futility, long and weary nights of misery. ⁴ »I go to bed and I think: »When will it be morning?« But the night drags on, and I toss till dawn.

⁶ »My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle flying back and forth. They end without hope.

¹³ »When I think: ‘My bed will comfort me, and I will try to forget my misery with sleep, ¹⁴ you shatter me with dreams. You terrify me with visions.’

²⁵ »My days are swifter than a runner! They flee away and see no good. ²⁶ »They pass by like swift ships, like an eagle swooping on its prey.

³³ »Nor is there any mediator between us who may lay his hand on us both.

²¹ before I go to the place of no return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death, ²² to the land of dark night, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.«

²⁰ »But the eyes of the wicked will fail and they will not escape. Their hope will become a dying gasp.«

² »Doubtless you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!

⁹ »What do you know that we do not know? What insights do you have that we do not have?

⁸ »You have shriveled me up. It has become a witness. And my leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.

¹⁶ »My face is flushed from weeping. The shadow of death is on my eyelids.

²⁰ My friends are my scoffers. My eye weeps to God.

¹ »My spirit is broken. My days are extinguished. The grave is waiting for me.

⁴ »You close their minds and hearts so that they cannot understand. That is why you will not honor them.

³ »Bear with me, and I will speak. Then after I have spoken, mock on.

²⁶ »They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.

³² »When they are carried to the grave, a watch is kept over their tomb. ³³ »The clods of the valley are sweet to them; everyone will follow after, and those who went before are innumerable.

⁴ »I have become a laughingstock to my friends! I called upon God and he answered. Yet I am a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!

⁹ »Would it turn out well if he examined you? Could you deceive him as you might deceive men?

¹⁵ »Though he put me to death, yet I will hope in him. I will defend my ways before him.

²⁸ »So man wastes away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.

¹⁴ »If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my change (release) to come.

¹³ »Should I look for the grave as my home and make my bed in the darkness? ¹⁴ »If I say to the pit: You are my father! And to the worm: You are my mother and sister!

¹³ »It eats away parts of his skin. Death’s firstborn devours his limbs. ¹⁴ »He is torn from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.

¹⁰ »He beats me down on every side until I am gone. He uproots my hope like a tree.

¹⁷ »I am repulsive to my wife and my children think I stink.

²⁶ »Even after my skin is gone and this body destroyed, I will see God in my own flesh.

¹⁹ »The righteous see it and are glad and the innocent laugh them to scorn.

³⁰ »He will deliver even those who are guilty. They will escape because of the cleanness of your hands.«

¹⁴ »The murderer rises at dusk to kill the poor and needy, and in the night is like a thief. ¹⁵ »The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight. He says: ‘No eye will see me.’ Then he disguises his face. ¹⁶ »In the dark they dig through houses. By day they shut themselves up. They do not know the light.

²⁰ »The womb forgets them. The worm finds them sweet. They are no longer remembered. Wickedness is broken like a tree.

⁹ »Now they make fun of me with songs. I have become a joke to them.

²³ »Yes, I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all living.

³⁰ »My skin grows black on me and my bones burn with fever.

⁹ »It is not the old that are wise, nor the aged that understand what is right.

²¹ »I will not show partiality to any person or use flattery toward anyone. ²² »I do not know how to flatter or my Maker would soon put an end to me!

⁷ »I am angry with you and your two friends, because you did not speak correctly about me, as my servant Job has.

² People speak lies to one another. They speak with flattering lips and with double-heart. (Double Heart: They say one thing but mean another.) ³ Jehovah will destroy every flattering lip and every bragging tongue

¹⁸ »It is to preserve him from the pit and keep his life from perishing by the sword. ¹⁹ »On the other hand a man may be chastened on a bed of pain with constant distress in his bones. ²⁰ »His very being finds food repulsive and he loathes the choicest meal. ²¹ »His flesh wastes away to nothing, and his bones, once hidden, now stick out. ²² »He draws near to the pit and to the messengers of death. ²³ »Yet if there is an angel on his side as a mediator, one out of a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him, ²⁴ to be gracious to him and say: ‘Spare him from going down to the pit. I have found a ransom for him!’ ²⁵ »His flesh is renewed like a child’s. It is restored as in the days of his youth. ²⁶ »He prays to God and finds favor with him. He sees God’s face and shouts for joy! God restores him to his righteous state. ²⁷ »He comes to men and says: ‘I sinned, and perverted what was right, but I did not get what I deserved.’ ²⁸ »He redeemed me from going down to the pit, and I will live to enjoy the light.

³⁰ »There would be nothing that nations could do to keep godless oppressors from ruling them.

¹⁶ After this Job lived a hundred and forty years. He saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

⁷ My eyes grow weak with sorrow. I am weak because of all my foes.

¹⁰ You do not abandon me to the grave or allow your holy one to decay.

⁶ I will wash my hands in innocence. I will walk around your altar, O Jehovah.

¹⁴ Hope (wait) (expect) (trust) in Jehovah and be strong. Let your heart be courageous. Yes, hope in Jehovah.

⁹ Be gracious to me, O Jehovah, because I am in distress. My eyes, my life, and my body waste away with grief. ¹⁰ My life is spent from sorrow, my years from groaning. My strength staggers under the weight of my guilt, and my bones waste away.

⁴ He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up (turned) to falsehood and has not sworn deceitfully.

¹³ He will enjoy good things in life, and his descendants will inherit the land.

¹⁴ I walked around as if I were mourning for my friend or my brother. I was bent over as if I were mourning for my mother. ¹⁵ Yet, when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together. They gathered together against me. Unknown attackers tore me apart without stopping. ¹⁶ With godless and abusive mockers, they grit their teeth at me.

¹⁴ You made our defeat a proverb among the nations so that people shake their heads at us.

⁹ so they should live forever and never see the grave (pit) (destruction).

¹² Behold, these are the ungodly. They prosper in the world; they increase in wealth. ¹³ I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.

¹³ I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence. ¹⁴ I have been plagued all day long, and chastened every morning. ¹⁵ If I say, I will speak thus; then, I would offend the generation of your children.

³ I am filled with troubles, and my life comes closer to the grave. ⁴ I am numbered with those who go into the pit. I am like a man without any strength.

⁴ I am numbered with those who go into the pit. I am like a man without any strength. ⁵ I am abandoned with the dead, like those who have been killed and lie in graves. I am like those whom you no longer remember, who are cut off from your hand (power) (care).

⁵ I am abandoned with the dead, like those who have been killed and lie in graves. I am like those whom you no longer remember, who are cut off from your hand (power) (care). ⁶ You have put me in the bottom of the pit, in deep dark places. ⁷ Your rage lies heavily on me. You afflict me with all your waves. ⁸ You have taken my friends far away from me. You made me disgusting to them. I am shut in, and I cannot get out.

¹ He who lives under the shelter of the Most High will remain in the shadow of the Almighty.

⁷ They grow stronger as they go and they will see the God of gods on Zion.

¹¹ For Jehovah God is a sun and shield. Jehovah will give favor and honor. He will not withhold blessing from those who walk faithfully in truth.

²³ I fade away like a lengthening shadow. I have been shaken off like a grasshopper.

¹²² Be surety for your servant for good and do not let the arrogant oppress me.

⁷ Answer me quickly, O Jehovah for my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me or I will become like those who go down to the pit.

¹⁸ The path of the righteous is like the shining light of dawn that shines brighter and brighter until the more perfect day.

⁸ If I ascend to heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in the grave, behold, you are there.

¹¹ Your poverty comes like a traveler. Your need comes like an armed man.

¹⁵ He that is surety for a stranger will suffer. He that hates being surety is sure.

¹⁶ A wise man is cautious and departs from evil. But the fool is arrogant and careless.

¹⁸ A man without understanding shakes hands and becomes surety for his friend.

²¹ Many intentions are in men’s hearts. Only counsel from Jehovah will stand.

¹⁶ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger and hold it as a pledge for a seductress.

¹⁹ A gossip reveals secrets. So avoid a man who speaks flattering words.

⁹ A man's heart determines his way. Jehovah directs his steps.

²⁶ Do not give pledges and be guarantors for debts.

⁵ A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

⁸ If you see oppression of the poor and denial of justice and righteousness in the country, do not be shocked at the sight. One official watches over another official and there are higher officials over them.

¹² Who knows what is good for man in this life? Are all the days of his vain life that he spends like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will happen after his existence under the sun?

¹⁰ Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where you are going.

¹² At their feasts there are lyres and harps, tambourines and flutes, and wine. Yet, they do not pay attention to what Jehovah is doing or respect what his hands have done.

¹⁰ Make plans for battle, but they will never succeed. Give orders, but they will not be carried out, because God is with us!

¹¹ »‘Your pride has been brought down to the grave along with the music of your harps. Maggots are spread out like a bed under you, and worms cover you.’

¹⁴ Jehovah has poured into them a spirit of dizziness. They make Egypt stagger in all that she does, as a drunkard staggers around in his vomit.

¹⁵ »When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from you. Even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen because your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ »Wash yourselves! Become clean! Get your evil deeds out of my sight. Stop doing evil.

⁸ There will be a highway there, called: »The Road of Holiness.« No sinner will ever travel that road. No fools will mislead those who follow it. ⁹ No lions will be there. No fierce animals will pass that way! Those whom Jehovah has rescued will travel home by that road. ¹⁰ They will reach Jerusalem with gladness, singing and shouting for joy. They will be happy forever. They will be forever free from sorrow and grief.

¹⁰ »I thought that in the prime of my life I would go down to the gates of the grave and be robbed of the rest of my life.

¹⁰ »I thought that in the prime of my life I would go down to the gates of the grave and be robbed of the rest of my life. ¹¹ »I thought that I would not see Jehovah in this world. Even with all the people in the world, I thought I would never see another person. ¹² »My life was over. You rolled it up like a shepherd's tent. You rolled up my life like a weaver. You cut me off from the loom. You ended my life in one day. ¹³ »Until morning came, I thought you would crush my bones just like a hungry lion; both night and day you make an end of me. ¹⁴ »I cry like a swallow (swift). I mourn like a dove. My eyes are red from looking to you, Jehovah. I am terribly abused. Please come and help me.

¹⁴ »I cry like a swallow (swift). I mourn like a dove. My eyes are red from looking to you, Jehovah. I am terribly abused. Please come and help me.

¹⁷ »Yes, it was for my benefit that I suffered such distress. In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction. You have put (thrown) (hurled) all my sins behind your back. ¹⁸ »For the grave cannot praise you, death cannot sing your praise. Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.

²⁹ »He gives strength to those who grow tired and increases the strength of those who are weak. ³⁰ Even young people grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall. ³¹ »Those who hope in Jehovah will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary! They will walk and not be faint.«

² He will enter into peace. The honorable and honest will rest in his bed.

¹⁶ For I will not contend (rebuke) forever! Nor will I always be angry! The spirit would fail before me, and those whom I have made.

²⁵ Jehovah is good to those who are waiting for him, to the person seeking him. ²⁶ It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of Jehovah.

³⁷ Who is able to say something should occur if Jehovah has not ordered it.

¹⁷ Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help. We watch for a nation unable to give salvation.

¹⁷ Because of this our hearts are feeble. For these things our eyes are dark.

¹¹ Jehovah also said: »Son of man, all the people of Israel are like these bones. The people say: Our bones are dry, and our hope has vanished. We are completely destroyed.

⁶ »I went down to the bottom of the mountains! The earth with its bars closed upon me for a very long time. Yet you have brought my life up from the pit, O Jehovah my God?

¹³ Your eyes are too pure to look at evil. You cannot look at perversity. Why do you look at treacherous persons and not act? Why do you keep quiet when the wicked destroy the man who is more righteous?

¹⁸ »Once again my people will see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between the person who serves God and the one who does not.«

¹¹ He responded: »You are allowed to know the divine secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but it is not for others to know. (The Greek word for »you« is plural and is applied to the disciples as a group.)

²⁵ Then Jesus prayed: »I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth. You have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and have revealed them to children. (Acts 2:36)

³⁹ People passing by spoke evil abuse to him. They wagged their heads ⁴⁰ and said, »You who would destroy the Temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself. If you are the Son of God come down from the stake.« ⁴¹ In like manner the chief priests, scribes, and elders mocked him. ⁴² They said: »He saved others, but cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him now come down from the stake and we will believe in him.« ⁴³ He trusts in God. Let him save him now if he wants him. After all he said: »I am the Son of God.« ⁴⁴ The robbers that were impaled with him also insulted him.

² They saw that some of his disciples ate their bread with unwashed defiled hands.

²⁷ ‘»Because you will not leave me in the grave, neither will you allow your Holy One to see corruption. (Psalm 16:10) ²⁸ ‘»You have made known to me the ways of life, and you will fill me with joy with your presence.’ ²⁹ »Men and brothers let me freely speak to you about the patriarch David that he is dead and buried. His grave is with us to this day. ³⁰ »Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne. ³¹ »He seeing this before spoke about the resurrection of Christ. That he would not be left in the grave and his flesh did not see corruption.

⁴⁶ Paul and Barnabas became very bold, and said: »It was necessary that the Word of God should first be spoken to you. But seeing you reject it you judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life! Therefore we turn to the people of the nations.

³⁴ »He raised him up from the dead, never to decay. It is stated in these words: I will give you the sure blessings promised David. (Isaiah 55:3) ³⁵ »He said in another psalm: You will not allow your Holy One to see decay. (Ps 16:10) ³⁶ »After David served his own generation by doing the will of God he died and was buried with his fathers. His body decayed. ³⁷ »But he (Jesus), whom God raised again, saw no decay.

¹³ I want you to know, brothers, that I was often determined to come to you, but was hindered until now, that I might have some fruit among you as well as the rest of the nations.

⁸ It is written, »God has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear to this very day.« (Deuteronomy 29:4)

³³ O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments. His ways are beyond human understanding!

²⁰ Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

⁵ I speak to shame you. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? Not one who would be able to judge between his brothers?

¹⁵ In this confidence I was willing to come to you first that you might have a second benefit. ¹⁶ To pass by you to Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be helped by you on my journey to Judea. ¹⁷ When I planned this was I unfaithful? Or in other things do I perform according to the flesh. With me should there be a yes or a no?

⁴² So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption. It is raised in incorruption.

⁵³ This corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. ⁵⁴ When this corruptible shall be clothed with (Greek: enduo: dressed, put on) incorruption, and this mortal shall be clothed with immortality, then the saying will come true: »Death is swallowed up in victory.«

⁹ Yes, we have had the sentence of death within ourselves that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

⁹ He told me: »My grace is sufficient for you for my strength is made perfect in weakness.« Most gladly therefore, I would rather glory in my infirmities (frailities), that the power of Christ may rest upon me (cover me like a tent) (descend upon me) (abide with me). (Isaiah 40:29-31) ¹⁰ Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then I am strong.

⁵ You know very well that we did not come to you with flattering talk (praise for selfish gain). We did not use words to cover up greed (insatiable desire for wealth). God is our witness!

²² Jesus became the guarantee of a better covenant.

¹⁴ You do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor (puff of air) that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. ¹⁵ You should say, »If God wills, we should both live, and do this or that.«

⁵ You are protected by God’s power through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

¹³ Come now, you that say, »Today or tomorrow we will go to this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and make profit.«

¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us. If they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they went out that it made it plain that they all are not of us.