Job 13:4 Cross References - Rotherham

⁴ For, in truth, ye, do besmear with falsehood, Worthless physicians, all of you!

¹⁶ Thou shalt not testify against thy neighbour, with a witness of falsehood.

⁷ Remember, I pray thee, who, being innocent, hath perished, or when, the upright, have been cut off. ⁸ So far as I have seen, They who plow for iniquity and sow misery, reap the same: ⁹ By the blast of GOD, they perish, And, by the breath of his nostrils, are they consumed: ¹⁰ [Notwithstanding] the roaring of the lion, and the noise of the howling lion, yet, the teeth of the fierce lions, are broken: ¹¹ The strong lion perishing for lack of prey, Even the whelps of the lioness, are scattered.

¹ Call, I pray thee––is there one to answer thee? Or, to which of the holy ones, wilt thou turn? ² For, to the foolish man, death is caused by vexation, and, the simple one, is slain by jealousy. ³ I, have seen the foolish taking root, and then hath his home decayed, in a moment: ⁴ His children are far removed from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver: ⁵ Whose harvest, the hungry, eateth up, and, even out of thorn hedges, he taketh it, and the snare gapeth for their substance.

²¹ For, now, ye have come to him, ye see something fearful, and fear.

³ Should, GOD, pervert justice? Or, the Almighty, pervert righteousness? ⁴ Though, thy children, sinned against him, and he delivered them into the hand of their transgression,

² I have heard many such things, Wearisome comforters, are ye all!

⁵ Even the light of the lawless, shall go out,––Neither shall shine the flame of his fire; ⁶ The light, hath darkened in his tent, Yea, his lamp above him, goeth out; ⁷ The steppings of his strength are hemmed in, and his own counsel casteth him down; ⁸ For he is thrust into a net by his own feet, and, upon a trap, he marcheth; ⁹ There catcheth him––by the heel––a gin, there holdeth him fast––a noose: ¹⁰ Concealed in the ground is a cord for him,––and a snare for him, on the path.
¹¹ Round about, terrors have startled him, and have driven him to his feet. ¹² Let his strength be famished, and, calamity, be ready at his side; ¹³ Let it devour the members of his body, Let the firstborn of death devour his members; ¹⁴ Uprooted, out of his tent, be his confidence, and let it drive him down to the king of terrors; ¹⁵ There shall dwell in his tent, what is naught–of–his, Let brimstone be strewed over his dwelling; ¹⁶ Beneath, let his roots be dried up, and, above, be cut off his branch; ¹⁷ His memorial, have perished out of the land, and let him have no name over the face of the open field; ¹⁸ Let them thrust him out of light into darkness, Yea, out of the world, let them chase him; ¹⁹ Let him have neither scion nor seed among his people, neither any survivor in his place of sojourn: ²⁰ Over his day, have they been astounded who come behind, and, them who are in advance, a shudder hath seized. ²¹ Surely, these, are the dwellings of him that is perverse, and, this, is the place of him that knoweth not GOD.

²⁷ Lo! I know your plans, and the devices, wherewith ye would do me violence! ²⁸ For ye say, Where is the house of the noble–minded? And where the dwelling–tent of the lawless? ²⁹ Have ye not asked the passers–by in the way? And, their signs, can ye not recognise? ³⁰ That, to the day of calamity, is the wicked reserved, to the day of indignant visitation, are they led. ³¹ Who can declare––to his face––his way? And, what, he, hath done, who shall recompense to him? ³² Yet, he, to the graves, is borne, and, over the tomb, one keepeth watch; ³³ Pleasant to him are the mounds of the torrent–bed,––and, after him, doth every man march, as, before him, there were without number. ³⁴ How then should ye comfort me with vanity, since, as for your replies, there lurketh, [in them] treachery?

⁶ Surely then hast been wont to put thy brother in pledge, for nothing, and, the garments of the ill–clad, hast thou stripped off: ⁷ No water––to the weary, hast thou given to drink, and, from the hungry, thou hast withheld bread: ⁸ A man of might, to him, pertaineth the land, and, the favorite, dwelleth therein: ⁹ Widows, thou hast sent away empty, and, the arms of the fatherless, thou dost crush. ¹⁰ For this cause, round about thee, are snares, and a dread startleth thee suddenly; ¹¹ Or darkness––thou canst not see, and, a flood of waters, covereth thee. ¹² Is not, GOD, [in] the height of the heavens? Behold, then, the head of the stars, that they are high. ¹³ Wilt thou say then, What doth GOD know? Out through a thick cloud, can he judge? ¹⁴ Dark clouds, are a veil to him, and he cannot see, or, the vault of the heavens, doth he walk?
¹⁵ The path of the ancient time, wilt thou mark, which the men of iniquity trod? ¹⁶ Who were snatched away before the time, and, a stream, washed away their foundation? ¹⁷ Who had been saying unto GOD, Depart from us! and––What can the Almighty do for himself? ¹⁸ Yet, he, had filled their houses with good! The counsel of the lawless, then, is far from me: ¹⁹ The righteous shall see and rejoice, and, the innocent, shall laugh them to scorn: ²⁰ If our assailants do not vanish, then, their abundance, a fire consumeth!
²¹ Shew thyself to be one with him––I pray thee––and prosper, thereby, shall there come on thee blessing. ²² Accept, I beseech thee, from his mouth––instruction,––and lay up his sayings in thy heart. ²³ If thou return unto the Almighty and submit thyself, if thou far remove perversity from thy tent, ²⁴ Then lay up, in the dust, precious ore, and, among the stones of the torrent–beds, fine gold: ²⁵ So shall, the Almighty, become, thy precious ores, yea glittering silver unto thee! ²⁶ For, then, in the Almighty, shalt thou take exquisite delight, and shalt lift up––unto GOD––thy face; ²⁷ Thou shalt make entreaty unto him, and he will hear thee, and, thy vows, shalt thou pay; ²⁸ And thou shalt decree a purpose, and it shall be fulfilled unto thee, and, upon thy ways, shall have shone a light; ²⁹ When men cast themselves down, then thou shalt say: Up! And, him that is of downcast eyes, shall he save; ³⁰ He shall deliver the innocent, and thou shalt escape by the pureness of thy hands.

⁶⁹ Insolent men have plastered falsehood over me, I, with a whole heart, will observe thy precepts.

¹⁴ And so they have healed the grievous wound of my people, slightly, Saying, Peace, peace, when there was no, peace,

²² Balsam, is there none, in Gilead? Is there no, physician, there? Why hath not appeared the healing of the daughter of my people?

³² Behold me! against such as prophesy the dreams of falsehood, Declareth Yahweh, who have related them, and led astray my people, with their falsehoods and with their recklessness,––whereas, I, had not sent them, nor commanded them, so that they could be of no, profit, to this people, Declareth Yahweh.

¹³ There is none, to plead thy cause, for binding thee up,––Healing bandages, hast thou none:

¹¹ Go up to Gilead, and fetch balsam, O virgin, daughter of Egypt! In vain, hast thou multiplied remedies, Healing, there is none, for thee.

⁴ The weak, have ye not strengthened, And, the sick, have ye not healed, And, the torn, have ye not bound up, And, that which was driven out, have ye not brought back, And, that which was straying, have ye not sought out; But, with force, have ye ruled them, and with rigour.

¹³ When Ephraim, saw, his injury, and Judah his wound, then went Ephraim unto Assyria, and [Judah] sent unto a hostile king,––yet, he, cannot heal you, nor will the wound, remove from you.

¹⁷ And, hearing it, Jesus saith unto them––No need, have the strong of a physician, but they who are sick, I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.

²⁶ and suffered much from many physicians, and spent all her means, and profited, nothing,––but had, rather, become worse,