Job 21 Cross References - Thomson

¹ To this Job replied, ² hear, hear my words. Can I not have this consolation from you? ³ Bear with me, and when I speak do not deride me. ⁴ What! is my pleading with man? Or, why shall I not be inflamed with indignation? ⁵ Look on me and be amazed, having laid your hand on your cheek. ⁶ For at the bare recollection I shudder: and tortures rack my flesh. ⁷ Why do the wicked live and grow old, abounding in wealth? ⁸ Their crops are to their wish, and their children before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses flourish and they have no dread; and a scourge from the Lord is not upon them. ¹⁰ Their kine bring not forth untimely births, but go their time safely, and cast not their calves. ¹¹ They abide continually like a flock, and their little ones frolick about them. ¹² They take up the psaltery and kithara, and are charmed with the sound of the song; ¹³ and having spent their life in festivity, they are composed to rest in the peaceful grave. ¹⁴ Yet he saith to the Lord, Depart from me, I desire not to know thy ways. ¹⁵ What is the Almighty, that we should serve him: and what the advantage, that we should wait on him? ¹⁶ For their prosperity was by their own hands. ¹⁷ Now doth not he observe the works of the wicked? and should not the lamp, at least of wicked men, be extinguished, and destruction come upon them? And pangs seize them, on account of anger: ¹⁸ and they be like chaff driven by the wind, or like dust swept away by a whirlwind? ¹⁹ His substance should fail from among his children. He should retribute to him. And he should know it. ²⁰ His eyes should see his own destruction: and he should not escape from the Lord. ²¹ Because his desire is in his family with him; therefore the number of their months should be cut short. ²² Is it not the Lord who teacheth wisdom and understanding, and doth he discriminate murderers? ²³ One is to die in his full strength, all his life being successful and prosperous; ²⁴ his entrails are cloathed with fat, and his bones abound with marrow. ²⁵ Another dieth with bitterness of soul, having never tasted any thing good. ²⁶ But they are both composed alike under ground, and putrefaction hath covered them. ²⁷ I know you charge me with presumption, ²⁸ that you will say, Where is the house of the chief, and where is the covering of the tents of the wicked? ²⁹ Ask them who travel the high ways, or their monuments, you cannot miss them. ³⁰ Because the wicked is reserved for a day of destruction: let them be carried to prison for the day of his indignation. ³¹ Who shall tell him his way to his face, and who shall retribute to him what he hath done? ³² Even when he should be carried to the burying place, he had caused a watch to be kept over his tomb. ³³ The flints of the torrent have been sweetened for him, and every man shall go after him, as innumerable have gone before him. ³⁴ How then do ye comfort me with vanity? There is nothing from you to give me consolation.

⁷ When the news of this was told Jotham, he went and stood on the top of mount Garizin, and raising his voice, he wept, and said to them, Hear me, ye Sychemites, that God may hear you.

³ Nevertheless I would speak to the Lord; and argue before him, were it his pleasure. ⁴ Now you are all bad physicians and curers of maladies.

¹¹ Thou hast been chastised less than thy sins deserve.

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

² How long will it be ere thou wilt stop? Forbear that we may speak.

¹ Now therefore, Job, hear thou my words, and listen attentively to my speech;

³¹ Listen attentively, Job, and hear me: keep silence that I may speak. ³² If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak; for I wish thee to be justified. ³³ If not: hearken to me: keep silence and I will teach thee.

² Hearken to me, ye wise men, and ye who have knowledge listen attentively.

² Why are you expending money and labour for that which will not satisfy? Hearken to me and you shall eat good things; and your soul will be regaled with delicacies.

¹ For this cause we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest we, through negligence, let them slip.

⁴ For a just man and one irreprehensible hath been made a mocking stock. ⁵ For it hath been ordered that for a time he shall fall beneath others: and that his houses shall be wasted by transgressors.

⁹ For will it be well for you, if he mark your steps? For though feigning all these things you apply them for him:

¹³ Keep silence that I may speak, and have some respite from wrath.

¹⁰ When with the darts of his eyes he had transfixed me; with his spear had brought me on my knees: they with one consent rushed upon me.

²⁰ O that my suit could come before the Lord, and that before him mine eye could drop a tear!

² I am supplicating in distress, yet what have I done? Strangers have stolen my substance; who is the man?

⁹ In these terms Moses spoke to the Israelites; but they hearkened not to him on account of their despondency, and on account of their hard labours.

¹⁶ Count not thy handmaid a daughter of wickedness, because, out of the abundance of my deep meditation, I have continued till now.

²⁶ And as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him and said, Save me, my lord, king! ²⁷ And the king said to her, Unless the Lord save thee, whence can I save thee, from the threshing floor or from the press?

¹¹ For what is my strength that I should bear up! what my time2 that my life is prolonged?

¹¹ For this cause then I will not refrain my mouth: I will speak though I am in anguish: though distressed, I will unfold the bitterness of my soul. ¹² Am I a sea or a dragon, that thou hast set a guard over me? ¹³ Did I say my bed will comfort me; I will converse with myself privately on my bed? ¹⁴ Thou terrifiest me with dreams and affrightest me with visions. ¹⁵ Wilt thou drive away my life from my spirit; and yet keep my bones from death? ¹⁶ For I am not to live forever, that I should bear patiently. Withdraw from me; for my life is vanity. ¹⁷ For what is man, that thou hast magnified him; or that thou payest attention to him? ¹⁸ Wilt thou keep a watch upon him till the morning. And judge him to the time of going to rest? ¹⁹ How long wilt thou not let me alone: nor let me go, that I may swallow my spittle? ²⁰ If I have sinned what can I do? thou who knowest the hearts of men; why hast thou set me up as thy mark to shoot at? Am I indeed a burden to thee? ²¹ Why hast thou not made an oblivion of my transgression; or a purification for my sin? Now therefore let me depart into the earth: and when thou risest in the morning, I am no more.

¹ Weary of my life I would pour forth with groans my words before him: oppressed as I am I would speak in the bitterness of my soul, ² and say to the Lord, Teach me not to be impious. Now, for what cause hast thou thus condemned me?

¹ For the conclusion. On the help of the morning. A Psalm by David. God, my God! attend to me! why hast thou forsaken me? have the acts of my transgressions [removed thee] far from saving me? ² my God, shall I cry to thee by day, and thou not listen, and by night, and thou not hear me? ³ Thou indeed dwellest in a holy place; thou art the praise of Israel.

¹¹ Why art thou, my soul, cast down; and why disquietest thou me? Trust in God, for I shall praise him; he is the health of my countenance and my God.

³ I remembered God and was made glad; I meditated, though my spirit was in despondency. ⁴ All mine enemies had previously mounted guard; I was troubled and did not speak. ⁵ I considered the days of old: I recollected the years of ancient times; ⁶ I meditated at night; I conversed with my heart; I searched my spirit diligently. ⁷ Will the Lord cast off forever, and will he no more be favourable? ⁸ Will he entirely cut off mercy, from generation to generation? ⁹ Will God forget to be gracious? Will he in his anger restrain his compassion?

¹ A Prayer for the afflicted when he is oppressed with grief, and would pour out his supplication before the Lord. Hearken, Lord! to my prayer; and let my cry come to thee.

² Before him I pour out my prayer: before him I will declare my affliction. ³ When my spirit fainted thou knewest my paths. In the way I was going they hid a snare for me.

³⁸ Whereupon he saith to them, My soul is overwhelmed with anguish 9 even to death. Stay here and watch with me.

¹⁹ they said to him, Hold thy peace, Put thy hand on thy mouth and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for thee to be the priest of the house of one man, than to be the priest of a tribe, and of the house of a community of Israel?

¹² but seeing him at a distance they did not know him. Then raising their voices they wept aloud, and having rent each his robe and sprinkled themselves with dust,

⁸ At this the upright are astonished.

²⁰ The flesh next my skin became rotten, and my bones begin to be corroded. ²¹ Pity me, pity me, O my friends, for the hand of the Lord hath touched me.

⁹ The nobles forbore talking and put their finger on their mouth.

⁴ Why should I continue the debate any further? I stand corrected for commencing a suit against the Lord. On hearing such things, what answer can I, who am nothing, make to Thee? I will lay my hand on my mouth.

⁹ I was dumb and opened not my mouth: because thou art he who didst make me.

³² If thou sufferest thyself to be elated with joy and engages in battle thou wilt incur disgrace.

¹³ therefore the prudent will at that time be silent because it is the time of wicked men.

¹⁶ Nations shall see and be confounded, and because of all the mighty power of these, they will lay their hands on their mouths. Their ears will be stopped.

³³ O the depth of the riches, and of the wisdom, and of the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways not to be traced out!

³ I remembered God and was made glad; I meditated, though my spirit was in despondency.

¹⁵ I am afflicted and in troubles from my youth: though raised high I have been humbled and distressed.

¹²⁰ Penetrate my flesh with the dread of thee; for I am terrified at thy judgments.

¹⁹ I recollected because of mine affliction. When by reason of persecution, my bitterness and gall shall be remembered; ²⁰ then on myself will my soul meditate.

¹⁶ I watched myself; and at the sound of the prayer of my lips my bowels trembled and a tremor seized my bones; and under me my whole frame quivered. I shall be at rest in the day of affliction, at the time of his coining to the people of my neighbourhood.

⁶ Nevertheless let no wicked man indulge a confidence that he shall escape condemnation. Whoever provoke the Lord to anger shall not they also undergo a trial?

¹⁰ they shut up their fat; their mouth spoke proudly.

³⁵ I have seen the wicked highly exalted, towering aloft like the cedars of Lebanon.

³ for I envied the unrighteous; when I saw the prosperity of sinners. ⁴ For there is no lifting up of eyes in their death: and in their affliction they have support. ⁵ They are not in trouble like other men; nor with other men to be scourged. ⁶ Therefore haughtiness hath got a mastery over them; they have clothed themselves with their iniquity and impiety. ⁷ Their iniquity springeth up as it were out of fatness; they passed on to the purpose of their heart. ⁸ They thought and spoke wickedly; they spoke injustice with a lofty air. ⁹ They set their mouth against heaven; and their tongue passed on over the earth. ¹⁰ Shall my people therefore turn to this; and will full days be found by them? ¹¹ They indeed said, How doth God know? and, Is there any knowledge in the Most High? ¹² Behold these who are sinful men; are always prosperous and have gotten wealth.

¹ [p] Righteous as thou art, O Lord, can I defend a cause against thee? but let me speak to thee in respect to judgments. Why is the way of wicked men prosperous? Why are they happy who have been all guilty of perfidy? ² Thou hast planted them and they have taken root, they have generated and produced fruit. Thou art near in their mouth, but far from their reins. ³ But thou, Lord, knowest me. Thou hast tried my heart before thee. Prepare them for the day of their slaughter.

¹⁷ The sentence is by the decree of an Eir; and the decree is a request of holy ones, that the living may know that there is a sovereign Lord of the kingdom of men and that he can give it to whom he will, and set over it that which is disesteemed by men."

¹³ Thine eye is too pure to behold wicked deeds, or to look on the labours of sorrow. Why lookest thou upon despisers? Wilt thou be silent when the wicked swallow up the righteous?

¹⁵ He hath drawn up destruction with a hook, and hath dragged out one with a dredge, and enclosed another with his sweep net. For this cause he will rejoice and his heart will be glad; ¹⁶ therefore he will sacrifice to his net and burn incense to his dredge. Because by these he made his mess rich and his food delicious,

² And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and its feet as of a bear, and its mouth as the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave it his power and his throne and great authority. ³ And I saw one of its heads as if wounded to death; and this deadly wound of it was healed; and the whole earth followed this beast with admiration. ⁴ And they worshipped the dragon who had given the beast authority; and they worshipped the beast, saying, "Who is like this beast? Who is able to fight with it?" ⁵ And to it was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies. And power was given it to make war forty-two months. ⁶ And it opened its mouth for blasphemy against God, to slander his name and his tabernacle and them, who dwell in heaven. ⁷ And power was given it to make war against the saints and to conquer them; and authority was given it over every tribe and tongue and nation;

² with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. ³ And he carried me away in spirit to a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast full of blasphemous names, which had seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ And the woman was clad in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls; and she had in her hand a golden cup full of the abominations and impurity of her fornication;

³ Now I have seen the foolish taking root, but their sustenance was quickly consumed. ⁴ Let their children be but far from safety, and insulted at the gates of minors, there will then be none to deliver them.

¹⁹ He will not be acknowledged among his people, nor will his household be safe under the cope of heaven. But in his possessions others shall live secure.

¹⁰ Let minors destroy his children, and his own hands light up the signals of distress.

²⁸ May destruction bring his house to an end! Upon him may there come a day of wrath!

¹⁴ from thine enemies hand Dismiss them, Lord, from the land: disperse them in their life time. Though their belly was filled with thy stores; they glutted themselves with swine's flesh, and left the relicks for their children.

⁶ Children's children are the crown of old men: and the boast of children, is their fathers. Every ornament of wealth belongeth to the faithful; but to the unfaithful, not a farthing.

³⁴ Let him remove his rod from me; and let not the dread of him terrify me;

²¹ yet the sound of terror is in his ears. When he seemeth to be at peace his destruction shall come.

¹¹ May surrounding sorrows destroy him, and many come round his foot in sore famine.

⁵ They are not in trouble like other men; nor with other men to be scourged.

¹⁹ how they were for destruction! They are gone in a moment! They perished for their iniquity!

¹⁹ peace upon peace to them near and to them far off. So the Lord said, I will heal them. ²⁰ But the wicked shall be tossed like waves and shall not be able to rest. "There is no peace, "said God, "to the wicked."

²⁶ There shall not be a man childless, nor a woman barren in thy land. The number of your days I will completely fulfil.

¹³ And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; and he will bless the offspring of thy womb, and the product of thy land; thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, thy herds of cattle, and thy flocks of sheep, in the land which he, with an oath, promised thy fathers to give thee. ¹⁴ Thou shalt be blessed above all the nations. There shall not be a male without a progeny, nor a female barren among you, or your cattle.

¹¹ and the Lord thy God will multiply thee, for good, in the offspring of thy body, and in the increase of thy cattle, and in the products of thy ground, in the land which he solemnly promised thy fathers to give thee.

¹³ their store houses full and overflowing; their flocks prolific, abounding in their outwalks; ¹⁴ their herds fat. There is no destruction of enclosures; no breaking out; no screaming in their folds.

¹ As the righteous and the wise and their works are in the hand of God, man indeed knoweth not what to love or what to hate: with regard to all things before him there is vanity in them all. ² The same event happeneth to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, and to the bad; to the clean and to the unclean; to him who sacrificeth and to him who sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; as is he who sweareth, so is he who feareth the oath.

¹⁶ Then he spoke a parable to them saying, There was a certain rich man, whose ground produced plenteously. ¹⁷ Whereupon he reasoned within himself, saying, What shall I do; for I have not room to store my crops. ¹⁸ Then he said, I will do this. I will pull down my store houses and build larger, and there lay up all my produce and my good things. ¹⁹ And I will say to my soul; Soul, thou hast many good things laid up in store for many years: take thine ease; eat; drink; and be joyful. ²⁰ Whereupon God said to him; Fool, this very night this soul of thine will be demanded of thee. Whose then will those things be which thou hast provided? ²¹ Thus let every one [say] to himself who is heaping up treasure and is not rich for God.

¹⁹ There was a certain rich man who was clad with purple and cotton robes, and who feasted daily in a splendid manner.

⁴¹ Then out of affliction he hath helped the needy, and hath made families like a flock.

³ Behold sons are an heritage of the Lord; a reward of the fruit of the womb. ⁴ Like shafts in the hands of a mighty man, so are the sons of them who were shaken off. ⁵ Happy he who shall satisfy his desire with these. They shall not be put to shame, when they speak to their enemies in the gates.

²¹ And the name of his brother was Jonbal. He was the inventor of the psaltery and kithara.

²⁷ Hadst thou told me I might have sent thee away with joy and musick, with timbrels and the kithara.

¹² For with kithara and psaltery, tabors and pipes, they drink wine; but they regard not the works of the Lord, nor consider the operations of his hands.

¹³ yet they indulged themselves in joy and gladness, slaying oxen and sacrificing sheep, that they might eat flesh and drink wine, saying, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

⁴ Some of you are sleeping on beds of ivory and lolling at ease on their couches, and eating kids from the flocks, and from the herds calves fed with milk: ⁵ some are dwelling: on the sound of musical instruments; as if they thought it fixed and not fleeting. ⁶ Some are drinking filtered wine and anointing themselves with most precious ointment and have no feeling for the affliction of Joseph.

¹¹ If they hearken and serve; they shall end their days in prosperity and their years in the enjoyment of things convenient.

⁴ For there is no lifting up of eyes in their death: and in their affliction they have support.

³⁸ For as in those days, before the deluge, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, till Noe entered the ark; ³⁹ and they did not know till the flood came and swept them all away; so will this coming of the son of man be.

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul; Soul, thou hast many good things laid up in store for many years: take thine ease; eat; drink; and be joyful. ²⁰ Whereupon God said to him; Fool, this very night this soul of thine will be demanded of thee. Whose then will those things be which thou hast provided?

²⁸ Just so it was also in the days of Lot. They ate; they drank; they bought; they sold; they planted; they built: ²⁹ but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

¹⁷ who said, What can the Lord do to us, or what can the Almighty bring upon us?

⁴ The sinner hath greatly provoked the Lord; according to his great anger will he not make inquisition? God is not before his eyes;

¹¹ For he said in his heart God hath forgotten; He hath turned his face from ever seeing.

⁷ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. And all who practise this have good understanding. And piety towards God is the beginning of discernment: but the wicked despise wisdom and instruction.

²² "While the innocent adhere to justice they shall not be put to shame: but as for fools who delight in mischief, having become wicked they hated knowledge and are become liable to censures.

²⁹ For they hated wisdom and did not chuse the word of the Lord:

¹⁵ He hath drawn up destruction with a hook, and hath dragged out one with a dredge, and enclosed another with his sweep net. For this cause he will rejoice and his heart will be glad;

²⁸ who upon seeing Jesus, screamed and fell down before him, and said with a loud voice, What hast thou to do with me, Jesus son of the Most High God. I beseech thee, torment me not.

³⁷ all the people of the neighbouring country of the Gadarenes entreated him to depart from them. Because they were struck with great terror, he therefore going on board the vessel, set out on his return.

¹⁹ And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness more than light, because their works were evil. ²⁰ For whosoever doeth evil hateth the light, and doth not come to the light, that his deeds may not be detected.

⁴⁵ But as for me, because I speak the truth, you do not believe me. ⁴⁶ Which of you convicteth me of sin? Now, if I speak truth, why do you not believe me? ⁴⁷ He who is of God doth, for this cause, hear the words of God: you do not hearken, because you are not of God.

²³ He who hateth me, hateth my Father also. ²⁴ If I had not done among them works which no other did, they would not have had sin: but now, though they have seen, they have hated both me and my Father.

²⁸ And as they did not search out God to have constantly a due sense of him, God gave them up to an undiscerning mind to do things unseemly,

⁷ Because the bent of the flesh is enmity to God, [for it is not in subjection to the law of God, nor indeed can be,]

¹⁰ and with all the deceit of this unrighteousness among them who perish. Because they did not embrace the love of the truth that they might be saved; ¹¹ for this cause therefore God will send them the energy of delusion, that they may believe this falsehood; ¹² that all may be condemned who have not believed the truth, but have taken pleasure in unrighteousness.

³ For a time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine: But when they have an itch of hearing they will, according to their own desires, heap up for themselves teachers, ⁴ who will turn their attention from the truth, and they will be turned aside to fables.

² Upon which Pharao said, Who is he, that I should hearken to his voice so as to send away the Israelites? I do not know the Lord, nor will I let Israel go.

⁹ For thou shouldst not say, There shall be no visitation of man. He shall indeed have a visitation from the Lord.

³ Or wilt thou say, "What can I do if I sin?"

⁴ them who say, "We will magnify our tongue: our lips are our own: who is Lord over us?"

⁹ that when I am filled I may not become false and say, Who seeth me? Or being in want, steal and swear by the name of God.

¹¹ and turn us from this way, and take from us this path, and take from us the oracle of Israel."

¹⁹ am the Lord and there is none else. I have not spoken in secret nor in an obscure part of the earth. I have not said to the seed of Jacob, Seek ye a vain thing. I am THE I AM, the Lord, who speak righteousness and proclaim truth.

⁶ When in their pastures they were fed to the full; then were their hearts lifted up. For this cause they forgot me.

¹³ you said, "These are because of affliction, "and though I rejected them, saith the Lord Almighty, yet you offered the torn, the lame and the sickly; if then you bring this sacrifice shall I accept such at your hands, saith the Lord Almighty, ¹⁴ when he is cursed, who is of ability and who hath a male in his flock and his vow upon him, and sacrificeth to the Lord a corrupted thing? Because I am a great king, saith the Lord Almighty and1 my name is illustrious among the nations,

⁷ Ask, and ye shall obtain; seek and ye shall find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.

²⁴ Hitherto you have asked nothing in my name. Ask and ye shall receive, that your joy may be complete.

⁶ My soul, come not into their council; And in their conspiracy let not my passions be engaged. Because in their wrath they slew men, And in their rage ham-strung a bull;

²¹ and said, Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall depart hence. The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away. As it pleased the Lord so hath it come to pass. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

⁹ Who then among all these doth not know that the hand of the Lord hath done these things? ¹⁰ Is not the life of all living beings in his hand; and the breath of every man?

¹⁸ [He, who had indeed filled their houses with good things, though the counsel of the wicked is far from him.]

¹ Happy the man, who hath not walked by the counsel of the wicked; nor stood in the way of sinners; nor sat in the seat of the scornful.

⁶ Some put confidence in their power: and some boast of the abundance of their wealth. ⁷ A brother is not redeemed. Is a man to redeem himself?

⁵ For this cause God will utterly destroy thee; tear thee up and hurl thee from thy dwelling; even thy rooted stock out of the land of the living. ⁶ The righteous will see indeed and be afraid. And they will laugh at him and say, ⁷ "Behold the man who made not God his strength: and trusted in the abundance of his wealth; and strengthened himself in his vanity!

¹⁰ My son, let not wicked men lead thee astray. Consent not when they advise thee,

⁸ Remove thy way far from her, go not near the doors of her house;

⁸ No man is absolute commander over wind to stop the current of it, and over the day of death he hath no authority; nor is there a discharge in the day of battle; nor can wickedness save him who is under its sway.

² So having called him, he said to him, What is this that I hear of thee? Give an account of thy stewardship; for thou canst no longer be steward.

²⁵ And Abraham said, Son, remember that thou receivedst thy good things in thy life time; and Lazarus in like manner, his evil things. But now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.

⁵ The light of the wicked shall indeed be extinguished; and from them a spark shall not ascend. ⁶ The light in his dwelling shall be darkness, and the lamp for him shall be extinguished.

¹⁸ When his name shall be published abroad, may they drive him from light to darkness.

¹⁰ Many are the chastisements of the sinner; but mercy will encompass him who trusteth in the Lord.

⁷ Because we have fallen short by thine anger, and by thine indignation have been troubled; ⁸ thou hast placed our iniquities before thee: let this age of ours be for the light of thy countenance. ⁹ Because all our days have fallen short; and we have failed by thine indignation; our years have exercised themselves like a spider.

⁹ The righteous have light continually; but the light of the wicked is extinguished. Deceitful souls are led astray by sins; but the righteous exercise pity and compassion.

²⁰ Whosoever curseth father or mother; let his lamp be extinguished and his eye balls involved in darkness.

²⁰ For the posterity of an evil one cannot continue; and the lamp of the wicked shall be extinguished.

⁸ And the foolish said to the prudent, Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.

⁴⁶ the master of that servant will come on a day when he doth not expect him, and in an hour he is not aware of, and will scourge him in the severest manner, and assign him his portion with the unfaithful.

⁸ but for them who are contentious and disobedient to the truth and in subjection to unrighteousness, there will be indignation and wrath, ⁹ tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man who doth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;

⁷ With thy great glory thou didst crush thine adversaries. Thou sentest forth thy wrath; it consumed them like stubble.

²⁵ Canst thou be afraid of one who is like a leaf moved with a breath of wind? Or as against dried grass carried away with a blast, dost thou set thyself against me?

⁴ Not so the wicked; not so. They are like the chaff, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.

⁵ who are devising evils against me. Let them be like dust before the wind, when the angel of the Lord is afflicting them.

¹³ My God make them like a whirl; like stubble opposed to wind.

²⁴ For this cause, as stubble will be set on fire by a coal, and consumed by a neglected flame; their root shall be like touch wood, and their blossom shall ascend like dust: for they desired not the law of the Lord of Hosts: but provoked to wrath the manifestion of the Holy One of Israel.

¹³ The multitude of nations being like a great flood, their flight shall be like that of a mighty torrent rolling on impetuously. For he will repulse them with scorn, and pursue them to a great distance, like chaff before the wind when men winnow, or as a tempest driveth the dust of a wheel.

⁵ then shall the riches of the wicked be as the dust of a wheel, and the multitude of thine oppressors as chaff blown away: and this shall be as in a moment, suddenly.

²⁴ For they could not plant nor could they sow, nor could their root strike into the ground; he blew upon them and they withered, and a whirlwind will sweep them away like stubble.

¹⁵ Behold I have made thee like the wheels of a wain bruising to pieces a brood of pigeons: thou indeed shalt grind mountains and reduce hills to small pieces, and make them like dust: ¹⁶ and thou shalt winnow them; and a wind shall take them up, and a whirlwind shall sweep them away; but thou shalt be gladdened in the sanctuaries of Israel;

²⁴ Therefore I have scattered them like stubble whirled by wind to a desert;

³ For this cause they shall be like a morning cloud, and like a transient dew of the morning; like chaff blown from a winnowing floor and like a vapour from tears.

¹⁰ Because one shall be utterly destroyed, and consumed like bindweed and dry stubble;

¹² His winnowing instrument is in his hand. He will thoroughly clean his floor, and gather his wheat for the granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."

⁷ Though thou hast offered right, yet if thou hast not rightly divided, hast thou not sinned? Be composed. To thee shall be his recourse, and thou shalt rule over him."

⁵ thou shalt not worship them; nor serve them; for I, the Lord thy God, am a zealous God, retributing to them who hate me the sins of fathers upon children to the third and fourth generation;

³⁴ Behold! are not these things stored up with me? And sealed up among my treasures?

⁴¹ I will make my sword sharp as lightning, And my hand will support judgment; And I will execute vengeance on mine enemies, And make retribution to them who hate me.

³⁹ and that though I am a relation, and constituted a king, yet these sons of Saruia are too hard for me? The Lord retribute to the doer of evil according to his wickedness?

²⁴ thou shalt be placed on a mount, founded on a rock, and be like the rock of the torrent Sophir.

⁵ He will turn these evils on mine enemies. Destroy thou them in thy truth.

⁹ Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. ¹⁰ Let his sons be vagabonds and beg: let them be cast out from their dwellings. ¹¹ Let an extortioner seize all that he hath; and strangers make spoil of his labours. ¹² Let there be none to help him; nor any to compassionate his orphan children. ¹³ Let his children be for destruction; In one generation let his name be blotted out. ¹⁴ Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. ¹⁵ Let them be continually before the Lord. And let the memorial of them be cut off from the earth: ¹⁶ because he did not remember to shew mercy; but persecuted a man needy and afflicted: to put to death one who was broken hearted. ¹⁷ As he loved cursing, let it come on him: as he delighted not in blessing let it be far from him. ¹⁸ As he clothed himself with cursing as with a mantle; and it came like water in his bowels; and like oil into his bones: ¹⁹ let it be to him as the mantle which covereth him: and as the girdle with which he is continually girded." ²⁰ From the Lord is this work of them who traduce me: and of them who speak evil against my soul. ²¹ Do thou, Lord, Lord, deal with me for thy name's sake: for thy mercy is good. Deliver me, ²² for I am afflicted and needy; and my heart is troubled within me. ²³ Like a declining shadow I have glided away; I have been shaken off like locusts. ²⁴ My knees are weakened by fasting; and my flesh is changed for want of oil. ²⁵ As for me, I became their scoff; they beheld me; they shaked their heads. ²⁶ Help me, Lord, my God: and save me according to thy mercy. ²⁷ Let them know that this is thy hand; and that thou; Lord hast done this. ²⁸ Let them curse, thou indeed wilt bless. Let them who rise up against me be put to shame: but let thy servant be made glad. ²⁹ Let them who traduce me, be clothed with shame: let them be covered with their shame as with a mantle. ³⁰ With my mouth I will greatly thank the Lord; and praise him in the midst of many: ³¹ because he stood at the right of the needy: to save from them who seek my life.

²¹ prepare thy sons for slaughter, for the sins of their fathers; that they may not rise and possess the land, and fill the World with wars.

⁴ This man beareth away our sins; and for us he is in sorrow: And we considered him as being in trouble and under a stroke and in affliction. ⁵ But he was wounded for our sins, and afflicted for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him; by his bruises we are healed. ⁶ We all like sheep had strayed; every man wandered in his way: and the Lord delivered him up for our sins:

²⁹ In those days they shall no more say, "Our fathers ate a sour grape and the childrens' teeth are set on edge."

² Son of man why have you this proverb among the children of Israel, saying, "The fathers have eaten a sour grape and the childrens teeth are set on edge."

¹⁴ But if he beget a son who hath seen all the sins which his father committed and hath been struck with awe and not done the like;

¹⁹ Now should you say, Why hath not the son borne the iniquity of his father? Because the son hath practised justice and mercy; hath kept all my statutes and done them, he shall live. ²⁰ But the soul which sinneth shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of his father; nor shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and upon the iniquitous shall be his iniquity.

¹⁸ And when you shall be converted, you shall see the difference between a righteous man and one who is unrighteous; and between him who serveth God and him who serveth not.

¹⁹ Lay not up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; ²⁰ but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumeth; and where thieves do not break through and steal.

²⁷ For the son of man will come in the glory of his father, with his angels, and will then render to every one according to his actions.

³¹ So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of them who killed the prophets. ³² As for you then, fill up the measure of your fathers. ³³ Serpents! brood of vipers! how can you escape the punishment of hell? ³⁴ For this, behold I am about to send you prophets, wise men and Scribes: and some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city; ³⁵ that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth; from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

⁵ Indeed according to this obduracy, and impenitent heart of thine thou art treasuring up for thyself wrath against a day of the wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

²¹ for he hath made him who knew no sin, a sin offering for us, that by him we may be made the righteousness of God;

¹⁴ Alexander the coppersmith hath lodged many false accusations against me. Let the Lord reward him according to his works:

⁶ render to her as she hath rendered to you and requite her double according to her works. In the cup in which she mingled, mingle for her a double portion.

¹⁹ He shall lie down rich but shall not continue so. He hath opened his eyes, and all is gone.

³ Thou hast shewn thy people hard things; thou hast made us drink the wine of astonishment.

⁸ For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, filled with mixed wine of horror; and out of this he hath poured into that: but the dregs of it are not emptied out; all the sinners of the land shall drink it.

¹⁷ Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem who hast drunk from the hand of the Lord the cup of his indignation. For thou hast drunk the cup of horror; the great cup of his wrath; and drained it.

¹⁵ in the manner the Lord, the God of Israel said, "Take this cup of wine; this strong wine from my hand, and thou shalt make all the nations, to which I send thee, drink it. ¹⁶ And they shall drink and vomit and rave, because of the sword which I send among them.

⁷ Babylon was a golden cup in the hand of the Lord, furnishing a plentiful draught to all the nations. Of her wine the nations drank, therefore they reeled.

²³ And in the mansion of the dead having lifted up his eyes, being in torment, he seeth Abraham far off and Lazarus in his bosom.

¹⁰ he shall drink the venomous wine of God which is mixed up unadulterated in the cup of his indignation, and shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.

¹⁵ And out of his mouth issueth a sharp sword that with it he may smite the nations. And he himself tendeth them with an iron crook; and he himself treadeth the press of the venemous and raging wine of God Almighty.

⁵ Whether the course of his life on earth be one day; or months be numbered out for him, he cometh to the term thou hast set, but cannot pass it.

²¹ And though his children be multiplied, he knoweth it not: and if they become few in number, he doth not perceive it.

²³ But thou, O God, wilt drag them down to the pit of destruction. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live half their days. But as for me I will trust in thee, Lord.

²⁴ call me not away in the midst of them; thy years are throughout all generations.

¹⁸ and I hated all this labour of mine for which I am toiling under the sun; because I must leave it to a man who is coming after me; ¹⁹ and who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? Now if he hath power over all my labour for which I have toiled and in which I have displayed wisdom under the sun; surely this is vanity.

²⁷ Then he said, I intreat thee therefore, Father, to send him to my father's house; ²⁸ for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment.

¹⁸ If in his servants he placeth not confidence, and in his angels perceiveth some blemish:

¹⁵ If in his holy ones he placeth not confidence; and the heaven is not pure in his sight;

¹⁷ Consider that he who hateth iniquity; and that he who destroyeth the wicked, being eternal, is just. ¹⁸ He is irreverent, who saith to a king, Thou transgressest: to princes, you are acting impiously. ¹⁹ Who hath no respect for the person of an honourable man; nor knoweth how to honour nobles by respecting their persons."

¹¹ who regulateth the watches of the night; who distinguisheth me from the beasts of the earth and from the birds of the air?

²² Behold the Almighty will strengthen with his strength: for who is powerful as he? Or who can examine his works?

² 1 Doth he decline a trial with the Almighty? Surely he who commenceth a suit against God, should support it.

¹ A Psalm by Asaph. GOD standeth in the assembly of gods and in the midst he judgeth gods.

⁵ Who is like the Lord our God who dwelleth on high, ⁶ and superintended the things below him in heaven and on the earth?

⁸ If thou seest a frivolous accusation of a poor man, and a rigorous exaction of judgment and justice in a country, marvel not at the matter. Because there is a high one over a high one to watch, and high ones are for these things,

¹³ Who hath known the mind of the Lord? and who hath been of his counsel to teach him? ¹⁴ or whom hath he consulted that he might instruct him? or who hath pointed out judgment to him? or who hath shewn him the way of knowledge?

²² He it is, who occupieth the circuit of the earth; and the inhabitants thereon are as grasshoppers. He it is, who established the heaven as an arch, and spread it out as a tent to be dwelt in; ²³ who giveth chiefs as a nothingness to govern: and hath made the earth as a mere nothing.

⁹ Is any thing endowed with excellence? I fashioned it like the clay of a potter. Will the ploughman plough the ground all the day long? Will the clay say to the potter, "What art thou making?" Or the work to the Workman, "Thou hast not hands"" Will the thing formed reply against him who formed it?

³⁴ For who hath known the mind of the Lord"? Or who hath been his counsellor?

¹⁶ For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Who can instruct him? As for us we have the mind of Christ.

³ Do you not know that we shall judge angels? Can we not then things which concern this life?

⁴ For if God spared not angels who sinned, but confining them in Tartarus, chains of darkness, delivered them up to be kept for judgment

⁶ and the angels who did not keep their own government, but left their proper abode, he hath reserved in perpetual bonds, under darkness, for the judgment of the great day.

¹ Then I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the bottomless gulf and a great chain in his hand; ² and he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent which is the Devil and Satan and bound him a thousand years ³ and cast him into the bottomless gulf and shut him up, and sealed it on him that he might not lead the nations astray any more until the thousand years were ended. And after that he must be loosed for a short time.

¹² And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God. And books were opened; and another book was opened namely that of Life. And the dead were judged by the writings in those books according to their works. ¹³ And the sea delivered up the dead in it; and death and the mansion of the dead delivered up the dead in them; and they were judged, every one according to his works. ¹⁴ And death and the mansion of the dead were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. ¹⁵ And whoever was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.

²² In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be afflicted, and all manner of distress shall come upon him. ²³ If by any means he be permitted to fill his belly; may he send against him fiery indignation, and pour upon him sorrows!

¹⁷ For when he dieth he can carry nothing away: nor will this glory of his descend with him.

⁴ For there is no lifting up of eyes in their death: and in their affliction they have support. ⁵ They are not in trouble like other men; nor with other men to be scourged.

²⁷ Because he covered his face with fatness; and made collops of fat upon his thighs:

⁸ then shall thy body have health and thy bones a cure.

⁸ Thou thyself, said Chousi, knowest thy father and his men, that they are very brave, and chafed in their minds like a bear bereaved of her whelps in the fields; or like a wild boar in the plain. And thy father is a man of war, and will not let the people rest.

¹² Whereupon the woman said, as the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake baked and only about a handful of barley meal in the jar and a little oil in the vessel; and behold I was picking up a few sticks, that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my children, that we may eat and die.

²⁰ For why is light given to them in misery; or life to souls distressed with sorrow,

¹¹ For this cause then I will not refrain my mouth: I will speak though I am in anguish: though distressed, I will unfold the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁸ For he suffereth me not to take breath, and hath filled me with bitterness.

¹ Weary of my life I would pour forth with groans my words before him: oppressed as I am I would speak in the bitterness of my soul,

²³ If by any means he be permitted to fill his belly; may he send against him fiery indignation, and pour upon him sorrows!

¹⁰ The heart of a man who hath sensibility; the soul of him who hath a feeling for pain, when he is made glad, mingleth not with pride.

² a man to whom God giveth riches and wealth and glory, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he can desire; but God granteth him not a power to eat thereof. In as much as a stranger is to devour it, this is vanity and grievous infirmity.

¹⁵ and taken from me the sorrow of my soul. ¹⁶ Of this indeed thou, O Lord, wast told, and thou hast restored my breath and I am comforted and live. 17 For thou hast rescued my soul that it should not perish; and hast cast behind thee all my sins.

¹⁶ Moreover he said to me, son of man, Behold I break the staff of bread in Jerusalem and they shall eat bread by weight and with scantiness; and they shall drink water by measure and with faintness; ¹⁷ that they may be in want of bread and water and perish, one and all, and be wasted away for their iniquities.

¹⁸ Son of man, thou shalt eat thy bread with sorrow and drink water with tribulation and affliction,

¹⁸ and they of old who are assembled there together; have never heard the exactor's voice. ¹⁹ Small and great are there on a level; the servant, with his dreaded lord.

¹⁴ I have called on death to be my father; and on corruption to be my sister and mother.

²⁶ who is about to dissolve me on earth, to raise again this skin of mine which draweth up these things.

¹¹ His bones were full of his youth, but with him it shall go to rest beneath the mound.

²⁰ Now was such a one's sin brought to remembrance? Though he was dark as the darkness of night; retribution should be made for what he hath done: and every wicked man should be broken; like a tree which cannot be healed.

¹⁴ They are pent up like sheep in the mansion of the dead: death shall feed them and the early watches will rule over them: and that help of theirs from their glory, shall in the mansion of the dead become obsolete.

² The same event happeneth to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, and to the bad; to the clean and to the unclean; to him who sacrificeth and to him who sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; as is he who sweareth, so is he who feareth the oath.

¹¹ Is thy pomp come down to Hades; all thy great festivity?" Beneath thee they will strew corruption for a bed; and Worms shall be thy covering.

⁸ As I have seen men ploughing improper grounds: they who sow such places shall reap sorrows. ⁹ By the decree of the Lord they shall perish; and by the blast of his ire be utterly consumed. ¹⁰ The strength of a lion and the roaring of a lioness and the boastful pride of dragons have been extinguished. ¹¹ The myrmekoleon hath perished for want of food: and young lions have forsaken each other.

³ Now I have seen the foolish taking root, but their sustenance was quickly consumed. ⁴ Let their children be but far from safety, and insulted at the gates of minors, there will then be none to deliver them. ⁵ For what they have collected the righteous shall eat. Nor will they themselves be exempt from wrongs, should their power be exhausted.

³ Will the Lord in judging pass an unrighteous judgment? Or will he who made all things pervert justice? ⁴ If thy children have sinned in his sight, he hath dismissed them for their transgression: ⁵ But rise thou betimes and supplicate the Lord Almighty. ⁶ If thou art pure and upright, he will hear thy prayer; and render to thee the reward of righteousness.

²⁰ The whole life of the wicked is spent in anxiety. Though a certain number of years is given to the oppressor: ²¹ yet the sound of terror is in his ears. When he seemeth to be at peace his destruction shall come. ²² Let him not hope to return out of darkness; for he is already doomed to the edge of the sword; ²³ and destined to be food for vultures. He knoweth within himself that he waiteth for a fall; and a dark day will torture him. ²⁴ Distress and anguish will overwhelm him; like a general at the head of troops falling upon him. ²⁵ Because he lifted up his hands against the Lord, and hardened his neck against the Lord Almighty: ²⁶ therefore he ran upon him contemptuously, with the thick boss of his buckler. ²⁷ Because he covered his face with fatness; and made collops of fat upon his thighs: ²⁸ let him therefore lodge in deserted cities; and go into uninhabited houses: and what they had got ready, let others carry off. ²⁹ Let him neither be enriched, nor what he hath continue. ³⁰ Let him never cast a shadow on the ground, nor escape out of darkness. ³¹ Let the wind blast his bud, and his blossom fall prematurely. Let him not hope to continue, for vanity shall be his portion. ³² Let his branch lopped unseasonably, die; and let not his young shoot flourish. ³³ Let him be gathered like unripe grapes before his time, and fall like the olive blossom. ³⁴ For death is the testimonial of a wicked man: and a fire shall consume the tents of bribery. He shall conceive sorrows and bring forth vanity, and his belly shall produce an illusion.

⁵ But the mirth of the wicked is sudden ruin, and the joy of transgressors, destruction,

²⁹ This is the portion of a wicked man from the Lord, and this his possession, from the superintending Being.

³ And with the three friends he was very angry, because they were not able to answer Job's defence: though they had charged him with being wicked.

⁷ Now after the Lord had spoken all these things to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz, the Thaimanite, Thou hast sinned and thy two friends. For you have not spoken any thing true before me, as my servant Job hath.

⁴ Without transgression I ran and kept a straight course; awake to meet me and behold.

⁸⁶ All thy commandments are truth. They persecuted me without cause, do thou assist me.

²² Thereupon Jesus, knowing their surmises, addressed them, saying, Why reason ye in your hearts?

¹⁹ For this is pleasing, if from a conscientious regard to God one endureth grief suffering wrongfully.

²⁶ And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Separate yourselves from the tents of these wicked men, and touch not any of the things which belong to them, lest you be consumed with them in their sins. ²⁷ And when they had drawn back, all around, from the tent of Kore, Dathan and Abiron came out, and stood at the doors of their tents, with their wives and their children, and their attendants. ²⁸ And Moses said, By this you shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works, and that they are not of myself; ²⁹ If these men die the common death of all men; or if their visitation be according to the visitation of all men, the Lord hath not sent me: ³⁰ but if the Lord demonstrate by a miracle, and the earth opening its mouth, shall swallow up them and their households, and their tents, and all that belong to them; and they go down alive to the mansion of the dead; then you will know that these men have provoked the Lord. ³¹ And when he had made an end of speaking all these words, the earth was rent under them; ³² and the earth opened; and it swallowed up them, and their households, and all the men who were with Kore, and all their cattle. ³³ And they, and all that belonged to them, went down alive to the mansions of the dead, and the earth covered them. And they were destroyed from among the congregation. ³⁴ And all the Israelites who were around them fled at their cry; for they said, Perhaps the earth may swallow us up.

³ His attendants were numerous, and his works great in the country. He was also a man of illustrious birth, among the people of the east.

²² and their enemies shall be clothed with shame; and the dwellings of the wicked shall come to naught.

⁷ For when he thinketh that he is now firmly established, then shall he be utterly destroyed; and they who have seen him will say, Where is he?

³⁷ But if I did not tear it in pieces and give it up, without taking any thing from the debtor:

³⁶ Again I passed by, and lo! he was gone. Though I sought him, his place could not be found.

⁵ For this cause God will utterly destroy thee; tear thee up and hurl thee from thy dwelling; even thy rooted stock out of the land of the living. ⁶ The righteous will see indeed and be afraid. And they will laugh at him and say,

⁹ Woe to him who coveteth wicked gain for his house, that he ¹⁰ may raise his nest high to be out of the reach of evils. Thou hast contrived shame for thy house; thou hast provoked many ¹¹ peoples and thy soul hath sinned; for a stone out of a wall will cry out, and a Worm from a beam will proclaim these things.

⁴ therefore I will bring it out saith the Lord Almighty; and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who sweareth by my name to a falsehood; and it shall lodge in his house, and destroy it with the timber and the stones thereof.

⁸ so that they who passed by did not say, "The blessing of the Lord is upon you." We have blessed you in the name of the Lord.

⁵ The Lord at thy right hand hath crushed kings in the day of his wrath.

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² God is zealous. The Lord is about to take vengeance: the Lord is about to take vengeance with wrath: the Lord is about to take vengeance on his adversaries, and to destroy utterly his enemies, himself.

¹⁵ that day will be a mighty day of wrath; a day of tribulation and distress: a day of wasting and desolation; a day of gloom and darkness; a day of clouds and thick darkness;

⁹ the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly from, temptation, and to reserve the wicked to the day of judgment, to be punished; ¹⁰ and more especially them who go after flesh, in the lust of uncleanness, and despise authority. Being audacious, and self sufficient they tremble not when they revile glories; ¹¹ whereas angels who are greater in might and power, do not bring against them a railing accusation before the Lord. ¹² But these, like irrational brute beasts, made for capture and destruction, railing at what they are ignorant of, shall perish with their own destruction. 13 Receiving wages of iniquity, esteeming riot by day a pleasure; being spots and blemishes; rioting by their deceits; banquetting with you;

¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery and unceasing sin; ensnaring unstable souls; having a heart practised in greediness; an execrable race; ¹⁵ having forsaken the right road they have gone quite astray, following the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of iniquity, ¹⁶ and was convicted of his transgression. [A dumb beast, speaking with a human voice, restrained the madness of the prophet.] ¹⁷ They are wells without water; clouds impelled by a whirlwind, for whom is reserved in the bowels of the earth the gloom of everlasting darkness.

⁷ but the heavens and the earth which now exist are, by the same word, treasured up for fire, being kept for the day of judgment, and destruction of these impious men.

¹³ raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom is reserved the gloom of everlasting darkness.

¹⁷ for the great day of His wrath is come and who is able to stand?"

¹⁰ and who requiteth to their face them who hate him, so as to destroy them. To them indeed who hate him he will not be slack; to their face he will requite them.

⁷ Whereupon Nathan said to David, Thou art the man who hath done this. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, I anointed thee to be king over Israel, and it was I who delivered thee out of the hand of Saul, ⁸ and gave thee the house of thy master, and thy master's wives into thy bosom. I gave thee also the house of Israel and Juda, and if this had not been enough, I would have added still more. ⁹ Why then hast thou despised the word of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? Thou hast slain Ourias the Chettite with the sword, and taken his wife to be thy wife. Thou hast indeed slain him with the sword of the Ammonites. ¹⁰ Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house. Because thou hast despised me, and taken the wife of Ourias the Chettite to be thy wife, ¹¹ therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold I will raise up evils against thee out of thy own house; and I will take thy wives before thy eyes, and give them to thy neighbour, and he will lie with thy wives in the face of the sun. ¹² Thou indeed didst act secretly; but I will do this thing in the sight of all Israel, and in the face of yonder sun.

¹⁹ And thou shalt speak to him, and say, Thus saith the Lord, As thou hast murdered and taken possession, therefore thus saith the Lord, In every place where the swine and dogs have licked the blood of Nabuthi, there shall the dogs lick thy blood, and harlots shall bathe themselves in thy blood. ²⁰ And Achab said to Elias, Hast thou found me, my enemy? To which he replied, I have found thee. Because thou hast sold thyself to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to wrath, ²¹ behold I am going to bring evil upon thee, and I will kindle a flame after thee and utterly destroy the whole race of Achab, both him who is attended and him who is neglected in Israel. ²² And I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam son of Nabat, and like the house of Bassa son of Achia, for the provocations with which thou hast provoked me, and caused Israel to sin. ²³ And to Jezabel the Lord hath spoken saying, The dogs shall devour her on the ramparts of Jezrael. ²⁴ Him of Achab who dieth in the city, the dogs shall devour, and him who dieth in the fields, the birds of the air shall devour.

¹⁹ His substance should fail from among his children. He should retribute to him. And he should know it.

¹¹ or who can rise up against me and stand to it? If the whole world is mine,

²¹ These things thou hast done and I was silent. Thou unjustly didst suppose that I would be like thyself. I will reprove thee and set things in order before thee.

¹³ We have sinned: we have lied, and turned back from following our God; we have spoken things unjust, and have been disobedient; we have conceived and meditated from our heart lying words,

³³ Wilt thou yet study any decency in thy ways in search of love? Far from that, thou hast abandoned thyself to wickedness to pollute thy ways. ³⁴ And on thy hands hath been found the blood of innocent souls. These I did not find in breaches into houses, but in every grove of oaks. ³⁵ Yet thou sayest, "I am innocent; let His wrath be turned from me:" behold I will emplead thee for saying, I have not sinned.

¹⁸ For John had said to Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.

²⁵ And while Paul was discoursing concerning justice and temperance, and the judgment to come, Felix, being terrified, said, Go thy way for the present, and when I find a convenient time I will send for thee:

¹⁹ Beloved, avenge not yourselves, but give place to the wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is mine; I will requite, saith the Lord."

¹¹ And when Peter came to Antioch I .opposed him to his face, because he was reprehensible.

¹³ for the sentence of judgment shall be without mercy for him who hath not exercised mercy, though mercy glorieth over a sentence of judgment.

²¹ "Down with thee into the lowest pit! excel whom thou mayst, down with thee, and be laid with the uncircumcised, in the midst of the victims of the sword." ²² There lieth Assur and all his assembly; all the victims of the sword are laid there; and their sepulture is in the deep pit; ²³ and around his tomb is his assembly; all the slain who fell by the sword, who made themselves dreaded in the land of life. ²⁴ There lieth Ailam with all his host around his tomb; all the slain who fell by the sword, and went down uncircumcised to the depth of the earth: ²⁵ having made themselves dreaded in the land of life, they have received their punishment with them who go down to the pit amidst the slain. ²⁶ There are deposited Mosoch and Thobel, each with all his host around his tomb; all his slain, all uncircumcised, slain with the sword. Having made themselves dreaded in the land of life ²⁷ they are laid with the giants who fell of old; who went down in their armour to the mansion of the dead, and had their swords placed under their heads; but their iniquities were on their bones; because they were the terror of all during their lives. ²⁸ Thou indeed shalt be in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them who are the victims of the sword. ²⁹ There have been laid the princes of Assur; they, who gave its strength to the wounding sword, are themselves laid to rest with the slain; with them who go down into the pit. ³⁰ There lie the chiefs of the north, all the generals of Assur, who descending wounded, are with their terror and their strength, laid to rest, uncircumcised with the slain of the sword; and have borne their punishment with them who go down to the pit. ³¹ These king Pharao shall see and be comforted for all his host, saith the Lord, Lord. ³² Because I have spread the terror of him over the land of life; therefore he shall be in the midst of the uncircumcised, with the slain of the sword; even Pharao and all his multitude with him, saith the Lord, Lord.

²² At length this poor man died, and was carried by angels to Abraham's bosom. And the rich man died also, and was buried.

¹⁹ By the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat thy bread until thou return into the earth out of which thou wast taken; for earth thou art and to earth thou shalt return."

¹⁷ There the wicked have ceased to be a terror: there the weary have got rest for their body:

²² and would rejoice exceedingly if they should chance to find it.

¹⁶ Shall they go down with me to the mansion of the dead? Or shall we go together beneath the mound?

²⁴ As his exaltation afflicted many: he should wither like mallows by heat: or like an ear of corn which fell of itself from the stalk.

²³ For I know that death will destroy me: for earth is the house for every mortal.

⁴ One generation passeth away and another cometh. But the earth hath continually kept its station.

⁷ and dust return to dust as it was, and the spirit return to God who gave it;

²⁷ And as it is appointed for men to die once, and after that there is a judgment;

⁴ Now you are all bad physicians and curers of maladies.