Job 23:4 Cross References - Thomson

⁴ that I might order the trial of myself, and that he would stop my mouth with arguments

²⁵ Thou canst not do such a thing as this to slay the righteous with the wicked. Shall the righteous be as the wicked? No, no; Thou who judgest the whole earth; wilt not thou execute judgment? ²⁶ And the Lord said, If there be among the Sodomites fifty righteous men in the city, I will spare the whole city and the whole place for their sake. ²⁷ Then Abraham answered and said, Now I have taken upon me to speak to my Lord, I who am but dust and ashes! ²⁸ But if the fifty righteous be lessened to forty five wilt thou for want of the five destroy the whole city? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find there forty five. ²⁹ And Abraham proceeded farther to speak to him and said, But if there be found there forty? And he said For the sake of the forty I will not destroy it. ³⁰ Then Abraham said, Wilt thou, Lord, be offended if I speak? But if there be found there thirty? ³¹ And he said, I will not; destroy it, for the sake of the thirty. Again Abraham said, Since I am permitted to speak to the Lord, If twenty be found there? ³² And he said I will not destroy it, if I find twenty there. And Abraham said, Wilt thou, Lord, be offended, if I speak yet once more? But if ten be found there? And he said, For the sake of ten I will not destroy it.

¹² But thou hast said, I will deal well with thee and make thy seed like the sand of the sea, which, for multitude cannot be numbered.

¹² perhaps the Egyptians may speak, saying, With an ill intent he led them out to slay them on the mountains and utterly consume them from the earth. Stay thy fierce indignation and be merciful at this wickedness of thy people, ¹³ remembering Abraham and Isaak and Jacob thy servants, to whom thou didst swear by thyself and didst speak saying, I will greatly multiply your seed like the stars of heaven for multitude; and didst say that thou wouldst give them all that land, that they should possess it for ever.

¹³ Thereupon Moses said to the Lord, Though Egypt may publish that thou by thy mighty power didst bring this people out from among them; ¹⁴ Nay though all the inhabitants of this land have heard that thou the Lord art among this people; that they with their eyes may behold thee, Lord, exposed to view; and that thy cloud hath stood over them, and that thou marchest before them in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night; ¹⁵ yet when thou shalt destroy this people as one man, then will all the nations who have heard of thy name speak, saying, ¹⁶ Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which, with an oath, he promised them, he hath destroyed them in the wilderness. ¹⁷ Now therefore let thy power, Lord, be exalted. As thou hast spoken, saying, ¹⁸ "The Lord is long suffering, abundant in mercy and true, taking away iniquities, transgressions and sins; and, when he will not by purification clear the guilty, retributing the sins of fathers on children to the third and fourth generation," ¹⁹ forgive the sin of this people according to thy great mercy, as thou hast been gracious to them from Egypt even to this time.

⁸ What can I say, seeing Israel hath turned back from before his enemy? ⁹ When the Chananite, and all the inhabitants of this land hear this, they will encompass us, and drive us from this land. What then wilt thou do in respect to thy great name?

¹⁸ Behold I am near my trial. I know that I shall appear just.

¹⁹ Therefore teach me what we shall say to him. And let us refrain from much speaking.

¹¹ For the sake of thy name therefore, Lord, pardon this sin of mine, for it is manifold;

¹ A Psalm by David. Judge me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: deliver me from an unjust and deceitful man.

²⁶ but do thou mention them and let us be judged; do thou first state thy transgressions, that thou mayst be acquitted.

¹⁸ incline, my God, thine ear and hear. Open thine eyes and behold our desolation and that of thy city which is called by thy name. For we do not for our own righteousness present our piteous case before thee; but we cast ourselves upon thy tender mercies, Lord, which are many. ¹⁹ O Lord hear! O Lord, be appeased! Attend, Lord! Defer not, my God, for thine own sake! for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.