Job 6 Cross References - UKJV

¹ But Job answered and said, ² Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! ³ For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. ⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinks up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me. ⁵ Does the wild ass bray when he has grass? or lows the ox over his fodder? ⁶ Can that which is unpleasing be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg? ⁷ The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful food. ⁸ Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! ⁹ Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! ¹⁰ Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One. ¹¹ What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life? ¹² Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass? ¹³ Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me? ¹⁴ To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend; but he forsakes the fear of the Almighty. ¹⁵ My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; ¹⁶ Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid: ¹⁷ What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. ¹⁸ The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish. ¹⁹ The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them. ²⁰ They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed. ²¹ For now all of you are nothing; all of you see my casting down, and are afraid. ²² Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance? ²³ Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty? ²⁴ Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. ²⁵ How forcible are right words! but what does your arguing reprove? ²⁶ Do all of you imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind? ²⁷ Yea, all of you overwhelm the fatherless, and all of you dig a pit for your friend. ²⁸ Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie. ²⁹ Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it. ³⁰ Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

⁷ And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

¹¹ And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.

³ And Jokshan brings forth Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.

¹⁵ Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:

²² All of you shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. ²³ If you afflict them in any way, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; ²⁴ And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

¹³ And every oblation of your food offering shall you season with salt; neither shall you suffer the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your food offering: with all of your offerings you shall offer salt.

² Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, All of you shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.

⁴⁸ After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:

¹⁴ I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. ¹⁵ And if you deal thus with me, kill me, I pray you, instantly, if I have found favour in your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

²⁰ The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

²³ I will heap evil upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. ²⁴ They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

⁴² I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.

² There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside you: neither is there any rock like our God.

³ Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.

¹ And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.

¹ And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

¹² And she said, As the LORD your God lives, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

⁴ But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

²⁷ And say, Thus says the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.

⁸ And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will all of you even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.

¹⁰ But he said unto her, You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips. ¹¹ Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him. ¹² And when they lifted up their eyes far off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. ¹³ So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

³ Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a male child conceived. ⁴ Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. ⁵ Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. ⁶ As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months. ⁷ Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein. ⁸ Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. ⁹ Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: ¹⁰ Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. ¹¹ Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the spirit when I came out of the belly? ¹² Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? ¹³ For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, ¹⁴ With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves; ¹⁵ Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: ¹⁶ Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. ¹⁷ There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. ¹⁸ There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. ¹⁹ The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. ²⁰ Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

²⁰ Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; ²¹ Which long for death, but it comes not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

²¹ Which long for death, but it comes not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; ²² Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

²² Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

²² Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? ²³ Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in? ²⁴ For my sighing comes before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

²⁴ For my sighing comes before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. ²⁵ For the thing which I greatly feared has come upon me, and that which I was afraid of has come unto me. ²⁶ I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

¹ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

³ Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.

³ Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands. ⁴ Your words have raised up him that was falling, and you have strengthened the feeble knees.

⁴ Your words have raised up him that was falling, and you have strengthened the feeble knees.

⁴ Your words have raised up him that was falling, and you have strengthened the feeble knees. ⁵ But now it has come upon you, and you faint; it touches you, and you are troubled.

⁵ But now it has come upon you, and you faint; it touches you, and you are troubled.

²⁰ In famine he shall redeem you from death: and in war from the power of the sword.

²⁷ Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know you it for your good.

⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinks up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

⁶ Can that which is unpleasing be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

⁹ Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

¹¹ What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life? ¹² Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass? ¹³ Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

¹⁵ My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

²⁵ How forcible are right words! but what does your arguing reprove?

³⁰ Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

⁵ My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. ⁶ My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. ⁷ O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

¹⁵ So that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life. ¹⁶ I loathe it; I would not live always: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

² How long will you speak these things? and how long shall the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?

⁴ He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and has prospered?

¹⁷ For he breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

¹ My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. ² I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; show me wherefore you contend with me.

²⁰ Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

³ Should your lies make men hold their peace? and when you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

² No doubt but all of you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. ³ But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knows not such things as these?

¹¹ Does not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his food?

² What all of you know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

⁴ But all of you are forgers of lies, all of you are all physicians of no value. ⁵ O that all of you would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

²⁵ Will you break a leaf driven back and forth? and will you pursue the dry stubble?

²⁸ And he, as a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth eaten.

¹³ O that you would hide me in the grave, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

⁴ Yea, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God.

² I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are all of you all. ³ Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldens you that you answer? ⁴ I also could speak as all of you do: if your soul were in my soul's position, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. ⁵ But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should subside your grief.

⁵ But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should subside your grief.

¹² I was at ease, but he has broken me asunder: he has also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. ¹³ His archers compass me round about, he cleaves my reins asunder, and does not spare; he pours out my gall upon the ground. ¹⁴ He breaks me with breach upon breach, he runs upon me like a giant.

¹ My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

¹⁰ But as for you all, do all of you return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

¹⁴ I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister. ¹⁵ And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? ¹⁶ They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

¹⁹ All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

²¹ Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O all of you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

²⁸ But all of you should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

⁴ As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

²⁰ His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

³³ The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him. ³⁴ How then comfort all of you me in vain, seeing in your answers there remains falsehood?

⁹ You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

²² Receive, I pray you, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

² Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

¹⁰ But he knows the way that I take: when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

¹² Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

³ They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

⁹ They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

¹⁹ Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so does the grave those which have sinned.

²⁵ And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

² How have you helped him that is without power? how save you the arm that has no strength?

⁴ My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

⁴ My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit. ⁵ God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me. ⁶ My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

¹² Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

¹⁵ Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passes away as a cloud.

⁶ Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.

¹⁷ Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless has not eaten thereof;

²¹ If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

²³ For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

³ Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

¹¹ Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst all of you searched out what to say.

¹⁵ They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking. ¹⁶ When I had waited, (for they spoke not, but stood still, and answered no more;)

¹ Wherefore, Job, I pray you, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.

³ My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.

⁸ Surely you have spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of your words, saying, ⁹ I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me. ¹⁰ Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me for his enemy, ¹¹ He puts my feet in the stocks, he marks all my paths. ¹² Behold, in this you are not just: I will answer you, that God is greater than man.

³¹ Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold your peace, and I will speak. ³² If you have anything to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify you. ³³ If not, hearken unto me: hold your peace, and I shall teach you wisdom.

³ For the ear tries words, as the mouth tastes food.

³ For the ear tries words, as the mouth tastes food. ⁴ Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good. ⁵ For Job has said, I am righteous: and God has taken away my judgment.

⁵ For Job has said, I am righteous: and God has taken away my judgment. ⁶ Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression. ⁷ What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water? ⁸ Which goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men. ⁹ For he has said, It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.

³² That which I see not teach you me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

⁴ For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with you.

¹⁹ Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness. ²⁰ Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.

² Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

⁵ Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.

⁸ Will you also nullify my judgment? will you condemn me, that you may be righteous?

¹⁸ His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.

²⁴ His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

³ Who is he that hides counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

³ Who is he that hides counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. ⁴ Hear, I plead to you, and I will speak: I will demand of you, and declare you unto me. ⁵ I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye sees you. ⁶ Wherefore I detest myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

⁶ Wherefore I detest myself, and repent in dust and ashes. ⁷ And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends: for all of you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

¹¹ Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.

¹³ He has also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordains his arrows against the persecutors.

¹⁵ He made a pit, and dug it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

¹⁴ Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and humiliated them.

¹² Who can understand his errors? cleanse you me from secret faults.

¹² Therefore shall you make them turn their back, when you shall make ready your arrows upon your strings against the face of them.

⁴ For day and night your hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

⁸ I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go: I will guide you with mine eye.

¹ The transgression of the wicked says within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes. ² For he flatters himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful. ³ The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has left off to be wise, and to do good.

³⁰ The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks of judgment.

² For your arrows stick fast in me, and your hand presses me sore.

¹¹ My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand far off.

¹ I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. ² I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

⁵ Behold, you have made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before you: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

⁵ Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

⁹ I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, you know. ¹⁰ I have not hid your righteousness within my heart; I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation: I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great congregation.

⁹ Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

¹ As the hart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after you, O God.

⁵ your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under you.

⁷ None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: ⁸ (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceases for ever:)

¹⁵ But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.

¹² For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: ¹³ But it was you, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. ¹⁴ We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.

⁶ They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have dug a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

⁹ Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

¹⁷ O God, you have taught me from my youth: and until now have I declared your wondrous works. ¹⁸ Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed your strength unto this generation, and your power to every one that is to come.

¹⁰ The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

⁴ You hold mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

³ Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

¹⁵ I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer your terrors I am distracted. ¹⁶ Your fierce wrath goes over me; your terrors have cut me off.

¹⁸ Lover and friend have you put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.

⁵ You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up. ⁶ In the morning it flourishes, and grows up; in the evening it is cut down, and withers. ⁷ For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath are we troubled. ⁸ You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance. ⁹ For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. ¹⁰ The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

⁹ For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.

²³ He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.

¹⁴ For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust. ¹⁵ As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. ¹⁶ For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

¹⁴ He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

² Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the enemy;

¹³ With my lips have I declared all the judgments of your mouth.

⁸¹ My soul faints for your salvation: but I hope in your word.

¹⁰³ How sweet are your words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

⁷ Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit fails: hide not your face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

⁹ Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

¹⁸ There is that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

²¹ The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increases learning. ²² Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that has it: but the instruction of fools is folly. ²³ The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, and adds learning to his lips. ²⁴ Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

¹⁷ A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

¹⁴ The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

⁷ All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursues them with words, yet they are lacking to him.

¹⁰ Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: ¹¹ For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with you.

¹¹ A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. ¹² As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.

³ A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

¹⁰ The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth. ¹¹ The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.

²² Cease all of you from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ?

¹⁴ The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.

¹¹ Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. ¹² Wherefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because all of you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:

¹⁰ Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction. ¹¹ For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another. ¹² Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. ¹³ Mine hand also has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.

¹⁵ For thus says the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

⁴ Take all of you heed every one of his neighbour, and trust all of you not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders. ⁵ And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

³ And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads. ⁴ Because the ground is cracked, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

⁶ And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.

¹⁸ Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

²¹ And I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.

⁵ Thus says the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD. ⁶ For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

¹³ O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake you shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.

²⁰ Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before you to speak good for them, and to turn away your wrath from them.

²² Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

²³ Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,

¹⁴ All your lovers have forgotten you; they seek you not; for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of your iniquity; because your sins were increased.

⁹ We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reachs unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

¹² He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. ¹³ He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

¹⁴ Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul has not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

¹⁶ Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:

¹⁸ Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with carefulness; ¹⁹ And say unto the people of the land, Thus says the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.

⁷ In you have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in you have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

²² The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were your merchants: they occupied in your fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold. ²³ Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were your merchants.

³ I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.

⁹ I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of you: and I will not enter into the city.

¹ Ephraim feeds on wind, and follows after the east wind: he daily increases lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.

¹⁸ How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. ¹⁹ O LORD, to you will I cry: for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field. ²⁰ The beasts of the field cry also unto you: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

³ And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

³ Therefore now, O LORD, take, I plead to you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

⁸ And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

⁵ Trust all of you not in a friend, put all of you not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of your mouth from her that lies in your bosom. ⁶ For the son dishonours the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.

¹⁰ Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

¹² Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, you have ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, you have established them for correction.

³ God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.

⁵ And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the worker in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, says the LORD of hosts.

¹⁸ Then shall all of you return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that serves him not.

²⁸ Come unto me, all you that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

³⁷ For by your words (o. logos) you shall be justified, and by your words (o. logos) you shall be condemned.

³¹ Then says Jesus unto them, All you shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.

⁵⁶ But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.

³³ And he takes with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy; ³⁴ And says unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry all of you here, and watch.

³⁴ And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

³⁴ Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

⁴⁰ But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Do not you fear God, seeing you are in the same condemnation?

¹⁸ I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.

³² Behold, the hour comes, yea, is now come, that all of you shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

²⁰ And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have showed you, and have taught you publicly, and from house to house,

²⁷ For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

³³ I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.

⁵ And hope makes not ashamed; because the love (o. agape) of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit (o. pneuma) which is given unto us.

³² He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

³³ As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling stone and rock of offence: and whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.

¹⁵ Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

²⁶ And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

¹² For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

¹¹ Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.

²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

² Bear all of you one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

⁴ But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

¹⁴ That we henceforth be no more children, tossed back and forth, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

⁶ Let your (o. logos) speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that all of you may know how all of you ought to answer every man.

¹⁶ At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.

¹⁴ But strong food belongs to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

⁴ For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, (o. pneuma) ⁵ And have tasted the good word (o. rhema) of God, and the powers of the world to come,

³ Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

¹⁹ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

²⁷ Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

² For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, (o. logos) the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

³ And through covetousness shall they with feigned words (o. logos) make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation slumbers not. ⁴ For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; ⁵ And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

¹² These are spots in your feasts of love, (o. agape) when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withers, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

⁷ And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things says he that is holy, he that is true, he that has the key of David, he that opens, and no man shuts; and shuts, and no man opens;

⁸ And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

⁶ And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

⁹ And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall mourn for her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, ¹⁰ Standing far off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is your judgment come.

¹⁷ For in one hour so great riches has come to nothing. And every ship captain, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood far off, ¹⁸ And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!