Job 6 Cross References - WEB

¹ Then Job answered, ² “Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances! ³ For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash. ⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me. ⁵ Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder? ⁶ Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? ⁷ My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me. ⁸ “Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for, ⁹ even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! ¹⁰ Let it still be my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One. ¹¹ What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient? ¹² Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of bronze? ¹³ Isn’t it that I have no help in me, that wisdom is driven away from me? ¹⁴ “To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty. ¹⁵ My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away; ¹⁶ Which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself. ¹⁷ In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. ¹⁸ The caravans that travel beside them turn away. They go up into the waste, and perish. ¹⁹ The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them. ²⁰ They were distressed because they were confident. They came there, and were confounded. ²¹ For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid. ²² Did I say, ‘Give to me?’ or, ‘Offer a present for me from your substance?’ ²³ or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand?’ or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?’ ²⁴ “Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error. ²⁵ How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove? ²⁶ Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind? ²⁷ Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend. ²⁸ Now therefore be pleased to look at me, for surely I will not lie to your face. ²⁹ Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous. ³⁰ Is there injustice on my tongue? Can’t my taste discern mischievous things?

¹ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

⁵ But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

² “Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

⁶ (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

¹⁹ Teach us what we will tell him, for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness. ²⁰ Will it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?

⁵ Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.

⁴ You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak.

³ A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.

²⁸ “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

²³ “I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them. ²⁴ They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.

⁴² I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy.”

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

¹² I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target. ¹³ His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my bile on the ground. ¹⁴ He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs at me like a giant.

²⁰ Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

¹⁵ Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.

²³ For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.

¹³ He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.

¹⁴ He sent out his arrows, and scattered them. He routed them with great lightning bolts.

¹² For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.

² For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.

⁵ Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies.

¹⁵ I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted. ¹⁶ Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.

⁷ Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.

¹⁴ A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?

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

³³ He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed. ³⁴ He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch.”

³⁴ 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?”

¹¹ Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

¹ For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.

¹⁴ He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:

⁶ The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights. They pant for air like jackals. Their eyes fail, because there is no vegetation.

¹⁸ How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. ¹⁹ Yahweh, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field. ²⁰ Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

¹³ Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt. You shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.

²⁵ How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

³⁰ Is there injustice on my tongue? Can’t my taste discern mischievous things?

¹¹ Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?

² “I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!

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

¹⁰³ How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!

³⁴ Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?

⁶ Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

⁴ For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, ⁵ and tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,

¹² She said, “As Yahweh your God lives, I don’t have a cake, but a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”

²⁷ Say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.”’”

²⁴ For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

⁹ For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

¹⁴ Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals. No abominable meat has come into my mouth!”

¹⁶ Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness. They will drink water by measure, and in dismay;

¹⁸ “Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness. ¹⁹ Tell the people of the land, ‘The Lord Yahweh says concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: “They will eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, and all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein.

³ I ate no pleasant bread. No meat or wine came into my mouth. I didn’t anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.

¹¹ What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient? ¹² Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of bronze? ¹³ Isn’t it that I have no help in me, that wisdom is driven away from me?

¹⁴ if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’ to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’ ¹⁵ where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it? ¹⁶ Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”

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

¹⁴ I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. ¹⁵ If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

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

²⁰ “Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul, ²¹ Who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures, ²² who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

¹⁵ so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones. ¹⁶ I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

¹³ “Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!

²¹ “Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

⁴ For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.

¹⁰ Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction. ¹¹ For my own sake, for my own sake, I will do it; for how would my name be profaned? I will not give my glory to another. ¹² “Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I am also the last. ¹³ Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens. when I call to them, they stand up together.

³ Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”

⁸ When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

⁶ In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

² “Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.

²⁰ Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.

² There is no one as holy as Yahweh, for there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.

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

⁴ God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?

³³ The clods of the valley will be sweet to him. All men will draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

²² Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

¹² I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

³⁰ The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.

⁹ I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know. ¹⁰ I have not hidden 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 assembly.

¹⁷ God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works. ¹⁸ Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

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

¹¹ Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.” ¹² Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it,

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

⁹ I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One among you; and I will not come in wrath.

¹² Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.

³ God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.

²⁰ how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

²⁷ for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

³² He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

⁴ For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgment; ⁵ and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

⁷ “To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:

⁸ The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”

⁵ My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh. ⁶ My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope. ⁷ Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.

²⁰ Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

²⁵ Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?

²⁸ though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

¹ “My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, and the grave is ready for me.

⁴ As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?

⁵ Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.

⁵ You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass. ⁶ In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry. ⁷ For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath. ⁸ You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. ⁹ For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh. ¹⁰ The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

²³ He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.

¹⁴ For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust. ¹⁵ As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. ¹⁶ For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

¹⁸ His bones are like tubes of bronze. His limbs are like bars of iron.

²⁴ His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.

² “No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you. ³ But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?

² What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

²⁸ If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,

² “How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!

¹² For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

⁴ But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.

¹¹ Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’

³ Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands. ⁴ Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made the feeble knees firm. ⁵ But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

⁴ Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.

⁵ but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.

¹ For the Chief Musician. By David, the servant of Yahweh. A revelation is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: “There is no fear of God before his eyes.” ² For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin. ³ The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

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

⁴⁰ But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Don’t you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?

¹⁵ Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

²⁶ When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?

² Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

³ Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

¹⁹ All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.

¹¹ My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.

⁹ Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

¹² For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him. ¹³ But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend. ¹⁴ We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God’s house with company.

¹⁸ You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.

⁴ “Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer. ⁵ Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting iniquity.

¹⁸ Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?

¹⁴ All your lovers have forgotten you. They don’t seek you. For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.

⁵ Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth! ⁶ For the son dishonors 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.

¹⁸ I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

³² Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

¹² These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

¹ Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”

¹⁹ Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.

⁷ The sons of Cush were: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah were: Sheba and Dedan.

³ Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.

¹⁵ Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

¹ When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.

¹⁰ The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

¹⁴ They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.

²³ Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who have the corners of their beard cut off;

²² “‘“The traders of Sheba and Raamah were your traders. They traded for your wares with the chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold. ²³ “‘“Haran, Canneh, and Eden, the traders of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad, were your traders.

³ Their nobles send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads. ⁴ Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed. They cover their heads.

¹³ Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

⁵ and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

³³ even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

¹¹ Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him. ¹² When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky. ¹³ So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

¹⁵ My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;

⁴ But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

⁹ Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

⁷ All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

²² Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

⁵ Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh. ⁶ For he will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, an uninhabited salt land.

⁹ “We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed. Forsake her, and let’s each go into his own country; for her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

³¹ Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

⁵⁶ But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

¹⁶ At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

⁹ The kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived wantonly with her will weep and wail over her, when they look at the smoke of her burning, ¹⁰ standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one hour.’

¹⁷ For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.’ Every ship master, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away, ¹⁸ and cried out as they looked at the smoke of her burning, saying, ‘What is like the great city?’

³ Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a bribe to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”

¹¹ Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.

³³ I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.

⁴⁸ after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him;

⁸ I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.

²⁰ In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.

⁷ none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him. ⁸ For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough,

¹⁵ But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.

² Let the redeemed by Yahweh say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,

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

²⁷ Look at this. We have searched it. It is so. Hear it, and know it for your good.”

² I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

¹¹ “Behold, I waited for your words, and I listened for your reasoning, while you searched out what to say.

¹⁵ “They are amazed. They answer no more. They don’t have a word to say. ¹⁶ Shall I wait, because they don’t speak, because they stand still, and answer no more?

¹ “However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words.

³¹ Mark well, Job, and listen to 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, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom.”

³² Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?

¹² Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

⁸ I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

¹ For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David. I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.” ² I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

⁹ Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.

¹² As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.

¹⁹ So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

² For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

⁴ Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made the feeble knees firm.

⁵ Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

³ Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer? ⁴ I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you, ⁵ but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.

³⁴ So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”

²⁵ If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”

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

¹⁸ There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

²¹ The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction. ²² Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly. ²³ The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips. ²⁴ Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

¹¹ A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

¹⁰ The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written blamelessly, words of truth. ¹¹ The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words from the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.

¹⁰ But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

³ “Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’ ⁴ Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it. ⁵ Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes the day black terrify it. ⁶ As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months. ⁷ Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein. ⁸ Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan. ⁹ Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning, ¹⁰ because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes. ¹¹ “Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me? ¹² Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse? ¹³ For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest, ¹⁴ with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves; ¹⁵ or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver: ¹⁶ or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light. ¹⁷ There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest. ¹⁸ There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster. ¹⁹ The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master. ²⁰ “Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul, ²¹ Who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures, ²² who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? ²³ Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in? ²⁴ For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water. ²⁵ For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me. ²⁶ I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest; but trouble comes.”

³ Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands. ⁴ Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made the feeble knees firm.

⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

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

² “How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

¹ “My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

³ For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food. ⁴ Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good. ⁵ For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right: ⁶ Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’ ⁷ What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water, ⁸ Who 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.’

² “Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

⁵ I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”

⁸ Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

³ You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.

⁷ It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

¹ Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

³⁷ For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

¹⁴ that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

²² “You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child. ²³ If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry; ²⁴ and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

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

³ They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

⁹ There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

¹² Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,

¹⁷ or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

¹⁵ He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.

⁶ They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves. Selah.

³ “Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

¹⁰ Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless, ¹¹ for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.

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

²² Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet.

⁷ In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

³ and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

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

⁵ I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

²⁷ Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

³ In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

³ Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?

⁴ surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness, neither will my tongue utter deceit.

³ My words will utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they will speak sincerely.

⁴ For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

¹⁰ But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.

¹⁰ But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

⁴ surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness, neither will my tongue utter deceit. ⁵ Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me. ⁶ I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.

⁵ For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

⁶ Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

¹⁸ Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.

⁶ Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

⁸ “Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying, ⁹ ‘I am clean, without disobedience. 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, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.

³ You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know. ⁴ You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’ ⁵ I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you. ⁶ Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

¹⁴ But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.