Job 6 Cross References - Webster

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 of which drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God set themselves in array against me. ⁵ Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? ⁶ Can that which is unsavory 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; yes, 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 my 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 shown from his friend; but he forsaketh 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 in which the snow is hid: ¹⁷ In the time when they become 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 ye are nothing: ye see my casting down, and are afraid. ²² Did I say, Bring to 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 in what I have erred. ²⁵ How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? ²⁶ Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind? ²⁷ Yes, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend. ²⁸ Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident to you if I lie. ²⁹ Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yes, 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 Sabtecha; 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 begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim and Leummim.

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

²² Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. ²³ If thou shalt afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all to 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 thy meat-offering shalt thou season with salt: neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat-offering: with all thy offerings thou shalt offer salt.

² Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them, Ye 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 thou dealest thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy 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 mischiefs upon them; I will spend my 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 my 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 besides thee: 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 from whose hand have I received any bribe to blind my eyes with it? 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 to Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, 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 thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but a 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 saith the king, Put this man in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction, and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.

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

¹⁰ But he said to her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. 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 had 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 afar off, and knew him not, they raised their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads towards heaven. ¹³ So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

³ Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a mail 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 shades 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 to 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 its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: ¹⁰ Because it prevented not my birth, nor hid sorrow from my eyes. ¹¹ Why died I not from the womb? why did I not expire at the time of my birth? ¹² Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed? 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 counselors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves; ¹⁵ Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: ¹⁶ Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. ¹⁷ There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are 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 Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;

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

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

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

²² Who 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 hath hedged in? ²⁴ For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

²⁴ For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. ²⁵ For the thing which I greatly feared hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to 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, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.

³ Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. ⁴ Thy words have upheld him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.

⁴ Thy words have upheld him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.

⁴ Thy words have upheld him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees. ⁵ But now it hath come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

⁵ But now it hath come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

²⁰ In famine he will redeem thee 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 thou it for thy good.

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

⁶ Can that which is unsavory 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 my 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 doth 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 lothsome. ⁶ My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. ⁷ O remember that my life is wind: my eye will no more see good.

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

² How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

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

¹⁷ For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth 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 to God, Do not condemn me; show me why thou contendest with me.

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

³ Should thy falsehoods make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

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

¹¹ Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste its food?

² What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior to you.

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

²⁵ Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

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

¹³ O that thou wouldst hide me in the grave, that thou wouldst keep me secret, until thy wrath is past, that thou wouldst appoint me a set time, and remember me!

⁴ Yes, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

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

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

¹² I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. ¹³ His archers encompass me; he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. ¹⁴ He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth 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 ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

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

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

²¹ Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

²⁸ But ye would 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 will be sweet to him, and every man will draw after him, as there are innumerable before him. ³⁴ How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

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

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

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

¹⁰ But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath 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 Drouth and heat consume the snow-waters: so doth the grave those who have sinned.

²⁵ And if it is not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech of no worth?

² How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath 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 Far be it from me that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove my 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 passeth away as a cloud.

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

¹⁷ Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten of it;

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 ye 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 thee, 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 thou hast spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying, ⁹ I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me. ¹⁰ Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy, ¹¹ He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths. ¹² Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.

³¹ Mark well, O Job, hearken to me: hold thy peace, and I will speak. ³² If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee. ³³ If not, hearken to me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom.

³ For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth food.

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

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

³² That which I see not teach thou 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 thee.

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

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

⁵ (40:10)Deck thyself now with majesty and excellence; and array thyself with glory and beauty.

⁸ (40:13)Hide them in the dust together; bind their faces in secret.

¹⁸ (40:23)Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.

²⁴ (41:33)Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.

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

³ Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that which I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. ⁴ Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will ask of thee, and declare thou to me. ⁵ I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now my eye seeth thee. ⁶ Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

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

¹¹ Then came there to him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house: and they condoled with 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 ear-ring of gold.

¹³ (7:12)If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

¹⁵ (7:14)Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

¹⁴ (18:13)The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.

¹² (19:11)Moreover, by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.

¹² (21:11)For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

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

⁸ I will instruct thee, and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with my eye.

¹ +² (36:1)To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD. The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes. ³ (36:2)For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity is found to be hateful.

³⁰ The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.

² (38:1)A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

¹¹ (38:10)My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of my eyes, that also is gone from me.

¹ +² (39:1)To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. 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.

⁵ (39:4)LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

⁵ (40:4)Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

⁹ (40:8)I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. ¹⁰ (40:9)I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

⁹ (41:8)An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast to him: and now that he lieth he shall rise no more.

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⁵ (45:4)And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

⁷ (49:6)They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; ⁸ (49:7)None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:

¹⁵ (49:14)Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

¹² (55:11)Wickedness is in the midst of it: deceit and guile depart not from her streets. ¹³ (55:12)For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that magnified himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: ¹⁴ (55:13)But it was thou, a man my equal, my guide, and my acquaintance.

⁶ (57:5)Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth.

⁹ (62:8)Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.

¹⁷ O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. ¹⁸ Now also when I am old and gray-headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have shown thy strength to this generation, and thy 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 (77:3)I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

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

¹⁵ (88:14)LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? ¹⁶ (88:15)I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

¹⁸ (88:17)They came around me daily like water; they encompassed me together.

⁵ Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which groweth. ⁶ In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. ⁷ For we are consumed by thy anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. ⁸ Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. ⁹ For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years, as a tale that is told. ¹⁰ The days of our years are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

⁹ (102:8)My enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are enraged against me are sworn against me.

²³ (102:22)When the people are assembled, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.

¹⁴ For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. ¹⁵ As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. ¹⁶ For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and its place shall know it no more.

¹⁴ He causeth 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 hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;

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

⁸¹ CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.

¹⁰³ How sweet are thy words to my taste! yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

⁷ Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like 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 speaketh 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 increaseth learning. ²² Understanding is a well-spring of life to him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly. ²³ The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips. ²⁴ Pleasant words are as a honey-comb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

¹⁷ A friend loveth 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 of it.

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

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

¹¹ A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. ¹² As an ear-ring 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 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 ye 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 met with their bread him that fled.

¹¹ Withdraw from the way, turn aside from the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. ¹² Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and lean upon it:

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

¹⁵ For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth 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 ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders. ⁵ And they will deceive every one his neighbor, 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 chapt, for there was no rain on the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

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

¹⁸ Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether to me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

²¹ And I will deliver thee from the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee from the hand of the terrible.

⁵ Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. ⁶ For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; 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 thee 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 digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.

²² Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged 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 thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisements of a cruel one, for the multitude of thy iniquity; because thy 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 reacheth to heaven, and is lifted even to the skies.

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

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

¹⁶ Moreover he said to 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 thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with solicitude. ¹⁹ And say to the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with solicitude, 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 thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they oppressed the fatherless and the widow.

²² The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy 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 thy 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 my anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.

¹ (11:12)Ephraim encompasseth me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.

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

³ (2:30)And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

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

⁸ And it came to pass, when the sun rose 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 ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. ⁶ For the son dishonoreth the father, the daughter riseth 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 head of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

¹² Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and O mighty God, thou hast 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 hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

¹⁸ Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

²⁸ Come to me, all ye that labor, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

³⁷ For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

³¹ Then saith Jesus to them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite 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 taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and began to be greatly amazed, and to be very heavy; ³⁴ And saith to them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful to death: tarry ye here, and watch.

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

³⁴ Salt is good: but if the salt hath lost its savor, with what shall it be seasoned?

⁴⁰ But the other answering, rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art 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 eateth bread with me, hath lifted up his heel against me.

³² Behold, the hour cometh, and is even now come, that ye 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 to you, but have shown you, and have taught you publicly, and from house to house,

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

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

⁵ And hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts, by the Holy Spirit which is given to 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 offense: and whoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

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

²⁶ And thus if one member suffers all the members suffer with it; or, if one member is honored, 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 manner of life in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

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

²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is made to fall into sin, and I burn not?

² Bear ye 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 to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, by which they lie in wait to deceive:

⁶ Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye 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 belongeth 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 have been once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit. ⁵ And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

³ Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them who 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 all offend. If any man offendeth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.

³ And through covetousness they will with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth 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 to judgment; ⁵ And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

¹² These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about by winds; withered autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, plucked out by the roots;

⁷ And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth:

⁸ And the four living beings 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, who 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 lewdness and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, ¹⁰ Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.

¹⁷ For in one hour so great riches is come to naught. And every ship-master, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, ¹⁸ And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like this great city!