Job 10 Cross References - YLT

¹ My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul. ² I say unto God, `Do not condemn me, Let me know why Thou dost strive with me. ³ Is it good for Thee that Thou dost oppress? That Thou despisest the labour of Thy hands, And on the counsel of the wicked hast shone? ⁴ Eyes of flesh hast Thou? As man seeth—seest Thou? ⁵ As the days of man are Thy days? Thy years as the days of a man? ⁶ That Thou inquirest for mine iniquity, And for my sin seekest? ⁷ For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand.
⁸ Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up! ⁹ Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back. ¹⁰ Dost Thou not as milk pour me out? And as cheese curdle me? ¹¹ Skin and flesh Thou dost put on me, And with bones and sinews dost fence me. ¹² Life and kindness Thou hast done with me. And Thy inspection hath preserved my spirit. ¹³ And these Thou hast laid up in Thy heart, I have known that this is with Thee.
¹⁴ If I sinned, then Thou hast observed me, And from mine iniquity dost not acquit me, ¹⁵ If I have done wickedly—woe to me, And righteously—I lift not up my head, Full of shame—then see my affliction, ¹⁶ And it riseth—as a lion Thou huntest me. And Thou turnest back—Thou shewest Thyself wonderful in me. ¹⁷ Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare are with me. ¹⁸ And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me. ¹⁹ As I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am brought, ²⁰ Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little, ²¹ Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade, ²² A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade—and no order, And the shining is as thick darkness.'

¹⁵ and if thus Thou art doing to me—slay me, I pray Thee; slay, if I have found grace in thine eyes, and let me not look on mine affliction.'

⁴ and he himself hath gone into the wilderness a day's Journey, and cometh and sitteth under a certain retem-tree, and desireth his soul to die, and saith, `Enough, now, O Jehovah, take my soul, for I am not better than my fathers.'

²⁰ Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul? ²¹ Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures. ²² Who are glad—unto joy, They rejoice when they find a grave. ²³ To a man whose way hath been hidden, And whom God doth shut up?

¹⁵ And He saveth the wasted from their mouth, And from a strong hand the needy, ¹⁶ And there is hope to the poor, And perverseness hath shut her mouth.

²⁰ In famine He hath redeemed thee from death, And in battle from the hands of the sword.

² O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together! ³ For now, than the sands of the sea it is heavier, Therefore my words have been rash. ⁴ For arrows of the Mighty are with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves for me!

⁸ O that my request may come, That God may grant my hope! ⁹ That God would please—and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!

²⁶ For reproof—do you reckon words? And for wind—sayings of the desperate.

¹¹ Also I—I withhold not my mouth—I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁶ I have wasted away—not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days are vanity.

²¹ Perfect I am! —I know not my soul, I despise my life.

¹⁵ If I have done wickedly—woe to me, And righteously—I lift not up my head, Full of shame—then see my affliction, ¹⁶ And it riseth—as a lion Thou huntest me. And Thou turnest back—Thou shewest Thyself wonderful in me.

¹³ O that in Sheol Thou wouldest conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.

⁶ If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease—what goeth from me? ⁷ Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company, ⁸ And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth. ⁹ His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me. ¹⁰ They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves. ¹¹ God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over. ¹² At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark. ¹³ Go round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins, and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall. ¹⁴ He breaketh me—breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one. ¹⁵ Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn. ¹⁶ My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids is death-shade.

⁴ And also—truly, I have erred, With me doth my error remain.

² Hear ye diligently my word, And this is your consolation. ³ Bear with me, and I speak, And after my speaking—ye may deride. ⁴ I—to man is my complaint? and if so, wherefore May not my temper become short?

³ When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day. ⁴ When by day and by night Thy hand is heavy upon me, My moisture hath been changed Into the droughts of summer. Selah. ⁵ My sin I cause Thee to know, And mine iniquity I have not covered. I have said, `I confess concerning My transgressions to Jehovah,' And Thou—Thou hast taken away, The iniquity of my sin. Selah.

¹⁵ —What do I say? seeing He said to me, And He Himself hath wrought, I go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁷ Lo, to peace He changed for me bitterness, And Thou hast delighted in my soul without corruption, For Thou hast cast behind Thy back all my sins.

³ And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better is my death than my life.'

⁸ And it cometh to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appointeth a cutting east wind, and the sun smiteth on the head of Jonah, and he wrappeth himself up, and asketh his soul to die, and saith, `Better is my death than my life.'

⁵ If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication, ⁶ If pure and upright thou art, Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.

²⁹ I—I am become wicked; why is this? In vain I labour.

³¹ For unto God hath any said: `I have taken away, I do not corruptly, ³² Besides that which I see, shew Thou me, If iniquity I have done—I do not add?'

¹ To the Overseer with stringed instruments, on the octave. —A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, in Thine anger reprove me not, Nor in Thy fury chastise me. ² Favour me, O Jehovah, for I am weak, Heal me, O Jehovah, For troubled have been my bones, ³ And my soul hath been troubled greatly, And Thou, O Jehovah, till when? ⁴ Turn back, O Jehovah, draw out my soul, Save me for Thy kindness' sake.

⁷ Sins of my youth, and my transgressions, Do not Thou remember. According to Thy kindness be mindful of me, For Thy goodness' sake, O Jehovah.

¹ A Psalm of David, `To cause to remember.' Jehovah, in Thy wrath reprove me not, Nor in Thy fury chastise me. ² For Thine arrows have come down on me, And Thou lettest down upon me Thy hand. ³ Soundness is not in my flesh, Because of Thine indignation, Peace is not in my bones because of my sin. ⁴ For mine iniquities have passed over my head, As a heavy burden—too heavy for me. ⁵ Stunk—become corrupt have my wounds, Because of my folly. ⁶ I have been bent down, I have been bowed down—unto excess, All the day I have gone mourning. ⁷ For my flanks have been full of drought, And soundness is not in my flesh. ⁸ I have been feeble and smitten—unto excess, I have roared from disquietude of heart.

²¹ And Thou, O Jehovah Lord, Deal with me for Thy name's sake, Because Thy kindness is good, deliver me.

²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart, Try me, and know my thoughts, ²⁴ And see if a grievous way be in me, And lead me in a way age-during!

² And enter not into judgment with Thy servant, For no one living is justified before Thee.

⁴⁰ We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah. ⁴¹ We lift up our heart on the hands unto God in the heavens.
⁴² We—we have transgressed and rebelled, Thou—Thou hast not forgiven.

¹⁶ Fallen hath the crown from our head, Woe is now to us, for we have sinned.
¹⁷ For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.

¹ There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit;

³¹ for if ourselves we were discerning, we would not be being judged, ³² and being judged by the Lord, we are chastened, that with the world we may not be condemned;

²⁰ Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers.

²² It is the same thing, therefore I said, `The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.'

²⁴ Earth hath been given Into the hand of the wicked one. The face of its judges he covereth, If not—where, who is he?

¹⁵ Thou dost call, and I—I answer Thee; To the work of Thy hands Thou hast desire.

¹⁶ Lo, not in their hand is their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)

¹⁸ And he hath filled their houses with good: (And the counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)

⁵ For Job hath said, `I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right, ⁶ Against my right do I lie? Mortal is mine arrow—without transgression.' ⁷ Who is a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,

¹⁸ Who hath said to a king—`Worthless,' Unto princes—`Wicked?' ¹⁹ That hath not accepted the person of princes, Nor hath known the rich before the poor, For a work of His hands are all of them.

⁷ He withdraweth not from the righteous His eyes, And from kings on the throne, And causeth them to sit for ever, and they are high, ⁸ And if prisoners in fetters They are captured with cords of affliction, ⁹ Then He declareth to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty,

¹⁷ And the judgment of the wicked thou hast fulfilled, Judgment and justice are upheld—because of fury, ¹⁸ Lest He move thee with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement turn thee not aside.

² Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.

⁸ Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?

³³ For Jehovah hearkeneth unto the needy, And His bound ones He hath not despised.

⁸ Jehovah doth perfect for me, O Jehovah, Thy kindness is to the age, The works of Thy hands let not fall!

⁸ And now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father, We are the clay, and Thou our Framer, And the work of Thy hand—all of us.

¹ Righteous art Thou, O Jehovah, When I plead towards thee, Only, judgments do I speak with Thee, Wherefore did the way of the wicked prosper? At rest have been all treacherous dealers. ² Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root, They go on, yea, they have made fruit, Near art Thou in their mouth, And far off from their reins. ³ And Thou, O Jehovah, Thou hast known me, Thou seest me, and hast tried my heart with Thee, Draw them away as sheep to slaughter, And separate them for a day of slaughter.

² Me He hath led, and causeth to go in darkness, and without light. ³ Surely against me He turneth back, He turneth His hand all the day. ⁴ He hath worn out my flesh and my skin. He hath broken my bones. ⁵ He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness. ⁶ In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old. ⁷ He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter. ⁸ Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer. ⁹ He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked. ¹⁰ A bear lying in wait He is to me, A lion in secret hiding-places. ¹¹ My ways He is turning aside, and He pulleth me in pieces, He hath made me a desolation. ¹² He hath trodden His bow, And setteth me up as a mark for an arrow. ¹³ He hath caused to enter into my reins The sons of His quiver. ¹⁴ I have been a derision to all my people, Their song all the day. ¹⁵ He hath filled me with bitter things, He hath filled me with wormwood. ¹⁶ And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes. ¹⁷ And Thou castest off from peace my soul, I have forgotten prosperity. ¹⁸ And I say, Perished hath my strength and my hope from Jehovah.

¹⁹ so that also those suffering according to the will of god, as to a stedfast Creator, let them commit their own souls in good doing.

⁷ And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, `Look not unto his appearance, and unto the height of his stature, for I have rejected him; for it is not as man seeth—for man looketh at the eyes, and Jehovah looketh at the heart.'

³² But if a man like myself—I answer him, We come together into judgment.

¹⁵ and he said to them, `Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, is abomination before God;

¹⁴ and his head and hairs white, as if white wool—as snow, and his eyes as a flame of fire;

²⁶ Lo, God is high, And we know not the number of His years, Yea, there is no searching.

² Before mountains were brought forth, And Thou dost form the earth and the world, Even from age unto age Thou art God. ³ Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men. ⁴ For a thousand years in Thine eyes are as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night.

¹² And Thou, O Jehovah, to the age abidest, And Thy memorial to all generations.

²⁴ I say, `My God, take me not up in the midst of my days,' Through all generations are Thine years. ²⁵ Beforetime the earth Thou didst found, And the work of Thy hands are the heavens. ²⁶ They—They perish, and Thou remainest, And all of them as a garment become old, As clothing Thou changest them, And they are changed. ²⁷ And Thou art the same, and Thine years are not finished.

¹² and as a mantle Thou shall roll them together, and they shall be changed, and Thou art the same, and Thy years shall not fail.'

⁸ And this one thing let not be unobserved by you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day;

¹⁴ If I sinned, then Thou hast observed me, And from mine iniquity dost not acquit me, ¹⁵ If I have done wickedly—woe to me, And righteously—I lift not up my head, Full of shame—then see my affliction, ¹⁶ And it riseth—as a lion Thou huntest me. And Thou turnest back—Thou shewest Thyself wonderful in me. ¹⁷ Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare are with me.

¹⁶ But now, my steps Thou numberest, Thou dost not watch over my sin.

¹⁵ Break the arm of the wicked and the evil, Seek out his wickedness, find none;

²¹ Doth not God search out this? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.

³⁴ Also in thy skirts hath been found the blood of innocent needy souls, Not by digging have I found them, but upon all these.

¹² And it hath come to pass, at that time, I search Jerusalem with lights, And I have laid a charge on the men Who are hardened on their preserved things, Who are saying in their heart: Jehovah doth no good, nor doth He evil.

²⁴ and Jesus himself was not trusting himself to them, because of his knowing all men, ²⁵ and because he had no need that any should testify concerning man, for he himself was knowing what was in man.

⁵ so, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.

³⁹ See ye, now, that I—I am He, And there is no god with Me: I put to death, and I keep alive; I have smitten, and I heal; And there is not from My hand a deliverer,

¹⁰ For He hath known the way with me, He hath tried me—as gold I go forth.

¹³ And He is in one mind, And who doth turn Him back? And His soul hath desired—and He doth it . ¹⁴ For He doth complete my portion, And many such things are with Him.

⁶ He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity.

¹⁴ Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him?

³⁵ Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written.

⁷ And it cometh to pass after Jehovah's speaking these words unto Job, that Jehovah saith unto Eliphaz the Temanite, `Burned hath Mine anger against thee, and against thy two friends, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.

⁶ For Jehovah is knowing the way of the righteous, And the way of the wicked is lost!

³ O Jehovah, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands,

⁸ Jehovah doth judge the peoples; Judge me, O Jehovah, According to my righteousness, And according to mine integrity on me, ⁹ Let, I pray Thee be ended the evil of the wicked, And establish Thou the righteous, And a trier of hearts and reins is the righteous God.

³ Thou hast proved my heart, Thou hast inspected by night, Thou hast tried me, Thou findest nothing; My thoughts pass not over my mouth.

¹ By David. Judge me, O Jehovah, for I in mine integrity have walked, And in Jehovah I have trusted, I slide not. ² Try me, O Jehovah, and prove me, Purified are my reins and my heart. ³ For Thy kindness is before mine eyes, And I have walked habitually in Thy truth. ⁴ I have not sat with vain men, And with dissemblers I enter not. ⁵ I have hated the assembly of evil doers, And with the wicked I sit not.

²² Understand this, I pray you, Ye who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.

¹ To the Overseer. —A Psalm by David. Jehovah, Thou hast searched me, and knowest. ² Thou—Thou hast known my sitting down, And my rising up, Thou hast attended to my thoughts from afar.

²¹ Do not I hate, Jehovah, those hating Thee? And with Thy withstanders grieve myself? ²² With perfect hatred I have hated them, Enemies they have become to me.

¹⁵ Now, lo, ye are ready, so that at the time that ye hear the voice of the cornet, the flute, the harp, the sackbut, the psaltery, and the symphony, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and do obeisance to the image that I have made! —and lo, ye do no obeisance—in that hour ye are cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; who is that God who doth deliver you out of my hands?'

¹⁰ And now do I reveal her dishonour before the eyes of her lovers, And none doth deliver her out of My hand.

²⁸ and life age-during I give to them, and they shall not perish—to the age, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand; ²⁹ my Father, who hath given to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck out of the hand of my Father; ³⁰ I and the Father are one.'

¹⁷ He saith to him the third time, `Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou dearly love me?' Peter was grieved that he said to him the third time, `Dost thou dearly love me?' and he said to him, `Lord, thou hast known all things; thou dost know that I dearly love thee.' Jesus saith to him, `Feed my sheep;

¹² For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

¹⁰ ye are witnesses—God also—how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became,

⁶ and Jehovah repenteth that He hath made man in the earth, and He grieveth Himself—unto His heart. ⁷ And Jehovah saith, `I wipe away man whom I have prepared from off the face of the ground, from man unto beast, unto creeping thing, and unto fowl of the heavens, for I have repented that I have made them.'

³ Is it good for Thee that Thou dost oppress? That Thou despisest the labour of Thy hands, And on the counsel of the wicked hast shone?

⁷³ Yod. Thy hands made me and establish me, Cause me to understand, and I learn Thy commands.

⁷ Every one who is called by My name, Even for My honour I have created him, I have formed him, yea, I have made him.

³ and I go down to the potter's house, and lo, he is doing a work on the stones, ⁴ and marred is the vessel that he is making, as clay in the hand of the potter, and he hath turned and he maketh it another vessel, as it was right in the eyes of the potter to make. ⁵ And there is a word of Jehovah to me, saying: ⁶ As this potter am I not able to do to you? O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah. Lo, as clay in the hand of the potter, So are ye in My hand, O house of Israel. ⁷ The moment I speak concerning a nation, And concerning a kingdom, To pluck up and to break down, and to destroy, ⁸ And that nation hath turned from its evil, Because I have spoken against it, Then I have repented of the evil that I thought to do to it. ⁹ And the moment I speak concerning a nation, And concerning a kingdom, to build, and to plant, ¹⁰ And it hath done the evil thing in Mine eyes, So as not to hearken to My voice, Then I have repented of the good That I have spoken of doing to it.

⁷ And Jehovah God formeth the man—dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.

¹⁹ by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust thou turnest back.'

⁷ Remember Thou that my life is a breath, Mine eye turneth not back to see good.

¹⁴ To corruption I have called: —`Thou art my father.' `My mother' and `my sister' —to the worm.

¹⁵ Dried up as an earthen vessel is my power, And my tongue is cleaving to my jaws.

⁶ Remember Thy mercies, O Jehovah, And Thy kindnesses, for from the age are they. ⁷ Sins of my youth, and my transgressions, Do not Thou remember. According to Thy kindness be mindful of me, For Thy goodness' sake, O Jehovah.

¹⁸ See mine affliction and my misery, And bear with all my sins.

⁴⁷ Remember, I pray Thee, what is life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?

³ Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men.

⁴ Remember me, O Jehovah, With the favour of Thy people, Look after me in Thy salvation.

⁷ And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.

⁹ Woe to him who is striving with his Former, (A potsherd with potsherds of the ground!) Doth clay say to its Framer, `What dost thou?' And thy work, `He hath no hands?'

⁶ As this potter am I not able to do to you? O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah. Lo, as clay in the hand of the potter, So are ye in My hand, O house of Israel.

²¹ hath not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make the one vessel to honour, and the one to dishonour?

¹⁴ I confess Thee, because that with wonders I have been distinguished. Wonderful are Thy works, And my soul is knowing it well. ¹⁵ My substance was not hid from Thee, When I was made in secret, Curiously wrought in the lower part of earth. ¹⁶ Mine unformed substance Thine eyes saw, And on Thy book all of them are written, The days they were formed—And not one among them.

¹⁷ He doth bend his tail as a cedar, The sinews of his thighs are wrapped together, ¹⁸ His bones are tubes of brass, His bones are as a bar of iron.

⁴ And He saith unto me, `Prophesy concerning these bones, and thou hast said unto them: O dry bones, hear a word of Jehovah: ⁵ Thus said the Lord Jehovah to these bones: Lo, I am bringing into you a spirit, and ye have lived, ⁶ and I have given on you sinews, and cause flesh to come up upon you, and covered you over with skin, and given in you a spirit, and ye have lived, and ye have known that I am Jehovah.' ⁷ And I have prophesied as I have been commanded, and there is a noise, as I am prophesying, and lo, a rushing, and draw near do the bones, bone unto its bone. ⁸ And I beheld, and lo, on them are sinews, and flesh hath come up, and cover them doth skin over above—and spirit there is none in them.

² for also in this we groan, with our dwelling that is from heaven earnestly desiring to clothe ourselves, ³ if so be that, having clothed ourselves, we shall not be found naked,

¹⁶ from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.

¹⁹ lo, I pray thee, thy servant hath found grace in thine eyes, and thou dost make great thy kindness which thou hast done with me by saving my life, and I am unable to escape to the mountain, lest the evil cleave to me, and I have died;

⁴ The Spirit of God hath made me, And the breath of the Mighty doth quicken me.

²⁵ `Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing?

²⁵ neither by the hands of men is He served—needing anything, He giving to all life, and breath, and all things;

²⁸ for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

⁹ To the left in His working—and I see not, He is covered on the right, and I behold not.

¹³ And He is in one mind, And who doth turn Him back? And His soul hath desired—and He doth it .

⁶ For to every delight there is a time and a judgment, for the misfortune of man is great upon him. ⁷ For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him?

⁷ Forming light, and preparing darkness, Making peace, and preparing evil, I am Jehovah, doing all these things.'

¹⁵ Surely Thou art a God hiding Thyself, God of Israel—Saviour!

⁹ Remember former things of old, For I am Mighty, and there is none else, God—and there is none like Me. ¹⁰ Declaring from the beginning the latter end, And from of old that which hath not been done, Saying, `My counsel doth stand, And all My delight I do.' ¹¹ Calling from the east a ravenous bird, From a far land the man of My counsel, Yea, I have spoken, yea, I bring it in, I have formed it, yea, I do it.

³⁷ Who is this—he hath said, and it is, And the Lord hath not commanded it ?

³³ O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

¹¹ according to a purpose of the ages, which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord,

⁷ keeping kindness for thousands, taking away iniquity, and transgression, and sin, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on children's children, on a third generation, and on a fourth.'

¹⁸ Jehovah is slow to anger, and of great kindness; bearing away iniquity and transgression, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on a third generation, and on a fourth; —

²¹ Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me—and I am not!

²⁸ I have been afraid of all my griefs, I have known that Thou dost not acquit me.

²⁶ For Thou writest against me bitter things, And causest me to possess iniquities of my youth: ²⁷ And puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest a print,

³ If iniquities Thou dost observe, O Lord, who doth stand?

¹ To the Overseer. —A Psalm by David. Jehovah, Thou hast searched me, and knowest.

⁷ And Jehovah saith, `I have certainly seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and their cry I have heard, because of its exactors, for I have known its pains;

¹² Lo, He snatches away, who bringeth it back? Who saith unto Him, `What dost Thou?'

¹⁵ Whom, though I were righteous, I answer not, For my judgment I make supplication.

²⁰ If I be righteous, Mine mouth doth declare me wicked, Perfect I am! —it declareth me perverse. ²¹ Perfect I am! —I know not my soul, I despise my life.

⁷ For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand.

⁶ Yea, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And my flesh hath taken fright.

¹⁵ Therefore, from His presence I am troubled, I consider, and am afraid of Him.

⁷ As the wicked is my enemy, And my withstander as the perverse.

¹⁷ The wicked do turn back to Sheol, All nations forgetting God.

¹⁵³ Resh. See my affliction, and deliver Thou me, For Thy law I have not forgotten.

¹¹ Woe to the wicked—evil, Because the deed of his hand is done to him.

⁵ And I say, `Woe to me, for I have been silent, For a man—unclean of lips am I, And in midst of a people unclean of lips I am dwelling, Because the King, Jehovah of Hosts, have my eyes seen.'

⁵ Thou hast met with the rejoicer And the doer of righteousness, In Thy ways they remember Thee, Lo, Thou hast been wroth when we sin, By them is continuance, and we are saved.
⁶ And we are as unclean—all of us, And as a garment passing away, all our righteous acts; And we fade as a leaf—all of us. And our iniquities as wind do take us away.

²⁰ See, O Jehovah, for distress is to me, My bowels have been troubled, Turned hath been my heart in my midst, For I have greatly provoked, From without bereaved hath the sword, In the house it is as death.

¹ Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach. ² Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners. ³ Orphans we have been—without a father, our mothers are as widows. ⁴ Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come. ⁵ For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured—there hath been no rest for us. ⁶ To Egypt we have given a hand, To Asshur, to be satisfied with bread. ⁷ Our fathers have sinned—they are not, We their iniquities have borne. ⁸ Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand. ⁹ With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness. ¹⁰ Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine. ¹¹ Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins—in cities of Judah. ¹² Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured. ¹³ Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled. ¹⁴ The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song. ¹⁵ Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing. ¹⁶ Fallen hath the crown from our head, Woe is now to us, for we have sinned.
¹⁷ For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim. ¹⁸ For the mount of Zion—that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it. ¹⁹ Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation. ²⁰ Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days! ²¹ Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old. ²² For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us—exceedingly?

¹⁸ And ye have turned back and considered, Between the righteous and the wicked, Between the servant of God and him who is not His servant.

¹⁰ `So also ye, when ye may have done all the things directed you, say—We are unprofitable servants, because that which we owed to do—we have done.'

⁸ and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness—indignation and wrath, ⁹ tribulation and distress, upon every soul of man that is working the evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek;

²⁹ if according to the death of all men these die—or the charge of all men is charged upon them—Jehovah hath not sent me; ³⁰ and if a strange thing Jehovah do, and the ground hath opened her mouth and swallowed them, and all that they have, and they have gone down alive to Sheol—then ye have known that these men have despised Jehovah.'

⁵⁹ then hath Jehovah made wonderful thy strokes, and the strokes of thy seed—great strokes, and stedfast, and evil sicknesses, and stedfast.

⁹ Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, till there is no numbering.

¹³ I have set Him till morning as a lion, So doth He break all my bones, From day unto night Thou dost end me.

¹⁰ A bear lying in wait He is to me, A lion in secret hiding-places.

⁷ And I am to them as a lion, As a leopard by the way I look out. ⁸ I do meet them as a bereaved bear, And I rend the enclosure of their heart.

⁸ A lion hath roared—who doth not fear? The Lord Jehovah hath spoken—who doth not prophesy?

²¹ I went out full, and empty hath Jehovah brought me back, why do ye call me Naomi, and Jehovah hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath done evil to me?'

⁸ And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth.

⁶ Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round, ⁷ Lo, I cry out—violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.
⁸ My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth. ⁹ Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head. ¹⁰ He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope. ¹¹ And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries.

¹⁹ God doth hear and afflict them, And He sitteth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, and fear not God,

¹¹ Secure is Moab from his youth, And at rest is he for his preserved things, And he hath not been emptied out from vessel unto vessel, And into captivity he hath not gone, Therefore hath his taste remained in him, And his fragrance hath not been changed.

¹⁰ Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes.
¹¹ Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp!

²⁰ And the eyes of the wicked are consumed, And refuge hath perished from them, And their hope is a breathing out of soul!

¹⁰ And a man dieth, and becometh weak, And man expireth, and where is he?

¹⁰ Woe to me, my mother, For thou hast borne me a man of strife, And a man of contention to all the land, I have not lent on usury, Nor have they lent on usury to me—All of them are reviling me.

¹⁴ Cursed is the day in which I was born, The day that my mother bare me, Let it not be blessed! ¹⁵ Cursed is the man who bore tidings to my father, saying, `Born to thee hath been a child—a male,' Making him very glad! ¹⁶ Then hath that man been as the cities, That Jehovah overthrew, and repented not, And he hath heard a cry at morning, And a shout at time of noon. ¹⁷ Because he hath not put me to death from the womb, And my mother is to me—my grave, And her womb a pregnancy age-during. ¹⁸ Why is this? from the womb I have come out, To see labour and sorrow, Yea, consumed in shame are my days!

²⁴ the Son of Man doth indeed go, as it hath been written concerning him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is delivered up! good it were for him if that man had not been born.'

⁸ As a snail that melteth he goeth on, As an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.

⁶ My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.
⁷ Remember Thou that my life is a breath, Mine eye turneth not back to see good.

¹⁶ I have wasted away—not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days are vanity.
¹⁷ What is man that Thou dost magnify him? And that Thou settest unto him Thy heart? ¹⁸ And inspectest him in the mornings, In the evenings dost try him? ¹⁹ How long dost Thou not look from me? Thou dost not desist till I swallow my spittle. ²⁰ I have sinned, what do I to Thee, O watcher of man? Why hast Thou set me for a mark to Thee, And I am for a burden to myself—and what? ²¹ Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me—and I am not!

⁹ (For of yesterday we are, and we know not, For a shadow are our days on earth.)

²⁵ My days have been swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have not seen good, ²⁶ They have passed on with ships of reed, As an eagle darteth on food.

²¹ Thy hand put far off from me, And Thy terror let not terrify me.

¹ Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!

⁵ Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age is as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity is every man set up. Selah.

¹³ Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!

¹⁵ Mortal man! as grass are his days, As a flower of the field so he flourisheth; ¹⁶ For a wind hath passed over it, and it is not, And its place doth not discern it any more.

²³ and now, he hath died, why is this—I fast? am I able to bring him back again? I am going unto him, and he doth not turn back unto me.'

¹⁴ for we do surely die, and are as water which is running down to the earth, which is not gathered, and God doth not accept a person, and hath devised devices in that the outcast is not outcast by Him.

⁵ Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.

¹³ For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept—then there is rest to me,

⁸ The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes are upon me—and I am not. ⁹ Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up. ¹⁰ He turneth not again to his house, Nor doth his place discern him again.

¹⁰ And a man dieth, and becometh weak, And man expireth, and where is he? ¹¹ Waters have gone away from a sea, And a river becometh waste and dry. ¹² And man hath lain down, and riseth not, Till the wearing out of the heavens they awake not, Nor are roused from their sleep. ¹³ O that in Sheol Thou wouldest conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me. ¹⁴ If a man dieth—doth he revive? All days of my warfare I wait, till my change come.

²² When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go.

⁴ Also—when I walk in a valley of death-shade, I fear no evil, for Thou art with me, Thy rod and Thy staff—they comfort me.

⁶ Thou hast put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in depths.

¹¹ Is Thy kindness recounted in the grave? Thy faithfulness in destruction? ¹² Are Thy wonders known in the darkness? And Thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

¹¹ I said, I do not see Jah—Jah! In the land of the living, I do not behold man any more, With the inhabitants of the world.

⁶ And have not said, Where is Jehovah, Who bringeth us up out of the land of Egypt, Who leadeth us in a wilderness, In a land of deserts and pits, In a dry land, and of death-shade, In a land—none hath passed through it, Nor dwelt hath man there?'

²² There is no darkness nor death-shade, For workers of iniquity to be hidden there;

¹⁷ Revealed to thee were the gates of death? And the gates of death-shade dost thou see?

¹⁹ But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade.

¹² Are Thy wonders known in the darkness? And Thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

¹⁶ Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed it for thick darkness.

²⁶ and besides all these things, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that they who are willing to go over from hence unto you are not able, nor do they from thence to us pass through.