Job 21 Cross References - YLT

¹ And Job answereth and saith: — 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? ⁵ Turn unto me, and be astonished, And put hand to mouth. ⁶ Yea, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And my flesh hath taken fright.
⁷ Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth. ⁸ Their seed is established, Before their face with them, And their offspring before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses are peace without fear, Nor is a rod of God upon them. ¹⁰ His bullock hath eaten corn, and doth not loath. His cow bringeth forth safely, And doth not miscarry. ¹¹ They send forth as a flock their sucklings, And their children skip, ¹² They lift themselves up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of an organ. ¹³ They wear out in good their days, And in a moment to Sheol go down. ¹⁴ And they say to God, `Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired. <sup>15</sup> What is the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?' <sup>16</sup> Lo, not in their hand is their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)
<sup>17</sup> How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger. <sup>18</sup> They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away, <sup>19</sup> God layeth up for his sons his sorrow, He giveth recompense unto him—and he knoweth. <sup>20</sup> His own eyes see his destruction, And of the wrath of the Mighty he drinketh. <sup>21</sup> For what is his delight in his house after him, And the number of his months cut off? <sup>22</sup> To God doth one teach knowledge, And He the high doth judge? <sup>23</sup> This one dieth in his perfect strength, Wholly at ease and quiet. <sup>24</sup> His breasts have been full of milk, And marrow his bones doth moisten. <sup>25</sup> And this one dieth with a bitter soul, And have not eaten with gladness. <sup>26</sup> Together—on the dust they lie down, And the worm doth cover them over.
<sup>27</sup> Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully. <sup>28</sup> For ye say, `Where is the house of the noble? And where the tent—The tabernacles of the wicked?' ²⁹ Have ye not asked those passing by the way? And their signs do ye not know? ³⁰ That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought. ³¹ Who doth declare to his face his way? And for that which he hath done, Who doth give recompence to him? ³² And he—to the graves he is brought. And over the heap a watch is kept. ³³ Sweet to him have been the clods of the valley, And after him every man he draweth, And before him there is no numbering. ³⁴ And how do ye comfort me with vanity, And in your answers hath been left trespass?

⁷ and they declare it to Jotham, and he goeth and standeth on the top of mount Gerizim, and lifteth up his voice, and calleth, and saith to them, `Hearken unto me, O masters of Shechem, and God doth hearken unto you:

³ Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight. ⁴ And yet, ye are forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought—all of you,

¹¹ Too few for thee are the comforts of God? And a gentle word is with thee,

² I have heard many such things, Miserable comforters are ye all.

² When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak.

¹ And yet, I pray thee, O Job, Hear my speech and to all my words give ear.

³¹ Attend, O Job, hearken to me, Keep silent, and I—I do speak. ³² If there are words—answer me, Speak, for I have a desire to justify thee. ³³ If there are not—hearken thou to me, Keep silent, and I teach thee wisdom.

² Hear, O wise men, my words, And, O knowing ones, give ear to me.

² Why do ye weigh money for that which is not bread? And your labour for that which is not for satiety? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat good, And your soul doth delight itself in fatness.

¹ Because of this it behoveth us more abundantly to take heed to the things heard, lest we may glide aside,

⁴ A laughter to his friend I am: `He calleth to God, and He answereth him,' A laughter is the perfect righteous one. ⁵ A torch—despised in the thoughts of the secure Is prepared for those sliding with the feet.

⁹ Is it good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him?

¹³ Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what?

¹⁰ They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves.

²⁰ My interpreter is my friend, Unto God hath mine eye dropped:

² If not—mockeries are with me. And in their provocations mine eye lodgeth.

⁹ And Moses speaketh so unto the sons of Israel, and they hearkened not unto Moses, for anguish of spirit, and for harsh service.

¹⁶ put not thy handmaid before a daughter of worthlessness, for from the abundance of my meditation, and of my provocation, I have spoken hitherto.'

²⁶ And it cometh to pass, the king of Israel is passing by on the wall, and a woman hath cried unto him, saying, `Save, my lord, O king.' <sup>27</sup> And he saith, `Jehovah doth not save thee—whence do I save thee? out of the threshing-floor, or out of the wine-vat?'

¹¹ What is my power that I should hope? And what mine end That I should prolong my life?

¹¹ Also I—I withhold not my mouth—I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul. ¹² A sea-monster am I, or a dragon, That thou settest over me a guard? ¹³ When I said, `My bed doth comfort me,' He taketh away in my talking my couch. ¹⁴ And thou hast affrighted me with dreams, And from visions thou terrifiest me, ¹⁵ And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones. 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!

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.

¹ To the Overseer, on `The Hind of the Morning.' —A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation, The words of my roaring? ² My God, I call by day, and Thou answerest not, And by night, and there is no silence to me. ³ And Thou art holy, Sitting—the Praise of Israel.

¹¹ What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? And what! art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him, The salvation of my countenance, and my God!

³ I remember God, and make a noise, I meditate, and feeble is my spirit. Selah. ⁴ Thou hast taken hold of the watches of mine eyes, I have been moved, and I speak not. ⁵ I have reckoned the days of old, The years of the ages. ⁶ I remember my music in the night, With my heart I meditate, and my spirit doth search diligently: ⁷ To the ages doth the Lord cast off? Doth He add to be pleased no more? ⁸ Hath His kindness ceased for ever? The saying failed to all generations? ⁹ Hath God forgotten His favours? Hath He shut up in anger His mercies? Selah.

¹ A Prayer of the afflicted when he is feeble, and before Jehovah poureth out his plaint. O Jehovah, hear my prayer, yea, my cry to Thee cometh.

² I pour forth before Him my meditation, My distress before Him I declare. ³ When my spirit hath been feeble in me, Then Thou hast known my path; In the way in which I walk, They have hid a snare for me.

³⁸ then saith he to them, `Exceedingly sorrowful is my soul—unto death; abide ye here, and watch with me.'

¹⁹ and they say to him, `Keep silent, lay thy hand on thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us for a father and for a priest: is it better thy being a priest to the house of one man, or thy being priest to a tribe and to a family in Israel?'

¹² and they lift up their eyes from afar and have not discerned him, and they lift up their voice and weep, and rend each his robe, and sprinkle dust on their heads—heavenward.

⁸ Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent against the profane Stirreth himself up.

²⁰ To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth. ²¹ Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me.

⁹ Princes have kept in words, And a hand they place on their mouth.

⁴ Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.

⁹ I have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou—Thou hast done it .

³² If thou hast been foolish in lifting up thyself, And if thou hast devised evil—hand to mouth!

¹³ Therefore is the wise at that time silent, For an evil time it is .

¹⁶ See do nations, and they are ashamed of all their might, They lay a hand on the mouth, their ears are deaf.

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

³ I remember God, and make a noise, I meditate, and feeble is my spirit. Selah.

¹⁵ I am afflicted, and expiring from youth, I have borne Thy terrors—I pine away.

¹²⁰ Trembled from Thy fear hath my flesh, And from Thy judgments I have been afraid!

¹⁹ Remember my affliction and my mourning, Wormwood and gall! ²⁰ Remember well, and bow down doth my soul in me.

¹⁶ I have heard, and my belly trembleth, At the noise have my lips quivered, Rottenness doth come into my bones, And in my place I do tremble, That I rest for a day of distress, At the coming up of the people, he overcometh it.

⁶ At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought.

¹⁰ Their fat they have closed up, Their mouths have spoken with pride:

³⁵ I have seen the wicked terrible, And spreading as a green native plant,

³ The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death, ⁴ And their might is firm. ⁵ In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued. ⁶ Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress. ⁷ Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed; ⁸ They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak. ⁹ They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth. ¹⁰ Therefore do His people return hither, And waters of fulness are wrung out to them. ¹¹ And they have said, `How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?' ¹² Lo, these are the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength.

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.

¹⁷ by the decree of the sifters is the sentence, and by the saying of the holy ones the requirement, to the intent that the living may know that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and to whom He willeth He giveth it, and the lowest of men He doth raise up over it.

¹³ Purer of eyes than to behold evil, To look on perverseness Thou art not able, Why dost Thou behold the treacherous? Thou keepest silent when the wicked Doth swallow the more righteous than he,

¹⁵ Each of them with a hook he hath brought up, He doth catch it in his net, and gathereth it in his drag, Therefore he doth joy and rejoice. ¹⁶ Therefore he doth sacrifice to his net, And doth make perfume to his drag, For by them is his portion fertile, and his food fat.

² and the beast that I saw was like to a leopard, and its feet as of a bear, and its mouth as the mouth of a lion, and the dragon did give to it his power, and his throne, and great authority. ³ And I saw one of its heads as slain to death, and its deadly stroke was healed, and all the earth did wonder after the beast, ⁴ and they did bow before the dragon who did give authority to the beast, and they did bow before the beast, saying, `Who is like to the beast? who is able to war with it?' ⁵ And there was given to it a mouth speaking great things, and evil-speakings, and there was given to it authority to make war forty-two months, ⁶ and it did open its mouth for evil-speaking toward God, to speak evil of His name, and of His tabernacle, and of those who in the heaven tabernacle, ⁷ and there was given to it to make war with the saints, and to overcome them, and there was given to it authority over every tribe, and tongue, and nation.

² with whom the kings of the earth did commit whoredom; and made drunk from the wine of her whoredom were those inhabiting the earth;' ³ and he carried me away to a wilderness in the Spirit, and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-coloured beast, full of names of evil-speaking, having seven heads and ten horns, ⁴ and the woman was arrayed with purple and scarlet-colour, and gilded with gold, and precious stone, and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and uncleanness of her whoredom,

³ I—I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway, ⁴ Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.

¹⁹ He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.

¹⁰ His sons do the poor oppress, And his hands give back his wealth.

²⁸ Remove doth the increase of his house, Poured forth in a day of His anger.

¹⁴ From men, Thy hand, O Jehovah, From men of the world, their portion is in life, And with Thy hidden things Thou fillest their belly, They are satisfied with sons; And have left their abundance to their sucklings.

⁶ Sons' sons are the crown of old men, And the glory of sons are their fathers.

³⁴ He doth turn aside from off me his rod, And His terror doth not make me afraid,

²¹ A fearful voice is in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him.

¹¹ Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him—at his feet.

⁵ In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued.

¹⁹ How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended—consumed from terrors.

¹⁹ Producing the fruit of the lips, `Peace, peace,' to the far off, and to the near, And I have healed him, said Jehovah. ²⁰ And the wicked are as the driven out sea, For to rest it is not able, And its waters cast out filth and mire. ²¹ There is no peace, said my God, to the wicked!

²⁶ there is not a miscarrying and barren one in thy land; the number of thy days I fulfil:

¹³ and hath loved thee, and blessed thee, and multiplied thee, and hath blessed the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, thy corn, and thy new wine, and thine oil, the increase of thine oxen, and the wealth of thy flock, on the ground which He hath sworn to thy fathers to give to thee. ¹⁴ `Blessed art thou above all the peoples, there is not in thee a barren man or a barren woman—nor among your cattle;

¹¹ `And Jehovah hath made thee abundant in good, in the fruit of the womb, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to thy fathers to give to thee.

¹³ Our garners are full, bringing out from kind to kind, Our flocks are bringing forth thousands, Ten thousands in our out-places, ¹⁴ Our oxen are carrying, there is no breach, And there is no outgoing, And there is no crying in our broad places.

¹ But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole is before them. ² The whole is as to the whole; one event is to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, and to him who is sacrificing, and to him who is not sacrificing; as is the good, so is the sinner, he who is swearing as he who is fearing an oath.

¹⁶ And he spake a simile unto them, saying, `Of a certain rich man the field brought forth well; <sup>17</sup> and he was reasoning within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have not where I shall gather together my fruits? <sup>18</sup> and he said, This I will do, I will take down my storehouses, and greater ones I will build, and I will gather together there all my products and my good things, <sup>19</sup> and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry. <sup>20</sup> `And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare—to whom shall they be? ²¹ so is he who is treasuring up to himself, and is not rich toward God.'

¹⁹ `And—a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day,

⁴¹ And setteth on high the needy from affliction, And placeth families as a flock.

³ Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah are sons, A reward is the fruit of the womb. ⁴ As arrows in the hand of a mighty one, So are the sons of the young men. ⁵ O the happiness of the man Who hath filled his quiver with them, They are not ashamed, For they speak with enemies in the gate!

²¹ and the name of his brother is Jubal, he hath been father of every one handling harp and organ.

²⁷ Why hast thou hidden thyself to flee, and deceivest me, and hast not declared to me, and I send thee away with joy and with songs, with tabret and with harp,

¹² And harp, and psaltery, tabret, and pipe, And wine, have been their banquets, And the work of Jehovah they behold not, Yea, the work of His hands they have not seen.

¹³ And lo, joy and gladness, slaying of oxen, And slaughtering of sheep, Eating of flesh, and drinking of wine, Eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

⁴ Who are lying down on beds of ivory, And are spread out on their couches, And are eating lambs from the flock, And calves from the midst of the stall, ⁵ Who are taking part according to the psaltery, Like David they invented for themselves instruments of music; ⁶ Who are drinking with bowls of wine, And with chief perfumes anoint themselves, And have not been pained for the breach of Joseph.

¹¹ If they do hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.

⁴ And their might is firm.

³⁸ for as they were, in the days before the flood, eating, and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, till the day Noah entered into the ark, ³⁹ and they did not know till the flood came and took all away; so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man.

¹⁹ and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry. ²⁰ `And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare—to whom shall they be?

²⁸ in like manner also, as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; ²⁹ and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all.

¹⁷ Those saying to God, `Turn aside from us,' And what doth the Mighty One to them?

⁴ The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. `God is not!' are all his devices.

¹¹ He said in his heart, `God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'

⁷ Fear of Jehovah is a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!

²² `Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?

²⁹ Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.

¹⁵ Each of them with a hook he hath brought up, He doth catch it in his net, and gathereth it in his drag, Therefore he doth joy and rejoice.

²⁸ and having seen Jesus, and having cried out, he fell before him, and with a loud voice, said, `What—to me and to thee, Jesus, Son of God Most High? I beseech thee, mayest thou not afflict me!'

³⁷ And the whole multitude of the region of the Gadarenes round about asked him to go away from them, because with great fear they were pressed, and he having entered into the boat, did turn back.

¹⁹ `And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil; ²⁰ for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;

⁴⁵ `And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me.
⁴⁶ Who of you doth convict me of sin? and if I speak truth, wherefore do ye not believe me? ⁴⁷ he who is of God, the sayings of God he doth hear; because of this ye do not hear, because of God ye are not.'

²³ `He who is hating me, doth hate also my Father; ²⁴ if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father;

²⁸ And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;

⁷ because the mind of the flesh is enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,

¹⁰ and in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved, ¹¹ and because of this shall God send to them a working of delusion, for their believing the lie, ¹² that they may be judged—all who did not believe the truth, but were well pleased in the unrighteousness.

³ for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers—itching in the hearing, ⁴ and indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside.

² and Pharaoh saith, `Who is Jehovah, that I hearken to His voice, to send Israel away? I have not known Jehovah, and Israel also I do not send away.'

⁹ For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'

³ For thou sayest, `What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'

⁴ Who said, `By our tongue we do mightily: Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?'

⁹ Lest I become satiated, and have denied, And have said, `Who is Jehovah?' And lest I be poor, and have stolen, And have laid hold of the name of my God.

¹¹ Turn aside from the way, decline from the path, Cause to cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.'

¹⁹ Not in secret have I spoken, in a dark place of the earth, I have not said to the seed of Jacob, In vain seek ye Me, I am Jehovah, speaking righteousness, Declaring uprightness.

⁶ According to their feedings they are satiated, They have been satiated, And their heart is lifted up, Therefore they have forgotten Me,

¹³ And ye have said, `Lo, what a weariness,' And ye have puffed at it, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have brought in plunder, And the lame and the sick, And ye have brought in the present! Do I accept it from your hand? said Jehovah. ¹⁴ And cursed is a deceiver, who hath in his drove a male, And is vowing, and is sacrificing a marred thing to the Lord, For a great king am I, said Jehovah of Hosts, And My name is revered among nations!

⁷ `Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

²⁴ till now ye did ask nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

⁶ Into their secret, come not, O my soul! Unto their assembly be not united, O mine honour; For in their anger they slew a man, And in their self-will eradicated a prince.

²¹ and he saith, `Naked came I forth from the womb of my mother, and naked I turn back thither: Jehovah hath given and Jehovah hath taken: let the name of Jehovah be blessed.'

⁹ `Who hath not known in all these, That the hand of Jehovah hath done this? ¹⁰ In whose hand is the breath of every living thing, And the spirit of all flesh of man.'

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

¹ O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat;

⁶ Those trusting on their wealth, And in the multitude of their riches, Do shew themselves foolish. ⁷ A brother doth no one at all ransom, He doth not give to God his atonement.

⁵ Also—God doth break thee down for ever, Taketh thee, and pulleth thee out of the tent, And He hath uprooted thee Out of the land of the living. Selah.
⁶ And the righteous see, And fear, and laugh at him. ⁷ `Lo, the man who maketh not God his strong place, And trusteth in the abundance of his riches, He is strong in his mischiefs.'

¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.

⁸ Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,

⁸ There is no man ruling over the spirit to restrain the spirit, and there is no authority over the day of death, and there is no discharge in battle, and wickedness delivereth not its possessors.

² and having called him, he said to him, What is this I hear about thee? render the account of thy stewardship, for thou mayest not any longer be steward.

²⁵ `And Abraham said, Child, remember that thou did receive—thou—thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus in like manner the evil things, and now he is comforted, and thou art distressed;

⁵ Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire. ⁶ The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.

¹⁸ They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

¹⁰ Many are the pains of the wicked; As to him who is trusting in Jehovah, Kindness doth compass him.

⁷ For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled. ⁸ Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face, ⁹ For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.

⁹ The light of the righteous rejoiceth, And the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

²⁰ Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.

²⁰ For there is not a posterity to the evil, The lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

⁸ and the foolish said to the prudent, Give us of your oil, because our lamps are going out;

⁴⁶ the lord of that servant will come in a day in which he doth not look for him, and in an hour that he doth not know, and will cut him off, and his portion with the unfaithful he will appoint.

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;

⁷ And in the abundance of Thine excellency Thou throwest down Thy withstanders, Thou sendest forth Thy wrath—It consumeth them as stubble.

²⁵ A leaf driven away dost Thou terrify? And the dry stubble dost Thou pursue?

⁴ Not so the wicked: But—as chaff that wind driveth away!

⁵ They are as chaff before wind, And a messenger of Jehovah driving away.

¹³ O my God, make them as a rolling thing, As stubble before wind.

²⁴ Therefore, as a tongue of fire devoureth stubble, And flaming hay falleth, Their root is as muck, And their flower as dust goeth up. Because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of Hosts, And the saying of the Holy One of Israel despised.

¹³ Nations as the wasting of many waters are wasted, And He hath pushed against it, And it hath fled afar off, And been pursued as chaff of hills before wind, And as a rolling thing before a hurricane.

⁵ And as small dust hath been The multitude of those scattering thee, And as chaff passing on the multitude of the terrible, And it hath been at an instant—suddenly.

²⁴ Yea, they have not been planted, Yea, they have not been sown, Yea, not taking root in the earth is their stock, And also He hath blown upon them, and they wither, And a whirlwind as stubble taketh them away.

¹⁵ Lo, I have set thee for a new sharp threshing instrument, Possessing teeth, thou threshest mountains, And beatest small, and hills as chaff thou makest. ¹⁶ Thou winnowest them, and a wind lifteth them up, And a whirlwind scattereth them, And thou—thou rejoicest in Jehovah, In the Holy One of Israel dost boast thyself.

²⁴ And I scatter them as stubble, Passing away, by a wind of the wilderness.

³ Therefore they are as a cloud of the morning, And as dew, rising early, going away, As chaff tossed about out of a floor, And as smoke out of a window.

¹⁰ For while princes are perplexed, And with their drink are drunken, They have been consumed as stubble fully dried.

¹² whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather his wheat to the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.'

⁷ Is there not, if thou dost well, acceptance? and if thou dost not well, at the opening a sin-offering is crouching, and unto thee its desire, and thou rulest over it.'

⁵ Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, am a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third generation, and on the fourth, of those hating Me,

³⁴ Is it not laid up with Me? Sealed among My treasures?

⁴¹ If I have sharpened the brightness of My sword, And My hand doth lay hold on judgment, I turn back vengeance to Mine adversaries, And to those hating Me—I repay!

³⁹ and I to-day am tender, and an anointed king: and these men, sons of Zeruiah, are too hard for me; Jehovah doth recompense to the doer of the evil according to his evil.'

²⁴ So as to set on the dust a defence, And on a rock of the valleys a covering.

⁵ Turn back doth the evil thing to mine enemies, In Thy truth cut them off.

⁹ His sons are fatherless, and his wife a widow. ¹⁰ And wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places. ¹¹ An exactor layeth a snare for all that he hath, And strangers spoil his labour. ¹² He hath none to extend kindness, Nor is there one showing favour to his orphans. ¹³ His posterity is for cutting off, In another generation is their name blotted out. ¹⁴ The iniquity of his fathers Is remembered unto Jehovah, And the sin of his mother is not blotted out. ¹⁵ They are before Jehovah continually, And He cutteth off from earth their memorial. ¹⁶ Because that he hath not remembered to do kindness, And pursueth the poor man and needy, And the smitten of heart—to slay, ¹⁷ And he loveth reviling, and it meeteth him, And he hath not delighted in blessing, And it is far from him. ¹⁸ And he putteth on reviling as his robe, And it cometh in as water into his midst, And as oil into his bones. ¹⁹ It is to him as apparel—he covereth himself, And for a continual girdle he girdeth it on. ²⁰ This is the wage of mine accusers from Jehovah, And of those speaking evil against my soul.
²¹ And Thou, O Jehovah Lord, Deal with me for Thy name's sake, Because Thy kindness is good, deliver me. ²² For I am poor and needy, And my heart hath been pierced in my midst. ²³ As a shadow when it is stretched out I have gone, I have been driven away as a locust. ²⁴ My knees have been feeble from fasting, And my flesh hath failed of fatness. ²⁵ And I—I have been a reproach to them, They see me, they shake their head. ²⁶ Help me, O Jehovah my God, Save me, according to Thy kindness. ²⁷ And they know that this is Thy hand, Thou, O Jehovah, Thou hast done it. ²⁸ They revile, and Thou dost bless, They have risen, and are ashamed, And Thy servant doth rejoice. ²⁹ Mine accusers put on blushing, and are covered, As an upper robe is their shame. ³⁰ I thank Jehovah greatly with my mouth, And in the midst of many I praise Him, ³¹ For He standeth at the right hand of the needy, To save from those judging his soul.

²¹ Prepare ye for his sons slaughter; Because of the iniquity of their fathers, They rise not, nor have possessed the land, Nor filled the face of the world with cities.

⁴ Surely our sicknesses he hath borne, And our pains—he hath carried them, And we—we have esteemed him plagued, Smitten of God, and afflicted. ⁵ And he is pierced for our transgressions, Bruised for our iniquities, The chastisement of our peace is on him, And by his bruise there is healing to us. ⁶ All of us like sheep have wandered, Each to his own way we have turned, And Jehovah hath caused to meet on him, The punishment of us all.

²⁹ In those days they do not say any more: Fathers have eaten unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted.

² `What—to you, ye—using this simile Concerning the ground of Israel, saying: Fathers do eat unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted?

¹⁴ And—lo, he hath begotten a son, And he seeth all the sins of his father, That he hath done, and he feareth, And doth not do like them,

¹⁹ And ye have said, Wherefore hath not the son, Borne of the iniquity of the father? And—the son judgment and righteousness hath done, All My statutes he hath kept, And he doeth them, he surely liveth. ²⁰ The soul that doth sin—it doth die. A son doth not bear of the iniquity of the father, And a father doth not bear of the iniquity of the son, The righteousness of the righteous is on him, And the wickedness of the wicked is on him.

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.

¹⁹ `Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal, ²⁰ but treasure up to yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth disfigure, and where thieves do not break through nor steal,

²⁷ `For, the Son of Man is about to come in the glory of his Father, with his messengers, and then he will reward each, according to his work.

³¹ So that ye testify to yourselves, that ye are sons of them who did murder the prophets; ³² and ye—ye fill up the measure of your fathers. ³³ `Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna?
<sup>34</sup> `Because of this, lo, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, and of them ye will kill and crucify, and of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will pursue from city to city; ³⁵ that on you may come all the righteous blood being poured out on the earth from the blood of Abel the righteous, unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar:

⁵ but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath, in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

²¹ for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.

¹⁴ Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil; may the Lord repay to him according to his works,

⁶ Render to her as also she did render to you, and double to her doubles according to her works; in the cup that she did mingle mingle to her double.

¹⁹ Rich he lieth down, and he is not gathered, His eyes he hath opened, and he is not.

³ Thou hast shewn Thy people a hard thing, Thou hast caused us to drink wine of trembling.

⁸ For a cup is in the hand of Jehovah, And the wine hath foamed, It is full of mixture, and He poureth out of it, Only its dregs wring out, and drink, Do all the wicked of the earth,

¹⁷ Stir thyself, stir thyself, rise, Jerusalem, Who hast drunk from the hand of Jehovah The cup of His fury, The goblet, the cup of trembling, thou hast drunk, Thou hast wrung out.

¹⁵ `For thus said Jehovah God of Israel unto me, Take the wine cup of this fury out of My hand, and thou hast caused all the nations to drink it unto whom I am sending thee; ¹⁶ And they have drunk, and shaken themselves and shewn themselves foolish, because of the sword that I am sending among them.

⁷ A golden cup is Babylon in the hand of Jehovah, Making drunk all the earth, Of its wine drunk have nations, Therefore boast themselves do nations.

²³ and in the hades having lifted up his eyes, being in torments, he doth see Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom,

¹⁰ he also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, that hath been mingled unmixed in the cup of His anger, and he shall be tormented in fire and brimstone before the holy messengers, and before the Lamb,

¹⁵ and out of his mouth doth proceed a sharp sword, that with it he may smite the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, and he doth tread the press of the wine of the wrath and the anger of God the Almighty,

⁵ If determined are his days, The number of his months are with Thee, His limit Thou hast made, And he passeth not over;

²¹ Honoured are his sons, and he knoweth not; And they are little, and he attendeth not to them.

²³ And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I—I do trust in Thee!

²⁴ I say, `My God, take me not up in the midst of my days,' Through all generations are Thine years.

¹⁸ And I have hated all my labour that I labour at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me. ¹⁹ And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also is vanity.

²⁷ `And he said, I pray thee, then, father, that thou mayest send him to the house of my father, ²⁸ for I have five brothers, so that he may thoroughly testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment.

¹⁸ Lo, in His servants He putteth no credence, Nor in His messengers setteth praise.'

¹⁵ Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.

¹⁷ Yea, doth one hating justice govern? Or the Most Just dost thou condemn? 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.

¹¹ Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Yea, than the fowl of the heavens He maketh us wiser.'

²² Lo, God doth sit on high by His power, Who is like Him—a teacher?

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

¹ —A Psalm of Asaph. God hath stood in the company of God, In the midst God doth judge.

⁵ Who is as Jehovah our God, He is exalting Himself to sit? ⁶ He is humbling Himself to look On the heavens and on the earth.

⁸ If oppression of the poor, and violent taking away of judgment and righteousness thou seest in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for a higher than the high is observing, and high ones are over them.

¹³ Who hath meted out the Spirit of Jehovah, And, being His counsellor, doth teach Him! ¹⁴ With whom consulted He, That he causeth Him to understand? And teacheth Him in the path of judgment, And teacheth Him knowledge? And the way of understanding causeth Him to know?

²² He who is sitting on the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are as grasshoppers, He who is stretching out as a thin thing the heavens, And spreadeth them as a tent to dwell in. ²³ He who is making princes become nothing, Judges of earth as emptiness hath made;

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?'

³⁴ for who did know the mind of the Lord? or who did become His counsellor?

¹⁶ for who did know the mind of the Lord that he shall instruct Him? and we—we have the mind of Christ.

³ have ye not known that we shall judge messengers? why not then the things of life?

⁴ For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast them down to Tartarus, did deliver them to judgment, having been reserved,

⁶ messengers also, those who did not keep their own principality, but did leave their proper dwelling, to a judgment of a great day, in bonds everlasting, under darkness He hath kept,

¹ And I saw a messenger coming down out of the heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain over his hand, ² and he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, who is Devil and Adversary, and did bind him a thousand years, ³ and he cast him to the abyss, and did shut him up, and put a seal upon him, that he may not lead astray the nations any more, till the thousand years may be finished; and after these it behoveth him to be loosed a little time.

¹² and I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and scrolls were opened, and another scroll was opened, which is that of the life, and the dead were judged out of the things written in the scrolls—according to their works; ¹³ and the sea did give up those dead in it, and the death and the hades did give up the dead in them, and they were judged, each one according to their works; ¹⁴ and the death and the hades were cast to the lake of the fire—this is the second death; ¹⁵ and if any one was not found written in the scroll of the life, he was cast to the lake of the fire.

²² In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.
²³ It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating.

¹⁷ For at his death he receiveth nothing, His honour goeth not down after him.

⁴ And their might is firm. ⁵ In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued.

²⁷ For he hath covered his face with his fat, And maketh vigour over his confidence.

⁸ Healing it is to thy navel, And moistening to thy bones.

⁸ And Hushai saith, `Thou hast known thy father and his men, that they are heroes, and they are bitter in soul as a bereaved bear in a field, and thy father is a man of war, and doth not lodge with the people;

¹² And she saith, `Jehovah thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but the fulness of the hand of meal in a pitcher, and a little oil in a dish; and lo, I am gathering two sticks, and have gone in and prepared it for myself, and for my son, and we have eaten it—and died.'

²⁰ Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?

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

¹⁸ He permitteth me not to refresh my spirit, But filleth me with bitter things.

¹ My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.

²³ It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating.

¹⁰ The heart knoweth its own bitterness, And with its joy a stranger doth not intermeddle.

² A man to whom God giveth wealth, and riches, and honour, and there is no lack to his soul of all that he desireth, and God giveth him not power to eat of it, but a stranger eateth it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

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. ¹⁶ Lord, by these do men live, And by all in them is the life of my spirit, And Thou savest me, make me also to live, 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.

¹⁶ And He saith unto me, `Son of man, lo, I am breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they have eaten bread by weight and with fear; and water by measure and with astonishment, they do drink; ¹⁷ so that they lack bread and water, and have been astonished one with another, and been consumed in their iniquity.

¹⁸ `Son of man, thy bread in haste thou dost eat, and thy water with trembling and with fear thou dost drink;

¹⁸ Together prisoners have been at ease, They have not heard the voice of an exactor, ¹⁹ Small and great are there the same. And a servant is free from his lord.

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

²⁶ And after my skin hath compassed this body, Then from my flesh I see God:

¹¹ His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down.

²⁰ Forget him doth the womb, Sweeten on him doth the worm, No more is he remembered, And broken as a tree is wickedness.

¹⁴ As sheep for Sheol they have set themselves, Death doth afflict them, And the upright rule over them in the morning, And their form is for consumption. Sheol is a dwelling for him.

² The whole is as to the whole; one event is to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, and to him who is sacrificing, and to him who is not sacrificing; as is the good, so is the sinner, he who is swearing as he who is fearing an oath.

¹¹ Brought down to Sheol hath been thine excellency, The noise of thy psaltery, Under thee spread out hath been the worm, Yea, covering thee is the worm.

⁸ As I have seen—ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it! ⁹ From the breath of God they perish, And from the spirit of His anger consumed. ¹⁰ The roaring of a lion, And the voice of a fierce lion, And teeth of young lions have been broken. ¹¹ An old lion is perishing without prey, And the whelps of the lioness do separate.

³ I—I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway, ⁴ Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer. ⁵ Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.

³ Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice? ⁴ If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression, 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.

²⁰ `All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one. <sup>21</sup> A fearful voice is in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him. <sup>22</sup> He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched is he for the sword. <sup>23</sup> He is wandering for bread—`Where is it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness. ²⁴ Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster. ²⁵ For he stretched out against God his hand, And against the Mighty he maketh himself mighty. ²⁶ He runneth unto Him with a neck, With thick bosses of his shields. ²⁷ For he hath covered his face with his fat, And maketh vigour over his confidence. ²⁸ And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps. ²⁹ He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he stretch out on earth their continuance. ³⁰ He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His mouth! ³¹ Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence. ³² Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green. ³³ He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom. ³⁴ For the company of the profane is gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery. ³⁵ To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.

⁵ That the singing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,

²⁹ This is the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God.

³ and against his three friends hath his anger burned, because that they have not found an answer, and condemn Job.

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.

⁴ Without punishment they run and prepare themselves, Stir up to meet me, and see.

⁸⁶ All Thy commands are faithfulness, With falsehood they have pursued me, Help Thou me.

²² And Jesus having known their reasonings, answering, said unto them, `What reason ye in your hearts?

¹⁹ for this is gracious, if because of conscience toward God any one doth endure sorrows, suffering unrighteously;

²⁶ and he speaketh unto the company, saying, `Turn aside, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and come not against anything that they have, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.' <sup>27</sup> And they go up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan and Abiram, from round about, and Dathan, and Abiram have come out, standing at the opening of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their infants. <sup>28</sup> And Moses saith, `By this ye do know that Jehovah hath sent me to do all these works, that they are not from my own heart; 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.' ³¹ And it cometh to pass at his finishing speaking all these words, that the ground which is under them cleaveth, ³² and the earth openeth her mouth, and swalloweth them, and their houses, and all the men who are for Korah, and all the goods, ³³ and they go down, they, and all that they have, alive to Sheol, and the earth closeth over them, and they perish from the midst of the assembly; ³⁴ and all Israel who are round about them have fled at their voice, for they said, `Lest the earth swallow us;'

³ and his substance is seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred pairs of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a service very abundant; and that man is greater than any of the sons of the east.

²² Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!

⁷ As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: `Where is he?'

³⁷ The number of my steps I tell Him, As a leader I approach Him.

³⁶ And he passeth away, and lo, he is not, And I seek him, and he is not found!

⁵ Also—God doth break thee down for ever, Taketh thee, and pulleth thee out of the tent, And He hath uprooted thee Out of the land of the living. Selah.
⁶ And the righteous see, And fear, and laugh at him.

⁹ Woe to him who is gaining evil gain for his house, To set on high his nest, To be delivered from the hand of evil, ¹⁰ Thou hast counselled a shameful thing to thy house, To cut off many peoples, and sinful is thy soul. ¹¹ For a stone from the wall doth cry out, And a holdfast from the wood answereth it.

⁴ `I have brought it out—an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts—and it hath come in unto the house of the thief, and unto the house of him who hath sworn in My name to a falsehood, and it hath remained in the midst of his house, and hath consumed it, both its wood and its stones.'

⁸ And the passers by have not said, `The blessing of Jehovah is on you, We blessed you in the Name of Jehovah!'

⁵ The Lord on thy right hand smote kings In the day of His anger.

⁴ Wealth profiteth not in a day of wrath, And righteousness delivereth from death.

⁴ All things hath Jehovah wrought for Himself, And also the wicked worketh for a day of evil.

² A God zealous and avenging is Jehovah, An avenger is Jehovah, and possessing fury. An avenger is Jehovah on His adversaries, And He is watching for His enemies.

¹⁵ A day of wrath is that day, A day of adversity and distress, A day of waste and desolation, A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of cloud and thick darkness.

⁹ The Lord hath known to rescue pious ones out of temptation, and unrighteous ones to a day of judgment, being punished, to keep,
¹⁰ and chiefly those going behind the flesh in desire of uncleanness, and lordship despising; presumptuous, self-complacent, dignities they are not afraid to speak evil of, ¹¹ whereas messengers, in strength and power being greater, do not bear against them before the Lord an evil speaking judgment; ¹² and these, as irrational natural beasts, made to be caught and destroyed—in what things they are ignorant of, speaking evil—in their destruction shall be destroyed, ¹³ about to receive a reward of unrighteousness, pleasures counting the luxury in the day, spots and blemishes, luxuriating in their deceits, feasting with you, ¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having an heart exercised in covetousnesses, children of a curse, ¹⁵ having forsaken a right way, they did go astray, having followed in the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who a reward of unrighteousness did love, ¹⁶ and had a rebuke of his own iniquity—a dumb ass, in man's voice having spoken, did forbid the madness of the prophet. ¹⁷ These are wells without water, and clouds by a tempest driven, to whom the thick gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept;

⁷ and the present heavens and the earth, by the same word are treasured, for fire being kept to a day of judgment and destruction of the impious men.

¹³ wild waves of a sea, foaming out their own shames; stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept.

¹⁷ because come did the great day of His anger, and who is able to stand?

¹⁰ and repaying to those hating Him, unto their face, to destroy them; He delayeth not to him who is hating Him—unto his face, He repayeth to him—

⁷ And Nathan saith unto David, `Thou art the man! Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, I anointed thee for king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul; <sup>8</sup> and I give to thee the house of thy lord, and the wives of thy lord, into thy bosom, and I give to thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if little, then I add to thee such and such things . <sup>9</sup> `Wherefore hast thou despised the word of Jehovah, to do the evil thing in His eyes? Uriah the Hittite thou hast smitten by the sword, and his wife thou hast taken to thee for a wife, and him thou hast slain by the sword of the Bene-Ammon. ¹⁰ `And now, the sword doth not turn aside from thy house unto the age, because thou hast despised Me, and dost take the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be to thee for a wife; ¹¹ thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am raising up against thee evil, out of thy house, and have taken thy wives before thine eyes, and given to thy neighbour, and he hath lain with thy wives before the eyes of this sun; ¹² for thou hast done it in secret, and I do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.'

¹⁹ and thou hast spoken unto him, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Hast thou murdered, and also possessed? and thou hast spoken unto him, saying, Thus said Jehovah, In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, do the dogs lick thy blood, even thine.' ²⁰ And Ahab saith unto Elijah, `Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?' and he saith, `I have found—because of thy selling thyself to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah; ²¹ lo, I am bringing in unto thee evil, and have taken away thy posterity, and cut off to Ahab those sitting on the wall, and restrained, and left, in Israel, ²² and given up thy house like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah, for the provocation with which thou hast provoked Me, and dost cause Israel to sin. ²³ `And also of Jezebel hath Jehovah spoken, saying, The dogs do eat Jezebel in the bulwark of Jezreel; ²⁴ him who dieth of Ahab in a city do the dogs eat, and him who dieth in a field do fowl of the heavens eat;

¹⁹ God layeth up for his sons his sorrow, He giveth recompense unto him—and he knoweth.

¹¹ Who hath brought before Me and I repay? Under the whole heavens it is mine.

²¹ These thou didst, and I kept silent, Thou hast thought that I am like thee, I reprove thee, and set in array before thine eyes.

¹³ Transgressing, and lying against Jehovah, And removing from after our God, Speaking oppression and apostasy, Conceiving and uttering from the heart Words of falsehood.

³³ What—dost thou make pleasing thy ways to seek love? Therefore even the wicked thou hast taught thy ways. 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. ³⁵ And thou sayest, `Because I have been innocent, Surely turned back hath His anger from me?' Lo, I have been judged with thee, Because of thy saying, `I have not sinned.'

¹⁸ for John said to Herod—`It is not lawful to thee to have the wife of thy brother;'

²⁵ and he reasoning concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment that is about to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, `For the present be going, and having got time, I will call for thee;'

¹⁹ not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it hath been written, `Vengeance is Mine,

¹¹ And when Peter came to Antioch, to the face I stood up against him, because he was blameworthy,

¹³ for the judgment without kindness is to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.

²¹ Speak to him do the gods of the mighty out of the midst of sheol, With his helpers—they have gone down, They have lain with the uncircumcised, The pierced of the sword. ²² There is Asshur, and all her assembly, Round about him are his graves, All of them are wounded, who are falling by sword, ²³ Whose graves are appointed in the sides of the pit, And her assembly is round about her grave, All of them wounded, falling by sword, Because they gave terror in the land of the living. ²⁴ There is Elam, and all her multitude, Round about is her grave, All of them wounded, who are falling by sword, Who have gone down uncircumcised unto the earth—the lower parts, Because they gave their terror in the land of the living, And they bear their shame with those going down to the pit. ²⁵ In the midst of the wounded they have appointed a bed for her with all her multitude, Round about him are her graves, All of them uncircumcised, pierced of the sword, For their terror was given in the land of the living, And they bear their shame with those going down to the pit, In the midst of the pierced he hath been put. ²⁶ There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude, Round about him are her graves, All of them uncircumcised, pierced of the sword, For they gave their terror in the land of the living, ²⁷ And they lie not with the mighty, Who are falling of the uncircumcised, Who have gone down to sheol with their weapons of war, And they put their swords under their heads, And their iniquities are on their bones, For the terror of the mighty is in the land of the living. ²⁸ And thou, in the midst of the uncircumcised art broken, And dost lie with the pierced of the sword. ²⁹ There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, Who have been given up in their might, With the pierced of the sword, They with the uncircumcised do lie, And with those going down to the pit. ³⁰ There are princes of the north, All of them, and every Zidonian, Who have gone down with the pierced in their terror, Of their might they are ashamed, And they lie uncircumcised with the pierced of the sword, And they bear their shame with those going down to the pit. ³¹ Then doth Pharaoh see, And he hath been comforted for all his multitude, The pierced of the sword—Pharaoh and all his force, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. ³² For I have given his terror in the land of the living, And he hath been laid down in the midst of the uncircumcised, With the pierced of the sword—Pharaoh, and all his multitude, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

²² `And it came to pass, that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the messengers to the bosom of Abraham—and the rich man also died, and was buried;

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.'

¹⁷ There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do the wearied in power.

²² Who are glad—unto joy, They rejoice when they find a grave.

¹⁶ To the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.

²⁴ High they were for a little, and they are not, And they have been brought low. As all others they are shut up, And as the head of an ear of corn cut off.

²³ For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And to the house appointed for all living.

⁴ A generation is going, and a generation is coming, and the earth to the age is standing.

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

²⁷ and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this—judgment,

⁴ And yet, ye are forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought—all of you,