vanish. 9 Then will I con his rage will 'swallow up the ground: | faces with shame. + Gr. cause to 24 and he will not believe fess that thy right hand can save thee. until the trumpet sounds. 25 And when the trumpet sounds, he says, Aha! and afar off he smells the war with prancing and neighing. 26 And does the hawk remain steady by thy wisdom, having spread out her wings unmoved, looking toward the region of the south? 27 And does the eagle rise at thy command, and the vulture remain sitting over his nest, on a crag of a rock, and in a secret place? 29 Thence he seeks food, his eyes observe from far. 30 And his young ones roll themselves in blood, and wherever the carcases may be, immediately they are found. 28 ment. 31 And the Lord God answered Job, and said, 32 Will any one pervert judgment with the Mighty One? and he that reproves God, let him return it Gr.sc.judg. for answer. 33 And Job answered and said to the Lord, 34 Why do I yet plead? being + Alex. and rebuked even while reof the Lord. proving the Lord: hearing such things, whereas I am nothing: and what shall I answer to these arguI will lay my hand upon my mouth. 35 I have spoken once; but I will not do so a second time. being reproved ments? + tion. 10 But now look at the wild beasts with thee; they eat grass like oxen. "Behold now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. 12 He sets up his tail like a cypress; and his nerves are wrapped together. 13 His sides are sides of brass; and his back-bone is as cast iron. 14 This is the chief of the creation of the Lord; made + Gr. formato be played with by his or, mocked. angels. 15 And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep. + Gr. Tartarus 16 He lies under trees of Heb. field, q. d. every kind, by the papyrus, place. and reed, and bulrush. 17 And the great trees make a shadow over him with their branches, and so do the bushes+ Alex. äyrov, ofthe field. 18 If there should be a flood, he will not perceive it; he trusts that Jordan will rush up into his mouth. 19 Yet one shall take him in his sight: one shall catch him with a cord, and pierce his nose. + level, or, low willow. 20 But wilt thou catch the serpent with a hook? and put a halter about his nose? 21 Or wilt thou fasten a ring in his nostril, and bore his lip with a clasp? 22 Will he address thee with a petition? softly, with the voice 40. And the Lord yet again an- of a suppliant? 23 And will he make swered and spoke to Job out of the a covenant with thee? and wilt thou cloud saying, Nay, gird up now thy take him for a perpetual servant? loins like a man; and I will ask thee, 24 And wilt thou play with him as with and do thou answer me. 3 Do not a bird? or bind him as a sparrow for a set aside my judgment: and dost thou child? 25 And do the nations feed upon think that I have dealt with thee in him, and the nations of the Phoenicians any other way, than that thou mightest share him? 26 And all the ships come appear to be righteous? Hast thou together would not be able to bear the an arm like God's? or dost thou thunder mere skin of his tail; neither shall they with a voice like his? 5Assume now carry his head in fishing-vessels. a lofty bearing and power; and clothe 27 But thou shalt lay thy hand upon thyself with glory and honour. And him once, remembering the war that send forth messengers with wrath; and is waged by his mouth; and let it not lay low every haughty one. Bring be done any more. down also the proud man; and consume at once the ungodly. And hide them 8 4 7 41. Hast thou not seen him? and together in the earth; and fill their hast thou not wondered at the things + Gr. equal. 8 the deep boil like a brazen caldron; and he regards the sea as a pot of ointment, 23 and the lowest part of the deep as a captive: he reckons the deep as his range. 24 There is nothing upon the earth like to him, formed to be sported with by my angels. Or, mocked. 25 He beholds every high thing: and he is king of all that are in the waters. + 42. Then Job answered and said to the Lord, 2 I know that thou canst do all things, and nothing is impossible with thee. 3 For who is he that hides counsel from thee? or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from thee? and who will tell me what I knew not, great and wonderful things which I understood not? 4 But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask thee, and do thou teach me. 5 I have heard the report of thee by the car before; but now mine eye has seen thee. 6 Wherefore I have counted myself vile, and + Gr. melted. have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes. said of him? Dost thou not fear because preparation has been made by me? for who is there that resists me? 2 Or who will resist me, and abide, since the whole world under heaven is mine? 3 I will not be silent because of him: though because of his power one shall * comeli- *pity his* antagonist. Who ness, rendered will open the face of his by ἐλέησει. garment? and who can enter within the fold of his breastplate? 5 Who will open the doors of his face? terror is round about his teeth. His inwards are as brazen plates, and the texture of his hide as a smyrite stone. 7 One part cleaves fast to another, and the air cannot come between them. They will remain united each to the other: they are closely joined, and cannot be separated. At his sneezing a light shines, and his eyes are as the appearance of the morning star. 10 Out of his mouth proceed as it were burning lamps; and as it were hearths of fire are cast abroad. Out of his nostrils proceeds smoke of a furnace burning with fire 12 His breath is of coals. "And it came to pass after the Lord had as live coals, and a flame goes out of spoken all these words to Job, that the his mouth. 13 And power is lodged in Lord said to Eliphaz the Thamanite, his neck, before him destruction runs. Thou hast sinned, and thy two friends: 14 The flesh also of his body is joined for ye have not said anything true + Compare together: if one pours vio- before me, as my servant Job has. chap. 21. 24. lence upon him; he shall Now then take seven bullocks, and not be moved. 15 His heart is firm as seven rams, and go to my servant Job, a stone, and it stands like an unyielding and he shall offer * a burntanvil. 16And when he turns he is a offering for you. And my Alex. κάρπωμα. terror to the four-footed wild beasts servant Job shall pray for you, for which leap upon the earth. 17 If I will only accept him: for but for spears should come against him, men his sake, I would have destroyed will effect nothing, either with the spear you, for ye have not spoken the or the breast-plate. 18 For he con- truth against my servant Job. So siders iron as chaff, and brass as rotten Eliphaz the Thamanite, and Balwood. 19 The bow of brass shall not dad the Sauchite, and Sophar the wound him, he deems a slinger as Minaan, went and did as the Lord grass. 20 Mauls are counted as stubble; commanded them: and he pardoned and he laughs to scorn the waving of their sin for the sake of Job. 10And the firebrand. 21 His lair is formed of +Gr.ößeXiao. sharp points; and all the gold of the sea under him is as an immense quantity of clay. 22 He makes + Gr. soul. + + Gr. κάρπωσιν, unusual. 9 the Lord prospered Job: and when he prayed also for his friends, he forgave them their sin: and the Lord gave Job twice as much, even the double of what Gr. Job. *he had before. "And all his brethren | 17And Job died, an old man and full and his sisters heard all of days: and it is written that he will rise again with those whom the Lord raises up. that had happened to him, and they + Or, piece of ed with that pecuniam. + This man is described in the Syriac book as living in the land + Gr. interof Ausis, on the borders of preted out of. Idumea and Arabia: and his name before was Jobab; and having taken figure. q. d. of gold, even of unstamped an Arabian wife, he begot a son whose gold. 12 And the Lord bless-name was Ennon. And he himself ed the latter end of Job, more than was the son of his father Zare, one of the beginning and his cattle were the sons of Esau, and of his mother fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand Bosorrha, so that he was the fifth from camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, a Abraam. And these were the kings thousand she-asses of the pastures. who reigned in Edom, which country 13 And there were born to him seven he also ruled over: first, Balac, the son sons and three daughters. 14 And he of Beor, and the name of Alex. Semcalled the first, Day, and the second, his city was Dennaba: but por." Casia, and the third, Amalthæa's horn. after Balac, Jobab, who is called Job: 15 And there were not found in compa- and after him Asom, who was governor rison with the daughters of Job, fairer out of the country of Thaman: and women than they in all the world: and after him Adad, the son of Barad, who their father gave them an inheritance destroyed Madiam in the plain of Moab; among their brethren. 16 And Job and the name of his city was Gethaim. lived after his affliction a hundred and And his friends who came to him were seventy years: and all the years he Eliphaz, of the children of Esau, king + Alex. 248. lived were two hundred of the Thamanites, Baldad sovereign and forty: and Job saw his sons and of the Sauchæans, Sophar king of the his sons' sons, the fourth generation. Minæans. 575 + + phor, i. e. Zip PSALMS. + PSALMS I-II-III. VERSE 7. shepherd. Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron; + Gr. tend thou shalt dash them in them as a pieces as a potter's vessel. Rev. 2. 27. 10 Now therefore understand, ye kings: be instructed, all ye that judge the earth. 1. BLESSED is the man who has | I will give thee the heathen for thine not walked in the counsel of the un- inheritance, and the ends of the earth godly, and has not stood in the way for thy possession. of sinners, and has not sat in the seat + Gr. pestilent. of evil men. 2 But his + Gr. will. *pleasure is in the law of the Lord; and in his law will he meditate day and night. And he shall be as a tree planted by the brooks of waters, which shall yield its fruit in its season, and its leaf shall not fall off; and whatsoever he shall do shall be prospered. Not so the ungodly;4 Not so the ungodly; not so: but rather as the chaff which * Or, dust or the wind scatters away from the face of the earth. Therefore the ungodly shall not rise in judg ment, nor sinners in the counsel of the just. For the Lord knows the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish. down. + 6 2 + 5 similar one the Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice in him with trembling. 12+ Accept correction, lest at any time the + Note. this Lord be angry, and ye rendering or a should perish from the Jews mainrighteous way: whensoever tain. his wrath shall be suddenly kindled, blessed are all they that trust in him. 3. A Psalm of David, when he fled from the presence of his son Abessalom. 2 ψαλμα (Selah) has to the English O Lord, why are they that afflict me 2. Wherefore did the heathen rage, multiplied? many rise up against me. +Acts 4. 25. and the nations imagine vain Many say concerning my soul, There things? The kings of the earth stood is no deliverance for him in his God. up, and the rulers gathered themselves Pause. But thou, O The word Atátogether, against the Lord, and against Lord, art my helper: my been rendered his Christ; saying, Let us break through glory, and the one that lifts intelligible word their bonds, and cast away their yoke up my head. I cried to reader. What kind from us. 4 He that dwells in the hea- the Lord with my voice, of pause was invens shall laugh them to scorn, and the and he heard me out of LXX. cannot perLord shall mock them. Then shall he his holy mountain. Pause. has be deterspeak to them in his anger, and trouble 5 I lay down and slept; I awaked; them in his fury. But I have been made for the Lord will help me. 6 I will king by him on Sion his holy moun- not be afraid of ten thousands of tain, declaring the ordinance of the people, who beset me round about. + Acts 13. 33; Lord: 7the Lord said to me, Heb. 1. 5. *Thou art my Son, to-day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and But I will enter into thine house in the multitude of thy mercy: I will worship in thy fear toward thy holy temple. Lead me, O Lord, in thy 4. For the end, a Song of David among righteousness because of mine enemies; the Psalms. When I called upon him, the God of my righteousness heard me: thou hast made room for me in tribulation; pity me, and hearken to my prayer. 20 ye sons of men, how long will ye be 'slow Lit. heavy of heart? wherefore do ye love vanity, and seek falsehood? Pause. But know ye that the Lord has done wondrous things for his holy one: the Lord will hear me when I cry to him. of heart. + Eph. 4. 26. 6 3 4+ Be ye 5 make my way plain before thy face. their heart is vain; their + Rom. 3. 13. For there is no truth in their mouth; throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit. 10 Judge them, O God; let them * fail + Gr. fall of their counsels; cast them reason of. from, or, by out according to the abundance of their eous: thou hast 'compassed us as with a shield of favour. compunction upon your beds for what Lord, shalt bless the right- +Lit.crowned. angry, and sin not; feel among them; and all that love thy name shall rejoice in thee. 12 For thou, ye say in your hearts. Pause. Offer the sacrifice of righteousness, and trust in the Lord. Many say, Who will show us good things? the light of thy countenance, O Lord, has been manifested towards us. 7 Thou hast put gladness into my heart: they have been satisfied with the fruit of their + Or, at the corn and wine and oil. 8 I will both lie down in peace and sleep for thou, Lord, only hast caused me to dwell securely. same time. : 6. For the end, a Psalm of David among the Hymns for the eighth. neither chasten me in thine anger. O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath, Pity me, O Lord; for I am weak: vexed. 3 My soul also is grievously me, O Lord; for my bones are vexed: but thou, O Lord, how long? 4 Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: 5. For the end, a Psalm of David, con- in death no man remembers thee: and save me for thy mercy's sake. cerning her that inherits. who will give thee thanks in Hades? Hearken to my words, O Lord, 'attend I am wearied with my Gr. I have + Lit. under- to my cry. 2 Attend to groaning; I shall wash my laboured. the voice of my supplication, bed every night; I shall water my my King, and my God: for to thee, couch with my tears. Mine eye is O Lord, will I pray. 3 In the morn- troubled because of my wrath; I am ing thou shalt hear my voice: in the worn out because of all my enemies. morning will I wait upon thee, and Depart from me all ye that work iniwill look up. For thou art not a God quity; for the Lord has heard the voice that desires iniquity; neither shall the of my weeping. 9 The Lord has worker of wickedness dwell with thee. hearkened to my petition; the Lord 5Neither shall the transgressors continue has accepted my prayer. 10 Let all in thy sight: thou hatest, O Lord, all mine enemies be put to shame and them that work iniquity. Thou wilt sore troubled: let them be turned destroy all that speak falsehood: the back and grievously put to shame Lord abhors the bloody and deceitful speedily. |