And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil? and he still keeps his righteousness, though you have been moving me to send destruction on him without cause.

And he took a broken bit of a pot, and, seated in the dust, was rubbing himself with the sharp edge of it.

He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

You say, God keeps punishment stored up for his children. Let him send it on the man himself, so that he may have the punishment of it!

Is it possible for a man to be of profit to God? No, for a man's wisdom is only of profit to himself.

So these three men gave no more answers to Job, because he seemed to himself to be right.

And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was angry, burning with wrath against Job, because he seemed to himself more right than God;

If he made his spirit come back to him, taking his breath into himself again,

The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. (Higgaion. Selah.)

He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.

Truly, no man may get back his soul for a price, or give to God the payment for himself;

See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself

For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure.

For the Lord has taken Jacob for himself, and Israel for his property.

He who gives teaching to a man of pride gets shame for himself; he who says sharp words to a sinner gets a bad name.

The wise-hearted man will let himself be ruled, but the man whose talk is foolish will have a fall.

He who makes himself responsible for a strange man will undergo much loss; but the hater of such undertakings will be safe.

The man who has mercy will be rewarded, but the cruel man is the cause of trouble to himself.

So righteousness gives life; but he who goes after evil gets death for himself.

He who gives blessing will be made fat, but the curser will himself be cursed.

No man will make himself safe through evil-doing; but the root of upright men will never be moved.

He who is of low position and has a servant, is better than one who has a high opinion of himself and is in need of bread.

No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.

The wise man, fearing, keeps himself from evil; but the foolish man goes on in his pride, with no thought of danger.

All a man's ways are clean to himself; but the Lord puts men's spirits into his scales.

A man without sense gives his hand in an agreement, and makes himself responsible before his neighbour.

He who has an unwise son gets sorrow for himself, and the father of a foolish son has no joy.

A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.

He who keeps himself separate for his private purpose goes against all good sense.

The wrath of a king is like the loud cry of a lion: he who makes him angry does wrong against himself.

Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.

Every way of a man seems right to himself, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.

He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.

Have a talk with your neighbour himself about your cause, but do not give away the secret of another:

Give a foolish man a foolish answer, or he will seem wise to himself.

Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.

The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.

He who makes a hole in the earth will himself go falling into it: and on him by whom a stone is rolled the stone will come back again.

Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.

He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.

Anyone causing the upright to go wandering in an evil way, will himself go down into the hole he has made; but the upright will have good things for their heritage.

The man of wealth seems to himself to be wise, but the poor man who has sense has a low opinion of him.

The prince who has no sense is a cruel ruler; but he who has no desire to get profit for himself will have long life.

He whose faith is in himself is foolish; but everyone walking wisely will be kept safe.

It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.

And if one has a fall, the other will give him a hand; but unhappy is the man who is by himself, because he has no helper.

So again, if two are sleeping together they are warm, but how may one be warm by himself?

He who makes a hole for others will himself go into it, and for him who makes a hole through a wall the bite of a snake will be a punishment.

My loved one is like a roe; see, he is on the other side of our wall, he is looking in at the windows, letting himself be seen through the spaces.

King Solomon made himself a bed of the wood of Lebanon.

I made the door open to my loved one; but my loved one had taken himself away, and was gone, my soul was feeble when his back was turned on me; I went after him, but I did not come near him; I said his name, but he gave me no answer.

For this cause the Lord himself will give you a sign; a young woman is now with child, and she will give birth to a son, and she will give him the name Immanuel.

We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how he is lifted up in pride and passion: his high words about himself are false.

And the Lord will give the knowledge of himself to Egypt, and the Egyptians will give honour to the Lord in that day; they will give him worship with offerings and meal offerings, and will take an oath to the Lord and give effect to it.

The Lord, the Lord of armies, says, Go to this person in authority, this Shebna, who is over the house; who has made himself a resting-place on high, cutting out a place for himself in the rock, and say,

Or let him put himself under my power, and make peace with me.

Say to those who are full of fear, Be strong and take heart: see, your God will give punishment; the reward of God will come; he himself will come to be your saviour.

And have I now come to send destruction on this land without the Lord's authority? It was the Lord himself who said to me, Go up against this land and make it waste.

One will say, I am the Lord's; and another will give himself the name, Jacob; another will put a mark on his hand, I am the Lord's, and another will take the name of Israel for himself.

He has cedars cut down for himself, he takes an oak and lets it get strong among the trees of the wood; he has an ash-tree planted, and the rain gives it growth.

With part of it he makes a fire, and on the fire he gets meat cooked and takes a full meal: he makes himself warm, and says, Aha! I am warm, I have seen the fire:

As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.

The Lord who takes up Israel's cause, even his Holy One, says to him whom men make sport of, who is hated by the nations, a servant of rulers: Kings will see and get up from their places, and chiefs will give worship: because of the Lord who keeps faith; even the Holy One of Israel who has taken you for himself.

... made clear his righteousness before men ... had taken their sins on himself.

For this cause he will have a heritage with the great, and he will have a part in the goods of war with the strong, because he gave up his life, and was numbered with the evil-doers; taking on himself the sins of the people, and making prayer for the wrongdoers.

It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.

He who made the arm of his glory go at the right hand of Moses, by whom the waters were parted before them, to make himself an eternal name;

O Lord, I am conscious that a man's way is not in himself: man has no power of guiding his steps.

Will a man make for himself gods which are no gods?

He who keeps in this town will come to his death by the sword and through need of food and through disease; but he who goes out and gives himself up to the Chaldaeans who are shutting you in, will go on living, and will keep his life safe.

And you will no longer put people in mind of the word of weight of the Lord: for every man's word will be a weight on himself; for the words of the living God, of the Lord of armies, our God, have been twisted by you

So now, make a change for the better in your ways and your doings, and give ear to the voice of the Lord your God; then the Lord will let himself be turned from the decision he has made against you for evil.

Did Hezekiah and all Judah put him to death? did he not in the fear of the Lord make prayer for the grace of the Lord, and the Lord let himself be turned from the decision he had made against them for evil? By this act we might do great evil against ourselves.

But everyone will be put to death for the evil which he himself has done: whoever has taken bitter grapes will himself have his teeth put on edge.

Have you taken note of what these people have said, The two families, which the Lord took for himself, he has given up? This they say, looking down on my people as being, in their eyes, no longer a nation.

We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how he is lifted up in pride; and his great opinion of himself, and that his heart is lifted up.

So my heart is sounding for Moab like the sound of pipes, and my heart is sounding like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: for the wealth he has got for himself has come to an end.

And Moab will come to an end as a people, because he has been lifting himself up against the Lord.

About the children of Ammon. These are the words of the Lord: Has Israel no sons? has he no one to take the heritage? why then has Milcom taken Gad for himself, putting his people in its towns?

I have had Esau searched out, uncovering his secret places, so that he may not keep himself covered: his seed is wasted and has come to an end, and there is no help from his neighbours.

The Lord of armies has taken an oath by himself, saying, Truly, I will make you full with men as with locusts, and their voices will be loud against you.

Let him be seated by himself, saying nothing, because he has put it on him.

The king will give himself up to sorrow, and the ruler will be clothed with wonder, and the hands of the people of the land will be troubled: I will give them punishment for their ways, judging them as it is right for them to be judged; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

The soul which does sin will be put to death: the son will not be made responsible for the evil-doing of the father, or the father for the evil-doing of the son; the righteousness of the upright will be on himself, and the evil-doing of the evil-doer on himself.

He will put to the sword your daughters in the open country: he will make strong walls against you and put up an earthwork against you, arming himself for war against you.

Then anyone who, hearing the sound of the horn, does not take note of it, will himself be responsible for his death, if the sword comes and takes him away.

And on that day the ruler is to give for himself and for all the people of the land an ox for a sin-offering.

And Daniel had come to the decision that he would not make himself unclean with the king's food or wine; so he made a request to the captain of the unsexed servants that he might not make himself unclean.

I saw the sheep pushing to the west and to the north and to the south; and no beasts were able to keep their place before him, and no one was able to get people out of his power; but he did whatever his pleasure was and made himself great.

And his designs will be turned against the holy people, causing deceit to do well in his hand; in his heart he will make himself great, and send destruction on numbers who are living unconscious of their danger; and he will put himself up against the prince of princes; but he will be broken, though not by men's hands.

But the angel of the kingdom of Persia put himself against me for twenty-one days; but Michael, one of the chief angels, came to my help; and when I came he was still there with the angel of the kings of Persia.

And the king will do his pleasure; he will put himself on high, lifting himself over every god, and saying things to be wondered at against the God of gods; and all will be well for him till the wrath is complete; for what has been purposed will be done.

He will have no respect for the gods of his fathers or for the god desired by women; he will have no respect for any god: for he will put himself on high over all.

They will go, with their flocks and their herds, in search of the Lord, but they will not see him; he has taken himself out of their view.

And Judah has put up disgusting images for himself.

For they have gone up to Assyria like an ass going by himself; Ephraim has given money to get lovers.

The Lord God has taken an oath by himself, says the Lord, the God of armies: the pride of Jacob is disgusting to me, and I have hate for his great houses: so I will give up the town with everything in it.

And the word came to the king of Nineveh, and he got up from his seat of authority, and took off his robe, and covering himself with haircloth, took his seat in the dust.

Then Jonah went out of the town, and took his seat on the east side of the town and made himself a roof of branches and took his seat under its shade till he saw what would become of the town.