“Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself;
For emptiness will be his reward.

“The upright will be appalled at this,
And the innocent will stir up himself against the godless.

“Can a vigorous man be of use to God,
Or a wise man be useful to himself?

But the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram burned; against Job his anger burned because he justified himself before God.

“If He should determine to do so,
If He should gather to Himself His spirit and His breath,

“When he raises himself up, the mighty fear;
Because of the crashing they are bewildered.

But know that the Lord has set apart the godly man for Himself;
The Lord hears when I call to Him.

He has also prepared for Himself deadly weapons;
He makes His arrows fiery shafts.

The Lord has made Himself known;
He has executed judgment.
In the work of his own hands the wicked is snared. Higgaion Selah.

He says to himself, “I will not be moved;
Throughout all generations I will not be in adversity.”

He says to himself, “God has forgotten;
He has hidden His face; He will never see it.”

Why has the wicked spurned God?
He has said to himself, “You will not require it.”

You have seen it, for You have beheld mischief and vexation to take it into Your hand.
The unfortunate commits himself to You;
You have been the helper of the orphan.

Let destruction come upon him unawares,
And let the net which he hid catch himself;
Into that very destruction let him fall.

He plans wickedness upon his bed;
He sets himself on a path that is not good;
He does not despise evil.

I have seen a wicked, violent man
Spreading himself like a luxuriant tree in its native soil.

God, in her palaces,
Has made Himself known as a stronghold.

Though while he lives he congratulates himself—
And though men praise you when you do well for yourself—

And the heavens declare His righteousness,
For God Himself is judge. Selah.

For it is not an enemy who reproaches me,
Then I could bear it;
Nor is it one who hates me who has exalted himself against me,
Then I could hide myself from him.

O God, You are awesome from Your sanctuary.
The God of Israel Himself gives strength and power to the people.
Blessed be God!

But of Zion it shall be said, “This one and that one were born in her”;
And the Most High Himself will establish her.

The Lord reigns, He is clothed with majesty;
The Lord has clothed and girded Himself with strength;
Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved.

Know that the Lord Himself is God;
It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

For He Himself knows our frame;
He is mindful that we are but dust.

They afflicted his feet with fetters,
He himself was laid in irons;

But he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,
And it entered into his body like water
And like oil into his bones.

Let it be to him as a garment with which he covers himself,
And for a belt with which he constantly girds himself.

Who humbles Himself to behold
The things that are in heaven and in the earth?

“His enemies I will clothe with shame,
But upon himself his crown shall shine.”

For the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself,
Israel for His own possession.

Men do not despise a thief if he steals
To satisfy himself when he is hungry;

The one who commits adultery with a woman is lacking sense;
He who would destroy himself does it.

“But he who sins against me injures himself;
All those who hate me love death.”

He who corrects a scoffer gets dishonor for himself,
And he who reproves a wicked man gets insults for himself.

The merciful man does himself good,
But the cruel man does himself harm.

The generous man will be prosperous,
And he who waters will himself be watered.

Better is he who is lightly esteemed and has a servant
Than he who honors himself and lacks bread.

He who neglects discipline despises himself,
But he who listens to reproof acquires understanding.

He who separates himself seeks his own desire,
He quarrels against all sound wisdom.

It is by his deeds that a lad distinguishes himself
If his conduct is pure and right.

He who shuts his ear to the cry of the poor
Will also cry himself and not be answered.

The prudent sees the evil and hides himself,
But the naive go on, and are punished for it.

Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse;
He who guards himself will be far from them.

He who oppresses the poor to make more for himself
Or who gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.

For as he thinks within himself, so he is.
He says to you, “Eat and drink!”
But his heart is not with you.

A prudent man sees evil and hides himself,
The naive proceed and pay the penalty.

He who leads the upright astray in an evil way
Will himself fall into his own pit,
But the blameless will inherit good.

There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and tell himself that his labor is good. This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God.

Furthermore, men are afraid of a high place and of terrors on the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags himself along, and the caperberry is ineffective. For man goes to his eternal home while mourners go about in the street.

“King Solomon has made for himself a sedan chair
From the timber of Lebanon.

But the Lord of hosts will be exalted in judgment,
And the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.

Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.

So it will come about when Moab presents himself,
When he wearies himself upon his high place
And comes to his sanctuary to pray,
That he will not prevail.

Thus the Lord will make Himself known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know the Lord in that day. They will even worship with sacrifice and offering, and will make a vow to the Lord and perform it.

But the Lord of hosts revealed Himself to me,
“Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you
Until you die,” says the Lord God of hosts.

Although the Lord has given you bread of privation and water of oppression, He, your Teacher will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes will behold your Teacher.

And when King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth and entered the house of the Lord.

“What shall I say?
For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it;
I will wander about all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

He who is too impoverished for such an offering
Selects a tree that does not rot;
He seeks out for himself a skillful craftsman
To prepare an idol that will not totter.

Surely he cuts cedars for himself, and takes a cypress or an oak and raises it for himself among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir, and the rain makes it grow.

Then it becomes something for a man to burn, so he takes one of them and warms himself; he also makes a fire to bake bread. He also makes a god and worships it; he makes it a graven image and falls down before it.

Half of it he burns in the fire; over this half he eats meat as he roasts a roast and is satisfied. He also warms himself and says, “Aha! I am warm, I have seen the fire.”

He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver himself, nor say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”

Truly, You are a God who hides Himself,
O God of Israel, Savior!

Surely our griefs He Himself bore,
And our sorrows He carried;
Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten of God, and afflicted.

But the Lord was pleased
To crush Him, putting Him to grief;
If He would render Himself as a guilt offering,
He will see His offspring,
He will prolong His days,
And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.

Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great,
And He will divide the booty with the strong;
Because He poured out Himself to death,
And was numbered with the transgressors;
Yet He Himself bore the sin of many,
And interceded for the transgressors.

Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say,
“The Lord will surely separate me from His people.”
Nor let the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.”

“Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man to humble himself?
Is it for bowing one’s head like a reed
And for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as a bed?
Will you call this a fast, even an acceptable day to the Lord?

Yes, truth is lacking;
And he who turns aside from evil makes himself a prey.
Now the Lord saw,
And it was displeasing in His sight that there was no justice.

He put on righteousness like a breastplate,
And a helmet of salvation on His head;
And He put on garments of vengeance for clothing
And wrapped Himself with zeal as a mantle.

I will rejoice greatly in the Lord,
My soul will exult in my God;
For He has clothed me with garments of salvation,
He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness,
As a bridegroom decks himself with a garland,
And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

But they rebelled
And grieved His Holy Spirit;
Therefore He turned Himself to become their enemy,
He fought against them.

Who caused His glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses,
Who divided the waters before them to make for Himself an everlasting name,

There is no one who calls on Your name,
Who arouses himself to take hold of You;
For You have hidden Your face from us
And have delivered us into the power of our iniquities.

I know, O Lord, that a man’s way is not in himself,
Nor is it in a man who walks to direct his steps.

Both great men and small will die in this land; they will not be buried, they will not be lamented, nor will anyone gash himself or shave his head for them.

Can man make gods for himself?
Yet they are not gods!

For if you men will indeed perform this thing, then kings will enter the gates of this house, sitting in David’s place on his throne, riding in chariots and on horses, even the king himself and his servants and his people.

“Can a man hide himself in hiding places
So I do not see him?” declares the Lord.
“Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the Lord.

And I shall set fire to the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he will burn them and take them captive. So he will wrap himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself with his garment, and he will depart from there safely.

For that day belongs to the Lord God of hosts,
A day of vengeance, so as to avenge Himself on His foes;
And the sword will devour and be satiated
And drink its fill of their blood;
For there will be a slaughter for the Lord God of hosts,
In the land of the north by the river Euphrates.

“But I have stripped Esau bare,
I have uncovered his hiding places
So that he will not be able to conceal himself;
His offspring has been destroyed along with his relatives
And his neighbors, and he is no more.

The Lord of hosts has sworn by Himself:
“Surely I will fill you with a population like locusts,
And they will cry out with shouts of victory over you.”

Her uncleanness was in her skirts;
She did not consider her future.
Therefore she has fallen astonishingly;
She has no comforter.
“See, O Lord, my affliction,
For the enemy has magnified himself!”

For anyone of the house of Israel or of the immigrants who stay in Israel who separates himself from Me, sets up his idols in his heart, puts right before his face the stumbling block of his iniquity, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of Me for himself, I the Lord will be brought to answer him in My own person.

(though he himself did not do any of these things), that is, he even eats at the mountain shrines, and defiles his neighbor’s wife,

The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the father’s iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son’s iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself.

He heard the sound of the trumpet but did not take warning; his blood will be on himself. But had he taken warning, he would have delivered his life.

“Then I will set over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them; he will feed them himself and be their shepherd.

On that day the prince shall provide for himself and all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.

But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s choice food or with the wine which he drank; so he sought permission from the commander of the officials that he might not defile himself.

Then this Daniel began distinguishing himself among the commissioners and satraps because he possessed an extraordinary spirit, and the king planned to appoint him over the entire kingdom.

Then, as soon as the king heard this statement, he was deeply distressed and set his mind on delivering Daniel; and even until sunset he kept exerting himself to rescue him.

Then the king gave orders, and Daniel was brought in and cast into the lions’ den. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Your God whom you constantly serve will Himself deliver you.”

I saw the ram butting westward, northward, and southward, and no other beasts could stand before him nor was there anyone to rescue from his power, but he did as he pleased and magnified himself.

Then the male goat magnified himself exceedingly. But as soon as he was mighty, the large horn was broken; and in its place there came up four conspicuous horns toward the four winds of heaven.

“And through his shrewdness
He will cause deceit to succeed by his influence;
And he will magnify himself in his heart,
And he will destroy many while they are at ease.
He will even oppose the Prince of princes,
But he will be broken without human agency.

“Then the king will do as he pleases, and he will exalt and magnify himself above every god and will speak monstrous things against the God of gods; and he will prosper until the indignation is finished, for that which is decreed will be done.