בְּלִי

if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,

‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’

But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die without knowledge.

“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?

She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,

If one attacks him with the sword, it can’t prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.

On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear.

You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.

There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained.

For all tables are completely full of filthy vomit and filthiness.

For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women; for the vintage will fail. The harvest won’t come.

The young lions have roared at him and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burned up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone.

“I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?

The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to the solemn assembly. All her gates are desolate. Her priests sigh. Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.

“If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it is made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals;

They were scattered, because there was no shepherd. They became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.

I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”

Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.

They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?

that the man slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally and didn’t hate him in time past, and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:

lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’