RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

3 Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night in
which it was said, There is a male child conceived.
4 Let that day be darkness; let not Elohim regard it from
above, neither let light shine on it.
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a
cloud dwell over it; let the blackness of the day frighten
it.
6 As for that night, let darkness seize it; let it not be
joined to the days of the rest of the year, let it not be
counted in the number of the months.
7 Look, let that night be silent, let no voice of simcha
come into it.
8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to
raise up Leviathan.
9 Let the cochavim of its twilight be dark; let it look for
light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the
next day:
10 Because it did not shut the doors of my eema’s womb,
nor hid sorrow from my eyes.
11 Why did I not die in the womb? Why did I not give up
the ruach when I came out of the belly?
12 Why did the knees receive me? Or, the breasts for me
to suck?
13 For by now I would have been lying in shalom, I
should have died: then would I be at rest,
14 With the melechim and counselors of the earth, who
built ruin for themselves;
15 Or, with princes that had gold, who filled their houses
with silver:
16 Or, as a hidden untimely birth; as infants who never
saw light.
17 There the wicked cease from causing trouble; and
there the weary are at rest.
18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the
voice of the oppressor.
19 The small and great are there; and the eved is free
from his master.
20 Why is light given to him that is in misery, and chayim
to the bitter of being;
21 Who longs for death, but it comes not; and digs for it
more than for hidden treasures;
22 Who rejoice exceedingly, and are in simcha, when
they can find Sheol?
23 Why is light given to a man whose halacha is hidden,
and whom tvkt has hedged in?
24 For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groaning
pours out like mayim.
25 For the thing that I greatly feared has come on me, and
that which I was afraid of has come to me.
26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I
quiet; yet trouble came.
4 Then Elifaz the Temanite answered and said,
2 If we start to speak with you, will you be grieved? But
who can withhold himself from speaking?
3 See, you have instructed many, and you have
strengthened the weak hands.
4 Your words have held him that was falling, and you
have strengthened the weak knees.
5 But now it is come on you, and you fainted; it touches
you, and you are troubled.
6 Is not this your fear, your confidence, your tikvah, and
the uprightness of your halacha?
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7 Remember, please, who being innocent ever perished?
Or, when were the tzadikim ever cut off?
8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow
wickedness, reap the same.
9 By the blast of tvkt they perish, and by the Ruach of
His nostrils are they consumed.
10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion,
and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of
the lioness are scattered abroad.
12 Now a word was secretly brought to me, and my ear
received a little of it.
13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep
sleep falls on men,
14 Fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my
bones to shake.
15 Then a ruach passed before my face; the hair of my
body stood up:
16 It stood still, but I could not discern the form of it: an
image was before my eyes; there was silence, and I heard
a voice, saying,
17 Shall mortal man be more tzadik than tvkt? Shall a
man be cleaner than His Maker?
18 See, He puts no trust in His avadim; and His heavenly
malachim He charged with straying:
19 How much more those that dwell in houses of clay,
whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before
the moth?
20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they
perish le-olam-va-ed without anyone regarding it.
21 See their pride departs and they die, even without
chochmah.
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Call now, if there is anyone that will answer you; and
to which of the kidushim will you turn?
2 For anger kills the foolish man, and envy slays the
simple.
3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly his
home was cursed.
4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in
the gate, neither is there anyone to deliver them.
5 Whose harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it out of
the thorns, and the robber swallows up their possessions.
6 Although affliction does not come out of the dust,
neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
7 Yet man is born for trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
8 I would seek El, and to Elohim would I commit my
cause:
9 Who does great and unsearchable things; marvelous
things without number:
10 Who gives rain on the earth, and sends mayim on
the fields:
11 To set up on high those that are low; that those who
mourn may be exalted to safety.
12 He disappoints the schemes of the crafty, so that their
hands cannot perform their work.
13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness: and the
counsel of the schemers is carried away.
14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in
the noonday as in the night.
15 But He saves the poor from the sword, from their
mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
16 So the poor have tikvah, and iniquity stops her mouth.