Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

123 (Shir HaMa’alot, [Song of Ascents]) Unto Thee lift I up mine eyes, O Thou that dwellest in Shomayim.

² Hinei, as the eyes of avadim look unto the yad adoneihem, and as the eyes of a shifchah (maiden) unto the yad of her gevirah; so our eyes wait upon Hashem Eloheinu, until He have channun (favor, grace) upon us.

³ Channenu Hashem, channenu; for we are more than sated with buz (contempt).

⁴ Nafsheinu (our nefesh) is more than sated with the scorn of those that are at ease, and with the buz (contempt) of the g’eiyonim (proud ones, arrogant ones).

25 Then answered Bildad the Shuchi, and said,

² Dominion and pachad are with Him, oseh shalom bimromav.

³ Is there any number of His armies? And upon whom doth not His ohr arise?

⁴ Mah yitzdak Enosh im El (how then can man be justified, set right, with G-d?) Or how can he be clean that is born of isha?

⁵ If even the yarei’ach shineth not, yea, the kokhavim are not pure in His sight,

⁶ How much less enosh, that is a maggot? And the ben adam, which is a tola’at (worm)?

26 But Iyov answered and said,

² How hast thou helped him that is without ko’ach? How savest thou the zero’a that hath no oz (strength)?

³ How hast thou counseled him that hath no chochmah? And how hast thou plentifully declared the tushiyyah (efficient wisdom)?

⁴ To whom hast thou uttered words? And whose neshamah came from thee?

⁵ Dead things tremble from under the mayim, and the inhabitants thereof.

⁶ Sheol is naked before Him, and Avaddon hath no cover.

⁷ He stretcheth out the Tzafon over the tohu, and hangeth eretz upon nothing.

⁸ He bindeth up the mayim in His thick clouds; and the anan doeth not burst under them.

⁹ He covers the face of [His] kisse, and spreadeth His anan upon it.

¹⁰ He hath circled the horizon on the face of the mayim for a boundary between ohr and choshech.

¹¹ The ammudim of Shomayim tremble and are aghast at His rebuke.

¹² He divideth the yam with His ko’ach, and by His understanding He struck down Rahav.

¹³ By His Ruach He hath made fair Shomayim; His yad hath pierced the fleeing nachash.

¹⁴ Lo, these are but the ketzot of His ways, but how faint the davar we hear of Him. And the thunder of His gevurah who can understand?

¹⁹ In reply, therefore, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying to them, Omein, omein, I say to you, HaBen is not able to do anything from himself except what he sees HaAv doing, for what things that One is doing, these things also HaBen likewise is doing.

²⁰ For HaAv has ahavah for HaBen and all things He shows to him which He does and ma’asim gedolim (greater works) than these He will show him that you may marvel.

²¹ For just as HaAv raises the Mesim (dead ones) and makes them alive, so also HaBen makes alive whom he wills. [DEVARIM 32:39; SHMUEL ALEF 2:6; MELACHIM BAIS 5:7; HOSHEA 6:2; RUTH 4:5]

²² For not even HaAv judges anyone, but all Mishpat Hashem has given to HaBen [BERESHIS 18:25; SHOFETIM 11:27; DANIEL 7:10,13-14]

²³ That kol Bnei Adam may honor HaBen as they honor HaAv. The one not honoring HaBen does not honor HaAv who sent him [Dan 7:13-14].

²⁴ Omein, omein, I say to you, that the one, hearing my dvar and having emunah in the One who sent me, has Chayyei Olam and does not come into the Mishpat Hashem, but has been transferred out of mavet (death) into Chayyim (Life).

²⁵ Omein, omein, I say to you, that a sha’ah (hour) is coming and now is, when the Mesim (dead ones) will hear the kol (voice) of the Ben HaElohim and the ones having heard will live.

²⁶ For just as HaAv has Chayyim (Life) in himself [DEVARIM 30:20; IYOV 10:12; 33:4; TEHILLIM 36:10 (9)], so also HaBen He gave to have Chayyim (Life) in himself.

²⁷ And samchut (authority) He gave to him to make mishpat (judgment) because he is the Ben HaAdam [DANIEL 7:13-14].

²⁸ Do not marvel at this. For a sha’ah (hour, time) is coming in which all the ones in the kevarim (graves) will hear the kol of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, [YESHAYAH 26:19; YECHEZKEL 37:12]

²⁹ And will come out, the ones having practiced HaTov to a Techiyas HaMesim of Chayyim (Life), the ones having practiced HaRah to a Techiyas HaMesim of Mishpat (Judgment). [DANIEL 12:2]