Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

32 Learning to David. [The understanding of David.] Blessed be they, whose wickedness be forgiven; and whose sins be covered. (The teaching of David. Happy be they, whose wickedness be forgiven; and whose sins be covered.)

² Blessed is the man, to whom the Lord areckoned not sin; neither guile is in his spirit. (Happy is the person, to whom the Lord did not reckon any sin; and there is no deceit in his spirit.)

³ For I was still, my bones waxed eld; while I cried all day. (For when I kept silent/For when I did not confess my sins, my bones grew old; while I cried all day long.)

⁴ For by day and night thine hand was made grievous on me (And day and night thy hand was heavy upon me); I am turned in my wretchedness, while the thorn is set in.

⁵ (Then) I made my sin known to thee; and I hid not my unrightfulness. I said, I shall acknowledge against me mine unrightfulness to the Lord; and thou hast forgiven the wickedness of my sin.

⁶ For this thing each holy man shall pray to thee; in covenable time. Nevertheless in the great flood of many waters; they shall not (come) nigh to thee. (For this thing, each holy man shall pray to thee; in his time of need. And then, in the great flood of many troubles, none shall come near him.)

⁷ Thou art my refuge from tribulation, that (en)compassed me; thou, my fully joying, deliver me from them that (en)compass me. (Thou art my refuge, from the troubles that surround me; thou, my full out joy, deliver me from those who surround me.)

²¹ Therefore assent thou to God, and have thou peace; and by these things thou shalt have (the) best fruits.

²² Take thou the law of his mouth (Take thou the Law from his mouth), and set thou his words in thine heart.

²³ If thou turnest again to Almighty God, thou shalt be builded [up]; and thou shalt make wickedness far from thy tabernacle. (If thou turnest again to Almighty God, thou shalt be built up; and thou shalt make wickedness to go far away from thy home.)

²⁴ He shall give a flint for earth, and golden strands for a flint. (And thou shalt treat a stone like the dust, and the gold of Ophir like the stones from the stream.)

²⁵ And Almighty God shall be against thine enemies; and silver shall be gathered together to thee (and silver shall be gathered together for thee).

²⁶ Then on Almighty God thou shalt flow with delights (Then thou shalt always trust in Almighty God); and thou shalt raise up thy face to God.

²⁷ Thou shalt pray (to) him, and he shall hear thee; and thou shalt yield thy vows.

²⁸ Thou shalt deem a thing, and it shall come to thee; and light shall shine in thy ways. (Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall come about; and light shall shine on all thy paths.)

²⁹ For he that is meeked shall be in glory; and he that boweth down his eyes, shall be saved. (For he who is humbled, shall be in glory; and he who boweth down his eyes, shall be saved.)

³⁰ An innocent shall be saved; soothly he shall be saved in the cleanness of his hands (truly he shall be saved by the cleanness of his hands).

23 And Job answered, and said,

² Now also my word is in bitterness, and the hand of my wound is aggrieved on my wailing. (Now my word is bitter, and the hand causing my pain is heavy upon me in my wailing.)

³ Who giveth to me, that I know, and find him, and come unto his throne? (Who giveth to me, that I might know where to find him, and come unto his throne?)

⁴ I shall set doom before him (I shall state my case before him), and I shall fill my mouth with arguments;

⁵ that I know the words, which he shall answer to me, and that I understand, what he shall speak to me. (then I shall know the words, which he shall answer to me, and I shall understand, what he shall say to me.)

⁶ I will not, that he strive with me by great strength, neither that he oppress me with the heaviness of his greatness. (I do not desire, that he fight me with his great strength, nor oppress me with his great might, or his great power.)

⁷ Set he forth equity against me, and my doom come perfectly to victory. (Yea, I shall be righteous before him, and my judge shall find me altogether innocent.)

⁸ If I go to the east, God appeareth not there; if I go to the west, I shall not understand him;

⁹ if I go to the left side, what shall I do? I shall not take (hold of) him (I shall not catch him); if I turn me to the right side, I shall not see him.

¹⁰ But he knoweth my way, and he shall prove me as gold (and he shall assay me like gold), that passeth through the fire.

¹¹ My foot followed his steps; I kept (to) his way, and I bowed not away from it.

¹² I went not away from the commandments of his lips; and I hid in my bosom the words of his mouth.

¹³ For he is alone, and no man may turn away his thoughts; and whatever thing he would, his will did this thing. (For he alone decideth, and no one can turn away his thoughts; and whatever he desired to do, his did it.)

¹⁴ When he hath [ful]filled his will in me, also many other like things be ready to him. (For he hath fulfilled his will for me, and many other plans like these be ready with him.)

¹⁵ And therefore I am troubled of his face, and I beholding him am anguished for dread. (And so I am troubled before him, and I beholding him am anguished with fear.)

¹⁶ God hath made nesh mine heart (God hath made my heart weak, or faint), and Almighty God hath troubled me.

¹⁷ Certainly I perished not for darknesses nighing to me; neither mist covered my face. (For I did not perish because the darkness nighed to me, nor because the mist covered my face.)

1 Simon Peter, servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have taken with us the even-faith [to them that have taken with us the even much faith], in the rightwiseness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ,

² grace and peace be filled to you, by the knowing of our Lord Jesus Christ. [grace to you, and peace be full-filled, in the knowing of our Lord Jesus Christ.]

³ How all things of his god-like virtue, that be to life and piety [that be into life and piety], be given to us, by the knowing of him, that called us for his own glory and virtue.

⁴ By whom he gave to us most [and] precious promises; that by these things ye shall be made fellows of God's kind, and flee the corruption of that covetousness [fleeing the corruption of that covetousness], that is in the world.

⁵ And bring ye in all busyness, and minister in your faith virtue, and in virtue knowing [soothly in virtue science, or knowing];

⁶ in knowing abstinence [in science soothly abstinence], in abstinence patience, in patience piety;

⁷ in piety, love of brotherhood, and in love of brotherhood charity.

⁸ For if these be with you, and overcome [and overcome, or be plenteous], they shall not make you void, neither without fruit [nor without fruit], in the knowing of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ But to whom these be not ready, he is blind, and gropeth with his hand, and forgetteth the purging of his old trespasses.

¹⁰ Wherefore, brethren, be ye more busy [more busy ye], that by good works ye make your calling and choosing certain; for ye doing these things shall not do sin any time [soothly ye doing these things, shall not sin any time].

¹¹ For thus the entering into [the] everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, shall be ministered to you plenteously.