Alpet 2022
King James Version
1. And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in the mouth of his sack. 2. "Also put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, and his grain money." So he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken. 3. As soon as the morning dawned, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys. 4. When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, "Get up, follow the men; and when you overtake them, say to them, ‘Why have you repaid evil for good? 5. ‘ Is not this the one from which my lord drinks, and with which he indeed practices divination? You have done evil in so doing.’" 6. So he overtook them, and he spoke to them these same words. 7. And they said to him, "Why does my lord say these words? Far be it from us that your servants should do such a thing. 8. "Look, we brought back to you from the land of Canaan the money which we found in the mouth of our sacks. How then could we steal silver or gold from your lord’s house? 9. "With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves." 10. And he said, "Now also let it be according to your words; he with whom it is found shall be my slave, and you shall be blameless." 11. Then each man speedily let down his sack to the ground, and each opened his sack. 12. So he searched. He began with the oldest and left off with the youngest; and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack. 13. Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey and returned to the city. 14. So Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there; and they fell before him on the ground. 15. And Joseph said to them, "What deed is this you have done? Did you not know that such a man as I can certainly practice divination?" 16. Then Judah said, "What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? Or how shall we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants; here we are, my lord’s slaves, both we and he also with whom the cup was found." 17. But he said, "Far be it from me that I should do so; the man in whose hand the cup was found, he shall be my slave. And as for you, go up in peace to your father." 18. Then Judah came near to him and said: "O my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s hearing, and do not let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even like Pharaoh. 19. "My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father or a brother?’ 20. "And we said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, who is young; his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother’s children, and his father loves him.’ 21. "Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’ 22. "And we said to my lord, ‘The lad cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’ 23. "But you said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall see my face no more.’ 24. "So it was, when we went up to your servant my father, that we told him the words of my lord. 25. "And our father said, ‘Go back and buy us a little food.’ 26. "But we said, ‘We cannot go down; if our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down; for we may not see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.’ 27. "Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons; 28. ‘and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn to pieces"; and I have not seen him since. 29. ‘But if you take this one also from me, and calamity befalls him, you shall bring down my gray hair with sorrow to the grave.’ 30. "Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the lad’s life, 31. "it will happen, when he sees that the lad is not with us , that he will die. So your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father with sorrow to the grave. 32. "For your servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father forever.’ 33. "Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the lad as a slave to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brothers. 34. "For how shall I go up to my father if the lad is not with me, lest perhaps I see the evil that would come upon my father?"
1. Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: 2. "How long till you put an end to words? Gain understanding, and afterward we will speak. 3. Why are we counted as beasts, And regarded as stupid in your sight? 4. You who tear yourself in anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed from its place? 5. "The light of the wicked indeed goes out, And the flame of his fire does not shine. 6. The light is dark in his tent, And his lamp beside him is put out. 7. The steps of his strength are shortened, And his own counsel casts him down. 8. For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walks into a snare. 9. The net takes him by the heel, And a snare lays hold of him. 10. A noose is hidden for him on the ground, And a trap for him in the road. 11. Terrors frighten him on every side, And drive him to his feet. 12. His strength is starved, And destruction is ready at his side. 13. It devours patches of his skin; The firstborn of death devours his limbs. 14. He is uprooted from the shelter of his tent, And they parade him before the king of terrors. 15. They dwell in his tent who are none of his; Brimstone is scattered on his dwelling. 16. His roots are dried out below, And his branch withers above. 17. The memory of him perishes from the earth, And he has no name among the renowned. 18. He is driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world. 19. He has neither son nor posterity among his people, Nor any remaining in his dwellings. 20. Those in the west are astonished at his day, As those in the east are frightened. 21. Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, And this is the place of him who does not know God."
23. "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. 24. "Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel! 25. "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self–indulgence. 26. "Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also. 27. "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. 28. "Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. 29. "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, 30. "and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’ 31. "Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32. "Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ guilt . 33. "Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell? 34. "Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, 35. "that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36. "Assuredly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation. 37. "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! 38. "See! Your house is left to you desolate; 39. "for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’"