They said to him, “We have had dreams, and there is no one to interpret them.” And Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell them to me, I pray you.”
Job 33:23 - Revised Standard Version CI If there be for him an angel, a mediator, one of the thousand, to declare to man what is right for him; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If there be a messenger with him, An interpreter, one among a thousand, To shew unto man his uprightness: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [God's voice may be heard] if there is for the hearer a messenger or an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him [how to be upright and in right standing with God], American Standard Version (1901) If there be with him an angel, An interpreter, one among a thousand, To show unto man what is right for him; Common English Bible Surely there’s a messenger for this person, a mediator, one out of a thousand to declare one’s integrity to another Catholic Public Domain Version If there were an angel speaking for him, one among thousands, to declare the fairness of the man, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If there shall be an angel speaking for him, one among thousands, to declare man's uprightness, |
They said to him, “We have had dreams, and there is no one to interpret them.” And Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell them to me, I pray you.”
Yet thou hast been just in all that has come upon us, for thou hast dealt faithfully and we have acted wickedly;
and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.
“Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding, far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.
Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice.
teach me what I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?
How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!
I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
The Almighty—we cannot find him; he is great in power and justice, and abundant righteousness he will not violate.
If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that in faithfulness thou hast afflicted me.
Blessed is the man whom thou dost chasten, O Lord, and whom thou dost teach out of thy law
which my mind has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. One man among a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I have not found.
He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no one to intervene; then his own arm brought him victory, and his righteousness upheld him.
but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love;
Therefore the Lord has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us; for the Lord our God is righteous in all the works which he has done, and we have not obeyed his voice.
Then Haggai, the messenger of the Lord, spoke to the people with the Lord's message, “I am with you, says the Lord.”
For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and men should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.
“Behold, I send my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.
So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry
So we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
Now the angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, “I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you into the land which I swore to give to your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you,