Study Desk

"Maybe you will say, ‘How can we push Job a little harder and make him realize that he is the source of his problems?'

Maybe an evil man's pride will reach up to the sky, and his head will touch the clouds.

But he will be gone forever like his own body waste. People who knew him will say, ‘Where is he?'

Those who knew him before will not see him again. His family will never again get to see him.

His children will have to give back what he took from the poor. His own hands will give up his wealth.

When he was young, his bones were strong, but, like the rest of his body, they will soon lie in the dirt.

"Evil tastes sweet in his mouth. He keeps it under his tongue to enjoy it fully.

He hates to let it go and holds it in his mouth.

But that evil will turn sour in his stomach. It will be like a snake's bitter poison inside him.

He will be forced to give back his profits. He will not be allowed to enjoy what he worked for,

After filling himself, there is nothing left. His success will not continue.

Even while he has plenty, he will be pressed down with trouble. His problems will come down on him!

If he does get all he wants, God will throw his burning anger against him. God will attack him and rain down punishment on him.

It will go through his body and stick out of his back. Its shining point will pierce his liver, and he will be shocked with terror.

All his treasures will be lost in darkness. He will be destroyed by a fire, a fire that no human started. It will destroy everything left in his house.

His house and everything in it will be carried away in the flood of God's anger.

Evil people are spared when disaster comes. They survive when God shows his anger.

Thick clouds hide us from his eyes, so he cannot see us as he walks around the edge of the sky.'

Accept his teaching. Pay attention to what he says.

He could give his response, and I would understand. I would listen closely to what he says.