Study Desk

You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.

For when they are humbled you say, ‘It is because of pride'; but he saves the lowly.

For he will complete what he appoints for me, and many such things are in his mind.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poor go out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children.

They are wet with the rain of the mountains and cling to the rock for lack of shelter.

From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God charges no one with wrong.

The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me'; and he veils his face.

For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.

I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.

For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off, when God takes away his life?

If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword, and his descendants have not enough bread.

"Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold that they refine.

As for the earth, out of it comes bread, but underneath it is turned up as by fire.

It cannot be bought for gold, and silver cannot be weighed as its price.

Gold and glass cannot equal it, nor can it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

For he looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.

when he made a decree for the rain and a way for the lightning of the thunder,

when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!

because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.