Study Desk

For who is he that hides counsel from thee? or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from thee? and who will tell me what I knew not, great and wonderful things which I understood not?

Now then take seven bullocks, and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and he shall offer a burnt-offering for you. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will only accept him: for but his sake, I would have destroyed you, for ye have not spoken the truth against my servant Job.

And the Lord prospered Job: and when he prayed also for his friends, he forgave them their sin: and the Lord gave Job twice as much, even the double of what he had before.

And all his brethren and his sisters heard all that had happened to him, and they came to him, and so did all that had known him from the first: and they ate and drank with him, and comforted him, and wondered at all that the Lord had brought upon him: and each one gave him a lamb, and four drachms’ weight of gold, even of unstamped gold.

And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job, more than the beginning: and his cattle were fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, a thousand she-asses of the pastures.

And Job lived after his affliction a hundred and seventy years: and all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: and Job saw his sons and his sons’ sons, the fourth generation.

But his pleasure is in the law of the Lord; and in his law will he meditate day and night.

The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers gathered themselves together, against the Lord, and against his Christ;

Then shall he speak to them in his anger, and trouble them in his fury.

But I have been made king by him on Sion his holy mountain,

Accept correction, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and ye should perish from the righteous way: whensoever his wrath shall be suddenly kindled, blessed are all they that trust in him.

Many say concerning my soul, There is no deliverance for him in his God. Pause.

I cried to the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy mountain. Pause.

But know ye that the Lord has done wondrous things for his holy one: the Lord will hear me when I cry to him.

If ye will not repent, he will furbish his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready.

And on it he has fitted the instruments of death; he has completed his arrows for the raging ones.

His trouble shall return on his own head, and his unrighteousness shall come down on his own crown.

I will give thanks to the Lord according to his righteousness; I will sing to the name of the Lord most high.

and thou hast set him over the works of thy hands: thou hast put all things under his feet:

but the Lord endures for ever: he has prepared his throne for judgment.