Study Desk

Who prepares for the crow its prey, when its young ones cry to God for help, and they wander around for lack of food?

"Prepare yourself for a difficult task like a man, and I will question you, and you shall declare to me.

Yes, the mountains yield produce for it, and all wild animals play there.

Will it make numerous pleas for mercy to you? Or will it speak gentle words to you?

Will you play with it as with birds and put it on a leash for your girls?

An arrow will not make it flee; sling stones are turned to stubble for it.

‘Who is this darkening counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I uttered, but I did not understand; things too wonderful for me, but I did not know.

And then after Yahweh spoke these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath has been kindled against you and against the two of your friends, for you have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job has.

So then, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will pray for you, for I will certainly accept his prayer, so that it will not be done with you according to your folly, for you have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job has."

So all his brothers and all his sisters and all those who had known him before came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house and showed sympathy to him and comforted him for all the disaster that Yahweh had brought upon him. Then each one gave to him one piece of money, and each one gave to him one ornamental ring of gold.

And Job lived after this one hundred and forty years, and he saw his sons and his grandsons for four generations.

for Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

"But as for me, I have set my king on Zion, my holy mountain."

Kiss the Son lest he be angry and you perish on the way, for his anger burns quickly. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

Many are saying about my soul, "There is no deliverance for him from God. Selah

Rise up, O Yahweh; deliver me, O my God; for you strike all my enemies on the cheek. The teeth of the wicked you break.

For the music director; with stringed instruments. A psalm of David. When I call, answer me, O God of my righteousness. In trouble deliver me. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer.

But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself the faithful one. Yahweh hears when I call to him.

In peace I will lie down and sleep at once, for you alone, O Yahweh, make me dwell safely.

For the music director; with the flutes. A psalm of David. Hear my words, O Yahweh. Give heed to my sighing.