Study Desk

when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God called out for joy?

You know, for you were born then. You are very old!

which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and battle?

"Who has cut open a way for the flood, and a path for the thunderstorm?

"Can you hunt food for the lion? Can you fill the hunger of the young lions,

Who gets the food ready for the raven, when its young cry to God and go about without food?

I gave him the desert for a home, and the salt land for a place to live.

He goes looking for grass to eat on the mountains. He looks for every green thing.

For she leaves her eggs to the earth and lets them get warm in the dust.

She is bad in the way she acts toward her young, as if they were not hers. Her work of giving birth is for nothing, for she does not care.

From there he looks for his food. His eyes see it from far away.

For sure the mountains bring food to him where all the animals of the field play.

Will you play with him as if he were a bird? Or will you put him on a rope for your young women?

‘Who is this that hides words of wisdom without much learning?' I have said things that I did not understand, things too great for me, which I did not know.

So now take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job. Give a burnt gift for yourselves, and My servant Job will pray for you. For I will hear his prayer and not punish you for being foolish, because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has."

The Lord returned to Job all the things that he had lost, when he prayed for his friends. The Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Then all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before came to him, and ate bread with him in his house. They showed pity and comforted him for all the trouble the Lord had brought upon him. Each one gave him one piece of money and a gold ring.

This man is like a tree planted by rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time and its leaf never dries up. Whatever he does will work out well for him.

So the sinful will not stand. They will be told they are guilty and have to suffer for it. Sinners will not stand with those who are right with God.

For the Lord knows the way of those who are right with Him. But the way of the sinful will be lost from God forever.