Study Desk

Job lived a hundred and forty years after this, long enough to see his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

May his life soon be ended; may someone else take his job!

-5- Show me someone who does a good job, and I will show you someone who is better than most and worthy of the company of kings.

Even if those three men, Noah, Danel, and Job, were living there, their goodness would save only their own lives." The Sovereign Lord has spoken.

even if Noah, Danel, and Job lived there—as surely as I, the Sovereign Lord , am the living God—they would not be able to save even their own children. Their goodness would save only their own lives."

If one of you is planning to build a tower, you sit down first and figure out what it will cost, to see if you have enough money to finish the job.

‘You began to build but can't finish the job!' they will say.

The servant said to himself, ‘My master is going to dismiss me from my job. What shall I do? I am not strong enough to dig ditches, and I am ashamed to beg.

Now I know what I will do! Then when my job is gone, I shall have friends who will welcome me in their homes.'

On with it, then, and finish the job! Be as eager to finish it as you were to plan it, and do it with what you now have.