Study Desk

Is there anyone, even the wisest, who could ever be of use to God? <

Does your doing right benefit God, or does your being good help him at all?

It is not because you stand in awe of God that he reprimands you and brings you to trial.

Doesn't God live in the highest heavens and look down on the stars, even though they are high?

And yet you ask, "What does God know? He is hidden by clouds—how can he judge us?"

These are the ones who rejected God and believed that he could do nothing to them.

And yet it was God who made them prosperous— I can't understand the thoughts of the wicked.

Now, Job, make peace with God and stop treating him like an enemy; if you do, then he will bless you.

Yes, you must humbly return to God and put an end to all the evil that is done in your house.

Let Almighty God be your gold, and let him be silver, piled high for you.

Then you will always trust in God and find that he is the source of your joy.

God brings down the proud and saves the humble.

I still rebel and complain against God; I cannot keep from groaning. <

Would God use all his strength against me? No, he would listen as I spoke.

I am honest; I could reason with God; he would declare me innocent once and for all.

I have searched in the East, but God is not there; I have not found him when I searched in the West.

God has been at work in the North and the South, but still I have not seen him.

Yet God knows every step I take; if he tests me, he will find me pure.

I always do what God commands; I follow his will, not my own desires.

Almighty God has destroyed my courage. It is God, not the dark, that makes me afraid— even though the darkness has made me blind.