Study Desk

But you kept these things in the secret of your heart; I am certain this was in your thoughts:

But if only God would take up the word, opening his lips in argument with you;

But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;

But the eyes of the evil-doers will be wasting away; their way of flight is gone, and their only hope is the taking of their last breath.

But I have a mind as well as you; I am equal to you: yes, who has not knowledge of such things as these?

But put now a question to the beasts, and get teaching from them; or to the birds of the heaven, and they will make it clear to you;

But I would have talk with the Ruler of all, and my desire is to have an argument with God.

But you put a false face on things; all your attempts to put things right are of no value.

Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;

If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place;

His sons come to honour, and he has no knowledge of it; they are made low, but he is not conscious of it.

But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.

I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.

But come back, now, all of you, come; and I will not see a wise man among you.

But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?

Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.

But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;

That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?