Study Desk

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

"But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the air, and they will tell you;

But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.

But man dies, and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?

"But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place;

But you are doing away with the fear of God, and hindering meditation before God.

But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you.

Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I call aloud, but there is no justice.

I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must beseech him with my mouth.

that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?

His bones are full of youthful vigor, but it will lie down with him in the dust.

How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood."

Yet he filled their houses with good things--but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

For God abases the proud, but he saves the lowly.

"Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him;

on the left hand I seek him, but I cannot behold him; I turn to the right hand, but I cannot see him.

But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

But he is unchangeable and who can turn him? What he desires, that he does.

among the olive rows of the wicked they make oil; they tread the wine presses, but suffer thirst.

Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways; and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"