Study Desk

Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?

Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

and for the wood-offering, at times appointed, and for the first fruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and turned away from evil.

And it was so, when the days of their feasting had gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts. Thus Job did continually.

Now it came to pass on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Yahweh, that Satan also came among them.

And Yahweh said to Satan, Have you considered my slave Job? for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that fears God, and turns away from evil.

Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, Does Job fear God for nothing?

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God has fallen from heaven, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them; and I only have escaped alone to tell you.

In all this Job did not sin, nor charge God foolishly.

Again it came to pass on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Yahweh, that Satan came also among them to present himself before Yahweh.

And Yahweh said to Satan, Have you considered my slave Job? for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that fears God, and turns away from evil: and he still holds fast his integrity, although you moved me against him, to destroy him without cause.

Then his wife said to him, Do you still hold fast your integrity? renounce God, and die.

But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

Let that day be darkness; Don't let God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine on it.

To a [noble] man whose way is hid, And whom God has hedged in.

Isn't your fear [of God] your confidence, [And] the integrity of your ways your hope?

By the breath of God they perish, And by the blast of his anger are they consumed.

Shall common man be more just than God? Shall [noble] man be more pure than his Maker?

But as for me, I would seek to God, And to God would I commit my cause;