Study Desk

Are the consolations of God too small for you, Even the word that is gentle toward you?

That you turn your spirit against God, And let such words go out of your mouth?

Because he has stretched out his hand against God, And behaves himself proudly against Shaddai;

But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.

God delivers me to the ungodly, And casts me into the hands of the wicked.

My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

That he would maintain the right of a man with God, Of a son of man with his neighbor!

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, This is the place of him who doesn't know God."

Know now that God has subverted me, And has surrounded me with his net.

"Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; For the hand of God has touched me.

Why do you persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

After my skin is destroyed, Then in my flesh shall I see God,

He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.

This is the portion of a wicked man from God, The heritage appointed to him by God."

Their houses are safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God upon them.

They tell God, 'Depart from us, For we don't want to know about your ways.

"How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes on them? That God distributes sorrows in his anger?

You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

"Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judges those who are high?