Study Desk

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God does not charge unseemliness.

How then can man be justified with God? Or how can one who is born of a woman be pure?

As God lives, He has taken away my judgment; yea, the Almighty has made my soul bitter.

As long as my breath is in me, and the Spirit of God is in my nostrils,

For what is the hope of the ungodly when He cuts off, when God pulls out his soul?

Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him?

Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call on God at every time?

I will teach you by the hand of God; that which is with the Almighty I will not hide.

This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of ruthless men that they shall receive from the Almighty.

God knows its way, and He knows its place.

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God watched over me;

as I was in the days of my harvest, when the intimacy with God was on my tent;

For what is the portion from God above? And what is the legacy from the Almighty on high?

let me be weighed in a just balance so that God may know my integrity.

what then shall I do when God rises up? And when He calls me to account, what shall I answer Him?

For trouble from God is a terror to me, and I could not do the thing because of His majesty.

this also would be an iniquity for the judges; for I would have denied God above.

And then burned the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram; his wrath burned against Job, because he had justified himself rather than God.

that you not say, We have discovered wisdom. It is God who will scatter him, not man.

The Spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.