Study Desk

So how will you comfort me with emptiness, when fraud is left in your answers?"

or it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

Thick clouds are a covering for him, so that he does not see; and he walks about on the dome of heaven.'

"And if it is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my word to nothing?"

He goes to bed with wealth, but he will do so no more; he opens his eyes, and it is gone.

so that they dwell in holes of the ground and in the rocks.

So my lyre came to be used for mourning, and my flute for the voice of those who weep.

"I made a covenant with my eyes, so how could I look closely upon a virgin?

because I dreaded the great multitude, and the contempt of clans terrified me, so that I kept quiet, I did not go out of the doorway?

So Elihu the son of Barakel the Buzite, from the clan of Ram, became angry. He became angry at Job because he justified himself rather than God,

So do not say, ‘We have found wisdom; let God refute him, not a man.'

so that his life loathes bread, and his inner self loathes appetizing food.

so that he is gracious to him, and he says, ‘Deliver him from descending into the pit; I have found a ransom.'

He redeemed my life from going down into the pit, so I will enjoy the light.'

to bring his life back from the pit so that he may enjoy the light of life.

Therefore he knows their works, and he overturns them in the night so that they are crushed.

so that they cause the cry of distress from the helpless to come to him, and he hears the cry of distress from the needy,

so that godless human beings should not reign, nor those who ensnare the people.

According to your judgment, must he repay it because you rejected this? Indeed, you must choose, and not I, so declare what you know.

So he opens their ear to the discipline, and he commands that they return from mischief.