Study Desk

"God understands the way to wisdom, and He knows its place.

"If only I could be now as I was in the months past when God watched over me!

Those days were my best days when God was my friend watching over my tent.

Because God has made the string of my bow loose and has troubled me, they have thrown off their respect for me.

God has thrown me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.

What would be my share from God above? What would my gift be from the All-powerful on high?

let Him weigh me with a true weight. Let God know that I am honest.

what will I do when God speaks to me? When He asks me why, what will I answer Him?

For trouble sent by God fills me with fear. Because of His great power I could not do these things.

these also would be sins to be judged. It would say I did not know the God above.

But Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became very angry. He was angry at Job because he said he was right with God.

Do not say, ‘We have found wisdom. God will show he is wrong, not man.'

The Spirit of God has made me. And the breath of the All-powerful gives me life.

See, I belong to God like you. I also have been made from the clay.

But see, God finds things against me. He thinks of me as someone who hates Him.

See, I tell you, in this you are not right. For God is greater than man.

For God speaks once, or twice, and yet no one listens.

"If there is an angel, one out of a thousand, to speak with God for him, and to show a man what is right for him,

Then he will pray to God, and God will be pleased with him. He will see His face with joy. And God will make man right with Him again.

"See, God does all these things twice, even three times, to a man,