"Bear with me a little longer and I will show you that there is more to be said in God;s behalf.
I get ny knowledge justice to my Maker
Be assured that my words are mot false; one perfect in knowledge is with you.
"God is mighty, and does not despise men; he is mighty , and firm in his purpose.
He does mot keep the wicked alive byt gives the afflicted their rights.
He does not keep the wicked alive but entjhrones them with kings and exalts them forever.
But iof mena re bound in chains, held fast by cords of affliction.
he tells them what they have done- that they have sinned arrogantly.
He makes them listen to correction and commands them to repent of their evil.
If they obey ands erve him, they will spend ther est of their days in prosperity, and their years in contentment.
But if theyu do not listen, they will perish by the sword and die without knowledge.
"The godless in jeart jarbor resentment; evenm wjen be fetters them. they do not cry for help.
They die in their youth, among male prostiotutes of the shrines.
But those who suffer hed elivers in their sufferings he speaks to them in their affliction
"He is wooing you from the jaws of distress to a spacious place free from rstrictiom, to a spacious place free from restriction. to the comfort of your table laden with choice food.
But now you are ladem with the judgment due the wicked; judgement and justice have taken hold of you.
Be careful that no one entices you by riches do not let a large bribe turm you aside
Would your wealth or even all your mighty efforts sustain you so you would not be in distress?
Do not long for the night, to drag people away from their homes.
Beware of turning to evil, which you seem to prefer to affliction.
"God is exa;lted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?
Who has precribed his ways for him or said to him, You have done for him
Remember to extol his work. which men have praised in song
All mankind has seeb it; man gaze on it from afar.
How great is God- beyond our understanding! The number of his years is past finding out.
"He draws up thedrops of water, which distill as rain to the streams,
the clouds pour down their mosture and abubdabt showers fall on mankind.
Who can understand how he spreads out the clouds, how he thunders from his npavillion?
See how he scatters his lightninf about him, bathing thed epths of the sea.
This is the way he governs the antions and provides food in abubdance.
He fills his hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark
Hois thunder announces the coming stom; even thec attle make known its appreach.
Job 37
"At this my heart pounds and leaps from its place.
Listen! Listen to the roar of his voice, to the rumbling ghat comes from his mouth
He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven and sends it to the ends of thee arth/
After that comes the sound of his roar, he thunders with his mahestic voice. When his voice resounds, he holds nothing back.
God's voice thunders in marvelous ways, he does great thjings beyond our understanding.
He says to tehs now,"Fall on the earth and to the rain showerm"Be a mighty downpour.
So that all men he has made may know his work, he stips every man from his labor.
The animals take cover, they cild from the driving winds
The tempest comes out from its chamber, the cold from the driving winds.
The berath of God pro\duces ice, and teh broad waters become frozen.
He loads the clouds with mosture. he scatters his lightning through them,
At his direction they swirl around over the face of the whole earth to do whatever he commands them.
He bnrings the clouds to punish men, or to water his earth ands how his love.
:Listen to this, Job; stop and consider God;s wonders
Do you know how the clouds ahng poised, those wonders of him who is perfect in knowledge>
You who swellter in yiur clithes when the land lies hushed under the south wind.
You who swelter in your clothes when the land lies husbabd under the south wind,
can you join him in spreading out the skies, hard as a mirror of cast bronze>
"Tell us what we should say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness.
Should he be told that I want to speak? Would any man ask to be swallowed up?
Now no one can look at the sun, bright as it is in the skies after the wind has swept them clean
Out of the north he comes in golden splendor, God comes in awesome majesty,
The Almighty is beyond our reach and exalted in power; in his justice and great righteousness, he does not oppress.
Therefore, men revere him, for does he not have regard for all the wise in heart>"
Jon 38
Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm. He said.
"Who is this that darkness my counsel with words without knowledge?
Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me.
"Where were you when I laid the earth;s foundation? Tell me, if you understand.
Who marked off its dimensions> Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?
On what were its footings set, or who laid its comerstone-
wjhile the morning stars sang together and all the angels should for joy?
"Who shut up the sea behund doors whenit burst forth from the womb,
when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness
when I fixed lomits for it ands et its does and bars in place,
when I said, This far you may come and no farther, here is where your proud waves halt?
"Hace you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place,
that it might take the earthg by tge edges and shake the wicked out of it?
The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features stand out like those of a garment'
The wicked ar denied their light, and their upraised am is nroken,
:Have you journeyed to the springs of thes ea or walked in the recesses of the deep?
Have the gates of eath been shown to you? Have you seen theg ates of the shadow of death?
Have you comprehebded teh vast ezpanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this.
"What is teh way to the abode of light? And where does darkness resid?
Can you take them to their places? Do you know the paths to their dwellings>
Surely you know, for you were already birn! You have lived so many years!
"Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen thes torehouses of the hail,
which I reserve for times of trouvle, for days of war and battle?
What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed, or the nplace where the east winds are scattered over the earth?
Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain. and a path for the thunderstorm.
tow ater a land where no man lives, a desert with no one in it/
to satisft a desolate wastelnad and make it sprout with grass>
Does the rain have a father? Who fathers the drops of dew?
From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to teh frost from the heacens
when the waters become hard as stone, when the surface of thed eep is frozen?
"Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades? Can you loose the cords of Orion?
Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs?
Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God's dominion over the earth?
"Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yoursekf with a flood of water?
Do you send the lightning bilts on their way? Do they report to you, "Here we are"?
Who endowed the heart with wisdom or gave understanding to the mind?
Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens
when the dust becomes hard and the clods of earth stick together?
Do you hunt the prey for the lioness ands atisfy the hunger of the lions
when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in a thicket?
Wjho provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of foood?
Job 39
"Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears her fawn?
Do you count the months till they bear? Do you know the time they give birth?
They crouch down and brine forth their young their labor pains are ended.
Their young thrive and grow strong in the wilds; they leave and do not return.
"Who let the wild donkey go free? Who untied nhis ropes?
I gave him the wasteland as his home, the salt falts as his habitat.
He laughs at the commotiom in the town, he dies not hear a driver;s shout.
He ranges the hills for his pasture and searches for any green thing.
"Will the wild ox consent tos erve you? Will he stay by your manger at night?
Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will be till the valleys behind you?
Will you rely on him for his great strength? Will you leave your heavy work to him?
Can you trust him fo bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?
"The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but they cannot compare with the pinions and feathers of the stork.
She lays her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.
unmindful that a foot may crush them, that some wild animal may crush them ,that some wild animal may trample them.
She treats her young harshly , as if they were not hers; she cares not that her labor was in vain,
for God did not endow her with wisdom or give her a share of good sense.
Yet when she spreads her feathers to run, she laughs at horse and rider.
"Do you give the horse his strength or cloth his neck with a flowing mane>
Do you make him leap like a locust.s triking terror with his proud snorting?
He paws fiercely, rejoicing in his strength , and charges into the fray.
He laughs at fear, afraid of nothing; he does not shy away from the sword.
The quiver rattles against his side, along with the flashing spear and lance.
In frenzied excitement he eats up te ground, he cannot stand still when the trumpet sounds.
At teh blast of teh trumpet he snorts, Aha! He catches thes cent of battle from afar, teh shout of commanders and the battle cry.
"Does teh hawk take flight by your wisdom and spread his wings toward the south?
Does the eagle soar at your command and build his rest on high?
He dwells on a clift ands tays there at night; a rocky crag is his stronghold.
From there he seeks out his food; his eyes detect it from afar.
His young ones feast on blood. and wherfe the slain are, there is he."
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