Job 15:11
Are God’s consolations too trivial for you; or a word spoken in gentleness to you?
Are God’s consolations too trivial for you; or a word spoken in gentleness to you?
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12 Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,
13 when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?
8 Do you listen in on God’s secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
9 What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand that we don’t understand?
10 The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father.
2 “Listen carefully to my words; let this be the consolation you offer me.
5 But if only God would speak, if only he would open his lips against you,
6 and reveal to you the secrets of wisdom– for true wisdom has two sides– so that you would know that God has forgiven some of your sins.
7 “Can you discover the essence of God? Can you find out the perfection of the Almighty?
2 I will say to God,‘Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.’
3 Is it good for you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?
4 Motivations of God“Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human being sees?
5 Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,
6 that you must search out my iniquity, and inquire about my sin,
34 So how can you console me with your futile words? Nothing is left of your answers but deception!”
18 Then I said,“There is no cure for my grief! I am sick at heart!
20 Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
3 Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?
5 But now the same thing comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are terrified.
6 Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope?
2 “I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!
3 Will there be an end to your windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?
13 Is not my power to help myself nothing, and has not every resource been driven from me?
14 Disappointing Friends“To the one in despair, kindness should come from his friend even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
10 Then I would yet have my comfort, then I would rejoice, in spite of pitiless pain, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
4 Is it because of your piety that he rebukes you and goes to judgment with you?
5 Is not your wickedness great and is there no end to your iniquity?
2 What then would be one’s lot from God above, one’s heritage from the Almighty on high?
8 Will you show him partiality? Will you argue the case for God?
9 Would it turn out well if he would examine you? Or as one deceives a man would you deceive him?
24 Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy?
16 ע(Ayin) I weep because of these things; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one in sight who can comfort me or encourage me. My children are desolated because an enemy has prevailed.
4 But you even break off piety, and hinder meditation before God.
4 Even now you say to me,‘You are my father! You have been my faithful companion ever since I was young.
4 just as I was in my most productive time, when God’s intimate friendship was experienced in my tent,
4 Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient?
4 “Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,
13 “But these things you have concealed in your heart; I know that this is with you:
10 You have slacked off in the day of trouble– your strength is small!
5 But I would strengthen you with my words; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
11 Would not his splendor terrify you and the fear he inspires fall on you?
13 “With God are wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are his.
16 Indeed, God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.
2 “If someone should attempt a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can refrain from speaking?
2 Moreover, the strength of their hands– what use was it to me? Men whose strength had perished;
15 For then you will lift up your face without blemish; you will be securely established and will not fear.
2 Surely mockery is with me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
7 Surely now he has worn me out, you have devastated my entire household.
10 Banish emotional stress from your mind. and put away pain from your body; for youth and the prime of life are fleeting.
15 If I had publicized these thoughts, I would have betrayed your people.