Category Archives: Trusting God

A Decree for the Rain

Where then does wisdom come from? Where does understanding dwell?   It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing, concealed even from the birds in the sky.   Destruction and Death say, “Only a rumor of it has reached our … Continue reading

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Flood Insurance

Here is the fate God allots to the wicked, the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty:   However many his children, their fate is the sword; his offspring will never have enough to eat.   The plague will bury those … Continue reading

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Dark Times

Is it for your piety that he rebukes you and brings charges against you?   Is not your wickedness great? Are not your sins endless?   You demanded security from your relatives for no reason; you stripped people of their clothing, leaving … Continue reading

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Rushing Waters

Surely he will have no respite from his craving; he cannot save himself by his treasure.   Nothing is left for him to devour; his prosperity will not endure.   In the midst of his plenty, distress will overtake him; the full … Continue reading

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Heads that Touch the Clouds

Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:   “My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer because I am greatly disturbed.   I hear a rebuke that dishonors me, and my understanding inspires me to reply.   “Surely you know how it has been from of … Continue reading

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Tears to God

All was well with me, but he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;   his archers surround me. Without pity, he pierces my kidneys and spills my gall on the … Continue reading

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Weathering

But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and as a rock is moved from its place,   as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy a person’s hope.   You overpower them once for all, and … Continue reading

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Let the Sea Inform You

But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you;   or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you.   Which … Continue reading

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Waters Gone By

Yet if you devote your heart to him and stretch out your hands to him,   if you put away the sin that is in your hand and allow no evil to dwell in your tent,   then, free of fault, you … Continue reading

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What can you Know?

Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:   “Are all these words to go unanswered? Is this talker to be vindicated?   Will your idle talk reduce others to silence? Will no one rebuke you when you mock?   You say to God, ‘My beliefs … Continue reading

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