Ecclesiastes 5-6 Fear God 5  Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil. 2  Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and …

Ecclesiastes 3-4 A Time for Everything 3 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 2 a time to be born, and a time to die;a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;3 a time to kill, and a time to heal;a time to break down, and a time to build up;4 a time to weep, …

Job 37-38 Elihu Proclaims God’s Majesty 37 “At this also my heart trembles    and leaps out of its place.2 Keep listening to the thunder of his voice    and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.3 Under the whole heaven he lets it go,    and his lightning to the corners of the earth.4 After it his voice roars;    he thunders with his majestic voice,    and he does not restrain the lightnings[a] when his voice …

Job 35-36 Elihu Condemns Job 35 And Elihu answered and said: 2 “Do you think this to be just?    Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’3 that you ask, ‘What advantage have I?    How am I better off than if I had sinned?’4 I will answer you    and your friends with you.5 Look at the heavens, and see;    and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.6 If you have sinned, what …

Job 33-34 Elihu Rebukes Job 33 “But now, hear my speech, O Job,    and listen to all my words.2 Behold, I open my mouth;    the tongue in my mouth speaks.3 My words declare the uprightness of my heart,    and what my lips know they speak sincerely.4 The Spirit of God has made me,    and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.5 Answer me, if you can;    set your words in order …

Job 31-32 Job’s Final Appeal 31 “I have made a covenant with my eyes;    how then could I gaze at a virgin?2 What would be my portion from God above    and my heritage from the Almighty on high?3 Is not calamity for the unrighteous,    and disaster for the workers of iniquity?4 Does not he see my ways    and number all my steps? 5 “If I have walked with falsehood    and my foot has hastened …

Job 29-30 Job’s Summary Defense 29 And Job again took up his discourse, and said: 2 “Oh, that I were as in the months of old,    as in the days when God watched over me,3 when his lamp shone upon my head,    and by his light, I walked through darkness,4 as I was in my prime,    when the friendship of God was upon my tent,5 when the Almighty was yet with …

Job 27-28 Job Continues: I Will Maintain My Integrity 27 And Job again took up his discourse, and said: 2 “As God lives, who has taken away my right,    and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,3 as long as my breath is in me,    and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,4 my lips will not speak falsehood,    and my tongue will not utter deceit.5 Far be it from me to …

Job 24-26 24 “Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty,    and why do those who know him never see his days?2 Some move landmarks;    they seize flocks and pasture them.3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;    they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.4 They thrust the poor off the road;    the poor of the earth all hide themselves.5 Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert    the poor[a] go out to their toil, seeking …

Job 22-23 Eliphaz Speaks: Job’s Wickedness Is Great 22 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: 2 “Can a man be profitable to God?    Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right,    or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?4 Is it for your fear of him that he reproves …