Post by 1MAM4f…iohE

Are the consolations of God too small for thee, Even the word that is gentle toward thee?

What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?

Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself?

Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?

Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash,

Yea, thou doest away with fear, And hinderest devotion before God.

What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

That against God thou turnest thy spirit, And lettest words go out of thy mouth?

How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!

Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:

For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

I will show thee, hear thou me; And that which I have seen I will declare:

It shall be accomplished before his time, And his branch shall not be green.

Unto whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them):

Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat upon his loins;

Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his recompense.

And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;

Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, And behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;

He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, And he is waited for of the sword.

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.