Quotes About Divine

On another day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before Him.

“Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”

“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”

So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.

Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,

“Call out if you please, but who will answer? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.

He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.

For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.

He will rescue you from six calamities; no harm will touch you in seven.

If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?

Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?

When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.

if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.

Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers.

Then Job answered:

He shakes the earth from its place, so that its foundations tremble.

If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ëWhat are You doing?í

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He blindfolds its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?

For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.

Nor is there a mediator between us, to lay his hand upon us both.

Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?