Quotes About Faith

Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?

that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—

though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?

Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?

Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?

You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.

Yet You concealed these things in Your heart, and I know that this was in Your mind:

If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.

Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.

You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.

Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!

Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

You have said, ëMy doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.í

But if only God would speak and open His lips against you,

Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?

They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,

if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,

then indeed you will lift up your face without shame; you will stand firm and unafraid.

Your life will be brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.

You will be secure, because there is hope, and you will look around and lie down in safety.

Then Job answered:

I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.

The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands.