Quotes About Faith

Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?

You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.

Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?

Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,

For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail.

at the scent of water it will bud and put forth twigs like a sapling.

If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!

When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.

You will call, and I will answer; You will desire the work of Your hands.

For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.

as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a manís hope.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him.

Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?

Are the consolations of God not enough for you, even words spoken gently to you?

as you turn your spirit against God and pour such words from your mouth?

What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,

For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,

rushing headlong at Him with a thick, studded shield.

Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.

Then Job answered:

Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.

You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.