God

"Are you so convinced you are right, that you say, 'I am more just than God'?

If you sin, how do you hurt him? If your crimes are many, how do you affect him?

If you are righteous, what do you give him? What benefit does he get from you?

But no one asks, 'Where is God my maker, who causes glad songs to ring out at night,

For God will not listen to empty cries; Shaddai pays no attention to them.

All the more when you say that you don't see him! Just be patient; he's considering the matter.

But now, just because he doesn't get angry and punish, does it mean he doesn't know what arrogance is?

"Bear with me a little, and I will show you that there is more to say on God's behalf.

For the fact is that my words are true; you have with you a man whose views are pure.

"Look, God is powerful and despises no one, powerful in his strength of understanding.

He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous; but when he sets kings on their throne forever, they may become proud;

he shows them the results of their doings, the crimes caused by their pride.

"If they pay attention and obey him, they spend their days in prosperity; their years pass pleasantly.

The godless in heart cherish their anger, not crying for help when he binds them.

Indeed [Iyov], he is drawing you away from distress to an untroubled open place, with rich food on your table.

For beware of wrath when abundance entices you; don't let a big bribe turn you aside.

Will your great wealth help you? or all your efforts, no matter how strong?

"Look, God is exalted in his strength; who is a teacher like him?

Who ever prescribed his course for him? Who ever said, 'What you are doing is wrong'?

Remember, rather, to magnify his work, of which many have sung.

Look, God is great, beyond what we can know; the number of his years is uncountable.

"He makes the droplets of water, which condense into rain from his mist.

Can anyone fathom the spreading of the clouds, or the crashes that come from his canopy?

See how he scatters his lightning over it and covers the roots of the sea.

By these things he judges the people and also gives food in plenty.