God

Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?

If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?

But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

¶ Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.

But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.

For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.

¶ Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.

He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.

Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.

Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.

Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.

Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.

Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?

Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?

¶ Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.

Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:

Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?

Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.

For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.