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How Can Mere Mortals Get Right with God?

9Job continued by saying:H347H6030H559 2"So what's new? I know all this. The question is, 'How can mere mortals get right with God?'H3045H551H582H6663H410 3If we wanted to bring our case before him, what chance would we have? Not one in a thousand!H2654H7378H6030H259H505 4God's wisdom is so deep, God's power so immense, who could take him on and come out in one piece?H2450H3824H533H3581H7185H7999 5He moves mountains before they know what's happened, flips them on their heads on a whim.H6275H2022H3045H2015H639 6He gives the earth a good shaking up, rocks it down to its very foundations.H7264H776H4725H5982H6426 7He tells the sun, 'Don't shine,' and it doesn't; he pulls the blinds on the stars.H559H2775H2224H2856H3556 8All by himself he stretches out the heavens and strides on the waves of the sea.H5186H8064H1869H1116H3220 9He designed the Big Dipper and Orion, the Pleiades and Alpha Centauri.H6213H5906H3685H3598H2315H8486 10We'll never comprehend all the great things he does; his miracle-surprises can't be counted.H6213H1419H369H2714H6381H4557 11Somehow, though he moves right in front of me, I don't see him; quietly but surely he's active, and I miss it.H5674H7200H2498H995 12If he steals you blind, who can stop him? Who's going to say, 'Hey, what are you doing?'H2862H7725H559H6213 13God doesn't hold back on his anger; even dragon-bred monsters cringe before him.H433H7725H639H7293H5826H7817 14"So how could I ever argue with him, construct a defense that would influence God?H6030H977H1697 15Even though I'm innocent I could never prove it; I can only throw myself on the Judge's mercy.H6663H6030H2603H8199 16If I called on God and he himself answered me, then, and only then, would I believe that he'd heard me.H7121H6030H539H238H6963 17As it is, he knocks me about from pillar to post, beating me up, black and blue, for no good reason.H7779H8183H7235H6482H2600 18He won't even let me catch my breath, piles bitterness upon bitterness.H5414H7725H7307H7646H4472 19If it's a question of who's stronger, he wins, hands down! If it's a question of justice, who'll serve him the subpoena?H3581H533H4941H3259 20Even though innocent, anything I say incriminates me; blameless as I am, my defense just makes me sound worse.H6663H6310H7561H8535H6140

If God’s Not Responsible, Who Is?

21"Believe me, I'm blameless. I don't understand what's going on. I hate my life!H8535H3045H5315H3988H2416 22Since either way it ends up the same, I can only conclude that God destroys the good right along with the bad.H259H559H3615H8535H7563 23When calamity hits and brings sudden death, he folds his arms, aloof from the despair of the innocent.H7752H4191H6597H3932H4531H5355 24He lets the wicked take over running the world, he installs judges who can't tell right from wrong. If he's not responsible, who is?H776H5414H3027H7563H3680H6440H8199H645 25"My time is short—what's left of my life races off too fast for me to even glimpse the good.H3117H7043H7323H1272H7200H2896 26My life is going fast, like a ship under full sail, like an eagle plummeting to its prey.H2498H5973H16H591H5404H2907H400 27Even if I say, 'I'll put all this behind me, I'll look on the bright side and force a smile,'H559H7911H7879H5800H6440H1082 28All these troubles would still be like grit in my gut since it's clear you're not going to let up.H3025H6094H3045H5352 29The verdict has already been handed down—'Guilty!'— so what's the use of protests or appeals?H7561H3021H1892 30Even if I scrub myself all over and wash myself with the strongest soap I can find,H7364H7950H4325H1119H3709H1252H1253H2141 31It wouldn't last—you'd push me into a pigpen, or worse, so nobody could stand me for the stink.H227H2881H7845H8008H8581 32"God and I are not equals; I can't bring a case against him. We'll never enter a courtroom as peers.H376H6030H935H3162H4941 33How I wish we had an arbitrator to step in and let me get on with life—H3426H3198H7896H3027H8147 34To break God's death grip on me, to free me from this terror so I could breathe again.H5493H7626H5493H367H1204 35Then I'd speak up and state my case boldly. As things stand, there is no way I can do it.H1696H3372


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