Daily Bible GNT September 18 Verses

²¹He watches every step we take.

²²There is no darkness dark enough

to hide a sinner from God.

²³God does not need to set a time

for us to go and be judged by him.

²⁴He does not need an investigation

to remove leaders and replace them with others.

²⁵Because he knows what they do;

he overthrows them and crushes them by night.

²⁶He punishes sinners where all can see it,

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because they have stopped following him

and ignored all his commands.

²⁸They forced the poor to cry out to God,

and he heard their calls for help.

²⁹If God decided to do nothing at all,

no one could criticize him.

If he hid his face, we would be helpless.

³⁰There would be nothing that nations could do

to keep godless oppressors from ruling them.

³¹Job, have you confessed your sins to God

and promised not to sin again?

³²Have you asked God to show you your faults,

and have you agreed to stop doing evil?

³³Since you object to what God does,

can you expect him to do what you want?

The decision is yours, not mine;

tell us now what you think.

³⁴Any sensible person will surely agree;

and the wise who hear me will say

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that Job is speaking from ignorance

and that nothing he says makes sense.

³⁶Think through everything that Job says;

you will see that he talks like an evil man.

³⁷To his sins he adds rebellion;

in front of us all he mocks God.

This reading is from The Holy Bible, Today's English Version, Second Edition copyright © American Bible Society, 1992;
Old Testament copyright © American Bible Society, 1976, 1992; New Testament © American Bible Society, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1992.

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