Daily Bible GNT September 20 Verses

Job 36 ^1-2Be patient and listen a little longer

to what I am saying on God's behalf.

³My knowledge is wide; I will use what I know

to show that God, my Creator, is just.

⁴Nothing I say to you is false;

you see before you a truly wise man.

⁵How strong God is! He despises no one;

there is nothing he doesn't understand.

⁶He does not let sinners live on,

and he always treats the poor with justice.

⁷He protects those who are righteous;

he allows them to rule like kings

and lets them be honored forever.

⁸But if people are bound in chains,

suffering for what they have done,

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God shows them their sins and their pride.

¹⁰He makes them listen to his warning

to turn away from evil.

¹¹If they obey God and serve him,

they live out their lives in peace and prosperity.

¹²But if not, they will die in ignorance

and cross the stream into the world of the dead.

¹³Those who are godless keep on being angry,

and even when punished, they don't pray for help.

¹⁴They die while they are still young,

worn out by a life of disgrace.

¹⁵But God teaches people through suffering

and uses distress to open their eyes.

¹⁶God brought you out of trouble,

and let you enjoy security;

your table was piled high with food.

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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