IV. Job’s Concluding Soliloquy (29:1-31:40)
Job Recalls His Former Condition29:1 Then Job continued
29:2 “O that I could be
in the months now gone,
in the days
29:3 when
to shine upon my head,
and by his light
I walked
29:2 “O that I could be
in the months now gone,
in the days
7:1 “Does not humanity have hard service
Are not their days also
like the days of a hired man?
“Look how the oppressor has met his end!
Hostility
14:5 The Lord has broken the club of the wicked,
the scepter of rulers.
14:6 It
with unceasing blows.
It angrily ruled over nations,
oppressing them without restraint.
14:7 The whole earth rests and is quiet;
they break into song.
14:8 The evergreens also rejoice over your demise,
as do the cedars of Lebanon, singing,
‘Since you fell asleep,
no woodsman comes up to chop us down!’
26:3 You keep completely safe the people who maintain their faith,
for they trust in you.
32:17 Fairness will produce peace
and result in lasting security.
14:27 “Peace I leave with you;
8:31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
8:32 Indeed, he who