'God' in the Bible

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts." Job did so continually.

Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil."

Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "Does Job fear God for nothing?

While he was still speaking, there also came another, and said, "The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you."

In all this, Job did not sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause."

Then his wife said to him, "Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die."

But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job didn't sin with his lips.

Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.

'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

"But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,

"Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

"Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,

even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,

"Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.

"Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?

"God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,

that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

"Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.

"With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

"Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?

Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?

Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.

Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?

That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;

But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.

God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn't know God."

know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.

"Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God,

He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.

This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God."

Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways.

"How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

"Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?

"Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

"Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!

You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

who said to God, 'Depart from us;' and, 'What can the Almighty do for us?'

For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face to God.

For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.

From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn't regard the folly.

Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.

God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

"As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter.

(For the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?

I will teach you about the hand of God. That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

"This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.

"God understands its way, and he knows its place.

"Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;

as I was in the ripeness of my days, when the friendship of God was in my tent,

For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?

For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.

this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.

Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.

Beware lest you say, 'We have found wisdom, God may refute him, not man;'

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.

"Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.

For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.

then God is gracious to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.'

He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.

"Behold, God works all these things, twice, yes three times, with a man,

For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.'

"Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.

For he doesn't need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.

"For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.

For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God."

But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,