'God' in the Bible

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,

Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.

"Behold, God is mighty, and doesn't despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.

Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

Behold, God is great, and we don't know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.

God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things, which we can't comprehend.

By the breath of God, ice is given, and the breadth of the waters is frozen.

"Listen to this, Job. Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.

Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

Out of the north comes golden splendor. With God is awesome majesty.

when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?

because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.

"Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."

Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?

He is the chief of the ways of God. He who made him gives him his sword.

Many there are who say of my soul, "There is no help for him in God." Selah.

Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for to you do I pray.

For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can't live with you.

Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,

Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every day.

For you have made him a little lower than God, and crowned him with glory and honor.

The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it."

Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don't forget the helpless.

Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, "God won't call me into account?"

Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none who does good.

Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who did understand, who did seek after God.

There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous.

Preserve me, God, for in you do I take refuge.

Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god. Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take their names on my lips.

I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.