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JOB 37

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Elihu Proclaims God’s Majesty

37:1

“At this also my heart trembles

and leaps out of its place. 2

Keep listening to the thunder of his voice

and the rumbling that comes from his mouth. 3

Under the whole heaven he lets it go,

and his lightning to the corners of the earth. 4

After it his voice roars;

he thunders with his majestic voice,

and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard. 5

God thunders wondrously with his voice;

he does great things that we cannot comprehend. 6

For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth,’

likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour. 7

He seals up the hand of every man,

that all men whom he made may know it. 8

Then the beasts go into their lairs,

and remain in their dens. 9

From its chamber comes the whirlwind,

and cold from the scattering winds. 10

By the breath of God ice is given,

and the broad waters are frozen fast. 11

He loads the thick cloud with moisture;

the clouds scatter his lightning. 12

They turn around and around by his guidance,

to accomplish all that he commands them

on the face of the habitable world. 13

Whether for correction or for his land

or for love, he causes it to happen.
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“Hear this, O Job;

stop and consider the wondrous works of God. 15

Do you know how God lays his command upon them

and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine? 16

Do you know the balancings of the clouds,

the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge, 17

you whose garments are hot

when the earth is still because of the south wind? 18

Can you, like him, spread out the skies,

hard as a cast metal mirror? 19

Teach us what we shall say to him;

we cannot draw up our case because of darkness. 20

Shall it be told him that I would speak?

Did a man ever wish that he would be swallowed up?
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“And now no one looks on the light

when it is bright in the skies,

when the wind has passed and cleared them. 22

Out of the north comes golden splendor;

God is clothed with awesome majesty. 23

The Almighty—we cannot find him;

he is great in power;

justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate. 24

Therefore men fear him;

he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.”

ROMANS 4

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Abraham Justified by Faith

4:1 What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. 3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.” 4 Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. 5 And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, 6 just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
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“Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,

and whose sins are covered; 8

blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.”
9 Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness. 10 How then was it counted to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised. 11 He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well, 12 and to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised. The Promise Realized Through Faith

13 For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. 15 For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.
16 That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, 17 as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist. 18 In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.” 19 He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah’s womb. 20 No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, 21 fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. 22 That is why his faith was “counted to him as righteousness.” 23 But the words “it was counted to him” were not written for his sake alone, 24 but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, 25 who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.