Guidance & Direction Verses

{Why is light given} to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

{Is} not {this} thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

Doth not their excellency {which is} in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, {and} as the stream of brooks they pass away;

The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

{As} the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no {more}.

I loathe {it}; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days {are} vanity.

And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I {shall} not {be}.

If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; {for...: Heb. in the hand of their transgression}

So {are} the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:

Behold, this {is} the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.

Behold, God will not cast away a perfect {man}, neither will he help the evil doers: {help...: Heb. take the ungodly by the hand} {come: Heb. shall not be}