Guidance & Direction Verses

{As} God liveth, {who} hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, {who} hath vexed my soul; {vexed...: Heb. made my soul bitter}

For what {is} the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; {even the waters} forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.

{There is} a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:

God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.

When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:

I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one {that} comforteth the mourners.

Upon {my} right {hand} rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.