Sermon for February 28th, 2016

Job 34:1-15

1“Hear my words, you wise men,

   and give ear to me, you who know;

3 for the ear tests words

   as the palate tastes food.

4 Let us choose what is right;

   let us determine among ourselves what is good.

5 For Job has said, ‘I am innocent,

   and God has taken away my right;

6 in spite of being right I am counted a liar;

   my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’

7 Who is there like Job,

   who drinks up scoffing like water,

8 who goes in company with evildoers

   and walks with the wicked?

9 For he has said, ‘It profits one nothing

   to take delight in God.’

10 “Therefore, hear me, you who have sense,

   far be it from God that he should do wickedness,
   and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.

11 For according to their deeds he will repay them,

   and according to their ways he will make it befall them.

12 Of a truth, God will not do wickedly,

   and the Almighty will not pervert justice.

13 Who gave him charge over the earth

   and who laid on him the whole world?

14 If he should take back his spirit to himself,

   and gather to himself his breath,

15 all flesh would perish together,

   and all mortals return to dust.