Do you want justice? Don't fawn on the judge, but ask the Lord for it! Every word of God proves true. He defends all who come to Him for protection. Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar. It is God's privilege to conceal things, and the king's privilege to discover and invent. You cannot understand the height of heaven, the size of the earth, or all that goes on in the king's mind!
   Since the Lord is directing our steps, why try to understand everything that happens along the way? For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, "He is the One Who catches the wise in their craftiness;" and again, "The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are useless."
   I have thought deeply about all that goes on here in the world, where people have the power of injuring each other. I have seen wicked men buried and as their friends returned from the cemetery, having forgotten all the dead man's evil deeds, these men were praised in the very city where they had committed their many crimes! How odd! Because God does not punish sinners instantly, people feel it is safe to do wrong. But though a man sins a hundred times and still lives, I know very well that those who fear God will be better off, unlike the wicked, who will not live long, good lives - their days shall pass away as quickly as shadows because they don't fear God. Evil men don't understand justice, but those who follow the Lord are much concerned about it.
   I know You are pleased with me because You haven't let my enemies triumph over me. You have preserved me because I was honest; You have admitted me forever to Your presence.
   [Paul explained:] "We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body." And I know this, that whatever God does is final - nothing can be added or taken from it; God's purpose in this is that man should fear the all-powerful God.

Taken from Pr. 29, 30, 25, 20, I Cor. 3, Eccl. 8, Pr. 28, Ps. 41, II Cor. 4, Eccl. 3,
The Living Bible, The New American Standard and The King James Version.
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