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35 “Job speaks without knowledge,
    his words make no sense.(A)

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16 Yet Job to no purpose opens his mouth,
    multiplying words without knowledge.(A)

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Who is this who darkens counsel
    with words of ignorance?

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Psalm 131[a]

Humble Trust in God

A song of ascents. Of David.

Lord, my heart is not proud;
    nor are my eyes haughty.
I do not busy myself with great matters,
    with things too sublime for me.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 131 A song of trust, in which the psalmist gives up self-sufficiency (Ps 131:1), like a babe enjoying the comfort of its mother’s lap (Ps 131:2), thus providing a model for Israel’s faith (Ps 131:3).

18 [a]Three things are too wonderful for me,
    yes, four I cannot understand:

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Footnotes

  1. 30:18–19 The soaring flight of the eagle, the mysterious movement upon a rock of the serpent which has no feet, the path of the ship through the trackless deep, and the marvelous attraction between the sexes; there is a mysterious way common to them all.