A laborer's appetite makes him work harder, because he wants to satisfy his hunger.

(SEE 22:1)

Does your doing right benefit God, or does your being good help him at all?

Now, Job, make peace with God and stop treating him like an enemy; if you do, then he will bless you.

If you sin, that does no harm to God. If you do wrong many times, does that affect him?

Do you help God by being so righteous? There is nothing God needs from you.

Don't laugh at the warning I am giving you! If you do, it will be even harder for you to escape. I have heard the LORD Almighty's decision to destroy the whole country.

It is the one who sins who will die. A son is not to suffer because of his father's sins, nor a father because of the sins of his son. Good people will be rewarded for doing good, and evil people will suffer for the evil they do.

First of all, you must understand that in the last days some people will appear whose lives are controlled by their own lusts. They will make fun of you

and will ask, "He promised to come, didn't he? Where is he? Our ancestors have already died, but everything is still the same as it was since the creation of the world!"

This is what he says in all his letters when he writes on the subject. There are some difficult things in his letters which ignorant and unstable people explain falsely, as they do with other passages of the Scriptures. So they bring on their own destruction.