Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation There is no way that you can understand what is in the depths of a human heart or find out what a person is thinking. Yet you dare to read God's mind and interpret his thoughts! How can you claim to understand God, the Creator? No, my friends, you must stop arousing the anger of the Lord our God! New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge But forasmuch as the Lord is patient, let us be penitent for this same thing, and with many tears let us beg his pardon: Judith 8:12This is not a word that may draw down mercy, but rather that may stir up wrath, and enkindle indignation. Judith 8:13 You have set a time for the mercy of the Lord, and you have appointed him a day, according to your pleasure. Judith 8:15 For God will not threaten like man, nor be inflamed to anger like the son of man. Judith 8:16 And therefore let us humble our souls before him, and continuing in an humble spirit, in his service: Context Judith 8…13You have set a time for the mercy of the Lord, and you have appointed him a day, according to your pleasure. 14But forasmuch as the Lord is patient, let us be penitent for this same thing, and with many tears let us beg his pardon: 15For God will not threaten like man, nor be inflamed to anger like the son of man.… Cross References Judith 8:12 This is not a word that may draw down mercy, but rather that may stir up wrath, and enkindle indignation. Judith 8:13 You have set a time for the mercy of the Lord, and you have appointed him a day, according to your pleasure. Judith 8:15 For God will not threaten like man, nor be inflamed to anger like the son of man. Judith 8:16 And therefore let us humble our souls before him, and continuing in an humble spirit, in his service: |