Job On Man’s Ideology

Comparing people of the ancient days versus in our day and age, who are more wicked or more evil?

Many may profess to believe in G-d, but the genuine ones who put them in practice hardly is a handful.

Are you one of the many? Or the few?

Good deeds is for man’s merit; not G-d’s.

“Virtues”

Your wickedness [is of concern] to a man like yourself, and your righteousness to a human being.
35:8
[The wicked] … And none of them said, ‘Where is the God Who made me, Who gives songs at night,
Who makes us more knowing than the beasts of the land, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?”
:10-11
Although you may say that you cannot see Him, yet there is judgment before Him, and you should place your hope in Him.
:14

1 Then Elihu raised his voice and said,
2 “Do you consider this to be customary, what you said,-‘My righteousness is greater than [that of] God’?
3 That you say, ‘What will it benefit you? What profit will I have more than if I had sinned?’
4 I will give you a reply, and your companions with you.
5 Gaze at the heavens and see, and view the skies, which are higher than you.
6 If you sinned, what do you do to Him, and if your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him?
7 If you are righteous, what do you give Him? Or what does He take from your hand?
8 Your wickedness [affects] a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.
9 Because of the many oppressed ones, they cause [people] to cry out; they cry for help from the arm of the mighty.
10 And he did not say, ‘Where is God, my Maker, Who deals destruction at night,
11 Who teaches us [more] than the beasts of the earth, and Who makes us wiser than the birds of the skies?’
12 There they cry out and He does not answer, because of the pride of the wicked.
13 Indeed, God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty see it.
14 Surely you who say [that] you do not see Him should present your case before Him and wait for Him.
15 And now, what He visited [of] His wrath is nothing, and He did not know because of the great multiplicity.
16 As for Job, he opens his mouth with vanity; he increases words without knowledge.”