Category Archives: Uncategorized

20My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God; 21on behalf of a man he pleads with God as a man pleads for his friend. Have you ever just wanted someone to be as passionate about something as you are? It is wonderful when you find someone with whom you canContinue reading “18Nov 2011 Job 16:20-21”

34For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of those who love bribes. This is mudslinging at its worst. Eliphaz knows he is losing his argument with Job, so he pulls out anything he can to throw in an attempt to win. Everything he has said so farContinue reading “17Nov 2011 Job 15:34”

10The grey-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father. “Wisdom resides in the collective knowledge of humans.” Or at least that is Eliphaz’s argument. He now feels attacked in his own worldview and lashes out at Job. But, hasn’t Job suffered enough! And now his friends, those who cameContinue reading “16Nov 2011 Job 15:10”

15You will call and I will answer you; you will long for the creature you hands have made. 16Surely then you will count my steps but not keep track of my sin. Job’s words of hope, and that is what they are, are spoken from the perspective of one who is already dead. Job longsContinue reading “15Nov 2011 Job 14:15-16”

3But I desire to speak to the Almighty and to argue my case with God. 4You, however, smear me with lies; you are worthless physicians, all of you! 5If only you would be altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom. I love Job! His friends are no help, and he isn’t afraid to sayContinue reading “14Nov 2011 Job 13:3-5”

4“I have become a laughingstock to my friends, though I called upon God and he answered—a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless! Job has had some communication with God. He has not yet gotten the answers he wanted. He is still struggling with how the events of his life fit into the plan of God.Continue reading “13Nov 2011 Job 12:4”

2“Are all these words to go unanswered? Is this talker to be vindicated? A word of advice: when you feel compelled to speak, maybe you need to be silent. The compulsion to speak is often when we speak too fast, too hastily. I have found over the years that if I take time to slowContinue reading “12Nov 2011 Job 11:2”

1“I loathe my very life; therefore I will give free rein to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.” Have you ever felt compelled to speak out, to raise your voice because your pain was so great, the anguish of your soul overwhelming? I have, and I didn’t like it oneContinue reading “11Nov 2011 Job 10:1”

24When a land falls into the hands of the wicked, he blindfolds it judges. If it is not he, then who is it? Job asks the age old question: If God is all powerful, all loving, all compassionate, then why does injustice happen? This question is still asked today by those who are suffering andContinue reading “10Nov 2011 Job 9:24”

9He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the south. Sometimes we get the scale of something wrong. We think it is a big thing, when it is small, or we make something small that is really big. We can do that with our children almost daily. TheContinue reading “9Nov 2011 Job 9:9”