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3Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right? 4When you children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin. Jumping to a conclusion is a dangerous thing. Job’s next friend, Bildad, now joins in the blame game. He claims to know for a fact that Job’s childrenContinue reading “8Nov 2011 Job 8:3-4”

11 “Therefore I will not keep silent; I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.” I have people in my office every day who are in the middle of crisis and experiencing this kind of pain. Their lives are crashing in around them, andContinue reading “7Nov 2011 Job 7:11”

10Then I would still have this consolation—my joy in unrelenting pain—that I had not denied the words of the Holy One. Many who read the book of Job start to buy into his friends arguments. They start to think that Job must have done something wrong, something to deserve what happened. But at the endContinue reading “6Nov 2011 Job 6:10”

3I myself have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed. 4His children are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender. People can say the most insensitive things sometimes. Someone loses a child and they say “At least you can have another one.” Or you lose a spouse and theyContinue reading “5Nov 2011 Job 5:3-4”

7”Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed? 8As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it. “You get what you deserve.” “You reap what you sow.” This is as deep as some people’s theology goes. Their concept of God is a vendingContinue reading “4Nov 2011 Job 4:7-8”

3”May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is born!’ Have you ever wanted to just die and get it over with? Job finds himself in a circumstance where death is the best alternative. He just wants rest and peace, and all he seems to get is painContinue reading “3Nov 2011 Job 3:3”

11Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was. Job has hit rock bottom. He has lost his wealth, job, ten children, and now has lost his health. He has every reason to be madContinue reading “2Nov 2011 Job 2:11”

22In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing. When disaster strikes, it can be very hard not to try to find someone to blame. We want to understand, to explain, to make sense of sometimes senseless events. We are created to put the pieces together, to solve the mysteries, to askContinue reading “1Nov 2011 Job 1:22”