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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”

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”