Job 6+7
Job takes the next 2 chapters with his lament - Somehow I cannot blame him for a touch of melodrama given all he has been through.
I'm going to take a slight detour here and say that while science is very important and can help us to understand the workings of the planet, solar system, galaxy, universe etc, there are some areas that science simply has no answer for - How much does misery and anguish weigh?
Job said that if they could be measured his anguish and misery would outweigh the sand of the seas.
Job feels the arrows of God releasing poison into him and this is why his words are impetuous,
Do wild (or domestic) animals make a lot of noise when they have food to eat and drink?
Do you enjoy salt with tasteless food - for Job food has become tasteless and abhorrent.
Job asked if God would not finish him off -at least then he would have the consolation that he had not denied the words of the Holy one.
Job's strength, hope and patience is worn out, he cannot help himself since success has been driven far away
Those who withhold kindness from a friend has forsaken the fear of God, but Job's friends and brothers are like unreliable streams that flow full of melting snow in the spring, but by autumn have dried up and cause danger to anybody relying on their water .
Job has not asked for help from his friends, and challenges his friends to explain where he went wrong and that he is being honest in his complaints.
"reconsider, for my integrity is at stake, is there any wickedness on my lips?"
Job continues that mankind has a hard life of labour, are our days of work like waiting for pay day?
Job reveals that when he goes to sleep all he can think of is the morning and the nightmares he may have in the night.
Though the nights are interminable, the days fly by and in a short while they would have gone past like a breath of wind.
Job fears that his eyes will see only misery until he dies and is no more
Job ends the chapter with a challenge to God - If I have sinned, what have I done to you? You who see everything we do, why have you made me your target?
Have I become a burden to you? Why do you not pardon my offences and forgive my sins?
Soon, I will lay down in the dust, you may search but you will not find me.
Job 8
Bildad speaks up now - Does God pervert justice? and pervert what is right?
Your children paid the penalty for their sin, but if you are pure and upright and seek God earnestly - even now god will work on your behalf, restoring your prosperous state.
Ask the ancient ones, and former generations - no plant can thrive where the conditions are not right.,
Good soil produces good plants and God will surely not reject one who is blameless or give strength to evildoers.
God will one day fill Job with happiness and he will shout for joy
Is Bildad saying basically "buck up old chap, things will turn out right in the end" because with my limited experience of loss this approach does not really help - nor does the line "Do you think God may be trying to tell you something?"
Job takes the next 2 chapters with his lament - Somehow I cannot blame him for a touch of melodrama given all he has been through.
I'm going to take a slight detour here and say that while science is very important and can help us to understand the workings of the planet, solar system, galaxy, universe etc, there are some areas that science simply has no answer for - How much does misery and anguish weigh?
Job said that if they could be measured his anguish and misery would outweigh the sand of the seas.
Job feels the arrows of God releasing poison into him and this is why his words are impetuous,
Do wild (or domestic) animals make a lot of noise when they have food to eat and drink?
Do you enjoy salt with tasteless food - for Job food has become tasteless and abhorrent.
Job asked if God would not finish him off -at least then he would have the consolation that he had not denied the words of the Holy one.
Job's strength, hope and patience is worn out, he cannot help himself since success has been driven far away
Those who withhold kindness from a friend has forsaken the fear of God, but Job's friends and brothers are like unreliable streams that flow full of melting snow in the spring, but by autumn have dried up and cause danger to anybody relying on their water .
Job has not asked for help from his friends, and challenges his friends to explain where he went wrong and that he is being honest in his complaints.
"reconsider, for my integrity is at stake, is there any wickedness on my lips?"
Job continues that mankind has a hard life of labour, are our days of work like waiting for pay day?
Job reveals that when he goes to sleep all he can think of is the morning and the nightmares he may have in the night.
Though the nights are interminable, the days fly by and in a short while they would have gone past like a breath of wind.
Job fears that his eyes will see only misery until he dies and is no more
Job ends the chapter with a challenge to God - If I have sinned, what have I done to you? You who see everything we do, why have you made me your target?
Have I become a burden to you? Why do you not pardon my offences and forgive my sins?
Soon, I will lay down in the dust, you may search but you will not find me.
Job 8
Bildad speaks up now - Does God pervert justice? and pervert what is right?
Your children paid the penalty for their sin, but if you are pure and upright and seek God earnestly - even now god will work on your behalf, restoring your prosperous state.
Ask the ancient ones, and former generations - no plant can thrive where the conditions are not right.,
Good soil produces good plants and God will surely not reject one who is blameless or give strength to evildoers.
God will one day fill Job with happiness and he will shout for joy
Is Bildad saying basically "buck up old chap, things will turn out right in the end" because with my limited experience of loss this approach does not really help - nor does the line "Do you think God may be trying to tell you something?"
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