ABOUT THE BOOK OF JOB CHAPTER TWO

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Job 9:
He shakes the earth out of its place,
So that its pillars tremble.

- All the forces of nature made by God are powerful!

- Many people die every year because of them!

- And as the human population keeps growing, the death toll increases too!

- Because of human activities we may increase their consequences!

- But man always thinks of the present and not of the future!

 

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Job 9:
He does not let me catch my breath;
he keeps filling me with bitter things.

- Of course! And Job speaks about his physical and mental health!

- He speaks about his stress and his anguish and his lack of rest: In fact, he has no rest!

- It is worst than torture!

 

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Job 9:
I would be found guilty.
So why should I struggle in vain?

- When we just listen to job, it makes it so powerful!

- What the three individuals say is so empty!

- And Job says it again, the worst for him is the feeling of being guilty and not knowing why!

- His relationship with God is so fundamental!

- it is like eating and drinking and sleeping and breathing: you can’t live without doing it!

- Thus the Book of job is a good way to ask ourselves what kind of relationship we have with God!

- Are we foreigners or do we want to build a strong relationship with him!

- If so, we must study daily but we need more than that, we need to keep thinking about what we learn daily, it must feel our minds, our lungs, our bodies and help us to get up every morning!

 

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Job 10
You know that I am not guilty;
And no one can save me from your hand.

- Job knows he hasn’t done anything wrong!

- That’s put more stress on him!

- When your only reference is God, it is easy to understand Job’s anguish!

- And he can’t communicate with God any more!

- And the devil keeps looking for ways to destroy him and wins against God!

- And the devil never renounces!

- That’s why he sends these men to Job who are supposed to help him but, in fact, they do everything to put him in the pit!

- Thus the devil uses vicious attacks!

 

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Job 10
It would have been as though I never existed;
I would have been taken straight from the
womb to the grave.

- No way!

- Job doesn’t know it but he takes part in something he can’t imagine!

- He is the one who shows that a man can stay faithful to God whatever may happen to him!

- If the devil chose him to fight God, it was because he was special and his relationship with God was exceptional!

- Think about Job’s feelings through his trial and then think about God’s feelings watching Job being tortured physically and mentally by the devil and he couldn’t do anything because there was a trial on!

- The more we read about Job and his relationship with God the more it makes us think about our personal relationship with God!

- It shows we need to build up such a relationship and it may grow or shrink depending on the efforts we do!

- And Job shows us the way!

 

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Job 12
Is not wisdom found among the aged,
And does not understanding come with a long life?

- Job tells about what he knows!

- May we listen to him and benefit from his words to build up our personality and be active for God!

- How we need such faithful examples especially in this confused and superficial period of time!

 

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Job 13
But you are smearing me with lies;
All of you are useless physicians.
If only you would keep absolutely silent,
That would show wisdom on your part.

- According to Job they are lying!

- When you lie, it is not a positive action but a negative one, one to hurt someone!

- That’s not the right way to help someone who is hurt mentally and physically!

- On the contrary!

- He tells them to keep silent!

- It doesn’t come from God but definitely from the devil!

- God’s final words are the end of the Book of Job are clear!

 

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Job 13
Will you try to frighten a windblown leaf
Or chase after dry stubble?

- A man is nothing compared to God!

- But Job knows the type of relationship he has with God!

- Or he thinks he knows!

- And in fact he is right!

- He has a special one!

- That’s why job can’t stand the absence of communication!

- Once again we see the importance of communication!

- It doesn’t matter if sometimes it is hard to communicate!

- Otherwise it makes it more difficult!

- And the problem gets bigger!

- Or it can lead to incommunicability!

 

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Job 14
If a man dies, can he live again?
I will wait all the days of my compulsory
service
Until my relief comes.
You will call, and I will answer you.
You will long for the work of your hands.

- Job is waiting for death!

- And he will wait for God’s call!

- And God will long for the work of his hands!

- But for that a strong relationship is necessary!

- Why should God remember us if we are strangers to him?

 

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Job 16
I have sewn sackcloth together to cover my
skin,
And I have buried my dignity in the dust.
My face is red from weeping,
And on my eyelids is deep shadow,
Although my hands have done no violence
And my prayer is pure.

- Yes, Job is down the pit!

- He wears a sackcloth!

- Can you imagine what it means for a man like Job and even for anyone of us?

- He has no more dignity!

- Can you imagine what it means for a man like Job and even for anyone of us?

- He is but the shadow of himself!

- His face has changed!

- But he keeps expressing his faithfulness!

- he has done no violence!

- And above all, his prayer is pure!

 

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Job 17
They keep turning night into day,
Saying, “Light must be near because it is dark.”
If I wait, the Grave will become my home;
I will spread out my bed in darkness.

- NIGHT!

- DARK!

- GRAVE!

- DARKNESS!

- Well, these four words are clear!

- I hope that you will never have these four words in tyour mind at the same time!

- Because then it is really dark inside!

- Even if everything dark inside, we need light and it can only come from our relationship with God!

- BUT AT THIS MOMENT IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR JOB!

- BUT THAT’S THE ONLY WAY HE Knows!

- SO WHAT CAN HE DO?

 

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- Get away from this old world of Chaos and prepare for the New World!

- don’t do like the Israelites who stayed in the old world and died!

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Job 19
If only my words were written down,
If only they could be inscribed in a book!
O that they were carved forever in the rock,
With an iron stylus and lead!
For I well know that my redeemer is alive;
He will come later and rise up over the earth.
After my skin has thus been destroyed,
While yet in my flesh, I will see God,
Whom I will see for myself,
Whom my own eyes will see, not someone else’s.
But deep inside I feel overwhelmed!
For you say, ‘In what way are we persecuting him?’
Since the root of the problem is with me.
Be in fear of the sword yourselves,
For the sword brings punishment against errors;
You should know that there is a judge.”

- Job keeps thinking that sooner or later he will see God!

- And he warns the three individuals!

- Because he knows they act badly against him!

- How right he is!

- They are judged!

- And they are condemned by God!

- Job is sure that God will prove him right!

- and he will put them into his hands!

 

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- Get away from this old world of Chaos and prepare for the New World!

- don’t do like the Israelites who stayed in the old world and died!

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Job 23
My feet have closely followed his footsteps;
I have kept to his way without deviating.

- His footsteps, his way!

- Closely and without deviating!

- It is probably difficult to understand what Job says here because we live in a superficial world!

- Job lives in a deep world!

- He is an upright man of integrity!

- Fearing God and shunning what is bad!

- He is afraid of his children to sin against God in their heart!

- Many people probably can’t understand what it means because we live in a superficial world!

- And it is difficult to go deep inside!

- It requires hard work!

- And they will miss the trial!

- Job knows what he speaks about!

 

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- Get away from this old world of Chaos and prepare for the New World!
- don’t do like the Israelites who stayed in the old world and died!
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Job 26

Job says in reply:
“How you have helped the one with no power!
How you have saved the arm that has no strength!
What great advice you have given to the one lacking wisdom!
How freely you have revealed your practical wisdom!
To whom are you trying to speak,
And who inspired you to say such things?

- Job has spent his life helping others!

- So we can say he is an expert in the field!

- Moreover, he is old!

- So he has been doing it for quite a lot of time!

- So he can easily recognize people when they have no experience in the field!

- And the way the three individuals act shows they have no experience!

- And in the case of Job they are of no help at all!

- On the contrary!

- They oppose him!

- And above all, the last question is in fact not a question but an assertion!

- They are another tool of the devil to destroy Job!

 

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- Get away from this old world of Chaos and prepare for the New World!
- don’t do like the Israelites who stayed in the old world and died!
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Job 29

Job continued his discourse, saying:
“If only I were in the months gone by,
In the days when God was watching over me,
When he caused his lamp to shine upon my head,
When I walked through darkness by his light,
When I was in my prime,
When God’s friendship was felt in my tent,
When the Almighty was still with me,
When my children were all around me,
When my steps were awash in butter,
And the rocks poured out streams of oil for me.

- Job thinks about the past!

- When he had a special relationship with God!

- When his children were alive!

- When he could live decently!

- And it is worst!

- Because now he has nothing!

- And he has no hope!

- He can only defend himself!

- And tell about his pain and suffering!

 

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- Get away from this old world of Chaos and prepare for the New World!
- don’t do like the Israelites who stayed in the old world and died!
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Job 31

Then let my arm fall from my shoulder,
And let my arm be broken at the elbow.
For I dreaded disaster from God,
And I could not stand before his dignity.

- If he is guilty of anything, he accepts the consequences!

- But he knows what he did!

- He follows only one way, God’s way and God’s justice!

- He is surrounded by it!

- It shines from him!

- You just have to listen to him and drink his words and catch them and their fluidity!

- Job is free because he is so close to God!

- Freedom of heart and freedom of mind!

 

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God and Job / Job and God

Job 2: But Satan answers God: “Skin for skin. A man will give everything that he has for his life. But, for a change, stretch out your hand and strike his bone and flesh, and he will surely curse you to your very face.”

- Satan knows men but he doesn’t know Job !

- He thinks every man is identical to another one !

- He thinks that every man can be bought !

- For him no man is really faithful !

- So each time someone stays faifhful, it shows that the devil is a liar !

- Thus showing that the devil is a liar again and again is a privilege !

- « Skin for skin »!

- The devil’s attack is precise !

- He knows what to do !

- He knows the relationship between God and Job is special !

- But for him, it makes no difference !

 

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God and Job / Job and God

Job 14:

- Job thinks God is judging him!

- He decided a limit to human life!

- He is asking God for a rest!

- When he dies he is powerless!

- He thinks that God will remember him!

- But for the moment he thinks God has condemned him!

- Job speaks frankly to God!

- He is not afraid of telling him what he thinks!

- What a relationship!