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Job 13
For my part, I would rather speak to the
Almighty himself;
I desire to argue my case with God.
- Job only reference is God!
- As a consequence he wants to defend himself in front of God!
- He thinks God is responsible for his situation!
- He doesn’t understand what he has done wrong!
- In fact, he hasn’t done anything wrong!
- On the contrary, he is attacked because of his faithfulness to God!
- The verb desire shows a strong will from his part!
- When we read and study this chapter, we don’t find anything about his pain and suffering!
- Job is combative!
Job 13
For my part, I would rather speak to the
Almighty himself;
I desire to argue my case with God.
- Job only reference is God!
- As a consequence he wants to defend himself in front of God!
- He thinks God is responsible for his situation!
- He doesn’t understand what he has done wrong!
- In fact, he hasn’t done anything wrong!
- On the contrary, he is attacked because of his faithfulness to God!
- The verb desire shows a strong will from his part!
- When we read and study this chapter, we don’t find anything about his pain and suffering!
- Job is combative!
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Job 13
What Are my errors and sins?
Reveal to me my transgression and my sin.
Why do you hide your face
And consider me your enemy?
-Yes, Job wants to know his errors and sins!
- Because he knows he hasn’t done anything wrong!
- And he wants God to tell him!
- He wants a discussion with God!
- Meaning he is used to doing it!
- And he doesn’t know what is happening!
- Why can’t he speak with God?
- Of course he doesn’t know what’s on between God and the devil!
- He doesn’t know God can’t have a discussion with him!
- And it is unbearable for him!
- Imagine you can’t speak with somebody who is close to you!
- You can’t speak with this person because he or she refuses to speak to you because of something you don’t know and you are not responsible!
- Of course, it is better to speak and to clarify the situation!
- When it is not possible, it is hard!
Job 13
What Are my errors and sins?
Reveal to me my transgression and my sin.
Why do you hide your face
And consider me your enemy?
-Yes, Job wants to know his errors and sins!
- Because he knows he hasn’t done anything wrong!
- And he wants God to tell him!
- He wants a discussion with God!
- Meaning he is used to doing it!
- And he doesn’t know what is happening!
- Why can’t he speak with God?
- Of course he doesn’t know what’s on between God and the devil!
- He doesn’t know God can’t have a discussion with him!
- And it is unbearable for him!
- Imagine you can’t speak with somebody who is close to you!
- You can’t speak with this person because he or she refuses to speak to you because of something you don’t know and you are not responsible!
- Of course, it is better to speak and to clarify the situation!
- When it is not possible, it is hard!
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Job 14
Waters disappear from the sea,
And a river drains away and dries up.
Man also lies down and does not get up.
Until heaven is no more, they will not wake up,
Nor will they be aroused from their sleep.
O that in the grave you would conceal me,
That you would hide me until your anger
masses by,
That you would set a time limit for me and
remember!
- Yes, Job wants to die because of his pain and sufferance!
- He wants to go to the Grave to be concealed!
- There he will wait for God to remember him and bring him back from death!
- Everything is clear in Job’s mind!
- Do we have the same mind light?
Job 14
Waters disappear from the sea,
And a river drains away and dries up.
Man also lies down and does not get up.
Until heaven is no more, they will not wake up,
Nor will they be aroused from their sleep.
O that in the grave you would conceal me,
That you would hide me until your anger
masses by,
That you would set a time limit for me and
remember!
- Yes, Job wants to die because of his pain and sufferance!
- He wants to go to the Grave to be concealed!
- There he will wait for God to remember him and bring him back from death!
- Everything is clear in Job’s mind!
- Do we have the same mind light?
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Job 16
His archers surround me;
He pierces my kidneys and feels no
compassion;
He pours out my gall on the earth.
He breaks through against me with breach after
breach;
He rushes at me like a warrior.
- Yes, the devil does that!
- Yes, he has no compassion!
- Yes, he is at war against God!
- Because he is jealous of him!
- And he knows God can’t intervene!
- And he knows God is upset!
- Because Job is his faithful servant!
- And the devil enjoys what he does!
- It is the same when he plays with humanity!
- And when he does his best to take it away from God!
- It is just a game!
Job 16
His archers surround me;
He pierces my kidneys and feels no
compassion;
He pours out my gall on the earth.
He breaks through against me with breach after
breach;
He rushes at me like a warrior.
- Yes, the devil does that!
- Yes, he has no compassion!
- Yes, he is at war against God!
- Because he is jealous of him!
- And he knows God can’t intervene!
- And he knows God is upset!
- Because Job is his faithful servant!
- And the devil enjoys what he does!
- It is the same when he plays with humanity!
- And when he does his best to take it away from God!
- It is just a game!
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Job 17
My days are FINISHED;
My plans, the desires of my heart, have been SHATTERED.
- We see a combative Job!
- But he has no more hope!
- But everything he has in mind has collapsed!
- Because he can’t find comfort in God’s relationship!
- Because he can’t communicate with him anymore!
- Because of the devil!
- Let no one prevent us from depriving us of our relationship with God!
- And above all ourselves!
- We are the only ones who can help us build it up!
- And we must keep doing it whatever may happen!
Job 17
My days are FINISHED;
My plans, the desires of my heart, have been SHATTERED.
- We see a combative Job!
- But he has no more hope!
- But everything he has in mind has collapsed!
- Because he can’t find comfort in God’s relationship!
- Because he can’t communicate with him anymore!
- Because of the devil!
- Let no one prevent us from depriving us of our relationship with God!
- And above all ourselves!
- We are the only ones who can help us build it up!
- And we must keep doing it whatever may happen!
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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
Show me mercy, my companions, show me
mercy,
For God’s own hand has touched me.
Why do you keep persecuting me as
God does,
Attacking me without letup?
- Why are they acting as if they were his enemies?
- They were supposed to help him!
- If they are sent by the devil, everything is clear!
- Because he uses all the weapons he can to destroy Job!
- Because he is insiduous!
- They act as the devil does!
- His word is clear: they persecute him!
- And no letup!
- Definitely his enemies!
- When you are a friend, you help your friend!
- 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
Show me mercy, my companions, show me
mercy,
For God’s own hand has touched me.
Why do you keep persecuting me as
God does,
Attacking me without letup?
- Why are they acting as if they were his enemies?
- They were supposed to help him!
- If they are sent by the devil, everything is clear!
- Because he uses all the weapons he can to destroy Job!
- Because he is insiduous!
- They act as the devil does!
- His word is clear: they persecute him!
- And no letup!
- Definitely his enemies!
- When you are a friend, you help your friend!
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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
But if I go east, he is not there;
And I return and I cannot find him.
When he is working on the left, I cannot look upon him;
Then he turns to the right, but I still do not see him.
But he knows the path I have taken.
After he has tested me, I will come out as pure gold.
- When you have a special relationship with someone, you get energy and strength and power from it !
- It is vital !
- You can’t live without it !
- Imagine what happens when this relationship interrupts abruptly !
- It is like a stroke !
- The devil knows perfectly what he does when he does it !
- The violence is unbelievable !
- Destructive !
- And Job knows he is tested and refined to become pure gold !
- 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
But if I go east, he is not there;
And I return and I cannot find him.
When he is working on the left, I cannot look upon him;
Then he turns to the right, but I still do not see him.
But he knows the path I have taken.
After he has tested me, I will come out as pure gold.
- When you have a special relationship with someone, you get energy and strength and power from it !
- It is vital !
- You can’t live without it !
- Imagine what happens when this relationship interrupts abruptly !
- It is like a stroke !
- The devil knows perfectly what he does when he does it !
- The violence is unbelievable !
- Destructive !
- And Job knows he is tested and refined to become pure gold !
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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 24
They toil among the terrace walls in the heat of the day;
They tread the wine presses, yet they go thirsty.
The dying keep groaning in the city;
The fatally wounded cry for help,
But God does not regard this as improper.
There are those who rebel against light;
They do not recognize its ways,
And they do not follow its paths.
The murderer rises at daybreak;
He slays the helpless and the poor,
While at night he engages in theft.
The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight,
Saying, ‘No one will see me!’
And he covers his face.
In the darkness they break into houses;
By day they shut themselves in.
They are strangers to the light.
For morning is the same as deep darkness for them;
They are familiar with the terrors of deep darkness.
But they are swiftly carried away by the waters.
Their portion of the land will be cursed.
They will not return to their vineyards.
Just as drought and heat take away the melted snow,
The Grave takes away those who have sinned!
His mother will forget him; the maggot will feast on him.
He will be remembered no more.
And unrighteousness will be broken just like a tree.
He preys on the barren woman,
And mistreats the widow.
God will use his strength to do away with the powerful;
Though they may rise up, they have no assurance of life.
God lets them become confident and secure,
But his eyes are on everything they do.
They are exalted for a little while, then they are no more.
They are brought low and gathered like everyone else;
They are cut off like heads of grain.
Now who can prove me a liar
Or refute my word?”
- Thirsty / dying / fatally wounded / murderer / helpless / poor / darkness / terrors!
- Man’s world is a world of injustice!
- Who cares!
- In this old world, injustice is such a power that it absorbs everything!
- And it can strike anybody both the rich and the poor!
- And yet we know nothing!
- We are just a point in the universe!
- We are just nothing!
- Whatever we do we stay ignorant!
- The grave is for everybody!
- May God turns this old and ridiculous world into his new world!
- May we have the opportunity to work hand in hand with God!
- 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 24
They toil among the terrace walls in the heat of the day;
They tread the wine presses, yet they go thirsty.
The dying keep groaning in the city;
The fatally wounded cry for help,
But God does not regard this as improper.
There are those who rebel against light;
They do not recognize its ways,
And they do not follow its paths.
The murderer rises at daybreak;
He slays the helpless and the poor,
While at night he engages in theft.
The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight,
Saying, ‘No one will see me!’
And he covers his face.
In the darkness they break into houses;
By day they shut themselves in.
They are strangers to the light.
For morning is the same as deep darkness for them;
They are familiar with the terrors of deep darkness.
But they are swiftly carried away by the waters.
Their portion of the land will be cursed.
They will not return to their vineyards.
Just as drought and heat take away the melted snow,
The Grave takes away those who have sinned!
His mother will forget him; the maggot will feast on him.
He will be remembered no more.
And unrighteousness will be broken just like a tree.
He preys on the barren woman,
And mistreats the widow.
God will use his strength to do away with the powerful;
Though they may rise up, they have no assurance of life.
God lets them become confident and secure,
But his eyes are on everything they do.
They are exalted for a little while, then they are no more.
They are brought low and gathered like everyone else;
They are cut off like heads of grain.
Now who can prove me a liar
Or refute my word?”
- Thirsty / dying / fatally wounded / murderer / helpless / poor / darkness / terrors!
- Man’s world is a world of injustice!
- Who cares!
- In this old world, injustice is such a power that it absorbs everything!
- And it can strike anybody both the rich and the poor!
- And yet we know nothing!
- We are just a point in the universe!
- We are just nothing!
- Whatever we do we stay ignorant!
- The grave is for everybody!
- May God turns this old and ridiculous world into his new world!
- May we have the opportunity to work hand in hand with God!
God in the end tells Job off for how Job thought the system worked.
Job thought by doign good he would be rewarded and only the Evil doers are cursed
So God had to explain that beign GOD He can show mercy on whom HE wishes to show mercy, and withhold mercy from Whom He chooses.
God can do whatever He wants. He is God.
That to me is the essence of Job story. . Praise Him whether things go well or go bad. regardless of our faith , God will do what He beleives is RIGHT
Job thought by doign good he would be rewarded and only the Evil doers are cursed
So God had to explain that beign GOD He can show mercy on whom HE wishes to show mercy, and withhold mercy from Whom He chooses.
God can do whatever He wants. He is God.
That to me is the essence of Job story. . Praise Him whether things go well or go bad. regardless of our faith , God will do what He beleives is RIGHT
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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 28
But from where does wisdom come,
And where is the source of understanding?
It has been hidden from the eyes of every living thing
And concealed from the birds of the heavens.
Destruction and death say,
‘Our ears have heard only a report of it.’
God understands the way to find it;
He alone knows where it resides,
For he looks to the ends of the earth,
And he sees everything under the heavens.
When he set the force of the wind
And measured out the waters,
When he made a regulation for the rain
And a path for the thunderous storm cloud,
Then he saw wisdom and explained it;
He established and tested it.
And he said to man:
‘Look! The fear of God—that is wisdom,
And to turn away from bad is understanding.’”
- The problem for man is that he knows partially!
- And it won’t change!
- And he doesn’t learn from the past!
- He always repeat the same errors!
- And he can’t control his feelings!
- And he will always be a child!
- He doesn’t want to become an adult!
- 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 28
But from where does wisdom come,
And where is the source of understanding?
It has been hidden from the eyes of every living thing
And concealed from the birds of the heavens.
Destruction and death say,
‘Our ears have heard only a report of it.’
God understands the way to find it;
He alone knows where it resides,
For he looks to the ends of the earth,
And he sees everything under the heavens.
When he set the force of the wind
And measured out the waters,
When he made a regulation for the rain
And a path for the thunderous storm cloud,
Then he saw wisdom and explained it;
He established and tested it.
And he said to man:
‘Look! The fear of God—that is wisdom,
And to turn away from bad is understanding.’”
- The problem for man is that he knows partially!
- And it won’t change!
- And he doesn’t learn from the past!
- He always repeat the same errors!
- And he can’t control his feelings!
- And he will always be a child!
- He doesn’t want to become an adult!
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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
If I denied justice to my male or female servants
When they had a complaint against me,
What can I do when God confronts me?
What can I answer him when he calls for an accounting?
Did not the One who made me in the womb also make them?
Was it not the same One who formed us before our birth?
- Justice to his servants!
If I refused to give the poor what they desired
- the poor!
Or saddened the eyes of the widow;
- The widow!
If I ate my portion of food alone
Without sharing it with the orphans;
(For from my youth the orphan grew up with me as though I were his father,
- The orphan!
And I have been a guide for the widow from childhood.
- The widow!
If I saw anyone perishing for lack of clothing
Or a poor man with nothing to cover himself
If he did not bless me
- The poor man!
As he warmed himself with the wool of my sheep;
If I shook my fist against the orphan
When he needed my assistance in the city gate;
- Job asks for justice!
- If he can do that, it’s because he is used to dispensing justice!
- It is probably difficult to remember each action of justice!
- But his heart and mind are filled with justice!
- Even when he is in trouble, he keeps feeling it!
- That’s his way!
- His strength!
- That’s also why he has such a powerful relationship with God!
- 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
If I denied justice to my male or female servants
When they had a complaint against me,
What can I do when God confronts me?
What can I answer him when he calls for an accounting?
Did not the One who made me in the womb also make them?
Was it not the same One who formed us before our birth?
- Justice to his servants!
If I refused to give the poor what they desired
- the poor!
Or saddened the eyes of the widow;
- The widow!
If I ate my portion of food alone
Without sharing it with the orphans;
(For from my youth the orphan grew up with me as though I were his father,
- The orphan!
And I have been a guide for the widow from childhood.
- The widow!
If I saw anyone perishing for lack of clothing
Or a poor man with nothing to cover himself
If he did not bless me
- The poor man!
As he warmed himself with the wool of my sheep;
If I shook my fist against the orphan
When he needed my assistance in the city gate;
- Job asks for justice!
- If he can do that, it’s because he is used to dispensing justice!
- It is probably difficult to remember each action of justice!
- But his heart and mind are filled with justice!
- Even when he is in trouble, he keeps feeling it!
- That’s his way!
- His strength!
- That’s also why he has such a powerful relationship with God!
God and Job / Job and God
Job 2: And God says to Satan: “Have you taken note of my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth. He is an upright man of integrity, fearing God and shunning what is bad. He is still holding firmly to his integrity, even though you try to incite me against him to destroy him for no reason.”
- When God speaks about Job he calls him « my servant » !
- Only two words but they mean a lot coming from God !
- It clearly tells us that God cares about Job !
- He is someone he appreciates !
- Someone who is special to him !
- But it’s more than that !
- It’s like fireworks !
- We have « there is no one like him on earth », « an upright man of integrity », « fearing God », « shunning what is bad », « holding firmly to his integrity » !
- He knows him very well !
- There is warmth !
- A perfect description with many details !
- How many people are described in such a way by God in the Bible ?
Job 2: And God says to Satan: “Have you taken note of my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth. He is an upright man of integrity, fearing God and shunning what is bad. He is still holding firmly to his integrity, even though you try to incite me against him to destroy him for no reason.”
- When God speaks about Job he calls him « my servant » !
- Only two words but they mean a lot coming from God !
- It clearly tells us that God cares about Job !
- He is someone he appreciates !
- Someone who is special to him !
- But it’s more than that !
- It’s like fireworks !
- We have « there is no one like him on earth », « an upright man of integrity », « fearing God », « shunning what is bad », « holding firmly to his integrity » !
- He knows him very well !
- There is warmth !
- A perfect description with many details !
- How many people are described in such a way by God in the Bible ?
God and Job / Job and God
Job 13:
- He only wants to speak directly to God!
- He wants to defend himself in front of God!
- The three individuals have only empty words!
- Job is not afraid of speaking in front of God!
- He can’t stay silent!
- He wants to complain to God!
- The three individuals do not behave correctly with him!
- Job has nothing to hide to God!
- He needs to talk to God like eating or drinking or sleeping!
- It is a natural need!
Job 13:
- He only wants to speak directly to God!
- He wants to defend himself in front of God!
- The three individuals have only empty words!
- Job is not afraid of speaking in front of God!
- He can’t stay silent!
- He wants to complain to God!
- The three individuals do not behave correctly with him!
- Job has nothing to hide to God!
- He needs to talk to God like eating or drinking or sleeping!
- It is a natural need!
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