Job Chapter seven

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Job 10
But you secretly intended to do these things.
I know that these things are from you.

- And Job is sincere when he says that!

- Can you hear the devil’s laughs!

- Because everything is against God as Job only knows God!

- Think of today: do you hear the devil’s laughs when he listens to the people?

- Do you understand God’s pain in relation to Job’s feelings!
 
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Job 10
I have become a laughingstock to my
companions,
One calling to God for an answer.
A righteous and blameless man is a
laughingstock.

- Laughingstock!

- The book of Job tells us a lot about Job!

- He has done so many good things!

- And he is faithful to God!

- And he has become a laughingstock!

- Just concentrate on this word!

- Think about Job’s life and his actions!

- “A righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock”!

- What a shock for him!

- All that for that!

- What a nonsense for Job!

- He can’t situate anywhere!

- He is nowhere!

- Or better said he keeps by his faithfulness!

- It is his torch lighting him in the darkness!

- And he keeps fighting whatever happen!
 
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Job 12
He deprives trusted advisers of speech
And takes away the sensibleness of old
men;
He pours out contempt upon nobles,
And he makes powerful ones weak;

- We can think we are important but anything can happen in our life and remember us that we are nothing!

- Anything can happen to bring us back to reality!

- It doesn’t matter when!

- Job got in trouble because of the devil but he kept faithful and his life got back to normal!

- We can imagine he was humble enough to use what happened to him to live a better life!

- We need to grow and build up our personality and try to be better in all senses!





- Of course, it is not an easy journey but it can be a fruitful one!
 
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Job 13

Then let whatever may come upon me come!
Why do I put myself in danger
And take my life in my hands?
Though he may slay me, I would still wait;
I would argue my case before his face.

- Job wants to control his life and destiny!

- I mean he knows who he is, he knows his faithfulness!

- he knows he hasn’t done anything wrong!

- He knows that God can kill him!

- He wants to defend himself in front of God!

- It is the only thing that counts for him!
 
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Job 14
Yes, you have fixed your eye upon him,
And you bring him into judgment with
yourself.
Who can produce someone clean from someone
unclean?
No one can!

- God created man as a perfect creature!

- Because of the devil and because of Adam we lost this perfection!

- We can see the result every day by living in this world!

- We didn’t choose!

- But it is so!

- We can only wait for a new world!

- But for now we have to live in this world!

- But we must prepare for the next one!

- Remember the Israelites!

- They were not prepared!

- When they left, they acted as if they were still in Egypt!

- And if Moses hadn’t prevented God to destroy them, they would have been destroyed all at once and all of them!

- May we remember this reality!
 
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Job 16
I could also speak as you do.
If you were in my place,
I could make persuasive speeches against you
And shake my head at you.
Instead, though, I would strength you with the words of my mouth,
And the consolation of my lips would bring
relief.

- Job could do the same if they were in his place!

- But he wouldn’t do it!

- On the contrary, he would strengthen them!

- He would bring them consolation!

- You can’t help someone by opposing him!

- If he has done something wrong, he may be told!

- But then the reconstruction comes!

- What can be done to improve his or her situation!

- If you demolish, you don’t build!
 
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Job 17
“My spirit has been broken, my days have been
extinguished;
The graveyard awaits me.
Mockers surround me,
And my eye must gaze at their rebellious
behavior.

- Job is done!

- It is an evidence!

- He knows he won’t last like that for long!

- Moreover, people are there to accelerate the process!

- And he can’t do anything!

- He can only fight with his mouth, with his intelligence!

- He can only cry out for justice!
 
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Job 19
look! I keep crying out, “Violence! But I get no answer;
I keep crying for help, but there is no justice.

- And Job is used to God answering him!

- So he keeps crying!

- And he will keep crying!

- And yes, for him there is no justice!

- And there will be no justice before God answers him!

- Because that’s the only way he knows!
 
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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 21
God will store up a man’s punishment for his own sons.
But may God repay him so that he will know it.
May his own eyes see his ruin,
And may he be the one to drink from the rage of the Almighty.
For what does he care about what happens to his house after him
If the number of his months is cut short?

- Job expresses his incertitudes!

- But once again it tells about his own feelings!

- About his stress!

- As he can’t communicate anymore to God, that’s how he expresses himself!

- But he tells how much he needs such a communication!

- That’s why it is unbearable!

- It is like breathing and eating and drinking and sleeping!

- When you have a routine, it is difficult not to have it!

- And for Job, his relationship is like a routine!

- But a positive one!

- Something which makes you stronger each day!
 
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- Get away from this old world of Chaos and prepare for the New World!
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Job 23
But I have not yet been silenced by the darkness
Nor by the gloom that has covered my face.

- But Job is still fighting!

- And he is not ready to do it!

- In fact, God knows Job!

- But the devil doesn’t know him!

- How could he know him?

- To really know someone, you need a personal relationship!

- And a deep one, not a superficial one!

- But it is hard work!

- No hard work, no deep personal relationship!
 
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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 27

For what hope does the godless man have when he is destroyed,
When God takes away his life?
Will God hear his outcry
When distress comes upon him?
Or will he find delight in the Almighty?
Will he call on God at all times?

- HOPE!

- HOPE is essential to Job!

- Especially because of what he is enduring!

- And straight away he wanted to die!

- To escape his pain and sufferance!

- But hoping that God will remember him and his faithfulness!

- And resurrect him!
 
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Job 30

Terror overwhelms me;
My dignity is driven away like the wind,
And my salvation vanishes like a cloud.
Now my life ebbs from me;
Days of affliction take hold of me.
Aching pierces my bones at night;
The gnawing pain never stops.
With great force my garment is disfigured;
Like the collar of my garment, it chokes me.

- Terror

- No more dignity!

- No salvation!

- Affliction!

- Aching!

- Gnawing pain!

- Who would like to be in Job’s situation?

- And that’s where he is!

- Thanks to the devil!

- Do you think that the religious leaders are better?
 
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Job 31

If my own ground would cry out against me
And its furrows would weep together;
If I have eaten its fruitage without payment,
Or if I have caused its owners to despair;
Then let thorns sprout for me instead of wheat
And foul-smelling weeds instead of barley.”
The words of Job end here.

- Each word of Job goes to the same direction!

- His way goes to God!

- There is no other option for him!

- And he can’t turn on the left or on the right!

- He can only go straight away!

- Every action he does has only one purpose!

- Getting closer to God!

- Even when it is written “the words of Job end here” they keep resonating or echoing in the minds of the people who listen to him carefully!

- And they never stop!
 
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Job 4:

- Anguish!

- Calamity!

- The terrors from God!

- He wants God to kill him!

- It would bring him comfort!

- For he has not denied the sayings of the Holy One!

- His brothers have left him!

- He says the three individuals would sell their own friends!

- He hasn’t done anything wrong!

- Everybody is against him!

- And there is no God!

- It’s unbearable for him!
 
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Job 23:

- Job will keep complain stubbornly!

- He has nothing to lose!

- And he wants God to listen to him!

- There is no other possible way!

- He would do anything to speak to God personally!

- He would TAKE NOTE!

- And he knows God would listen to him!

- And he knows that God will acquit him!

- He knows he is TESTED, and he knows that he will come out AS PURE GOLD!

- He knows he has kept following God’s way without deviating!

- He has treasured up God’s sayings!

- But not being able to speak to God makes him anxious and afraid!
 
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