Job ⁽³²⁾

Passage Read: Job 5-8 Meditation Verse: 8:4 Wow, that is brutal! To tell someone in such distress straight out that their children obviously sinned and God killed them in an instant for it, that is merciless. And where is God's mercy? Doesn't Bildad recognize the…

Passage Read: Job 1-4 Meditation Verses: 4:5-6 Wow! The first words in response to Job's expressed grief are, "Trouble comes to you and you are discouraged; it strikes you and you are dismayed." Does Eliphaz not understand what had happened to Job? Does he not…

Passage Read: Job 37-40 Meditation Verse: 40:8 According to God, Job justified himself and in so doing he condemned God. When we are the focus of our attention, when we define everything by our comfort and joy, then we are setting ourselves up as rulers…

Passage Read: Job 33-36 Meditation Verses: 35:2-3 Elihu seems to be misrepresenting Job, twisting Job's words into something he didn't say. He is perhaps taking Job's words further than Job meant them, that the implication of Job's complaint was that he was more righteous than…

Passage Read: Job 29-32 Meditation Verses: 31:13-15 Though Job owned slaves, he did not consider himself better than them. He recognized that he and they alike were human and made by God, so he treated them with dignity and respect. He considered carefully their complaints…