February 18, 2026
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Reading along with us in Job & Hebrews? Here’s today’s reading:
Job 11 (NIV)
Zophar
1 Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
2“Are all these words to go unanswered?
Is this talker to be vindicated?
3 Will your idle talk reduce others to silence?
Will no one rebuke you when you mock?……Continue Reading
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Job 11 – how hard it must have been for Job after everything that has happened to him and the suffering he is going through, to sit there and listen to his friends tell him that he has sinned and done something wrong for this to happening to him.
Zophar. Has all the answers. Imagine someone like this in the church today. Puts himself up on a pedestal Looking down at others. Going through a list of their sins. Even to the point of calling Job deceitful. Someone suffering in our church. As some are suffering now. Our love and support should be much greater. And so glad that’s a picture of our church.
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thanks for letting us know, Steve.
I always try to be a walk a mile in someone else’s shoes kind of friend. Like Zophar, its easy to look into a situation, especially one we have never experienced, and say what we would do or how we would behave. God has shown me some situations in my life that prior to experiencing them I thought I knew how I would handle them. No surprise it was not a cut and dry as I had once thought. So I try to support, understand, and listen more when I am trying to help someone in unknown territory to my life’s experiences. I have also learned that in our need to “do” something for someone struggling that praying is doing something and usually is more effective than giving my two cents.
Job 11 – Zohar is arrogant and certainly insensitive to Job’s need at that time, blaming his circumstances on sin and that he was hiding
Sin from God who sees everything. With friends like that we don’t need enemies. He should have been comforting Job and encouraging Job. Who is he to judge Job’s walk with God?!
After hearing what Job has said, I can’t believe the digs that Zophar gives Job. Idle talk? deceiver? witless? Let’s make sure we do not give people verbal jabs when we confront them. And be sympathetic to where they find themselves. He speaks truth about God, but assumes that God is working against Job. He even speaks truth about how God responds to obedience. But he is wrong to assume where Job stands as if God can only be acting in the way that he understands.
Job 11
Job 11