September 26, 2023
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Reading along with us in Job? Here’s today’s reading:
Job 7 (NIV)
1“Do not mortals have hard service on earth?
Are not their days like those of hired laborers?
2 Like a slave longing for the evening shadows,
or a hired laborer waiting to be paid,
3 so I have been allotted months of futility,
and nights of misery have been assigned to me.…..Continue Reading
Job 3-7; Judges 17-21
Job 7: Seems Job expresses a grief, as though he is as good as dead already. Many good snippets of Scripture here, but again, I must be careful separating Job’s opinions from God’s truth.
Verse 9 “As the cloude vanifheth & goeth away, fo he that goeth downe to the graue, fhal come vp nomore.” 1560 Geneva The marginal note says: “If thou beholde me in thine angre, I fhal not be able to ftand in thy prefence.”
This is true! Peace, Gordy
Now Job is praying to God. He is describing his condition in great detail and is puzzled why God is allowing it. Is there some sin that he has done. Job is complaining to God in his bitterness and is blaming God for his nightmares. He can`t have any relief when he dreams. He at this point doesn`t understand why this is happening to him. Of course we know why God allowed it. To teach us that we can know that God is active in our lives even when we go through hard times. We just have to place our trust in Him and look to Him as we walk with Him. Of course it was also to teach Job and his friends. Maybe his friends wouldn`t be so self righteous and would have more compassion toward others. God bless us as we walk with Him.
The above comment is Dennis’ not mine.
Job 7
Job stops talking to Eliphaz smart move starting in verse seven. He goes vertical and pours his heart out before God. Question what I woild have said I keep reading the last few chapters. Not only words. That’s life. I pray on a much lesser scale
So much despair and now Job addresses God not his friends. Even his sleep is full of anguish there is no rest from his mental and physical torment. It does seem like a lament that we can all understand…What did I do God? When will it end?
Job lays out his grief in prayer:
“What is man, that You should exalt him,
That You should set Your heart on him,
18 That You should visit him every morning,
And test him every moment?
19 How long?
Will You not look away from me,
And let me alone till I swallow my saliva?
20 Have I sinned?
What have I done to You, O watcher of men?
Why have You set me as Your target,
So that I am a burden to myself?
21 Why then do You not pardon my transgression,
And take away my iniquity?
For now I will lie down in the dust,
And You will seek me diligently,
But I will no longer be.”
Job 7