9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) Our time on earth is very brief; it is like yesterday, which we all can agree with. One day we are in high school; next day we are paying bills to survive raising 4 kids.
20Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers: God will not cast away a perfect man; but he will bring chastisement on anyone He loves. This is how Job's friends spoke; saying Job must have done something to be in his situation. This is not good for someone who has just lost a great deal.
Job 9 & 10
1Then Job answered and said,
2I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
Job acknowledges what the men are saying is true; but it is the wrong time to point out someones faults when they just lost their children and family. Job started to make statements asking God where he sinned; with a good man like Job it was probably to correct it. But to ask God why you deserve all the hardship you're going through is not that wise.
In Job Chapter 11 Zophar the Naamathite responded to Job comments. Also condemning Job; but offering truth about how the wicked will not survive past God.
Job 12 & 13
Job responds again and reminds the men who came to console him that he has knowledge and wisdom too; that is not inferior. Sometimes people can make you respond like this; but it is better not to.
3Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
4But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
5O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Job says he will speak to the Almighty and desire a reason for his calamities; but he addressed his pals as liars and doctors who have no value. If they would shut their mouths, they would have some wisdom.
15Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. Job here says something we should be saying in our days; even if God kills me; I will continue to trust Him and do his ways before God.
Job 14
1Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. This sums up man's life on earth, he is born, and his days are full of trouble. Even the most positive man or woman on earth has to agree with this statement. Then we see more vital information spoken by Job:
12So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
13O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
14If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
15Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
When a man dies; he does not rise up and go to heaven as popularly thought and taught. Instead he will not rise out of the grave until the heavens are no more. Those that have a decent grip on biblical prophesy or know how the return of Christ will be know that when Jesus returns; the heavens will roll back like a scroll and the heavens will be no more.
This means that when a man dies; he will not rise until Jesus returns. Job goes on to talk about being hid in the grave until the Lord's wrath is done; then remember him like the thief on the cross asked Jesus to do.
Verse 14, Job ask if a man dies will he live again? The answer is yes, when his change comes and that is at an appointed time. That time is when Jesus returns; the Lord will call and the dead in Christ will answer. A lot of excellent insight Job gives us here.
Job 15
1Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, - He told Job that he is speaking vain things. He jumps Job for thinking he was wiser than his friend there; saying what do you know that we don't know? This is boisterous over wise behavior by Eliphaz.
Job 16 & Job 17
1Then Job answered and said,
2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
Job tells all his friends that they are miserable comforters. We have to remember all the calamity he just endured and we have to know it is not good to point our fingers at people who are struggling.
Job finally told his pals to go home that he can cope with all his losses better without them. I was wondering when he would kick these men out. 10But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
Job 18
1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
He condemns the wicked and the destruction they endure that is from God. He also hints that Job must have acted wickedly to get his treatment.
17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. 21Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God. These are things that will happen to the wicked, those who forsake the ways of the Lord; thus it is vital to know God.
Job 19
1Then Job answered and said,
2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
Again Job is put on the defense; and he is getting tired of his pals who are to comfort him; instead they are vexing his soul. Nevertheless, Job throws out some wise words and convention wisdom, along with solid doctrine and biblical prophesy:
25For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
26And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
27Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
He knows that his redeemer lives; it is Jesus who redeems us, and that Jesus, the redeemer, will stand on the earth in the latter days. Upon His return, and during the 1,000 years of reign on earth. Job is sharing some good information with us. After the worms destroy his body once he is dead and buried, he will see God at the Resurrection.
Not as people think that you live through your kids; but Job says he will see God himself. This should give us confidence that although we have lost love ones or even if we shall die; if we keep faith in Jesus Christ and keep His commandments and ways, He will bring us back at the Resurrection.
Job 20
Again Zophar the Naamathite answered and made statements to Job. The wicked only triumph for a moment; they always lose and lose big. 29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
Job 21
Job had to ask why the wicked were safe from the chastisement of God; why were their lives peachy creme and full of joy and riches?
14Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. This is what the wicked say to God. Can you really offer Donald Trump something? It's hard for people like him to come to God for they believe they are successful without ever asking GOD for one thing. Regardless everyone dies and their soul will be required by God.
23One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
24His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
25And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
26They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
They lie down in the dust and the worms take over from there. They don't go to heaven because as we read in Genesis, dust thou are and dust shall thy return.
Those that live good and do not do the ways of the Lord, they are reserved for the day of destruction so we should not desire their ways: 30That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
Job 22
1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
As we are getting the hang of this book of Job; they are constantly going back and forth with conversations trying to figure out why such calamities have come upon Job and each tells of their wisdom that makes them look and sound wise.
Job 23 & 24
1Then Job answered and said,
Even though he has been punish and afflicted much he has not gone back against the words of the Lord. 12Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Job said something that Moses wrote; man should not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord. And Job says he has esteemed the words of the Lord more than NECESSARY food. Not skittles or Oreo cookies; or creme muffin; he is talking about necessary food. Readers, we must act the same way. This bible food reading we do each day is more necessary than the vital physical foods we need each day.
This concludes today's reading. I hope you're full with Job and his pals constant back and forth conversation over why God has suffered Job to be afflicted.
See you tomorrow.
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