Job 42:5-6, “I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore I retract my words and am comforted in dust and ashes.” The translation above interprets מָאַס as a retraction of Job’s previous arguments against God’s justice and נָחַם as the comfort that flows from repentance. […]
Job 34:14-15, “If He should set His heart to it and gather to Himself His Spirit and His breath, all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.” Elihu here anchors the continued existence of all created life in the heart of YHWH—that is to say, in His will. Any “flesh”—which I think
Romans 11:35-36, “…who has given a gift to [to the Lord], that he might be repaid (Job 41:11)? For from Him and to Him and through Him are all things. To Him be glory forever. Amen.” The verses just cited form the conclusion to Romans 9-11, in which we read one of the most towering
Job 19:25-26, ‘For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last He will stand upon the dust. And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God.’ With these words, it is as though the the skeletal hand of Job’s faith, livened by the breath of the
Job 23:8-10, ‘Behold, I go forward, but He is not there, and backward, but I do not perceive Him; on the left hand when He is working, I do not behold Him; He turns to the right hand, but I do not see Him. But He knows the way that I take…’ In verses 8-9,
Job 14:13, ‘…that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!’ There’s much to see in the first half of v.13, but today’s image comes from a consideration of just those final two words: ‘remember me!’ What does it mean to be remembered by God? There is a sense in which it means
Job 11:7-9, ‘Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty? It is *higher* than heaven—what can you do? *Deeper* than Sheol—what can you know? Its measure is *longer* than the earth and *broader* than the sea.’ Ephesians 3:18-19, ‘[I pray] that you, being rooted and
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Job 9:23-24, ‘When disaster brings sudden death, He mocks at the calamity of the innocent. The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covers the face of its judges—if it is not He, WHO then is it?’ In this post, I’m not commenting on Job’s evaluation of the situation, only on the
This picture was created at the request of one of FOE’s monthly supporters. In this image I tried to bring together two uses of “צְרוֹר” or “bundle / parcel” from 1 Samuel 25:29 and Job 14:17. In 1 Samuel, Abigail blesses David, saying that YHWH will keep the life of David “in the bundle
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Job 36:15, “He delivers the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ear by adversity.” He delivers the afflicted by their affliction….another way to say this is that the Lord uses adversity and suffering as a means of deliverance and sanctification and healing for those who experience adversity and suffering. Affliction is made to
Job 28:12, “But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?” The first 11 verses of chapter 28 employ the imagery of a mine with deep shafts and searching tunnels as an example of humanity’s ability to find the “thing that is hidden” and bring it “out to the light.”
Job 7:17, “What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him, visit him every morning and test him every moment?” (c.f. Psalm 8:4) Job here associates his suffering—and, indeed, the sufferings of humanity—with the attention of the Lord. If mankind were not under the scrutiny
Job 1:21, “the LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.” I started reading Job this morning and was freshly struck by the words of Job 1:21…scripture is often like a mold, forged by God, into which He invites us to pour the molten anguish of
Job 36:15, “He delivers the afflicted by their affliction…” The affliction itself may be the means of deliverance
Job 26:7-14, “…how small a whisper do we hear of Him! But the thunder of His power who can understand?”
Job 18:14, “He is torn from the tent in which he trusted and is brought to the King of Terrors” Without Christ, supreme Beauty is supreme Terror.
Job 12:11-12 Will not His majesty terrify you…your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay
Job 9:33, “There is no arbiter between us, who might lay His hand on us both.” Only Christ crosses that infinite gap
Job 33:24, “Deliver him from going down into the pit; I have found a ransom.” [See all of Job 33:23-28] This is an amazing passage. In it Elihu is envisioning a heavenly scene of intercession where “an angel, a mediator, one of the thousand,” is merciful to a sinful human and intercedes with God
Job 28:12, “But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? Job 28:23, “God understands the way to it, and He knows its place.” 1 Corinthians 1:23-24, “…Christ crucified…the power of God and the wisdom of God.” As I was reading over chapter 28 of Job this morning, it struck
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