2023.06.14 (Wed) Day 165 - Job 27-30
Chapter 26
Job Replies: God's Majesty Is Unsearchable
Chapter 27
Job Continues: I Will Maintain My Integrity
Chapter 28
Job Continues: Where Is Wisdom?
Chapter 29-30
Job's Summary Defense
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Job 27-30
Jobs, friend, so eager to dispute, anything that he would say because he would sometimes complain about them. “Suffer me, that I may speak;” and, “oh that you would hold your peace!”
Either they themselves were convinced that Joe was right, or the despaired of convincing him that he was in the wrong. He begins with a solemn protest of his integrity, and resolution to hold to it fast. He expresses the deed and the dread he had on the hypocrisy which they charged him with. And he shows the miserable and wicked people, not with standing there, long, prosperity, and the curse that intends them an entitled upon their families
This is a very strange full moment…
JOB 30:9-10
“And now those young men mock me in song; I have become a byword among them. They detest me and keep their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.”
Job lived a very successful life until the day God allowed Satan to take it all away to prove that he would still be faithful to Him even if he wasn’t prosperous. He had a large family, property, livestock, and servants and he was well-respected in his community. It must have been very painful and humiliating to be mocked by the young men mentioned in this chapter.
When I see people struggling today due to the loss of their job or their home or possibly both,…