Today’s Bible Translation Bible translation used in today’s episode: Ch. 11-12 GW Support Please remember that this is a listener supported show. Your support of any amount is needed and very much appreciated. Find out how by clicking here. Thoughts I have to say that I like Zophar’s way with words in chapter 11. There…
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Bible translation used in today’s episode: Ch. 9-10 GWT Because I do not take outside advertisers who could diminish the message, LifespringMedia.com needs your support. Find out how. Thoughts Chapter nine is Job eloquently talking about how futile it is to argue with God. I love the pictures Job paints with his words, don’t you?…
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Bible translation used in today’s episode: Ch. 7 GNT, Ch. 8 NIRV Because I do not take outside advertisers who could diminish the message, LifespringMedia.com needs your support. Find out how. Thoughts Job’s anguish really comes through today. I do have to smile when I read verses 9 and 10, “Like a cloud that fades…
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Bible translation used in today’s episode: GNT Thoughts Sometimes the best thing a friend can do for a friend in trouble is to just be with them. Words from a well-meaning but ignorant friend can add to the pain, as Eliphaz has done here with Job. Eliphaz thinks he knows what he is talking about,…
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If you would like to email me, you can do so at this address. Job is really suffering now. He has lost so much, and now even his body has turned against him. So much so that he wishes he had never been born. But notice, beloved, he does not speak against God, even though…
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While I love the book of Job, it breaks my heart to read of Job’s losses. But it makes me even angrier at the enemy. He hates God’s most prized creation, mankind, so much. That any creature would be so twisted and evil that they would desire to bring such sorrow and destruction on someone…
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Alexander Maclaren wrote in his “Expositions of Holy Scripture” “The close of the book of Job must be taken in connection with its prologue in order to get the full view of its solution of the mystery of pain and suffering. Indeed the prologue is more completely the solution than the endings; for it shows…
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It’s easy to think of this scene with God’s awesome, booming voice rumbling and shaking everything around for miles as He speaks out of the storm. And maybe it did happen that way. He can be a fearsome God. But I like what the commentator F. B. Meyer wrote: “Divine power and human ignorance. When…
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Elihu had several good things to say to Job. I especially liked this from chapter 35, verse 10. Elihu said: He is the One who gives us songs to sing in the night. In our darkest hour, when all seems lost, when we turn to Him and are reminded of who it is that we…
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Elihu shows restraint and wisdom in waiting to speak until the others had exhausted their arguments. But since Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar’s statements and responses to Job were off the mark, in Elihu’s eyes, he could be silent no longer. In chapter 33, Elihu tells Job that God tries more than once to talk to…
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