Good morning, everyone!
Today I read Job 14-16.
In today's reading, Job speaks of how man dies and how final that death is.
Job's words are good, but his friends continue to rebuke him.
Job 15:1-6 - Then Eliphaz the Temanite responded, "Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge and fill himself with the east wind? Should he argue with useless talk, or with words which are not profitable? Indeed, you do away with reverence and hinder meditation before God. For your guilt teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty. Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; and your own lips testify against you."
He then accuses Job of elevating himself, as though he is the only one who hears the counsel of God.
He continues by saying what he has seen of life and what the elders have taught him: that only the wicked are afflicted as Job, and they wander around unrepentant.
Job 16:1-5 - Then Job answered, "I have heard many such things; sorry comforters are you all. Is there no limit to windy words? Or what plagues you that you answer? I too could speak like you, if I were in your place. I could compose words against you and shake my head at you. I could strengthen my mouth, and the solace of my lips could lessen your pain."
Job then goes on to say how he cannot lessen his own pain, and that God has exhausted, and shattered him. Job continues to lament, but he does not curse God or forget that He is the Almighty. He continues to cry out to God.
I hope you'll join me tomorrow when I read Job 17-20.
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