For our scheduled reading today we read the remainder of the book of Job. Job 40 through 42 is a joy to read of repentance, forgiveness, and blessing. Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said, "Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare …
Category: Job
When the Almighty Answers
Job had questioned God due to the suffering he had experienced, and accusations of his friends. His friends and a young man named Elihu had falsely accused him of unrighteous acts. In today's reading (Job 37 through 39) God answers in chapters 38 through 40. The following is only a portion of God's answer. "...Canst …
Accusations and Accusers
Our reading for today is Job 33 through 36. This reading is all the words of a young man who was knowledgeable but not as much as he thought. Another accuser and some of the same accusations. By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason …
Everybody Has One
The scheduled Bible reading today is still in the book of Job, chapters 29 through 32. After Job finishes speaking a young man by the name of Elihu speaks his opinion. So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the …
Wisdom and Understanding
Our reading of scripture today is Job 25 through 28. After his friend Bildad's short comment we have Job's final discourse and thoughts of wisdom and understanding. But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the …
The Faith of Job
We pray you have taken time to spend with God this Memorial Day, to hear Him speak in His word, and to thank Him for the liberty we have in Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior who died on the cross for our sins, was buried, and He rose again. Also be sure and thank …
My Friends
Job had friends who cared for him when they first saw him, when they first came and saw him from a distance. They sat with him in silence, grieving with him for seven days and nights. They should have just went back to their homes. Now Job feels that his friends are scorning him, accusing …
In Grief and Tears
Reading Job should be very encouraging to all of us. To know that here was a man who had a good life, with a great family, joy, wealth, and best of all a relationship with the Almighty. The reading for today is Job 9 through 12. And Job answered and said, "No doubt but ye …
Friends
Friends are an important part of a persons life. They can be an encouragement, and sometimes be a disappointment, as well as someone who shows no pity in our trials. Job experienced the joy and the pain of friends. Read Job 5 through 8 for today's reading. To him that is afflicted pity should be …
Mourning with a Friend
Reading of Scripture for today is Job 1 through 4. Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn …
The Great God, The Almighty
Behold, God is great, and we know not, neither can the number of His years be searched out. For He maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof: which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly. Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the …
The Prosecutor’s Book
Oh that one would hear me! Behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine Adversary had written a book. Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. I would declare unto Him the number of my steps; as a prince would I …
Wisdom and Understanding
Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it. Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone. He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death. The flood breaketh …
Only A Hint of the Power and Glory of GOD
But Job answered and said, "How hast thou helped him that is without power? How savest thou the arm that hath no strength? How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? And how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is? To whom hast thou uttered words, and whose spirit came from thee? …
Food and Gold
Then Job answered and said, "Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. Oh that I knew where I might find Him! That I might come even to His seat! I would order my cause before Him, and fill my mouth with arguments. I would know the words which …
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