Scripture Thought (What I Learned):
Chapter 19: In the flesh we will see God
Job laments his comfortless
affliction.
“How long will ye vex my soul,
and break me in pieces with words?” (Job 19:2)
Job answered Bildad with a familiar
complaint, that his friends were unsympathetic tormentors of his soul. Job
was steadfast in his refusal to agree with his friends that he had caused his
crisis by some remarkable sin and refusal to repent. Job insisted to his
friends that he was not a guilty victim before a God.
“Oh that my words were now
written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graen with an iron
pen and lead in the rock forever!” (Job 19:23-24)
Job seemed to have no sense that
his own personal tragedy and drama would indeed be written in a book,
to be for the benefit of countless others through succeeding generations. His
words and life were indeed written with an iron pen and lead, forever!
“For
I know my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the
earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall
I see God” (Job 19:25-26)
Not only are verses 25-26
“Scripture Mastery” scriptures, but show the brilliant faith in Job’s otherwise
dark and bleak background of crisis and suffering. Perhaps as he considered
that future generations would indeed look at his life and words, it stirred him
to a triumphant proclamation of faith.
Chapter 20: The inheritance of Good and Evil
Zophar answers Job and describes
his turmoil.
“…my
thoughts cause me to answer… Knowest thou not this of old… That the triumphing
of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? Though
his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds”
(Job 20:2-6)
Zophar insisted that Job’s defense
in the previous chapters made him anxious and caused turmoil
within him. Zophar explained that whatever good or triumph the wicked seem
to enjoy, it is all quickly passing. It is only for a moment, and the
wicked man will perish forever.
Zophar argued that though the
wicked man might enjoy things for a while, God surely brings His judgment
against him so that all can see.
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