Scripture Thought (What I Learned):
Chapter 3: Job Curses his Birthday
Job
opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. And Job spoke, and
said;
“Let the day perish wherein
I was born, and the night in whichit was said, There is a man child
conceived. Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither
let the light shine upon it. Let darkness and the shadow of death
stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto
the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months. Lo, let
that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein. Let them curse it
that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. Let the stars of
the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none;
neither let it see the dawning of the day: Because it shut not up the doors of
my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. Why died I
not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I
came out of the belly? Why did the knees prevent me? or why the
breasts that I should suck? For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I
should have slept: then had I been at rest, With kings and counsellors of the
earth, which built desolate places for themselves; Or with princes
that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: Or as an hidden untimely
birth I had not been; as infantswhich never saw light. There the wicked
cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the
oppressor.
The small and great are there;
and the servant is free from his master. Wherefore
is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the
bitter in soul; Which long for death, but
it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which
rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? Why
is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? For
my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was
afraid of is come unto me. I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was
I quiet; yet trouble came.” (Job 3:3-26)
This chapter is very much a prayer
to God from Job, where he asks; Why he couldn’t have died at birth and be
spared from the pain and agony of his trial.
Chapter 4: Eliphaz Critizes Job
This begins a long section in the
Book of Job where Job’s friends counsel him and he answers them. His friends speak
in more or less three rounds, with each speech followed by a reply from Job. At
the end of these speeches, God answers Job and his friends and settles the
matter.
Eliphaz the Temanite answered
and said;
“If we
assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself
from speaking? Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened
the weak hands. Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast
strengthened the feeble knees. But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest;
it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled. Is not this thy fear,
thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways? (Job 3:2-6)
Elpihaz is trying to help Job remember his own council that
he had given when things were great for him.
“Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished,
being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? Even as I have seen,
they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. By the blast
of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. The
roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of
the young lions, are broken. The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the
stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.” (Job 3:7-11)
Eliphaz helps Job to understand,
what he believes to be the source of Job’s troubles.
“Now a thing was secretly brought
to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. In thoughts from the visions of
the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling,
which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the
hair of my flesh stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern the
form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence,
and I heard a voice, saying” (Job 3:12-16)
A spirit comes to Eliphaz in the
night. Here we can learn about the Holy Ghost, notice how it mentions how his
hairs stood up, he couldn’t discern an image, and that the voice was still and
silent. This is how the Holy Ghost communicates, not through yelling and
screaming.
This
is what the spirit said to Eliphaz:
“Shall
mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: How
much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in
the dust, which are crushed before the moth? They are destroyed from
morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it. Doth
not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without
wisdom.” (Job 3:17-21)
Simple
lesson to learn here, we are not perfect. It is not ok to sin, however you can
not completely avoid all sins. We are imperfect and it is ok to admit to your
sins. Ask for forgiveness and move on.
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