Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass, or the ox low over his fodder? Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the juice of the mallow? My appetite refuses to ...  Read More

For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.Job 6:4+Broken ArrowsJob is in distress.  He has not been privy to the conversation b...  Read More

Then Job answered and said: “Oh that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances! For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash.Job 6:...  Read More

You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in its season. Behold, this we have searched out; it is true. Hear, and know it for your good.”Job 5:26-27+Departing WordsEliphaz...  Read More

You shall know that your tent is at peace, and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing. You shall know also that your offspring shall be many, and your descendants as the grass of the earth.Job 5...  Read More

At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and shall not fear the beasts of the earth. For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.J...  Read More

In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from the power of the sword. You shall be hidden from the lash of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes.Job 5: 20-21+He Will Rede...  Read More

For he wounds, but he binds up; he shatters, but his hands heal. He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven no evil shall touch you.Job 5:18-19+He Will DeliverSuffering is a part of life due to t...  Read More

“Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty.Job 5:17+God Reproves“This is going to hurt me more that it will hurt you.”  These words have been u...  Read More

But he saves the needy from the sword of their mouth and from the hand of the mighty. So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.Job 5:15-16+The Poor Have HopeIn a world where so many people...  Read More

They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night.Job 5:14+Day and NightTwo things could not be more opposite one another than the day and the night.  Each one brings its own...  Read More

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success. He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.Job 5:12-13+The Wis...  Read More