Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water? While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant. Such are the paths of all who forget God...  Read More

For inquire, please, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have searched out. For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow. Will they not teach you and tell...  Read More

If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression. If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy, if you are pure and upright, surely th...  Read More

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: “How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind? Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?Job 8: 1-3...  Read More

Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be.”Job 7:21+Pardon MeJob ends his questioning of God by begging H...  Read More

If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind? Why have you made me your mark? Why have I become a burden to you?Job 7:20+The WatcherJob seems to be channeling a dystopic 1984 view of God, wit...  Read More

How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit?Job 7:19+How Long?How long? It’s a question posed to God in the Bible more than once.  Here Job focuses on what he pe...  Read More

What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him, visit him every morning and test him every moment?Job 7:17–18+Morning VisitsWe teach our children to pray, “I pray, forgi...  Read More

What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him, visit him every morning and test him every moment?Job 7:17–18+What is Man?Often times people who only see the good side o...  Read More

I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.Job 7:16+Not Live ForeverThese words from Job seem harsh and impious.  “Leave me alone” we hear him say.  Why would...  Read More

When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,’ then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions, so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.Job 7...  Read More

Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?Job 7:12+Sea MonstersJob wonders out loud to God in this verse if He sees him as His enemy.  The vastness of the seas which can hide many h...  Read More