June 25, 2025, Job 8:1-22
June 25, 2025, Job 8:1-22
8 Then Bildad
the Shuhite answered and said:
2 “How
long will you say these things,
and the
words of your mouth be a great wind?
3 Does God pervert justice?
Or does
the Almighty pervert the right?
4 If your children have sinned against him,
he has
delivered them into the hand of their transgression.
5 If you will seek God
and plead
with the Almighty for mercy,
6 if you are pure and upright,
surely
then he will rouse himself for you
and restore
your rightful habitation.
7 And though your beginning was small,
your
latter days will be very great.
8 “For inquire,
please, of bygone ages,
and
consider what the fathers have searched out.
9 For we are but of yesterday and know nothing,
for our
days on earth are a shadow.
10 Will they not teach you and tell you
and
utter words out of their understanding?
11 “Can
papyrus grow where there is no marsh?
Can
reeds flourish where there is no water?
12 While yet in flower and not cut down,
they wither
before any other plant.
13 Such are the paths of all who forget God;
the hope
of the godless shall perish.
14 His confidence is severed,
and his
trust is a spider's web.
15 He leans against his house, but it does not
stand;
he lays
hold of it, but it does not endure.
16 He is a lush plant before the sun,
and
his shoots spread over his garden.
17 His roots entwine the stone heap;
he looks
upon a house of stones.
18 If he is destroyed from his place,
then it
will deny him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’
19 Behold, this is the joy of his way,
and out
of the soil others will spring.
20 “Behold,
God will not reject a blameless man,
nor take
the hand of evildoers.
21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter,
and your
lips with shouting.
22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame,
and the
tent of the wicked will be no more.”
Now
another friend attempts to console Job. He shows no compassion for his friend’s
suffering.
How do
you respond when people are insensitive to your suffering?
Debbie
Walker
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