July 4, 2025, Job 17:1-16
Job
Continues: Where Then Is My Hope?
17 “My
spirit is broken; my days are extinct;
the
graveyard is ready for me.
2 Surely there are mockers about me,
and my
eye dwells on their provocation.
3 “Lay
down a pledge for me with you;
who is
there who will put up security for me?
4 Since you have closed their hearts to understanding,
therefore
you will not let them triumph.
5 He who informs against his friends to get a share of
their property—
the eyes
of his children will fail.
6 “He has
made me a byword of the peoples,
and I am
one before whom men spit.
7 My eye has grown dim from vexation,
and all
my members are like a shadow.
8 The upright are appalled at this,
and the
innocent stirs himself up against the godless.
9 Yet the righteous holds to his way,
and he
who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.
10 But you, come on again, all of you,
and I
shall not find a wise man among you.
11 My days are past; my plans are broken off,
the
desires of my heart.
12 They make night into day:
‘The
light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’
13 If I hope for Sheol as my house,
if I
make my bed in darkness,
14 if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’
and to
the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
15 where then is my hope?
Who will
see my hope?
16 Will it go down to the bars of Sheol?
Shall
we descend together into the dust?”
Job continues in his suffering as he approaches what he
believes will be his death. Although he doesn’t understand his suffering,
he maintains hope that God is just and fair.
I was just in a conversation this evening regarding not
understanding a particular situation this side of Heaven. God
doesn’t call us to understand everything, He simply asks us to keep our faith
and trust His purpose. If you struggle with lack of understanding a
life situation, please remember you are not alone. But please
understand in a much larger sense “you are NOT alone!” God is with you, walking
beside you and maybe even carrying you leaving only His footsteps in the sand
while you rest in Him.
Robin Adams
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