REPLY IN KIND

JOB RESPONDS Remember the snarling wolf from two posts back?  Job is a bit like the response of this territorial (and really big!) eagle pictured above.  Job continues to respond to his insulting friend.  He really responds! Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.  What ye know, the

FEEDBACK

JOB RESPONDS Job has endured another friend insulting him as being a sinner.  He is not prepared to be offended without a response though. And Job answered and said,  No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.  But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to

MISGUIDED

NO RESPECT Job has more friends who are ready to call him a liar to his face. Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,  Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?  Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no

FATIGUE

THE WEARY ROAD Job is sick and tired of being sick and tired.  He wants to know why God has allowed him to fall into such agony. My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.  I will say unto God,

NO INTERCESSOR

  13-04-06 0188 RESISTANCE IS FUTILE Job can’t find grounds to justify himself.  His friends have assessed him unfairly, but Job doesn’t have much more esteem of himself when compared to God. Then Job answered and said, I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?  If he