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    Job

    Job

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    Job 25 (Listen)

    Bildad Speaks: Man Cannot Be Righteous

    25:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

    2   “Dominion and fear are with God;1
        he makes peace in his high heaven.
    3   Is there any number to his armies?
        Upon whom does his light not arise?
    4   How then can man be in the right before God?
        How can he who is born of woman be pure?
    5   Behold, even the moon is not bright,
        and the stars are not pure in his eyes;
    6   how much less man, who is a maggot,
        and the son of man, who is a worm!”

    Job 26 (Listen)

    Job Replies: God’s Majesty Is Unsearchable

    26:1 Then Job answered and said:

    2   “How you have helped him who has no power!
        How you have saved the arm that has no strength!
    3   How you have counseled him who has no wisdom,
        and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
    4   With whose help have you uttered words,
        and whose breath has come out from you?
    5   The dead tremble
        under the waters and their inhabitants.
    6   Sheol is naked before God,1
        and Abaddon has no covering.
    7   He stretches out the north over the void
        and hangs the earth on nothing.
    8   He binds up the waters in his thick clouds,
        and the cloud is not split open under them.
    9   He covers the face of the full moon2
        and spreads over it his cloud.
    10   He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters
        at the boundary between light and darkness.
    11   The pillars of heaven tremble
        and are astounded at his rebuke.
    12   By his power he stilled the sea;
        by his understanding he shattered Rahab.
    13   By his wind the heavens were made fair;
        his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
    14   Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways,
        and how small a whisper do we hear of him!
        But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

    Job 27 (Listen)

    Job Continues: I Will Maintain My Integrity

    27:1 And Job again took up his discourse, and said:

    2   “As God lives, who has taken away my right,
        and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
    3   as long as my breath is in me,
        and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
    4   my lips will not speak falsehood,
        and my tongue will not utter deceit.
    5   Far be it from me to say that you are right;
        till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
    6   I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go;
        my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
    7   “Let my enemy be as the wicked,
        and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
    8   For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off,
        when God takes away his life?
    9   Will God hear his cry
        when distress comes upon him?
    10   Will he take delight in the Almighty?
        Will he call upon God at all times?
    11   I will teach you concerning the hand of God;
        what is with the Almighty I will not conceal.
    12   Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves;
        why then have you become altogether vain?
    13   “This is the portion of a wicked man with God,
        and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty:
    14   If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword,
        and his descendants have not enough bread.
    15   Those who survive him the pestilence buries,
        and his widows do not weep.
    16   Though he heap up silver like dust,
        and pile up clothing like clay,
    17   he may pile it up, but the righteous will wear it,
        and the innocent will divide the silver.
    18   He builds his house like a moth’s,
        like a booth that a watchman makes.
    19   He goes to bed rich, but will do so no more;
        he opens his eyes, and his wealth is gone.
    20   Terrors overtake him like a flood;
        in the night a whirlwind carries him off.
    21   The east wind lifts him up and he is gone;
        it sweeps him out of his place.
    22   It1 hurls at him without pity;
        he flees from its2 power in headlong flight.
    23   It claps its hands at him
        and hisses at him from its place.

    Job - 25:2 Hebrew him

    Job - 26:6 Hebrew him
    Job - 26:9 Or his throne

    Job - 27:22 Or He (that is, God); also verse 23
    Job - 27:22 Or his; also verse 23

    Job

    Resources

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    Job 26:5-27:23 (Episode 409)

    Stilled chaos and Job’s integrity.

    Chad Bird
    Chad Bird
    03/14/24

    Job

    Job
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