Job 4:1-21
Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees. But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed.
Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?
Are not the cords of their tent pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?
The three friends now begin the to-and-fro argument which makes up most of the book. Eliphaz has the first turn. Job has often helped others in trouble, he says, now he should be prepared to swallow his own medicine. God destroys the guilty, not the innocent. No one is blameless before him.
Why?
People's word and righteousness are not more than God. All of us are under the Lord.
Our survival is the grace of the Lord.
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以利法用另外一種方法來指責約伯,
人多麼卑微,人怎麼可以和神爭辯呢? 神的靈臨到時,人恐懼無法站立。神連天使都不完全信任,何況住在土房的人呢?人怎麼可以說自己公義呢?
行為主義:公義的人一定不會遭災難,這把神的義說的太狹隘了。人站在自己的角度思考,以致無法明白神為何讓遭難臨到。
如我們在泰國搭火車誤點4小時,站務人員沒有一個人表示歉意,好像很正常,因為我們用台灣的眼光來看泰國的火車。
求神讓我們有更寬闊的眼光來看一切的事情。
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How?
Give thanks to the Lord, for God's way and God's mind are higher than me.
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