Sunday, January 26, 2025

Can a mortal be more righteous than God?

Job 4:1-21

Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed. Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope?

Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?  Where were the upright ever destroyed? As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it. At the breath of God they perish; at the blast of his anger they are no more.

Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker? If God places no trust in his servants, if he charges his angels with error, how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more readily than a moth! Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces; unnoticed, they perish forever. Are not the cords of their tent pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’

Why?

Eliphaz according to the general rule to judge Job, must have done some evil or wrong doing so the punishment of the Lord came upon him.

A mortal can not be more righteous than God. 

The Lord never makes the wrong decisions or makes mistakes, God has his own plan and with love to all of us.

Those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it is a general rule, but it is not a common rule to the Lord

How?

Be humble and give honor to the Lord! For God's love endures forever.




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