Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Is there any wickedness on my lips? Can my mouth not discern malice?

Job 6:1-30

Then Job replied: The arrows of the Almighty are in me, my spirit drinks in their poison; God’s terrors are marshaled against me. Does a wild donkey bray when it has grass, or an ox bellow when it has fodder?  tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the sap of the mallow?

Oh, that I might have my request, that God would grant what I hope for, that God would be willing to crush me to let loose his hand and cut off my lifeThen I would still have this consolation—   my joy in unrelenting pain—     that I had not denied the words of the Holy OneWhat strength do I have, that I should still hope? What prospects, that I should be patient? Do I have the strength of stone? Is my flesh bronze? Do I have any power to help myselfnow that success has been driven from me?

Have I ever said, ‘Give something on my behalf,  pay a ransom for me from your wealth, deliver me from the hand of the enemy,  rescue me from the clutches of the ruthless’? “Teach me, and I will be quiet; show me where I have been wrong. How painful are honest words! But what do your arguments prove? Do you mean to correct what I say, and treat my desperate words as wind? You would even cast lots for the fatherless and barter away your friend.

“But now be so kind as to look at me. Would I lie to your face? Relent, do not be unjust; reconsider, for my integrity is at stake. Is there any wickedness on my lips? Can my mouth not discern malice?

Why?

Job did not ask anything from his friend for help. It is the Lord who gave terrors against Job. Job hopes the Lord will crush him and cut off his life.

Job asked his friends to show him where he had been wrong, is there any wickedness on his lips, or his mouth not discern malice? No at all!

How?

God makes any decision and does not ask for agreement from man but on God's way and plan. Because He is the Lord.





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