Monday, February 3, 2025

To him belong strength and insight; both deceived and deceiver are his

 Job 12:1-25 

Then Job replied: “Doubtless you are the only people who matter, and wisdom will die with you! But I have a mind as well as you;  I am not inferior to you. Who does not know all these things?

I have become a laughingstock to my friends,  though I called on God and he answered—   a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless! Those who are at ease have contempt for misfortune  as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

To God belong wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are hisWhat he tears down cannot be rebuilt; those he imprisons cannot be released. If he holds back the waters, there is drought; if he lets them loose, they devastate the land. To him belong strength and insight; both deceived and deceiver are his.

He makes nations great, and destroys them;  he enlarges nations, and disperses them. He deprives the leaders of the earth of their reason;  he makes them wander in a trackless waste. They grope in darkness with no light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.

Why?

Job felt bad for his friends despised his situation and charged he was not a righteous man. But Job though he is righteous and blameless! All the misery or disaster comes from the Lord. 

Only the Lord has strength and insight. Both received and the deceiver is in his hands.

We have no right to judge anyone like the Lord, all of us are a creature in this world.

Who does not know all these things? What Job's friends said Job is fully understand. 

How?

Every one of us likes to judge others, to show we are higher than others, this is pride and is a sin.




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