Some thoughts on Scripture

Job 8:6--[Bildad]"If you were pure and upright, Surely now He would awake for you. And prosper your rightful dwelling place." Humans, who by their own estimation are upright, think they know God's timing. Mary and Martha had given up on seeing the brother Lazarus again once he was dead. They did not... Sign in to see full entry.

Job 7:11,13-14--"Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.... When I say, 'My bed will comfort me, My couch will ease my complaint.' Then You scare me with dreams And terrify me with visions." Job, in his anguish,... Sign in to see full entry.

Job 6:25-26--"How forceful are right words! But what does your arguing prove? Do you intend to rebuke my words, And speeches of a desperate one, which are as wind?" Job already surmises that Eliphaz thinks he is speaking the right words to him. But that presupposes forcing the intended response out... Sign in to see full entry.

Job 5:8,15--[Eliphaz]: "But as for me, I would seek God, Amd to God I would commit my cause--... Behold happy is the man whom God corrects; Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty." It cannot be denied that Eliphaz speaks true words when he speaks of the Lord's chastening, but what... Sign in to see full entry.

Job 47--[Eliphaz]:"Remember now, who ever perished being innocent? Or where were the upright ever cut off." Eliphaz has stepped forward in counsel to Job, but he is looking at the matter too much through his own eyes rather than giving latitude to God's mysterious workings. He is implying and... Sign in to see full entry.

Job 3:13-14--"For now I would have lain still and been quiet, I would have been asleep; Then I would have been at rest With kings and counselors of the earth, Who built ruins for themselves." Job is right about one thing in the above statement. We will all die some time; and, in that regard, we are... Sign in to see full entry.

Job 2:9-10--"Then his wife said to him, 'Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!' But he said to her, 'You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?' In all this Job did not sin with his lips." Often human... Sign in to see full entry.

Job 1:21--"And he said, 'Naked I came from my mother's womb, And naked shall I return there. The L ORD gave, and the L ORD has taken away; Blessed be the name of the L ORD.' " Whereas when the Lord states that He is "the Alpha and Omega" from a standpoint of His omnipotence and supreme stature; Job... Sign in to see full entry.

Esther 10:3--"For Mordecai the Jew was second to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews and well received by the multitude of his brethren, seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his countrymen." The above passage does not take anything away from Esther. She was given he... Sign in to see full entry.

Esther 8:8--"You yourselves write a decree concerning the Jews, as you please, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's signet ring; for whatever is written in the king's name and sealed with the king's signet ring no one can revoke." A letter sealed with the king's signet ring signified that... Sign in to see full entry.