King James Version, with Nii Okai's journal notes · 8 notes
1Then Job answered and said,
2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
True... Words are weapons. They have creative ability.
It was with words that the world 🗺 as we know it was created.
In Psalms it says God sent his word and healed them.
Psalm 107:20 KJV
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
In Isaiah he talks of his word performing that for which he, God, sent it.
Isaiah 55:11 KJV
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
A man in pain... He was counting.
4And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
9He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
10He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
12His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
14My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
The rich have many friends but the poor,
Proverbs 14:20 KJV
The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.
It's sad 😔. His own wife even asked him to curse 🤬 God and die.
This indeed is wisdom to us 🙏...
Do we really have true friends? Which of them will stick with us through thick and thin?
15They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
16I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
17My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
What??? 😳 Job suffered, indeed he did.
And you know, a thought 💭 struck. The people of the Bible, though we claim we are more developed and advanced than they are, I suspect that might not be the case.
Where it seems they were limited, we see the supernatural technology at work.
We have computers today, but they have scrolls and writings whose content our most advanced research and knowledge cannot fathom.
See, for instance, the prophecies of the Bible that unfold right before our eyes 👀.
See the kind of miracles and supernatural events that shook their world then. We don't see them today.
Anyways, this is just premonition, back to Job.
18Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
22Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
24That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
25For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
Just imagine Job in the terrible situation, and God, the devil 👿 and the rest of the host of heaven watch as Job begins to speak 🔊 thus.
Oh, what a moment, how proud God might have felt as the devil 👿 is disgraced.
Job making God so proud, and the host of heaven learn of the sons of God — man 👨.
How that a people, despite the pain and afflictions which the Lord could have prevented but did not, continue in relentless love to the Lord.
26And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
27Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
These words are so prophetic.
It was almost as if he knew he prophesied, so he asked for it to be engraved on a rock 🚀.
That was how dead sure Job was.
HOW dare he, he was being touted as a wicked man by the best of his friends, yet he has the nerves to not just deny but talk of seeing God in his flesh.
But he was right, they wrong.
28But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
29Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
Well noted, Naamathite.
So what is the portion of the righteous then??