King James Version, with Nii Okai's journal notes · 7 notes
1Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
2I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
3Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
4Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
5I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
6Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Oh okay, so this is where that expression is from — dust and ashes.
7And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Heheh 😅... Job was indeed God's favorite... God had rebuked him, yet he told Job's friends that Job was right, and thus they need to apologize.
Charlie, we all are not equal before God.
It appears our ranking with God is dependent on how close we are to him and how much we reverence him.
The same it is in the natural.
8Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
This is similar to Abraham and Abimelech. God indeed has favorites.
Though these examples are Old Testament, I wonder if the same applies to the New Testament.
Though I don't doubt it does.
Just that in the New Testament we all are children of God, and like earthly fathers, we love all our children, but some are just preferred to others because of their availability and service.
It's just that way... That does not take away the love we have for the others, but we know who belongs where.
There is someone else in scripture, I think Abraham, whom the Lord rebuked the king — Pharaoh, or was it Abimelech? — for his sake.
Why seven bulls and rams? It seems ere was the law of Moses, knowledge of sacrifices was known, and the significance of numbers in approaching God.
9So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.
10And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
11Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
He that hath, smh 🤦♂️ when he had not and needed it the most, no man gave.
Yet in his abundance, more was given him.
Indeed he that hath, more will be given.
How was Job able to dwell with them when they had abandoned him in his lowest moment?
But he, being a man of wisdom, understood that it was all the doing of the Lord, and they just acted as is natural to men.
The loss of his first family 👪 also he did commit into the hands of the knowing God. I'm sure he mourned them as any father would, but he knew the wisdom of God is greater than man.
And see, 4 thousand years and we still speak of Job.
He that hath... indeed more is given.
12So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
13He had also seven sons and three daughters.
14And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.
15And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
16After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
17So Job died, being old and full of days.