Job 6
6 But Job answered and said,
2 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
What you said added to what I am already going through and you make the load I am bearing heavy, heavy, heavy. As weak as Job is at this time, he is not so weak he will agree that Eliphaz is telling the truth. Job knew the truth and he was strong enough to know the difference between what is right and what is not right. No matter what life throws our way, we should be so equipped in the Word of God that we can recognize the truth from who, what, when, and where it is coming from. Job is weak, but he is not confused.
4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Job knows God is doing something, and he states that whatever God is allowing, hurts. It feels like he has been shot with an arrow or arrows by God. When there is no explanation of what or why we must suffer, we can learn from Job, it is definitely proof of who God is in you.
5 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
6 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
7 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
Job is describing the words that Eliphaz used as food with no taste. When anyone tries to make you eat what does not taste like God's Food, tell them. What you are trying to serve me has no flavor, because what God feeds is always good.
8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
10 Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
Job says, my life without the understanding of what God is doing is no life at all. If there is no word spoken from God, why live? What is a song, if God is not? What is life, if God is not? What is love, if God is not? If God is not, then what?
11 What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
Why do I need strength if I have no purpose? If there is no purpose then why am I alive? It seems Job is saying without God or if God is not telling me why these things are happening then why prolong my life? What Job does not know is, because God does not speak now, he did not change his mind from the last time he did speak.
12 Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
Job is asking questions and he is not drawing conclusions. A stone has weight but unable to do anything until it is picked up by someone who can move it. Is my flesh brass? Brass goes through a process to become stronger than metal. Job knows he has value, but having value and not be utilized is hard to comprehend and it is simply taking up space.
13 Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
When the mind is fully aware of what it can do, but the body is incapable of responding, as usual, we are helpless. Job knows the consequences of wrongdoing, but he is lost when there are no factors that seemingly justify the product.
14 To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
When we do not treat a person who is going through downfalls in life as God would have it so, we who should represent God, have simply walked away from God.
15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
16 Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
17 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
18 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
19 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
20 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
21 For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
Job describes his friends as a useless brook. You should be a stream that flows, instead, you've dried up, and those that look for what you say you supply, leave your presence thirsty, dry and incomplete.
22 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
Job is asking did I need anything from you? Did I call you because I needed you to tell me what I don't know? Are the answers I need in life found in mankind?
24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Tell me the truth and I will agree. Tell me the truth of what I did wrong.
25 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
The truth hurts sometimes but I want it anyway. Eliphaz made a lot of accusations, but nothing caused the brook to begin flowing.
26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
If you are correcting me, and I am desperate to change to do what I know is right, then show me that what I am speaking is not just mere words. I don't want to think my words are floating in the air for no reason.
27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
What you have concluded about me is as a child with no father and you add insult to injury by selling him as a slave; then you trap a man you call a friend.
28 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
I know you think I am lying. I would love to see your eyes while you tell me that you know I am not telling the truth. Don't look the other way, be firm, tell me I am lying.
29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
Reexamine your findings. Come back with facts. What I believe about me can take heat. Start over, check my paper again. You say I am wrong, prove it!
30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
Job speaks and says, I do not tell lies. What you said to me or about me shows your words are of no value.
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Job 6
The power of words
Should always be truth
Once they are spoken
Brings life or abuse
Every word needed is
Supported of God
We must be responsible
And speak from his heart
People are suspicious
And many are lost
Examine carefully
Because every word costs
Be slow to speak
And use few words
That how God spoke
And he knows how to be heard
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