For the first time in my life
I read the book of Job
Read 42 chapters
This book is very old.
God gave instructions
Job obeyed what he said
Not only did God talk to Job
He spoke to Eliphaz
Job now knows
About using non-sense words
It's better to know the word
Don’t Go by what you heard.
What Job had was doubled
Because blessed him
If we obey as Job as did
We will never be condemned.
God showed Job through illustrations of nature, animals, creatures, and the heavens, His nature. If needed, God used things we could identify with so that we could understand life. After Job understood the real-life presentation by God, Job saw himself and repented or changed. His friends were examined by God and they were given strict orders to show that they had done wrong; after following God's instructions of animal sacrifice, they too became back into fellowship with God.
When Job and his friends followed God's directions, God blessed Job, and Job was given double of everything he lost. If Job had 10 cows, Job now has 20 cows. Before the suffering of Job, Job had 10 children. God said he doubled all that was taken away from Job. Job had 10 children and now he has 10 more. The first 10 are with God and the second 10 are with Job. What I learned most about the entire book of Job is to watch my words. Words have so much power and our mouths were made to communicate the Word of God. Religion makes us fearful to use God's Word. Satan will do anything to make us use words to destroy the message of life given by God's Word. It is enough words in God's Word to never run out of things to say.
42 Then Job answered the Lord, and said,
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2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
7 And 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.
8 Therefore 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.
9 So 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.
10 And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lordgave Job twice as much as he had before.
11 Then 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 Lordhad brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
12 So 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.
13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.
14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.
15 And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
16 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
17 So Job died, being old and full of days.
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