Job 10 ~ Cheer before we go

 

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Job 10

“I loathe my life;
I will give free utterance to my complaint;
    I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 I will say to God, Do not condemn me;
    let me know why you contend against me.

3 Does it seem good to you to oppress,
    to despise the work of your hands
    and favor the designs of the wicked?

4 Have you eyes of flesh?
    Do you see as man sees?

5 Are your days as the days of man,
    or your years as a man's years,
6 that you seek out my iniquity
    and search for my sin,
7 although you know that I am not guilty,
    and there is none to deliver out of your hand?

8 Your hands fashioned and made me,
    and now you have destroyed me altogether.

9 Remember that you have made me like clay;
    and will you return me to the dust?
10 Did you not pour me out like milk
    and curdle me like cheese?

11 You clothed me with skin and flesh,
    and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12 You have granted me life and steadfast love,
    and your care has preserved my spirit.
13 Yet these things you hid in your heart;
    I know that this was your purpose.

14 If I sin, you watch me
    and do not acquit me of my iniquity.
15 If I am guilty, woe to me!
    If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head,
for I am filled with disgrace
    and look on my affliction.
16 And were my head lifted up, you would hunt me like a lion
    and again work wonders against me.

17 You renew your witnesses against me
    and increase your vexation toward me;
    you bring fresh troops against me.

18 “Why did you bring me out from the womb?
    Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
19 and were as though I had not been,
    carried from the womb to the grave.
20 Are not my days few?

    Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer
21 before I go—and I shall not return—
    to the land of darkness and deep shadow,
22 the land of gloom like thick darkness,
    like deep shadow without any order,
    where light is as thick darkness.”

Job lived about the same time as Jacob, the man God renamed Israel.  Circa 2000 B.C.  No one could say Jacob lived an easy life.  And we probably see some of the famine in Israel, in "The Book of Job", that we read about Jacob and his family experiencing.  Jacob also lost a child, Joseph.   Jacob just didn't protest as much about his innocence, yet Jacob didn't have something evil directed towards him.

The Scriptures live. Live. We all know Job Chapter 10 is for the people who despair and feel God has abandoned.  Something they live and feel very deeply.

Job 42:10-17 

 The Lord Restores Job's Fortunes

10 And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11 Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him. 

And each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold.

12 And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. 

And he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. 13 He had also seven sons and three daughters. 14 And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch. 15 And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job's daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. 

And after this Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations. 17 And Job died, an old man, and full of days.

Faith is hope unseen. The people who waited: Abraham and Sarah, Noah,  Joshua and Caleb, David, Isaiah and 4 kings, those waiting for the Messiah, The Christ of God. John, the Beloved Disciple. Mary. Doubting Thomas.

Luke 18:1 

 And He told them a parable to the effect 

that 

they ought always to pray 

and 

not give up heart.

Jeremiah 32:17

‘Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.

Jeremiah 32:27 

“Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me?

Genesis 18:14

Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.”

Matthew 19:26 

 

But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Luke 1:37

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Mark 10:27 

Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”

Job 42:2 

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.

Isaiah 41:10 

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Abba, Father,

God of Light

You are in all things

You are Light of the world

Light of mankind

Light of Heaven

In all Things, You Create

You have given us Jesus Christ

Holy is

the Highest Name

Above

all others

Your Kingdom come

Your Good Will be done

we pray for more

on earth

just as it is in Heaven.

Give us This Day

Our Daily Bread.

Jesus the Living Bread.

Forgive us our Trespasses

as

we forgive those

who Trespass 

Against us.

Lead us not into temptation

Deliver us from Evil. 

For Thine

is the

Kingdom

and 

the Power

and 

the Glory.

Giving Thanks!!!

For the new grandchild

sometime

in early June!

WORLDWIDE
PEACE

IN

Our

Amen in Jesus Christ 

John 21

Thank you, Jesus, our Lord Christ

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Bless the Lord Jesus

Thank You, Jesus