His Words Are Life

Job 18:1 - Job 22:24

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Participants: Kelly Mowrer

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00:15 Hello, and welcome back to His Words are Life.
00:17 I'm Kelly Mowrer, and today we are continuing the story of Job.
00:21 Let's pray together before we start.
00:24 Dear God, Please be with us now as we read these words,
00:29 to understand the lessons that you have for each one of us
00:33 in the reading today. Please send your Holy Spirit to open
00:37 our eyes and make these words go deep into our heart today.
00:41 Amen. We're in the middle of a dialog between Job and his three
00:48 friends who have come to comfort him in the loss of his family,
00:52 the loss of his wealth, his property and in his health.
00:57 Job is sitting there discussing with them. They're dialoging
01:02 back and forth on the question of suffering and pain.
01:04 God's hand in it? is it punishment?
01:07 We're picking up in Job, chapter 18, as they discuss
01:12 these questions and make their points back and forth.
01:14 Verse 1 of chapter 18, this is the King James Version.
01:18 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite and said, How long will it be
01:24 ever ye make an end of words? mark and afterwards
01:28 we will speak. Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed
01:33 vile in your sight? He teareth himself in his anger:
01:37 shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be
01:40 removed out of his place? Yea the light of the wicked shall be
01:44 put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
01:47 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle
01:50 shall be put out with him. The steps of his strength
01:54 shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
01:57 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a
02:02 snare. The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall
02:06 prevail against him. The snare is laid for him in the ground,
02:10 and a trap for him in the way. Terrors shall make him afraid
02:13 on every side, and he shall drive him to his feet.
02:16 His strength shall be hunger bitten, and destruction
02:19 shall be ready at his side. It shall devour the strength of
02:23 his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
02:26 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle,
02:29 and it shall bring him to the king of terrors;
02:31 It shall dwell in his tabernacle because it is none of his:
02:35 brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
02:38 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his
02:42 branch be cut off. His remembrance shall perish
02:46 from the earth and he shall have no name in the street.
02:48 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased
02:51 out of the world. He shall neither have son nor nephew
02:53 among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
02:56 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day,
03:00 as they that went before were affrighted.
03:05 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the
03:09 place of him that knoweth not God.
03:12 Continuing in Job, chapter 19. Then Job answered and said,
03:17 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces
03:21 with words? These ten times have ye reproached me:
03:24 ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
03:27 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth
03:31 with myself. If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me,
03:35 and plead against me my reproach: Know now that
03:38 God has overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
03:41 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard:
03:45 I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. He hath fenced
03:50 up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness
03:53 in my paths. He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown
03:57 from my head. He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone:
04:00 and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
04:02 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth
04:07 me unto him as one of his enemies. His troops come
04:10 together and raise up their way against me, and encamp
04:12 round about my tabernacle. He hath put my brethren far from me
04:17 and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
04:21 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends
04:25 have forgotten me. They that dwell in mine house,
04:29 and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien
04:34 in their sight. I called my servant, and he gave me
04:37 no answer; I entreated him with my mouth. My breath is strange
04:43 to my wife, though I entreated for the children's sake of mine
04:47 own body. Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they
04:51 spake against me. All my inward friends abhorred me.
04:55 and they whom I loved are turned against me. My bone cleaveth
05:00 to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin
05:04 of my teeth. Have pity upon me, have pity upon me,
05:09 O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
05:13 Why do ye persecute me as God and are not satisfied
05:18 with my flesh? O that my words were now written!
05:21 O that they were printed in a book!
05:23 That they were graven with an iron pen and
05:26 lead in the rock forever! For I know that my redeemer liveth,
05:31 and he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
05:36 And though after my skin, worms destroy this body,
05:40 Yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself,
05:47 and mine eyes shall behold, and not another;
05:49 though my reins be consumed within me.
05:52 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the
05:57 matter is found in me? Be ye afraid of the sword:
06:01 for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword,
06:03 that ye may know there is a judgment.
06:06 Continuing in Job, chapter 20, This is the King James Version.
06:11 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
06:16 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer,
06:20 and for this I make haste. I have heard the check of my
06:24 reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me
06:27 to answer. Knowest thou not this of old,
06:31 since man was placed upon earth, that the triumphing of
06:35 the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite
06:39 but for a moment? Though his excellency mount up to the
06:43 heavens, and his head reach the clouds; yet he shall perish
06:46 for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him
06:49 shall say, Where is he? He shall fly away as a dream,
06:53 and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away
06:56 as a vision of the night. The eye also which saw him shall see
07:00 him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
07:04 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands
07:08 shall restore their goods. His bones are full of the sin of his
07:11 youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
07:14 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it
07:19 under his tongue; though he spare it and forsake it not;
07:22 but keep it still within his mouth: yet his meat in his
07:26 bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
07:31 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again
07:36 God shall cast them out of his belly. He shall suck the poison
07:40 of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
07:42 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey
07:45 and butter. That which he labored for shall he restore,
07:49 and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance
07:52 shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.
07:56 Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor;
08:00 because he has violently taken away an house which he builded
08:03 not; surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly,
08:06 he shall not save of that which he desired.
08:10 There shall none of his meat be left;
08:12 therefore shall no man look for his goods.
08:15 In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be
08:20 in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
08:24 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury
08:28 of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he
08:31 is eating. He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow
08:35 of steel shall strike him through.
08:37 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering
08:41 sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
08:45 All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown
08:50 shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left
08:53 in his tabernacle. The heaven shall reveal his iniquity;
08:57 and the earth shall rise up against him.
08:59 The increase of his house shall depart,
09:02 and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
09:06 This is the portion of a wicked man from God,
09:11 and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
09:15 Continuing with Job, chapter 21, This is the King James Version.
09:21 But Job answered and said, Hear diligently my speech,
09:27 and let this be your consolations.
09:29 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken,
09:32 mock on. As for me, is my complaint to man?
09:36 and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
09:39 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your
09:44 mouth. Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling
09:47 taketh hold on my flesh. Wherefore do the wicked live,
09:51 become old, yea, are mighty in power? Their seed is established
09:56 in their sight with them, and their offspring before
09:58 their eyes. Their houses are save from fear,
10:01 neither is the rod of God upon them. Their bull gendereth,
10:05 and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her
10:08 calf. They send forth their little ones like a flock,
10:11 and their children dance. They take the timbrel and harp,
10:14 and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
10:16 They spend their days in wealth and in a moment go down to the
10:20 grave. Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us;
10:24 for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
10:26 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
10:29 and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
10:33 Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked
10:38 is far from me. How oft is the candle of the wicked put out!
10:43 and how oft cometh their destruction upon them!
10:45 God distributeth sorrows in his anger. They are as stubble
10:50 before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
10:53 God layeth up his iniquity for his children:
10:57 he rewardeth him, and he shall know it. His eyes shall see
11:01 his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the
11:04 Almighty. For what pleasure hath he in his house after him,
11:08 when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
11:12 Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are
11:17 high. One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease
11:22 and quiet. His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are
11:26 moistened with marrow. And another dieth in the bitterness
11:30 of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
11:33 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms
11:36 shall cover them. Behold, I know your thoughts,
11:40 and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
11:43 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the
11:47 dwelling places of the wicked? Have ye not asked them
11:51 that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
11:53 that the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction?
11:57 they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
12:00 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay
12:05 him what he hath done? Yet shall he be brought to the grave,
12:09 and shall remain in the tomb. The clods of the valley
12:12 shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him,
12:15 as there are innumerable before him. How then comfort ye me
12:20 in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
12:25 Continuing with Job, chapter 22. Then Eliphaz the Temanite
12:32 answered and said, Can a man be profitable unto God,
12:36 as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
12:40 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art
12:44 righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways
12:47 perfect? Will he reprove thee for fear of thee?
12:51 will he enter with thee into judgment?
12:54 Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
12:59 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought,
13:03 and stripped the naked of their clothing. Thou hast not given
13:05 water to the weary to drink, and thou hast witholden bread
13:08 from the hungry. But as for the mighty man, he had the earth;
13:11 and the honorable man dwelt in it. Thou has sent widows
13:15 away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
13:18 Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear
13:22 troubleth thee; Or darkness, that thou canst not see;
13:27 and abundance of waters cover thee. Is not God in the height
13:31 of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
13:34 And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the
13:39 dark cloud? Thick clouds are a covering to him,
13:42 that he seeth not and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
13:45 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
13:49 which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown
13:52 with a flood: Which said unto God, Depart from us:
13:55 and what can the Almighty do for them? Yet he filled their houses
13:59 with good things: but the counsel of the wicked
14:02 is far from me. The righteous see it, and are glad:
14:05 and the innocent laugh them to scorn. Whereas our substance
14:08 is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire
14:11 consumeth. Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace:
14:15 thereby good shall come unto thee. Receive, I pray thee,
14:20 the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
14:23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up,
14:26 thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
14:29 Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir
14:34 as the stones of the brooks. Please join me again next time.
14:39 Goodbye.


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