Suggested Bible Reading: Job 32-35 Devotional Thought: Elihu listed two of what he understood Job’s complaints to be: “God is unjust” (vs. 5-6) and “There is no profit in serving God” (vs. 7-9). He answered the first complaint in verses 10-37 and the second complaint in chapter 35. It is sad that we as Christians…
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Suggested Bible Reading: Job 29-31 Devotional Thought: I cannot even understand the depth of Job’s despair, the monument of hurt and sorrow, or the level of shame and disappointment. This chapter lets us have a small glimpse of how badly he was hurting. Job contrasts his life in chapter’s 29-30. In chapter 29 he states…
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Suggested Bible Reading: Job 14-16 Devotional Thought: Job 14:13-15 says, “O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me! If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed…
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Suggested Bible Reading: Job 10-13 Devotional Thought: In chapter 11, Zophar, a supposed friend makes three accusations against Job: (1) Job is guilty of some sort of sin, (vs. 1-4) (2) Job is ignorant of who God is and what He is really like, (vs. 5-12) and (3) Job is too stubborn to repent and…
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Suggested Bible Reading: Job 6-9 Devotional Thought: Eliphaz ends his speech in chapter 5 with reminding Job that the same God who hurts also is a God who heals; therefore, he encouraged Job to bargain with God and strike a deal where God would restore all that Job had lost. “For he maketh sore, and…
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