Job 14

Job 14:1 A human born of woman is short on days and full of trouble.

Job 14:2 He blossoms like a flower, then withers; he flees like a shadow and does not last.

Job 14:3 Do open your eyes to one like this? Will you bring me into judgment against you?

Job 14:4 Who can produce something pure from something impure? No one!

Job 14:5 Since a person’s days are determined and the number of his months depends on you, and since you have set limits he cannot pass,

Job 14:6 look away from him and let him rest so that he can enjoy his day like a hired worker.

Job 14:7 There is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its shoots will not die.

Job 14:8 If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump starts to die in the soil,

Job 14:9 the scent of water makes it revive and produce twigs like a sapling.

Job 14:10 But a healthy man dies and fades away; Adam expires – and where is he?

Job 14:11 As water disappears from a lake and a river becomes dry,

Job 14:12 so a person lies down never to rise again. He will not wake up until the sky is no more; they will not stir from their sleep.

Job 14:13 If only you would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until your anger passes. If only you would appoint a time for me and then remember me.

Job 14:14 If a healthy person dies, will he come back to life? If so, I would wait all the days of my struggle until my relief comes.

Job 14:15 You would call, and I would answer you. You would long for the work of your hands.

Job 14:16 For then you would count my steps but would not take note of my sin.

Job 14:17 My rebellion would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity.

Job 14:18 But as a mountain collapses and crumbles and a rock is dislodged from its place,

Job 14:19 as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the topsoil from the ground, so you destroy a mortal’s hope.

Job 14:20 You completely overpower him, and he goes away; you change his appearance and send him away.

Job 14:21 If his sons receive honor, he does not know it; if they become insignificant, he is unaware of it.

Job 14:22 He feels only the pain of his own body and mourns only for his throat.

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Job 13 

Job 13:1 Notice, my eyes have seen all this; my ears have heard and understood it.

Job 13:2 Everything you know, I know too; I am not inferior to you.

Job 13:3 Yet I prefer to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.

Job 13:4 You use lies like a bandage; you are all worthless doctors.

Job 13:5 If only you would shut up and let that be your wisdom!

Job 13:6 Hear now my argument and listen to my defence.

Job 13:7 Should you keep testifying unjustly on God’s behalf or speaking deceitfully for him?

Job 13:8 Should you show partiality to him or argue the case in his defence?

Job 13:9 Would it go well if he examined you? Could you deceive him as you would deceive a mortal?

Job 13:10 Surely, he would rebuke you if you secretly showed partiality.

Job 13:11 Would God’s majesty not terrify you? Would his dread not fall on you?

Job 13:12 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ash; your defences are made of clay.

Job 13:13 Be quiet, and I will speak. Let whatever comes happen to me.

Job 13:14 I will put my flesh in my teeth and take my throat in my own hands.

Job 13:15 Even if he kills me, I will put my hope in him. I will still defend my ways before him.

Job 13:16 Yes, this will result in my deliverance, for no godless person can appear before him.

Job 13:17 Pay close attention to my words; let my declaration ring in your ears.

Job 13:18 Now then, I have prepared my case; I know that I am right.

Job 13:19 Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die.

Job 13:20 Only grant these two things to me, God, so that I will not have to hide from your presence:

Job 13:21 remove your hand from me, and do not frighten me with your terror.

Job 13:22 Then call, and I will answer, or I will speak, and you can respond to me.

Job 13:23 How many violations and failures have I committed? Reveal to me my transgression and failure.

Job 13:24 Why are you hiding your face and considering me your enemy?

Job 13:25 Will you frighten a wind-driven leaf? Will you chase after dry straw?

Job 13:26 Because you record bitter accusations against me and make me inherit the violations of my youth.

Job 13:27 You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths, setting a limit for the soles of my feet.

Job 13:28 And he wears out like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.

links:

Maranatha Daily Devotional – Friday, July 29, 2016
proverbs of ash
proverbs of ashes

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Job 12

Job 12:1 Then Job answered and said:

Job 12:2 Truly you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!

Job 12:3 But I also have a heart like you; I am not inferior to you. Who doesn’t know the things you refer to?

Job 12:4 I am a laughingstock to my friends, by calling on God, who answers me. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.

Job 12:5 The one who is at ease holds calamity in contempt and thinks it is prepared for those whose feet are slipping.

Job 12:6 The tents of robbers are safe, and those who trouble God are secure; God holds them in his hands.

Job 12:7 But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.

Job 12:8 Or speak to the land, and it will instruct you; let the fish of the sea inform you.

Job 12:9 Which of all these does not know that the hand of Yahveh has done this?

Job 12:10 The throat of every living thing is in his hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.

Job 12:11 Doesn’t the ear test words as the palate tastes food?

Job 12:12 Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.

Job 12:13 Wisdom and strength belong to God; counsel and understanding are his.

Job 12:14 Whatever he tears down cannot be rebuilt; whoever he imprisons cannot be released.

Job 12:15 When he withholds water, everything dries up, and when he releases it, it overturns the ground.

Job 12:16 True wisdom and power belong to him. The deceived and the deceiver are his.

Job 12:17 He leads counselors away barefoot and makes judges go mad.

Job 12:18 He releases the bonds put on by kings and fastens a belt around their waists.

Job 12:19 He leads priests away barefoot, and overthrows established leaders.

Job 12:20 He deprives trusted advisers of speech and takes away the elders’ good judgment.

Job 12:21 He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms the strong.

Job 12:22 He reveals mysteries from the darkness and brings the deepest darkness into the light.

Job 12:23 He makes nations great, then destroys them; he enlarges nations, then leads them away.

Job 12:24 He deprives the land’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

Job 12:25 They grope around in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like a drunk.

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Job 11

Job 11:1 Then Zophar the Naamathite said in answer:

Job 11:2 Should so many words go unanswered and such lips be acquitted?

Job 11:3 Should your babbling put others to silence, so that you can keep on ridiculing with no one to shame you?

Job 11:4 You have said, “My teaching is sound, and I am pure as you can see.”

Job 11:5 But if only God would speak and open his lips against you!

Job 11:6 He would show you the secrets of wisdom, because true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God has chosen to overlook some of your violations.

Job 11:7 Can you fathom the depths of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?

Job 11:8 They are higher than the sky — what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol — what can you know?

Job 11:9 Their measure is longer than the ground and wider than the sea.

Job 11:10 If he passes by and throws someone in prison or convenes a court, who can stop him?

Job 11:11 Surely, he knows which people are worthless. If he sees iniquity, will he not take note of it?

Job 11:12 But a stupid person will gain understanding as soon as a wild donkey is born a human!

Job 11:13 As for you, if you redirect your heart and spread out your hands to him in prayer —

Job 11:14 if there is iniquity in your hand, remove it, and don’t allow injustice to dwell in your tents —

Job 11:15 then you will hold your head high, free from fault. You will be firmly established and unafraid.

Job 11:16 Because you will forget your suffering, recalling it only as water that has flowed by.

Job 11:17 Your lifetime will be brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.

Job 11:18 You will be confident, because there is hope. You will look carefully around and lie down in safety.

Job 11:19 You will lie down with no one to frighten you, and many will seek your favor.

Job 11:20 But the eyes of the wicked will fail. Their way of escape will be destroyed, and their only hope is a breathing throat.

links:

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Maranatha Daily Devotional – Friday, January 14, 2022
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Thursday, July 28, 2016
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Wednesday, July 27, 2016
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Job 10

Job 10:1 My throat is disgusted with my life. I will give vent to my complaint and speak with the bitterness of my throat.

Job 10:2 I will say to God, “Do not just condemn me! Let me know why you prosecute me.

Job 10:3 Is it good for you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands, and favor the plans of the wicked?

Job 10:4 Are your eyes flesh, or do you see as a mortal sees?

Job 10:5 Are your days like those of a mortal, or your years like those of a healthy man,

Job 10:6 that you look for my iniquity and search for my sin,

Job 10:7 even though you know that I am not wicked and that no one can rescue from your power?

Job 10:8 “Your hands shaped me and formed me. Will you now turn and destroy me?

Job 10:9 Please remember that you made me like clay. Will you now return me to dust?

Job 10:10 Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?

Job 10:11 You clothed me with skin and flesh and wove me together with bones and tendons.

Job 10:12 You gave me life and faithful love, and your care has guarded my breath.

Job 10:13 “Yet you concealed these thoughts in your heart; I know that this was your hidden plan:

Job 10:14 if I fail, you would notice and would not acquit me of my iniquity.

Job 10:15 If I am wicked, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am filled with shame and have drunk deeply of my affliction.

Job 10:16 If I am proud, you hunt me like a lion and again display your miraculous power against me.

Job 10:17 You produce new witnesses against me and multiply your anger toward me. Hardships assault me, wave after wave.

Job 10:18 “Why did you bring me out of the womb? I should have died and never been seen.

Job 10:19 I wish I had never existed but had been carried from the womb to the grave.

Job 10:20 Are my days not few? Stop it! Please leave me alone, so that I can smile a little

Job 10:21 before I go to the dark and shadowy ground, never to return.

Job 10:22 It is a dark ground, like a deep shadow, darkness and disorder, where even the light is like the darkness.”

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like clay
truth collides with truth

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