Job

Reading the Book of Job

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Eliphaz was afraid he was too impatient to say something : “If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved?but who can withhold himself from speaking?” (Book of Job 4:2)

And Job realized that he was too affected to speak the way  he would like to do:” .. Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.” (Book of Job 6:3)

Is not that the way it is when it comes to our words about  God? They where too early spoken. Or much too diffuse –

Book of Job (READING THE BOOK OF JOB)

 1There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

2And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

3His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

4And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

5And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

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