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Job 21:27- 34

- According to Job’s experience, the wicked one thrives !

- Thus the men who are speaking to him are wrong !

- He knows exactly what they want to do!

- They fight him!

- They are against him!

- They are not helpful at all !

- Thus they should keep silent !

- They are envious!

- They probably rejoice of his situation!

- But sometimes someone’s presence is better than words !

- Dogs don’t speak but their presence can do a lot !

- But empty words don’t bring comfort !

- Job keeps fighting!

- His fighting spirit is incredible!

- He gets his strength from Yah.weh!

- Because he let him teach him!

- Because he let his teaching penetrate him deep inside!

- Without stopping!

 

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Job 23:1-5

- Job can only complain stubbornly!

- It means to keep being alive !

- Or feeling alive !

- He is looking for God !

- He wants to speak to God !

- And defend himself in front of him !

- But he is also ready to listen to God !

- And take into account his opinion !

- He is exhausted but he finds the strength to keep fighting!

- His opponents should listen to such words!

- Maybe they need to face big problems to understand Job’s situation!

- Or they could read the Bible a bit more seriously!

- It’s an obligation!

- If you don’t understand the book of Job, how do you want to understand the rest of the Bible?

 

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Job 23:6,7

- Job knows his relationship to God!

- That’s why he is sure that God would listen to him!

- He knows that God won’t condemn him!

- Job has always thought that way!

- And he is not going to change !

- we must develop such a consciousness!

- We must develop such a knowledge of Yah.weh!

- It doesn’t come by chance!

- it requires material!

- And through the Bible, we can trace faithful servants of Yah.weh and how they developed a strong relationship with him!

- We must get deep inside!

We must get to know them as if they were members of our own family or friends!

 

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Job 23:8-10

- When you have a special relationship with someone, you get energy and strength and power from it !

- It is vital !

- You can’t live without it !
- Imagine what happens when this relationship interrupts abruptly !

- It is like a stroke !

- The devil knows perfectly what he does when he does it !

- The violence is unbelievable !

- Destructive !

- And Job knows he is tested and refined to become pure gold !

- Thus Job keeps looking for Yah.weh!

- And it will always be so!

- No question!

- It is a hard time for him!

- And he knows that his real value, which is pure gold, will get out!

- He is sure about that!

- Are we pure gold regarding our relationship with Yah.weh?

- Interesting question!

 

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Job 23:11

- His footsteps, his way!

- Closely and without deviating!

- It is probably difficult to understand what Job says here because we live in a superficial world!

- Job lives in a deep world!

- He is an upright man of integrity!

- Fearing God and shunning what is bad!

- He is afraid of his children to sin against God in their heart!

- Many people probably can’t understand what it means because we live in a superficial world!

- And it is difficult to go deep inside!

- It requires hard work!

- And they will miss the trial!

- Job knows what he speaks about!

- Our world is so superficial that we must study the Bible harder and harder if we want to follow Yah.weh’s steps!

- We can’t let this superficial world keep contaminating us!

- We must renew our personalities!

- We must refresh our personalities!

- We must prepare for what is coming!

- We must get stronger and stronger for the coming gigantic storm!

 

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Job 23:12

- “the commandment of his lips”!

- It tells about the kind of relationship between God and Job!

- From mouth to ear!

- Absolutely not superficial!

- But deep inside!

- And hard work!

- Something highly valuable!

- Exceptional and thus difficult to understand for human beings!

- “I have treasured up his sayings”!

- Who treasures God’s word like Job?

- The difference between superficiality and depth!

- “Even more than what was required of me”!

- A level far beyond what normal human beings can reach!

- Job did more than he was supposed to do!

- It can explain why there is no one like him on earth!

- Why doing more than what's expected from us!

- It shows how far we value our relationship with Yah.weh!

- So unusual in this superficial world!

 

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Job 23:13,14

- In fact, very few faithful servants of God could prevent him from directly destroying the Israelites or acting in their favor!

- At the end they had to pay the price for their foolishness!

- Regarding Job, it is the devil!

- Regarding Job, the devil is in a rage!

- And he is ready to do anything that God tolerates him to do against Job!

- And the devil is in a rage against those who stay faithful!

- And he always wants more followers!

- He has never enough!

- The devil goes to destruction and he wants to bring to destruction as many people as he can!

- Here Job tells us about Yah.weh’s determination!

- He is the God of the Promise or of the Promises!

- Apparently, it is really hard for men to understand it!

- They turned him into something else, something which has no taste, no smell, something you can’t see, you can’t hear, you can’t touch!

 

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Job 23:15,16

- ANXIOUS - FEAR - FAINTHEARTED - AFRAID

- Yes, Job is anxious!

- But it is because of the devil!

- Yes, his fear grows!

- But it is because of the devil!

- Yes, he is fainthearted!

- But it is because of the devil!

- Yes, the devil has made him afraid!

- The devil has a lot of responsibility!

- And he keeps working hard!

- To help people opposing God!

- And destroying the relationship between God and Job!

- And destroying the relationship between God and us!

- And the stronger the better, like in the case of Job!

- since the devil started opposing Yah.weh, he has been working very hard so the majority of men would oppose him!

- And till the end, he will keep doing it!

- He has the same determination as Yah.weh but to do the opposite!

- He has nothing to lose!

- And there is no way back!

- Same for the demons!

- But men can go back to Yah.weh before it is too late!

- That’s a big difference!

- It is something valuable!

- If we can value it!

- The question is do we really value life?

 

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Job 23:17

- But Job is still fighting!

- And he is not ready to do it!

- In fact, God knows Job!

- But the devil doesn’t know him!

- How could he know him?

- To really know someone, you need a personal relationship!

- And a deep one, not a superficial one!

- But it is hard work!

- No hard work, no deep personal relationship!

- The devil tests Job’s limits!

- Job is at the border!

- Just like Voyager when it left the solar system!

- We don’t know what comes next!

- Men have an incredible ability to adapt to new situations!

- They can find new resources to survive!

- When we may think there is no hope, we can still find energy!

- Freeing such energy can lead us to a new dimension, a new perception of reality and thinking!

- Then we may realize that we can do more!

- And like Voyager, we can cross our border of what we know!

 

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Job 24:1

- The devil strikes Job again and again !

- And Job doesn’t see the end of it !

- It is really hard when you are in trouble and it seems it will never end !

- Of course, man is able to endure again and again !

- Men usually adapt to adversity !

- He is supposed to be flexible !

- But there is a limit !

- A mental and physical one !

- It is different for each individual according to his own experience !

- Thus we can’t take into account our own limits!

- We must adjust to each individual if we want to help him or her!

- Now Yah.weh set a time to put an end to this human society!

- But it is according to Yah.weh’s time which has nothing to do with man’s time!

- We must adjust to Yah.weh’s time and to Yah.weh’s justice to assimilate facts and events!

 

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Job 24:2-4

- Job tells us about injustice on earth!

- He doesn’t see any justice at all!

- Usually people say there is justice for the rich and another for the poor!

- The Bible is full of such examples!

- Real justice belongs to God!

- We can’t expect real justice in this world!

- It’s difficult to define man’s justice!

- It is made by men who are partial and who know partially!

- We can only wait for God’s world and see what real justice is!

- In fact, we can compare man’s world to animal’s world!

- We get the law of the strongest!

- The strongest can do whatever they want!

- Usually, all powers work together (political, commercial and religious)!

- They have always worked together to control people!

- We can now add the power of media!

- Justice is a show!

- It has always been a show!

- With public execution!

- Like circus games!

 

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Job 24:5,6

- Job is in trouble so he can see injustice!

- When he was fine, he would do his best to help all kinds of people!

- Of course, it’s different when you can see injustice through your body and your brain!

- People are in trouble all around the world!

- It can happen to any of us at any time!

- Usually there is no alarm!

- When there is an alarm it’s another story!

- It’s like global warming and other stuff!

- We know it’s happening!

- Of course, there are always crazy people saying nothing is happening!

- And most of the time we wait when we are in trouble!

- It’s always difficult for men to react before getting into trouble!

- That’s why we need God’s world to take actions and to be told to take actions and do the right things at the right time!

- When we look at the Hebrews in the Bible, we see the same!

- But the Bible clearly says it is because of their opposition to Yah.weh!

- Mankind is away from Yah.weh!

- Men want to do it by themselves!

- We can see the results!

- What big boys who try to become adults!

- But the future they can offer to their children leads to darkness!

- Really intelligent or really stupid!

- And their children will keep doing what they have been taught!

- That is bringing more darkness for their own children!

 

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Job 24:7-10

- There is a lot of misery in the world!

- There are wars!

- Diseases!

- The list is long!

- Science was supposed to solve all the problems!

- But is it really different?

- Violence, crimes!

- We are more numerous on earth!

- And we bring more trouble!

- We are consuming all resources faster and faster!

- We poison the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat!

- Species disappear faster and faster!

- Do we want to stay alone on earth?

- We need so many things yet we destroy them!

- And man is responsible!

- And he teaches his children to do the same!

- And we see our environment deteriorating faster and faster!

- And politicians have meetings!

- And they speak a lot!

- And they make promises they don’t respect!

- And politicians are fake!

- And man is fake!

 

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Job 24:11-25

- Thirsty / dying / fatally wounded / murderer / helpless / poor / darkness / terrors!

- Man’s world is a world of injustice!

- Who cares?

- In this old world, injustice is such a power that it absorbs everything!

- And it can strike anybody both the rich and the poor!

- And yet we know nothing!

- We are just a point in the universe!

- We are just nothing!

- Whatever we do we stay ignorant!

- The grave is for everybody!

- May God turn this old and ridiculous world into his new world!

- May we have the opportunity to work hand in hand with God!

- Yah.weh is watching!

- Yah.weh is preparing the next promised land!

- Yah.weh won’t tolerate any opposition!

- Man won’t be able to damage the earth anymore!

- On the contrary, he will have to turn it into a paradise under Yah.weh’s direction!

- Think about the solar system!

- Think about the universe!

- THERE IS ORDER EVERYWHERE!

- IT WORKS!

- EVERYTHING IS RENEWING CONSTANTLY!

 

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Job 26:1-4

- Job has spent his life helping others!

- So we can say he is an expert in the field!

- Moreover, he is old!

- So he has been doing it for quite a lot of time!

- So he can easily recognize people when they have no experience in the field!

- And the way the three individuals act shows they have no experience!

- And in the case of Job they are of no help at all!

- On the contrary!

- They oppose him!

- And above all, the last question is in fact not a question but an assertion!

- They are another tool of the devil to destroy Job!

- WORDS WITHOUT ACTIONS ARE EMPTY WORDS!

- IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO SPEAK ALL THE TIME!

- BEING PRESENT IS ESSENTIAL!

- EVERY ACTION TO HELP IS FRUITFUL!

 

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Job 26:5-14

- Yes, Job knows that God is powerful without any limits !

- Yes, Job knows that man is powerless with all limits !

- Yes, God «has suspended the earth upon nothing» !

- Think about the time the Book of Job was written !

- And think about that scientific fact !

- While everywhere on the earth they spoke nonsense !

- Yes, God «has suspended the earth upon nothing» !

- RESPECT !

- Job explains the gigantic difference between Yah.weh and man!

- There is no possible comparison!

- When you think that man needs so much time to start understanding small elements of Yah.weh’s creation!

- They make theories which are supposed to be true till it is revealed wrong!

- What is true today will be wrong tomorrow!

- But the worst is that man is proud of it!

- It is only FAKE!

- And man keeps repeating the same mistakes!

- He will never become an adult!

- He can only stay a baby boy drinking milk!

 

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Job 27:1-4

- The devil has deprived Job of justice!

- The devil has made Job bitter!

- And he knows that God’s spirit is in his nostrils!

- And Job will never speak unrighteousness!

- It is completely away from his mind and his way of life!

- He will never use deceit!

- Because he has God’s spirit!

- And he is exceptional!

- As God tells him!

- Job keeps straight in his boots!

- Nothing, no one can make him change his mind!

- He knows the only way!

- No two or three or four ways!

- Just one way!

- His exceptional relationship with Yah.weh!

- Based on an excellent knowledge of Yah.weh!

- And he used to live a very long time ago!

- What about today?

- Only superficiality?

- Regression!

- Complete lack of knowledge!

- Will mankind wake up one day?

- It never did it!

- Why should it change?

- Only individuals can wake up!

- When they react concretely!

- When they are active!

- When they use their brains!

- When they don’t let this modern society brainwash them!

 

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Job 27:5-7

- Job knows why the three individuals are there!

- They can say whatever they want!

- They won’t succeed!

- Job will stay faithful to God!

- It is more precious than anything else!

- And he has not done anything wrong!

- He knows people are trying to destroy him!

- To destroy the relationship he has with God!

- INTEGRITY!

- RIGHTEOUSNESS!

- What about our integrity?

- What about our righteousness?

- What do we do personally for that?

- Do we act personally for them?

- Are we active?

- What kind of activity?

- Does Yah.weh expect us to act in such a way?

 

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Job 27:8-10

- HOPE!

- HOPE is essential to Job!

- Especially because of what he is enduring!

- And straight away he wanted to die!

- To escape his pain and suffering!

- But hoping that God will remember him and his faithfulness!

- And resurrect him!

- Do we have hope?

- Is our hope strong enough?

- Is our hope alive?

- Do we keep it alive?

- What do we do to have hope?

- What is our hope based on?

 

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Job 27:11,12

- Job knows about God!

- And God knows about Job!

- And they have a mutual respect for one another!

- And Job will keep speaking about God till his death!

- He knows that the three individuals don’t come from God!

- They may have visions!

- But it is not from God!

- Because their words and speeches are empty!

- They don’t help anybody!

- And they don’t know how to help people!

- They probably don’t know how to help themselves!

- Do we speak about God?

- How often?

- Do we encourage people to read and think about and understand the Bible?

- As a consequence, does Yah.weh really know us personally?

- Or are we a stranger to him?