Looking for Job

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74) Looking for Job


Job 9:

If I say, “I will forget my complaint,

I will change my expression and be

cheerful,”

I would still be afraid because of all my pains,

And I know you would not find me innocent.


- Job knows he is faithful!


- But he also knows he is in trouble!

- And it wasn’t so before!


- So he can’t understand because it seems he is guilty but he doesn’t know what he has done wrong!

 

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75) Looking for Job


Job 9:

I would still be afraid because of all my pains,

And I know you would not find me innocent.


- Job feels bad because of his physical and mental conditions


- But the worst for him is to think he has done something wrong against God and he doesn’t know what!


- Of course, physical and mental conditions are deeply connected!


- But having no hope is the worst!


- It’s really hard when everything is dark and you don’t see any light!


- You need to look to the future!


- Because you can’t change the past, you have to live with it!


- But you can build something on it so you can go on!


- You need a project!

 

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76) Looking for Job


Job 9:

I would be found guilty.

So why should I struggle in vain?


- When we just listen to Job, it makes it so powerful!


- What the three individuals say is so empty!


- And Job says it again, the worst for him is the feeling of being guilty and not knowing why!


- His relationship with God is so fundamental!


- It is like eating and drinking and sleeping and breathing: you can’t live without doing it!

- Thus the Book of Job is a good way to ask ourselves what kind of relationship we have with God!


- Are we foreigners or do we want to build a strong relationship with him!


- If so, we must study daily but we need more than that, we need to keep thinking about what we learn daily, it must feel our minds, our lungs, our bodies and help us to get up every morning!

 

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77) Looking for Job


Job 9:

if I wash myself in water from melting snow,

And I cleanse my hands in lye,

Then you would dip me in a pit,

So that even my own garments would detest

me.


- “cleanse my hands in lye” is so violent!


- Job doesn’t know what to do!


- “detest” is also violent!


- It shows how much Job is affected emotionally!


- Is constructive dialogue or communication between two people essential?


- Well, Job says he can’t do it without!


- He needs to communicate with God!


- What about us?

 

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78) Looking for Job


Job 9:

For he is not a man like me that I may answer him,

That we should go to court together.


- Of course, God is superior to us!


- But God finds pleasure and satisfaction when people serve him faithfully!


- Think about the devil’s jealousy about people worshiping God with faithfulness!


- We are made in His image!


- So it means we are able to develop a special relationship with him!


- Think about working with God forever in a world dominated by him!


*- No more injustice and the possibility to live in a world where nobody can oppose him and make a world where it is impossible to live!


- On the contrary, living in a world where we can get up every morning and be sure that we can make it better and better!

 

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79) Looking for Job

Job 9:

There is no person to decide between us,

Who could serve as our judge.


- In a relationship with God, there are only two beings: God and us!


- We mustn’t let anybody interfere with our relationship with God!


- People can help us make it stronger but at the end of the times, it’s up to us!


- We can only accuse ourselves, not the others!


- If we let others govern our relationship with God, it’s our own mistake!

 

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80) Looking for Job

Job 9:

If he would stop beating me

And not let his terror frighten me,

Then I would speak to him unafraid,


For it is not in me to speak out of fear.


- The last verse of Chapter 9 is powerful!


- It tells us about Job’s relationship with God!


- A relationship based on confidence!


- “FOR IT IS NOT IN ME TO SPEAK OUT OF FEAR!”


- What a powerful feeling to be able to open our hearts to God and speak freely to him!


- It should be the rule!

 

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81) Looking for Job


Job 10:

“I loathe my life.

I will give vent to my complaints.

I will speak out in my bitter distress!


- On the one hand, Job “loathe” his life, he can’t bear being away from God!


- On the other hand, the only thing left to him is to “vent” his complaints!


- That’s what makes his strength in spite of his condition!


- He wants to speak to God about his own feelings and open his hearts to him as he has always done it!


- That’s the only thing he gets!


- And nobody can take it from him!

 

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82) Looking for Job


Job 10:

I will say to God:” Do not pronounce me guilty.

Tell me why you are contending with me.


- Job is used to communicate personally with God!


- He doesn’t know how to do it in another way!


- We don’t know when he started his relationship with God!


- We don’t know about his family!


- As far as we know, the relationship between Job and God has strong foundation!

 

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83) Looking for Job


Job 10:

Does it benefit you to oppress,

To despise the work of your hands

While you favor the advice of the wicked?


- Yes, Job is in bad conditions!


- Yes, Job feels bad!


- Yes, he wants to tell everybody!


- Yes, he wants to shout it to everybody!


- Yes, he doesn’t understand it!


- And yes, this misunderstanding IS GROWING AND GROWING INSIDE HIM!


- As if it was going to explode like a nuclear bomb!

 

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84) Looking for Job


Job 10:

Do you have eyes of flesh,


Or do you see as mortal man does?


- Of course, God is not human!


- Of course, God has a different vision, a different mind!


- Of course, he is the creator!


- Of course, he understands perfectly his creation!


- WHATEVER HE DOES OR DOESN’T IS ON PURPOSE!


- EVERY ACTION FROM HIS PART IS BALANCED!

 

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85) Looking for Job


Job 10:

Are your days like days of mortals,

Or are your years like those of a man,


- Yes, Job never forgets to speak about God’s nature!


- How unique he is!


- How nothing can be compared to him!


- How he has no beginning and no end which is difficult for us to understand because we have a beginning and an end!


- That’s also the Book of Job!


- Even if he is in bad conditions he never forget to speak his creator and about his quality!


- Not to forget it!

 

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86) Looking for Job


Job 10:

That you should search out my error

And keep looking for my sin?


- Job thinks that because that’s the only thing he can think about!


- God is his only reference!


- He doesn’t know anything about the devil!


- He can’t communicate with God any more!


- So the only thing left for him is his bitterness and his complaint!


- Yes, he wants to speak and open his heart!

 

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87) Looking for Job


Job 10

You know that I am not guilty;

And no one can save me from your hand.


- Job knows he hasn’t done anything wrong!


- That puts more stress on him!


- When your only reference is God, it is easy to understand Job’s anguish!


- And he can’t communicate with God any more!


- And the devil keeps looking for ways to destroy him and wins against God!


- And the devil never renounces!

- That’s why he sends these men to Job who are supposed to help him but, in fact, they do everything to put him in the pit!


- Thus the devil uses vicious attacks!

 

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88) Looking for Job


Job 10

Your own hands have shaped me and made me,

But now you would completely destroy me.


- The devil must be laughing and thinking he is up to win!


- Well, he has been quite successful with a big part of humanity!


- And he always wants more!


- He only looks for his own interests!


- In fact, he and the demons only look for their own interests like the religious leaders!


- They don’t care about human beings!


- They are only a way to help them get what they want!


- And they want people to think that God does the same!


- In fact, what we see in the Book of Job can be extended to humanity!


- That’s the same!


- The devil plays a game, I would say a chess game and the pieces are human beings!


- A game for the devil and JUSTICE for God!

 

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89) Looking for Job


Job 10

Remember, please, that you made me out of clay,

But now you make me return to dust.


- God creates man!


- But he didn’t make us like other creatures!


- We are the ones who have spiritual needs because God is our root like trees have roots and without them they can’t get vital elements!


- This world has cut itself from God that’s why it is crazy and going to the pit


- WE CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT OUR ROOTS!


- The devil makes Job believe he has lost his ROOT!


- DO YOU REALLY UNDERSTAND THAT!


- When we read what people say about the Book of Job, it shows they don’t understand that!

 

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90) Looking for Job


Job 10 Did you not pour me out like milk

And curdle me like cheese?


- From milk to cheese: Job tells us that God built us!


- In fact, there is a big difference between MILK and CHEESE!


- Cheese is an elaborated product!


- And we are an elaborated product!


- And this society has turned into a really bad cheese!


- Hopefully, thanks to God and how he made us, there is still some good cheese!


- And Job will always be a really good one!

 

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91) Looking for Job


Job 10

With skin and flesh you clothed me,

And with bones and sinews you wove me

together.


- God decided to make us special!


- And yet, look at what we have become!


- Look at that society which only knows war and violence and misery and selfishness!


- Job is full of respect for God’s creation!


- We can’t say the same with men!

 

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92) Looking for Job


Job 10

You have given me life and loyal love;

You have guarded my spirit with your

care.


- Isn’t it incredible how Job speaks about God!


- He puts together life and loyal love!


“It's the kind of love that someone demonstrates when they're keeping a promise, and when the desire to be loyal to their promise motivates them to go above and beyond and be super generous, more than what you would expect—that's khesed.”2 nov. 2020


- “Life and Loyal love”: do we still know what it means? I doubt it considering what I see in this world when I get up every morning!


- Job knows what it means!


- Does it mean we are dead?


- And Job says that God has guarded his spirit with care: is that a father-son relationship?


- Is it possible to find better words?


- WOW! WOW! WOW!

 

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93) Looking for Job


Job 10

But you secretly intended to do these things.

I know that these things are from you.


- And Job is sincere when he says that!


- Can you hear the devil’s laughs!


- Because everything is against God as Job only knows God!


- Think of today: do you hear the devil’s laughs when he listens to the people?


- Do you understand God’s pain in relation to Job’s feelings!