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Job 22-24
Today we get:
Job 22
Eliphaz talks some more.
2 Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
My, what an intriguing set of questions. Can a man be profitable unto God?
That statement is so interesting. Why would God need a man to help Him? God, being God, doesn't need anyone's help to do whatever He wants. God does what He wants without need or service of man. Eliphaz seems to understand this.
3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
Eliphaz says that God gets nothing from Job's righteousness. Therefore, God doesn't owe Job anything. Since God doesn't REQUIRE anything, he doesn't need to GIVE anything back.
4 Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?
God isn't afraid of people, He's God.
12 Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
God is great! He doesn't need Job.
16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
See, the Bible (KJV1611) backs itself up. Eliphaz mentions Noah's flood.
21 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
If God wants the good to come unto him.
22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
This would still just be the Noahide Laws, mankind wouldn't have received the full 613 laws yet. Nor would they probably apply to Job, as he's not a Jew.
27 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
When you repent, He'll forgive.
Job 23
Job answered.
2 Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
Friends, I apologize for being a day or two early on the footprints in the sand analogy. It would have gone much better with Job 23.
3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
Remember, "footprints" would say that "it was then that I carried you". But Job knows better.
8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
Job doesn't see Him in front, or in back.
9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
He's hiding on the right. But being God, when He plays hide and seek, he's gone for good. (Heck, he's been hiding REAL good for the past 2000 years).
10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Job almost accuses God of ignoring him.
13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
Who can change the mind of the LORD? Job is agreeing with Eliphaz (almost) in that God doesn't need people. To think that man can change the mind of God is to say that God isn't perfect.
Job 24
Job now talks about some people who live in defiance of the LORD.
Flock stealer's; landmark removers, ox and ass takers... these people don't know the LORD.
3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
Remember, we have commandments to take care of orphans and widows.
6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
Not MAIZE corn, but corn meaning seeds.
Vintage is wine.
13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
Job now talks about people who do their deeds at night, hidden.
Murderers, adulterers, robbers, 17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
These people are like cockroaches, when the light (of the LORD) is shone on them, they run away.
24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
Remember, corn (maize) wasn't known by most people until 1492, when Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Although that does sound a lot like the tassel on an ear of corn.. but it's not.
25 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
I'm guessing that Bildad is going to try to do that next.
So what have we learned today?
1. God doesn't need people.
2. Job can't find God.
3. Corn sure sounds like corn, but it's not corn, it's some other grain.
YIC
V
Today we get:
- More Eliphaz
- Job's long winded rebuttal
Job 22
Eliphaz talks some more.
2 Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
My, what an intriguing set of questions. Can a man be profitable unto God?
That statement is so interesting. Why would God need a man to help Him? God, being God, doesn't need anyone's help to do whatever He wants. God does what He wants without need or service of man. Eliphaz seems to understand this.
3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
Eliphaz says that God gets nothing from Job's righteousness. Therefore, God doesn't owe Job anything. Since God doesn't REQUIRE anything, he doesn't need to GIVE anything back.
4 Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?
God isn't afraid of people, He's God.
12 Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
God is great! He doesn't need Job.
16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
See, the Bible (KJV1611) backs itself up. Eliphaz mentions Noah's flood.
21 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
If God wants the good to come unto him.
22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
This would still just be the Noahide Laws, mankind wouldn't have received the full 613 laws yet. Nor would they probably apply to Job, as he's not a Jew.
27 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
When you repent, He'll forgive.
Job 23
Job answered.
2 Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
Friends, I apologize for being a day or two early on the footprints in the sand analogy. It would have gone much better with Job 23.
3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
Remember, "footprints" would say that "it was then that I carried you". But Job knows better.
8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
Job doesn't see Him in front, or in back.
9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
He's hiding on the right. But being God, when He plays hide and seek, he's gone for good. (Heck, he's been hiding REAL good for the past 2000 years).
10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Job almost accuses God of ignoring him.
13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
Who can change the mind of the LORD? Job is agreeing with Eliphaz (almost) in that God doesn't need people. To think that man can change the mind of God is to say that God isn't perfect.
Job 24
Job now talks about some people who live in defiance of the LORD.
Flock stealer's; landmark removers, ox and ass takers... these people don't know the LORD.
3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
Remember, we have commandments to take care of orphans and widows.
6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
Not MAIZE corn, but corn meaning seeds.
Vintage is wine.
13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
Job now talks about people who do their deeds at night, hidden.
Murderers, adulterers, robbers, 17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
These people are like cockroaches, when the light (of the LORD) is shone on them, they run away.
24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
Remember, corn (maize) wasn't known by most people until 1492, when Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Although that does sound a lot like the tassel on an ear of corn.. but it's not.
25 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
I'm guessing that Bildad is going to try to do that next.
So what have we learned today?
1. God doesn't need people.
2. Job can't find God.
3. Corn sure sounds like corn, but it's not corn, it's some other grain.
YIC
V