Tag: job
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Day 173: More Agur, Please
Most of us spend our lives trying to convince people we’re smarter than we are. Agur begins Proverbs 30 by telling us how little he knows—and that’s exactly why I trust him.
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Day 015: Great Physician or Bad Doctor? (Job 42:3)
When pain comes—unexpected, sharp, and unwelcome—it’s easy to question God’s goodness. Like a child accusing a doctor after a painful shot, we sometimes mistake suffering for betrayal. At the end of Job, God doesn’t explain the pain away; he reorients us to trust the One who holds the needle—and bears the scars.
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Day 014: Why Does Job Mention Greek Constellations? (Job 38:31-32)
When God speaks to Job out of the whirlwind, He suddenly points to the stars—naming the Pleiades, Orion, and the Mazzaroth. Those familiar names open a window into how God’s unchanging Word is faithfully translated so each generation can understand it.
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Day 013: Really, Elihu? (Job 36:1-4)
Job’s friends—and Elihu most of all—say many true things about God. The problem isn’t that they speak falsehoods; it’s that they speak true things in false ways. They turn wisdom into weapons, doctrine into diagnosis, and God’s justice into a cudgel for the suffering. In doing so, they don’t just misread Job—they misrepresent God.
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Day 012: Just When You Think You’ll Get Some Answers… (Job 31:40-32:5)
Just when Job finally stops talking—and his three friends fall silent—we expect God to speak. Instead, another voice steps forward. Elihu’s long speech reminds us how often life works this way: just when we think the answers are finally coming, they don’t. Silence stretches on. Hope gets postponed. And we’re left waiting, wondering when resolution…
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Day 007: What Job Knew (and Didn’t Know) About the Afterlife (Job 14:13-14)
Job lived long before resurrection had a name, yet he could not accept that death was the end of the story. In Job 14, he asks a question that Scripture will spend centuries answering: If a man dies, shall he live again?