“How forceful are right words! But what does your arguing prove?” (Job 6:25). Good question! Excu-u-se me? says Job. Do you think I’ve overstated my case? Have I no reason to be upset? Sorry if “my words have been rash” (Job 6:3), but I still have “the arrows of the Almighty…within me” (v 4), and they’re poison arrows, too! If […]
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In French (Avise la fin), these are the wise words over the entry of Scotland’s Culzean Castle. Eliphaz has more to say. Much more (Job 5:1-27). Two of life’s most animating passions are correcting other people’s writings and critiquing other people’s behavior! He began his first response by calling Job to be ready to hear […]
Weak hands and wobbly knees rob me of my doing and my going. Thank God for strengtheners! Job’s lament (Job 3:3-26) has hardly died on the air before Eliphaz responds. He wonders aloud if “weary” Job is up for what he has to say to him (4:2, 5). But then he recalls that there have been many […]
Got problems? The King’s door is open… […]
Are you “able to comfort those who are in any trouble”? You can if you share the comfort of God (2 Cor 1:4). The taciturn man thinks you shouldn’t speak unless you can improve on silence. Job’s friends thought otherwise. Who were these men? James Gunn helpfully writes, “Eliphaz was a philosopher; Bildad a theologian; and […]
Right or wrong. Right or left. The two uses of the word “right” may be confusing. But thankfully, in the story of catching 153 fish, the right side was the right side. And therein lies a great lesson worth catching too. […]
A hedge might be called the evidence of God’s sovereign care. But what if the hedge is breached? A hedge is a living wall. It may be decorative, but still it walls some things out and other things in. Sometimes a hedge is grown from a thorny plant, like a privet, to more effectively impede […]
James Calvert was born January 3, 1813, the son of a tenant farmer. As a boy, he was apprenticed to a printer, skills he later used in preparing the first Fijian Bible. When he, his wife Mary, and two others left for the Fiji Islands in 1838, they were putting their lives on the line. […]
“My flesh and my heart fail; but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever” (Ps 73:26). For twenty-four verses, Job pours out his lament. It’s too late to unbirth himself or wish he were stillborn. So now he turns his thoughts to the welcomed relief that death would bring to his tortured […]
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