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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!

 

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94) Looking for Job


Job 10

If I sinned, you would watch me,

And you would not acquit me of my error.


- Yes, God is watching!


- And God was watching Job and his pain and his sufferance!


- Don’t you think he was sharing it with Job!


- Now think about what God says to Job and only to him when he finally answers him: please listen to me or he invites him to listen to him!


- Isn’t it RESPECT from God’s part towards Job’s faithfulness which echoes that there is no one like him on earth!


- Now think about a special communication between God and Job!


- Now think about what we have to do to improve our communication with God!

 

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95) Looking for Job


Job 10

If I am guilty, too bad for me!

And even if I am innocent, I cannot raise my

head,

For I am filled with dishonor and affliction.


- Think of Job’s feelings: dishonor and affliction!


- He can’t feel worse!


- He has lost his root!


- He is imploring God to answer him!


- In any case the situation is “too bad for me”!


- Do you really perceive Job’s dishonor and affliction?


- Do you see him in front of your eyes?

 

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96) Looking for Job


Job 10

If I raise my head up, you hunt me like a

lion

And again show your power against me.


- Yes, but it is the devil and not God!


- Think about Job, God and the devil!


- The devil has nothing to lose because he is a liar so one more lie doesn’t make a big difference!


- God knows Job’s faithfulness and he wants to make it clear to all the angels!


- Job is completely lost because he doesn’t understand what’s on but he keeps his faithfulness that’s LOYAL LOVE to God!