His Words Are Life

Job 13:1 - Job 17:16

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Participants: Kelly Mowrer

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00:16 Hello, and welcome to His Words are Life.
00:18 I'm Kelly Mowrer, and thank you for joining with me today,
00:21 to read the story of Job. Before we start, let's pray together.
00:24 Dear God, thank you so much for the story and the lesson
00:31 that you have given us in the story of Job. Please, as we hear
00:37 these words, help us to see how in our own life you are there
00:42 for us. And you are bringing us through. And may we also say
00:46 with Job, that although you would slay us, yet will we
00:50 trust you. May our faith remain strong. Be with us now
00:54 as we read. Thank you so much for hearing our prayer. Amen.
00:57 We're in the middle of the conversation that Job is having
01:02 with his three friends who have come to comfort him,
01:05 in the loss of his family, his wealth, and his health.
01:10 And they're having a discussion among the 4 of them about God.
01:16 Each of them are putting forth their opinions. The 3 friends
01:20 are arguing that when calamity comes it is a result of sin
01:25 in our lives. Job is answering differently and yet as they
01:29 ponder these things they realize their questions they're asking
01:32 that they don't know the answers to. We're picking up
01:36 in chapter 13 of the book of Job and Job is speaking.
01:40 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and
01:45 understood it. What ye know, the same do I know also:
01:49 I am not inferior unto you. Surely I would speak to the
01:52 Almighty and I desire to reason with God. But ye are forgers of
01:57 lies, ye are all physicians of no value. O that ye would
02:00 altogether hold you peace! and it should be your wisdom.
02:04 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my
02:08 lips. Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully
02:12 for him? Will ye accept his person? Will ye contend for God?
02:16 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man
02:20 mocketh another, do ye so mock him? He will surely reprove
02:25 you if ye do secretly accept persons. Shall not his
02:29 excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
02:33 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of
02:38 clay. Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak,
02:43 and let come on me what will. Wherefore do I take my flesh
02:47 in my teeth and put my life in mine hand?
02:50 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him:
02:55 But I will maintain mine own ways before him.
02:58 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come
03:03 before him. Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with
03:07 your ears. Behold now I have ordered my cause;
03:10 I know that I shall be justified Who is he that will plead
03:15 with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the
03:19 ghost. Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide
03:25 myself from thee. Withdraw thine hand far from me:
03:30 and let not thy dread make me afraid. Then call thou,
03:35 and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
03:37 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my
03:41 transgression and my sin. Wherefore hidest thou thy face,
03:45 and holdest me for thine enemy? Wilt thou break a leaf driven
03:49 to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
03:52 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to
03:57 possess the iniquities of my youth. Thou puttest my feet also
04:01 in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths;
04:04 thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
04:07 And he, as a rotten thing consumeth,
04:10 as a garment that is moth eaten. Continuing in the book of Job,
04:15 chapter 14. And this is the King James Version.
04:18 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
04:24 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; he fleeth also
04:29 as a shadow, and continueth not. And dost thou open thine eyes
04:33 upon such and one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
04:36 Who can bring a clean thing out of and unclean? not one.
04:40 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are
04:45 with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
04:49 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish,
04:53 as an hireling, his day. For there is hope of a tree,
04:58 if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the
05:01 tender branch thereof will not cease. Thought the root thereof
05:05 wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
05:08 yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth
05:12 boughs like a plant. But man dieth, and wasteth away:
05:16 yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
05:20 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth
05:24 and drieth up: So man lieth down, and riseth not:
05:28 til the heavens be no more, they shall not awake,
05:31 nor be raised out of their sleep. O that thou wouldest hide
05:37 me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret,
05:40 until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set
05:44 time, and remember me! If a man die, shall he live again?
05:48 all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change
05:52 come. Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee:
05:56 thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
05:58 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
06:03 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up
06:07 mine iniquity. And surely the mountain falling cometh to
06:11 naught, and the rock is removed out of his place. The waters
06:15 wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out
06:18 of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
06:22 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth:
06:26 thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
06:30 His sons come to honor, and he knoweth it not; and they are
06:35 brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
06:38 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within
06:42 him shall mourn. Continuing in Job, chapter 15.
06:47 This is the King James Version. Then answered Eliphaz
06:52 the Temanite, and said, Should a wise man utter vain knowledge,
06:58 and fill his belly with the east wind? Should he reason with
07:02 unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no
07:05 good? Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer
07:10 before God. For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity,
07:13 and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. Thine own mouth
07:16 condemneth thee, and Not I: yea, thine own lips testify against
07:20 thee. Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou
07:24 made before the hills? Hast thou heard the secret of God?
07:28 and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? What knowest thou,
07:31 that we know not? what understandest thou,
07:34 which is not in us? With us are both the gray headed and
07:40 very aged men, much elder than thy father. Are the consolations
07:44 of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
07:49 Why doth thine heart carry thee away?
07:52 and what do thy eyes wink at, that thou turnest thy spirit
07:56 against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
07:59 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born
08:04 of a woman, that he should be righteous? Behold, he putteth
08:07 no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean
08:09 in his sight. How much more abominable and filthy is man,
08:13 which drinketh iniquity like water? I will shew thee,
08:17 hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
08:20 which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not
08:23 hid it: Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger
08:26 passed among them. The wicked man travaileth with pain all
08:31 his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor
08:34 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the
08:38 destroyer shall come upon him. He believeth not that he shall
08:42 return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
08:45 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it?
08:48 he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
08:52 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid;
08:56 they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
08:59 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strentheneth
09:02 himself against the Almighty. He runneth upon him,
09:05 even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
09:08 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh
09:12 collops of fat on his flanks. And he dwelleth in desolate
09:15 cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready
09:19 to become heaps. He shall not be rich, neither shall his
09:23 substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection
09:26 thereof upon the earth. He shall not depart out of darkness;
09:30 the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath
09:33 of his mouth shall he go away. Let not him that is deceived
09:37 trust in vanity: for vanity for vanity shall be his recompence.
09:41 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch
09:44 shall not be green. He shall shake off his unripe grape
09:48 as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
09:51 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate,
09:55 and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
09:59 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity,
10:03 and their belly prepareth deceit We're continuing in the book of
10:09 Job, chapter 16. This is the King James Version.
10:13 Then Job answered and said, I have heard many such things:
10:19 miserable comforters are ye all. Shall vain words have an
10:24 end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
10:28 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's
10:33 stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head
10:37 at you. But I would strengthen you with my mouth,
10:40 and the moving of my lips would assuage your grief.
10:43 Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear,
10:50 what am I eased? But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made
10:56 desolate all my company. And thou hast filled me with
11:00 wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness
11:03 rising up in me beareth witness to my face. He teareth me
11:07 in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his
11:11 teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
11:14 They have gaped upon me with their mouth;
11:17 they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully;
11:20 they have gathered themselves together against me.
11:23 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over
11:27 into the hands of the wicked. I was at ease, but he hath
11:32 broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck,
11:36 and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
11:39 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reigns
11:43 asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall
11:46 upon the ground. He breaketh me with breach upon breach,
11:49 he runneth upon me like a giant. I have sewed sackcloth
11:54 upon my skin and defiled my horn in the dust.
11:57 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow
12:03 of death; not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is
12:09 pure. O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no
12:15 place. Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven,
12:21 and my record is on high. My friends scorn me:
12:26 but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
12:29 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth
12:33 for his neighbor! When a few years are come,
12:37 then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
12:41 Continuing in the book of Job, chapter 17,
12:45 This is the King James Version. My breath is corrupt,
12:49 my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
12:53 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue
12:57 in their provocation? Lay down now,
13:00 put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands
13:04 with me? For thou hast hid their heart from understanding:
13:07 therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
13:09 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his
13:14 children shall fail. He hath made me also a byword
13:18 of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
13:20 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow,
13:24 and all my members are as a shadow.
13:27 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent
13:32 shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
13:35 The righteous also shall hold on his way,
13:37 and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
13:40 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now:
13:44 for I cannot find one wise man among you.
13:46 My days are past, my purposes are broken off,
13:50 even the thoughts of my heart. They change the night into day:
13:54 the light is short because of darkness.
13:56 If I wait, the grave is mine house:
13:58 I have made my bed in the darkness.
14:01 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father:
14:05 to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
14:07 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
14:13 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest
14:17 together is in the dust. - Thank you for joining with me
14:23 today to read this story of Job. And as we take these words
14:27 with us until we are together again, may the Holy Spirit
14:31 bring to our hearts the same conviction that Job had
14:33 that his trust in God remain no matter what happened.
14:37 Please come again and join me next time. Goodbye.


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