Participants: Kelly Mowrer
Series Code: HWAL
Program Code: HWAL000594
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00:14 Hello, and welcome back to His Words are Life.
00:17 I'm Kelly Mowrer, and before we read, let's pray together. 00:20 Dear God in heaven, thank you for bringing us safely again 00:27 to this time together where we can pause from all of the 00:32 different things that we have going on and just sit 00:35 in your presence and listen to your word. 00:37 Please send the Holy Spirit to bring understanding 00:40 to our hearts. Thank you for hearing our prayer. Amen. 00:43 We are reading in the book of Job. Job and his 3 friends 00:48 are having an ongoing discussion about pain and trial and 00:54 suffering that come into the life of someone who 00:57 was obeying God and walking with him. Job is speaking. 01:01 We're starting in chapter 29, with verse 5. 01:05 And Job has just begun by saying "Oh that it were with me still 01:10 the way it was when God was kind to me and had preserved me, 01:15 and kept me when his candle shined upon me. 01:17 We pick up Job's speech, beginning in verse 5. 01:20 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children 01:25 were about me. When I washed my steps with butter, 01:29 and the rock poured out rivers of oil; When I went out to the 01:33 gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! 01:36 The young men saw me and hid themselves: and the aged arose, 01:40 and stood up. The princes refrained talking, 01:43 and laid their hand on their mouth. The nobles held their 01:47 peace, and the tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. 01:49 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye 01:54 saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor 01:59 that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help 02:01 him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish 02:05 came upon me and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 02:09 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as 02:14 a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I 02:19 to the lame. I was a father to the poor: and the cause which 02:23 I knew not I searched out. And I brake the jaws of the 02:27 wicked and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. Then I said, 02:31 I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days 02:35 as the sand. My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew 02:40 lay all night upon my branch. My glory was fresh in me, 02:44 and my bow was renewed in my hand. Unto me men gave ear, 02:50 and waited and kept silence at my counsel. After my words 02:55 they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them. 02:59 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their 03:02 mouth wide as for the latter rain. If I laughed on them, 03:07 they believed it not; and the light of my countenance 03:10 they cast not down. I chose out their way, and sat chief, 03:15 and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth 03:20 the mourners. Continuing in Job, chapter 30. 03:25 This is the King James Version. But now they that are younger 03:31 than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have 03:36 disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. 03:38 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, 03:42 in whom old age was perished? For want and famine they were 03:48 solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time 03:51 desolate and waste. Who cut up mallows by the bushes, 03:55 and juniper roots for their meat. They were driven forth 03:58 from among men, they cried after them as after a thief; 04:00 to dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, 04:03 and in the rocks. Among the bushes they brayed; 04:06 under the nettles they were gathered together. 04:08 They were children of fools, yea children of base men: 04:12 they were viler than the earth. And now am I their song, yea, 04:18 I am their byword. They abhor me, they flee far from me, 04:23 and spare not to spit in my face. Because he hath loosed 04:28 my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle 04:32 before me. Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away 04:37 my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their 04:40 destruction. They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, 04:45 they have no helper. They came upon me as a wide breaking in 04:50 of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me. 04:54 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: 04:59 and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. And now my soul is 05:05 poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold 05:08 upon me. My bones are pierced in me in the night season: 05:13 and my sinews take no rest. By the great force of my disease 05:18 is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar 05:23 of my coat. He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like 05:28 dust and ashes. I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: 05:33 I stand up, and thou regardest me not. Thou art become cruel 05:38 to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. 05:43 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, 05:48 and dissolvest my substance. For I know that thou wilt bring 05:53 me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. 05:56 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, 05:59 though they cry in his destruction. 06:02 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul 06:08 grieved for the poor? When I looked for good, 06:12 then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, 06:16 there came darkness. My bowels boiled, and rested not: 06:20 the days of affliction prevented me. 06:24 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried 06:29 in the congregation. I am a brother to dragons, 06:33 and a companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones 06:39 are burned with heat. My harp also is turned to mourning, 06:43 and my organ into the voice of them that weep. 06:47 We're continuing with Job, chapter 31. This is 06:51 the King James Version. - I made a covenant with mine eyes 06:55 why then should I think upon a maid? For what portion of God 07:00 is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty 07:03 from on high? Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange 07:08 punishment to the workers of iniquity? Doth not he see 07:12 my ways, and count all my steps? If I have walked with vanity, 07:18 If my foot hath hasted to deceit; let me be weighed in 07:22 an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. 07:26 If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked 07:30 after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands; 07:34 Then let me sow, and another eat; 07:37 yea, let my offspring be rooted out. If mine heart have been 07:42 deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor's 07:46 door; then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow 07:50 down upon her. For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an 07:54 iniquity to be punished by the judges. For it is a fire that 07:58 consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase 08:02 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my 08:07 maidservant, when they contended with me; 08:09 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth 08:13 what shall I answer him? Did not he that made me in the womb 08:18 make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? 08:21 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused 08:26 the eyes of the widow to fail; Or have eaten my morsel myself 08:31 alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; 08:33 For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, 08:37 and I have guided her from my mother's womb; 08:39 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, 08:43 or any poor without covering; If his loins have not blessed 08:47 me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; 08:50 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, 08:53 when I saw my help in the gate: Then let mine arm fall from my 08:58 shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. 09:00 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of 09:06 his highness I could not endure. If I have made gold my hope, 09:11 or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; 09:16 If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, 09:20 and because mine hand had gotten much; If I beheld the sun when 09:25 it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; and my heart 09:29 hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: 09:34 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: 09:38 for I should have denied the God that is above. If I rejoiced 09:42 at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself 09:45 when evil found him: Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin 09:51 by wishing a curse to his soul. If the men of my tabernacle 09:56 said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied. 10:01 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my 10:04 doors to the traveler. If I covered my transgressions 10:09 as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: Did I fear a great 10:15 multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, 10:18 that I kept silence, and went not out of the door? 10:21 Oh, that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, 10:26 that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary 10:30 had written a book. Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, 10:34 and bind it as a crown to me. I would declare unto him 10:37 the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him. 10:41 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise 10:46 thereof complain; If I have eaten the fruits thereof without 10:49 money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: 10:53 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of 10:58 barley. The words of Job are ended. 11:02 We're continuing now in Job chapter 32, 11:06 and this is the King James Version. 11:07 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was 11:16 righteous in his own eyes. Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu 11:23 the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: 11:27 against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified 11:31 himself rather than God. Also against his three friends 11:36 was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, 11:38 and yet had condemned Job. Now Elihu had waited till Job had 11:44 spoken, because they were elder than he. When Elihu saw that 11:49 there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his 11:52 wrath was kindled. And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite 11:57 answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore 12:03 I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion. I said, Days 12:09 should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom. 12:12 But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration 12:16 of the Almighty giveth them understanding. 12:19 Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand 12:24 judgment. Therefore I said, Hearken to me; 12:27 I also will shew mine opinion. Behold, I waited for your words; 12:33 I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out 12:37 what to say. Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was 12:41 none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words: 12:45 Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: 12:48 God thrusteth him down, not man. Now he hath not directed 12:54 his words against me: neither will I answer him with your 12:57 speeches. They were amazed, they answered no more: 13:02 they left off speaking. When I had waited, for they spake not, 13:07 but stood still, and answered no more; I said, I will answer also 13:12 my part, I also will shew my opinion. For I am full of matter 13:17 the spirit within me constraineth me. 13:20 Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is 13:24 ready to burst like new bottles. I will speak, that I may be 13:28 refreshed: I will open my lips and answer. Let me not, I pray 13:32 you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering 13:35 titles unto man. For I know not to give flattering titles; 13:39 in so doing my maker would soon take me away. 13:43 We're continuing with Job, chapter 33. 13:47 Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken 13:51 to all my words. Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue 13:56 hath spoken in my mouth. My words shall be of the 14:00 uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge 14:03 clearly. The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the 14:07 Almighty hath given me life. If thou canst answer me, 14:11 set thy words in order before me, stand up. Behold, 14:15 I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed 14:21 out of the clay. Behold, my terror shall not make thee 14:25 afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee. 14:28 Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard 14:32 the voice of thy words, saying, I am clean without transgression 14:35 I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me. |
Revised 2014-12-17