seekeroftruth
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Job 42:1 Then Job replied to the Lord:
2 “I know that you can do all things;
no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
3 You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’
Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me to know.
no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
3 You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’
Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me to know.
4 “You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.’
5 My ears had heard of you
but now my eyes have seen you.
6 Therefore I despise myself
and repent in dust and ashes.”
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.’
5 My ears had heard of you
but now my eyes have seen you.
6 Therefore I despise myself
and repent in dust and ashes.”
7 After the Lord had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has. 8 So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.” 9 So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the Lord told them; and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.
10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before. 11 All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver[a] and a gold ring.
12 The Lord blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys. 13 And he also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch.15 Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.
16 After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. 17 And so Job died, an old man and full of years.
a. Job 42:11 Hebrew him a kesitah; a kesitah was a unit of money of unknown weight and value.
As I see it.... Job apologized to God.... "I'm sorry... I didn't know what was going on". Then God yelled at Elephaz and the other two for being all uppity with Job. They did set with him for a week.... but they kept telling him to get over himself....no one does all the correct sacrifices... he had to miss something.
This is from the easy English site.
These verses may seem strange to some people. Such people do not know why God was angry with Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar. Job’s friends were sometimes wrong, but sometimes Job was wrong too. So, you might think that they all deserved the same punishment.
The explanation is that Job was a servant of God. In other words, Job had a special task to do. A servant carries out his master’s work. And Job had decided to do God’s work on earth (Job 29:14). So Job was acting on behalf of God.
Job was already God’s servant when his troubles began. And Job was still God’s servant during his troubles. In verses 7-8, God emphasised 4 times that Job was God’s servant.
At the time of the Bible, there was a special relationship between a servant and his master. Someone who insulted a servant was also insulting the servant’s master. See Mark 12:1-9. A master would try to punish the person who insulted his servant. The master would feel that the person was insulting the master’s own honour.
In 2 Kings 2:23-24, some youths insulted a servant of God called Elisha. This was a terrible thing to do. It was as if they were insulting God himself. Animals called bears came from the wood and attacked those youths. If those youths had insulted an ordinary man, such a terrible thing would not have happened. But Elisha was acting on behalf of God.
Eliphaz said that Job was very evil. This would be a stupid thing to say about any innocent man. But Job was not merely an ordinary man. He was a servant of God. So Eliphaz’s stupid words were insulting God. In other words, Eliphaz insulted God’s servant. So Eliphaz was also insulting God. And the three friends were responsible for another wrong thing also.
Job did everything he was supposed to do because he was a good man and desired to do what was right. Eliphaz and the other two.... they did what they were supposed to do so God wouldn't punish them. When Job lost his kids, his flocks, and his financial holdings..... his buddies were thinking he had failed to do what was right.... or he was covering up some dark secret. The commentaries are talking about who is worthy for God to call them servant. How to be worthy.... how to get ready..... Job is supposed to be some kind of example. Look.... we have it so much easier than Job and company. They had set rules.... they had to travel to the right alter.... sacrifice the right animal or grain..... and then they had to follow all the laws in those five books of Moses. It was a lot.... it's almost as if they would have to make a sacrifice if they picked the wrong spot to go poop. Yep there were laws about where to poop.
Deuteronomy 23:12 Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself. 13 As part of your equipment have something to dig with, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement. 14 For the Lord your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you.
I wonder.... did God ever tell a dog to cover his poop? People could actually choose to not cover their poop and suffer the consequences.... but a dog does it by instinct. Job knew that sometimes he would choose wrong.... so he always put an extra sacrifice in there to cover all the stupid things he did.... and the stuff he forgot he did..... and the stuff his family did..... Job made sacrifices.
So I've been setting in these ashes with Job for days now. Everyone says... oh "Job... I love that book". I still can't figure out why. None of us are Jobs.
I can only imagine what would happen if I took a bull to the local church to sacrifice... I'd probably make the 5 o'clock news.... woman goes insane reading Old Testament and tries to kill a defenseless bull......
I don't have to make sacrifices like Job did. God sacrificed His Son. That ended the sacrifices on the alters.
