FRIDAY Reflections
As Job winds down his complaint, he makes several comments which indicate he had some understanding of God and eternity. After death(verse 15), God will bring/call all his life into account (verse 16), and then he sees God sealing up his sins and covering them (verse 17).
Job’s discussion is still filled with lament,
but here we see he understands that life is more than this world, that there
will be a judgment after death (which reinforces the idea he understood an
afterlife), and that God is a god of forgiveness. The last is the point I want
to highlight. Job understood that God would be just but he also realized that
God granted forgiveness.
Even as Job bemoans life and even being born I see there is still a small level of hope and no small measure of faith even when nothing made sense to him.
Job 14:1-22
(1) Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
(2) He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
(3) And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
(4) Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
(5) Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
(6) Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
(7) For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
(8) Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
(9) Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
(10) But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
(11) As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
(12) So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
(13) O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
(14) If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
(15) Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
(16) For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
(17) My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
(18) And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.
(19) The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
(20) Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
(21) His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
(22) But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
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