I like that #300 can be an Amalgamation, but maybe I think of numbers too much. Job Chapter 17 – The Amalgamation My spirit is crushed, My days burnt out, Only the grave awaits me. I swear, Am I not surrounded by mockers? With their provocations, my eyes dwell without rest.… Continue reading Blog 300: Job 113: Chapter 17: The Amalgamation
Job 6:15 My companions betray me as a wadi (desert stream), Like the channel of a brook run dry. I learned what a wadi was when I studied this passage. Not something we see much of in Houston, but out where I grew up, the term could have been in wide usage. Kind… Continue reading Job 112: Study 100: Job 6:15 – Hope and Not See a Wadi
Job 6 :14 He who pleads for kindness from his fellow man, Has forsaken the reverence due the Almighty. This verse really resonated with me. God calls us to put out trust in Him and not in other people; not even in another Christian or our family or anyone short of the divine.… Continue reading Job 111: Study 94: Job 6:14 – Plead, the Right Way
Job 6:13 Indeed, there is no help for me, Effective aid has been cut off from me. Effective aid does not sound very poetic. Maybe it is just my technical side coming out that I picked it. My wife and I often talk about how my personality produces different results that hers does… Continue reading Job 110: Study 93: Job 6:13 – Technical Tendencies
Chapter 16 Then Job spoke out saying: I have heard plenty of things like these before. Wretched comforters are the three of you. Is there any end to your words of hot air? What afflicts you that you keep speaking on? I too can speak as you do, Were you in my… Continue reading Job 109: The Amalgamation Chapter 16
Job 6:12 Is my strength the strength of stone, Is my flesh bronze? Stone Age and Bronze Age are two periods that designate the advancement of knowledge of man. During the stone age, people used sticks and stones as tools (including to hurt other people) and the age ended when someone figured out how… Continue reading Job 108: Study 92: Job 6:12 – Golden limbs
Job 6:11 What strength have I, to go on hoping What end, that I should be patient? Despair. Job has it in spades. No kids, no health, no food, no way to get food. I still find it funny that his wife is still there, and he says he has no hope. For… Continue reading Job 107: Study 91: Job 6:11 – Happy Hearts
Job 6:10 Then I would yet have this consolation: Although He has not spared me from anguish, I would leap up in joy, That I have never denied the commands of the Holy One. I ran into a wall today. One excuse is that I had just woken up and was… Continue reading Job 106: Study 90: Job 6:10 – Leap in Joy
Lesson 13 1 John 5 New International Version 1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. 2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. 3 In… Continue reading The Letters of John – Lesson 13 – 1 John 5:1-12 – Simple: Love, Obey
Job 6:9 That it would please God to crush me, To loose His hand and cut me off. I bought one too many. I have this goal in my collecting to know what I have. I need a new goal. To make sure I look every time before I buy something to make… Continue reading Job 105: Study 89: Job 6:9 – Healthy Wants