Job 18:18

They are thrust from the light into darkness,

   Driven out of the inhabited world.

Hot air is the impression I have of this verse. Bildad has gone on too long and no longer is in touch with any reality. I have found that my time away from social media is providing me with more opportunities to get stuff done. I am no longer in touch with the reality of culture around me, but I think that is a good thing.

‘Thrust’ was also ‘driven’.

‘Driven’ was ‘banished’ or ‘chased’ when driven was in the first stitch. ‘Inhabited world’ was left off in six cases, ‘the world of men’ in two cases, and ‘inhabited’ only in an alternate rendering.

Since I have a ‘keep things in case I need them’ issue that borders on hording, I have more stuff than I need. I routinely must purge to get my spaces back into living conditions. Well, maybe it doesn’t get that bad, but it at least gets to where it cuts down my efficiency levels. My spaces are overflowing with computers, cables, and worthless baseball cards (mixed in with a few not worthless ones) that I eventually want to purge. Maybe a new goal before winter vacation is over.

I printed a copy of my Amalgamation of Job for my Bible study group this week. It uses 45 pages of paper. I didn’t realize how efficient with space most Bibles were with their small fonts and thin paper. I am also ‘reusing’ some of the kid’s school folders to bind them or maybe some old folders my mom had from the 80’s. My goal of using all her paper to write notes to people isn’t going well. Maybe next time I‘ll use colored paper for printing these books.

I read Romans 12 for my daily chapter this morning and never realized so many rules for Christian living were all in one chapter. It obviously is not meant as a checklist like the law is, but I think reading it more often will help me understand when God is calling me to something I am not used to. Like most people, I have always had a desire to get away from other people sometimes. But I realized when my friend was in pain, and the nearest emergency room was over a half hour away that living in the wilderness was always a risky endeavor. Not the ‘out of the inhabited world’ which Bildad was discussing, but not the opposite.

Written 10/12/25, Posted 10/31/25, Job 428/~1070