Job 21:13

They pass their days in bounty,

   In a peaceful instant, they go down to Sheol.

I had a negative experience with a seller on ebay. They found my blog and submitted comments that were negative as well. My second response was to acknowledge that they were now persecuting me as a Christian and it took on a new level of wondering how someone could be like that. At least I know they need my prayers.

‘Pass’ was ‘spend’ the other seven times. ‘Bounty’ was also ‘posterity’, ‘wealth’, ‘happiness’, ‘luxury’, and ‘in well-being’. ‘Days’ was also once ‘years’.

‘In a peaceful instant’ was either ‘in peace’ or ‘in an instance’. I split the difference so to speak. ‘Sheol’ was also ‘grave’. I’m pretty sure grave was wrong.

The last few days have been revealing, especially since I am reading through Revelation. The oddest is of course having this person fly off the handle. The best is that even if my responsibility is less at work, I still have an awful lot to do. The worst is that work will not be a partnership as imagined, it’s just work.

Through these, I am learning that I need to be more patient with others and with myself. An error is an act, not the character of a person. I am learning that even reasonable adults asking for help are not asking for you to fix them just their circumstances. I knew old dogs don’t learn new tricks and people don’t change, but I didn’t realize how much I could be learning at this stage of life.

I have also been learning about stewardship. I have been fighting to make work as lucrative as possible. I was never really fighting for me as God was providing, and this was just another aspect of stewarding. I want this to all be fair and reasonable, but at the end of the day, I can walk away as its all God’s and none mine.

Written 5/6/26, Posted 6/15/26, Job 499/~1070