Job 22:7
No water have you given to the thirsty,
From the hungry you have withheld bread.
It feels like summer here now. I am trying to enjoy it, but it feels like a lot of effort is needed to do so. My replacement hammock stand came in yesterday, so that was good to be back in readiness to do nothing. In my mind, I want to scale back to normal my pursuit of baseball cards in general and those of Yordan Alvarez in particular. I hope he wins MVP, but I am expecting his card to continue to rise in value back to where I could not ‘afford’ them. I am not investing, but I do understand the dynamics better than the stock market in which I do invest.
‘Thirsty’ was only used twice with ‘famished’ once (which seems not to apply) and ‘weary’ every other time (which again seems to miss the point).
‘Hungry’ was once ‘starving’ so both on point. ‘Bread’ was once ‘food’ so only slightly off point.
The understanding is that people were expected to provide water at least to the thirsty and bread to the hungry, no matter how little you had as it was only water and bread. In an environment where most of the population was on the verge of death, the idea was that they helped each other out because next time it was likely them in need. More was expected of the wealthy like Job, so this accusation was really beneath him. They were no longer even trying to comfort him, but arguing over how stupid he was.
One of the many negative impacts from data center build out is that new computers are more expensive due to memory and other shortages. Another is that our old computers were not designed to support AI on the individual machine level and are working harder when software updates push this functionality onto us without our say so. My main computers are getting older, but I am trying to make them work as long as possible to avoid AI as long as possible. Since the most use of software I have beyond work is these blogs and spreadsheets to track my baseball cards or other assets, I should be able to hold out a long time.
I have a pattern I follow in writing these and after having done this over 500 times, I really do not want to deviate from the pattern. The urge to go faster is a big change I always want to make. The two arguments on that score is that I am doing this to become Christ like and it is not about finishing. Another would be that I have no idea what to do next. I’ve tried a bigger study of Job, and I have tried other Bible study alternatives, but in the end, I just feel called to this once a day until I finish. I expect something else, but I may just not be ready.
Written 7/18/26, Posted 8/25/26, Job 526/~1070