Job 16:1-7 Heart of man

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Then Job answered and said,

² I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all./ Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?/ I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

⁵But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

⁶ Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

Compare this with this verse from the Book of Proverbs,”Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness(Pr.14:13)”. Soul of man may meet one on one but their complete amity cannot be at their terms. Heart of man casts its shadow so Job may ask ‘if your soul were…

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Job 15:14-35 “Blind guides”

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“What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?”

What is the standard of man’s cleanness? Is it not dictated by his middle state and an Aesthetic order established by his peers? In the Gulliver’s Travels the eponymous hero was put off by Brobdingnagian female of the species. Their skin pores when enlarged to fit their girth in comparison seemed like moon craters! It is how we have coined proverbs and artifice that only makes sense to our physical world. Thus a wretched moral leper like Dorian Grey would pass for Adonis.

Whereas God has his own sense of order and in his sense of beauty. For example we have one verse:”But theLordsaid unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for theLordseeth not as man seeth…

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Job 15:1-14 “Secret of God”

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Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,/ Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

Earlier we read Eliphaz’s feeble attempts in pacifying Job who is distraught. So he says,’hear it, and know thou it for thy good(5:27)”. As Job presents parables and not falling in line with their reasonings Eliphaz is all set to brook no nonsense from Job. Eliphaz compares Job’s stand as though he were a windbag full of hot wind and so his reasoning can do no good to him. At the end Eliphaz justifies his hard language, ‘and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty’ and coming from him is ironic. How shall he know what is Job’s standing with God? Does he know what is God’s view in the matter? Is it not same with the activism of the Evangelicals who want to straighten out the…

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