Our Daily Scripture – 11/9/23 (Thursday)

SCRIPTURE;   JOB 24

JOB UNANSWERED QUESTIONS: (v. 1)

  1.  Why does the Almighty not set times for judgment?
  2.  Why must those who know him look in vain for such days?

DESCRIPTION OF WICKED MEN:

  1. They move boundary stones, and pasture flocks they have stolen. (v. 3)
  2. They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox in pledge. (v. 3)
  3. They thrust the needy from the path and force all the poor of the land into hiding. (v. 4)
  4. They rises up and kills the poor and needy; in the night he steals forth like a thief. (v. 14)
  5. The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk; he thinks, “No eye will see me” and he keeps his face concealed. (v. 15)
  6. They break into houses in the dark but by the day, they shut themselves in. (v. 16)
  7. Their deep darkness is their morning; they make friends with the terrors of darkness. (v. 17)
  8. They prey on the barren and childless woman, and to the widow show no kindness. (v. 21)

MISERIES OF THE POOR:

  1.  Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go about their labor of foraging food; the wasteland provides food for their children. (v. 5)
  2.  They gather fodder in the fields and glean in the vineyards of the wicked. (v. 6)
  3.  Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked; they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold. (v. 7)
  4.  They are drenched by mountain rains and hug the rocks for lack of shelter. 9v. 8)
  5.  The fatherless child is snatched from the breasts; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt. (v. 9)
  6.  Lacking clothes, they go about naked; they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry. (v. 10)
  7.  They crush olives among the terraces; they tread the wine presses, yet suffer thirst. (v. 11)
  8.  The groans of the dying rise from the city, and the souls of the wounded cry out for help. (v. 12)

THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE SINNERS:

  1. They are foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed. (v. 18)
  2. As heat and drought snatches away the melted snow, so the grave snatches away those who have sinned. (v. 19)
  3. The womb forgets them, the worm feasts on them.  Evil men are no longer remembered but are broken like a tree. (v. 20)
  4. God drags away the mighty by his power; though they become established, they have no assurance of life. (v. 22)
  5. They may have the feeling of false security. (v. 23)
  6. They are exalted for a little while and then they are gone. (v. 24a)
  7. They are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut oof like heads of grain. (v.24b)

THOUGHTS:

Job presented proofs that all sinners are not immediately judged by God.  He took his friends into the watchtower and pointed out various kinds of sinners seem not getting any bad things out of their evil deeds.  Job did not deny of God’s judgment but he did affirm that man could not fully explain how God works.  He was asserting that a righteous man also suffers.