Job 6:30-7:6 – Is there any wickedness on my lips?
Can my mouth not discern malice?
“Do not mortals have hard service on earth?
Are not their days like those of hired laborers?
Like a slave longing for the evening shadows,
or a hired laborer waiting to be paid,
so I have been allotted months of futility,
and nights of misery have been assigned to me.
When I lie down I think, ‘How long before I get up?’
The night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.
My body is clothed with worms and scabs,
my skin is broken and festering. “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
and they come to an end without hope.
Ecclesiastes 4:1 – Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun:
I saw the tears of the oppressed—and they have no comforter;
power was on the side of their oppressors—and they have no
comforter.
Jeremiah 9:1 – Oh, that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a
fountain of tears! I would weep day and night for the slain of my people.
Job 13:15 – Though he
slay me, yet will I hope in him; I
will surely defend my ways to
his face.
Application:
- · To find life meaningless is sad enough, but to taste its cruelty is bitter beyond words.
- · Jeremiah is often called the “weeping prophet”—a well-deserved title.
- · No matter, what happens, Job intends to seek vindication from God and believes that he will receive it.
All Scripture verses taken from NIV
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