Job 2:11-3:3 – When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad
the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that
had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement
to go and sympathize with him and comfort him. When they saw him from a
distance, they could hardly recognize him; they began to weep aloud, and
they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads. Then they
sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one
said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was. After
this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. He said: “May
the day of my birth perish, and the night that said, ‘A boy is conceived!’
Isaiah
52:14-15 – Just as
there were many who were appalled at him—his
appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being
and his form marred beyond human likeness—so he will sprinkle many nations, and kings will shut their mouths because of him.
For what they were not told, they will see, and what they have not
heard, they will understand.
Ecclesiastes
4:2 – And I
declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier
than the living, who are still alive.
Application:
- · “Disfigured” was a term used of a “blemished animal”, which should not be offered to the Lord.
- · Job’s very existence, which has been a joy to him because of God’s favor, is now his intolerable burden.
- · Faith sees a bigger picture.
All Scripture verses taken from NIV
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