Job 6:1-10 – Then Job replied:
“If only my anguish could be weighed
and all my misery be placed on the scales!
It would surely outweigh the sand of the seas—no wonder my
words have been impetuous. The arrows of the Almighty are in me, my spirit drinks in their poison; God’s terrors are marshaled against me. Does a wild donkey bray when it has grass, or an ox bellow when it has fodder? Is tasteless food eaten without salt,
or is there flavor in the sap of the mallow?
I refuse to touch it; such food makes me ill. “Oh, that I might have my request,
that God would grant what I hope for,
that God would be willing to crush me,
to let loose his hand and cut off my life!
Then I would still have this consolation—my joy in
unrelenting pain—that I had not denied the words of the Holy One.
Daniel
5:27 – Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.
Genesis
17:1 – When Abram was ninety-nine
years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty; walk before me faithfully and be
blameless.
Mark
8:38 – If anyone is ashamed of me
and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy
angels.”
Leviticus
11:44 – I am the Lord your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. Do not make yourselves unclean by any
creature that moves along the ground.
Application:
- · “Weighed on the scales” means measured in the light of God’s standards.
- · The Hebrew for God Almighty perhaps means “God, the mountain One”, either highlighting the invincible power of God or referring to the mountains as God’s symbolic home.
- · Those who are more concerned about fitting into and pleasing their own “adulterous and sinful generation” than about following and pleasing Christ will have no part in God’s kingdom.
- · When God’s holiness is spoken of in the Bible, reference is to (1) His incomparably awesome majesty, and (2) His absolute moral virtue.
All Scripture verses taken from NIV
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