Hands

Job 10:3 – Does it please you to oppress me, to spurn the work of your hands, while you smile on the plans of the wicked?

Job 19:5-6 – If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me, then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me.

Genesis 1:26 – Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

Psalm 95:6-9 – Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker; for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care. Today, if only you would hear his voice, “Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the wilderness, where your ancestors tested me; they tried me, though they had seen what I did.

Isaiah 60:21 – Then all your people will be righteous and they will possess the land forever. They are the shoot I have planted, the work of my hands, for the display of my splendor.

Job 2:13 – 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.

Job 42:6 – Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”

Application:

• ·         Job imagines that God is angry with him, an innocent man, and that he takes delight in the wicked.
• ·         Job, struggling with the enigma of his suffering, can only conclude that God is his enemy, though in fact He is his friend who delights in him.
• ·         Within the realm of His visible creation God places a creature capable of acting as His agent in relationship to other creatures (1) to represent God’s claim to kingship over His creation and (2) to bring its full potential to realization to the praise of the Creator’s glory.
• ·         Both as Creator of all things and as Israel’s Redeemer, God has made them what they are: the people of the Lord in the earth.
• ·         God made people as a potter forms clay.
• ·         “No one said a word to him” was a wiser response than their speeches would prove to be.
• ·         To his humility Job adds repentance for the presumptuous words he had spoken to God.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV