No More

Job 8:14-22 – What they trust in is fragile; what they rely on is a spider’s web. They lean on the web, but it gives way; they cling to it, but it does not hold. They are like a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden; it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks and looks for a place among the stones. But when it is torn from its spot, that place disowns it and says, ‘I never saw you.’ Surely its life withers away, and from the soil other plants grow. “Surely God does not reject one who is blameless or strengthen the hands of evildoers. He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy. Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tents of the wicked will be no more.”

Job 1:1 – In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.

Genesis 18:25 – Far be it from you to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?”

1 Samuel 8:3 – But his sons did not follow his ways. They turned aside after dishonest gain and accepted bribes and perverted justice.

Job 18:21 – Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man; such is the place of one who does not know God.”

Application:

• ·         “Blameless and upright” means spiritually and morally upright.
• ·         Abraham based his plea on the justice and authority of God, confident that God would do what was right.
• ·         Perversion of justice through bribery was explicitly forbidden in Pentateuchal law.
• ·         Having no intimate knowledge of God is synonymous with being wicked.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV