Job 16:1-10 – Then Job replied:
“I have heard many things like these;
you are miserable comforters, all of you!
Will your long-winded speeches never end?
What ails you that you keep on arguing?
I also could speak like you, if you were in my place;
I could make fine speeches against you
and shake my head at you. But my mouth would encourage you;
comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
“Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved;
and if I refrain, it does not go away.
Surely, God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.
You have shriveled me up—and it has become a witness;
my gauntness rises up and testifies against me. God assails me and tears me in his anger
and gnashes his teeth at me; my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.
People open their mouths to jeer at me;
they strike my cheek in scorn
and unite together against me.
Hosea
6:1 – “Come, let us
return to the Lord. He has
torn us to pieces but he will heal us; he has injured us
but he will bind up our wounds.
Isaiah
50:6 – I offered my
back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled
out my beard; I did not hide my face from mocking and
spitting.
Application:
- · “Let us return” was a shallow proposal of repentance, in which Israel acknowledged that God, not Assyria, was the true physician.
- · “Pulled out my beard” was a sign of disrespect and contempt.
All Scripture verses taken from NIV
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