Job 13:19-28 – Can anyone bring charges against me?
If so, I will be silent and die.
“Only grant me these two things, God,
and then I will not hide from you:
Withdraw your hand far from me, and stop frightening me with your terrors.
Then summon me and I will answer, or let me speak, and you reply to me.
How many wrongs and sins have I committed?
Show me my offense and my sin. Why do you hide your face and consider me your enemy? Will you torment a windblown leaf? Will you chase after dry chaff? For you write down bitter things against me
and make me reap the sins of my youth.
You fasten my feet in shackles; you keep close watch on all my paths
by putting marks on the soles of my feet.
“So man wastes away like something rotten,
like a garment eaten by moths.
Isaiah
59:12-13 – For our
offenses are many in your sight, and our
sins testify against us. Our offenses are
ever with us, and we acknowledge our iniquities: rebellion and treachery against the Lord, turning our backs on our God,
inciting revolt and oppression, uttering lies our hearts have conceived.
Luke
12:33 – Sell your possessions and
give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear
out, a treasure in heaven that will never fail, where no thief comes near
and no moth destroys.
Application:
- · Job’s words are based on the counselors’ point that suffering always implies sinfulness.
- · Like Ezra, Isaiah confesses the sins of the nation.
- · What is emphasized throughout the Gospel of Luke is that wealth is to be generously shared with the poor.
All Scripture verses taken from NIV
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