Job 2
July 11th, 2008 by Cass -- Posted in Bible Study |Am I the only one who reads the voice of Satan in a sassy nasal whine?
And do you see in verse 9, how his wife says for Jb to just “curse God and die”? I always read that kind of sarcastic, too, but I then I pause and think ….. that’s vinegar to the bones, just like in Proverbs. She wasn’t taking the long range view. She didn’t try to build up, only to get a let up. She was a discourager and not an encourager. She was like we all can be if we aren’t careful.
And then, in 13: they just sat. That verse used to just confuse me. And then I had occasions of grief so great that simply knowing there were other people breathing air helped me. And you walked through some of that with me, and I was comforted just knowing that you knew my grief. There is power in that. Grief shared really is grief divided.
July 13th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
I read Satan as a spoiled child.
Yes, sometimes all we need is someone to sit with us. I think that even includes God. We just need to know He is sitting with us when we are beyond the help of words or gestures.
I can only imagine Job’s grief. He has lost not only his worldly goods and his children but he has lost his health, too. Blow after blow. But he still has his friends who will sit with him and he still has God. But is that enough? It seems that maybe it should be, you know?