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Job 13:20,21

- Wow, wow, wow!

- He wants God to stop striking him, we can understand that!

- Even if it is the devil and God will stop him!

- But the last verse is so powerful!

- In fact, he wants back his personal relationship with God, nothing else!

- It is vital for him!

- It is his root to life!

- He will keep respecting Yah.weh but his terror is unbearable!

- He says it is too much!

- But he keeps fighting!

- Where is the limit?

 

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Job 13:22

- Job wants to speak with God!

- He doesn’t want to speak with anybody else!

- Any connection will do!

- Whatever happens, he wants this communication!

- He can’t do without it!

 

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Job 13:23,24

-Yes, Job wants to know his errors and sins!

- Because he knows he hasn’t done anything wrong!

- And he wants God to tell him!

- He wants a discussion with God!

- Meaning he is used to doing it!

- And he doesn’t know what is happening!

- Why can’t he speak with God?

- Of course he doesn’t know what’s on between God and the devil!

- He doesn’t know God can’t have a discussion with him!

- And it is unbearable for him!

- Imagine you can’t speak with somebody who is close to you!

- You can’t speak with this person because he or she refuses to speak to you because of something you don’t know and you are not responsible!

- Of course, it is better to speak and to clarify the situation!

- When it is not possible, it is hard!

- The majority doesn’t have any relationship with Yah.weh and they don’t care!

- Job wants his special relationship with Yah.weh back!

- Do you understand why there is no one like him on earth?

- Why is he so special to Yah.weh?

 

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Job 13:25

- A man is nothing compared to God!

- But Job knows the type of relationship he has with God!

- Or he thinks he knows!

- And in fact he is right!

- he has a special one!

- That’s why Job can’t stand the absence of communication!

- Once again we see the importance of communication!

- It doesn’t matter if sometimes it is hard to communicate!

- Otherwise it makes it more difficult!

- And the problem gets bigger!

- Or it can lead to incommunicability!

- Once again, Job doesn’t understand what is going on!

- It is crazy!

- It is pure nonsense!

- What is going on?

- He is calling for Yah.weh!

- But Yah.weh isn’t there!

- And these crazy men want to destroy him!

- They keep attacking him!

 

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Job 13:26

- Job doesn’t understand what’s on!

- And he tries hard to understand!

- He tries to go back to his past as far as he can!

- Thus he speaks about the sins of his youth!

- Of course, it has nothing to do with that!

- But when you don’t understand what’s on, you imagine any possibility!

- Even something which is not!

- And it brings more lack of understanding!

- It is a never ending story!

- You build on something which doesn’t exist for nothing!

- And stress brings on more stress!

- There is no way to get away from this infernal circle!

- it is necessary to evacuate part of the stress!

- Otherwise we may explode!

 

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Job 13:27,28

Stocks and pillory

These were used to punish people for crimes such as swearing or drunkenness. Criminals would sit or stand at a wooden frame and the local people would throw rotten food or even stones at them. The stocks and pillory were used as a punishment throughout the 16th and 17th centuries.

- In such punishment you were unable to move!

- You can imagine what the people would feel!

- Mentally and physically!

- Thus it is exactly what Job feels!

- Except that for Job the punishment lasted for months!

- It is like being eaten alive by red ants and you can’t escape!

- Job feels like it goes on and on!

- Slowly but surely!

- Job has no future!

- For him, it seems that Yah.weh enjoys it!

- He is totally condemned!

- He doesn’t see any way out!

- And he can’t pray to Yah.weh!

- Because it seems he is not listening!

 

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Job 14:1

- Job speaks about man’s life!

- “short-lived”: Job is old when he speaks!

- But what does old mean?

- When we get older, we are physically old!

- But are we old mentally?

- The brain has so many abilities!

- And the more we live the more connections we can get!

- And we never use all that we have!

- And like the universe, the brain has no limit!

- So yes, man’s life is too short!

- And man is not made for such a short life!

- Otherwise why do we have such a powerful brain?

- But yes, in this world, our lives are filled with trouble!

- And Job knows what he speaks about because the devil is after him and he doesn’t know it!

- Now imagine we are at the end of the book and Job can go back to his peaceful life!

- He can now enjoy it!

- The past will slowly disappear!

- Now he knows that man doesn’t know everything!

- But he can speak to Yah.weh again!

- His strong relationship with him is back!

- He can help others again but always taking into account what has happened to him!

- It shows the importance to have a strong relationship to Yah.weh!

- It shows the importance of working for our survival!

- Taking care of our mental and physical health!

- Because when we are down we are good for nothing!

- And we can’t help ourselves!

 

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Job 14:2

- Yes, life is too short!

- And Job wants to live!

- But not in such conditions!

- He wants to get back to his normal life!

- He wants to be active!

- He wants to communicate with God!

- He doesn’t want to die!

- And his complaints show how much he wants to live!

- But life is too short!

- Human life is nothing compared to mental and physical abilities!

- Something is wrong!

- There is a disconnection between human life and human abilities!

- This disconnection led to modern human society which is a complete failure!

- And every new day shows us this!

- With men, there is no way out!

- Men have an incredible ability for total destruction!

- Not only destruction but total destruction!

- I would say extreme destruction!

- It is like an extreme pandemic!

- An extreme pandemic which spreads faster and faster!

- And it will reach the point where Yah.weh says: “ENOUGH”!

 

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Job 14:3,4

- God created man as a perfect creature!

- Because of the devil and because of Adam we lost this perfection!

- We can see the result every day by living in this world!

- We didn’t choose!

- But it is so!

- We can only wait for a new world!

- But for now we have to live in this world!

- But we must prepare for the next one!

- Remember the Israelites!

- They were not prepared!

- When they left, they acted as if they were still in Egypt!

- And if Moses hadn’t prevented God from destroying them, they would have been destroyed all at once and all of them!

- May we remember this reality!

- Now of course, we are unclean!

- We are imperfect!

- But by our choices we can improve our lives!

- We can do our best to follow Yah.weh!

- Of course, we will still be sinners!

- But we can actively fight against our nature by serving Yah.weh the best we can!

- It means full activity!

- We can’t be amateurs!

- Yah.weh doesn’t need amateurs!

- He needs professionals who are ready to follow him and who never look backwards!

 

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Job 14:5,6

- Yes, man has limited days to live!

- But he should have lived forever!

- With no limits to learn!

- And no limits to develop ourselves!

- And the possibility to develop a personal relationship with God like the faithful characters in the Bible!

- And the possibility to work for God as the source of knowledge!

- Even if some angels rebel against God, the majority stays faithful!

- Why cut the roots of the tree?

- Men are responsible for what is going on the earth!

- He has been having a lot of time to prove himself!

- And what do we see: his ability to destroy everything and life itself!

- When Adam rebelled against Yah.weh, according to the Bible, he could live a lot more than what we can today!

- If Yah.weh hadn’t reduced his days, mankind would have completely eradicated life on earth!

- Thus eternal life is connected to faithfulness to Yah.weh!

- We need his guidance!

- We need to be told what to do because we are unable to govern ourselves!

- It also shows why we need to prepare for the next promised land!

- We must learn how to obey Yah.weh!

- He won’t tolerate disobediance!

- The earth belongs to him, not to mankind!

- Yah.weh created us, not the reverse!

 

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Job 14:7

- Yes, and it’s the same for us!

- We have to live for a few days!

- And we must live in this contaminated world!

- And we don’t have enough time to learn!

- There are so many things to learn!

- But our hope must get stronger and stronger!

- And we must build it up now to be stronger ourselves!

- Even if we live in bad conditions!

- Even if we are ill or whatever!

- When we look at the faithful servants of Yah.weh in the Bible, life is never easy!

- But they must be prepared to have responsibilities in the future!

- In the same way, we must get ready to have responsibilities in the future!

- Yah.weh needs faithful servants who are responsible!

- Faithful servants who are ready to participate in the construction of the new promised land!

- We see that everywhere in the Bible!

- There is nothing new!

- We must open our eyes and our ears!

 

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Job 14:8,9

- Yes, we need to see our hope grow!

- We must not let despair grow!

- We must fight like Job no matter what happens!

- And if we die, God can bring us back through resurrection!

- But we must build up our relationship with God!

- We mustn’t let it die or diminish to become a pea!

- It is necessary to fight every day!

- As we eat and drink and sleep and breathe every day!

- We can speak about a sixth sense!

- Our senses should be developed and increased!

- Modern life goes in the other direction!

- Thus we lose our senses!

- We lose our consciousness!

- Of course, we need effort!

- We must see our progress every day!

- If not, we are dying!

- Yes, we die every day a bit more!

 

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Job 14:10

- When someone dies believing in God, he can have hope through resurrection!

- But it is necessary to build up this hope like a rock or a mountain!

- Something solid we can hold onto!

- But it is hard work!

- That’s why we need to study personally and dig deeply!

- We must learn how to do it!

- It is not easy because this world is superficial!

- And knowledge is a perpetual movement!

- A never ending trip!

- On the contrary superficiality is easy!

- You don’t need any effort!

- But you go nowhere!

- And thus you can’t build a relationship with God!

- No way!

- Being a faithful servant of Yah.weh means hard work and studying hard to get closer and closer to Yah.weh!

- We need strong material to think about daily and continuously!

- A good way to get away from this stressful human society!

- Yes, life is completely different from death!

- If we are actively working for Yah.weh!

- If not, we may be dead while alive!

- And Yah.weh is the God of the living ones!

- Those who are alive in his memory because of what they did when alive!

 

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Job 14:11-13

- Yes, Job wants to die because of his pain and suffering!

- He wants to go to the Grave to be concealed!

- There he will wait for God to remember him and bring him back from death!

- Everything is clear in Job’s mind!

- Do we have the same mind light?

- Death is compared to water which disappears from the sea!

- Or when a river dries up!

- In the same way man lies down and does not rise!

- Everybody can understand the image!

- Man will not be awakened or roused from his sleep!

- Everybody can understand the image!

- If only you would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until your anger passes!

- If only you would appoint a time for me and then remember me!

- Death is compared to sleep!

- Job speaks about being concealed!

- Job speaks about an appointed time!

- Job speaks about being remembered by Yah.weh!

- How clear it is!

- Quite different from human imagination or dream or chimera!

 

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Job 14:14,15

- Job is waiting for death!

- And he will wait for God’s call!

- And God will long for the work of his hands!

- But for that a strong relationship is necessary!

- Why should God remember us if we are strangers to him?

- How do we remember people who died?

- Because we have had a special relationship with them!

- If there is nothing, we can’t remember them!

- Why do we say that dogs are the best friend of man?

- Because we can develop a special relationship with them!

- How many people abandon their dogs?

- Many!

- Here here we can think about mankind’s reality or real nature!

- In every direction we can see only trash!

- Yah.weh is so different!

- Another reason why we have to develop a special relationship with him!

- Being a friend is one thing, being a stranger is another one!

 

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Job 14:16,17


- Job doesn’t know it but he speaks of the devil!

- Yes, the devil is working hard to destroy him!

- Or better said, to destroy his relationship with God!

- But God watches him because he cares about him!

- Everywhere in the Bible we can see that God cares about man!

- It is his special creation!

- But he also waits for us to care about him!

- Because he gave us so much in the way he built us and the way he built the earth!

- And because he wants to offer us a bright future on the earth but according to his standard, not according to man’s standard because it doesn’t work!

- The world is filled with violence and so many bad things that it is necessary to cleanse the earth from those who are responsible for violence and bad things!

- Job’s attitude is so different from man’s attitude!

- Job says about Yah.weh that he watches him all the time!

- Man usually says that Yah.weh does nothing about man!

- Someone is wrong!

- As there is no one like him on earth, you can guess who is wrong!

- Looking at man’s society, you can guess who is wrong!

- It is tiring to repeat every time, man is wrong!

- Because he is not only wrong but a total failure!

- Saying he is ridiculous is far from reality!

- Thus man’s transgression is so great that his responsibility is disgusting!

- Why make children if it is to offer them no future?

- Well, in fact, more people don’t have children anymore!

 

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Job 14:18,19

- Once again he speaks of the devil without knowing it!

- And that’s exactly what the devil wants!

- No hope, just thinking about the present because there is no future!

- And that’s exactly what man is doing!

- Man is responsible for the calamities he provokes!

- He has no excuse!

- And he is proud of it!

- Thus he shows that his father is the devil not God!

- When you have a father, you try to do your best to develop and maintain a good relationship with him, especially when he provides for you!

- Thus by acting badly man shows who is his real father!

- Now Job says he has lost any hope!

- How is it possible to live without hope?

- I can’t, especially in this poor world man keeps destroying more and more every day!

- I want to participate to make a better world!

- But this society has nothing to offer, only destruction!

- I want to see the results of my effort!

- I want to see Yah.weh’s actions to make something incredible on this earth!

- Where everybody can enjoy life as never before!

- I see blindness everywhere!

 

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Job 14:20-22


- Yes, Job speaks about the devil but he doesn’t know it!

- Yes, the devil does everything so we can look like him!

- Yes, the devil does everything he can to strike us!

- And people think it is God!

- He does with humanity what he did with Job!

- It is remarkable or should I say shocking that the devil always repeats his action against man and man thinks it is God!

- But man never learns anything!

- If he doesn’t have God’s spirit, he is good to nothing, but nothing at all!

- If we don’t want to think that way!

- If we want to open our minds!

- If we want to see reality!

- If we don’t want to be blind!

- If we want to hope!

- If we want hope to fill our lives now!

- If we want hope to change our lives now!

- We must develop our relationship with Yah.weh!

- We must get to know him personally!

- And for that we need to study seriously and deeply the Bible!

- We need to get in touch with all the faithful servants of Yah.weh in the Bible!

- It must fill our minds whatever we do wherever we go!

- Then it will be armor and a shield and protection!

 

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Job 16:2,3

- These three men are not real friends otherwise they would help Job!

- But they do the contrary!

- So they can’t be his friends!

- Just empty words!

- Job’s question shows something is abnormal!

- When you take into account that the devil is behind them in his effort to destroy Job!

- And he is ready to do anything!

- They are impostors!

- Job sees clearly why they are here!

- He perfectly understands their game!

- There are people who like to listen to themselves!

- They don’t care about others!

- There are other people who really want to help others!

- In the same way, there are people who really want to get to know the Bible!

- In the same way, there are people who really want to encourage others to get to know the Bible!

- But in the end, it’s up to us to do the job because we can’t only read the Bible!

- We need to think about it!

- Again and again!

- The more we think about it, the more we get inside, the more the Bible gets inside us!

- It is as if it was alive!

- It is as if it was a person with whom we could exchange ideas!

- It is as if we could see the authors speaking directly to us!

- As if they were alive in front of us!

- As if we could hear their words!

 

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Job 16:4,5

- Job could do the same if they were in his place!

- But he wouldn’t do it!

- On the contrary, he would strengthen them!

- He would bring them consolation!

- You can’t help someone by opposing him!

- If he has done something wrong, he may be told!

- But then the reconstruction comes!

- What can be done to improve his or her situation!

- If you demolish, you don’t build!

- Job is condemning them with his words!

- He tells them they don’t act properly!

- They don’t behave as friends!

- If we want to help someone who is in trouble, we have to choose our words!

- We must be careful !

- The way we speak tells who we are!

- Today people are used to saying many words!

- But they aren’t careful!

- They just say words!

- I prefer to write because I take time to think about what I say!

- When you write, it is written!

- You can’t change what you have written!

- When people speak, they often say I didn’t say that!