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Job 10:10

- In fact, there is a big difference between MILK and CHEESE!

- Cheese is an elaborated product!

- And we are an elaborated product!

- And this society has turned into a really bad cheese!

- Hopefully, thanks to God and how he made us, there is still some good cheese!

- And Job will always be a really good one!

 

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Job 10:11

- God decided to make us special!

- And yet, look at what we have become!

- Look at that society which only knows war and violence and misery and selfishness!

- Job is full of respect for God’s creation!

- We can’t say the same with men!

 

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Job 10:12

- Isn’t it incredible how Job speaks about God!

- He puts together life and loyal love!


“It's the kind of love that someone demonstrates when they're keeping a promise, and when the desire to be loyal to their promise motivates them to go above and beyond and be super generous, more than what you would expect—that's khesed.”2 nov. 2020


- “Life and Loyal love”: do we still know what it means? I doubt it considering what I see in this world when I get up every morning!

- Job knows what it means!

- Does it mean we are dead?

- And Job says that God has guarded his spirit with care: is that a father-son relationship?

- Is it possible to find better words?

- WOW! WOW! WOW!

 

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Job 10:13

- And Job is sincere when he says that!

- Can you hear the devil’s laughs!

- Because everything is against God as Job only knows God!

- Think of today: do you hear the devil’s laughs when he listens to the people?

- Do you understand God’s pain in relation to Job’s feelings!

 

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Job 10:14

- Yes, God is watching!

- And God was watching Job and his pain and his suffering!

- Don’t you think he was sharing it with Job!

- Now think about what God says to Job and only to him when he finally answers him: please listen to me or he invites him to listen to him!

- Isn’t it RESPECT from God’s part towards Job’s faithfulness which echoes that there is no one like him on earth!

- Now think about a special communication between God and Job!

- Now think about what we have to do to improve our communication with God!

- Let's add what Job ultimately received for his faithfulness!

- Now imagine what humans will receive for their infidelity!

- Good luck if you make it!

- It will be incredibly violent!

- And all orchestrated by Jesus who will return to apply the judgment of Yahweh on humanity!

- Really very far from the pitiful image of Jesus as a newborn!

- And it is not this pitiful image that will save them from the long-foretold disaster!

 

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Job 10:15

- Think of Job’s feelings: dishonor and affliction!

- He can’t feel worse!

- He has lost his roots!

- He is imploring God to answer him!

- In any case the situation is “too bad for me”!

- Do you really perceive Job’s dishonor and affliction?

- Do you see him in front of your eyes?

- Now think of everything the devil does against him!

- He doesn't stop, he's merciless!

- And those who obey the devil do the same!

- Not just one to catch up with the other!

- And finally Job still finds a way to save them from death!

- I don't think they will understand the lesson!

- It’s not in human genes!

 

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Job 10:16

- Yes, but it is the devil and not God!

- Think about Job, God and the devil!

- The devil has nothing to lose because he is a liar so one more lie doesn’t make a big difference!

- God knows Job’s faithfulness and he wants to make it clear to all the angels!

- Job is completely lost because he doesn’t understand what’s on but he keeps his faithfulness that’s LOYAL LOVE to God!

- It’s amazing how humans only think about themselves, about their little lives!

- They constantly forget that the angels are there and that they were there before them!

- And that they participated in the creation of Yah.weh!

- When Yah.weh acts, it is not only taking into account humans but also angels!

- Because they are watching too!

- And like humans, some angels became unfaithful and rebelled against the authority of Yah.weh!

- With one big difference: those who remained faithful and those who became unfaithful!

- But everyone will receive what they deserve in due time according to divine time which has nothing to do with human time!

- Fortunately, otherwise most humans would have been destroyed long ago!

 

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Job 10:17

- Yes, that’s what Job sees but he doesn’t know he speaks about the devil instead of God!

- It’s interesting to compare this situation to what may happens to us when we think wrong about people we care or love because we see with what we know but when what we know is wrong it may have very bad consequences so we must be careful about that!

- Thus we may avoid hurting our dear ones!

- But humans often act without thinking!

- Job does the opposite!

- Thinking before acting gives a great advantage!

- But not for the majority of humans!

- Human history is a repetition of this pitiful behavior!

- Reading the Bible in depth should help us change our attitude!

- This is rarely the case!

 

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Job 10:18

- Yes, Job has only one reference: God!

- So he doesn’t understand what’s on!

- Why having such a life and finishing in such a way: it is a nonsense!

- Except there is no one like him on earth regarding his faithfulness!

- And he was chosen by the devil to oppose God but despite the devil he showed that God was right that is there is no one like him on earth!

- So much was in this trial and till now it has been the same story with humanity: faithfulness to God!

- There is such a difference between Adam who was perfect and the faithful servants of Yah.weh like Job, Daniel, Samuel and all the others!

- Their examples show that we can remain faithful in the face of the devil's attacks!

- It doesn't matter if the majority follows him!

- The prospect of living eternally to be able to build a better world and not only better, but in which it will be possible to collaborate with God to develop a society with infinite possibilities that we cannot even imagine when we look at the miserable history of humanity!

- This is what makes the loyalty challenge even more incredible!

- Infinite possibilities commensurate with a universe that never stops growing!

 

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Job 10:19

- No way!

- Job doesn’t know it but he takes part in something he can’t imagine!

- He is the one who shows that a man can stay faithful to God whatever may happen to him!

- If the devil chose him to fight God, it was because he was special and his relationship with God was exceptional!

- Think about Job’s feelings through his trial and then think about God’s feelings watching Job being tortured physically and mentally by the devil and he couldn’t do anything because there was a trial on!

- The more we read about Job and his relationship with God the more it makes us think about our personal relationship with God!

- Or rather it should make us think!

- It shows we need to build up such a relationship and it may grow or shrink depending on the efforts we do!

- And Job shows us the way!

- A simple human but with inexhaustible mental resources who continues to resist no matter what happens to him!

- How many read the book of Job regularly?

- And I'm not just talking about reading the Bible or the book of Job but meditating on it to learn a life lesson and open the path to eternal life!

- There are so many life lessons to be learned in the Bible thanks to all the faithful servants of Yah.weh who have proven themselves!

- And us?

 

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Job 10:20

- He doesn’t know but he speaks about the devil!

- He has no idea of tomorrow!

- He just wants his torture to finish!

- It can be death or life, anything but no more torture!

- But he keeps faithful and at the same time he keeps complaining because of his torture!

- Job had no key to understanding what was happening to him!

- He was in total fog!

- We have the Bible and the testimony of all the faithful servants of Yah.weh!

- Are we also in total fog?

- Are we incapable of using the keys that the Bible provides us?

 

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Job 10:21,22

- These words remind me of those of Jesus speaking about death as if it was sleep!

- Deepest darkness, utter gloom, deep shadow and disorder, the light is like gloom!

- Quite a different vision from what people usually think it is!

- Maybe they should think about it!

- Job only wants to put an end to his suffering!

- He expects nothing from death!

- There is no bright light that warms the heart or the mind!

- He has no illusions!

- And we, with all the information that the Bible gives, do we still believe in chimeras?

- So what is the point of reading the Bible if a man who lived a very long time ago, who did not have the Bible, and he knew more about it than us?

- We are to be pitied!

 

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Job 12:1,2

- If we didn’t know Job’s situation, would we think about someone so combative?

- Difficult to think so!

- So precise!- Wisdom is a journey which never ends!


- And the beginning of this journey is humility: no humility, no journey, no wisdom!

- In fact, no humility, no key to understanding the Bible and being able to meditate on it constantly to continually help us understand it better!

- Each time we return to a passage, our mind can be attracted by a detail or an aspect that we missed!

- The more we read it, the more we think about it and the more we open our eyes, and the more clarity sets in!

- The less we do it, the more darkness and incomprehension gains ground!

 

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Job 12:3

- Job is not a young boy!

- He has lived for quite some time!

- He has life experience!

- He has helped many people!

- He is someone you can count on!

- We know him through the Book of Job!

- We know them according to what they say!

- And they were supposed to help Job but they are liars, they do the reverse!

- They don’t come from God but from the devil!

- They are just another attempt from him to get rid of Job!

- Here we have a presentation of the two opposing paths open to us!

- Not three ways, only two!

- So humans can imagine a third path but it is a dead end that leads nowhere!

- It's like mirages in the desert!

 

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Job 12:4

- Laughingstock!

- The book of Job tells us a lot about Job!

- He has done so many good things!

- And he is faithful to God!

- And he has become a laughingstock!

- Just concentrate on this word!

- Think about Job’s life and his actions!

- “A righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock”!

- What a shock for him!

- All that for that!

- What a nonsense for Job!

- He can’t situate anywhere!

- He is nowhere!

- Or better said he keeps by his faithfulness!

- It is his torch lighting him in the darkness!

- And he keeps fighting whatever happens!

- Because Job is a WRESTLER!

- Yes, a fierce fighter!

- Someone who never gives up!

- Even if he is mentally and physically exhausted!

- An incredible example that we must look at to stay on course towards the prize of loyalty!

- And the closer we get to the end, the more difficult it is!

- The more we can have the impression that everything no longer makes sense in a crazy world where everything is accelerating!

- Where those who see are more and more blind!

- Where ignorance is a pandemic that is eroding society at all levels!

 

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Job 12:5

- The carefree person doesn’t care!

- But Job cares about everything!

- And he cares about God!

- And he cares about people!

- But he also cares about himself!

- And knowing his personal situation he can only be upset!

- What a difference with a world that resembles the Titanic and its three classes linked to financial means!

- Not to mention that they all had the same ending!

- In the end, where is human intelligence?

- Why are human beings so stupid?

 

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Job 12:6

- Job is tortured!

- So he feels bad!

- And he sees what’s on in the world!

- What would he say if he could see what is happening today?

- How right he was!

- Everything is corruption!

- It's all selfishness!

- At least there is logic: the same end for all those who practice corruption and selfishness!

- Get closer and closer to the edge of the cliff!

- And then all it takes is a gust of wind and it’s a fall!

- A violent, rapid fall, with no possible escape!

- And there, this is the reality of the human species: despite its so-called intelligence, absolute failure!

- The man who believed himself more intelligent than his creator!

- Only crazy people believe in a plan B!

 

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Job 12:7-9

- Yes, Job answers back!

- And he says that God’s creation tells us about God!

- God’s creation is an open Book of God’s wisdom!

- What a difference with man!

- He is only a copier and a bad one!

- Look at what he has done to the earth!

- And the more the time passes the worse it is!

- And he seems to be proud of it!

- And more people talk about a plan B!

- But there is no plan B!

- Scientists modified fruit flies by irradiating them to prove evolution!

- Then when they let nature take its course, those who monitored got closer to the initial model!

- All that for that!

- What intelligence!

- Man only knows how to destroy!

 

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Job 12:10

- Yes, God created us!

- And we are his creation!

- And we can live thanks to all his creation!

- And he knows us!

- We can’t trick him!

- And yet he listens to his servants and to those who are really looking for him!

- And he listens to Job!

- But he answers him at the appropriate time!

- And God’s time is not ours!

- It is easy to forget it!

- And think wrong!

- You have to learn to think to make the right choices!

- This seems very difficult!

- Yet the faithful servants of Yah.weh show us the way in the Bible!

- But for many, the Bible is an outdated book!

- In fact, it is the human being who is overwhelmed!

- How is it possible to transform the earth that we received from Yah.weh to this extent to make it into trash?

- Don't dream, the land doesn't belong to us!

- We are just tenants!

- When Yah.weh asks us to account, it will be very hot and it will hurt very much!

- Who can say I didn't know, it's not my fault, I'm not responsible?

 

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Job 12:11

- We have five senses but because of modern life we are losing them more and more!

- And we have good sense: may we use it!

- Job tries to use it as much as he can!

- He keeps fighting!

-Have human beings ever had common sense?

- How is it possible to get to this point?

- It’s only getting worse!

- And the worse it gets, the more we still find some who deny the obvious!

- Stubbornness has never saved humanity!

- On the contrary, it leads him towards destruction!

- What a tragicomedy!

- How pitiful!

- For those who survive, how will it be possible to forget the past?

- The more time passes, the more the past will become nothing more than an insect that we crush!

- And yet even comparing it to an insect makes no sense because a simple insect is a miracle of divine creation!