11th.: Please Stop
Job 1:1 through Job 2:9 gives a unique story of what takes place in the heavens.
Satan stood in front of God.
He accused Job of being loyal to God, only because of what God gave Job.
Satan said that if God were take away Job's possessions, Job would renounce God.
Satan said that if God were take away Job's possessions, Job would renounce God.
God decided to allow Satan to take away all of Job's possessions, children, health, and even his wife's sympathy.
This left Job destitute.
Job’s friends then came out to sit with him. They all sat for a week together in silence.
After a week, Job spake.
He complained about his predicament. (Job 2:11-3:26).
His friends responded by saying that Job must have sinned.
Nevertheless, Job sought God. His prayer revealed his thoughts.
One of his prayers can be found in Job 7:12-21,
“Am I a sea, or a whale that thou sets a watch over me? When I say, ‘My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint.’
Then thou scares me with dreams, and terrifies me through visions, so that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life.
I loathe it. I would not live always. Let me alone, for my days are vanity. What is man that thou should magnify him?
And that thou should set thine heart upon him? And that thou should visit him every morning,
and try him every moment? How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
I have sinned. What shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men?
Why have thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
And why does thou not pardon my transgressions, and take away mine iniquity?
For now shall I sleep in the dust, and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.”
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