Day Four Job 1-5
Yep we are skipping all the way to Job today, I decided that I am going to go through the bible chronologically because going straight through always leaves me right around Numbers and that’s where I get stuck, so I decided to read in historical fashion what was going on, and get some new bible study going.
Poor Job, what else can you say? Even his wife is against him on this one saying "Curse God and die" I can't imagine even muttering that to Louie and she just lays it out there, and I can only think maybe Job was a bigger whiner then we think and who wouldn't be? You are sitting on top of the world, thinking all is right and then BAAAM your sheep are dead, your servants are dead and you have blisters all over you (probably leporsy) who wouldn't be whining and of course Job is a man and well we know how that goes he was probably the biggest baby to of all people his wife and we even go through an entire verse where Job curses the day he was born over and over he has an absolute pity party for himself. Of course there are times when Louie is sick that I say "Put your big boy panties on" Job's wife seems as though she has had it.
The first of Job's friends to finally talk after sitting around staring at each other for 7 days is Eliphaz, and what a friend he turns out to be he basically ends up telling Job, Dude come on we all sin and no man is without guilt so just repent and life will be cool again. He just proves to be the first of Job's friends to get it wrong. I like to think that as a friend I don't give unnecessary advice, people are who they are and they decide how to run their lives there are times that being a good friend mean staying quiet being there for them rather than telling them what they were doing wrong. I find myself in that situation as of now and in order to keep privacy on this issue I am just going to say that I have to keep my mouth shut as I believe someone makes a mistake that’s the easy part for me, not sticking my chest out afterwards and thinking "Told you so niener niener niener" is going to be the hard part.
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