Job 7:6 – “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle.” Men have always had a love affair with speed. The faster they can go–first with horses, then with cars and now with space shuttles–the happier they are. Speed has increased to the point where we have moved from measuring...
Job 6:24-27- “Teach me, and I will hold my tongue; cause me to understand wherein I have erred. How forceful are right words! But what does your arguing prove? Do you intend to reprove my words, and the speeches of a desperate one, which are as wind? Yes, you overwhelm...
Job 5:17 – “Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects; therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.” Lou Holtz, former head football coach of the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame, is legendary in his adherence to discipline. In an interview with The Saturday Evening Post in 1989,...
Job 5:6-7 – For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble spring from the ground; yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward. Perhaps you have heard someone talk about a snafu. You probably realized that this meant something had gone wrong, but you...
Job 3:9-12- “May the stars of its morning be dark; may it look for light, but have none, and not see the dawning of the day; because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hide sorrow from my eyes. Why did I not die at...
Job 2:11, 13- Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, each one came from his own place–Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had made an appointment together to come and mourn with him, and to comfort...
Job 2:10- But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips. An old Arab proverb says, “All sun and no rain makes...
Job 2:9-Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” Some of Andrew Jackson’s boyhood friends just couldn’t understand how he became a famous general and then the president of the United States. They knew of other men who had greater...
Job 1:21-And he said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” A few years ago, advice columnist Ann Landers printed a supposedly true story of a tightfisted husband...
Job 1:20-Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head, and he fell to the ground and worshiped. A Sunday school teacher was giving an object lesson on reactions. She placed a glass on a small table and carefully filled it to the brim with water. Then she...