JOB 31:1 "I have made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I look upon a young woman?" Millie Dienert worked with the Billy Graham evangelistic team for 40 years. She commented, "I have always appreciated from a moral point of view how the men have been in their...
JOB 28:12, 28 "But where can wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?" And to man He said, "Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding." A young man got into financial difficulty by loaning a friend in another...
JOB 23:10 "But He knows the way that I take; when He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold." It's a well-known fact that many people have become successful by compensating for personality or physical flaws. Winston Churchill, for example, stuttered as a youth yet became a great...
JOB 20:4-5 "Do you not know this of old, since man was placed on earth, that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment?" John Bunyan was a Puritan preacher and author of the classic Pilgrim's Progress. A local magistrate...
JOB 19:25 For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth. Some years ago an article appeared in National Geographic magazine that told of a young man from Hanover, Pennsylvania, who was badly burned in a boiler explosion. To save his life, physicians...
JOB 14:14 "If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, till my change comes." The Romanian weekly Tinerama reported that a woman fainted when she opened her front door and found her husband standing there. It all started when a...
JOB 13:15 "Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him." Years ago a military officer and his wife were aboard a ship that was caught in a raging storm at sea. Seeing his wife's fear, the man tried to comfort her. Suddenly she grasped his sleeve and cried, "How...
JOB 11:7 "Can you search out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limits of the Almighty?" As the people of Job's day walked the earth, they likely didn't know that our world is 8,000 miles in diameter, with approximately 198,980,000 square miles on its surface. It...
JOB 9:2 "Truly I know it is so, but how can a man be righteous before God?" According to Parade magazine, the zoo in Copenhagen, Denmark, has put a human couple on display. Henrik Leh-mann and Malene Botoft live in a see-through cage in the primate display next to the...
JOB 7:6 FAST, FASTER, FASTEST "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...