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...
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, he...
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 may...
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...
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...