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The Lord Answering Job Out of the Whirlwind , from the Butts set. Pen and black ink, gray wash, and watercolor, over traces of graphite Wiki Commons Images My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 Read the Bible in a Year | Come join us at any time! Using The NRSV Daily Bible Today’s Reading 5/1/2019       Day 120 Job 38:1 – 42:17 Reflection | Today Chapter 38 - 40:1 God shows up! Ask Job a series of questions Where were you at Creation? Human - what is your power? Who do you think you are? Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Chapter 40:2 - 41:34  God continues God’s questioning of Job. On earth there is no equal. Chapter 42 - Job answers God and repents. God humiliates Job’s friends and is mad at them. God gives Job tremendous wealth and sons and daughters and grandchildren and Great Grandchildren. (Collins, Introduction …, the NRSV Daily Bible) Background Background by Center of Biblical Studies. Backgroun...

https://allsoulsaremine.wordpress.com/2016/05/01/elusive-elihu-and-job-greatest-message-in-the-bible-part-1/ My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 Read the Bible in a Year | Come join us at anytime! Using The NRSV Daily Bible Today’s Reading 4/30/2019     Day 119 Job 32:1 – 37:24 Reflection | Today Elihu - Job’s younger friend - speaks - friends are bad; Job is too self righteous - shift in that Elihu holds to the traditions but also Is willing to open the door to questioning, or rejection, of tradition. (Collins, Introduction …, the NRSV Daily Bible) Background Background by Center of Biblical Studies. Background by Chabad.org | +++ Meditation/Contemplate: How do you understand God in good and bad times? How do we study about God without losing the faith we have in God? Prayer: God, you speak to me in silence, in your creation, but mostly through Your Word and Spirit. Make me a patient, humble, and loving listener to you and ...

Job is rebuked by his friends  by Butts https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-book-of-job/ My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 Read the Bible in a Year | Come join us at any time! Using The NRSV Daily Bible Today’s Reading 4/29/2019     Day 118 Job 22:1 – 31:40 Reflection | Today Chapter 22 -  Eliphaz - Job is wicked. Chapter 23 - Job cries and mourns how he is inaccessible to God. Chapter 24 - Job cries to God about the wickedness and violence. Chapter 25 - Bildad - How can a mortal be righteous before God? Chapter 26 - Job - God is majestic in all things - Holy, Holy, Holy Chapter 27 - Job - I do not speak falsehood - I am innocent. Chapter 28 - Job? - independent poem Chapter 29 - Job - Concludes his defense of innocence. Chapter 30 - Job - Continues in his plea. Chapter 31 - Job - I have made a covenant! (NOAB 5 - notes; the NRSV Daily Bible) Background Background by Center of Biblical Studies. Ba...

Job is rebuked by his friends  by Butts https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-book-of-job/ My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 Read the Bible in a Year | Come join us at any time! Using The NRSV Daily Bible Today’s Reading 4/27/2019     Day 117 Job 15:1 – 21:34 Reflection | Today Chapter 15 - Eliphaz tries again - Job even though moral and upstanding still is not perfect in comparison to God; Job should the suffering in a moral stance. Don’t be against God. Chapter 16 - Job reaffirms his innocence. Chapter 17 - Job prays for relief from his suffering. Chapter 18 - Bildad outlines the fate of the wicked Chapter 19 - Job chastises his friends and their wicked words; He complains to God concerning his suffering. Chapter 20 - Zophar - Job you must change for you are wicked: and the wicked is doomed. Chapter 21 -  Job says the wicked DO prosper and he can’t figure out why. (NOAB 5 - notes; the NRSV Daily Bible) Bac...