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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...

See Day 115 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 4/25/2019     Day 116 Job 6:1 - 14:22 Reflection | Today Chapter 6 - Why is Job suffering? Job gets mad at friends but vows to hear them and be silent. Give me honest words. What did I do to make this happen? Causality not s*** happens, Chapter 7 - Job is complaining about his suffering. Why is God oppressing me? I loathe my life. Chapter 8 - Bildad - Job should repent. God is just. Chapter 9 - Where is the mediator between me and God? How can I get justice? Chapter 10 - I loathe my life!!!!! God help me!!! Chapter 11 - Zophar - Job deserves punishment! Chapter 12 - I am not inferior to you. I am a laughingstock to you. With God there is wisdom and worship and gives justice. Chapter 13 - I hear you but you are not listening to me! Prayer - God - withdraw your judgement and call to me and...

http://catholicism.about.com/od/catholicliving/qt/The_Beatitudes.htm Highlights and Reflections Daily Office Readings | Book of Common Prayer - written in the 1970s Week after the 15th Sunday after Pentecost - Proper 17 Today | Sunday | 28 August 2016 | 15th Sunday after Pentecost Ps. 148 149 150; Ps. 114 115; Job 11:1–9 13–20; Rev. 5:1–14; Matt. 5:1–12 Psalm 148 | Hymn A third hymn of Praise; Praise the Lord from every fiber of the creation and the Earth. Job 11 Zophar raves at Job at Job’s word for Z know that God knows J to be a secret sinner and thereby just in giving this punishment on him; From Z’s point of view - God just looks for sinners. How sad for Z. Revelation 5 A picture of the heavenly throne and the question of who is worthy to open the scroll of the world of God; no one from the heavenly court steps forward; Jesus takes it and everyone sings praises to the Lamb. Matthew 5 Jesus teaches/preaches the Sermon of the Mount to the crowd and listed...

Day 24 | January 24 | Job 19:1 – 21:34 Dates |2200 BC - 1800 BC | Could have occurred as late as the Exile (600 BC - 582 BC with the deportations) Reading | Job to his friends = how long will you torment me?; have pity on me for the hand of God has touched me; Zophar = doom of the wicked; Job answers = denies that only wicked suffer. Source | The New Oxford Annotated Bible, 4th Edition | (c) 2010, Oxford University Press | ISBN 978-0-19-528955-8 |  click here  | pp. 744 - 746 Next |  Day 25|January 25|Job 22:1 – 25:6 +++ A Prayer of Self-Dedication Almighty and eternal God, so draw our hearts to you, so guide our minds, so fill our imaginations, so control our wills, that we may be wholly yours, utterly dedicated unto you; and then use us, we pray you, as you will, and always to your glory and the welfare of your people; through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. A Collect for Saturdays Almighty God, who after the creation of the world rest...

Read | Day 21|January 21|Job 8:1 – 11:20 Background | literary history, structure, and contents  Many scholars have proposed that the prose prologue and epilogue reflect a tale about Job older than the poetic dialogues. In the sixth century bce the prophet Ezekiel mentions Job, along with Noah, the hero of the Flood story (Gen 6–9), and Danel, as heroes who saved others by their righteousness (Ezek 14.14,20). The frame of the book is the prose prologue and epilogue (chs 1–2; 42.7–17). Within that frame are the poetic dialogues: first, three cycles of speeches by Job and his friends (chs 3–31) plus the Elihu speeches (chs 32–37), and second, two speeches by the Lord, each followed by a response from Job (38.1–42.6). The third cycle of speeches by Job and his friends presents many problems, and it is possible that the original order of the book  is no longer correctly preserved. It has also commonly been thought that the speeches of Elihu (chs...