WORD STUDY: IT IS RIGHT AND WRONG

Job 22:29: “When men are cast down thou shalt say, there is lifting up, and he shall save the humble person.”   Job 22 is the reply to Job by his friend Eliphaz.   It is suggested by many that his name means god of gold.  This is likely due to an assumption that...

WORD STUDY – GOD’S PRIORITIES

Job 13:3: “Surely I would speak to the Almighty and I desire to reason with God.”   “He lived by the sewer and by the sewer he died, the coroner didn’t know what to call it so he called it sewer side.  He lived by a home and by a home he died, the coroner didn’t...

WORD STUDY – WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY WHY?

Job 12:3: “But I have understanding as well as you, I am not inferior than you; yea who knoweth not such things as these?”   “Wise men don’t need advice, fools will not take it.”   Benjamin Franklin   Reading this verse would suggest that Job is really...

WORD STUDY – BLAMING GOD

Job 1:22: “In all this Job sinned not, nor charge God foolishly.”   Whenever I hear a preacher teach on Job and point his finger and say: “In all that Job did not sin, nor blame God.”  I could not help but wonder: “What sin would Job commit and how could he not...

WORD STUDY – I BELONG TO JEHOVAH

Job 1:20-22: Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and he fell to the ground and worshipped.  And he said naked I came from my mother’s womb and naked I shall return there.  The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away.  Blessed be the name of the Lord. ...