“And Job again took up his discourse, and said: ‘Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me, when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness, as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent…'” (ESV – Read the chapter)
Job’s ordeal had been intense at this point. He had lost everything including his health. That’s not really specific enough. He had faced total financial ruin. All of his children had died in a tragic accident (an accident we, the readers, know was caused by Satan). His wife had functionally abandoned him out of her own grief. And he was experiencing horrendous physical suffering as well. To make matters even worse, three of his best friends had spent days with him arguing with greater and greater intensity and insistence that he was ultimately to blame for all of his troubles because of some sin that was going unconfessed in his life. The old adage, “when it rains it pours,” does not even begin to cover it here. Read the rest…
The Nexus 