Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered: ‘Should the wise answer with windy knowledge, and fill themselves with the east wind?Should they argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which they can do no good?But you are doing away with the fear of God, and hindering meditation before God.For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of […]
URC Daily Devotion 25th February
1 My heart has heard an oracleabout the wicked’s sin:There is no fear of God in him;he feels no dread within. 2 He views himself with blind conceit,his sinfulness denies.3 He speaks with evil and deceit,no longer good or wise. 4 In bed he plots his evil ways;he schemes throughout the night,As he commits himself […]
URC Daily Devotion 24th February
‘A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble, comes up like a flower and withers, flees like a shadow and does not last.Do you fix your eyes on such a one? Do you bring me into judgement with you?Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one can.Since their days are determined, and […]
URC Daily Devotion 23rd February
Then Job answered: ‘No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?I am a laughing-stock to my friends; I, who called upon God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, I am a laughing-stock. […]
URC Daily Devotion 22nd February
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered: ‘Should a multitude of words go unanswered, and should one full of talk be vindicated?Should your babble put others to silence, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?For you say, “My conduct is pure, and I am clean in God’s sight.”But O that God would speak, and open his lips to you,and […]
URC Daily Devotion 21st February
Then Job answered:‘Indeed I know that this is so; but how can a mortal be just before God?If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand.He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength—who has resisted him, and succeeded?—he who removes mountains, and they do not know it, when he overturns […]
URC Daily Devotion 20th February
‘How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?If your children sinned against him, he delivered them into the power of their transgression.If you will seek God and make supplication to the Almighty,if you are pure and upright, surely then he will […]
URC Daily Devotions 19th February
Job isn’t persuaded and renews his lament, wishing that God will end his life because he isn’t sure how much more he can endure without sinning against God. The only point on which Job agrees with Eliphaz is that God is all powerful and free to act in whatever ways God chooses. He denounces his […]
URC Daily Devotion 17th February
Eliphaz feels obliged to speak, to reprove Job for his lament and initially his words are a gentle rebuke to a friend. He then voices one of the doctrines of traditional wisdom, as though this will comfort Job: that an innocent person has never suffered a premature death. It is hard to imagine that anyone […]
URC Daily Devotion 16th February
After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. Job said: ‘Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, “A man-child is conceived.”Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it, or light shine on it.Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds settle upon it; let the […]