Then Zophar the Naamathite answered: ‘Pay attention! My thoughts urge me to answer, because of the agitation within me.I hear censure that insults me, and a spirit beyond my understanding answers me.Do you not know this from of old, ever since mortals were placed on earth,that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless […]
URC Daily Devotion 1st March
Then Job answered:‘How long will you torment me, and break me in pieces with words?These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me?And even if it is true that I have erred, my error remains with me.If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and make my humiliation an argument against me,know then […]
URC Daily Devotion 28th February
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered: ‘How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we shall speak.Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight?You who tear yourself in your anger— shall the earth be forsaken because of you, or the rock be removed out of its place? ‘Surely the light of the wicked […]
URC Daily Devotion 27th February
The opening verse of chapter 17 expresses the essence of Job’s long monologue through both these chapters. He has nothing else to say and piles up a range of metaphors to convey how he feels about the harsh ways in which God has treated him. His ‘comforters’ have brought him no comfort either. The speech […]
URC Daily Devotion 26th February
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 […]