Charles (Chuck) Kensinger

Job continues in chapter twenty-four with his answer to Eliphaz. We know that judgment is scheduled after our death. Job lists a lot of the same types of things he is accused of. Light and darkness are at war. Who can prove Job’s words to be false?

Bildad replies briefly in the twenty-fifth chapter that God has dominion. He asks how we can be righteous before Jehovah. He also calls Job a maggot or a worm.

Job is not pleased with this characterization and responds in chapter twenty-six. He sarcastically speaks of all Bildad’s accomplishments for the powerless and feeble. He continues to give a list of Yahweh’s strength and power.

He continues to refuse to sink to the level of his accusers in chapter 27. He will remain faithful to the Lord. He hopes his enemy is like the wicked and the godless. He offers to teach them about his God which seems to be different from theirs. He tells what the wicked will suffer while maintaining his innocence.

In chapter twenty-eight Job continues to teach them about wisdom from God. Wisdom and knowledge cannot be mined or dug from the earth like other precious minerals and metals. It can’t be purchased. Where does it come from? “The fear of the Lord-that is wisdom.”

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