Warm surprises
Oct. 6th, 2009 06:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alpharaposaI tried posting verses about the creation of the Ark and the rest, but it's just not the sort of thing that works well one verse at at time.
However, I have discovered that the book of Job, which often gets a very bad rap, is full of nuggets of beauty, often spoken by Job himself. Reading the book itself is very different from hearing people sum it up. This is so often the case when reading a portion of the Bible that I should stop being surprised at it.
So, I leave you with these verses:
Job 19:
23 “Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
24 “That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!
25 “As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth.
26 “Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall see God;
27 Whom I myself shall behold, And whom my eyes will see and not another. My heart faints within me!
Amen.
However, I have discovered that the book of Job, which often gets a very bad rap, is full of nuggets of beauty, often spoken by Job himself. Reading the book itself is very different from hearing people sum it up. This is so often the case when reading a portion of the Bible that I should stop being surprised at it.
So, I leave you with these verses:
Job 19:
23 “Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
24 “That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!
25 “As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth.
26 “Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall see God;
27 Whom I myself shall behold, And whom my eyes will see and not another. My heart faints within me!
Amen.
