Warm surprises

[alpharaposa]

I 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.

Comments

[collinsmom.livejournal.com]

I decided to use the book of Job for my final paper. These verses will help me as I work on it.

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

I hadn't read the book of Job in a long time. The idea of a God who would in essence make a bet with the Devil about a faithful believer and then allow that believer to be tortured struck me as showing a God who wasn't much better than the Devil.

I'm on a project of reading the Bible cover-to-cover right now (finishing up Psalms tonight) so I got to read Job again. Setting aside the creepy theology, yes, parts of it are unbelievable beautiful. Plus, Job says things that I've thought in my most miserable days. My favourite though are the passages about even the unclean animals calling out to God (young ravens, for instance).

[stryck.livejournal.com]

The arguments between Job and his friends remind me of people I know. I know some people who could say some of these things, word for word, in a livejournal post, and I wouldn't think it out of the ordinary.