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Read: Job 35-37 Focus Verse: “If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand? Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself, and your righteousness only other people. People cry out under the load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.” (Job 35:7-9).  Devotion: Well Elihu at least has one thing…

Read: Job 32-34 Focus Vese: “So listen to me, you men of understanding. Far be it from God to do evil, from the Almighty to do wrong. He repays everyone for what they have done; he brings on them what their conduct deserves. It is unthinkable that God would do wrong, that the Almighty would pervert justice.” (Job 34:10-12).  Devotion: That’s the problem, and this…

Read: Job 29-31 Focus Verse: “If I have denied the desires of the poor or let the eyes of the widow grow weary, if I have kept my bread to myself, not sharing it with the fatherless—“ … “if I had raised my hand against the fatherless, knowing that I had influence in court, then let my arm fall from the shoulder, let it be broken at the joint.” (Job 31:16-17; 21-22).…

Read: Job 24-28 Focus Verse: “And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power?” (Job 26:14). We must be careful not to use God to make our point. Job’s friends keep talking as if they know how God works with certainty. Yes there are aspects of God’s character we know—love, grace,…

Read: Job 21-23 Focus Verse: “They spend their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace. Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways. Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain by praying to him?’ But their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked. Yet how often is…

Read: Job 17-20 Focus Verse: “I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; I myself will see him with my own eyes—I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!” (Job 19:25-27).  Devotion: Job is right. While he suffers, and while his friends ridicule him, he…

Read: Job 14-16 Focus Verse: “Then Job replied: ‘I have heard many things like these; you are miserable comforters, all of you! Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing? I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you and shake my head at you. But my mouth would encourage you; comfort…

Read: Job 11-13 
Focus Verse:  Zophar: “Are these words to go unanswered? Is this talker to be vindicated? Will your idle talk reduce others to silence? Will no one rebuke you when you mock? You may say to God, ‘My beliefs are flawless and I am pure in your sight.’ Oh, how I wish that God would speak, that he would open his lips against you and disclose to you the…