“I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverted mouth, I hate. Advice is mine and sound wisdom; I am understanding, power is mine. Proverbs 8:12-14 NASB Prudence – Recently the online group investigated these verses in Proverbs. Here is the link to that discussion. You will…
Today I join the Oceania Regatta for a cruise from Singapore to Kobe, Japan. The cruise will last about a month, visiting Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Okinawa, and Japan. My daughter will accompany me for most of this adventure. Today’s Word will continue as usual, with some photos from Asia sprinkled along…
And Job said, “May the day on which I was to be born perish, as well as the night which said, ‘A boy is conceived.’” Job 3:2-3 NASB Perish – “The verb ʾābad is a common word for to die, or, in the case of things, reputation, etc., to pass away. . . Probably the main theological question…
Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed [a]the day of his birth. Job 3:1 NASB Cursed – As you recall, two other actors in this drama have cursed others. haśśāṭān first suggested that Job would “curse” God if he experienced great tragedy. The word there was the sarcastic use of bārak. Job’s wife employed the same term…
Then they sat down on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, with no one speaking a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great. Job 2:13 NASB No one speaking a word – In the last verse we discovered that nûd and nāḥam are really circumlocutions for what really…
Now when Job’s three friends heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, they came, each one from his own place—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and comfort him. Job 2:11 NASB Sympathize/ Comfort – “It’s just too much to…
But he said to her, “You are speaking as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we actually accept good from God but not accept adversity?” Despite all this, Job did not sin with his lips. Job 2:10 NASB Accept/ adversity – Do you remember that I mentioned the verb qābal (take, receive) created a small textual…
But he said to her, “You are speaking as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we actually accept good from God but not accept adversity?” Despite all this, Job did not sin with his lips. Job 2:10 NASB Actually accept – The Hebrew combination here is gam plus qābal. Two things need to be mentioned. First…
But he said to her, “You are speaking as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we actually accept good from God but not accept adversity?” Despite all this, Job did not sin with his lips. Job 2:10 NASB Foolish – Hebrew has several words translated as “fool.” It’s important to know what each of them means…
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