cheerfulness

  • Give Me a Break!

    Would He not leave my few days alone?  Withdraw from me so that I may have a little cheerfulness  Job 10:20 NASB Cheerfulness – Before we look at the term translated “cheerfulness” in the NASB, we should notice the translation provided by Chabad. Are not my days few? So desist and withdraw from me, and I…

  • Applied Hesed

    or he who exhorts, in his exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.  Romans 12:8  NASB Mercy/ cheerfulness – Paul completes his inventory of charismata with the phrase ho eleon en hilaroteti (“he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness”).  But the typical English translation presents us…