“Before I go—and I shall not return—to the land of darkness and deep shadow, the land of utter gloom like darkness itself, of deep shadow without order, and it shines like darkness.” Job 10:21-22 NASB I shall not return – There could hardly be a more definitive statement about the permanence of death. “I shall not return.” …
For He inflicts pain, and [f]gives relief; He wounds, but His hands also heal. Job 5:18 NASB Wounds – Is Eliphaz anticipating Isaiah? Why would I ask that? Well, you remember this verse from the prophet: “The One forming light and creating darkness, causing well-being and creating disaster; I am the Lord who does all these things” (Isaiah 45:7). Of course, the NASB translation…
By the breath of God they perish, and by the [e]blast of His anger they come to an end. Job 4:9 NASB They come to an end – Does God destroy the wicked? The Hebrew term, kālâ, used in this context means “to consume, finish, end.” Eliphaz’ conclusion is that God will not, and does not, tolerate the…
“Why did I not die [f]at birth, come out of the womb and pass away? Job 3:11 NASB Pass away – We’ll have to add another verse in order to understand the implications of this one. That other verse is Job 3:13: “For now I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept then,…
How then can mankind be righteous with God? Or how can anyone who is born of woman be pure? If even the moon has no brightness and the stars are not pure in His sight, Job 25:4-5 NASB Righteous – Perhaps Moses was delusional. Or maybe just egotistical. He certainly seems to have been affected by some mental mistake when he…
And I went back and saw all the oppression that is done under the sun: the tears of the oppressed who have none to console them, and from the hand of their violent oppressors there is none to console them. And I praised the dead, who have already died, more than the living, who are…
He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming quickly.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. Revelation 22:20 NASB Come – Are you expectantly waiting for the ‘olam ha’ba? You know, the return of the King, the new Millennium, the restoration of God’s purposes. Oh, and don’t forget, the end of all your troubles. Heschel noted that the Christian religion…
God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis 1:28 NASB Rule over – One of the reasons Christianity…
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. Deuteronomy 6:5 NASB Shall love – How are we supposed to express our love toward God? You will notice that I did not ask, “How are we supposed to express our love for God?” That is the…
The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid again; and from [a]joy over it he goes and sells everything that he has, and buys that field. Matthew 13:44 NASB Hidden in a field – Stop reading this parable as if it were about some ethereal spiritual realm far removed from…
