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Pain Management

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…
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What Friends Are For

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…
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Textual Criticism

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…
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The Other Side of the Coin

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…
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April’s Foolish

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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The Devil’s Dictionary

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold firm your integrity? Curse God and die!”  Job 2:9  NASB Curse – As we discovered in verse 5, the accuser twists the meaning of the Hebrew bārak to imply that Job will blaspheme God once his flesh is attached.  Translators typically render this verse as…
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