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- Chapter 14 and we'll read the chapter in a minute and the reason why we'll read it is we haven't read it yet.
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- We'll read the whole chapter whether we get through the whole chapter or not.
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- That would be a maybe.
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- But I want you to just to remember where we left off.
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- We left off last week looking at the basically the prayer of Job and how Job having been frustrated by his friends and finding no real comfort and then looking to God in prayer and that I suggested to you that as we looked at that prayer that Job was was kind of sideways in that it seems a little bit out of line in him to me almost challenging God when he said you call and I will answer or let me speak and you respond to me but I don't want to go too far backwards but I just want us to think about it as we go through the book and we continually see what's what's taking place that Job can't seem to find a place to rest his soul in this world in this life in the situations that he's in and so we're certainly going to see that again and now after this chapter his friends come back for a second if you will a second round and you'll see it in chapter 15 as Eliphaz comes back at Job and this back and forth will continue through book until we get a little bit further on.
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- So let's just read the chapter and then see if we can make some some thoughts out of it.
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- So chapter 14 but I want to start in verse 28.
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- Remember I told you last week that I really think verse 28 belongs with what follows rather than what was previous.
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- So Job finishes his prayer and then he says man decays like a rotten thing like a garment that is moth-eaten.
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- Man who is born a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
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- He comes forth like a flower and fades away.
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- He flees like a shadow and does not continue.
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- And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me to judgment with yourself? Who could bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one.
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- Since his days are determined the number of his months is with you.
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- You have appointed his limits so that he cannot pass.
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- Look away from him that he may rest like till like a hired man he finishes his day.
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- But there is hope for a tree if it is cut down that it will sprout again and that its tender shoots will not cease.
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- And though its roots may grow old in the earth and its stump may die in the ground yet at the scent of water it will bud and bring forth branches like a plant.
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- But man dies and is laid away.
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- Indeed he breeds his last and where is he? As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dries up so man lies down and does not rise till the heavens are no more.
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- They will not awake nor be roused from their sleep.
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- Oh that you would hide me in the grave that you would conceal me until your wrath is passed that you would appoint me a set time and remember me if a man dies shall he live again all the days of my hard service I will wait till my change comes and you shall call and I will answer you you shall desire the work of your hands for now you number my steps but do not watch over my sin my transgression is sealed up in a bag and you cover my iniquity.
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- But as a mountain fails and crumbles away and as a rock is moved from its place and as water wearies away stones and as torrents wash away the soil of the earth so you destroy the hope of man you prevail forever against him and he passes on you change his countenance and send him away and his sons come to honor and he does not know it.
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- They are brought low and he does not perceive it but his flesh will be in pain over it and his soul will mourn over it.
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- So there we have as Job continually speaks before God concerning his his current state and if I had to kind of give an understanding of what's taking place Job is continuing his conversation to his friends but he's really addressing it to God and in this chapter he really seems to understand the smallest of man and the and the immensity of God.
