The Comfort of Empty Words Job 18-21

Job 18

Read: Job 18:1–4

Counted as beasts, Psalm 73:22 “I was so foolish and ignorant; I was like a beast before You.”

Stupid, Nit-mim-hey, nit-wit

Read: Job 18:5–10

Here it is presumed that the wicked face these. We however as believers are warned of the attacks on us. But also on the wicked. Why? All have sinned.

v5 light of the wicked?

Proverbs 13:9 NKJV

The light of the righteous rejoices, But the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

Net - Look at:

Psalm 35:8 NKJV

Let destruction come upon him unexpectedly, And let his net that he has hidden catch himself; Into that very destruction let him fall.

Read: Job 18:11–15 dwelling in a nightmare

Read: Job 18:16–21 dwelling in different reality.

Job 19 - My Redeemer Lives

Remember answered means, interrupting.

Read: Job 19:1–6 response to net, snare comment, if y’all are right, God is wrong.

Psalm 55:12–14 (NKJV)

For it is not an enemy who reproaches me; Then I could bear it. Nor is it one who hates me who has exalted himself against me; Then I could hide from him. But it was you, a man my equal, My companion and my acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, And walked to the house of God in the throng.

Read: Job 19:7–12 beloved destructive counsel. Ouch.

Read: Job 19:13–20 there is nothing, no one left.

So verse 17, made me go huh? But the term in the Hebrew is “sons of my womb/belly”. So it could be translated brothers? Or it could be grandkids. Could be the ones who “died” were the older kids. CSB trans: my family.

skin of my teeth, became english idiom.

He pleas with them, Job 19:21 ““Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has struck me!” Take a break guys, Its hard enough without you piling on. Mercy.

Read: Job 19:22–29 is job talking about heaven?

Cool that he would write on a scroll, inscribed in a rock. Like the word would be. But this is beautiful yet at the same time, God seems to be having Job speak with poetical flourish that has amazing prophetic fulfillment to us this side of the cross.

Job warns them, this happened to me, could happen to you.

Job 20, Zophar says you’re a boom-boom head.

Read: Job 20:1–11 getting nasty with it

often our polemic changes when we cant win, we commit an ad-hominem, at the man. We attack people’s character and surely Zophar doing to Job,

appeal to ancient learned wisdom of old. We have to be careful referring to ancients and how they understood. There is some truth to it, but at the same time, we need to think self.

Time, Zophar says, is undefeated. Bones may be young but it all catches up with you.

Read Job 20:12–19 Zophie is just seriously a pig

Read Job 20:20–29 Nothing the evil one does lasts?

Job 21 Sooner or Later, Gods gonna cut you down

Read Job 21:1–3 just listen, you can mock me when done. Job is hurting but hilarious.

Read Job 21:4–13 how are the wicked getting away with it?

David would say, Psalm 73:12 “Behold, these are the ungodly, Who are always at ease; They increase in riches.” Jeremiah would say, Jeremiah 12:1 “Righteous are You, O Lord, when I plead with You; Yet let me talk with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those happy who deal so treacherously?”

Then we read: Job 21:14–21 and see Job only sees the father, hurting the son.

Job, says even the most successful and nicest can just “snap” be gone Job 21:22–26 everyone dies.

He then relates them to the wicked they condmen him as, Job 21:27–34 they give him the Comfort of Empty Words.

I heard someone on a radio show today, weeping because he was wrestling with his sin. He sounded exhausted, partly because he wondered if he was even saved, because he wrestled so.

want to know text? Lets read it and you do a quick inductive exposition of it. A lot of times, if you read the context, and do it out loud, you get the meaning Jeremiah 31:31–34 this pericope should bring pure joy.

What a Magna Charta is this! The old covenant says, “Keep the law and live.” The new covenant is, “You shall live, and I will lead you to keep my law, for I will write it on your heart.”

Charles Spurgeon

Awesome is the God we serve!